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pdm

Go Go Go!!!
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October 18, 2016 8:09am
Manolo

Journalists donating money to the crook:
https://www.publicintegrity.org/2016/10/17/20330/journalists-shower-hillary-clinton-campaign-cash
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October 18, 2016 8:14am
- Lance
  
  Seriously Manolo
  Next you will be telling us some politicians (the nasty ones) have been known to lie.
  
  BTW I would not vote for Hillary.
  
  This US campaign has reached the level of idiocy. Bereft of policy statements and focused on mud slinging and nastiness.
  Not sure how much lower it can go?
  
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  October 18, 2016 8:26am
  - All_on_Red
    
    How much lower it could go?
    How about the Clinton Campaign has a team which deliberately incites violence at Trump rally’s.
    https://www.youtube.com/embed/5IuJGHuIkzY
    
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    October 18, 2016 9:12am
  - Jazz-Hands Mc Feels
    
    (((Globalist elite))) hatred for whites knows no limits.
    
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    October 18, 2016 9:40am
- Paulus
  
  Surely the journalist will want something in return.
  There is no such thing as a free lunch.
  
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  October 18, 2016 11:11am
alloytoo

I’m not sure what the point of this story is, except to demonstrate that if you try to circumvent the system you might wind up unhappy.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11730613
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October 18, 2016 8:15am
- nasska
  
  ….”I’m not sure what the point of this story is”…..
  
  To provide tear jerking pap in the hope that the bleeding hearts will buy a copy of their wretched, failing paper.
  
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  October 18, 2016 8:18am
- jp_1983
  
  As they always said in the Navy – Short cuts lead to long cuts
  
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  October 18, 2016 8:57am
  - Jazz-Hands Mc Feels
    
    It wasn’t a short cut. It was a deliberate ploy.
    
    She and the husband kept the kid off record in order to infiltrate NZ easier and calculated that once they had their hooks in, they could run crying to the Progressive media with a sob story about never being able to see their disable son again.
    
    Notice the NZ Herald article is by one Mr Tan the papers “diversity, ethnic affairs and immigration senior reporter.”
    
    These 3rd Worlders know how to work the system and take everything they can get. Back in that hell hole Nepal, scheming, fraud and corruption are normal unremarkable features of everyday life. They bring their culture with them to NZ.
    
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    October 18, 2016 9:48am
    - GoVege
      
      The disabled boy’s mum has pledged that she and her family will take care of him.
      They do that in other cultures…not chuck the disabled and old into residential care.
      This country spends a fortune on old Pakeha put in institutions, plus the disabled.
      You won’t find many people from other cultures in them.
      
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      October 18, 2016 2:37pm
- Twinkletoes
  
  Achmed Zaoui was allowed to bring his disabled son here – was that because he was an asylum seeker? He had millions more spent on himself and his family, plus his extended whanau than this disabled child would ever have, however am aware of the immigration rules and that the “special special” people of a certain ideology are obviously allowed to bend them with no repercussions (two wives even).
  
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  October 18, 2016 11:57am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Zaoui must still be in fits of laughter over the lunacy of the Clark Government which let him and his tribe in.
    
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    October 18, 2016 8:19pm
  - GoVege
    
    Yes, twinkletoes, let’s not lump all immigrants in the same basket.
    We let in chauvinist Christians from the Pacific with 20 kids to various women, and Muslims with multiple wives and kids, but we can’t let in a Sikh family with 2 kids?
    If all our immigrants were half as hard-working and devoted to their (few) children as the average Indian family, we would have a lot fewer social problems.
    
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    October 18, 2016 9:24pm
Manolo

A nice lady she is not.
http://dailycaller.com/2016/10/17/fbi-docs-hillary-was-so-unpleasant-security-agents-didnt-want-to-protect-her/

During her interview, the agent said Clinton treated agents rudely and with contempt, and was so unpleasant that senior agents typically avoided being on her security detail.
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October 18, 2016 8:17am
- stephieboy
  
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  Manolo , do you seriously think these media commentators Conrad Black ,Ann Coulter , Pamela Geller , David Horowitz , , Dinesh D’Souza , David Limbaigh , Piers Morgan ( Daily Mail ), Milos Yianmapoulus , Eric Bolling , Matt Drudge etc, etc are not chipping in for Donald ?
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Donald_Trump_presidential_campaign_endorsements,_2016#Commentators.2C_writers_and_columnists
  
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  October 18, 2016 8:28am
  - Jazz-Hands Mc Feels
    
    Lots more leaks lots more Killary graft and corruption…
    
    She and President Obummer organised for Julian Assange’s internet to be terminated yesterday.
    
    Won’t stop the flood of email leaks though, haha!
    
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    October 18, 2016 9:52am
Northland Wahine

http://nzh.tw/11730613

My heart goes out to any mother that has a child with this level of disability. But no one is making you choose. You left your elder son in the care of your mother while you made a better life in NZ for you and your younger son. I’m sure from the start you realised that if you had placed the elder on your original application for immigration, that it would not have been accepted.

Don’t play the victim game. It’s unbecoming.
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October 18, 2016 8:17am
- RalphT
  
  Agree, NW. While having sympathy for any parent with a child with a condition such as this, this situation is entirely of her own making. I’m sure the intention was to keep quiet about the elder son until the rest of them were safely ensconced in NZ (with PR) and then tug at our heart strings to get the other one in. If she had been upfront she probably wouldn’t have got in in the first place, but we aren’t obliged to solve all the third world’s problems.
  
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  October 18, 2016 8:39am
  - Jazz-Hands Mc Feels
    
    “but we aren’t obliged to solve all the third world’s problems.”
    
    The Multiculturalists/Globalists aim is to reduce white countries to a minority white ethnic status, repopulated with 3rd Worlders.
    
    NZ is being flooded with 3rd Worlders, they are bringing the 3rd World problems with them.
    
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    October 18, 2016 9:57am
- GoVege
  
  Please don’t be so patronizing.
  Any mother worthy of the name would have done the same for her children.
  
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  October 18, 2016 9:08pm
All_on_Red

In Dunedin, child refugees Mohammed, Ali and Sayeed say thank you to New Zealand for letting them in and are looking forward to their first day at school
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cu-mSWQXYAAy5OC?format=jpg&name=large
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October 18, 2016 8:18am
- stephieboy
  
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  All on Red , in the spirit of a true Trumpist an element of vindictiveness and nastiness prevails ,
  
  http://media.vocativ.com/photos/2013/10/Redneck-Culture-031713333661.jpg
  
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  October 18, 2016 8:31am
  - AgentBallSack
    
    You’re such an easy target.
    Tell me stephie, if Clinton and Islam are so great – why do you spend your days here constantly defending them?
    
    Shouldn’t their actions speak for themselves?
    
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    October 18, 2016 9:24am
    - stephieboy
      
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      ABS , the question is defending any group of individuals whether they be Muslim , Jew , Christian , Somali etc from prejudice , fear and bigotry of the kind you would be fully familiar with .
      
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      October 18, 2016 9:31am
      - AgentBallSack
        
        How about them Yazidi Christians.
        Shouldn’t you be asking your brethren to stop decapitating them?
        
        And I am not sure whether you posed a question or a statement to me. Probably time for the next Stephistani to take over, this ones getting tired.
        
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        October 18, 2016 10:01am
      - Jazz-Hands Mc Feels
        
        Swedish woman in wheel chair raped/culturally enrichened by Muhammadan migrants:
        
        https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1951394/wheelchair-bound-woman-was-gang-raped-by-group-of-migrants-after-asking-to-use-the-loo-at-asylum-centre/
        
        Just another day in Diverse Inclusive Sweden.
        
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        October 18, 2016 10:02am
    - G152
      
      Their actions DO speak for themselves that why he’s in here making excuses for them
      
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      October 18, 2016 9:39am
      - Jazz-Hands Mc Feels
        
        Yes, Progressives have tried hard to bury the migrant rape epidemic in European countries that have been compromised by a flood of African and muslim “migrants”.
        
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        October 18, 2016 10:03am
oldpark

Heard Newstalks ZB flapjaw on early radio,castigating John Key for lowering the immigration cap for migrants. Seems flap jaw is more interested in NZ getting a few extra dollars from migrants,even though NZs quality of life is under pressure in the Hospitals ,Housing ,and welfare benefits,are taking a beating. Flapjaw conveniently omits to say that anecdotal evidence, seems to say ,that up to three thousand essential migrants into NZ, who have sponsored their parents into NZ,have now left NZ ,leaving behind their parents to be cared for in due course by NZ ,Taxpayers. No wonder John Key has trimmed the immigration cap. Maybe it is time flapjaw from Newstalk ZB faces reality,on the immigration question ,rather than screaming for more so called immigrants, and how NZs taxpayers quality of life is under threat.
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October 18, 2016 8:20am
- holysheet
  
  If listening to this radio upsets you so much that you have to give us a daily report, Don’t listen to it.
  If we wanted to hear what you do, we are all capable of finding it ourselves.
  
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  October 18, 2016 8:43am
  - cmm
    
    If I don’t listen to it do I still have to pay for it?
    
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    October 18, 2016 9:12am
    - Jack5
      
      Good point, CMM. The Government effectively bailed out TV3 by forgiving some tax when the company was in difficulty. Is this related to ZB radio?
      
      With overseas interests dominant in our main media and apparently keen to become more dominant, most media opinion on our political issues becomes irrelevant.
      
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      October 18, 2016 10:37am
      - howitis
        
        No Jack, not the Govt forgiving.
        Mediaworks/TV3 were the deliberate tax dodgers here.
        
        From 2013
        https://milfordasset.com/mediaworks-delivers-lessons-on-leverage/
        …..But why has the company been placed in receivership when the latest restructuring is reasonably similar to the mid-2009 recapitalisation which did not involve receivership?
        The obvious conclusion is that it was done to avoid paying $22 million to the IRD.
        
        Without NZ on Air (hey, thanks you taxpayers) TV3 and its junk channel 4 would not exist.
        NZ on Air spend $130 million p.a. of taxpayers money. That is over $10m a month or a flag referendum every three months with millions left over.
        
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        October 18, 2016 11:29am
  - Garbageman
    
    A bit unfair there holysheet, I don’t listen to talkback anymore and im at work before the TV bobbleheads crank up so its good to get a summary of the relevant (alleged) news, with the obvious exception being Morrissey’s long winded boring transcripts
    
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    October 18, 2016 9:52am
  - oldpark
    
    You sound like you are one of the parents who has been dumped by your immigrant/emigrant offspring, who have now fled the country.. Not to worry,or get all bitter and twisted,you dont have to stay in NZ ,its not compulsory.
    
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    October 18, 2016 10:50am
    - holysheet
      
      actually I have more right to be here than an old winging pom like you oldfart. I was born here from parents who were born here, as were their parents. Their parents came from Scotland and Ireland. You get the idea? I could be more Tangawhenua than most of the natives who make that claim
      
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      October 18, 2016 11:08am
      - oldpark
        
        Flushed you out,you angry little racist. Seems you enjoy being a dumped parent from fleeing Immigrant/Emigrants,just go and get your tax payer funded benefits,and like i said ,you dont have to stay in NZ,it is not compulsory.
        
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        October 18, 2016 11:24am
    - Twinkletoes
      
      Some years ago, my son, who now lives and works in UK permanently had a letter from IRD which stated that the rules for Super had now changed. One is not allowed to claim it unless one has worked in NZ for at least ten years before departing and again so many years ( I have forgotten) after returning. Does this not rule out superannuation being paid to parents of immigrants?
      
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      October 18, 2016 12:19pm
- Jack5
  
  The Newstalk ZB flapjaw is ignorant. Immigrants raise GDP, but they don’t raise GDP per head, which is what counts.
  
  Our health, welfare, prison systems are creaking and we keep bringing in migrants and refugees at three times the rate per capita of the USA.
  
  Immigration of people without skills, or the aged dependents of immigrants, or those with health problems, or those who are coming for a cushy lifestyle after making their money, drag down a country’s economy.
  
