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duggledog

Heather du Plessis Allan writes in today’s Herald: ‘Give Te Reo A Chance To Survive!’

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11850635

Give it a chance?

Does anybody want to make an estimate of how many hundreds of millions of dollars taxpayers have spent on Maori language over the years?

I do recall DPF telling us it would be cheaper to giver every Maori TV viewer a new car every two years than continue funding the channel.

Just like child neglect and the high Maori incarceration rates, continuation of the Reo is up to Maori
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May 7, 2017 8:07am
- Longknives
  
  Lizzie ‘I once sang at an All Black game’ Marvelly said in yesterday’s Herald that if you can’t pronounce Maori names correctly you are ‘racist’, ‘ignorant’, and ‘bigoted’…
  I really, really hope the Herald goes under.
  
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  May 7, 2017 8:30am
  - Rachael Membery
    
    Will the English language stop being bastardised then?
    
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    May 7, 2017 8:55am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    She needs to have a chat to Willie Jackson and the teletubby in that case.
    
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    May 7, 2017 8:56am
  - DifferentPerspective
    
    Well! Once again the infinitely irrelevant Ms Marvelly demonstrates the shallowness of her intellect by resorting to name-calling at the earliest opportunity.
    
    For someone so young who so desperately wants to be seen as a spokesperson of today she employs yesterdays Leftist tools. For a start, she courts old media. She reaches for the failed weapons of old socialists like HC and Hillary in insulting anyone who doesn’t subscribe to her viewpoint. Surely it’s only a matter of time before she adds “Deplorable” to her limited, but vitriolic vocabulary.
    
    Plus, I gotta say, how unfeminist is it of her to bimbify herself all over the show in endless Kardashianesque poses.
    
    Surely, it’s only a matter of time before we see her prostituting herself like all those never-had-been media wannabes to the Green party.
    
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    May 7, 2017 8:57am
    - VicParking
      
      Marvelly who
      Only 6.5% of the population can read Maori to any great extent even though its Phonetic. Even with this evidence the census next year will be 50% in Maori, signs everywhere are in Maori and every English named geographical feature will sooner or later be renamed into Maori. Even streets in Wellington, sorry Te Whanga-nui-a-Tara, which did not exist before the europeans arrived are being renamed to Maori. The Government and Local Authorities are troughing $$$$$ into this.
      Its ironic that maori for “trough” is “waka”
      
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      May 7, 2017 9:22am
      - cmm
        
        “Only 6.5% of the population can read Maori ”
        
        That number would be zero% if the Evil White people had not invented the written form of the Maori language.
        
        I think we’ve more than done our part as a nation. If Maori really want Te Reo then it is up to them to them to actually make use of it.
        
        But, hey, it is just another sticker on that big red White Guilt button that you can push any time you want and money falls out.
        
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        May 7, 2017 9:38am
      - tf78
        
        What about “Waitangi” – doesn’t that literally mean water and mourning/crying – why is it called such a name as I thought the water was so sacred to them and yet it mourns, or is it because lives were taken by it during their ocean crossings. I would be very greatful if someone could explain that to me.
        
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        May 7, 2017 11:44am
      - KevOB
        
        The language is primitive. The, then, elders rejected it as a way forward in the 1930’s. With few actual root words it is hard to extend and English grammar constructions are frequently heard on Maori news. That has happened elsewhere in Polynesia. It is best recognised that its time has past. No amount of transliterated loan words is going to yield other than
        a bastard unfit for purpose in a modern world. As for requiring children to learn it that is a waste of effort and resources. They are going to have to learn and live in in English speaking world. That is part of the nature of time elapsing.
        
        We cannot be obliged to maintain under any arrangements what Maori foresaw as inadequate for their future. We have passed the rural warrior societies of the 1830’s where the language sufficed. Even English races along with the new technical expanding world. It has proven adaptability and flexibility. Polynesian may well morph into a dialect.
        
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        May 7, 2017 12:49pm
    - SGA
      
      … shallowness of her intellect by resorting to name-calling … reaches for the failed weapons old socialists like HC and Hillary in insulting anyone who doesn’t subscribe to her viewpoint
      
      For heavens sake, the right, centre, and left are much more alike than different in this regard. Kiwiblog is littered with name calling (e.g., Kenyans, Messiahs, Angry Little) and insults about people’s physical characteristics (e.g., Arden’s teeth, Turei’s (sp?) weight) or mental capacity, and so on. I find your comment rather “holier-than-thou”
      
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      May 7, 2017 9:35am
      - artemisia
        
        There’s a difference between posters on a blog and a paid ‘journalist’ in the MSM.
        
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        May 7, 2017 12:00pm
      - SGA
        
        Perhaps, but on the other hand, there’s a number of Trump fan boys here who revel in his insults and name calling 🙂
        
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        May 7, 2017 12:28pm
    - Rachael Membery
      
      Could the Kardashians sue? It being -esque and all?
      
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      May 7, 2017 11:09am
  - Inandout
    
    Oh it will go under, because just as Sky has found, if you feed customers what you want, rather than what they want, you are doomed. By the time the Herald realises that a large chunk of their subscribers’ beliefs are completely at odds with the leftist propaganda they push, it will be too late. Contributors such as HDPA will be left scrounging around local give away papers for an outlet.
    
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    May 7, 2017 9:04am
    - GazzaW
      
      Echo the ‘envy politics’ hit job on John Key this morning along with a badly photo-shopped pic proclaiming his purchase of a brand new $350k Bentley. It’s high time that you told your staff, Shayne Currey, that John Key and his family are no longer public property .
      
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      May 7, 2017 10:06am
      - Happychappy
        
        They cry wolf when Winston let’s a Racial nasty comment go on two of NZ’s ethnic Journalists but have no hesitation in intruding on other peoples private activity.
        
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        May 7, 2017 10:23am
      - ztev
        
        You have it wrong. he may not have to answer to the public at large, but hes still news.
        Do you not know about the legions of celebs who arent elected Mps either
        
        Im thinking the Bentley was a contra deal with Giltrap Motors, he just gets to use it.
        Key doesnt seem to be that sort of guy with a ‘flash motor’ out of his own money
        
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        May 7, 2017 11:44am
    - ztev
      
      Did you not read the ComCom report which said the medias group readership number are still very high.
      What they have lost is the pages and pages of classified type ads which have gone online for obvious reasons.
      
      I read a story the other day about The Nelson Mail, it takes 22 people to run it , including printing. They have an emphasis on the local reporting of course so need local reporters , which serves local advertisers too.
      
      So you are entirely wrong about the large print based media groups ‘losing customers’
      
      Even the Oily Orca needs more than a few ads to make money for his backyard operation, hes indroduced a so called subscription- for what ?
      
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      May 7, 2017 11:03am
      - Happychappy
        
        Aren’t they also Nicky Hagar books of lies Publisher.
        
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        May 7, 2017 11:59am
      - Liberty
        
        “I read a story the other day about The Nelson Mail, it takes 22 people to run it”
        Does that number include the delivery boys?
        The paper has lost it way.
        They out sauce the advertising layouts. Editorial consist of some lefty having a cry of the week.
        or the civil rights of the city bum.
        
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        May 7, 2017 1:30pm
  - Jack5
    
    Don’t be so hard on the Hooerald and ~~Marble-less Nelly~~ Marvelly.
    
    I bet our Auckland Kiwiblog readers can tell us the newspaper’s printing a daily edition in the Maori language.
    
    And that its fellow members of the NZME stable, the radio stations such as Newstalk ZB, have whole days, and otherwise whole hours each day, where they broadcast just in Maori.
    
    I checked the web site of ~~Marble-less Nelly~~ Lizzie Marvelly (Elizabeth Lillian Marvelly). Strangely, I couldn’t find any articles there written in Maori, as opposed to being about Maori. Racist hackers must have obliterated them. Shame!
    
    I wonder if Mz Marvelly and the Hooerald would consider printing her Hooerald column in Maori?
    
    The absence of her work in Maori is despite Mz Marvelly’s statement in a newspaper interview that Howard Morrison was one of her relatives.
    
    Mz Marvelly’s web site:
    
    http://www.villainesse.com/
    
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    May 7, 2017 10:35am
  - Kiwi Dave
    
    To be fair to Ms Marvelly, the naive language assumptions (there is only one correct pronunciation of any given word and that is the original which can never change) underpinning her judgements are quite popular and often lead to moralising about those who speak ‘incorrectly’, rather than to any acknowledgement that different groups of people speak differently.
    
    One possible difference and perhaps a source of modified pronunciation of Maori words in English sentences, is that English is a stress-timed language but Maori, to my ear is syllable-timed, and the two timings often don’t mix well.
    
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    May 7, 2017 1:58pm
    - Jack5
      
      After reading Kiwi Dave’s post I was able to learn what stress-timed languages are from the short video on Youtube linked to below.
      
      After this, Wikipedia provided a more detailed explanation of stress-timed languages which seem to include Arabic, Persian, Portuguese, and Russian, as well as English and its cousins such as German, Dutch, and the Scandinavian languages.
      
      Wikipedia’s label for this rhythm of languages is isochrony.
      
      https://youtu.be/sUMM5eCvi8w
      
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isochrony
      
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      May 7, 2017 2:21pm
  - Biscuit
    
    Longknives, English has a long history of mispronouncing placenames .. or of simply retitling them so as to fit our speech patterns.
    
    Paris springs to mind, rather than Paree…
    Rome for Roma…
    The Hague for Den Hague…
    Moscow instead of Moskva…
    
    I’ve not heard the French, Italians, Dutch or Russians moaning too loudly…
    
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    May 7, 2017 3:18pm
  - Keeping Stock
    
    She’s actually Lizzy “I often take money from those awful sexist, racist rugby people to sing at All Black games but I’m not a hypocrite” Marvelly.
    
