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William of Ockham

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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/17/co2-emissions-stay-same-for-third-year-in-row-despite-global-economy-growing
CO2 emissions stay same for third year in row – despite global economy growing

International Energy Agency report puts halt in emissions from energy down to growth in renewable power.

US emissions are at their lowest level since 1992, while the economy has grown 80% since that time.

Carbon dioxide output also declined in China, by 1%, and were stable in Europe, offsetting increases in most of the rest of the world, the IEA said.
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Never mind, Trumpy will try to get CO2 back up again. To please the Koch brothers and other rrrs holes with money to burn.

Is the fuhrer sick of winning yet?
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March 19, 2017 8:03am
- DifferentPerspective
  
  No he most certainly isn’t sick of winning yet, I reckon that’ll come after an even bigger landslide in November 2020 when he’s back for another 4 years.
  
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  March 19, 2017 8:10am
  - ztev
    
    Landslide ? That was last year.
    next time it will be even greater –
    it will be unanimous!
    
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    March 19, 2017 9:15am
- Nukuleka
  
  Every time a poster uses a term like ‘Fuhrer’ (sic) it is an indication of the shallowness of thinking and desperation of the poster!
  
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  March 19, 2017 8:20am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Ha, ha,
  why then are CO2 emissions rising in “green” Germany?
  Looks like all its renewable power is not very efficient… They are powering up their consumption of dirty lignite.
  http://www.the-american-interest.com/2017/03/17/green-germanys-emissions-keep-rising/
  
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  March 19, 2017 8:22am
- Manolo
  
  Why don’t you go back to your Dennis Horne, world-class poet, identity?
  
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  March 19, 2017 8:23am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Oh look Dennis,
  NOAA has just released its Mauna-Loa data for 2016 and CO2 levels are RISING at an unprecedented rate.
  http://www.noaa.gov/news/carbon-dioxide-levels-rose-at-record-pace-for-2nd-straight-year
  
  Now if it’s not the Energy sector releasing all the CO2 (as your link states), then it must be natural outgassing, or it just could be that all these measures are a crock.
  
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  March 19, 2017 8:42am
- Kea
  
  Is it safe ?
  
  Are you filling in for Griff with dodgy weather reports and prophecies of doom ?
  
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  March 19, 2017 9:43am
Manolo

Will this be good for Canada?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4325866/EXCLUSIVE-Canadian-border-authorities-detaining-record-number-Mexicans.html

Canada’s border authorities detained more Mexicans in the first 67 days of 2017 than they did annually in any of the three previous years.

The spike comes immediately after Canada’s federal government lifted its visa requirement for Mexican citizens in December.
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March 19, 2017 8:06am
holysheet

Let the squealing commence from the UN as Trump delivers up yet another election promise.

The US is the United Nation’s largest contributor. It funds 22% of the UN’s regular budget and 28% of UN peacekeeping. No other member state comes close to that level. Japan is the second largest donor at 9% and 10% respectively.

There is no doubt that large-scale disengagement from the US could create chaos and leave gaps that other countries would be unlikely to fill.

The US State Department, which is in charge of the money the US gives to the UN and its affiliated agencies, is facing a 29% decrease. Peacekeeping forces and climate change funding have already been earmarked to take some of the pain.

The UN has warned that abrupt cuts to its funding, as proposed by President Donald Trump, could undermine long-term efforts to reform the organisation.

The French Ambassador to the UN, Francois Delattre, was among those vocal in expressing concerns about a decrease in US funding, saying even the perception that America was in retreat from the international community could lead to instability.

And there you have it. Those freeloading frogs complaining about this.
Who will be next?
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March 19, 2017 8:07am
- Huevon
  
  Drain the swamp. The self-serving leftists at the UN have used emotional blackmail for too long to keep lining their pockets. I will enjoy listening to the hungry pigs squealing as the trough runs dry. If only NZ had a government that liked winning…
  
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  March 19, 2017 9:41am
  - ztev
    
    Well Trumpkins it will soon be time for some hard lessons for You and Trump.
    Remember the imigartion bans that were chucked in the wastepaper basket by Judges doing the job- judicial review executive orders.
    next will come Congress doing its job- ignoring Trumps budget ‘requests’
    
    meanwhile Trump roams around his apartments talking to himself – I know someone is listening.
    
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    March 19, 2017 10:00am
    - Huevon
      
      WTF?
      
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      March 19, 2017 10:09am
- artemisia
  
  Those long term efforts to reform the organisation (if anyone actually believes that) might need to turn into short term efforts.
  
  Always a good rule thumb to ask – what would I do if my life depended on it. Or in this case my organisation’s survival. Long term efforts not too likely to cut it.
  
  But at tleast there is apparently seen to be a need for reform. So they say anyway.
  
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  March 19, 2017 1:04pm
  - holysheet
    
    getting rid of the security council power of veto would be a good start.
    
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    March 19, 2017 2:37pm
Chuck Bird

The camel is getting his or her nose in the tent. The hours are short now but as Muslim numbers increase so will the hours not to mention other demands.

Women-only swim night ‘very popular’ among Muslim community

“Having this programme available for us Muslim ladies helps us to learn swimming, stay fit and be able to learn water survival skills too.”

With the help of YMCA instructor Bernadine, Fathima said she has become a more comfortable and confident swimmer and is now able to ensure the safety of her children while spending some quality time with them in and around the water.

There are four, half hour lessons every Thursday ranging in ability level and run by female instructors.

The beginner classes are fully funded to lure more women who have never had any exposure to swimming, into the water. More advanced sessions are subsidised to $5 a class, a fee which helps ensure the programme is sustainable.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11820161
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March 19, 2017 8:12am
- Harriet
  
  Boys at a mostly muslim boys public school in Sydney were granted the right ‘not to shake the hand of the female principal on awards night’.
  
  They will leave school and go on to uni, private sector, govt, associations, sport clubs ect. And that is from just one state school.
  
  And the govt has said that sharia will never be introduced!
  
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  March 19, 2017 8:20am
  - Longknives
    
    Yet Clementine and all the hardcore Feminists think the sun shines out of Muslims.
    *They aren’t White males, you see..
    
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    March 19, 2017 8:31am
  - Manolo
    
    Welcome back to the Dark Ages, Muslim-style.
    
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    March 19, 2017 8:32am
    - Harriet
      
      Yep.
      
      Watch the first 2:30 of this:
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r7Gq0Nz5Q4
      
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      March 19, 2017 8:49am
      - Komata
        
        But, but Harriet, Muslims are ‘peace loving’ people who wouldn’t WANT to lift a finger to hurt us…
        
        Yeah, right…
        
        Thank you.
        
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        March 19, 2017 4:23pm
- Padriv Ustoev
  
  All jokes aside is there a some government body or council oversight body that I can complain to? I the grounds of sexual and religious discrimination and misuse of rate payer money? Or does this just carry on on account of media being sympathetic. I mean they shut down the European club at uni. Why can’t they shut down the Muslim swimming club on the basis of it being threatening and using the same slogans as known terrorist organizations?
  
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  March 19, 2017 9:27am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Don’t be a meany… let your wives go for a swim.
    
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    March 19, 2017 9:33am
    - Inandout
      
      And a part female can now sneak into a Muzzie only pool session and perv on Allah’s women. Diversity of sexual preference is so interesting.
      
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      March 19, 2017 10:00am
  - Wayne Mapp
    
    I had a look at the Cameron Pools website. As I understand it the pool is owned by the City Council. Possibly operated by YMCA, but presumably using public funds.
    
    So on the face of it the Council, being representative of everyone, should not be discriminating on the basis of religion. Public facilities are supposed to be open to all. Though there would be precedent for women only times (think of publicly funded girls schools).
    
    If people want exclusive religious rights, they should be doing so in private pools.
    
    I wonder what the Human Rights Commission would say?
    
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    March 19, 2017 10:11am
    - Chuck Bird
      
      If you wonder why not write to the expert on human rights, Susan Devoy? You are much more likely to get a response than I. I sent a polite email to the Criminal Bar Association querying why they have invited Judge Binnie a so called expert on David Bain and our current former Minister of Justice, Judith Collins. I have not had the courtesy of a reply.
      
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      March 19, 2017 10:42am
    - Viking2
      
      Mr Mapp,
      Islam is not religion. Islam is an ideology. A political ideology that wants to rule the world and treat you and me and all ours as infidels with no rights other than to have your throat cut for being an infidel.
      
      Surely you grasp the difference.
      
      Gees its no wonder we have the problems we have. Its really quite simple.
      
      Next you will be telling us that the Nats. are going to introduce areas of Sharia Law to NZ. Be as bad as them encouraging the Maori’s to have their own system.
      
      I despair.
      Mind you one of their habits is to chop the hands of thieves. so that would leave us with a lot of one handed lawyers and politicians. Make it easier to spot them when shopping.
      
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      March 19, 2017 1:22pm
    - howitis
      
      Yes indeed it is run by YMCA.
      
      The irony here of course it that YMCA stands for Young Men’s Christian Association.
      
      Quite a turnaround on Muslim Women only access.
      Aaah 2017. What will it be like in 2027?
      
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      March 19, 2017 1:50pm
  - Jack5
    
    Women-only sessions: For “learning to swim”?
    
    Rubbish. This is to protect them from perving Muslim men like the Stephiestani troll team.
    
    The message is: Let the Stephies and their mates go cross-eyed perving, but from now on the word from above is that they perve only on Kaffir women.
    
    But where are the feminists? Where is Dame Devoid? Whoops, sorry, that’s right … men, like Muslims, don’t constitute a race.
    
    I suspect the recently paroled Kea is circling above the thread pondering whether to point out that there are likely gender-separate swimming pools for Orthodox Jews in Israel or somewhere. Very relevant to Auckland, of course.
    
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    March 19, 2017 11:33am
    - Viking2
      
      But but the Stephies have these big screen things at the mosque. Great for watching porn without the ladies. a couple of goats and its all on.
      
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      March 19, 2017 1:26pm
  - Komata
    
    Padriv
    
    Two words: Susan Devoy…
    
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    March 19, 2017 4:25pm
  - howitis
    
    Write to your local councillor – most Wards have 2
    
    Simply click on the email address to commence
    
    http://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/EN/AboutCouncil/representativesbodies/Pages/Wardcouncillors.aspx
    
    Write what YOU think
    ‘phil.goff@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz’
    
    or eg
    Councillor: Penny Hulse
    Email: penny.hulse@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz
    
    wants to be an MP
    Councillor: Denise Lee (formerly Krum)
    Email: denise.lee@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz
    
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    March 19, 2017 8:40pm
Nukuleka

An interesting article in The Herald about the ratepayer-funded ‘Muslim women-only swimming classes’ being offered at the Cameron Pools in Mt Roskill. Islamic Muslim Women’s Council spokesperson, Anjum Rahman, points out that such classes are important for ‘religious reasons’, though she claims that non-Muslim women also use the classes. That’s an interesting interpretation of the phrase’ Muslim- women only’!

Cameron Pools Centre manager, Sarah Clarke, says that the goal is to ‘put more classes on’. I’ll bet it is! Particularly as the ratepayers are funding them with no cost to the participants.

In the article Ms Rahman and Ms Clarke manage to dress up this blatant example of religious discriminatory practice in the guise of victimhood and social responsibility -the usual tools used by the progressive/ feminist/ Islamic coalition. It is nothing of the sort. It is a discriminatory rort.

(Sorry Chuck Bird- obviously both typing posts at the same time!!)
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March 19, 2017 8:16am
- MCos
  
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  What exactly is your objection to women only swimming classes?
  Do you also object to changing rooms & toilets segregated by gender?
  
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  March 19, 2017 8:30am
  - reid3
    
    Typical brainless culturally marxist useful idiot remark there MCos.
    
    You should watch this to learn just how wrong you are:
    
    The Ideological Disease known as ‘Cultural Marxism’ Exposed:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg3T_H2LZ54
    
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    March 19, 2017 8:42am
    - stephieboy
      
      reid,
      
      ZZZZZZzzzzz …
      
      Jews on it too ?
      
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      March 19, 2017 8:59am
      - reid3
        
        That’s alt-left race hatred stupidboy, inspired by your culturally marxist brainwashing. It seems the dumber you are, the more thoroughly the hatred soaks in. The Frankfurt School probably use you in their training as an example of the group of some of the people that can be fooled all of the time.
        
