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cmm

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/middle-east/85189903/a-saudi-teen-flirts-online-with-a-young-woman-in-california–and-ends-up-in-jail

It looks like all that love of diversity isn’t being reciprocated.
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October 11, 2016 8:04am
- ross411
  
  If you read the article, it’s more that he looked a little silly and represented the kingdom badly. Not that the girl was white, could have been a black, yellow, white or whatever coloured pretty American girl and the contrast would have presented the same effect.
  
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  October 11, 2016 8:27am
  - cmm
    
    That bit is even worse… You can’t say anything about authority.
    
    Are these values at all compatible with the west which values free association and freedom of speech?
    
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    October 11, 2016 8:54am
oldpark

Saw a comment on another blog site.” Clowns lives matter”.Great to see NZs have a great sense of humour.
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October 11, 2016 8:05am
kowtow

Great article by Stephen Franks

“When did it become an obligation on an employer to discipline an employee for what could be a fleeting airport toilet shag with a woman not his ‘partner’, thousands of miles from the ‘workplace’ with no evidence (so far) that it could affect workplace performance.”

And much more.

http://www.stephenfranks.co.nz/the-rugby-unions-clerical-duties/
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October 11, 2016 8:09am
- ross411
  
  He makes a great argument that being seen to react in the way that will garner the most approval, seems to be the goal. Rather than doing things that are actually necessary, and warranted.
  
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  October 11, 2016 8:29am
  - Kimbo
    
    aka virtue-signalling
    
    I’m still trying to work out what the “big mistake” that Aaron Smith made, such that he deserved to lose his test place and suffer public exposure.
    
    Using a disabled toilet?
    
    Having sex with someone who wasn’t his partner…again?
    
    Being seen to have sex while in an All Black blazer?
    
    Getting caught?
    
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    October 11, 2016 8:38am
    - SGA
      
      I’d guess that the “Big mistake” was repeating little mistakes. After a couple (?) of past indiscretions, he’s been told to keep his nose cleaner/be more discreet, and he didn’t.
      
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      October 11, 2016 9:02am
      - Kimbo
        
        Um, what were the previous “little mistakes”?
        
        Being the subject of media reports and/or social media posts concerning his personal life and anatomy? Am really confused about that, as, if he was female it would be a case of “slut-shaming”. But then he isn’t female so it is completely different…
        
        Or bad timing as it gave the MSM another opportunity to wring its hands over “rugby in crisis” after the Chiefs/Strippergate and Ross Filipo stories?
        
        Sure, cheating on your partner (again) stinks, but that is a private matter between them. Still think using the disabled toilet was the worst of his employment-related “sins”. But this ain’t Keith Murdoch smacking a security guard!
        
        And the sanctimony of the scum who recorded it and the media who reported it. “Will no one think of the children!”. Spare me.
        
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        October 11, 2016 9:08am
      - SGA
        
        “Little mistakes” – you know the answer to that – bringing unwanted negative attention on the AB brand.
        “Aaron, we have an image and sponsors to consider. You need to show a bit more self control or there will be consequences, I mean it. Understand?”
        “Yes, sorry, it won’t happen again”
        … time passes …
        “Aaron, we warned you”
        (and it sends a clear message to others who, I imagine, have been given similar warnings (perhaps about things we don’t even know about, perhaps even concerning Aaron) ).
        
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        October 11, 2016 9:17am
    - Left Right and Centre
      
      Sure, sure – well – if it’s all ‘not a problem’ . . .
      
      Hey guys – I’m just off to fuck some women in the toilets – be back soon, ok ?
      Where’s Aaron ? Just out for a quick root with some more randoms.
      If he doesn’t want his shit getting out – he should be more fucking discreet than an airport toilet at fuckin 2pm the dumb c%$t while his fucking team are nearby. JFC on a f bike mate – fss
      
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      October 12, 2016 3:35am
- cmm
  
  The MSM are making a whole lot of this, including the recent article on let’s all feel sorry for his girlfriend, painting her as a victim in all this.
  
  Sorry sweetie, you knew what he was like when you became his girlfriend. No doubt you were somewhat drawn to him because of his fame etc. Don’t be too surprised when other females do the same.
  
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  October 11, 2016 8:30am
- Jack5
  
  Franks also makes a great point about how bringing 17-year-olds under the Youth Court provides a veil of secrecy for young thugs.
  
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  October 11, 2016 10:54am
- Morrissey
  
  Stephen Franks is not an appropriate person to comment on such a matter: as an employer he notoriously has no standards. He was the boss, remember, of the utterly discredited Jordan Williams, who as well as making the tea at Franks Ogilvie, was also being forced to carry out humiliating surveillance missions in the small hours of the morning in his role as Cameron Slater’s bag-carrier.
  
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  October 11, 2016 11:53am
MT_Tinman

The NZ cricket team continues to meet the same standard it maintained last time it was “lead” by a Northern Districts player.

Looks like Bangladesh will become the opponent of choice for the next few years.

Come back Shane, step up a new Brendan!
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October 11, 2016 8:16am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Winning the toss occasionally might help.
  
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  October 11, 2016 8:29am
  - cmm
    
    And the sun was shining.
    
    I learned a lot when a national/olympic level coach also coached my son’s hockey team (his son was also in the same team).
    
    Rule number one of being a successful sporting team is to focus on the stuff you can influence.
    
    Blaming the coin toss, the weather, the umpires, bad luck,… turns you into a passive victim in your own life.
    
    You can only improve if you take responsibility and focus on the stuff you can do better.
    
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    October 11, 2016 8:36am
  - Nigel Kearney
    
    Re the toss:
    
    http://www.foxsports.com.au/cricket/incredible-coin-toss-streak-in-test-matches-in-asia-continues-for-india-v-nz/news-story/18c0df71466ed33ca630c11c67961fe3
    
    It’s very likely to just be a random occurrence, but I quite like the idea of the visiting team always having the choice, to reduce the benefit of producing pitches tailored to help the home side.
    
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    October 11, 2016 10:29am
- dime
  
  Test cricket is about to be renamed.. Who bats first wins.
  
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  October 11, 2016 9:48am
EAD

Ever wonder why the Donald packs out Stadiums while Hillary can’t even fill a school hall yet the MSM would have us believe Trump is enemy #1 according to the public?

The MSM and “public opinion” are all just part of the dog and pony show – CNN caught on camera coaching the public what to say:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-10/another-hot-mic-snafu-was-cnn-caught-tape-coaching-its-debate-focus-group
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October 11, 2016 8:17am
- stephieboy
  
  EAD , I must say those crowded out rallies can’t explain Trump’s currently trailing Hillary Clinton 11 %
  
  Thoughts ? ( apart from your familiar blaming the Jews and their MSM media )
  
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  October 11, 2016 8:36am
- Biscuit
  
  EAD, the packed-out stadiums that Trump is attracting can be explained away by simply referencing similar examples in New Zealand.
  
  Kim Dotcrim, you may recall, drew massive crowds to his 2011 rallies.
  
  And Winston First invariably draws big attendances, too.
  
  Trump included, all three are, principally, showmen … and the baying crowds know what they’ll get. A bit of entertainment, a party, not a lot of actual, boring POLICY…
  
  But, curiously, none of three tend to persuade their attendees to actually vote big for their cause!
  
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  October 11, 2016 9:14am
Simon

A new video, published by Breitbart, features an emotional interview with Juanita Broaddrick, the woman who accused Bill Clinton of brutally raping her.

