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duggledog

Check this out from the Herald’s ‘Watch Me’ video platform: $70,000 of your tax money to make a half hour pov-doc in three ten minute segments

http://www.watchme.co.nz/news/nz-herald-focus/under-the-bridge-part-ii/

TVNZ and TV3 got nothing to worry about. We had years of this shit every night on Campbell Live and it’s the same old same old.

If you don’t want to watch I’ll give you the synopsis:

White SJW journalist is appalled at how there’s poor brown kids in South Auckland but it turns out they’re going to do OK because they’re going to school yay! Lots of lovely brooding early morning shots of damp playing fields and solo piano. Might win another award, yah!

It’s such a paradox. $70,000 for the blonde journo and her pals to make this garbage we’ve seen a million times, meanwhile those poor brown kids’ll end up working as cleaners.
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February 11, 2017 8:01am
- ross411
  
  Got your message. Kids should try harder, and not expect everything to be handed to them.
  
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  February 11, 2017 8:20am
- Southern Raider
  
  Herald probably made more money on that than they will do for the whole year selling advertising on their poor excuse of a news website
  
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  February 11, 2017 8:31am
- Gabby
  
  Oh you can sneer, mister high-and-mighty roadsweeper, with your big broom.
  
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  February 11, 2017 8:56am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Lunatic alert!
    
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    February 11, 2017 9:36am
    - Gabby
      
      Crustyyfronts warning!
      
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      February 11, 2017 1:07pm
  - eandlbufe
    
    Gabbby…….Is this guy / gal real? What is wrong with being a road sweeper, I was one? I do have problems with those that have shit for brains. Probably never has grown up, live with mommy and daddy and have a permanent placard stapled on their back with “I object”.
    
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    February 11, 2017 1:20pm
EAD

Just in case you missed her last speech, Susan Devoy informing Kiwis that:
– “We must not hate”
– “Diversity is our strength”
– “Donald Trump is bad”
– “We are allowed free speech” (but only if it meets her vague definition of “non-hate)
– “We need to resolve our cultural issues”( I assume by that she means give more koha to I will
so on and so forth……

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/89278160/Dame-Susan-Devoy-preaches-free-speech-not-hate-speech-on-race-relations

an excerpt;

Whilst I believe in freedom of speech, hate speech isn’t free speech. I think it is really good to continue to have debates but once you let the prejudice and hate become involved in the conversation it’s really hard.”

It was important for New Zealanders to recognise they live in one of the most peaceful countries on earth but it is also ethnically diverse and has not resolved its cultural issues, she said.

International pressures and the rising tensions under Donald Trump’s leadership in the United States were on her radar but her role prevented her from commenting on matters outside of New Zealand, she said, adding “I find that quite difficult of course”.

“I am trying to ensure the focus becomes that we don’t travel down that path. . . .There’s a lot of divisiveness, there’s a lot of tensions and there’s certainly a lot of racial issues that are being discussed – anti-immigration those sorts of things. It would be naive to suggest it could never happen here.”

So basically the same message we are told now from the day we enter school in New Zealand, the same message when we turn on prole-feed (TV), every time we deal with a Government department and every time we read the paper.

This repetition is incessant and today Savant published an article on a similar topic that drew all these observations together very succicently and ever so brilliantly:

http://irishsavant.blogspot.co.nz/2017/02/but-where-are-you-really-from.html?m=0

So what happens when a large enough number of people either don’t care about or actively oppose the Proposition? (Think African and Muslim hordes now weeping across our lands). You don’t have a nation anymore. You have a monstrosity whose future is deeply problematical. To sustain it you must force everybody to think the same. That of course is what the Political Correctness project is all about. They tried something similar in the Soviet Union (the ultimate Proposition Nation) with predictable results.
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February 11, 2017 8:12am
- EAD
  
  I should add:
  – and the speech before that
  – and the speech before that
  – and the speech before that
  – and the speech before that
  – and the speech before that
  – and the speech before that
  – and the speech before that
  – and the speech before that
  – and the speech before that
  – and the speech before that
  
  Edit: autospell got the better of the above and it was meant to read “give more koha to Iwi”
  
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  February 11, 2017 8:17am
- Biscuit
  
  EAD, I am appalled…
  
  You say, in your opening line (at 8.12 am), that the diatribe you then detail was Susan Devoy’s ‘last’ speech.
  
  Sadly, it is no such thing.
  
  It is merely her ‘latest’ speech.
  
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  February 11, 2017 8:19am
  - G152
    
    It’s her only speech..
    Any opinion other than hers (in her opinion) should be squashed..
    See what I did there
    
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    February 11, 2017 8:44am
    - Biscuit
      
      Very good, G152.
      
      You win this here bowl of almonds as a prize.
      
      At no cost to yourself, I have already sucked the chocolate off of them all…
      
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      February 11, 2017 8:50am
      - G152
        
        Ah, you old suck up you 🙂
        
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        February 11, 2017 11:09am
      - AgentBallSack
        
        Really activates the old almonds
        
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        February 11, 2017 11:55am
  - EAD
    
    @ Biscuit,
    
    I bet if you lined up every single one of her speech she’s made in this role, they will all be various ways of saying exactly the same thing in ever so slightly a different way.
    
    Not one piece of original thought of her own, just a regurgitation of the 2nd hand globalist views which she believes merely by saying it, makes it so.
    
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    February 11, 2017 9:01am
    - stephieboy
      
      EAD, by the way what piece of orginal thought do you have other than your usual tedious litanies of ” die versity” ” anti Jewish ,anti globalism etc conspiracy agendas ???
      
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      February 11, 2017 9:43am
- nasska
  
  Does anyone else worry about who the puppet master operating the insane commissioner is? Left to her own devices she simply doesn’t have the intellectual firepower to articulate the globalist crap she’s currently dribbling.
  
  Whoever is operating the strings is dangerous & needs to be exposed.
  
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  February 11, 2017 8:25am
  - stephieboy
    
    nasska , dig deep to satiate your sense of paranoia for your nonexistent puppet masters .
    
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    February 11, 2017 9:47am
  - wiseowl
    
    It will be one of those in her department on $100,000 plus that comes up with this pc bs.
    
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    February 11, 2017 11:17am
- ross411
  
  To me saying the actual word “diversity” is the watch cry of the modern racist.
  
  “Diversity” means that people of certain races who are not white, should be over-represented, because a happenstance presence of too many white people is a bad thing and clearly racist whatever the facts are. To make this happen, minorities should be recruited over white people regardless of merit. Merit should be beaten out of people, and they should accept that “diversity” is the true measure of merit.
  
  White people, MTV has some things to tell you, because you’re not diverse.
  Dear Netflix, Why Is Racism Against White People Okay?
  
  It’s a nonsense word and Devoy is a nonsense person accomplishing nothing.
  
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  February 11, 2017 8:27am
- BeeSting
  
  Who is paying her?
  
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  February 11, 2017 9:12am
- BeeSting
  
  Why doesn’t Susan Devoy have a wee chat
  to her next Door Neighbour in Australia
  
  Dr Tim Soutphommasane
  
  and ASK HIM WHY HE IS SO RACIST
  AGAINST NEW ZEALANDERS???
  
  HOW ABOUT GETTING OFF YOUR OVER PAID
  BACK SIDE SUSAN and STICKING UP FOR HARD WORKING KIWIS DISCRIMINATED
  AGAINST IN AUSTRALIA
  
  Through Taxations etc etc etc etc
  
  BY YOUR EQUIVALENT
  
  THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN WILL IT
  
  BECAUSE IT IS ALL A SHAM
  
  https://www.humanrights.gov.au/about/commissioners/race-discrimination-commissioner-dr-tim-soutphommasane
  
  ROLL OUT THE COMMUNIST RED CARPET
  FOR THEM PEOPLE
  
  NEXT DOOR YOUR WILL BE TREATED
  LIKE A SUB HUMAN
  
  DIVERSITY MULTI CULTURALISM
  DIVERSITY MULTI CULTURALISMDIVERSITY MULTI CULTURALISMDIVERSITY MULTI CULTURALISMDIVERSITY MULTI CULTURALISMDIVERSITY MULTI CULTURALISMDIVERSITY MULTI CULTURALISMDIVERSITY MULTI CULTURALISMDIVERSITY MULTI CULTURALISMDIVERSITY MULTI
  
  DOES NOT APPLY TO NEW ZEALANDERS
  
  REMEMBER THAT WHEN THEY WANT
  ANOTHER 15 MILLION
  
  FOR THE NEW JIHAD TRAINING SCHOOL
  
  I mean Refugeee Centre
  
  A New Zealander would never get a job like
  
  Dr Tim Soutphommasane
  
  Because it is too hard to get a passport
  NOT LIKE EVERYONE ELSE FROM EVERY WHERE ELSE
  
  AND SUSAN YOU WOULD NEVER
  GET TO VOTE
  
  Funny that NZ FIRST COUNTRY
  TO GIVE WOMAN THE VOTE
  
  AUSTRALIA
  
  FIRST COUNTRY TO DENY THEM THE VOTE
  
  On going theme there with Communists and Jihadist working
  together that you conveniently ignore?
  
