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William of Ockham

Donald Trump sings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZnlz-b2NnY
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October 25, 2016 8:01am
Manolo

How is the crook?
http://www.theamericanmirror.com/email-podesta-asked-bad-head/
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October 25, 2016 8:10am
waikatogirl

Prince Andrew has written to the queen requesting that his daughters Princess Beatice and Prince UJeanie (spelling?) must be given more official royal duties, so they can be treated more like their cousins William and Harry and receive payment for their royal duties.

The queen passed the letter to her royal secretary who passed the letter onto Prince Charles for a decision. Charlie, fearing too many royals sucking on the royal teat during his reign has declined his brother’s request for his nieces to be paid by the state.

Princess Beatrice is onto her 4th job in 5 years.
Oh dear!
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October 25, 2016 8:10am
- Salacious Crumb
  
  Oh dear indeed. I’ve heard that Entitleitis can be quite debilitating.
  
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  October 25, 2016 8:14am
- Viking2
  
  Perhaps they could run a farm for Charles after Brexit.
  
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  October 25, 2016 8:16am
- KevinH
  
  The best and most traditional advice the Queen could offer Prince Andrew would be that his daughters find themselves husband’s who could provide for them. The Royal custom of the past was that the princesses would have been matched with other nobility from an early age, however in the modern era they are free to marry whomever they choose.
  
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  October 25, 2016 12:48pm
Simon

FTA with China has given the Auckland property bubble.

What would John Key’s FTA with Saudi Arabia give NZ?
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October 25, 2016 8:15am
- Viking2
  
  A bloody great lot of Muslims. (which we don’t want).
  
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  October 25, 2016 8:16am
Evadne

I see the Herald is running a new line on the “woe-is-us-the-world-is-coming-to-an-end” Auckland house price meme.

Apparently, the end really is nigh now, because “top” science teachers are “forced” to leave Auckland for the regions, due to aforementioned prices.

Um. Isn’t this what everyone’s wanted for years – the revitalisation of the regions. Top science teachers teaching in smaller towns. Brilliant! What a way to really drive growth nationwide, particularly in small towns.

But no, it seems the Herald thinks only Auckland deserves “top” science teachers. The regions can go hang, obviously.

(And I’m speaking as an Aucklander.)
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October 25, 2016 8:16am
- dime
  
  lol great call!!!
  
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  October 25, 2016 8:50am
- Lucia Maria
  
  And you and all your uptickers completely missing the point of the article, linked here for everyone’s perusing pleasure so they don’t have to go searching for it: ‘Ridiculous’ Auckland house prices forcing out young in-demand teachers.
  
  It’s not just science teachers, it’s all the STEM subjects that are being affected. A big part of the problem is that teaching is a low-paid profession, making it inevitable that new teachers especially will not be able to afford to live in more expensive parts of the country if they are not being supported by either their parents or by a much more highly paid partner.
  
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  October 25, 2016 9:41am
  - SPC
    
    It is not that teachers are low paid, they are above the national median wage.
    
    It is just that it is not enough to save for house ownership in Auckland. They may need to consider buying a property elsewhere they rent out. Or rent and save into share investment for equity in a future purchase (where they can buy dependent on market returns).
    
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    October 25, 2016 11:01am
    - Lucia Maria
      
      The national median wage does not take into account the need for a 4-yr degree, and is therefore pretty close to meaningless when comparing levels of pay for teachers. Take out of the median wage every person who does not need a 4 yr degree for their job, and then look at how teachers are placed. My bet is that they are near the bottom of the pay scale for professionals with their level of education.
      
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      October 25, 2016 1:06pm
    - Dave Stringer
      
      A teacher with a good track record and 10 years’ experience is paid $75,000. With the average Auckland house priced at 1 MILLION dollars, a minimum 20% deposit is 2.7 times salary, the 80% mortgage is 10.7 times salary.
      When I bought my first house, the bank was prepared to advance me three times my salary or 2.5 times the joint salaries of my wife and I. Accepting for the sake of this discussion that I and my wife are both top salary level teachers, and that the banks will these days advance 6x my or 5x our joint salaries, we would not be able to buy an ‘average’ Auckland home, at 31 years of age MINIMUM.
      If I were starting out on a teaching career today, I’d be looking for a job in the remote provinces, such as Rotorua or Gisbourne, where $250,000 will get me a reasonable size home, with some land around it for future kids to play on. No brainer.
      
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      October 25, 2016 6:58pm
- Lance
  
  Should be self correcting.
  Either they pay them more or the standard of Auckland schools turns to shit and nobody wants to live here anymore, in which case the house prices come down.
  
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  October 25, 2016 10:52am
- Disaster Area
  
  I personally know at least 6 teachers who have all left one Auckland school for this reason.
  I left Auckland four years ago and even if I had my salary doubled, I couldn’t afford it.
  
  What will happen is that young teachers will come to Auckland for a few years and rent and then move away to have families. Middle and senior management will carry on until retirement and then there will be no-one who can afford to move to replace them.
  
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  October 25, 2016 6:01pm
Happychappy

Maybe this quote about Micheal Chieka could also apply to Andrew Little.
One fan said he is a straight up guy and the other replied how can he be as he dribble’s out of both side’s of his mouth,never truer words said in jest
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October 25, 2016 8:25am
Paulus

Did I not read that the latest claim to Trump’s women, who says that she was offered $10,000 to have a go with him was/is a porn film star.
Presumably she felt that she was worth more than that amount.
It now transpires that she has come forward just as she is/has launched a pornographic site and shops in the US and that this is good publicity for her new ventures.
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October 25, 2016 8:25am
- doggone7
  
  Wow! President Donald, special guest star at the opening of a sex shop and site! Perfect.
  
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  October 25, 2016 1:38pm
kowtow

I think the poster is hilarious, political satire at its best. But oh no it’s “highly offensive”. What is highly offensive is the gummint not doing its job.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3867256/Highly-offensive-joke-poster-mocking-child-refugees-posted-Westminster-kitchen-shared-Labour-Tory-SNP-MPs.html#comments
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October 25, 2016 8:34am
- Rich Prick
  
  I suppose pointing out the stupidity of your average Labour MP, who really thinks a 32 year old could pass for 14 to 17, might be offensive (but only to your average stupid Labour MP).
  
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  October 25, 2016 8:49am
  - Jazz-Hands Mc Feels
    
    Left or Right, they are all (((Globalists))) and the Third Worlder “child” refugees will continue to flood in regardless.
    
    Only Blood and Soil nationalist movements will do anything to stop it.
    
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    October 25, 2016 8:54am
    - stephieboy
      
      Blood and Soil ( Blud und Boden ) was essentially a Nazi concept that linked to all that was good about the German people to the soil and Rural life . It was an over romanticised view of the past and the purity and innocence of toiling the soil and was a reaction to rapid urbanisation and industrialisation . The latter of which was blamed of course on the Jews and Commies ,
      
      http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/nazi-germany/blood-and-soil/
      
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      October 25, 2016 1:32pm
Happychappy

The Herald has just confirmed that police have inferred the bug found in the All Blacks Hotel was put there to target the All Black’s
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October 25, 2016 8:36am
- sooty
  
  They would know, been experts!
  
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  October 25, 2016 8:40am
- kowtow
  
  Confirming an inference ? And Fuzz should not be in the business of inferences , their business is evidence.
  No wonder people have so little faith in the media and state institutions.
  
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  October 25, 2016 8:55am
EAD

If you only click on one link today from General Debate, this should be it – a cry for help from Germany, what the MSM is not telling you:

https://mikeyy.org/2016/10/23/let-the-world-know-germany-is-going-down/comment-page-1/#comment-2746
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October 25, 2016 8:48am
- dime
  
  poor bastards.
  
  id like to think it would serve as a lesson to other western countries, but the reality is, this is what the elites want.
  
