General Debate 2 April 2017

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Nostradamus

This week the High Court of Australia heard legal argument in an interesting case (Knight v State of Victoria & Anor) regarding a special law that applies only to a named convicted murderer. The named convicted murderer argues that the law is constitutionally invalid. The HCA has previously rejected a similar argument by another named convicted murderer who has his own special law.

The law is here.

The second reading speech relevantly stated:

This bill builds on the coalition government’s achievements by protecting the Victorian community from Julian Knight forever.
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On 10 November 1988 Julian Knight was sentenced to life imprisonment, with a non-parole period of 27 years. That non-parole period is due to expire later this year. This bill means that Julian Knight will never be released except in very restrictive circumstances …. . The effect of these provisions are that Julian Knight will die in jail, or will be in such a condition on release that he will be a threat to no one.
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The bill also includes a provision making it clear that the Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities Act 2006 does not apply to the new section 74AA … . To provide legal certainty and to avoid a court giving the bill an interpretation based on charter act rights which does not achieve the government’s intention, the bill provides that the charter act does not apply to the new section 74AA which sets conditions for any parole order for Julian Knight. …

I’m not a criminal lawyer – or a human rights lawyer for that matter. What do people think about this approach being applied in New Zealand?
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April 2, 2017 8:00am
- Callum
  
  While it sounds good in theory, I am very wary of this approach. You wouldn’t need specific legislation for individuals if the main legislation was strong enough and the Juduciary was doing their job as intended by parliament. This is an excuse no to correct the main legislation.
  
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  April 2, 2017 8:05am
  - peterwn
    
    In the New Zealand context life imprisonment would be mandatory unless ‘manifestly unjust’ (would not apply in this case) and he would be looking at a 17 year minimum at least. Granted the judge would not grant Life Without Parole but at most could make it 20 something year minimum. The judge is bound by Court of Appeal sentencing appeal decisions. It is likely that nowadays the Parole Board would not approve parole until he is too old and decrepit to be a danger.
    Similar legislation in NZ would require a BORA Section 7 report warning parliament that it would ‘breach’ BORA but if passed it would trump BORA. In the Australian case it is made complicated as it is a state law versus a federal law so it could be that HCA (equivalent to Supreme Court in UK and NZ) may declare it unconstitutional but the HCA also would respect the powers of states to pass laws – basically it would depend on what was agreed at ‘Federation’.
    Personally I do not go along with life or very long sentences – there should be a parole opportunity at 20 years and each 10 years thereafter – even if the circumstances are very strictly defined.
    No new age sensitive judge will sentence anyone to Life Without Parole and in case of second or third strike murders will invoke the ‘manifestly unjust’ provision (my guess is the Appeal Court will uphold both uses of the ‘manifestly unjust’ provision for the second strike murder cases – wish the judges will get their backsides into gear and deliver the judgment).
    
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    April 2, 2017 10:44am
- calendar girl
  
  Agreed, Callum. What about “life imprisonment without parole” as a more sensible sentencing option, rather than “life imprisonment with a non-parole period of 27 years”? Or rather than (as in this instance) a prisoner’s personalised sentence regime via legislation?
  
  Society creates this is the kind of conundrum for itself the moment that it accepts the view that no person is incorrigible, i.e. that no person is beyond rehabilitation in a prison environment.
  
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  April 2, 2017 8:23am
  - ztev
    
    We have preventative detention for those sort of people
    
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    April 2, 2017 9:39am
    - calendar girl
      
      So you want to stay with the granting of parole. From the Corrections website: http://www.corrections.govt.nz/working_with_offenders/courts_and_pre-sentencing/types_of_sentences.html
      
      “Preventive detention in New Zealand:
      
      “An indeterminate prison sentence; prisoners may be released on parole but remain managed by Corrections for the rest of their life and can be recalled to prison at any time.”
      
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      April 2, 2017 12:15pm
- Scorpion
  
  These Changes to Legislation have to be viewed in context of the rather Harsh Realities that Victoria and Melbourne now face.
  
  To name one of the many issues Melbourne and Victoria has a Massive Jihad Problem many of the proponents are Aus Born.
  
  That is on top of Organised Crime Gangs and “P” or Ice Epidemic?
  
  Many with Links to Known Terrorist Organisations like I S I S if the Victorian Community are to remain relatively safe will need life imprisonment with no chance of Parol as a tool of prevention and disruption of organised criminal elements.
  
  Legislation in Victoria is being changed to meet the new challenges that their open border
  Multi Cultural Approach seems to have given them. (sad because most people get on with it)
  
  That policy was working until certain elements of the Victoria Community decided it would be a
  good idea to do things like..
  
  Pipe Bomb a Womans Fun Run for Cancer on Mother Days.
  
  Have a 100+ Gang disrupt and Riot at a Family Festival? New Zealand Born Scum were involved in this if you are not aware
  
  Suicide attack at the Cathedral Xmas day.
  
  These have been prevented so you can see why they are doing what they can through legislation they have quite a bit to contend with.
  
  Note: There are apparently some NZ Born members of the APEX gang 1 we know of has been deported.
  
  To give you an idea how bad it is Rebel Sport Ran out of Baseball bats last year because people had to do something to protect themselves?
  
  Just this Weekend the Kick in Gang Style Home Invasions started again?
  
  How would you like to Wake up to 6 African with Machetes Please read
  
  http://www.news.com.au/national/breaking-news/seven-arrested-over-vic-home-invasions/news-story/d0cf62c082039dcd947c053f24e6f383
  
  This type of attack is now common.
  
  You have to view changes to their legislation in context and these changes are not happening because of 1 case.
  
  They are happening because Victoria is in a Crime Wave so bad that they are recruiting
  3500 new police?
  
  I am in favour of the death penalty in these cases I am also in favour of Victorian Security being given
  permission in some cases to eliminate their terrorist threats on the spot with out trial if they have been proven to be working with Foreign Para Military Terrorist organisations such as ISIS.
  
  If they are not already these terrorist organisations will be operating in NZ soon. Just something for you to ponder.
  
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  As Far as NZ Approach the NZ approach to Crime has always been too soft too little too late.
  
  NZ Criminal Brats operate in Australia and give Australia quite a few problems that they can no longer tolerate on top of the above challenges (ie YOU EXPORT SOME OF YOUR SCUM TO AUS)
  They Export them Back.
  
  But the NZ Member of the incredibly Violent APEX gang do you know who he was his background?
  
