General Debate 10 June 2017

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BananaLlama

So the UK will have their first Conservative government in decades. For those that don’t know what the DUP are about expect plenty of Autistic screeching from the left once reality dawns on them.

The two parties [Labour and DUP] have worked well together for two years. There’s no reason to suppose they won’t continue to do so in future. But the point made time after time to Labour MPs remains: for as long as you allow yourselves to be led by an IRA cheerleader, you exclude yourselves from entering No 10,

said a DUP source.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOnVirSpRi4
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June 10, 2017 8:35am
- stephieboy
  
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  The issues are truthfully such lean pickings for the lonny alt right to savour and lick over when you consider that even UKIP did so poorly.
  
  Theresa gambled and lost Jeremy Corbyn did unexpectadly well. What next alt righters looking forward to 23rd September
  
  .Could the unthinkable happen ?
  
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  June 10, 2017 8:41am
  - Inandout
    
    Corbyn loves your lot, so your attitude is understandable. Transferring UK politics to NZ as a comparison is flawed. We have the appalling MMP system. May miscalculated badly and she will be punished, but the Conservatives remain in power. Watch the Muslim attacks resume, now that their past efforts failed to get the Mad Marxist elected.
    
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    June 10, 2017 8:56am
    - stephieboy
      
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      Inandout , look waht FPP has done to the UK !
      
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      June 10, 2017 9:03am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    God, the spelling and punctuation does my head in, as does the twisted leftist attitude.
    
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    June 10, 2017 9:00am
    - stephieboy
      
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      CM , what ?
      
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      June 10, 2017 9:23am
      - GazzaW
        
        It’s obviously the dyslexic illiterate’s rostered day on the stephieteam. That came around all too quickly.
        
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        June 10, 2017 10:43am
      - Peter
        
        Are you a teacher, Stephieboy?
        
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        June 10, 2017 11:39am
    - VicParking
      
      If poor spelin and punchtuation do your head in please dont read da Hearld.
      
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      June 10, 2017 9:38am
    - cmm
      
      Starting a paragraph with a full stop must surely be a new low even for the stephie.
      
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      June 10, 2017 9:38am
    - Rich Prick
      
      It amuses me when a barely functioning semi-literate thinks it has a point to make.
      
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      June 10, 2017 10:50am
    - Reid
      
      For the punctuation I’m thinking stephie probably has a special keyboard wherein he moves coloured letter blocks into position and the special-needs software the taxpayer has paid for translates that into his post.
      
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      June 10, 2017 11:05am
    - Gabby
      
      Subject verb agreement needs work there, crustygruts.
      
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      June 10, 2017 12:59pm
  - Paulus
    
    Actually yes – the “perception” in the media is that National are tired and uninterested, as they are ahead in the polls.
    This perception is growing by daily continuous bombardment by the so called media.
    People do not really care that the economy is doing better than ever – how does that affect the money in their pockets. The so called Middle Class have never had it so good if they seriously reflect
    We are made to feel guilty over a few things – the Maori rights, and the poor in State houses who believe they have the right over our property.
    The few sleeping in the streets – the beggars (same people).
    Injustice in any and every thing – its John Key’s fault remember.
    I want more money as I am owed.
    This is the new perception, and I could go on portrayed by the so called media.
    All Angry has to do is shut up until the election and we may well see Union Labour’s percentage of the vote increase.
    Cannot see despite the young dolly bird appeal that Greenpeace will get much if any more than now. Foolish idealists – life is different.
    This of course will bring Winston to the forefront as kingmaker.
    UK Labour did better than dreamed, despite voting irregularities, with the young mobiles.
    Some 600,000 people signed up within 48 hours of the election although quite a number were declined at the booths, as they had not been advised and therefore despite written confirmation were excluded – North East.
    National – beware.
    
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    June 10, 2017 9:20am
    - artemisia
      
      As we are all aware the MSM regularly features homeless, living in cars or grim boardinghouses, evicted by greedy landlords, food banks, no money for raincoats or breakfast.
      
      I would not assume from those articles that there is widespread horror of the mean current government. More likely that the hardworking New Zealanders so beloved of some political parties are fed up with their tax dollars going to some – and only some – who do not take personal responsibility.
      
      And although only some fall into that category, who would know that from the relentless media articles.
      
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      June 10, 2017 9:37am
      - KevOB
        
        I believe the homeless-in-car meme is the work of Labour’s new background team.
        
        National are doing well but they have got to ginger the public up. That includes showing how unfit to govern the opposition really are. Labour are incompetent, the Greens irrational, Winston First impossible and Act only hopeful. The responsive campaign should have been underway months ago.
        
        With a global financial upheaval likely we cannot risk the present opposition as a future government.
        
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        June 10, 2017 3:39pm
  - Manolo
    
    Would you vote Green or Labour, dear stephieboy?
    
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    June 10, 2017 9:20am
    - holysheet
      
      Does he even know how to?
      Given his track record with his poor comprehension and grammatical skills, it wouldn’t surprise me if he ticked the national box twice. Now that would be karma.
      
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      June 10, 2017 10:25am
      - stephieboy
        
        holyturd , a sore loser in respect of UK election results ?
        
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        June 10, 2017 10:28am
      - GazzaW
        
        The last time I looked Labour was still sitting on the Opposition Benches stephie and Mrs Corbyn won’t be shifting out of the semi anytime soon.
        
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        June 10, 2017 10:48am
      - holysheet
        
        Why would what happened on the other side of the world be of any concern to me?
        
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        June 10, 2017 1:06pm
- mikenmild
  
  The actuality is that the Conservatives generally, and May particularly, are now in a very weak position to govern, especially when it comes to negotiating Brexit and passing the necessary legislation for that.
  What makes it even more ludicrous was May’s insistence that she needed a strengthened mandate to provide her version of ‘strong and stable government’.
  