  In immigration, the National Coalition is stabbing the country in the back. A Labour-Greens coalition might be even worse.
  
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  October 18, 2016 10:43am
  - wreck1080
    
    Yep, we could import 30 million people from china and our gdp would skyrocket.
    
    Albeit quality of life would be decimated.
    
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    October 18, 2016 11:03am
  - howitis
    
    Hence why my vote is Winston’s to lose.
    Don’t mind saying it.
    
    I only voted Nats last time to keep out DotCrim and the unholy alliance. It was no endorsement of Nats shabby ‘do nothing’ inaction.
    
    When your Top 10 include Dildo Joyce, Pies Bennett, Santa Finlayson, with &%$^ sticks to me like a blanket Woodhouse not far behind one must have concerns.
    
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    October 18, 2016 11:45am
Padriv Ustoev

Stephie’s in the News again.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3844496/All-white-girls-good-sex-just-sl-gs-Eight-members-openly-racist-violent-Asian-sex-gang-raped-sexually-degraded-three-teenage-girls-Rotherham.html
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October 18, 2016 8:26am
- stephieboy
  
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  Padriv Ustoev,
  
  Which leaders within the South Yorkshire Muslim community and other Muslims have condemned ,
  
  http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-19755119
  
  http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-28952044
  
  http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/rotherham-can-become-a-beacon-of-muslim-hope-1-6930332
  
  And of course a reminder that these horrendous crimes are not exclusively performed by Pakiistani Muslim men ,
  
  Richard Huckle jailed: ‘Britain’s worst paedophile’ given 22 life sentences for horrifying campaign of child rape
  
  http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/richard-huckle-britains-worst-paedophile-jailed-for-horrifying-campaign-of-rape-and-abuse-against-a3264536.html
  
  UK’s ‘worst ever’ paedophile ring drugged babies before livestreaming their rapes on the dark web,
  
  http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/uks-worst-ever-paedophile-ring-drugged-babies-before-livestreaming-their-rapes-dark-web-1519422
  
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  October 18, 2016 8:55am
  - Twinkletoes
    
    Give it up Stephanie – the lies that pour out of these imams and spokesmen from Islamic groups are laughable – and anything from the BBC is hilarious in its brother loving bias.
    
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    October 18, 2016 12:23pm
- Longknives
  
  They don’t look very ‘Asian’ to me….
  
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  October 18, 2016 8:57am
  - Rich Prick
    
    Could they possibly be … oh, I don’t know … I know we’re not supposed to mention it … stephie will get really upset … Muslim?
    
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    October 18, 2016 9:46am
- cmm
  
  Why do they keep calling them Asians? They’re Middle Eastern.
  
  I suppose lumping them in with Asians dilutes the statistics with well behaved Asians like Chinese and Japanese.
  
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  October 18, 2016 9:14am
  - stephieboy
    
    cmm , both India, and Pakistan are a part of Asia.
    
    Geographically both countries are referred to as South Asia , therefore, to describe the men as Asians is not inaccurate .
    
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    October 18, 2016 9:24am
    - Rich Prick
      
      Yes, but those paedophile rapists look neither Indian nor Pakistani. More like Arab.
      
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      October 18, 2016 9:48am
      - Garbageman
        
        From the article the name of the “Asian” offenders:
        Top row left to right: Mohammed Whied, Waleed Ali, Asif Ali; middle row left to right: Sageer Hussain, Ishtiaq Khaliq; bottom row left to right: Basharat Hussain, Masoued Malik, Naeem Rafiq, of course they could be from anywhere but I sense a familiar pattern once again
        
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        October 18, 2016 10:53am
    - AgentBallSack
      
      And we’re part of the the South Pacific.
      Doesn’t make us Pacific Islanders.
      
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      October 18, 2016 9:58am
    - Jack5
      
      The Stephies come from Mount ~~Wellington~~ Roskill (or wherever Auckland mountain Muslims follow Muhammad to).
      
      We know the Stephiestanis are from south Asia, but there are many Middle Easterners in Mount ~~Wellington~~ Roskill and perhaps the odd retarded European or Maori convert to Islam.
      
      Can we consider inhabitants of Mount ~~Wellington~~ Roskill as all being from South Asia/Middle East? Don’t think so. Just living in a foreign enclave in NZ.
      
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      October 18, 2016 10:56am
      - Twinkletoes
        
        Many Asian muslims fiddle with their surnames to make them look more Arabic and pure (which is what Paki means) therefore one sees names like Sidiqui etc. as they don’t like being Asian muslims named the common surname of Khan etc. Asian muslims, plus all non Arabic muslims are seen as the bottom of the pack – racist and sectarian hate is rife within this ideology And don’t get me started on the black Africans who are considered scum in the so tolerant Arabic world.
        
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        October 18, 2016 12:31pm
    - cmm
      
      Stephieboy….
      
      Have a look at a map. You could argue that India and Bangladesh are in Asia, but Pakistan is a stretch.
      
      It shares a border with India, but it also shares borders with Iran and Afghanistan Culturally it is far more like Iran and Afghanistan.
      
      For all practical considerations Pakistan is not part of Asia.
      
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      October 18, 2016 1:56pm
      - cha
        
        For all practical considerations Pakistan is part of South Asia……
        
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        October 18, 2016 2:03pm
      - stephieboy
        
        cmm,
        
        South Asia or Southern Asia is a term used to represent the southern region of the Asian continent, which comprises the sub-Himalayan SAARC countries and, for some authorities, adjoining countries to the west and east. Topographically, it is dominated by the Indian Plate, which rises above sea level as Nepal and northern parts of India situated south of the Himalayas and the Hindu Kush. South Asia is bounded on the south by the Indian Ocean and on land (clockwise, from west) by West Asia, Central Asia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia. The terms “Indian subcontinent” and “South Asia” are sometimes used interchangeably.[5][6]
        
        The current territories of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka form the countries of South Asia.In addition, with deviating definitions based on often substantially different reasons, the British Indian Ocean Territory, Mauritius, and the Tibet Autonomous Region are included as well….”
        
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Asia
        
        BTW the dominant language of Pakistan is Urdu belonging to the Hindistani family of languages that includes Hindi ,the official language of India .
        
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urdu
        
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        October 18, 2016 2:12pm
      - itstricky
        
        It’s common British usage. Heard it before, many many many times.
        
        In Britain, the word “Asian” usually refers specifically to people of South Asian ancestry (Pakistanis, Indians, Bangladeshis and Sri Lankans). This usage contrasts to that in the United States, where it is used to refer to people of East Asian origin.[3][4]
        
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Asian
        
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        October 18, 2016 2:16pm
      - Rich Prick
        
        A child raping Muslim is a child raping Muslim, which Crapistan he comes from doesn’t change things for the victims.
        
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        October 18, 2016 2:58pm
Paulus

I have given thought to what the media Worldwide and New Zealand will do after the 8th November election in the USA.
For some time now every news bulletin and commentator has spewed for vitriol against Trump.
When the corrupt second Clinton Presidency comes into power what will the media do ?
They will not dare comment on her ability to physically and mentally lead the bankrupt USA.

I assume that the New Zealand so called media will turn their sights back again on Key, following the commendation of Angry Andy and his cohort unionists, who I believe have been told to strike in rotation until the next election in the belief that sympathy will go to Labour/Greens. But it should be recognised that those currently on strike – the Doctors are amongst the highest paid employees in the country – they went into medicine to earn top money so they knew the terms of the membership of the club. If they did not accept these rules why did they join.
Teachers ,I understand, are next with very union undertaking to strike in rotation.There are some 360,000 registered union members in New Zealand and it is they led??? by Angry Andy who are intent in holding the country to ransom.
They are of course supported by the taxpayer supported Feminazi so called political reporters who will do any thing to bring the country to its knees. Trump vitriol continuing condemnation will burn out s what will the media do ?
Andy – be careful as there will be a backlash.
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October 18, 2016 8:27am
- marcw
  
  I think that if teachers go on strike, they will annoy so many hard working parents (who would just love their pay and conditions of work) that it will be totally counter productive. Time for the government to take a hard line on the union I suggest, as it will be as vote catching as being tough on crime.
  
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  October 18, 2016 8:37am
  - itstricky
    
    (who would just love their pay and conditions of work)
    
    LOL. If the pay and conditions are so amazing – let them be teachers then. Nothing stopping them. The country is their oyster and the country probably needs more good teachers. Go on. Do it.
    
    I can’t believe there are *still* people out there who think that teachers work a 9-3 day and have 6+ weeks of annual leave. Numpties.
    
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    October 18, 2016 9:29am
  - cmm
    
    Quite correct.
    
    Parents are willing to go along with the “teachers are heroes” meme because teachers and schools effectively provide child care which parents appreciate.
    
    If the teachers go on strike and they have to stay home to look after their kids, then expect that tolerance of teachers to wear a bit thin.
    
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    October 18, 2016 2:03pm
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    My partner is a teacher; I wish her pay and conditions were about as half as good as you think they are.
    
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    October 18, 2016 2:37pm
    - itstricky
      
      There you go giving direct real experience again – immediate 2 down ticks. Tolerant, reasonable and open, aren’t they?
      
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      October 18, 2016 6:52pm
- itstricky
  
  If they did not accept these rules why did they join.
  
  So the rules can’t, and don’t, change?
  
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  October 18, 2016 9:31am
UrbanNeocolonialist

Something weird happening in London – Assange internet access cut by ‘state player’, deadman passwords tweeted (possibly part of password for the encrypted 80Gb document dump), Assange appears incommunicado.

Have Ecuador or UK caved to pressure to shut Wikileaks down? US Secretary of State John Kerry was in London a few days ago.
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October 18, 2016 8:43am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Ah, seems was Ecuador turning off Assange’s internet from 5pm Saturday. Wonder what US threatened Ecuador with (or are they just tiring of negative press)?
  
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  October 18, 2016 8:51am
  - cmm
    
    Anyone who thinks that will work doesn’t understand data storage. But that would be Clinton’s crew.
    
    Whatever you think of Assange, he is not a complete fool. The data will not be stuck under his bed in the embassy, it will be in hundreds of locations around the world. No doubt Assane has made videos ahead of time in cse he was cut off.
    
    Bottom line is that this will stop nothing.
    
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    October 18, 2016 9:17am
- SPC
  
  Heh. Also a UK bank has just closed the RT account.
  
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  October 18, 2016 8:53am
- Inandout
  
  This is an extreme measure to prevent the masses from seeing the real truth behind the Clinton machine. The IT wizards will find a way around this, as they always do when there is a challenge.
  
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  October 18, 2016 8:54am
  - itstricky
    
    This is an extreme measure to prevent the masses from seeing the real truth
    
    LOL. Really? You don’t say. Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
    
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    October 18, 2016 9:04am
    - cmm
      
      So he lives unrestricted in the embassy for over 4 years and four weeks before the election he gets his internet access cut.
      
      What a coincidence.
      
      But it won’t work because the data is not stuck in the embassy.
      
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      October 18, 2016 9:21am
      - itstricky
        
        So they waited until 100s, 1000s or 10s of 1000s of documents were leaked -before- they made a move rather than just nipping it in the bud?
        
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        October 18, 2016 10:00am
- kowtow
  
  Yep, too close to election time to let too more Clinton facts into the market. Mind you does it matter that much as the media party is steadfastly ignoring the leaks , strange that.
  
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  October 18, 2016 8:59am
- G152
  
  Maybe its the Ecuadorians have gotten sick of the cretin and want him out so they’ve cut his Net access
  
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  October 18, 2016 11:36am
All_on_Red

I see Trump is suggesting Hillary be made to take a drugs test. No one knows what drugs he is suggesting Hillary might be taking to “pump herself up” but I think we can safely rule out truth serum…
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October 18, 2016 8:57am
- stephieboy
  
  All on Red , well I think Trump could use some of that Truth Serum at an even greater dosage ,
  
  Trump’s 101 Lies ,
  
  http://www.dailywire.com/news/4834/trumps-101-lies-hank-berrien
  
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  October 18, 2016 9:08am
- itstricky
  
  No one knows what drugs he is suggesting Hillary might be taking to “pump herself up”
  
  We all know what drugs The Don is taking to “pump himself up”. The whole world knows… …there’s a lot of scared cats out there…
  
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  October 18, 2016 9:08am
  - Griff
    
    Kitten huffing .
    Trump is a long term addict hence the hair…
    
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    October 18, 2016 11:02am
    - AgentBallSack
      
      Luckily for you queefing isn’t illegal Griff.
      