        Alt-left are like that stephie.
        
        Don’t be alt-left!
        
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        March 19, 2017 9:06am
    - MCos
      
      “Typical brainless culturally marxist useful idiot remark there MCos.”
      So, what you’re saying is you can’t answer my question so your resorting to abuse instead?
      
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      March 19, 2017 9:06am
  - Duxton
    
    Incidentally, what is the collective noun for a group of Muslims in a swimming pool?
    
    A slick?
    
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    March 19, 2017 9:06am
    - Inandout
      
      What about a FGM flotilla?
      
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      March 19, 2017 11:04am
  - MickMac
    
    no Mcos
    He objects to Muslim women only……
    Duh!
    
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    March 19, 2017 9:38am
  - Nukuleka
    
    ‘Muslim- women only’ swimming classes are not ‘women only swimming classes’! I guess you would have no objection then to ‘Christian-men only swimming classes’.
    
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    March 19, 2017 10:15am
    - Viking2
      
      Or why not a gay men only or a white middle aged heterosexual swimming class.
      
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      March 19, 2017 1:29pm
      - sam green
        
        Why not a hospital for well people?
        
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        March 19, 2017 5:48pm
- Longknives
  
  So if ‘Non Muslim’ Women are allowed to use the classes (I strongly suspect this is bullcrap) I might head down there next week with my bathing suit.
  *I will tell them I ‘identify’ as a woman- That makes me a woman these days doesn’t it?
  
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  March 19, 2017 8:33am
  - stephieboy
    
    Yes,with hairy chest and bulging crotch and all .. ?
    
    LOL
    
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    March 19, 2017 9:00am
    - reid3
      
      The Ideological Disease known as ‘Cultural Marxism’ Exposed:
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg3T_H2LZ54
      
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      March 19, 2017 9:07am
    - Duxton
      
      Sounds like a Muslim chicky!
      
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      March 19, 2017 9:13am
    - GazzaW
      
      Fantasising again stephie?
      
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      March 19, 2017 9:37am
    - Kea
      
      “Yes,with hairy chest and bulging crotch and all .. ?”
      
      stephieboy, try not to share your twisted fantasies so vividly. You are not in Afghanistan now mate !
      
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      March 19, 2017 9:00pm
  - mara
    
    Just wear a hijab or burqha like all the other women splashing about polluting the water in those insanitary garments. Yuk.
    
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    March 19, 2017 9:01am
    - mikenmild
      
      Only swimming naked (after a hot shower) is truly hygienic but that theory. Even then, most swimmers involuntarily release around 50 mls of urine into the pool. Perhaps you should just stick to your own bathtub.
      
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      March 19, 2017 9:15am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        It’s other folks with toe-jam and verrucas that is the main worry with public baths’ hygiene.
        
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        March 19, 2017 9:46am
      - mikenmild
        
        I think his main worry is that some of the Islam might wash off and stick to him.
        
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        March 19, 2017 9:50am
  - nasska
    
    …..”with hairy chest and bulging crotch”…..
    
    Careful Longknives. I think you’ve picked up a stalker from somewhere! 🙂
    
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    March 19, 2017 9:41am
Happychappy

Well who would have thought sweet cheeks would go into bat for compensation for those homosexuals that were charged before it was made legal. It started with a apology and now has moved on to compensation so where will it go next. To me it was a crime in those days and they chose their way of life so a apology maybe warranted but compensation is a bridge to far.
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March 19, 2017 8:29am
Pateke

Breaking the law has consequences, even if the law has been rescinded, it was still the law at the time.
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March 19, 2017 8:31am
- Harriet
  
  Most charges were related to sexual acts in public – namely in a public toilet.
  
  The police never knocked on any man’s door, or workplace etc. asking if they were homosexual, and started laying charges. It was the deviant types who were charged.
  
  The charges should remain.
  
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  March 19, 2017 12:15pm
Nookin

Well done Ireland.
A moment’s commiseration for poor Stephen Jones who will have to wait a little longer for his moment to gloat –if it comes at all.

Of course, if the Orblax had been playing that game the English press would have been labelling them as arrogantly over confidant or chokers. Which was it, Eddie, Stephen, anyone…?
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March 19, 2017 8:32am
mandk

Another fine day in Wellington. Should be great for the cricket down at the Basin.

No, wait …
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March 19, 2017 8:35am
- mikenmild
  
  I’m not sure what was the most miserable part of my experience ta the Basin yesterday; the weather or NZ’s performance.
  
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  March 19, 2017 9:17am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    The weather was superb on days one and two mikenmild, as my sunburnt nose will testify. The cricket was pretty good too.
    
    I had another commitment in Wellington yesterday, and in hindsight, I’m glad I missed the carnage.
    
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    March 19, 2017 9:28am
  - GazzaW
    
    ………or the crowd. Who were those tossers mindlessly chanting ‘wah, wah, wah’ all day? What was that all about?
    
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    March 19, 2017 9:42am
    - mikenmild
      
      There was a group on the bank challenging anyone who walked past carrying four beers to scull one of them.
      
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      March 19, 2017 9:58am
      - GazzaW
        
        ………and they wonder why attendances are falling.
        
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        March 19, 2017 10:21am
      - Longknives
        
        Don’t worry guys- Police will be trying to get alcohol banned from all Sports events soon so you will be able drink your Spirulina in peace with the other ten people on the Terraces..
        
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        March 19, 2017 10:40am
      - GazzaW
        
        Most people love a bit of wit and creativity emanating from the terraces and no one’s calling for a booze ban but that brainless dirge for two days in a row just about did your head in.
        
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        March 19, 2017 12:08pm
      - Kimbo
        
        Bring back the siren to the Basin! (at about 1:40)
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRluAShb5w0
        
        ROC Collinge knocking over G P Boycott’s leg stump and then he and the young R J Hadlee went through England like William the Conqueror! 😉
        
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        March 19, 2017 12:15pm
      - Longknives
        
        Kimbo- Great old Vid!
        I could watch Benaud and Hadlee talking cricket all Day…
        
        *Was that you on the Terraces in your cloth hat and stubbies?
        
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        March 19, 2017 1:22pm
      - Kimbo
        
        No, although it was obligatory uniform for all New Zealand males of all ages in that era. Watched it on TV, and everytime New Zealand took a wicket – there were eight of them in about 2 hours, you could hear the siren blaring in the background.
        
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        March 19, 2017 2:28pm
      - Longknives
        
        Sorry Kimbo I went to uptick you on that cricket post and accidentally ‘Reported’ you for your fashion crimes in the 70s!
        
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        March 19, 2017 3:25pm
- Longknives
  
  Raval was the only one who wanted to play Test cricket- The rest batted like they were chasing T20 ‘Hit and Giggle’ contracts.
  Fucking disgraceful.
  
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  March 19, 2017 10:42am
  - Kimbo
    
    Although Raval was stumped and should have been looking to kick on to a big century as he had formed a good “last chance saloon” partnership with Watling – who was last out. Williamson was done by good deliveries in both innings, and he can’t be expected to score runs all the time. Latham is just out of form. Nicholls got his maiden test ton in the first innings.
    
    Well done the Saffers, they were the better team with a gutsier attitude and they thoroughly deserved their win. Am not so much pissed off we are not going to beat South Africa for the first time in a series, or even pissed off that as our depth is so thin, we feel the loss of Taylor and Boult and are not as competitive as we could be – but that is not South Africa’s fault! We have to play them and we have the personnel we do.
    
    But I am pissed off we surrendered so meekly at the “critical” moments in this game – losing 4 wickets to a nothing bowler like Duminy in the first innings after our recovery having been put in on a greenish wicket, then letting them off the hook when they were 6-90 odd, and then crumpling in our second dig. Bugger averages – it is when you need breakthroughs, or a partnership in adversity that guys prove themselves. Watling is one of those.
    
    But Broom looks outclassed, and at age 33 not even a selection for the future. Colin de Grandhomme, despite his statistically impressive first test against a mediocre Pakistani team is being found out at this level. And Neesham hasn’t done anything of note since his first two tests.
    
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    March 19, 2017 12:30pm
    - mikenmild
      
      I heard a comment the other day that we have selected two all-rounders: Neesham to bat and de Grandhomme to bowl, and still not getting a snlge player’s performance out of both of them.
      Neesham’s dismissal yesterday was a shocker – one of the worst I have ever seen.
      
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      March 19, 2017 12:43pm
      - Kimbo
        
        Yep. Is the mistake England often makes based on their experience of county cricket, “we must have an all rounder”. So, if a genuine all rounder like Ian Botham was unavailable, they would go for a nothing-option like Derek Pringle. Pick 6 genuine batsmen, 4 genuine bowlers, one keeper-batsman (which we have in an automatic selection like Watling), and if you have players in that line-up who can do both, great, that is a bonus.
        
        But a bitser who may bowl ten overs like a change bowler and take 1 wicket like Neesham (or Anderson for that matter), or, if they are primarily a bowler score a quick 40 on a good day like de Grandhomme?! This is test cricket, not limited overs.
        
        Australia haven’t had a genuine test all rounder (someone who can be picked as both a batsman or bowler) since…Keith Miller and Richie Benaud some 50 to 60 years ago, and I seem to recall their record is very good!
        
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        March 19, 2017 12:55pm
      - Longknives
        
        That definition of ‘Genuine All Rounder’ is a bit rough Kimbo- I’ve seen a few good All-Rounders playing for Australia over the years..
        And how many of our ‘All Rounders’ would make a Test side as purely batsmen? Hadlee wouldn’t have, C Cairns maybe?..
        
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        March 19, 2017 1:29pm
      - GazzaW
        
        “This is Test cricket, not limited overs.”
        
        Oh so true Kimbo. It’s just a shame that the Black Caps don’t seem to understand that key point.
        
        We seem to have lost our mojo with the departure of McCullum. He took no prisoners and never gave up. The loss of Shane Bond as bowling coach after the World Cup was an equally major blow. The quality of the pace attack and its development players has never been the same since his departure. Has Hesson fired all the shots in his locker?
        
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        March 19, 2017 1:38pm
      - Kimbo
        
        That definition of ‘Genuine All Rounder’ is a bit rough Kimbo
        
        No, it is the “classic” definition, and why genuine all rounders are prized.
        
        – I’ve seen a few good All-Rounders playing for Australia over the years..
        
        At test level? Such as? Greg Chappell could bowl medium pacers and once won a test with a five-for at the SCG against Pakistan…but it would be a waste of his batting talent to spend his energy on otherwise innocuous bowling when you had the likes of Lillee and Thommo! Allan Border once took an 11-for in a match against the Windies with his left arm Mystery Morrison “rollers” (is an insult to left armers to call his delivery “spin”), again at the spin-friendly SCG, but that was about half of all the wickets he ever took in over 150 matches!
        
        Both Steve and Mark Waugh came into the Aussie team as all rounders, but it was significant that their bowling was used less and less as they went on lest it harm their batting averages wasting their energy when McGrath and Warne (whose batting was a bonus, and who never scored a test ton) could take many more wickets! So who are these Aussie test all rounders, even part-timers of whom you speak?
        
        And how many of our ‘All Rounders’ would make a Test side as purely batsmen? Hadlee wouldn’t have, C Cairns maybe?..
        
        Indeed. Which is why the genuine ones are valued as they are two-in-one players. e.g., Alan Davidson (an Aussie contemporary of Miller and Benaud whom I omitted to mention before), Sobers (the greatest allrounder, maybe even cricketer of all time), Imran (the greatest of his era), Botham, Kapil Dev, and a host of saffers – Mike Procter, Shaun Pollock, Jacques Kallis (although his bowling load was lower as his career went on).
        
        Of the Kiwis, John Reid, Richard Hadlee, Chris Cairns and Daniel Vettori are the only ones off-hand. Hadlee and Cairns both batted at seven, but could have batted at six if required, and if they had concentrated on batting.
        
        Hadlee, by his own admission was the least of the batsmen in his era of allrounders (Imran, Botham, Kapil and Rice), and never took the discipline that seriously. Instead, he “saved himself” and his energy for taking wickets. But, as with the 1,000 runs he scored in county cricket in 1984, if he had applied himself he was good enough to be picked and bat like a specialist no. 6 batsman and average maybe in the mid 30s.
        
