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flipper

A very good NZ Herald editorial today on A A Thomas/Hutton and the idiot, insensitive, Bush (who should be fired!).

It does not take much imagination to see the similarity of the / Police / Thomas / Hutton laager mentality, and their, plus Crown Law and silly Collins, position on Binnie /Bain.

🙂 🙂 Good morning 🙂
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April 12, 2013 8:06am
liarbors a joke

..Dont be silly Judith..
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April 12, 2013 8:06am
All_on_Red

Why aren’t all the NZ Herald journalists names listed in the Opinion tag on the website?
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April 12, 2013 8:06am
itstricky

Haven’t seen any discussion about this one yet. Or hours of whining about misappropriation of the poor hardworking tax payer’s 20 mil. http://m.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10876790
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April 12, 2013 8:15am
Manolo

A bunch of clowns at the wheel: http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/8540548/We-want-to-know-about-problems-council-says
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April 12, 2013 8:32am
Judith

flipper (1,493) Says:
April 12th, 2013 at 8:06 am
A very good NZ Herald editorial today on A A Thomas/Hutton and the idiot, insensitive, Bush (who should be fired!).

It does not take much imagination to see the similarity of the / Police / Thomas / Hutton laager mentality, and their, plus Crown Law and silly Collins, position on Binnie /Bain.
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Excellent stuff Flipper.
The similarities are blatantly obvious for anyone not wearing blinkers. Hopefully sufficient people will realise that the Thomas case is not unique and demand the establishment of an independent tribunal (or such) to deal with these ongoing issues.

And good morning to you, too 🙂
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April 12, 2013 8:37am
Pete George

I think David Carter’s performance as Speaker continues to improve, gets far less involved in detail and interpretation than Lockwood which I think will end up being better.

And there’s a hint that Trevor Mallard may have moved on from his frustrations and is contributing less often and more positively, and Carter is accepting his input.

But the elephant crap remains in the room – Labour keep grizzling about Ministers not answering questions, but they make such a raucous racket the answers often can’t be heard, inviting diversion, disdain and derision from the other side.

Speaker improves, House still elephant crap
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April 12, 2013 8:37am
Judith

liarbors a joke (452) Says:
April 12th, 2013 at 8:06 am
..Dont be silly Judith..
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I can’t help it. Being around silly people makes me want to blend in.
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April 12, 2013 8:39am
peterwn

itstrivky – it would have been discussed at the time of the court case involving the two surgeons. Their arrangements were utterly abusive. Most of the discussion has been centred around the wailing and gnashing of teeth of tax accountants and lawyers who set up such schemes for their clients. The concern would be how far will IRD go on this. There is a line, but it is not particularly bright. On the other side of the line from the surgeons is a business owner where the business just cannot afford to pay the owner a ‘full’ wage or where the owner skimps on his/her wage so there is more profit to invest in the business. In such cases it pays te Government and IRD to let the goose fatten before plucking it – even though the hissing may then be louder.
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April 12, 2013 8:39am
krazykiwi

Internal North Korea commentary on Hillary Clinton: ”Sometimes she looks like a primary schoolgirl and sometimes a pensioner going shopping”.

Would be funny, expect a majority of their kids don’t go to school, they don’t have pensions, and even if they did, citizens would be dead long before they qualified.
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April 12, 2013 8:45am
Prince

Patsy question of the day yesterday ?

Jacinda Ardern: Does the Government have a plan to reduce child poverty in New Zealand?

Hon PAULA BENNETT: Yes, we do, and it is a long one. We have insulated over 204,000 homes already; we have seen immunisation rates increase over the past 5 years, from 67 percent to 92 percent; Well Child has got an extra $21.3 million for 18,000 mothers needing additional support; there is $24 million on rheumatic fever over 5 years; $1.4 billion has been going into early childhood education; and an additional $48 million is going into early childhood education equity funding, which supports priority learners in communities, and we are already seeing results from Māori and Pacific children. On top of this we also spend $180 million a year on childcare subsidies, guaranteed child assistance payments, and early learning payments, $60 million for positive

behaviour programmes, including Incredible Years, $140 million on Whānau Ora, which is working with all of those—

Mr SPEAKER: I think the length of the answer is quite satisfactory.

Thanks Jacinda.
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April 12, 2013 8:46am
dime

“The man accused of killing Christchurch schoolboy Hayden Miles told police he had worked as a prostitute, his murder trial has been told.”

Earlier today Dime released the followed statement:

“I never hit that! Im a sick puppy but that would be taking the piss”.
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April 12, 2013 8:47am
Pete George

And Paula said she only got half way through her reply.
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April 12, 2013 8:49am
Urban Redneck

If anyone out there is still deluded or in denial as to what homosexual “marriage” is really all about, look no further than the USA this morning:

The state of California is considering legislation that would force group insurance policies to provide infertility treatment for gay and lesbian couples.

