General Debate 15 January 2017

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Viking2

Morning all.
Well we have done it.

Not that we really want all they expat jaffa’s and their bloody cars.

Dunedin has been overtaken by Tauranga as the country’s fifth largest city.

I wonder if Simon will now see we get the roading money we deserve so we can have roads like the Naki and Hawkes Bay and Wairarapa?
Suppose not.

Population estimates by Statistics New Zealand reveal Tauranga has overtaken Dunedin’s population of 127,000, clocking in at 128,200 people in 2016.

The southern city’s population increased an estimated 6200 between 1996 and 2016, while booming Tauranga’s population grew by 48,400 over the same period.

And here’s some numbers for the climate nutters.

Temperatures have been recorded in the Tauranga area at several sites during the last 100 years, including the current Tauranga Airport site from June 1990.

The average afternoon temperature in December 2016 was 22.3 degrees Celsius, only 0.1 degrees warmer the average over the last 104 years.
– See more at: http://www.sunlive.co.nz/blogs/10393-tauranga-average-afternoon-temperatures-december-19132016.html#sthash.q5obw7Ge.dpuf

Good graph of the temps there.
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January 15, 2017 8:03am
- holysheet
  
  yes the traffic chaos reflects this. It is getting as bad as visiting Auckland.
  
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  January 15, 2017 8:08am
  - Awww C-mon
    
    It’s quickly becoming too much for this fella, might take some dorklanders money for my place and head south. Whakatane appeals but perhaps even further, Naki could be a go.
    
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    January 15, 2017 8:17am
    - Viking2
      
      Prepare to buy some winter clothes. Nice towns down there in Stratford and Eltham, good house prices, no major traffic.
      Even Opanake is growing. New houses there.
      In fact new houses in most of the towns around the North Island.
      People everywhere seem to be up beat about most things.
      Colder than here by several degrees.
      
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      January 15, 2017 8:22am
      - Awww C-mon
        
        Thought I might spend the winters with Starboard ?
        
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        January 15, 2017 8:51am
      - mikenmild
        
        AC – at least you know that joining starboard on his imaginary holidays would be cheap.
        
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        January 15, 2017 9:01am
      - dirty harry
        
        Im sure you would be welcome A/C, unlike the pin dick milkenmild.
        
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        January 15, 2017 4:57pm
  - G152
    
    Any city in NZ has traffic volumes that didn’t exist 20 years ago.
    Part of a growing economy I suppose
    
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    January 15, 2017 8:23am
    - holysheet
      
      Any where but Cambridge. Mrs Holy and I are building a house there and we don’t need the traffic chaos that Auckland and Tauranga has.
      
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      January 15, 2017 8:32am
      - Captain Mainwaring
        
        It will come. Cambridge will eventually be a suburb of Hamilton.
        
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        January 15, 2017 8:51am
      - Viking2
        
        At least Cambridge now has a cheap bypass for all the main road traffic. No tolls either.
        Made a big difference to the town.
        
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        January 15, 2017 9:24am
    - waikatogirl
      
      The south Hamilton section to join up at Tamahere-Cambridge section is well past being necessary. Commuting time will be much improved once finished and remove a very annoying, slow moving bottleneck.
      
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      January 15, 2017 9:47am
    - PhilBest
      
      One of the problems is that contrary to the lies of the Greenies, NZ has outlier-low URBAN “major road” space.
      
      European cities have possibly double what we do per capita, and US cities 3 to 5 times as much.
      
      What we have a ridiculous excess of, is rural roads. There are numerous routes, totalling multiple lanes, by which you can get from Fielding to Palmerston North, yet only a single lane by which you can get from Kapiti to Wellington. Exactly the same capacity as there is between every little hicksville in NZ and the remotest, most marginal farms.
      
      Transmission Gully is far too little, far too late. I predict it will suffer breakdown congestion at rush hour right from when it opens. Then the anti-car, anti-freedom activists propaganda machine will swing into action with its meme “that is always the result of too much roads and not enough trains”.
      
      National’s RONS program is only a drop in the bucket of what is needed.
      
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      January 15, 2017 9:57am
      - srylands
        
        Agree. I laughed at Marquees last week referring to the RONS as “superhighways”. Right. The Kapiti Expressway is going to be an adequate 4 lane divided road. That’s great but let’s not over egg it .
        
        TG will not fix Wellington morning congestion between Tawa and the city . What is required is widening the motorway from 4 to 6 lanes all the way . And enforcing lane discipline. No you can’t just pick a lane at random and drive at 80.
        
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        January 15, 2017 12:35pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Absolutely true, sometimes we have to wait for an oncoming car before we can make a right-hand turn.
      
      A few days ago we were forced to walk half a block before we found an empty car park near our fav cafe.
      
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      January 15, 2017 10:29am
      - holysheet
        
        you will now get there faster on your new trike ?
        
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        January 15, 2017 10:52am
  - stephieboy
    
    More Rapid Rail !
    
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    January 15, 2017 9:58am
- Southern Raider
  
  Take off the students the net population is probably only 28,000
  
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  January 15, 2017 8:39am
- Southern Raider
  
  Plenty of hardly used four lane roads in Invercargill that could easily support another 50,000
  
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  January 15, 2017 8:41am
- JIV
  
  Theres something not right about your temperature data. Send it to NIWA and they’ll soon correct it for you.
  
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  January 15, 2017 10:55am
- Don the Kiwi
  
  Griff is gonna be along shortly to explain why those temperatures –
  (A) Are incorrect.
  (B) Explain why they haven’t gone up but the readings are false.
  (C) Call you a denier/wankfest/idiot etc, and produce 10 links from the 97% of scientists to show the info is wrong
  
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  January 15, 2017 11:20am
  - Griff
    
    Actually I read it .
    and ignored it as silly rubbish not worth effort
    How is it that you think the temperature in Tauranga is significant on ta global scale?
    It is not even significant on the national scale .
    
    Shouldn’t you be off munching on magic zombies bits ?
    Num num num bits of Jesus flesh washed down with some nice blood.
    Filthy cannibal.
    
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    January 15, 2017 11:31am
    - Viking2
      
      It is what it is and that’s what makes it a nice place to live. (apart from the immigrants and Jaffa’s that is). Don’t like it then go to Invercargil, we don’t care.
      
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      January 15, 2017 1:00pm
    - rightoverlabour
      
      Griff dare you to insult some ragheads in the same way. there are insufficient insults in the English language to describe you. However, cunt might suffice.
      
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      January 15, 2017 6:37pm
- bc
  
  You really don’t want roads like the ‘Naki.
  Have you travelled North from New Plymouth?
  Not the worst road I’ve been on, but be prepared to wind you way up and down over hills and through gorges with very few passing opportunities.
  Incredible when you consider that it is pretty much the only way to get North.
  
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  January 15, 2017 11:22am
  - Viking2
    
    Isn’t that where MT Messenger is?
    I did include that as a road that needs a fix.
    
    One of the locals told me that recently Simon had to travel to NP by car down that road. Apparently not impressed with it at all. They have hopes.
    Yeah one day.
    
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    January 15, 2017 12:55pm
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  No roading money. Auckland needs it – we have been running on fixed up roads for 20 years. Roading should be funded by the percentage of Tax the City pays (population) Tauranga has many retired (no Tax) but hey, Wellington has never ever paid Tax – just gathered it.
  End of rant
  
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  January 15, 2017 3:19pm
Viking2

Yep and I wonder if Simon will see if we can get a better share of the roading dosh.
We would like roads like they have down the Naki, Hawkes Bay, Wairarapa.

Travelled a lot around this last year and apart from out of Wellington and Auckland the other roads that need attention are Mt Messenger, Taupo to Desert Road, Tauranga to Katikati (about the most dangerous road in NZ by fatalities), Whangaporoa ( a total disgrace), The Kaimai rd, renowned for its truck traffic.
and Northland doesn’t need to complain about one way bridges. Go to the Naki and there are dozens of them and they manage ok.
Eltham needs a truck by pass which Fontera should pay for. Truck and trailers tankers, one after the other, all day and all night.
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January 15, 2017 8:19am
- holysheet
  
  They should put a Toll tunnel through the Kaimais on the Tauranga to Hamilton road. This would take most of the trucks off the Paeroa Tauranga road.
  
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  January 15, 2017 8:26am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Crap.
    They just need to connect the Waikato Expressway with Tauranga with a four-lane highway over the Kaimais. This would substantially reduce traffic on the Waihi route.
    
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    January 15, 2017 8:42am
    - Viking2
      
      A tunnel is what we need and we need a duplicate rail tunnel so we can feed containers back and forth. Sooner rather than the usual later.
      
      The new Maresk container ships from Sth America to Asia are leaving fully laden. Tga now getting transit from Aussie to Asia.
      
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      January 15, 2017 9:28am
      - peterwn
        
        A duplicate rail tunnel is not required for ages. USA railroads send enormous tonnages via single track lines (Union Pacific has a massive control centre at Omaha, Nebraska for dispatching their massively long trains), all that is needed is more passing loops and increasing the length of older ones.
        
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        January 15, 2017 11:02am
    - Viking2
      
      Peterwn
      They also have a wider gauge and many more miles of lines without the same height restrictions.
      Rail have been duplicating their lines along the way where they can. Containers now come from allover to Tga because of the big ships and the weekly service to Asia.
      There is also a lot of logs still going thru the port. Too many on trucks especially from the Coromandel and East Cape.
      
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      January 15, 2017 1:05pm
- Stars And Stripes
  
  That traffic bypass for tankers you talk about has been discussed before and shelved due to the fact that in Eltham Fonterra’s factories are just about in the city centre itself so how is a bypass going to work?.
  As for Fonterra bearing the cost of this bypass well if you took Fonterra out of Taranaki a huge portion of the economy disappears so they are already contributing a huge amount which surely would cover this if it was required.
  Stay in Taranaki a couple of months and you won’t even hear the tankers anymore-part of the scenery so to speak.
  
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  January 15, 2017 9:02am
  - Viking2
    
    The two factories in Eltham are only quite small compared to Hawera.
    Like all these small towns that traffic kills them Cambridge, Te puke are two good examples of how much better the towns have become once that heavy traffic is shifted out.
    Towns are for people not road behemoths. Fontera of course is not all the traffic but probably 50% of the big stuff. Plenty of fuel tankers and big general freight type trucks and refrigerated trucks.. Same problem for Stratford except their road is a bit wider.
    
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    January 15, 2017 9:34am
Manolo

Any excuse is good:
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lost the presidential race against President-elect Donald Trump in November, and a Friday report from Politico asserts supermarket tabloids are to blame.

http://dailycaller.com/2017/01/13/latest-why-she-lost-clinton-conspiracy-theory-is-about-people-seeing-tabloids-in-grocery-lines/#ixzz4VlW0Mwlj
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January 15, 2017 8:20am
Paulus

SH 2 west of Tauranga is one of the worse roads for crashes and deaths. Little is being done to effectively a single lane from Waihi to Tauranga with a couple of dangerous overtaking lanes.
Yet the Eastern corridor route costing millions has been open a year carrying a fraction of the traffic eastwards. Great toll road but it is west that is needed.
Admittedly the terrain is the opposite of the Eastern road which is flat ex marsh liquefaction land past Te Puke.
For 25 years discussion has taken place re the Western route – land has been designated and a few minor route changes are envisaged in the next few years ?
The western traffic route can only get worse – when schools are in it is chaos for many kilometres as people return to work and schools.
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January 15, 2017 8:21am
- Viking2
  
  Been here since 1974 and the road was bad then and has never really improved given the traffic.
  It was a horse and cart track tar-sealed and is very unforgiving. Make a mistake and its in your face immediately.
  I see now that Western Bay are looking to grow the housing for Katikati by 3000 houses. WTF are they thinking. Most of those people will have to use the highway.
  