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      October 18, 2016 11:23am
VicParking

Angry Andy interviewed on Red radio this morning.
Was asked some difficult questions but he did not answer them he just ranted with his set statements.
Interviewer just let him get away with it.
So different to Key’s interview.
“Whats Labours policy in regards to the of lack of police in rural areas” ANS: We need to attack the P problem at its source??????
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October 18, 2016 8:59am
- SPC
  
  A bit slow on his feet, his party is proposing 1000 more police or did he forget that? He could have linked that to more police at provincial level.
  
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  October 18, 2016 9:04am
- Garbageman
  
  Unless his Union puppet masters have preapproved his statement its unlikely Little will go off script, thinking on his feet isn’t his strong point
  
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  October 18, 2016 10:02am
All_on_Red

Chelsea Clinton quietly prepares for the inevitable…
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cua5pX2WcAAmEJ0?format=jpg&name=large
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October 18, 2016 8:59am
- stephieboy
  
  All on Red ,
  
  Prison for what exactly ?
  
  http://images.dailykos.com/images/259479/story_image/Trump_Jail-Priosn-Bars.jpg?1465087934
  
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  October 18, 2016 9:09am
  - itstricky
    
    For questioning The Don! I … AM … THE … LAW
    . YOU’RE ~~FIRED~~ INCARCERATED
    
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    October 18, 2016 9:12am
    - All_on_Red
      
      Oh look, it’s the tag team Stupidboy and Itstupid.
      Lame humour guys. At least try.
      What a couple of fuckwits
      
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      October 18, 2016 9:29am
      - stephieboy
        
        All on Red , what would Trump actually charge Hillary Clinton with ? his bloated hot air rhetoric aside . Not to speak of his own background of lies , dubious and questionable practices .
        
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        October 18, 2016 9:35am
      - itstricky
        
        Stop it All_on_Red, you’re making really intelligent and humorous comments again. I can’t handle the hillarity, it’s splitting my sides.
        
        (Did you see what I did there? Huh? Huh? Hillarity. Ho ho ho. But you just keep up with the swearing, put downs and what not. It’s so becoming and really makes you seem like a decent bloke)
        
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        October 18, 2016 9:35am
      - All_on_Red
        
        Awww, poor Itstupid. Comes on here, tries to be clever but just looks lame- again.
        Lol
        
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        October 18, 2016 9:43am
      - itstricky
        
        I know you are, you said you are, but what am I?
        
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        October 18, 2016 10:13am
      - All_on_Red
        
        What are you? Something we see from time to time. A lefty troll who comes on here, makes a lot of smartarse comments thinking they are being soooo cute rarking up the Kiwibloggers but inevitably you get shown up as having little knowledge, imagination and wit and frankly just get made to look like a bit of a fuckwit!
        And when that happens gets all a bit put out and goes blub blub blub
        How’s that?
        
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        October 18, 2016 10:28am
      - Griff
        
        Yip all on red suffers badly from dunning Kruger .
        Too thick to know he is thick…
        We even see classic wingnut projection .
        
        little knowledge, imagination and wit and frankly just get made to look like a bit of a fuckwit!
        
        Hows the polling going All on Red ?
        You man is wining Yuge since the first debate .
        ROFLMAO.
        
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        October 18, 2016 11:17am
      - itstricky
        
        A lefty troll
        
        AKA someone who disagrees with me.
        
        inevitably you get shown up as having little knowledge
        
        Quotes from All_on_Red’s playbook:
        
        – You’re a fuckwit
        – You’re a thicko
        – I can’t believe how dumb you are
        – You are sooo stupid
        
        Yep, your comments are full of knowledge. So much so you have to use put downs to get their knowledge-filled goodness across.
        
        And when that happens gets all a bit put out and goes blub blub blub
        
        I’m not the one who resorts to ‘fuckwit’ every time I read something I don’t like, so I’m not sure what you’re on about.
        
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        October 18, 2016 12:40pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Err Griff, I’ve said many times I’m not a Trump supporter. I think he’s an idiot. I take the piss out of Hillary because she deserves it.
        Are you a Hillary supporter?
        I guess your ass is still hurting after being made a fool of at WUWT in front of millions of viewers. That was funny.
        
        Poor itstricky is blubbing again. Since when have you ever said anything of substance?
        Oh look at 9.41
        “You still need a little energy to utter ‘fuckwits’ under your breath”
        Tricky swearing, typical lefty hypocrite huh.
        
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        October 18, 2016 1:31pm
      - Griff
        
        That’s part of the dumb All on Red .
        You dont even know you are a trumpie.
        Despite the hundreds of posts supporting Trump and attacking his opposition. AKA useful idiot .
        To thick…to funny.
        
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        October 18, 2016 1:51pm
      - itstricky
        
        Tricky swearing, typical lefty hypocrite huh.
        
        You realise that was a piss-take of your earlier ‘fuckwits’ post, don’t you?
        
        To paraphrase: Trumpkins have low energy. Oh, but they’ve got enough energy to call others fuckwits under their breath. Sums up the futility and nastiness, all in one.
        
        I’d be glad to have you hold me up anytime I call you, or anyone, a fuckwit.
        
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        October 18, 2016 2:21pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Griff says
        “Despite the hundreds of posts supporting Trump”
        
        “Hundreds”? Ok, let’s make it easy. Post 10. You are such a liar. If you look you’ll find lots with me criticising Trump.
        
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        October 18, 2016 2:52pm
      - Griff
        
        You are such a Poopy bum bum* all on red .
        
        *I would call you a f##kwit but you are so much more pathetic that baby talk is your level…..
        
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        October 18, 2016 3:02pm
SPC

Known facts.

Tostee could be heard choking Ms Wright and forcing her out onto the balcony and cutting off her only safe means of escape.

“Just let me go home, just let me go home,” Ms Wright said in the recording.

“I would but you’ve been a bad girl,” Tostee replied.

And the defence poses that as him “protecting himself” (when he could have forced out the front door instead).

But the police has not charged him with taking her hostage by force as a means to intimidate and punish her. If the police do not charge him on this offence after the trial he will get away with it.
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October 18, 2016 9:02am
Paulus

What does the visit of Kerry to London have any bearing on Assange.
Do you really believe that the USA now have any real bearing or influence on the UK with the Clintons’ taking the US reins shortly.
– Kerry does not feature in the new Administration – he has been a failure like Clinton, when she was in power. Hillary has one of her mates for that job.
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October 18, 2016 9:02am
Happychappy

I find it strange that the people including Phil Goff that are are all for charging 15 cent for a plastic bag when purchasing goods.Not one of these people have taken the time to congratulate the likes of Countdown or other retailers that have started a scheme that encourages their customers to bring back their plastic bags and put them in the bin designated for them which are then sent back to be made into something else.Why not encourage all retailers in all shops to do this before putting another tax on NZ’s
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October 18, 2016 9:11am
- cmm
  
  Because the whole purpose of the exercise is to grow the state.
  
  Supermarkets that take the initiative for themselves are interfering with that.
  
  Expect another Countdown attack campaign in 3, 2, 1…
  
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  October 18, 2016 9:24am
- starboard
  
  Id happily pay 15c for a bag so long as I could wrap the bastard around P Goofs head.
  
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  October 18, 2016 10:08am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    He is a two bagger that bastard
    
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    October 18, 2016 6:27pm
- howitis
  
  Labour party to the core.
  Never originates an idea (Post 1950).
  
  Warehouse and Pack n Save already charge, I think, 10c for a bag.
  Being Liebour, Goof just wants one upmanship and’ raise the cost’.
  
  Now, about these Blue hoardings the goof used instead of deep RED as they should have been….
  
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  October 18, 2016 12:01pm
- Paulus Gnome
  
  Want to stop plastic bags in supermarkets; charge $1.00, make it hurt a bit. $0.15, nothing, i have earned that in the time taken in writing this plus a cheap bottle of red.
  
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  October 18, 2016 6:28pm
Hugh Pavletich

MAKING THE YOUNG POORER WITH UNNECESSARY HOUSING INFLATION … GREG JERICO … THE GUARDIAN

I could get outraged by this boomer-millennial war, but I’d rather look at the evidence | Greg Jericho | Business | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2016/oct/18/i-could-get-outraged-by-this-boomer-millennial-war-but-id-rather-look-at-the-evidence

… extract …

… Matt Cowgill, an economist and stout defender of the millennial, yesterday tweeted an excellent graph showing that according to the ABS’s household expenditure survey, people in households aged 25-34 actually spend more of their income now on housing than they did in 1989.

Not only that, they spend less of their income on food now than they did then.

Cowgill showed the data comparison of 1989 and 2010 which is the latest data we have (but the ABS has had regular such surveys going back to 1984).

A look at the amount of 25-24 year-olds income spent on housing, food, alcohol and recreation shows that, rather unsurprisingly, the big increase in housing expenditure came in the 2000s with the housing boom:

And far from being food gluttons, drunkards or spending all their money on slovenly “recreation”, in all three of those categories 25-34 year-olds spent less of their income than did their counterparts of earlier years. … read more via hyperlink above …
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October 18, 2016 9:24am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Groan…….
  Here we go again.
  
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  October 18, 2016 9:47am
- Notsofast
  
  Hugh, it is a remarkable feature of this forum that you are talking to dilettantes.
  Don’t come here with researched facts, they are pearls before swine.
  I read your posts, you have manners and wisdom.
  
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  October 18, 2016 10:08am
  - Hugh Pavletich
    
    Notsofast … Thank you for your kind comments.
    
    I am indeed blessed with my adversaries !
    
    I remember them back prior to the country going under in ’84 … worshipping Muldoon.
    
    Robs Mob.
    
    All very sick and sad really (yawn).
    
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    October 18, 2016 1:11pm
- Keeping Stock
  
  Turn the record over Hugh; you’re getting as bombastic as Penny Bright!
  
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  October 18, 2016 10:49am
- Hugh Pavletich
  
  THINK-TANK NZ INITIATIVE BLAMES HOUSING FOR INEQUALITY RISE … ROB STOCK … FAIRFAX NZ
  
  … and a recent New Zealand version … just reported today …
  
  Think-tank New Zealand Initiative blames housing for inequality rise … Rob Stock … Fairfax NZ
  
  http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/85445497/housing-crisis-the-cause-of-inequality-in-nz-the-new-zealand-initiative
  
  … extract …
  
  … Income inequality may not be rising, but Wilkinson and Jeram said the cost of housing, particularly in Auckland, was consuming a higher portion of poorer families’ incomes.
  
  “There is a massive inequality concern that is rightly troubling many New Zealanders: Housing,” they said.
  
  “Inequality after housing costs is significantly higher than before housing costs.”
  
  “While incomes have risen for high and low earners, the rising cost of housing especially hits the poor.” … read more via hyperlink above …
  
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  October 18, 2016 11:01am
- Hugh Pavletich
  
  NZ Initiative argues the housing crisis is behind inequality in NZ and ‘a modern society and affordable housing do not have to be mutually exclusive’ | interest.co.nz … incl video …
  
  http://www.interest.co.nz/property/84143/nz-initiative-argues-housing-crisis-behind-inequality-nz-and-modern-society-and
  
  Housing is driving inequality in New Zealand, a new report by the New Zealand Initiative has concluded.
  
  The think tank has found that with income and consumption inequality remaining broadly unchanged over the past 20 years, sky-rocketing housing costs are what’s boosting inequality in New Zealand.
  