Two men who have sex with each other for a year and do not produce a baby would be considered ‘infertile’ under the proposed legislation. So would two women having sex. Since biology does not allow those without a uterus to conceive or those without a penis to impregnate, every year-long gay couple in California would potentially be covered by this new provision of California law.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/04/08/CA-legislation-insurance-gay-infertility

In a move that foreshadows the radical left’s plans for churches should gay marriage become the law of the land, the California legislature is moving to strip the Boy Scouts of America – a private organization – of its non-profit status for refusing to allow gay scoutmasters.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/10/california-tax-bill-boy-scouts_n_3055458.htmlscoutmasters.
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April 12, 2013 8:49am
Judith

Prince (16) Says:
April 12th, 2013 at 8:46 am
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All that and its made only a little difference in the short term though. Unfortunately children can’t eat school books. Providing assistance such as Well Child is ambulance at the bottom of the cliff stuff – children need to be eating good nutritional diets now – despite the efforts Ms Bennett has made, she has done little or nothing to actually help the children where they need it most.

It’s a start, and it will improve things long term but it is not targeting the right areas to prevent more harm – and unfortunately many of the other moves Ms Bennett has made will ensure many children will continue to get insufficient nutrition.

Might seem like a little problem, but the long term health, learning and strength issues caused by this will continue to impact the economy for years to come.
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April 12, 2013 9:00am
Paulus

I heard on Radio Left wing the Christchurch based Aussie, disemployed ex EQC employee this morning denying he had emailed the list to a third party against the Judges injunction.

His body voice tells me that he is probably a liar and he supports the blogger release.

Nah! it was not emailed – he/or his associate, who is well involved, just took a flashdrive of it, and passed it on.

I hope he realises that if the Police wish it is easy to check in the hard drive register whether this has been done.
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April 12, 2013 9:09am
Prince

Judith says…
All that and its made only a little difference in the short term though.

I have to say I struggle wit the idea of ‘child poverty’ as a measurable thing. Children generally don’t have assets. The very structure of society is that children are, inevitably, reliant on their parents for support, nutrition, housing, education etc. We provide assistance to that family unit through a range of welfare and subsidies. Surely the issue is either parents who divert that assistance to other areas and ignore their children’s welfare, or children who do not have a family structure, for a range of reasons. Again, there are assistance programs set up there. If we are concerned that this structure is not working, lets remove the family assistance and target it directly at the child, bypassing those parents or caregivers who are not fulfilling their part of the social contract. But this suggestion is always greeted with howls of protest by the very people who say they are concerned about child poverty.
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April 12, 2013 9:29am
Nostalgia-NZ

Morning Flipper, same old questions as to why Hutton never investigated who put the shells in the garden once in became clear that hadn’t been there at the time of Meurant’s search. He must have known a conspiracy to defeat the course of Justice was afoot. It was a crime never investigated, now arguments that say it was never proved he planted are relied upon, but what OIC or indeed Minister or Commissioner would neglect to investigate the passage of those shells into the garden after the search – conspirators, that’s who. Hutton and the police had a chance to clear his name, that they didn’t speaks of it’s own story. I’d forgotten that the COA rejected an application to remove the finding that the shells had been planted by Hutton – a strong test of the evidence relied upon by the RC. Regrettable that Bush and Marshall couldn’t grasp what the funeral comments meant to the Thomas family, other language could have been used and it’s also a bit raw to imply that the eulogy details resulted from a request from the Hutton family.
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April 12, 2013 9:34am
wreck1080

Interesting the dollar hitting new highs almost daily now.

But, as everyone says, this is not hurting the export sector which I find strange. It is certainly hurting me, but, the stats say exporters are doing very well.
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April 12, 2013 9:37am
liarbors a joke

…should see petrol prices drop very soon…(Tui ad..)
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April 12, 2013 9:41am
Longknives

Christ all the wacky Bain supporters (the Cult of Karam) are taking over General Debate!
I’ll think of something else to talk about..
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April 12, 2013 9:42am
hj

“I think economists might be the functional equivalent of modern-day tribal shamans. Instead of peering at the intestines of sheep to forecast the future, we look at data through the lens of models we create, built with all our inherent biases, and then confidently predict the future or try to guide government policy in one direction or another, generally along paths that fit the predisposition of our immediate tribe. The most brazen of us move in and out of favor depending on whether we are telling our fellow tribe members and leaders and potential leaders what they want to hear.”

Warming to my topic, I threw in this climactic line: “I think economics is more like religion and less like science than most of us want to admit.”

I clearly struck a chord in Anatole, and he readily admitted to having voiced the same thought at times. We talked late into the night on the topic. I was reminded of that conversation this week as I read a recent editorial by him on the role of economists. I am going to excerpt a page or so from that piece, as I think it will help frame our discussion of the usefulness of government statistics.
http://www.mauldineconomics.com/frontlinethoughts/the-theology-of-inflation
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April 12, 2013 9:48am
mandk

wreck1080

The reason is that exports and imports are not always responsive to changes in the exchange rate (they are exchange rate inelastic in economist speak).