“And then as he points over my shoulder, he grabs me and turns me to him. And that was a shock. And I tried to push him away. And I only weighed about 120 pounds at that time. He was a very large man.

And I kept telling him, ‘No. I don’t want this at all.’ . . . And he grabbed me again, very forcefully. And started biting on my top lip. And this was extremely painful. I thought he was going to bite my lip off. And that’s when he pushed me back onto the bed. . . .

I was completely dressed. I had a skirt and a blouse. He tore the waist of my skirt. And then he ripped my pantyhose. And he raped me. It was very vicious. I was just pinned down . . .

I did not know what to do. I was so frightened. I was only 35 at the time. And it was horrible. I just wanted it to be over with. So he would go away. . . . he held me down for a long time. And then he did it again. I was so ready for him to leave me alone. When he started raping me again. And it was very brief . . .

And he did get up and he straightened himself. And my mouth was bleeding and it was hurting. And he just straightens himself and goes to the door.”

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/440891/watch-juanita-broaddrick-emotionally-describes-brutal-rape-bill-clinton

Bill the rapist and his rape enabler Hillary.

Clinton supporters are in a very sick place.
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October 11, 2016 8:19am
- Gabby
  
  All the Reblubbiblubs had to do was field a decent candidate and could they? Could they fuck.
  
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  October 11, 2016 8:30am
  - Simon
    
    Your Hillary is a sicko. You are in a bad place.
    
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    October 11, 2016 8:33am
  - cmm
    
    Dear Gabby, for your sake I hope you aren’t 12 any more:
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tor00iWUhDQ
    
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    October 11, 2016 8:45am
- ross411
  
  1. List graphic accusations that the accuser didn’t bring forward when it happened, but which occurred many years ago.
  2. Judge and convict Bill based on the quoted interview, regardless of due process.
  3. Judge others based on your judgement of Bill.
  
  Are you okay? Do you understand why this is somewhat unhinged?
  
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  October 11, 2016 8:33am
  - Fletch
    
    Come on. Bill has a long, long, long list of women that he has abused, settled with out of court, etc etc. But they all made it up, right?
    
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    October 11, 2016 11:14am
    - ross411
      
      If you have to ask, maybe you shouldn’t be lamenting that he be judged guilty for it.
      
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      October 11, 2016 11:51am
- stephieboy
  
  Simon, explain why Juanita Broaddrick has not laid charges at her local Sheriff ‘s or DA’s office if she has such a strong prima facie and open and shut case ?
  
  Or is it that the due process of law does not apply to Trump and Trumpist like you ( re Jailing Hillary Clinton ) ?
  
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  October 11, 2016 8:41am
  - Nigel Kearney
    
    Statute of limitations. And plenty of people believe Louise Nicholas, as do I, even though the officers she accused were acquitted.
    
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    October 11, 2016 9:31am
    - fernglas
      
      There’s a lot of doubt around Broaddrick’s allegations, including that she didn’t come forward for 21 years and has previously denied the events took place. For me, the most repugnant thing Trump did in parading these women about whom he has previously been critical, is digging up the child complainant whose abuser was represented by Hillary Clinton. She criticised her for representing the man and said no 12 year old should have to go through what she went through. In reality, Clinton was appointed by the judge who would not allow her to withdraw, and she did her job properly, as a result of which the rape charge was reduced, because of a lack of evidence, to indecent assault. Imagine what might have happened if, as her accuser says, she hadn’t had to go through the process. Yet another American miscarriage.
      
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      October 11, 2016 9:54am
sooty

The Media Party. Only loved by themselves!
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October 11, 2016 8:20am
Happychappy

Andrew Little should have no worry’s in joining in the new clown game in fact he won’t even need a costume
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October 11, 2016 8:24am
VicParking

Paddy Red TV3’s Political expert, now on the American Election, said he found tape where Trump on his visit to new Zealand years ago said his financises where fine and he was was a successfull business man. Paddy said that this was a couple of years before he declared a huge tax loss. Paul Henry pointed out that Debt and Loss are not related. Henry then asked Paddy the date of the American election and he did not know!!!
Go Paddy
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October 11, 2016 8:36am
- ross411
  
  That’s why when I do watch the morning news, I watch Henry. He just showed it was about the facts, not towing the team’s official line or political stance.
  
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  October 11, 2016 8:57am
- howitis
  
  Trump may want to build a wall with Mexico but I suspect Gower was so busy beavering away with those teeth to build a dam that he does not have time to take a look at the real world or understand finance.
  Gower : too busy catching fish in his Little dam… aka Gotcha politics!
  
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  October 11, 2016 10:45am
Prince

Man the barricades. Labour announces another crisis. Thank God for people like Meka Whaitiri for bringing this to our attention. “”We have a crisis on our hands.”
https://nz.news.yahoo.com/top-stories/a/32856751/low-voter-turnout-worries-labour/#page1
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October 11, 2016 8:45am
publicwatchdog

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I shall be increasing the pressure for the LAW to be upheld regarding transparency in the spending of Auckland Council and CCO public monies on private sector consultants and contractors under s.17 of the Public Records Act 2005.

What I expect Auckland Mayoral Phil Goff to do is to make the following information about spending on consultants and contractors available for public scrutiny on the front page of Auckland Council and CCO websites under ‘Procurement – Awarded Contracts’:

* The unique contract number.

* The name of the consultant / contractor.

* A brief description of the scope of the contract.

* The contract start / finish dates.

* The exact dollar value of each and every contract.

* How the contract was awarded – by direct appointment or public tender.

The first step, in checking for cost-effectiveness in public spending, is to find out exactly where the costs fall.

THIS is the first step ….

Penny Bright

‘Anti-privatisation / anti-corruption Public Watchdog’
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October 11, 2016 8:50am
- alloytoo
  
  Penny,
  
  Have you placed your arrears rates in a lawyers Trust account in event that you lose your dispute?
  
  Warmest Regards
  
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  October 11, 2016 8:54am
  - peterwn
    
    She does not need to – nor is there any dispute she could win or lose – nor any need to deposit monies. As long as she stumps up the money before the auctioneer’s hammer falls she will be OK.
    It seems to me that the matter has been ‘on hold’ during the pre-election period and the Council will now start proceeding towards a rating sale.
    
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    October 11, 2016 9:08am
- ross411
  
  1. You don’t follow the law yourself, except when it suits you.
  2. You don’t contribute your share in participating in society.
  3. Your actions seem more for your own benefit than for mine, and intended to signal virtue, rather than achieve a positive outcome.
  
  Do you even read the replies to your dictates?
  
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  October 11, 2016 8:59am
- hmmokrightitis
  
  Ah Penny – has the hangover from your celebrations subsided yet? What, you didn’t celebrate???
  
  Which hurt the most – the fact that the mere stripling you dismissed received 4 times the votes you did (well done Chloe)…or removing “Mayoral Candidate” from your email signature?
  
  Tell you what – pay your rates, then you’ll have the right to demand your set of expectations. Until then, you’re just so much noise.
  
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  October 11, 2016 9:06am
  - alloytoo
    
    Indeed
    
    Well done Chloe.
    
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    October 11, 2016 9:21am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  What I expect Auckland Mayor Phil Goff to do is to instruct his CEO to proceed with the sale of your hovel forthwith in order to recover your debt to the council.
  There, fixed.
  