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    May 7, 2017 5:34pm
G152

Isn’t there a country that this thing can return to and stop trying to lecture us ?
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May 7, 2017 8:12am
EAD

I watched this last night – an absolutely fascinating documentary detailing the history of white red haired New Zealand tribes, from fleeing wars with blacks in Aryan India to genocides and escape voyages in Easter Island, Peru and Polynesia, the ongoing Marxist engineered historical amnesia of white red haired giant and their New Zealnd settlements dated to 2000BC.

New Zealand Skeletons in the Cupboard Episode 1. The Red Heads

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z6PlYiQSTs

Here is part 2 –Skeletons in the Cupboard. Episode 2. Under The Carpet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-HhfbCk2oU
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May 7, 2017 8:18am
- mikenmild
  
  Perhaps you could give us a precis of the evidence provided, rather than expecting people to watch hours of videos.
  
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  May 7, 2017 8:30am
  - stephieboy
    
    Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
    The Battle of Hattin : Kingdom of Heaven (1187 ) that saw the decisive defeat of the Crusaders by the armies under the mighty Saladin followed later in the same year by the fall of Jerusalem back into Muslim hands ( a siege lasting about a month ) . The Crusaders were never able to regain the initiative and reconquer the Holy lands and the much prized Jerusalem .
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igaDPFrGHV4
    
    Allu Akbar !
    
    Inshallah !
    
    Off to St Albans to celebrate Solemn Mass 9.30am .
    
    Enjoy
    
    Cheers.
    
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    May 7, 2017 8:49am
    - Reid
      
      You mean the one in Dominion Rd stephie?
      
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      May 7, 2017 9:29am
    - Nookin
      
      They did all right last night, Stephieboy — absolutely creamed the Bulls
      
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      May 7, 2017 10:20am
    - stephieboy
      
      Re the Battle of Hattin and its aftermath . 36 downtickers who can’t confront the facts of history and who most likley seek refuge in spurious and fatuous claims about a pre Maori white civilisation and the such like .
      
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      May 7, 2017 1:40pm
  - stephieboy
    
    Evidence like DNA, ( including skeletal remains ) , artefacts , potshards , fire pits , arrow and spear heads , writngs /inscriptions etc, etc )
    
    LOL
    
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    May 7, 2017 8:51am
    - BeeSting
      
      The Mori Ori
      
      Who were Genocided and EATEN
      Left Little DNA Evidence?
      
      There is overwhelming evidence the World
      over that European Peoples have already been
      in many places.
      
      IF YOU GOT OFF YOU DENSE IGNORANT
      
      MARXIST A R SE HOLE
      
      and watched the Video
      
      There are Maori with Blonde hair
      that have had their DNA Tested
      
      ONLY GUN POWDER MADE
      EXPLORATION OF THE PACIFIC POSSIBLE
      
      AND ONLY GUN POWDER HAS KEPT IT
      RELATIVELY CIVILISED
      
      Marxist like You would be removing heads
      and eating YOUR OWN CHILDREN
      
      AGAIN
      
      if people were not here to STOP YOU
      
      GOING BACK TO THE STONE AGE
      
      Is You OBJECTIVE
      
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      May 7, 2017 9:46am
    - BeeSting
      
      One Area that need DNA Testing is Maori Dog
      DNA
      
      There were actually 2 distinct types of
      Native Dogs in NZ
      
      Both now extinct
      
      Which indicates 2 waves of colonisation or migration
      
      1 type of Dog was polynesian did not bark
      they were a food source on voyages
      
      the other was like a pomenerian
      
      How and Why a Dog like that gets to NZ
      I do not know?
      
      ?
      
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      May 7, 2017 10:08am
      - ztev
        
        Thats absurd, all dog breeds are genetically similar. There is no evidence of two breeds of dog in NZ, anyway dogs would have arrived with the ships of europeans so someone has confused the Maori Kura with later european breeds.
        
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        May 7, 2017 11:11am
      - Rachael Membery
        
        The rat seems a more likey subject
        
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        May 7, 2017 11:14am
    - Viking2
      
      The Papamoa flat land is covered in ash from the Rotoiti eruption that took place in the 1400’s.
      Recently during a subdivision construction there was uncovered two grave sites.
      The process is first to trench along the top soil in two directions looking for any subsoil disturbance. If there is none then the scrappers are allowed in to scrape off the top soil once again looking for any soil disturbance which would indicate hangi pits. graves etc.
      In this case therewas notyhing of note so the scrapers were allowed to continue. The removed the Rotiti Ash as its not allowed to be built on and then began on the next layer. To their surprise they uncovered two grave sites. The skeletons were buried in an upright posture but in a fetal position.
      To be there they had to have been buried prior to the 1400 eruption from Rotoiti i.e about 100 years before Maori came to NZ.
      The skeletons were exhumed and removed by the local Iwi and are re-interned at a site on the side of their urapa. The person in charge says “we don’t know if they are ours or not but we treat them as they were.”
      
      There is no attempt to date them which would be a good thing to do especially as its clear they were buried before Maori arrived in the BOP.
      
      True story as my son was the person in charge of the subdivision when this happened in the last year.
      
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      May 7, 2017 2:47pm
      - mikenmild
        
        1400 is not out of the question for early Polynesian settlement.
        I’m not sure what eruption you are talking about though, and how accurately it could be dated.
        
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        May 7, 2017 6:22pm
- BeeSting
  
  You are meant to ignore the overwhelming oral
  records of this and then take seriously all their
  oral records on everything else.
  
  European Peoples or Tribes exist
  in many places like Pakistan – Red Haired mummies in China etc etc
  
  THE GREAT AND MIGHTY
  
  GHENGHIS KHAN
  Is reported to have been a
  RED HEAD
  
  Even Kupe The Great Polynesian Explorer
  who these Morons say never existed but named
  many places in NZ.
  
  By Polynesian Records had Auburn Hair?
  
  Even the Celts of Britain have more
  Egyptian DNA than the Egyptians who
  Don’t Know How those Pyramids came to being
  
  The Scots.Irish take their Name from
  an Egyptian Princess
  
  Europeans Build Civilisation(s)
  others
  
  DESTROY THEM
  The evidence of that can be seen in NZ
  SYRIA Ukraine etc etc etc
  
  Strange How an Egyptian Princess bugs out
  to the British Isle but not really
  
  Ireland Britain and Scotland have structures that
  pre dates they pyramids by thousands of years.
  
  It is now time for STUPID BOY to tell us all
  Civilisation started when some twerp
  CUT HIS DICK OFF
  
  And WE ALL CAME OUT OF AFRICA
  Ha ha ha ha ha ha
  
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  May 7, 2017 9:57am
- BeeSting
  
  Evidence of White People are
  are in many unusual places?
  
  that no one dares to explain?
  
  BEST KEPT SECRETS – PAKISTAN – THE KALASH in the Hindu Kush Mountains
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CURidlXxCPg
  
  White Tribe in Pakistan
  
  Did you know the Pacific’s only Evidence of an
  ALPHABET
  
  the RONGO RONGO Scripts is almost identical
  to another ancient scrip found in the INDUS Valley
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rongorongo
  
  http://www.ancient-wisdom.com/easterislandindusvalley1.htm
  
  THE REAL STUPIDITy is people telling us
  every thing we need to know
  IS ALREADY KNOWN
  
  That is MARXISTs for you
  
  No Further investigations required
  
  LOOK THE OTHER WAY and PREPARE
  for ANOTHER WHITE GENOCIDE
  
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  May 7, 2017 10:19am
  - holysheet
    
    THE REAL STUPIDITy is people telling us
    every thing we need to know
    IS ALREADY KNOWN
    
    Is that like saying the science on global warming is settled?
    
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    May 7, 2017 10:29am
    - stigie
      
      The meds aren’t working this morning !
      
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      May 7, 2017 11:02am
      - BeeSting
        
        SH*T for BRAINS
        
        there were two distinct type of MAORI DOGs
        
        this indicates 2 waves of Colonisation?
        
        I SAID it INDICATES
        
        YOU THICK DENSE ARROGANT
        POORLY READ DICK HEAD
        
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        May 7, 2017 1:51pm
- Rachael Membery
  
  Well worth the watch, thanks
  
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  May 7, 2017 11:12am
- mikenmild
  
  Looks like that load of codswallop has got you a fan in BEESTING, EAD.
  
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  May 7, 2017 12:25pm
  - BeeSting
    
    MILKEN BULL SH*T
    
    YOU ARE MILKING THE BULLSH*T TODAY
    
    CAN YOU READ AND TRANSLATE
    THE RONGORONGO SCRIPT ? FOR US?
    
    DID YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT THEY WERE
    BEFORE THIS CONVERSATION
    
    FOR US ALL CAN YOU
    
    YOU GRADE A BULLSH*T ARTIST
    
    IF YOU CAN NOT SHUT UP AND
    and DO NOT TELL US
    
    THAT THE CURRENT BULLSH*T
    FANTASY STORY
    
    THAT IS THE COLONISATION OF THE PACIFIC
    
    IS TRUE
    
    ASK YOURSELF WHY THE STATUES
    ON EASTER ISLAND HAVE
    RED TOPS?
    
    The Reason they Can’t be translated
    
    IS BECAUSE OF MORONS LIKE YOU
    
    MORONS JUST LIKE YOU GOT
    
    TO EASTER ISLAND FIRST
    
    AND JUST LIKE THE SCUM WHO ATE
    THE CHATHAMS ISLANDERS
    
    YOU ATE OR DESTROYED THE EVIDENCE
    AS SCUM LIKE YOU ALWAYS DO???/
    
    ALL ANYONE IS SAYING IS THERE
    ARE MANY UNANSWERED QUESTIONS
    
    But when it comes to YOU
    THEre ARE NONE
    
    You can hardly PUT TWO SENTENCES
    TOGETHER YOU IGNORANT ARROGANT
    DENSE GORMLESS
    
    CRETIN
    
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    May 7, 2017 1:59pm
    - mikenmild
      
      What is it you are trying to say about the Rongorongo script?
      