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  October 25, 2016 8:51am
  - EAD
    
    Indeed Dime – very rarely do we hear these cries for help from the little people. When they can’t turn to the authorities because the authorities actively work against them (putting it politely), and the press constantly demonises them for their genuinely held fears, what is there to do?
    
    The ordinary people slave away at their jobs to pay the taxes to fund the people that are supposed to represent them and look out for their best interest, yet they all work in concert to destroy their way of lives.
    
    I’m pretty glad that we have a fence around our property and dogs. But it will certainly become too dangerous for our blond and pretty daughters to have a relaxed dog-walk after sunset or even a ride through the near valleys. We will have to carry pepper-spray with us or anything else which can be used in case of self-defence. Most probably they will have to cover their shining hair, in order not to draw attention to it. So far we have one negroe living here and he has at least two times started to pester my daughters. I’m very emphatic with all of those who still have small children.
    
    It will be too dangerous to let them play outside for even a few minutes. Our shepherd will most probably loose sheep, as well as the breeders of small animals like rabbits or ducks will loose animals as well.
    
    Reading some of these accounts is just staggering:
    
    In the town of LÜBBECKE a secondary school received the command – after the 5th lesson – to vacate the complete building for refugees within just 15 minutes of time, and the next day the students were forced to attend a different location, a special school for handicapped kids, which would have to make room for them.
    
    Soldiers have to move out from their barracks into tents, and asylants will move into the barracks.
    
    There are even plans to force “better off” people to move out if they have rented cheap apartments, so that the cheap housing can be taken for refugees, so, some supercheckers are going to decide – according to your wages – what price you have to afford for an apartment.
    
    If you will ever find another one – there is hardly a choice left.
    
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    October 25, 2016 8:56am
    - Jazz-Hands Mc Feels
      
      UN Legal definition of genocide:
      
      Genocide is defined in Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948) as “any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national , ethnical , racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part 1 ; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; [and] forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.”
      
      http://www.un.org/en/preventgenocide/adviser/pdf/osapg_analysis_framework.pdfhttp://www.un.org/en/preventgenocide/adviser/pdf/osapg_analysis_framework.pdf
      
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      October 25, 2016 9:15am
  - Jazz-Hands Mc Feels
    
    Yes, they want white Western culture and history dead and buried replaced with one global multicultural favela of minimum wage ethnic workers controlled by a technocratic managerial elite.
    
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    October 25, 2016 8:58am
- itstricky
  
  “The elites” and mass quoting from Wikileaks.
  
  Day by day it sounds more and more like you guys should really just join The Internet Party.
  
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  October 25, 2016 9:01am
  - EAD
    
    @ Itstricky,
    
    when people spit in the face of those they are supposed to serve and constantly make decisions against our direct wishes.
    
    When “democracy” as practised in the West distills down to a choice between 2 supposed “opposing” parties who then implement the same globalist agenda even if not part of their “manifesto”.
    
    Where any real attempt at change this state of affairs is attacked by the all various forms of the Corporate mass media in unison.
    
    & when the exact same policies and same patterns are being enacted and observed in all so called Western “democracies” around the globe….I am being polite when I refer to such people as “Elites”.
    
    Believe me, I can think of a number of several far more choice words to describe those who think it is their diving right to rule over us.
    
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    October 25, 2016 9:09am
    - mikenmild
      
      Well, don’t be so shy – spell it out.
      
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      October 25, 2016 9:10am
    - SPC
      
      No the word is not polite, but circumspect, as most of those also concerned about this issue are not of a white race identity group CT about a certain people.
      
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      October 25, 2016 9:42am
- stephieboy
  
  EAD, from your link the entirely and boringly predictable ,
  
  “Our people are slowly realising what is happening but they are blaming the poison (Islam) and not blaming the ones injecting it. (The Zionist “elites.”.
  We must always have hope and remember the 14 words.
  We owe it to our descendants.”
  
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  October 25, 2016 9:03am
  - Jazz-Hands Mc Feels
    
    Too many Men in Tech? Sexism.
    Too many Whites in Congress? Racism.
    Too many Jews in Finance? Jews are just smart, you fucking Nazi!
    
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    October 25, 2016 9:12am
Jazz-Hands Mc Feels

Woman who was convinced her son perceived himself as a girl caused seven-year-old ‘significant emotional harm’

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/oct/21/boy-living-life-as-girl-removed-from-mothers-care-high-court-judge

A degenerate culture has produced this, take a bow feminists.
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October 25, 2016 9:02am
- kowtow
  
  “Take a bow feminists”
  And the members of the “progressive” political elites who have nursemaided this cultural marxism .Many of them masquerading as “conservatives”.
  
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  October 25, 2016 9:16am
- sam green
  
  Not a feminist then Jazz Hands – funny – I thought you were for some reason. Is it men or women you hate?
  
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  October 25, 2016 11:31am
Jazz-Hands Mc Feels

Black liberals complain about white privilege but ain’t that the same privilege they ignore when Hillary commits crimes? – Twitter
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October 25, 2016 9:05am
- stephieboy
  
  Jazz-Hands Mc Feels
  
  What Crimes ?
  
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  October 25, 2016 9:07am
  - AgentBallSack
    
    Treason to our society.
    
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    October 25, 2016 9:14am
    - stephieboy
      
      ABS,
      
      James Madison on Article Three of the Constitution that defines an act of Treason against the Unites States,
      
      “The Constitution confines the crime of treason to two species; First, the levying of war against the United States; and Secondly, adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. In so doing the very words of the Statute of Treason of EDWARD the THIRD were adopted; and thus the framers of the Constitution recognized the well settled interpretation of these phrases in the administration of criminal law which has prevailed for centuries in England.”
      
      http://www.nytimes.com/1861/01/25/news/treason-against-the-united-states.html?pagewanted=all
      
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      October 25, 2016 9:23am
      - AgentBallSack
        
        Whew, just as well Clinton’s not taking money to look the other way from people who fund terrorists because that could almost be seen as “giving them aid and comfort.”
        
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        October 25, 2016 9:56am
  - Jazz-Hands Mc Feels
    
    Killary’s Wall Street banker mates think the same as you, stephieboy.
    
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    October 25, 2016 9:19am
  - Ed Snack
    
    Stephie, we’ve been through this and you can’t see them ?
    
    Perjury (Not the one you bring up, the FOI case; sworn testimony before a federal judge, though she’s guilty on the others too; “I don’t recall” is no defense, ask Scooter Libby”)
    
    Perverting the Course of Justice: Deleting emails weeks AFTER a legal subpoena issued;
    
    Security Violations – numerous ones where intent is NOT required; also allowing non-cleared staff to have access to view classified material; and yes, the FBI did find classified material – any amount is enough.
    
    And of course she hasn’t and won’t be prosecuted. What I can’t understand is why you’re not ashamed to support the destruction of the rule of law and how the law is the same for everyone. Quite why people want there to be one rule for us (and them) and a different less onerous code for the ruling elite I just don’t understand.
    
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    October 25, 2016 9:57am
    - stephieboy
      
      Ed Snack like your birther claims the charges of Perjury , perverting the course of justice claimed by partisan Republicans in Congress and you are bogus ,
      
      The Outrageously False Charges of Perjury Against Hillary Clinton
      
      Endless efforts by congressional Republicans to foil or foul up Hillary Clinton’s run for the presidency have hit a new low. The members of Congress involved cannot be sued for defamation, since they are protected by the “Speech and Debate Clause” of the Constitution, but the fact that they are not merely smearing the former secretary of state but are trying to send her to jail on phony charges of perjury and lying to Congress is beyond the pale of dirty politics. It is an abuse of power and their effort to criminalize politics could one-day blowback on them and result in their going to jail on bogus charges. They are employing a tactic that could undermine democracy, so it is appropriate to get the facts out.
      
