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Lucia Maria

Intruder stabbed in stomach with scissors in home invasion

A home invasion at a rural Manawatu property turned violent when a woman couldn’t comply with her attackers’ demands this morning.

She suffered injuries to her upper body from trying to protect herself, while one of the attackers left after receiving a stomach wound from a pair of scissors.

Police said the 45-year-old woman got up about 6.40am at her Opiki property to investigate a noise she thought might have been her partner returning from milking.

Instead, she was confronted by a man armed with what police believed was a knife.

Palmerston North Detective Sergeant David Thompson said demands for “material items” were made, however the woman wasn’t able to comply. “That’s when it became more violent.”

Another intruder then appeared and joined in the struggle. Mr Thompson declined to comment on the exact nature of the demands.

“We understand that during this time he has received a wound to the stomach with scissors,” Mr Thompson said.

The men then fled in a vehicle, and the injured woman barricaded herself in her room and called police.

Women on rural properties really ought to be able to defend themselves with small handguns rather than having to resort to scissors.
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April 30, 2014 4:37pm
nasska

Lucia

Expect the Police to drag the wretched woman to a court to face charges of armed assault & wounding with intent.
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April 30, 2014 4:39pm
Kea

Lucy, I agree and think we should all have that right. Women and the elderly would especially benefit. If these violent thugs knew the occupant may be armed it would be far more of a deterrent than tougher laws.
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April 30, 2014 4:41pm
kowtow

Bwahahahahaha

and we’re anti capitalist too!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/cuba/10796980/Cuba-accuses-UK-of-being-anti-capitalist-over-plain-packaging-plans.html
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April 30, 2014 4:56pm
Lucia Maria

Nasska,

That’s what I thought when I read the story, too. Hopefully not, though (fingers crossed).

Kea,

Yep, when I’m old, I’m going to have a loaded handgun in the house and stuff the law (which may be changed by then). Too many old women are bashed and/or raped in their homes in NZ.
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April 30, 2014 4:59pm
minus

Kiwisaver, Winston Peters –
Those who say it’s an attack on low income earners are really quite desperate, this will help low income earners housing affordability and low interest rates is important to them, it should also over time lead to a higher wage structure.

How will the policy lead to higher wages unless workers demand that, which is against the intent of the policy?

PS – What is interesting is to see such a policy “debated” without a single fucking figure or number uttered regarding anything
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April 30, 2014 5:00pm
Reid

This is worth reading.

http://souloftheeast.org/2014/04/25/full-spectrum-subversion/

What do postmodern exhibitionists, Islamic holy warriors and marauding ultra-nationalists share in common? Seemingly little, aside from the fact that these bizarre bedfellows are the star assets of US policy in Eurasia. And despite their use of very different tactics, they all are tasked with the same mission: to undermine Russia, the only great power consistently opposed to American hegemony.

As is this:

The “Ukraine crisis” repeats a script as old as the Cold War. The narrative features rising attacks by corporate states and media on the traditional whipping boy of Russia. As usual, “escalating the crisis” is US-led. As usual, alarm about “increasing lawless aggression” is projection of US policy itself. In fact, one more US-directed violent overthrow of an elected government has carved off the biggest country of Europe from next-door Russia.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/global-society-destruction-and-the-ukraine-crisis-decoding-its-deep-structural-meaning/5379275
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April 30, 2014 5:05pm
UglyTruth

All I do is apply a bit of commonsense and critical thinking skills .

and talk of killer neutrinos…

For example right from the beginning I asked two questions about 9/11 which no one to date has satisfactorily answered ,

I really don’t want to know what a satisfactory answer is in stevieboy’s world. I’ve responded to these points before.

1. If 9/11 was an inside job it would be a large scale and complex operation to lay explosive charges for the controlled demolition of the WTC to towers .

If you were using conventional techniques, which isn’t being suggested.

It raises two questions ,the first is why it was completely unnoticed by the 3,000 or so staff working there

It wasn’t unnoticed, an computer/electrical shutdown and people/engineers working there the weekend before was reported.

and secondly ,why no whistleblowers have not come forth.?

Because they would effectively be admitting to conspiracy to commit terrorism, perhaps?
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April 30, 2014 5:13pm
stephieboy

Fletch,

Senate Select Committee On Intelligence Releases Bipartisan Review Benghazi- dispelling the Fox myths

Senate Select Committee On Intelligence Releases Review On September 11, 2012 Attack On A Diplomatic Facility In Benghazi, Libya. A January 15, 2014 U.S. Senate Select Committee investigation released a review of the September 11, 2012 attack in Benghazi and made recommendations to prevent future attacks on American interests around the world. [Review Of The Terrorist Attacks On U.S. Facilities In Benghazi, Libya, September 11-12, 2012, U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, 1/15/14]
1 Fox Benghazi Myth: “Stand Down” Order Was Given To Benghazi Response Teams

Senate Review: No Evidence Of A “Stand Down” Order
2 Fox Benghazi Myth: Obama Administration Ignored Benghazi Threats
Senate Review: No “Tactical Warning” Predicting An Attack
3 Fox Benghazi Myth: Obama Administration Engaged In Cover-Up Over Benghazi
Senate Review: No Effort By Obama Administration To Cover-Up Or Alter Facts
4.Fox Benghazi Myth: No Link To Anti-Muslim YouTube Video
Senate Review: Reports Suggested Link To Inflammatory YouTube Video
5 Fox Benghazi Myth: Obama Left Americans To Die In Benghazi

Senate Review: Response Saved Lives, No Military In Position

Further details here ,

http://mediamatters.org/research/2014/01/15/fox-benghazi-myths-dispelled-by-new-bipartisan/197609
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April 30, 2014 5:37pm
stephieboy