History provides us with some good examples of this. For instance, Germany’s exports grew enormously in the 50s, 60s and 70s, despite a massive appreciation in the DM, because their products were innovative and good quality. By contrast, Britain ran continual trade deficits, despite devaluations, because it was producing poor quality.
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April 12, 2013 9:49am
Longknives

Always fantastic to see the legends Palmer,Player and the Bear tee off at The Masters..Three of the greatest of all time!
NZ Tab had Wood’s as virtually unbeatable prior to the tournament- I always put a lazy tenner on someone outside the top echelon (Zack Johnson this year at 100-1)
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April 12, 2013 9:50am
muggins

flipper (1,493) Says:

April 12th, 2013 at 8:06 am

It does not take much imagination to see the similarity of the / Police / Thomas / Hutton laager mentality, and their, plus Crown Law and silly Collins, position on Binnie /Bain.

flipper, you need one hell of an imagination to compare Thomas with Bain.
Thomas was framed,David Bain was not. Binnie made some ridiculous assumptions , and Bain told him many lies which he did not pick up on. Collins was quite right to throw his report in the rubbish binnie.
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April 12, 2013 9:54am
muggins

Yawn.
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April 12, 2013 9:54am
hj

“Los Angeles embodies these processes in vivid ways, showing how recent trends have amplified uneven landscapes from the past. At the high end, San Marino, Palos Verdes Estates and La Cañada Flintridge have ranked for decades among the county’s top municipalities. All are picturesque suburbs, sited in some of the most visually appealing locales in the Southland. Adding to these natural advantages, each is carefully controlled by land-use restrictions that freeze in place their landscapes of high-end homes and freeze out almost everyone else. In San Marino, these buffers are so strong that home prices actually rose during the recession. At the other end, working-class towns like Azusa, San Fernando and Maywood began and remain in a lower tier. These suburbs started modestly with small homes and slender public investments, and they passed these humble trappings down through time.

Globalization helps drive these patterns to new extremes. Money flows into suburbs like San Marino and Palos Verdes, where Asian immigrants buy up expensive properties and generously donate their time and money to the local schools. Money flows out of poorer suburbs like South Gate, Bell and Huntington Park, all heavily Latino, where disposable income is tight and many families export remittances to a home country. New poverty builds upon old impoverishment. Infrastructure is stretched as renters crowd into dwellings that were modest to begin with. The toxic footprint of departed industries is left behind for new residents to contend with.”
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/06/suburban-disequilibrium/
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April 12, 2013 9:59am
Judith

muggins (2,336) Says:
April 12th, 2013 at 9:54 am
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David Bain did not lie to Binney. However you lied to this entire board over a period of several weeks when you misrepresented an email you were sent from KC in January – the first line of which was “No Police officer was in the room during the medical examination of Bain”…. You then went on to misrepresent everything else you were told in those emails.

You are not in any position to be preaching about who was lying – when you can’t tell the truth yourself.
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April 12, 2013 10:12am
krazykiwi

From the SMH

The researchers, from Deakin University, measured the height and weight of nearly 1500 women who participated in the Geelong osteoporosis study, avoiding the problems of inaccurate knowledge that often plagued researchers who simply asked people how much they weighed.

It found morbid obesity had increased from 2.5 per cent of the population to about 4.2 per cent, or just under one in 20 people.

Morbid obesity is defined as a body mass index of 40 or higher, and is linked to far higher risks of problems such as diabetes, cancer, and heart disease.

Overall the study found nearly 30 per cent of participants were obese in measurements taken between 2004 and 2008, compared with 22.5 per cent of people measured between 1993 and 1997.

Study leader Julie Pasco, the head of the epidemiology unit for musculoskeletal and metabolic disorders at Deakin University, said the patterns seen in her study were likely to be occurring across the country.

This shift, which was not restricted to people of a particular age or socio-economic status, could indicate the whole population was shifting towards a greater risk for obesity-related disease.

Obese people should be made to pay a surcharge for all publicly-funded healthcare.
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April 12, 2013 10:22am
Longknives

“David Bain did not lie to Binney.”

Need we mention the Goat shagging story? and that’s just the beginning…

(Dammit now I’ve been drawn in..)
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April 12, 2013 10:33am
Judith

Longknives (2,371) Says:
April 12th, 2013 at 10:33 am
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That’ll teach you !

There is no Goat Shagging story. David Bain never mentioned goat shagging or gave any indication that it was the behaviour he was talking about. Perhaps you’d best check your sources, because they are not factual if that is the opinion you have formed.
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April 12, 2013 10:38am
voice of reason

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10877073

“Hobbit ‘promotes smoking’ to children, says expert”

oh how I laughed until I cried
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April 12, 2013 10:54am
graham

Nothing new there, vor. I’m not much of a movie-goer, but seems to me we’ve heard countless ‘issues’ like this before.

All action movies, from Die Hard onwards, promote the use of violence and firearms to solve problems.
The Fast and the Furious franchise glamorises illegal street racing.
Harry Potter promotes the occult.
Enid Blyton promotes racism (gollywogs).

etc …

Anyone who seriously believes this gives children very little credit for being able to distinguish between fantasy and reality.
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April 12, 2013 11:15am
Lance

Caption contest?

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/image.cfm?c_id=2&gal_cid=2&gallery_id=132145#11024292
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April 12, 2013 11:58am
Manolo

Another land corrupt to the bone: http://news.msn.co.nz/article.aspx?id=8641242
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April 12, 2013 12:14pm
Judith

Lance (1,809) Says:
April 12th, 2013 at 11:58 am
Caption contest?