  NZ Politician have ignored the peoples will on Crime and Violent Crime and the results
  are happening on NZ and Australian Streets.
  
  I think it is prudent to take steps to improve your Security and Personal Safety in NZ or Aus
  
  NZ is the Weak Link in Victoria and Melbourne’s
  Security – I have a prediction – If Melbourne
  or Victoria is successfully hit – it will come from
  or be organised from NZ.
  
  You people are too soft too gullible and do not
  actually realise what you have let into your country.
  
  The Real Question you should be asking is why
  the NZ police and Security forces are not working in Australia jointly wit Aus Security to remove NZ criminal elements and assist them with their crime and security issues.
  
  http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11743474
  
  I dare you to google APEX gang.
  
  If you do you will get an Idea of what they have to
  deal with?
  
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  April 2, 2017 9:27am
  - ztev
    
    Most of your claims are without foundation.
    
    Victoria and Melbourne has a lower crime rate, lower road toll, etc etc than NZ
    I was struck by the difference visiting a medium suburb like Essendon where car yards on main roads didnt have security fences 6ft high. Bottle shops had drive through sections with beer fridges easy access for customers. Here you would have to go inside a sort of closed fortress with 3 or 4 security people just standing there.
    
    Sure there are issues in a few places, but with the population of NZ , 4.6 mill people in one metropolitan area they are doing much better than us.
    
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    April 2, 2017 9:47am
    - Scorpion
      
      Most of your claims are without foundation.
      
      That is not True and please explain the motivation
      for you telling lies.
      
      Everything stated in my post can be backed up
      by court records and internet searches.
      
      Victoria has had 12-14 successful preventative
      terror raids.
      
      Some Areas of Melbourne and Victoria are
      safer than NZ but that is only because the 4.6 million population is spread out.
      
      You are Safer in Victoria and Melbourne than Aus
      even with this – but not for much longer.
      
      The Difference between Auckland and Melbourne
      is relative.
      
      In Auckland you will get two groups of about
      30-50 in gangs rumbling with weapons.
      (and I have witnessed that with my own eyes)
      Auckland Police are better at dispersing Gangs
      they have had more experience at that.
      
      Thanks to both the Labour and National Parties
      Nurturing New Zealands Criminals Gangs and exacerbating the problem so more innocent people die.
      
      In Melbourne you will gets Gangs of 100.
      They are implementing tougher penalties
      on people organising disruption of public events
      
      The Moomba Riot was the first there have been others fascinating isn’t it.
      
      Quite a few blatantly racist violent attacks on random white people by the way but a bit like in
      NZ no one dares cover that touchy subject.
      
      To Coordinate these Attacks takes planning
      this is “Organised Crime”
      http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/law-order/youth-stampede-at-summersault-festival-in-caroline-springs/news-story/98cf0990a89625b7bfbca4aa491f6339
      
      Do watch the Moomba Riot Videos if you get a chance Moomba is an
      Original AuthenticAboriginal Festival so you can see the respect they have for indigenous Culture
      
      The Most Prominent Online Cheerleader
      for ISIS operated openly in Melbourne Victoria for
      about 3-4 years before he was finally arrested
      he awaits trial I think it is Sept 2017
      
      When a Somalian Killed a Tongan in Owairaka
      he was let off and as far as I know a….
      Kumbaya Community Centre was built?
      
      You have one law for one set of people
      and another for everyone else.
      
      Victoria and Australia no longer has the luxury
      of slapping people on the wrist with a wet lettuce leaf
      
      Most of your claims are without foundation.?
      
      No you live in Gaga Land here you go “mate”
      here is you friends in Action
      
      http://newobserveronline.com/african-rioting-tears-through-melbourne/
      
      It is all working out so Well in Victoria and Melbourne
      
      AT NIGHT
      EVERY TRAIN STATION HAS
      TWO ARMED GUARDS WITH GLOCK
      
      I have taken public transport in Auckland
      AND PUT MY LIFE AT RISK.
      That town is a joke when all of this is considered.
      
      The only reason Victoria is safe is because
      the Police and Security Forces are actually
      B L O O D Y GOOD
      
      Despite the onslaught they have had to weather
      
      But things are starting to fall apart and they have to do something before it gets as bad as
      
      SOUTH AUCKLAND or LOGAN
      
      Maybe you want Victoria to have NO GO ZONES like FRANCE and SWEDEN
      .
      I suppose that comes later
      
      It is terrible when you realise that NZ Criminal
      Elements operating in Australia are more of a problem to Australian Security than their multiple I S I S Cells
      
      In Auckland I would have my life threatened
      at least once a year – but the same types of people in Auckland who do that – are in Australia
      
      and Guess what?
      They are doing the same types of things
      
      WHO COULD HAVE PREDICTED THAT?
      
      KUMBAYA
      
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      April 2, 2017 10:19am
      - Awww C-mon
        
        Can you try and make your ramblings a little more coherent?
        
        Is it the Chinese Army, Islander gangs, Sudanese gangs, Triads, White Federation gangs, Maori gangs or Government we need to fear the most?
        
        Or is Rebel sport just getting in their stock before the start of softball season the issue?
        
        TIA
        
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        April 2, 2017 10:49am
      - Scorpion
        
        No the thing that people should fear most is not
        as your say.
        
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        Is it the Chinese Army, Islander gangs, Sudanese gangs, Triads, White Federation gangs, Maori gangs or Government we need to fear the most?
        
        Or is Rebel sport just getting in their stock before the start of softball season the issue?
        <
        
        Pretty easy to deal with all said and done.
        
        Massive ICE Bust against Chinese organised
        crime this week by the way?
        
        IT IS SMUG IGNORANT MORONs
        Like your self and the
        PEOPLE YOU VOTE FOR
        
        So DENSE So THICK So EXPERT
        Yet
        
        So UNINFORMED
        
        http://thenewdaily.com.au/news/state/vic/2016/07/20/apex-gang-melbourne/
        
        Sports stores across Melbourne are running out of baseball bats as customers take fears of gang violence into their own hands.
        
        Yes Melbourne is Safer than Auckland
        Inspire of this But (Not by Much)
        
        They are Both some of the most liveable
        Crime Infested SH*T HOLES in the World
        
        The Question you MIGHT WANT TO ASK
        YOUR SMUG LITTLE POLITICIANS
        
        Is
        
        The NZ Member of the APEX Gang
        WHO AUSTRALIA Deported
        
        HE was not the same person who got
        Away with Murder in Owairaka
        Was he?
        