  DIVERSITY MULT-CULTURALISM
  
  WHAT A PILE OF HORSE POOP
  
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  February 11, 2017 9:26am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    You have caused me to choke on my toast.
    
    Please issue a warning: DO NOT DRINK & EAT WHILE READING THIS POSTING.
    
    thankyou
    
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    February 11, 2017 9:45am
    - Scorpion
      
      EXCELLENT
      
      Now Maggy
      
      YOU CAN NOT VOTE as
      a NZ Woman in AUS ???
      
      You are allowed to Work like a Slave
      and PAY TAXES
      
      While they embrace everyone else
      every culture every race
      
      IN TRUE ANZAC Spirit in AUS
      
      You would be TAXED without Representation
      
      EVEN YOU COULD RUN AUSTRALIA
      Better than the MULTI- CULT D HEADS
      OF LAND of the DICK HEAD – OZTRAYLIA
      
      So what i am Saying is
      
      MULT- CULTURALISM is NOT
      MULTI CULTURALISM
      
      Because if it was
      YOU AND SUSAN
      Could after 4 years in AUS get a Passport
      and VOTE in OZ????
      
      MULTI_CULTURALISM is JUST
      
      ANTI KIWI BULL SH*T
      
      SO THE MULTI_CULT- DICK HEADS
      in the TRUE SPIRIT
      
      OF DICKHEADISM
      
      Deny NZ Woman the VOTE
      
      I find that Hilarious and the only Woman
      Standing up for NZ Woman of All Races
      and Creeds is………
      
      PAULINE HANSON
      
      Why is NZ Welcoming Everyone else
      when just NEXT DOOR
      
      They Treat US Worse than they treat
      their ABORIGINES
      
      Ever Wanted to Buy a House in China?
      or Maybe
      
      START A CHURCH in SAUDI ARABIA
      
      because Saudi Arabia is where the Region is heading
      
      So while THESE MORONS Preach Tolerance
      and ACCEPTANCE
      
      YOU ARE NOT ACCEPTED HERE
      
      ARE You
      
      You and what most would consider
      Fundamental Rights
      
      I AM NOT COMFORTABLE WITH THE
      MULT-CULTURALISTS
      
      DECIDING WITHOUT OUR INPUT
      THAT NEW ZEALANDERS ARE THE
      SUB HUMANS OF THE REGION
      
      THANK YOU VERY MUCH
      
      HAVE A NICE DAY
      
      Back to the Dream World
      
      Multi- Culturalism IS WHITE GENOCIDE
      and Nothing Else
      
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      February 11, 2017 4:18pm
- eandlbufe
  
  Isn’t saying “Donald Trump is bad” not classified as hate speech, if not ,why not? It seems Devoy is adding to the fuel of hate speech just by saying Trump is bad just because she hates Trump.And she has the Gaul to say “We must not hate “. Is this not the words from wisdom and genius.
  
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  February 11, 2017 1:37pm
stigie

This photo in the Herald has to make one ask…Can Angry Andrew trust this Maori activist shock jock..?

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11798090
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February 11, 2017 8:16am
fernglas

Sorry to be the first to mention Trump, but can anyone make any sense of his latest tweet ….

“The failing @nytimes does major FAKE NEWS China story saying “Mr.Xi has not spoken to Mr. Trump since Nov.14.” We spoke at length yesterday!”

…… when the only story I could find on the NYT website was all about that discussion?
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February 11, 2017 8:23am
- Biscuit
  
  Grrr at the Trump mention, fernglas…
  
  Bring your head closer to my foot to collect your ‘reward’, ha…
  
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  February 11, 2017 8:27am
- ross411
  
  Here you go fernglas, turns out CNN deleted the fake news and replaced it with real news.
  
  So here’s what we learned.
  1. CNN posts fake news.
  2. Trump calls them out on it, rightly so.
  3. CNN changes fake news to be real.
  4. Lots of left wing people claim Trump misunderstand’s CNN’s changed article and have their hysteria confirmed.
  5. CNN has done damage with fake news.
  
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  February 11, 2017 8:36am
  - ross411
    
    Fernglas is right, I meant NYT.
    
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    February 11, 2017 9:04am
    - stephieboy
      
      rooss411 is right I mean Infowars including Paul Joesph Watson ?
      
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      February 11, 2017 9:50am
- fernglas
  
  Don’t panic, problem solved. Trump was reading a print edition that was published before the White House released information about the call. The online edition of the NYT was corrected within a few minutes. Trump sent his tweet about 3 hours later.
  
  Ross411, it was the NYT, not CNN, and your Mr Hannity seems to have got the fake news bug as well.
  
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  February 11, 2017 8:42am
  - ross411
    
    I just googled for the phrase and found a story where they showed how NYT invisibly changed their story. For you, since you commented about it.
    
    NYT didn’t check with the white house, and the white house had to correct them and Trump then felt compelled to tweet about how NYT was making stuff up (which they were).
    
    Sound about right?
    
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    February 11, 2017 8:58am
    - SGA
      
      Even the way that you report it, that’s hardly “fake” news though – they didn’t “make things up”.
      
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      February 11, 2017 10:26am
      - ross411
        
        I say a newspaper that wants to write a story about something, should go and check whether it’s true before writing the story. It’s a basic part of the job. To report that it’s true, and to intentionally not check, is both fake and making things up.
        
        And worse, they updated the story without making note they’d updated it. The only way to tell that they didn’t admit their action, is to see a third party site which shows the changes.
        
        Would you be okay if the NZ Herald, or The Press did this? I doubt it. Would you think it was dishonest and making things up, and not admitting it when they were caught? I hope so.
        
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        February 11, 2017 11:30am
      - SGA
        
        I see no evidence of intentional fabrication – which is what “making things up” means to me.
        The NYT’s story had, relatively recently from what I can tell, become outdated, the White House contacted them, they immediately pulled the story, and replaced it with a new one dealing with the new information. Sloppy journalism, sure – creating “fake” news, meh.
        
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        February 11, 2017 11:37am
Chuck Bird

I hope this should be proof to anyone that Shelley did not want to get lost. She was injured that is why she could not walk.

Shelley Crooks reveals miracle survival – ‘I kept alive eating bugs and plants’

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11798164
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February 11, 2017 8:27am
- trout
  
  We need to know what bugs and plants she ate it would be useful for others if true – because early explorers starved when travelling in that region because of lack of edible food. I am sceptical of the story.
  
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  February 11, 2017 9:23am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Poor young Thomas Brunner had to eat his faithful dog when he became discombobulated down the West Coast.
    http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/european-exploration/page-5
    
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    February 11, 2017 10:10am
    - Kimbo
      
      Reminds me of the story about the bloke who, stranded on a desert island, had to do the same to his faithful dog. With tears rolling down his cheeks he then eyed the remains of the meal and said to himself, “it’s a pity Spot isn’t here anymore – he would have enjoyed those bones”
      
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      February 11, 2017 12:05pm
      - RF
        
        Shit… sorry trout. Boss hogg fingers gave you a report. I do not like the reply & report being so close.
        
        When I was fancy free and single I spent time in the Fox River area. I struggle to believe that she survived on bugs and plants for 6 weeks. Does not pass the smell test.
        
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        February 11, 2017 4:45pm
  - Chuck Bird
    
    One just needs to look at her face in the Herald to see how much weight she lost.
    
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    February 11, 2017 12:52pm
duggledog

Shelley would have been Crook if she ate tutu berries…
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February 11, 2017 8:32am
- pdm
  
  She would be dead.
  
  Tutu killed an elephant between Napier and Wairoa when I was a kid – mid/late 1950’s.
  
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  February 11, 2017 10:06am
Happychappy

Well isn’t funny that Labour and the Greens that their Elderly Health Care Inquiry in Takaka today after Green Peace Leader Russell Norman calls for the farmers in the region not to be given water right for irrigation in Golden Bay as it might damage a well known fresh water swimming spot.
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February 11, 2017 8:34am
Inandout

Trump made headlines again when he shook the Japanese Prime Minister’s hand for a full 19 seconds!!

http://www.tmz.com/2017/02/10/donald-trump-handshake-japanese-prime-minister/

His every move is analysed by the fixated ‘impartial’ media.
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February 11, 2017 8:35am
- ross411
  
  I saw an American town hall meeting with a republican politician this morning. Half the audience was feral with hate for Trump, and it confirms my belief they place so much weight on the “grab them by the pussy” video that anything he does has to be loudly and violently decried, whether Obama did it before or not. There’s no way to convince them otherwise, and otherwise innocuous things like Trump’s 19 second handshake become points of fixation.
  