  But Simon wants the money spent on the golden triangle and that doesn’t include the Tga to Waihi stretch.
  
  And just to rub salt into the wound we are the only city in NZ where we have to pay to enter and pay to leave and pay to travel from one end to the other. If Simon and his mates in Wellington had any principles at all they would either get rid of our toll roads or toll a few more like into Auckland and Wellington.
  Outrageous that if I chose to work in the CBD I pay a toll to go out to the Tauriko end of the motorway but not if I go to Bethlehem nor over the Mount. or Papamoa.
  
  But that’s safe seats with National. Never get what ya should.
  
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  January 15, 2017 8:33am
  - Southern Raider
    
    We have one called the Waiwera tunnel
    
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    January 15, 2017 8:46am
  - Happychappy
    
    What did Winston do in his time as your MP.
    
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    January 15, 2017 9:28am
    - Viking2
      
      Good question. Got us a new bridge without which our town and our port would be snarled up even worse.
      Along with Bob Clarkson moved the Eastern Link way up the agenda.
      
      Only two MP’s that actually got anything done.
      What did the Nats do in the last 40 years?
      Sweet fanny adams.
      
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      January 15, 2017 9:37am
      - Paulus Gnome
        
        What did the (Romans) ‘Nats’ do for us? Provide the wherewithal to make the project happen, that’s what the ‘Nats’ did.
        
        Ask your self what the ‘twats’ did while they warmed their ample arses on the treasury benches.
        
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        January 15, 2017 10:48am
    - waikatogirl
      
      Yes, Winnie jumped the queue and got Tauranga roading built before it was needed at the detriment to other areas such as Hamilton where we were crying out for much needed by-passes.
      
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      January 15, 2017 9:51am
      - Viking2
        
        What rot.
        The original bridge was built and paid for by toll money at the bridge.
        We built our own motorway from the original bridge to Waihi rd which was paid for by tolls at the bridge. That wasn’t done until the tolls had paid for our bridge so the only thing the Nats did was allow us legislation to toll the bridge which allowed it to be built (the first bridge.) They then played hard to change when we wanted to build more of our own motorway.
        We eventually overcame the useless twats and got on with the job. Had we not done all these things we would have nothing whilst waiting for the Govt.’s both colours.
        The second bridge was part of Winstons bargaining that allowed Clark to govern.
        
        The place would be a disaster worse than it is without all our own efforts.
        
        Still pisses me that we have to pay tolls when no one else does, even though the road has gone from Council ownership to NZTA.
        
        Didn’t mind when the council owned it.
        Worse thing is that plod now thinks its part of their territory. Before they used to speed down there like the rest of us, now they use it for revenue collecting. Arsewipes.
        
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        January 15, 2017 1:17pm
- Southern Raider
  
  Wouldn’t building a kaimai tunnel been a great project for when the economy was flat just after GFC? Maybe the Govt needs to line up some huge infrastructure projects and get designs, consents completed so they can push the go button whenever they need to fill some gaps
  
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  January 15, 2017 8:44am
  - Awww C-mon
    
    Just axe the rail and then convert the existing train tunnel, would also mean fixing the tga-waihi issues.
    I have no idea if it’s feasible.
    
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    January 15, 2017 8:54am
    - Viking2
      
      You would put all those containers on trucks and send them along the road to Auckland?
      
      Tga will become the container port for NZ simply because it has already. It has the depth and the ability provided they can keep moving the containers.
      I expect to see the port move more to automation in the next year or two. Lots of transshipment happening and POT has fingers in a few other regional ports to feed into TGA. It also has a shareholding with Fonterra and Silver Fern Farms in Kotare which is about logistics for those two big guys. So captured a huge customer base.
      
      Auckland will eventually be stuffed as they want a pretty waterfront in town so big ships are not going there.
      
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      January 15, 2017 9:43am
    - Viking2
      
      Also those containers come from all over including down the Naki to Tga.
      New Plymouth is basically oil and slowly building log exports. Much of the planting down there was done during the 90’s so is just coming on stream.
      
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      January 15, 2017 9:46am
  - waikatogirl
    
    The number of trains with freight between the Port of Tauranga and the Hamilton Inland port has increased so doing away with the railway line is a no go.
    
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    January 15, 2017 9:29am
    - Viking2
      
      Line needs duplicating in more places and the tunnel needs heightening sdo they can carry higher loads.
      Tunnel is currently undergoing its first major maintenance since it was built.
      
      http://www.nzherald.co.nz/bay-of-plenty-times/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503343&objectid=11512646
      
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      January 15, 2017 9:53am
  - Viking2
    
    Been tought about but auckland needs its trains more? (votes perhaps?)
    
    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/bay-of-plenty-times/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503343&objectid=11003072
    
    Three routes for a road tunnel through the Kaimai Ranges, linking Tauranga with the Waikato, are being investigated by the NZ Transport Agency – and a preferred option should be locked in by the year’s end.
    NZTA regional director Harry Wilson says one option involves building a road tunnel near the existing rail tunnel, another is building a tunnel near Thompsons Track, between Katikati and Apata. The third option, known as a summit-level tunnel, involves building a tunnel half-way up the existing alignment of State Highway 29.
    
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    January 15, 2017 9:54am
  - artemisia
    
    Probably need to bring in migrants to do the work, so any government would get smacked for that.
    
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    January 15, 2017 12:08pm
Komata

ACM

Kawerau? Texas or (if you’re really desperate) Tany’?

Cheaper housing certainly, but not sure about the locals (especially in Texas and Tany) …

Suggested as options only… 🙂
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January 15, 2017 8:22am
- Awww C-mon
  
  Love Tane and Ruatoki, done a chunk of work up there and aside from the 1%ers really good people.
  My $$ can stretch a little further though to be fair ?
  K-town is entering a growth phase, retiree’s making their dollar stretch
  
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  January 15, 2017 8:57am
Happychappy

Winston doing what he knows best trying to make the Pike River Mine disaster into another type of Winebox Enquiry. I wonder if he has even thought that most people in NZ have felt for the Family’s over their loss they have had enough and don’t like seeing any group or Politian blackmail the Government after the circus of implementing the Health and Safety Legislation. There are other people in NZ that have had their loved ones struck by work place tragedy and never been compensated with the large sums this group have been paid so is Winston ready to open their case’s so they can have more.
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January 15, 2017 8:22am
- G152
  
  Can be summed up in two words.
  Peters pandering
  
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  January 15, 2017 8:27am
- holysheet
  
  The drunken dwarf is only doing this for the votes he sees in it. There are plenty of dumb arse voters out there. Anyone actually believe him when he says he will be the first into the mine?
  
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  January 15, 2017 8:29am
  - PhilBest
    
    Winston’s major contribution to the political process on winning the Northland by-election, was to derail RMA reforms.
    
    Reforms that Northland’s economy needed!
    
    If Peters had any principles at all, he would be taking a stand against irrational Green obstructionism of everything, and attacking National for not doing more to wind back the excesses that are occurring in the hands of govt bureaucracies and Councils. He should be saying mines like Pike River should have been open-cast in the first place.
    
    But no, if it is politically expedient, he will go along with continued economic sabotage of the whole country.
    
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    January 15, 2017 9:37am
    - wiseowl
      
      The proposed reforms are wrong but that’s another story.
      I was talking to a builder last week who said the council was breaching its stormwater discharge consent.(volume)
      The answer dreamed up is to make all new houses install a water tank that has a 100mm intake and a 20 mm outlet to choke off discharges.
      Trouble is when there is a downpour it overflows.
      This is adding around $3000 to cost of house.
      Insanity.
      
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      January 15, 2017 10:42am
    - G152
      
      Peters is liebor light.
      He votes with them.
      Advances their agenda.
      Leave him and his mates to history
      
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      January 15, 2017 12:14pm
- lifesgood
  
  I’m fed up to the back teeth with these Pike River clowns. They have had enough compensation and don’t deserve a cent more. Yes, of course it is a sad tragedy but these happen everyday. There are no bodies to get out and at least they know where they are and can put a memorial up at the entry to visit. Enough is enough. Bernie Monk and Winston Peters can shut up already.
  
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  January 15, 2017 11:01am
- Paulus
  
  Where did the $30,000,000 plus money go to the Miner’s families.
  My family along with taxpayers gave generously – where Bernie did the money go ?
  Have yet to hear any answer as have asked before.
  
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  January 15, 2017 1:26pm
billmurray

A very nasty article against Bill English in the Horrid on Saturday by John Roughan.
It was a awful piece of personal opinion.
What’s his gripe?.
Anyone know?.
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January 15, 2017 8:26am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  He doesn’t need a gripe if he’s a committed lefty ‘journalist’.
  
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  January 15, 2017 8:32am
  - Viking2
    
    Oscar Knightley also has something to say.
    
    Hopefully English will be a bit more like Trump and less like Key. Tell them all to fuck off and cry in their beards.
    
    http://www.stuff.co.nz/good-reads/88418148/oscar-kightley-english-should-change-his-mind-and-front-up-to-waitangi
    
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    January 15, 2017 8:49am
    - MCos
      
      I should imagine that Bill English would be horrified at the thought of being considered to be ‘a bit like Trump’.
      
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      January 15, 2017 9:01am
    - Yvette
      
      That “the country’s leader is invited to such an event and but banned from speaking” is a racial affront that should be addressed by the Race Relation Conciliator, Dame Susan Devoy.
      
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      January 15, 2017 1:00pm
      - jonar
        
        Was he really banned?
        
        http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/322044/pm-turned-down-waitangi-speaking-compromise
        
        21 December, 2016: Bill English’s office writes to Waitangi marae chairman Ngati Kawa Taituha seeking clarification about the prime minister’s invitation to attend and speak at the pōwhiri at Te Tii Marae.
        
        4 January, 2017: Mr Taituha replies, saying Mr English would be invited to the pōwhiri, but his Māori representative would be the only person able to speak. He would be able to speak at a forum after the pōwhiri.
        
        8 January, 2017: Mr English’s office turns down the invitation to attend the pōwhiri, on the basis he would not be given full speaking rights.
        
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        January 15, 2017 2:57pm
  - Nookin
    
    Actually he is one of the more evenhanded journalists. Probably why Key was happy for him to write his biography and why the Dailyblog can’t stand him.
    
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    January 15, 2017 8:56am
  - stephieboy
    
    And wrote a biography about his hero John Key !
    
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    January 15, 2017 10:01am
- calendar girl
  
  BillM, here’s the John Roughan link in the “Herald”: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=11781839
  
  Having read it on seeing your comment, I’m surprised by your description of it as “nasty”. While I disagree with Roughan on the Waitangi issue, he makes an interesting point in his analysis of English’s ‘tactical’ response to a left-field media question about whether he is a feminist.
  
  The modern “New Zealand Herald” is a poor claimant for the title of this country’s major newspaper. But the opinion commentary it contains is not always as excruciating as, for example, the Saturday offerings from Lizzie Marvelly. Roughan’s views are open to debate, of course, but what he wrote yesterday hardly constituted “a very nasty article against Bill English”.
  
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  January 15, 2017 9:04am
  - namron
    
    I let out a silent scream each Sat morning when I read Marvelly’s diatribe. Surely she is paying the Herald to have her odious rubbish published!
    
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    January 15, 2017 3:33pm
- Paulus Gnome
  
  NFR (Normal for Roughan)
  
  You can roll a turd in glitter . . . .
  
