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VicParking

Whaleoil has got to wrong again. In their face of the day they say the speaker ejected Ron Mark before question time had started. It was actually after question time had finished. They are allways harping on about “Fact Checking”. They should take their own medicine.
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December 1, 2016 8:07am
- holysheet
  
  Who the hell is whale oil?
  
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  December 1, 2016 8:24am
  - Morrissey
    
    He’s the fat piece of crap being leveled here….
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUdYgBhF9-w
    
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    December 1, 2016 9:46am
    - Garbageman
      
      At least he gave it a go and for a worthy cause would a 4th rate stenographer such as yourself pried your gutless ass away from your keyboard to do the same not in this lifetime I would guarantee
      
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      December 1, 2016 10:45am
      - Morrissey
        
        “Gave it a go”?!?? He was out of his depth and was (figuratively) annihilated. It’s the boxing equivalent of what Nicky Hager did to him.
        
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        December 1, 2016 12:17pm
    - holysheet
      
      Morrissey, take you tongue out of your partners grove and stick it in your cheek.
      
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      December 1, 2016 12:30pm
      - Morrissey
        
        http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HBbC9KOfe90/UN9XlAijCyI/AAAAAAAAAMI/04ryICEy9f4/s1600/Not+Funny2.png
        
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        December 1, 2016 12:36pm
  - VicParking
    
    Whaleoil have still not got the story right. It seems the speaker has winked at a reporter and thats the nub of their story. Slow news week.
    A NZ First clown raised a point of order at the end of question time. The speaker ruled, correctly, that it was out of order but he would meet with the member after question time to discuss it. ( it was all about the new parliment building plans)
    Ron (dipstick) Mark raised a simular point of order.
    The speaker said he had already ruled on the matter. Ron in his wisdom made a “comment” (lets be kind) about the speaker. As the speaker was on his feet he had no choice but to chuck him out.
    
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    December 1, 2016 10:10am
- Scott
  
  I would hope Ron Mark could restrain himself and remain in Parliament. He is supposed to be representing my province of the Wairarapa after all.
  
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  December 1, 2016 9:08am
dave_c_

Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
Now tell me that contaminating my water supply with Fluoride, in order to prevent dental problems in others is still a good idea !

“Now, a report from the world’s oldest and most prestigious medical journal, The Lancet, has officially classified fluoride as a neurotoxin, in the same category as arsenic, lead and mercury. The news was broken by author Stefan Smyle and disseminated by the Facebook page Occupy Food, which linked to the report published in The Lancet Neurology

“The summary goes on to state that six additional developmental neurotoxicants have also now been identified: manganese, fluoride, chlorpyrifos, dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, tetrachloroethylene, and the polybrominated diphenyl ethers.

“In the Lancet report, the authors propose a global prevention strategy, saying that “untested chemicals should not be presumed to be safe to brain development, and chemicals in existing use and all new chemicals must therefore be tested for developmental neurotoxicity.”

“The report coincides with 2013 findings by a Harvard University meta-analysis funded by the National Institutes of Health that concluded that children in areas with highly fluoridated water have “significantly lower” IQ scores that those who live in areas with low amounts of fluoride in their water supplies.

“Sodium fluoride in drinking water has also been linked to various cancers. It is functionally different than the naturally-occurring calcium fluoride, and commonly added to drinking water supplies…”
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December 1, 2016 8:10am
- mikenmild
  
  What a moron…
  
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  December 1, 2016 8:14am
- Lance
  
  You mean like selenium.. a poison?
  But without trace quantities of selenium your health fails. Above 400 micrograms a day it is a NEUROTOXIN !!!
  
  It all depends on dosage… shock horror selenium can be beneficial OR toxic.
  
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  December 1, 2016 8:40am
  - dave_c_
    
    @Lance – I dont disagree with your proposition – However, in my opinion thebody can function very well without any Fluoride –
    So what is wrong with the proposition that people who want something to prevent tooth decay either purchase Fluoride toothpaste, or add fluoride to their drinking water.
    Why is it that people (perhaps you inlcuded) advocate the ‘state’ make these choices for us?
    The state is already making more and more choices for us, and in my opinion, overstepping the mark.
    
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    December 1, 2016 8:49am
    - Nigel Kearney
      
      The state is not forcing you to do anything. Unfluoridated water can be easily obtained. Most people prefer fluoridated water and it is not practical to have two separate water supplies.
      
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      December 1, 2016 9:02am
      - dave_c_
        
        Excuse me ! Cart before horse logic you are using here.
        There was never flurodide in the water provided by local authorities from the outset. Some government/state decided to change that. Rather than opt in, we have to opt out and bear the cost.
        This smacks of the current coprorate model (eg. airlines), where ‘opt in’ is the default position. It should be that ‘opt in’ is the choice of the consumer. Water is no different.
        
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        December 1, 2016 9:13am
    - stephieboy
      
      Dave c, like other anti fluoride activists you miss the whole point of the Lancet article.The neuro toxicity of Fluoride under investigation were those at dramatically higher levels than municipal water supplies .The study was considering 10 x the concentration found naturally occurring in local wells whereas municipal water like Auckland’s and the US has tiny amounts , . 8 parts per million ,
      
      The paper itself considers a range of potentially harmful effects of industrial chemicals on child development .
      
      https://www.reddit.com/r/skeptic/comments/2705ij/the_lancet_has_officially_classified_fluoride_as/
      
      More in depth analysis here ,
      
      “The Bad Science of Fluoride ,”
      
      https://openparachute.wordpress.com/2014/02/20/repeating-bad-sicence-on-fluoride/
      
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      December 1, 2016 9:24am
  - waikatogirl
    
    dave_c_, Get yourself a rainwater tank if you object so much. Simple, easy solution.
    
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    December 1, 2016 9:08am
    - ross411
      
      Then we’d have to listen to him moan about some other percieved injustice that he latches onto.
      
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      December 1, 2016 12:42pm
- Awww C-mon
  
  Dave, the best way to avoid fluoride is to simply fuck off and take your anti-science ravings with you.
  When you can argue the point with Dr Gluckman win, come back and start your crusade again.
  
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  December 1, 2016 9:33am
  - dave_c_
    
    @Awww C-mon
    
    Surely you can make your point without the need to be so rude/crass about it.
    
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    December 1, 2016 10:54am
    - Awww C-mon
      
      Nah, not really tbh
      
      though look, managed it this time
      
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      December 1, 2016 11:00am
      - sam green
        
        You’re a bad mofo awww.
        
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        December 1, 2016 4:11pm
    - mikenmild
      
      And just in the news today, nutcase Hamilton councillor raves about ‘smarty pants’ scientists:
      http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/87030493/hamilton-city-councillor-siggi-henry-accuses-health-officials-of-fluoride-spin-brainwashing
      
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      December 1, 2016 11:05am
      - sam green
        
        Those smarty pants scientists – what with their climate change denial and all.
        
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        December 1, 2016 4:12pm
Manolo

Phil Goff is planning to send our own Griff to this meeting:
https://www.afp.com/en/news/2265/world-mayors-gather-plot-trump-era-climate-plan

Mayors from scores of the world’s biggest cities will gather in Mexico to plot their strategy for fighting climate change in the face of skepticism from US President-elect Donald Trump.
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December 1, 2016 8:11am
- cmm
  
  One wonders if this is what the Auckland people really voted for.
  
  Remind me please how flying thousands of people from around the world to Mexico reduces the amount of CO2 in the air?
  
  What’s wrong with Skype and similar technologies? That’s how I attend electronics conferences. It works fine.
  
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  December 1, 2016 8:18am
  - sooty
    
    Ah, but they don’t get to enjoy the free jollys if they stay home.
    
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    December 1, 2016 8:49am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Jeez, they’ve just had 20,000 policy wonks and politicians at a Climate conference lasting for 2 weeks at Marrakech.
    http://unfccc.int/meetings/items/6240.php
    Get your troughing in now, before the climate changes.
    
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    December 1, 2016 10:09am
    - Nostradamus
      
      Maggy:
      
      I wonder why they chose Marrakech?
      
      Surely someone like Syria or Somalia would have been a more appropriate venue for a climate change conference?
      
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      December 1, 2016 2:51pm
- kowtow
  
  Ironic , Mexico has huge problems , in fact is a failed state. Corruption , extrajudicial killings on a vast scale, civil war, drug cartels……..
  ……..and the problem to discuss ? The weather.And whose at fault, evil Trump. FFS.
  
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  December 1, 2016 8:45am
  - Griff
    
    The effects of Prohibition kowtow .
    
    Mexico has huge problems , in fact is a failed state. Corruption , extrajudicial killings on a vast scale, civil war, drug cartels……..
    
    Are you capable of extending your comment out to examine the implications ?
    The war on drugs is the reason for the failure of Mexico’s democracy.
    
    I will not hold my breath….
    
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    December 1, 2016 8:56am
    - kowtow
      
      Mexicans are the reason for the failure of Mexico’s democracy.
      
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      December 1, 2016 10:43am
      - Griff
        
        As I thought Kowtow does not have the intellectual capacity to examine the implication of his own statement .
        Instead resorts to simple racial abuse to hide his own inability to think though such issues to the logical conclusion or examine his world view in an honest manner.
        You are fooling your self Kowtow.
        
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        December 1, 2016 11:08am
      - kowtow
        
        griff, where’s the racism?
        
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        December 1, 2016 11:17am
Paulus

Am I the only person who is tired of seeing and hearing Bernie Monk in the media ?
He is not the spokesman for a number of the Miners families.
I am very sad that this tragic accident occurred six years ago.
That the Manager for Health and SAFETY sadly lost one son, why were not more questions asked whether he failed in his duty of care. Surely if he was aware of the danger of the mine, as he has maintained since, why did he allow two sons to regularly mine there.
Additionally I and my family gave a contribution to the Miner’s families along with many others including the Taxpayers.
The totals appear to have well exceeded $30 million which equates to a minimum of $1 million to each family.
Dare I ask where all this money has gone – am I allowed to ask ?
I assume Bernie has spent much of it -perhaps on his pub in Greymouth.
He loves the media and them him.
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December 1, 2016 8:11am
- cmm
  
  The media only love him because he can be used as a sharp stick to poke the government.
  
  Notice how the media don’t poke the Labour and Greens for forcing all the engineering compromises that actually caused the disaster.
  
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  December 1, 2016 8:25am
  - PhilBest
    
    If only we had effective “right wing” politics in NZ that actually used opportunities like this to expose the evil.
    