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  June 10, 2017 8:49am
  - BananaLlama
    
    May really dropped the ball i don’t know how she is still prime minister. The Socialists under Corbyn did really well to pull in the youth and get them to vote, the Right needs to pay attention to this, they have to provide opportunity for the young. Property ownership and jobs are needed or the Tories are going to lose a whole generation of voters.
    
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    June 10, 2017 9:21am
    - RRM
      
      Every election there’s a whole new cohort of teenagers voting for the first time ever, who expect life to be easy and everything should just come to you as of right, OF COURSE we should share the love, give people free stuff, etc etc.
      
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      June 10, 2017 10:26am
      - Dave Stringer
        
        Yep, and Socialist mantra suggest these expectations will be fulfilled.
        
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        June 11, 2017 11:08am
- JasonJohns
  
  Yes the UK is finally going to get some godly government. The DUP is the only party that staunchly backs Creationism over the cult of evolution. They have pushed for many years for Biblical science in schools and this will probably be a key demand that they put on the Tories. They are also very good on the gay plague of AIDs.
  
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  June 10, 2017 8:50am
  - Disaster Area
    
    Which are all very good reasons to keep them as far away from any position of influence as possible.
    
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    June 10, 2017 10:03am
  - big bruv
    
    JasonJohns
    I take it you’re not serious when you talk about the “Cult of evolution” and “Biblical Science”? Of course if you were we would be forced to consider you stark raving mad.
    
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    June 10, 2017 10:22am
    - Kimbo
      
      No, he’s not. Believe it or not, he is a more inveterate troll than you, big bruv.
      
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      June 10, 2017 10:46am
  - GazzaW
    
    Kindred spirits with Mike Pence’s Republicans then? 😉
    
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    June 10, 2017 10:51am
- BananaLlama
  
  Don’t forget about their hatred of Dinosaurs Johns.
  
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  June 10, 2017 8:51am
  - Inandout
    
    And probably hate Muslims too, but they have anti gay in common.
    
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    June 10, 2017 8:59am
    - stephieboy
      
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      Inandout , remarkable how creationsim , climate denialism ,Islamaphobia and the alt right Trumpets gather together !
      
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      June 10, 2017 9:06am
      - Nukuleka
        
        Gosh, stephieboy, I thought that you were all for Kumbaya, flowers in their hair and caring and sharing, but the tone of many of your posts seems to veer in the entirely opposite direction towards the snide, the negative and the downright vindictive.
        
        Incidentally, as someone who is an occasional poster here on KB, I am curious about how come you manage to spend such an inordinate amount of time throughout the day posting here? Is your life that empty? Is it due to a lack of love interest in your life?
        
        I have always found that those who subscribe to the left progressive agenda and profess to love their fellow man in theory find it very difficult to get on with their family members and neighbours. Is that you?
        
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        June 10, 2017 9:34am
      - Scott
        
        You are quite right stephieboy! I like creationism, don’t believe in global warming, really believe that Islam wants to take over the world and establish a worldwide caliphate and am New Zealand’s biggest Donald Trump fan!
        
        And I do have to say the view over here, from where I’m sitting, is awesome!
        
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        June 10, 2017 2:08pm
  - BananaLlama
    
    Well they certainly don’t like butthurt people, that is true.
    
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    June 10, 2017 9:02am
- JasonJohns
  
  One of my heroes and I guess a hero of many of the white patriots at this site is Enoch Powell. After Powell was hounded out of the UK parliament because of his determination that Britain should stay with and not be mongrelised he went to Northern Ireland to live and worked with Ian Paisley. Predictably the Corbynite MSM is now getting hysterical about the link between Enoch and the DUP. But for white nationalists Enoch’s role in creating the DUP shows that there is a direct link between one of the great figures of the white civil rights movement and the present. The DUP is a proudly white nationalist and anti-Papist voice inside the UK’s new government.
  
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  June 10, 2017 9:08am
  - JasonJohns
    
    Typical Corbynite MSM hysteria. They used the word ‘fascist’ as tho it is something to be ashamed of!
    
    ‘When Enoch Powell was expelled from the Tory party after his fascist turn, he moved to Northern Ireland. There, his campaign manager was a young man named Jeffrey Donaldson, who says on his website:
    
    “I worked alongside two of the greatest names in Unionism in the 20th century. Between 1982 and 1984 I worked as Enoch Powell’s constituency agent, successfully spearheading Mr. Powell’s election campaigns of 1983 and 1986 when the South Down seat was retained despite the fact the constituency contained a natural ‘nationalist’ majority.”
    
    Donaldson is now the longest serving of the DUP’s MPs.
    
    The DUP also fights hard against women’s right to choose to have an abortion, making them the biggest pro-forced pregnancy party in the UK. The results in Northern Ireland are utterly grim for the many women each year who are in need of an abortion.’
    https://www.opendemocracy.net/uk/adam-ramsay/so-who-are-dup
    
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    June 10, 2017 9:10am
    - Nukuleka
      
      No-one is ‘forced’ to get pregnant, nincompoop. It is a matter of choice. To use a phrase such as ‘pro-forced pregnancy’ indicates sloppy mental logistics.
      
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      June 10, 2017 9:39am
      - JasonJohns
        
        But your overlook the matter of rape, Nukuleka. The DUP recognises that once exemptions are made for this tragic eventuality, the door to abortion is opened. So they oppose abortion even in the case of rape. Their stand is firm and they will bring it to the UK government.
        
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        June 10, 2017 9:58am
    - Disaster Area
      
      ‘Typical Corbynite MSM hysteria’
      
      Did you actually see any of the front pages of the Murdoch owned mainstream newspapers?
      
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      June 10, 2017 10:05am
    - lifesgood
      
      No one is “in need of an abortion” What rot!
      
