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May 4, 2017 8:00am by Kokila Patel

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krazykiwi

Morning!

It’s going to be great day. No particular reason … I can just feel it 🙂
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May 4, 2017 8:00am
- Kimbo
  
  Thanks, ~~krazykiwi~~ Pollyanna.
  
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  May 4, 2017 8:02am
  - krazykiwi
    
    +1 … might change my moniker 🙂
    
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    May 4, 2017 8:12am
- GazzaW
  
  Not sure why anyone would downvote your felicitations kk. Maybe it’s stephieteam warming up for another negative-filled day.
  
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  May 4, 2017 9:06am
- slightlyrighty
  
  Possibly not for the Royal Family
  
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  May 4, 2017 4:15pm
DifferentPerspective

NRT right but … for the wrong reasons

Interesting post from deranged at No Right Turn.

Proving that even a broken clock can be right twice a day, NRT is correct that unemployment is a disgrace under National. Although not in the outraged SJB way that NRT intends.

True, unemployment has gone up from ~3.3% in 2008 to just under 5% now. Of course, the fake news fascist at NRT conveniently forgets to mention the vitally important (but ideologically inconvenient) contextual information that:
– 3.3% was a major historical low in recent times,
– we had the GFC post 2008
– Labour saddled a burgeoning debt mountain on the incoming government
– also Labour had spiked the economy with the anti-productive ERA, WFF and free student loans employment ‘drag’ policies.

However, NRT is right. High unemployment is still National’s disgrace!

The reason – the economic ‘good times’ National are preaching about are not sustainable. They haven’t strengthened the economy one iota. Key did exactly what a market trader could have been expected to do – he inflated the value of the commodity (NZ) he was selling in any way he could so that he could cash out at the top of the market.

Immigration driven demand is great – in the short-term! Once you turn the false immigration demand tap off and you return to the unproductive, uninspiring, frumpy economy of before stagnation awaits.

Back to NRT’s post. The fact that unemployment is still so high when we have vacancies all around the economy – is the real problem. National’s great failure is in making being unemployed something that is now contemplatable. There should be stigma at being a leech on society, there should be real penalties for failing work testing (not go off one benefit and immediately on to a special grant).

National have made welfarism a viable choice and they continue to do so!

That, is why unemployment is National’s great failure.
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May 4, 2017 8:02am
- Viking2
  
  Add to that the refusal to allow youth rates and its not that hard to see why. ( The greatest impact of this is on young male men).
  Removing training incentives from business and giving the money to the hopeless money wasters at the poly’s has exacerbated the problem.
  
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  May 4, 2017 8:11am
- Liberty
  
  What a load of piffle.
  With the workforce now over 95% in work.
  The only ones left are the professional bums.
  
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  May 4, 2017 8:19am
- Scott
  
  Very good post. I would also add that youth rates is important to get the young people in the first job. I think the minimum wage is too high and restricts people getting into work. After 3 terms of National they seem content to coast along with 100,000 people unemployed. There shouldn’t be 100,000 people unemployed when there is ample demand for unskilled labour in Christchurch and Auckland.
  
  I would like to see time limits on the unemployment benefit, so that people cannot be on the benefit for years and years.
  
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  May 4, 2017 9:22am
- KevOB
  
  The solution is simple: execution for those who have rendered themselseves incapable of work. That is the only practical way to deal with those who have no other way to exist other than through crime.
  
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  May 4, 2017 10:32am
Inandout

Trevor Mallard knows he is history so he makes a swan song bid to give prisoners the right to produce children artificially from within prison. Does Labour have no other way to produce voters?
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May 4, 2017 8:03am
- holysheet
  
  These dumbarse prisoners probably think they will be paid for donating their blood and organs.
  They are in prison for a reason, who would want their defective genes? We have far too many ferals outside prison doing exactly this without giving anymore the right to do so
  Actions have consequences.
  
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  May 4, 2017 8:14am
- doggone7
  
  Is one of the jobs of MPs to see that citizens have the right to present petitions to Parliament and to help that happen?
  
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  May 4, 2017 8:15am
  - AgentBallSack
    
    Prisoners aren’t citizens they’re scum.
    Out of all the law abiding folk in the Hutt Valley it’s a peculiar thing to hang your flag from. But to be expected from an idiot who wrote a glowing reference for a young guy who’s actions could have killed innocent travellers.
    
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    May 4, 2017 9:01am
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    Yes, DG7. That is the job of an MP.
    Anyone can petition Parliament and it is an MPs job to present their petition if requested to do so, even if the MP does not agree.
    
    Parliament then has the discretion to tell the petitioner to sod off as I hope they do in this case as it is horse puckey in my view.
    
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    May 4, 2017 9:33pm
- Keeping Stock
  
  I suspect that Mallard’s sole motivation for delivering this petition is because his nemesis in Hutt South, Chris Bishop, refused to do so. This is no more than political posturing by Mallard, to try and discredit the man he has wimped out of standing against.
  
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  May 4, 2017 8:28am
  - Swifty
    
    Yes, a clear dig at Bishop.
    
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    May 4, 2017 9:05am
- VicParking
  
  Will they sneak sperm out of prision in their bums
  
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  May 4, 2017 9:01am
- Longknives
  
  Labour’s lurch even further left continues..
  
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  May 4, 2017 9:28am
  - Flash
    
    Left? I think you meant lunacy.
    
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    May 4, 2017 10:40am
Longknives

I have a query- (perhaps some of our resident Legal Experts could help?)

Did Woodhouse have the power to kick the dangerous Paedophile and Sexual Predator ‘Sultan Whatshisface’ out? Or were his hands tied?
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May 4, 2017 8:04am
- Viking2
  
  I see another piece of shit is fighting his extradition to Aussie for drowning a boat load of people.
  
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  May 4, 2017 8:13am
- peterwn
  
  He does not have the ‘direct’ power. However he could (via Attorney General) probably seek a judicial review of the official’s decision but that would succeed only if the official had made an error of law in the decision. The review if successful would return the matter to the decision maker for reconsideration.
  
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  May 4, 2017 8:16am
- alex Masterley
  
  His hands were, as far as i can see in what is a difficult act to read and construe, tied.
  
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  May 4, 2017 8:18am
- Inandout
  
  You can always vote Woodhouse out at the next election..oh wait, he can’t be voted out because he is a claytons MP.
  
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  May 4, 2017 8:42am
JasonJohns

Patriotic Americans are mobilising to get Stephen Colbert fired after he made a disgraceful joke about President Trump on his late night TV show:
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/05/03/stephen-colberts-donald-trump-joke-prompts-firecolbert-twitter-campaign.html
#FireColbert
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May 4, 2017 8:04am
- G152
  
  But its okay when the left do it
  
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  May 4, 2017 8:15am
- 4077th
  
  If the guy was funny that would be fine but not sure if anyone thinks he is even approaching amusing. Free speech is a bitch.
  
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  May 4, 2017 8:18am
- Lance
  
  And that wouldn’t make a martyr out of him?
  
  By all means tell the network you will boycott it, and tell the advertisers you won’t buy their products.
  
  Direct firing someone for political statements is not going to end well.
  But firing someone because of lost revenues is far more acceptable and hard to argue against
  
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  May 4, 2017 8:23am
  - Inandout
    
    When O’Rielly was sacked from Fox that didn’t make him a martyr. The Right don’t do martyrs.
    
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    May 4, 2017 10:16am
- Liberty
  
  Americans can be so moralistic when it comes to naughtiness.
  Yet they are quite happy for Trump to plaster a airport with missiles.
  or drop a bomb on the fuzzy-wazzy.
  
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  May 4, 2017 8:36am
  - kowtow
    
    Unforgiveable , crime , outrage………
    
    …….it’s wuzzy , not wazzy.
    
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    May 4, 2017 12:37pm
    - Liberty
      
      Wazzy or wuzzy still just cannon fodder for the gun happy Trump.
      
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      May 4, 2017 4:26pm
- Psycho Milt
  
  That Colbert speech was great. In my view it wasn’t as great as Philip Roth’s assessment of Trump, which described him as having “a vocabulary of seventy-seven words that is better called Jerkish than English,” but it was a lot filthier than Roth’s, which is also pretty funny.
  
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  May 4, 2017 9:13am
  - DifferentPerspective
    
    But not OK for Trump to have uttered the word ‘pussy’ – oh dear oh dear!
    
    This is why support for the fascists on the Left is evaporating – one rule for Leftists, one rule for everyone else!
    
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    May 4, 2017 10:57am
    - Psycho Milt
      
      For my money, Trump can call cunt “pussy” as much as he likes. What got him into trouble wasn’t saying “pussy,” it was declaring himself a sexual predator prone to sexually assaulting women. If Colbert were to do that, yes it would not be at all OK.
      
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      May 4, 2017 12:53pm
- jonar
  
  Patriotic Americans are mobilising to get Stephen Colbert fired after he made a disgraceful joke about President Trump on his late night TV show
  
  So the right is all about free speech until they hear something they don’t like?
  
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  May 4, 2017 10:04am
  - DifferentPerspective
    
    No you silly billy.
    
    This is all about shining a light on the sanctimony of the leftists in the MSM! And then using their own sanctimony against them!
    
    It’s not hard to understand! You’ve been seeing this tactic for months now!
    
    The MSM ARE the opposition. They need to be brought down if democracy is to be saved (of course they might decide to rehabilitate themselves and decide to start going back to reporting the news rather than trying to make it – but I doubt they have the goodwill left to come back from the edge.
    
    Gone burger!
    
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    May 4, 2017 10:59am
    - jonar
      
      The Late Show is a late-night talk show not a News broadcast…
      
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      May 4, 2017 12:42pm
Paulus Gnome

Culturally insensitive apparently

Playboy Playmate on naked Mt Taranaki photoshoot:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11849547

Boyfriend was naked taking photos; the picture we have here is probably the only one that can be published in print without having a plastic wrapper on the top shelf in Mr Patels all night mini mart.

The outraged and offended brigade have got off lightly, someone didn’t koha the taniwha is what it comes down to.

Culturally insensitive? Kiss my ass – Bart Simpson – now that is a little bit offensive.
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May 4, 2017 8:07am
- Stars And Stripes
  
  Being a local I have climbed to the top of Mt Egmont a few times but it is only now I realise the scale of my sins.
  I have eaten my lunch, aired my sweaty feet and probably even told a dirty joke or two at the summit so I have decided I should go and see the local iwi and appease the angry spirits.
  I am hoping a dozen Lion Red will be enough.
  