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  February 11, 2017 8:41am
publicwatchdog

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In 2009 – New Zealand was ‘perceived’ to be the ‘least corrupt country in the world’ – according to the Transparency International ‘Corruption Perception Index’.

http://www.transparency.org/research/cpi/cpi_2009

That was the very same year of the, in my considered opinion, ‘corrupt corporate coup’.

When the Local Government (Auckland Council) Act 2009 was railroaded through Parliament, which set up the framework for this FORCED Auckland ‘$upercity for the 1%’.

Goes to prove what a complete and utter meaningless CROCK is the Transparency International ‘Corruption Perception Index’?

Penny Bright

Proven ‘anti-privatisation / anti-corruption campaigner’.

2017 Independent candidate
Mt Albert by-election.
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February 11, 2017 8:43am
- Biscuit
  
  Penny, since you’re so fond of slurring-by-putting-quotes-in-speech-marks, allow me to return the ‘compliment’:
  
  Do you not feel that, often, your OWN comments need speech marks?
  
  ‘In my considered opinion’, particularly…
  
  But, also, in this context, ‘Proven’…
  
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  February 11, 2017 8:47am
  - pdm
    
    Bloody hell – don’t encourage her.
    
    I almost gave you a downtick for incitement. lol.
    
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    February 11, 2017 9:11am
- nasska
  
  …..”Penny Bright…..Proven ‘anti-privatisation / anti-corruption campaigner’.”…..
  
  Smells a little musty. ?
  
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  February 11, 2017 8:53am
  - stigie
    
    “Smells a little musty.”
    
    There are good products out there for cat stench !~
    
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    February 11, 2017 9:14am
    - Paulus Gnome
      
      Baking soda, industrial quantity.
      
      Or lime perhaps . . .
      
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      February 11, 2017 9:55am
- calendar girl
  
  Please pay your long-outstanding Auckland Council rates, Ms Bright, as you are required to do legally.
  
  Until your own conscious actions comply with prevailing law, your claims about corruption by other persons cannot be taken seriously.
  
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  February 11, 2017 8:56am
  - publicwatchdog
    
    I’m prising those ‘book$’ open Calender Girl – getting there…. 🙂
    
    Seen this?
    
    This is what I’m doing folks, to help ensure ratepayer and citizens’ lawful right to transparency and democratic accountability are implemented and enforced – regarding the spending of public monies on private consultants and contractors:
    
    “Speaking rights confirmed for Penny Bright at next Auckland Transport Board meeting 16 February 2017.”
    
    The next AT Board meeting is scheduled as follows:
    
    DATE: Thursday 16 February 2017
    TIME: 2.00pm
    VENUE: AMP Building, Level 17, Mairangi Room, 29 Customs St West
    
    “This is going to be, in my opinion, a HUGE development in ensuring that ratepayers’ and citizens’ lawful rights to transparency and accountability in the spending of public monies on private consultants and contractors, are fully implemented and upheld,” says ‘anti-corruption campaigner’ and 2017 Independent Mt Albert by-election candidate, Penny Bright.
    
    “My subject matter for this Auckland Transport Board meeting, is as follows:
    
    Having spent days over the Christmas break, studying the ‘Reasons for the Verdict of Fitzgerald J’, I wish to raise key concerns that arise from the facts and evidence, upon which Justice Sally Fitzgerald relied in her Judgment.
    
    ( https://www.courtsofnz.govt.nz/cases/r-v-borlase-reasons/@@images/fileDecision )
    
    1) The need for Auckland Transport to fully comply with the Public Records Act 2005, particularly section 17, and to make transparent and available for public scrutiny the details of ALL awarded contracts, including those under $50,000, and including ALL those sub-contracted.
    
    http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2005/0040/latest/DLM345729.html
    
    17 Requirement to create and maintain records
    
    (1) Every public office and local authority must create and maintain full and accurate records of its affairs, in accordance with normal, prudent business practice, including the records of any matter that is contracted out to an independent contractor.
    __________________________
    
    (Please be advised that I have raised my concerns directly with the Local Government and Environment Select Committee, regarding the lack of transparency with Auckland Council Controlled Organisations (CCOs), which included Auckland Transport.
    
    Petition 2014/33 of Penelope Mary Bright and 55 others, and Report from the Controller and Auditor-General, Governance and accountability of council-controlled organisations.
    
    a) Here is the Local Government and Environment Select Committee’s Report on my above-mentioned petition:
    
    https://www.parliament.nz/resource/en-NZ/51DBSCH_SCR69296_1/924613ec7fb831c4e74bd062f73287ac2ceb5081
    
    b) Here is my evidence which I presented to the Local Government and Environment Select Committee:
    
    https://www.parliament.nz/resource/en-NZ/51SCLGE_EVI_51DBHOH_PET66634_1_A494444/90cd29f5accdd6dca8189fcddce8fa662e07a62b
    
    I would like members of the Board of Auckland Transport to please study both this Local Government and Environment Select Committee Report, and the evidence I provided, before I attend the AT Board meeting on 20 February 2017? )
    
    2) The need to cease the ‘collaborative’ model for contracting, given that it has proven to ‘breed corruption’.
    
    3) The need for the Board of AT to urgently review the ‘private procurement’ model for the provision of passenger transport services, and for related services provided by Auckland Transport, regarding ‘cost-effectiveness’, ‘transparency’ and ‘accountability’, bearing in mind the statutory obligations arising from the underpinning Act upon which Auckland Transport was established, namely the Local Government (Auckland Council) Act 2009:
    
    http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2009/0032/80.0/DLM2363310.html
    
    40 Operating principles
    
    In meeting its principal objective (as a council-controlled organisation) under section 59 of the Local Government Act 2002, and in performing its functions, Auckland Transport must—
    
    (a) establish and maintain processes for Māori to contribute to its decision-making processes; and
    
    (b) operate in a financially responsible manner and, for this purpose, prudently manage its assets and liabilities and endeavour to ensure—
    
    (i) its long-term financial viability; and
    
    (ii) that it acts as a successful going concern; and
    
    (c) use its revenue efficiently and effectively, and in a manner that seeks value for money; and
    
    (d) ensure that its revenue and expenditure are accounted for in a transparent manner; and
    
    (e) ensure that it acts in a transparent manner in making decisions under this Act and the Land Transport Management Act 2003.
    Section 40: substituted, on 1 November 2010, by section 31 of the Local Government (Auckland Council) Amendment Act 2010 (2010 No 36).
    …”
    _________________________
    
    Penny Bright
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    ‘Anti-privatisation / anti-corruption campaigner’.
    
    (2017 Independent candidate Mt Albert by-election.)
    
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    February 11, 2017 10:45am
    - simpleton1
      
      1) The need for Auckland Transport [PENNY] to fully comply with the Public Records Act 2005, particularly section 17, and to make transparent and available for public scrutiny the details of ALL awarded contracts, including those under $50,000, [over $100] and including ALL those sub-contracted.
      
      Just to set the example with a small $ sum.
      
      Penny completely ignored the G.A. rules that it must approve all funds before they are released (over $100) by usurping the last $200+ in the bank account, without G.A. approval, ….
      https://occupysavvy.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/penny-bright-fails-to-co-opt-occupy-auckland-again/
      
      a yeah right example
      
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      February 11, 2017 11:20am
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      Give it a rest Pennyidiot. That’s the THIRD time you’ve posted that diatribe.
      
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      February 11, 2017 11:44am
    - calendar girl
      
      Ms Bright, your so-called ‘campaign’ is of no interest to me (and will remain so), until you terminate your unlawful refusal to pay the rates levied on your Auckland home.
      
      You, personally, are costing Auckland Council (more importantly its law-abiding, rates-paying home owners) significant sums of money in respect of your unpaid rates – the ‘cost of money’ itself, and legal costs of forcing you to comply with a legal requirement that you have failed to discredit. In my personal view, the relevant Court has taken an intolerably lenient position thus far in allowing your charade to continue on its present course.
      
      Your self-proclaimed, attention-seeking justifications for thumbing your nose at the law do not impress me. What does hold my attention, though, is the irony of your accusing other people of corruption. I await your inevitable moment of reality.
      
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      February 11, 2017 5:16pm
      - stigie
        
        Well said calendar girl and very pleasant towards the bludger..?
        
        I say, boot the bitch out of her house immediately !~
        
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        February 11, 2017 5:48pm
  - rangitoto
    
    The council should try hiring one of those debt recovery agencies. I hear one advertising on the radio from time to time. “No free steak knives, just your money back”
    
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    February 11, 2017 12:13pm
- Rich Prick
  
  Hey, I’m a 1%er, but I haven’t received my cut from the supercity deal. Can you please follow that up? Cheers.
  
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  February 11, 2017 9:00am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    Unlucky! I had mine.
    