        The NZ Soldier DEPORTED
        had he been turned and did he have
        Terrorist Associates
        
        Of Course we are not allowed to know the details
        conveniently
        
        IGNORANCE IS BLISS
        
        And Auckland and NZ
        YOU ARE THE WEAKEST LINK
        when it comes to Security
        
        Didn't a student do a hit in Saudi Arabia
        recently?
        
        KUMBAYA
        
        There is a Marxist Conference in Melbourne
        over Easter you should attend
        
        It is kind of safe – You can spot Kiwi
        South Auckland Scum a Mile Away if you do
        attend
        
        Seen them in Saint Kilda Walking around
        like they are in NZ giving people evil looks
        that wonderful attitude they have
        
        GREAT AMBASSADORS FOR NEW ZEALAND
        
        Had to help evict a few of them
        
        Hassling Good Ozies coming into a gated
        complex at 3-4-5am in the morning
        making all sorts of noise
        
        Waking up People with Young Babies
        keeping a guy awake who was in his last weeks
        of Cancer with his Wife
        
        Great NZ Exports raised on NO RESPECT
        for Anything
        
        LIKE Australias' latest round of IMPORTS
        
        You should come to Melbourne and do the
        BLACK LIVES MATTER MARCH
        
        You get to March Shouting past white
        Homeless people sleeping on the Street
        
        It would be Sure to GIVE A SICKO
        Like You SOME LAUGHs
        
        BLACK LIVE MATTER
        
        BLACK LIVE MATTER
        
        BLACK LIVES MATTER
        
        BLACK LIVES MATTER
        
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        April 2, 2017 12:37pm
      - Paulus Gnome
        
        As AwwwwC said before
        
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        April 2, 2017 1:48pm
      - Awww C-mon
        
        SO… just to clarify, what you are saying is….
        
        I’m a drug fucked conspiracy theorist who hallucinates about his own delusions?
        
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        April 2, 2017 2:21pm
      - starboard
        
        Living in Thailand now, I can quite comfortably say that I feel safer walking the streets and sois of Bangkok at 2am than I ever did in Auckland or Christchurch.
        Talking to expats over here, we are all in agreement that the welfare state and lax sentencing by limp wristed judges in NZ is pretty much, mainly to blame. Politicians , and their lust for power was another factor mentioned. Special laws for maori, another symptom of the rot in NZ.
        Over here you work or you dont eat.
        Thais love their kids and family, you dont hear of people, week after week, murdering their babies. I told one Thai woman over here about the Nia Glassie case, baby in drier, hung on clothesline, beaten and stomped to death…she cried her heart out for hours. I kid you not.
        New Zealand is rotten to the core, unfortunately and it aint gettin any better.
        
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        April 2, 2017 3:09pm
- thedavincimode
  
  Nostra, I like the concept. The one I’ve got in mind is “The Drunken Dwarf $155,000 Repayment Act”.
  
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  April 2, 2017 12:09pm
DifferentPerspective

Deafening silence from hypocritical feminists #whackmypussy

Apparently, because muslims do it – it’s OK to herd women by repeatedly whacking them with a cane this is why we need more muslims brought into NZ.

I will be waiting till hell freezes over before there’s a Women’s March about this.

Cognitive dissonance on a global level. Stupidity turned into a virtue.

What a mad world!
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April 2, 2017 8:04am
- Padriv Ustoev
  
  This video is taking the whole situation out of context. Very culturally insensitive.
  Have you ever had to move a large group of women in sacks from one place to another. It’s mayhem. There is like zero visibility in those sacks.
  The can is a very valuable tool I know first hand.
  When I have to take my 7 wives out, getting them from the front door to the minivan is an ordeal. They stray, bump into each other, stop to adjust hair and makeup. I used to use a cane, but now in NZ I bought a very well trained dog from a bloke up north. Made life much easier.
  
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  April 2, 2017 10:51am
  - waikatogirl
    
    Just like herding cats, wives won’t be hurried by an irascible husband…
    
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    April 2, 2017 11:02am
  - thedavincimode
    
    I thought you kitted them out in the full Dalek kit? If for no other reason than the huge savings to be had on hair dressers, cosmetics undies and clothing in general.
    
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    April 2, 2017 12:13pm
holysheet

Yeah but you are a white male and your opinions are not worth shit, didn’t you know.
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April 2, 2017 8:08am
arkhad

Does anyone know what has happened to Dimpost blog. I used to get a feed and when it topped I went direct to the blog and found it was private. I have tried every which way to log in, re-register etc. Has Danyl just quit blogging?
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April 2, 2017 8:11am
- dog_eat_dog
  
  Damn, that’s a shame. I really enjoyed his stuff and the discussion there tended to be a lot more brain engaged than most other places on that side of the political spectrum. Hopefully there is a simple and irreverent explanation like a redesign or a side project and it’s not due to anything too serious.
  
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  April 2, 2017 8:54am
- artemisia
  
  Agree, always a good read from a smart guy. He did post a while back he was going to stop blogging, I think he said for family reasons. Then he did occasional posts for a while. Then no more. He has posted here now and then so he might let us know.
  
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  April 2, 2017 9:15am
  - ztev
    
    hes become a stooge for the Greens, officially .
    So he cant say anything as it might give away inside knowledge.
    
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    April 2, 2017 9:48am
    - Paulus Gnome
      
      Like the melons are not really an environmentist party or the wide mouthed frog really is as ignorant as she comes across as or . . . .
      
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      April 2, 2017 10:42am
Nukuleka

RNZ ‘news’ is reporting an Otago Religious Studies survey which shows that the more people read newspapers and are exposed to the media the more negative are their attitudes towards Muslims.

It seems that the conclusion being drawn by our lofty academics- and pushed by RNZ- is that journalists need to be nicer about Muslims in their reporting.

Perhaps it is the Muslims who need to be nicer so that intelligent people in NZ who follow the news don’t have to read about Islamic terrorism, the denigration of women and gays, and the desire of Muslims to annihilate Israel and kill all Jews.

That might be a start!
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April 2, 2017 8:12am
- Huevon
  
  Modern academicia/mainstream journalism is impossible to parody. Just look at the real thing if you want a laugh.
  
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  April 2, 2017 8:45am
- DifferentPerspective
  
  Imagine that – the more times the public is informed about the dangers of a 6th century death cult – the more they make the informed decision that it is not a desirable thing?
  
  Who’d have thunk it?
  
  Better to follow the BBC practice of doing everything you can to mislead and mis-inform to avoid the populace having the information they need to make rational decisions.
  