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/image.cfm?c_id=2&gal_cid=2&gallery_id=132145#11024292
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North Korean leader demonstrates new missile launching facility. ?
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April 12, 2013 12:23pm
hj

Most Harmfull Drugs., legal and illegal:
http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2010/11/drugs_cause_most_harm
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April 12, 2013 1:59pm
Rowan

Judith @ 8.37

‘Excellent stuff Flipper.
The similarities are blatantly obvious for anyone not wearing blinkers. Hopefully sufficient people will realise that the Thomas case is not unique and demand the establishment of an independent tribunal (or such) to deal with these ongoing issues.’

Agreed, you’d have to be as senile and naive as Muggins to not see them. For anyone to suggest that Thomas is guilty would either be stupid or condoning the disgraceful actions of the corrupt individuals involved. There are similarities with the Bain case although the actions there were probably more extremely negligent rather than corrupt.
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April 12, 2013 2:23pm
Rowan

“flipper, you need one hell of an imagination to compare Thomas with Bain.
Thomas was framed,David Bain was not. Binnie made some ridiculous assumptions , and Bain told him many lies which he did not pick up on. Collins was quite right to throw his report in the rubbish binnie.”

Muggins, enough of your amateuristic naive nitpicking, have heard it all before. I can’t believe that you are stupid enough to expect anyone else to actually believe you when you say that the prosecution witnesses would actually tell you evidence contary to what they gave at the retrial. This would be breaking the juries act, commiting perjury while under oath at the retrial and they would then admit this to you and give you liberty to tell this to the world.
Hard to see how even any of your fellow witchsniffers actually take you seriously!
Only person who it can be established who has told many lies is you! are they deliberate or are you just incapable of telling the truth?
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April 12, 2013 2:32pm
goldnkiwi

Judith (2,031) Says:
April 12th, 2013 at 10:12 am

Binnie not Binney. 😉
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April 12, 2013 2:40pm
Manolo

With friends like Drugadona, who needs enemies:
Venezuela’s acting President Nicolas Maduro has tearfully vowed to complete Hugo Chavez’s socialist revolution while rival Henrique Capriles promised change at emotional rallies to close their bitter campaign.

Maduro was joined on stage on Thursday by the late leader’s friend, Argentine football icon Diego Maradona, who signed and kicked balls to tens of thousands of people clad in red in Caracas ahead of Sunday’s election.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-11/maduro-calls-up-maradona-as-campaigning-ends-for-venezuela-vote.html
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April 12, 2013 2:44pm
muggins

Rowan (800) Says:

April 12th, 2013 at 2:32 pm
“flipper, you need one hell of an imagination to compare Thomas with Bain.
Thomas was framed,David Bain was not. Binnie made some ridiculous assumptions , and Bain told him many lies which he did not pick up on. Collins was quite right to throw his report in the rubbish binnie.”

Muggins, enough of your amateuristic naive nitpicking, have heard it all before. I can’t believe that you are stupid enough to expect anyone else to actually believe you when you say that the prosecution witnesses would actually tell you evidence contary to what they gave at the retrial. This would be breaking the juries act, commiting perjury while under oath at the retrial and they would then admit this to you and give you liberty to tell this to the world.
Hard to see how even any of your fellow witchsniffers actually take you seriously!
Only person who it can be established who has told many lies is you! are they deliberate or are you just incapable of telling the truth?

Rowan, what prosecution witness are you talking about? No witness that I have spoken to has said that what they said at the retrial was incorrect. Who is that mystery witness you are referring to?
The only reason why David Bain didn’t lie at the retrial was because he didn’t take the stand at the retrial. He lied at the first trial and he lied again when he was interviewed by Binnie. Many times, I might add.
And if you havn’t already realised that then your comprehensive skills are sadly lacking. But we all know that,anyway, because you appear to believe David Bain is innocent despite all the evidence against him.
Once that judical review is over[and what a waste of time that is] do you think Bain will try again for compensation or do you reckon he will realise the game is up?
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April 12, 2013 3:06pm
muggins

Judith (2,031) Says:

April 12th, 2013 at 10:38 am
Longknives (2,371) Says:
April 12th, 2013 at 10:33 am
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That’ll teach you !

There is no Goat Shagging story. David Bain never mentioned goat shagging or gave any indication that it was the behaviour he was talking about. Perhaps you’d best check your sources, because they are not factual if that is the opinion you have formed.

From the Binnie/Bain interview.
Bain,replying to Binnie. I had witnessed him [Mark Buckley] -because we had goats on our property- I had witnessed him performing a deviant act. It looked stupid and obviously embarrassing for him. Under my photo in the yearbook for my last year at high school he says ” Known by friend as Dirty Dave” then “Most embarrassing moment -ask Mark Buckley” and finally ” Most wanted thing on a desert island “is “Goat”, so he was obviosly trying to shift the blame of the situation onto me when it was him who performed that silly act.
Binnie to Bain. And that silly act you are talking of -act of a sexual nature with a goat?
Bain. Yes. So that’s what ended our friendship and anything he has to say is totally untrue. [Meaning the story about that female jogger].
So Judith, when Bain used the words “Deviant act” and said yes to Binnie’s question about the act of a sexual nature what did he mean, what opinion have you formed?
Do you think Bain is actually telling the truth?
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April 12, 2013 3:25pm
Longknives

Game,Set and Match to Muggins
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April 12, 2013 3:40pm
bereal

There is only one yardstick that can draw a comparrison between both the Thomas and Bain cases.