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    December 1, 2016 8:51am
    - stephieboy
      
      PhilBest , you and other alt righters need to stop playing the victim game and get off your keyboards and e.g revive the Conservative Party into a viable ” right wing ” party that will appeal to voters.
      
      Fat Chance !
      
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      December 1, 2016 9:34am
      - Nostradamus
        
        Stephieboy:
        
        you and other alt righters
        get off your keyboards
        
        PhilBest is one of the better commentators here, and I missed his contributions when he stopped commenting for 2 or 3 years.
        
        You, on the other hand, seem to have far too much time to comment here. If you stopped commenting for 2 or 3 years, I doubt you’d be missed!
        
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        December 1, 2016 2:58pm
- holysheet
  
  Be very careful, I was called a lowlife not long ago for asking these same questions. The vitriol from one person was shocking. Be prepared for the same attack.
  By the way I totally agree with everything you say above.
  
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  December 1, 2016 8:28am
  - stephieboy
    
    holysheet , and you dish out the same kind of vitriol when opportunities arise .
    
    Hypocrite !
    
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    December 1, 2016 9:35am
    - holysheet
      
      Nah stupidboy, I reserve the best for you. After all you are the more deserving prick.
      
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      December 1, 2016 10:07am
- oldpark
  
  Seems you will hear a lot more from Bernie. Their Lawyer is lodging an appeal ,against Solid Energys decision. As far as Bernie is concerned,there is no threat,to anyone,entering the mine. That will be the basis of their appeal. Wonder will they use part of the milions handed out to them, or will the taxpayer pick up the cost?again.
  
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  December 1, 2016 8:31am
- mister nui
  
  I agree, I’m also sick of hearing from him and others on this.
  
  However, this mine can be safely re-entered.
  
  There was some supposed Health & Safety expert on ZB earlier this week, who stated that it will cost “hundreds of millions of dollars” to re-enter the mine. In typical sensationalist media fashion, they quickly assumed this to be fact and made this statement part of their subsequent news bulletins. This guy is typical of H&S wallahs, no practical experience, and apply a risk matrix to the situation without first devising a plan to re-enter.
  
  I could safely re-enter this mine for 20 million bucks, not in a cowboy fashion, but with a safely designed system and methodology.
  
  From the 20 million, I would still be left change for cocaine and hookers in the Bahamas…
  
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  December 1, 2016 8:48am
  - Nigel Kearney
    
    There are better uses for 20 million than looking for dead bodies. They’ve had a lot of sympathy as well as compensation. Time to move on.
    
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    December 1, 2016 9:06am
    - mister nui
      
      I don’t disagree. I’m just thinking of the change I will be left with that will enable the last sentence of my comment…
      
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      December 1, 2016 9:28am
      - Don the Kiwi
        
        There was an intense fire in the mine after the accident. The most they will likely find is a small pile of ashes, if at all.
        Let them rest in peace in the place where they worked and no doubt enjoyed comradeship.
        
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        December 1, 2016 12:37pm
    - KevinH
      
      I admire Bernie’s persistence and sheer doggedness in pursuing all options with regard to the recovery of the miners remains. The fact is though that there will be virtually nothing left to recover, the fires and explosions would have incinerated those remains to fragments.Recovery would be a painfully slow process sifting through debris and equally dangerous with fluctuating methane levels.
      Secondly if entry into the ante chamber does’nt produce results the recovery team will want to push on deeper into the mine which will be highly dangerous.
      
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      December 1, 2016 12:46pm
- lilman
  
  True they need to move on.
  
  I lost a family member when his boat sank in a storm of the Irish coast.
  
  They know where it went down but decided to leave it undisturbed as it was very deep and his body was never recovered,along with 5 other fishermen.
  
  Life is never without risk and you have to accept things are not always what you want.
  
  I think they are losing support of the public with this carry on.
  
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  December 1, 2016 9:16am
oldpark

What an indictment,for Liebour Party. Angry Andy Little,allegedly under instructions from his puppet union masters, other than using steel toed boots,frightened Nick Leggett with his bullying verbal attack, Nick was left no option, other than join the winning team the National Party. To make things even worse now for Angry Andy Little, word has leaked out through the Nation of NZ, that the bullying verbal bash given to Nick Leggett, it has caused Liebour to take a massive hit in the Polls to 23% ,according to the latest Roy Morgan Poll.
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December 1, 2016 8:15am
EAD

I don’t normally do a post like this but anyone who is interested in the extent of the grooming scandal in the UK I suggesr reading Peter McLoughlin the author of Easy Meat (documents the extent of the Paki grooming gangs in the UK) lengthy comment over at a website called Harry’s Place:

https://disqus.com/home/discussion/harrysplace/who_gave_us_post_truth_conspiracy_culture_and_the_alt_right/#comment-3027636596

If you’ve got a Disqus account, give it a read and give it an upvote. More people need to see it.

Personally I’m not familiar with “Harry’s Place”. It looks like the kind of website that encourages dissent, but not too much – certainly not enough to actually upset the applecart – a bit like Pete Georges “YourNZ”.

The article McLoughlin is commenting under is one of those ones that accept the truth of the grooming gangs and bemoans the fact that they have occurred, but places most of its emphasis on the importance of not letting the right-wing take advantage of these inconvenient facts – i.e. standard lefty cowardice.
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December 1, 2016 8:16am
- PhilBest
  
  James Delingpole (Breitbart UK) has been a good relatively high-profile chronicler of this scurrilous stuff.
  
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  December 1, 2016 8:54am
kowtow

This hysterical “news” item caught my attention. How can running over wild ducks be an offence, they’re not protected.
Why did the police want information , when no property was involved?
The SPCA are also being disingenious suggesting this was some sort of heinous crime.

“SPCA Otago director of animal welfare Dr Helen Beattie said in any case of ill treatment of an animal, the Animal Welfare Act contained penalties ranging from a fine to up to five years in prison.”

And finally the media are being their usual shit selves by reporting information around these incidents in such an opaque manner.

https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/queenstown/duck-killer-contacts-police
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December 1, 2016 8:17am
- cmm
  
  Animal cruelty is a crime no matter what the animal is.
  
  You could be done for deliberately running over a possum/rabbit even though many people do that.
  
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  December 1, 2016 8:45am
  - kowtow
    
    I fail to see the “cruelty” in running over some ducks in this case , despite the claim the driver accelerated . Where’s the proof ? I also fail to see the implied criminality in this case , be it under the Road Traffic or Animal Welfare acts.
    
    The story implied the driver had a duty to stop, when he doesn’t in this case.
    
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    December 1, 2016 11:02am
    - ross411
      
      >The story implied the driver had a duty to stop, when he doesn’t in this case.
      
      It’s almost like the journalists make stuff up to fit their own personal position..
      
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      December 1, 2016 12:54pm
- Lance
  
  Funniest thing I ever some was some nasty piece of shit go out of his way to try and run over some ducklings on the other side of the road and lost control (the swerve was so great) and crashed into a water filled ditch, pretty much writing off the car.
  What a dick
  
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  December 1, 2016 8:46am
  - starboard
    
    I came across an accident on a main rd just outside of Christchurch about 10 years ago. An elderly woman had stopped suddenly to allow ducks and family to cross..unfortunately it was an 80K zone, which didn’t give the truck and trailer unit following much time to do anything…but straight up and over. Killed her outright.
    
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    December 1, 2016 10:25am
    - mikenmild
      
      Truck following too close. Hopefully the driver was prosecuted…
      
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      December 1, 2016 10:54am
      - starboard
        
        Not at all..however if you rear end anyone you are generally classed as being in the wrong. There was no way the driver could have slowed or even swerved in time to miss her. 40 ton travelling at 80K..pretty difficult to pull up when some dick stops in the middle of the road.
        
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        December 1, 2016 3:36pm
    - kowtow
      
      I hope the ducks were alright.
      
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      December 1, 2016 11:18am
    - Stars And Stripes
      
      Came round a corner on that Ngaruawahia to Otorohanga road a few years back and there was a mother duck and about 5 chicks crossing but could not stop in time so mowed them all down.
      I blame McDonald’s for this because if they did not tempt me with those adds for the Double Angus burger so near lunchtime I might not have been going so fast.
      
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      December 1, 2016 12:01pm
flipper

I think Solid Energy should invest in a new man-powered shovel, a pick, and a wheelbarrow.

The company should donate them to Mr Monk and say: “Go for it, Bernie.”
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December 1, 2016 8:20am
mikenmild

Anyone notice this story on the TVNZ news last night:
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/former-national-mp-accused-exploiting-beneficiaries-using-child-sex-offenders-cheap-labour
Doesn’t seem to have been followed up by other media yet.
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December 1, 2016 8:20am
- kowtow
  
  Probably convening a focus group before proceeding, you see , like all those stories of “kiwi” employers exploiting migrant labour , it could be considered racist , if they pushed it too hard.
  
  Much more convenient for the media when the perpetrator is a straight up white , capitalist .
  
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  December 1, 2016 8:41am
- Chuck Bird
  
  I do not see why got any down ticks. Could it have been from John Key sycophants?
  
  Here is another case of a former National MP getting favouralbe treatment from authorities. There is very strong evidence that he was ripping off the IRD and putting children at risk.
  
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  December 1, 2016 8:42am
- Lance
  
  You can guarantee that whenever TV1 has an exclusive news item it is unadulterated shit.
  Not even Womans Weekly material
  Even my liberal and tolerant wife suggested that that item last night was not national news material. Barely local newspaper gossip
  
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  December 1, 2016 8:51am
  - mikenmild
    
    Ho ho. They filmed unsupervised sex offenders working on properties owned by Anae’s trust. They showed pay records from the trust which showed these people, on benefits, were getting cash payments of $10 an hour.
    Also, Corrections seems to have been aware of these arrangements.
    Questions to be answered.
    But hey, as it was on TVNZ you can just ignore it if you wish.
    
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    December 1, 2016 9:23am
- waikatogirl
  
  Saw that story last night. Seems there has been some very poor decision making ’employing’ dubious characters.
  
  Corrections have questions to answer, not to mention IRD will be calling for an explanation and payment of taxes from several people.
  
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  December 1, 2016 9:13am
  - Chuck Bird
    
    The tax should have been paid by Anae.
    
    I hope all those he employed get to an employment advocate.
    
    It is one thing some one paying an solo mum on a a benefit cash to do some housework and another to being paying cash on such a large scale.
    
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    December 1, 2016 10:13am
  - waikatogirl
    
    Chuck, the payment was $10/hr, cash in an envelope. No signed contract.
    