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  May 4, 2017 9:02am
  - GazzaW
    
    I’m still waiting on confirmation that the qualification requirements have been met for entry to the mile-high club on the summit of Mt Egmont. Surely that has been achieved on multiple occasions.
    
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    May 4, 2017 9:14am
    - Scott
      
      Gazza– Have you been up to the top of Mount Egmont? I have and it’s jolly cold up there!
      
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      May 4, 2017 9:25am
    - holysheet
      
      What wee willy would be able to perform in those cold conditions?
      
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      May 4, 2017 9:25am
      - Longknives
        
        Have you seen her holysheet??
        
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        May 4, 2017 9:30am
      - Inandout
        
        Ask an Eskimo.
        
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        May 4, 2017 10:18am
    - G152
      
      Mount Egmont is high enough to be a ‘mile high’ mating site but a bit to cool
      
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      May 4, 2017 12:46pm
      - JasonJohns
        
        C’mon. All the evidence says whites were first to NZ and top of Egmont anyway. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9KrYb1mLUk
        
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        May 4, 2017 12:51pm
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    Not so much the gesture or quantity being considered, but Lion Red? Really?
    
    I thought you were trying to appease the taniwha not insult the thingys taste buds ?
    
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    May 4, 2017 9:30am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  One would need to consult the pre-European Taranaki iwi records to better understand the relationship between the spirit of the mountain and the local population.
  
  Since the local iwi have a vested interest in being able to “be at one” with the mountain, or have some kind of “relationship” with it (to the point where the mountain can tell them what makes it angry), I suggest that an independent third party be brought in to verify the iwi’s claim.
  
  I recommend a team of monks from the Fujisan Hongu Sengen Taisha Shrine at Mt. Fuji for the job. Ref: http://mtfuji-jp.com/special-guides/historical-tour
  Being of similar ancient Taiwanese origin to the Maori, this Japanese team should also be able to sense what turns the mountain on and verify or dispel the local iwi claim. After all, they are intimately familiar with Mt. Fuji at a metaphysical level (who is probably a blood relative of Mt. Taranaki (sorry, can’t say Mt. Egmont)).
  
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  May 4, 2017 9:38am
- Peter
  
  Facing facts: the mountain does not give a toss. It’s a pile of rocks.
  
  Local Iwi were running around naked in the 1850s, so what’s the big deal now?
  
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  May 4, 2017 10:07am
- DifferentPerspective
  
  Best piccie of Egmont that I’ve ever seen!
  
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  May 4, 2017 11:00am
  - stephieboy
    
    DP, remember be respectful and use its proper name , Mt Taranki .
    
    Not a antique English Earl .
    
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    May 4, 2017 11:17am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      DP, remember be respectful and use its proper name , Mt Taranki .
      
      Taranaki
      
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      May 4, 2017 11:26am
      - stephieboy
        
        I’ve climbed Mt” Taranaki ”
        
        Have you ,Corporal ?
        
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        May 4, 2017 11:30am
      - Kimbo
        
        Mis-spelling when correcting others is common, from stephieboy a certainty.
        
        Also, given you have taken upon yourself the white (wo)man’s burden/the grievous cross to bear of attempting to improve stephieboy’s written English, that you did not mention the use of the wrong indefinite article:
        
        Not an antique English Earl
        
        Don’t want to overload the pupil?
        
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        May 4, 2017 11:33am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @ stephieboy
        Indeed, I have..a couple of times…(in the summer) but so what?
        
        As I am a pacifist, I have an aversion to being referred to by military terms. Please don’t do it again.
        
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        May 4, 2017 11:36am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @Kimbo
        
        Don’t want to overload the pupil?
        softly, softly, catchee monkey
        
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        May 4, 2017 11:43am
mikenmild

Mat the fourth be with you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Day
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May 4, 2017 8:08am
- Viking2
  
  Ya stuffed that one up MM.
  
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  May 4, 2017 8:19am
- 4077th
  
  You had a great opportunity to get it right….nek minnit!
  
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  May 4, 2017 8:21am
- Keeping Stock
  
  Read twice; post once 😀
  
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  May 4, 2017 8:30am
  - Kiwi Dave
    
    I think my browser has a virus which makes errors completely invisible until five minutes after posting.
    
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    May 4, 2017 2:21pm
duggledog

R.E the ComCom’s decision yesterday on the StuffMe merger:

1: The jobs were going to be lost anyway. Mergers = job cuts.

2: If there was to be a merger, it wouldn’t have ‘threatened democracy’ People get their news and media in all sorts of ways these days. The entire civilisation of the West has never been better informed.

3: And now there won’t be a merger, and jobs are inevitably lost, it won’t mean ‘journalism is under threat’. This is just the self-proclaimed Clergy shitting themselves now they know their livelihoods are going to be obliterated.

As always, the talented, tenacious and resilient will survive.
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May 4, 2017 8:09am
- Viking2
  
  Watched Berry yesterday. He needs sending to a retirement village. Totally out of touch with the new reality.
  
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  May 4, 2017 8:16am
- 4077th
  
  The unions proclaiming it is a win for the employee’s…LOL
  
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  May 4, 2017 8:22am
  - GazzaW
    
    The Aussie unions are staging a walkout at Fairfax. That will achieve a lot.
    
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    May 4, 2017 9:17am
    - 4077th
      
      Nice of them to identify themselves as the first in the queue for redundancy.
      
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      May 4, 2017 9:43am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  The journalists that survive, sort of like cockroaches, aren’t they the only things to survive a nuclear blast?
  
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  May 4, 2017 9:34am
  - Inandout
    
    No, that theory has been dispelled. Tests showed cockroaches are no more resistant to radiation than any other insect.
    
    Politicians are a different story.
    
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    May 4, 2017 10:21am
- Liberty
  
  How much of the Fairfax newspapers is done in NZ ?
  The advertising layouts are done in India.
  
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  May 4, 2017 10:26am
- howitis
  
  ‘Mergers = job cuts’
  
  In a commercial situation , yes.
  However, on the formation of Auckland council in 2010 there were no job cuts.
  There was a hire freeze from about 10 months out (replacement of departing staff with fixed term contracts) but nobody lost their job.
  Just one ingredient of the sh*tpile that debt-riddled, inefficient, virtue signalling, anti-car Auckland Council is today.
  
  Thanks Gnats/ACT and for all the Labour mayors!
  Talk about commercial UNreality.
  
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  May 4, 2017 10:47am
- Paulus
  
  Couldn’t happen to nicer people from NZME and Fairfax.
  Both will be be broken up into saleable segments. What about the Polys and the teaching experts selling courses in media studies.
  Qualifying to nothing.
  
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  May 4, 2017 1:34pm
mikenmild

Today also marks 75 years since The Battle of the Coral Sea.
This was the first naval battle fought between aircraft carriers, with neither of the fleets sighting each other directly. After intercepting Japanese plans for the invasion of Port Moresby and the Solomons, the US fleet deployed two aircraft carriers to block this move.
Tactically, the outcome was quite even. Both US carriers were badly damaged, with Lexignton later scuttled. The Japanese lost one light carrier and suffered heavy damage to a fleet carrier. The Japanese operation against Port Moresby was postponed.
In strategic terms, the battle marked the limits of Japan’s southern expansion. The drive to Port Moresby was halted and the Papuan and Solomons campaigns began to push back the invaders. Japanese plans for further advances to New Caledonia, Fiji and Samoa were abandoned, securing the sea lanes between America and Australasia for the allies.
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May 4, 2017 8:09am
- Viking2
  
  The Solomons was an interesting place to visit way back in the 70’s.
  
  Lots of wrecks and stuff around.
  
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  May 4, 2017 8:18am
  - Inandout
    
    An enterprising kiwi made a fortune by scooping up those wrecks and motor parts and shipping them back to NZ. He had a wrecking yard in South Auckland. Ray Vincent?
    
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    May 4, 2017 8:53am
- rightoverlabour
  
  I very seldom uptick your posts, but could someone please explain the offense that deserves the downticks? There are some deranged people on KB. And they can vote.
  Good post,thanks
  
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  May 4, 2017 9:50am
- Jack5
  
  If the Japanese had reached Samoa, the Sunwolves might now be cleaning up the Super Rugby.
  
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  May 4, 2017 9:50am
- tusker
  
  MM. An important tactical outcome as you say, but probably even more significant was the psychological impact. For the first time the world saw that America was capable of stopping the Japanese military machine and the myth of their invincibility was dispelled.
  
  A month later the outcome of the war was put beyond doubt when the Americans devastated the Japanese carrier fleet fleet at Midway.
  
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  May 4, 2017 10:26am
  - Kimbo
    
    Yep, and the USS Yorktown, which was badly damaged, presumed sunk by the Japanese at the Coral Sea was given hasty repairs so she was sufficiently capable of staggering like a punch drunk fighter to take part at Midway. And just as well she did, as an unsuccessful attack by her planes on the Japanese fleet caused Admiral Nagumo to assume they were land-based. As a result he dithered and switched back and forth to fixing bombs or torpedoes for his next wave of attack. In a crucial five minute window of opportunity dive bombers from the USS Hornet and Enterprise descended, with the fighter cover having been drawn down to see off the Yorktown’s torpedo bombers. With ammunition and fuel all over their decks, four of the Japanese carriers went up like the 4th of July. On such small margins are wars won and lost. Twenty three of the twenty four airmen who attacked from the Yorktown lost their lives in what seemed like a futile attack, but in the fog of war turned out to be a vital sacrifice
    
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    May 4, 2017 10:41am
  - GazzaW
    
    Spot on tusker. This was a major boost given that the US Navy secured victory over the Japanese just six months after Pearl Harbor. As you correctly state the clincher came just one month later at Midway.
    
    A bi-product of these victories was NZ’s continued freedom from Japanese occupation – something that the perpetual US haters very conveniently overlook.
    
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    May 4, 2017 11:04am
Yoza

May The Fourth Be With You!
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May 4, 2017 8:12am
- cmm
  
  This is not USA.
  
  We say: Fourth of May be with you.
  
  Sounds a bit more Yoda-speak too!
  
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  May 4, 2017 8:44am
  - 4077th
    
    Fourth of May be with you it will… There, I fixed it for you 🙂
    
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    May 4, 2017 8:53am
    - kowtow
      
      Fourth of fifth.
      
      Fuck’th thake.
      