      Unfortunately, to explain these seamy tactics takes a bit more space than the normal column, but the facts need to be placed on the record. Without understanding the underlying testimony involved it is not possible to appreciate the falsity and absurdity of the charges against Mrs. Clinton. It is easy to call someone a liar or a perjurer. Not so easy to unpack the charges. A smear like this—and Hillary has had a career of them—takes space to address and debunk, which is why it probably has not been done. I really undertook this drill for myself because I wanted to see what was going on. I believe Hillary Clinton is far too savvy and smart to lie to Congress. And as the following information shows, I am correct and she has not done so…”
      
      https://verdict.justia.com/2016/08/19/outrageously-false-charges-perjury-hillary-clinton
      
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      October 25, 2016 10:10am
      - Inandout
        
        That article you linked was written by John Dean, a close adviser to Richard Nixon. ‘He was referred to as the “master manipulator of the cover-up” by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). He pleaded guilty to a single felony count, in exchange for becoming a key witness for the prosecution. This ultimately resulted in a reduced prison sentence, which he served at Fort Holabird outside Baltimore, Maryland’.
        
        Of course he would defend Hillary Clinton’s crimes; birds of a feather.
        
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        October 25, 2016 10:30am
      - Jazz-Hands Mc Feels
        
        Wall Street, what crimes? asks stephieboy.
        
        Waiting for stephieboy to post links to Wall Street front operations squealing “outrage! perjury!”.
        
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        October 25, 2016 10:30am
      - Ed Snack
        
        What crap Stephieboy, that’s the WRONG CASE. The Perjury is in relation to an FOI case, and the sworn statement was made before a federal judge; Hillary Clinton swore on oath that she had released all relevant emails. The FBI investigation, flawed as it was, revealed that they recovered a number (not all) of the deleted emails and these contained eMails that were indeed relevant. For example, over 1,000 emails between HRC and General Petreaus who was head of Centcom and the Head of the CIA at the time.
        
        That Justia website is a phony, part of the Clinton campaign.
        
        And in the latest Podesta eMail dump, looks like the FBI deputy director (Paul McCabe) in nominal charge of the Clinton eMail investigation – his wife received over $600K funding for her political campaign from long time Clinton loyalist (and scam merchant) Terry McAuliffe.
        
        Plus the latest crime that Clinton won’t get pulled up on, illegal co-ordination between Americans United for Change and the DNC and the Clinton campaign. I can imagine the telephone call: “Hello, DOJ, we have evidence of something illegal in the Clinton cam…..hello, hello, what…. they hung up on us….”
        
        And just think, the people saying this on video are such minor functionaries that they visited the White House over 140 times and Obama himself 43 times. That’s soooo low end functionary. With the Clinton campaign using lawyerly language to NOT deny the truth that these videos reveal (“we have no knowledge that these people did anything like this while employed by the DNC…” a possibly {but unlikely} truthful statement that doesn’t deny that they did what they claim but only that the speaker has no knowledge of whether they did or not).
        
        Corruption, surely the stench is getting so bad that even the ordinary public can start to detect it…
        
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        October 25, 2016 11:50am
    - AgentBallSack
      
      Quite why people want there to be one rule for us (and them) and a different less onerous code for the ruling elite I just don’t understand
      
      All together now Kiwibloggers –
      
      It’s different when the left do it!
      It’s different when the left do it!
      It’s different when the left do it!
      
      Repeat ad infinitum
      
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      October 25, 2016 10:13am
      - stephieboy
        
        Ed Snack ,
        
        “The Hillary Clinton Email Scandal Was Totally Overblown”
        
        We learned nothing new from the investigation or James Comey’s statement.
        
        By Fred Ka
        
        “..There are a few federal statutes dealing with the mishandling of classified information. Some are defined as misdemeanors, some as felonies. But all of them require the finding of an “intent” to mishandle information—and most of them involve an intent to share the information with people (usually, but not always, foreign agents) who are not cleared to see it. As Comey said of the Clinton case, “We do not see these things here…
        
        …The FBI director was certainly right in saying that Clinton and her colleagues were “extremely careless” in their handling of classified information. As rare and uninteresting as their discussions of such material were, they shouldn’t have done any of it on a private email server. There is evidence that the Russians triedto hack into her private account; there is no evidence that they succeeded nor would there necessarily be any evidence if they had.
        
        But Clinton’s actions didn’t break the law or damage national security. It has been widely reported that several senior officials have sometimes used their private computers and servers to conduct official business. Did their emails contain classified information, unwittingly or no? It’s hard to say: Nobody has investigated them….”
        
        http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/2016/07/hillary_s_email_scandal_was_overhyped.html
        
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        October 25, 2016 1:47pm
  - Kiwi Dave
    
    Feel free to explain why so many Clinton associates and employees took the fifth or immunity deals.
    
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    October 25, 2016 1:40pm
dime

I would love to see internal polling for National.

I know the top line looks good – 45%+ etc

But id love to see polling on enthusiasm for National.

Top line results are one thing.. but like the stock market, its all about the future. If Dime was analysing National like it was a stock, id be worried.

*what strengths do national have?
*are their loyal base happy?
*whats going on in management (think fuck ups like bennett and smug joyce.. bridges..).
*whats the competition? is their a disruptor out there? (yes, a charismatic 70 year old who likes a drink).

DPF doesnt miss much so im sure he is noticing a change.

I dont discuss politics a lot in “real life”, I save most of it for here. (you’re welcome). But holy shit are some people turning against national. All high income people. I think everyone bar me is going to winnie

“i know hes new zealands donald trump but national do fuck all for us”.

Dime is still ACT!.. but hes on thin ice (as ive said many times. call me a xenophobe again and im gone).

I think back to previous elections:

2002 – ACT!

2005 – National. God please win, Clarke sucks

2008 – for the love of god clarke has to go. not to mention that smug finance minister with a history degree.

2011 – happily voting national.. would have preferred they did more but we need a second term

2014 – voting national out of a hatred for Dot Com and Hone. didnt exact bounce down to the polling booth though.

2017 – kiss my ass National. maybe your friends on the bene will vote for you.

Its not “voter fatigue” its “my party thinks they have me forever and are pissing in my face trying to win votes from people who hate them”.
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October 25, 2016 9:27am
- tom hunter
  
  See Dime – Tom Barker knows it’s all about power. Easier to hold than to get. He’ll cheerfully assist and sympathise with all right-wingers getting annoyed with National.
  
  I’d love it if there was a real alternative to National, but ACT are barely alive and … Winston Whiskey and Cigars. Easily bribed and worth nothing in terms of achievement. Still, Key wants that Holyoake record, to match it and perhaps even beat it, and he is a trader. He’ll deal with Winston.
  
  The alternative is the world of Tom Barker.
  
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  October 25, 2016 9:36am
- MT_Tinman
  
  I’ve only voted National twice (1981 and 2011).
  
  I won’t do it a third time. It’s ACT for me but I admit to holding my nose when I voted that way last election.
  
  As an unrelated aside what’s with these (((multiple brackets))) I’m starting to see on here? Is there some significance in them???
  
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  October 25, 2016 9:46am
  - AgentBallSack
    
    Its the (((Jews))) and (((Zionists))).
    