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      June 10, 2017 1:06pm
William of Ockham

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https://www.ecowatch.com/new-york-times-paris-agreement-2435670453.html
As New Yorker reporter Jane Mayer, who wrote a book on the Koch brothers, noted in a post on June 5, Republican climate denial and the rejection of the Paris agreement are clear and direct consequences of the Kochs and other rich fossil fuel barons pouring money into the political scene. “It is, perhaps, the most astounding example of influence-buying in modern American political history”

The real Donald J Trump.
Crook, Conman. Charlatan. Cowboy. Clown. Brothers-Koch sucker. No credibility.
Bigly Cnut. Fcuked by Comey.
Covfefe. Covfefe. Covfefe.
Amen

Potus orangutan ignoranus. Gone by Christmas.
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June 10, 2017 8:37am
- Awww C-mon
  
  WoO or Trump?
  
  Which one will still be going by Christmas?
  
  Not you Billy, you and your previous incarnations have shown no staying power at all.
  
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  June 10, 2017 8:42am
Manolo

The intolerant do not like the idea:
https://apnews.com/e202217afa7e4881ab33f2453f592d7f/Anti-Sharia-rallies-this-weekend-worry-Muslim-leaders

Looking ahead, Muslim leaders and others are concerned about anti-Shariah, or Islamic law, marches planned for Saturday in Seattle and about two-dozen other U.S. cities, saying the marches are really anti-Muslim.
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June 10, 2017 8:38am
- mikenmild
  
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  Isn’t it blindingly obvious that an ‘anti Sharia’ march is anti Muslim?
  
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  June 10, 2017 8:41am
  - stephieboy
    
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    Bleedingly obvious but fanatical Islamaphobes and birthers like Manolo simply cant see the wood from the trees let alone the twigs from the leaves .
    
    Sigh .
    
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    June 10, 2017 8:45am
  - cmm
    
    I thought you and stephie said most Muslims in the West are moderate and don’t subscribe to Sharia.
    
    If that is correct, then anti-Sharia protests are just pro-moderate-Muslim protests.
    
    It looks like you’re trying to play this both ways ie.:
    * Most Muslims are moderate and don’t subscribe to Sharia and are thus harmonious with the West.
    * An anti-Sharia stance is an attack on Muslims.
    
    As a practitioner of logic, it would seem to me that these stances are mutually exclusive.
    
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    June 10, 2017 9:49am
    - stephieboy
      
      cmm, my Iraninan neighbours like a great many Muslims here , as with their Western secular counterparts , don’t even go to a Mosque.
      
      BTW would you describe as a moderate “Christian “?
      
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      June 10, 2017 10:04am
      - cmm
        
        ” my Iraninan neighbours …don’t even go to a Mosque.”
        
        So they aren’t practicing Muslims then.
        
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        June 10, 2017 12:48pm
      - Kimbo
        
        So they aren’t practicing Muslims then
        
        In the Islamic conception there is no such thing as practicing or non-practicing. Instead, they would be considered “unfaithful” on that matter. Best to apply the same understanding as well to the other Abrahamic religions that have similar “points of entry”, Christianity (baptism, and/or confirmation) and Judaism (a Jewish mother, male circumcision and bar and bath mitzvah).
        
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        June 10, 2017 12:53pm
      - starboard
        
        “my Iraninan neighbours ”
        
        have you been caught perving at the daughters yet stupidboy, I so hope they are older than 9…
        
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        June 10, 2017 12:57pm
      - lifesgood
        
        I think stephieboy is a sadist. How else do you explain the fact he keeps coming back time and time again to universal loathing on this site.
        
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        June 10, 2017 1:08pm
      - GazzaW
        
        Stephie has to lifesgood. Just as Mormons head out on bikes to convert the masses and greenpeacers sell monthly autopayments to suckers in supermarket carparks the labour faithful get to take their turn on the stephietrollster Kiwiblog roster.
        
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        June 10, 2017 3:17pm
      - Rich Prick
        
        Good one stephie, you’ve just outed your neighbour as an apostate. You do know what the serious Muslims do to apostates?
        
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        June 10, 2017 5:03pm
    - mikenmild
      
      The irrational fear of ‘Sharia law’ is just a generalised expression of anti-Muslim prejudice.
      There is no actual risk of Sharia superseding actual law in these places, and more than the Torah would replace our statute book.
      What do you think a ‘pro-moderate-Muslim’ protest would look like, and would you join one?
      
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      June 10, 2017 10:18am
      - Kimbo
        
        Yep. Overlooks that there are Ecclesiastical courts – for example, whenever the local Presbyterian church’s eldership (session or consistory) meets, they make decisions that work in with secular law. For example, given their interpretation of the New Testament, they may refuse to allow a once-divorced person to marry in their church building with the service led by their minister. Or, in some cases they may exercise excommunication for grievous and unrepentant sin such as adultery.
        
        However, in those two examples, the person can still get married, or find another church.
        
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        June 10, 2017 11:27am
      - Kimbo
        
        Also, I think in the case of divorce, Islam requires the man to pay for the upkeep of his former wife and also any children. So irrespective of what the state may compel, he is subject to the judgement of the mosque. They cannot compel him, but nonetheless they are entitled to rule and instruct and maybe even verify that he has met his religious obligations.
        
        Also, while divorce is administered by the state, nonetheless Islamic sharia also requires that a man must stand in front of his wife and witnessess and pronounce “I divorce you” three times. Again, the local sharia court may be called upon to confirm if that criterion has been met. Doesn’t mean that they aren’t divorced according to the paperwork that the state provides, but divorced in the eyes of the Muslim community is another matter…
        
        And that is how sharia works in a secular Western nation, just as Christians administer their own church communities and the distinct requirements of their faith.
        