        Cairns, if had bowled when he should have rather than when he wanted or to hide from punishment and “timely” injuries could have taken another 50 or so test wickets, but at a higher average than his 220 odd at 29. Also, if he had batted at no. 6 as he should have, instead of no. 7 , he would have scored another 500 runs with an average of 37+. not the 33 he finished with.
        
        And Vettori, once he became skipper developed into a genuine all rounder who could be picked for both disciplines, and I seem to recall he did bat at times at no. 6. He had to as our batting was so poor at the time!
        
        All the rest are genuine bowlers who could bat a bit as a bonus (like, say Dick Motz or Dion Nash, John Bracewell and Colin de Grandhomme),
        
        …or out-and-out batsmen who, if needed, could plug an end/keep the score down and take a few wickets on a good day, maybe more if the pitch suited their bowling (Bevan Congdon, Jeremy Coney, Nathan Astle)
        
        …or bitsy in-betweeners who don’t make the grade in either option like Gavin Larsen, Michael Santner or, in the absence of runs recently, Jimmy Neesham. Maybe justifiable in particular circumstances/one-off matches if you need an into-the-wind stock bowler in a supposedly “balanced” left and right arm pace and spin attack…but not long-term options.
        
        But if they can’t be reasonably (justified adverb!) expected to take a 5 wicket bag and average under 32 (under 30 is better), and/or score a test ton and average over 35…then they are a “nothing” selection.
        
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        March 19, 2017 2:07pm
      - Kimbo
        
        …and Michell Johnson and Mitchell Starc were/are bowlers who could/can bat a bit as a bonus. Or at least that is why the Aussie selectors picked them. And arguably, Johnson, other than in two Ashes series at home, failed to deliver on his potential and too often went AWOL as a bowler! 😉
        
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        March 19, 2017 2:32pm
      - Longknives
        
        Kimbo-
        Dipak Patel was selected for Test matches as both a specialist batsman and a specialist bowler…
        Shane Thomson?
        
        As for the Aussies- I was thinking of guys like Steve Waugh, Simon O’Donnell, Shane Watson etc
        Not in the ‘Imran/Botham’ league but all very handy cricketers…
        
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        March 19, 2017 6:38pm
      - Kimbo
        
        No, I think you will find Patel was a curious case as, judging by his position in the batting order, he was picked as either a batsman, or – when it was clear he did not have the ability to make it at that level (he averaged 20 with the bat, and hardly surprising as he was little more than a county batting journeyman) they tried to turn him into a test bowler, who batted about 8 or 9 in the order – hardly an all rounders slot.
        
        http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/player/38118.html?class=1;template=results;type=batting;view=innings
        
        Also averaged 42 with the ball, but, as per his county experience where off-spinners are used to keep down the score, he was good in ODIs, and, given our poor stocks at the time after Bracewell and before Vettori, our no. 1 spinner.
        
        Thomson was spoken of as an all rounder when first picked, but when he got a back injury and started fiddling around with off spin, it was clear he was a batsman who could bowl ten overs to plug an end before the new ball was due, little more. Averaged 30 with the bat (ok), but 50 with the ball, at a strike rate of 1 wicket a test. Not an all rounder by any reasonable criteria, rather a batsman who could bowl a bit as a fourth seamer and/or part time spinner.
        
        And O’Donnell hardly played any tests for Aussie, and Shane Watson was the “cancer” that Michael Clarke wanted out of the team, and struggled to merit his place as an opener.
        
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        March 19, 2017 8:18pm
Harriet

Like Trump ……just one day into the job ……but it’s different when the left do it:

http://www.msn.com/en-au/money/finance/wa-premier-acts-on-promise-for-state-jobs/ar-BByffXX?ocid=spartanntp
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March 19, 2017 8:35am
Happychappy

Well done the Irish and my heart bleeds for the Poms, but to beat the two top teams in the world in the same season is great for rugby and will bring the Poms back to reality.
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March 19, 2017 8:38am
B.L.Zeebub

Funny how a former Gamekeeper has turned Poacher,
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=11819353

Things might have been a little better if he had this attitude when he was in a position to do something about it, rather than create the fucking monstrosity that is making the situation worse.
Hope I am still around to see the edifice collapse under its own weight.
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March 19, 2017 8:38am
- reid3
  
  I think he did what he could bearing in mind he never had major influence. Despite that, between him and Garret they both made more difference than 99% of their contemporaries.
  
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  March 19, 2017 9:02am
Nookin

Longknives is prowling happychappy
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March 19, 2017 8:41am
- Happychappy
  
  You never hear other teams in the world bleat like the Poms and Aussies and it does not matter that big guv or Longknives hate for the All Backs as I am sure they believe in free speech.
  
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  March 19, 2017 8:53am
  - Longknives
    
    Ha Ha you reckon the Poms are worse than the All Blacks and their One-Eyed Supporters?
    
    Some of the comments I’ve read on Facebook this morning-
    
    “We would beat both England and Ireland by 50”
    “A Super Team would thrash any Six Nations side”
    “The Six Nations means nothing”
    
    All Conveniently forgetting than Ireland beat the All Blacks recently- And the only recent headlines of note for the self professed ‘Greatest Sports Team in History’ have involved Cocaine, Drunk Driving and Wife Beating..
    
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    March 19, 2017 10:36am
    - Happychappy
      
      Did you not read my earlier post praising the Irish for beating the top two teams in the world.
      
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      March 19, 2017 10:57am
stephieboy

Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
From TM ,

Trump should be impeached for his false accusation against Obama:

” A sitting president made public accusations of high crimes against his predecessor, without any evidence for his incendiary claims. This is the stuff of tin-pot dictatorships—not high-functioning democratic republics.
Neither does any of this inspire confidence that when a genuine crisis hits this White House—as will almost certainly happen eventually—President Trump will possess the self-discipline or grasp on reality to function as the effective leader he must be.”

http://observer.com/2017/03/nsa-no-evidence-obama-donald-tru
mp-tower-wiretapping-hoax/

And that ” Leaked ” 2005 Tax return ,

https://jesterscourt.cc/2017/03/14/trumps-leaked-2005-tax-fo
rm-1040-need-know/

LOL.

However Trump would know that impeachment proceedings can take years so why not take lying and misleading claims to even greater heights ?

Sigh !
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March 19, 2017 9:03am
- reid3
  
  The Ideological Disease known as ‘Cultural Marxism’ Exposed:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg3T_H2LZ54
  
  Also known as alt-left.
  
  Don’t be alt-left!
  
  [Posting the same link 20 times is spam. Strike 5 and a month off]
  
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  March 19, 2017 9:08am
  - mikenmild
    
    Reid – you don’t get extra points for posting the same comment and links three times per hours.
    
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    March 19, 2017 9:18am
    - Keeping Stock
      
      27,714 comments, most of which slag off anything further right than communism, and you complain about Reid’s repetitive posting mikenmild.
      
      Pot; meet kettle 😎
      
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      March 19, 2017 9:41am
      - mikenmild
        
        Derisive snort. Show me any thread where I have repeated the exact same comment three times in an hour with link to same YouTube nonsense. Or did you only understand Reid’s point after you had watched the video three times?
        
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        March 19, 2017 9:53am
      - Kimbo
        
        I understand why you get down ticked around here on a regular basis, mikey, such is the price for going against the flow – not that you or I for that matter care. Got my share a few days ago when I challenged the ‘Israel can do no wrong and even if they do, they are right’ line.
        
        But what I can’t understand is why it is when you challenge EAD and/or reid(1 or 3). Don’t people realise mikey ain’t doing a Godwin’s law calling them out because…they really (justified adverb!) are Nazis?!
        
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        March 19, 2017 11:53am
- reid3
  
  Wasn’t he clever leaking his own return and weren’t the alt-left media as dumb as donkey’s the way them and their idiot alt-left supporters fell for it. Trump wins again.
  
  Some of the alt-left idiots even continue to think it was an own goal, rather than being another clever move to get around the hate-filled alt-left media lie machine.
  
  Aren’t alt-lefters stooooooooooooooopid!
  
  LOL!
  
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  March 19, 2017 9:12am
  - Ross12
    
    I don’t buy the “Trump leaked it himself ” bit despite all the ifs, buts and maybes in the “jestercourt.cc” piece.
    Apparently Maddow and co. had this tax return, for a couple of days before they aired it —why they did given what it showed shows, shows how desperate and stupid they are.
    That was plenty of time for the WH to find out what was going to happen and prepare for it —after all everyone is leaking everything all around the place.
    But at the end of the day it is a “storm in a teacup”. It is a little bit like these Judges thinking they are within the law to stop the travel ban and are actually achieving something —the travel ban was only proposed for 90 days to allow time for the WH to reassess immigration regulations and adjust where necessary. Hopefully that work is still going on.
    
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    March 19, 2017 9:38am
    - reid3
      
      Ross they’re running a propaganda war against Trump. Propaganda consists of tiny pieces repeated endlessly in different ways but all carrying the same message. It doesn’t consist of a king hit piece so brilliant it just instantly changes people’s minds on the spot, it’s an insidious chipping away at the subconscious level.
      
      One thing that’s very damaging in propaganda is material produced by the channel you are using that conflicts the message you are trying to inculcate.
      
      Because since it all relies on subconscious communication, if you introduce the least doubt about the message then it spreads like a virus to all the other pieces you’ve been using.
      
      The particular meme they’ve been trying to inculcate on this one is that Trump is not as successful as he claims to be.
      
      The fact that the channel they’ve been using to inculcate that just published a piece demonstrating the opposite is very damaging not just to the particular meme but to the other memes coming from that channel too. And if people wake up to that channel they start looking at other channels carrying similar messages and they start wondering about them too. It’s a multiplier effect you see.
      
      People aren’t stupid, they’re just ignorant. If people recognise they are being played they become furious because it insults their ego (the bit that says to them they’re smart players operating successfully in the world as we know it). It tells them someone is treating them as if they are a fool.
      
      Think of this play therefore as kyptonite. It won’t destroy the meme, but it degrades it, a little bit. If the same thing happens again, within memory of this incident, it will have a multiplier effect.
      
      With counter propaganda the trick is to get the enemy channel to use it, that’s the hard part. Because you have to get them to use it without knowing what it is.
      
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      March 19, 2017 10:16am
      - MCos
        
        ” . . . running a propaganda war against Trump. Propaganda consists of tiny pieces repeated endlessly in different ways but all carrying the same message.”
        
        I think he’s running a propaganda war against himself, quite frankly. Everyone else is just prodding him along.
        The continual allegations that Obama contived to “wiretapp” Trump House is an example. Even Merkel got dragged in to that fiasco.
        
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        March 19, 2017 10:58am
      - Paulus
        
        It used to be called Obfuscation !
        
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        March 19, 2017 12:03pm
- Fletch
  
  Obama should have been impeached years ago.
  
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  March 19, 2017 12:27pm
  - stephieboy
    
    Fletch , for what ?
    
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    March 19, 2017 12:28pm
    - reid3
      
      The Ideological Disease known as alt-left ‘Cultural Marxism’ Exposed:
      
      Don’t be alt-left!
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg3T_H2LZ54
      
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      March 19, 2017 1:12pm
reid3

alt-left hide the inconvenient truth. How surprising.

Don’t be alt-left!

A new poll has found that 52 percent of U.S. voters approve of President Donald Trump’s job performance, while about 43 percent disapprove.

That approval rating wasn’t carried out through Rasmussen, but via Politico/Morning Consult. Rasmussen, which uses online and anonymous survey methods, has polls that are generally more favorable to Trump than most others.

The Politico poll, however, is curious. Trump’s approval rating is buried at the bottom of the page of an article, titled, “Poll: Voters wary of GOP health care bill.” Most of the article is dedicated to the public’s view on the new GOP health care bill aimed at replacing Obamacare.

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/2233422-poll-trumps-approval-rating-is-increasing/
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March 19, 2017 9:37am
- ztev
  
  Its still worse than every other new President. 52% is the pits, Trump wouldnt want that publicised.
  Youll be getting a call from the Don to shut your mouth.
  
  Obama in 2009 had his at 83% for his early period.
  
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  March 19, 2017 10:11am
  - reid3
    
    No other POTUS in history has had such ubiquitous lockstep media opposition since even before day one either ztev.
    
    Perhaps that has something to do with it. Yet he’s still at 50% and rising, despite all of that clear and present propaganda bias. Which is both amazing and commendable, isn’t it.
    
    Imagine where Killary would be rating if the same thing had happened to her but she won. Probably in the single digits I’d be picking.
    