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    October 25, 2016 9:53am
  - mikenmild
    
    The ‘alt-right’ racists have adopted the triple bracket to refer to Jews. They think it’s quite arch and daring, really.
    
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    October 25, 2016 9:56am
  - tom hunter
    
    The good news is that in the online world it used to mean (((hugs))).
    
    And it can again.
    
    (((EAD)))
    
    See?
    
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    October 25, 2016 9:58am
    - Don the Kiwi
      
      Just like (((Trees))) 🙂
      
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      October 25, 2016 10:11am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    Use of (((Jew/Zionist))) Is a desperate cry for help and a declaration to the world that you are a tinfoil hat wearing fuckwit.
    
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    October 25, 2016 6:18pm
- itstricky
  
  2014 – voting national out of a hatred for Dot Com and Hone
  
  Given your hatred of “the elites” shouldn’t you have voted for Kim.com or Hone? They seem like perfect anti-establishment icons.
  
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  October 25, 2016 10:27am
- Awww C-mon
  
  I have never voted for Act Dime, Its been Winston First, National or United in the Past.
  
  It will be Act this time around.
  
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  October 25, 2016 12:01pm
Tom Barker

You’re a xenophobe.
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October 25, 2016 9:29am
- dime
  
  youve lost my vote!
  
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  October 25, 2016 11:12am
Ross12

I presume this can be proved by going onto Google Trends.( I’m not on Twiiter)

“Is Hillary Republican?” Google reported to be the top trending question of the day, according to their official Google Trends Twitter account.
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October 25, 2016 9:32am
- mikenmild
  
  Hillary Clinton is a Republican in the same way the John Key is a Labour Party prime minister. Make sense?
  
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  October 25, 2016 9:58am
  - tom hunter
    
    It does!
    
    It’s certainly a belief that’s wide spread enough in the US Left that SNL can joke about.
    
    And I recall you’ve made much the same comments about Key.
    
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    October 25, 2016 10:01am
    - mikenmild
      
      tomayto/tomahto
      
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      October 25, 2016 10:15am
      - tom hunter
        
        Well yes – except that one is a healthy, firm, reddish, tomayto that looks like it belongs on the dinner table of any houseproud gardener.
        
        Whereas the other is a sagging, bright-red, squishy and spotted tomahto, long past its best, that looks like it should be dumped in the compost bin, all the while being handled at arms length by people with “eeawauuuhhh” looks on their faces.
        
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        October 25, 2016 10:23am
kowtow

Key and Co should take commercial flights , it would save us taxpayers a shit load of money and the country some “face” on the international stage.

But our rulers feel they all have to imitate the great and mighty who do have planes that work.

Tony Blair wanted one too. Blair Force One it was joked.
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October 25, 2016 9:37am
- Rich Prick
  
  The stoped making the things 12 years ago and I think United has first dibs on the spare parts bin.
  
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  October 25, 2016 9:54am
- sooty
  
  The churnilist can ride in cattle class.
  
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  October 25, 2016 10:29am
Scott

IBD poll has the race for president dead even. This was the most accurate poll in 2012. The ABC poll in contrast has Hillary up by 12. This cannot be right. Hillary has no enthusiasm from her voters. Obama who generated great enthusiasm couldn’t win by 12 in his 2 elections combined.

Yes people will go Trump is so bad blah blah blah. But Trump has huge enthusiasm amongst his base.

The race is not over. Trump to win in November I am still predicting.
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October 25, 2016 9:54am
- waripori
  
  There is no need to second guess the polls. Real Clear Politics have their average which smooths the trend and compensates for the outliers. It show Clinton up 5% which is down a bit. nate silver at 538 has built a model which adjusst for all sorts of things ( their rating of historical accuracy, economic factors, polls in similar states etc etc ) . Their estimate of where the race is now has Clinton up 5.9% and their polling day estimate has her ahead 5.2%.
  Given that 1)the Democrats seem united ( both Obamas, Warren, Biden and Sanders all campaigning for Clinton whereas Trump seems to be on his own)
  2) Clinton has three times as many GOTV troops on the ground
  3) Clinton has more money.
  4) A big chunk of the electorate will have voted by November 8
  it is hard to see how Trump has time to pull the lead back.
  
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  October 25, 2016 11:01am
  - SPC
    
    http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/
    
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    October 25, 2016 11:17am
  - Ross12
    
    The only problem with Silver is he has been wrong with his comments about Trump from right back when Trump put his name in the ring. I assume his comments are based on the figures he had the time of the comment.
    
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    October 25, 2016 11:35am
    - waripori
      
      Silver is interesting about Trump in the primaries. He says the polls consistently showed Trump would win but he did not believe them. In fact Trump under performed his polls if anything. Silver has not made that mistake in the General and 538 is just reporting what the polls are saying ( adjusted as noted above )
      
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      October 25, 2016 11:46am
  - SPC
    
    The polls are listed to be compared here.
    
    http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/
    
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    October 25, 2016 11:46am
    - Scott
      
      One point I would make is the ABC poll shows Clinton ahead by 12 points. That poll is such an outlier that it skews the average.
      Based on what we have learned from wiki leaks it appears to be a Clinton tactic to skew the polls. Could there be polls coming from msm organisations that are totally one sided in favour of Clinton? I don’t think that is outside the realms of possibility given the extremely close relationship between the msm and the Clinton campaign.
      
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      October 25, 2016 12:17pm
Jack5

Elizabeth Warren – “Pocahontas” – is putting the boot into Trump.

Regardless of whether Trump deserves it, Warren is a flake, which the Guardian, highlighting her attack, of course ignores.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/24/elizabeth-warren-hillary-clinton-nasty-women-donald-trump

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/05/is-elizabeth-warren-native-american-or-what/257415/
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October 25, 2016 10:19am
Jazz-Hands Mc Feels

Hawaiian Airlines wins right to weigh Polynesian passengers, embarking for American Samoa, to avoid crash landings.

Islanders claim “discrimination”, LOL.

“US airline wins right to weigh passengers to prevent crash landings:

Some passengers said the policy was discriminatory as it only affects people flying on one route, from Honolulu to Pago Pago, with most passengers being of Samoan descent. Samoans have among the highest rates of obesity in the world.”

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/hawaiian-airlines-american-samoa-honolulu-obese-discrimination-weigh-passengers-new-policy-crash-a7375426.html
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October 25, 2016 10:45am
- Paulus
  
  Once flew Honolulu to Pago Pago one Friday night some years ago – Pan Am domestic flight old 747 and young crew. As domestic no bags were weighed – it saw 4 big men Island to handle one package. We took off over an hour late at the passengers would not take an notice of embarking instructions – all one crush to get on.
  Many large Islanders were going to a big funeral in Pago. Take off was very very long. Wind shear was experienced on landing (heavy shaking).
  When seat lights were set was the time for many larger persons got up to queue to go to the toilet.
  The young crew could not control them in any way – they just blocked the aisles.
  Had been in LA regarding a Pan Am crash in Pago some time before so was terrified.
  
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  October 25, 2016 1:41pm
Fletch

@Scott 9:54 AM –

Don’t believe that polls saying Hillary is in the lead by 12% – she isn’t. The poll companies are oversampling democrats to give the result they want.

A new Podesta email confirms what many of us have suspected for quite some time: the Clinton apparatus has worked with progressive groups to ensure rigged polling metrics that favor Clinton.

If you look closely at the ABC poll, you’ll notice the survey is actually skewed with a 9-point sampling of Democrats as opposed to Republicans. The poll was also conducted in Spanish as well as English, thus skewing its bias in favor of Democrats.