They were both fuckups.

Question is, who fucked up ?

As a supporter of New Zealand Police i must conclude that NZP fucked up in both cases.

Both cases a fuckup, and both for different reasons, but no one is perfect, we all make mistakes,
NZP would enhance their mana if they didn’t feel they had to be so staunch.

Bruce Hutton, may have been a good officer but was found to be corrupt in one case.

18 or so people were allowed to walk through the Bain crime scene before it was secured.

If NZ Police could just publicly acknowlege that then that would be good for the country
and good for them.

Hey! NZ Police, we are on your side.

You do not have to defend yourself with such desperation.
People are not stupid.

Overall we trust you, completely, you are the best.
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April 12, 2013 5:31pm
Rowan

Muggins
You are the stupidest dumbest piece of s*** in the blogosphere. You are the one who claims to have contacted various crown witnesses, Dempster, Doyle, Weir etc. You tried to make the stupid claims that Dempster has suggested a different opinion (to you) than the aging of injuries to Daddy were different than what he told the jury. Similarly your conspiracy theory that David wasn’t strip-searched. Remember this was not contested at the retrial so why do you expect us to believe that they have told you ‘it didn’t happen’ but withheld this from the jury!! oh thats right you are full of it!
This case is clearly way above your head, your explanations of anything are pathetic and your lies are so damn obvious a 10 year old could pick them.
Your amateuristic attempts to relitigate the case are a joke! You are wrong about all of your predictions to date so whats one more. Time for a doctors referral to the Mason clinic.

[DPF: Tone it down]
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April 12, 2013 6:06pm
Judith

muggins (2,342) Says:
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So how does that make it shagging? We have been through this before – something that LOOKED like a sexual act – In your usual fashion Muggins you’ve added your own spin.

However I am more concerned with the deliberate lies you have told on this board. I have mentioned them to you twice and you get evading them. Can you please explain why you chose to lie to us all about the information you received in emails you received from KC, a member of the NZ Police?
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April 12, 2013 6:22pm
Judith

Rowan (801) Says:
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It is quite simple Rowan – he has lied. The copies of all his correspondence with the Police indicate he has deliberately misrepresented the information he was given. Goodness knows for what reason, but somehow he seems to think that the truth does not support his argument, so instead he has to be dishonest.

Perhaps he wanted to prove what a shonky organisation Counterspin is – he’s certainly managed that.
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April 12, 2013 6:25pm
bereal

Oh, very cool.

Some get a warning to . “Tone it down.”

Some cop 50 demerrits for quoting John Gotti.

Your site David and no argument.

Just saying.
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April 12, 2013 6:34pm
goldnkiwi

Judith (2,040) Says:
April 12th, 2013 at 6:25 pm

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From someone who can not even spell Binnie’s name, after having input it god only knows how many times lol. Is that you ‘Judith’?
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April 12, 2013 6:39pm
Judith

goldnkiwi (368) Says:
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Wow aren’t you cool – the only thing you can provide an argument for is a spelling mistake – you must be so proud of yourself!
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April 12, 2013 6:41pm
Rowan

Judith
He is a joke, he has practically no evidence, no explanations of anything and expects us to take him seriously. He can’t even get his stories straight. For a case so ‘obvious’ he changes his theories as often as the crown. Lets hope it costs them big time once Kents witchhunt gets to court.
You have to laugh CS helped convinced Ian Binnie of Davids innocence, he obviously saw it for what it was!
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April 12, 2013 6:54pm
Longknives

David Bain supporters are creepy.
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April 12, 2013 6:58pm
publicwatchdog

Here you go Kiwibloggers! 🙂

‘Open Letter’ / formal request to the CEO of the Finance Markets Authority (FMA) to conduct an investigation into the Mighty River Power prospectus.

12 April 2013

Sean Hughes
Finance Markets Authority CEO

Dear Sean,

Please be reminded of your statutory duties arising from the Finance Markets Authority Act 2011:

http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2011/0005/latest/DLM3231068.html

9FMA’s functions

(1)The FMA’s functions are as follows:

(a)to promote the confident and informed participation of businesses, investors, and consumers in the financial markets, including (without limitation) by—

(i)collecting and disseminating information or research about any matter relating to those markets:

(ii)issuing warnings, reports, or guidelines, or making comments, about any matter relating to those markets, financial markets participants, or other persons engaged in conduct relating to those markets (including in relation to 1 or more
particular persons):

(iii)providing information about its functions, powers, and duties under this Act and other enactments (including promoting awareness by investors that all investments involve risks and that it is not the role of the FMA to remove those risks):

(iv)providing, or facilitating the provision of, public information and education about any matter relating to those markets:

(b)to perform and exercise the functions, powers, and duties conferred or imposed on it by or under the financial markets legislation and any other enactments:

(c)to monitor compliance with, investigate conduct that constitutes or may constitute a contravention of, and enforce—

(i)the Acts referred to in Part 1 of Schedule 1 (and the enactments made under those Acts); and

(ii)the Acts referred to in Part 2 of Schedule 1 (and the enactments made under those Acts) to the extent that those Acts or other enactments apply, or otherwise relate, to financial markets participants:

(d)to monitor, and conduct inquiries and investigations into any matter relating to, financial markets or the activities of financial markets participants or of other persons engaged in conduct relating to those markets:

(e)to keep under review the law and practices relating to financial markets, financial markets participants, and other persons engaged in conduct relating to those markets:

(f)to co-operate with—

(i)any other law enforcement or regulatory agency (including under section 30):
(ii)overseas regulators (including under section 30 or 31).