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      May 4, 2017 9:23am
      - Jack5
        
        Yoza is on to it. The 4th of May is Star Wars Day. It’s also America’s National Day of Prayer, but I don’t think Yoza is into that.
        
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        May 4, 2017 9:53am
Happychappy

Well who would have thought that Trevor Mallard would turn to criminals and their want to a sperm donner or is this a way of trying to do a hit on National and Chris Bishop to stop him winning the Hutt South seat. Mallard says he doesn’t know the person but took up the challenge after Bishop did do anything or present it in Parliament. The poll done on Stuff regarding this persons wants was against the persons wishes by over 95%.
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May 4, 2017 8:15am
- Biscuit
  
  Happychappy, this is a desperate tactic that I call ‘My People Might Forget I Am Here, I’d Better Do/Say Something Outrageous’…
  
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  May 4, 2017 9:06am
  - Happychappy
    
    Off subject here but you would be happy seeing a stand at Liverpool named after Kenny Dalglish. Great player, Great coach and Liverpool Legion.
    
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    May 4, 2017 10:10am
EAD

A lot of GD commentators have been mentioning Paul Joseph Watson on here lately as a journalist who isn’t cowed by PC dogmas and as a result I started following him on Twitter.

Today he tweeted this article from his Infowars website warning of an imminent full scale white genocide in South Africa:

https://www.infowars.com/civil-defense-expert-white-genocide-imminent-in-south-africa/

Political and racial tensions in post-apartheid South Africa have become so great that the minority white population is now at risk of being murdered on a mass scale, says civil defense expert Simon Roche……

Dr. Greg Stanton, founder of human rights group Genocide Watch who accurately predicted the Rwandan genocide in 1994, warned that the increased killings of white farmers in South Africa are being carried out for the sole purpose of extermination and seem to be directed by government elements, Roche noted.

“In other words, our [South African] government is at least tacitly complicit in these astronomical crime rates,” he said. “State-sponsored genocide, one arm’s length removed.”

And for what is on the brink of happening in South Africa, the same fate awaits Europe and the handful of European settled countries around the world if the current globalist madness isn’t stopped and reversed.

A lot of people will scoff, shout “conspiracy theory” then go back to reading the MSM prolefeed, but when you think about, I mean really think about it, what else can be the logical outcome of the innocent sound policy settings all across the White Western world?

– We were disarmed on the pretext of safety (except notably America although not for the want of trying)
– our countries were then flooded and will be continued to be flooded by low IQ 3rd worlders on the pretext of jobs or refugees or simply homogenous countries are bad and not vibrant and diverse( this despite most of the rest of the world’s nations having negligible “diversity”
– They come into countries where the tax, monetary and welfare systems encourage the 3rd worlders to have large families while the original inhabitants can only afford small families in this world of debts.
– The 3rd worlders are, rather than being told to integrate, are instructed to maintain their cultural separatness under the doctrine of multiculturalism and all cultures being equal.
– Not only that they are constantly fed a story of White men as “oppressors” and the sole reason for their position in life due to “white privilege” and “racism”
– Whites meanwhile, in order to disarm their natural and sensible objections to this invasion, have been fed a diet of reinvented history, that, rather than being of nations of heroic explorers, great inventors and builders of civilisation, instead being evil oppressors who must forever maintain a “white guilt” complex and apologise for all eternity for the supposed sins of people generations removed.

The inevitable result of decades of these “policy settings” will mean that all Europeans will end up like those in South Africa as a rump and despised minority surrounded by a seething mass of poor, angry 3rd worlders, in just a matter of time.

Unless your Stephieboy or Susan Devoy, it’s obvious the multikult experiment isn’t going to end up with us sitting at the end of rainbows singing kumbiya.

I hope I’m wrong but I see no other result. The beat we can hope for is to become one big Detroit/Malmo/Johannesburg which is no outcome at all.
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May 4, 2017 8:20am
- Keeping Stock
  
  This is nothing new EAD. When I first went to South Africa towards the end of 1994, the country was already being flooded by illegal immigrants from throughout the African continent. I attended a conference in Durban where the Mayor of the city spoke, and could only give a best estimate of the city’s population as between three and four million. He said something I remember to this day; “The Third World has come to town, and it has come to stay”.
  
  Whilst our isolation and distance from the rest of the world is an issue for anyone wanting to travel, having a border comprising thousands of miles of often inhospitable seas gives us a layer of protection that countries in the large continents do not enjoy.
  
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  May 4, 2017 8:36am
  - EAD
    
    “The Third World has come to town, and it has come to stay”.
    
    Whilst our isolation and distance from the rest of the world is an issue for anyone wanting to travel, having a border comprising thousands of miles of often inhospitable seas gives us a layer of protection that countries in the large continents do not enjoy.
    
    But you seem to be missing the point – the situational threat is not due to being geographically close to other nations, but rather deliberate policies enacted by a permanent political class that is changing the longstanding ethnic makeups of all White Christian nations into a right veritable powderkeg.
    
    Or do you ascribe to a Camp of the Saints view of the world and that every Western country should accept it’s destruction as inevitable despite no other non-white nation adopting such suicidal “policy settings”?
    
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    May 4, 2017 8:53am
    - stephieboy
      
      EAD, where do non white Christians fit into this white genocide fantasy of yours ?
      
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      May 4, 2017 9:04am
      - Reid
        
        Where do those few Muslims who are indeed terrorists almost all of whom are state-sponsored fit into this fantasy of yours whereby they don’t exist?
        
        And why don’t you ever talk about the real evil, the states who sponsor them?
        
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        May 4, 2017 8:03pm
  - kowtow
    
    Europe has a sea border with Africa and Turkey ( they can’t cross the land border with Greece as it is one of the most militarised in the world) and yet they are allowing themselves to be flooded by the third world, in fact they are literally welcoming them and therefor their own self destruction.
    
    Sea borders are nothing if you don’t enforce the law or if you’ve got stupid thinking that allows ,convicted criminals to stay ( Zouai) or if you don’t boot out the likes of the Afghan Sultan.
    
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    May 4, 2017 9:20am
- EAD
  
  Here is PJWs tweet:
  
  https://mobile.twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/859804695874998273
  
  I wonder the folks who are bringing us this Orwellian nightmare plan to go hide because eventually, there’ll be nowhere to hide……
  
  https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/04/the-gang-in-our-park-have-united-us-in-impotence/
  
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  May 4, 2017 9:00am
  - stephieboy
    
    More of the fantasy world you live in. Instead read the Sci fi fantasy book the” The city and the city” by China Melville suggested by the Spectator writer .
    
    The book’s premise,
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    “The premise is extraordinarily interesting and meticulously developed. The question posed: what if two opposed cities existed side by side (with more than an occasional overlap) but were separated, not by an actual wall like East and West Berlin, but by the deeply enculturated habit of deliberate ignorance, a studied denial of the other, …”
    
    LOL !
    
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    May 4, 2017 9:11am
    - Jack5
      
      Or one of the cities had cycle paths on its roads, the other had camel tracks ….
      
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      May 4, 2017 9:56am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      China Melville
      
      China Miéville
      
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      May 4, 2017 10:16am
      - stephieboy
        
        Thank your Corporal Maggy W.
        
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        May 4, 2017 10:28am
dime

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11849387

lmao

hope they stay in aussie. we dont need wimps like this back here

“frightened” lmao
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May 4, 2017 8:22am
- 4077th
  
  “Specialises in the arts” Says it all really 🙂
  
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  May 4, 2017 8:45am
dime

naked skank on a hill somewhere is now offensive?

BAHAHAHAHAHA

imagine what the maoris have done on the mountain in the past? pissing, shitting, fucking, killing, raping.

im sure some of the slaves they owned were on that mountain once..

but apparently modern day nudity is just terrible.

fuck the herald/stuff for giving these idiots a voice.
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May 4, 2017 8:24am
- 4077th
  
  It’s a dick move by the trollop and her boyfriend but this constant need for Maori to be offended is getting very old.
  
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  May 4, 2017 8:48am
  - MCos
    
    I see you were offended when some comedian poked fun at President Trump.
    
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    May 4, 2017 8:58am
    - 4077th
      
      Nope, not at all. If that’s all you got you need to do a whole lot better.
      
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      May 4, 2017 9:19am
- MCos
  
  Your point seems to be that the local Maori are wrong; this is not an issue & shouldn’t be given any publicity.
  So why do you?
  
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  May 4, 2017 8:49am
  - dime
    
    what a great argument lmao
    
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    May 4, 2017 11:00am
  - starboard
    
    Murri offend me all of the time. Fat, lazy, tattooed ,
    smelly , unemployed , violent , they kill their offspring at the drop of a hat ..can someone send me some koha.
    
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    May 4, 2017 12:14pm
- VicParking
  
  What if she had done it 100m from the top of Mt Egmont. What if she had done it at the base of the mountain. What If I do it in my bedroom that has a view of the mountain.
  What if I swim naked in the Whanganui river. And heaven forgive have a piss. No skinny dipping at the beach, no collecting paua for three days.
  I give up.
  
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  May 4, 2017 9:07am
  - SGA
    
    What If I do it in my bedroom that has a view of the mountain. What if I swim naked in the Whanganui river. And heaven forgive have a piss. No skinny dipping at the beach,
    
    Well, imagining that is enough to ruin my day.
    
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    May 4, 2017 9:21am
    - VicParking
      
      Come on SGA I have just had a Brazilian, a leg wax and my bum hairs plucked. I look a dream.
      
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      May 4, 2017 10:04am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Just watch out for hungry herrings (yellow-eyed mullet)
        http://i1.irishmirror.ie/incoming/article7803748.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/Angler-claims-to-have-caught-a-fish.jpg
        
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        May 4, 2017 10:22am
Stars And Stripes

Meth-fuelled masturbating frenzy in West Auckland ’caused by boredom’
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/92177208/methfuelled-masturbating-frenzy-in-west-auckland-caused-by-boredom
“That grip was at its tightest on September 1 last year when a masturbating Broughton was driving his red Toyota around West Auckland, looking for women”.

That grip was at it’s tightest?.
For once Stuff is witty.
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May 4, 2017 8:47am
- 4077th
  
  Stupid wanker
  
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  May 4, 2017 8:50am
- kowtow
  
  He should move to Italy. Weird.
  