  “Inequality is a very real issue and we seem to be missing the point in New Zealand,” says the institute’s executive director Oliver Hartwich. … view and read via hyperlink above …
  
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  October 18, 2016 1:04pm
AgentBallSack

Dabiq no longer in the prophesy for the end of days war.
Hard to defend it from the evil West with a bullet in your head.

The Quran will be updated accordingly.
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October 18, 2016 9:29am
- stephieboy
  
  ABS , go and visit your Doctor !
  
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  October 18, 2016 9:37am
  - AgentBallSack
    
    My Doctor is Russian, and a female. What should I ask her for you?
    
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    October 18, 2016 9:57am
    - Don the Kiwi
      
      Is masturbation harmful? 🙂
      
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      October 18, 2016 10:58am
      - Ole Bill Mole
        
        it is the way I do it…….
        
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        October 18, 2016 11:36am
waikatogirl

Hamilton police recently checked how many of the 13 beggers on the street asking for money were homeless.

Turns out only 2 were homeless. The other 11 were bringing props, bits of ripped cardboard signs, a grubby duvet, etc from home.

The business association has asked the public not to give beggers money, which is only encouraging beggers to accost the public for money.
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October 18, 2016 9:34am
- Keeping Stock
  
  Professional beggars with props. Who would have thunk it? When I was in Sydney recently I was struck by the number of beggars with their dogs. Surely, if you can’t afford to feed yourself and have to beg to exist, the dog would be the first thing to go, no? Or do gullible passers-by give more when there is a patheric looking dog there as well?
  
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  October 18, 2016 10:52am
  - waikatogirl
    
    Yes KS, I forgot there was also a sickly, mangy dog included in the list of props.
    Perhaps the SPCA should do a sweep of the streets and remove the starved animals from these scam artists.
    
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    October 18, 2016 11:37am
straya

Oh dear, even the resident Trumpkins here seem to have given up.

Sad!

Low energy!
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October 18, 2016 9:38am
- itstricky
  
  Low energy!
  
  You still need a little energy to utter ‘fuckwits’ under your breath
  
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  October 18, 2016 9:41am
- tom hunter
  
  Perhaps we should be grateful that even they can see reality.
  
  Finally.
  
  Sadly, I think they’re just waiting until Nov 8th when they can follow the lead of their Giant Orange Turd Master and start screaming about “rigged” elections again.
  
  Meantime, I need to start discussing with Fentex and Shawn Herles our respective bets and how they shall be paid off.
  
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  October 18, 2016 10:31am
Salacious Crumb

Interesting piece on Wayne Barnes on his RWC Quarter Final from 2007;

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11730944

For mine, the issue wasn’t so much with Barnes as much as the selectors who put him in charge of this match with only 4 previous tier 1 international experience. No other sport would put such an inexperienced official in charge of such a playoff game.

Contrary to what the village idiot, Stephen Jones, says; his performance wasn’t “adequate” in the slightest and the forward pass wasn’t the defining mistake. He made many poor decisions (and non-decisions) in that game but ultimately the All Blacks should have been above those.

He has developed into a very good referee at international level who enjoys a good relationship with all teams he officiates.
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October 18, 2016 9:43am
- Keeping Stock
  
  Quite so Salacious. Barnes was a like a possum in the headlights in that match, which he should never have been asked to officiate. He basically gave up penalising the French when they were hard on defence in the second half, and allowed them to infringe at will. It was gross incompetence by the IRB to appoint a promising but as yet untested under pressure referee to such a match.
  
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  October 18, 2016 10:57am
All_on_Red

Rumour has it Hillary has been offered an Advertising deal with Samsung.
They want her to promote Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 after saying she loves it’s new self-destruct feature.
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October 18, 2016 9:46am
- Inandout
  
  Deplorable phones those Samsungs.
  
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  October 18, 2016 10:02am
  - starboard
    
    mines ok..however it is only a cheap S3 mini. Doesn’t burst into flames though so cant be all that bad.
    
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    October 18, 2016 10:06am
    - stigie
      
      I would still keep it out of your pocket Starboard and away from the old fella..?
      
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      October 18, 2016 10:50am
    - Fletch
      
      https://aboveaverage.com/archaeologist-first-humans-used-primitive-samsungs-to-start-fires/
      
      😆
      
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      October 18, 2016 11:06am
  - Paulus
    
    Mine is great. Had it 6 years with no problems.
    Except somebody reported it stolen so was canned until sorted out.
    
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    October 18, 2016 11:18am
Captain Mainwaring

I’m not sure that Labour’s continuing press secretary vacancy is a good thing.
It’s keeping Angry Andy away from the media, so we don’t get to see him making a big arse of himself every day.
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October 18, 2016 9:49am
- Happychappy
  
  Well you would have to feel sorry for the people in Mt Roskill then because he has loaded himself on them for the last week,i wonder when the business sector will tell him to piss off
  
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  October 18, 2016 10:03am
EAD

Iraq announced the beginning of its offensive for the northern city of Mosul on Monday, embarking on the country’s biggest fight against Islamic State militants so far.

The US-backed operation aims to push the militant group out of its de facto capital in Iraq. More than a million civilians are believed to be trapped in the city.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/middle-east/85420464/iraq-announces-beginning-of-battle-of-mosul-as-troops-move-in

Oddly there are no calls from the (((MSM)))for a ceasefire, or a peace deal to be struck, or for US forces to stop bombing or any of the crap you read about Syria and the satanic Russian forces eating babies blah blah.

Like their support of Hitler, Climate Change, 3rd world invasion, Social radicalism and so on and so forth, (((they))) don’t even try and hide their agenda anymore…
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October 18, 2016 9:59am
- Lucia Maria
  
  EAD,
  
  The media is reporting the news and you are unhappy that they aren’t engaged in advocacy?
  
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  October 18, 2016 10:18am
- VicParking
  
  Watched a video. Tanks marching forward. Out comes a car at speed. They all turned and ran. The car crashed into one tank. Huge explosion. Tanks keep running away. Looks like this division was trained by the French.
  
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  October 18, 2016 1:57pm
starboard

Wellington ratepayers being screwed yet again…

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/85428572/wellington-city-council-spends-51000–on-celebration–just-dont-call-it-a-party
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October 18, 2016 10:03am
- AgentBallSack
  
  I am sure the Singapore officials went away with a great impression of Wellingtons transvestites.
  
  Hard to tell who were the trannies and who were the Labour officials though.
  
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  October 18, 2016 10:12am
  - holysheet
    
    What council fuckwit thought Singapore officials would be interested in wellingtons Trannies?
    Down Buggi Street in Singapore, you saw real nice trannies, not the old hags on display in wellington.
    
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    October 18, 2016 11:51am
    - Twinkletoes
      
      Got some good tips on where they bought the material for their sometimes beautiful dresses and the dressmakers who made them up.
      
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      October 18, 2016 1:47pm
Lucia Maria

Last month’s NCEA Level One Algebra exam hit the news in a big way, with children upset over its difficulty, and teachers and parents outraged that the exam was not reflective of what the students were taught. (See NZQA slammed over ‘far too difficult’ maths exam – students left in tears)

Over the intervening weeks, letters sent to NZQA and to Hekia Parata, and the responses to those letters have been aggregated on this page: 2016 MCAT Feedback. They make for very interesting reading. A number of them contain detailed analyses of the questions that were set at too high a level for NCEA One.

A letter has just appeared today that was sent by Rhona Lever to Hekia Parata (PDF link) that explains how NZQA and the Ministry of Education is out of control when it comes to Mathematics. Rhona Lever wrote the standard that the algebra exam was based on. She totally demolishes the excuses of NZQA that the exam represented more of an alignment to the standard itself. As the lead writer of that standard, she should know.

What’s been disappointing is the response by Hekia Parata to these complaints that have been sent to her. Many of them have been forwarded to NZQA who then reply to the complaints against them. This letter from Rhona Lever ought to generate a more than just a passing of the buck to NZQA who cannot be trusted to investigate themselves.
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October 18, 2016 10:08am
All_on_Red

Quote of the day.
“Journalism is about covering important stories- with a pillow until they stop moving”
Iowahawk
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October 18, 2016 10:17am
cmm

$1bn for 1800 prisoner beds: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/85448143/government-to-spend-1b-to-sleep-1800-more-prisoners

That’s more expensive than housing them in Remuera. Why not just run a fence around an Auckland suburb. It would cost the same?

Seriously… Prison should not be a place that costs $500k per bed. Give the bastards a parking lot, and shipping containers. If they want it painted, let them paint it themselves. If they want it clean, give them brooms.
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October 18, 2016 10:19am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Individual cast concrete cubicles with high walls, small unheated bedroom, waste/toilet hole, a drip supply of water into a plastic bucket, and some yard space. Accessible only by gantry crane from top (robotic system can deposit food automatically 3 times a day through a chute into a recepticle. Automated camera monitoring. Super cheap to run – only a few staff needed, probably <$10000 per prisoner per year.
  No communication between prisoners (don't want social interaction to allow networking or normalise criminal behaviour).
  Knitting supplies to let them make clothes for sale to buy luxuries and keep themselves warm when weather gets cold. Perhaps other craft tools too.
  Computer terminal to access learning materials, books, communications and music + video calls to approved people without criminal records. If they kill themselves it is no great loss.
  
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  October 18, 2016 4:02pm
dime

Dime is waiting for the verdict on this tostee trial.

I cant for the life of me see how hes guilty of murder.

I know its highly unusual for a maori woman to nut off when drunk, but that seems to have been the case here.

Total darwin award.

I am curious as to why the cops went with murder – a strategty, make the jury think they cant let him off and give him manslaughter?! OR is there some shit we dont know about yet?

Dimes prediction – manslaughter, 3 years served.

Judge Dime – the asshole walks.

Oh yeah, he seems like a real fucking asshole of a guy. just not sure he should do life for that.
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October 18, 2016 10:20am
- Northland Wahine
  
  Totally agree Dime. The guy comes across as a total douche bag however he didn’t murder her in my opinion.
  
  This isn’t about blaming the victim… I just don’t understand why she didn’t scream blue bloody murder to attract attention instead of climbing over a balcony.
  
  If there is such a thing as karma,Tostee will contract aids and die a slow death.
  
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  October 18, 2016 11:13am
  - starboard
    
    Nasty NW. The girl was obviously a cot case going by what I heard on the tape recording , also a bit loose with the lady bits. Sounds like she got herself into a situation that she couldn’t control so decided to yell and scream the house down.
    
    Not guilty..throw the case out.
    
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    October 18, 2016 11:31am
    - Northland Wahine
      
      SB, she was on the balcony. What was stopping her from screaming for help?
      
      And “shrugs”. By all reports, both of them were generous with their sexual favours. Not long after charges were laid he returned to social media looking for a hook up. Even after courts had told him not to. No remorse or regret… The guy is a walking billboard of a sexual predator. Aids, meet Tostee.
      
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      October 18, 2016 12:14pm
      - starboard
        
        The girl was a loose slapper with obvious psych problems. Sure Mr Tostee is not the finest ambassador for the male species but wishing he contracts aids is a bit average NW. It takes 2 to tango , she aint without blame.
        
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        October 18, 2016 12:35pm
      - Northland Wahine
        
        And he isn’t?
        
        But of course she was a slapper with psyche problems (no arguments there) but he just not the finest ambassador for the male species?
        
        You’re so helpful outing yourself as a sexist aged git.
        
        And I’ll rephrase my curse just for you.
        
        Average aids, meet just not the finest ambassador for the male species, Tostee.
        
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        October 18, 2016 12:49pm
Manolo

Some future jihadists arrive in the country:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3843900/First-migrant-children-arrive-UK-Calais-French-prepare-raze-Jungle-camp-ground.html
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October 18, 2016 10:34am
- Rich Prick
  
  Teenagers? Yeah, right. Some of that lot look as though they’ve been shaving for more than a decade.
  
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  October 18, 2016 11:10am
  - Jack5
    
    You are dead right, Rich Prick.
    