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    December 1, 2016 11:40am
    - Chuck Bird
      
      waikatogirl, did you look at the video? There was evidence beside the testimony of many of the workers. There have been other people done on cash deals on a large scale. I am thinking farmers and restaurant owners. The later often exploiting their own compatriots.
      
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      December 1, 2016 12:25pm
- starboard
  
  Thai Tilers anyone ?
  
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  December 1, 2016 10:28am
  - mikenmild
    
    It’s different when National do it…
    
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    December 1, 2016 10:55am
Happychappy

All the hype from journalist’s about people being locked out of the housing market and the deposit being double the price of previous years.This could be countered if people looked back to the 1950’s /197o’s era when family’s had only one income and struggled to raise a deposit. Most married couples that want to get ahead both work and are prepared to give up a few luxury’s to achieve their dream.
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December 1, 2016 8:21am
- PhilBest
  
  It is simply factual that the price of the house back then was typically around 3 times the sole earner’s annual income. Now it is more like 9 times a dual income. Also in the 1950’s the prices were not rising by more in a single year, than what an average young person earns. Just how can “making sacrifices” be expected to compensate for that?
  
  Actual data on spending patterns relative to income show that the current young are not spending more profligately. They get a lot more for their discretionary spending, thanks to market efficiencies, but that does not mean they are blowing their money faster. They are getting months of modern communications for the cost of one toll call in the 1950’s, and months of entertainment for the cost of one movie ticket in the 1950’s.
  
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  December 1, 2016 9:00am
  - PhilBest
    
    Oh, and the reality is that the price of the urban dirt underneath the house is the problem. The section, in the 1950’s, cost less than 1 year’s single income, with the actual house being another 2 years. Now the section is something like 6 times the dual income, with the actual house being another 3 times, if it is a new or near-new one.
    
    In the case of a 1950’s railway cottage today, the structure is worth virtually nothing but the urban dirt underneath it might be “worth” $1,500,000. This racket simply had never even entered anyone’s wildest dreams in the 1950’s.
    
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    December 1, 2016 9:08am
- EAD
  
  At Happychappy.
  
  But in the 1950s-early 70s period the world was on the Bretton Woods Gold standard whereby 25 US dollars = 1 once of gold. With the quantity of money therefore essentially fixed, banks could only lend against money they had on deposit and couldn’t create money ex nihilo and charge you interest on it.
  
  As a result, people had to save for a deposit but they could then pay off a house in 5 years as they were sensibly priced and not constantly inflating as the banks created more money.
  
  So not only do we have banks creating money ex nihilo against a domestic base in order to buy houses, so called “Free trade” agreements now mean our housing stock can be hoovered up by money created out of thin air from anywhere in the world
  
  Of course, don’t expect the Politicians to tell you about this fact. They would sooner have you believe that the real reason your grandchildren can’t afford to buy a house is because we haven’t concreted over enough of our country.
  
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  December 1, 2016 9:17am
- waikatogirl
  
  House prices rising everywhere, especially in popular inner-city areas.
  
  A family member in Sydney bought a 14 foot wide terrace house in the 70’s for approx $25,000.
  
  It is now worth well north of $1m.
  
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  December 1, 2016 9:18am
Keeping Stock

Anyone who is tempted to even consider letting the Greens get anywhere near government needs to read this exchange from Question Time yesterday, and consider the implications.

Metiria Turei: Is the Minister arguing that a landlord’s family has more rights to that home than the tenant’s family, who may well have been living in that home for many years, built their lives around the schools and working community there—that those tenants have fewer rights than those other families?

Hon PAULA BENNETT: Well, we believe in property rights. The landlord owns the property, and if they wish it for themselves or their family then they have to give only 42 days’ notice, so yes.

In Metiria Turei’s socialist utopia, landlords would have no rights over properties they dare to own and rent out. All the power in the landlord/tenant relationship would be with the tenant. Is that REALLY where we want to be heading?
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December 1, 2016 8:24am
- cmm
  
  Rubbish. Of course the Greens would give landlords rights.
  
  They would have the right to install heat pumps and insulation and provide the electricity to run the heat pump at tropical island temperatures with no charge to the tenants.
  
  They would have the right to replace the carpets at their own expense when the tenants’ dogs scratch it up.
  
  They have the right to reduce rents.
  
  So don’t say they don’t have rights!
  
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  December 1, 2016 8:31am
  - RF
    
    Don’t forget the 6 monthly repairs / repainting of walls after they have been used as a drawing board or punch bag.
    
    I have owned rental properties …… never again.
    
    If the green slug had not managed to become a list MP I would imagine she would have been your worse nightmare tenant for some unsuspecting landlord.
    
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    December 1, 2016 8:49am
- holysheet
  
  Oh dear, material has just put paid to any form of agreement with liabore. As most of the liabore MP’s ( except angry and trev) are landlords, they would loose their rentals.
  Did anyone ask Helun about this ? She has a swag of rentals I understand.
  
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  December 1, 2016 8:34am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    I don’t imagine Sue Moroney would be very happy about it.
    
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    December 1, 2016 9:28am
doggone7

All is well in the world so let’s spend the luxury that that affords us to sort someone out. Who should we have today? ….. Ummmm, step up Bernie Monk!
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December 1, 2016 8:34am
Happychappy

It is going to be interesting to see if Andrew Little is prepared to go against Health and Safety Law that Labour have advocated and cried about for years to score votes by backing and supporting the Pike Mine Family’s in their bid through the courts to retrieve the bodies.
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December 1, 2016 8:42am
Igotta Numbum

Looking forward to the MSM shift over the coming 6 months…

For the last few years they’ve endlessly peddled the left wing propaganda, trying their damnedest to bury the Right. No matter how hard they try, real Kiwi’s are not having a bar of it.

But there’s a bigger story coming, which is the complete collapse of Labour in election year… they’re going to go completely feral on that issue, as it becomes obvious to the MSM that real Kiwi’s aren’t stupid, and see through both Labour’s and the MSM’s load of bollocks.

Popcorn companies are going to be run off their feet!
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December 1, 2016 8:45am
- EAD
  
  @ Igotta,
  
  You talk to any left wing person (bar maybe a hard out communist who want these revolution NOW), and you’ll find them pretty content with NZ’s direction of travel as Key eschews what most rational people would call “right wing policies” with the added kicker that the Nats are better at running public services.
  
  Treaty settlements, social agendas, taxation, immigration, health & safety, nanny statism and so on and so forth have moved even more left wing since Key took charge. Case in point – the appointment of Susan Devoy.
  
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  December 1, 2016 8:57am
  - stephieboy
    
    EAD, and the standing of your National Socialist agenda in the aspirations and minds of the public at large ?
    
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    December 1, 2016 10:18am
  - Don the Kiwi
    
    EAD
    
    The spelling is Susan Devoid.
    
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    December 1, 2016 12:48pm
    - Gabby
      
      Because she’s Devoid of Donkey Wee.
      
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      December 1, 2016 7:17pm
Inandout

If, according to WO, a MSM journalist is indeed attempting to ‘out’ a gay National MP, then one could almost roll around the floor in extreme mirth. In 2016 this is about as exposing as someone saying Andy Little is damaging Labour. I do wonder though which Labour MP is behind this?

http://www.whaleoil.co.nz/2016/12/breaking-someone-parliament-gay/
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December 1, 2016 8:56am
- PhilBest
  
  Extraordinary how these lefty-libbewwal hypocrites simultaneously want to leave the 1950’s behind, in standards of morality, AND resurrect them when it suits them.
  
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  December 1, 2016 9:10am
  - stephieboy
    
    PhilBest , I take in terms of morality Donald Trump and Collin Craig are your role models as it suits ?
    
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    December 1, 2016 10:21am
    - Manolo
      
      I’ll take you will settle for no less than the philanderer Bill Clinton.
      
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      December 1, 2016 10:23am
      - stephieboy
        
        “For we all have sinned and fallen short ” doesn’t of course include you ?
        
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        December 1, 2016 12:02pm
    - PhilBest
      
      I find the following excerpts from the recent book “In The President’s Secret Service” by Ronald Kessler, very interesting:
      
      JOHN & JACQUELINE KENNEDY
      *A philanderer of the highest order.*
      *She ordered the kitchen help to save all the left-over wine from State dinners, mixed it with fresh wine and served again during the next White House occasion.*
      
      LYNDON & LADYBIRD JOHNSON
      *Another philanderer of the highest order. In addition, LBJ was as crude as the day is long. Both JFK and LBJ kept a lot of women in the White House for extramarital affairs and both had set up early warning systems to alert them if/when their wives were nearby. Both were promiscuous and oversexed men.*
      *She was either naive or just pretended to not know about her husband’s many liaisons.*
      
      GERALD & BETTY FORD
      *A true gentlemen who treated the Secret Service with respect and dignity. He had a great sense of humor. *
      *She drank a lot!*
      
      JIMMY & ROSALYN CARTER
      *A complete phony who would portray one picture of himself to public and very different in private e.g. Would be shown carrying his own luggage but the suitcases were always empty. He kept empty ones just for photo ops. He wanted people to see him as pious and a non-drinker but he and his family drank alcohol a lot! He had disdain for the Secret Service and was very irresponsible with the “football” with nuclear codes. He didn’t think it was a big deal and would keep military aides at a great distance. Often did not acknowledge the presence of Secret Service personnel assigned to serve him.*
      *She mostly did her own thing.*
      
      RONALD & NANCY REAGAN
      *The real deal, moral, honest, respectful and dignified. They treated Secret Service and everyone else with respect and honor, thanked everyone all the time. He took the time to know everyone on a personal level*
      *She was very nice but very protective of the President and the Secret Service was often caught in the middle. She tried hard to control what he ate. He would say to the agent, “Come on, you gotta help me out.” The Reagan’s drank wine during State dinners and special occasions only otherwise they shunned alcohol. The Secret Service could count on one hand the times they were served wine during family dinner. For all the fake bluster of the Carters, the Reagan’s were the ones who lived life as genuinely moral people.*
      
      GEORGE H. & BARBARA BUSH
      *Extremely kind and considerate, always respectful. Took great care in making sure the agents’ comforts were taken care of. They even brought them meals. One time she brought warm clothes to agents standing outside at Kennebunkport. One was given a warm hat and, when he tried to say “no thanks” even though he was obviously freezing, the President said “Son, don’t argue with the First Lady. Put the hat on.” He was the most prompt of the Presidents. He ran the White House like a well-oiled machine.*
      *She ruled the house and spoke her mind.*
      
      BILL & HILLARY CLINTON
      *Presidency was one giant party. Not trustworthy. He was nice mainly because he wanted everyone to like him but to him life is just one big game and party. Everyone knows about his sexuality.*
      *She is another phony. Her personality would change the instant cameras were near. She hated, with open disdain the military and Secret Service. She was another who felt people were there to serve her. She was always trying to keep tabs on Bill.*
      
      GEORGE W. & LAURA BUSH
      *The Secret Service loved him and Laura Bush. He was also the most physically in shape who had a very strict workout regimen. The Bushes made sure their entire administrative and household staff understood that they were to respect and be considerate of the Secret Service.*
      *She was one of the nicest First Ladies, if not the nicest. She never had any harsh word to say about anyone*
      
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      December 1, 2016 12:43pm
- Lance
  
  If the intent is to damage National then I imagine in this day and age the opposite will happen.
  