  Journalism – least trusted profession and when they all act in a totally untrustworthy fashion they are bemused about why they are totally untrusted?
  
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  April 2, 2017 9:14am
  - Peter
    
    The problem with the public is that they are stupid and need to be told what to think.
    
    And the thing they need to think is Cultural Maxism.
    
    Signed
    
    MSM
    
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    April 2, 2017 9:44am
Happychappy

The media should be treated with disdain when they allow Journalists to make comments about a past Act MP using a stolen babies identity when doing a column on David Seymour and the Act Party. This happened several years ago and DG has paid the price for his bad judgment and mom should be ashamed to have allowed it to be printed.
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April 2, 2017 8:23am
Chuck Bird

This is not good enough. If someone owes traffic fines, student loans, child support the money gets taken out of their benefit or super. It is not right that victims of crime cannot get paid the same way.

Justice Minister Amy Adams said the collection of reparation and fines was taken seriously and there were a range of sanctions available if people stopped paying. This includes re-sentencing an offender, seizing cars and property or putting a stop to overseas travel. That is just talk. Where is the action.

They owe their victims millions in reparation, but some refuse to pay back even a few dollars a week

http://i.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/91027123/they-owe-their-victims-millions-in-reparation-but-some-refuse-to-pay-back-even-a-few-dollars-a-week
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April 2, 2017 8:34am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  The govt should not have any debt collection tools beyond those available to everyone, everyone should be able to access the tougher debt recovery tools IRD has.
  
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  April 2, 2017 10:13am
Inandout

I will not be surprised if on my next visit to Whitcoulls, ‘Hit & Run’ has been moved to the fiction section. It has now more holes in its story than the body of an ISIS fighter has.
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April 2, 2017 8:40am
- alex Masterley
  
  I was in the St Lukes Whitcoulls yesterday. Took a bit of time to find H&R.
  It isn’t given pride of place on the new books table.
  It will be in the $2.00 section shortly.
  
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  April 2, 2017 8:46am
  - fernglas
    
    Good. Then I will be able to afford to wipe my arse with it.
    
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    April 2, 2017 8:58am
    - RalphT
      
      Why. The point of using toilet paper is to remove crap from your backside. What you are suggesting simply means putting more crap on.
      
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      April 2, 2017 10:08am
    - VicParking
      
      Dont do that it will proberly wipe in the wrong spot
      
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      April 2, 2017 10:37am
krazykiwi

A step in the right direction.

Abu Hamza’s son stripped of British passport after waging jihad in Syria

The son of Britain’s most notorious hate preacher has been stripped of his UK passport after travelling to Syria to fight with jihadists.

The Home Office took the highly unusual step of withdrawing the passport of the youngest son of the “hook-handed” cleric Abu Hamza, leaving him effectively stateless and stranded in the civil war.

Sufiyan Mustafa, 22, whose father is in jail in the US after being convicted of a series of terrorism charges, has complained in an interview with an Arabic newspaper of his plight. He has pleaded for the option of coming back to his home in London
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April 2, 2017 8:42am
- RF
  
  As I type this Deborah Manning will be flying Abu Mamza’s sons rescue.
  
  Followed by a new book by ferret face.
  
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  April 2, 2017 11:17am
- cmm
  
  Won’t be stripped of the dole though.
  
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  April 2, 2017 12:48pm
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    Won’t be turning up to collect it tho’
    
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    April 2, 2017 1:50pm
  - starboard
    
    Fat fingers..d’ticked by mistake.
    
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    April 2, 2017 3:22pm
- GoVege
  
  You have to feel a bit sorry for this kid.
  Imagine having a father like the hook-handed cleric brainwashing you from birth.
  Maybe the Brits could offer a deal to the kid: he can come back if he becomes a spokesperson against ISIS to his fellow Muslims.
  Course he’ll be a marked man from then on.
  
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  April 2, 2017 1:29pm
  - krazykiwi
    
    Mmmm the …after travelling to Syria to fight with jihadists is possibly the problem there.
    
    Still, he could reform. Eating a bacon buttie, then hugging a lineup of Jews, denouncing religious intolerance and Muslim extremism, and spending a decade paying reparations to the Syrian families who lost loved ones to ISIL should do it.
    
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    April 2, 2017 1:42pm
- rightoverlabour
  
  The poor dear. I fully support his plea to go home to the UK. In a box with a flag draped over it.
  
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  April 2, 2017 5:56pm
sooty

Nicky Hager. Has he lost all creditablility to the average voter in NZ, with his fable SHITS and RUNS. If so, is this the last we hear from him.
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April 2, 2017 8:44am
- B.L.Zeebub
  
  I`m looking forward to him releasing the info he has (allegedly, courtesy of WO) on his former felchers that are raining on his parade at the moment
  
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  April 2, 2017 9:23am
- cmm
  
  Hager is a deluded narcissist.
  
  This is certainly not the last we’ll hear of him, nor will he tidy up his act.
  
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  April 2, 2017 11:23am
- Chuck Bird
  
  Another good article by Rodney
  
  Rodney Hide: Nicky Hager and Jon Stephenson book’s serious allegations
  
  http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=11828448
  
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  April 2, 2017 5:06pm
Stars And Stripes

All Black to face employment proceeding over ‘gay’ comment
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/327944/all-black-to-face-employment-proceeding-over-'gay'-comment.
“All Black Lima Sopoaga is to face an employment proceeding over a homophobic comment made in social media.
The first five-eighth posted the word “gayyyyy” under a photo posted by his teammate Malakai Fekitoa, where it appeared he was about to be kissed by two men”.

An employment hearing over putting the word gay below a picture of some guys kissing another guy!.
Seems the even making an honest observation is now punishable by the PC police.
How incredibly lame.
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April 2, 2017 8:49am
- oldpark
  
  How would he go on muslim female clitoris mutilation? another statement of fact.He should comment on that,and see how many heterophobias come out of the woodwork.
  
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  April 2, 2017 9:58am
  - itstricky
    
    Random. Completely random.
    
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    April 2, 2017 10:39am
- MCos
  
  Maybe you should get into the 21st century
  http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/on-the-inside/327883/am-i-really-reading-this-in-2017
  
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  April 2, 2017 10:26am
- itstricky
  
  is now punishable by the PC police.
  
  The PC police, or his employer, who want to protect their image and promote the game to more people? It’s a big jump from one to the other.
  
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  April 2, 2017 10:37am
krazykiwi

Here’s what happens when rampant regulators have had decades to implement up new ways to control people, businesses and ultimately governments.