Reid,
Global Research,
Globalresearch.ca
Some dare call it
Conspiracy

S

“Globalresearch.ca (also under the domain name globalresearch.org) may best be described as a left-wing equivalent to WingNutDaily. It is the website of the Montreal-based non-profit The Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG), founded by Michel Chossudovsky.
The website describes itself as an “independent research and media organization.” Globalresearch.ca takes pride in being a reliable “alternative news” source serving as a major repository of a broad range of “news articles, in-depth reports and analysis on issues which are barely covered by the mainstream media” (such as the New World Order). Its politico-economic stance is strongly anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, anti-militarist, “internationalist but anti-globalization.” Its view of science, the economy and geopolitics seems to be broadly conspiracist.
While many of Globalresearch.ca’s articles discuss legitimate humanitarian or environmental concerns, the site has a strong undercurrent of reality warping and bullshit throughout its pages, especially in relation to taking its news from “Russia Today”, along with other unreliable and/or open sources.
Despite presenting itself as a source of scholarly analysis, Globalresearch.ca mostly consists of polemics many of which accept (and use) conspiracy theories, pseudoscience and propaganda. The prevalent conspiracist strand relates to global power-elites (primarily governments and corporations) and their New World Order. Specific featured conspiracy theories include those addressing 9/11, vaccines, genetic modification, Zionism, HAARP, global warming, and David Kelly. Analyses of these issues tend follow the lines of the site’s political biases.
Apparently, contributors to Globalresearch.ca consider information sourced from anyone who seems aligned to their ideology as reliable; during the 2011 Libyan civil war the site was an apologist for Muammar al-Gaddafi, reproducing his propaganda and painting him as a paragon of a modern leader. It’s no surprise then that the site has long become a magnet for radicals, fringe figures and crank elements from the left in general. And ironically, it has more in common with its writers’ enemies and wingnut rivals than they would ever admit.’

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Globalresearch.ca
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April 30, 2014 5:42pm
MH

Gate Pa, done and dusted, but how many will be invited to commemorate the Battle of Te Ranga on the 21 June 1864 just 5km distant from gate Pa where the Maori leader Puhirake (also at Gate Pa) was killed along with 108 of his mates,a further 15 dying of wounds. European losses- 9 dead and 39 wounded. So why Gate Pa? Because the maori won,what institutionlised racism. Do we also not reflect on the massacre by Te Kooti of both loyal maori and defenceless European women and children 10- 12 November 1868 near Matawhero and Patutahi…lest we forget.
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April 30, 2014 5:51pm
kowtow

stephie

You’re still here.

Come on ,you made the Palin claim.

Substantiate or you’re naught but a troll.
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April 30, 2014 6:05pm
nasska

MH

You obviously haven’t been reprogrammed successfully. The atrocities at Matawhero & Patutahi don’t suit the revised NZ history which must show the gentle flax weaving, poi dancing natives as the victims of the evil white man.

Get with it.
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April 30, 2014 6:07pm
Reid

Reid, Global Research…

stephie, I can’t believe I’m bothering to respond, but you need to assess veracity of the information in the article, not the site. That’s what the example I gave the other day was about, when I explained that Shawn had linked to a site founded by a satanist. I explained this does not mean that Shawn is a satanist. I realise such a concept is mind-boggling to you but as an example, this is what people who think do. They read for example, this (from the article I gave above):

Reversal of blame is always the US method of pretext and justification. This is why Russia is pervasively vilified in the mass media, and Canada’s big-oil regime joins in along with the UK. As always, denunciation rules without reasoned understanding. As always, the US-led financial and military forces of private money-power expansion move behind the abomination of designated enemies. Any nation or leader not serving transnational corporate control of resources and markets across borders is always the villain. This is the ruling meta program.

Thus too in Ukraine. When Europe tried to broker a peace deal between the opposition and elected government of Ukraine, the US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland continued to court the neo-Nazi coup leaders to overthrow the state, instructing “Yats” (appointed PM Yatsenyuk) to consult with the main putsch leader Oleh Tyahnybok “at least four times a week”. When she is reminded of the EU peace talks and agreement to stop the bloodshed, her response is telling, “Fuck the EU”. The coup peaked after three days of murder by the neo-Nazi faction. When former “Orange revolutionary” and gas oligarch leader of the Fatherland Party, Yulia Tymoshenko, then got out of jail for criminal embezzlement of state property, she expressed the logic of power shared with the US regarding Russia. She says without denial of the words: “take up arms and go and wipe out these damn katsaps” [Russian minority] – – – so that not even scorched earth would be left of Russia.” Yet in every Western media of record, it is Russia who remains “the aggressor”, “the growing threat”, “the source of the rising crisis”, and “the out-of-control power that must be stopped”…

…Serial false allegations and pretexts thus unfold again against Russia in regard to Ukraine. The US-led mayhem and violence varies widely, but the dots have not yet been joined on what is always achieved beneath the political-ideological shows – the tearing apart and dispossession of one society after another by US-led financial and armed means. Here it is Ukraine and the set-up of Russia at once. Not only is the society decapitated, as in Ukraine or Libya or Iraq or as demanded in Syria. That is the official script. Much more deeply the society’s civil bonds are rent asunder, its productive base is sabotaged, its social life supports are stripped, its environment and resources looted and its future despoiled. Always. There is no objective fulfilled except social life-system destruction. But the connections still go unmade. As General Rick Hillier, commander of Canada’s forces helping to bomb Libya said afterwards: “We did it because we could”. As CIA executive director Buzzy Krongard acknowledges about the permanent US war, but still without the consequence named: “It will be won by forces you do not know about, in actions you will not see, and in ways you may not want to know about”.