Now this is where the new Podesta email, featured below, comes into play. Staffers with The Atlas Project, a progressive group specializing in demographic research for political campaigns, were asked to “recommend oversamples for our polling before we start in February.”

some of Atlas’ key recommendations to the Clinton campaign:

Research, microtargeting & polling projects

– Over-sample Hispanics

– Use Spanish language interviewing. (Monolingual Spanish-speaking voters are among the lowest turnout Democratic targets)

– Over-sample the Native American population

For Florida, the report recommends “consistently monitoring” samples to makes sure they’re “not too old” and “has enough African American and Hispanic voters.” Meanwhile, “independent” voters in Tampa and Orlando are apparently more dem friendly so the report suggests filling up independent quotas in those cities first.

– Consistently monitor the sample to ensure it is not too old, and that it has enough African American and Hispanic voters to reflect the state.

– On Independents: Tampa and Orlando are better persuasion targets than north or south Florida (check your polls before concluding this). If there are budget questions or oversamples, make sure that Tampa and Orlando are included first.

http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/podesta-emails-confirm-dems-rigging-polling-samples-ensure-hillarys-lead

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-23/new-podesta-email-exposes-dem-playbook-rigging-polls-through-oversamples

It’s crooked. The progressives are doing everything they can for Hillary, even to the point of skewing polls to give themselves a psychological advantage.
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October 25, 2016 10:57am
- Rich Prick
  
  Bugger the pollsters.
  ~Jim Bolger.
  
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  October 25, 2016 11:19am
- Jazz-Hands Mc Feels
  
  Also, polls are getting such low, low response rates to canvassing that it is getting prohibitively expensive to get a half decent representative sample.
  
  It has been a trend in recent years, with all kinds of “surprise” referendum/election outcomes that were wrongly called by the pollsters eg BREXIT.
  
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  October 25, 2016 11:21am
- tom hunter
  
  Don’t believe that polls saying Hillary is in the lead by 12%
  
  I don’t, and I think the criticisms of that particular poll, especially the ties between the people behind it and Hillary, as well as the seriously skewed sampling that make it look less like a poll and more like a piece of Hillary agit-prop, are accurate.
  
  But that’s why people don’t look at one poll, and in this case not at one – or even several – national polls.
  
  State polls – and many of them, melded together. And that analysis shows that Trump is going to lose, probably not by much in the total, nationwide vote-count – but huge in the Electoral College.
  
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  October 25, 2016 11:26am
  - Fletch
    
    If Trump loses, America is pretty much finished. Hillary is going to use America to get filthy rich(er).
    
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    October 25, 2016 11:30am
    - Rich Prick
      
      She will spend the next four years growing the Democrat plantation, particularly in the sanctuary cities, with illegals and imports to the point that I doubt we will see a Republican President in what’s left of my time.
      
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      October 25, 2016 11:36am
    - Paulus
      
      Hillary will get herself rich and will start WWIII very soon in the Middle East – Russia (Putin) looking forward to her election.
      God help America, as nobody else will.
      
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      October 25, 2016 1:44pm
      - Manolo
        
        I suspect the crook Clinton will not live long enough to enjoy her riches.
        
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        October 25, 2016 1:56pm
    - stephieboy
      
      Fletch , but someone upstanding and clean like Trump would never get “filthy rich(er).” ?
      
      Hillary Clinton start WW3 ????
      
      The stuff of Alex Jones , WND , Global Research etc and Trumpist fantasies !
      
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      October 25, 2016 1:51pm
      - AgentBallSack
        
        Tell us about your Hillary fantasies stephie !
        
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        October 25, 2016 2:32pm
- Scott
  
  Thanks fletch. I made the point above before I saw you saying the same thing but yours is more detailed
  
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  October 25, 2016 12:19pm
Fletch

Want to know one of the reasons Hillary wasn’t prosecuted by the FBI? Follow the money. The Wall Street Journal reports –

The political organization of Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, an influential Democrat with longstanding ties to Bill and Hillary Clinton, gave nearly $500,000 to the election campaign of the wife of an official at the Federal Bureau of Investigation who later helped oversee the investigation into Mrs. Clinton’s email use.

Campaign finance records show Mr. McAuliffe’s political-action committee donated $467,500 to the 2015 state Senate campaign of Dr. Jill McCabe, who is married to Andrew McCabe, now the deputy director of the FBI.

The Virginia Democratic Party, over which Mr. McAuliffe exerts considerable control, donated an additional $207,788 worth of support to Dr. McCabe’s campaign in the form of mailers, according to the records. That adds up to slightly more than $675,000 to her candidacy from entities either directly under Mr. McAuliffe’s control or strongly influenced by him. The figure represents more than a third of all the campaign funds Dr. McCabe raised in the effort.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/clinton-ally-aids-campaign-of-fbi-officials-wife-1477266114

No wonder people are happy to hear of Trump promising to “drain the swamp”. Totally corrupt…
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October 25, 2016 11:01am
- Jazz-Hands Mc Feels
  
  I think the system is beyond salvaging, total reset needed. The objective behind getting Trump in is that he takes a flame thrower to Washington DC and its Globalist apparatchiks.
  
  He’s not much good for anything else TBH.
  
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  October 25, 2016 11:26am
- Tauhei Notts
  
  Day after day surprising new revelations emerge telling us just how fetid that Washington Swamp is.
  There is only one man who can drain it, and I don’t think he will win. By Christ, I hope he does.
  
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  October 25, 2016 11:31am
- stephieboy
  
  Fletch and other Trumpists.
  
  The so-called McCabegate is a Pseudo-Scandal !
  
  “Today in the category of…oh, forget it. I don’t have the heart for snark. It’s just so goddamn tiresome. The Wall Street Journal headline on the right describes the latest pseudoscandal in Hillaryland, and it’s obviously intended to make you think there’s yet more fishiness in the Clinton family. In a nutshell, here’s the story:
  
  In early 2015, Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe recruited Dr. Jill McCabe to run for a state Senate seat.
  
  Various organizations under McAuliffe’s control donated lots of money to her campaign.
  
  She lost.
  
  Several months later, McCabe’s husband was promoted to deputy director of the FBI. Because of that promotion, he “helped oversee the investigation into Mrs. Clinton’s email use.” This was presumably in addition to the hundreds of other things that a deputy director has oversight responsibility for.
  
  There’s literally nothing here. Not “nothing substantial.” Not “nothing that other politicians don’t do.” Literally nothing. There’s not a single bit of this that’s illegal, unethical, or even the tiniest bit wrong. It’s totally above board and perfectly kosher. And even if there were anything wrong, McAuliffe would have needed a time machine to know it….”
  
  http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/10/mccabegate-latest-scandal-will-totally-destroy-hillary-clinton
  
  Now move on to more lies and allegations !
  
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  October 25, 2016 2:20pm
Jazz-Hands Mc Feels

Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams tweets:

“Scott Adams ‏@ScottAdamsSays 4 hours ago

Remind me how you do a scientific poll when 10% of Trump voters are literally hiding. (Big surprise coming, bullies.) #Trump”

https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays
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October 25, 2016 11:16am
- dime
  
  I like this guy. He has done a couple of interviews on Free Domain Radio.
  
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  October 25, 2016 11:26am
- itstricky
  
  Is “Jazz Hands McFeels” a euphemism for Donald Trump?
  
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  October 25, 2016 11:29am
  - tom hunter
    
    It’s a euphemism for Kea turned to Icarus and got caught out.
    
    No self-control. Sad.
    
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    October 25, 2016 11:32am
- Inandout
  
  That little video down in the comments has that clip of Trump standing behind Hillary and lifting her by her tits. Hilarious and very cleverly edited.
  