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        June 10, 2017 11:39am
      - Fletch
        
        Actually, an Imam in Australia says that Sharia law is being practiced in Oz under the radar.
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZbCe4hFhGI
        
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        June 10, 2017 12:51pm
    - Paulus
      
      I understand that in the UK there are currently over 150 Sharia Courts and many more expected.
      
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      June 10, 2017 1:57pm
  - Swifty
    
    No I don’t think that’s fair.
    
    I am not anti-muslim, althought at times some of them make it very hard for me, but the sharia disgusts me and I will resist it totally where I see it being suggested that any scrap of it, however small, introduced in to NZ.
    
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    June 10, 2017 10:02am
    - stephieboy
      
      Swifty , sharia means different things to different Muslims with a wide range of different interpretations .
      
      The so called Sharia Courts in the UK have a very limited jurisdiction of a small claims court variety and must operate within established laws and the rule of law .
      
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      June 10, 2017 10:10am
      - Swifty
        
        So?
        
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        June 10, 2017 10:29am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @stephieboy
        
        sharia means different things to different Muslims with a wide range of different interpretations
        
        Give us some clear examples, then , of how these interpretations of Sharia Law differ and where different varieties of Sharia Law are practised.
        
        What form(s) of Sharia Law is (are) practised by NZ Moslems?
        
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        June 10, 2017 10:36am
      - Chuck Bird
        
        Is paedophilia and necrophilia a crime under sharia law as the perfect person tried both? How about French kissing young boys?
        
        These Muslims will throw homosexuals off towers but are happy to molest young boys.
        
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        June 10, 2017 11:19am
      - Twinkletoes
        
        Except they don’t because many of those they pronounce against are non-English illiterate young girls who still think they are living in an Islamic country after they have been brought over to marry a cousin. They are rarely, if at all let out and then only into the immediate neighbourhood which is pure muslim. They are only allowed to watch muslim TV (in their own language) beamed in from SKY.
        
        Their postal votes are filled in by the husband (if literate) or local imam.
        
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        June 10, 2017 3:23pm
    - lifesgood
      
      National radio had a very interesting item about Sharia Banking in NZ on the radio this morning. The tone of the item was that it was a good thing. It is terrifying how they are edging their way into our society, one step at a time.
      
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      June 10, 2017 1:10pm
      - mikenmild
        
        How, exactly, did the thought of alternative banking practices terrify you?
        
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        June 10, 2017 2:05pm
    - wiseowl
      
      I am sure I heard last week that there was something about kiwisaver allowing a special account for sharia.
      If it is correct I would object to it.
      
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      June 10, 2017 2:32pm
  - UpandComer
    
    Because a religion is a race? What do vibrants expect?
    
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    June 10, 2017 10:18am
Disaster Area

The last result from the UK election is in: Labour win Kensington, by 16, 333 votes to 16, 313 – a twenty vote majority.

This must be one of the smallest winning margins in electoral history!
Quite apart from Labour winning the richest constituency in the country.
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June 10, 2017 8:40am
- mandk
  
  A twenty vote margin is huge!
  The SNP beat the Liberal Democrats in NE Fife by 13,743 to 13,741.
  
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  June 10, 2017 9:03am
- Inandout
  
  Years of grooming of the young saplings by the UK education system almost worked. Getting them out to vote for Corbyn was well planned, helped of course by the usual socialist lolly scramble. Having been feather bedded by the welfare system and never known real hardship or war, these tech ready and sensitive voters were right for the picking. This year will be tumultuous for the UK, both financial and on the streets. God help them.
  
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  June 10, 2017 9:10am
  - Disaster Area
    
    So it had nothing to do with scrapping the winter fuel allowance, the omnishambles of the Brexit negotiations and the so-called Dementia Tax?
    
    Perhaps after near;y 10 years of austerity politics, people have realised that the cuts to education, health, the police and other key services aren’t just affected the ‘dole bludgers’, they are actually starting to affect tory core voters.
    
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    June 10, 2017 10:09am
  - SGA
    
    @Inandout
    
    Years of grooming of the young saplings by the UK education system almost worked.
    
    meh – For the last 150+ years, people have been making observations along the lines of “If a man is not a socialist by the time he is 20, he has no heart. If he is not a conservative by the time he is 40, he has no brain.” Variations on this theme have been (mis)attributed to Burke, Disraeli, Shaw, Churchill, and Bertrand Russell.
    
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    June 10, 2017 11:06am
    - Disaster Area
      
      As Einstein once said “I fear of the day when any quote off the internet can be attributed to me”.
      
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      June 10, 2017 11:21am
      - Stars And Stripes
        
        Given Einstein died in 1955 and the internet was not invented till the late 80’s I think that quote is unlikely as well.
        
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        June 10, 2017 1:06pm
      - MCos
        
        Must have been Oscar Wilde
        
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        June 10, 2017 1:16pm
      - GazzaW
        
        No. It was Shakespeare.
        
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        June 10, 2017 3:24pm
duggledog

Well May certainly f***ed that one up didn’t she. Mind you, can’t blame her, seemed like a good idea at the time.

The worrying thing is that the kids want Corbyn. Their parents and grandparents didn’t, because they have had first hand experience of what people like him can do.

That that many people can fall for a nutter like Corbyn worries me enormously. Poor old Blighty.
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June 10, 2017 8:42am
- Disaster Area
  
  Or perhaps they don’t want massive cuts to education, health care and other public services.
  
  I’m not too sure that ‘the kids’ were bothered about the removal of the OAP Winter Fuel Allowance and the ‘dementia tax’.
  
  As for the Coalition of Chaos, just look who May has had to sign up with: the DUP, that bastion of reason and goodwill.
  
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  June 10, 2017 8:47am
- stephieboy
  
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  duggledog,
  
  ” Corbyn worries me enormously.. ”
  
  Disturb your beauty sleep last night ?
  