    The West is conned – again.
    
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    October 18, 2016 1:47pm
    - Rich Prick
      
      It amazes me that the media can run stories like that with a straight face. Or do they genuinely think we’re all that stupid?
      
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      October 18, 2016 2:05pm
Manolo

Which side will be our own stephieboy cheering for? Allahu akbar.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-37685964

Iraqi forces are “ahead of schedule” following the first day of the battle to retake Mosul, the Pentagon has said.
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October 18, 2016 10:36am
- stephieboy
  
  Manolo, you must be peeved that the US armed and trained Iraqi army along with the Kurds are positioning themselves to retake ISIS-held Mosul founded by the President and Hillary Clinton.
  
  Yeah, Trump and his disciples struggling to make sense yet again.
  
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  October 18, 2016 2:26pm
  - AgentBallSack
    
    stephiebitch says:
    
    Kurds are positioning themselves to retake ISIS-held Mosul founded by the President and Hillary Clinton.
    
    Yeah, Trump and his disciples struggling to make sense yet again.
    
    OHHH REALLY?
    Well in that case Clinton is more than 2500 years old!!!!!
    
    MOSUL:
    
    “The name of the city is first mentioned by Xenophon in his expeditionary logs in Achaemenid Assyria (Athura) of 401 BC, during the reign of the Persian Achaemenid dynasty in this region. There, he notes a small Assyrian town of “Mépsila” (Ancient Greek: Μέψιλα) on the Tigris somewhere about where modern Mosul is today”
    
    Are you purposefully trying to look retarded or does it come naturally?
    
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    October 18, 2016 3:03pm
    - stephieboy
      
      ABS,
      
      this is what Trump said ,
      
      “Donald Trump has described President Barack Obama as “the founder of Isis”, and said his rival Hillary Clinton was the “co-founder” of the fundamentalist organisation as he intensified his attacks on the Democratic Party. ”
      
      http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-barack-obama-isis-latest-speech-terrorism-claims-election-2016-a7184536.html
      
      Do you support Trump’s claim ?
      
      Yes or No ?
      
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      October 18, 2016 3:10pm
      - AgentBallSack
        
        Where does it say Trump said the “First African American” President and Clinton founded the city Mosul?
        
        (BTW good work on deleting references to Obama’s heritage in your subsequent posts since I pointed out that doing so was inherently racist. I must be dealing with that stephie today.)
        
        BTW that link is 2 months old. It’s okay, I know you have a lot of work to do running damage control for the Clintards.
        
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        October 18, 2016 3:16pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Sigh, at the risk of being called a Trump supporter by some moron may I explain the context of what Trump means.
        By Obama not extending or renegotiating the US Forces staying in Iraq he created a vacuum into which Isis/ isil took advantage and seized several cities. Mosul being one.
        Hillary, by removing Gaddafi allowed the same to happen in Libya.
        Of course no doubt some very silly people would like to take Trump literally and suggest he’s saying Obama/Hillary actually established Isis, which is of course ridiculous.
        
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        October 18, 2016 3:41pm
Jazz-Hands Mc Feels

More Podesta email leaks revealing how the (((Globalist))) media scum operate, this is a leftie Politico scribbler sucking up to Podesta:

> No worries
> Because I have become a hack I will send u the whole section that pertains
> to u
> Please don’t share or tell anyone I did this
> Tell me if I f@cked up anything

>>> *Glenn Thrush*
>>> Chief Political Correspondent, POLITICO
>>> Senior Staff Writer, POLITICO Magazine
>>> Cell (call first): 202-731-4974
>>> Desk: 703-647-8543
>>> http://www.politico.com/reportersGlennThrush.html

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12681

Its time to make America Great Again!
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October 18, 2016 10:50am
Fletch

Meme doing the rounds on facebook

“It’s funny how Julian Assange was a hero to the Left when he was leaking secrets of the Bush wars, but now that he’s releasing the truth about Hillary’s corruption he’s a spy controlled by Putin and Trump”

https://www.facebook.com/OfficialRightWingNews/photos/a.401034789956656.90394.389658314427637/1561960327197424/?type=3&theater
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October 18, 2016 11:04am
- AgentBallSack
  
  What a difference a day in politics makes.
  
  As a corollary, I thought he was a traitor who deserved execution – nowadays I may buy him a beer.
  
  Just keep him away from the Swedish Womens volleyball team!
  
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  October 18, 2016 11:18am
- Lucia Maria
  
  Fletch,
  
  Yet, Wikileaks is a Front for Russian Intelligence has been known for a while.
  
  Better late than never, realising who Assange is. No excuses for those going in the other direction, though.
  
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  October 18, 2016 11:26am
  - Ross12
    
    Did you miss this from a post yesterday , Lucia ?
    
    http://theduran.com/nsa-whistleblower-says-dnc-hack-not-done-russia-us-intelligence/
    
    A much more plausible scenario about the hacking than simply blaming it on the Russians.
    
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    October 18, 2016 1:20pm
    - Lucia Maria
      
      Ross12, and more from the same website: Today’s attacks on RT and Wikileaks are attacks on free speech.
      
      Yes, well if you consider RT and Wikileaks to be bastions of free speech and not Russian propaganda sites, then I can see why you’d believe an article from the same website being what you consider to be a more plausible scenario.
      
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      October 18, 2016 1:37pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        RT is a propaganda site- just like CNN. On both I’d suggest you have to do a bit of sifting to get the truth.
        Has Wikileaks ever been proved wrong though? They seem to just post material and let people draw their own conclusions.
        That seems objective- for a change
        
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        October 18, 2016 3:44pm
Fletch

A new undercover video shows that Democrats have been sending operatives into Trump rallies to start fights and cause trouble.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IuJGHuIkzY

Democrats have used trained provocateurs to instigate violence at Republican events nationwide throughout the 2016 election cycle, including at several Donald Trump rallies, using a tactic called “bird-dogging,” according to a new video investigation released Monday by James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas.

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FOVAL: So one of the things we do is we stage very authentic grassroots protests right in their faces at their own events. Like, we infiltrate. And then we get it on tape. And then, when our guys get beat up —

Project Veritas: You mean authentic-seeming grassroots?

FOVAL: No, authentic.

PV: You mean —

FOVAL: Protesters.

PV: So like — progressive, what we saw in Madison.

FOVAL: We train up our people, wherever they are, to — and I work with a network of groups, we train them up on how to get themselves into a situation on tape, on camera, that we can use later.

PV: So some of this, so I probably know your work.

FOVAL: I know you do. Everybody does. But —

PV: You mean like a situation where it’s sort of like a —

FOVAL: You remember the Iowa State Fair thing where Scott Walker grabbed the sign out of the dude’s hand and then the dude gets kind of roughed up right in front of the stage right there on camera?

PV: Yeah.

FOVAL: That was all us. The guy that got roughed up is my counterpart, who works for Bob [Creamer].

PV: And that was like, storyboarded? Him getting roughed up like that?

FOVAL: We scenarioed it.

PV: And so you, like leant yourselves to that situation and it happened. A self-fulfilling prophecy.

FOVAL: We not only leant ourselves, we planted multiple people in that front area around him and in the back to make sure there wasn’t just a action that happened up front, there was also a reaction that happened out back. So the cameras, when they saw it, saw double angles of stuff like, they saw what happened up front, and they saw the reaction of people out back.

PV: That’s fucking brilliant. That’s brilliant.

FOVAL: And then the reporters had people to talk to.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/10/17/exclusive-okeefe-video-sting-exposes-bird-dogging-democrats-effort-to-incite-violence-at-trump-rallies/

No surprises, really. That’s the Democrats all over.
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October 18, 2016 11:11am
- Lucia Maria
  
  More on O’Keefe and his video tactics. Doesn’t sound like a man whose work can be trusted at all.
  
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  October 18, 2016 12:22pm
  - Fletch
    
    I dunno, but, it’s not like the video is fuzzy or hard to hear. What those people are saying is very plain and their intent is clear. He says flat out that they have people go into the lines and incite violence – that there are coordinated groups in different cities, they follow Trump and pence’s calendar, and that the unions hire people to help. There isn’t any way this can be taken the wrong way.
    
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    October 18, 2016 12:25pm
    - Lucia Maria
      
      Fletch,
      It’s very easy to edit videos to change the intent of what is being said and to take things out of context. This is what O’Keefe excels at.
      
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      October 18, 2016 12:28pm
      - Fletch
        
        Yet, at the time of O’Keefe’s Planned Parenthood sting, they uploaded the unedited videos online, which were also subsequently analyzed by a security specialist who said that they hadn’t been edited so as to create a narrative.
        
        WASHINGTON – Coalfire Systems, a highly accredited forensic analysis and cybersecurity company that does work for Fortune 500 companies, issued a report Monday which found that 10 full-footage videos the Center for Medical Progress recorded while undercover at Planned Parenthood facilities and related locations “are authentic and show no evidence of manipulation or editing.”
        
        “This conclusion is supported by the consistency of the video file date and time stamps, the video timecode, as well as the folder and file naming scheme,” the report states. “The uniformity between the footage from Investigator 1’s camera and Investigator 2’s camera also support the evidence that the video recordings are authentic.” The report also confirms that “edits made to the Full Footage videos [for the shorter YouTube videos] were applied to eliminate non-pertinent footage, such as restroom breaks, meals, and other similar periods lacking pertinent conversation.”
        
        http://www.adfmedia.org/News/PRDetail/9764
        
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        October 18, 2016 1:47pm
      - cha
        
        I wonder, did little Jimmy O’Keefe take his dildos with him this time?.
        
        But in a phone conversation, Santa confirmed the document was authentic. Listed under “equipment needed,” is “hidden cams on the boat,” and a “tripod and overt recorder near the bed, an obvious sex tape machine.”
        
        Among the props listed were a “condom jar, dildos, posters and paintings of naked women, fuzzy handcuffs” and a blindfold.
        
        http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/09/29/okeefe.cnn.prank/
        
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        October 18, 2016 1:59pm
      - Lucia Maria
        
        Fletch,
        
        Last year O’Keefe tried to frame a Catholic university for supporting ISIS: Undercover video alleges Barry University supports ISIS, officials deny.
        
        It may be that some of his stuff is above board – but given that he has been found to be lying through manipulative videos a number of times, he’s too tainted a source to give any sort of level of trust to.
        
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        October 18, 2016 2:13pm
- stephieboy
  
  Fletch , I posted this earlier regarding James O’keefe’s deceptive and misleading practices ,
  
  This is but one example of James O’keefe and his Project Veritas engaging in highly deceptive “investigative journalist “practices . This time posing as Osama Bin Laden claiming the Mexico border is easy to penetrate . Neglecting to mention that he chose a very remote and isolated border location to conduct his fanciful experiment ,
  
  http://www.mediaite.com/online/james-okeefe-snuck-across-the-u-s-mexico-border-wearing-an-osama-bin-laden-mask/
  
  Another example was claiming the Hillary Clinton supporters were inciting violence at this Trump rally a claim that proved to be untrue ,
  
  http://www.inquisitr.com/3605790/october-surprise-why-is-the-media-ignoring-the-james-okeefe-video-claiming-to-show-hillary-clinton-supporters-inciting-violence-at-donald-trump-rallies/
  
  He now devotes himself to the Trump cause using deceptions using highly selective and edited video of how the vote is being rigged .
  
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  October 18, 2016 2:33pm
  - pentwig
    
    But you are KB’s prized idiot.
    
    Who gives a f… what you post.
    
    I think Daffy could compose something legible and intelligent but sadly you can’t.
    
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    October 18, 2016 7:30pm
PhilP

“Wellington ratepayers being screwed yet again…”
Business as usual then Starboard? Troughers know how to trough up big time, must be in their DNA! FFS! I guess the voters get what they deserve.
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October 18, 2016 11:11am
RF

Now that the 2 former ABs have been cleared of the
use of banned drugs in France, were our ABs ever subjected to routine drugs tests here in NZ.
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October 18, 2016 11:16am
- Kimbo
  
  Yep.
  