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  December 1, 2016 9:16am
- mikenmild
  
  It will only be of public interest if it is an example of Haggard’s Law:
  http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Haggard%27s_Law
  
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  December 1, 2016 9:28am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    If the MP in question is who I think it is mikenmild, then Haggard’s Law will most definitely not apply. I had already assumed this person to be gay, despite the fact that they don’t make a song and dance about it.
    
    What would be more interesting to most, I suspect, is to know the identity of the gay journo doing the dirty work on behalf of the MP’s ex.
    
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    December 1, 2016 10:06am
    - thedavincimode
      
      the gay journo doing the dirty work
      
      I think I know what you mean KS …
      
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      December 1, 2016 1:22pm
- Gabby
  
  Depends on how much the MP in question pontificates on ‘family values’.
  
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  December 1, 2016 12:48pm
Stars And Stripes

Migrants take contraceptives in expectation of being raped
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/world/319334/migrants-take-contraceptives-in-expectation-of-being-raped.
“Women and girls who risk sexual violence as they flee their home countries are getting contraceptive injections as a precautionary measure, said researcher Hillary Margolis from New York-based Human Rights Watch”.

Yeah whatever but even if this is the case something more permanent should be looked at instead like sterilisation so the eventual destinations for these gate crashers are not burdened with their multiple offspring as well.
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December 1, 2016 9:24am
Manolo

Liberals and progressives will go to the grave refusing to accept electoral defeat:
http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2016/11/hillary-or-bust?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/hillaryorbustwhyanelectoralcollegerebellionwouldbeabadidea

That is what happened last week when Lawrence Lessig, a Harvard law professor, proposed in the Washington Post that members of the electoral college should ignore the November 8th vote in their home states and choose Hillary Clinton when they meet on December 19th to officially elect America’s 45th president.

Mr Lessig’s main argument proceeds in two steps. First, he says, there is no rule in the constitution compelling electors to vote for the candidate who received the most votes in their respective states.
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December 1, 2016 9:25am
Stars And Stripes

‘There has recently been a flurry of scabies in NZ’
http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/well-good/teach-me/87030918/dr-cathy-stephenson-there-has-recently-been-a-flurry-of-scabies.

Merry Christmas New Zealand.
Sent with love from Syria, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq and every other third world shithole.
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December 1, 2016 9:33am
- stephieboy
  
  Stars And Stripes , the factual evidence that this outbreak is caused by those from the said countries ?
  
  Ot is this just another so called warped and sick ” piss take” of yours ?
  
  “Any one can get scabies even the most Cleanest of people ”
  
  http://www.health.govt.nz/your-health/conditions-and-treatments/diseases-and-illnesses/scabies
  
  P.S Itchy scrotum of late ?
  
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  December 1, 2016 9:50am
  - Stars And Stripes
    
    So once again you are not sure of a piss take or not?.
    Oh dear.
    
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    December 1, 2016 9:56am
RF

Jesus H Christ. The supposed temporary road from Christchurch to Picton is a dogs breakfast. A fatal truck accident shut down the road north of Springs Junction for 10 hours diverting traffic through the Rahu Saddle to Reefton and then back through the Buller Gorge to link up with Murchison. That about 9 hours drive owing to traffic volume.

Just wait until the holiday tourist traffic. What will be a mighty pain in the arse is the virtually nil cell phone coverage through the middle.

There goes my holiday plans for the South Island.
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December 1, 2016 9:33am
- Inandout
  
  Just wait until the next earthquake and another one of your holiday plans will be put on hold. Pacific maybe, or will a tsunami wreck your plans too? Bloody first world problems.
  
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  December 1, 2016 10:02am
  - holysheet
    
    It’s all that john Keys fault.
    
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    December 1, 2016 10:12am
  - RF
    
    I’m waiting for Rotorua to give birth to a new volcano and then I will bugger off to Aussie.
    
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    December 1, 2016 1:17pm
Morrissey

The spirit of Sir Paul Holmes lingers on….

http://www.alternet.org/video/i-voted-trump-so-there-white-shopper-melts-down-after-black-workers-ask-her-pay-bag
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December 1, 2016 9:39am
- Inandout
  
  For many years the lid has been kept on US people expressing any opinions, so it is not surprising these sort of outbursts occur. Over the top outburst for sure, but at least she didn’t behead the workers.
  
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  December 1, 2016 10:09am
  - Morrissey
    
    Racists have been suppressed in the United States???!!?
    
    https://i.imgflip.com/9twaw.jpg
    
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    December 1, 2016 12:22pm
Manolo

The incompetent Messiah will be quickly forgotten after the repeal of Obamacare :
http://www.wsj.com/articles/getting-a-new-health-law-through-senate-will-be-a-test-1480528437?mod=e2tw
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December 1, 2016 9:47am
Stars And Stripes

HIV Numbers Hit A Record High
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/87017451/advocates-push-for-better-access-to-hiv-medication.
“The New Zealand Aids Foundation has set an ambitious target of ending new HIV infections by 2025, but executive director Jason Myers admits that will be difficult.”

Difficult!!!!
I thought that getting rid of all homosexuals by 2025 would be damn near impossible.
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December 1, 2016 9:51am
stephieboy

Stars And Stipes ,

trolling yet again ? Bring us peace and goodwill for Christmas ?
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December 1, 2016 9:55am
- fernglas
  
  On the “methinks he doth protest too much” logic, also known as “takes one to know one” when I was at school, I deduce from today’s posts that Stars and Stripes is in fact an Afghani Trump voter with serious personal hygiene issues whose favourite song begins with the words “There’s a boy across the river with a bottom like a peach, but alas I cannot swim”. Of course, I may be wrong, but where there’s smoke……
  
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  December 1, 2016 10:21am
  - sam green
    
    What are you? 12?
    
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    December 1, 2016 12:45pm
    - sam green
      
      Wrong place. Sorry.
      
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      December 1, 2016 1:02pm
      - starboard
        
        why aren’t you at school green sam
        
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        December 1, 2016 3:05pm
      - sam green
        
        Because I’m not a pedo Starboard – what’s your excuse?
        
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        December 1, 2016 4:34pm
Liberty

With Labour imploding it might explain why Mallard is sniffing around.
May be he has seen the light and wants to leave the Dark side and join the A team with Leggett.
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December 1, 2016 9:59am
- PhilP
  
  NO THANKS!
  
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  December 1, 2016 10:08am
- Keeping Stock
  
  I’ve heard rumours that National is going to engineer a new seat covering Stewart Island and offer it to Mallard 😀
  
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  December 1, 2016 11:09am
Fletch

Good news for those worried about global warming. The high temperatures were caused by El Nino, but now that that has moved off, temperatures have plummeted by one degree since the middle of the year.

Global average temperatures over land have plummeted by more than 1C since the middle of this year – their biggest and steepest fall on record.
The news comes amid mounting evidence that the recent run of world record high temperatures is about to end.
The fall, revealed by Nasa satellite measurements of the lower atmosphere, has been caused by the end of El Nino – the warming of surface waters in a vast area of the Pacific west of Central America.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3974846/Stunning-new-data-indicates-El-Nino-drove-record-highs-global-temperatures-suggesting-rise-not-man-emissions.html
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December 1, 2016 10:24am
- Griff
  
  https://tamino.wordpress.com/2016/11/28/how-stupid-does-david-rose-think-you-are/#comment-97329
  
  How Stupid Does David Rose Think You Are?
  
  As stupid as ……..
  
  David Rose, who writes for the U.K. Daily Mail, doesn’t want you to believe it. He wants you to think that the worldwide heating we’ve seen for decades now has somehow, magically, come to an end … that it has shown some kind of “pause.” To give that impression, he had to search far and wide for one set of data from which he can cherry-pick one span of time in which he can focus on one recent event, so he can blame this year’s record-breaking heat on something other than mankind and our greenhouse-gas emissions. Thanks to the many many organizations that publish climate data, there are lots and lots and lots of data sets to choose from … so it’s no surprise he found one.
  
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  December 1, 2016 11:34am
  - mikenmild
    
    As stupid as Fletch?
    
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    December 1, 2016 11:39am
    - Ed Snack
      
      Not as stupid as “Tamino” though. A serial liar and fabulist with zero credibility – that’s why Griff likes him.
      
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      December 1, 2016 12:20pm
      - Griff
        
        Dear dear Ed “wacko” Snacko.
        Do you know what publishing is in science?
        https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Grant_Foster/publications
        
        Stay ignorant and proud my exceedingly easily confused little wingnut friend .
        
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        December 1, 2016 2:33pm
  - Fletch
    
    Well, it’s NASA that took the readings. I guess you can take it up with them. At least we won’t get those silly, “hottest year ever” headlines this year. We all knew there was an El Nino which causes abnormally high temperatures. Now that it’s gone, the temp has predictably dropped again, and may drop further.
    
    Dr. David Whitehouse, science editor of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, writes –
    
    With 2016 being predicted as a record warm year it is interesting to speculate on what the El Nino’s contribution will be, which is, in a word, everything. It can be argued that without the El Nino (and the so-called “Pacific Blob”) 2014-2016 would not have been record warm years.
    
    Many think that 2017 will be cooler than previous years. Myles Allen of Oxford University says that by the time of the next big United Nations climate conference global temperatures are likely to be no warmer than the Paris COP in 2015. This would be a strange thing to happen if, as some climate scientists have claimed, recent years would have been a record even without the El Nino.
    
    http://www.thegwpf.com/how-far-will-global-temperature-drop-after-el-nino/
    
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    December 1, 2016 11:43am
    - mikenmild
      
      The Global Warming Policy Foundation. Nigel Lawson’s ‘think tank’, minus the thinking.
      