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    March 19, 2017 10:33am
    - ztev
      
      Cry me a river.
      
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      March 19, 2017 10:43am
      - G152
        
        You’d blend right in.
        Rivers are made up of hundreds of thousands of drips
        
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        March 19, 2017 12:47pm
      - Viking2
        
        post of the day G152. 😆
        
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        March 19, 2017 1:41pm
    - Tirebiter
      
      Not true. Lincoln had far more ‘lockstep media opposition’ than Trump; including front page newspaper illustrations depicting him as an ape. The same could be argued for John Adams and Jefferson but they took it like men as part of the normal political climate and weren’t as thin skinned as our bright orange oval one.
      
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      March 25, 2017 5:50am
reid3

alt-left plays dirty:

Brazile admits she forwarded town hall questions to Clinton camp

How unsurprising.

Don’t be alt-left!

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/03/17/brazile-admits-forwarded-town-hall-questions-to-clinton-camp.html
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March 19, 2017 9:39am
- ztev
  
  All candidates run mock debates where they get likely questions asked of them.
  But these ‘Townhalls’ were internal democratic party affairs. Not the later Clinton-Trump ones.
  
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  March 19, 2017 10:06am
  - reid3
    
    Do you think Bernie got shafted ztev?
    
    Or was that just standard lefty democratic practice, happens all the time in your parties, nothing to see here kinda thing?
    
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    March 19, 2017 10:28am
    - Tirebiter
      
      Please try not to be so boring. It’s clogging up my spam filter.
      
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      March 20, 2017 4:15am
reid3

alt-left cultural marxism:

German Educators Call for Compulsory Arabic in Schools
https://sputniknews.com/europe/2017031710516

The Ideological Disease known as alt-left Cultural Marxism’ Exposed:

Don’t be alt-left!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg3T_H2LZ54
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March 19, 2017 9:42am
- stephieboy
  
  reid, let the white nation arise again !
  
  http://pulsodelospueblos.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/trump-protest-2.jpg
  
  LOL
  
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  March 19, 2017 12:57pm
  - reid3
    
    The Ideological Disease known as alt-left ‘Cultural Marxism’ Exposed:
    
    Don’t be alt-left!
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg3T_H2LZ54
    
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    March 19, 2017 1:13pm
duggledog

Tim Foy Principal of Huntly College disappointed about white flight from his Decile One school:

http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/insight/audio/201836834/insight-poorer-schools-when-the-middle-class-flee

Tim, I don’t give a shit whether you think this is good or not.

Here’s a question for you Tim. How many times have you had to hold disciplinary meetings about student behaviour?

As compared to many schools in Auckland especially on the North Shore where there are no Maori or PI students but many Asian, South African and ordinary white European kids?

And how do you deal with bad behaviour? Let me guess, time out?

You’ll find parents won’t put their kids into a Decile One school just because ‘they should’

Half wit. And he’s in the education business!
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March 19, 2017 9:43am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  Could it be that the Maori or PI students are not kind to children who are not like them?
  Or possibly that the Maori or PI students make it harder for others who wish to learn?
  
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  March 19, 2017 10:46am
  - Happychappy
    
    Your last paragraph hit the nail on the head. With saying that there is also some from all of these cultures that want to learn but are in the same predicament.
    
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    March 19, 2017 11:07am
- stephieboy
  
  duggledog , a pakeha student was interviewed on the program and attended decile one Edgewater college,At first he was nervous -fights , drugging etc .
  
  However he found it a most enriching and rewarding experience . Nothing could be further from the truth as regards the college’s negative reputation .
  
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  March 19, 2017 1:04pm
  - reid3
    
    The Ideological Disease known as alt-left ‘Cultural Marxism’ Exposed:
    
    Don’t be alt-left!
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg3T_H2LZ54
    
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    March 19, 2017 1:13pm
Kea

What an exciting sabbatical.

Trump is president and is shutting down the AGW industry. The chosen ones have declared war on NZ, and to make matters worse Jesus has not turned up – yet again !
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March 19, 2017 9:47am
- mikenmild
  
  Now that you are back, will you keep your trolling alter-egos on as well?
  
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  March 19, 2017 9:56am
  - Kea
    
    Hi stephieboy, still running the milky character I see. I thought you would killed the insipid little creep off.
    
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    March 19, 2017 10:00am
    - Jack5
      
      Stephies, you might be right to be cautious about Kea.
      
      This bird species allegedly can rip into a sheep’s backs to get at the fat around the kidneys.
      
      However, there is speculation that when the fat is in the the head the Kea may go for that. I doubt the keffiah would be sufficient protection.
      
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      March 19, 2017 12:01pm
    - reid3
      
      The Ideological Disease known as alt-left ‘Cultural Marxism’ Exposed:
      
      Don’t be alt-left!
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg3T_H2LZ54
      
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      March 19, 2017 1:20pm
- reid3
  
  Welcome back mate, I’ve missed your witty repartee, even if no-one else has.
  
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  March 19, 2017 10:18am
reid3

US Dems go full alt-left. Anti-white now official policy.

Fifty years ago, give or take a few weeks, subscribers to the quarterly Leftist journal Partisan Review were just settling down with the Winter 1967 edition — accompanied, one imagines, by a nice dry martini and a freshly-opened pack of Chesterfields.

That edition of Partisan Review featured a symposium in which sixteen luminaries of the period offered their answers to the question: “What’s happening to America?”

Among those luminaries was Lefty activist, writer, and lesbian Susan Sontag. Her contribution included the memorable sentiment that “The white race is the cancer of human history.” [Partisan Review, Winter 1967, pp. 57-58 ]

We can therefore say that the modern style of white ethnomasochism was born fifty years ago this Spring, and that Ms. Sontag acted as midwife to the birth.

She might, if she had thought ahead a bit, have trademarked the phrase “the depravity of whiteness,” which as I just reported, was actually used to promote a recent study group on “white privilege” at Santa Fe’s St. John’s College.

So this is a good place to mention, as I should have before, that anti-whites (some of them certainly white) definitively took over the Democratic Party via the February 25th election of Thomas Perez as chair of the Democratic National Committee. Mr. Perez is a clever and determined foe of “the depravity of whiteness” and no doubt thinks the white race is a cancer, etc…

The Ideological Disease known as alt-left Cultural Marxism’ Exposed:

Don’t be alt-left!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg3T_H2LZ54
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March 19, 2017 9:48am
- Longknives
  
  “The white race is the cancer of human history.”
  
  I remember a Bone-Carving wearing angry-looking White girl in one of my History Tutorials at Varsity saying something like that-
  “Europeans and Christianity have only brought Death and Destruction to the World”
  I remember the rest of us shooting her down with some balanced facts and she got in a right huff..
  I often wonder whatever happened to her? Working behind the scenes for the Labour or Green Party perhaps?
  
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  March 19, 2017 11:46am
  - Inandout
    
    The white race and Christianity had a rough ride to start with but we owe most that is good in our culture to its existence.
    
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    March 19, 2017 12:05pm
    - reid3
      
      Actually IaO we owe the Muslims a lot too. Most of our geometry, science and mathematics came from them. Who do you think wrote most of what was in the Library of Alexandria? But it was an inconvenient truth, is why Western history ignores that fact.
      
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      March 19, 2017 1:15pm
      - mikenmild
        
        Well, it was a Greek library actually, and was finally destroyed by the Muslims in the seventh century. Something to do with Cultural Marxism.
        
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        March 19, 2017 4:33pm
      - Jack5
        
        Reid3’s 1.15 post included: ” … we owe the Muslims a lot too. Most of our geometry, science and mathematics came from them …”
        
        Famous developers of geometry: I looked in a list. Of the 146 mathematicians deemed great just 10 were Muslims. That’s about 6.7 per cent.
        
        According to Wikipedia the Great Library of Alexandra may well have been destroyed in three fires, the last in AD642 when the Muslims conquered Egypt.
        
        It was gone before the Muslim intellectual flowering over the following 500 years. In that time Islamicists followed and developed mathematics pioneered in Greece and India.
        
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        March 19, 2017 9:06pm
    - Kea
      
      Inandout, only recently. Europeans were illiterate barbarians sitting around a fire picking lice out of their beards when the Chinese, Indians and Middle Eastern people were developing science and technology.
      
      The achievements of Europeans have built on the collective knowledge of what came before. Just as other developed cultures did in the distant pass.
      
      You get 3/10 for your historical knowledge and need to pay more attention in class.
      
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      March 19, 2017 9:18pm
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    I wonder if she was from a wage-earning-parents background, or was a trust-fund baby?
    
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    March 19, 2017 4:18pm
- stephieboy
  
  reid , presumably Trump has on his agenda compulsory fundie church attendance to counter the nefarious evils of cultural marxism ?
  
  https://i.ytimg.com/vi/tx79JeXZVUc/maxresdefault.jpg
  
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  March 19, 2017 1:07pm
  - reid3
    
    The Ideological Disease known as alt-left ‘Cultural Marxism’ Exposed:
    
    Don’t be alt-left!
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg3T_H2LZ54
    
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    March 19, 2017 1:17pm
  - reid3
    
    stephie, how do you reconcile what I said just above in favour of Muslim civilisation, a fact which very few Westerners including I imagine yourself know, let alone recognise, with who you consider me to to be, in your alt-left fantasy world?
    
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    March 19, 2017 4:02pm
reid3

The Whole POINT of the Internet of Things Is So Big Brother Can Spy On You

No one really wants a “smart” washing machine

If you’re wondering who would want to buy an Internet-enabled washing machine, you’re not alone. Even Whirlpool’s not so sure.

“We’re a little bit of a hammer looking for a nail right now,” Chris Quatrochi, Whirlpool’s global director of user experience and connectivity, said last week at a conference hosted by tech blog Gigaom. The buyers of web-connected washers, more than a year after launch, are still “not at all widespread,” he said. “Trying to understand exactly the value proposition that you provide to the consumer,” he said, “has been a little bit of a challenge.”

The government is already spying on us through spying on us through our computers, phones, cars, buses, streetlights, at airports and on the street, via mobile scanners and drones, through our credit cards and smart meters, television, doll, and in many other ways.

The CIA wants to spy on you through your dishwasher and other “smart” appliances. Last year, U.S. Intelligence Boss James Clapper said that the government will spy on Americans through IoT:

In the future, intelligence services might use the [IoT] for identification, surveillance, monitoring, location tracking, and targeting for recruitment, or to gain access to networks or user credentials.

The whole point of the IoT is spying. The officialdom is just trying to persuade you that it really is a big consumer benefit to be able to tell your oven to start heating up before you get home.

Why do you think there are so many buckets of cash pouring into the IoT hope-to-be-a-market? The Big Corporations don’t expect to make a big profit on the devices themselves, oh no. News flash: the Big Money in IoT is in Big Data. As in, Big Data about everything those sensors are learning about you and your nasty habits that you hide from your neighbors.

The value of Big Data, after all, aren’t the data themselves. “Fred’s car told Fred’s thermostat to turn on Fred’s hot tub” doesn’t interest anybody but Fred and perhaps his hot date (if he’s lucky). The value in Big Data, you see, are in the patterns. What shows you watch. What apps you use. Which ads influence your buying behavior. The more IoT you have, the more Big Data they collect, and the more Big Data they collect, the more they know about how you behave. And once they know how you behave, they know how to control how you behave.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-16/whole-point-internet-things-so-big-brother-can-spy-you
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March 19, 2017 10:00am
- mikenmild
  
  I hope you’ve disconnected your microwave from the internet…
  
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  March 19, 2017 10:03am
  - reid3
    
    Yeah I’m fascinated as to why some people are so amused by this. I’m not familiar with the story apart from what someone at work mentioned, but I gather it’s around a tweet he made about a microwave.
    
    But since the CIA Director himself as you can see above in my post, has said this is what they use the IoT for, then why do people get so patronising on Trump for saying it?
    
    It’s like those people are complete idiots who understand nothing at all.
    
    It’s like they’re utter morons, total dunderheads with heads full of concrete, incapable of any thought whatsoever, dumber than a single-celled amoeba with no brain at all.
    
    Isn’t it, mm.
    
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    March 19, 2017 10:22am
    - B.L.Zeebub
      
      And yet, here you are, posting your every seditious thought on the interwebby, I`m assuming the Men in Black have not been around to wipe your mind or do you have xtra-speciale tin foil that foils their nefarious plot to silence you?
      Yet, I don`t necessarily disagree with the gist of your privacy concerns.
      