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  January 15, 2017 9:29am
- Jack5
  
  Do contributors get paid for such “opinion pieces”?
  
  Roughan, as a former hack, probably does, but others, probably not.
  
  Cheapo stuff for the MSM, an industry in trouble as advertising falls.
  
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  January 15, 2017 10:59am
  - stephieboy
    
    Jacko 5 , share with us some of your top media luminaries .
    
    Alex Jones ?
    Steve Bannon ?
    Redbaiter ?
    
    etc, etc, etc
    
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    January 15, 2017 12:56pm
    - Jack5
      
      As-Salaam-Alaikum!
      
      Stephie X posted at 12.56:
      
      … share with us…
      
      Us? Big Stephiestani team on roster today?
      
      That explains why there are so many Stephie posts in the General Debate thread.
      
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      January 15, 2017 2:03pm
EAD

Some cucked SJW who constantly extols the virtue of immigration (who I don’t know why I remain friends with on Social media) posted this article up this morning on how all humans descended from African man and as such it “proved” “were all the same”:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4103074/The-journey-ancestors-New-model-brings-step-closer-understanding-migration-Africa.html

I replied back that if this theory is true, and that they’ve had a 100,000 year head start on us, what have they got to show for it? Most are still living in mudhuts.
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January 15, 2017 8:29am
- mikenmild
  
  How many generations back do you have a Jewish ancestor? Four? Five?
  
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  January 15, 2017 8:41am
- PhilBest
  
  Most of our Briton ancestors were still living in mudhuts too when Mesopotamia had a public water supply.
  
  It is all about culture, not race.
  
  The Anglos took the lead only in the last few centuries, because of a fortuitous direction of cultural evolution. I see no inherent, scientific anthropological reason why the cultural evolution could not have happened among some other people. Someone had to be first, that is all.
  
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  January 15, 2017 9:42am
  - EAD
    
    It is all about culture, not race.
    
    The Anglos took the lead only in the last few centuries, because of a fortuitous direction of cultural evolution. I see no inherent, scientific anthropological reason why the cultural evolution could not have happened among some other people
    
    @ Philbest, you and many Kiwis are cucked beyond belief. It comes from having to pretend that drunken Maori savages were wise, lived with nature, had awesome navigational skills, we’re extremely advanced and that all of their failings must be whitey’s fault. It is a short step from that to universal humanitarianism.
    
    I find your statements that western values are “human” values to be particularly offensive. Hey, if a bunch a Africans start drinking tea and watching Coronation street who cares if we die out? Western values are European values. They belong to us and us alone. You will not see many Africans clamouring for European values on their own countries, so why on earth would they be expect them to embrace them in ours?
    
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    January 15, 2017 10:01am
    - stephieboy
      
      EAD, shall we use you as test case with your Nazi National Socialism racial ideology exemplifying the peak of Western Civilised norms and values .
      
      Can we begin with the physiological and biological structure of your brain and compare it your mud hut African’s and see if we can spot the difference ?
      
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      January 15, 2017 10:09am
    - Gabby
      
      Cuck soccer beyond belief.
      
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      January 15, 2017 1:08pm
  - Scorpion
    
    HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
    
    What complete and Utter total
    BULL SH*T what leftist ANTI WHITE CRAPOLA
    of the Highest order do tell us why highly organised Mighty ROMAN EMPIRE SCUM took three attempts to even gain 1 big toe on Britain YOU ARE FULL OF SH*T AND they NEVER SUCCEEDED
    
    The British Isle have megalithic structure that
    pre date the Pyramids DICK HEAD
    by about 500-600 years MORON
    
    The Anglos ? HOLY CRAP you ARE A CRETIN
    
    The Angles are only one Germanic Tribe of Many
    that settled in the British Isle they were Hired
    to help the Romans who could not cope.
    
    Your Middle Eastern Goat Herders and Camel Humpers are still living in the STONE AGE
    Drinking Camel Urine and beheading each other
    like the primitive backward Savage Morons
    you and they are.
    
    Cold day in hell before we bow down to your
    GOAT SHEEP and CAMEL Sodomites
    
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    January 15, 2017 5:23pm
- Gabby
  
  Cuck soccer.
  
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  January 15, 2017 1:07pm
  - Steve (North Shore)
    
    Surely you mean cork soaker weird one
    
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    January 15, 2017 3:27pm
- Lucia Maria
  
  EAD,
  
  So, what is your genetic background? How many generations of EAD ancestors have lived in NZ, and where did they come from?
  
  Come on EAD, do you have the guts to nail your flag to the mast? As a person who posts on the evils of immigration, you really need to hold yourself up to scrutiny.
  
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  January 15, 2017 1:16pm
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The privatisation of State housing is now a Mt Albert by-election issue.

Which of the other declared 2017 Mt Albert by-election candidates are going to stand up and be counted, to
STOP NIKI’S EVICTION?

__________________________

2017 Independent candidate for Mt Albert Penny Bright calls on all decent, concerned citizens to help defend Niki Rauti – this really gutsy (former) State tenant, who is refusing to budge, and making a brave stand against the privatisation of State housing and ‘democracy for developers’!

WHEN: Tuesday 17 January 2017
TIME: 6pm
WHERE: Assemble outside Glen Innes Public Library – to march to 14 Taniwha St, Glen Innes.
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January 15, 2017 8:51am
- mikenmild
  
  What a pity Glen Innes is not in the Mt Albert electorate, rendering your ‘march’ irrelevant to the by-election.
  
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  January 15, 2017 8:56am
  - Awww C-mon
    
    Hahahaha but that is Penny from start to finish, irrelevant
    
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    January 15, 2017 9:00am
    - sooty
      
      She is now, she’s disappeared!
      
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      January 15, 2017 3:59pm
  - Happychappy
    
    When are the people of our largest City going to stand up and make a point that they as ratepayers they are sick of the of the a not so Bright person using the logo of anti corruption campaigner when she does not pay rates. All though a lynch mob mentality should not be used it be would be good to see a large petition of signatures presented to Auckland City Council demanding that the rates must be paid immediately or her dwellings will be sold .If protester can use these tactics to achieve change what stops Auckland Ratepayers doing the same.
    
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    January 15, 2017 9:18am
    - Viking2
      
      Here is a question.
      Do you know for sure that the rates are not paid?
      
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      January 15, 2017 9:56am
      - Happychappy
        
        Why would she say that no rates will be paid until the Auckland City Council supply her with a list of all their contractors and subcontractors details on contracts they have been awarded so she conduct her witch hunt again’st them. But I will stand corrected if you can confirm she as paid her overdue rates.
        
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        January 15, 2017 10:51am
    - sooty
      
      Far Goff, when are going to grow some goolys and deal to the witch. It’s about time you got your rates in. I think your legal time should be working for free because they are tits useless!
      
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      January 15, 2017 4:04pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  I can understand your enthusiasm for state houses Penny. You will soon be on the waiting list for one.
  
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  January 15, 2017 9:19am
- Liberty
  
  The great unwashed once again go chasing windmills.
  
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  January 15, 2017 9:46am
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  See?
  I Spray and Walk Away
  Rubbish stays
  I walk away
  
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  January 15, 2017 3:28pm
Inandout

Well, this celebrity’s boycott of Trump’s inauguration has all the hallmarks of a ‘not offending Islam’ grovelling type announcement .

‘Singer Jennifer Holliday has pulled out of performing at Donald Trump’s inauguration and apologized to LGBT fans over what she called a “lapse of judgment” made clear to her by a Daily Beast article. The Grammy award-winning singer released an open letter on Saturday apologizing for being “uneducated on the issues that affect every American at this crucial time in history and for causing such dismay and heartbreak to my fans.” “In light of the information pointed out to me via the Daily Beast article on yesterday, my only choice must now be to stand with the LGBT Community and to state unequivocally that I will not perform for the welcome concert or for any of the inauguration festivities!” she wrote’.

But there is a benefiicial spin off to their boycott:
http://nypost.com/2017/01/14/why-trumps-inauguration-day-will-be-better-without-celebs/

And who is still coming:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/marcusjones/heres-whos-performing-at-trumps-inauguration-concert?utm_term=.mj2vZwo1x#.qtEp76aqr
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January 15, 2017 8:53am
- mikenmild
  
  There was a funny story a few days ago about Trump tweeting that Washington stores had sold out of ball gowns ahead of the inauguration. Needless to say; they hadn’t.
  
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  January 15, 2017 8:59am
  - All_on_Red
    
    That’s odd, there doesn’t seem to be such a tweet on his account.
    Got a link?
    #fake news
    
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    January 15, 2017 9:13am
    - mikenmild
      
      Sorry, not a tweet. It was in an interview with the NY Times:
      “All the dress shops are sold out in Washington. It’s hard to find a great dress for this inauguration.”
      http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/trump-meryl-streep-fight-233340
      
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      January 15, 2017 9:24am
      - All_on_Red
        
        Oh. All the ‘great’ dress shops have sold out. Not ‘Washington stores’ have sold out.
        You’re easily amused.
        
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        January 15, 2017 9:54am
      - stephieboy
        
        All on Red , is the inauguration ball going to be held in the Bronx ?
        
        Does Alex Jones and partner get an invitation ?
        
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        January 15, 2017 10:12am
      - mikenmild
        
        And you swallow Trump’s empty boasts too readily.
        
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        January 15, 2017 10:14am
      - stephieboy
        
        mm, All on Red is infatuated by the guy !
        
        https://eatprayvote.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/5184159nvc3uoue1.jpg?w=1184
        
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        January 15, 2017 12:59pm
- EAD
  
  The Grammy award-winning singer released an open letter on Saturday apologizing for being “uneducated on the issues that affect every American
  
  Back in the height of European Civilisation, people who could sing and dance were rightly regarded as little more than performing monkeys.
  
  It shows how far we’ve fallen that in today’s Globalist, soulless world of mindless consumption and cheap thrills, there are actually people out there who give such “slebs” opinions weight.
  
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  January 15, 2017 8:59am
  - Lance
    
    What era was the height of European Civilisation EAD?
    
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    January 15, 2017 9:05am
    - mikenmild
      
      Germany 1933-45?
      
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      January 15, 2017 9:25am
    - EAD
      
      The Victorian era.
      
      As an anecdote, I was driving through Palmerston North on our holidays and we called into see the New Zealand Rugby Museum.
      
      There was a photo of the crowd at an All Blacks test from 1908 vs. the British Lions and every man to a T was wearing a suit and hat.
      
      Contrast thay with a modern test where most likely you’ll see tattooed, mulleted, tracksuit wearing morons as standard.
      
      The contrast on dress amongst other things is striking. It’s like the current fuss about wearing pyjamas in the supermarket – that this is even a “debate” shows how far we’ve fallen.
      
      As this author so succinctly puts it in this excellent article, we are watching a slow motion civilisation collapse:
      
      https://alterorbisworld.wordpress.com/2017/01/12/history-to-the-defeated/#more-228
      
      Excerpt:
      
      Roman Britain did not collapse amidst hordes of raiding barbarians. Most of the great villas and houses declined in the late fourth century, before the withdrawal of the legions. Taxes drove the landed gentry into extinction and their houses were repurposed. Many of them stood for centuries after, sometimes lived in, sometimes changed. Skilled labour vanished and whenever roof tiles fell over in a high wind or fire damaged a ceiling, nothing could be repaired. Very few of these buildings were sacked by rampaging maniacs; it took them centuries before they were rubble.
      