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  October 11, 2016 9:14am
  - peterwn
    
    It has nothing to do with the Mayor. It would be quite obscene for a mayor to interfere with rates collection especially instructing the CEO to go easy on a specific ratepayer. A mayor has limited scope to ‘instruct’ a council CEO on matters – a council ‘directs’ a CEO by council resolutions.
    
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    October 11, 2016 10:59am
    - VicParking
      
      But he’s Labour remember.
      
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      October 11, 2016 1:35pm
- stephieboy
  
  care to now put a timeline on occupancy of your dwelling ?
  BTW who bankrolls you ? Krim.com or… ?
  
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  October 11, 2016 9:17am
- Rich Prick
  
  I imagine Phil will be shaking in his boots waiting by the email machine for your scary correspondence. Pay your rates, bludger.
  
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  October 11, 2016 9:20am
- publicwatchdog
  
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  Here is the LAW regarding transparency in spending of public monies on private sector consultants and contractors:
  
  The Public Records Act 2005, s.17
  
  http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2005/0040/latest/DLM345729.html
  
  17. Requirement to create and maintain records
  
  (1)Every public office and local authority must create and maintain full and accurate records of its affairs, in accordance with normal, prudent business practice, including the records of any matter that is contracted out to an independent contractor.
  ___________________________________________
  
  None of you whining lot are consultants or contractors perchance?
  
  (Meant of course in a caring way 😉
  
  Kind regards
  
  Penny Bright
  
  ‘Anti-privatisation / anti-corruption Public Watchdog’
  
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  October 11, 2016 9:55am
  - Happychappy
    
    Sleeze bags like you should have to settle all bills owed to Auckland City before you can ask a question or demand a answer from them.
    
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    October 11, 2016 10:12am
  - Liberty
    
    Has comrade Phil asked for the overdue rate money yet.
    Or is he going to procrastinate like useless Len.
    
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    October 11, 2016 11:25am
  - starboard
    
    Here’s another title you can add to your list of ‘wins’
    
    “Penny Bright
    ‘Anti-privatisation / anti-corruption Public Watchdog”
    
    ‘Mega loser 2016 Auckland Mayoral election campaign ‘
    
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    October 11, 2016 1:40pm
  - Steve (North Shore)
    
    See?
    I Spray and Walk Away
    Rubbish stays
    I walk away
    
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    October 11, 2016 6:19pm
- RF
  
  Penny. Do you choke and cough when you type “Auckland Mayor Phil Goff.”
  
  Must be difficult living with this knowing that the mayoral chains were just so close to your scrawny claws only to be violently pulled away. Did you scream “why me” with impotent rage when this happened. I would have paid good money to watch this.
  
  Pay your bloody rates….
  
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  October 11, 2016 9:58am
  - publicwatchdog
    
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    Actually – I think that we’re now far closer to the ‘Rule of Law’ being implemented and enforced regarding transparency in the spending of public monies on private consultants and contractors than ever before.
    
    What is being unveiled now in the Auckland High Court, is evidence which proves how, in my view, contracting breed$ corruption.
    
    How can you have proper transparency or accountability without full and accurate public records available for public scrutiny?
    
    Perhaps you missed this?
    _________________________
    Corruption at council widespread, says Crown
    
    http://m.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11717850
    
    “…Dickey said the Court would hear from nearly a dozen former staffers from RDC and Auckland Transport who would show – sometimes reluctantly as they were themselves implicated – that corruption was widespread and had become deep-rooted.
    
    “The extensive provision of benefits to staff at all levels of their teams resulted in a culture where corruption flourished and was normalised, with no questions asked,” he said.
    
    “There was very little chance of disgruntled or principled employees speaking out as everyone was being ‘looked after’ or was compromised.”
    
    Kind regards
    
    Penny Bright
    
    ‘Anti-privatisation / anti-corruption Public Watchdog’
    
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    October 11, 2016 10:10am
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      Here is a lesson for Penny and all others pushing ‘anti-privatisation’.
      The Government now owns half the power companies yet the dividend from 51% ownership is greater than it was when the Crown owned them 100%.
      And power prices have stopped going up and in fact have dropped a bit.
      That’s not exactly a ringing endorsement of public ownership, is it?
      
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      October 11, 2016 10:24am
    - Liberty
      
      “Actually – I think that we’re now far closer to the ‘Rule of Law’ being implemented “
      You are kidding? Have you forgotten “Cardgate” Phil was trained and skilled under
      under Labour .
      
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      October 11, 2016 11:42am
  - Fletch
    
    Heck, even I choke and cough when I read “Auckland Mayor Phil Goff.”
    
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    October 11, 2016 11:15am
  - sooty
    
    Or cry out, #but it’s a womans turn!# not remembering that Chloe beat you 4 to 1.
    
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    October 11, 2016 3:47pm
- Keeping Stock
  
  Pack it in Penny. Phil Goff isn’t going to help you, especially when the costs awarded to the Auckland Council continue to mount.
  
  https://forms.justice.govt.nz/search/Documents/pdf/jdo/2e/alfresco/service/api/node/content/workspace/SpacesStore/a4379663-d11f-40ef-881c-21ea3455e729/a4379663-d11f-40ef-881c-21ea3455e729.pdf
  
  Your day of judgment is coming. I suggest you apologise to Chloe Swarbrick in the meantime, and commend Ms Swarbrick for not getting down and dirty in the same way you did. Your hypocrisy never ceases to both amaze and apall.
  
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  October 11, 2016 10:09am
  - stigie
    
    “Your day of judgment is coming.”
    
    It’s been 9 long fucking years KS. When is this all going to finish and the hovel auctioned..?
    
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    October 11, 2016 10:33am
  - jonno1
    
    It is, however, somewhat ironic that the in-house lawyers’ charges equated to only 55% of the maximum permissible rate! I am presuming that the latter rate reflects commercial reality.
    
    Having said that, as a consultant to various large organisations I am well aware that my charge-out rate actually represents a bargain to the client (while being perfectly acceptable to me). One client reckoned that my productivity was 50% greater than that of in-house staff – not because I was necessarily ‘better’, but because every hour charged was productive in the absence of staff meetings and other time-wasting activities.
    
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    October 11, 2016 10:43am
- publicwatchdog
  
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  Missed this Kiwibloggers?
  
  The Local Government and Environment Select Committee Report on Petition 2014/33 which I initiated:
  
  https://www.parliament.nz/resource/en-nz/51DBSCH_SCR69296_1/924613ec7fb831c4e74bd062f73287ac2ceb5081
  
  The petitioner believes that the transparency of CCO operations would be improved if the Public Records Act 2005, specifically section 17 (Requirement to create and maintain records), was “implemented and enforced in a proper way”.
  
  The petitioner acknowledged that some Auckland CCOs have made progress towards providing more transparent information.
  
  She praised Watercare Services Limited for acting on some of her concerns.
  
  However, she says that more needs to be done.
  
  In particular, she believes that all Auckland CCOs should clearly and uniformly display information on their websites about the procurement of their awarded contracts.
  
  She suggests that the following standard information be made readily available to the public:
  
   the unique contract number
  
   the name of the consultant or contractor
  
   a brief description of the scope of the contract
  
   the start and finish dates for the contract
  
   the monetary value of the contract (including subcontractors)
  
   whether the contract was awarded by direct appointment or public tender.
  
  To require all CCOs to clearly display this information—given that, according to the petitioner, they are not classed as local authorities for the purposes of the Local Government (Rating) Act—the petitioner sees value in making minor legislative changes to one or more of the following Acts: the Local Government Act, the Local Government (Rating) Act, or the Local Government (Auckland Council) Act 2009.
  