    The 3% increase in rates was only 13% and I got a new $100.00 odd transport levy, really dodged a bullet there!
    
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    February 11, 2017 9:58am
- Awww C-mon
  
  Penny
  
  Have you noticed in life that those who get truely outraged at certain activites, but then are found guilty of them are not only rightfully vilified but also never ever forgotten.
  
  The question you need to face, imho, is
  
  A/ do I want to disappear quietly before my transgressions are finally recognised?
  B/ it’s better to be remembered for being a hypocrite than not being remembered at all
  
  After all perhaps no-one will notice, and they will buy the ‘besides I’m not a corporate’ bullshit. So you’ll be sweet!
  
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  February 11, 2017 9:24am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Penny, in my considered opinion you are a loon.
  
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  February 11, 2017 9:40am
  - pdm
    
    And so say all of us!!!!
    
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    February 11, 2017 10:07am
- simpleton1
  
  “in my considered opinion, ‘corrupt corporate coup’ ”
  
  In another ‘respectful’ coup, just follow the $
  
  In another brilliant showing of respect for democracy, Penny completely ignored the G.A. rules that it must approve all funds before they are released (over $100) by usurping the last $200+ in the bank account, without G.A. approval, ….
  https://occupysavvy.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/penny-bright-fails-to-co-opt-occupy-auckland-again/
  
  Simply done by a
  
  Proven ‘anti-privatisation / anti-corruption campaigner’.
  
  Yeah right.! Just follow the $ that makes excuses
  
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  February 11, 2017 9:49am
- Scorpion
  
  I LIKE COMEDY
  
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  February 11, 2017 10:57am
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  See?
  I Spray and Walk Away
  Rubbish Stays
  I walk away
  
  Steve N/S
  Attendee: Glenfield Trolley Derby 1986
  Fuck I got trolleyed
  
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  February 11, 2017 12:00pm
Happychappy

It don’t look like the Willie Jackson story is about to go away anytime soon with four or five stories in just the Herald in yesterday and today giving it to Andrew Little for his inept Leadership.
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February 11, 2017 8:45am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  That’s because someone got hold of Trumps phone and he couldn’t tweet.
  
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  February 11, 2017 10:00am
Huevon

So the US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals believes the First Amendment is just a generic non-discrimination clause that applies to Muslims who aren’t US citizens…give me a break. Why even bother with laws and nations then?

Time to drain the swamp…and Trump can start with these so-called judges.
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February 11, 2017 8:48am
- Inandout
  
  These Circus judges are more concerned with non citizens living in the Middle East than with their own people. Clintonites infest the whole bloody system.
  
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  February 11, 2017 8:56am
  - jonar
    
    So the Clintons paid off George W Bush to appoint Judge James Robart and Judge Richard Clifton. Incredible!
    
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    February 11, 2017 10:42am
    - Inandout
      
      Many years have passed since the Bush the Elder appointed them, and much time to soften them up. The Clinton disease moves stealthily.
      
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      February 11, 2017 10:58am
  - All_on_Red
    
    Robart has a record of being pro Refugee. That’s why they filed with him initially.
    As for the Nineth Circuit, so far 80% of their rulings get over turned. They’re not great.
    
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    February 11, 2017 11:01am
    - stephieboy
      
      Of course and to boot a George W Bush apoointee .
      
      Hmmm…
      
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      February 11, 2017 11:06am
      - All_on_Red
        
        So what that Bush appointed him. I’ve seen this mentioned a few times.
        Being appointed by Bush doesn’t make Robart a Republican. If anything it shows that Bush was flexible to appoint Robart!
        Oh and Stephie, enjoy your ban? How did you explain to the others you got banned because of linking to a porn site? What a creep.
        
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        February 11, 2017 11:28am
      - stephieboy
        
        All on Red ,tsk, tsk ,tsk I’m sorry for the link . I never realised you found the womans form,.like the poses of Ivanka , made you feel so ashamed ,disgusted and nauseated .
        
        Has the Professor of Everything actully read the appeal judges decsions ?
        
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        February 11, 2017 12:03pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        I listened to the hearing for quite awhile. Not impressed with the Attorney representing Trumps view. He missed chances to get to the point.
        No need to apologise Stephie. I think we are all glad you showed us ‘who’ you are.
        
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        February 11, 2017 1:30pm
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      the 80% overturned is likely misleading as not much point spending money appealing unless you are likely to get a reversal – so cases that are appealed are a relatively small selection.
      
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      February 11, 2017 4:47pm
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  The Clinton Disease is actually a CANCER, that’s why the Swamp needs to be drained. Any American who supports foreigners over Americans should not be in the service of the public.
  Make America Great Again! Yep, I have the hat
  
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  February 11, 2017 12:07pm
Happychappy

Can anyone explain why my comment about Andrew Little and Willie Jackson would be under moderation for the last fifteen minutes.
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February 11, 2017 9:02am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Because you have made an unkind comment about our future leader.
  So we have sent the hackers to find out just who you are and that takes 15 minutes .
  
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  February 11, 2017 9:09am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    @Happychappy
    
    I get shoved into moderation now & again.
    Those more knowledgeable than me state that its a bug in the software running this blog.
    So, to get your posting up immediately, you copy what you have written and then delete the stuff in moderation. Repost your copied stuff, and hey presto, it appears.
    
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    February 11, 2017 9:14am
    - Happychappy
      
      Thank you I was just a bit surprised because there is times I have over stepped but that comment is minor to what Gabby posts to me every day.
      
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      February 11, 2017 9:42am
      - Paulus Gnome
        
        True but he spends a lot of time in moderation, we just don’t know about it, care even less and cannot tell when he complains as his comments / posts have the readability of someone writing in shit on their padded cell wall
        
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        February 11, 2017 10:04am
- pdm
  
  You posted it at The Standard by mistake – in which case it will probably not be seen again and you will cop a ban.
  
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  February 11, 2017 9:13am
  - stigie
    
    And if the effeminate Lynette Prentice sees it, you will be abused first and then banned for life !~
    
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    February 11, 2017 9:21am
    - pdm
      
      12 weeks I got recently – just for trying to be helpful.
      
      As I recall they threw in the abuse for nothing.
      
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      February 11, 2017 9:37am
- Gabby
  
  It stays there til you lose some weight, fattychappy.
  
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  February 11, 2017 9:41am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    I rest my case
    
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    February 11, 2017 10:07am
Nukuleka

The Christchurch City Council is getting into the act now with its ‘multicultural strategy document’, advocating for a brave new world that is to be Christchurch in the future. The local ‘Star’ giveaway newspaper this week contained an article about how wonderful it is that we are no longer to be ‘the most English city outside England’ but we are to become part of the wonderful new world of global multiculturalism. Nothing is to be found about these immigrants adapting and assimilating into the kiwi way, of course, but it’s all about how vital it is that they retain their own language, their own culture, their own ‘faiths’. We are to adapt to them, not them adapting to us. Naturally, the ‘Star’ article took a few gratuitous swipes of fake news in Donald Trump’s direction. Par for the course.
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February 11, 2017 9:03am
- EAD
  
  @ Nukuleka,
  
  It sounds like Christchurch is at year zero:
  
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Zero_(political_notion)
  
  The idea behind Year Zero is that all culture and traditions within a society must be completely destroyed or discarded and a new revolutionary culture must replace it, starting from scratch. All history of a nation or people before Year Zero is deemed largely irrelevant, as it will ideally be purged and replaced from the ground up.
  
  “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” – George Orwell
  
  I guess the questionthen becomes – “Who wants to destroy us”?
  
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  February 11, 2017 9:12am
  - stephieboy
    
    EAD,
    
    “Who wants to destroy us” ??
    
    That from most of your previois posts I thought would be pretty obvious .
    
    Carry on . Out with it …
    
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    February 11, 2017 9:55am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  All those little black faces on the dole hanging about doing nothing but drugs, Christchurch is probably still the most English city outside of England, they even have Irish builders and Polish plumbers!
  
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  February 11, 2017 10:12am
- Huevon
  
  The irony is that of all the cities in NZ – with the possible exception of Dunedin – Christchurch has the richest tradition of New Zealand arts, culture and heritage. This is the city of Rita Angus, Bill Sutton, James K Baxter, and Colin McCahon, the proverbial “one-eyed” Canterbury rugby supporters, the nor’ west arch and winter frosts. But of course all that belongs on the dust pile of history. The bright new future of autonomous, mutilculti human borgs awaits!. Charles Brasch is turning in his grave.
  
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  February 11, 2017 10:18am
  - stephieboy
    
    Charles Brasch , a pioneer and prophetic founder of the Christchurch alt right ?
    
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    February 11, 2017 11:00am
    - Huevon
      
      I realise you are only allowed to read the Koran, but you should try and expand your (feeble) mind when the Mullah isn’t looking by reading some NZ literature. You might learn to love the country of your birth rather than wishing to destroy it.
      