      Collapse is noticing that your children can’t do their times tables. Collapse is noticing that roads are no longer repaired and potholes are left indefinitely. Collapse is realising that that masons and architects no longer have the skills to build anything beautiful. Collapse is going to church on Christmas Eve and noticing that no one can recite the General Confession from the prayer book. Collapse is realising that you can’t actually go to the moon anymore. Collapse is reading a tabloid newspaper from forty years ago and realising how much more literate it is than those of today. Collapse is hearing people speak with semi-inflected American accents. Collapse is people mocking those with elegant cut-glass RP accents and collapse is those people accepting this and toning their voices down.
      
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      January 15, 2017 9:32am
      - mikenmild
        
        Ah, the Victorian era, before antibiotics, compulsory education and women’s suffrage. Darkies kept firmly in subjection, too.
        
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        January 15, 2017 9:39am
      - Simon
        
        Hit the wrong button again and reported MM above. Ha! Fuck what a silly system.
        
        Height of Western Civ. Interesting question, Things don’t move in a straight line, but generally over time in the West things improve.
        
        With Brexit and Trump economics, culture, science will see new heights in the West.
        
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        January 15, 2017 9:53am
      - Simon
        
        In the West is society is so resilient it can with stand the punishment currently handed out to it by the Statist elites. See the EU & Obama, until the people reset the system.
        
        In a non – West country someone like Obama would have destroyed that society.
        
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        January 15, 2017 9:59am
      - stephieboy
        
        Simon , so under Obama’s watch they decided to stop giving out Noble Lauretes and scientific change and endeavour ceased ?
        
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        January 15, 2017 10:17am
      - stephieboy
        
        EAD , seems a very fanciful account of Britannia once the Romans left .
        
        I understood it was unprotected from Barbarian Saxon, Jute , Angle and Friesian invasions and conquest .
        
        Collapse ? I would have thought the Church roof collapsing on Christmas Eve with the presence of a deluded Apostle of hate like you !
        
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        January 15, 2017 10:25am
      - Rodney Randall
        
        “Collapse is noticing that roads are no longer repaired and potholes are left indefinitely. ”
        
        This sums up Christchurch perfectly. Major arterial roads remain goat tracks i.e. Bealey Avenue.
        
        City Hall just employed x2 Maori Race Relations Advisors and a 6 person Maori Committee.
        
        They employed a Eco Architect and a Rockerfeller appointed Chief Resilience Officer hack. Rockerfellers fly Mayors to junket conferences pay for flights then in exchange get their appointed stooges in the back door of local government to control planning.
        
        We are not allowed to know what any of them are paid even though we are paying their salaries.
        
        They hide behind l.g.o.i.m.a. “protect natural persons” clauses.
        
        What are they hiding from? Transparency and accountability? Bit like old Yule who is refusing to release his financial statements.
        
        Our main roads esp out east remain fucked up goat tracks 6 years post quake. Meanwhile the planneristas and elected council chumps fawn over their 15 traffic light intersection, green bicycle path (which no cyclists use), no street car parking, 30kph shit box of a city.
        
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        January 15, 2017 11:03am
    - Kimbo
      
      Ah, the Victorian era, before antibiotics, compulsory education and women’s suffrage. Darkies kept firmly in subjection, too
      
      …and many of those men in suits and (bowler) hats in that photo of 1908 would soon be engaged in a brutal war that would take 20 million lives trying to decide if “Rule Britannia” or ‘kultur” was the best form of European civilisation.
      
      Also, just for pedants the 1908 team was not known as the “Lions” at the time. That name first applied to the 1924 British tourists to South Africa, and only came into common use with the 1950 tour here. Also, the 1908 team were Anglo-Welsh. Due to issues of the daily allowances paid to the 1905 All Blacks, the Scottish and Irish Rugby Unions declined to participate.
      
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      January 15, 2017 10:19am
      - mikenmild
        
        As an aside, why are they now the ‘British and Irish Lions’. They used to be the ‘British Isles’, which encompasses Ireland, popularly known as the Lions.
        If they have to work Ireland into it specifically, why retain the Lions name, whioch is a British royal symbol?
        
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        January 15, 2017 10:32am
      - Kimbo
        
        Because they are adaptable yet also respectful of the past. Also, despite the domestic Irish issues, even in the conflict either side of the Great War that led to the formation of the Irish Free State in 1922, and then in the Troubles, the four “branches” (Ulster, Leinster, Connaught and Munster) of Irish Rugby has always been united and closely aligned with the other three Home Unions. In other words rugby people are not social revolutionaries.
        
        Interestingly, it was the 1930 British team out here, that wore dark blue jersies, white shorts and red socks (the All Blacks had to wear white jersies for the first time to avoid a clash) that was the first to add something to acknowledge a distinct Irish component – the Paddies in the team asked the manager, Bim Baxter to add a green strip of cloth to the top of the socks. He was the British rugby official by-the-way, who helped outlaw the 2-fronted 2-3-2 scrum, and thus abolish the “rover/wing-forward”.
        
        But since 1950 the Lions colours have been red jersey, white shorts, navy blue socks, with an emerald green turnover to reflect the four Home Unions.
        
        Also, great story about Irish and English rugby: As a result of the “Troubles”, Scotland and Wales declined to play in Dublin in 1972 so the five nations championship that year was not awarded. The next year, England were under pressure not to travel across the Irish Sea. They did, and played at Lansdowne Road, and, as was typical of English teams of that era, they lost. However, at the after match function the English captain and hooker, John Pullin, got up and started his after-dinner speech with “We may not be very good…but at least we turn up”.
        
        First time in history the people of Dublin would have willingly made an Englishman a freeman of the city on the spot! 😉
        
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        January 15, 2017 10:52am
      - Kimbo
        
        …another factoid – that 1908 Anglo-Welsh team included Fred Jackson, who was expelled from the touring party when it was discovered he had links to rugby league. I think he got as far home as Sydney, then returned back to New Zealand, later played for the Kiwis, married a local Maori woman (I can just see EAD shrieking “Miscegenation and race-suicide!”), and thus spawned the family line that has produced such notables as
        
        1937-38 All Black Everard,
        
        Syd,
        
        Moana,
        
        and Willie Jackson
        
        https://www.tvnz.co.nz/ondemand/the-dna-detectives/willie-jackson-s-dna-breakdown/04-11-2015
        
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        January 15, 2017 11:03am
  - PhilBest
    
    Opera and classical singers, like other classical / art musicians, conductors and composers, were held in some regard, were they not? Generally they were visibly contributors to the greatness of civilisation in their day, which makes a difference.
    
    You are talking about the entertainers in less dignified settings, such as the pub, the village square, and the “theatre”, are you not? A “chorus girl” was a classic trope of literature, for being the cause of a scandal when a gentleman was associated with her.
    
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    January 15, 2017 9:51am
    - stephieboy
      
      PhilBest , they still are if you take the trouble of e.g following the NZSO itinerant program or NZ ballet or visit you local Art gallery.
      
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      January 15, 2017 10:27am
- Nookin
  
  I think that a moratorium on the use of the words Trump, election and Clinton would be good for the soul and highly therapeutic.
  Some journalists, commentators, sore-losers are working themselves up into an ulcer-generating state of pent-up frenzy. It cannot be good for them.
  I have one question for those who attribute blame for the outcome on Putin. If all that Putin’s munchkins did was to hack and release the content of Hillary’s email, isn’t it more likely that the electorate didn’t like what the lady was saying in private?
  Are they saying that she was entitled to hide the fact that she and her campaign were donkey deep in all kinds of sleaze (probably on a par with Trump who spewed his sleaze gratuitously without the need for hacking)?
  Proof that in America, deceit is ok so long as you don’t get caught.
  
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  January 15, 2017 9:09am
- MCos
  
  I’m sure if Donald can’t attract any ‘A-List’ singers to his inauguration Barak will gladly give a rendition of ‘Born in the USA’
  
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  January 15, 2017 9:16am
  - mikenmild
    
    Not exactly a song that resonates with “make America great again.”
    
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    January 15, 2017 9:27am
  - waikatogirl
    
    “Hale To The Chief” would be a nice touch! ?
    
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    January 15, 2017 9:42am
    - fernglas
      
      “This land is your land, this land is my land”?
      
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      January 15, 2017 10:02am
      - mikenmild
        
        A socialist anthem?
        
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        January 15, 2017 10:15am
      - Paulus
        
        Remember Democracy only works if the Socialists win – if they don’t then it is the end of Democracy.
        
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        January 15, 2017 1:33pm
  - Gabby
    
    He could follow up with ‘Little Hands’ and ‘Golden Slumbers’.
    
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    January 15, 2017 1:21pm
Reid

It cannot be denied that an official of the Israeli Embassy in London collaborated with a British government employee who worked for a pro-Israeli Member of Parliament in order to attempt to destroy the reputation of a British government Minister. Yet the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office — the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, whose Minister of State (in effect the deputy foreign minister) was the person specifically targeted for a campaign of Israeli-British denigration — quickly stated that ‘The Israeli Ambassador has apologised and is clear these comments do not reflect the views of the embassy or government of Israel. The UK has a strong relationship with Israel and we consider the matter closed.’

And that is that. There will be no action by the British government, in spite of Mr Masot reflecting amusingly, and no doubt to the approval of Ms Strizzolo and much of the British public, that the Foreign Minister himself, Mr Boris Johnson, ‘is an idiot with no responsibilities.’

The Prime Minister, Theresa May, is entirely pro-Israel, as demonstrated by her criticism of departing US Secretary of State John Kerry who described the Israeli government as the ‘most right-wing in Israeli history, with an agenda driven by the most extreme elements.’ He was perfectly correct, but Mrs May scolded him and pleased the Israeli government by stating that she does ‘not believe that it is appropriate to attack the composition of the democratically elected government of an ally.’

The Conservative and Labour and all the other Friends of Israel have worked their magic in Britain, as does the enormously powerful Israeli lobby in the United States, and the Al Jazeera revelations were only a one-day-wonder in the West.

The Matter is Closed.

But imagine the outcry if there had been reports concerning such actions in London (or Washington) by a representative of any nation other than Israel.

If a Russian diplomat in the capital of any Western country had tried to engage in underhand antics like Israel’s ‘Senior Political Officer’ in London there would be massive journalistic fandangos in American and British media. The West’s television channels would be near meltdown with hysterical condemnation of the threat to democracy and there would be prolonged and frenzied anti-Russian outbursts in their halls of government.

But when Israel schemes to ‘take down’ a respected British Government minister with the assistance of a British government official, and the Israeli ambassador apologises for being found out, the British ignore insult, injury, contempt and condescension, and declare that ‘The UK has a strong relationship with Israel and we consider the matter closed.’

It is amazing what money can buy.

Money and treason. The glue of Western democracy as practiced today, thanks to idiot sheeple, somnolent as their society dis-integrates around them and they wait for the lying media to tell them what to think about next.

http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2017/01/13/matter-closed-but-would-closed-if-country-involved-wasnt-israel.html
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January 15, 2017 10:00am
- stephieboy
  
  Your thoughts on Bedi Netanyahu’s state visit to Putin’s Russia ?
  
  http://europe.newsweek.com/why-israels-netanyahu-warming-putin-467569?rm=eu
  
  More sneaky and nefarious Jewish/ Israeli stuff on hand ?
  
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  January 15, 2017 10:30am
  - Gabby
    
    He’s after some wholesale polonium.
    