  We asked the petitioner whether she had tried using the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987 to obtain information about contracts.
  
  The petitioner said that she has not received the level of information that she has requested.
  
  Usually, this is on the grounds that the information is commercially sensitive.
  
  The petitioner considers that this information should not be classed as commercially sensitive once a contract has been awarded.
  
  We note that CCOs are subject to the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act and if people are dissatisfied with the information provided as a result of requests they should seek redress through the Ombudsman.
  
  Conclusion
  
  We would like to thank the OAG for its report on the governance and accountability of CCOs.
  
  The report provided us with useful information that helped us consider Ms Bright’s petition.
  
  We also would like to thank the petitioner for coming down from Auckland to speak to us about her petition.
  
  We agree that ratepayers should be able to easily access information about how public money collected through rates is spent.
  
  We support the petitioner’s plea for transparency and standardisation of the information that Auckland CCOs provide to the public.
  
  ….”
  
  Penny Bright
  
  ‘Anti-privatisation / anti-corruption Public Watchdog’.
  
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  October 11, 2016 10:27am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Find another hobby you useless cow.
    
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    October 11, 2016 10:36am
    - stigie
      
      Have we ever had mad cow’s disease in NZ..?
      
      Just askin !
      
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      October 11, 2016 10:51am
    - starboard
      
      Its just therapy for poor PB, get on KB and write shite for as long as it takes to get over the ( latest ) arse whipping.
      
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      October 11, 2016 1:44pm
      - sooty
        
        She needs something to do while the bath fills up.
        
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        October 11, 2016 3:51pm
  - howitis
    
    My computer has got a rash!
    
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    October 11, 2016 10:48am
  - Rich Prick
    
    Select Committee Report on Petition 2014/33 which I initiated
    
    Question: Is it printed on 2-ply or 3-ply?
    
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    October 11, 2016 11:23am
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  See?
  I Spray and Walk Away
  Rubbish stays
  I walk away
  
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  October 11, 2016 6:18pm
Happychappy

Now that Labour and their support partners in the homeless inquiry have given their results of how to fix the problem will they be honest with the public when the state house’s are built and these people are given homes.When people are evicted for contamination of their dwellings through drug,or people are three months behind in rent,or the dwellings have trashed been and are filthy will they then make sure they are never allowed another state house so people that deserve them have preference or will Andrew and his dogooders start another rant about the needy
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October 11, 2016 8:54am
Happychappy

I wonder whether Andrew Little has a issue with staff as another of his staff has pulled the plug and left. You would think with all his Trade Union experience he would have learn’t after criticizing other employers even to the extent of calling some bad employers that he would be able to lead by example but no it just seems journalists do not want to work for him.
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October 11, 2016 9:23am
Manolo

Heckling the crook:
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/clinton-suggests-intervention-for-protester-with-bill-clinton-rape-shirt/article/2604170

Hillary Clinton encouraged supporters Monday to follow and stage an intervention for a protester who was removed by security after he interrupted her rally in Detroit.

“You know,” Clinton said after the demonstrator was forcibly removed from her campaign event, “I do hope somebody follows that gentleman out and stages an intervention.”
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October 11, 2016 9:28am
PhilP

Phil Goff said he would be making savings across all of Auckland CC expenditure. Well, a good way to start would be to actively and aggressively pursue the Rates Bludger for years and years of unpaid rates. This course of action would save AC tens of thousands of dollars.
The time and effort previous councils have put into this “mad woman” in pursuit of rate arrears is, quite frankly, appalling and they failed in their obligations to all other ratepayers.
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October 11, 2016 9:42am
- sooty
  
  It would help if he sold Pennyloopy’s hoval to get back rates on it. That will help!
  
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  October 11, 2016 9:55am
Tarquin North

I see Whale Oil has the begging bowl out. Someone should pop over and suggest getting rid of Pete would do wonders. I’d do it myself, but I’m already persona non grata.
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October 11, 2016 10:30am
- Paulus
  
  Me too – but still do not know why and have no intention of finding out.
  Must be that I find the blog paranoid to the extreme.
  Poor people.
  
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  October 11, 2016 10:46am
- howitis
  
  I see Mrs Whale has the time and money for an overseas European jaunt in multiple countries yet they need food for the table. Why does not Mrs Whale go out and use her teaching quals and get a paid job if food on the table is a problem?
  
  If Slater gets a big payout from Craig will he reimburse the people who have underwritten him on his various legal ‘ventures’ ?
  
  I would guess the Damn the Dam propaganda inserts are keeping the joint afloat in recent times.
  
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  October 11, 2016 10:55am
- VicParking
  
  Ditto
  And he praises Gab
  
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  October 11, 2016 1:40pm
cmm

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/85193863/as-haiti-death-toll-passes-1000-un-appeals-for-aid

Clinton Foundation had this sorted didn’t they?
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October 11, 2016 11:13am
- Fletch
  
  The Haitians probably afraid they’d get ripped off by the Clintons, like last time.
  
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  October 11, 2016 11:27am
Fletch

Secret Service would not allow flash photography during the second presidential debate in case the flashes set off a seizure in Hillary. Apparently, reporters were forced to use those old cardboard throwaway cameras.

PIX 11 news anchor Kirstin Cole announced Monday that the Secret Service banned flash photography from Sunday night’s presidential debate hall at Washington University in St. Louis over fears it could “inspire Hillary’s seizure disorder.”

“For those of you who watched to the bitter, bitter end of this, did you catch this?” Cole posed to the audience. “The comeback of the cardboard camera. Holy 80s drive me to the photo map, Batman.”

“We thought it was a Secret Service thing, banning the cell phones.”

Later in the segment, Cole caught a flash in the face as the rest of the PIX 11 team snapped picitures with disposable cameras.

“Whoa, God. This is why it was banned apparently,” Cole stated. “The Secret Service did not trust people to disable the flashes on they’re cameras, and they were afraid it would sort of inspire Hillary’s seizure disorder.”

http://dailycaller.com/2016/10/10/news-anchor-secret-service-banned-flash-photography-at-debate-for-fears-it-would-trigger-hillarys-seizure-disorder-video/

https://twitter.com/regated/status/785504363066355712
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October 11, 2016 11:19am
- cha
  
  Secret Service would not allow flash photography during the second presidential debate in case the flashes set off a seizure in Hillary.
  
  Why do you tell lies Fletch.
  
  The only person who said anything at all about camera flashes was the fucking talking head, NOT the Secret Service.
  
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  October 11, 2016 1:16pm
Happychappy

It looks like Tracy Watkins and Stuff wish list for the Election is more of dirty politic with her column on stuff this morning.In this piece this morning she also has suggested that there are people in NZ Politics that in fact keep dirty files on their colleagues.So folk’s have we got version two coming up in next years Election
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October 11, 2016 11:22am
Keeping Stock

One of these things is not like the other; compare:

8. What philosophies do you live by?
I hate lies and I detest liars. I don’t do gossip or personal comments. I don’t do political dirt. (NZ Herald, October 2014)

With:

Time to pop the Chloe Swarbrick ‘methane bubble’?

I think so.

In my view the voting public have been totally sold a pup with young Chloe Swarbrick.

Chloe supports PPPs for infrastructure – which means she supports privatisation – which means she supports corporate control over public assets via multi-national companies.

Actually – in my view – Chloe Swarbrick is actually a neo-liberal wolf cub of the female variety – a new young mouthpiece for the corporate 1% and commercial property developers.