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      March 19, 2017 10:40am
      - reid3
        
        B.L.Zeebub if they take out all the people like me it might just make sheeple like you a little bit suspicious.
        
        They let us operate because Travistock’s projection models show the sheeple|non-sheeple ratio hasn’t yet reached the critical trigger point at which their evil plans come into general knowledge. That’s about 10% of the population.
        
        They do have a big problem however and that is the post-millenial generation who won’t accept their propaganda bollocks and require answers, real answers, despite the dumbed-down education they’ve been feeding them. They don’t know what to do about that because they can’t stop it, it’s a DNA thing. The only thing they can do is pull down the curtain and expose the brick wall at the back of the theatre: i.e. global nuclear war and/or martial law. So watch this space.
        
        Oh, and educate yourself. Your children and grand-children will thank you. If you don’t, they’ll turn to you one day and ask: why the fuck didn’t you tell us what was going on, Dad/Grandad?
        
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        March 19, 2017 10:52am
  - B.L.Zeebub
    
    Or his blue-tooth vibrator….
    
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    March 19, 2017 10:31am
  - stephieboy
    
    reid ,and replaced your Smart TV with an old anlogue model from the inorganic collection . ?
    
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    March 19, 2017 1:17pm
    - reid3
      
      The Ideological Disease known as alt-left ‘Cultural Marxism’ Exposed:
      
      Don’t be alt-left!
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg3T_H2LZ54
      
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      March 19, 2017 1:21pm
- Dave Mann
  
  I think you’re right about the power of the internet being used to ‘spy’ on people… and at this stage its probably more for commercial than political purposes, but its bloody scary all the same. Here’s an example:
  
  The other day I went for pee in the gents’ in Lynnmall and there was a stupid ad for some feel-good anti cancer promotion (‘shaving for a cure’ or some other SJW bullshit). For the next few days I kept seeing ads for this on my cell phone (it even appeared here on Kiwiblog).
  
  So while I was trapped in front of this ad for the time it took to have a piss, some clever AI bot was programmed to hack into my cellphone! “Oh look here’s a guy taking a leak in front of our ad. We know he’s seen it because it’s literally in his face – we’ll follow him for the next few days and bombard him with follow-up nessages.”
  
  The businessman in me admires the initiative and technology here…. but the freedom loving human is getting more than a little concerned about how Big Brother can use this capability.
  
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  March 19, 2017 10:50am
  - mikenmild
    
    Don’t forget your urine was being analysed at the same time, so you should expect a call from your meth dealer.
    
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    March 19, 2017 11:24am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      I would think it is defamatory to suggest that a poster on KB who writes under his own name consumes methamphetamine in such a quantity that it shows up in his urine, or has a meth dealer.
      
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      March 19, 2017 11:30am
      - mikenmild
        
        Really? Are you taking some powerful drugs too?
        
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        March 19, 2017 11:35am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        No mikenmild
        I do not take illegal drugs; I rarely take legal drugs.
        Any more smears?
        
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        March 19, 2017 11:48am
      - itstricky
        
        It was a piss take Maggy. Seeing an ad in a loo has nothing to do with the complete coincidence of related ads in your browser. It has everything to do with a limited date event increasing its advertising. I’ve no idea whether Dave was being satirical but MM definitely was, to highlight that.
        
        And, on another level, they do actually test waste water, as a whole, for drug remmenants, so doubly funny.
        
        Looking at it again, seeing as Dave has an aversion to fundraising for cancer research/care (feel good shit? Really? Did you get out of bed on the wrong side this morning?) I have a feeling his was completely pure.
        
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        March 19, 2017 12:32pm
      - mikenmild
        
        No, no, itstricky – I genuinely believe that Dave Mann is a meth user and that Maggy Wassilief has had one sherry too many this morning.
        
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        March 19, 2017 12:36pm
      - itstricky
        
        As it happens, I’m on the sherries. It’s been quite hard work this morning, dismantling my microwave to get at that hidden microphone. I need a bit of a relaxer pick-me-up before I tackle the rest of today’s important tasks.
        
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        March 19, 2017 12:49pm
    - reid3
      
      He can’t help it Maggy. I think something might have happened to him when he was a little boy and he’s never got over it. It’d be OK except he takes out his volcanic suppressed rage on everyone else by permanently sneering at nearly everyone here, except stephie, who he seems to like a lot.
      
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      March 19, 2017 12:02pm
      - itstricky
        
        Boy, you didn’t get the joke either, did you? Then again, I guess if anyone was going to go for the conspiracy brush, it’d be you
        
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        March 19, 2017 12:36pm
      - reid3
        
        No I got it perfectly tricky, it’s just what I said about mm is perfectly true so I thought I may as well say that too.
        
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        March 19, 2017 12:57pm
      - stephieboy
        
        reid, re mm. A poor stint by you at amateur psychoanalysis .
        
        Suggest you have a try at a real practicing certificate .( couch included )
        
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        March 19, 2017 1:37pm
      - reid3
        
        The Ideological Disease known as alt-left ‘Cultural Marxism’ Exposed:
        
        Don’t be alt-left!
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg3T_H2LZ54
        
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        March 19, 2017 1:40pm
    - Viking2
      
      Maggie,
      you didn’t read the news then about the testing that both Massey and the police are doing on the entrails of your sewerage system.
      If they can test the system they can test its feeding system and so on right back to your place should they desire.
      Imagine that in no time someone somewhere will have developed a meter that can be pointed at the water flow and analyze it in seconds. someone will because their is money to be made selling things like that to the law enforcement branch of the Taxpayers forced fund.
      I doubt that MM is suggesting anything sinister about you despite your obvious attempts to make it so.
      
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      March 19, 2017 1:49pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Yes, I am aware of urine testing for meth..
        what I am objecting to/ highlighting here is the the way mikenmild has linked someone who is readily identifiable with illegal drug consumption.
        
        If it is not true, why smear the good name and character of somebody on this blog?
        
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        March 19, 2017 2:23pm
Rodney Randall

http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/sarah-stites/2017/03/06/toni-tampon-coloring-book-reminds-kids-men-get-periods-too

Toni The Tampon book for kids, cause men get periods too.

A good book for the kids while you’re ‘chest’ feeding them.
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March 19, 2017 10:22am
- B.L.Zeebub
  
  Indeed, I`ve noticed a few here that seem to be on the rag permanently.
  
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  March 19, 2017 10:33am
  - SGA
    
    More likely they are menopausal 🙂
    
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    March 19, 2017 11:30am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I’m devastated Rodney,
  For over 40 years I’ve been ignoring hubby’s periods.
  How bloody insensitive of me.
  Of course it’s too late now to handwash his murky grundies and administer hotwater bottles to his nether regions….. looks like the poor bugga will just have to soldier on without any TLC.
  
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  March 19, 2017 11:00am
- reid3
  
  The Ideological Disease known as alt-left ‘Cultural Marxism’ Exposed:
  
  Don’t be alt-left!
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg3T_H2LZ54
  
  Note the bits about trans-gender-ism.
  
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  March 19, 2017 11:16am
  - mikenmild
    
    You’ve only posted that link six or seven times this morning, Reid. Just a few times more and someone might just view it and comment in reply.
    
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    March 19, 2017 11:26am
    - reid3
      
      The Ideological Disease known as alt-left ‘Cultural Marxism’ Exposed:
      
      Don’t be alt-left!
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg3T_H2LZ54
      
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      March 19, 2017 1:18pm
Maggy Wassilieff

The Brits are off to Estonia to control the Russian bear…
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-39311670

but I thought that great big wall Estonia was building on its frontier with Russia was gonna stop the ruskies.
http://upnorth.eu/estonia-to-build-90km-fence-along-russian-border/
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March 19, 2017 11:19am
- Jack5
  
  In 1941, three million German soldiers with 3000 tanks attacked Russia.
  
  Now 800 Tommies front up to the Ivans.
  
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  March 19, 2017 11:43am
  - ztev
    
    300,000 ethnic russians living in Estonia, 1/2 mill in latvia.
    
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    March 19, 2017 12:44pm
    - stephieboy
      
      Russification of border states was and remains a deliberate policy going back to the Tsars and carried on under Communism .
      
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      March 19, 2017 1:42pm
      - Jack5
        
        Bit like Islamification of the West, but more subtle.
        
        Still, there are lots of native Russians from ultimately similar Finnish stock to Estonians and Finlanders, and wasn’t it Latvian troops who were big helpers of Lenin in the initial stages of the Bolshevik Revolution?
        
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        March 19, 2017 1:51pm
      - reid3
        
        The Ideological Disease known as alt-left ‘Cultural Marxism’ Exposed:
        
        Don’t be alt-left!
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg3T_H2LZ54
        
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        March 19, 2017 6:48pm
Longknives

RIP Chuck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpitvLeNjuE
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March 19, 2017 11:29am
reid3

White House fence jumper may have gone undetected for 15 minutes

How could this be when:

White House’s first line of defense is a 7 1/2-foot fence made of reinforced iron. The fence was built in the 1960s to limit the public’s access to White House grounds and was expanded in the 1990s by an entire block to put more distance between traffic and the presidential mansion. Many fences have marked the perimeter of the White House over the years, however the iron fence is considered the most impenetrable.

Just inside the fence, alarms placed below ground and infrared sensors above the ground detect fence jumpers — and there have been a lot of them over the years. Hidden around the perimeter of the lawns and gardens are teams of armed Secret Service agents carrying semiautomatic pistols, shotguns and machine guns. Snipers who can accurately hit targets as far away as 1,000 yards (914 meters) dot the White House roof. An entire SWAT team takes to the roof whenever the president enters or leaves the building.

Jonathan Tuan Tran, the intruder, was employed by a German company called International Rectifier (INFINEON) whose CEO is a personal friend of Merkel. INFINEON has been making efforts to have the entire population of the EU micro-chipped with national ID numbers and also provides electronic access systems to various US government intelligence agencies—including the CIA and Secret Service.

A possible reason Tran wasn’t picked up the moment he “jumped the fence” is because he walked in through the front gate using security credentials provided to him by his employer.

Note that according to his linked-in bio, Tran was a research assistant at the
San José State University Research Foundation. The foundation was a major contributor to the CIA’s “New Psychic Frontiers” document about the US falling behind the Soviets in “mind ability” research.

Was this a combined CIA-BND assassination attempt? Was that why Trump was showing so much suppressed anger at that photo op with Merkel where he refused to shake her hand?

Who knows.
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March 19, 2017 11:50am
- stephieboy
  
  reid ,” New Pychic Frontiers ” CIA also behind ” Sensing Murder and behind the Ruskies with paranormal research ?
  
  Keep up garbage in and garbage out .
  
  LOL
  
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  March 19, 2017 1:45pm
  - reid3
    
    The Ideological Disease known as alt-left ‘Cultural Marxism’ Exposed:
    
    Don’t be alt-left!
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg3T_H2LZ54
    
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    March 19, 2017 2:28pm
Jack5

Chuck Berry (Roll Over Beethoven) dead, John Key leaving Parliament, Kea released from the Blog Bastille …

Ominous times.
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March 19, 2017 11:55am
- mikenmild
  
  Stantz: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies. Rivers and seas boiling.
  Spengler: Forty years of darkness. Earthquakes, volcanoes…
  Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave.
  Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together – mass hysteria.
  
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  March 19, 2017 12:31pm
- Viking2
  
  Oh and Rowan Atkinson died yesterday.
  
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  March 19, 2017 1:54pm
  - reid3
    
    http://metro.co.uk/2016/07/18/dear-internet-rowan-atkinson-is-definitely-not-dead-thanks-very-much-6013034/
    
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    March 19, 2017 2:01pm
reid3

See how brilliant he is?

‘We Have a Lot in Common’: Trump Jokes With Merkel About Obama Surveillance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YWmLE5oe08

Lefties think he’s an orange-haired idiot with small hands.

Those of us with minds observe the true facts that with no political experience whatsoever, this guy beat everyone in his own party vying for the top position, then he turned around and beat the opposition candidate, all while the media and the establishment was throwing every single resource they had against him, 24/7/365. Which they’re still doing now. And he still won.

And lefties think he’s some orange-haired lightweight with small hands.