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      May 7, 2017 2:32pm
    - GoVege
      
      Fascinating…..anyway.
      
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      May 7, 2017 4:32pm
- Chuck Bird
  
  Very interesting viewing.
  
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  May 7, 2017 3:27pm
Happychappy

I wonder how long it is going to take before the shit really hits the fan in Australian Rugby. You look at whats happen to Australian Cricket over the years when their game wasn’t at its best the knife came out and the new progressed the game so you would think that Rugby in Australia would teetering on revolt and festering for change.
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May 7, 2017 8:47am
- MCos
  
  A couple of points. Cricket is the number one summer sport over there, whereas rugby is way down the pecking order.
  The other thing is that I think they changed their selection policy so that foreign domiciled players are now considered for the Wallabies. Same in South Africa. NZ doesn’t need to do that and hasn’t. The results in the super competition and at international level are now heavily weighted in our favour & deleting a few sides won’t change much.
  
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  May 7, 2017 9:07am
  - GazzaW
    
    The European clubs have gutted Australian and South African rugby and given the opportunity would do the same to us were it not for the very astute sponsorship deals put in place by NZ Rugby. Those sponsorships with the oft maligned AIG, Adidas, Sky and others have saved our national game from going down the same path as Australia and South Africa. RIP Wallabies and ‘boks – it was great while it lasted.
    
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    May 7, 2017 10:18am
- Nookin
  
  It is hard to believe that the Aussies are as bad as the results indicate. There is certainly a complete loss of confidence and errors are creeping in all the time.
  There has been some talk of the Aussieslaying in the NPC to improve their game. I sincerely hope that NZRFU refuses to have a bar of it. At the very least, they should adopt the Malcolm Turnbull approach and make them pay for 100% of the costs. No one will pay to watch them.
  
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  May 7, 2017 9:40am
  - MCos
    
    Let’s not be too smug. Not a lot of people are paying to watch our teams in the NPC.
    I went to watch Auckland play Wellington at Eden Park a couple of seasons ago. There was nobody in the southern stand.
    Even on Friday the Hurricanes played in front of only 16,000 at the cake tin. That’s with the most entertaining player in world rugby at a level he’ll never surpass.
    
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    May 7, 2017 11:10am
duggledog

They found rat bones in NZ that are 2,000 years old.

Rats could only get here with Man as rats are not native to NZ.

The general consensus is that Polynesians made several efforts to colonise New Zealand over a long period of time, but each successive attempt failed and the settlers perished, until the Great Migration.

Polynesians certainly ‘got about’. Kumara, a native plant to the Americas, was found in the highlands of PNG where tribes had had no contact with Europeans. Ergo Polynesians had brought it backwards across the Pacific against the prevailing winds. They knew what they were up to on the sea.
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May 7, 2017 8:55am
- mikenmild
  
  I think the rate DNA evidence has been revisited.
  
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  May 7, 2017 8:56am
  - Swifty
    
    There’s still some mystery about the pukeko I understand.
    
    Of course, there doesn’t appeat to be any solid evidence of anyone living here pre-Maori, i.e. about 1250AD – but I understand that NZ scientists have the largely flightless pukeko arrival dated around 1,000AD, from memory.
    
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    May 7, 2017 9:27am
    - mikenmild
      
      Not known for sure, but Pukeko have been found to have flown as far as the Kermadecs, so flying/being blown from Australia is not impossible.
      
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      May 7, 2017 6:27pm
  - BeeSting
    
    Rate DNA talk to the council
    
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    May 7, 2017 10:05am
  - ztev
    
    “An international team of researchers, led by Dr Janet Wilmshurst from Landcare Research, spent 4 years on a study which shows conclusively that the earliest evidence for human colonisation is about 1280-1300 AD, and no earlier. They based their results on new radiocarbon dating of Pacific rat bones and rat-gnawed seeds. Their results do not support previous radiocarbon dating[2000 yrs] of Pacific rat bones.”
    http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/science/plants-animals-fungi/ecosystems/prehistoric-settlement/human-arrival
    
    That previous research hasnt been replicated
    
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    May 7, 2017 11:15am
- Inandout
  
  If the rats were Norwegian, then we can only speculate that polynesians were her first. As for the ‘great canoes’ has anyone calculated how on earth they carried enough food and water for the voyage on such small craft? Did they meet with supply boats on the way?
  
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  May 7, 2017 9:10am
  - stephieboy
    
    How did Capt Cook and Tasman do the same covering much, much longer distances ?
    
    What is needed is the much decisive evidence of skeletal remains and other hard physical arcahaelogical evidence of mythical pre Maori settlement .
    
    Non exist !
    
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    May 7, 2017 9:18am
    - Inandout
      
      You realise of course that Cook had a ship with ample room for food storage. His vessel also was much speedier.
      
      As for remains, what of the mythical canoes?
      
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      May 7, 2017 9:24am
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        Polynesian voyaging canoes were up to 3x faster than European ships on average – long thin hulls, more efficient sails, better up-wind speed and also paddles in zero wind. They were used for mail services in preference to European sailing ships due to their greater speed.
        
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        May 7, 2017 9:30am
      - cmm
        
        “Polynesian voyaging canoes were up to 3x faster than European ships on average”.
        
        Perhaps. Got a source for that?
        
        Most old sailing ships could do around 100-150km per day (some faster). Could canoes sustain 400-odd km per day on a 3000km or so trip?
        
        Those voyaging canoes were very limited in range and carrying capacity due to their size and use of human power and not sails.
        
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        May 7, 2017 10:19am
      - SGA
        
        Those voyaging canoes were very limited in range and carrying capacity due to their size and use of human power and not sails.
        
        huh?
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canoe_sailing
        
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        May 7, 2017 11:01am
      - ztev
        
        More efficient sails ?
        
        Not so, they couldnt sail against the wind
        
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        May 7, 2017 11:17am
      - cmm
        
        Sure those canoes were big for canoes and could go reasonable distances, but compared to what, say, Cook used they were small and short range.
        
        How many Polynesian canoes have traveled around the world? How many could carry hundreds of tons of cargo?
        
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        May 7, 2017 11:23am
      - SGA
        
        Inandout
        
        As for remains, what of the mythical canoes?
        
        Probably the same place as most sailing ships of 700-800 years ago – rotted away, butchered for parts, or used as firewood.
        
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        May 7, 2017 11:24am
      - cmm
        
        ztev: You are confusing efficiency with effectiveness.
        
        Sails were far more efficient in that you needed to expend less energy to get the same amount of goods the same amount of distance. Cook’s ship had less than 100 people on it of which 80 or so were working the boat. The ship was about 360 tons meaning each person was shifting 4.5 tons or so.
        
        Can’t do that by paddling.
        
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        May 7, 2017 11:36am
      - SGA
        
        How many Polynesian canoes have traveled around the world? How many could carry hundreds of tons of cargo?
        
        No one’s claiming that polynesian canoes have traveled around the world, so I’m not sure what your point is? Would “hundreds of tons of cargo” be necessary for a trip part way across the Pacific? (I’ve no idea, to be honest, but I doubt it).
        
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        May 7, 2017 11:36am
    - BeeSting
      
      If Cooks Methods were So Superior
      he would have arrived here at the Same time
      
      he was 800 odd years behind Kupe
      
      that is a BIT SLOW isn’t it
      
      At Mercury bay they landed 800 yards
      away from each other ironically
      
      Yet 800 years between them
      
      Kupe’s Records describe the Fair Skinned
      Aboriginals who were friendly he left some of his people there are proceeded to circumnavigate
      
      Aotearoa
      
      YOU ASK FOR DNA EVIDENCE
      
      YOU DENSE RETARDS
      
      YOU FAT MIDDLE NZ
      
      NATIONAL SOCIALISTS
      
      THE RACIST WHITE DOG SH*T
      OF KIWI BOG
      
      The DNA Evidence of Polynesian Exploration
      
      IS ALL AROUND YOU YOU PACK
      OF RETARDED FUCK WITS
      
      and you still dispute that
      
      GO VOTE FOR YOUR
      SHEAP SHEARER
      
      BUNCH OF TRAGICs
      
      Next invasion Wave
      
      You lot are going
      INTO THE CHINESE
      COMMUNIST HANGI
      
      Pakeha Stir Fry
      THOSE COMMOS are going to be
      reusing YOUR BODY PARTS
      
      JUST THE BRAINS of you lot
      WILL BE NO USE TO THEM
      
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      May 7, 2017 8:47pm
  - G152
    
    Some would have us believe that the rat (Rattus exulans) (kiore) has been in New Zealand
    some 800-1200 years before Maori settlement.
    This claim is based upon ? 16 ? unrelated sites.
    Had the Rattus exulans been in New Zealand for 800-1200 years previous
    to Maori settlement I’d expect more samples to be available.
    Another claim made upon this ‘evidence’ is the extinction of
    some ground nesting birds pre Maori settlement.
    Extinctions occur without new or introduced predators.
    The predation rates and extinctions -since- the official Maori (and Rattus exulans) arrival
    date are well recorded and bring to mind
    that, had Rattus exulans been present 800-1200 years previously,
    those species would have not survived to Maori settlement
    
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    May 7, 2017 9:19am
    - holysheet
      
      We are seeing an influx of a new species of rat. Rattus whateverstan has been discovered breeding like rabbits in Mt Roskillstan
      
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      May 7, 2017 1:03pm
      - Jack5
        
        Holysheet, are you talking about Rattus stephiestan?
        
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        May 7, 2017 2:26pm
      - holysheet
        
        Yeah there are more than one species there.
        