  I seem to remember Walter Little tested positive about 20 years ago for using some over-the-counter medicine.
  
  But there are a number from the 1980s, before the days of drug testing in rugby I think , one in particular about whom suspicions were always raised. Went from a relatively normal body shape to very big in a short space of time, and then, a few years later his career tapered off at a time when most in his position are reaching their peak – both signs suggesting steroid use.
  
  Plus allegedly ‘roids were all the rage in South Africa in the late ’80s/early ’90s, before they came back in from isolation.
  
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  October 18, 2016 11:20am
AgentBallSack

Selfies have now overtaken shark attacks in terms of lethality.

Let’s face it if you duck face in dangerous places, 99% of people are wishing you would die anyway.
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October 18, 2016 11:38am
Manolo

The black population enjoys “Hope & Change” courtesy of the Messiah Obama:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-weekend-shootings-chicago-20161017-story.html

A thousand more people have been shot in Chicago this year compared with the same time last year after a weekend that saw eight people killed and at least 40 wounded, according to police and data compiled by the Tribune.

At least 3,475 people had been shot in the city as of shortly after midnight Monday compared with 2,441 people shot this time last year, an increase of 1,034, according to Tribune data. There have been at least 595 homicides this year compared with 409 this time last year, an increase of 186.
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October 18, 2016 11:41am
- Rich Prick
  
  Death by political correctness. If Police were to stop and frisk or remove a criminal from the streets in segregated areas like Englewood or Lawndale it would have the American Civil Liberties Union screaming “racisim” from the roof-tops. So they just leave them to it. #BlackLivesMatter, just not to black lives.
  
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  October 18, 2016 12:00pm
- AgentBallSack
  
  Man, those cops are busy shooting all those unarmed black men. It’s a wonder they have time to stop for coffee and donuts.
  
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  October 18, 2016 12:13pm
  - stephieboy
    
    ABS, Donald Trump will be nodding at your devotion and loyalty approvingly ,
    
    The Truth is here ,
    
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rasheena-fountain/black-on-black-crime-the-_b_8228738.html
    
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    October 18, 2016 2:37pm
    - Don the Kiwi
      
      The Truth is here ,
      
      …..and he quotes the Huffpost.
      
      Bwaahaahahaahaha 😆 😆
      
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      October 18, 2016 2:57pm
      - stephieboy
        
        Donk the Kiwi,
        
        Try this article which considers why the Black Murder rate is much, much lower in an equivalent area in Brooklyn ,New York than compared to Chicago ,
        
        http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/05/18/us/chicago-murder-problem.html?_r=0
        
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        October 18, 2016 3:18pm
      - AgentBallSack
        
        Sorry Stephie, reported your comment. I meant to reply.
        
        Anyway, that article you linked to in NYT is titled
        
        Chicagos Murder Problem
        
        “The homicide rate in Chicago is just a little higher than in New York when guns aren’t involved. But when it comes to shootings, both fatal and not, Chicago stands out, suggesting a level of armed interaction that isn’t happening in New York.“
        
        And:
        
        Gang Wars in Chicago
        Drive Much of Its Violence
        
        In Chicago, gang disputes are clearly a big part of homicides, said John Hagedorn, a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago who studies Chicago gangs. “But these are not the same kind of disputes as before – they’re more localized disputes.”
        
        Many of Chicago’s gangs have fractured, leading to more violence, said Arthur Lurigio, a criminology professor at Loyola University Chicago. While Latino gangs have remained more hierarchical, black gangs have splintered into small, disparate factions, whose disputes are less over territory and profits, and more over personal insults or shames, often fueled by social media, he said.
        
        Are you even reading what you post?
        
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        October 18, 2016 3:50pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        “Are you even reading what you post”
        Lol, that or he doesn’t understand it. He does that all the time.
        Often his links contradict what he posts- which is real funny
        
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        October 18, 2016 3:55pm
      - AgentBallSack
        
        Try this article which considers why the Black Murder rate is much, much lower in an equivalent area in Brooklyn ,New York than compared to Chicago
        
        Summary: They’re not all black
        
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        October 18, 2016 3:57pm
    - Rich Prick
      
      As an undergraduate creative writing major
      
      Citing the Huffingtonpost is bad enough, but not noticing the first sentence is hilarious. Because what follows is precisely that.
      
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      October 18, 2016 3:03pm
      - stephieboy
        
        Rich Prick , give us a sampling of your beyond reproach links that are over and above Huffington Post ?
        
        Let’s see Breitbart , Pamela Geller , Ann Coulter , frontpage , James O’keefe …?
        
        Carry on ….?
        
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        October 18, 2016 3:21pm
      - Rich Prick
        
        stephie, living in Wisconsin for two years and spending a lot of time in Chicago for work. No white person would venture into any neighbourhood south of the I290, let alone to go in to shoot blacks. I think I’m reasonably qualified to call bs on the “mythical black on black violence” your creative writer romanticises.
        
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        October 18, 2016 3:30pm
      - Rich Prick
        
        Here’s a good summary of the Police stats. Do remeber 26% of murders go unsolved which is quite likely why only 71% of the offenders are found to be black, most of the remainder just aren’t caught. 75% of the victims also happen to be black. I think that confirms “black on black violence” being something more than “mythical”.
        
        http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/blog/chicago-75-murdered-are-black-71-murderers-are-black
        
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        October 18, 2016 4:08pm
      - Rich Prick
        
        Calling stephie … I’ve only dished out a minor spanking over a demographic you don’t really care about anyway. Just say “sorry I was wrong”, just once, you know you have it in you deep down. If you can’t, then you go into my “go fuck yourself, stupid leftie retard” box.
        
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        October 18, 2016 10:51pm
- tom hunter
  
  It’s reached the stage where Rahm Emanuel (Obama’s 1st term Chief of Staff) is begging the Chicago cops to get back into these neighbourhoods and do some policing.
  
  The scene is like those where the school principle and teachers are lecturing students about some sort of behaviour and telling them what the right thing to do is. The students just sit there silently, not arguing – and then just ignore the pleas.
  
  After being thrown to the wolves the Chicago cops are not going to do anything that might expose them to the insanely politicised racists of the Black Lives Matter movement, their YouTube associates, and their Democrat Party operatives. If that means that a Democrat controlled city has to burn then so be it. Better them than me.
  
  Meantime, here’s video of a Chicago female cop getting the shit beaten out of her …
  
  Chicago police released dramatic video showing a hulking gang member, allegedly high on PCP, attacking an officer — a brutal beating that left the cop, who said she didn’t user her gun because she feared public backlash, severely injured.
  
  Parta Huff, 28, allegedly slammed the cop’s head onto concrete pavement over and over again, leaving her with a concussion as well as shoulder, wrist and neck injuries, the Chicago Tribune reported.
  
  The bodycam video, released Friday, showed a other cops repeatedly shocking Huff with Tasers as he continued to ripped out chunks of the attacked officer’s hair.
  
  Love the “allegedly” even as you see it happen.
  
  Leftists: they’ll fuck you over every time if they’re in power.
  
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  October 18, 2016 12:22pm
Padriv Ustoev

Alluha Akbar

Germany will soon be very multicultural. Probably a generation away at most.

Then it will turn into Europe’s own Lebanon, with a population split along religious lines.

https://www.rt.com/news/363064-germany-fertility-rate-immigrants/
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October 18, 2016 11:55am
- Manolo
  
  Good luck to the poor German’s.
  Mamma Merkel has fucked the country big, big time.
  
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  October 18, 2016 12:01pm
  - AgentBallSack
    
    Merkel has forgotten Germany’s history.
    Now they’re doomed to repeat it.
    
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    October 18, 2016 12:15pm
- stephieboy
  
  Padriv Ustoev,
  
  it won’t happen . Here’s why ,
  
  “In the near future, the Muslim population of India will exceed the number of Muslims in Indonesia and Pakistan, which will result in a cultural and social imbalance of the Hindu nation,” read Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray’s editorial in party newspaper Saamna.”
  
  This is what Thackeray, head of the Hindu right-wing party is referring to: “The Future of World Religions”, the latest report released by PEW, a global research organization.
  
  By 2050, India’s Muslim population will rise to 18.2% from 14% in 2010, the report said. In numbers, India will have 311 million Muslims, more indeed than Indonesia and Pakistan, but what Thackeray does not say is that by this time the Hindu population will rise to 1.2 billion, or 77%, down no more than 3% over 40 years.
  
  In 2010, Hindus were 80% of India’s population or 973 million, said the Pew report. The 2011 Indian census has compiled the country’s religious composition but has not released it.
  
  Population increases are linked to fertility rates, the average number of children born over a lifetime.
  
  The fertility rate for Indian Muslim women fell from 4.1 in 2001 to 3.2 in 2010 and is expected to be 2.1 by 2050.
  
  Hindu fertility rates are 2.5, expected to fall to 1.9 by 2050, below the replacement level of 2.1.
  
  However, Hindus are younger, on average, than the global population. So, combined with an increase in life expectancy, the Hindu population will rise even with below-replacement fertility, the Pew report said.
  http://factchecker.in/the-myth-of-indias-muslim-population-rise/
  
  The same kind of decline in fertility rates ( already happening in Muslim populations in the Middle East ) and are repeating themselves in Russia and of course Western Europe including here in NZ
  
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  October 18, 2016 3:38pm
Fletch

ps, in the undercover video, the leader even says they pay mentally ill people to go in and start violence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IuJGHuIkzY

This is only the first in a series of videos. I hope they get shown far and wide to show the extent to which the Democrats will go. The guy who made the videos deserves a medal.
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October 18, 2016 11:58am
- stephieboy
  
  Fletch , pathetic .
  
  This is but one example of James O’keefe and his Project Veritas engaging in highly deceptive “investigative journalist “practices . This time posing as Osama Bin Laden claiming the Mexico border is easy to penetrate . Neglecting to mention that he chose a very remote and isolated border location to conduct his fanciful experiment ,
  
  http://www.mediaite.com/online/james-okeefe-snuck-across-the-u-s-mexico-border-wearing-an-osama-bin-laden-mask/
  
  Another example was claiming the Hillary Clinton supporters were inciting violence at this Trump rally a claim that proved to be untrue ,
  
  http://www.inquisitr.com/3605790/october-surprise-why-is-the-media-ignoring-the-james-okeefe-video-claiming-to-show-hillary-clinton-supporters-inciting-violence-at-donald-trump-rallies/
  
  He now devotes himself entirely to the Trump cause using deceptions and outright lies with highly selective and edited video of how the vote is being rigged or paying the mentally ill to incite violence .
  
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  October 18, 2016 2:06pm
  - Fletch
    
    Stephie, are you denying that the people in those videos are who O’Keefe claims that they are? Or that they are saying the things they are? Tell me in what way that the things they are saying can be interpreted any other way.
    
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    October 18, 2016 4:21pm
Manolo

Reaching banana-republic levels:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/10/17/hillary-clinton-foundation-donors-lobbyists-state-department/92285652/

The nexus among private companies, Hillary Clinton’s State Department and the Clinton family foundations is closer and more complex than even Donald Trump has claimed so far.

While it is widely known that some companies and foreign governments gave money to the foundations, perhaps in an effort to gain favor, one of the key parts of the puzzle hasn’t been reported: At least a dozen of those same companies lobbied the State Department, using lobbyists who doubled as major Clinton campaign fundraisers.

Those companies gave as much as $16 million to the Clinton charities. At least four of the lobbyists they hired are “Hillblazers,” the Clinton campaign’s name for supporters who have raised $100,000 or more for her current White House race.
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October 18, 2016 12:10pm
Inandout

Leighton Smith was telling of how the FBI staff are incensed that Hillary got off Scot free. When you have a major law enforcement agency made to look stupid, then information will eventually leak out. Their motto “ Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity,” has been well and truly sullied by the she-beast.
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October 18, 2016 12:51pm
- Kimbo
  
  Fair enough. Mark Felt (Deepthroat) seems to have spilled the beans about the Watergate break-in for no more noble reason than he was passed over for promotion.
  