The top 100 most expensive EU regulations cost the UK economy £27.4 billion a year, according to research conducted by Open Europe in 2013. [paywalled]

We need less goverment in our lives. Less control, less assumed belief that we need to be protected from ourselves.
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April 2, 2017 8:57am
- Ross12
  
  No wonder the EU elite are having a “hissy fit”. Taking that much away (for a start!) will see Brussels having to start it’s own austerity measures.
  
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  April 2, 2017 10:30am
Maggy Wassilieff

I like beards on men…. or once I did… but now that I am moving in the grey-haired set, I’m finding that I’m not so struck on straggly grey/white growths sprouting out of a withered face.

Time to ban the beard for aged folk?
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/04/china-uighurs-ban-long-beards-veils-xinjiang-170401050336713.html
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April 2, 2017 9:22am
- Aliog
  
  Oh Maggie! And I was so fond of you up till now! I’m afraid my “white growth sprouting out of my withered face” is going to stay…I might just have to avoid Gisborne to save you distress 🙂
  
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  April 2, 2017 9:32am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Txs Aliog
    
    I hate having my eye candy moments interrupted.
    
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    April 2, 2017 10:08am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  The beards are not so bad MW, it is the unfettered growth of hair from the nostrils and ears which is the real concern!
  
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  April 2, 2017 10:01am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    yeeeeeeech!!!
    
    Thank goodness for fading eyesight..
    not that I would get so close to such a decrepit specimen that I would notice.
    
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    April 2, 2017 10:25am
    - Shaun the Sheep
      
      Cougar!
      
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      April 2, 2017 5:10pm
- holysheet
  
  Your are looking in the wrong places Maggy
  
  https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/3d/d8/7e/3dd87eeef29a1b7a884ab0baec606a4f.jpg
  
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  April 2, 2017 10:12am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    He was gorgeous alright…
    and at 85 he can keep his beard
    http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/09/14/13/2C4B82E500000578-3233774-image-a-47_1442232228801.jpg
    
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    April 2, 2017 10:35am
- waikatogirl
  
  Lol Maggy, I agree though.
  Very few men can carry off the perfect facial growth, especially the salt and pepper look. Something to do with their ego wanting to prove they can still sprout strong hair growth.
  
  Awful to kiss, best avoided I find! ?
  
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  April 2, 2017 10:19am
  - VicParking
    
    Thats the reason my partner is all for Brazilians
    
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    April 2, 2017 10:41am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    The most stupid egotistical display is the salt and pepper beard with a three year old by the Asian wife, out with her mother somewhere.
    
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    April 2, 2017 10:48am
krazykiwi

In this post, Standing Up For Free Speech In Science, Dr Whitehouse laments the
House of Commons Committee on Science and Technology report on communicating science.

A free society allows people free speech within the law. Allowing people to lie or write inaccurate articles is the bedrock of a free society. So is the freedom of others to challenge them. People have died for this freedom, and still do in many countries. This is deadly serious stuff as people in China, North Korea and many other countries know.

So the irony is that those who cherry pick and deliberately misinterpret my comments have a perfect right to do so, even though they imply such a right should not exist for others. Hypocritical or ignorant, take your pick.

The just published House of Commons report on science communication is a disappointment. It has sections on false balance, and embargoes, though it quotes no practising journalist’s views on these issues. Indeed in the whole report there is only one working journalist mentioned – the BBC’s Science Editor.
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Once again there is a suggestion that in cases of journalists misrepresenting science there should be a government body able to “put things right.” This suggestion has been made many times in the past few decades, most notably after the Channel 4 programme, “The Great Global Warming Swindle,” in 2007. Then a group of self-appointed activists and scientists suggested that they form a committee (hopefully with government backing) to judge future science programmes on climate change.

I and a few other journalists were horrified that the freedom of the press should be subject to the views of an unelected committee

I remembered the words of Tony Benn concerning democratic freedom, “Who are you, who elected you, and how do we get rid of you?”
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April 2, 2017 9:27am
Stars And Stripes

Family left grieving after 20-year-old man dies at Parnell Baths in suspected drowning
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/91107053/man-dies-at-parnell-baths

Must be dangerous for this to happen so I think we need an investigation.
Did the pool have warning signs up saying “Caution:water causes drowning” and did the swimmer have his own personal lifeguard assigned to him?.
If the answer is no to any of the above then surely it needs to be closed?.
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April 2, 2017 9:33am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Latest report is that it might have been a ‘medical event’.
  
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  April 2, 2017 9:39am
  - Stars And Stripes
    
    Yes the medical event was probably water in his lungs?.
    
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    April 2, 2017 9:45am
- ztev
  
  So you are mocking the dead guy ? is that what interests/amuses you ?
  
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  April 2, 2017 9:53am
  - Stars And Stripes
    
    No ztev but good try.
    Clearly H&S is the target of my mocking.
    
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    April 2, 2017 9:58am
    - Paulus Gnome
      
      And ztev, you have not said anything particularly nasty, stupid or irrelevant so far this morning otherwise the focus would be on you.
      
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      April 2, 2017 10:05am
    - MCos
      
      The article says
      “It is believed he drowned, and another police officer at the scene said it was suspected a pre-existing medical condition could be to blame.”
      Nothing about ‘suspected drowning’, but a medical condition. The guy might have been an epileptic, like me, for example, or a dodgy heart or asthma . . .
      I think it’s disgraceful to use this guy’s misfortune to forward some personal agenda.
      
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      April 2, 2017 10:14am
  - rightoverlabour
    
    No, but we do enjoy mocking the drivel you sprout here…
    
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    April 2, 2017 6:01pm
- Dave Mann
  
  That’s not funny. The Stuff article was simply reporting on this sad event and for you to turn it into an ill-timed political statement shows a complete lack of taste and empathy, frankly.
  
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  April 2, 2017 10:07am
  - Stars And Stripes
    
    Well that really got some people irritated didn’t it even though I thought it was pretty mild by my standards.
    Groveling apologies are in fashion now I know or volunteering to do some community work but I will be doing neither so just downtick and move on is your best option.
    
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    April 2, 2017 11:28am
    - GoVege
      
      Are you a Yank, Stripes?
      Perhaps you’re homesick.
      Go take a nice trip back home and come back with a happier disposition.
      
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      April 2, 2017 1:05pm
      - Stars And Stripes
        
        You should go into comedy GoVege.
        The person who is constantly bemoaning the evils of meat eating and you are advising me to be happy.
        Priceless.
        