  Thoughts about UKIP imploding ?
  
  Sigh.
  
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  June 10, 2017 8:47am
- Peter
  
  I do think this is a mounting problem.
  
  The next generation haven’t ever experienced the hard left is power, so have no idea how truly awful it is. Those I’ve spoken with seem to think they’ll have all the material comforts and liberty they have today, just with cheaper housing and more handouts.
  
  They are, without exception, clueless about Venezuela and can’t identify it on a map, let alone articulate the political system that has caused its problems.
  
  In some ways it might be beneficial if New Zealand gets a pure shot at socialism i.e. Greens calling the shots. Three years of galloping mentalism and the inevitable economic destruction that follows and that’s the last we’ll hear of leftism for another generation.
  
  Shame you can’t just tell them, though. It would save a lot of misery – which is all socialism has ever delivered.
  
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  June 10, 2017 12:58pm
- GoVege
  
  They do NOT want Corbyn!
  They want Labour…and like Hawking they mostly want Corbyn to step down for the good of the party.
  
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  June 10, 2017 7:20pm
oldpark

Mrs May might have got a shock on the reults of the British General Election. A bigger shock surely would be for the Marxist Como Corbyn,who after offering a huge bribe of 49BILLION DOLLARS to the voting public for their votes,thinking he could offer and do anything,as there was not much chance of winning.Even though if he had gotten over the line and had to deliver,Britain would have been bankrupt in three years. For the mentality of a marxist commo like Corbyn,”so what”.
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June 10, 2017 8:44am
flipper

A good breakfast reading menu on RCP…… (well, some of it 🙂 )

Friday, June 9 >/b> [US E Time]

Trump Committed No Crime. Democrats Need to Get Over It. Ed Rogers, Wash Post
Comey’s Testimony a Very Dark and Damning Day for Trump Mike Allen, Axios
The Impeachment Machine Is Warming Up Richard Wolffe, The Guardian
Comey, Not Trump, Is the Villain in This Idiotic Saga George Neumayr, Am Spectator
CNN’s War On Trump Is Going Swimmingly Ben Domenech, The Federalist
Jeremy Corbyn’s Achievement John Cassidy, The New Yorker
How Theresa May Led the Tories Astray Joseph Sternberg, Wall Street Journal
The Fall of Theresa May – and Donald Trump? Andrew Sullivan, New York Magazine
Comey Wasn’t Investigating Trump, But Media Said He Was Dan McLaughlin, NRO
Sessions Learns Loyalty to Trump Is a One-Way Street A.B. Stoddard, RealClearPolitics
Is College Worth It? Increasing Numbers Say No Michael Barone, Washington Examiner
GA-6 Special Election: WSB/Landmark: Ossoff (D) +3 | Atlanta JC: Ossoff (D) +7

More From Real Clear
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June 10, 2017 8:45am
- stephieboy
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  I see Elvis impersonators are been replaced by Trump ones ,
  
  Richard Wagner: Siegfried’s Funeral March (Twilight of the Gods)
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epnKO1NEzto
  
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  June 10, 2017 8:49am
B.L.Zeebub

NewsFlash,

https://ageofshitlords.com/isis-surrenders-following-vigilant-thoughts-prayers-facebook-users
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June 10, 2017 8:47am
Happychappy

I see TV Three have got a new advertising weapon to promote the Marriage of Convenience after a University Professor came out and has pointed out the features in a persons face can help you judge their character. Now TV Three are promoting the Obese Leader of the Greens and the Leader of the opposition Andrew Little as the two Politicians that have these features and the people that the public are more likely to put there trust in to succeed in the upcoming Election. This shows how far the Media and Leftwing Academics will go to achieve the Government they prefer.
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June 10, 2017 8:51am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Even better, this type of psychobabble being “researched” at Otago follows in the footsteps of the climate-change psychobabbler Stephan Lewandowsky, much beloved of the climate alarmists.
  
  http://www.otago.ac.nz/news/news/otago652954.html
  https://featuredcontent.psychonomic.org/bob-better-had-a-round-face-and-kirk-a-square-jaw-people-are-liked-better-if-their-names-go-with-their-faces/
  
  Now if anyone can tell me how this psychonomic nonsense differs from Phrenology, I’d be vey interested.
  
  (pers. disclosure….. I have a well-rounded face hiding angular bone structure…. which goes with my unpronounceable surname that supersedes my common maiden name)
  
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  June 10, 2017 10:17am
  - stephieboy
    
    Maggy Wassillief , could deliver us a paper as to why Climate deniers and Creationists / anti evolutionists and Trumpists flock together ?
    
    Why your kind of climate denial attracts obvious nuttters like Christopher Monckton ?
    
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    June 10, 2017 10:22am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Why your kind of climate denial
      
      Where have I ever denied Climate?
      Where have I ever denied that the climate changes?
      
      Hey stephieboy, there’s $1000 available for your favourite charity/mosque, if you can produce convincing evidence that I have denied climate.
      
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      June 10, 2017 10:41am
      - stephieboy
        
        Weak and lame !
        
        Whats the attraction of” Lord “Monckton ?
        
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        June 10, 2017 10:58am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        So, no evidence, eh?
        
        Again you are using Kiwiblog to level unsubstantiated slurs against me.
        
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        June 10, 2017 11:14am
      - Disaster Area
        
        I do think that a person’s ‘scientific’ views could be correlated to their politics: Climate change skeptics tend to be conservative, vaccine alarmists tend to be on the left. Evolution deniers tend to be on the right, anti GMO protesters are on the left.
        
        Just my anecdotal evidence 😉
        
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        June 10, 2017 11:24am
    - Peter
      
      What is a climate denier?
      