How many Auckland voters have been totally swept up and sucked in by this mainstream corporate media manufactured Chloe Swarbrick phenomenon and are now regretting it?

How much responsibility does The Spinoff have in promoting this, in my view, Chloe Swarbrick methane bubble – based on the proverbial? (Kiwiblog, 27 September 2016)

Would the REAL Penny Bright please stand up; then walk down to Auckland Council and pay her rates. Otherwise, a certain property in School Street, Kingsland will indeed be of great interest to propert developers.
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October 11, 2016 11:24am
- stigie
  
  In the next 9 years maybe KS..? Bwahahahahaha !~
  
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  October 11, 2016 11:34am
  - graham
    
    Saw this comment on “Chlöe Swarbrick for Auckland” Facebook page:
    
    Why does Penny Bright pursue you like my dog chases cocktail sausages?
    
    🙂
    
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    October 11, 2016 11:42am
    - sooty
      
      Because she beat the old hag four to one.
      
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      October 11, 2016 12:43pm
- publicwatchdog
  
  That’s my considered opinion based upon the FACTS, about Chloe Swarbrick, social media marketing CONsultant.
  
  I predict that as the truth prevails about Chloe Swarbrick’s stated support for privatisation via Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs), and her reaction becomes even more, in my opinion, semi-hysterical to my reposting her OWN words, her upcoming political career will come to a shuddering halt….
  
  Penny Bright
  
  ‘Anti-privatisation / anti-corruption Public Watchdog’.
  
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  October 11, 2016 4:32pm
  - stigie
    
    “in my opinion, semi-hysterical”
    
    Fully hysterical in your case Penny !~
    
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    October 11, 2016 4:48pm
  - Steve (North Shore)
    
    See?
    I Spray and Walk Away
    Rubbish stays
    I walk away
    
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    October 11, 2016 6:22pm
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Christ, the mad woman is still imploding.
    
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    October 11, 2016 8:19pm
howitis

I am pleased to see the headmaster of the Secondary School that Losi Filipo was at coming out in support of the young man?

I guess Filipo was there for 5 years or so. He went from a young 13 year old to a 17/18 year old ready for the world. With the events of the last year this is when Filipo really needs help.

The headmaster/rector has an entry on their website signed by him.
http://www.stream.school.nz/index/home/Our_School
Extract:
…You don’t just attend Silverstream, you belong, and all our students are welcome, included respected, celebrated and supported. …

So Mr Tully is supporting him. Good on him.

People who stand by others only in the good times are not really tested. Those who stand by in the tough times are the ones who count. I guess this headmaster counts.

This is a time when Filipo is at cross roads and those who make the effort to ensure the better path is taken from here should be lauded. The offence was a year ago. The clock cannot be wound back. What happens from here is what counts so Filipo does not become a casualty for life because of the actions he took as a 17 year old.

Filipo’s actions of a year ago are not condonable. He has however been a pawn in the NZ media attack of the NZRFU. This runs a parallel to the NZ media action starting 3 years ago. They realised the ‘elected’ (or list) political opposition in NZ was so weak the media took on the role of opposition. ‘No matter what we say, no matter what we do….. ‘

Similarly, the All Blacks have been so overwhelming to their opposition in recent years that the NZ media have decided to ‘be the opposition’ and launch an attack from their 10 metre line on the All Blacks/NZ rugby. As with the politics, facts don’t matter.
In addition we see them taking the side of mooslems (interviewing wife bashing bigamists as if that is all fine and dandy) so there is another avenue where they go against the majority.

Oh well, as least with this pattern we can see them for what they are….. the antithesis of diligent independent reporting.
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October 11, 2016 11:41am
- ross411
  
  > Filipo’s actions of a year ago are not condonable. He has however been a pawn in the NZ media attack of the NZRFU.
  
  Huh? He violently assaulted people ending one’s career in the same vaunted occupation he had. The punishment was waived because of his future in that privileged occupation (an solid example of the myth of being a rugby player gets you a pass where the plebes wouldn’t get one), and there was an outcry.
  
  But it’s all some attack on the NZRFU?
  
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  October 11, 2016 11:54am
  - Kimbo
    
    Yep.
    
    The Rugby Union was as much responsible for Filipo’s action as
    
    1. The Roman Catholic Church (Filipo was a St Pats Silverstream pupil at the time), and/or
    
    2. The Samoan community as Filipo is Samoan.
    
    In other words, no one is responsible Filipo’s actions other than Filipo, and no one is responsible for his sentencing other than…the judge. The NZRU certainly wasn’t.
    
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    October 11, 2016 12:59pm
Tauhei Notts

I had the pleasure of listening to Damian O’Connor speak on the Farming radio show.
I that he might be the most sensible member of Little’s caucus.
What a coup it would be in the early 2017 cabinet reshuffle to see O’Connor replace the hapless Nathan Guy in agriculture. I suppose I am dreaming.
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October 11, 2016 12:48pm
Don the Kiwi

Much common sense from a Muslim woman.

https://www.prageru.com/courses/political-science/islam-religion-peace

Liberals and progressives take note.
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October 11, 2016 12:50pm
Manolo

Facebook in bed with the crook:
http://dailycaller.com/2016/10/10/leaked-emails-show-facebook-exec-shared-research-with-clinton-campaign/

Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg shared research with key members of the Clinton campaign, newly released emails show.

Sandberg has endorsed Clinton, and just last month Politico reported that Clinton may tap Sandberg for Treasury secretary if elected.
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October 11, 2016 12:56pm
Manolo

Thank you Mrs Merkel, says this proud new German:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3830270/German-police-detain-Syrian-man-preparing-bomb-attack.html

A refugee suspected of plotting a bomb attack who was captured by fellow Syrians in Germany is probably linked to ISIS, police say.

Jaber Albakr was detained overnight in Leipzig in eastern Germany after three days on the run following a tip-off that he may have been looking for associates in the city.
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October 11, 2016 12:58pm
- Inandout
  
  ‘An elderly couple living in the same block told MailOnline: ‘It was a large Muslim family living there.
  ‘They had lots of children, it’s difficult to say how many though. The man was very big and always wore a Kaftan. His wife always wore a Burka but she hardly ever left the apartment.
  ‘If she did it was only for one or two minutes. But they had many, many visitors, which is surprising because I think they only moved in a few weeks ago so I didn’t think they would know many people.’
  At least one member of the family is now in custody and being questioned by anti-terrorist officers’.
  
  Husband and burka woman make lots of children, and obviously pick up lots of welfare benefits. Not long before Mt Roskill ends up with these embedded bomber types.
  
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  October 11, 2016 1:07pm
Don the Kiwi

A New Yorker, Jack Shaw (whom I know) gives his views:

A Hillary presidency would be a disaster.

The potty talk tapes are distraction and misdirection from real news (you can use) which is 98% Hillary/Obama corruption, incompetence, and stupidity.
Here (some of it is tragic-comical) is what the wholly-owned-by-Hillary-2016 media omitted while going-off 24/7 on an 11 year-old potty talk tape.