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      December 1, 2016 11:54am
    - Griff
      
      Nasa takes the reading of micro wave brightness .
      A couple of different organizations convert them into temperatures though a complex process that is acknowledged as very inaccurate.
      UHA
      http://www.drroyspencer.com/latest-global-temperatures/
      And RSS
      http://www.remss.com/measurements/upper-air-temperature
      
      Notice how much UHA differs from RSS even though they use the same source data .
      
      C. A. Mears from RSS has said two important things recently..
      His RSS data is not sufficiently accurate to use for examining Global warming the surface temperature data series are a better representation.
      The data set Rose series used TLT 3.3 is now no longer current
      http://www.remss.com/node/5166
      
      The lower tropospheric (TLT) temperatures have not yet been updated at this time and remain V3.3. The V3.3 TLT data suffer from the same problems with the adjustment for drifting measurement times that led us to update the TMT dataset. V3.3 TLT data should be used with caution.
      
      As usual a case of conservatives fooling them self’s and floundering around in a pool of fetid self inflected ignorance.
      
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      December 1, 2016 12:09pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        ‘Notice how much UHA differs from RSS even though they use the same source data .’
        
        Not entirely true. RSS and UAH do use some of the same satellites but they also use different ones. The satellites they each use also changes over time. Orbit decay , age etc.
        Most people recognise the Satelites are a more accurate form of measurement. The ground based thermometers are not that accurate. (Refer the science of Metrology)BEST did some site evaluation in the US which has improved things- although the measuring stations in the US are being slowly phased out and replaced with better ones.As for the rest of the world BEST just does adjustments via modelling….they didn’t go to each site.
        
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        December 1, 2016 2:48pm
      - Griff
        
        Why don’t you debate that with Carl Mears, of Remote Sensing Systems?
        After all he is the expert not many people on some wingnut anti science blog you read.
        He says they are not as accurate as the thermometers on the surface.
        Compering the different version of RSS or UHA .show you how poorly they are at giving a coherent result.
        But yaeh you really have no idea about climate science at all all from past exchanges all on red you just believe nonsense from the clogasphere .
        
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        December 1, 2016 3:07pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Actually I got that information from Roy Spencer and John Christy. You quote Spencer above. The science of Metrology on thermometers is pretty well researched. There are margins of error.
        I see you go to your default position of insults so GFY nutter.
        
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        December 1, 2016 3:14pm
      - Griff
        
        Is that the same John Christy and Roy Spencer who claimed years ago that their satellite measurements are accurate until someone found they had a sign the wrong way around in the calculations?
        yip dont have an idea at all all on red just repeat rubbish
        I referenced Spencers blog.
        To point out how different the two series are even though they use the same base measurements…..
        GFY…
        Dear dear poor little wingnut..sob sob
        
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        December 1, 2016 3:27pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Christy used to work for NASA. And got a Medal for his science in creating UAH.I guess since you don’t believe NASA you probably deny the moon landings took place too huh. Lol Denier.
        And you believed Foster was Dr Foster. That’s funny.
        Anyway, have you started your sessions yet?
        http://www.angermanagement.org.nz
        Or just upped your meds- they’re not working.
        
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        December 1, 2016 4:04pm
      - Griff
        
        Nasa dont produce UHA or RSS so fuck knows what you are trying to say?…Just trying to bea smartarse and cover up your lack of knowledge with bullshit.
        
        The original series of Cristy and Spencer was found to be wrong due to a basic error in maths .
        They used the wrong sign in an equation which someone else discovered after Cristy and Spencer had used UHA to claim there was no global warning .
        
        Come back when you have some clue all on red at the moment its trying to debate science with a kiddy .A very thick one at that
        
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        December 1, 2016 4:41pm
Scott

The awesomeness that is Trump!He is putting together a dream team for his cabinet.

“Donald Trump’s education secretary nominee is a huge critic of public schools and has pushed to steer taxpayer dollars to charter schools and voucher programs. His Health and Human Services pick wants to dismantle Obamacare and privatize Medicare.

His attorney general nominee would crack down on “sanctuary cities” and increase deportations of undocumented immigrants. And his choice to run the CIA believes shutting down “black site” prisons was a mistake, while his national security adviser contends Islam is a threat to Western civilization.”

His national security adviser thinks Islam is a threat to Western civilisation! I love everything about that!

Trump is awesome!

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/trump-conservative-dream-team-231972
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December 1, 2016 10:25am
- stephieboy
  
  Scott,
  
  “His national security adviser thinks Islam is a threat to Western civilisation! I love everything about that!”
  
  How do you hope he will solve that ? ?
  
  David Garrett’s Peace Pan for the Middle East ,
  
  http://readingthemaps.blogspot.co.nz/2016/01/david-garrett-and-peace-of-dead.html
  
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  December 1, 2016 12:04pm
  - Morrissey
    
    Thanks for that, stephieboy! Mr Garrett has a future as a comic.
    
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    December 1, 2016 12:29pm
    - Kimbo
      
      Fair enough as you are the resident James Bond villain impersonator (“My dear 007, your spying ability is to be commended…” Just shoot him in the head!) with an addiction to over-using adverbs.
      
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      December 1, 2016 12:47pm
  - kowtow
    
    Peace pan?
    
    That’s where peace goes in the Middle East, down the shitter , thanks to the religion of peace.
    
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    December 1, 2016 12:30pm
- Inandout
  
  Progressives may be a dying breed in the future hopefully, because stopping Muslim creep will be a very popular move by Trump. The pendulum has swung to the extreme left over the last 30 years and the tide is finally turning. Thanks Donald.
  
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  December 1, 2016 3:48pm
  - Don the Kiwi
    
    You’re welcome I& A 🙂
    
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    December 1, 2016 4:11pm
Odakyu-sen

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11758182
“A Chinese company is planning to build more than 1000 new apartments beside the Southern Motorway in Manukau, some places aimed at first home buyers.”

This is totally understandable.

I wonder if the citizens of Auckland were ever asked for their opinion on the high-densification of Auckland?

Good-bye diversity. Auckland is on its way to becoming just another Oceanic city on the Pacific rim.
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December 1, 2016 10:51am
- wiseowl
  
  Oda
  What about the place the Chinese are building close to Singapore, in the water.
  A $100bn development!
  
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  December 1, 2016 1:02pm
cmm

http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/gadgets/87070905/jammer-intended-to-take-down-flying-drones

More bullshit reporting from a clueless MSM. This is way, way over hyped.

Yes, it is possible to jam both radio and GPS signals.

Blocking control signals would deny a drone operator control over a drone, but it would not allow taking over control of the drone since the radio control signals are typically encrypted. Therefore the claim they can land the drone or send it back to where it came from is bullshit.

If the GPS is not blocked (a bit of screening would probably do that) then the drone could fly autonomously on GPS and still do its job. No problem.

If GPS is blocked there are numerous ways to still navigate the drone to where it needs to go (eg. simple video processing). These days high quality positioning/navigation technology is almost free.
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December 1, 2016 11:01am
- Ed Snack
  
  Actually recently demonstrated hacks can easily take over drones. Almost all use a rudimentary encryption scheme that is very easily penetrated and so it is indeed simple to take them over completely.
  
  The world has moved on.
  
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  December 1, 2016 12:24pm
starboard

Scumbag John Gillies who stabbed and almost killed Policeman Nigel Hendrikse back in the 90’s is due to be released from prison and coming to a town near you. This guy is the lowest of the low..scum supreme.

* One of four prisoners given $325K in 2000 for being clipped around the ear whilst in jail.

*Facial mongrel mob tattoo removed courtesy of taxpayer..$4500.

*Parole Board says he is at high risk of reoffending

*Will not attend undertake any rehabilitation programmes.

*Out in August 2017

Watch this space. A very, very dangerous native who would cut your throat just because you looked at it the wrong way.
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December 1, 2016 11:03am
- Keeping Stock
  
  I agree that Gillies is one of our worst offenders Starboard. But because he was sentenced to a finite term because he didn’t actually kill Constable Hendrickse, he has a release date.
  
  Doubtless though Kelvin Davis will go and visit him upon release, in case he has a sob story about ill-treatment in prison that Davis can attack Judith Collins with. That would certainly help Labour’s quest to self-destruct.
  
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  December 1, 2016 11:13am
- Manolo
  
  To top it off: has he converted to Islam? 🙂
  
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  December 1, 2016 11:14am
  - holysheet
    
    I don’t think even Allah would want this piece of dog shit in his ranks. But anything is possible I guess, ask stupidboy.
    
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    December 1, 2016 11:53am
- GoVege
  
  Why are they letting him out if he “is at high risk of reoffending” and won’t attend any rehabilitation programmes? They could have at least left his tattoo on his dial to give the rest of us a chance to get away.
  
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  December 1, 2016 1:43pm
- GoVege
  
  Was talking to a cop who told me most of the young crims they deal with have no dad in the picture, and if they do, dad is a gang member.
  When are they going to stop paying the DPB to single girls and pay them to get the contraceptive injection instead?
  Never I suppose while National are sucking up to the Maori Party.
  
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  December 1, 2016 4:43pm
cha

All those angry people who voted to drain the Washington/Wall Street swamp sure showed America.
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http://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-plans-to-name-steven-mnuchin-as-treasury-secretary-1480459950
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December 1, 2016 11:11am
- fernglas
  
  Great comment on CNN this morning. “He hasn’t drained the swamp, he’s just changed the alligators”
  
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  December 1, 2016 1:40pm
- ross411
  
  To be fair, what I’ve seen in the past in the USA is that they appoint someone unrelated to a company, then that person does some favours for the company, and at the end of it moves on to work for that company as a reward after the appointment ends.
  
  So, as this guy has already worked in the industry, it is possible he might know what’s what and have an insight into how to clean things up.
  
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  December 1, 2016 3:42pm
Manolo

Buy some:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-30/goldman-says-trump-s-presidency-will-benefit-stocks-in-almost-every-sector
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December 1, 2016 11:47am
- stephieboy
  
  Mnaolo , how ? Trade Wars ?
  
  https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/03/25/donald-trumps-trade-war-could-kill-millions-of-u-s-jobs/?utm_term=.6c7dfebda236
  
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  December 1, 2016 12:09pm
Manolo

How much life left in the euro?
http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/737986/Brexit-Euro-collapse-Italy-referendum-investor-prediction

Jim Mellon, the Chairman of the Burnbrae Group, has warned the currency will become a victim in the growing anti-establishment surge which will cause the EU to fracture – all within five years.