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      June 10, 2017 1:12pm
  - KevOB
    
    Is there a 97% consensus about that?
    Lowandowsky should be required reading on anti-science.
    
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    June 10, 2017 4:23pm
- oldpark
  
  Wonder what their take is on their employee Patrick meathead, the original clown of” believe it or not”.
  
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  June 10, 2017 12:24pm
- Gabby
  
  Did they note Bingles’ resemblance to a mustelid, crappy? Apologies if you share the affliction of a weaselly countenance.
  
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  June 10, 2017 1:12pm
  - Happychappy
    
    Slaggybaggy just keep on playing with that bean as no body else will go near it.
    
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    June 10, 2017 1:28pm
Stars And Stripes

I see there is a new game show coming to Maori Television starting Monday.
Wheel Of Koha with host Chris Finlayson.
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June 10, 2017 8:51am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  It looks like a great game! I can hardly wait for Finlayson to spin the wheel for no matter where it stops, the brown eyed bro’s will be the winners!
  
  The losers are the usual suspect with their tax dollars being diverted from funding for schools, hospitals, roads, transport, infrastructure, police, nurses, police & teachers salaries etc all so the bro’s can have a Lexus to sleep in
  
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  June 10, 2017 9:35am
  - VicParking
    
    How long to does it have to be before we stop paying for the sins of our fathers.
    
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    June 10, 2017 9:44am
    - Happychappy
      
      Vic:
      On another subject I see Harry Kane has been given the Captains armband in their game against Scotland.
      
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      June 10, 2017 9:52am
    - GoVege
      
      What sins?
      For bringing technology, civilization and the rule of law to this fair land?
      
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      June 10, 2017 12:55pm
    - Paulus
      
      Grandfathers and before
      
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      June 10, 2017 2:02pm
MCos

It’s funny how the world goes round..
The Torys have been endlessly lambasting Corbyn as sympathetic to terrorists and here they are in bed with the Northern Ireland Unionists to keep a grasp on power.
I wonder what the Queen thought of that?
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June 10, 2017 8:51am
JasonJohns

DUP’s firm stand on the darwin cult and fossil fraud.

A SENIOR DUP Assemblyman has pressed for creationism to be taught alongside evolution in classrooms across the North.
Mervyn Storey, who chairs the Stormont education committee, said his “ideal” would be the removal of evolutionary teaching from the curriculum altogether.
“This is not about removing anything from the classroom, although that would probably be the ideal for me, but this is about us having equality of access to other views as to how the world came into existence and that I think is a very, very important issue for many parents in Northern Ireland.”
Mr Storey has also challenged education minister Caitríona Ruane to apply her principles of “equality” to the issue.
“She tells us she’s all for equality; surely if that is the case, you can’t have one set of interpretations being taught at the expense of others,” he told the Belfast News Letter.
Sinn Féin dismissed the comments as “a distraction from the real issues at hand” and declined to comment further.
This is the latest in a number of interventions by Mr Storey on the issue. In June last year, the North Antrim Assembly man made a similar call during a sitting of the Assembly Education Committee, when he pressed Ms Ruane to “ensure that scientific explanations, other than Darwinian evolution, are taught in schools as scientific explanations”. Despite numerous requests, the DUP has declined to comment on the matter.
A statement from the Department of Education said that its policy is based on recommendations made by the Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment (CCEA) and that there must be a distinction made between “the evidence based approach to scientific theories and knowledge in science lessons, and exploring other beliefs about how the world came into existence”. Mr Storey has also weighed in to the ongoing dispute regarding the age of the Giant’s Causeway, Co Antrim.

Mr Storey, among others, has called for the proposed visitors’ centre to display not just accepted geological data, but also the creationist argument that the distinctive rock formation is only 6,000 years old. “The problem to date has been that we only have a narrow interpretation from an evolutionary point of view as to how these particular stones were formed,” he said last year.
His comments follow other controversies involving senior DUP figures and “faith issues” in Northern politics. Last month, Strangford MP Iris Robinson faced widespread criticism for her description of homosexuality as an “abomination”. She further asserted that “it is the duty of government to uphold God’s law”.
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June 10, 2017 8:54am
- mikenmild
  
  How completely unsurprising that a God-addled Ulster unionist should be a creationist.
  
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  June 10, 2017 8:59am
  - JasonJohns
    
    How old do you think the world is MM? The DUP rank and file will make sure Biblical science is put on the agenda of the UK government and that secularism’s reign is challenged. ‘It’s time to bring god back into government’ as the party says.
    
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    June 10, 2017 9:22am
    - Disaster Area
      
      Biblical science is a complete oxymoron. There is no such thing.
      I always find it interesting that people who rail against theocracies in the middle east are more than happy to try and impose a theocracy in the UK.
      
      Perhaps putting the ‘god into government’ is only OK when it is ‘our’ god.
      
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      June 10, 2017 10:13am
- stephieboy
  
  JasonJohns , the date and time the world was created according to the DUP and you ?
  
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  June 10, 2017 9:10am
  - JasonJohns
    
    The world is 6,000 years old. A commenter called Scott has made the case for this at length at KB so I will leave it at that except to say the evidence is overwhelming.
    
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    June 10, 2017 9:23am
    - Paulus Gnome
      
      ‘the evidence is overwhelming’
      
      Don’t think I have heard that phrase since the last climate alarmist’s post!
      
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      June 10, 2017 9:38am
    - stephieboy
      
      JasonJohns , 6000 years documented in the Book of Geneisis or is it a faith issue ?
      
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      June 10, 2017 10:12am
    - Swifty
      
      Liar.
      
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      June 10, 2017 10:27am
  - Inandout
    
    And Allah Khan does not have any fixed beliefs, you know the Muslim Mayor of Londonstan? He publicly supports gays, but London imams carry on wanting their beheadings.
    