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      February 11, 2017 12:33pm
- Rodney Randall
  
  Saw this article too.
  
  There is much public speculation, rightly or wrongly, that Mayor Dalziel is completely unhinged.
  
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  February 11, 2017 10:48am
  - Inandout
    
    Christchurch, the Berlin of the South Pacific.
    
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    February 11, 2017 11:11am
  - EAD
    
    (((Lianne Daziel))
    
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    February 11, 2017 11:34am
    - stephieboy
      
      EAD, whats up ? She Jewish ?
      
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      February 11, 2017 12:07pm
Manolo

Coming home:
http://www.krgv.com/story/34470505/mexico-preparing-for-uptick-in-deportations
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February 11, 2017 9:28am
stephieboy

Donald does yet another flip flop and reaffirms One China Policy in a cordial and productive telephone discussion with Xi ,

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/89301279/trumps-phone-call-to-chinese-president-included-agreement-to-honour-one-china-policy
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February 11, 2017 10:13am
- MCos
  
  Throwing Aussie under the bus over the refugee exchange was bad enough, but a two China policy would have been a disaster. You’ve got to pick your fights and this isn’t one of them.
  Pragmatism v populism.
  
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  February 11, 2017 10:58am
Scorpion

DIVERSITY – MULTI-CULTURALISM
DIVERSITY – MULTI-CULTURALISM
DIVERSITY – MULTI-CULTURALISM
DIVERSITY – MULTI-CULTURALISM
DIVERSITY – MULTI-CULTURALISM
DIVERSITY – MULTI-CULTURALISM
DIVERSITY – MULTI-CULTURALISM
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February 11, 2017 10:55am
Fletch

Video of Trump reading the immigration law that allows him to do what he did. As he reads, he explains it. As he says, the language is so simple that even a high school class could understand it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4HrPSTOgxU

The law clearly gives him the right to do what he did.
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February 11, 2017 11:10am
- stephieboy
  
  The three Judges of 9th Circuit court of appeals thinks differently.
  
  Suck it up !
  
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  February 11, 2017 11:41am
  - Fletch
    
    The three activist Judges of 9th Circuit
    
    Fixed. The law as read though, clearly allows the executive to do what he did. It’s like he is reading it to grade-schoolers in the video.
    
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    February 11, 2017 11:44am
- MCos
  
  Unfortunately for him your average judge knows an awful lot more about the law than is taught at high school.
  
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  February 11, 2017 11:42am
  - Fletch
    
    Here is the law he read from –
    
    (f) Suspension of entry or imposition of restrictions by President
    
    Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate.
    
    https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1182
    
    It’s pretty clear that he is within his right to impose his restrictions.
    
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    February 11, 2017 12:09pm
    - MCos
      
      My understanding, and I may be wrong, is that he needed to back up his ‘findings’ with evidence, which, according to the court yesterday, he wasn’t able to do.
      Having said that, I watched CNN for quite some time yesterday & they produced all manner of talking heads in no way unanimous that the court had made the right judgment.
      
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      February 11, 2017 12:44pm
      - Fletch
        
        Charles Krauthammer makes the point that it is disgraceful because the court “substituted their judgment as to what constitutes a threat to American security, for the Presidents’. The case was, does the president have the authority to do it, and if he does, it’s his judgment to make, and that’s the plain reading of the law”.
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRHeq3AehCE
        
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        February 11, 2017 2:32pm
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  Well Fletch, those with high school class IQ are the ones who are failing to understand the power President Trump has – over and above the Judges.
  Maybe the Sheriffs could spread the words to the thickos?
  
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  February 11, 2017 2:41pm
DifferentPerspective

9th Circuit Court ensure Trump keeps on winning

I keep thinking of the tweet that said “The last time the Democrats were this upset was when the Republicans took their slaves away”.

So – political-activist Judges on the 9th Circuit (who have implausibly high overturned decision rates) play right in to Trump’s hands (again).

They think they’re opposing, but they’re doing the devil’s work!

Every one of these unconstitutional events , garners Trump a few more sane supporters.

Any moron can see that a decision that fails to mention the relevant statute is just plain dishonest and corrupt.

Here is the playbook for raising awareness about Left wing legal action bullying tactics:
1) Write and Executive Order about immigration that is basically identical to one Obama wrote in 2011
2) Make it land hard – to stir up the fascists on the Left
3) Wait while one of the Democrat appointed judge circuits picks it up (Seattle or Minnesota are the safest bets) and puts a restraining order on it
4) Call out the corruption and dishonesty (ie Obama did this – you didn’t care then, 16 Muslim countries do this to Israeli citizens – you didn’t care then)
5) Appeal – garner more free MSM coverage (knowing that the corrupt dud judges will turn down the appeal)
6) Sit back enjoy more free MSM coverage (note even the MSM are all talking about how dishonest the judgment is)
7) Watch public opinion turn against the Left a bit more
8) Sit back and enjoy more free MSM coverage watch your support base broaden – 8 years in office guaranteed.

If I’m wrong about this – I need an answer to why hasn’t the White House issued a new EO that excludes green card holders and residency holders – that would totally bypass all the 9th Circuit’s objections?

The only conceivable reason why they don’t do this 10 minute job and put the 7 country ban in place is because the Trump team is getting exactly what they want.

The 9th Circuit has been doing this dishonest, corrupt shit for years without any public scrutiny – they are now out in the open, they are looking corrupt, they are now being shown to be untrustworthy. The shitty smell that is attaching to them now is never going to go away! Mission accomplished!
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February 11, 2017 11:11am
- stephieboy
  
  Differentperspective and without one piece of factual information to back up your unhinged trumpist hyperbolic attack !
  
  Trump’s sane suporters ???
  
  BTW, have you taken the trouble to read the unaminous decision by the appeal judges ?
  
  It’s here ,
  
  http://heavy.com/news/2017/02/9th-ninth-circuit-denies-stay-ruling-trump-immigration-travel-muslim-ban-appeal-case-ruling-decision-document-read-full/
  
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  February 11, 2017 11:19am
  - DifferentPerspective
    
    I’ve told you before stephie – it’s not my job to do simple google searches for you.
    
    It’s all there – all you have to do is look. You haven’t even attempted to address the simple question I posed – when it is so simple to bypass the dud judges, why have they not done so?
    
    If you wish to insulate yourself from relevant information – it is not my problem. As I don’t seem to be able to penetrate with logic – maybe something more ethereal might help you try Matthew 7:7-8.
    
    But thanks once again for showing us all why the left is consigned to perma-irrelevancy.
    
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    February 11, 2017 11:24am
    - stephieboy
      
      You base your observations and conclusions without reading the Court’s decision ?
      
      Try this ,
      
      Ephesians 4:18
      
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      February 11, 2017 11:38am
      - DifferentPerspective
        
        You are missing the point – it’s the politics!
        
        Dud judges and unconstitutional activism have become the issue now. And yes – and yes the decision still doesn’t mention consideration of the statute under which the EO was made – a rather glaring legal omission!
        
        Trump is winning the issue and the public opinion.
        
        The Left is being manipulated, they are doing Trump’s bidding. You are doing Trump’s bidding.
        
        It’s hilarious! It’s the new normal.
        
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        February 11, 2017 11:58am
      - stephieboy
        
        Again I suggest read the court’s judgement .
        
        We you aware that the Supreme Court and Judiciary act as the third branch of government interpreting whether, as in this case , the Executive acted legally and or constitutionally ?
        
        By its very nature with Separation of Powers the court can and does act ‘politically “
        
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        February 11, 2017 12:12pm
  - Ross12
    
    Since stephieboy(s) is the font of all knowledge, maybe you can explain why in the whole of the 29 page judgement the critical piece of USA law related to the issue (ie. 8USC1882f) is not referred to or considered.
    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/02/10/trump-seizes-on-omission-in-courts-travel-ban-ruling-plots-next-move.html
    
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    February 11, 2017 11:44am
- Inandout
  
  The Auditor General’s office has been criticised for presenting a weak case, and at first I thought that was their fault. Maybe the White House gave the Circus Court enough rope so they were drawn into giving ludicrous decisions; they are known for such judgements, hence ‘circus’.
  
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  February 11, 2017 11:50am
  - fernglas
    
    The Attorney-General’s case wasn’t so much weak as arrogant; asserting that the decision was unreviewable when it plainly was (Bannon’s idea?) and failing to produce any evidence to support the necessity for it. Incompetent lawyering under political pressure. The Appeal Court decision is simple and robust and is likely to appeal to both sides of the Supreme Court. People on here tend to forget that the conservative justices will be no more tolerant, and probably less so, than the Democrat appointees of attempts to undermine the constitutional separation of powers and will certainly not find the attacks by Trump particularly persuasive or amusing.
    
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    February 11, 2017 12:53pm
- rangitoto
  
  Trump should ask them to resign. They are guilty of sedition.
  