  “A Sicilian who masturbated in front of female students has had his conviction overturned by Italy’s highest court, on the basis that unless minors are present, ‘public auto-eroticism’ is not a criminal act.”
  
  https://www.thelocal.it/20160909/public-masturbation-crime-italy-top-court
  
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  May 4, 2017 9:46am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    We have been tolerating public auto eroticism here for almost nine years, it is called the opposition benches and although there has been lots of complaining nobody has been charged
    
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    May 4, 2017 12:02pm
    - 4077th
      
      The only thing missing is they are not arranged in a circle.
      
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      May 4, 2017 1:51pm
Sir Leslie Bottocks

Trump Voter Feels Betrayed By President …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpzVc7s-_e8
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May 4, 2017 9:02am
Happychappy

I can not understand why we should have to go int bat for NZers that left this country over ten years ago because they wanted a better life and did not like Helen Clark or Labours Nanny State Policy. These people haven’t paid tax in New Zealand or contributed to our society and now want our Government to put pressure on Australia to change the Policy that they have released in the last week. They did not want to live in this country and chose Australia as their home so let them sort their own problems out.
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May 4, 2017 9:06am
- VicParking
  
  Why did they not become Aus citizens. They tried to have it both ways and lost out. BOHOO BOHOO
  
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  May 4, 2017 9:09am
- Biscuit
  
  My thinking, too, Happychappy.
  
  [Hmm, we are agreeing too much! Our engagement announcement can’t be far off, heh heh…]
  
  Labour are odd on this policy.
  
  On the one hand, they moan like hell when (as is happening) record numbers are returning home from Oz … and are causing infrastructure problems that taxpayers need to fork out for.
  
  But on the other hand, they moan like hell when our Government, quite rightly, says ‘Look, chaps and chapesses, YOU chose to go live in Australia. You have made no contribution to New Zealand in years. Why bleat to us?’.
  
  What will Labour’s next position be? A special Tax on New Zealanders To Pay For Those Poor Downtrodden ‘Kiwis’ in Australia?
  
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  May 4, 2017 9:14am
- holysheet
  
  I was thinking the same thing HC. What kind of education can you get over there that you cannot get here?
  Wingers and moaners the lot of them. Nothing is free in this world, if you want to improve your self, good on you, but do not expect others to pay for it.
  
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  May 4, 2017 9:16am
- GazzaW
  
  The problem too is that these bludgers will come back to NZ after not contributing to the economy for years and their kids will be entitled to suck on the education tit including subsidised uni fees and interest free loans. As these kids consider themselves to be more Aussie than Kiwi the odds are that they will head straight back to Oz on graduation. Bugger that – there needs to be some sort of residential qualification.
  
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  May 4, 2017 9:28am
- MCos
  
  I’m not sure of all the details of the situation, but as I understand it if a Kiwi has gone to work in Oz within the last few years there is no easy path to citizenship. This means that unlike NZ, no matter how much tax you pay, you have no vote.
  Anyone entitled to permanent residence, including Australians, can vote in NZ so long as fullfill other conditions.
  That means your local MP can tell you to piss off if you complain, with no repercussions.
  Fair enough if you go over knowing that, as an alien, your entitlements are limited.
  However it’s a bit tough if one day your kid’s school is suddenly going to unexpectedly charge tuition fees.
  
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  May 4, 2017 1:01pm
waikatogirl

Do these complainers realise they are moving to a completely separate country. They do not have the same rights as being a kiwi living in New Zealand.

What was the old joke Piggy Muldoon said, something along the lines of
The kiwis leaving to live in Aussie is raising the IQ of both countries. ?
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May 4, 2017 9:19am
- jcuk
  
  you are right there …. i remember Muldoon saying it.
  
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  May 4, 2017 9:25am
- VicParking
  
  Would be more true if Labours list migrated.
  
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  May 4, 2017 10:07am
MCos

Yesterday I read in the NZ Herald the story of a wee five year old kid just starting school who is lucky to have survived being born with an almost fatal heart condition. He had all manner of operations and the little bugger isn’t quite out of the woods yet.
People grizzle & grump about the health system, dodgy tucker, expensive parking & whatever else.
All that’s forgotten when I read stories like that where nothing is spared when it really matters.
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May 4, 2017 9:20am
stephieboy

Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue about his baby’s heart surgery is also a plea for affordable health care

“Jimmy Kimmel’s infant son was born with heart disease. The experience made him realize how lucky he is to have health care.

Before Jimmy Kimmel even began his Monday-night monologue on Jimmy Kimmel Live, the usually jovial host was on the verge of tears, and warned his audience about the sad story he was going to tell.
“Before I go into it, I want you to know it has a happy ending,” he said. But his story also contained a serious message to American legislators who are debating health care right now.
Kimmel told a heart-wrenching story about his newborn son, who was born a little over a week ago with a congenital heart disease that could have killed him. Kimmel’s wife Molly McNearney (who’s the co-head writer of Jimmy Kimmel Live) gave birth to William “Billy” John Kimmel on April 21. Everything seemed fine at first, but a nurse heard a murmur in his heart and noticed that he didn’t look right.
“More doctors and nurses and equipment started coming in, and they determined he wasn’t getting enough oxygen into his blood,” Kimmel explained. “It’s a terrifying thing, my wife is back in the recovery room, she has no idea what’s going on, and I’m standing in the middle of a group of very worried-looking people.”

Doctors soon decided that Billy needed open heart surgery. The surgery was a success, though Billy will need follow-up surgeries. And while Kimmel, in tears throughout the emotional, 13-minute clip, made plenty of jokes to bring some levity to the situation (“even that son of a bitch Matt Damon sent flowers”), he also used the experience to make a larger point about the current state of health care in the United States. In particular, he cited President Donald Trump’s recent proposed cuts to the National Institute of Health….”

https://www.vox.com/2017/5/2/15513404/jimmy-kimmel-monologue-newborn-son-healthcare-surgery

And to think there are some alt right loons here who want us to adopt some of the worst features of America’s unaffordable health care .

My , my…
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May 4, 2017 9:22am
- Scott
  
  Stephieboy I so disagree with you. I thought Jimmy Kimmel telling the story about a son was very moving. But then to link it to a partisan political point about the affordable care act was over the top for me.
  
  That’s the trouble with liberals. Everything is political.
  
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  May 4, 2017 9:29am
  - stephieboy
    
    And Conservatives like the POTUS are not political.
    
    BTW your ideas for affordable health care of the kind we experience here ?
    
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    May 4, 2017 9:55am
    - All_on_Red
      
      Obamacare is collapsing. For most they have to pay so much first before it kicks in it’s not worth it. The Premiums are sky high. Insurance companies are leaving in droves. It’s unsustainable.
      Stupid boy.
      
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      May 4, 2017 9:58am
      - stephieboy
        
        All on Wed , your feedback in this case on affordable health care provision of the kind we are familiar with ?
        
        Or do you think that Jimmy Kimmel , his child and those who can least afford it should just suck it up ?
        
        Thick o !
        
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        May 4, 2017 10:20am
      - All_on_Red
        
        Kimmel probably had Private Healthcare!
        Hahahahaha. You’re soooo thick
        
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        May 4, 2017 10:36am
      - holysheet
        
        The more ooooo the more stoopid I think stoooooooooooooooooooooooooooopidboy really is.
        On his salary, if Kimmel doesn’t have private healthcare then hes one of stoooooooopidboys mates
        
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        May 4, 2017 12:33pm
- kowtow
  
  Reported extensively in NZ .
  
  Relevance to us ?
  
  Nil .
  
  Relevance to Trump Deranged New Zealand media ? Massive. Out of touch , newsroom bubble wankers.
  
  Kimmel , Colbert and the left wing media , fuck you.
  
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  May 4, 2017 9:32am
- 4077th
  
  Kimmel using his sick son for political point scoring. That is about as low as it gets.
  
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  May 4, 2017 9:48am
- Fletch
  
  “Before 2014,” he claimed, “if you were born with congenital heart disease like my son was, there was a good chance you’d never be able to get health insurance because you had a pre-existing condition, you were born with a pre-existing condition.”
  
  This is false. If parents had health insurance, the child would have been covered under the parents’ policy whether or not the child had a health problem.
  
  Kimmel continued: “And if your parents didn’t have medical insurance, you might not live long enough to even get denied because of a pre-existing condition.”
  
  The term “pre-existing condition” is used to describe uninsured chronically ill people who apply for insurance coverage, not for a child in need of immediate care. Moreover, in the U.S., virtually all hospitals are legally obligated to provide emergency treatment to every patient who urgently requires emergency medical care regardless of the patient’s insurance status. This would include a newborn with an urgent heart condition. This requirement does not apply only to patients who enter an emergency room. It applies to all patients who set food on a hospital’s property.
  
  Kimmel then dramatically asserted: “If your baby is going to die, and it doesn’t have to, it shouldn’t matter how much money you make.”
  
  I repeat: It does not matter if you are rich are poor or if you are uninsured. If your baby is in the hospital, he or she will receive emergency care no matter what.
  
  In the real world, Obamacare plans have severely curtailed the number of doctors and hospitals that customers can use. Command-and-control regulations on guaranteed issue, community rating and pre-existing conditions favored by Kimmel and company are driving up costs for everyone. Limited access to specialists and long waits have become the increasing norm — just like that other model of government-run health care, the Veterans Affairs system, where the despicable practice of “death by queuing” spiked under Obama.
  
  http://www.truthrevolt.org/commentary/malkin-thinking-moms-message-jimmy-kimmel
  
  He ought to feel ashamed using his baby’s condition as a political football.
  
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  May 4, 2017 11:47am
  - 4077th
    
    Fletch, thank you for adding the detail missing from my comment. Well said and on point!
    
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    May 4, 2017 1:53pm
Michael

Who is Jimmy Kimmel?
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May 4, 2017 9:36am
All_on_Red

The Le Pen/Macron debate is on.(what a choice!)
Le Pen is making him look like a real Mummy’s boy.
“France will be led by a woman. Either me. Or Frau Merkel.”
Lol
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May 4, 2017 9:48am
- kowtow
  
  Talking of Merkel.
  
  “German police said Wednesday they were examining if there was a religious motive in an Afghan asylum-seeker’s fatal stabbing of a compatriot, who had converted from Islam to Christianity.”
  
  https://www.thelocal.de/20170503/police-probe-religious-link-in-stabbing-of-women-who-converted-to-christianity
  
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  May 4, 2017 10:03am
- VicParking
  
  Not mommy’s boy Teachers pet
  
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  May 4, 2017 10:09am
  - lofty
    
    Clever
    
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    May 4, 2017 12:48pm
Stars And Stripes

Just been down town and I have decided that the claim of Otaki to be the first to have bilingual signs is false.
Some are already this way here and are the”Shoplifters Will Be Prosecuted” ones.
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May 4, 2017 9:53am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  Would any shoplifter be able to read (even in Te Reo)?
  