The supremely evil truth becomes testable by its continuous repetition. Dismantling or destroying society’s very life bases is the innermost meaning of US-led “freedom” and “globalization”. It includes even US society itself by ever more monstrous misallocation of public resources away from what serves life bases to what deprives them. If one reviews the post-1980 trajectory of ruin of nations, the objectively evil pattern becomes clear. No other actually working goal has been achieved since the Reagan-Thatcher turn. It is the DNA of the global cancer system. Try to think of exception. Since the war-criminal destruction of poverty-ridden Nicaragua’s new schools and clinics by the signature method of covertly US funded and armed forces within, the society-destruction method has only grown and multiplied by terrorist as well as financial means. When Obama says “every society must chart its own course”, he follows the reverse moral syntax at work. The deliberate mass-diseasing of 500,000 children in the first manufactured crisis of Iraq as the nearby Soviet Union collapsed revealed what we could expect from the US without another superpower to contain it. In all cases, there has been one underlying principle of outcome – US-led civil disintegration of societies across the world. That is how a cancer works at the transnational level of life organization.

Engineering civil war is the favored method with effective genocide the long consequence. This is true not only in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Lebanon, and Syria, but Somalia, Sudan and the Congo. Direct US invasion may lose the war from Vietnam to Afghanistan, but its defeat is, more deeply another US-led success at destroying another society. The Wall Street metastasis to EU banker-run Europe has worked without invasion or even proxy uprising, but society destruction is still achieved by the small print of corporate treaties and bank powers people never see. Greece, Spain and Italy are effectively ruined, and behind the dismantling of these and all victim societies is the same transnational corporate system multiplying itself through societies. Big Banks, Oil, Military Contracting, Big Agri-Food and Pharma are themselves only vehicles of the one underlying economic disease of transnational money sequences self-multiplying across all borders without life limits or functions. They feed on ruined societies as their carrion.

Ukraine follows this macro pattern…

They then recall their history of those mentioned conflicts and think to themselves, did that really happen? Is Libya for example, really actually a festering pile of dog poo when once it used to be one of the most prosperous and well educated nations in that region? They might need to a do a bit of research to answer that and then they might look at the next nation mentioned and the next and so on.

And then they identify the patterns. The common factors. Like: the US invaded to name an obvious one. The tactics used in such conflict, broken down by propaganda, guerilla, political, military etc; to name a less obvious one.

At some point in such research it sometimes dawns on people who think that the pattern they are hypothesising has metastasized into a reality, an actual reality, based on the repetition of the same things in different countries that happened with the same particular player involved time after time after time.

Sometimes no pattern appears. What the author was saying seemed real but on further analysis, it wasn’t the case. And sometimes it does appear.

But people who think never approach such a question with the answer already in mind. People who think recall Tolstoy’s quote I gave the other day. Here it is again because you’ve probably forgotten it:

“The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-
witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the
simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if
he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of
doubt, what is laid before him.”

People who think also not only bear in mind but also rigorously practice Conan-Doyle’s dictum given by his fictional character:

“Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.”

When people who think not only remember but apply to the letter both of those two principles to any matter, they will arrive at the truth. It’s when people don’t want to think, that they get it wrong. And that’s what people who have something to hide rely on. Most people don’t want to come to conclusions which challenge their established worldview, because to do so entails apparent ego destruction. So most people don’t think. It’s a shame because as I said, the ego destruction is a veil that you can pass through and once on the other side, you realise it was an illusion same as the curtain of water in the waterfall was in Tintin goes to Peru. It looked real, but it really wasn’t. And once on the other side, which doesn’t hurt at all, you realise you can really see things, as they really are, for the first time.
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April 30, 2014 6:17pm
Lucia Maria

Reid,

She says without denial of the words: “take up arms and go and wipe out these damn katsaps” [Russian minority] – – – so that not even scorched earth would be left of Russia.”

Is she ordering armies to do that? Not that I’m seeing. Instead it’s a very restrained reaction, trying not to trigger an all out war.

Yet in every Western media of record, it is Russia who remains “the aggressor”, “the growing threat”, “the source of the rising crisis”, and “the out-of-control power that must be stopped”…a

Yes, because Russia has 40,000 troops on the border of Ukraine (including hospital facilities, so they’re expecting casualties) and who knows how many military men taking over town by town, shooting mayors, roughing up pro-Ukraine supporters, taking military observers prisoner, and parading a captured female reporter/Maiden organiser blindfolded around the place. And that’s what we know about.

It’s almost as if Russia doesn’t quite get the internet, that it’s difficult to contain the situation just by releasing fantastical stories to conspiracy websites and pasty pro-Russian reporters.

The deliberate mass-diseasing of 500,000 children in the first manufactured crisis of Iraq as the nearby Soviet Union collapsed revealed what we could expect from the US without another superpower to contain it.

Bloody hell, that’s implying regret that the Soviet Union no longer exists. Do you even know how offensive that is?
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April 30, 2014 6:28pm
nasska

Message to the Ukraine
From Vladimir Putin

I want you to move your border away from my troops.
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April 30, 2014 6:41pm
Reid

Yes, because Russia has 40,000 troops on the border of Ukraine…and that’s what we know about.

No Lucia, that’s what the matrix tells you its about. The whole point of the matrix is that when you’re in it, you don’t know you’re in it.

It’s almost as if Russia doesn’t quite get the internet, that it’s difficult to contain the situation just by releasing fantastical stories to conspiracy websites and pasty pro-Russian reporters.