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  October 25, 2016 11:32am
Hugh Pavletich

… Essential reading … a superb article …

The RBNZ is keen to bolster its macro-prudential arsenal with a debt-to-income ratio limiting tool. What might this mean for borrowers, banks, the housing market & politicians? | interest.co.nz

https://www.interest.co.nz/news/84167/rbnz-keen-bolster-its-macro-prudential-arsenal-debt-income-ratio-limiting-tool-what-might

By Gareth Vaughan

The Reserve Bank has formally asked the Government to add a tool allowing it to place limits on debt-to-income ratios (DTIs) for residential mortgage borrowers to its macro-prudential toolkit.

A spokesman for Finance Minister Bill English confirmed to interest.co.nz that a formal request has been made. The Government, however, is yet to greenlight the move.

“The Minister has asked the Reserve Bank for further information and the Government will make a decision in due course,” English’s spokesman said.

How things play out from here will be very interesting. Because the introduction of a DTI limiting tool has the potential to have a major impact on borrowers, banks and the housing market.

In 2014 the Bank of England introduced rules through which mortgage lenders must constrain their proportion of new lending at loan-to-income (LTI) ratios at or above 4.5 (four-and-a-half times a borrower’s income) to no more than 15% of the total number of new mortgage loans.

In 2015 the Central Bank of Ireland also introduced LTI ratio limits. Loans on primary dwelling homes in Ireland are now subject to a limit of 3.5 times loan to gross income. For banks this limit should not be exceeded by more than 20% of the euro value of all housing loans for primary dwelling home purposes during an annual period. … read more via hyperlink above …

… and …

Don’t count on making big bucks from your home , Opinion News & Top Stories – The Straits Times

http://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/dont-count-on-making-big-bucks-from-your-home

As social values change, emphasis is now placed on property as housing rather than as speculative assets

Should cooling measures be eased, now that property prices are sliding further?

That question has cropped up again.

October data showed that private home prices fell 1.5 per cent in the third quarter from the second – the steepest such fall in seven years. That was also the 12th consecutive quarter of decline. In all, private home prices were 10.8 per cent lower, compared to the third quarter of 2013.

But Singapore’s property prices remain high when compared to many major cities. The 2016 survey of housing affordability by Demographia puts affordability here at a median multiple price-to-income ratio of five, which is considered “seriously unaffordable”. This means median housing prices are five times the median household annual income – which means it takes five years of wages to pay for a property. A multiple of three and under is considered affordable. … read more via hyperlink above …
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October 25, 2016 11:51am
- Jack5
  
  Here’s what’s happening in the very similar, China-fed property bubble in Vancouver. In the last few weeks, reports said it had been popped, but this report only hours old, is more tentative.
  
  http://themarketmogul.com/is-the-vancouver-real-estate-bubble-ready-to-pop/
  
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  October 25, 2016 1:30pm
iMP

The WALKING DEAD: Prediction for Season 7

My prediction is this: Negan has an army and controls all supply and demand; King Ezekiel has a mounted army of cavalry; Rick will gather his own army – the hundred thousand strong Zombie horde (they’ve shepherded them before); cover his people in gore (as they’ve done before) and walk with the zombie dead (ie be The Walking Dead) and lead the horde into Negan and Ezekiel – Zombies as the sword of the Lord to sort out evil live humans (Negan can’t blame Darren then and dismember his ears and toes etc)

I think that is Rick’s thinking in the last scene when we extreme close-upped on his blue eyes- note how he observed the lone zombie shambling towards the blood spots; and following the van that Negan drove: I think Rick is thinking – let’s use our own zombie army!
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October 25, 2016 12:08pm
- Gabby
  
  So who’s Trumpie in this scenario?
  
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  October 25, 2016 12:58pm
  - Awww C-mon
    
    -Juvenile name calling
    -General lack of I.Q.
    -Inability to debate with reason
    
    I think that its you Gabby
    
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    October 25, 2016 1:38pm
    - Salacious Crumb
      
      As Captain M says; 1,385 reasons to take your medication…
      
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      October 25, 2016 3:24pm
kowtow

Anyone else think the shot up gang car and lost eye ball are a self promoting , staged set up to keep his advertising going?
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October 25, 2016 12:17pm
- AgentBallSack
  
  I would suggest there’s a price on Mr Pinks head and someone’s going to claim it.
  
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  October 25, 2016 12:44pm
  - Awww C-mon
    
    He is pretty old-school gangster aside from the self-promotion. I would suspect there is a price and good luck to the fella who tries to collect, it won’t be an easy dollar.
    
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    October 25, 2016 1:00pm
Keeping Stock

The NZ Clickbait is running a story about the All Blacks being about to head to the United States’ ‘murder capital’

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11735239

Could we perhaps get a message to all the gang-bangers in Chicago that All Black Lives Matter 😉
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October 25, 2016 12:31pm
- tom hunter
  
  Ah – they/you got me with clickbait. And what do I find…
  
  The Cubs have not won a World Series championship since 1905…
  
  That’s 1908. It’s called Wikipedia. Even journalists can use it.
  
  And naturally there is ZERO analysis of where in the city all these murders occur, let alone comparisons to the distant past – early 1990’s I mean.
  
  And on and on. I can tell you more about Chicago, the Cubs and the murder rate, than the fucking retard who works for the NZ Herald – and me just blog commentator. And what’s the bet that none of them read the Kiwiblog comments section because “sniff”, there’s nothing informed or intelligent there.
  
  Newspaper circulations still falling
  
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  October 25, 2016 12:47pm
Manolo

Despite Obama’s lies the US is about to choose Clinton as next POTUS? Figure that out!
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_HEALTH_OVERHAUL_PREMIUMS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-10-24-17-03-27

Premiums will go up sharply next year under President Barack Obama’s health care law, and many consumers will be down to just one insurer, the administration confirmed Monday. That’s sure to stoke another “Obamacare” controversy days before a presidential election.

Before taxpayer-provided subsidies, premiums for a mid-level benchmark plan will increase an average of 25% across the 39 states served by the federally run online market, according to a report from the Department of Health and Human Services. Some states will see much bigger jumps, others less.
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October 25, 2016 12:47pm
Manolo

He could not be seen due to the thick pot smoke, but it is suspected our own Griff attended the rally:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/mark-ruffalo-calls-obama-immoral-climate-rally-063348701.html

Hollywood star Mark Ruffalo accused US President Barack Obama of hypocrisy for allowing fracking and other fossil fuel extraction while presenting himself as a green president.
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October 25, 2016 12:50pm
- tom hunter
  
  Allowing fracking?
  
  Another Hollywood airhead reveals the same old same old:
  – ignorance
  – closet Facism
  
  Obambi’s administration got caught by surprise with the fracking revolution because they’re technological ignoramuses who had no idea this was a thing in the oil and gas industry. By the time they did realise it was too late. Multiple individual states – who control the land regulations, and most of the oil and gas regulations – had allowed it to happen (thanks Founding Fathers).
  
  Obama and company still tried to fuck it over via control over Federal lands, but much of the fracking happened on private lands or lands owned by each of the 50 states.
  
  And then there was the fact that it had already begun to cause huge reductions in the cost of oil and especially gas, pushing economic movements in areas like power companies as they made giant decisions based on those new and long-term prices. No turning back there either. For all his Secretary of the Energy’s talk in 2008/2009 about making petrol as expensive in the US as it is in Europe, Obama was never going to fight falling prices at the pump.
  
  And of course there’s the fact that cheap natural gas has been the main driver behind the USA reducing CO2 emissions by converting coal-fired plants to gas. Ruffalo and the rest of the environmental movement should know this and be applauding the good vs. the perfect.
  