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    June 10, 2017 9:24am
    - JasonJohns
      
      If a humane and prudent policy of the mass internment of Muslims along the lines proposed by Tommy Robinson was adopted then London would no longer have a Muslim mayor.
      
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      June 10, 2017 9:36am
      - stephieboy
        
        JasonJohns, would Jesus approve of Tommy Robinson ?
        
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        June 10, 2017 10:15am
      - Disaster Area
        
        Despite the fact that he was elected in a democratic and free election?
        From Khan’s wikipedia page: ‘Khan won the largest number of votes in one election of any politician in British history.’
        
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        June 10, 2017 10:15am
- Swifty
  
  Yeah, let’s all present to our children as fact a thoroughly discredited selection of bronze-age myths and legends and watch as our kids scientific knowledge regress to those levels attained by children in the islamic world.
  
  “Oh, Mohammed was claimed to have been seen on two far away places at the same time so that is all the proof we need he flew between them on a winged-horse.”
  
  It’s the abuse of children – plain and simple.
  
  What a deluded twat you are JasonJohns. Thank goodness the days of your ideas having any significant support in NZ are well and truly over.
  
  You’re a relic and your ilk’s hold on NZ society are where they belong – in the dustbin of history.
  
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  June 10, 2017 10:23am
JasonJohns

Predictably the MSM which helped gift Corbyn 41% with its biased coverage is now saying that the Tories are hypocrites because they called Corbyn out on his links to Sinn Fein but are now working with the DUP which supposedly has ties to ‘terrorism’.

But there is a huge difference between the disciplined armed self-defence of the Ulster Defence Association, the armed wing of the DUP, and the anarchism and nihilism of the Muslim-affiliated IRA. The UDA members were patriots who fought for God’s law against Papists and secular humanist betrayers of the West. Theresa May should be proud not ashamed to work with DUP members who were UDA fighters.
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June 10, 2017 8:58am
- MCos
  
  The UK MSM were vehemently opposed to Corbyn.
  
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  June 10, 2017 9:02am
  - JasonJohns
    
    No a few centrist MSM outlets like the Sun held out but most became hysterically pro-Corbyn as the pressure was felt during the campaign. MSM bias makes Corbyn’s 41% illegitimate.
    
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    June 10, 2017 9:24am
    - MCos
      
      You might consider the Sun centrist
      Everyone else would say rabid right wing, unless there’s money to be made temporarily sympathising with a penniless paraplegic
      
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      June 10, 2017 10:19am
    - Fletch
      
      According to Brendan O’Neill, people on Twitter have been boasting about buying up all the tabloids that are anti-labour and burning them.
      
      This is a new low. Members of the Twitterati are boasting about buying up all the tabloids from their local newsagents and either binning them or burning them. Why? To protect the allegedly gullible plebs who read these papers from their anti-Labour editorials in the hope of stopping them from slavishly tramping to the polling station to vote Tory. They are using money and fire to try to deprive the lower orders of political reading material on Election Day. This is one of the foulest acts yet by the Twitterati. Hot tip: when you’re burning literature, you’ve lost the fucking plot.
      
      https://www.facebook.com/brendan.oneill.79/posts/1384104455012977
      
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      June 10, 2017 12:58pm
      - Gabby
        
        Brendie’s a sucker and a bit of a knob.
        
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        June 10, 2017 1:18pm
  - Inandout
    
    The US public have awakened to the MSM, the UK public will take a while longer.
    
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    June 10, 2017 9:26am
    - mikenmild
      
      That must account for Trump’s growing approval ratings, then. Oh, wait…
      
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      June 10, 2017 9:35am
    - Viking2
      
      Well Trump has allowed Coomey to hang himself.
      
      Watching Coomey I thought that he was defending the indefensible.
      He was trying to tell everyone that the FBI were all up front and in geeod hearty and did everything by the book.
      
      Well, the KDC case shows just how corrupt the FBI can be/ Converting a civil case to an FBI case but fooling with the facts and then subsequently brow beating our ex PM and police into the actions that followed. (at out taxpayers expense as well.)
      Deliberately ignoring our Courts and the courts rulings.
      Couldn’t happen to a nicer chap.
      
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      June 10, 2017 10:45am
      - Viking2
        
        Edit is all screwed up today.
        Happens when you become to socialist.
        Warning.
        
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        June 10, 2017 10:47am
      - Paulus
        
        Trump was naive not to have found out Comey’s biography and that he has been in the pockets of the Clintons, and more recently Obama.
        Look at Comey’s previous history, say for one in a major arms manufacturing company getting huge Government contracts, and huge published payoffs, before being appointed under advisement by Obama.
        Much is readily available who believes himself to be untouchable (FBI TV programme name I remember).
        
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        June 10, 2017 2:10pm
  - VicParking
    
    Rubbish, can’t you read.
    
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    June 10, 2017 9:46am
- Disaster Area
  
  ‘the Muslim-affiliated IRA’
  
  Really?
  
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  June 10, 2017 10:16am
  - mikenmild
    
    Well, the got weapons from Libya, I guess, but that didn’t exactly make them ‘Muslim-affiliated’ any more than money and weapons from the USA made them Democrats.
    
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    June 10, 2017 10:22am
MCos

On the one hand Trump reaffirms US support for the US blockade of Qatar at WH presser.
On the other hand Tillerson strongly opposes the blockade 90 minutes earlier.
WTF is going on over there?
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June 10, 2017 8:59am
- MCos
  
  Some downticks?
  Please elaborate
  
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  June 10, 2017 10:20am
  - Disaster Area
    
    Trump Derangement Syndrome: i.e. the people are convinced, no matter what the evidence, that Trump is doing a good job.
    