(2)Subsection (1)(b) and (c) do not limit the functions, powers, and duties conferred or imposed on any other person in respect of financial markets legislation.

(3)The fact that some other person has functions, powers, and duties in respect of financial markets legislation does not limit or restrict the FMA’s functions, powers, and duties in respect of that legislation.

(4)Except as expressly provided otherwise in this or any other Act, the FMA must act independently in performing its statutory functions and duties, and exercising its statutory powers, under—

(a)this Act; and
(b)any other Act that expressly provides for the functions, powers, or duties of the FMA (other than the Crown Entities Act 2004).
Compare: 1978 No 103 s 10

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Schedule 1
Financial markets legislation
s 4
Part 1
Auditor Regulation Act 2011
Financial Advisers Act 2008
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
Parts 4 and 5 and Schedules 1 and 2 of the KiwiSaver Act 2006
Sections 45U and 45V of the Public Finance Act 1989
Securities Act 1978
Securities Markets Act 1988
Securities Transfer Act 1991
Securities Trustees and Statutory Supervisors Act 2011
Superannuation Schemes Act 1989
Unit Trusts Act 1960
Schedule 1 Part 1: amended, on 1 July 2012, by section 82 of the Auditor Regulation Act 2011 (2011 No 21).
Schedule 1 Part 1: amended, on 30 June 2012, by section 11 of the Public Finance (Mixed Ownership Model) Amendment Act 2012 (2012 No 45).
Schedule 1 Part 1: amended, on 1 October 2011, by section 60(2) of the Securities Trustees and Statutory Supervisors Act 2011 (2011 No 10).

Part 2
Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act 2009
Building Societies Act 1965
Companies Act 1993
Co-operative Companies Act 1996
Corporations (Investigation and Management) Act 1989
Sections 220, 228, 229, 240, 242, and 256 to 260 of the Crimes Act 1961
Financial Reporting Act 1993
Friendly Societies and Credit Unions Act 1982
Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1908
Limited Partnerships Act 2008
Part 5C of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand Act 1989
Trustee Companies Act 1967

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http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1988/0234/latest/DLM140405.html

8A Who is information insider

(1) A person is an information insider of a public issuer if that person—
(a) has material information relating to the public issuer that is not generally available to the market; and

(b) knows or ought reasonably to know that the information is material information; and

(c) knows or ought reasonably to know that the information is not generally available to the market.

(2)A public issuer may be an information insider of itself.
Section 8A: inserted, on 29 February 2008, by section 5 of the Securities Markets Amendment Act 2006 (2006 No 47).

http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1988/0234/latest/DLM140407.html

8BMeaning of inside information

In this subpart, inside information means the information in respect of which a person is an information insider of the public issuer in question.
Section 8B: inserted, on 29 February 2008, by section 5 of the Securities Markets Amendment Act 2006 (2006 No 47).

8C Information insider must not trade

An information insider of a public issuer must not trade securities of the public issuer.
Section 8C: inserted, on 29 February 2008, by section 5 of the Securities Markets Amendment Act 2006 (2006 No 47).

8D Information insider must not disclose inside information

An information insider (A) of a public issuer must not directly or indirectly disclose inside information to another person (B) if A knows or ought reasonably to know or believes that B will, or is likely to,—

(a )trade securities of the public issuer; or
(b) if B is already a holder of those securities, continue to hold them; or
(c) advise or encourage another person (C) to trade or hold them.

Section 8D: inserted, on 29 February 2008, by section 5 of the Securities Markets Amendment Act 2006 (2006 No 47).

8E Information insider must not advise or encourage trading
An information insider (A) of a public issuer must not—

(a) advise or encourage another person (B) to trade or hold securities of the public issuer:
(b) advise or encourage B to advise or encourage another person (C) to trade or hold those securities.
Section 8E: inserted, on 29 February 2008, by section 5 of the Securities Markets Amendment Act 2006 (2006 No 47).

8F Criminal liability for insider conduct

A person who contravenes any of sections 8C to 8E commits an offence (see section 43 for the maximum penalty of 5 years’ imprisonment and a $300,000 fine for an individual or a $1,000,000 fine for a body corporate) if the person has actual knowledge—

(a) that the information is material information; and
(b) that the information is not generally available to the market; and
(c) in the case of a contravention of section 8D, of any of the matters set out in section 8D(a) to (c).
Section 8F: inserted, on 29 February 2008, by section 5 of the Securities Markets Amendment Act 2006 (2006 No 47).
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http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/8465532/Call-to-ban-ministers-from-share-float

Three-quarters of Sunday Star-Times readers believe we should follow Australia and prohibit cabinet ministers from buying shares in state-owned companies they decide to sell.