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  May 4, 2017 4:08pm
  - dad4justice
    
    The only thing that maori can read is KFC and DB shops.Bring back Buck and Billy T, fuck this culturally sensitive crap!
    
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    May 4, 2017 4:10pm
  - Rachael Membery
    
    Especially in te reo
    
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    May 4, 2017 6:51pm
Hugh Pavletich

The Elites Have Destroyed The Status Quo’s Ability To Self-Correct | Zero Hedge

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-03/elites-have-destroyed-status-quos-ability-self-correct

http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.co.nz/2017/05/the-elites-have-destroyed-status-quos.html

You may have seen these charts before, but they tell the story of a middle class in decline.

For any system to endure, it must maintain a built-in capacity to self-correct: that is, it must generate accurate informational feedback about dangerous asymmetries and auto-correct with behavioral feedback.

This is true of ecosystems and enterprises as well as political/social systems.

Human systems can lose the ability to self-correct in three basic ways.

1. The information feedback is no longer accurate because self-serving interests manipulate the data to maintain whatever narrative/data-flow supports their power, wealth and income.

2. Self-serving interests limit any behavioral feedback that threatens their power, wealth and income.

3. Those in positions of responsibility who are tasked with managing behavioral feedback are no longer accountable, so the needed behavioral feedback fails. … read more via hyperlink above
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… Following on from the above, these earlier articles may be helpful as well …

The risk is greater than the GFC if we can’t fix the housing crisis : John Hewson … The Melbourne Age

http://www.theage.com.au/comment/the-risk-is-greater-than-the-gfc-if-we-cant-fix-the-housing-crisis-20170309-guu4sf.html

Inequality & Housing: Through the roof … The Economist

http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21647349-rising-house-prices-may-be-chiefly-responsible-rising-inequality-through

Thomas Piketty’s theory on income equality wrecked by 28 year old … Breitbart

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/03/26/socialist-thomas-pikettys-theory-on-income-equality-wrecked-by-26-year-old-mit-grad-student/
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May 4, 2017 10:00am
- Hugh Pavletich
  
  Did plan to solve Auckland’s housing crisis work? – Business – NZ Herald News
  
  http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11849751
  
  http://www.sra.co.nz/pdf/AucklandNewHouseCostsMay17.pdf
  
  Is Auckland’s housing market rolling over? … Leith van Onselen … MacroBusiness Australia … behind paywall …
  
  https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2017/05/aucklands-housing-market-rolling/
  
  In 2013 the Government and Auckland Council signed the Auckland Housing Accord, a programme planned to solve the city’s housing crisis.
  
  Economist Rodney Dickens of Strategic Risk Analysis says “ten steps have been taken backwards” since the accord was signed.
  
  Auckland Council referred inquiries about the scheme’s success to the Government. Building and Construction Minister Nick Smith said Auckland house-building numbers had risen steeply in response to demand. … read more via hyperlinks above …
  
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  May 4, 2017 12:11pm
All_on_Red

Hey Stephie
It’s notable you haven’t condemned Sultan Akbari’s behaviour.
In fact you playing ‘look squirrel’ on the thread could look like support.
He a friend of yours?
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May 4, 2017 10:02am
- stephieboy
  
  All on Wed , when have you actually on KB condemed his behaveiour ?
  
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  May 4, 2017 10:22am
- Inandout
  
  Friend or relative, knowing their inbreeding habits.
  
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  May 4, 2017 10:28am
  - All_on_Red
    
    Funny that he’s avoiding the question.
    No surprise given Stephies, ahem, ‘character’
    Eh Pornoboy
    
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    May 4, 2017 10:40am
    - 4077th
      
      Masterclass in question dodging, answering a question with a question. Still silence on the condemnation of Akbari. Speak up Stiffy Boi..now’s your chance to set the record straight once and for all.
      
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      May 4, 2017 11:43am
Ross12

Here is a interesting example of the power on online retailing and it’s size in China.
Alibaba sets up an investment fund in 2013 , for people invest their “spare cash” from online purchases. It is now bigger than a JP Morgan to make the world’s biggest money market fund.

http://supchina.com/2017/04/28/alibabas-yue-bao-becomes-worlds-largest-money-market-fund-china-business-technology-news-april-28-2017/
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May 4, 2017 10:09am
kowtow

I hope the train wasn’t delayed too long.

“A refugee has been electrocuted while attempting to climb on the roof of a Eurostar train heading for the UK.”

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/refugee-electrocuted-garde-du-nord-paris-eurostar-train-heading-for-uk-london-britain-calais-a7713191.html
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May 4, 2017 10:14am
- Paulus
  
  Macron has said that the first job he will do is to assist the Immigrants currently in Calais and Northern France to get them into the UK by any means.
  I assume he will charter ferries to take them.
  
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  May 4, 2017 1:45pm
  - kowtow
    
    British pollies made a huge mistake running down the RN.
    
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    May 4, 2017 1:51pm
stephieboy

kowtow, the moral feeling and sesnibilities of an alt righter !

http://cdn.newsmax.com/Newsmax/files/7c/7cb8d3a5-4a50-416d-b788-41ecdd3200b3.jpg
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May 4, 2017 10:23am
- holysheet
  
  you mean like this rabble?
  
  http://wiki.islamiccounterterrorism.org/images/hezbollah/hezbollah.001.jpg
  
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  May 4, 2017 12:39pm
JasonJohns

The campaign to fire Colbert is building. Americans are going to clean up their country. Next on the list will be radical professors who infest colleges.
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/05/03/firecolbert-twitter-campaign-gains-steam-after-stephen-colberts-profane-donald-trump-takedown.html
Of course snowflakes will complain.
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May 4, 2017 10:35am
- krazykiwi
  
  Snowflakes are behind the campaign to fire him
  
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  May 4, 2017 11:04am
krazykiwi

English winemakers are reporting “catastrophic” crop damage after the worst frost in a generation wiped out at least half of this year’s grape harvest.

Remember, if it’s [cold | hot | wet | dry | windy] then you are to blame. You will feel guilty for not living in a cave, you will pay up, and you will not question the orthodoxy.
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May 4, 2017 11:01am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Serves them right for trying to grow grapes in England.
  Next the banana farmers in Scotland will be complaining.
  
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  May 4, 2017 11:18am
  - G152
    
    The Romans produced grape wine in Britain and the Scottish do not have a bent for bananas
    
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    May 4, 2017 1:00pm
- 4077th
  
  English Whine indeed!
  
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  May 4, 2017 11:44am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    Aww. That’s just sour grapes.
    
    (Boom, …ting!)
    
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    May 4, 2017 4:11pm
Manolo

The time is near:
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-05-03/le-pen-attacks-macron-as-global-elite-in-brutal-french-tv-clash
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May 4, 2017 11:14am
- Inandout
  
  France is at a crossroads, much as the US was last election. The last thing France needs is a ‘moderate’, they need a risk taker, because the country is dangerously affected by Islam. Tourism is down in some areas by as much as 60%; that is diabolical.
  
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  May 4, 2017 11:35am
JasonJohns

Le Pen continues to take a patriotic stance demanding the assimilation of Middle Eastern immigrant groups. She has warned the Jews of France that if they want to continue living in the country they will have to leave their headgear at home. Jews in Le Pen’s France will also have to learn to live without kosher food. http://www.jta.org/2017/02/06/news-opinion/world/marine-le-pen-french-jews-should-sacrifice-yarmulke-in-struggle-against-radical-islam
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May 4, 2017 11:49am
- Jack5
  
  As has been pointed out before when you raised the matter of kosher food and le Pen, what she has been threatening is that she would ban kosher and halal slaughter practices.
  
  That does not mean kosher or halal meat would be banned. It could still be imported from New Zealand, for example.
  
  Kosher and halal slaughter techniques have been questioned even in NZ – on humanitarian grounds rather than because of religious or nationalist objections.
  
  I believe Le Pen has also threatened to ban religious head or facial gear in public, including that of Muslims and Jews. In the interview broadcast this week in NZ, Le Pen in answer to a question from the American interviewer said that in France under her regime, Sikhs would not be allowed to wear turbans in public either.
  
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  May 4, 2017 12:02pm
  - JasonJohns
    
    Le Pen is craking down on migrant communities. They have to assimilate or leave France. Not only will Jews be unable to slaughter kosher style, they will have to leave their headgear at home and will also have to renounce their Israeli passports.
    
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    May 4, 2017 12:25pm
    - JasonJohns
      
      ‘Le Pen said immigrants who do not break laws “have nothing to worry about”.
      
      Moving away from hitting out at the Muslim faith, she also attacked Jewish people, saying they “should not wear yarmulkes in public”.
      
      Le Pen also said Sikhs would not be allowed to wear a turban if she became president.
      
      She added: “But we don’t have a lot of Sikhs in France. We’ve got some. But we don’t really hear much from them or about them. Which is good news.”
      
      http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/775659/Marine-Le-Pen-religious-symbols-France-condemn
      
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      May 4, 2017 12:30pm
  - Kea
    
    I believe Le Pen has also threatened to ban religious head or facial gear in public,
    
    You mean like Catholic Nuns and many other Christian cults ?
    
    She is clearly taking her ideas from Saudi Arabia where women are told what to wear.
    
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    May 4, 2017 12:30pm
    - JasonJohns
      
      Christian headgear and symbols are OK Kea. It is alien faiths like Sikhs and Jews that must leave their symbols at home if they wish to assimilate.
      
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      May 4, 2017 12:35pm
      - Kea
        
        Ah of course. Jesus was French and came from France. Silly me.
        
        Personally I do not give a shit what religious nuts wear. I am too worried about their actions to fuss over that. There are bigger issues.
        
        Good luck telling Jews they can not wear the Kippah and other religious head gear.
        
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        May 4, 2017 12:51pm
Fletch

We now know how Hillary’s emails ended up on serial SXTer Anthony Weiner’s laptop. Hillary’s aide Huma Abedin (Weiner’s wife) forwarded them to her husband (including classified emails) in order for him to print them out.

Comey said the investigation into Weiner’s laptop showed that Abedin had regularly forwarded emails to her husband, likely for him to print out for her.

He said Abedin forwarded “hundreds of thousands” of emails to Weiner, 40,000 of which they reviewed. Three thousand of those were work-related, and 12 of them contained classified information, he said.