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    January 15, 2017 1:23pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Corbyn Labour is calling for an inquiry
  Salmond SNP is calling for an inquiry
  
  http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/01/israel-lobby-headlines-resignations-calls-probe-170113110120893.html
  
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  January 15, 2017 1:10pm
Inandout

How inaugurations started off-

‘Presidents have celebrated in many ways since George Washington danced the minuet after his inauguration. James Madison and his wife Dolley were the guests of honor at the first official inaugural ball, held at Long’s Hotel in Washington, D.C. Since that time, such activities have been broadened to include a cross-section of the American population. Receptions, balls, and other public events reflect the president’s need to include many diverse groups in the transition of power, even, at times, officially sanctioned protesters. More than a celebration of one person’s rise to power, modern inaugurations validate the republic’s democratic processes. Modern inaugural festivities reflect not only the president they honor, but also the desire of many Americans to celebrate our nation’s rich history and the transfer of presidential power’.

When Marilyn Monroe sang at Kennedy’s inauguration there would have been some in the audience who knew the latter was humping her. And I guess some celebs at Clinton’s inauguration may have shared a bed, or corridor, with him.
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January 15, 2017 10:10am
- Kimbo
  
  Well, at least the celebrities, including actors didn’t stay away from Lincoln’s second “With malice toward none” inauguration!
  
  https://findery.com/iancmyers/notes/john-wilkes-booth-at-abraham-lincolns-2nd-inaugural-address
  
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  January 15, 2017 10:23am
  - mikenmild
    
    I assume that was John Wilkes Booth circled?
    
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    January 15, 2017 10:29am
  - Kimbo
    
    @ mikenmild
    
    Yes…but EAD would have been pleased:
    
    Although Booth hated the President, to be seen at such an affair without a proper hat is not a social faux-pax the vain John Wilkes Booth would’ve committed.
    
    Which is fair enough. The guy hated the President who freed darkies so much he murdered him, but his standards of decency were so sophisticated he wouldn’t be seen without a hat at a formal outdoor occasion. Interesting trade-off on the “more civilised” balance of scales.
    
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    January 15, 2017 10:32am
    - Reid
      
      No he was paid by the bankers to murder him Kimbo. Lincoln had issued greenbacks which were US debt-free currency and the bankers couldn’t tolerate that.
      
      Then when JFK issued the very same order he was killed a week or so later as well. I think with JFK there are two other good reasons too, but Exec Order 11011 or whatever it was, was sure one of them.
      
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      January 15, 2017 10:51am
      - mikenmild
        
        Whacko.
        
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        January 15, 2017 11:10am
      - stephieboy
        
        Reid , wrong about so called Exe Order 11,1011
        
        Myth #9: President Kennedy was assassinated because he tried to usurp the Federal Reserve’s power. Executive Order 11,110 proves it. (Last updated 9/4/2000)
        
        “..To understand exactly what Kennedy’s order was trying to do, we must understand the purpose of the legislation which gave the order its underlying authority. The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 (ch. 25, 48 Stat 51) to which Kennedy refers permits the President to issue silver certificates in various denominations (mostly $1, $2, $5, and $10) and in any total volume so long as the Treasury has enough silver on hand to redeem the certificates for a specific quantity and fineness of silver and that the total volume of such currency does not exceed $3 billion. The Silver Purchase Act of 1934 (ch. 674,48 Stat 1178) also grants this power to the Treasury Secretary subject to similar limitations. Nowhere in the text of the order is a quantity of money mentioned, so it is unclear how Marrs arrived at his $4.2 billion figure. Moreover, the President could not have authorized such a large issue because it would have exceeded the statutory limit.2
        As economic activity grew in the fifties and sixties, the public demand for low denomination currency grew, increasing the Treasury’s need for silver to back additional certificate issues and to mint new coins (dimes, quarters, half-dollars). However, during the late fifties the price of silver began to rise and reached the point that the market value of the silver contained in the coins and backing the certificates was greater than the face value of the money itself….2″
        
        http://www.publiceye.org/conspire/flaherty/flaherty9.html
        
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        January 15, 2017 11:17am
      - Kimbo
        
        @ Reid
        
        No he was paid by the bankers to murder him Kimbo. Lincoln had issued greenbacks which were US debt-free currency and the bankers couldn’t tolerate that.
        
        Then when JFK issued the very same order he was killed a week or so later as well. I think with JFK there are two other good reasons too, but Exec Order 11011 or whatever it was, was sure one of them.
        
        “I’ve been trying to figure something in my head, and maybe you can help me out, yeah? When a person is insane, as you clearly are, do you know that you’re insane? Maybe you’re just sitting around, reading “Guns and Ammo”, masturbating in your own feces, do you just stop and go, “Wow! It is amazing how fucking crazy I really am!”? Yeah. Do you guys do that?”
        
        (David Mills played by Brad Pitt, in Se7en (1995))
        
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        January 15, 2017 11:23am
      - Scorpion
        
        You Fail to really Understand the Real Reasoning behind the Assassination of the Kennedys.
        
        It goes back the the Viking Wars and the last major highly organised attempt to destroy Christianity and gather white slaves.
        Islam and another religion were involved in this
        as they are no doubt today.
        
        Nothing has changed the technology to kill and enslave has but this struggle is an old one.
        
        Kennedy’s are :
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A1l_gCais
        English: Dalcassians
        
        They Stopped the Vikings in their tracks
        (ended white slavery in Ireland) eventually, it is actually one of the most incredible turn arounds in history with only 8 irish actively resisting the Norse, from that group they turned it around.
        
        After the Norse were Booted out/converted another Norman Invasion had to be organised and so began 700 years of misery and 700 years of resistance to tyranny.
        
        It is really as simple as Kennedy stood for
        Freedom and the Truth.
        
        The people who assassinated him stand for the opposite.
        
        They intend to bring back barbarism and if you do not believe me look at the state of America Now.
        
        Imagine for a moment where it would have gone
        with him alive, Bases on the Moon incredible technology prosperity now all the world does is wrestle and role in the mud and sand with all
        the primitive backward tribes of the middle east.
        
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Clontarf
        Good Friday 1014
        
        The only day that Ireland was United and Free.
        
        He stood in the way of World Slavery your Slavery
        so he had to be removed to implement what you see now before you.
        
        If Trump does the same he will be assassinated one way or another.
        
        This is an Epic Struggle if Trump is removed by force the world will enter a new dark age.
        
        This is the last roll of the dice and it is not looking promising.
        
        Syria on Steroids is coming your way.
        
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        January 15, 2017 1:06pm
    - GoVege
      
      I read a book about Booth’s time on the run.
      His sulks when he felt he wasnt being treated with sufficient respect from the people sheltering him were quite hilarious.
      
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      January 15, 2017 11:35am
- mikenmild
  
  I think the affair with Marilyn Monroe came a bit later. Are you thinking of “Happy Birthday, Mr President”, in 1962?
  
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  January 15, 2017 10:24am
  - Inandout
    
    You are correct, at his 45th birthday bash.
    
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    January 15, 2017 11:43am
  - Scorpion
    
    P orking Marilyn Monroe or
    
    Nuclear War
    
    Hard to find someone perfect isn’t there
    
    Reality is the same people killed them both
    
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    January 15, 2017 4:24pm
    - stephieboy
      
      Scorpian , you mean in JFK’s case that lone gunman ?
      
      A conspiracy to murder Marilyn ?
      
      Tell us more ?
      
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      January 15, 2017 4:29pm
- Kimbo
  
  Modern inaugural festivities reflect not only the president they honor, but also the desire of many Americans to celebrate our nation’s rich history and the transfer of presidential power’.
  
  …and it also highlights the problem of having a head-of-state who is also
  
  Chief executive
  Military Commander in Chief
  …and the leader of a partisan political party.
  
  Give me QEII (“God bless you ma’am and all who sail in her!”) and the Windsors any day!
  
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  January 15, 2017 10:27am
  - stephieboy
    
    Kimbo , you did forget about the various checks and balances that can inhibt that seemingly awsome power of the President . Not forgettiing obviously the checks of Congressional and Presedential elections too .
    
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    January 15, 2017 11:00am
    - holysheet
      
      the various checks and balances that can inhibt that seemingly awsome power of the President . Not forgettiing obviously the checks of Congressional and Presedential elections too.
      
      If you believe this stupidboy, why your concern about Trump and his election? What are all you snowflakes worried about?
      Oh thats right, it’s more the fact that Trump won and Killary lost. We all know snowflakes cannot handle losing anything. They have been brought up not knowing such a concept exists. Well welcome to the real world LOSERS.
      
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      January 15, 2017 11:12am
      - stephieboy
        
        holysheet , Trump is the unique psoition of having both houses in his party’s control and in despite of lossing the popular vote .
        
        That could put a brake on both Trump’s and the GOP’s ambitions of potential unfettered power .
        
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        January 15, 2017 11:20am
    - Kimbo
      
      Kimbo , you did forget…
      
      You are an idiot. That is irrelevant to the matter of a head of state in whom everyone can invest as a uniting personality. The US President is an inescapably partisan politician, which means much of the electorate would have voted against them. Not a good mix, and no wonder at times like this, after a bitter and protracted election campaign, US citizens struggle to unite around their president, irrespective of the identity and politics of the office-holder.
      
      That’s the problem with an “elected monarch”, whether they are bestowed with 18th Century powers with checks and balances as per the American Constitution…or simply an elected figure head. “President Helen Clark” would be too divisive.
      
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      January 15, 2017 11:14am
      - mikenmild
        
        It might be a bit different in these hyper-partisan times, but I do recall Americans in earlier years having more of a bipartisan reverence for the office of president. Not quite like our attitude to a monarch, but definitely above the usual for an elected head of government.
        
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        January 15, 2017 11:37am
      - Kimbo
        
        Possibly, although it may also have reflected the fact that, other than for one-off events such as Jefferson’s Louisiana Purchase and Lincoln fighting the Civil War to save the Union, the Presidency was not directly relevant to the lives of most Americans before the “New Deal”. And that’s when the President, rather than one’s local ward official, congressman, senator or governor became more important.
        
        I remember reading a joke FDR made against himself. Every day a Long Island millionaire would look at the front page of his paper and exclaim with disappointment, “He’s still with us”. On one occasion, on being told that the obituaries were in the back, the millionaire replied “if and when the son-of-a-bitch I’m interested in dies, it’ll be on the front page!”
        
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        January 15, 2017 11:45am
- Viking2
  
  More than a celebration of one person’s rise to power, modern inaugurations validate the republic’s democratic processes.
  
  Yep they do. starts the spending of other peoples money on the winners favourite items.
  Never stops until the next one claims the cheque book.
  
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  January 15, 2017 10:46am
Viking2

Like the rise of Soviet communism and both World Wars, the Western liberal order’s apparent collapse in 2016 could turn out to be yet another historic upheaval that began in Eastern Europe.

http://www.interest.co.nz/opinion/85485/maciej-kisilowski-shows-how-disuption-came-politics-through-illiberal-coalition

a good read with some interesting observations.
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January 15, 2017 10:13am
- stephieboy
  
  Viking2 , seems so very reminiscence of the 1930s .
  
  I wonder why ?
  
  This ?
  
  http://img.thesun.co.uk/aidemitlum/archive/02417/04_18083324_4204fc_2417712a.jpg
  
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  January 15, 2017 10:37am
- Reid
  
  He doesn’t get to the heart of the issue, which is value-add.
  
  Progressive people live in the clouds, they want touchy-feely shit that makes no real material difference and they spend 90-99% of their time thinking about ways to deliver that and 9-1% of the time thinking about ways to deliver material shit which is the only thing people actually give a fuck about.
  
  They can’t admit that of course, not publicly and I doubt that any of them ever looks in the mirror and admits it either. Those of us however who don’t have a vested interest in not discovering that what they’ve devoted a whole hell of a lot of thinking and doing time to over the years has been a complete waste of time, can see this straight away, it’s clear and present.
  