If lefties want to know who is an idiot, they should try looking in the mirror.
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March 19, 2017 1:29pm
reid3

Barack Obama paid a surprise visit to Honolulu, Hawaii on Monday just days before US District Court Judge Derrick Watson, who presides in Honolulu, ruled against President Trump’s temporary refugee ban from terror states.

Coming off a string of high-profile meetings, former President Barack Obama made an unannounced return to Hawaii Monday.

Just three months removed from his last official holiday visit as president, Obama was spotted dining at Buzz’s Lanikai Monday night.

Local Democrats tried “their best to keep it under wraps the whole day.”

Then on Wednesday President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban was put on hold by US District Court Judge Derrick Watson in Honolulu, Hawaii after hearing arguments that the executive order discriminates on the basis of nationality.

Judge Watson believes Somalis and Yemenis have the same constitutional rights as American citizens.

Also — the judge, one Judge Watson, managed to produce a 43-page decision within two hours of the case being filed. Speedy guy, huh!

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/03/obama-paid-surprise-visit-honolulu-48-hours-honolulu-judge-rules-trump-temporary-refugee-ban/
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March 19, 2017 1:33pm
- stephieboy
  
  reid , the fact he was born with friends and family still living there might help with the dots you so woefully and incompently try to conncect ?
  
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  March 19, 2017 1:50pm
  - reid3
    
    The Ideological Disease known as alt-left ‘Cultural Marxism’ Exposed:
    
    Don’t be alt-left!
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg3T_H2LZ54
    
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    March 19, 2017 1:56pm
    - stephieboy
      
      reid, an attack of alt left runs today ?
      
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      March 19, 2017 2:04pm
      - reid3
        
        The Ideological Disease known as alt-left ‘Cultural Marxism’ Exposed:
        
        Don’t be alt-left!
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg3T_H2LZ54
        
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        March 19, 2017 2:23pm
      - stephieboy
        
        reid , now try this sure to work remedy for your chronic malady ,
        
        http://www.healthline.com/health/explosive-diarrhea#Overview1
        
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        March 19, 2017 3:04pm
Viking2

Victoria to tax investors who leave properties vacant for more than six months

Investors in Victoria who buy properties only to leave them empty will attract a new vacant residential property tax, a move the state government says will help free up properties to renters and first home buyers.

The tax will take effect from January and will mean owners who “unreasonably” leave properties vacant for more than six months each year will face a tax levied at 1%, multiplied by the capital improved value of the property. For example, if the property has a capital improved value of $500,000, the amount paid each year would be $5,000.

http://www.msn.com/en-au/money/homeandproperty/victoria-to-tax-investors-who-leave-properties-vacant-for-more-than-six-months/ar-AAnS7Lc?ocid=spartanntp
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March 19, 2017 1:55pm
- rangitoto
  
  Evil big government.
  
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  March 19, 2017 4:36pm
Viking2

As predicted and expected.

Dirty Politics author Nicky Hager releasing new book

A new book by Dirty Politics author Nicky Hager is poised for release, setting tongues wagging about its timing in an election year and as former prime minister John Key prepares to leave Parliament.

An invitation to Hager’s book launch on Tuesday was widely distributed on Sunday.

The invitation said it was not a sequel to Dirty Politics “nor related to the election”.

“It is a completely different book but nonetheless gripping and important.”

The invitation ended with a note that there would be no media comment until the launch.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/90597447/dirty-politics-author-releasing-new-book

Hager’s new book will be released on Tuesday evening, at Wellington’s Unity Books.

Key delivers his valedictory to Parliament on Wednesday.

Hope you all got an invite.
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March 19, 2017 2:01pm
- Jack5
  
  Hager’s books would be unsaleable if it weren’t for the media hype storm that accompanies them.
  
  His sources are, however, of interest. If they are from overseas hackers who may have switched sides from Left to Right, what information will Hager have?
  
  Given that NZ is part of the US Five Eyes security network, and given that someone seems to be leaking stuff and that the Trumpists seem to think it is an ally, is there any chance Trump will have Hager whisked to Guantanamo for a chat?
  
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  March 19, 2017 2:39pm
  - sooty
    
    YES, PLEASE.
    
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    March 19, 2017 3:19pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  And of course by hosting the launch of another piece of Hager drivel Unity Books displays their total political neutrality.
  
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  March 19, 2017 3:48pm
  - stephieboy
    
    Unity Books ripe for book burning or torching, eh ?
    
    [DPF: Implicit nazi name calling is a strike offence. Strike 4]
    
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    March 19, 2017 3:50pm
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      Yep, do you have a match?
      
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      March 19, 2017 3:54pm
      - stephieboy
        
        Maybe a past association or sympathy for the Nazis was not just a passing craze of youthful exuberance
        ?
        
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        March 19, 2017 6:05pm
    - reid3
      
      The Ideological Disease known as alt-left ‘Cultural Marxism’ Exposed:
      
      Don’t be alt-left!
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg3T_H2LZ54
      
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      March 19, 2017 4:15pm
      - stephieboy
        
        reid, from your link, tsk,tsk , tsk..
        
        Wulfheod
        
        Marxism and Zionism are working together to permanently destroy western civilization www 666blacksun net
        
        randomguy from nowhere 9 hours ago
        
        Yeah, that’s why Israel is pretty much a capitalist powerhouse, because ‘Jews = Marxism.” Fucking Nazi piece of shit.
        
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        March 19, 2017 6:10pm
      - reid3
        
        The Ideological Disease known as alt-left ‘Cultural Marxism’ Exposed:
        
        Don’t be alt-left!
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg3T_H2LZ54
        
        stephie, the link is a video. That’s it. Sorry you clearly don’t quite understand people who comment on a linked video aren’t part of “the link” but then, you never have been very bright, have you.
        
        Why don’t you try to rip the video to pieces, using erudite analysis, after you find out what erudite means.
        
        BTW, I’ve reported you for calling me a “Fucking piece of Nazi shit” and I urge you to keep calling me that every single time I post that video, which I’ll be doing every chance I get, for the forseeable future.
        
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        March 19, 2017 6:40pm
      - stephieboy
        
        reid , it was a post by a one” randomguy” responding to the supposed erudite video.
        
        But it you want to include yourself then I can’t stop you .
        
        LOL
        
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        March 19, 2017 9:49pm
- B.L.Zeebub
  
  I guess this new book will make Hager a 3 time loser …or is it the 4th time ?
  I`ve lost count many times this pathetic loser has printed a book in election year with the purpose of derailing a National govt.
  Obviously a slow learner, the voting public `aint buying his bullshit.
  
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  March 19, 2017 5:10pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    To be fair to Mr Hager…
    he did try to take down a Labour Gvt with his book on GM Corn
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeds_of_Distrust
    
    some lefties have such short memories
    
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    March 19, 2017 5:33pm
Scorpion

Kumbaya Story out of Australastan

Remember this Song

I believe the children are our future
Teach them well and let them lead the way
Show them all the beauty they possess inside
Give them a sense of pride to make it easier
Let the children’s laughter remind us how we used to be

HOW STRANGE YEAR 5 CHILDREN
THREATENING to BEHEAD PEOPLE ALREADY? WHY IS THAT?

One teacher got a little bit sick and tired
of year 5 students threatening to “behead her”
and resigned? Fascinating?

What’s her problem probably an Alt Right
Islamophobe?

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/primary-school-pupils-show-signs-of-extremist-ideology-teachers-claim/news-story/6a268199a8f626fa1978aa6b5ddc1f51

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/punchbowl-public-teacher-blows-the-whistle-in-islamic-extremism-at-school/news-story/9b300c045ccdb430514b8e07e2c2344c

WHAT A GREAT FUTURE AUSTRALIA HAS

ADVANCE AUSTRALIA FAIR

I believe the children are our future
Teach them well and let them lead the way
Show them all the beauty they possess inside
Give them a sense of pride to make it easier
Let the children’s laughter remind us how we used to be
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March 19, 2017 2:06pm
- GoVege
  
  Didn’t some Australian jihadist go to the war zone and get photographed with his young son holding a severed head?
  What’s new?
  (And to think the Australians were so kind bringing in all those refugees from Lebanon…)
  
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  March 19, 2017 3:00pm
Maggy Wassilieff

NZ business woman recounts a racist encounter in Gisborne

I have been stopped abruptly in supermarkets in Gisborne – some people having never interacted or spoken to an Asian person before.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/90595651/local-businesswoman-questions-what-it-means-to-be-a-new-zealander

I can only assume it happened when she was very young.
Gisborne has had a Mayor of Chinese descent for 16 years… I don’t think there’s many in Gizzy who haven’t encountered or interacted with Meng Foon.
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March 19, 2017 2:40pm
- GoVege
  
  What about the young NZ born Chinese gal who is regularly abused and called a Chinese c**t by strangers?
  What a primitive lot Kiwis are….
  
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  March 19, 2017 2:54pm
- Jack5
  
  The business woman takes offence too easily.
  
  Hundreds of thousands of Westerners in China have been called “gwei lo” (sometimes translated as “gwai lo”), originally meaning “white ghost”, or even perhaps “ghost fucker”, in Cantonese. It’s thus a skin-colour based insult.
  
  I don’t know anyone who has taken offence when hearing this term applied to them in the Hong Kong away from the tourist streets, or further into China. Many thereafter laughingly refer to themselves as “gweilo”.
  
  I picked this information about “gweilo” from a Chinese web site. It describes the term as perjorative and usually offensive:
  
  A derogatory term for white people, particularly men, mainly in speech. Prior to the 1980s, the term was commonly prefixed in Cantonese by 死 (sei2, “damned”), with the meaning “damned ghost fucker, damned foreign devil”.
  
  Now commonly used among Mandarin speakers.
  
  Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E9%AC%BC%E4%BD%AC
  
  If the multiculturists are forcing people of different ethnicities to live together, we all have to harden up.
  
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  March 19, 2017 3:02pm
  - Jack5
    
    I see one of the synonyms for “gweilo”, translated as min nan, refers to what Chinese see as the pointy nose of white people, and another synonym refer to whites’ “round eyes”.
    
    As kids, our parents taught us to harden up to verbal abuse from peers with:
    
    Sticks and stones will break my bones,
    Names will never hurt me
    
    We need a “harden up” media campaign instead of repeated whingeing about inter-racial insults.
    
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    March 19, 2017 3:11pm
    - Jack5
      
      Perhaps Dame Devoid could get a pre-printed reply card for ninety per cent of the complaints she receives:
      
      “Thank you for your complaint. For fuck’s sake get over it.
      
      Regards,
      
      Your friendly dame, Susan Devoid.”
      
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      March 19, 2017 3:19pm
    - Viking2
      
      you mean like this.
      https://www.facebook.com/crazygirlinc/photos/a.270483353146181.1073741828.270480973146419/623928677801645/?type=3&theater
      
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      March 19, 2017 3:49pm
  - Longknives
    
    I got called a “Rich White Cunt with a flash car” at Countdown Grey Lynn a while ago by some drunk Maori Guy who was begging/trying to intimidate people outside..(That was his response when I said “Nah mate” to his request for money)
    Would Stuff have written an article about me if I had gone crying to the Media??
    Or does that not fit the narrative?
    
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    March 19, 2017 3:31pm
    - stephieboy
      
      Longknives , with someone like you they would need a means of fact checking your claim.
      
      If you had recorded the alledged encounter on your smartphone then it might be considered .
      
      Otherwise you could up load it to fb, twitter etc with the addition of your grunt comments ( might be advisable to edit out the c word you and the stranger seem so fond of )
      
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      March 19, 2017 3:41pm
      - Longknives
        
        You don’t believe drunken Beggars abuse/threaten people Stephieboy?
        You sure you live in Auckland??
        
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        March 19, 2017 3:54pm
      - reid3
        
        The Ideological Disease known as alt-left ‘Cultural Marxism’ Exposed:
        
        Don’t be alt-left!
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg3T_H2LZ54
        
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        March 19, 2017 4:14pm
      - stephieboy
        
        Longknives , yes I do. Mt Eden.
        
        Do remember beggars etc and you , “Birds of a feather flock…”
        
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        March 19, 2017 6:17pm
  - stephieboy
    
    Jack5 ,”If the multiculturists are forcing people …” ?
    
    Forcing ??
    
    Which Trappist-1 planet are you living on ?
    
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    March 19, 2017 3:44pm
    - Jack5
      
      Stephie, think for a minute. What civilised white person would willingly and happily live next to your Stephiestani troll commune?
      