But he said Abedin and Weiner were not charged with any wrongdoing since investigators did not find a general sense of criminal intent — a decision that Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) scoffed at.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/05/03/comey-defends-himself-says-makes-him-mildly-nauseous-to-think-he-affected-election/

Yeh, officer, I didn’t mean to speed. That wasn’t my intent.
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May 4, 2017 11:53am
Fletch

Down the memory hole…

Bill Nye plays a scientist on TV but really isn’t. Recently a segment of one of his old shows from the 1990s has been edited, which showed how people are born either male or female. What he says now is in line with the current trend of there being a “spectrum” of genders. Luckily, someone saved the segment before it was wiped from the episode on Netflix’ archive (video)

https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/857776849534959616/video/1

On Netflix’s collection of episodes of “Bill Nye,” the 23rd episode, entitled “Probability,” is identical to that which originally aired in 1996—except that the segment on sex and chromosomes has been excised completely. The episode offers no explanation whatsoever. The show simply moves from the segment immediately prior the deleted clip to the segment immediately following it.

http://thefederalist.com/2017/05/02/bill-nye-censor-transgender-ideology/
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May 4, 2017 11:59am
- JasonJohns
  
  Thankyou Fletch. Bill Nye will be remembered as the ‘scientist’ who was slaughtered in debate by Ken Ham, CEO of Answers in Genesis and manager of the Ark Creation museum. Nye had no answer to Ham’s steadfast defence of Biblical science which is shared by vice president Pence. Hopefully NZ will follow the US trend and Biblical science will once again find a place in our schools.
  
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  May 4, 2017 12:27pm
  - JasonJohns
    
    Here is the debate where Nye is demolished by Young Earth Creationist Ken Ham.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6kgvhG3AkI
    
    It is exciting to think that vice President Pence is also a believer in Biblical science.
    
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    May 4, 2017 12:32pm
    - Fletch
      
      TBH, I don’t subscribe to the young earth thing. It doesn’t really matter to me, either.
      
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      May 4, 2017 1:00pm
      - JasonJohns
        
        Christianity stands or falls on a young earth Fletch
        Ken Ham explains
        https://answersingenesis.org/creationism/young-earth/does-the-gospel-depend-on-a-young-earth/
        Forty-six percent of Americans believe in a young earth. Vice president Pence is on our side. Don’t feel you can’t embrace the Bible’s version of history.
        
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        May 4, 2017 1:34pm
    - stephieboy
      
      Biblical Science ? Code for Biblical faith ?
      
      What Darwin’s garden taught him about evolution
      
      The great naturalist’s tranquil backyard was the test bed for his dangerous ideas, writes Tim Entwisle.
      
      https://cosmosmagazine.com/biology/darwin-s-garden
      
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      May 4, 2017 3:58pm
      - dad4justice
        
        Do you have murtle rust in your head stiffyboy?
        
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        May 4, 2017 4:04pm
  - Kea
    
    To be fair they do teach the doomsday message of the Warmist cult in our schools.
    
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    May 4, 2017 12:55pm
  - Swifty
    
    Lol!
    
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    May 4, 2017 1:03pm
  - Swifty
    
    Only when you agree to us teaching evolution in your churches.
    
    Just joking.
    
    Lie to your own kids if you must, but stay the fuck away from mine.
    
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    May 4, 2017 1:07pm
cha

Canadian Ted, couldn’t take a trick if he tried.

So much for that bright idea.

A U.S. senator devised a plan last week to stick reputed drug cartel king El Chapo with the tab for President Trump’s much-ballyhooed border wall.

But American authorities have not been able to find a trace of dirty money belonging to the jailed suspected drug lord whose real name is Joaquin Guzman.

According to Mexico’s attorney general, getting Guzman to foot the border bill is as reasonable as expecting him to turn over a new leaf.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/u-s-not-found-dollar-el-chapo-money-article-1.3134053
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May 4, 2017 12:18pm
starboard

“Sultan Ali Abdul Ali Akbari must be deported”

The filthy sexual deviant scumbag Ali Akbari, imported into NZ, must be deported.

“Concerns have arisen in relation to his behaviour with children and women in public areas including a swimming complex and shopping mall
Akbari has been given a pre-charge warning over the swimming complex and given community detention and work over the incidents at shopping malls.
Akbari now required to wear GPS.
Akbari banned from malls, parks and pools.”

The mangy shitbag can’t even speak ANY english.
Why the fuck is he here? He likes little girls as young as 8. You disgusting bastard, where do you live?

National…Woodhouse…fail.
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May 4, 2017 12:42pm
- Rachael Membery
  
  NZ unfortuately and even worse for Henderson Auckland.
  
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  May 4, 2017 1:58pm
- starboard
  
  Still no reply from the stunned possum face list mp Woodhouse. How rude. How arrogant.
  
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  May 4, 2017 2:04pm
  - calendar girl
    
    How lacking in fortitude.
    
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    May 4, 2017 4:10pm
Happychappy

Well all you people that want extra speed on the road is about to happen with laws being drafted to allow the limit to advance to 110kph on some roads in NZ.
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May 4, 2017 12:51pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Yay for nanny state. Oh for the days of old when we used to charge about at 140 in wallowing old cars with hardly any brakes on much worse roads and never get caught.
  No wonder the average lifespan of New Zealanders has gone up quite a bit since the seventies.
  
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  May 4, 2017 1:56pm
  - starboard
    
    Yay for the old Holden Belmont 202 with 3 on the tree..fantastic wagon, vinyl roof if you were lucky, more pull than a schoolboy, 5 in the back 3 in the front comfortably..am radio cassette blasting out Neil Young, couple flagons of Lion Brown rolling around on the floor..ah yes siree, those were the days.
    
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    May 4, 2017 2:52pm
    - GoVege
      
      I heard “Me and Bobby McGee” by Janis in Pak n Save today.
      What a change from muzak.
      Keep it up Pak n Save and I’ll always shop there.
      
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      May 4, 2017 8:59pm
- calendar girl
  
  I’m all in favour of 110mph where its appropriate. But that change will come as a complete political turnaround from only a couple of years ago when the then Police Minister, Michael Woodhouse, was steadfastly backing the stupid “Zero Tolerance” Police policy to control road speeds to a maximum of 100kph, anywhere:
  
  “Mr Woodhouse stood by the zero tolerance policy but said the police’s communication of the policy had been confusing …..”
  
  (NZ Herald, 13 January 2015)
  
  Mr Woodhouse himself seems to be plagued by the curse of “confusion”; it has followed him to more than one Ministry. Where next?
  
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  May 4, 2017 4:39pm
rightoverlabour

Are DOC serious?
Quote below
Seeing a Playmate model naked at the top of Mt Taranaki would have been “horrifying”, the Department of Conservation says

I have been up there in January, it’s incredibly cold, and I would not have been horrified, amazed, yes.

Idiots pandering to stoneage crap.
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May 4, 2017 1:43pm
- Inandout
  
  DoC is donkey deep in Mouldy culture, their workers are terrified of offending their iwi bosses. It must have the effect of making mice out of men.
  
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  May 4, 2017 2:13pm
  - AgentBallSack
    
    DoC is also donkey deep in hairy lesbians who hate beautiful girls, so there’s that too.
    
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    May 4, 2017 2:34pm
    - stephieboy
      
      ABS, very perceptive and deep.
      
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      May 4, 2017 4:02pm
    - Inandout
      
      Not bull dykes surely?
      
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      May 4, 2017 4:20pm
- Stars And Stripes
  
  It would have been horrifying says the DOC worker while one hand was in his pants and the other one was reaching for the tissues.
  
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  May 4, 2017 2:35pm
Keeping Stock

Something significant is going on at Buckingham Palace:

Speculation amongst Buckingham Palace staff is reportedly rampant after the Queen’s most senior aides called her entire household to an emergency meeting later today.

Servants from royal residences across the country have been ordered to London and will be addressed this evening (NZ time) by the Lord Chamberlain, the most senior officer of the Royal Household, as well as Her Majesty’s right-hand man, Private Secretary Sir Christopher Geidt, the Daily Mail says.

Even her longest serving staff were left in the dark about why the meeting was being called but multiple sources said it was “highly unusual” and had sparked fevered talk about an imminent announcement concerning the monarch or her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, according to the Daily Mail report.

“Everyone is on tenterhooks,” said one.

“Although meetings involving the entire royal household are occasionally called, the way this has been done at the eleventh hour is highly unusual and suggests that there is something major to be disseminated.

“But at the moment, only those closest to her genuinely know what on earth this is all about.”

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11850043
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May 4, 2017 2:02pm
AgentBallSack

Maori bare their buttocks at people to convey disrespect, often to high ranking officials. Not News

Hottie gets her tits out on Mt Egmont and the whole world is falling apart.
Though the stuff article vote has 85% in favour of said hottie.
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May 4, 2017 2:33pm
- Stars And Stripes
  
  The grace with which she wore those shoes in the photo was special too☺.
  
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  May 4, 2017 2:40pm
  - MH
    
    more of the Peek and Boo syndrome.
    
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    May 4, 2017 4:14pm
    - dad4justice
      
      Hope she drops a big steaming turd on top of mount egmont. Who gives a fuck.
      
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      May 4, 2017 4:16pm
      - stigie
        
        You must admit she was a real hottie Dad and to be offended by some people is fucking cranky really !~
        
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        May 4, 2017 4:48pm
AgentBallSack

Herald stoops lower with article “Do NZ Cops shoot to stop or kill?”

You shoot to kill every time! Thats the point of carrying weapons.

Fucking retarded 6th formers who make up what passes for journalists in NZ. Poor crim got killed for pulling a weapon on a cop. BOO FUCKING HOO!
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May 4, 2017 2:45pm
Stars And Stripes

We should respect all beliefs
http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/news/92206654/someone-seeing-that-would-be-pretty-horrified–doc
“Meanwhile, Hindu statesman Rajan Zed has said that the Government should offer effective protection to indigenous Maori sacred sites.
In a statement Zed said that Mt Taranaki was of enormous spiritual significance to Maori and its inappropriate usage for any other agenda might be hurtful to the believers.
He urged the New Zealand government and Cook to offer a formal apology.
Zed, who is the President of Universal Society of Hinduism, said the world should respect the centuries-old Maori traditions. He termed the photo “highly inappropriate” and said symbols of any faith should not be mishandled.
The Maori community should have the final decision on what is allowed on the mountain, Zed said.”