  The amusing thing is because progressives operate from a flawed understanding of human behaviour and motivation (e.g. look at how they don’t understand markets and crime drivers), even the tiny amount of time they devote to things material always produce sub-optimal results.
  
  But recently this trend is because people’s material lives have been becoming progressively bleaker all over the Western world, that we are seeing this switch to something different.
  
  Notice the people are not switching to standing alternate – the conservative parties in each country. No, they’re going elsewhere. This is because they’ve tried the GoP/Tories/etc before, and they’ve been at least as bad if not worse than the idiots on the other side, is the people’s calculation.
  
  But because progressives are idealists they will never change, plus they have a built in flaws in their thinking, which will prevent them from ever achieving success with this new movement we’re witnessing.
  
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  January 15, 2017 11:09am
  - stephieboy
    
    Reid , like those progressive idealists like Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln ?
    
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    January 15, 2017 4:31pm
Inandout

This hapless President died soon after his address, described as the worst ever.

http://history1800s.about.com/od/presidentialcampaigns/ss/worstinaugural.htm#step5
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January 15, 2017 10:39am
Viking2

Talking about people. This is a great watch.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/Taurangajobs/?multi_permalinks=449799738477347&notif_t=group_highlights&notif_id=1484362645850340
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January 15, 2017 10:39am
doggone7

Expect the Taxpayers Union to be big on the latest case of our money being spent in the South because of incompetence. Or is it corruption?
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11782682
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January 15, 2017 10:56am
- mikenmild
  
  I think the Taxpayers’ ‘Union’ is too busy worrying about Israel at present.
  
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  January 15, 2017 11:12am
- Happychappy
  
  You would be amazed to see the amount of former pupils from all over NZ that have supported Peggy Burrows. This person is held in high regard and did not deserve the vendetta that prevailed against her, she taught my daughter and she was so angry at those that tried to reck her reputation.
  
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  January 15, 2017 11:30am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  The Listener ran an article on this
  
  Not every school in NZ with Millions of dollars to invest (new farm?, property speculation?)
  
  http://www.noted.co.nz/currently/education/what-really-happened-at-rangiora-high-school/
  
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  January 15, 2017 12:02pm
Manolo

Some snowflakes, losers and malcontents are plotting:
http://dailycaller.com/2017/01/14/inauguration-protesters-plan-to-destroy-property-and-disrupt-balls/
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January 15, 2017 11:28am
Reid

Something I read yesterday on Kissinger puts a lot of things into place.

Kissinger wrote his doctoral thesis on the British Empire’s Balance of Power geopolitics. This was the way the Brits rolled from the 1700’s on. They exploited an alliance which collectively was stronger than they by allying with the weaker partner then once the alliance was destroyed and the stronger one subdued, it would then turn on the weaker one too.

This was why Kissinger did his China trips in the 70’s, because at that time China was the weaker in the Sino-Soviet alliance.

This is what Trump is now doing with Russia. Same plan. But they’ve perceived this time, it’s Russia whose the weaker.
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January 15, 2017 11:34am
- mikenmild
  
  Kissinger was actually an expert on the ‘Congress system’ (Metternich et al) – the European balance of power rather than the British Empire.
  
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  January 15, 2017 11:39am
  - Reid
    
    Well that’s what he did his thesis in and that’s how he practiced diplomacy mm so try again but this time try to make your explanation fit the known facts like mine does.
    
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    January 15, 2017 11:47am
  - Kimbo
    
    Kissinger was actually an expert on the ‘Congress system’ (Metternich et al) – the European balance of power rather than the British Empire.
    
    Yep. The British were amenable to it as it enabled them to remain in “splendid isolation”, and they only had to intervene on the European Continent if and when a power, such as Napoleon’s France, or Tsarist Russia, or the Kaiser’s or Hitler’s Germany, became too dominant.
    
    So Kissinger’s academic insights played a part. But he only served at the pleasure of a President, Nixon, whose negotiating and triangulating skills were learned…playing poker in the Solomon Islands during World War II.
    
    I get the impression Trump has many of those same skills. But time will tell if his use of tactics has any overall strategic objective as Nixon did…or if it is just to elevate Trump’s own personal brand. I’m a doubter…
    
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    January 15, 2017 11:53am
    - Kimbo
      
      Just as an addendum, it is one of the self-promoting myths that Kissenger sought to cultivate, right from the time he joined Nixon’s staff as a National Security Advisor – not Secretary of State – that he was the author and primary mover of American Foreign policy. So he undermined the Secretary of State, Bill Rogers, and downplayed Nixon and sought to embarrass him with gossip, and portray stuff like the Paris Peace talks and the opening to China as his initiatives. Nixon knew it, but as he wanted the results and deemed Kissenger useful, he tolerated it. Plus he wanted a voice that was not beholden to the State Department.
      
      But Kissenger, with his cultivation of Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers, and his (Kissenger’s) hysterical reaction at the time (“Mr President, we cannot conduct a successful foreign policy when our secrets are being revealed”) was the crucial event that helped contribute to the Nixon Whitehouse’ siege mentality…that led to the formation of the Plumbers..which resulted in Watergate.
      
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      January 15, 2017 12:11pm
- Gabby
  
  So apply that to the Seven Years War, Impish Acolyte.
  
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  January 15, 2017 2:07pm
dad4justice

Did big bruv go to the big wedding?
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January 15, 2017 1:18pm
- stigie
  
  Surprised you didn’t see him there Dad, you know how big a rugby fan he is !~
  
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  January 15, 2017 3:52pm
Viking2

It’s time to face facts: Obama’s presidency was a failure.
The closing arguments for the Obama years are arriving, and they aren’t helping the outgoing president. A case in point is a new book published this week, one that acknowledges “Obama’s supporters have experienced [his presidency] as a continuous disappointment.”

Those supporters, and others, must have noticed that “for most of Obama’s term, wage gains were largely confined to the rich.” Or that “The administration’s planning in Libya clearly failed” or “It is certain that the actual outcome [of Obama’s Syria policy] was disastrous.”

http://nypost.com/2017/01/14/its-time-to-face-facts-obamas-presidency-was-a-failure/
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January 15, 2017 1:40pm
Viking2

About Wellington and its earthquake prone buildings.
Look what they are built on.
http://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE42108&dps_custom_att_1=tapuhi
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January 15, 2017 1:42pm
Reid

So this law here:

“In virtually its last gasp, the Obama administration has quietly given the National Security Agency wider powers to share intercepted surveillance data with 16 other government agencies, including the FBI, DEA and CIA, before applying privacy protections.”

and this from WaPo here:

“Retired Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, Trump’s choice for national security adviser, cultivates close Russian contacts…According to a senior U.S. government official, Flynn phoned Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak several times on Dec. 29, the day the Obama administration announced the expulsion of 35 Russian officials as well as other measures in retaliation for the hacking. What did Flynn say…”

Begs the question of whether or not the NSA gave phone calls of the transition team’s confidential discussions to the CIA who then gave it to WaPo and if not, how else did WaPo get that?

Doesn’t it.

Which is an interesting thing for both a sitting POTUS and the CIA to do to a President-elect, isn’t it.

Then you have this story about CNN being sold as part of the Trump deal to approve the Time-Warner acquisition.

And I wonder if someone like say, Adelson is going to have a group of investors ready to buy it, which will of course mean a name change, it’s no longer called Clinton News Network.

Then we have the $600 million cloud-computing contract the CIA gave to Bezos just after he bought WaPo, and one wonders what Trump is going to direct the CIA to do with that too, doesn’t one.
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January 15, 2017 1:42pm
cha

As The Joker.

https://audioboom.com/posts/5495377-return-of-the-trumpster
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January 15, 2017 2:00pm
Manolo

Poor, delicate and defenseless babies:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4120208/Celebrities-come-fire-Trump-supporters-Survive.html
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January 15, 2017 2:17pm
- Reid
  
  I’m really glad the snowflake label has come up. I’ve decided I’m going to use that all the time, mostly because I suspect they hate it. I think it’s probably because it reminds them about how delicate and girly all of them in fact are these days, now that all the burly working class has left. All they have left is poofy, prissy, delicate girliness as far as the eye can see.
  
  Lefties use propaganda all the time and labels are important. Alt-right is their latest label for conservatives but snowflake is much, much more amusing than their stupid, hopeless attempt at the art in which they’ve up till now always excelled.
  
  Too bad, snowflakes.
  
  Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
  
  Edit: Admittedly they probably still have lots of burly lesbians, and they’re not poofy at all.
  
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  January 15, 2017 2:30pm
  - stephieboy
    
    Reid , like EAD do you want to turn the clock back to the “gentler kinder ‘ times of the Victorian age ?
    
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    January 15, 2017 4:39pm
    - pentwig
      
      would be a damn sight better than trying to understand your snowflake shit steffie
      
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      January 15, 2017 9:37pm
cha

Ruh Roh!.

http://news.err.ee/v/news/df22cea3-1c2e-4139-92ea-08f029af9f07/newsweek-estonian-foreign-intelligence-eavesdropped-on-russian-official-meeting-trump-associate
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January 15, 2017 2:39pm
Manolo

Like father, like son:
http://freebeacon.com/politics/soros-son-quietly-steps-major-liberal-donor/

Alexander Soros, the son of liberal billionaire George Soros who acts as the managing partner for Soros Brothers Investments, has quietly emerged as a major donor to Democratic campaigns and causes.

Alexander gave more than $4.5 million to Democratic campaign committees and political action committees in 2016, according to campaign finance records.
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January 15, 2017 2:49pm
- stephieboy
  
  Manolo, but it was Ok for Sheldon Adelson to go more than one up and donate $25 million to the Trump campiagn ?
  
  https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/23/sheldon-adelson-trump-super-pac-donation-25-million
  
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  January 15, 2017 4:36pm
- Scorpion
  
  Wow What a display of rioting the
  SOROS ZOMBIES are going to put on
  it is going to be like planet of the Apes.
  
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  January 15, 2017 4:43pm
Manolo

Starting to dismantle the money-laundering operation:
Clinton Foundation announced it’s laying off 22 staffers on the Clinton Global Initiative, keeping with a plan to deal with the negative spotlight put on the organisation during former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

http://dailycaller.com/2017/01/14/heads-are-finally-beginning-to-roll-at-the-clinton-foundation/
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January 15, 2017 2:52pm
- stephieboy
  
  Manolo, only five more sleeps …!
  
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  January 15, 2017 4:33pm
cha

Florida man…..

http://www.pnj.com/story/news/crime/2017/01/11/pensacola-man-arrested-bestiality/96447264/
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January 15, 2017 2:58pm
Fletch

They just can’t let it go. Al Sharpton leads yet another protest against Trump….

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/world/we-not-trumped-protestors-fill-us-streets-in-lead-up-president-elects-inauguration

FFS, get it through your heads – Trump is president. We know you don’t like it. Think of those who had to suffer through 8 years of Obama, how do you think they felt? They didn’t like it either, but did they act like spoiled children and throw their toys out of the cot? No they did not. Just grow up and get on with it. He hasn’t even started yet. There’s nothing yet even to protest about!
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January 15, 2017 4:05pm
- Gabby
  
  did they act like spoiled children and throw their toys out of the cot?
  
  Well, yes – yes, they did. They threw an 8 year tantrum.
  