So maybe you should read my above about how people think, lest you make the mistake of being one of those who don’t.

Bloody hell, that’s implying regret that the Soviet Union no longer exists. Do you even know how offensive that is?

Lucia have you looked up the child casualty rate from the US-imposed sanctions? Do you know about Albright’s quote to the effect “we think it’s a price worth paying?”

Do you know how offensive it is to allege that something even Albright herself acknowledged is true, is in fact false, coming as it does from someone steeped in the matrix?

Educate yourself girl. Get a clue.

(Seriously, I’m actually not offended, I hardly ever am unless someone outright lies about me. Emotion interferes with logical processing, but I do sometimes mirror the tone of the person I’m responding to, that’s why I worded the above couple of sentences.)

BTW, if you wish to discuss the article, then read the whole thing and lets discuss it, because you’re picking on a micro theme and the macro theme is very interesting, novel (in my reading anyway) and well worth discussing. Please recognise I only quoted that bit to serve as an example to illustrate a totally separate point.
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April 30, 2014 6:42pm
Lucia Maria

The Matrix?

????

You know that was a MOVIE, don’t you? A movie with Gnostic themes, the intent being that we should just get used to compromising with evil, because that’s how the world works?

So, the 40,000 troops on the border is a figment of everyone’s imagination, and Poland asking for more NATO support (because of long empire, war and then communist memories of Russia) is just, what .. part of the Matrix?

I don’t want to read anymore of that article, it’s crap. I only read enough crap to rebut it, any more and it’s just gross. I don’t pick through crap looking for diamonds, because I kinda figure that there aren’t any, given all the crap.
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April 30, 2014 6:55pm
mikenmild

Lucia Maria belatedly realising that 90% of Reid’s links are pure shite.
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April 30, 2014 7:13pm
stephieboy

Reid (15,684 comments) says:
April 30th, 2014 at 6:17 pm

“Reversal of blame is always the US method of pretext and justification. This is why Russia is pervasively vilified in the mass media, and Canada’s big-oil regime joins in along with the UK…..”

If this is Global Research ( you do not source your extensive copy and paste) then it confirms what Rational Wiki has said, namely polemic ,rhetorical with the usual ideological based sweeping assertions and broad glib generalizations . Examples as to who and what ” mass media ” persuasively vilifies Russia.?

Then this ,

“As always, the US-led financial and military forces of private money-power expansion move behind the abomination of designated enemies. Any nation or leader not serving transnational corporate control of resources and markets across borders is always the villain. This is the ruling meta program….. etc”

Again no effort to document or present facts and evidence . Rhetoric , bombast and propaganda are , of course . much easier . As my link remarks,

“The prevalent conspiracist strand relates to global power-elites (primarily governments and corporations) and their New World Order. Specific featured conspiracy theories include those addressing 9/11, vaccines, genetic modification, Zionism, HAARP, global warming, …”

Small wonder it attracts contributions by conspiracy and non reality based mongers like Alex Jones , Paul Craig Roberts and Chris Bollyn.

Lucia Maria,

Matrix is Reid’s , I understand, current code for Reptilian shape shifting aka David Icke.
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April 30, 2014 7:20pm
kowtow

stephie ,a bit rich you coming on here lecturing when you fail to substantiate claims about Palin.
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April 30, 2014 7:35pm
stephieboy

kowtow,

yes your right and it was my mistake. But as my link demonstrates there are ten compelling reasons why she could never make it to the White House and why she ably assisted that nice guy John McCain lose the 2008 Presidential campaign,

http://www.ranker.com/list/top-10-most-ridiculous-sarah-palin-quotes-ever/pt_tesla
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April 30, 2014 7:37pm
Lucia Maria

Stephieboy,

Matrix is Reid’s , I understand, current code for Reptilian shape shifting aka David Icke.

Yeah, I just need to force him to admit to the main thrust of that movie series, which is only obvious in the finale of no 3.

Mike,

Lucia Maria belatedly realising that 90% of Reid’s links are pure shite.

LOL! I’ve been arguing with Reid, on and off, for many years now. Back in Sir Hump’s days, he gave me links to the David Icke websites …. I just keep hoping sanity will kick in at some point. There’s a few things we agree on (probably your 10% that you mention), the rest is just hard work.
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April 30, 2014 7:43pm
nasska

Paul Simon and his wife Edie Brickell suffered minor injuries in a domestic this week.

The argument started while they were in bed.

He called her Betty, and she called him Al.
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April 30, 2014 8:00pm
Reid

A movie with Gnostic themes, the intent being that we should just get used to compromising with evil, because that’s how the world works?

It’s an analogy Lucia with instant recognition because everyone knows what you mean as soon as you mention it, that’s why I’ve recently started using it. Why therefore do you hallucinate I’m approving or disapproving of it in anyway? I’m using it because it’s a social meme that has traction. The fact it has traction is not my doing, not my fault and not my choice.

I don’t want to read anymore of that article, it’s crap.

Why? Truth hurts? That article is substantiated by history. Read it and weep. Unless your tummy hurts. In that case, just dismiss it.
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April 30, 2014 8:08pm
Viking2

Mans best friend.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/xdj67XknFrM#t=5
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April 30, 2014 8:18pm
Viking2

Gods Judgement On Taxes..
One day, this man, Tony, died. When he was sent to be judged, he was told that he had committed a sin, and that he could not go to heaven right away.

He asked what he did and God told him that he cheated on his income taxes, and that the only way he could get into heaven would be to sleep with a 500 pound, stupid, butt-ugly woman for the next five years and enjoy it.