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  February 11, 2017 12:51pm
  - Steve (North Shore)
    
    DCM. Don’t come Monday – you’re fired!
    
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    February 11, 2017 2:59pm
Manolo

Griff smiles, Australia burns:
http://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/weather-forecast-sydney-brisbane-adelaide-heatwave-hell/news-story/2987928bc491cd60b3c5543ba36620e6

Temperatures today soared to 44.5C in Penrith and other parts of Sydney’s west and as high as 46.9C at Ivanhoe Airport, in lower western NSW.

The Bureau of Meteorology has reported the hottest February day on record at Sydney Airport today. It has broken the previous record of 42.6C, set on February 21, 1980.

Parts of Australia are facing “catastrophic” fire conditions over the weekend as a heatwave sweeps across the country and threatens power outages in NSW and South Australia.
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February 11, 2017 11:15am
- stephieboy
  
  Manolo , no Griff smiles as Climate Change deniers become expert at this ,
  
  https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/V5LlC.2RZ_Oz.GcEkCjlDA–/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjtzbT0xO3c9ODAwO2lsPXBsYW5l/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-11-13T074931Z_1448044381_GM1EABD17SO01_RTRMADP_3_AUSTRALIA-PROTEST.JPG.cf.jpg
  
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  February 11, 2017 11:24am
  - Manolo
    
    Write that in English, please.
    
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    February 11, 2017 11:26am
- Ross12
  
  Meanwhile in Perth they have just had one of their coldest Feb. days on record. All very strange this AGW !
  
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  February 11, 2017 11:46am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Wettest, coldest February in Perth EVA…..
    https://thewest.com.au/news/weather/perth-shivers-through-its-coldest-february-day-ng-b88382112z
    
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    February 11, 2017 5:41pm
    - stephieboy
      
      Maggy Wassilieff,
      
      your piece of insight ?
      
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      February 11, 2017 5:57pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      ?your piece of insight
      
      I’d reckon you should check out the LOW temperatures in the Indian Ocean, offshore Western Oz.
      All good eh? run of record cold wet weather in WA, while Eastern Oz is experiencing near record warmth.
      Global warming is clevah
      http://joannenova.com.au/2017/02/climate-change-means-perth-smashes-the-coldest-ever-record-for-february/#comments
      
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      February 11, 2017 8:55pm
Manolo

These new Europeans seem to be adapting well to their lives in Germany.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4211686/Afghans-arrested-molesting-trapped-girls-slide.html

Two Afghans have been arrested after allegedly trapping two girls in a swimming pool water-chute and sexually abusing them.

One of the men had allegedly stopped himself halfway down so that he could grab the two girls and his friend then followed behind them so that they could pin their victims between them to carry out the sex attacks.

The assault of two girls aged 13 and 15 involving two men aged 20 and 22 happened in the Aquapark in the city of Oberhausen, in North Rhine-Westphalia.
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February 11, 2017 11:24am
Fletch

Re: the whales stranding – the only time liberals are against euthanasia…
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February 11, 2017 11:32am
DifferentPerspective

Trump winning on another front

Oh dear, after an all out assault by the MSM on Trump a Boston poll shows voters trust Trump more than the MSM.

In the old world – never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrell

In the new world – the MSM are the enemy!
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February 11, 2017 11:44am
- stephieboy
  
  Oh dear, tsk, tsk , tsk. President Trump’s approval rating is at a historical low ,
  
  http://time.com/4660227/donald-trump-low-approval-ratings/
  
  MSM the enemy ? Like here ?
  
  http://truedemocracyparty.net/wp-content/uploads/propaganda-media-controls-us.jpg
  
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  February 11, 2017 11:53am
  - Fletch
    
    Trump is trusted more than the media.
    
    http://freebeacon.com/politics/poll-shows-public-trusts-trump-administration-media/
    
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    February 11, 2017 12:43pm
    - Gabby
      
      And yet you trust the media polls. You sap.
      
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      February 11, 2017 12:56pm
      - Fletch
        
        Just making the point that for any poll showing one thing, I can produce a poll showing another.
        
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        February 11, 2017 1:20pm
      - stephieboy
        
        In broad principle ,yes . Realising they can get things wrong as in the case of 1948 and 2016 which when you think about it is not too bad .
        
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        February 11, 2017 1:39pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    A Poll by CNN? You’re a gullible fool to believe that.
    Reuters have him at 52% and Rasmussen at 57%.
    
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    February 11, 2017 12:43pm
    - stephieboy
      
      Oh well, why should we not try Infowars or WND ?
      
      Will this do ?
      
      http://www.gallup.com/poll/203198/presidential-approval-ratings-donald-trump.aspx
      
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      February 11, 2017 1:04pm
Fletch

Video of Barrack Obama pretty much giving the same view on immigration as Trump. Funny how views can change when it suits.

https://www.facebook.com/retainyourfreedom/videos/1251530741548624/?pnref=story
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February 11, 2017 11:48am
- Gabby
  
  Reblubbiblubs shouldn’t have whinged about how soft he was, eh.
  
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  February 11, 2017 12:57pm
- stephieboy
  
  Fletch , as a young Senator possibly yes . Realising of course that like Trump ,the former younger liberal and Clinton devotee ,,views can change over time .
  
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  February 11, 2017 1:42pm
- RF
  
  Fletch…
  
  There should be a permanent sign displayed in all cities and on motorway signs.
  
  “It’s different when the left do it”.
  
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  February 11, 2017 4:33pm
Manolo

President Trump will double down:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4212718/White-House-hints-NEW-travel-ban-order-dodge-court.html
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February 11, 2017 11:49am
Fletch

Brendan O’Neill writes that the liberals snapping up copies of George Orwell’s novel 1984 might be in for a shock when they find it describes themselves better than it does Trump. From university “re-education” camps for students or employees who stray from the liberal orthodoxy to forcing students to use “ze” instead of “him” or “her”, it’s not conservatism that is portrayed in the book.

It’s great to see that leftists and millennials and others are snapping up George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four in a bid to make some sense of Trump’s presidency. Because when they get deep into this dystopian tale—into the Newspeaking, sex-fearing, history-rewriting meat of it—they might realize that it describes their authoritarianism better than Trump’s. I can picture their faces now: “Guys… is this novel about us?”

In Nineteen Eighty-Four, leftists and millennials won’t find a dystopian, fictionalized version of Trumpism—they’ll find themselves. In the Party, in the treatment of ideas as disorders, in the Two Minutes Hate against those who are offensive or different, in the hounding of unpopular opinions, in the memory-holing of difficult things, they will see their own tragic creed reflected back to them. They will find a stinging rebuke from history of their own embrace of the sexless, joyless, ban-happy urge to control almost every area of individual thought and life.

https://reason.com/archives/2017/02/10/orwells-1984-a-better-reflection-of-the/
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February 11, 2017 12:29pm
Stars And Stripes

Hundreds more whales head for Farewell Spit
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/324256/hundreds-more-whales-head-for-farewell-spit

Nothing like a whale stranding to get the public all soppy and teary eyed.
Get over it I reckon as it is time to move in with the chainsaws and get that meat before it spoils because I’m sure St Pierre’s Sushi could do a new line for the next couple of weeks to use up the choice cuts.
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February 11, 2017 12:41pm
- mandk
  
  I reckon those whales heard Labour and the Greens were meeting in Golden Bay and gave up the will to live.
  
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  February 11, 2017 1:14pm
- Awww C-mon
  
  The most unfortunately named animal meets the most appropriately named place…
  
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  February 11, 2017 3:17pm
- Longknives
  
  Just wait for the ‘Tangata Whenua’ to claim all these Whales…(As they are always banging on about being ‘Guardians of the Sea’ blah blah)
  Then some fat Maori fella with a fag hanging out of his mouth will turn up with a chainsaw..
  
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  February 11, 2017 4:14pm
  - RF
    
    Don’t forget the black shearers singlet, bagy pants and ankle lace up gumboots minus laces.
    
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    February 11, 2017 4:30pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Pilot whales have been an important food for generations of Faroe Islanders (Faroese) (meat & blubber)
  If you have a strong stomach…..
  (Don’t watch GoVege)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYOTkwFhe-w
  
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  February 11, 2017 5:23pm
sooty

A Taranaki lad was caught in a smilar gas discharge as on the cruise ship in Port Chalmers. Unfortuatly he died as well. It was about 30yrs ago in Singapore. The boat was the Pacific Atawhai which use to supplied dive sevices to SBPT on Maui field. He was servercing a lfeboat at the time.
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February 11, 2017 1:13pm
Fletch

Video of a baby in the womb (I think it is 20 weeks old) taken using an MRI instead of ultrasound. The clearest pictures we have yet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0N8JDXk5CY

Apparently, it is very difficult to do.

http://swns.com/news/81780-81780/
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February 11, 2017 1:26pm
- rangitoto
  
  How many babies were killed making the video?
  