“The euro as it stands at the moment is just a very inappropriate mechanism — I give the euro between one and five years of life.”
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December 1, 2016 12:04pm
starboard

Yes, a dangerous feral in all respects. Something I wouldn’t want to run into unless I was armed.
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December 1, 2016 12:06pm
- Gabby
  
  You’re prolly safe unless he has a relly in your ward.
  
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  December 1, 2016 12:42pm
  - starboard
    
    You’re so funny gobby, very witty, intelligent, quick off the mark with super comebacks…and the way you go on and on…and on about the ponytail event is even more hilarious.
    Worst thing is, you believe all that.
    Boofhead.
    
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    December 1, 2016 1:27pm
    - sam green
      
      He knows you so well Gabby – more than ‘just friends’ I would say.
      
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      December 1, 2016 6:29pm
Stars And Stripes

Woman dies trying to save cat from tree
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11758358.

The moral of this story is obvious.
If the pussy will not come to you then leave it as it is not worth the risk.
The only exception to this might be if the pussy is in a treehouse.
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December 1, 2016 12:11pm
- holysheet
  
  She deserves a darwin award for her stupidity. Leave the cats alone. They will get down themselves when they want to come down. Ever see a dead cat on top of a power pole?
  
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  December 1, 2016 12:35pm
  - Fletch
    
    My sister belongs to one of those local Facebook community group type pages. It’s amazing how many people report their cat as missing, or else someone picks up a strange cat and takes it to animal control and posts a photo.
    
    Back in the day we didn’t worry. Cats come and go as they feel like. they more-often-than-not come home after a few days. We seem to worry about them too much nowadays.
    
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    December 1, 2016 12:40pm
    - GoVege
      
      Must do.
      My sis told me a neighbor used to drown his cat’s kittens back in the 60s.
      Haven’t heard of that for a long time.
      
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      December 1, 2016 4:45pm
  - GoVege
    
    That’s very unkind of you holy sheet.
    This poor lady was obviously devoted to her feline companion.
    It’s a very sad story.
    Personally I feel quite proud to live in a society where people are willing to risk their life for their pet.
    Not torture them to death as in others.
    
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    December 1, 2016 10:06pm
- Lucia Maria
  
  To me, it looks more like she died from inadequate care in hospital where the extent of her injuries was not realised in time.
  
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  December 1, 2016 12:38pm
- kowtow
  
  Pussy in big bush? Should have just given it a good trim .
  
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  December 1, 2016 2:17pm
- waikatogirl
  
  We have an orange tomcat hanging around. I have named him ‘Donald’.
  
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  December 1, 2016 2:45pm
  - Don the Kiwi
    
    Cheeky so ‘n’ so 😉
    
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    December 1, 2016 4:13pm
Keeping Stock

Where does the Labour Party find its candidates? And do they get self-awareness training from Aaron Gilmore?

http://www.whaleoil.co.nz/2016/12/well-done-michael-wood-parking-disabled-spot/
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December 1, 2016 12:54pm
- stigie
  
  KS :- You know it’s different when Michael Wood and the left do it !~
  
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  December 1, 2016 1:18pm
  - Keeping Stock
    
    Ah yes; I’d forgotten about that Stigie. He’s a card-carrying unionist, so that exempts him.
    
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    December 1, 2016 1:21pm
    - ross411
      
      It’s also the same principle where Lenin has 13 palaces, and the worker lives in a hovel and gets beaten if they venture near the palaces.
      
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      December 1, 2016 3:57pm
- thedavincimode
  
  Where does liebour find its candidates you ask?
  
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  December 1, 2016 1:26pm
  - sam green
    
    I think you’ve got that wrong – its more like – “where is Jason Ede hiding these days”.
    
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    December 1, 2016 1:47pm
    - thedavincimode
      
      Lame sam. It’s bad enough you can’t come up with any original material, but copying dad4violence who copies redbladder? That’s too funny.
      
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      December 1, 2016 2:48pm
      - sam green
        
        As lame as your original post.
        
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        December 1, 2016 3:14pm
      - sam green
        
        Sorry thedavincimede – I take it you were the originator of the term “liebour” then?
        
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        December 1, 2016 4:06pm
    - starboard
      
      Where is Darren Hughes?
      
      Is he still chasing down young men with the aim of sodomising them?
      
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      December 1, 2016 3:29pm
      - sam green
        
        Apparently he’s after you
        
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        December 1, 2016 3:49pm
      - Inandout
        
        Darren (who has never had a real job) is attached to an electoral reform group. At least our Darrie hasn’t joined the bearded class.
        
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        December 1, 2016 6:55pm
      - Gabby
        
        He hooked up with Jason Evil.
        
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        December 1, 2016 7:23pm
Manolo

Carlsen keeps the title in New York:
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/live/2016/nov/30/carlsen-karjakin-tiebreaker-world-chess-championship-tie-breaker-live
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December 1, 2016 1:02pm
cha

heh

Drain the swamp? How? By installing McConnell's wife at DOT? https://t.co/mzJ31S8gzH— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) November 29, 2016
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December 1, 2016 1:10pm
- All_on_Red
  
  Elaine Chao is a very experienced Public Servant so why shouldn’t she be appointed? Would you rather she stayed at home and washed dishes, or is it because she is Asian?
  How very sexist and racist of you.
  ‘Elaine Lan Chao (趙小蘭) (born March 26, 1953)[1] is an American politician who served as the 24th United States Secretary of Labor under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2009, and Deputy Secretary of Transportation under President George H. W. Bush. Born in Taipei, Taiwan,[2] to mainland Chinese parents, she was the first Asian American woman and the first Taiwanese American in U.S. history to be appointed to a U.S. president’s cabinet.’
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_Chao
  
  Oh and the diversity of Trump appointing an Asian women huh.
  
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  December 1, 2016 1:18pm
  - cha
    
    Best you contact Levin and tell him how you feel.
    
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    December 1, 2016 1:21pm
    - All_on_Red
      
      You’re his messenger. You tell him.
      Racist! Sexist!
      
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      December 1, 2016 1:35pm
Fletch

This guy paints American flags and doesn’t give a ****.

http://nypost.com/video/trumps-biggest-supporter-is-still-mad-as-hell/
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December 1, 2016 1:12pm
- sam green
  
  So does (did) Jasper Johns.
  
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  December 1, 2016 1:43pm
Manolo

It is all Fox’s fault:
http://dailycaller.com/2016/11/30/obama-to-jann-wenner-i-couldve-been-great-if-not-for-fox-news/

Obama To Jann Wenner: I Could’ve Been Great If Not For Fox News
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December 1, 2016 1:24pm
- stephieboy
  
  kowtow, no doubt you’re a supporter of David Garrett’s Peace plan for the ME ?
  
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  December 1, 2016 3:15pm
- stephieboy
  
  Manolo, the actual source for that quote ?
  
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  December 1, 2016 3:18pm
cha

The Federalist gets the collywobbles over the Flynn appointment.

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For a job that requires laser-sharp judgment, Michael Flynn seriously misjudges major world leaders like Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

[…]

Flynn Is Paid to Flack for Turkey

The Hill op-ed called Turkey our “strongest ally” in the Middle East and criticized U.S. media for its coverage of Erdogan. In the article, Flynn failed to disclose that on September 14, The Flynn Intel Group signed a contract with Inovo BV to lobby on State and Defense Department appropriations bills. Inovo BV is a front organization for Inovo Turkije, a firm that works to strengthen “the transatlantic relationship and Turkey’s future in that alliance.”

[…]

Russia Isn’t Our Friend, Gen. Flynn
Flynn’s views on Russia are equally injudicious. Flynn’s desire to reset relationships with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and with Russia has alarmed our European allies. Last December, when our Western allies were boycotting Putin, the Russian government paid Flynn to speak at a series of events in Moscow. At a celebration of a Kremlin-funded TV station, Flynn was photographed sitting next to Russian President Vladimir Putin, an image that blanketed the Russian media for days.

http://thefederalist.com/2016/11/29/michael-flynn-wrong-man-trumps-national-security-advisor/
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December 1, 2016 2:00pm
Manolo

Outlining trump’s tax policy:
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/11/30/exclusive-steve-mnuchin-no-absolute-tax-cut-for-the-upper-class.html

President-elect Donald Trump’s proposed tax cuts will primarily serve the middle class and will not include an absolute tax cut for the wealthy, Steven Mnuchin told CNBC on Wednesday, shortly after confirming he has been chosen to head the Treasury Department.
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December 1, 2016 2:07pm
- stephieboy
  
  Manolo, paid for how ? Credit Card ?
  
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  December 1, 2016 3:17pm
Odakyu-sen

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11758424

“Schools across New Zealand have received bomb threats.”
Who knows who could be responsible. (Since so many schools all over the country were contacted, it is no doubt a mischievous act, albeit disruptive.) I hope it doesn’t attract copy-cats.
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December 1, 2016 2:20pm
Stars And Stripes

Indigenous groups whose struggles rival Standing Rock
http://www.newshub.co.nz/opinion/opinion-plenty-of-indigenous-people-worse-off-than-standing-rock-tribe-2016112916.
Maori
“Life is still pretty dire for most Māori living in Aotearoa.
Tangata whenua are more likely to suffer from poverty, poor health and low life expectancy than other groups.
The plight of Māori in New Zealand is nothing short of a national disgrace some 166 years since the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi.”.

White guys must feel so warm and fuzzy inside after writing fawning pieces like this.
Tissues coming your way Tony Wright.
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December 1, 2016 2:37pm
- starboard
  
  We’ve given them enough money. Maybe its time they hopped back in their canoes and go back to where they came from. Take their cash and buy a big arse fucking island somewhere ..set up far away from the nasty horrible white man. One can only hope and dream.
  
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  December 1, 2016 3:24pm
  - sam green
    
    Maybe the South Island.
    
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    December 1, 2016 3:51pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      Sam:
      
      I was initially inclined to suggest they could relocate to White Island but, of course, that’d be a racist suggestion wouldn’t it? 🙂
      
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      December 1, 2016 4:20pm
      - starboard
        
        Mururoa Atoll’s looking vacant..tidy it up a it, build a few Keith Hay Homes, coupla upside down Holdens outside, swappa crates everywhere..the new Mangere .
        
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        December 1, 2016 4:25pm
      - sam green
        
        Its more of a deep yellow – misnamed I think Nostradamus.
        