“– Justice drops the case against a gunrunner from Hillary’s Libya fiasco whose testimony would certainly have harmed Obama and Hillary.
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– Evidence surfaced that the White House participated in the cover-up of Hillary’s violation of national security laws with her private server even though they said they absolutely knew nothing about the server and would not interfere with an investigation.
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– We have learned more this week about how the investigation of Hillary by the Justice Department and FBI was a pure sham as they gave immunity to so many, took so much stuff off limits, and even carried out the destruction of evidence. The email investigation was pretend, just like the IRS investigation and any supposed investigation of the Clinton Foundation. It is clear that the White House, Justice Department, State Department, and IRS are working specifically to protect Obama and Hillary instead of working for the American people.
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– Aleppo and Syria are deteriorating rapidly despite Obama and Kerry being extremely tough and telling Russia and Assad to stop it.
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– Obama partially blamed the Civil War in Syria on a drought he says was caused by humans. That is one of the most ignorant statements ever. The war is because Assad is a tyrant, and the Mideast is essentially a desert that has had continued droughts for millennia.
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– An NBC News man topped Obama’s stupidity by saying the worthless Paris climate agreement would stop hurricanes.
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– Obamacare is collapsing rapidly. The multiple lies to pass the law are more obvious every day. The law is greatly harming the middle class and small employers and reducing the potential for full-time jobs.
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– An NSA contractor who committed the same crime as Hillary by keeping classified documents at home on several nonsecure devices is under arrest. Why isn’t Hillary?
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The media, of course, don’t focus on any of these things. Instead they trot out a tape of Trump talking dirty about women eleven years ago.”
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October 11, 2016 1:08pm
- cha
  
  while going-off 24/7 on an 11 year-old potty talk tape
  
  The tape where the tiny fisted fascist admits to committing multiple indecent assaults?.
  
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  October 11, 2016 1:21pm
- stephieboy
  
  Don the Kiwi , I think Jack Shaw’s blogroll tells us where he is coming from and you too,
  
  http://shawsblog2011.blogspot.co.nz/p/rule-5-law.html
  Sigh
  
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  October 11, 2016 2:07pm
  - Don the Kiwi
    
    Sorry stephie – wrong Jack Shaw.
    
    The Jack Shaw I know does not have a blog. He is a retired Wall Street broker – he has sons in the military and loves NZ, but his own country more. 🙂
    
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    October 11, 2016 2:18pm
    - cha
      
      The Jack Shaw I know does not have a blog.
      
      .
      
      The Jack Shaw you know has obviously stolen someone else’s work and passed it off word for word as his own.
      
      Or you’re lying about some bloke called Jack Shaw and you’re the thief .
      
      Which is it?.
      
      .
      
      – Aleppo and Syria are deteriorating rapidly despite Obama and Kerry being extremely tough and telling Russia and Assad to stop it.
      
      – Obama partially blamed the Civil War in Syria on a drought he says was caused by humans. That is one of the most ignorant statements ever. The war is because Assad is a tyrant, and the Mideast is essentially a desert that has had continued droughts for millennia.
      
      – An NBC News man topped Obama’s stupidity by saying the worthless Paris climate agreement would stop hurricanes.
      
      – Obamacare is collapsing rapidly. The multiple lies to pass the law are more obvious every day. The law is greatly harming the middle class and small employers and reducing the potential for full-time jobs.
      
      – An NSA contractor who committed the same crime as Hillary by keeping classified documents at home on several nonsecure devices is under arrest. Why isn’t Hillary?
      
      http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/10/trumps_dirty_talk_versus_hillarys_corruption.html
      
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      October 11, 2016 2:31pm
    - stephieboy
      
      Don the Kiwi,
      
      kindly respond to cha’s post above .
      
      Plagiarism much ?
      
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      October 11, 2016 3:42pm
Manolo

The philanderer is getting nervous:
http://nypost.com/2016/10/10/clintons-nearly-drove-top-staffer-to-suicide-email-claims/

Chelsea Clinton was “more concerned” about an article in The Post “about her father and a multitude of women over the years” than about the health of two senior Clinton Foundation officials — one of whom threatened to kill herself, according to an explosive WikiLeaks email released Monday.
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October 11, 2016 1:26pm
stephieboy

Manolo, always trust in wiki leaks and tabloid sleaze , eh ?

https://theintercept.com/2016/08/06/accusing-wikileaks-bias-beside-point/
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October 11, 2016 1:56pm
- Manolo
  
  So, you like Trump’s leaked audio, but not Clinton’s leaked e-mails. How do you explain that?
  
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  October 11, 2016 2:03pm
stephieboy

Manolo, not at all except the audio provides incontestable evidence . Julian Assange and wiki leaks have promised much but delivered very little e.g,

https://toinformistoinfluence.com/2016/07/25/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-says-his-next-leak-will-virtually-destroy-hillary-clinton/
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October 11, 2016 2:10pm
Manolo

A grim future for the sterling:
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/10/flash-crash-sparks-renewed-calls-for-sterling-to-near-dollar-parity.html

The U.K. currency’s weakness is set to continue, according to several market watchers, with many suggesting sterling could even reach parity with the U.S. dollar.
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October 11, 2016 2:12pm
- Jack5
  
  Low currency is good – that’s what put Germany back up on its feet, and through the euro mechanism, helps it stay up. Japan, China, all climbed on low currencies.
  
  NZ, with nearly half a century of balance of payments deficits, shows what’s wrong with a high currency.
  
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  October 11, 2016 4:10pm
cha

Filed under not all refugees…..

A Syrian refugee suspected of planning a terrorist attack in Germany on behalf of Islamic State was captured by police early Monday in the eastern city of Leipzig after another Syrian lured him to an apartment, tied him up with the help of other refugees and turned him over to police.

Jaber Albakr, a 22-year-old refugee, had been on the run and the subject of a nationwide manhunt since Saturday, when he fled an apartment in Chemnitz, near the Czech border, just as police stormed it. Authorities said they found a cache of explosives and other bomb-making material inside the apartment.

http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-syrian-refugee-20161010-snap-story.html
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October 11, 2016 2:18pm
- thedavincimode
  
  Well cha, it looks like at least one dear reader isn’t into paradigm shift.
  
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  October 11, 2016 3:29pm
Manolo

More on the failed state of Pakistan:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/10/pakistani-journalist-banned-leaving-country-cyril-almeida

One of Pakistan’s most respected journalists has been barred from leaving the country after reporting on government concerns that the military’s support for jihadi groups was leaving the country internationally isolated.
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October 11, 2016 2:31pm
Inandout

The Woodhouse is cutting immigration by 2500 a year, just coincidentally after a German minister has asked us to take more refugees. Cut immigrants, replace with refugees..simple.
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October 11, 2016 2:47pm
- Jack5
  
  And multiply that by all their wives.
  
  We don’t want more Muslims in New Zealand.
  
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  October 11, 2016 4:14pm
Kimbo

…and in important news, the Chicago Cubs lead 3-0 at the bottom of the third over the Giants, already leading 2 games to 0 in their best-of-five game series. So if they can keep their lead for just 6 and a half more innings, then the Cubs will play off for the National League pennant for the first time since 1945…the year of the “Billy Goat curse”

We’re all with you, tom hunter 😉

http://m.mlb.com/gameday/cubs-vs-giants/2016/10/10/487609?partnerId=LR_gameday#game_tab=gameday,game=487609,game_state=live
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October 11, 2016 3:50pm
- Kimbo
  
  …sorry my mistake. The Cubs have played off for the pennant since 1945 – in 2003…and they were looking good in game six (up 3-2), and with a 3-0 lead in the eighth against the Marlins…until
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq8G81oOHhY
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Bartman_incident
  
  Btw, Cubs still leading the Giants 3-….1, bottom of the fourth.
  
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  October 11, 2016 4:16pm
- SPC
  
  Windy city bear cubs rather than lion cubs?
  