Ok cool and how about the European community in NZ gets to make a decision on whether Rajan Zed from the Universal Society of Hinduism has any value to NZ.
I vote no and think he should piss off back to where he came from.
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May 4, 2017 2:59pm
- kowtow
  
  He said “the world should respect the centuries-old Maori traditions.”
  
  So a guy whose culture chucks dead bodies in rivers and who won’t eat cows wants us to start eating each other?
  
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  May 4, 2017 4:28pm
Happychappy

Did anyone see Winstons hands shaking when he was taking the rubber band of the photo of Pike River Mine. He has obviously got the DTs from to much alcohol or Parkinsons Disease.
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May 4, 2017 3:41pm
- Keeping Stock
  
  He didn’t look well at all today. Does he have another rigorous election campaign in him?
  
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  May 4, 2017 4:37pm
  - thedavincimode
    
    KS, the grey greedies are onto it already. They’ve been doing this for years. See about the 1:50 mark and 4:40.
    
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    May 4, 2017 5:08pm
SPC

It would appear that while the Hon Gerry Brownlee is in Cabinet Minister with the foreign affairs portfolio , he is taking advice/instructions on the UNSC Resolution from Cameron Slater of Whaleoil, not MFAT.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11850069

In the trade it is known as saying what foreign governments want you to say, to improve relations of them, but when it involves not standing by ones own governments decisions – it implies that the principles on which it was based are no longer held or that they are expendable when placed under pressure. That just makes you seem weak and easy prey for any other foreign government doing the same.

Such as Oz or China or …
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May 4, 2017 3:47pm
- Kimbo
  
  Don’t agree with the following:
  
  Brownlee said on Wednesday the Security Council resolution passed last December had been “premature” and implied it should not have passed without Israel’s support.
  
  He said on Radio New Zealand that the value of Security Council resolutions was in the “willingness of the parties who are having the resolution imposed upon them to accept what’s in it.”
  
  No, Gerry. One seldom accepts something that includes a condemnation of some of your actions, or pointing it out as a cause for conflict!
  
  Nonetheless, as well-merited and good as UNSC2334 was, and we should be proud of our decision to co-sponsor it, it’s time to do what we can to heal the relationship. If McCully going and then his replacement offering an olive branch is the overture, so be it. Clark had no intention of freezing the Israelis out permanently over the Mossad agents and our passports thing, and after a sufficient period of time Bibi may decide he has saved face and relent. Or maybe not, as he may want to play hardball and discourage other Western nations doing the same in future. So be it. We did the right thing and we did it not because we are an enemy of Israel, but her friend. And sometimes friends are good friends because they tell you things you don’t want to hear…
  
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  May 4, 2017 4:03pm
  - SPC
    
    It is sort of obvious Brownlee is a novice in this area, his comment re UNSC resolutions is based in so many misunderstandings that it requires a word such as blunderous/or blunderosity to describe it.
    
    No true friend requires you to sacrifice your principles, or they call you an enemy at war with them. New Zealand was merely upholding the principles and rules of the UN, the same UN that gave life to Zion with the 1947 partition programme for the Palestine mandate.
    
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    May 4, 2017 4:19pm
    - Kimbo
      
      Yeah, but reading the tea leaves in that diplomacy-speak, Brownlee has said the timing may not have been propitious. So there is sufficient wriggle-room for both sides. We still stand by our principles and the wording of UNSC2334, and the Israelis can take the admission that there is something we regret as sufficient for saving face if they decide to normalise relationships.
      
      And no matter what Brownlee’s short-comings, there is one priceless quality he possesses that may work in our favour to assuage ~~Israeli~~ Netanyahu’s wrath – he ain’t Murray McCully! 😉
      
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      May 4, 2017 4:24pm
      - SPC
        
        Premature means waiting for a POTUS who would have vetoed it, so we could grandstand on our principles without it being passed.
        
        Their real grievance was with the POTUS not vetoing it but receiving $3B a year from the USA they did not feel like mouthing off about it … and undermining American voter support for their allies in Congress.
        
        And the resolution was organised in London, yet they also made little response to this either, showing a willingness to pick on weaker nations involved.
        
        And another party Egypt is a security partner in the Sinai so …
        
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        May 4, 2017 4:30pm
      - SPC
        
        And Brownlee aint no wraith either, more a symbol of the extreme end of pork-barrel politics.
        
        If only our term ended when Trump arrived, so we could posture all we liked and achieve nothing because of their veto and we could all have been happy
        
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        May 4, 2017 4:34pm
      - Kimbo
        
        Meh. Is like arguing that if the referee had called a few penalties to the French we would have lost the 2011 Rugby World Cup final. Didn’t happen. The complexities and inconsistencies of the Israeli/USA relationship is their issue, not ours.
        
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        May 4, 2017 4:36pm
      - Brigitte
        
        Timing means that there is an election coming up and he’s not prepared to give an inch to blubber boys tactics.
        
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        May 4, 2017 4:45pm
  - cha
    
    Don’t agree with the following:
    
    Rest assured, Kimbo. Trump’s going to make peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians and it’s going to be a lot easier than anyone thought.
    
    Who knew?.
    
    .
    
    “We want to create peace between Israel and the Palestinians. We will get it done,” Trump said. “We will be working so hard to get it done. I think there is a very good chance and I think we will.”
    
    At a lunch later on, he was even bolder: “It is something that I think is frankly, maybe, not as difficult as people have thought over the years.”
    
    https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/05/trump-middle-east-peace-is-not-as-difficult-as-people-have-thought/525267/
    
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    May 4, 2017 4:31pm
    - Brigitte
      
      and next week he’ll say “who knew the Middle East could be so complicated”.
      
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      May 4, 2017 4:44pm
      - SPC
        
        or Kushner will conclude its like herding cats into a pound …
        
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        May 4, 2017 4:47pm
    - mikenmild
      
      I’m becoming convinced that Trump is a performance artist, drawing inspiration from Monty Python:
      
      “Well, next week we’ll be showing you how black and white people can live together in peace and harmony, and Alan will be over in Moscow showing you how to reconcile the Russians and the Chinese. Til then, cheerio.”
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNfGyIW7aHM
      
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      May 4, 2017 4:58pm
- SPC
  
  http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11850277
  
  The deputy PM explains to parliament what Brownlee said (heads up what he should have said).
  
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  May 4, 2017 8:10pm
Lance

Price Philps not dead !

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11850144

He’s just pining for the fiords
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May 4, 2017 4:22pm
- Inandout
  
  The French started the rumour apparently. Bloody frogs.
  
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  May 4, 2017 4:28pm
  - Kimbo
    
    Or the Germans. After all, he is ‘Phil the Greek’ 😉
    
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    May 4, 2017 4:30pm
publicwatchdog

TRANSPARENCY VICTORY!

AUCKLAND TRANSPORT NOW PROVIDE DETAILS OF ALL AWARDED CONTRACTS ON THEIR WEBSITE, INCLUDING CONTRACTS WORTH LESS THAN $50,000!

On 2 May 2017, I requested speaking rights at the upcoming Auckland Transport Board meeting to be held on Tuesday 9 May 2017.

At the time of my request, the details of Auckland Transport awarded contracts worth less than $50,000 were still not available for public scrutiny, and that was going to be one of the key matters which I wanted to raise with the AT Board.

However – I am very pleased to report that the very next day, this matter was sorted, and details of ALL contracts, including those worth less than $50,000 are now available for public scrutiny on the Auckland Transport website:

https://at.govt.nz/media/1972623/nzta-awarded-contracts.pdf

Auckland Transport don’t yet have the same details for ‘sub-contracted’ contracts available for public scrutiny, and in my view, they should, for full transparency, but in saying that, I want to give Auckland Transport credit for ‘leading the way’ regarding transparency with awarded contracts.

in my opinion, there is absolutely NO reason for Auckland Council and all other Auckland Council Controlled Organisations (CCOs) to equally, (albeit belatedly) to provide this same information regarding awarded contracts.

This is PUBLIC money – where EXACTLY is it being spent?

Penny Bright

‘Anti-corruption / anti-privatisation campaigner’.
‘Activists – get things done’ 🙂
__________________________________

2 May 2017

Hi Prebashni,

I am requesting speaking rights at the upcoming Board meeting of Auckland Transport, to be held on Tuesday 9 May 2017.

My subject matter is as follows:

1) https://at.govt.nz/about-us/procurement/awarded-contracts/
Information about awarded contracts valued at less than $50,000 is still not (yet) available for public scrutiny on Auckland Transport’s website.

When will this information be made available?

Please be reminded of the need for Auckland Transport to fully comply with the Public Records Act 2005, particularly section 17:

http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2005/0040/latest/DLM345729.html

17Requirement to create and maintain records

(1) Every publi office and local authority must create and maintain full and accurate records of its affairs, in accordance with normal, prudent business practice, including the records of any matter that is contracted out to an independent contractor.
____________________________________________________________

2) When is Auckland Transport going to review the ‘collaborative model’ regarding the relationship between ‘public officials’ and private contractors, given that it is the ‘collaborative model’ apparently initiated by now incarcerated former AT senior ‘public official’ Murray John Noone, that effectively helped to ‘breed’ corrupt conflicts of interest

3) Are any ‘public officials’ employed by Auckland Transport, simultaneously able to be private consultants?

4) Will Auckland Transport reconsider making available for public scrutiny details of public subsidies being received by private passenger transport operators engaged by Auckland Transport?
If not – why not?

Kind regards,

Penny Bright

‘Anti-corruption / anti-privatisation Public Watchdog’.
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May 4, 2017 4:42pm
- Longknives
  
  I don’t think anyone’s listening Penny…
  
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  May 4, 2017 4:54pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Oh for fuck’s sake, the lunatic’s back.
  
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  May 4, 2017 8:32pm
stigie

“This is PUBLIC money – where EXACTLY is it being spent?”

Why the fuck should it worry you Penny, you only get a say when you’ve paid the Auckland Council in full on your well overdue rates !~
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May 4, 2017 4:56pm
- dad4justice
  
  Penny thinks she will be subject to a horrific ratedate with a raghead muslim rapist if she pays.
  
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  May 4, 2017 5:05pm
  - mikenmild
    
    What’s a ‘ratedate’? Is it some special kind of meeting in Hagley Park? Asking for a friend.
    
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    May 4, 2017 5:10pm
stigie

In the south west corner of Hagley Park, the dates are rated on who gives best head Milky..?
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May 4, 2017 5:14pm
- mikenmild
  
  And you know this how?
  