The pre-registration for the Mighty River Power share float closed on Friday with more than 440,000 signed up, but the sale of state assets remains divisive.

We asked our readers if they wanted a similar rule to Australia’s “Standards of Ministerial Ethics” that require ministers “to divest themselves of all shareholdings other than through investment vehicles such as broadly diversified superannuation funds or publicly listed managed or trust arrangements”.

It’s a rule that would prohibit buying into a state-owned asset float while in power and 75 per cent of the 788 people polled were in favour of it.

Cabinet ministers have agreed to a voluntary “moratorium” preventing the purchase of shares by all ministers, and some of their staff, until 90 days after the initial sale.

Finance Minister Bill English’s office said: “Cabinet also agreed that ministers and the staff in those offices . . . should use their best endeavours to ensure that their partners and dependent children adhere to the same moratorium.”

But our readers say that is not long enough and want a more permanent solution.

As one pro-asset sales reader said, a ban on share purchases would “prove they don’t have a vested interest or conflict of interest”.

Another said: “It would help to keep our politicians openly accountable to public scrutiny. As corruption and lobbying increases in countries around the world this is just another small way we can try and stay relatively ‘clean’ for longer and assists in enhancing our international reputation as an honest country to deal with.”

But a conflict of interest in an asset sale would, many felt, last longer than 90 days, and dozens cited fears of insider trading. One reader said: “They would probably have ‘insider knowledge’ of how MRP or any other state-owned companies were trading, and if in a downward spiral, would be able to offload them without getting hurt.”

Not everyone wants ministers forced to sell all their shares, something that might discourage successful people from standing for office.

Some cited the example of John Key, whose wealth is managed through a “blind trust” over which he says he has no control.

“Good practice would be for all ministers to put their financial affairs into a blind trust type arrangement,” one reader said.

Some also felt the suggested rule would do nothing to stop ministers from taking up roles such as directorships on assets they sold even after leaving office.

The MPs from NZ First, Labour, and the Greens have all pledged not to buy Mighty River Power shares to demonstrate their opposition to the sale.

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https://mail-attachment.googleusercontent.com/attachment/?ui=2&ik=18afffb768&view=att&th=13ddc0c862efa428&attid=0.0&disp=inline&safe=1&zw&saduie=AG9B_P-I5Cd-lIWIP7LzmJSi9erv&sadet=1365196872571&sads

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RISKS and INFORMATION which have arguably not been fully disclosed in the Mighty River Power prospectus, thus potentially misleading investors :

1) Over-supply of wholesale electricity now.

2) Further over-supply of the wholesale electricity market if the Government partially-privatises State-Owned Enterprises Meridian and Genesis.

3) The consumer boycott of Mercury Energy, Mighty River Power’s main retail electricity provider by the Switch Off Mercury Energy community group. http://www.switchoffmercuryenergy.org.nz

4) Failure to attempt to quantify the cost to Mighty River Power, if Rio Tinto does not reach a deal with Meridian Energy.

5) Cabinet Ministers responsible for setting a ‘good’ price for Mighty River Power, John Key, Bill English, Steven Joyce and Tony Ryall are not prohibited by law from purchasing shares in Mighty River Power, so are potentially ‘information insiders’ as per
http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1988/0234/latest/DLM140405.html

8A Who is information insider

(1) A person is an information insider of a public issuer if that person—
(a) has material information relating to the public issuer that is not generally available to the market; and
(b) knows or ought reasonably to know that the information is material information; and
(c) knows or ought reasonably to know that the information is not generally available to the market.

(2) A public issuer may be an information insider of itself.
Section 8A: inserted, on 29 February 2008, by section 5 of the Securities Markets Amendment Act 2006 (2006 No 47).

(OFFICIAL INFORMATION REPLY FROM MINISTER FOR STATE-OWNED ENTERPRISES TONY RYALL):

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ung4048v4cgtul7/Slevel6.3-c13031716040.pdf

This information has not been disclosed to investors.

7) Mighty River Power is also arguably misleading investors , because it advertises investors to ‘share’ in a company that they arguably already own, as currently a ‘State-Owned Enterprise’.

Yours sincerely,

Penny Bright
‘Anti-corruption campaigner’
A Spokesperson for the Switch Off Mercury Energy Group
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April 12, 2013 7:00pm
bereal

This is the quote that earned me 50 demerit points, i’ll now risk another 50

John Gotti (boss of the Gambino mafia family) said,

“Me, i don’t wish ill on anyone,
not even on a nXXXXX,
Not even on a fXXXXXX, sXXXXXX nXXXXX.”

50 demerrits,
i felt a little bit hard done by.
Whaddo u think ?

But i’m over it now.
i forgivvi whoever complained,

i forgive you Pete George.
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April 12, 2013 7:06pm
Steve (North Shore)

This blog just got spammed.
The bright person is here.
Lights out, goodbye
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April 12, 2013 7:14pm
bereal

i agree Steve,

so sad,

G’nite all.
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April 12, 2013 7:16pm
Judith

Rowan (802) Says:
April 12th, 2013 at 6:54 pm
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Oh he offers explanations – trouble is they are not based on fact, but rather he uses his ‘sources’ of information and twists what they have said – or misrepresents them, to string his story along. It is all very visible in his correspondence. Pity he didn’t read the OIA before he decided to make an absolute mockery of himself and the groups he belongs to.
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April 12, 2013 7:17pm
Steve (North Shore)

The bright person is a troll – just like me 🙂
Spray and walk away, the silly waterwoman never debates. Oh she dont pay Rates either
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April 12, 2013 7:25pm
bereal

Hey Judith,
G’nite to you also babe but,
What the fuck did u try to say @ 7.17 ?
Jeez oh dear.