  To be or not to be the winter of discontent for yet another year, or remembrance of glorious summer, come at last.
  
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  October 11, 2016 4:28pm
  - Kimbo
    
    He he he
    
    Baseball’s Sad Lexicon
    
    These are the saddest of possible words:
    “Tinker to Evers to Chance.”
    Trio of bear cubs, and fleeter than birds,
    Tinker and Evers and Chance.
    Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble,
    Making a Giant hit into a double –
    Words that are heavy with nothing but trouble:
    “Tinker to Evers to Chance.”
    
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball%27s_Sad_Lexicon
    
    From an era when the Cubs were successful. Exceedingly so. Admittedly before the War…the First one! 😉
    
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    October 11, 2016 4:37pm
- Kimbo
  
  …and it’s turning into a thriller! Giants went ahead 5-3 in the bottom of the eighth, but the Cubs got two back in the ninth, and then kept the Giants scoreless.
  
  Extra innings, and Cubs are batting in the top of the eleventh….
  
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  October 11, 2016 6:53pm
  - tom hunter
    
    Humph
    
    And I’m scrambling to get streaming set up. Wasn’t going to bother unless they made it to the WS, but…
    
    Actually I expected them to lose this game since they were up against the incomparable Bumgarner. That SOB must be one of the greatest post-season pitchers in history already. Something like 46 post-season innings where he’s just dominated teams. No wonder the Giants have been so good in recent post-seasons, even when they haven’t won a WS.
    
    But the Cubs got to him early and hammered him for three runs. I see he got his shit together again afterwards, but it just shows you how powerful the Cubs offense is.
    
    Now back to my software setup…
    
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    October 11, 2016 7:20pm
  - SPC
    
    survived letting a giant onto first B12th, two cubs on base T13th. Double play, to the B13th
    
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    October 11, 2016 7:32pm
    - SPC
      
      Giants.
      
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      October 11, 2016 7:44pm
    - tom hunter
      
      Gack&!**!
      
      The Giants win it in the bottom of the 13th. They must be breathing a sigh of relief. It was not supposed to be like that with Bumgarner starting.
      
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      October 11, 2016 7:45pm
      - Kimbo
        
        Two more chances for the Cubs.
        
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        October 11, 2016 7:55pm
sooty

Wanker Gardner crying on radio, the goverment should cut immigration more than the 5,000, because Auckland is full up bursting at the seams. Yet last week he wants more refuges. Ask yourself, really!
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October 11, 2016 4:00pm
- Jack5
  
  Who is this “Gardner”. Do you mean Garner?
  
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  October 11, 2016 4:15pm
- Manolo
  
  Turn off the radio, sooty. Garner does not deserve any audience.
  
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  October 11, 2016 4:18pm
  - Ross12
    
    Garner should be talking to his lefty mates, who want to take in the massive numbers of refugees. Or do they count refugees and immigrants on different hands ?
    
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    October 11, 2016 7:22pm
SPC

Spotted on an American blog

“Tea Party plus Trump Brownshirts plus the NRA equals The New American Communist Party”

A cynical take on the challenge to the US establishment, threats of violence, and Putin love.
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October 11, 2016 4:25pm
- cha
  
  Seems Putin could well be balls deep in the corruption of the American political process.
  
  "Who in the Trump campaign was feeding him falsehoods straight from the Kremlin?" This is unsettling: https://t.co/xU5HlXqLIH— Jessica Lustig (@jessicalustig) October 11, 2016
  
  https://twitter.com/jessicalustig/status/785664827419230208
  
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  October 11, 2016 4:29pm
Manolo

After watching, reading, etc, the MSM one cannot have any doubt about it:
http://insider.foxnews.com/2016/10/10/oreilly-least-3-media-orgs-have-ordered-employees-destroy-trump

At least three media organizations have “ordered their employees to destroy Donald Trump,” Bill O’Reilly said this morning.

Sitting down with Bill Hemmer to analyze last night’s second debate between Trump and Hillary Clinton, O’Reilly said he’s “100 percent convinced” of the media plot against Trump.
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October 11, 2016 4:31pm
- cha
  
  Aww, Billy drag the wife by the neck O’Reilly realises the boot’s on the other foot.
  
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  October 11, 2016 4:46pm
  - BananaLlama
    
    What has that got to do with anything other than O’Reilly always being a slimeball. Don’t tell me you are still asshurt over Shrub and all of the Neo Con shilling that happened …
    
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    October 11, 2016 4:56pm
    - cha
      
      Missed the past eight years, huh.
      
      btw, those emails you’re planning on referring to are looking more than a little shonky
      
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      October 11, 2016 5:02pm
      - BananaLlama
        
        I pressed the fast forward button once the media started idolising King Obama. Didn’t want to see the msm covering for a facist fuck that kept stuffing muslims (both innocent and guilty) into a Cuban concentration camp.
        
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        October 11, 2016 5:08pm
  - BananaLlama
    
    These emails Cha?
    https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/197#
    
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    October 11, 2016 5:32pm
    - cha
      
      Yup, and aside form the cock ups like the one below, it’s likely many won’t stand up under forensic analysis.
      
      http://www.dailynewsbin.com/news/intelligence-expert-confirms-latest-hillary-clinton-email-dump-from-wikileaks-is-full-of-forgeries/26242/
      
      Russian govt news agency called words of a Clinton confidant "the October surprise." They were my words. Putin lied. https://t.co/1d5qvU01Yi— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) October 10, 2016
      
      http://www.newsweek.com/vladimir-putin-sidney-blumenthal-hillary-clinton-donald-trump-benghazi-sputnik-508635
      
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      October 11, 2016 5:49pm
      - BananaLlama
        
        Ignoring the fact Kurt is in the tank for Clinton i am very confident the Russians are continuing to leak. As for the forgeries they are just easter eggs. If you want to disprove that specific leak then ask Podesta to archive their emails and put them online so we can compare ^_^
        
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        October 11, 2016 6:04pm
      - cha
        
        Ignoring the fact Kurt is in the tank for Clinton
        
        Eichenwald has connected Trump to a foreign powers deliberate effort to undermine the integrity of the US electoral system.
        
        Are you going to ignore that, too?.
        
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        October 11, 2016 6:19pm
      - BananaLlama
        
        Accidentally reported you sorry Cha.
        Kurt has his own Agenda it wasn’t too long ago he was asking for anyone to give him any kind of dirt on Trump so he could report it.
        
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        October 11, 2016 6:27pm
      - cha
        
        it wasn’t too long ago he was asking for anyone to give him any kind of dirt on Trump so he could report it.
        
        But unlike Breitbart News, he didn’t break the law.
        
        REPORTER: You, you came here on your own?
        
        BROADDRICK: Oh yes … no no, I didn’t. I was paid by Breitbart.
        
        REPORTER: You were paid by Breitbart?
        
        BROADDRICK: Yeah, Breitbart paid my, uh, my fees coming here, just my airline fees.
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuCxa6VX7Yc&feature=youtu.be
        
        https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/10/10/juanita-broaddricks-other-debate-night-claim-could-be-trouble-for-breitbart-news/
        
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        October 11, 2016 6:40pm
      - BananaLlama
        
        Tough shit for Breitbart if that’s true doesn’t change the fact that Kurt Eichenwald is still a fucking shill lmao.
        
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        October 11, 2016 6:45pm
      - Fletch
        
        I’m not sure why it matters if Breitbart paid her airline fees.
        