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  February 11, 2017 4:27pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Ban ‘Oma rapeti oma’
(run rabbit run – for you mono-linguists)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXmk8dbFv_o

German town to cancel fox-hunting tune after vegan complains
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38931564
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February 11, 2017 2:31pm
- Brigitte
  
  One could say ‘Fox on the Run’ – or sing it like The Sweet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERMEneOrTkI
  
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  February 11, 2017 2:54pm
  - Fletch
    
    Is also going to be featured in the new Guardians of the Galaxy movie…
    
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    February 11, 2017 3:26pm
    - Scorpion
      
      Best Version of Fox on the Run
      
      https://youtu.be/dGu6v2OjW8s
      
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      February 11, 2017 4:06pm
sam green

https://medium.com/@tuckerfitzgerald/intolerant-liberals-4ecd712ac939#.kahomk5ak
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February 11, 2017 3:53pm
- sam green
  
  You may have downticked it – ha – but you read it and you can’t unread it.
  
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  February 11, 2017 7:42pm
RF

Just had a quick look at the standard. Are they for real.

There is a bird brain called Weka who has been banning anyone not agreeing with her comments. Some bans are 2 years and one was a staggering life ban. She is a raving greeny loon so that’s not unexpected.

I thought the female prentice was bad enough when she suffers from PMS.

Bird brains responses remind me of a thin lipped spinster teacher I once had teaching me. So anal and evil.

Other syncophants quickly fall into line doing her bidding and gang up on any transgressors.

Now that John Key has gone they are desperately seeking new targets to spew their foul bile at. I suspect Bill English will be the target by default.
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February 11, 2017 4:14pm
- Awww C-mon
  
  It’s been very entertaining since Jacksongate started.
  
  They are incomplete fucking meltdown, no one says it, but they all know they just lost the election.
  
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  February 11, 2017 4:19pm
Longknives

Is this for real?? When I first read this bizarre article I thought it was maybe a parody by Civilian or something..

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/89285395/MP-speaks-animal-rights-and-rodeo-at-World-Shearing-Champs

“Labour MP Trevor Mallard, visiting Invercargill for the World Shearing and Woolhandling Championships, says shearing is an industry he is no stranger to. The animal welfare spokesperson said the sheep were “damn lucky” to be in the hands of the world’s best.
Mallard said he went backstage to have a peek at the sheep involved and they were in tip top condition, he said.
“I’ve lived in King Country … so I’ve seen a lot of shearing and a lot of shed
“Usually when we see sheep in events you see distress, and I didn’t see any distress out the back.”
Often the most distressing thing to sheep was a barking dog, he said.
“I didn’t see any dogs out the back.”
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February 11, 2017 4:20pm
- rangitoto
  
  Bill English beats Sir David Fagan.
  
  http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11799003
  
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  February 11, 2017 4:33pm
Awww C-mon

“Often the most distressing thing to sheep was a barking dog, he said.
“I didn’t see any dogs out the back.”

So Andy wasn’t there with him ?
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February 11, 2017 4:23pm
Nostradamus

This will go down well at The Standard:

World Shearing Champs: PM Bill English beats legend

Prime Minister Bill English earned the first major victory of election year today when he beat shearing legend Sir David Fagan in a one-sheep-match on the final afternoon of the four-day 40th anniversary World Shearing and Woolhandling Championships in ILT Stadium Southland, Invercargill.
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The shearing champion from Te Kuiti, winner of 642 titles worldwide, including five individual World championships, was later gracious in defeat at the hands of the Prime Minister. “He won it fair and square,” said Sir David, who retired from competitive shearing in 2015.

Can anyone visualise Andrew Little shearing a sheep? No, I didn’t think so.
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February 11, 2017 4:42pm
- niggly
  
  Ok if visualising Andrew Little shearing a sheep is not possible, then what about Labour’s next Co-Leaders in waiting, Gracinda? 🙂
  
  They could give it a go though – imagine the next cover of Woman’s Weekly of the two of them looking resplendent in their hipster-designed black singlets!
  
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  February 11, 2017 4:47pm
- Scorpion
  
  I Can visualise MANY NZ POLITICIANS
  Doing things with Sheep that is the
  Next thing NZ will Legalise.
  
  REWI Alley was the First Proponent of
  Nude Sheep Farming
  
  http://nzchinasociety.org.nz/rewi-alley/
  
  Good To Keep NZ Political Traditions alive and Current
  
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  February 11, 2017 8:42pm
Nostradamus

Greg Presland came out to play:

I have decided to seek the Labour Nomination for the New Lynn seat following the announcement by David Cunliffe that he will not seek reelection. … I am happy to discuss my candidacy further. Contact me if you have have any questions or comments.

Yours in solidarity,
Greg Presland
http://www.gregpresland.com

But in today’s news:

Deborah Russell has been announced as the Labour Party’s candidate to contest the New Lynn electorate in the general election. … The announcement was made by Labour’s general secretary Andrew Kirton on Twitter this afternoon.

I wonder if there’ll be a group hug for Greg at The Standard?
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February 11, 2017 4:51pm
- niggly
  
  And is that before or after internecine war breaks out?
  
  Best we take shelter, stock up with popcorn and watch the fireworks!
  
  (Looks like Greg Presland has had his “white male privilege” checked by Labour HQ apparatchiks)!
  
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  February 11, 2017 4:58pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    David Cunliffe tries to keep the peace by saying “well done” to the losers:
    
    David Cunliffe
    ‏@DavidCunliffeMP
    
    Congratulations @BeeFaerie ! You’ll be an awesome MP for New Lynn. Well done @GregPresland, Susan Zhu and other cands!
    
    But Andrew Little doesn’t acknowledge them:
    
    Andrew Little
    ‏@AndrewLittleMP
    
    Congratulations to my old mate, Deborah Russell @BeeFaerie, Labour’s candidate for New Lynn. Part of the great team fighting to change govt.
    
    I think you’re right Niggly – internecine war is on the cards!
    
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    February 11, 2017 5:02pm
- Awww C-mon
  
  Why try so hard to join Labour this year?
  
  Key is gone so there is a chance? No-one can win 4 so it’s our turn?
  
  Or get in now, try and secure a seat and make a name for yourself in opposition and have a good crack in 2020
  
  Be interesting to know
  
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  February 11, 2017 5:12pm
Nostradamus

Oh dear – Morrissey isn’t feeling the love at The Standard:

Morrissey
11 February 2017 at 1:13 pm

You’ll just carry on blubbing then. Fine with me.
[take the rest of the weekend off Morrissey – weka]

Maybe he’ll finally get around to that 1000th comment on Kiwiblog? Interestingly, I was looking up the comment where he promised us a humdinger of a 1000th comment, and came across this comment by “The Millennium Committee” (which I hadn’t seen before):

PUBLIC NOTICE

For more than a fortnight now, Kiwibloggers have been anticipating the landmark ONE-THOUSANDTH POST by their colleague Morrissey.

For personal and professional reasons, Morrissey has been unable to live up to the commitment he gave, viz., to put up that post within 24 hours of announcing it.

As chairman of the Morrissey Breen Fan Club, it is my duty to announce that Morrissey is indeed working hard on Post No. 1,000 and has not forgotten his friends at this esteemed site. He gives a special seasonal shout-out to one “Nostradamus”, as well as “Jack5”, “Gabby”, “Jazz Hands Mc Feel”—crazy name, crazy guy!—and “Captain Mainwaring.”

He extends his best wishes, in fact, to ALL Kiwibloggers, and assures you that he will indeed come through with that one-thousandth post. When he gets his act together.

Jack A. Napes
Chairman, Morrissey Breen Fan Club

I have a suspicion this was Morrissey commenting under another alias.
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February 11, 2017 5:11pm
- Awww C-mon
  
  If he forgets my banjo’s and fiddles I’ll be really pissed
  
  Might even give Wayne Mapp a call and ask him to sort him out again ?
  
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  February 11, 2017 5:15pm
nasska

…..”For personal and professional reasons, Morrissey has been unable to live up to the commitment he gave, viz., to put up that post within 24 hours of announcing it.”…..

……and not a single fuck was given!
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February 11, 2017 5:22pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Go easy on him Nasska. If he’s getting banned from other blogs, left right and centre, then Kiwiblog may be the only safe space he has left!
  
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  February 11, 2017 5:24pm
  - Awww C-mon
    
    It was a very butt-hurt post from him this morning, his only safe place might be with David Cunnliffe and Susan Devoy!
    
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    February 11, 2017 5:27pm
  - nasska
    
    Fair enough Nostra…..this time I’ll settle for the gift of his absence. 🙂
    
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    February 11, 2017 5:27pm
    - stigie
      
      Jeez they are a ratty lot over at the Stranded, the arguments are pure entertainment, not only from the commenters but from their authors of the posts and from the effeminate Lynette Prentice.
      Fucking classic entertainment !~
      
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      February 11, 2017 6:19pm
Nostradamus

I’ve found a job for Gabby!