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  October 18, 2016 12:58pm
  - Kimbo
    
    …but J Edgar Hoover was always very faithful to his Presidents, including showing and playing to Robert Kennedy the photos and tape recording the FBI had made of his brother banging a host of actresses, cocktail waitresses, basically anything that was female and had a pulse would never see the light of day as long as he (Hoover) remained head of the FBI. Which put an end to talk of his compulsory retirement 😉
    
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    October 18, 2016 1:09pm
    - Inandout
      
      He would not have had to demand anything from RK, the implication would be there. Do you not think that JK’s rooting around would eventually cause a security breach? Hoover was an enemy of the American Communist Party, the KGB and probably the Mafia, so he had to be careful. He was undoubtedly the most powerful man in the US at that time, thanks in part to politicians and officials who were indiscreet with their sexual exploits.
      
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      October 18, 2016 3:28pm
      - Kimbo
        
        Hoover was an enemy of the American Communist Party, the KGB and probably the Mafia
        
        …not so much the Mafia as Hoover always denied it existed. The FBI made its name chasing chump-change hoodlums like John Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde and Alvin Karpis (who Hoover personally arrested) rather than rooting out the Mafia when they were diversifying after Prohibition.
        
        Oh, yes, and Hoover was also an enemy of Martin Luther King (though he was a communist), and he had similar sex tapes on him. Even had the FBI send King an anonymous poison pen letter on the eve of hos Nobel peace prize acceptance speech, encouraging King to commit suicide. Charming guy
        
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        October 18, 2016 3:57pm
      - Kimbo
        
        typo: Hoover thought he (Martin Luther King) was a communist
        
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        October 18, 2016 4:05pm
    - Inandout
      
      You may be quoting KGB material on Hoover and Martin King.
      
      http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/11/what-really-happened-between-j-edgar-hoover-and-mlk-jr/248319/
      
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      October 18, 2016 5:56pm
- tom hunter
  
  Are they incensed enough to quit en masse? Because having a hundred or so senior agents quitting would force the MSM and the Democrat Party to face up to what they’ve done with Hillary. It might be for the good.
  
  No?
  
  Well then, they can just STFU because their anger is worth even less than their reputations.
  
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  October 18, 2016 1:03pm
howitis

Tyson Gay’s daughter, Trinity, was shot in the carpark at 4am a few days ago.
This is sad news but one questions parenting when a 15 year old was in this situation.

Three geezers (not really men) have been arrested in connection with the shooting.
…Dvonta Middlebrooks, 21, is said to have fired multiple shots during the incident and has been charged with wanton endangerment and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
Chazerae Taylor, 38, and his 19-year-old son D’Markeo, also face charges for wanton endangerment. ….

They should be charged with parading silly names in a public area for a start.
To them I guess other Black lives do NOT matter.

Their defence will be ‘ I dindu nuffin’.
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October 18, 2016 1:03pm
AgentBallSack

Virtue signalling

NEW YORK — NBC News has fired “Today” show host Billy Bush, who was caught on tape in a vulgar conversation about women with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump before an “Access Hollywood” appearance.

Bush was suspended at the morning show two days after contents of the 2005 tape were reported on Oct. 7.

NBC and Bush’s representatives had been negotiating terms of his exit before Monday’s announcement.

On the tape, Bush is heard laughing as Trump talks about fame enabling him to grope and try to have sex with women not his wife.

Bush later said he was “embarrassed and ashamed.” Trump has since denied groping women.

Bush had been at “Today” for two months. He’s the nephew of Republican former President George H.W. Bush.

http://abc7.com/entertainment/nbc-news-fires-billy-bush-after-lewd-donald-trump-tape-leaked/1559831/
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October 18, 2016 1:19pm
stephieboy

ABS, I suppose it must rankle you that Billy Bush was not the nephew of Democrat former President Bill Clinton.

Also yet another example of an attempt to rig the elections ?
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October 18, 2016 1:26pm
- AgentBallSack
  
  It may surprise you to learn that just because people don’t support Clinton, it doesn’t mean that they support Trump!
  
  Seems there’s a few on these boards that are just too thick to get that.
  
  BTW I thought Bush Jr. was a fucking clown. Remember “Mission Accomplished”?
  
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  October 18, 2016 2:12pm
Captain Mainwaring

Widely expected, but still fantastic news.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/85464508/us-warship-to-break-final-anzus-barrier

Just a bit of a shame it’s not a fuck-off great nuclear powered aircraft carrier.
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October 18, 2016 1:48pm
- Kimbo
  
  But, but, but if Geoffrey Palmer was acting-PM he would require an assurance the US destroyer was not nuclear-armed
  
  …because unless our ally did that, well, um, the legislation may be flouted and it would be meaningless. 😉
  
  Because, that’s how friends and allies get treated in legalistic Geoffrey-Palmer-land.
  
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  October 18, 2016 1:54pm
- kowtow
  
  Newclear. The way to go. We really are dumb fucks with this anti stance.
  
  https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/oct/17/mit-nuclear-fusion-record-marks-latest-step-towards-unlimited-clean-energy
  
  “In the meantime, there are numerous private companies hoping to develop small scale nuclear fusion reactors. One is Tokamak Energy, a spin-off from the UK’s national fusion lab, which uses high-temperature superconductors to create the magnetic field to contain the fusion plasma. “
  
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  October 18, 2016 3:08pm
Northland Wahine

http://nzh.tw/11731155

I don’t know whether to weep or burst out laughing?!
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October 18, 2016 1:57pm
- kowtow
  
  NW
  
  The cop will be in pretty serious shit. Allowing a prisoner to escape used to be an offence, not sure about these days.
  
  Difficult job.
  
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  October 18, 2016 2:52pm
  - Northland Wahine
    
    Kowtow, I wouldn’t wish that job on my worst enemy. But sheesh, basic common sense. Take keys outta the car when you walk away with a crim inside.
    
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    October 18, 2016 3:19pm
    - kowtow
      
      Yeah on the face of it, that’s why I think someone’s in the do do.
      
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      October 18, 2016 3:22pm
Fletch

Expect a report on Sunday morning from Drudge.

“Oh, on the sex stuff. Hillary is about to get hers…,” Drudge said in a tweet.

https://twitter.com/DRUDGE/status/787326951920902144
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October 18, 2016 2:22pm
- stephieboy
  
  Fletch , I hope Drudge is able to move beyond his Mathew Hurricane conspiracy theories ,
  
  http://www.salon.com/2016/10/07/mother-natures-myth-why-are-matt-drudge-and-rush-limbaugh-pushing-hurricane-matthew-conspiracy-theories/
  
  I hope it might go well for Drudge come next Sunday . It certainly hasn’t in the past,
  
  https://thinkprogress.org/10-totally-fake-stories-bannered-by-drudge-this-year-572d72b59a59#.u2xx42irw
  
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  October 18, 2016 2:59pm
  - Fletch
    
    I admit that Drudge has been a bit hit-and-miss in the past, but he knows a thing or two about the Clintons and sex; it was he who broke the Lewinsky story all those years ago.
    
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    October 18, 2016 4:17pm
Manolo

The flesh is weak, says the aging philanderer:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/10/17/exclusive-audio-bill-clinton-claim-slept-black-beauty-queen-shes-darkened-door/
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October 18, 2016 2:45pm
- Inandout
  
  Well he has his roots in the KKK, so the pun is expected.
  
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  October 18, 2016 3:34pm
Hugh Pavletich

KEY CALLED HOUSING ‘A CRISIS’ IN 2007 … WINSTON PETERS … NEW ZEALAND FIRST

Key Called Housing ‘a Crisis’ in 2007 – Winston Peters – New Zealand First | Scoop News

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1610/S00265/key-called-housing-a-crisis-in-2007.htm

KEY CALLED HOUSING ‘A CRISIS’ IN 2007 – EIGHT YEARS LATER HE’S FULL OF EXCUSES – IT WON’T WASH

Prime Minister John Key’s fob off line that solving the Auckland housing crisis will take time is a disgrace – he’s had eight years as PM fix it, says New Zealand First Leader and Northland Member of Parliament Rt Hon Winston Peters.

“This week on Radio NZ John Key said housing development would ‘take some time’. He’s a PM full of excuses for failure.

“Eight years ago he was campaigning on a four point plan to solve what he called the ‘housing affordability crisis’. … read more via hyperlink above …

Key: Speech to New Zealand Contractors Federation … 2007 | Scoop News

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0708/S00336.htm

Housing campaigner predicts spiralling house prices will be Key’s ‘Waterloo’ | Stuff.co.nz

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/83627043/Housing-campaigner-predicts-spiralling-house-prices-will-be-Keys-Waterloo
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October 18, 2016 4:29pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Hugh, your old stylus is stuck in the groove again.
  Boring, boring, boring.
  
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  October 18, 2016 4:53pm
  - Jazz-Hands Mc Feels
    
    No, Hugh’s posts are interesting and get right to the heart of the major issue facing Aucklanders in particular.
    
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    October 18, 2016 5:03pm
    - Happychappy
      
      Hugh is like Winston likes talking about Hugh.I thought Penny was bad but Hugh takes some beating
      
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      October 18, 2016 5:24pm
      - Jazz-Hands Mc Feels
        
        I’ve kept track of Hugh over the years on interest.co.nz etc where he has done occasional guest articles and comments section posting. He always has made interesting contributions to the housing bubble discussion.
        
        I don’t get your accusation that Hugh likes to talk about Hugh.
        
        Everything I’ve read of his is about the issue at hand, not him – just like in his posts above ^.
        
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        October 18, 2016 5:40pm
- Happychappy
  
  Go help your buddy Twitford try and dream up some lies.Key will have the last laugh at haters like you
  
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  October 18, 2016 4:59pm
  - Jazz-Hands Mc Feels
    
    You need to face reality, the housing market is severely distorted in the context of a global economy that has been reduced to little more than a ponzi scheme blowing asset bubbles all around the world.
    
    It is not going to end well.
    
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    October 18, 2016 5:05pm
Manolo

The whole thing stinks to high heaven:
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/17/fbi-releases-100-new-pages-on-clinton-email-probe.html

A new trove of interview summaries and notes from the FBI’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails lays out a series of allegations that could prove fodder for future attacks on the Democratic presidential nominee.

The 100 pages, released Monday morning, include claims that Clinton “blatantly” disregarded protocol. Other claims include that a group of powerful State Department employees attempted to coordinate a document release, and that a department official asked for a “quid pro quo” related to the former secretary of state’s emails.
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October 18, 2016 4:54pm
SPC

Melania Trump says that women who made claims about the Donald are lying.

So someone not useful to keep him in check …
Stockholm syndrome … ?
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October 18, 2016 4:57pm
- Jazz-Hands Mc Feels
  
  Trump is an alpha male, he has had women throw themselves at him all his life.
  
  Despite what the blue haired obese single childless feminist harpies claim, women can’t get enough of a successful powerful man.
  
  It makes sense from an evolutionary perspective if you think about it.
  
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  October 18, 2016 5:09pm
- SPC
  
  The Trumpettes cannot stand Hillary standing by Bill, but yet even so, …
  
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  October 18, 2016 10:42pm
  - Jazz-Hands Mc Feels
    
    She can “stand” by him all she wants, it only proves how degenerate and crazed for power she is.
    
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    October 18, 2016 11:56pm
Manolo

An excellent graph on child poverty from Lindsay Mitchell’s blog:
http://lindsaymitchell.blogspot.co.nz/2016/10/graph-of-day.html
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October 18, 2016 5:02pm
- Jazz-Hands Mc Feels
  
  Lindsay’s makes good points and has a fresh perspective on issues from a non mainstream conservative point of view.
  
  Every example of child poverty wheeled out in the media is a solo mother with low education or career prospects with kids – and of course no father around.
  
  That seems to be the final goal of the anti child poverty crusaders replacing 2 parent families with dependency on the state as the “bread winner” and carer.
  