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        October 12, 2016 10:48am
EAD

Dieversity in Sweden:

https://redice.tv/news/migrants-gang-rape-woman-in-wheelchair-swedish-police-protects-them

Thanks Barbara Spectre, Bonnier Family et. all for your selfless work in enriching Sweden
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October 11, 2016 5:42pm
SPC

Also on an American blog site/comment

I believe Trump would like to be like Putin, but I think he’s only capable of being like Berlusconi.
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October 11, 2016 6:13pm
- SPC
  
  In a democracy the most one can threaten to do is to charge someone (well not even that – even to ask for someone to be investigated and charged if due grounds is pushing the envelope somewhat), Trump’s assertion that Clinton would be in prison if he is elected is not what happens in a democracy, nor is it what someone who respects democracy and legal due process should/would say.
  
  Trump the despot.
  
  http://www.slate.com/authors.william_saletan.html
  
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  October 11, 2016 6:21pm
  - cha
    
    I’m sue Ed will be along soon to tell us Trump didn’t really mean you’d be in jail when he said Because you’d be in jail.
    
    Trump in Wilkes-Barre, PA: "Lock her up is right." pic.twitter.com/56ZKTHLydW— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) October 11, 2016
    
    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CuctE9oXgAASmDv.jpg:large
    
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    October 11, 2016 6:30pm
Manolo

Nobody can be surprised:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/85204465/wellington-airport-runway-extension-cost-could-blow-out-to-458m-says-expert

The $300 million price-tag for Wellington Airport’s runway extension could blow out to $458m, and may even soar as high as $507m, an independent expert says.

The much-vaunted $2.3 billion in economic benefits expected to flow from the extended runway may have also been overstated to the tune of almost $800m, according to a new council-commissioned report on the project.
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October 11, 2016 7:29pm
- SPC
  
  If I had been voting, I would have eliminated anyone who viewed an extension as a serious possibility.
  
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  October 11, 2016 7:41pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  In one of those visuals the massive hill to the east of the runway is plainly visible.
  Just shove that sucker into the sea and they would have a 1000 metre extension (which is actually what’s needed) for about $200m.
  
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  October 11, 2016 8:09pm
SPC

Putin, maintaining the Soviet era version of history.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37595972
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October 11, 2016 7:54pm
- Andrei
  
  WTF?
  
  So VVP watched a war movie with the Kazak President that didn’t star John Wayne or Brad Pitt and wasn’t about the USA
  
  And this is sinister?
  
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  October 11, 2016 9:17pm
  - SPC
    
    Read on to the part about the division of Poland.
    
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    October 11, 2016 10:21pm
    - Andrei
      
      The film is about the Battle of Moscow and has nothing to do with Poland
      
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      October 11, 2016 10:30pm
      - SPC
        
        The film was an example.
        
        In February 2013, President Putin ordered a single history syllabus for schools, offering a standardised narrative. A new state “History” TV channel was launched that year too.
        
        Supporters of Mr Putin’s bid for a “canonical” history say it is needed in order to keep such a large state together. Yet critics see it as an attempt to impose one official version of the past.
        
        Mr Putin and other officials have repeatedly talked about the need to counter the “falsification of history” or “rewriting history”. They oppose interpretations of World War Two or other episodes of Soviet history that deviate from officially approved narratives.
        
        Mr Medinsky, the culture minister, defended Panfilov’s 28 Men, saying “even if this story was invented from start to finish, if there had been no Panfilov, if there had been nothing, this is a sacred legend that shouldn’t be interfered with. People that do that are filthy scum.”
        
        It is not the first time Russian officials have suggested that certain chapters of Russian history are sacred.
        
        In January 2014, independent liberal broadcaster Dozhd TV came under attack. It was accused of
        smearing the memory of WW2 veterans by asking whether residents of wartime Leningrad could have been saved by surrendering the city to Nazi forces.
        
        The public discussion of WW2 history has also been curbed by a controversial 2014 law against the rehabilitation of Nazism.
        
        Under this law, Vladimir Luzgin, a blogger from Perm region in the Urals, was fined 200,000 roubles ($3,200; £2,500) for reposting an article about the war on the Russian social network VK (VKontakte), the daily Kommersant reported in July.
        
        The court ruled that Luzgin posted an article with knowingly false information about a joint invasion of Poland by German and Soviet forces on 1 September 1939.
        
        According to the prosecutors, Luzgin realised that the text might instil in many people “a firm conviction about negative actions of the USSR” in the war.
        
        The court said Luzgin had falsified history by stating “that the communists and Germany jointly attacked Poland, unleashing World War Two, or in other words, that Communism and Nazism co-operated honestly”.
        
        In September, Russia’s Supreme Court ruled that the punishment of Luzgin was justified.
        
        Nazi Germany and the USSR signed a non-aggression pact in August 1939 – the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. In a secret protocol, they agreed to carve up Poland between them.
        
        Nazi troops invaded Poland on 1 September and Soviet troops, from the east, on 17 September.
        
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        October 11, 2016 10:40pm
- Reid
  
  “On the throne of the world, any delusion can become fact.”
  ~ Gore Vidal
  
  Morons who understand nothing fall for everything. Some of us know the truth and some of us don’t.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzEsDAoUvOI
  
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  October 11, 2016 9:35pm
nasska

The Islamic world was thrown into confusion today after a handwritten note from Mohammed was discovered.

It turns out that the Halal tradition of slitting the throats of animals only arose out of confusion over the prophet’s complaint that “Young Muslim farm-boys seem to be spending far too much time choking the chicken.”
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October 11, 2016 8:57pm
Reid

56 examples of outrageously foul, lewd language spewed by Bill and Hillary Clinton over the last three decades

http://www.naturalnews.com/055582_Hillary_Clinton_foul_language_abuse_of_women.html
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October 11, 2016 9:49pm
Left Right and Centre

>> (I actually thought of this *while I was shopping*)
You’ve heard of non-binary people, yeah ? I’m at paki’n’g ferals – I’m calling them binary people. Yeah. Like binary code – nothing but ones and zeros.

>> What happened to that brangelina thing ? Custody will be like picking teams in school . . .
I’ll take Ubaba. Okaaaaay – I’ll have . . . Daisychain. I’ll take Thunder. No, wait – Lightning – this is so tough – the way you love me is frightening . . .

>> Penny is most useful as a KB pinata. She’s a leftwing cartoon character. One-way Raving Lunatic. Her BS and breathing will continue and desist together you’d guess.
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October 12, 2016 5:11am
Manolo

The crook states the obvious:
http://dailycaller.com/2016/10/10/hillary-in-leaked-email-saudi-arabia-and-qatar-are-funding-isis/
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October 12, 2016 7:10am
Tauhei Notts

Does anybody know how much High Performance Sport give to New Zealand Cricket?
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October 12, 2016 7:21am
- Longknives
  
  I’ve said it time and time again- New Zealand Cricketers do not care one iota about Test Cricket. They use it purely to practice their slogging and enhance their T20 ‘Hit and Giggle’ value..
  
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  October 12, 2016 6:23pm
Longknives

Excellent Article from Rattue-

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11727375

Pretty amazed how many gushing,starstruck Kiwibloggers think that their All Black ‘Heroes’ should be allowed to behave as disgracefully as they want without any consequence..
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October 12, 2016 6:21pm
Brigitte

Just saw a piece on the news about the Galaxy phones. Must say I find it strange that they decided to move from the lucrative top end Android market into the low end “burner” market.
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