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      March 19, 2017 3:52pm
      - stephieboy
        
        Jack 5 , now which of the 5 Trappist 1 planets are living on ? No 3 Getting close ?
        
        Again long, long overdue for a check up by your local Shrink .
        
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        March 19, 2017 4:02pm
      - reid3
        
        The Ideological Disease known as alt-left ‘Cultural Marxism’ Exposed:
        
        Don’t be alt-left!
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg3T_H2LZ54
        
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        March 19, 2017 4:14pm
    - reid3
      
      The Ideological Disease known as alt-left ‘Cultural Marxism’ Exposed:
      
      Don’t be alt-left!
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg3T_H2LZ54
      
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      March 19, 2017 4:15pm
      - stephieboy
        
        reid, an alt right starter pack especially tailored for you,
        
        http://imgur.com/LuCv6ep
        
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        March 19, 2017 5:05pm
      - reid3
        
        The Ideological Disease known as alt-left ‘Cultural Marxism’ Exposed:
        
        Don’t be alt-left!
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg3T_H2LZ54
        
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        March 19, 2017 6:50pm
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    I guess “ghouli” or “white ghost” is more racist since it notes the racial skin color of the subject than, say the ever-popular Japanese term of affection for Caucasians better known as “gaijin.”
    In the Japanese mind, “gaijin”when used casually would usually refer to a Westerner. You will often hear the term “gaikokujin” (the formal term for “non-Japanese”) used on the TV and radio in the Japanese news.
    The good news is that if a “gaijin” works diligently to integrate with the local community and play his accepted role in society, he may (eventually) be promoted by the locals to being referred to as “onii-san” (“bro”).
    
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    March 19, 2017 4:39pm
    - stephieboy
      
      Odakyu sen , including migrant workers like Koreans in Japan ?
      
      ” Koreans in Japan : a Struggle for Acceptance”
      
      http://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1026&context=international_immersion_program_papers
      
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      March 19, 2017 5:00pm
      - Odakyu-sen
        
        Japanese are unlikely to casually refer to Koreans as “gaijin.”
        
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        March 19, 2017 6:06pm
      - stephieboy
        
        Japanese word for ,” Untermensch ” ?
        
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        March 19, 2017 6:19pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @Odakyu-sen
        
        It might be too much for stephieboy to recognise the difference between Chongryon Jaeil/ Zainichi Chosenjin and Mindans.
        
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        March 19, 2017 6:22pm
      - stephieboy
        
        Maggy W, were you thinking of this ?
        
        https://www.quora.com/Do-Japanese-people-typically-view-Chinese-people-as-inferior-to-Europeans-or-US-citizens
        
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        March 19, 2017 6:27pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @stephieboy
        
        are you thick?
        
        Look up the terms I used.
        What does that tell you about the different types and histories of Koreans in Japan.
        Do you know anything about anything?
        
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        March 19, 2017 6:50pm
      - reid3
        
        He certainly knows a lot about this Maggy:
        
        The Ideological Disease known as alt-left ‘Cultural Marxism’ Exposed:
        
        Don’t be alt-left!
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg3T_H2LZ54
        
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        March 19, 2017 6:51pm
      - Odakyu-sen
        
        Japanese word for ,” Untermensch ” ?
        
        You are looking at it from a historical Euro-centric perspective.
        Work with me on this one. Fill in the following sentences, selecting from the following words (outside, “untermenschen,” non-Japanese, below)
        
        The Nazi party saw ________ as being _______ the German people. The Japanese view ________ as being _______ Japanese society.
        
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        March 19, 2017 9:09pm
    - stephieboy
      
      Odakyu sen , the Nazis saw certian races like Slavs , Jews and Roma as inferior .
      
      I understand the Japanese had similar kinds of views towards Chinese and Koreans .
      
      Correct me if I’m wrong ?
      
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      March 19, 2017 9:54pm
      - Kea
        
        Correct me if I’m wrong ?
        
        Yeah we are across that one stephieboy. LOL 🙂
        
        Its pretty much a full time job correcting your hypocritical drivel and requires everyone to get behind it and do their bit.
        
        Given the sheer volume of your idiotic emissions, it would be reasonable to assume the occasional nugget of truth might emerge, even accidentally. However I have no evidence of that ever happening.
        
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        March 19, 2017 10:05pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Just fill in the spaces with the words you have been given.
        
        You might get a mind-blowing revelation when the answers are filled in.
        
        Don’t you understand that is what Odakyu-sen is showing you?
        
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        March 19, 2017 10:12pm
Viking2

Official: Italy Announces ‘Zero Tolerance’ for Illegal Immigrants

Italy will look to deport more illegal migrants as well as open new detention centers to hold them before their expulsion.

Police chief Franco Gabrielli sent an urgent message to law enforcement across the country Friday ordering them to increase their efforts to identify and deport Muslim migrants.

According to Breitbart

National police chief Franco Gabrielli has sent a circular letter to the country’s police departments announcing a new “zero tolerance” policy toward illegal immigrants, that would mean intensified checks and controls as well as expulsions of foreigners without residence permits.
http://www.usasupreme.com/official-italy-announces-zero-tolerance-illegal-immigrants/

That will be fun.
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March 19, 2017 3:26pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  So why do they keep on scooping them out of the sea instead of turning their boats back to Libya?
  
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  March 19, 2017 3:44pm
- Inandout
  
  How the hell can that boatload happily assimilate in Italy, they will be trouble from day one.
  
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  March 19, 2017 4:08pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Summer is on the way in the Northern Hemisphere.
  That’s the time when immigrants from the ME and North Africa will be trying to reach Europe.
  Hungary is putting new immigrants into guarded camps
  https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/07/world/europe/hungary-migrant-camps.html?_r=0
  Germany is going to shove new arrivals back to Greece.
  Finland & Russia are watching their northern borders and turning back asylum seekers.
  Turkey is likely to reneg on any deals it had with Germany.
  Even Pakistan is going to deport all Afghanis back to Afghanistan.
  
  Looks a mess…..
  hope the UN can sort it all out.
  
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  March 19, 2017 4:45pm
  - stephieboy
    
    A case for bringing a few hundred of these unfortunates to our fair shores ?
    
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    March 19, 2017 4:57pm
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      How many can you put up at your place, idiotboy?
      
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      March 19, 2017 5:02pm
      - stephieboy
        
        Your local community of bigotsville would be a perfect start for many of my proposed 400.
        
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        March 19, 2017 5:07pm
    - reid3
      
      The Ideological Disease known as alt-left ‘Cultural Marxism’ Exposed:
      
      Don’t be alt-left!
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg3T_H2LZ54
      
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      March 19, 2017 6:54pm
  - nasska
    
    ….”hope the UN can sort it all out”…..
    
    The hopelessly corrupt UN is only of use to provide sinecures for corrupt officials no longer welcome in their own countries. With luck Trump will starve the vipers nest into submission.
    
    That should set back the fans of a NWO for a few decades & give the civilised world time to kick the garbage back over our borders.
    
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    March 19, 2017 5:09pm
  - Inandout
    
    Flies are also are a nuisance in summer.
    
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    March 19, 2017 5:39pm
    - stephieboy
      
      Inandout , like the Nazis saw Jews as vermin / rats ?
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2Iazwru7yE
      
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      March 19, 2017 6:23pm
      - reid3
        
        The Ideological Disease known as alt-left ‘Cultural Marxism’ Exposed:
        
        Don’t be alt-left!
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg3T_H2LZ54
        
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        March 19, 2017 6:55pm
      - Inandout
        
        No, just Muzzies.
        
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        March 19, 2017 8:45pm
      - stephieboy
        
        reid, the stupor of reason and rational thought !
        
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        March 19, 2017 9:56pm
Longknives

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11821280

“The annual ASB Polyfest event was being held at the venue at the time but it is unclear whether the males in the video had attended or were connected to the cultural celebration.”

Ha Ha it’s “Unclear”? Really??
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March 19, 2017 3:37pm
Jack5

An extremely interesting article on National-Smith’s apparent sell-out to the Maori Party on reform of the Resource Management Act.

As Muriel Newman spells out on the site of the NZ Centre for Political Research:

“…. new changes replaced Iwi Participation Arrangements with Mana Whakahono a Rohe – although in a deliberate act of obfuscation, no doubt to disguise the real danger of the new agreements, they are also called Iwi Participation Arrangements in the Bill.

Mana Whakahono a Rohe are central to Nick Smith’s plan to give iwi control of fresh water, in that they facilitate Maori co-governance with councils over ‘plan-making, consenting, appointment of committees, monitoring and enforcement, bylaws, regulations and other council statutory responsibilities’. ”

Michael Coote describes that changes as a “racist ambush” by National.

http://www.nzcpr.com/an-abomination-of-a-bill/

and

http://www.nzcpr.com/the-smith-reforms/
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March 19, 2017 3:46pm
- Inandout
  
  National have really lost their way and are becoming more left than Clark’s regime ever was. Helen at least knew how to put a brake on cunning Maori demands, unlike this lot.
  
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  March 19, 2017 4:15pm
  - Viking2
    
    Its frankinstein oops Findlayson. He is as cunning as a S===t house rat.
    They don’t deserve to be govt.
    
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    March 19, 2017 4:34pm
    - Longknives
      
      Nope they don’t deserve to be Government- But I’d vote for Hitler or Stalin to keep the fucking Greens away from our Economy…
      Venezuela anyone?
      
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      March 19, 2017 6:59pm
      - stephieboy
        
        Longknives , panic and hysteria is clouding you ability to think sanely , yet again.
        
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        March 19, 2017 7:54pm
  - wiseowl
    
    Lost their way?
    Totally sold out.
    All the secret meetings that have been held with iwi forum leaders should never have happened.
    They are their to represent all New Zealanders but they have caved in and sold us up the river.
    The proposed new resource legislation is the worst I have ever seen.
    
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    March 19, 2017 5:58pm
    - Kiwi Dave
      
      Strongly agree. If those who disagree with the RMA don’t just complain here, but contact an MP to express their displeasure, we might counter the effects of iwi lobby groups.
      
      This afternoon I emailed a local Nat list MP, pointing out some anti-democratic aspects of the act, and mentioned that the Nats weren’t representing my interests, but others were. If an appeal to principles doesn’t work, a threat to their power might.
      
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      March 19, 2017 8:19pm
Viking2

https://www.propertytalk.com/forum/showthread.php?41640-Trailer-park-millionaires-Guardian-Features
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March 19, 2017 4:42pm
gorse

I am hoping that Hagar’s new book helps National to another victory, like his last one.
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March 19, 2017 6:34pm
- reid3
  
  No, it won’t be.
  
  They’ve had years to think about what they did wrong last time.
  
  They won’t make the same mistakes.
  
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  March 19, 2017 7:50pm
Longknives

Saw on One News that Andrew Little claims he doesn’t know what Hagar’s new book is about??
What a fucking Bullshit Artist!
Lefties- They couldn’t Lie Straight in Bed…
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March 19, 2017 6:56pm
- reid3
  
  The problem with lefties is they think the rest of us are idiots therefore we’ll swallow whatever they say.
  
  Some of us are and do.
  
  The rest of us aren’t and this is the problem.
  
  Most lefties are idiots too and since idiots think everyone else is as dumb or dumber than them for ego reasons, they pitch the message to “people like themselves,” resulting in people like you seeing straight through it.
  
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  March 19, 2017 7:47pm
  - sam green
    
    Such reasoned debate. Who knew?
    
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    March 19, 2017 7:56pm
  - stephieboy
    
    reid, yes I suppose lefties are idiots but exempting yourself from idiocy is way,way over the top as your tediously repetitive litany today amply demonstrates .
    
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    March 19, 2017 7:59pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      ADVERB ALERT!!!
      way too many
      
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      March 19, 2017 8:07pm
      - nasska
        
        Kimbo will be undone! 🙂
        
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        March 19, 2017 8:17pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Oh, I’m awaiting Kimbo’s analysis…
        He may decree that all those adverbs are absolutely necessary.
        
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        March 19, 2017 8:23pm
      - sam green
        
        Absofuckinglutely way way too unnecessary!
        
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        March 19, 2017 9:24pm
      - Kimbo
        
        Thanks you, Maggy, well spotted. Yet again, stephieboy is found in breach of Kimbo’s law. And thank you to you, nasska and sam green for contributing to turn Kimbo’s law into a meme
        
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        March 19, 2017 9:41pm
    - Kea
      
      Clearly English is a second language judging by that garbled word salad.
      