Tony decided that this was a small price to pay for an eternity in heaven.

So off he went with this enormous woman, pretending to be happy.

As he was walking along, he saw his friend Carlos up ahead. Carlos was with an even bigger, uglier woman than he was with.

When he approached Carlos he asked him what was going on, and Carlos replied, “I cheated on my income taxes and scammed the government out of a lot of money…even more then you did.”

They both shook their heads in understanding and figured that as long as they have to be with these women, they might as well hang out together to help pass the time.

Now Tony, Carlos, and their two beastly women were walking along, minding their own business when Tony and Carlos could have sworn that they saw their friend Paul up ahead, only this man was with an absolutely drop dead gorgeous supermodel/centerfold.

Stunned, Tony and Carlos approached the man and in fact it was their friend Paul. They asked him how is he with this unbelievable goddess, while they were stuck with these god-awful women.

Paul replied, “I have no idea, and I’m definitely not complaining.

This has been absolutely the best time of my life (and I’m dead), and I have had five years of the best sex any man could hope for.
There is only one thing that I don’t understand.

After every time we have sex, she rolls over and murmurs to herself, “Damn income taxes!!!!!”
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April 30, 2014 8:20pm
Lucia Maria

Why therefore do you hallucinate I’m approving or disapproving of it in anyway? I’m using it because it’s a social meme that has traction. The fact it has traction is not my doing, not my fault and not my choice.

Choice of analogy always means something, Reid. We’re built that way, to give meaning in all that we do and say, even subconsciously. No one is neutral, not even you. That you choose The Matrix as an analogy says something about you, whether you want to know it or not.

Interesting that you have been using phrases in comments directed at me such as “hallucinate” and “tummy hurts”. I am perfectly sane, thankyou, no hallucinations, and I am not stressed out by what you are saying, I am really angry. Angry, because I know the history of the region perfectly well, and you appear not to at all. If you do, it’s only because you are a Russian Communist in disguise, which I doubt you are, and you are spreading false information which would have real life consequences were enough people to believe it.
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April 30, 2014 8:22pm
wiseowl

Hawkes Bay Today reports that the Napier mayor thinks Mr Dunne is incompetent and should resign.

Does the UP still have 500 members or have many resigned in response to Dunnes incompetence?
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April 30, 2014 8:32pm
stephieboy

I think the appeal of the The Matrix to Conspiracy buffs like Reid is the premise from the movie that “Reality “is just a lie or at best Computer generated as the movie explores.
Those who can only discern all this are those who are ‘awake” or ” woken Up “and I think Reid believes that his perceptions are so attuned to be “woken up as in The Matrix. Thus his awareness allows him to ” perceive ” things like the NWO and the nefarious goings on by the e.g Rothchilds , International Jewry. and finance. etc.
Poppycock , of course. All I can suggest to Reid is go and visit his Doctor for a possible Psychiatric referral.
Truth hurts. yes , but delusions can be dynamite.

http://thesoapboxrantings.blogspot.co.nz/2013/09/how-matrix-inspired-conspiracy.html
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April 30, 2014 8:36pm
wikiriwhis business

Wall St. is killing their own bankers for the insurance payouts. JPMorgan has $10.4 billion tied up in seeking to profit from workers’ deaths.
Read more at http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/04/wall-st-is-killing-their-own-bankers-for-the-insurance-payouts/#qDMICEbzpZV3Leva.99

It doesn’t get any more Orwellian than this: Wall Street mega banks crash the U.S. financial system in 2008. Hundreds of thousands of financial industry workers lose their jobs. Then, beginning late last year, a rash of suspicious deaths start to occur among current and former bank employees. Next we learn that four of the Wall Street mega banks likely hold over $680 billion face amount of life insurance on their workers, payable to the banks, not the families. We ask their Federal regulator for the details of this life insurance under a Freedom of Information Act request and we’re told the information constitutes “trade secrets.”
Read more at http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/04/wall-st-is-killing-their-own-bankers-for-the-insurance-payouts/#qDMICEbzpZV3Leva.99
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April 30, 2014 8:43pm
nasska

Drawn with Kiwiblog in mind? 🙂

Ref: https://www.dropbox.com/s/58df9mdufzf82jq/Mod%202.png
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April 30, 2014 8:46pm
stephieboy

Wikiri, this link below seeks to get to the bottom of these alleged banker suicides. An analysis and careful scrutiny of these suicides reveal that of the recent nine cases only four were actually bankers .Additionally J P morgan employs sum 250,000 and there is a statistical probability that some one within the huge bank will at some time suicide , not counting the often, highly stressful nature of the work,

https://skeptoid.com/blog/2014/03/03/why-are-bankers-killing-themselves-in-droves/
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April 30, 2014 9:08pm
wikiriwhis business

Hidden Source Code in ObamaCare. Yet another video each American should see

No reasonable expectation of privacy

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=712900708751700&set=vb.303805692994539&type=2&theater
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April 30, 2014 9:09pm
wikiriwhis business

Amir Kalman “It is impossible to understand the world today without knowing what the ESF is and what it has been doing. Officially in charge of defending the dollar, the ESF is the government agency which controls the New York Fed, runs the CIA’s black budget, and is the architect of the world’s monetary system (IMF, World Bank, etc). ESF financing (through the OSS and then the CIA) built up the worldwide propaganda network which has so badly distorted history today (including erasing awareness of its existence from popular consciousness). It has been directly involved in virtually every major US fraud/scandal since its creation in 1934: the London gold pool, the Kennedy assassinations, Iran-Contra, CIA drug trafficking, HIV, and worse”
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April 30, 2014 9:12pm
EAD

wiki – I’ve been following former US Treasury Sceretary and Wall Street Journal Editor Paul Craig Roberts and the best I can deduce is that the things that link the banker suicides is that their ability to rig markets is rapidly diminishing as China and Russia take control of key supplies and the ability of the Western Markets to manipulate them through their paper games is ending.