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  October 18, 2016 5:48pm
- SPC
  
  My comment.
  
  The problem is dependence on two incomes to afford home ownership, WFF tax credits to the one income family now only secures them in rental property.
  
  As you note a convergence of first DPB, then easier divorce and finally lack of jobs led to a lot of single mother households and thus increased poverty 80’s-90’s.
  
  One problem now is when parents have two children and child care costs ends employment of one for a time. Thus political pressure to improve targeted support to this middle class group and more generally fund free ECE time (so employment when the second child is age 3 is possible).
  
  The other problems are in the standard and availability of housing, and the fitness of people to be responsible parents.
  
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  October 18, 2016 9:39pm
Reid

Must See: Crushing American Exceptionalism in Syria

https://youtu.be/dzBluOK2hsA

Hooray.

Who the fuck can possibly argue Russia is the bad guy in Syria? Results are: ISIS is decimated after Russia goes in 12 mths ago. ISIS almost conquered Syria after 18 mths of US overt and 4 years of covert US intervention. Who’s the bad guy? Results count, and are inarguable.

Vladimir Putin: “You think our relations with the United States changed because of Syria? No, not because of Syria, but because of attempts of one side to impose its decisions on the whole world.”

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2016/10/17/russia-to-new-world-order-agent-jens-stoltenberg-do-you-have-any-common-sense-at-all/
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October 18, 2016 5:59pm
- stephieboy
  
  Reid , this response to the You Tube rather simplemindedly sums it all up ,
  
  “antisyrian opposition are Zionist Nazi Sabbathians Franken Satanist”
  
  Next, you and those in the comments column including Veteran’s Today must now regret the Berlin Wall ever came down and now clamoring for Putin to put it back up !
  
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  October 18, 2016 6:28pm
  - Reid
    
    Next, you and those in the comments column including Veteran’s Today must now regret the Berlin Wall ever came down and now clamoring for Putin to put it back up !
    
    stupidboy, would you please desist from pretending you have the least idea whatsoever in understanding why I think what I say, what else I might therefore think and anything else directly unrelated to the actual comment I make?
    
    Can ya please do that?
    
    It’s just you have no fucking idea about anything mate, something of which through your track record everyone here is acutely aware which is why everyone calls you stupid, dummy, moron and almost certainly other epithets I haven’t noticed as I rapidly scroll past your blatherific meanderings.
    
    Frankly, it’s just pathetic enough to see you, a clearly handicapped intellect, flail around helplessly with simple things like truth and facts the veracity of which can easily be established, without you attempting more advanced thinking feats such as drawing conclusions on much much much more subtle things such as your interlocuter’s motivations, thought processes, or anything else.
    
    On the other hand if you want us all to keep laughing at you, keep it up.
    
    Your choice stephie.
    
    OTY.
    
    (That means over to you.)
    
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    October 18, 2016 6:56pm
- SPC
  
  Russia is not the good guy here, just not the only bad guy.
  
  Joining in the bombing of hospitals and other civilian infrastructure in rebel held areas is a war crime.
  
  And attacking the aid convoy to end the cease-fire out of vendetta because of American ineptitude in bombing Syrian forces rather than IS ones was as cynical a play as one will see. To suggest an American drone did it to fit them up – (credible with Russia’s form for bombing hospitals) is no riposte by the way; as it just confirms my point in the earlier paragraphs.
  
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  October 18, 2016 9:52pm
  - Reid
    
    While letting ISIS roam at will in Syria as the US clearly wanted, would be better than what Russia is preventing?
    
    What a peculiar world you live in SPC.
    
    Are there unicorns there as well?
    
    Of course there are.
    
    BTW, why would Russia attack an aid convoy thus obviously knowing it would lose them world support, immediately after the US had just committed an undeniably bad act in bombing the Syrians and destroying the ceasefire agreement?
    
    I suppose you hallucinate the same calculation was afoot when Assad allegedly committed the chemical attack just down the road from where the UN inspectors were visiting a few years ago?
    
    Donkeys braying to world MSM bullshit. Is that you?
    
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    October 18, 2016 10:05pm
    - SPC
      
      The answer to the why is terrorism and the exercise of unrestrained violence to intimidate opposition – such as constant deliberate targeting of hospitals.
      
      It speaks to the heart of the strongman, unrestrained by civil niceties to exercise power. All such are alike, and practice this to intimidate. It is after all language that Islamists well understand as they also practice it.
      
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      October 18, 2016 10:14pm
      - tom hunter
        
        I’m amused by the argument that Putin cares about world support.
        
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        October 18, 2016 10:26pm
      - Griff
        
        Putin cares about keeping his people from realizing they are going down the gurgler economically.
        Hence his strong man tactic in the middle east to keep them believing that Russia is still a super power on the world stage.
        Bread and circuses.
        In this case a game of gladiators in a far of place .
        
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        October 18, 2016 10:31pm
      - tom hunter
        
        True Griff – and those admissions come from the Russian government themselves. As I recall the analysis they basically need to have oil at $100 / barrel just to budget the balance. That’s not going to happen.
        
        Of course people who actually did want to engage in intelligent geo-political analysis might look at Russia’s increasing involvement in the ME and point out how much they would benefit from disruptions to oil supplies from the likes of Iraq, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States. Not to mention Iran, which faces the same budget problems with low oil prices.
        
        We’ll see how well the little KGB tough guy’s testicles stand up to a decade of being squeezed.
        
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        October 18, 2016 10:42pm
      - SPC
        
        Putin needs to ramp up the climate of conflict if he is to promote and sell Russian weapons globally (to make up for budget shortfall – raiding the reserves) with the oil price down a bit and the sanctions from US/EU.
        
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        October 18, 2016 10:44pm
      - cha
        
        point out how much they would benefit from disruptions to oil
        
        That, and with eighty percent of Russian natural gas going to Western Europe there’s a pressing need to head off any alternative supplies – Qatari gas via Syria and Turkey to Eastern Europe.
        
        edit: meh, moderation
        
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        October 18, 2016 11:06pm
cha

It’s all a bit sad when you have to wheel the wife to make your excuses.

Melania says Donald, at 59, while she was 5-months-pregnant, was like a boy still "growing up" #BillyBushMadeMeDoIt pic.twitter.com/asRxVYl065— Richard Hine (@richardhine) October 18, 2016
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October 18, 2016 6:04pm
- tom hunter
  
  Worked for Bill and Hillary in 1992. 🙂
  
  Have to chuckle at Hillary munching on that shit sandwich in the interview. I wonder how often she reminds Bill of that when she needs him in 2016.
  
  Every day would be my answer!
  
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  October 18, 2016 11:15pm
Johnboy

A farmer stopped by the local mechanics shop to have his truck fixed. They couldn’t do it while he waited, so he said he didn’t live far and would just walk home.

On the way home he stopped at the hardware store and bought a bucket and a gallon of paint. He then stopped by the feed store and picked up a couple of chickens and a goose. However, struggling outside the store he now had a problem – how to carry his entire purchases home.

While he was scratching his head he was approached by a little old lady who told him she was lost. She asked, ‘Can you tell me how to get to 1603 Mockingbird Lane ?’ The farmer said, ‘Well, as a matter of fact, my farm is very close to that house I would walk you there but I can’t carry this lot.’

The old lady suggested, ‘Why don’t you put the can of paint in the bucket. Carry the bucket in one hand, put a chicken under each arm and carry the goose in your other hand?’ ‘Why thank you very much,’ he said and proceeded to walk the old girl home.

On the way he says ‘Let’s take my short cut and go down this alley. We’ll be there in no time..

The little old lady looked him over cautiously then said, ‘I am a lonely widow without a husband to defend me… How do I know that when we get in the alley you won’t hold me up against the wall, pull up my skirt, and have your way with me?’

The farmer said, ‘Holy smokes lady! I’m carrying a bucket, a gallon of paint, two chickens, and a goose. How in the world could I possibly hold you up against the wall and do that?’

The old lady replied, ‘Set the goose down, cover him with the bucket, put the paint on top of the bucket, and I’ll hold the chickens.

If only all the old ladies at KB were so proactively adaptive! 🙂
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October 18, 2016 7:01pm
- Don the Kiwi
  
  JB returns with a very appropriate joke that describes him perfectly. 🙂
  The only issue is, it is an old lady rather than a pretty ewe – with lipstick, of course.
  
  Welcome back JB – where yo bin ?
  
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  October 18, 2016 7:48pm
  - dad4justice
    
    Has JB been in the Sheepbin?
    
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    October 18, 2016 8:04pm
- Manolo
  
  Once a sheepshagger always a sheepshagger!
  
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  October 18, 2016 8:25pm
Manolo

Fundamental dishonesty from Clinton’s State Department and the FBI:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/10/18/trump-says-fbi-records-on-clinton-reveal-criminal-act-state-dept-official-should-resign.html
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October 18, 2016 8:16pm
stephieboy

Manolo,” Donald Trump says … ” ?

What else ?
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October 18, 2016 9:50pm
Sir Leslie Bottocks

Peter Griffin does public radio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe4gjb0OPao
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October 18, 2016 10:28pm
Sir Leslie Bottocks

Stewie performing set at Woodstock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A030wZ8kjyQ
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October 18, 2016 10:31pm
SPC

The judge has done his best to direct the jury to find the Tostee not guilty.

In fact he has gone so far as to mislead the jury to do so.

“The jury – six men and six women – also asked if Tostee putting Wright on his balcony constituted removing her from his property.

Justice Byrne’s reply was brief.

“Yes,” he answered.”

How is the balcony not part of the property? It is only for the use of the person in it and only safely accessible to them – it is there to add value to the property.

Denying that he had confined her as a hostage within his property is clear misdirection of the jury. Denying that she was in his property when confined to the balcony area goes on to infer she was under no threat after being forcibly confined there.

The undertone is that this is just what white men do – forcibly confine children and women and coloureds when they rebel against their superior. Or go to a mans property and then be disobedient him at your own risk.
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October 18, 2016 10:33pm
- SPC
  
  Known facts.
  
  Tostee could be heard choking Ms Wright and forcing her out onto the balcony and cutting off her only safe means of escape.
  
  “Just let me go home, just let me go home,” Ms Wright said in the recording.
  
  “I would but you’ve been a bad girl,” Tostee replied.
  
  And the defence poses that as him “protecting himself” (when he could have forced out the front door instead).
  
  But the police have not charged him with taking her hostage by force as a means to intimidate and punish her. If the police do not charge him on this offence after the trial he will get away with it.
  
  One has to suspect that some in the jury think he should be convicted for what he did, culpable of duress/distress (from fight to flight at her/your own risk) leading to death/holding out for manslaughter.
  
  Maybe so that he can be re-tried on forcibly taking some/holding someone hostage in a confined area. It is in the grey area of flight (resisting enforced confinement) being at some risk that there is a connection to a manslaughter charge.
  
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  October 18, 2016 11:11pm
Sir Leslie Bottocks

Folk duo Griffin and Quagmire in concert

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7sPPJ2AuFA
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October 18, 2016 10:34pm
Manolo

stephieboy’s two deep loves unite:
http://www.press.org/events/american-muslim-women-pac-press-conference

Washington, D.C., October 11, 2016 – The American Muslim Women Political Action Committee (AMW PAC), the first ever political action committee focused specifically on American Muslim women, today announced its endorsement for Hillary Clinton for President.
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Manolo

Another Islamic gem:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3848196/Hot-dogs-banned-Malaysia-unless-restaurants-agree-change-sound-dirty-halal.html

Restaurants and food stalls in Malaysia must rename their ‘hotdogs’ or risk having them banned, the government there said today.

Malaysia is a predominantly Muslim country and the government’s religious authority has threatened to withdraw the snack’s halal certificate.

Sirajuddin Suhaimee, director of the halal division of the Department of Islamic Development, said there had been a number of complaints from tourists from other Muslim countries who had apparently taken the name too literally.

‘In Islam, dogs are considered unclean and the name cannot be related to halal certification.’
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