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        May 7, 2017 2:35pm
  - MCos
    
    There’s whole libraries of books been written about your first question.
    
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    May 7, 2017 9:20am
  - BeeSting
    
    Christ you are AN IGNORANT BASTARD
    
    There are over 200 oral records of Canoe Visits
    to Aotearoa not just the Canoes that the tribes
    take their names off
    
    Polynesians could easily do Voyages of thousands
    of Kilometres
    
    TO NZ and BACK to the ISLANDs
    
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    May 7, 2017 10:03am
    - Jack5
      
      BeeSting – a quibble.
      
      I think you should talk about oral “reports” rather than oral “records”.
      
      The whole concept of oral information, especially when its about events quarter of a millennium and more ago, is controversial.
      
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      May 7, 2017 11:03am
      - BeeSting
        
        There are around 200 read “Canoes of Aotearoa
        there would have been more.
        
        Someone got off their back sided and recorded them all (the remaining oral records)
        
        That is roughly one for every 4 years of Maori Occupation of NZ Aotearoa
        
        The Reason they would have stopped is the risk of
        Tribal Warfare and the reality is you would probably be Eaten upon Arrival
        
        Maori Oral Records are Accurate or as accurate as they can be even when they test their DNA is proved they are ancestors of the groups they claim to be from.
        
        Though Low Tech by todays standard Pacific Navigation Tech were highly effective.
        
        Tupia the Tahitian Priest Cook took with him
        who conversed with Maori.
        
        Knew NZ or Aotearoa was there he also knew
        of about 80 other islands. he drew a map
        based on their system
        
        The only thing that made colonisation and exploration of the pacific possible was
        GUN POWDER
        
        The Raid to Exterminate the Chathams is relevant
        because they were going to try another island
        like “Fiji” look it up
        
        If the Mori Ori were pre Maori or not is irrelevant
        THERE IS LITTLE OF NO DNA left
        of the CHATHAM ISLANDERS
        
        BECAUSE THEY WERE ALL EATEN
        AND SHAT OUT
        
        So IF THERE was Anyone Else
        HERE BEFORE POLYNESIAN Settlement
        
        DO NOT EXPECT TO FIND ANY DNA
        
        because as per POLYNESIAN CUSTOM
        of the time
        
        They would most highly likely have been
        Eaten and Shat out DID YOU GET THAT
        
        Sorry if you do not like that but that is the
        REALITY OF THE PACIFIC
        BEFORE CHRISTIAN COLONISATION
        
        IF you are fair and impartial many
        Maori Came here in the hope of Avoiding
        the Repeat of Continual War
        
        The only thing they succeeded in doing was
        to some extent Ritualise it
        
        There is a Pacifist side to the Culture also?
        
        Look at the History of the Pacific WW2
        
        Downed WW2 pilots were picked up by Polynesians
        and were told though out of site of land
        
        TO PUT THE COMPASS AWAY
        
        We do not need it WE KNOW WHERE WE
        ARE and WHERE WE are Going
        
        Vikings of the Sunrise is a Good Read
        
        Trial of the Cannibal Dog Traces Cooks
        three Voyages into the Pacific
        
        Some of their legends through Fantasy to you
        enshrine important Geographic information
        
        So you can get to Aotearoa and back again
        if you want to.
        
        Which they did on many times.
        
        Sure there are the Canoes that the Tribes
        take their names from.
        
        But there is much more to it than that.
        
        Conflict stopped the Voyaging not the ability
        to or not to Cross Vast Oceans
        
        Anyone who is familiar with NZ can read Kupes
        instructions to Colonise the South West of NZ First
        
        It has the Most Fertile land that is why
        
        Wakes like the Tainui came through Auckland
        Were pulled apart Hauled through to the Manuka Harbour
        
        “The One Step Chant/Karakia prayer in the Haka”
        
        is the chant they apparently used when they hauled it
        
        The put is back together went out the Manukau Heads down to the Taranaki
        
        The Stones that mark its final resting place are there you can visit it
        
        These were massive twin Hulled Voyaging Canoes
        that were blue Water Capable.
        
        If you don’t know all of this I kind of feel sorry for you
        
        It is an incredible story and is the stories of the birth of our Nation
        
        YOU HAVE THE DNA EVIDENCE ALL AROUND YOU – AND EVIDENCE OF DNA BEING DESTROYED
        
        BUT LIKE MORONS you are you will DISPUTE THAT AS WELL
        
        There is one Maori with Blondish hair who did
        have a DNA test
        
        But GOD HELP anyone WHO QUESTIONS
        the Narrative
        
        or Your Myopic View of History
        and what people even in your eyes
        Primitive People are capable of
        
        NICE CHATTING BUT YOU CAN NOT HAVE
        AN INTELLIGENT CONVERSATION
        
        WITH IGNORANT BIGOTED
        
        MORONS
        
        have a nice day
        
        KMA
        
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        May 7, 2017 3:02pm
    - ztev
      
      genetic evidence is that they didnt go back to the islands.
      Theres a reason why they lost the long distance navigation skills, they couldnt go back.
      
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      May 7, 2017 11:21am
  - Jack5
    
    Inandout asked at 9.19:
    
    … has anyone calculated how on earth they carried enough food and water for the voyage on such small craft? Did they meet with supply boats on the way?
    
    The food question is obvious. When they got hungry they ate one of the crew – probably starting with any redhead.
    
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    May 7, 2017 11:01am
- G152
  
  The ancient ‘rat’ claim was refuted years ago.
  Polynesians settled Rapa Nui and New Zealand at the same time about 11-1200 AD
  
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  May 7, 2017 9:17am
  - Liberty
    
    More like 1300 including the rat.
    
    http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/opinion/perspective/3964223/New-light-shed-on-origins-of-Maori
    
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    May 7, 2017 10:17am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Here is the latest research on the “old” rat bones
  http://www.pnas.org/content/105/22/7676.full
  
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  May 7, 2017 9:44am
  - Jack5
    
    Maggy that puts the Maori colonisation of NZ at 1280 AD.
    
    About the time Marco Polo was travelling in Asia, Chartres Cathedral was consecrated, and half a century after the barons forced King John to sign Magna Carta.
    
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    May 7, 2017 11:11am
- BeeSting
  
  The NZ Bottle Gourd has DNA that apparently
  matches DNA of a species in Kentucky?
  
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  May 7, 2017 9:59am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Gourds float… the little buggas have been sailing across the oceans for millenia
    http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/02/scientists-solve-mystery-world-traveling-plant
    
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    May 7, 2017 11:13am
    - BeeSting
      
      Did not say how it got there did I well done
      
      How Many Canoe Visits to Aotearoa
      do the Maori have in their Oral Records?
      
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      May 7, 2017 2:33pm
      - Jack5
        
        There you go again, BeeSting – “oral records“.
        
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        May 7, 2017 2:38pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @BeeSting
        
        How Many Canoe Visits to Aotearoa
        do the Maori have in their Oral Records?
        
        Well, what do you mean by the Maori?
        
        As far as I know different groups/populations/tribes have different oral traditions of their origins.
        http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/canoe-traditions/page-2
        
        AFAIK (according to my Tuhoe source) some folks don’t even have a canoe tradition…. They come from the mist of Te Urewera.
        
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        May 7, 2017 7:43pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  duggledog, how do you know the Polynesians brought kumara from South America to PNG? Didn’t you know that the Chinese were touring those parts of the world in the 1300s?
  Including NZ.
  
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  May 7, 2017 12:01pm
  - mikenmild
    
    There is no evidence of Chinese navigators visiting New Zealand in the 1300s or 1400s.
    
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    May 7, 2017 12:30pm
    - holysheet
      
      No because it doesn’t fit the narrative of new maori history.
      
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      May 7, 2017 1:07pm
      - stephieboy
        
        holyturd , no because there is simply no archaelogical or maritime evidence they did so.
        
        DUH !
        
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        May 7, 2017 1:43pm
      - Liberty
        
        Do you mean the history dreamt up by some academic in the 70s
        That a large happy family arrived many moons ago.
        They all lived and idyllic lifestyle . Spreading love and kindness.
        
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        May 7, 2017 1:50pm
      - mikenmild
        
        What ‘new’ Maori history?
        
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        May 7, 2017 2:34pm
      - holysheet
        
        What ‘new’ Maori history?
        
        Anything that’s been written down since the white man came here. Anything else is just sky fairy stuff.
        
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        May 7, 2017 3:38pm
      - mikenmild
        
        So, as no New Zealand history was written before the Europeans arrived, all New Zealand history is ‘sky fairy stuff’?
        
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        May 7, 2017 4:08pm
      - holysheet
        
        Yep it cannot be anything else.
        If it is not a written history, everything else is just someones opinion that can be change at any time to fit the narrative one is trying to give.
        
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        May 7, 2017 4:29pm
      - mikenmild
        
        Oh, I see what you are on about now. By ‘new’ Maori history, you mean reliance upon oral traditions.
        Luckily, our knowledge of New Zealand history and prehistory does not depend on that.
        
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        May 7, 2017 5:39pm
      - holysheet
        
        Anything not written down can be classed as “fake history”
        
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        May 7, 2017 6:26pm
      - mikenmild
        
        When you referred to ‘new’ history I thought you might be talking about the present historical view of the settlement of New Zealand.
        Now I see you are not lending credence to EAD’s bullshit.
        
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        May 7, 2017 6:38pm
      - holysheet
        
        Who me?
        Never
        
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        May 7, 2017 7:15pm
  - BeeSting
    
    The Real Chinese Invasion Fleet is not Ready
    those Stories Come Later
    
    Next War in the Pacific is between 2025-2035
    Be Patient
    
    Thanks to Rewi Alley Helen Clark
    David Lange
    
    They are coming they are just a bit late
    
    Be Patient
    
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    May 7, 2017 2:31pm
    - mikenmild
      
      Don’t forget to mention Mao Zedong’s cloak.
      