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        April 2, 2017 1:40pm
      - GoVege
        
        I’ve never said meat-eating is “evil”, Stripes.
        Just that it causes a lot of suffering to intelligent sensitive animals, gives you bowel cancer, and is bad for the planet.
        People who are insensitive to the feelings of other animals tend to also be insensitive to the feelings of bereaved families of young drowning victims.
        
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        April 2, 2017 8:22pm
    - starboard
      
      I laughed s and s..im not as uptight as a few others around here. Must be the sun and mojitos.
      
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      April 2, 2017 3:28pm
    - Chuck Bird
      
      If your son died I am sure you would not be grieving. You would just say “shit happens”.
      
      The article said the family was grieving like a normal family would. It did not say they were blaming anyone.
      
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      April 2, 2017 4:04pm
- SGA
  
  Did the pool have warning signs up saying “Caution:water causes drowning” and did the swimmer have his own personal lifeguard assigned to him?
  
  I’m left scratching my head as to your point (and hoping that the unfortunate young man’s family aren’t reading this blog).
  Public pools are supposed to be safe places to swim, and a drowning at one is worth examination. If I hit my head or had a stroke or a heart attack, I’d like to think I’d be noticed fairly quickly.
  
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  April 2, 2017 10:33am
  - VicParking
    
    Winter has arrived. The snowfakes have come out.
    Nowdays every statement made is turned into a “Have you stopped beating your wife with a cane one”,
    
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    April 2, 2017 10:46am
    - SGA
      
      lol – “snowflakes” – love the virtue signalling, VicParking.
      Some of my rates and my pool admission fee goes toward providing a safe place for me to swim. If someone drowns there, it is worth examination. It may prove to be in the “shit happens” category. It may also prove that there’s a blind spot in the life guards’ surviellance, that life guard X shouldn’t be concentrating so hard on chatting up the blonde in the bikini, or suchlike.
      
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      April 2, 2017 10:54am
Jack5

A tourist couple are both bashed and robbed, and the judge is calling for a “home detention report” for one of the thugs.

He’ll miss out on the free learn-to-read and driving courses then.

Meanwhile, the bleeding hearts whinge about the rising jail population, as if this shouldn’t rise when the country’s over-all population grows.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11828710
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April 2, 2017 9:48am
- Inandout
  
  Why foreign tourists would even venture into Northland is beyond me. Who advises these travellers on the danger spots in NZ? I was at a petrol station recently when two German girls speaking very good English asked for assistance at the pumps. They were by any standards very pretty, and I thought when confronted by our ferals, how vulnerable they must be on the isolated parts of this country. Hopefully the recent migrant crisis in their home country may have made them more ‘street wise’.
  
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  April 2, 2017 10:01am
  - Jack5
    
    Inanout, you are right.
    
    Northland criminals have been preying on tourists for a long time.
    
    Anyone-else remember when a visiting American racing driver got worked over in Northland?
    
    Perhaps it should be mandatory for those renting cars and motor homes for Northland trips to ensure each vehicle leaves the yard with a pitbull, a can of pepper spray, and a decent whacking club. For tourists who have firearms licences, there should be shotguns.
    
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    April 2, 2017 10:06am
  - Nukuleka
    
    Two young male German backpackers staying with me tell me they have never experienced such an unpleasant, threatening place as Kaitaia.
    
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    April 2, 2017 10:21am
  - GazzaW
    
    It will only need a single attack on a cruise ship passenger visiting the Bay of Islands for a day for the warning flag to be run up by all cruiselines calling in to NZ. A second attack would see cruiselines cancelling Paihia as a port of call.
    
    Why international motor-homers, backpackers and rental car drivers continue to visit Northland is beyond me. There should be a sign displayed on SH1 on the northern edge of Wellsford stating “Beware all ye who enter here.”
    
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    April 2, 2017 11:07am
    - RF
      
      On old maps they had warnings ” there be dragons and monsters here”.
      
      Time for our Northland maps to be updated.
      
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      April 2, 2017 11:33am
      - GazzaW
        
        ……..or more simply “there be taniwha here.”
        
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        April 2, 2017 12:03pm
- Southern Raider
  
  It would be good to have to see a hot spot map by province showing occurance of crime on tourists
  
  Northland must be number one on total events before you even take into account per capita stats
  
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  April 2, 2017 10:18am
  - MCos
    
    Here you are.
    http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/79704084/New-Zealand-rates-for-assaults-sexual-assaults-and-robberies-in-2015-mapped
    Parts of the Far North are not too flash, but Manukau, Central Auckland and part of the North Shore is worse.
    I often travel to Kerikeri. The only violence I’ve seen up there is on the rugby field where it belongs.
    
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    April 2, 2017 3:15pm
- GoVege
  
  What I hate about these thugs, besides the violence to innocent victims and ruining their holiday, is the damage they do to our tourist industry.
  They’re not only a drain on society, they are helping destroy an industry others are knocking themselves out to develop.
  When is this country going to start paying useless parents to get the contraceptive implant?
  
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  April 2, 2017 12:54pm
Jack5

For those who are both Greenies and gourmets …
Iceland is nearly out of whale meat. Never mind the whaling season is about to begin.

Icelanders don’t export whale meat to Japan. They eat all the catch themselves.

http://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/politics_and_society/2017/03/10/whaling_in_iceland_to_start_in_a_month/
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April 2, 2017 10:01am
- Southern Raider
  
  Must be good money in whale meat
  
  Iceland Air just brought AirNZs two 30 year old 767s
  
  I thought the UN and EU held out Iceland as a socialist economic miracle. There existing air fleet mus be really shit
  
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  April 2, 2017 10:22am
  - Jack5
    
    GDP per capita 2016:
    New Zealand $US37,100 Iceland $US48,100
    
    GDP growth 2016:
    New Zealand 2.8 per cent; Iceland 4.9 per cent
    
    Source: CIA World Factbook.
    
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    April 2, 2017 10:41am
    - VicParking
      
      Temperature:
      New Zealand 20c
      Iceland -20c
      
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      April 2, 2017 10:49am
      - Jack5
        
        Vic:
        
        Who would care about the temperature if Iceland girls are really like this:
        
        http://spotmebro.com/tag/iceland-girls/
        
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        April 2, 2017 10:55am
    - rightoverlabour
      
      Jack, please don’t post links to heart attack material… if -20C produces that, then I’m all with Griff to halt global warming….
      