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        December 1, 2016 4:29pm
      - sam green
        
        Unfortunately Starboard – it belongs to the French – they’ll be wanting to relocate the Algerians there.
        
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        December 1, 2016 4:30pm
- ross411
  
  So.. we give hundreds of millions to the tribes as treaty settlements, at least just counting the latest settlements, where does it all go? Surely, we should stop the settlements until the royals get their house in order?
  
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  December 1, 2016 4:14pm
  - sam green
    
    Which royals?
    
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    December 1, 2016 4:28pm
    - ross411
      
      Yes, there are many, and they have varying amounts of the royal bloodline. All of them, obviously. It’s the system that’s broken, I care little how much dilution any given royal has. We’re all equal, right Sam?
      
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      December 1, 2016 4:59pm
      - sam green
        
        I really think Elizabeth should stand down. She’s broken the record for the longest service monarch – what’s next for her? Death and a state funeral? Seems a shame. William’s nice though.
        
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        December 1, 2016 5:43pm
      - mikenmild
        
        The Queen believes that abdication would breach her coronation oath. It’s till death us do part. On the plus side, that reduces the length of time for Charles to reign over us.
        
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        December 1, 2016 5:57pm
      - sam green
        
        Yes – I believe she is very dedicated to her “duty” as a queen. Charles is a bit of a tit though and I think he’d make a sod awful ‘leading hand’. But as ross4711 points out – how royal are they really? What is the “dilution” if you like? He cares little he says (ross4711) but I would be interested. Kate’s a commoner I believe
        
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        December 1, 2016 6:22pm
Nostradamus

How did Parliament House protesters get on the roof?

Another day, another protest at Parliament House.

But how did another group of protesters get past security, get on the roof, abseil down the front of the building and throw red dye in the front fountain?

Take a look at the photos of these losers. Who thinks any of them would be willing to put up their own money (assuming they have any) to look after refugees?

Hand sanitiser proved to be a useful aid in ripping the superglued hands of some protesters from the balustrade.

It’s probably the closest the protesters have got to soap in years!
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December 1, 2016 2:40pm
Fletch

People are boycotting Kellogg’s for pulling their advertisements from the Breitbart site because of pressure by left-wing groups. Looks like their stocks are falling. One interesting comment though, is this…

“Think about this KELLOGG… There are 3,141 counties in the United States. Trump won 3,084 of them. Clinton won 57. If you want to market to 57 counties in the US and alienate 3,084 of them, well, that’s none of my business… which is exactly what you will get

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/11/30/kelloggs-facebook-pages-erupt-with-dumpkelloggs-messages-for-blacklisting-breitbart/

Wow, that really puts it into perspective.

I think the right wing has grown enough now that they don’t need to bow to the political pressure brought by left-wing agitator groups. It’s looking like the situation has flipped.
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December 1, 2016 2:43pm
- stephieboy
  
  Flerch , but that hasn’t stopped Hillary Clinton receiving over 2 million in the popular vote ,
  
  http://www.salon.com/2016/11/23/hillary-clintons-popular-vote-lead-has-surpassed-2-million/
  
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  December 1, 2016 3:21pm
  - Manolo
    
    Fortunately, these votes count for….nothing.
    
    Crooked Hillary is rapidly fading away. Nobody will remember her after January 20.
    
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    December 1, 2016 3:33pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    Iirc Breitbart has over 40 million readers. Not surprised the share price of Kellogg’s is falling.
    
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    December 1, 2016 5:11pm
- cha
  
  Looks like their stocks are falling.
  
  A dropping share price could well affect sales so please everybody, think of the kittens.
  
  http://mentalfloss.com/article/32042/corn-flakes-were-invented-part-anti-masturbation-crusade
  
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  December 1, 2016 5:24pm
Stars And Stripes

Scammers shave regular kittens and sell them as hairless Sphynx cats
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/world/87088158/scammers-shave-regular-kittens-and-sell-them-as-hairless-sphynx-cats.

Stuff with another cat story.
Maybe a more appropriate headline should have been:
Shaved Pussy Leaves Sour Taste In Owners Mouth.
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December 1, 2016 4:10pm
- cha
  
  Obligatory – Pinky the Cat.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okZW3_5Gr4s
  
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  December 1, 2016 4:45pm
  - Don the Kiwi
    
    CHA, THAT WAS BLOODY HILLARIOUS. 😆
    
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    December 1, 2016 5:31pm
Kimbo

Bloody hell, even Rachel Smalley gets it!

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11758229

Labour has paid a high price for its agreement with the Greens. It’s allowed itself to move too far to the Left, and in doing so has greatly enhanced National’s appeal. And as we’ve seen with Leggett’s exit to the right, that’s a very high price to pay.
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December 1, 2016 4:27pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Kimbo:
  
  The problem at Labour could be fixed.
  
  Labour leader’s staffing exodus continues with four key roles now vacant
  
  Andrew Little needs someone with talent. Someone who isn’t afraid to speak up about issues that matter. Someone who has enough time to dedicate to the cause. Someone with exceptional dance skills to maintain office morale when it turns pitch black before the proverbial end of the tunnel. Someone like Trevor Mallard!
  
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  December 1, 2016 4:35pm
EAD

The Guardian has an article on why they’re using the term ”Alt-Right” after some complaints from its screeching SJW readership base on why they’re “using a respectable term” to describe our growing movement.

Why not just call us what we are – ”White people who want to have their own countries where we will be demographically secure”?

Because that’s who we are, the vitriol is directed against normal people who wish to deny us that.

Would these SJWs define say all of the Japanese people as “alt-right” if their desire was to keep Japan predominantly Japanese?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/mind-your-language/2016/nov/30/alt-right-why-the-guardian-decided-not-to-ban-use-of-the-term
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December 1, 2016 4:58pm
- ross411
  
  Your placement in the alt right is in their definition, under racist. It’s clause a), check it out for yourself. Their definition however, also covers other people’s usage of the word, not just yours.
  
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  December 1, 2016 5:43pm
- sam green
  
  So EAD – you’ll be popping back to good old blighty then – I’m assuming of course. You could be Italian – then you wouldn’t really be “white” then – or would you? Oh – it’s all so confusing.
  
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  December 1, 2016 5:48pm
  - starboard
    
    Go to bed sam..school in the morning little fella.
    
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    December 1, 2016 6:41pm
    - sam green
      
      While your obsession with me could be seen as charming to others, it just feels a little too clingy Starboard. I told you that last time really was the last – particularly when you couldn’t peel your undies off your cock. (You need a wash to be frank). So – sayonara. No hard feelings – at least not on my part.
      
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      December 1, 2016 6:49pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Sam:
        
        you couldn’t peel your undies off your cock
        
        Starboard never told us he was that well-hung!
        
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        December 1, 2016 7:00pm
      - sam green
        
        No Nostradamus – it was tiny and sticky. *shudder*
        
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        December 1, 2016 7:33pm
      - starboard
        
        You’re such a virgin sammy x
        
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        December 1, 2016 10:15pm
itstricky

Why are you not proud to call yourself a ‘white nationalist’ (who thinks Jo Cox got what she deserved) ?
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December 1, 2016 5:27pm
- EAD
  
  But I am proud though tricky – firstly though what do you mean by “White Nationalist”?
  
  Do you mean someone who wants to live primarily amongst their own people rather than in a Globalist stew and is proud of his forefathers achievements?
  
  Or do you mean the it in its loaded sense as the MSM and people like you want ordinary folk to understand the term?
  
  For example, look at how the way Wikipedia describes the following forms of “pride”….
  black pride – is a movement in response to dominant white cultures and ideologies that encourages black people to celebrate black culture and embrace their African heritage
  
  Asian pride – In the United States, Asian pride (also spelled AZN pride) is a positive stance to being Asian American.
  
  gay pride – Gay pride or LGBT pride is the positive stance against discrimination and violence toward lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people to promote their self-affirmation, dignity, equality rights, increase their visibility as a social group, build community, and celebrate sexual diversity and gender variance. Pride, as opposed to shame and social stigma, is the predominant outlook that bolsters most LGBT rights movements throughout the world.
  
  white pride – is a motto primarily used by white separatist, white nationalist, neo-Nazi and white supremacist organizations in order to signal racist or racialist viewpoints
  
  Separately, here are a couple of George Orwell quotes from 1984 for you to digest:
  
  – “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history”
  
  – “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind”
  
  – “But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
  
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  December 1, 2016 5:47pm
  - mikenmild
    
    Why did your forefathers (and mothers) move to New Zealand? Didn’t they want to ‘live among their own people’?
    
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    December 1, 2016 6:02pm
    - sam green
      
      I think some of them had had enough of their own people.
      
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      December 1, 2016 6:06pm
  - nasska
    
    Fair comment EAD. Either white pride & black pride are both racist or both are non racist.
    
    No amount of tortured mental gymnastics can be used to objectively hold otherwise.
    
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    December 1, 2016 6:06pm
    - mikenmild
      
      You might find this interesting:
      http://thefederalist.com/2016/08/29/white-pride-creepy-black-pride-isnt/
      
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      December 1, 2016 6:20pm
    - sam green
      
      You could argue it Naaska – something to do with power imbalances etc etc. Have you ever listened to Margaret Cho? She does some insightful comedy on growing up as a Chinese American. She’s filthy but she hits the mark sometimes. A different perspective maybe.
      
      Gay people didnt always have the same rights as you and me – black Americans didnt, Asian people didn’t. Maybe it’s something to do with that. It’s not binary – either racist or not – because it’s not about race.
      
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      December 1, 2016 6:40pm
      - nasska
        
        Then why is it described as racist? Call it a power imbalance or what you may but to bring racism into it is virtue signalling dishonesty.
        
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        December 1, 2016 7:00pm
      - Griff
        
        What makes me really laugh at EAD’s nonsense is when he claims our judeo christian heritage is at risk.
        idiot.
        My welsh and English forbearers had that nonsense imposed on them by invaders .
        Its like the English term standing up for queen and country .
        Which country is that?
        The queen is a bloody Kraut! Queen Elizabeth 11 of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha we haven’t had an actual English royalty line for a long time if ever.
        
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        December 1, 2016 7:01pm
      - itstricky
        
        Pretty much sums up my thoughts, which as the obvious ones straight from EAD’s own examples and as is more thoroughly explored in MMs link.
        
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        December 1, 2016 7:02pm
      - sam green
        
        Well – gay isn’t a race for a start.
        
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        December 1, 2016 7:04pm
      - itstricky
        
        What is “it” in this context?
        