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      May 7, 2017 2:35pm
dad4justice

We can relate as life under Helengrad was a disaster for children.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10306/childless-europe
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May 7, 2017 9:17am
- stephieboy
  
  Gatestone Institute and the disaster of childless leaders ?
  
  Garbage !
  
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  May 7, 2017 9:19am
  - Inandout
    
    Hitler was childless.
    
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    May 7, 2017 9:26am
    - Reid
      
      Was he.
      
      http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2017/03/angela-merkel-is-the-daughter-of-hitler-hitler-is-a-rothschild-3491103.html
      
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      May 7, 2017 9:34am
      - SGA
        
        A website page called “angela-merkel-is-the-daughter-of-hitler-…”
        Angela Merkel was born in 1954, so either it’s satire or a very twisting tale …
        
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        May 7, 2017 9:52am
      - Swifty
        
        Hitler’s sperm was frozen, apparently.
        
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        May 7, 2017 10:09am
      - KevinH
        
        Hitler was reputed as to having only one testicle, his left nut having been blown off when he was injured in WW1.
        Speculation was that he was obsessed with fathering children but never did, however with the assistance of the mad doctor Josef Mengele, Hitler may have found a way to sire children.
        
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        May 7, 2017 10:46am
      - SGA
        
        According to “The Boys from Brazil”, it was cloning (so they’d all be male) 🙂 🙂
        
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        May 7, 2017 10:53am
      - stephieboy
        
        Reid , BS !
        
        Says it all !
        
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        May 7, 2017 11:57am
    - Jack5
      
      Hitler may have had a son in France, from his time there as a soldier in World War 1.
      
      http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/9088865/Hitler-had-son-with-French-teen.html
      
      https://www.seeker.com/proof-that-hitler-had-an-illegitimate-son-1765656434.html
      
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      May 7, 2017 11:20am
      - ztev
        
        Join the queue behind the possibility Prince Charles has an illegitimate son- black of course.
        
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        May 7, 2017 11:24am
      - Jack5
        
        Ztev – did you read the report in the Telegraph?
        
        The evidence reported in that article looks to be reasonably substantial.
        
        It might be worth exhuming the alleged son’s body for a DNA check and comparing with DNA of Hitler’s known relatives (whose tests have already indicated Hitler was likely part-Jewish).
        
        http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-two/7961211/Hitler-had-Jewish-and-African-roots-DNA-tests-show.html
        
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        May 7, 2017 11:55am
      - ztev
        
        I dont think “Adi” was the womanising kind. he certainly wasnt later as Fuhrer
        
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        May 7, 2017 12:05pm
      - Jack5
        
        Ztev, that seems to be the conclusion of the Wikipedia section on Hitler’s sexual activity, or lack of it.
        
        If the Wikipedia piece is correct, should the conclusion be that, had Unity Mitford succeeded in seducing Hitler and then fucked him round the clock so thoroughly he couldn’t raise his arm in the Nazi salute, there would have been no World War 2, no concentration camps, no genocide?
        
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        May 7, 2017 2:02pm
    - stephieboy
      
      Inandout,
      
      Stalin was not . Your point ?
      
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      May 7, 2017 11:55am
3-coil

Is it true that NZ Rugby League are lobbying WADA to have cocaine removed from the list of banned performance enhancing drugs? (using their numpties’ over-promise but under-performance record as evidence).
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May 7, 2017 9:31am
- MCos
  
  Maybe they underperformed, but calling them numpties to their face still might not be a good move.
  
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  May 7, 2017 11:37am
Viking2

Having just watched Q+A it is glaringly obvious that The renewed Labour Party will consist of many Maori.
The clearly espoused plan is to have as many Maori in Parliament as possible and thus control NZ with the assistance of Maori from other parties.

Vote Labour get Maori.
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May 7, 2017 9:50am
- GazzaW
  
  Vote Labour and you’ll not only get Maori but also the Greens and Winston First. Labour will be in the minority.
  
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  May 7, 2017 10:25am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    New Zealand First:
    
    Leader: Winston Peters (Ngāti Wai and Scottish descent)
    Deputy Leader: Ron Mark (Whakotohea, Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Kahungunu and Ngai Tahu)
    
    You could argue the the leadership of NZF is far more likely to represent Māori interests than the leadership of the Labour Party will 😎
    
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    May 7, 2017 5:56pm
- kowtow
  
  Voted National , got Maori.
  
  Why do you think fags are so expensive and dairy robberies have taken off?
  
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  May 7, 2017 2:30pm
- GoVege
  
  Ordinary Maori are OK.
  Its the racist Maori elite in The Maori Party who are a problem….the ones who believe gangs are “just whanau” and want to claim all our beaches.
  
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  May 7, 2017 3:20pm
- Keeping Stock
  
  Considering that the highest placed Maori on Labour’s list is at #15 Viking, the simple way yo avoid that is to NOT vote Labour, kill their party vote, and none of the buggers will get in.
  
  Then again, you could always vote for Winston First, where both the leader and deputy leader are Maori when it suits them, and not Maori when it doesn’t suit them.
  
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  May 7, 2017 5:49pm
tvb

Rugby League is full of drugs. The naming and shaming of the captain is the tip of the iceberg. Where he goes others follow.
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May 7, 2017 9:52am
- Southern Raider
  
  It’s not the drugs that is the problem. It’s the expectation you can go out and party when you have nothing to celebrate that’s the problem.
  
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  May 7, 2017 10:03am
Southern Raider

Great concept for a new national stadium in Auckland

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11850217
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May 7, 2017 9:56am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  TV sports and particularly rugby viewership is falling rapidly. People are far less interested in sports than in previous eras due to greater range of activities available through internet. Stadium sports also have falling school participation rates (even as population increases). We don’t need huge expensive new Mausoleums (stadiums) to a passing age.
  
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  May 7, 2017 11:08am
  - ztev
    
    Crazy idea. Auckland has too many stadiums now, they cant exist when a super duper new stadium steals all the business.
    
    Even Duco couldnt fill Vector Arena with a ‘World Title Fight’, which has me thinking about how quickly they were able to transfer to the 2000 seat place at Wiri…. lucky for them Fury wasnt feeling the best, otherwise they would have lost big time…. very lucky…
    
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    May 7, 2017 11:29am
    - Southern Raider
      
      Dick
      
      Intention is to have one and close the rest.
      
      Only in Labour land would you think building a brand new one and then keeping the others open was a sensible idea
      
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      May 7, 2017 11:33am
      - ztev
        
        Close them ? So all the money spent goes down the drain ?
        This labour supporter, like many others, doesnt want any more stadiums period.
        
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        May 7, 2017 11:53am
      - holysheet
        
        Better get on the hotline to goofy then ztev. He has said Auckland needs a new stadium.
        
        http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2017/03/phil-goff-we-ll-need-new-auckland-stadium-eventually.html
        
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        May 7, 2017 1:12pm
  - Southern Raider
    
    Correct for code specific stadiums but this wouldn’t be the case.
    
    The stadium would cater for union, football and league so you could have multiple events per week. It also would get bigger walk up crowds from growing CBD population for after work games. Easier to access from a transport perspective. Would form an entertainment precinct.
    
    And most importantly would be used to host concerts which you can’t tell me is a falling market after 120,000 people went to see Adele in a shit stadium in a shit location
    
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    May 7, 2017 11:37am
    - ztev
      
      Whats wrong with Mt Smart , it has seats, it has a playing field. ITS PAID FOR !
      As sure as I draw breath the Council isnt going to pay for a new one.
      
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      May 7, 2017 11:57am
      - fernglas
        
        Why doesn’t Sky just build a large studio with space for all types of sport, with a huge green screen background so they can project fake crowds and sell it to us to watch on the telly?
        
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        May 7, 2017 1:08pm
      - KevinH
        
        There are plans afoot to convert Aucklands speedway track at Western Springs into a purpose built cricket stadium at a cost of $70 mil.
        Presently Eden Park #2 ground is home to Auckland cricket but is severly limited with a small pitch.
        Auckland ratepayers are naturally anxious with all the talk about about a waterfront stadium.Who is going to pay for that when Aucklands infrastructure is groaning at the seams.
        
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        May 7, 2017 1:18pm
      - Southern Raider
        
        Have you been to Mt Smart?
        
        Very restricted transport options, middle of nowhere, no options for pre and post entertainment and stadium is ancient
        
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        May 7, 2017 2:51pm
    - Rachael Membery
      
      and the old ones could be used for housing? 😉
      
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      May 7, 2017 3:58pm
Captain Mainwaring

The fake 8 May GD has gone, along with all the comments posted thereon.
I wonder if it will be revived tomorrow.
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May 7, 2017 10:49am
- ztev
  
  Got to blame those interns…. missed days and now double days for those tragics
  
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  May 7, 2017 11:30am
- mikenmild
  
  Now that’s a shame to lose all those high-quality comments…
  
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  May 7, 2017 12:35pm
  - calendar girl
    
    Didn’t you get to comment in time, mm?
    
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    May 7, 2017 5:17pm
    - mikenmild
      
      My contributions are now sadly lost.
      Not as tragic as this, but still:
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who_missing_episodes
      
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      May 7, 2017 5:35pm
cmm

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/africa/92304607/50-girls-kidnapped-by-boko-haram-in-nigera-have-been-released-government-official

Great news for those girls and their families.

However it is quite amazing how boys and girls get treated differently by society and the media.

200 girls get kidnapped and the world goes into a tizzy. #BringBackOurGirls.