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/04/09/us-world-coming-end-paul-craig-roberts/

Of all the markets gold is the most crucial, as Roberts notes, when the Western banksters lose the ability to impact the price of gold through naked short sells, the price is going to go through the roof, interest rates will rockets as finally the truth is revealed about how much inflation has been unleashed across the world by the central banks. Gold is the key as it is the worlds only true money as it can’t be printed to infinity.

Remember – Paper money will eventually return to its intrinsic value —- zero
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April 30, 2014 9:28pm
Left Right and Centre

A 21-year-old man took sheep from a paddock and killed them because he had no money for food, the Invercargill District Court has been told.

Too easy – job on the chain at a freezing works. Proven competency.
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April 30, 2014 9:28pm
wikiriwhis business

Fifty Kiwi businesses are staring disaster in the face thanks to the Government’s incompetence in handling issues around infant formula exports, says New Zealand First leader Rt Hon Winston Peters.
SunLive – Companies face ruin over infant formula – The Bay’s News First
Companies face ruin over infant formula – Sunlive – The Bay’s News First
sunlive.co.nz

http://www.sunlive.co.nz/news/70823-companies-face-ruin-over-infant-formula.html
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April 30, 2014 9:40pm
wikiriwhis business

“Remember – Paper money will eventually return to its intrinsic value —- zero”

Good call Ead
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April 30, 2014 9:42pm
publicwatchdog

FYI Kiwibloggers 🙂

Protest outside the electorate office of National MP Murray McCully – Minister for Foreign Affairs, Wednesday 30 April 2014:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152002536776790&set=pcb.10152002537011790&type=1&theater

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF ‘Open Letter’ /OIA to Minister of Foreign Affairs Murray McCully re: ‘job offer/ / (BRIBE?) to Labour Party MP Shane Jones, from his Ministerial Secretary:
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30 April 2014 (3.37pm)

Dear Penny,

On behalf of Hon Murray McCully, Minister of Foreign Affairs, thank you for your correspondence of 30 April 2014 requesting information regarding the creation, and funding of, an economic ambassadorial role in the Pacific.

You will receive a reply within 20 working days as required by the Official Information Act.

Yours sincerely,

Holly

Holly Bennett | Ministerial Secretary | Office of Hon Murray McCully
Minister of Foreign Affairs | Minister for Sport and Recreation
6.1 Executive Wing Beehive | Parliament Buildings | Wellington 6160 | New Zealand
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‘Open Letter’ /OIA to Minister of Foreign Affairs Murray McCully
re: ‘job offer/ / (BRIBE?) to Labour Party MP Shane Jones:
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30 April 2014

‘Open Letter’ /OIA to Minister of Foreign Affairs Murray McCully
re: ‘job offer/ / (BRIBE?) to Labour Party MP Shane Jones

Dear Minister McCully,

Please be reminded of your statutory duties arising from the Public Records Act 2005:

http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2005/0040/latest/DLM345536.html

3Purposes of Act

The purposes of this Act are—
(a)to provide for the continuation of the repository of public archives called the National Archives with the name Archives New Zealand (Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga); and

(b)to provide for the role of the Chief Archivist in developing and supporting government recordkeeping, including making independent determinations on the disposal of public records and certain local authority archives; and

(c)to enable the Government to be held accountable by—
(i)ensuring that full and accurate records of the affairs of central and local government are created and maintained; and

(ii)providing for the preservation of, and public access to, records of long-term value; and

(d)to enhance public confidence in the integrity of public records and local authority records; and

(e)to provide an appropriate framework within which public offices and local authorities create and maintain public records and local authority records, as the case may be; and

(f)through the systematic creation and preservation of public archives and local authority archives, to enhance the accessibility of records that are relevant to the historical and cultural heritage of New Zealand and to New Zealanders’ sense of their national identity; and
(g)to encourage the spirit of partnership and goodwill envisaged by the Treaty of Waitangi (Te Tiriti o Waitangi), as provided for by section 7; and
(h)to support the safekeeping of private records.
____________________________________

Please provide the following information:

1) Copies of ALL correspondence, including but not limited to briefing notes, memorandums, meeting minutes, reports, emails telephone messages, between yourself, and any other person acting on your direction, and the Chief Executive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT), regarding the creation of the position / proposed position of ‘Pacific Economic Ambassador’.

2) Copies of ALL correspondence, including but not limited to briefing notes, memorandums, meeting minutes, reports, emails telephone messages, between yourself, and any other person acting on your direction, and the Chief Executive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT), regarding the source(s) of funding for the position / proposed position of ‘Pacific Economic Ambassador’.

ie: Information which confirms whether it was the Chief Executive of MFAT who considered and concluded, independently of yourself as Minister of Foreign Affairs, that the position / proposed position of ‘Pacific Economic Ambassador’.was necessary and that there was available funding.

3) Information which confirms whether the position / proposed position of ‘Pacific Economic Ambassador’ is a ‘public service role’, where the person is appointed by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, so the Chief Executive of MFAT is their employer and funding is allocated in the budget and administered within the boundaries specified in the appropriations – or a’ministerial appointment’, funded from the appropriations for parliamentary services.