  So what Ruffalo wanted was a degree of centralised, Washington-based state control that should frighten any decent person (aside from Leftists obviously) – a Fascist – and an ignoramus about the effect on oil prices and gas prices, and what that meant across the board.
  
  Another Hollywood fucktard.
  
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  October 25, 2016 3:50pm
Scott

With so many Hillary corruption examples emerging its hard to keep up. But this one on Special report this morning was mentioned only in passing but cracked me up. Apparently Hillary Clinton is celebrating her birthday tonight. She is having a birthday party and has many guests. So far so good right?
Well the thing is that the guests to the party have paid $10,000 each to come along!
Like she can’t even have her own birthday party without gouging people for money. That shows the character of a person right there. She’s all about the money folks.
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October 25, 2016 1:06pm
- itstricky
  
  I wonder if she’s using her “birthday present” to sell access to the White House for foreigners…
  
  http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11735329
  
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  October 25, 2016 1:39pm
- doggone7
  
  “She’s all about the money folks.”
  
  Surely the credentials to be President.
  
  Money makes the world go round, money is everything, life is all about the money.
  
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  October 25, 2016 1:42pm
  - AgentBallSack
    
    Nah,
    I would rather have a kiss from my daughter than a dollar in my pocket.
    
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    October 25, 2016 5:34pm
    - itstricky
      
      That’s another nice Trump tie-in euphemism, that one.
      
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      October 25, 2016 7:20pm
Manolo

Business as usual in the failed state of Pakistan, cradle of Muslim terrorists and assassins:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37757914

At least 20 people have been killed after armed militants attacked a police training college in Pakistan’s western city of Quetta, officials say.
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October 25, 2016 1:43pm
Manolo

“Scientists” with sticky fingers:
http://dailycaller.com/2016/10/24/top-university-stole-millions-from-taxpayers-by-faking-global-warming-research/

A global warming research center at the London School of Economics got millions of dollars from UK taxpayers by taking credit for research it didn’t perform, an investigation by The Daily Mail revealed.

Many papers CCCEP claimed to have published to get government money weren’t about global warming, were written before the organization was even founded, or were written by researchers unaffiliated with CCCEP. The government never checked CCCEP’s supposed publication lists, saying they were “taken on trust,” according to the report.
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October 25, 2016 1:47pm
Scott

Also on the ABC poll showing Hillary 12 points ahead. According to O’Reilly on the Factor the poll sample included only 27% registered Republicans!
Unfortunately polls like that wildly skew the real clear politics average and make it seems that Hillary is way ahead.
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October 25, 2016 2:06pm
- AgentBallSack
  
  All the polls are D+ 10% or more. It’s the only way the lying media can con the American public not to vote for Trump
  
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  October 25, 2016 2:38pm
  - SPC
    
    There are 33% more people registered as Democrats than Republican.
    
    27% R and 36% D.
    
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    October 25, 2016 6:16pm
    - SPC
      
      Useful information here.
      
      http://www.pewresearch.org/2008/03/20/fewer-voters-identify-as-republicans/
      
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      October 25, 2016 6:22pm
- SPC
  
  Scott – 27% of Americans are registered as Republicans, 36% registered as Democrats.
  
  The poll should include such a sample.
  
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  October 25, 2016 6:15pm
Fletch

The latest video by Project Veritas and James O’Keefe.

Part III of the undercover Project Veritas Action investigation dives further into the back room dealings of Democratic politics. It exposes prohibited communications between Hillary Clinton’s campaign, the DNC and the non-profit organization Americans United for Change

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEQvsK5w-jY
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October 25, 2016 2:20pm
- stephieboy
  
  Fletch , just a reminder who has chipped in to help fund Project Veritas ,
  
  https://thinkprogress.org/trump-funded-james-okeefe-53015c2f44b6#.3pe10d9k4
  
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  October 25, 2016 2:30pm
  - Jazz-Hands Mc Feels
    
    I’m looking forward to more Dem political scalps as a result of these Veritas videos 🙂
    
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    October 25, 2016 3:27pm
Manolo

The meeting of two smoke sellers, one more successful than the other:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/LT_VENEZUELA_VATICAN?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-10-24-16-40-30

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro met Monday with Pope Francis as the Vatican took a more active role trying to defuse a tense political standoff in the South American nation.
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October 25, 2016 2:42pm
kowtow

Sydney diversity dividend and enrichment.

“Hamad Assaad, 29, was shot multiple times as he left home, including once to his head.”

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/man-shot-multiple-times-in-georges-hall-20161024-gs9ruj.html
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October 25, 2016 4:30pm
Manolo

I believe the Messiah would be very welcome in Mt Roskill:
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/obama-trump-country-230264

Earnest also was asked whether Obama would leave the country if Trump, a man he has said is unfit to succeed him, is elected president.

“He’s working very hard to make sure that nobody has to leave the country as a result of an electoral outcome that the president doesn’t support,” Earnest said.
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October 25, 2016 4:38pm
kowtow

I reckon LaMont was provoked , too bad that defence is no longer available. Ballsy bloke. If he’s found guilty I hope the judge has the good sense not to imprison him , as prison would be too dangerous for him. The crown can’t keep prisoner safe from gangs.A community sentence would be suitable.

https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/alleged-killer-tweeted-about-murderous-rampage
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October 25, 2016 4:40pm
- mikenmild
  
  You think that a community sentence would be appropriate punishment for murder or manslaughter?
  
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  October 25, 2016 5:58pm
  - nasska
    
    He hasn’t a hope…..mind you with a little forward planning & a sex change op then burying the bodies in the garden he’d have been a shoo in.
    
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    October 25, 2016 6:05pm
    - mikenmild
      
      Perhaps kowtow would even prefer a discharge without conviction. Quite popular these days, it seems.
      
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      October 25, 2016 7:00pm
Reid

Donald Trump vs. Hillary Clinton Rally Crowds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4K56KaJ7Ds&app=desktop
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October 25, 2016 5:30pm
SPC

Super Pacs. An open invitation to those with money to exert influence in US government elections.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11735329

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/02/super-pacs-2016/470697/
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October 25, 2016 5:48pm
tom hunter

Super Pacs?

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present you with the New York Times…

… Incorporated

Please – no questions about tax, or foreign ownership.
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October 25, 2016 6:25pm
- SPC
  
  Nice that the Mexican Carlos Slim operates a pay wall.
  
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  October 25, 2016 6:33pm
  - Jazz-Hands Mc Feels
    
    Beaners built and operate a real wall on the southern border of Mexico, USA helps pay for it.
    
    But Trump is evil because he wants to build a wall on USA southern border and make THEM pay for it, LOL.
    
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    October 25, 2016 8:19pm
EAD

Very interesting – An African-American apologises for misattributed perceptions of white racism against blacks perpetrated by Jews:

http://wethoughttheywerewhite.weebly.com/

My name is Dontell Jackson, and like many African-Americans, I was brought up in a culture deeply infused with propaganda designed to lay the blame for all of the black race’s ills on the white man.

It was not until I began looking into the actual history of blacks, whites, and other races in America, that I came to realize many if not most of the resentment that African-Americans harbor regarding our long history of abuse and exploitation has been intentionally misdirected by those most responsible for it, to shift the blame away from themselves as a people onto the white race who they regard as their enemies.

The reality is the white race had little to do with the slave trade that sold our ancestors into bondage in the New World. That crime was committed not by White Europeans, but by Jews who were engaged in transatlantic commerce between the Old World and the Americas where they hoped to establish a New Jerusalem from which to rule the world by way of exploiting all races who were not members of their tribe of “chosen people.” In their efforts to accomplish this, the white race has been hoodwinked and manipulated almost as much as the black race has been.