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      April 2, 2017 6:09pm
  - GazzaW
    
    Icelandair are a very smart airline and the world’s first low cost carrier. I recall back in the 70s Icelandic Airlines as they were then were detested by the ‘establishment’ airlines who operated on the Atlantic. Icelandic had dirt cheap fares from New York to Europe but they flew older aircraft (prop driven then) and all services operated via Reykjavic just as they do today. The Iceland Stopover is still in place and the very astute Icelanders use it to show Icelandair passengers the highlights of their country.
    
    Highly recommended and beats row 74 on a run of the mill airline any day of the week.
    
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    April 2, 2017 12:21pm
  - Pateke
    
    Yup, tried it myself both in Iceland and in Northern Norway. Delicious steamed or boiled, and nicer cold with pickled herring.
    
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    April 2, 2017 3:46pm
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      Has it sashimi-style in Japan. Yum.
      
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      April 2, 2017 5:16pm
      - Captain Mainwaring
        
        Damn, no edit. HAD it.
        
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        April 2, 2017 5:17pm
  - Pateke
    
    Going to freight conversions.
    
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    April 2, 2017 3:48pm
- Pateke
  
  Yup, tried it myself both in Iceland and in Northern Norway. Delicious steamed or boiled, and nicer cold with pickled herring.
  
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  April 2, 2017 3:41pm
  - mikenmild
    
    Is it a different species from the Minke the Japs hunt? As I understand it, they have a huge stockpile of frozen whale meat as the public generally don’t like it.
    
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    April 2, 2017 4:01pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Yes.
      The Japanese hunt the southern / Antarctic minke
      
      The Icelanders hunt the northern/ Common minke.
      
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      April 2, 2017 6:47pm
Kabull

Interesting analysis at WO: https://www.whaleoil.co.nz/2017/04/another-error-hit-run-impossible-hager-wrong/
He provides an Afghani map that show Tirgiran village does exist. He has also done an analysis of Stephenson’s Maori TV documentary, and says this:

“And here is a another pesky fact, Jon Stephenson himself identified these villages in his self referencing Maori Television documentary as Tirgiran village…contrary to his claims now. The claim about the village, with Jon Stephenson himself saying “Tirgiran village” is at 3:19 into the video. He also says the village has no cell phone coverage and is more than six hours walk to the nearest road. Which begs the question as to how he managed to contact the local doctor?

He also says Tirgiran at 4:54. At the 8:17 mark Jon Stephenson tells us that Tirgiran is a sprawling village, despite him never going there…clearly still using Tirgiran as the name of the village. Not single piece of footage in the entire video is from that village or even the region. Tirgiran is also mentioned at 11:49. At 12:50 he asks his informants if they’d like to send a message to John Key stating he had prior knowledge about the “Tirgiran raids”. At 13:13 he states that “Tirgiran has not been forgotten”…except perhaps now because it doesn’t suit their narrative.”

A simple search on Google Earth for Tirgiran brings up the village. It does not show any locations called Naik or Khak Khuday Dad. I do see however that some 4.7km SE of Tirgiran there is a village of Nayak. Allowing for spelling variations (eg: Divalak (Google) or Dewalak (the Afghani map) – to the SW of Tirgiran), could Nayak be Stephenson’s Naik? If so, its location surely removes any likelihood of it being the village ‘assaulted by the NZDF”!

Another nail in the Hit & Run coffin here: http://wikimapia.org/28171418/Tirgiran. This destroys McLeod’s argument that Tirgiran is an area and that “It is plainly wrong to conflate an area into a village as the NZDF has done …”
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April 2, 2017 10:08am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  Anyone heard from Stephenson for a few days?
  
  Hiding out in Tuatapere perhaps?
  
  Even if know where Tuatapere is and it is on the map!
  
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  April 2, 2017 10:55am
  - Jack5
    
    Paulus:
    
    Oh dear, Tuatapere been hit by the SAS and US attack helicopters?
    
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    April 2, 2017 10:57am
    - Paulus Gnome
      
      What do you mean? Is there photographic ‘evidence’ like a Coke bottle that obviously had something else in it for some time, a few casings left over from the Crewe debacle, what is there to see?
      
      Is there somewhere beyond the bottom left hand corner of the New Zealand map where the road ends that is not marked on the maps that exists because an ‘investigative churnalist’ says there is?
      
      All these questions and no one to answer them, that is the real mystery.
      
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      April 2, 2017 11:37am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Here’s Stephenson’s video where you can here him refer to Tirgiran village.
  http://www.maoritelevision.com/news/latest-news/native-affairs-summer-series-2014-faith-no-more
  
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  April 2, 2017 1:47pm
  - Rachael Membery
    
    Stephenson should have watched it before he co wrote the book lol.
    
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    April 2, 2017 7:54pm
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  And still we bang on with the H&S inanity. Why the fascination with stupid people?
  
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  April 2, 2017 5:21pm
VicParking

Its a good thing “Hit and Run” is not the name of a boat because it would have sun at the end of the boat ramp
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April 2, 2017 10:51am
- VicParking
  
  Sunk
  Cant edit any more 🙁
  
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  April 2, 2017 10:59am
VicParking

Watched rubgy last night. What a complicated game. It evan has rules about rules. Its so complicated the ref’s (god bless them) cannot follow it and therefore only rule on the bits they can see.
Never saw on mall that the front bit did not seperate from the ball carrier. One tackle that players were not held and stopped getting back into a defensive position. One scum that was not reset.
It seems that the object of a scum it to get from the other side a penalty and with luck a yellow card.
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April 2, 2017 10:58am
- Harriet
  
  I know what you mean – other than finals I haven’t watched Rugby or league in over 10yrs – far too many rule changes, and far too much talking by commentators, replays and stats on the screen. Rugby is now listed in the low 20’s in Australia for participation, the next on the list is archery!!!! the list came out last week. The daughter is playing AFL this year, it’s a good footy game for girls – better than soccer.
  
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  April 2, 2017 12:26pm
RF

If Paula Bennett does not pull a dirty big rabbit out of her Police portfolio hat, Nationals law & order election promises will not be worth the paper they are written on.

13 specialist training courses cancelled and a further 9 postponed to next year. This is on top of 25 courses cancelled in the past 12 months.

Pull your finger out National.
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April 2, 2017 11:41am
krazykiwi

Years of creeping socialism now has NZ at #3 on the
Income Tax Revenue as a % of GDP chart, behind Denmark and Sweden.

Unlike us, Denmark has a low income tax-free threshold.