4) Copies of ALL information, including but not limited to briefing notes, memorandums, meeting minutes, reports, emails, telephone messages, and texts between yourself, and Labour Party MP Shane Jones, relating to your ‘job offer’ to him, of ‘Pacific Economic Ambassador’, and related matters.

Yours sincerely,

Penny Bright
‘Anti-corruption /anti-privatisation Public Watchdog’

…………………….

Attendee: 2009 Australian Public Sector Anti-Corruption Conference
Attendee: 2010 Transparency International Anti-Corruption Conference
Attendee: 2013 Australian Public Sector Anti-Corruption Conference

2013 Auckland Mayoral candidate (polling 4th with 11,723 votes campaigning against corrupt corporate control of the Auckland region)

http://www.pennybright4mayor.org.nz
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April 30, 2014 9:53pm
stephieboy

EAD, do we add yet add another Conspiracy Theory with the Exchange Stabilization Fund to the list here. ? ,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conspiracy_theories

Wikiri , I thought paper money like our dollar is based on our GNP i.e ,one our capacity to earn our way in the world through the exports of our products and two, the assets we have to back them up like our land- agriculture, horticulture , forestry, Lakes- hydro power etc etc , etc Or does it have to be something more mysterious and conspiratorial than this that only the likes of Zero hedge , EAD and you are in the know.?
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April 30, 2014 9:57pm
Reid

Angry, because I know the history of the region perfectly well, and you appear not to at all.

I took Russian history and Russian politics undergrad papers at University Lucia. Not specifically Ukraine but the whole country. It taught me a lot since the cold war was still a very happening thing, in the early 80’s.

I think your issue is you blame what happened to your rellies on forces that weren’t driving the events which caused their distress. One of the things I learned about Russian politics is that their mentality was driven by a defensive mentality.

Of course we in the West at the time were always told since we were babies that the Wussians were big bad meanies and they wanted to take over the world and spwead their commie manifesto all over the place and look for example what the Comintern says and that’s all weally weally bad.

But I learned that the reason the Russians had developed buffer states in the form of the inner circle of the USSR states and the wider circle of the Warsaw pact countries is because Rus developed from invasion and it was a form of defence embedded deep in the Russian psyche. Naturally this was an inconvenient truth for the West which, as I later learned, had tremendous vested interests in driving the agenda of the aggressive Russian forces.

Stalin was an outsider and an anomaly in Russian history, did you know that? Of course you know he was a Georgian, as you also know that Napolean was a Corsican and Hitler was an Austrian. I read an interesting observation once to the effect it’s amazing how when outsiders take over a country they’re not from, they normally trash it after using it to achieve their own evil ends. It takes great discernment to see that at the time its happening let alone when you’re looking at history, since the tendency is to conflate the depredation they inflict with the country itself and blame the country and not the man and his willing minions.

The evidence is there as to who the bolsheviks were and newsflash: they weren’t Russians. You only need to look at what they did to Russians to realise that. But you have to be discerning.

The person BTW who gave me that data on Russia at university wasn’t as I’m sure you’re currently hallucinating, some raging lefty. No. He in fact is a highly respected member of the conservative political hierarchy. I’m not going to name him but a look at Auckland Uni’s political studies faculty list from the early 1980’s will lead you to him, if you’re interested. And I won’t be responding to anyone who asks: was it him, either. I just told you the truth. Take it or leave it. I don’t care.
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April 30, 2014 10:00pm
cha

The FBI strikes again.

http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/world/dzhokhar-bombshell-fbi-pressed-tamerlan-to-become-informant/article/382283
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April 30, 2014 10:10pm
EAD

Stephie – I long ago worked out you are one of the ones who are mentally incapable of understanding the system. Spend some time researching the following and research it to the end so you can answer these questions:
– What is money?
– Where does money come from?
– What is the history of money in various forms?

A good place to start might be the book “The Creature from Jekyll Island”.

Once you have asked and answered those questions, then ask yourself what is each monetary systems respective impacts on wealth distribution, political systems and societal control?

“The few who understand the system will either be so interested in its profits or be so dependent upon its favours that there will be no opposition from that class, while on the other hand, the great body of people, mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantage that capital derives from the system, will bear its burdens without complaint, and perhaps without even suspecting that the system is inimical to their interests.” – The Rothschild brothers of London writing to associates in New York, 1863.
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April 30, 2014 10:14pm
stephieboy

Reid, Stalin was not an anomaly. He was very much in forefront of Russia’s autocratic tradition and a logical continuation of the despotism of Leninist ideology as demonstrated by e. g the effects of Democratic Centralism in the Bolsheviks that encouraged and perpetuated the accumulation of power and despotism.Trotsky was equally as bad as Stalin but less politically shred and adept but aslo infected with this sense of autocratic control a butproduct of Marxist Leninism
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April 30, 2014 10:14pm
Fisiani

Brett Hudson chosen for National in Ohariu
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April 30, 2014 10:17pm
Reid

EAD, have you watched this?

It won’t tell you anything you don’t already know, but it’s the best explanation I’ve seen on it. The trouble with Jekyll Island for people like stephie is, there are no pictures.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFDe5kUUyT0
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April 30, 2014 10:31pm
Left Right and Centre

Faggots are all going to hell. You cannot be Christian either – sorry duckie.

– Paihia Baptist Church

Aren’t some religions wonderful ?
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April 30, 2014 10:44pm
EAD

Yes Reid I have seen that video and have shared it previously on this site with a mixed response. People would learn more in that 30 mins of education than from an entire year of reading the financial pages of the NZ Herald – why prices rise, why debt has to keep growing, the kabuki theatre that is Central Banks trying to “manage” economies.