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        December 1, 2016 7:15pm
      - sam green
        
        It’s a club for people who like spandex and glitter.
        
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        December 1, 2016 7:29pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    EAD
    
    celebrate sexual diversity
    
    I can’t speak for Nasska, obviously, but does this mean an “open marriage” on the farm involving lots of sex with animals and the neighbours?
    
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    December 1, 2016 6:31pm
    - sam green
      
      Oh those gays – can’t keep their pants on.
      
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      December 1, 2016 6:43pm
      - Stars And Stripes
        
        Speaking of gays, its World Aids Day today Sam.
        Sure to be a big night down at the local conveniences.
        
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        December 1, 2016 6:49pm
      - sam green
        
        Yes – I might make a buck selling rubbers to the bareback riders.
        
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        December 1, 2016 6:58pm
    - nasska
      
      Go easy Nostra. The resident religious fruitloops haven’t managed to get their heads around gay marriage yet. Mention of inter species relationships will bend them out of shape. 🙂
      
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      December 1, 2016 7:05pm
  - Reid
    
    EAD it might be helpful to clarify whether you dislike other races or rather merely favour your own.
    
    As we know most people these days are heavily infected with the propaganda poison of P.C. psychobabble bullshit, why we just have to look at mm for a rabid example of rampant infection.
    
    Some are oblivious and nasska and Nosty come to mind but most are beholden to its insidious thought poison, without even knowing it.
    
    Therefore they conflate passive neutrality on a position that goes against their group ~~psychobabble~~ philosophy, with support of an active agenda toward undermining the very fabric of their idiotic utopia which they desperately wish would come about as they drift off every night.
    
    Pathetic, isn’t it, but that’s today’s world for ya.
    
    I don’t really hate any particular race or religion, but I don’t much like lefties, I have to say.
    
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    December 1, 2016 7:09pm
    - itstricky
      
      It would be helpful to know what thought poison is made from. Have you filtered the fluoride from your water supply and that’s how you are able to see the truth unlike the rest of us poor, poisoned folks? Maybe the fluoride is making us look back in history too much, remember too many things. Damn thought poison fluoride.
      
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      December 1, 2016 7:20pm
      - sam green
        
        I brush my teeth with thought poison.
        
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        December 1, 2016 7:31pm
      - sam green
        
        Tasty tasty thought poison.
        
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        December 1, 2016 7:40pm
Manolo

Democratic Party upheaval:
http://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/rural-democrats-ignored-suffer-consequences

Strategists and party officials say their warnings about the party’s lackluster outreach to rural voters went unheeded by Democratic leaders for years, culminating in this month’s shock defeat to Donald Trump. A presidential candidate who actually performed poorly in many cities and suburbs nonetheless scored an upset victory because of a surge in support from small towns and rural areas.
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December 1, 2016 5:51pm
- Reid
  
  Let’s hope so.
  
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  December 1, 2016 6:56pm
Tauhei Notts

The MP for Northland will be speaking at the Tauhei Hall on Sunday and I’ll probably be too pissed to drive there, after a boozy day on the golf course.
Bugger, damn and dash.
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December 1, 2016 7:03pm
stigie

Did anyone watch Beyond the Darklands last night about a guy called Jason Somerville who was tormented and abused as a child and went on to murder 2 women.
Interesting programme i thought and Dad was riveting as well !~
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December 1, 2016 8:26pm
- nasska
  
  That Sommerville character was a bit of a weirdo stigie. Not only killed the women but had sex with them afterwards.
  
  It could only happen in Christchurch. ?
  
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  December 1, 2016 8:38pm
  - stigie
    
    Hagley Park tends to draw a lot of weirdo’s to it Nasska especially the south west corner ole chap !~
    
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    December 1, 2016 8:42pm
    - nasska
      
      So they reckon. Mind you, that young guy who got sprung rooting someone’s goat was from down Christchurch way.
      
      Then there was all that Satanic stuff. Doesn’t anyone from there do it in bed with a female human any more? 🙂
      
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      December 1, 2016 8:48pm
      - stigie
        
        Nasska;- We could always ask Dad if he was around, im sure he would have the inside goss..?
        
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        December 1, 2016 8:52pm
      - sam green
        
        I feel his presence ……..
        
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        December 1, 2016 8:54pm
      - sam green
        
        No sorry – it was just a fart.
        
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        December 1, 2016 9:01pm
      - Griff
        
        d4j d4j d4j
        It works for some of the whackos around here ….
        
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        December 1, 2016 9:14pm
Griff

Used to be be necrophiliac but the rotten c#nt split on me.
What”s the definition of necrophilia?Cracking open a cold one!
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December 1, 2016 8:46pm
- mikenmild
  
  Necrophilia, is dead boring, whereas incest is onlt relatively boring.
  
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  December 1, 2016 8:57pm
  - starboard
    
    Incest is a game all the family can play…
    
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    December 1, 2016 10:18pm
sam green

Errrrrr griff ……
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December 1, 2016 8:55pm
Griff

Dont take your self so seriously all the time Sam .
Or maybe its because I was born in chch …..
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December 1, 2016 8:57pm
- sam green
  
  No I just felt a bit sick …… um ….
  
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  December 1, 2016 9:00pm
- nasska
  
  …..”Or maybe its because I was born in chch”…..
  
  Therapy may help! ?
  
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  December 1, 2016 9:03pm
  - Griff
    
    I find having to apologize to people for being jafa works wonders for the shame of being born in chch .
    Especially as I am often dealing with contractors in the wilds of north land at the moment . We seem to have a slight difference of opinion.
    They think herds of wild pigs are a great idea.
    I think they really rip the fuck out of pasture and will happily kill all the bloody things .
    
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    December 1, 2016 9:12pm
    - nasska
      
      You never know how things will turn out Griff. A mate of mine bought 2000acres of steep hill country not far from the Wairarapa coast nearly 30 years ago. It was covered in regenerating manuka & kanuka but he worked his guts out ending up with about 150 acres of reasonable pasture. All the fences were hotwired to keep out the wild pigs.
      
      He’s now semi-retired thanks to Wellington pighunters paying fees to hunt the area & the income from allowing beekeepers to harvest the manuka honey.
      
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      December 1, 2016 9:24pm
Reid

Speaking of boring, this is a good article on Modi’s recent de-monetization – basically eliminating big denomination notes – which is a pre-cursor for a BTT (Bank Transaction Tax), replacing all other taxes.

Only problem is, it won’t work.

http://thewire.in/83508/modi-demonetisation-bank-transaction-tax/
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December 1, 2016 9:14pm
rightoverlabour

I know many on the left dismiss Breitbart. However, they should read this: Written by a Clinton supporter on Breitbart. Our pathetic excuses for journalists should read it too.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/11/why-im-writing-for-breitbart-gregory-ferenstein-214488
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December 1, 2016 9:55pm
Manolo

Opposing Petraeus:
http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/11/29/all-the-presidents-generals-potentially-including-one-at-state/
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December 1, 2016 10:05pm
BeeSting

First People to be subject to massive organised slavery White Europeans.

In fact most White Christian European Culture is an intelligent response to Slavery. White Slavery.

First people put in “Concentration Camps”
White South Africans.

First use of the Term “Final Solution”
was strangely enough used in the 1941 book
written very ironically by an American Jew called

“Germany Must Perish”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany_Must_Perish!

Available as a Free Download
https://archive.org/details/GermanyMustPerish

Some of its methods are the basic blueprint that is had been and will continue to be implemented in any country with “Europeans” in it.
Natzi or Not you are in their cross hairs.

Including Australia and NZ

Free American African Slaves created the State of
Liberia? Awesome Maybe Obama is going to go live there because that is the way America was heading?

Free Europeans created nearly everything you see before you.

Africans were sold into Slavery by other Africans and muslims. Nothing much has changed in 1000 years by the way it is the same players up to the same BS.

It was White Christian Europeans who set them
Black Americans free.

The Reason our Head of State is the Head of the Army and the Head of the Church is the
Celtic Church morphed into the Anglican one

For Britain to remain “Free” it had to be “So”

I do not agree with the Natzi Treatment of jews

But you have to also state that millions more than
6 million white christians were also
Holocausted in

Russian Revolution Gulags Holodomor
on and on

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earnest_Hooton

The Karlegi plan is especially
Fruity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_von_Coudenhove-Kalergi

Coudenhove-Kalergi is recognized as the founder of the first popular movement for a united Europe.

When you see that the person responsible for
Founding the EU actually preached White Genocide

You can get the general jist of what a bunch
of absolute Fruit Cakes these people are

The man of the future will be of mixed race. Today’s races and classes will gradually disappear owing to the vanishing of space, time, and prejudice. The Eurasian-Negroid race of the future, similar in its appearance to the Ancient Egyptians, will replace the diversity of peoples with a diversity of individuals. …

If you want to know what is going on
Read the Above

WW1-WW2
depopulation exercises

WW3 already started and well underway

NExt Question

The above BS has a new interpretation in all the
ANTI WHITE PROPAGANDA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noel_Ignatiev

Who just happens to be a wait for it…..
Communist strange that?

Communism was just slavery re packaged
and re branded for the new era

is behind the modern interpretation of
Germany must perish it is now

“treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity”.

Yeah Yeah Whiteness is a construct that must be
conveniently eradicated.

One of his more Hilarious book is

https://www.amazon.com/Irish-Became-White-Routledge-Classics/dp/0415963095

How the “Irish Became White”

Hilarious a Jewish American Communists take
on Irish History, yeah right

You mean how the Irish Survived White Slavery
White Genocide, Famine etc etc etc and came up Trumps

The Final Plantation of Ireland is well underway
courtesy of the EU will they wake up to it
in time

Time will tell.

and let’s not Forget that the reason we are
subjected to so much

ANTI RUSSIAN propaganda is they
are the only White Christian Country Left

as Henry Ford Said

When Russia Turn the Word will Tremble

and they have turned back to their Foundation
as a Free Christian Country

White people always break the Shackles

The planned White Genocide will fail
as miserably as the last pathetic
Islamic attempt to enslave Europe and European people.

There is a revolution coming folks
and it is not sponsored by Georgie Porgie Soros

Have you noticed the similarities two certain
political and religous ideologies

To implement them all they do is kill
and enslave the opposition.

Mao was the best at it
He was so good he got a Maori Cloak
which is in Te papa

Choice Eh
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December 1, 2016 11:32pm
Manolo

Stopping Obama:
http://www.timesofisrael.com/us-officials-obama-has-nearly-ruled-out-un-action-on-israel/
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