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      March 19, 2017 8:30pm
nasska

Rolf Harris called the prison governor over to see his latest work of art, a mural of a dusk scene of the Aussie outback featuring a lone kangaroo, unknowingly leaping its way toward two aboriginal huntsmen hiding behind a rockpile.

The governor took one look and announced “That’s shit, that is.”

“I know.” replied Rolf. “But if you’d let me have paints…”
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March 19, 2017 8:40pm
Kea

Summer is on the way in the Northern Hemisphere.
That’s the time when immigrants from the ME and North Africa will be trying to reach Europe.

But why Maggy, when they have the wonderful progressive country of Israel so much closer ?.

Not only that, but they have recently acquired a whole bunch of new land they found lying around. They are also the biggest recipient of US aid in the world, even though they are filthy rich.

Think of all the fossil fuels being burnt to ship migrants all over the world when they can just pop across the border to that wonder oasis of tolerance.
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March 19, 2017 8:41pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Israel wouldn’t be my first choice… it’s an overpopulated hell-hole.
  I’m sure Montenegro or Albania would provide a bit more breathing space…
  Turkey might be nice in places…
  
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  March 19, 2017 9:10pm
  - Kea
    
    Yeah the Albanians are well known for their tolerance and hand wringing liberal ways 🙂
    
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    March 19, 2017 9:20pm
  - stephieboy
    
    Trebizond ,Turkey the last bastioan of the Byzantine empire that fell to the Ottomans c 1470.
    
    http://www.ellopos.org/photoblog/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/soumela2.jpg
    
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    March 19, 2017 9:23pm
Stars And Stripes

Nia Glassie abuser pregnant again months after having newborn taken by CYF
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11820070.

Oh great just what the taxpayer needs.
Mind you it just shows how low some guys standards are that she keeps finding someone to smash it.
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March 19, 2017 8:44pm
- Northland Wahine
  
  Sterilisation
  
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  March 19, 2017 8:48pm
  - Stars And Stripes
    
    Instead of persecuting schoolboys in Wellington all the man hating lesbians out there should do NZ a favour and “turn” this chick.
    
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    March 19, 2017 8:54pm
  - Longknives
    
    I’ve had the misfortune of meeting this bunch- They are the lowest of the low.
    Revolting inbred ferals…
    
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    March 19, 2017 9:34pm
    - sam green
      
      In what capacity Longknives? Broadly.
      
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      March 19, 2017 10:06pm
    - sam green
      
      Must be a social worker.
      
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      March 19, 2017 10:57pm
- Kea
  
  We pay women to spread their legs and spit out meal tickets. The reasons have nothing at all to do with the welfare of children, and everything to with the feminist agenda to destroy marriage and traditional relationships.
  
  The bottom line is that the State has taken over the role of the male provider.
  
  The social experiment of allowing women the vote has failed. It is not working out for them, as the record numbers of depressed and mentally unwell women attest. It has harmed all society and is destroying our civilisation.
  
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  March 19, 2017 8:52pm
  - Jack5
    
    “….The social experiment of allowing women the vote has failed….”
    
    What about the abolition of slavery, o smart orange-feathered bird?
    
    Vintage Kea. Blog mayhem begins. 😉
    
    The great alpine parrot will be internet extinct next time it falls foul of DPF.
    
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    March 19, 2017 9:10pm
    - Kea
      
      What about the abolition of slavery
      
      I don’t care for it myself, but it is not abolished in Africa and many other places around the world.
      
      They idea it might be wrong is another liberal European notion that never caught on in Africa.
      
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      March 19, 2017 9:27pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    If I didn’t have the vote, I wouldn’t pay any attention to the politicians and the Husband wouldn’t get to vote.
    
    But because I have the vote, I pay attention, and I fill in his voting papers (when it is a postal vote) or I tell him which box to put his tick in at the General Election.
    Works a treat.
    
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    March 19, 2017 9:58pm
    - Kea
      
      Maggy, You won’t get a bite out of me even if you dye your hair pink, get a crew cut, burn your bra and put on 40kg.
      
      You won’t get a vote either though 🙂
      
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      March 19, 2017 10:10pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Do you think those changes will get me a rich widow?
        
        There seem to be quite a few unaccompanied older ladies in Gizzy… their poor overworked hubbys just kark it out on the back paddock at a relatively young age.
        
        It upsets me thinking those ladies could be all alone in their twighlight days…
        
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        March 19, 2017 10:21pm
    - EAD
      
      What is the obsession with “democracy” in any cae? Simply stated democracy is mob rule. Why would any society not bent on self destruction allow non-contributors to that society an equal voice with the contributing members of society?
      
      Of course (((the elites))) love democracy as you can put your guy in as the frontman to do your bidding and if someone does happen to come along that actually opposes your agenda you can use the (((MSM))) which you also control to destroy them.
      
      Or failing that, shoot them like they did JFK.
      
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      March 19, 2017 10:23pm
  - GoVege
    
    It’s not the vote that did it Kea.
    It was ” no-fault” divorce and paying single women to breed umpteen neglected kids.
    
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    March 20, 2017 12:12am
Kea

SS to the man haters she is a victim and men are the reason she did those things.

You really need to brush up on your feminism and start paying more attention to what women are saying 😉
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March 19, 2017 9:05pm
- Stars And Stripes
  
  Next you are going to suggest I should listen to my wife sometimes.☺
  
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  March 19, 2017 9:15pm
  - Kea
    
    You let her speak !!!
    
    Its bleeding heart lefties like you that stuff it up for the rest of us.
    
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    March 19, 2017 9:22pm
    - Stars And Stripes
      
      She speaks when required but the muzzle saps her energy quickly.
      
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      March 19, 2017 9:34pm
Jack5

😎 Has the snowline been receding – shrinking – from year to year, o great Kea?

I’m asking for Global Warming Griff, who, from last Sunday, is on a three-month stretch in Kiwiblog solitary for his sixth strike.
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March 19, 2017 9:26pm
- Kea
  
  Jack5 the snowline has melted back markedly in recent times, causing rivers and streams to rise. We are still studying the phenomenon to figure out what is going on. We have called it Summer.
  
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  I spoke to a Seagull about it and he reported a sudden rise in sea levels. They have a team working on it. They have called the phenomenon Tides.
  
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  March 19, 2017 9:33pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Relax, the temperature has dropped substantially.
    
    That big yellow thing in the sky disappeared during dinner and now its all dark and cool outside.
    
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    March 19, 2017 9:38pm
    - Kea
      
      now its all dark and cool outside.
      
      The sun has blacked out due to same sex marriages. You were warned.
      
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      March 19, 2017 9:49pm
  - Jack5
    
    😯 I hope Global Warming Griff didn’t read that, Kea.
    
    He’ll take it as triple-joint news.
    
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    March 19, 2017 9:41pm
- krazykiwi
  
  Gibber gibber smegs mr fuck off. {inserts wikipedia reference} 😀
  
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  March 19, 2017 9:39pm
  - sam green
    
    Sauce with that spaghetti?
    
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    March 19, 2017 9:41pm
Kea

➡ No Griff lying about the weather.

➡ No Shawn lying about unbelievers and assorted heathens.

➡ No Katy lying about the Muslim hordes.

➡ No Lucy lying about… pretty much everything.

This is what happens in an echo chamber. The clamour of voices fades and then there is emptiness.

Entropy of the blog ❗
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March 19, 2017 9:46pm
- Jack5
  
  Entropy, not in this election year.
  
  The chatter never ends. Redbaiter goes noisily and Shawn the Cherokee gets a live congregration. More arrive to replace them. A fourth Stephie joins the Islamic team, Kea is allowed back in. Deranged stragglers pop in from the Standard.
  
  It’s a non-stop, 12-steps forum for keyboarders.
  
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  March 19, 2017 9:54pm
  - Kea
    
    What’s up Reds arse this time ?
    
    He is such a special snowflake. I really don’t thing he is emotionally cut out for this whole blog thing. He is a very highly strung and sensitive little man.
    
    I think some of you pick on him, which doesn’t help 🙂
    
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    March 19, 2017 9:58pm
    - Jack5
      
      Red gave up on us.
      
      Unlike Reid, who hasn’t yet tired of singing to his flock of sheeple.
      
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      March 19, 2017 10:20pm
Jack5

Kea’s trademark, the red exclamation mark.

❗❗❗❗❗❗❗❗❗❗❗❗
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March 19, 2017 10:13pm
- Kea
  
  Which puts you in breach of my intellectual property. Which is pretty much all my property.
  
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  March 19, 2017 10:18pm
  - Jack5
    
    Sorry Kea.
    
    Are you still delving in string theory, or whatever it was in physics you were heavily into?
    
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    March 19, 2017 10:19pm
    - Kea
      
      The only thing I delve into is pussy.
      
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      March 19, 2017 10:30pm
      - Jack5
        
        So you’re a Trumpist, Kea. If he followed Kiwblog, Donald would reply to your post: grab it while you can.
        
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        March 19, 2017 10:39pm
      - sam green
        
        Does the SPCA know?
        
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        March 19, 2017 10:39pm
Longknives

Shock,Horror! A man (with his far superior genetic physical strength) wins a woman’s weightlifting competition-

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/other-sports/90607448/transgender-weightlifter-laurel-hubbard-achieves-new-zealand-sporting-first

The World has gone freaking crazy…
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March 19, 2017 10:23pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  oh, congratulations..
  did we beat the Ozzies?
  
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  March 19, 2017 10:27pm
Kea

This new grouping of comments sucks and is clearly the work of Satan. In fact the whole layout is awful. IT people are over rated, over paid and under performing. With few exceptions.

This sort bullshit is typical of their work. They make “changes” not improvements. Its because they serve Satan and never get laid

The thing is- we do not need to use the comment grouping feature and can [still] post in chronological order like decent God fearing folk would do.
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March 19, 2017 10:29pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  But we are sheeple..
  
  Are you suggesting we all refuse to use the reply button and just add a new comment each time?
  
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  March 19, 2017 10:32pm
- Jack5
  
  Yep the timing has been shot, especially for posts during the daylight hours.
  
  Your posts in the morning and afternoon can get lost unless you are posting replies to the posts high in the thread, and then replies to replies, and replies to replies to replies.
  
  A kea’s brain can easily cope with this pattern.
  
  I agree that IT people can be mean fuckers. At any site people navigate intuitively, there are IT people scheming to fuck up access by introducing a “more attractive”, more up-to-date layout. Keeps them employed, of course.
  
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  March 19, 2017 10:33pm
- sam green
  
  Satan or Santa – you choose.
  
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  March 19, 2017 10:34pm
  - Jack5
    
    Yep, Sam, you and Milky and the Stephiestanis work the reply feature.
    
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    March 19, 2017 10:41pm
    - sam green
      
      Apparently you do too.
      
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      March 19, 2017 10:45pm
Kea

Are you suggesting we all refuse to use the reply button and just add a new comment each time?

Yes.
Join the rebellion.
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March 19, 2017 10:35pm
Kea

Longknives

Shock,Horror! A man (with his far superior genetic physical strength) wins a woman’s weightlifting competition-

“The 39-year-old lifted….It’s understood Hubbard, who once competed at national level as Gavin Hubbard, transitioned in her mid-30s.”

Jesus wept. It was a man until a few months ago.
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March 19, 2017 10:37pm
- Jack5
  
  It’s a case of transgenders/transexuals raising the bar.
  
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  March 19, 2017 10:42pm
Kea

Jack5

Yes IT people are from the “change is good” brigade that infests the corporate world. It is the most brainless mantra every concocted.

Change is a neutral word, improvement is good.
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March 19, 2017 10:42pm
- Manolo
  
  Welcome back.
  
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  March 20, 2017 6:51am
Jack5

Great to have you back, Kea, but I have to go.
Good night. ?
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March 19, 2017 10:47pm
- sam green
  
  Thank god. Now we can all get some sleep.
  
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  March 19, 2017 11:00pm
Manolo

The crook Blair knows best, doesn’t he?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4328546/Blair-no-idea-people-come-Britain.html
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March 20, 2017 6:50am
Manolo

You can almost see the desperation:
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/03/cnns-fareed-zakaria-goes-profanity-laced-trump-meltdown-live-air-video/
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