Youtube and the internet in general have been the greatest gift to mankind as it has enabled to have a world of information including access to the great minds at our fingertips. It is the most Democratising invention the world has ever seen.

Unfortunately, this video has only had 2 million views while a Justin Bieber video will have 300million+ or a cat spinning on a chair might generate 100m+. Like Orwell prophesised all those years ago – many people have learned to love their servitude…
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April 30, 2014 10:48pm
Left Right and Centre

There’s a horse in the pub !

– Paul Henry tonight.

Hahahahahaha . . . rural country mainland NZ and alcohol – you’ve gotta love it baby !!
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April 30, 2014 10:55pm
Reid

“I fear the day technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.”

Einstein.

It is the most Democratising invention the world has ever seen.

Try searching for say, 911 and see what you get these days. I don’t think they knew what would happen when they launched it and it’s taken them awhile to learn how to manage it, but they’re getting there and it won’t be long before the sheeple are right back where they were before it came along. Fat, happy and ignorant. Until the hammer falls of course, that’s when they’re going to wake up. Not long now.
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April 30, 2014 11:03pm
stephieboy

EAD, “love their servitude .? Patronizing and condescending drivel we’ve come to expect of a conspiracy theorist like yours. The real steeple are the Conspiracy theorist themselves as Reid and yourself capably demonstrate .
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April 30, 2014 11:12pm
EAD

It’s quite funny isn’t it – in the UK many people have worked out that there is no real democracy from the LIBLABCON and are turning to UKIP in their droves and the press is going apesh*t. Same in the US with Ron Paul vs. the “Republocrats” and the MSM including so called Republican leaning outlets went mental at Ron Paul.

The MSM and even here at Kiwiblog don’t like this of course, they like to pretend that there is a huge and dramatic battle going on between the main parties because if they actually admitted they truly are all the same they wouldn’t have anything to write about. We are encouraged to focus on trivialities and personalities and fed bullsh*t statistics to encourage this delusion so people can’t actually see the woods for the trees.

The amount of blue team apoplexy when I suggest that National are not the prudent financial managers DPF makes out they is staggering despite all the evidence staring at them in the face.

I don’t agree with all you say Reid but keep speaking up as sunlight on the truth is the greatest disinfectant.
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April 30, 2014 11:17pm
itstricky

Hidden Source Code in ObamaCare. Yet another video each American should see

No reasonable expectation of privacy

And yet, if you spend more than 2 seconds Googling that you find that what they were referring to as “hidden” was a comment in the code, in fact something that was specifically removed from a more general template.

In no way legally enforceable, seeing as the intended user would never read and acknowlege it.

Not a single person in that room was techincal, obviously. None of them had any idea of what they were looking at and why it wasn’t relevant. Apart from Mr Barton, of course, who must have known what it (wasn’t) and was stringing it along to get those 300+ non-thinking misinformed Facebook up votes.

Some slimy politicians know no bounds to FUD. Just another regurgitated and repeated link, posted by Mr Wiki.
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April 30, 2014 11:28pm
itstricky

Until the hammer falls of course, that’s when they’re going to wake up. Not long now.

KA-CHING. Matrix Gold!
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April 30, 2014 11:29pm
Reid

I don’t agree with all you say Reid

No, I don’t know anyone who does. This must mean I’m wrong somewhere but I don’t know where.. 🙂
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April 30, 2014 11:37pm
stephieboy

EAD, stand back and think about “things” for a moment about the reality of what your trying to say with ” no real democracy from the LIBACOM ” etc.. If free speech is a vital fabric of democracy then you give a lie to it right here at KB. its you with your addiction to Zero hedge gobbledygook that you feed us with your own version of BS stats etc.
Are the press actually going “apeshit” as you claim over UKDIP.? Mental at Ron Paul.? or is the truth that Republican voters did not accept his rather wacko policies given his poor polling in the primary races he entered.?
In a very straightforward way what do you propose in the absence of the Nats your economic management. proposals ?
Dismantling the State.?
BTW , timeline for the big stock market crash this year.??.
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April 30, 2014 11:37pm
itstricky

Here you go Wiki

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2013/oct/29/joe-barton/healthcaregov-users-waive-any-reasonable-right-pri/

Don’t know why I bother with these random website conspiracy theorists. May as well have been a Birther website for all I care. Never mind, bed time.
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April 30, 2014 11:38pm
stephieboy

Reid , “No, I don’t know anyone who does. This must mean I’m wrong somewhere but I don’t know where.. ”

You may like to begin here in your quest for the answer ,

http://www.cracked.com/article_20466_5-conspiracy-theories-that-are-shockingly-easy-to-debunk.html
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April 30, 2014 11:41pm
EAD

Stephie – I defer to your great wisdom as evidenced by the quality of your posts.

Let’s agree to disagree
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April 30, 2014 11:46pm
Reid

You may like to begin here in your quest for the answer ,

I did take a look stephie, but I realised that as with all debunking articles I’ve read on this, they pretend to have an explanation but they really don’t, however in order to know that, you have to know what the issues raised in the first place were.

So that didn’t help, but thanks for taking the time to make an attempt. I know you were only trying to help, but perhaps next time you could familiarise yourself with the actual issues that are alleged so that you’ll not only help me but you’ll be able to rapidly detect bullshit when you see it as well. You seem currently to be completely and utterly lacking in this skill, that’s all. You seem almost as simple as a little baby who can’t even talk yet, with respect to your understanding of what the actual allegations and the evidence thereof are.

But you’re trying, even if you’re not very good yet, and that’s something, at least, isn’t it. Take care, and keep really really trying your very best. You never know, in a year or so you may start making some progress, maybe.
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