If anyone can translate ….
please help Judith………..

Please………..
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April 12, 2013 7:29pm
Pete George

i felt a little bit hard done by.
Whaddo u think ?

You won’t get any sympathy from me, and trying to blame others for your own stupidity is, well stupid. It’s got nothing to do with me, it’s between you and DPF.
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April 12, 2013 7:31pm
bereal

We all know what you think Pete. But.
i wondered what others thought,

i note that you do not deny that it was you who complained.

What did you take particular offence to, pray tell ?

Wowser.
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April 12, 2013 7:39pm
liarbors a joke

Here you go Penny! *bends over and pulls bum cheeks apart*
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April 12, 2013 7:41pm
Judith

bereal (2,503) Says:
April 12th, 2013 at 7:29 pm
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It’s ‘Bain’ speak.
The basics are Muggins for several weeks in late January early Feb spun a certain story line on here, saying that he had received information via the police regarding David Bain – when an application was made under the OIA it proved that the correspondence Muggins was talking about – was very different to what he said it was. In short, he totally misrepresented what he was told, in order to enhance his position.

Simply – he lied. (I won’t bore you with the details – you have to be partially insane to involve yourself in the Bain argument, and you seem too sane to qualify!)
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April 12, 2013 7:58pm
nasska

South Auckland father to his fifteen year old daughter….
“Will you put that cigarette out at the dinner table please”.
“Why?” she asks.
“Because you’re setting a bad example to your children.”
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April 12, 2013 8:00pm
Pete George

bereal, I said “It’s got nothing to do with me, it’s between you and DPF.” In case that wasn’t clear enough, I had nothing to do with it. You had no valid reason to accuse me. Can’t you just accept responsibility for your own stupidity?
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April 12, 2013 8:27pm
Viking2

How long will taxpayers tolerate the tax-exempt status of tribal “charities”? Last week Dr Michael Gousmett in his guest column on this site titled “Tax-payer subsidised charities and their business activities – time for change” looked at the operation of three New Zealand taxpayer-subsidised charitable businesses and argued that there was time for change in the tax-exemptions.

Gousmett cited the Sanitarium Health Food Company, a business of the Seventh Day Adventist Church that makes breakfast cereals; Hawke’s Bay’s Mission Estate, a winery, function venue, and location of the annual Mission concert which is owned by Marist Holdings (Greenmeadows) Limited which pays a dividend to the Society of Mary; and Shotover Jet, a business of the Ngai Tahu Charitable Group, a South Island tribal charity.

http://breakingviewsnz.blogspot.co.nz/2013/04/mike-butler-tolerating-tribal-charities.html
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April 12, 2013 8:35pm
Pauleastbay

I must say I’m still pretty pissed off that Jamie Joseph missed out on coaching the Auckland Blues.
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April 12, 2013 8:59pm
goldnkiwi

Judith (2,045) Says:
April 12th, 2013 at 6:41 pm
…………….

I do not consider that a spelling mistake!!!

I seem to recall an absolute tanty from you when the ‘Banes’ was used as a collective name for your little gang, it was so funny.

How appalling it was that the subject matter ‘Bain’ couldn’t even be spelt correctly ranted ‘Judith’.

As Retired Justice Binnie is such a hero of yours, surely you could make the effort to spell his name correctly.

You of course will say that you were not referring to Binnie but that there is another personage called Binney lol. 😉

You also, despite your platitudes deliberately or not spell Farrar incorrectly. Disrespectful to our ‘host’ imo.

You seem to favour American spelling but then that is spell checkers for you, n’est pas, perhaps you could enter Binnie and Farrar into your dictionary.

You hold yourself out as the epitome, so perhaps you should uphold the lofty position in which you have placed yourself.;)
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April 12, 2013 9:39pm
Judith

goldnkiwi (369) Says:
April 12th, 2013 at 9:39 pm
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Like I said, you never have anything of substance to add to the discussion, only the spelling errors – made by people that support David Bain – you never of course point out such errors for those that oppose him. Bane and Bain have two different meanings which makes the argument very different.

In short – you are a troll. You have no other purpose than to disrupt the flow of dialogue.

I am sure if DPF has better things to worry about than spelling and grammatical mistakes – he is of course a very important and busy person – which brings us back to you – and the fact they seem to have the time for such things and nothing else – I guess we can presume you are quite the opposite to DPF.
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April 13, 2013 8:08am
goldnkiwi

Whatever you say ‘Judith’ 😉

I hope you are not so cavalier with errors in all those reports, you claim to write or co-author, on ‘every’ subject.

Perhaps they should be reviewed? I would say peer reviewed but since you seem to consider yourself peerless…………;) I guess you will have to own the brickbats and bouquets.
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