10,000 boys get kidnapped for boy soldiers and hardly a peep.
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May 7, 2017 10:57am
- GoVege
  
  Actually cmm, a father of one of those girls was interviewed a long time ago saying he would prefer his daughter to be killed than returned home.
  That’s because the girls will be regarded as “damaged goods” after being raped and used as sex slaves.
  The boy soldiers will be welcomed home no matter what they have done while away.
  I doubt there will be great “welcome home” parties for these girls.
  
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  May 7, 2017 3:11pm
  - cmm
    
    I am sure you are right.
    
    Many of these girls are going to be shunned and possibly even killed.
    
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    May 7, 2017 3:43pm
Rodney Randall

https://youtu.be/PMFapB6nu58

Liberal MP Iqra Khalid almost triggered as she refuses to address journalists questions.

M103 Anti Blasphemy law passed in Canada, but Turd eau not present
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May 7, 2017 11:22am
Maggy Wassilieff

Blasphemy law alive and well in Ireland

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39830447
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May 7, 2017 11:27am
- ztev
  
  It gets worse, the prayer rules for two ‘sitting’ MPs who wont stand, might mean they are ejected from the Dail
  
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  May 7, 2017 11:39am
- GoVege
  
  Omg!
  And worst of all it was brought in in 2009….back to the dark ages for the Irish.
  
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  May 7, 2017 3:02pm
- Kimbo
  
  @ Maggy Wassilief
  
  From your link:
  
  (Stephen) Fry had asked why he should “respect a capricious, mean-minded, stupid god who creates a world…. full of injustice”.
  
  Leaving aside the foolishness of anti-blasphemy laws, nor even if you believe in Christianity or not, but I fail to see how what Fry said is blasphemous. Instead, he is mistaken about the claims concerning the God of the Jewish and Christians Scriptures, who created the world/Universe “good”, and once humanity was placed within in it, “very good”, as per the first chapter of Genesis. The parallel creation account from Genesis 2:4b onward presents the same idyllic state.
  
  The world only became “capricious, mean-minded, stupid (and) full of injustice” with the subsequent fall…in the third chapter of Genesis.
  
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  May 7, 2017 3:23pm
Tauhei Notts

Andrew Little would have backed the Kentucky Derby winner.
He is —— ………..
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May 7, 2017 11:56am
- Longknives
  
  I backed Battle of Midway Tauhei- $8 to place!
  The Kentucky Derby is a magnificent spectacle..
  
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  May 7, 2017 1:16pm
  - Jack5
    
    It doesn’t last long, though Longknives. Always Dreaming’s winning time for the 2km was 2min 3.59sec.
    
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    May 7, 2017 1:48pm
Manolo

Election time in France:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_FRANCE_ELECTION_WHY_IT_MATTERS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2017-05-06-08-25-59
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May 7, 2017 1:58pm
- Jack5
  
  When do we get an indication whether Madame Macron’s boy or Le Pen is the winner?
  
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  May 7, 2017 2:05pm
BeeSting

I can’t believe how poorly read you are in NZ on
Polynesian Voyaging and Navigation

You are probably So Dense you do not even realise
NZ has a floating Class Room.

Called Aotearoa 1

I think it was Built by Apprentices under or around 20

Modern interpretation of Traditional Design

Test Trip was to the Cook Islands

Christ you people ARE TRAGIC

I got up at 5am to see that Launched

Saw the Hull touch the water as the Sun was Rising.

Most of Polynesia knew Cook was Coming
before he arrived

They Sailed Circles around him?
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May 7, 2017 2:08pm
- Jack5
  
  Polynesia knew Cook was coming?
  
  They had some sort of over-the-horizon radar, Beesting? Or could they talk to albatrosses?
  
  But good on you for getting up early to see Nuku Taiao launched. I see they built it with laminated macrocarpa – exotic timber.
  
  http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/local-papers/hutt-news/3935532/Traditional-double-hulled-voyaging-waka-launched-in-the-Hutt
  
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  May 7, 2017 2:31pm
  - BeeSting
    
    FANTASTIC
    
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    May 7, 2017 4:06pm
  - BeeSting
    
    Twin Hulled Canoes Could Out Sail
    The Endeavour news of Cook Travelled throughout the pacific, they traded with each other
    THAT IS A FACT MORON
    
    Many of the items they traded with cook were distributed ahead of him
    
    Multi hulled Craft are Fast and Sea Worthy
    Don’t tell me YOU ARE FROM NZ
    AND YOU CANNOT SAIL?
    
    The Chinese are Building High Tech Versions
    or Multi Hulls
    Finally someone had cottoned onto their
    Military Potential they make Great Missile
    Platforms
    
    They have shallow draft and High Speed
    
    YOU CAN LOAD THEM WITH WARRIORS
    AND COME INTO A BEACH
    ANYWHERE IN THE PACIFIC
    
    Do take note
    THE HISTORY OF THE PACIFIC
    REPEATS THE NEXT WARS WILL BE
    MORE BRUTAL AND MORE HIGH TECH
    
    All the Chinese Invasion Vessels have
    HIGH SPEED AND SHALLOW DRAFT
    
    Not as much need for deep water ports
    
    YOU WILL SEE the next Wars in the Pacific
    Will be like the difference between WW1 and WW1
    
    A MARINE BLITZKREIG
    
    FASTER AND MORE BRUTAL
    
    The Chinese Communists have not
    given up Cannibalism
    
    Maori Have though
    
    Go have a look around your Country
    there are the remains of WW2 Bunkers
    and Polynesians Forts
    
    THEY ARE COMING
    
    AND YOU ARE TOAST
    
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    May 7, 2017 4:15pm
    - Jack5
      
      But how did the multi-hull Polynesian canoes sail upwind, Beesting? Did paddles some how serve the function of keels?
      
      Polynesians were undoubtedly great voyagers and sailors, but there’s a lot to be explained about their navigation. Look at the article on canoe migration on the Encyclopedia of NZ.
      
      Tradition has it canoes followed whales to NZ. Then there are the mays.
      
      Bird migration may have alerted Polynesians to the existence of the islands that would become New Zealand. Zenith stars may have alerted canoeists to the presence of islands. Clouds may have alerted the canoeists to atolls. Drift wood may have alerted them land was near by. Seasonal sea swells may have been used for direction. The positions of the rising and setting sun may contributed.
      
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      May 7, 2017 6:03pm
      - BeeSting
        
        Multihulls Sail Up Wind
        
        Whales Like Birds are indicators of Land
        they move to Shallow water to give Birth
        
        Hence though Whale Rider to you is a
        Fictitious Legend or story intwined in that is a truth
        
        Their Annual Routes to give Birth
        helped with Navigation
        
        Whangaparoa (The Bay of Whales)
        
        Interference Patterns of Waves bouncing of Islands the Change in the Colour of Water
        The Stars etc etc
        
        Clouds Gather over Land Masses
        
        There are quite a few combined techniques
        
        You are talking about people who spent
        as much time as you do on land on the Ocean
        
        Like the Diamond shape of a Fish is North South
        East West Island as Fish
        
        North Island The Fish or Sting Ray of Maui
        South his Canoe
        
        Simple but effective ways to describe a land mass
        
        Maui Catching the Sun?
        
        You Sail into the Summer the Days getting Longer
        it is safer
        
        Intwined in the Quaint Legends are essential pieces of information to get you from A to B
        
        The Polynesian Voyaging Society has
        good information
        
        http://www.hokulea.com/
        
        They have recreated the Vessell
        albeit with Modern Materials
        
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynesian_Voyaging_Society
        
        They Did it they Got to NZ and Sailed Back
        they are here but even faced with the information
        plainly in front of them people still dispute it
        
        There is too much to discuss and people on this Forum
        
        THERE IS NO POINT
        
        ARE WITHOUT A DOUBT
        COMPLETLEY RACIST AND IMHO RETARDED
        
        There are some Good Books Read them and draw
        you own conclusions
        
        https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5048209-viking-of-the-sunrise
        
        Trial of the Cannibal Dog Covers Cooks
        three Voyages and his interactions between
        himself his crew and the indigenous populations
        
        https://www.amazon.com/Trial-Cannibal-Dog-Remarkable-Encounters/dp/0300100922
        
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupaia_(navigator)
        
        The Tahitian Priest Cook took with him
        he never considered himself inferior to Europeans
        in any way – he was quite up himself
        
        His Map
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupaia_(navigator)#/media/File:Tupaia%27s_map,_c._1769.jpg
        
        Like the Viking Sagas
        and they and the Celtic Irish did reach
        America before Columbus
        
        Are Great Reading
        
        The History of the Pacific is both
        Brutal and Dramatic
        and NZ is part of that.
        
        Like it or not it does Repeat
        
        AND IT WILL AGAIN Soon
        
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        May 7, 2017 6:42pm
cmm

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/92211491/blenheim-familys-relief-at-getting-social-housing-after-emergency-stay-in-motel

This bloke wants to be a youth councillor.

Surely this exactly the wrong sort of person to be giving the youth advice. It makes much more sense to expose youth to successful people who can be good role models rather than a serial loser.
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May 7, 2017 2:25pm
- Happychappy
  
  Little has more than likely given him a reference, nothing would surprise me from the inept Labour Leader.
  
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  May 7, 2017 3:02pm
Hugh Pavletich

Housing affordability: 87% of Australians fear for future generations | Australia news | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/may/07/housing-affordability-87-of-australians-fear-for-future-generations

About 87% of Australians believe future generations will not be able to afford to buy a home, a new poll shows. …

… One in five Australians were struggling to keep up with mortgage or rental payments, the poll showed, and 23% would be in financial difficulty if interest rates went up by two percentage points.

The lead researcher, Jill Sheppard, said the survey showed home ownership was still viewed as part of the Australian way of life. But Sheppard said those surveyed believed it was fast becoming unrealistic.