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  January 15, 2017 10:53pm
Fletch

At least dogs know when to sit when told by Donald Trump, even if the CNN reporter won’t. 😆

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqJTaB4SKvY
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January 15, 2017 4:20pm
- Manolo
  
  This Sharpton?
  http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/sharpton-fines-racism-taxes/2014/12/09/id/612015/
  
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  January 15, 2017 5:06pm
Scorpion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_m8AmAm-XE

I get home sick listening to and watching this
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January 15, 2017 4:47pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Man (or arachnid), he had gorgeous legs!
  
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  January 15, 2017 5:05pm
Pateke

Another day at the basin. all those potential spectators and players waiting to be radicalised, but no, they were just there for the cricket, Allah of Akhbar is obviously not in the playing eleven this time round so maybe At Hayley Oval for the first appearance. Even worse I saw boy and girl Muslims playing together, and out by the practice wicket a pickup game of combined muslims and christians playing ecumenically. A revelation indeed.
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January 15, 2017 5:02pm
Viking2

Hillary Clinton Will Attend Trumps Inauguration; Why Do YOU Think She Is Going?

Bill Clinton and George W Bush will also be in attendance. Is this a classy move or is this the ultimate shade? You tell us!
https://www.playbuzz.com/sabrinasmith10/hillary-clinton-will-attend-trumps-inauguration-why-is-she-doing-this?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=page-posts&utm_campaign=hillary-clinton-will-attend-trumps-inauguration-why-is-she-doing-this
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January 15, 2017 5:11pm
Chuck Bird

I am glad to see that it appears the mother has physical custody of Que.

Charges laid against Kiwi yachtie Alan Langdon after sailing with daughter Que to Australia

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11782710
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January 15, 2017 5:36pm
Viking2

I am glad to see that it appears the mother has physical custody of Que.

Why. It ain’t any of your business.
Nor anyone elses.
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January 15, 2017 5:39pm
- Chuck Bird
  
  It bloody well is. If some Maori put their child at risk there would be plenty here making it their business.
  
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  January 15, 2017 5:51pm
  - nasska
    
    Get a sense of perspective Chuck. Plenty of kids have joined their parents on extensive world cruises & survived all the better for it. From memory a sixteen year old pommie girl circumnavigated the world on a solo trip a couple of years ago.
    
    Save your angst for the unwanted kids beaten half to death for the crime of pissing off their mothers or their boyfriends. They are the victims.
    
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    January 15, 2017 6:04pm
    - Chuck Bird
      
      nasska, Your memory is not too bad except the girl had dual nationality. She was Kiwi and Dutch. She was driven and highly talented like Lidia Ko. She had a lot more common sense and probably sailing ability than Langton.
      
      There is also the matter of leaving the country to deny the other parent contact with their child. I condemn that be it the mother or the father.
      
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      January 15, 2017 6:22pm
stephieboy

Viking2 , I think it is both custom and convention that the vanquished attend . Check back to Obama’s last two inaugurations and note especially if Sarah Palin felt the gall to attend back in 2008 ?

I don’t think a sinister “Body bag ‘or ” Pizzagate “conspiracy is on with Hillary’s showing up . But if need be check it out with Alex Jones , WND or Breitbart etc .
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January 15, 2017 5:43pm
- pentwig
  
  dont think steffie
  you only look foolish
  
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  January 15, 2017 9:41pm
  - pentwig
    
    look what happened when you thought-
    you admitted to perving on young girls in mt roskill cafes
    dont think steffie
    certainly do not, repeat do not, comment on your thinking
    makes you look stupid
    
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    January 15, 2017 9:48pm
    - Gabby
      
      do not not repeat not
      remove your merkin
      it makes you look wrinkly
      
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      January 15, 2017 10:49pm
Lucia Maria

Sasha Grey on Being Caught in a Russian Propaganda War

On the morning of February 18, 2015, Sasha Grey learned she had died.

“This seemingly fragile, yet strong young woman, has saved wounded fighters at the front. She was said to have nursed even the most hopeless cases back to health. But she herself did not return from the front,” read her obituary.

It was, by most accounts, a gruesome end. A petite Russian nurse, she had ventured straight into the heart of the battle between Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian separatists. While tending to her wounded comrades, she was snatched up by the Ukrainians and taken to a bivouac, where she was beaten, raped, and decapitated with an ax.

The tragic tale spread like wildfire across VK (VKontakte), Russia’s answer to Facebook boasting close to 400 million users. She was hailed as a martyr—a symbol of Russian courage in the face of Ukrainian terror.

Only Sasha Grey, the extreme porn star turned Hollywood actress, is very much alive. “I was Russian fake news,” she tells me, laughing hysterically—or as Karl Marx once said, “History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.”

…What apparently happened was users of the image board 2ch.hk—an offshoot of 2ch.ru, or Russia’s version of 4chan—launched a gullibility campaign to test whether or not Russians would fall for bogus stories of pro-Russian “fallen heroes” of the War in Donbas…
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January 15, 2017 5:54pm
- Andrei
  
  Hard to find Russophobic articles today Lucia Maria?
  
  So you are reduced to linking publicity whoring material for American Porn Stars
  
  Sad really sad
  
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  January 15, 2017 6:25pm
  - Lucia Maria
    
    Andrei,
    No, not difficult at all. This does widen the spread though, gives it a more personal edge.
    
    And you do the young Russian woman a major disservice as she’s no longer a porn star. I do believe in redemption, you know, even for ex-porn stars.
    
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    January 15, 2017 7:29pm
    - Andrei
      
      She is not Russian Lucia Maria – she is an American born in California who started in porn when she was 18
      
      And for three years she did ok out of it winning awards like the AVN award for best Anal scene in “Anal Cavity Search 6”
      
      And she also got bit roles in non porn films that you never heard of for a while but you wont find her on IMDB
      
      Her last work was a couple of years ago providing voice overs for video games
      
      This is incredibly sad stuff Lucia Maria – she is the same age as my oldest but drifting around Los Angeles going nowhere, a washed up porn star who still dreams of making the Hollywood big time
      
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      January 15, 2017 7:38pm
      - Lucia Maria
        
        Ah, so the fake news that spread like wildfire on the Russian equivalent of facebook, as well as falsely spreading the idea that she was dead also misrepresented her nationality.
        
        So what if she was a porn star. At least she’s walked away from that. This story is about her faked death, not about her as such. That is what is sad about it.
        
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        January 15, 2017 8:25pm
      - Andrei
        
        It is just nonsense from the interwebs Lucia Maria
        
        Anyway the linked story says it appeared first on a Hong Kong based chat room
        
        And nobody here has heard of Sasha Grey or her alter ego Sasha Serova but just maybe, given the nature of some of the comments we see, perhaps one or two may have viewed her award winning performance in “Anal Cavity Search 6”
        
        She claims to have a legion of Russian fans who greet her whenever she goes there but I’d be prepared to bet she has never ever set foot of US soil.
        
        Let it go Lucia this is empty nonsense
        
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        January 15, 2017 8:53pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        TDS is rampant Andrei…
        It’s all becoming completely hysterical
        
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        January 15, 2017 9:01pm
      - Andrei
        
        Real journalism might write the story of naive young girls who come to Hollywood with stars in their eyes who get eaten alive by the porn industry
        
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        January 15, 2017 9:19pm
Manolo

He would not do it, would he?
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2017/01/13/cubans-say-obama-shut-migration-path-in-revenge-for-trumps-win/

President Barack Obama’s decision to terminate the Cuban refugee policy is motivated by revenge for Cuban-Americans’ support of Donald Trump, say some Cubans.

The immigration policy, dating from 1966 and dubbed “Wet Foot, Dry Foot,” allowed Cubans who reach U.S. soil to stay and become voting citizens.
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January 15, 2017 7:34pm
nasska

From an interview with Canadian professor Jordan Peterson re the subject of genderless pronouns. The man obviously calls a spade a spade which I’m sure has sent countless snowflakes scurrying to their safe places:

….” No. It’s not the role of society to make people feel included. That’s not the role of society. The role of society is to maintain a modicum of peace between people. It’s not the role of society to make people feel comfortable. I think society is changing in many ways. I can tell you one thing that I’m very terrified of, and you can think about this. I think that the continual careless pushing of people by left wing radicals is dangerously waking up the right wing. So you can consider this a prophecy from me if you want. Inside the collective is a beast and the beast uses its fists. If you wake up the beast then violence emerges. I’m afraid that this continual pushing by radical left wingers is going to wake up the beast.”…..

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-friday-edition-1.3786140/i-m-not-a-bigot-meet-the-u-of-t-prof-who-refuses-to-use-genderless-pronouns-1.3786144
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January 15, 2017 7:38pm
- Reid
  
  Inside the collective is a beast and the beast uses its fists. If you wake up the beast then violence emerges. I’m afraid that this continual pushing by radical left wingers is going to wake up the beast.
  
  He’s right there is a beast look how warfare recurs and will continue to, but it won’t be awoken by anything idiot lefties say or do, it’ll be awoken by collective stupidity failing to recognise their own manipulation, just like Hitler did it to the most educated and civilised nation in Europe at the time, only it will be much, much bigger, vicious and lethal. Lefties and their idiot progressivism are just there to provide a plot theme to keep you occupied till they decide to tear down the set and show you the wall at the back of the theatre, as Frank Zappa described it..
  
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  January 15, 2017 8:06pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  You have really upset my equilibrium now, Nasska.
  
  I clicked on your link and discovered that a Kiwi Physics professor (now based in the Uni of Toronto) has asked to be referred to as They.
  
  So I checked out their info site and discovered that I might be a cisgender heterosexual woman who has disguised my nonbinary transgenderism because twin chest aliens began to dominate.
  
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  January 15, 2017 8:11pm
  - nasska
    
    ….”might be a cisgender heterosexual woman who has disguised my nonbinary transgenderism because twin chest aliens began to dominate.”…..
    
    This is serious Maggy. Do they think there’s a cure?
    
    Counselling, aversion therapy, aspirin, anything! 🙂
    
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    January 15, 2017 8:14pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      I s’pose a double masectomy would work, but that seems rather painful.
      
      I could try breast binding, but honestly, at my stage of life, I just reckon I’ll let everything dangle down to my redbands.
      
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      January 15, 2017 8:29pm
Rodney Randall

http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/business/the-rebuild/88381118/new-christchurch-library-costs-rise-by-more-than-half-to-95-million

Another glaring example of the muppets in control of the Christchurch Rebuild.

Mayor Lianne Dalziel is attempting to ‘Detroit’ Chch

Meanwhile hospo businesses are closing down left right and centre in the CBD.

Christchurch Nightlife: The Party Is Over

http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/business/the-rebuild/88246094/christchurch-nightlife–is-the-party-over
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January 15, 2017 8:25pm
EAD

Apparently noticing makes you a so called Anti-Semite

https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/7f13f71c85f86e6bbe8a590911acf9f3548178249b11570a5f452f58bf617ea1.jpg
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January 15, 2017 8:39pm
- Reid
  
  All truth is equal, but some truths are ~~more~~ less equal than others.
  
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  January 15, 2017 8:52pm
  - EAD
    
    To the Gulag for you Reid – you have committed the crime of “noticing”.
    
    As the famous saying from the Wizard of Oz goes: PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN
    
    http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-10-08/wizard-ponz
    
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    January 15, 2017 9:11pm
- stephieboy
  
  EAD , much like Trump did ,eh ?
  
  http://media.salon.com/2016/07/trump_hillary_tweet.jpg
  
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  January 15, 2017 10:16pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    What would you know KBs dumbest commentator?
    See, anyone can play your games of spraying crap everywhere
    
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    January 15, 2017 10:19pm
- stephieboy
  
  EAD, rather puzzled . The word Jew doesn’t appeared to be caught up in all that OZ symbolism or …. ?http://media.salon.com/2016/07/trump_hillary_tweet.jpg
  
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  January 15, 2017 10:20pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    Puzzled seems to be an everyday occurance for you idiotboy.
    What do you think about Muslims believing in creationism? You the same huh.
    