New Zealand needs smaller government and lower taxes.
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April 2, 2017 12:05pm
- Manolo
  
  Not to worry, krazykiwi. The bold and daring Labour lite, the party of low taxes, will deliver on its promises.
  
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  April 2, 2017 12:47pm
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    You really have to stop pouring that homebrew on your cornflakesite M otherwise in the next mouthful you will be pronouncing the little one to be a seer and a visionary; not going to end well my friend ☺
    
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    April 2, 2017 2:00pm
    - Paulus Gnome
      
      Fing edit!
      
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      April 2, 2017 2:01pm
    - Manolo
      
      Your order is my command, Paulus.
      
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      April 2, 2017 3:03pm
- cmm
  
  You’ve got to be really careful that you make apples-to-apples comparisons.
  
  Some places (eg. USA, UK,..) have a relatively low tax take by just increasing the Natioanl debt – not a good way to handle things.
  
  Sweden and Denmark at least do not have huge national debt. Nor does NZ. Let’s keep it this way.
  
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  April 2, 2017 1:01pm
  - krazykiwi
    
    Yes, agreed.
    
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    April 2, 2017 1:58pm
krazykiwi

Surprise! You’ve arrived in … North Korea
Airport mix-up sees Winter Olympics delegation land in Pyongyang after pilot files wrong flight plan

A delegation of corporate sponsors of next year’s winter Olympics in the South Korean city of PyeongChang was flown to the North Korean capital Pyongyang by mistake, it has emerged.

According to the Around the Rings website the pilot of the corporate jet made a mistake when he entered the flight plan into the aircraft’s navigation system.
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Bemused flight control staff at the North Korean capital allowed the Gulfstream and its passengers to land before the plane was ushered to a remote part of the airport.

I guess the fat little fellow is busy executing someone for not reporting a live missile targeting opportunity.
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April 2, 2017 2:11pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I learnt pretty quickly after my first trip to Korea that I’d better learn to read and write Hangul (Korean script) if I wanted to get to any location.
  
  There was no way I could pronounce Gwangju, Gyeongju or Gongju distinctly enough to be sure I wasn’t going to end up in the wrong city.
  
  Jeonju, Jeongju and Cheonju are 3 other cities that sound identical to my ear.
  
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  April 2, 2017 2:53pm
MrTips

Well, well. Stephenson has some explaining to do. In 2014, alongside the Maori TV interview, he is quoted as saying Tirgiran was a village, 21 civilians died (more than the latest effort) and that no NZ SAS were implicated in the US led mission: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/07/05/nzaf-j05.html?view=article_mobile

Would’ve got away with it if it wasn’t for those meddling kids……….and the www.
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April 2, 2017 2:58pm
Jack5

Could the Greens cause a South Australia-style power crisis in Victoria?

Subsidised wind and solar power generation is making harder for older thermal plants to compete, though there were power cuts in eastern Australia over the summer.

The coal-fuelled Hazelwood station that supplied a fifth of Victoria’s electricity closed on Friday, and other coal-fired stations may follow. Hazelwood’s owners said it was now uneconomic.

Wind and solar generation can be restricted by weather.
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April 2, 2017 3:01pm
- krazykiwi
  
  Could the Greens cause a South Australia-style power crisis in Victoria?
  
  That horse has bolted. They have a crisis, and it was caused by blind pursuit of a stone-age green energy policy.
  
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  April 2, 2017 4:45pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Eion’s gonna fix it
    http://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-power-tesla-idUSKBN16H0RL
    
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    April 2, 2017 4:50pm
Manolo

Headless chickens and sheep are better led than the Democrats:
http://dailycaller.com/2017/03/31/perez-trump-didnt-win-the-election-republicans-dont-give-a-st-about-people-video/
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April 2, 2017 3:07pm
Jack5

For sale on TradeMe – a great fossil-fuel-free lawnmower.

http://www.trademe.co.nz/business-farming-industry/farming-forestry/livestock/goats/auction-1291408003.htm
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April 2, 2017 3:20pm
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  Don’t they fart greenhouse gases? The only way is to dig up the lawn and plant bean sprouts or something
  
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  April 2, 2017 5:46pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Don’t they fart greenhouse gases
    
    Yes, about 20 cubic metres/yr of methane.
    
    A llama would be a better proposition.
    
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    April 2, 2017 7:46pm
Jack5

New Zealand horticulture’s slave trade?

http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/327983/deported-father-worked-'like-a-slave'-by-pastor
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April 2, 2017 3:22pm
krazykiwi

If this is confirmed, some young sub-human will be getting a promotion, and a larger target on his back:

Islamic State’s deputy leader Ayad al-Jumaili killed in air strike

Deputy Islamic State leader Ayad al-Jumaili is believed to have been killed in an Iraqi air strike near the Syrian border, according to intelligence reports.

Isil’s second-in-command was reported to have been killed with other Islamic State commanders in a strike carried out by the Iraqi air force in the region of al-Qaim, near the border with Syria, on Saturday, a military intelligence source said.

The US-led coalition said it was unable to immediately confirm reports of the death of al-Jumaili, believed to be the deputy of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
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April 2, 2017 4:42pm
Viking2

The latest polls show Winston Peters could be Kingmaker in September. So what way will he go? Alex Tarrant reckons it’ll be easier for him to turn left due to Labour/Green Cabinet inexperience

http://www.interest.co.nz/opinion/86819/latest-polls-show-winston-peters-could-be-kingmaker-september-so-what-way-will-he-go
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April 2, 2017 4:48pm
- SPC
  
  His natural preference is to his roots with National, and as to legacy to complete a successful coalition with them after the fiasco of 96-99.
  
  And he has always gone with the largest party.
  
  Doing otherwise would depend on bottom line policies – maybe land ownership restricted to residents. Even then going with Labour would only work if Greens backed a Labour-NZ First coalition AND the three had a clear majority (no given) without other parties.
  
  t said, Depends on bottom lines thoughI
  
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  April 2, 2017 5:17pm
Rachael Membery

Has Jacinda’s electorate even seen their MP, since she was elected?
It seems like she has been seconded, surely that would have been better as a list MP.
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April 2, 2017 7:15pm
Manolo

Another crime on Merkel’s shoulders:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4368764/Teenage-Moroccan-migrant-jailed-raping-90-year-old.html

A German court has convicted a man of raping and strangling a 90-year-old woman and sentenced him to 5 years in prison.

The Dusseldorf state court convicted the 19-year-old defendant under juvenile law Friday of rape, robbery and bodily harm, it was reported.
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