“Young Australians are particularly pessimistic and have little faith that they will be able to buy a home and replicate the levels of home ownership of previous generations,” Sheppard said. … read more via hyperlink above …

2017 13th Annual demographia International Housing Affordability Survey

http://www.demographia.com/dhi.pdf

Deluge of affordability data forces government’s hand | The New Daily

http://thenewdaily.com.au/money/property/2017/02/02/housing-affordability/
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May 7, 2017 2:31pm
- Hugh Pavletich
  
  New poll suggests one fifth of Australian home owners struggling with repayments | SBS News
  
  http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2017/05/07/new-poll-suggests-one-fifth-australian-home-owners-struggling-repayments
  
  Mortgage repayments have become a huge struggle for a significant chunk of Australians and most believe the dream of home ownership will be out of reach for future generations, a poll shows.
  
  As the federal government prepares to unveil housing affordability measures in Tuesday’s budget, an ANU survey shows that one fifth of people are struggling to meet mortgage or rent payments, with two per cent having fallen behind.
  
  Nearly a quarter said they would be in quite a bit or a lot of difficulty if interest rates jump by two percentage points, while nearly 90 per cent are concerned that future generations won’t be able to afford to buy a house.
  
  Significantly, almost half were willing to see their property values stop increasing even further to help improve affordability. … read more via hyperlink above …
  
  … Access extensive further recent postings …
  
  http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2017/05/why_do_socialists_no_longer_talk_about_venezuela.html/comment-page-1#comment-1923885 … and … https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2017/05/weekend-reading-6-7-may-2017/#comment-2863996
  
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  May 7, 2017 2:42pm
  - cmm
    
    So Aussies live beyond their means… They lived it up during the boom times thinking they would never end and that that was the life they “deserve”.
    
    Here’s a wee hint. When there are boom times, don’t count on them continuing. Keep your same modest house and pay off your mortgage faster. That way you’re in a far better place when the boom ends.
    
    And I don’t really think they are worried about future generations. It’s just a way of saying they are worried about themselves and trying to sound virtuous.
    
    If they were really worried about future generations they would not have doubled the national debt in the last 4 years.
    
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    May 7, 2017 3:46pm
Nostradamus

Hugh Pavletich:

Yesterday you wrote:

It is simply a matter of getting quality information out there … allowing people to draw their own conclusions. Treating people with respect … in other words.
…
One should not be surprised by the Nick Smith style hyperventilation going on here at Kiwiblog !

Your reference to “Nick Smith style hyperventilation” shows a complete lack of self-awareness.

The thread you wrote that comment on was entitled Why do socialists no longer talk about Venezuela? On the face of it, Venezuelan-style socialism has nothing to do with NZ housing, but that didn’t stop you posting lots of housing links – and promoting (yet again) your 2017 13th Annual demographia International Housing Affordability Survey.
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The reason why you cop so much flack here is because, like Philu (who doesn’t comment here anymore), you refuse to follow proper blog etiquette. You post multiple replies to your own comments, which indicates that you’re not here for discussion, but rather self-promotion. Do you want to share the illustrious company of Penny Bright in that respect?

Could I suggest that you reflect on your commenting style and why that attracts so much criticism from people here?
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May 7, 2017 3:19pm
- Swifty
  
  Thanks.
  
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  May 7, 2017 3:39pm
- Keeping Stock
  
  Said far more eloquently than anything I could muster Nostra; well done.
  
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  May 7, 2017 5:59pm
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    I echo that. Hugh is nothing but an echo chamber for his own bullshit.
    
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    May 7, 2017 7:59pm
dad4justice

Well said Captain Kirk
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/william-shatner-takes-on-feminists-for-dismissing-misandry-promoting-toxic-masculinity/article/2621892
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May 7, 2017 3:36pm
Nostradamus

Stephen Fry on God:

Asked what he would say if he was confronted by God, Fry replied: “How dare you create a world in which there is such misery that is not our fault? It’s not right. It’s utterly, utterly evil. Why should I respect a capricious, mean-minded, stupid God who creates a world which is so full of injustice and pain?”

Questioned on how he would react if he was locked outside the pearly gates, he responded: “I would say, ‘Bone cancer in children? What’s that about?’ Because the God who created this universe, if it was created by God, is quite clearly a maniac, utter maniac. Totally selfish. We have to spend our life on our knees thanking him? What kind of God would do that? Totally selfish. We have to spend our life on our knees thanking him? What kind of God would do that?”

Someone took exception to these comments:

A member of the public contacted police after the comedian spoke about God during an interview with Irish broadcaster RTE in February 2015, the Irish Independent reported. The individual, who wished to remain anonymous, told the news outlet it was their “civic duty” to report the comments which he alleges were in breach of the country’s Defamation Act.

Goodness – I didn’t realise that the UK Defamation Act could be applied in that way!
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May 7, 2017 3:45pm
- cmm
  
  He has a good point.
  
  I was pretty antagonistic towards the church, but then took a much more relaxed attitude. If people want to part take in a delusion and they are not hurting anyone, well let them.
  
  What did make me grind my teeth though were the priests and ministers telling us to give thanks to god for sparing us during the Christchurch earthquakes.
  
  To me that’s pretty warped. If god is all powerful then he either caused or let the earthquake happen – causing untold misery, deaths and destruction. Then we are supposed to say thanks.
  
  It is like a child saying thanks to an abusive father after a sound thrashing!
  
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  May 7, 2017 3:58pm
- nasska
  
  I’m warming to this “Fry” coot. Obviously a thinking man not afraid to expose the chimerical fantasies of the Godfloggers.
  
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  May 7, 2017 3:58pm
  - dad4justice
    
    Of course you would be “warming” to him as he is a raging turd tapper.
    
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    May 7, 2017 4:00pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      Fry struggled to keep his homosexuality secret during his teenage years at public school, and by his own account did not engage in sexual activity for 16 years from 1979 until 1995. When asked when he first acknowledged his sexuality, Fry quipped: “I suppose it all began when I came out of the womb. I looked back up at my mother and thought to myself, ‘That’s the last time I’m going up one of those’.”
      
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      May 7, 2017 4:03pm
      - Fletch
        
        What is ironic is that Fry’s hero is Oscar Wilde who famously was homosexual yet who also became a Catholic before he died. Fry also played Wilde in a movie. I haven’t read anything about Fry trying to reconcile the two things.
        
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        May 7, 2017 7:46pm
    - Longknives
      
      Not a Blackadder fan or a QI fan then Dad??
      
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      May 7, 2017 4:26pm
      - mikenmild
        
        He might be more the repressed homosexual type played by Fry in Jeeves and Wooster.
        
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        May 7, 2017 4:31pm
  - stigie
    
    Would be very interesting indeed to hear Gods reply..?
    
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    May 7, 2017 4:27pm
- MCos
  
  Ireland hasn’t been part of of the UK since 6 December 1922
  
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  May 7, 2017 4:22pm
  - MCos
    
    Why the down tick?
    
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    May 7, 2017 6:51pm
- Fletch
  
  ps,
  
  If God is supposed to alleviate all suffering, at what point should He step in? When a child is just about to trip? To burn his hand on a stove? To prick himself on a splinter? If a person is about to hit another person, should God then take away the free will of the hitter? Should he be stepping in a thousand times a day like a parent controlling a small child? But for every single person?
  
  I think a lot of human suffering comes down to the free will we have been given. If God is like a parent, and we are like children, you could follow your child around all day and make sure that they do not slip, or burn themselves on a stove, or hit another child, or make sure no other child does anything bad to them. At some point you are infringing on their free will or the will of others they come into contact with.
  
  We can do this with our kids – pick them up and put them out of harms way, or stop them eating something. But not with adults, because to do so is to infringe on a person’s free will. What if you were about to hit someone and God stepped in and stopped you because it would cause the other person suffering? I’m sure most of us would be very upset to have our free will taken away; even if it is the right to do something considered immoral.
  
  Also, we do not see the long term effects of what good some suffering may accomplish. We let our own children suffer sometimes for their own good – eg, letting them have immunization shots which may hurt at the time but are ultimately good for them and may protect them against a greater suffering or disease in the future. We do not know why suffering occurs or why God lets it happen, but that does not make God bad. Perhaps some suffering on this Earth gives a person a new perspective, or turns them toward God – it may even help to save their immortal soul.
  
  We just do not know.
  
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  May 7, 2017 7:51pm
  - cha
    
    it may even help to save their immortal soul.
    
    For the sake of your immortal soul I move you stuff your nut sack into your cilice and suffer, you vile prick.
    
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    May 7, 2017 8:02pm
    - mikenmild
      
      No cha, it can’t be the suffering of self-abuse, it has to be something that normal people would ascribe to random chance. That way the religious zealot can feel he is being given special treatment from a loving god.
      
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      May 7, 2017 8:09pm
      - cha
        
        Fair enough mike.
        
        I move Fletch is afflicted with something that normal people ascribe to chance – something that sees him writhing in his own excrement and shrieking for his dog, for the sake of his immortal soul, of course.
        
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        May 7, 2017 8:21pm
  - rangitoto
    
    “I think a lot of human suffering comes down to the free will we have been given”
    
    So is there suffering in heaven or no free will?
    
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    May 7, 2017 8:24pm
  - nasska
    
    While we’re at it why are we asked to pray after a disaster?
    
    Hasn’t God just made it perfectly clear that He really doesn’t give a fuck?
    
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    May 7, 2017 8:29pm
- Inandout
  
  Stephen’s god is obviously safely generic, because he hasn’t been threatened with jihad. He does however fall into the trap of on one hand dismissing a god exists, but on the other hand talks of ‘evil’. I know ‘evil’ is Greek in origin and not derived from devil, but evil has religious connotations. More suitable synonyms perhaps:
  http://www.thesaurus.com/browse/evil
  
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  May 7, 2017 10:30pm
Nostradamus

‘A bit of passion’: Prisoner campaigns for sex dolls to be allowed in jails

A prisoner is campaigning for sex dolls to be allowed in jails so inmates can enjoy “a bit of passion” behind bars.
…
“I have a proposal that should be given careful consideration. It might help to alleviate this ongoing problem [restless young men restless who want to cause mischief] and, in turn, help to de-stress the wings of every establishment the length and breadth of our nation.