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    January 15, 2017 10:22pm
Viking2

There is a high risk New Zealand’s tobacco black market could grow significantly, costing the Government over $10 million a year, a declassified document says.
Absolute Law. The Law of unintended consequences of political foolishness.

A Stuff investigation last year, which included a reporter purchasing 80 grams of the illicit product, highlighted how easy it is to buy illegal tobacco online.

Police have also raised concerns the black market is fuelling armed robberies and burglaries in Christchurch.

Media coverage suggested the black market tobacco trade is booming across the ditch, with reports it is worth more than $1 billion.

Organised criminals are attracted by the huge money at stake and the softer penalties compared to those for importing and dealing drugs.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/88414136/government-at-high-risk-of-losing-10-million-annually-if-tobacco-black-market-surges

Kinda takes us back 60years to the fifties when customs rummaged ships looking for contraband ciggies.

A win of course for grandma’s Maori party gangs.
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January 15, 2017 8:54pm
nasska

Had a phone call from a polling company last night asking my views on the country. “I am a white male, heterosexual. I have worked all my
life to pay for this house and provide for my family, never claimed a dollar in benefits” , I said.

“Oh, I am sorry to have wasted your time Sir.” she said.

“Why’s that?”

“Your opinions won’t count.” she replied.
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January 15, 2017 9:12pm
- Gabby
  
  No, you didn’t.
  
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  January 15, 2017 10:37pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    Hard day at the Glory Hole Gobbler?
    
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    January 15, 2017 10:45pm
Rodney Randall

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4118054/Jamshid-Piruz-jailed-hammer-attack-two-police-officers.html#ixzz4VffshqjY

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c80_1484333482

6 years for slitting a womans throat then let in to the UK.

“Four cops and a dog running for their lives from a single goat herder armed with a common household object?
Churchill would be proud.”

“You could hear in the police womans screams that she’s in the right job and not just for her but for the public she’s there to protect !”
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January 15, 2017 9:24pm
- EAD
  
  A taser, batons and a screaming woman when in a sane world firstly that savage would not be in the country in the first place, but should have been shot dead or jumped on immediately by a burly male copper.
  
  Also, her reaction shows how having Women in the Police is a joke. Might be worth having a few of them to interview kids or rape victims, but they shouldn’t be out on patrol. Women soldiers are even more ridiculous. Cultural Marxist dogma is more important than operational effectiveness these days. It’s a pity criminals and our nation’s enemies don’t see it that way.
  
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  January 15, 2017 10:00pm
  - stephieboy
    
    EAD, so your prescription like ISIS and the Taliban is keep women under house arrest ?
    
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    January 15, 2017 10:10pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    You’re the Muslim lover Stephie. You are probably a homophobic mysogonist who also hates dogs.
    Do you believe in creationism too?
    
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    January 15, 2017 10:13pm
    - stephieboy
      
      All on Wed ,
      
      you and your idol should talk,
      
      http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/donald-trump-meets-with-creationist-jerry-falwell-jr-about-possibly-becoming-next-secretary-of-a7430261.html
      
      heh, heh , heh yet again !
      
      Sigh !
      
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      January 15, 2017 10:26pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        How was Church this morning? Talk to God did you. Did you spread the word about God creating the world in seven days? You believe that huh
        And oh you fuckwit, do try to keep up. Trump had appointed Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education.
        She’s a real charter school believer
        You’re sooo….stupid with your old out of date links.
        
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        January 15, 2017 10:29pm
      - stephieboy
        
        All on Wed,. Betsy de Vos ?
        
        Nothing new there you old git !
        
        https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/04/29/presidential-proclamation-national-charter-schools-week-2016
        
        Give up ?
        
        http://media.treehugger.com/assets/images/2013/11/germansurrender.jpg
        
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        January 15, 2017 10:38pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Another pasting eh Stephie. Your own linking once again showing how stupid you are.
        I’m starting to feel bad. It’s like picking on a retard.
        Nah, you deserve it, troll that you are.
        http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-education-secretary-betsy-devos-could-mean-for-america-2017-1?IR=T
        Once again your own links are irrelevant.
        You loser. You give up. It must be humiliating for you, day after day after day
        BETSY DeVOS AS SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION NOT JERRY FALWELL
        Get it now?
        
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        January 15, 2017 10:38pm
      - stephieboy
        
        All on Wed , I think Jerry Falwell jnr will be very happy with Trump’s choice and as a first potential step towards a Christian Theocratic state ,
        
        “Betsy DeVos and God’s Plan for Schools”
        
        https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/opinion/betsy-devos-and-gods-plan-for-schools.html
        
        Get it now ?
        
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        January 15, 2017 10:52pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        ‘theocratic state’, lol
        You’re the Muslim sharia law lover.
        You’re so cute with all your ‘opinions’ aka pointless unproven smears.
        I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a believer in fake news
        
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        January 15, 2017 10:56pm
      - stephieboy
        
        All on Wed , fake news ? Note for you another extreme irony alert !
        
        Fake news is one thing Trump hasn’t claimed to have invented that he actually deserves some credit for inventing
        
        KALI HOLLOWAY, ALTERNET
        
        http://www.salon.com/2017/01/14/conspirator-in-chief-14-fake-news-stories-created-or-publicized-by-donald-trump_partner/
        
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        January 15, 2017 10:58pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        I tell you what’s fake Stephie . Your pointless life.
        Troll of Kiwiblog- what a winner you are.
        Sad man, so sad
        
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        January 15, 2017 11:01pm
cha

Seems the dude can dig the dirt.

The material in the Donald Trump dossier that emerged this week has been described as unsubstantiated, and the president-elect himself derided the report as “fake news.” However, at least some in the U.S. intelligence community believed that the source of the report was credible, and with the recent unmasking of that source’s identity has come a basis for that credibility.

The man behind the dossier is a former British spy, Christopher Steele, who is now a corporate intelligence consultant. In 2010, Steele helped deliver information about FIFA to the FBI that eventually led to indictments of many current and former officials of the soccer governing body, as well as the ouster of longtime FIFA president Sepp Blatter.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2017/01/13/the-british-spy-behind-the-trump-dossier-helped-the-fbi-bust-fifa/?postshare=5261484330916237&tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.bdd1b45fc09d
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January 15, 2017 10:59pm
- All_on_Red
  
  TDS
  Soo funny.
  
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  January 15, 2017 11:06pm
  - cha
    
    Yes, and all those national security wonks are afflicted, too.
    
    https://www.lawfareblog.com/why-are-trump-allegations-hanging-around-when-they-havent-been-substantiated
    
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    January 15, 2017 11:09pm
    - All_on_Red
      
      Yeah, why are they hanging around?
      Morons endlessly repeating them despite no proof?
      TDS, soo funny
      I’ve never seen such meltdowns from the fuckwits on the left. It’s hilarious.
      
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      January 15, 2017 11:12pm
      - cha
        
        Kristol, McMullin, Schindler, Nichols – leftists, really?.
        
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        January 15, 2017 11:17pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WvGopsM1G9g
        
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        January 15, 2017 11:18pm
      - cha
        
        Lotsa hysteria in high places, too.
        
        A US counterintelligence task force was established by the CIA in 2016 to investigate possible Russian funding of President-elect Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, the BBC reported on Friday.
        
        The task force included the FBI, the Treasury and Justice Departments, the CIA, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the National Security Agency (NSA).
        
        It was set up after the director of the CIA, John Brennan, received a recording of a conversation about money from the Kremlin going into Trump’s campaign coffers, the BBC’s Paul Wood reported. The recording was passed to him by the intelligence agency of one of the Baltic States, according to the BBC.
        
        On October 15, the task force was granted a warrant by a judge in the FISA court — named after the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act — to intercept the electronic records from two Russian banks that may have been implicated in the money transfer, a senior intelligence official told the BBC. Trump was not named in the warrant, but three of his associates were the subject of the inquiry.
        
        http://www.businessinsider.com.au/trump-russia-dossier-claims-cia-2017-1?r=US&IR=T
        
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        January 15, 2017 11:23pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Foreign funding is illegal. What hasn’t he been charged?
        Oh did you know your ‘spy’ is a consultant to Planned Parenthood.
        Wonder why they don’t like Trump.
        Can’t see that huh.
        TDS
        BBC reporter gets secret intelingence recording. Where’s the link to it? Surely he would publish it. Wikileaks does.
        You guys are mental.
        
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        January 15, 2017 11:28pm
      - cha
        
        What[sic] hasn’t he been charged?
        
        GOP commissioners are blocking an FEC move to keep foreign governments from spending in US elections.
        
        http://www.fec.gov/members/statements/2017-01-12_ELW_statement_on_FEC_failure_to_protect_elections_from_foreign_influence.pdf
        
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        January 15, 2017 11:41pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        The law stands. No non US person can donate to a US Election candidate.Why hasn’t he been charged?
        
        Can non-US citizens contribute?
        Foreign nationals are prohibited from making any contributions or expenditures in connection with any election in the U.S.
        http://www.fec.gov/ans/answers_general.shtml#Can_nonUS_citizens_contribute
        
        Q: Is it legal for candidates to raise funds overseas for a presidential race?
        A: Yes, but they can’t legally accept donations from individuals who are neither U.S. citizens nor permanent U.S. residents.
        
        Found that tape yet? Thought not
        
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        January 15, 2017 11:47pm
      - cha
        
        Found that tape yet?
        
        The T word being bandied about is the problem, not kink.
        
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        January 16, 2017 12:01am
    - cha
      
      A company incorporated in the U.S. can donate to political campaigns, regardless of ownership.
      
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      January 15, 2017 11:57pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Not if its foreigners doing the donating. . It’s only ok if US citizens do it. This even affects a subsidiary of a foreign corporation
        Where’s that recording? Surely Trump would be charged.
        #fake news?
        #TDS
        
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        January 16, 2017 12:12am
      - cha
        
        It’s only ok if US citizens do it
        
        Of course, shell companies and bogus directors don’t exist and just to make sure, GOP commissioners have blocked FEC attempts to rein in dubious donations by foreign owned companies.
        
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        January 16, 2017 12:33am
- stephieboy
  
  All on Wed , Trump brown noser extrordinaire .the life , lies and news fakery of Uncle Donald .
  
  Small sampling ,
  
  1. Obama is a Kenyan Muslim who never attended Columbia University.
  
  2. Hillary Clinton was too ill to serve as president.
  
  3. Ted Cruz’s father was involved in a plot to kill President Kennedy.
  
  4. The Central Park 5 are guilty and deserve the death penalty (1989).
  
  5. The Central Park 5 are still guilty, against all evidence (2013 to present).
  
  6. ‘Thousands and thousands of [Muslims] were cheering’ on 9/11.
  7. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was murdered.
  
  8. Black people kill all the white people.
  
  etc, etc , etc
  
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  January 15, 2017 11:15pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    Hahahahaha, you’re demented. He really has made so many lefties just go crazy.
    Mass impotent rage from the left.
    
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    January 15, 2017 11:20pm
Manolo

The MSM hacks will be punished:
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/314384-trump-team-considering-evicting-press-from-white-house-report
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January 16, 2017 6:56am
Manolo

An interesting article on Hillary’s failed attempt:
http://thefederalist.com/2017/01/13/comey-letter-sunk-hillary-fault/
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