Chocolate lovers rejoice — the world’s best job pays you to taste

Chocolate lovers can stop wishing — the perfect job actually exists … but alas, it’s only part-time. Oh, and so many people want it that the company has stopped accepting applications.
…
The company started advertising for a chocolate and cocoa beverage taster (that’s the real title) 21 days ago.
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So what qualifications would one need for such a perfect job? “A passion for confectionary and taste buds for detection, honesty when it comes to giving an opinion, eager to try new inventive products, a communicative personality to build great relationships with your panel, [and] a firm grasp of the English language,” Mondelez said.

We know that Gabby has a firm grasp of the English language. If Gabby doesn’t want the job, then I propose that we nominate Stephieboy instead!
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February 11, 2017 5:34pm
- Awww C-mon
  
  Gabby is much happier replaying scenes from 50 shades and pulp fiction.
  
  The gimp is Gabby’s idol-
  Asexual
  Gagged
  Stupefied
  Pegged
  
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  February 11, 2017 7:28pm
Gabby

If you’re being nosey, and a dumbarse, there’s a crappychappy would love to share some choccies wiv his bff Metiria. His sweatpants still have some give in them.
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February 11, 2017 6:03pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Gabby:
  
  Thank you for your job application. I’m delighted to inform you that your dream job (gobbling chocolate and sharing Gabbyisms with the world) is yours. The only downside is you’ll have to get out of bed in the morning and become a net taxpayer (instead of being a bludger) for the first time in your miserable life.
  
  (By the way, you’ll need to get over your fascination with poo. It’s the same colour as chocolate, yes, but your thoughts on what poo tastes like aren’t relevant to this job.)
  
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  February 11, 2017 6:06pm
  - Gabby
    
    What kind of brown-nosey dumbarse pretends other people share his fascination with poo?
    
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    February 11, 2017 6:19pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      A sample of Gabby’s comments from a Google search for “crusty” on Kiwiblog:
      
      Those crusty yfronts do commence to itch after a while don’t they?
      
      They were looking for crusty yfronts. They have your address now.
      
      Check in your crusty yfronts.
      
      She’ll be devastated to hear it, crusty jocks.
      
      I see the good Captain has rolled out of his crusty sheets.
      
      I’m not the one with the perverted scatological obsession.
      
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      February 11, 2017 6:38pm
      - nasska
        
        When you try to address the perversions of our resident trolls you are ploughing fertile ground Nostra. This link may help to develop your thesis further: 🙂
        
        http://www.psychologistanywhereanytime.com/sexual_problems_pyschologist/psychologist_paraphilias_list.htm
        
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        February 11, 2017 7:11pm
      - Gabby
        
        A nosey touch of ocd there from the dumbarse, and a confusion of emissions due no doubt to long disuse and terminal incontinence.
        
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        February 11, 2017 7:33pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Poor Gabby has shit for brains – probably from eating too much shit.
        
        (My goodness – it’s quite eye-opening when you descend into the sandpit and debate Gabby at his low level of intelligence!)
        
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        February 11, 2017 7:51pm
Steve (North Shore)

Fake News????
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5e-eckiZyU
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February 11, 2017 6:23pm
- stephieboy
  
  And when the Jews and Poles poured into the US from Czarist Russia late 19th and early 20th century they did not have constitutional rights .
  
  Is that the point Judge Jeanine is trying to make ?
  
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  February 11, 2017 6:32pm
Manolo

Will the traitor be handed over?
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/russia-eyes-sending-snowden-u-s-gift-trump-official-n718921
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February 11, 2017 7:39pm
Manolo

The BLM thugs are working overtime:
http://wjla.com/news/local/teachers-parents-want-education-secretary-betsy-devos-to-hear-their-message

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was physically blocked by protesters from entering Jefferson Academy in SW, D.C. Friday morning. This was her first visit to a public school.

The protesters created a barrier to the entrance of the school, and began shouting.
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February 11, 2017 7:49pm
wiseowl

Hard to have a good laugh these days but I chanced upon allo allo while channel surfing.
So funny one forgets what comedy used to be like.
UKTV.
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February 11, 2017 7:51pm
Viking2

Back 2005 Senator Obama said:

We simply cannot allow for people to pour in, undocumented, unchecked”

The American people are a welcoming and generous people. But those who enter our country illegally, and those who employ them, disrespect the rule of law.

And because we live in an age where terrorists are challenging our borders, we simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented, and unchecked. Americans are right to demand better border security and better enforcement of the immigration laws.

To begin with, the agencies charged with border security would receive new technology, new facilities, and more people to stop, process, and deport illegal immigrants. But while security might start at our borders, it doesn’t end there. Millions of undocumented immigrants live and work here without our knowing their identity or their background. We need to strike a workable bargain with them. They have to acknowledge that breaking our immigration laws was wrong. They must pay a penalty, and abide by all of our laws going forward.

http://www.usasupreme.com/obama-2005-simply-cannot-allow-people-pour-undocumented-unchecked/

what a two faced bastard.
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February 11, 2017 8:30pm
- stephieboy
  
  V2 , and true to his word Obama deported 2.5 million undocumented workers . Trumps says he is going to improve on that and deport 3 milliom more .
  Cant understand what your beef is ?
  
  http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/trump-obama-deportation-of-migrants-dont-act-so-shocked-a7416526.html
  
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  February 11, 2017 10:28pm
Maggy Wassilieff

What on earth is going on with all these Polish car crashes?
PM injured at Auschwitz, yesterday
State officials injured in Israel in November
President Duda tyre blow-out
Defence minister in a car pile-up last month.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/11/car-crash-puts-polands-prime-minister-in-hospital
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February 11, 2017 8:31pm
- Scorpion
  
  What have the NZ Politicians who voted against
  Israel not had accidents yet, don’t worry
  it is coming
  
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  February 11, 2017 8:38pm
nasska

Just remember that behind every angry woman there stands a man with absolutely no clue about what the hell he’s done wrong!
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February 11, 2017 8:33pm
Scorpion

SOME ONE (in the name of multiculturalism)
ASK THE AUSTRALIANS
WHY THEY DO NOT ALLOW
NZ WOMAN TO VOTE?

But allow all other Woman from all other Countries
to Vote?

If they change their policies they might just
get someone who can run the Backward
Third World Country correctly shaped
like a COWPAT.. off the Coast of NZ now called Australia Properly.
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February 11, 2017 8:36pm
wiseowl

Nasska
That is so true.
So many guys screwed for no valid reason.
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February 11, 2017 8:41pm
Jack5

At last Britain ends its shameful persecution of British soldiers who fought in Iraq.

Pity some of the instigators of the persecution aren’t charged with treason.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4213606/Probe-soldier-abuse-claims-harmed-defence-nation.html
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February 11, 2017 9:19pm
- mikenmild
  
  For a more balanced report:
  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/10/iraq-war-claims-unit-to-be-shut-down-says-uk-defence-secretary
  
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  February 11, 2017 10:04pm
  - Kimbo
    
    For a more balanced report
    
    Hmm. In the right hand corner the Daily Mail. In the left the Guardian. Ya pays yer money and ya takes yer pick! Who said “Alternative facts” is a new development? 😉
    
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    February 11, 2017 10:13pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    Mikenmild:
    
    You don’t seem have commented much on Kiwiblog lately. Is everything ok?
    
    Kimbo:
    
    Ya pays yer money and ya takes yer pick!
    
    Well, when it comes to spending hard-earned money, I can think of better ways than spending it on the Daily Mail or the Guardian!
    
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    February 11, 2017 10:22pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    The facts are pretty much the same…
    dodgy lawyer, dodgy claims, dodgy middleman, follow the money.
    
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    February 11, 2017 10:28pm
Manolo

Labour lite American version?
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_HEALTH_OVERHAUL_TAXES?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2017-02-11-08-24-50

Republicans love cutting taxes, especially if they were authored by a president named Barack Obama. But as they push their wobbly effort to erase his health care overhaul, they’re divided over whether to repeal the levies the law imposed to finance its expanded coverage for millions of Americans.
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February 12, 2017 6:35am
Manolo

Canadians must be delighted.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/asylum-seekers-fleeing-us-canada-brave-snow-extreme-131134936.html

Farhan Ahmed hoped to find refuge in the United States after fleeing death threats in Somalia, but fear over a US crackdown on immigration sent him on another perilous journey — to Canada.

The 36-year-old was among nearly two dozen asylum seekers who braved bone-chilling cold on a February weekend to walk across the border, trudging through snow-covered prairies in the dead of night to make a claim in this country.

It was a record number of arrivals for a single weekend in the small border town of Emerson, and Canadian officials said Thursday they are bracing for more.
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