“It came about when I was watching a documentary on Channel 4 that showed grown men who live with rubber, blow-up dolls. I noticed that all of these men looked very happy and stress-free.

“Furthermore, as these doll women would have to be manually blown-up, all of the inmates who have been forced to pack-in smoking due to the ban, will automatically exercise their lungs, which could help repair the damage that smoking has caused. It’s a win-win situation!”

Dear prisoner: Your request for a blow-up sex doll is denied. But don’t worry – you can still enjoy “a bit of passion” behind bars – we offer double-bunking rooms and, for the more adventurous, we offer a BDSM-style room.
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- stigie
  
  They will need plenty of plasters Nostra, they tend to go down on ya !~
  
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  May 7, 2017 4:32pm
  - dad4justice
    
    You would know eh.
    
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    May 7, 2017 4:38pm
    - stigie
      
      Very knowledgeable Dad !
      
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      May 7, 2017 4:47pm
      - dad4justice
        
        Why thank you stigie, poor oh mm’s blow up doll Norma gets a such a hard time at the Bates Motel neighbours donate boxes of plasters, as they sick of him puncturing it and it landing on their properties.
        
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        May 7, 2017 4:53pm
      - mikenmild
        
        Well, if you weren’t taking those close-up pictures for your website, a man could get on with the job in peace.
        
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        May 7, 2017 5:02pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    Stigie:
    
    they tend to go down on ya
    
    A bit like this: Woman’s Boob Explodes During Tattoo Session?
    
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    May 7, 2017 4:38pm
- holysheet
  
  The answer is so simple that even these morons should be able to see it.
  Don’t commit the crimes and keep out of jail.
  Do this and you would be surprised at how much “passion ” you can get on the outside.
  
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  May 7, 2017 4:33pm
- nasska
  
  Any nominations for suitable models for these comfort dolls Nostra?
  
  Just male & female…..there’s no need to cover the full LGBTTTQQIAA spectrum at this stage. 🙂
  
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  May 7, 2017 4:37pm
  - stigie
    
    The first place to look would be the Stranded Nasska..?
    There’s a moderator there…..cant think of his name at the moment ole chap.
    
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    May 7, 2017 5:01pm
    - nasska
      
      For the male doll or the female doll stigie? 🙂
      
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      May 7, 2017 5:14pm
      - stigie
        
        Shit, might have to consult Reddy on that one Nasska.?
        
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        May 7, 2017 5:19pm
      - dad4justice
        
        The standard Helengrad doll is a bestseller as it comes with a broomstick, a Heather anal plug and a debauched husband.
        
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        May 7, 2017 5:19pm
      - stigie
        
        You’ve studied the pricing have you Dad..?
        
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        May 7, 2017 5:22pm
      - holysheet
        
        I would have thought there would be no need for a male doll with the real thing available to all.
        
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        May 7, 2017 7:17pm
      - stigie
        
        There’s massive advantages Holysheet…..
        (1) Foreplay is optional
        (2) They dont talk back
        (3) Never have to feed them
        (4) Low maintenance
        (5)……………
        Just sayin !~
        
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        May 7, 2017 7:40pm
      - mikenmild
        
        Won’t leave you for another man, or another doll…
        
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        May 7, 2017 7:45pm
      - cha
        
        Won’t leave you for another man
        
        But they do tear…..
        
        http://metro.co.uk/2016/11/16/man-claims-meth-addict-cut-up-his-sex-doll-then-admits-he-ripped-it-during-vigorous-sex-6262047/
        
        http://thechive.com/2017/03/19/this-guys-story-about-his-stolen-sex-doll-is-the-must-read-story-about-sex-dolls-of-the-day/
        
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        May 7, 2017 7:52pm
- mikenmild
  
  No need to be judgemental. It can be rather sweet:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_and_the_Real_Girl
  
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  May 7, 2017 4:43pm
- mikenmild
  
  In International Masturbation Month, one would have thought the solution was in their, um, own hands.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Masturbation_Day
  
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  May 7, 2017 4:53pm
  - nasska
    
    Optimism: Having the eternal belief that you’re always 1/3 of the way to a threesome.
    
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    May 7, 2017 5:44pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      Optimism: Taking a Thai princess back to your hotel room and hoping she doesn’t turn out to be a Ladyboy!
      
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      May 7, 2017 5:47pm
      - Rachael Membery
        
        Why so many ladyboys, something in the water?
        
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        May 7, 2017 6:21pm
      - dirty harry
        
        Id imagine you would check first before ‘purchasing’
        
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        May 7, 2017 10:07pm
Ross12

During the first round of the French elections all overseas domiciled French voters ( apparently strong supporters of Macron , in general) got 2 voting papers each, sent out “by mistake”. It was reported the French Govt. would look into it after the election ( not sure if that was meant to be after phase one or two).
Now we have the same “mistake” occurring for the second phase, except this time Le Pen’s papers are also sometimes ripped , making it an ineligible voting paper. Some people in the establishment are obviously very desperate.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/05/dirty-tricks-french-voters-receive-invalid-damaged-le-pen-ballots/
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May 7, 2017 5:06pm
Brigitte

NZ MUSIC MONTH

From 1993, here’s JPS Experience with Ray Of Shine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap0j37MeqwA
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May 7, 2017 5:58pm
- Left Right and Centre
  
  It’s still American / British music month.
  Every month.
  Wasn’t JPS a brand of cigarette ?
  
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  May 7, 2017 7:27pm
  - Brigitte
    
    JPS = Jean Paul Sartre
    
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    May 7, 2017 9:12pm
Keeping Stock

From the Herald’s “Spy” section. The alternative headline could be “Man buys car with own money”

http://spy.nzherald.co.nz/spy-news/john-gets-the-key-to-a-bentley/
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May 7, 2017 6:06pm
- holysheet
  
  Good on him. Just wait for the cries from the left;
  Yah rich prick.
  
  What type of car does Cullen or Hullen drive?
  
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  May 7, 2017 6:33pm
  - stigie
    
    Lada’s for the left holysheet !~
    
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    May 7, 2017 6:55pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      Stigie:
      
      Do you remember this fiasco?
      
      The Green Party wanted to embark on a nationwide road trip to some of the country’s grimiest, slimiest rivers. Shouldn’t be too hard to organise you’d think, especially by the political party for whom environmental issues are their bread and butter. Not so, according to Wednesday’s visit to the Manawatu River.
      …
      Catherine still hasn’t arrived, but a flash of white hair in the distance heralds the arrival of another Green MP, Steffan Browning. He doesn’t know what’s happening, but he informs me Catherine has been in a car crash. A frazzled Catherine answers my phone call, confirms they’re okay but a bit shaken. She’d indicated right then made a last minute swerve left, hitting a car coming up the inside. The car’s suffered a minor ding, but it’s not driveable.
      
      The Greens: hard-left political views and hard-left driver tendencies!
      
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      May 7, 2017 7:33pm
Happychappy

TV Three were not happy just doing the story on the drug takers in Canberra they had to have a shot at Russell Packer for a offence that happened three odd years ago that he was sentenced to a jail term and could not also play league, can anyone please tell me why the Media and their Journalists want to involve someone in a story after he has done his time and lost thousands of dollars for being banned from playing and was not involved in any police and NRL investigation.
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May 7, 2017 6:34pm
- Left Right and Centre
  
  Gday chief – hey, it’s TV3 here. Yeah bud – you know what, you’re spot on fella. We’re not going to show anyone who did something ages ago and has served their time – ever again.
  Kind regards,
  Yeah Right
  
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  May 7, 2017 7:38pm
- mikenmild
  
  If his past troubles were not mentioned, someone would be on here moaning about that being censored…
  
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  May 7, 2017 7:40pm
cha

Should be well worth the watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7O7BtBnsG4
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May 7, 2017 7:32pm
cha

6/5/37

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH-mhZLuGRk
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May 7, 2017 7:44pm
nasska

“My name’s Becky O’Brien, Simon. I’m thirty six & I’ve got eight kids.”

“Lovely to meet you, Becky. What’s your talent?”

“Coughing without my fanny falling out.”
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May 7, 2017 8:00pm
EAD

Even the poor Irish are being race replaced in their own country:

http://beyondthepale.info/2017/05/03/sunny-day-may/

Our schools, hospitals and social welfare are utterly overburdened. Our homelessness is as bad as it has ever been and rapidly deteriorating. Our housing list is not being relieved at an effective rate and social cohesion is in the toilet, yet nobody is speaking about the elephant in the room.

Our native population is now down to 82% and that’s at a conservative estimate, when you add in how many vibrants don’t fill in census data and the government’s own projection as to how many illegals we have we could be another 10% down. Considering that just the African community has an unemployment rate of 40% and up, as unemployed it follows they are being assisted by the state, what evidence have we the other groups differ?

How much do we pay out annually in child benefit for non-Irish spawn? How many hospital beds taken up by leprous third-world invasive?

Our schools are teaming with their proceed in a country carrying 40% of EU debt and yet the limp-wristed must march against racism? They exhort the government to deal with homelessness while delightedly cheering on the invaders who have been given those resources instead?

When you stand back and objectively look at it, you can only conclude our system us a mental asylum.
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May 7, 2017 9:22pm
EAD

France votes for demographic destruction and globalist annihilation:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/92318442/emmanuel-macron-wins-french-presidency-by-emphatic-margin–projections

They never were famed for their fighting spirit. With all the atrocities they’ve suffered over the past few years, you just wonder how bad it has to get?

May God have mercy on their souls.
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