Blacks have been purposely misled by the Jewish people who, in previous centuries, built their fortunes in the transatlantic slave trade, and continue to manipulate and exploit us even today. Because most black people make no distinction between Jews and whites, it is easy for the Jews to evade justice and escape the blame for the wrongs that they have inflicted on our people for centuries.

In most cases the vast majority of the white race had nothing to do with slavery or other crimes that have been committed against our people. Whites were and continue to be exploited and manipulated by the Jews, the same as blacks, and their race is even more hated by the Jew, where blacks are simply disregarded by the Jews, as are other races. We are all simply pawns to the Jews.
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October 25, 2016 6:39pm
- mikenmild
  
  What should we do about the Jews, EAD?
  
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  October 25, 2016 6:58pm
  - stigie
    
    Speaking of EAD, did he predict that a correction in the markets is coming or was that some time last year ? Nasska, hope you still have a decent stock of bake beans or did you dispose of them along with the Sardines ole chap..?
    
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    October 25, 2016 7:28pm
    - nasska
      
      I took a bath on the pallets of baked beans stigie. As luck would have it I managed to offload the sardines at a discount & the bunker on the snowline in the Tararuas is tenanted to some homesick Canadians.
      
      But it would be fair to say that currently I’m very wary of EAD’s predictions. 🙂
      
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      October 25, 2016 7:42pm
  - Jazz-Hands Mc Feels
    
    Overseas Israelis should return to their ancestral homeland instead of trying to socially engineer white Western countries out of existence.
    
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    October 25, 2016 8:10pm
  - Jazz-Hands Mc Feels
    
    White Westerners ended slavery many generations ago.
    
    In Black Islamic Africa slavery is STILL practiced today.
    
    Blacks and Arabs captured enemy blacks and sold them to white America.
    
    Why aren’t African and Arab tribes who traded black slaves made to apologise and pay reparations?
    
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    October 25, 2016 8:16pm
- Jazz-Hands Mc Feels
  
  Arabs enslaved more whites during Islamic occupation of southern Europe than whites in America enslaved blacks.
  
  When will muslim Arabs be made to repent and pay back reparations for their history of white slavery and muslim Arab privilege?
  
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  October 25, 2016 8:13pm
  - nasska
    
    I don’t think those particular atrocities show up on the socialist radar.
    
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    October 25, 2016 8:22pm
    - Jazz-Hands Mc Feels
      
      Like the 10s of millions who perished in Leftist China and USSR.
      
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      October 25, 2016 8:31pm
RF

I see the thug Hore is returning to rugby. Is he running out of things to shoot ?

A low life who’s claim to fame amongst firearm offences is sucker punching.

Steve Tew will be so excited.
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October 25, 2016 6:55pm
Jazz-Hands Mc Feels

Modern day leftism is ethno-masochism, materialism, and hedonism a.k.a. nihilism.
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October 25, 2016 8:30pm
- pentwig
  
  Frankly I thought you had far more acumen than our resident daffy the stupid duck.
  
  Clearly I was wrong.
  
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  October 25, 2016 9:05pm
EAD

Speaking truth to power:

Tony Martin, an African-American who was professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley College for many years, speaks out on how he came under fire from the Jewish establishment when he touched upon the role of Jews in slavery.

http://www.ihr.org/other/TonyMartin2002.html

I found it very interesting that though I had taught African-American history for many years, I was only dimly aware of the role of Jews in that slave trade and discovered their identity had been cleverly camouflaged as Portuguese, Spanish, Brazilian, whatever.

In fact Jews were involved not only in the African slave trade, but also, and for a very long period of time, in a variety of other slave trades. They dominated slavery from the 8th century to the 12th century, everywhere from Russia to western Europe, to India, to China. They were also a major element in the 19th century white slave trade: a major international trading in female prostitutes.

I discovered also that Jews were instrumental in the ideology underpinning the African slave trade – the notorious Hamitic myth from the Talmud.

The book The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews relies primarily on Jewish sources, hidden away to a large extent in very esoteric Jewish journals, which the average Jew has no idea about. It wasn’t new information, yet was new to many people, including myself.

I decided to add a few readings from this book in my class. And that’s when all hell broke loose. I had stumbled into a controversy because the book had provoked consternation in Jewish circles, causing them to attack me.

The first and major tactic was their reliance on lies – I think they’ve elevated telling lies to a very high artistic form. Four major Jewish organizations issued a joint press release attacking me: the ADL, the American Jewish Committee, the American Jewish Congress, and the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston – they broke one of their holy days for me, a lowly teacher.

Attempts were made to damage my professional credibility. One Jewish gentleman, about 50, made anonymous, random calls to campus, dorms, people’s offices to tell them I did not have a PhD and wasn’t qualified to teach. My classes were disrupted, a flyer was tacked up around my office one day alleging sexual misconduct. Attempts were made to get me fired.

I discovered these folks are very well positioned in the court system and high places. One of my colleagues at Wellesley College alleged I assaulted a white student. Even though she admitted she lied, I still the lost libel case. Three Jewish historians actually went to the American Historical Association and got it to decree by executive fiat that Jews were not involved in the slave trade.

Their own Encyclopaedia Judaica says Jews were half the slave owners in Brazil, yet they would never admit to this. And that has been my basic problem. Why? What’s so special about this group that places itself beyond the pale of criticism.

I have tried to respond by trying to stand on principle and talking the truth. If they hadn’t come at me, I think the only people who would have known of the Jewish involvement in the slave trade would have been my 30 students and myself. But now, of course, the whole world knows about it.
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October 25, 2016 9:23pm
nasska

HEADLINES FROM 2036

Ozone created by electric cars now killing millions
in the seventh largest country in the world “Little Pakistan” formerly known as Australia .

Tasmania executes last remaining Greenie.

Children from two-parent heterosexual families bullied in schools for being ‘different’. Tolerance urged.

New Zealand now has four Universities of Political Correctness. Professor Goldman of Waikato University says there is still a long way to go in the fight to stop people saying what they think.

Australian Deficit 10 $Trillion dollars and rising.
Government declares return to surplus in 100 years which is 300 years ahead of time. Prime Minister Mohammed Yousuf claims increased growth through more immigration is the secret to success.

Baby conceived naturally ! Scientists stumped.

Iran still quarantined. Physicists estimate it will take at least a hundred more years before radioactivity decreases to safe levels.

Supreme Court rules punishment of criminals violates their civil rights. Victims to be held partly responsible for crime.

Average weight of a Yank drops to 125 kgs

Global cooling blamed for citrus crop failure for third consecutive year in Fiji, India and New South Iraq.

France pleads for global help after being taken over by Islamic Countries. No other country volunteers to come forward to help the beleaguered nation ! Serves them right.
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October 25, 2016 9:27pm
Jack5

More video released of brutal treatment of bobby calves.

Where do dairy farmers and truck operators find these cowardly, mentally twisted scumbags?

I doubt I’m the only one who thinks people who are so cruel to animals deserve physical punishment.

If the dairy industry doesn’t get rid of this minority of cowardly thugs, surely this could NZ’s export reputation.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11735571
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October 25, 2016 9:45pm
GoVege

Just hope they are a minority.
Unfortunately, the very nature of slaughtering animals, is going to desensitize and probably brutalize a fair few of the people doing it.
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October 26, 2016 1:05am
Manolo

Listening to the future president?
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/10/wow-tim-kaine-holds-rally-30-people-show/
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October 26, 2016 6:38am
Manolo

Two crooks in cahoots:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/10/25/need-to-clean-this-up-clinton-aide-cried-foul-on-obamas-email-denial.html
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