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  May 4, 2017 5:19pm
  - stigie
    
    You just have to ask one of those transgender coppers that patrol the area and beyond !~
    
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    May 4, 2017 5:28pm
- thedavincimode
  
  Possibly stigie. But dad4derangement has alluded to a somewhat unfortunate fetish at 4:16 pm:
  
  dad4justice
  
  Hope she drops a big steaming turd on top of mount egmont.
  
  It’s not just the nightlife at Hagley that needs to be concerned.
  
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  May 4, 2017 5:19pm
  - dad4justice
    
    Got a job yet Jason?
    
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    May 4, 2017 5:21pm
    - thedavincimode
      
      Since you’ve got your head up redbladder’s arse dad, why don’t you ask him for some new material? His old stuff is way past its use by date.
      
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      May 4, 2017 5:24pm
      - dad4justice
        
        Got a JOB yet Jason? haha loser
        
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        May 4, 2017 6:36pm
  - nasska
    
    Oh dear! After the glory holes & goat sex Christchurch may be treated to the aftermath of a scat fetish.
    
    Will the depravity never cease?
    
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    May 4, 2017 5:37pm
    - Kea
      
      nasska, with Auckland infrastructure overloaded I think it is time Christchurch experienced cultural enrichment. Property prices there have actually fallen due to an over supply of housing.
      
      Plenty of room for Muslim refugees and Dad can even help out at the Muslim resettlement center as part of his Community Work sentence. 🙂
      
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      May 4, 2017 5:46pm
      - stigie
        
        Redbaiter was right, you’re all spineless jellfish, why do i bother ?//
        
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        May 4, 2017 5:55pm
      - thedavincimode
        
        stigie, you’re wasting your time. dad will already have headed off to Hagley for dinner and desert.
        
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        May 4, 2017 5:58pm
      - Rachael Membery
        
        And there are apparently plenty of prostitutes.
        
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        May 4, 2017 6:59pm
dad4justice

May the force be with you.
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May 4, 2017 5:19pm
Kea

Why is the Auckland Council continuing to supply water and sewage service to Penny Bright’s house, at the expense of ratepayers ?

➡ I demand an enquiry and some transparency.

I also would like to know why the full measures available to the council to enforce payment of rates have not been properly utilised by the council ?
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May 4, 2017 5:22pm
Kea

dad4justice

The only thing that maori can read is KFC and DB shops.

Perhaps they lack the benefit of your educational attainments we see evidenced here in your eloquently constructed comments ?

“Do you have murtle rust in your head stiffyboy?,…fuck this culturally sensitive crap!, Hope she drops a big steaming turd on top of mount egmont. Who gives a fuck
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May 4, 2017 5:39pm
- dad4justice
  
  Kea go stuff yourself with a rotten turnip you sickly. insipid cowardly freak. This blog is better when you are banned. Cowards like you and your downticker aids infested mates make me ashamed to be a kiwi.
  
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  May 4, 2017 6:39pm
  - Kea
    
    Dad be careful you don’t breach your release conditions. Again. 🙂
    
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    May 4, 2017 6:41pm
    - thedavincimode
      
      Go easy on him. Something seems to have left him with a bad taste in his mouth.
      
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      May 4, 2017 7:36pm
      - dad4justice
        
        Haha Jason have you got over that bad taste after being sacked from the National party?
        
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        May 4, 2017 7:46pm
      - VicParking
        
        Been to Hagley park again no doubt
        
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        May 4, 2017 9:07pm
Brigitte

NZ MUSIC MONTH

From 1990, Josephine by The Greg Johnson Set:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxJqEBEG4zM
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May 4, 2017 6:11pm
wiseowl

On 3 News they had a report about a new fungal infection that may have reached NZand could be a significant problem for the country.
Tell me if I’m wrong but Nathan Guy when interviewed appeared to have a silly smile on his face and when they went back to the reporter she also seemed to be smiling.
A serious situation treated like a joke , or not?
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May 4, 2017 6:32pm
- mikenmild
  
  I’m pretty sure that Nathan Guy had a surgical procedure so that he can only smile, but I don’t know what the reporter’s excuse could be.
  
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  May 4, 2017 6:48pm
  - nasska
    
    If you can recall the surgeons name you may want to pass it on to the leader of Her Majesty’s loyal opposition. 🙂
    
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    May 4, 2017 7:08pm
- Stars And Stripes
  
  That smile on both their faces your talking about was probably one of those” ah so that’s what that bloody itch is” kind of moments.
  
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  May 4, 2017 7:11pm
  - nasska
    
    Shades of the Suva Disease, Vietnam Rose & Hongkong Dong S&S?
    
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    May 4, 2017 7:15pm
Kea

Stuffed propaganda has published these absurd graphs to try and hide the reality of immigration.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/92217629/where-have-new-zealands-migrants-come-from-in-the-last-four-decades
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May 4, 2017 7:14pm
- Stars And Stripes
  
  You are not supposed to be able to understand them.
  Just enjoy the colours!.
  
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  May 4, 2017 7:20pm
- VicParking
  
  Agree. They are just modern art.
  
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  May 4, 2017 9:10pm
nasska

Kea

In your 6.41pm you mention Dad’s release conditions. Without risking your anonymity could you give us a rundown on what they might be? 🙂
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May 4, 2017 7:36pm
- dad4justice
  
  Really pathetic Kea do you know who I work for you cowardly creep? Oh your downtick appeases your jellyfish personality. Unlike you I am not into tics.
  
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  May 4, 2017 7:50pm
  - mikenmild
    
    ‘I work for you’
    Poor bastard.
    
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    May 4, 2017 7:52pm
    - dad4justice
      
      Oh mikeyloon is Kea in room 3 beside Jason and Hillbilly and his cow friend in room 5 ? I bet Norma is happy the Bates Motel is fill of mentally deranged jellyfish. Is bigot blouse happy being toilet boy? So easy to destroy internets cowards.
      
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      May 4, 2017 7:59pm
      - mikenmild
        
        That’s a lot of imaginary friends you have.
        
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        May 4, 2017 8:28pm
      - dad4justice
        
        Whatever Son of Norma.
        
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        May 4, 2017 8:36pm
  - Kea
    
    Really pathetic Kea do you know who I work for you cowardly creep?
    
    Dad, although worthwhile, the Basic Life Skills course, MSD makes you attend, does not count as employment.
    
    Nor does your court ordered Community Work sentence, with directions to attend Anger Management.
    
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    May 4, 2017 8:49pm
    - dad4justice
      
      Kea you are disgrace to every blogger in New Zealand. Your cowardly pus stain smears attest to your lack of personality. Do us all a favour and take the king hit pill. You are just another big bruv identity. Oh gawd how many is that now 12 or 13? You are the blogger equivalent of didymo.
      
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      May 4, 2017 8:51pm
      - Kea
        
        Dad, thanks for taking time out, from viewing objectionable images [“Hope she drops a big steaming turd”], to share your thoughts with us.
        
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        May 4, 2017 9:16pm
      - dad4justice
        
        Kea debating with jellyfish is futile. Grow a backbone you silly girl. Goodbye don’t forget that pill dear.
        
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        May 4, 2017 9:20pm
nasska

…..”do you know who I work for”…..

You haven’t left the shoe shop have you Dad? 🙂
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May 4, 2017 7:57pm
- Kea
  
  Its part of Parole conditions that he attends work experience as directed. They do not allow him front of house dealing with customers !. He must stay in either the back alley, by the rubbish skip, or in the warehouse reject bin.
  
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  May 4, 2017 9:21pm
  - dad4justice
    
    Haha you and big bruv have the same hatred and writing style. Say no more lol. What a deranged individual soon to be exposed lol.
    
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    May 4, 2017 9:25pm
    - Kea
      
      Are you inviting me to expose myself now dad ?
      
      dad4justice
      
      “Hope she drops a big steaming turd”
      
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      May 4, 2017 9:30pm
Captain Mainwaring

Christ it’s only 8:38 and this place has already descended into what can only be described as a Bangladeshi cesspit.
And yes, I did see a picture of that poor guy trying to unblock the sewer in Dhaka.
dad4j and Kea are obviously into a battle about who can be kicked off here first.
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- dad4justice
  
  Oh poor Captain maybe you should change rest homes and increase medication you self appointed nobody?
  
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  May 4, 2017 8:42pm
stigie

So kea is big bruv now along 10 or 11 other identities that are big bruv…….?
Im fucking confused Dad, i think i need a lie down ?
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May 4, 2017 9:35pm
- Kea
  
  Its a KB thing that anyone with ideas that do not align with the prevailing prejudice must all be one and the same person.
  
  They must think the entire world is made of hypocrites and moral cripples like themselves.
  
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  May 4, 2017 9:42pm
Shaun the Sheep

So every news outlet in the world has gathered at Buck House to cover a major announcement that Phil will retire … in August.

So who was the man on the roof?
and
Was this a fire drill?
and
No cats up trees today?
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May 4, 2017 10:00pm
- Kea
  
  Raising the retiring age to 96 should fix the super problem.
  
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  May 4, 2017 10:06pm
Manolo

More lies about my hero, says KB’s resident multiculturalist:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4470040/Obama-s-sex-drugs-past-laid-bare-new-biography.html
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May 5, 2017 12:22am
Rachael Membery

I bet there were more than 90 lol bless him.
There needs to be less not more pc, good of Philip to show us the light, he is very droll and quick isn’t he.
God they must get sick of obsequious individuals.

Long live the Queen
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10729284
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May 5, 2017 5:41am
Manolo

President Trump will say hello to stephieboy’s mates:
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/04/trump-to-visit-israel-the-vatican-and-saudi-arabia-on-first-foreign-trip-as-president-237976

President Donald Trump will travel to Saudi Arabia, followed by Israel and the Vatican, in his first foreign trip later this month. The Vatican visit will include a meeting with the Pope, according to a senior administration official.
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May 5, 2017 5:51am
- mikenmild
  
  Perhaps the Saudis will be able to give him some advice on his administration’s progress in advancing women’s rights.
  It’s been reported this week that he is placing a woman who doesn’t believe birth control works in charge of the health department’s population affairs division. That sort of thinking would surely appeal to his Saudi hosts.
  
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  May 5, 2017 6:46am
  - Rachael Membery
    
    and the Pope wouldn’t be a birth control fan either, or has that changed.
    Perhaps the Pope needs to pronounce an edict to the faithful to go out and multiply to counteract the hoardes instead of preaching peace and love for Muslims?
    
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