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    June 10, 2017 10:47am
  - GoVege
    
    Weren’t me MCos…
    
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    June 10, 2017 1:13pm
- Gabby
  
  Tillerson got his free World Cup tickets.
  
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  June 10, 2017 1:20pm
MCos

Dean Barker hopes Sweden beats Team NZ

Loser!
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June 10, 2017 9:05am
Yvette

Perhaps someone here with more legal knowledge could inform me please.

Rachel MacGregor lodged a claim with Human Rights accusing Colin Graig of sexually harassing her, and also covering a salary matter.
There was a confidential hearing and it is later revealed the harassment claim was withdrawn, not because it was untrue, according to MacGregor, but because she just didn’t want to deal any further with Craig.
At that point, being able to say the matter is settled, but nothing more, Colin was home and hosed.

But then Craig sued Jordon Williams for defamation as Williams had repeated the accusation of harassment and made other comments.
Craig lost the case.

Am I right in assuming then that, having been found to have not defamed Craig, what Williams claimed is true, and by implication it means the Court found Craig had in fact sexually harassed Ms MacGregor?
– That the outcome of Craig suing Williams, provided proof of Ms MacGregor’s claim, even although she officially withdrew it?

Note: Since Colin Craig may perhaps be trigger happy, I am asking if the above is correct, not saying it is.
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June 10, 2017 9:13am
- MCos
  
  Sorry
  Once I read ‘Colin Craig’ I lost interest
  
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  June 10, 2017 9:22am
- Paulus
  
  Little has been said about the …. Jordan Williams in all this – it appears he decided to leak everything in favour of McGregor who had signed a confidentiality agreement.
  
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  June 10, 2017 2:12pm
lastmanstanding

Boris will bide his time and wait for the 1922 Committee to do its work and force May out. Boris will then deal to the pompous Tusk and the drunk dwarf female groping Junkers.

Thinking UK citizens will back Boris as they know a weak Brexit will punish them big time.

Only a strong Brexit deal will work for the UK citizens.

Nz are going to be first cab off the rank with an FTA our Tand E have been working with Uk T and I since a few days after Brexit.
They have been showing them how to set a gold standard FTA so you dont get carve outs later on and with future FTA partners.

NZ will do very nicely with an FTA with UK and also with EU.
Then to get Modi to ink an FTA and NZ will be in the box seat.

Forget the US for an FTA would be a low level with too many carve outs to be any good for us.
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June 10, 2017 9:15am
- Ross12
  
  I don’t know how the internal politics of the Conservatives works , but I think Micheal Gove would be a better choice to achieve what you want lastmanstanding ( which I basically agree with)
  
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  June 10, 2017 9:46am
  - Disaster Area
    
    ‘I don’t know how the internal politics of the Conservatives works’
    
    Like most politics, I suspect it is a mixture of back-stabbing, alliances of convenience, long held grudges and desperation for power.
    
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    June 10, 2017 10:20am
    - Ross12
      
      Exactly DP
      I remembered after I posted the above that in the last leadership race ( which gave the UK, Mrs May) there was a big fight between Gove and Boris.
      I said Gove because from what I recall he was very strong on Brexit and I think they now need a really committed and strong person to make Brexit a success –ie. standup to the games of the Eurocrats and put the UK first.
      
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      June 10, 2017 11:14am
MCos

Apparently Trump is prepared to swear under oath that Comey is lying.
Occording to their constitution Perjury is an impeachable offence.
I somehow doubt that any tapes of these conversations will exist, or if they do they are locked in a safe with the Obama birth certificate investigator report . . .
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June 10, 2017 9:17am
- Inandout
  
  Comey is as pure as the driven snow…in Beijing.
  
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  June 10, 2017 9:52am
  - stephieboy
    
    Bet you weren’t saying that 8th November 2016
    
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    June 10, 2017 10:24am
    - rangitoto
      
      What were you saying?
      
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      June 10, 2017 12:16pm
- virtualmark
  
  Trump will testify under oath right after he releases his tax returns …
  
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  June 10, 2017 12:24pm
Hugh Pavletich

UK POLITICAL LESSON: FLEECING THE YOUNG (REVERSE WELFARE) NOT CLEVER POLITICS

It seems the British are very slow learners in that fleecing the young (reverse welfare) is not clever politics … but they wouldn’t be the only ones learning or about to learn that lesson would they Bill English ?

After The Election, Deutsche Asks “Are The Young Starting To Rebel More And Are Looking For Hope?” | Zero Hedge

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-09/after-election-deutsche-asks-are-young-starting-rebel-more-and-are-looking-hope

Some interesting thoughts on the “shocking” result from the UK general election from Deutsche’s Jim Reid this morning:

Whatever the overall results of this election some of the stats about potential age demographics of the voters is very interesting. Sky did a poll on election day and found amongst 18-34 year olds Labour were on 63% and Conservatives 27%. With 35-54 year olds both were on 43% and over 55 year olds Labour on 23% and Conservatives on 59%. Labour made a huge push for the young who don’t normally vote in high numbers and the Conservative Party actually proposed policies that worked against their natural older vote perhaps thinking their early lead in the polls gave them an opportunity to try to balance the books more.

So were the young more motivated than normal and were the elderly less motivated? … read more via hyperlink above …

… From October 2015 … Allister Heath of the UK Telegraph …

The real ticking time bomb for the Tories is home ownership … Allister Heath … UK Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/property/11917816/The-real-ticking-time-bomb-for-the-Tories-is-home-ownership.html

… extract …

… Remarkably, 354,700 new homes were built in France last year, compared with 140,880 across the UK, a pathetically inadequate number barely half of that required. The French were actually bitterly disappointed with their own performance: their recent average has been around 400,000 homes a year. … read more via hyperlink above …
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June 10, 2017 9:30am
- Viking2
  
  Rebelling is right. tit sucking, lazy, want it all now generation.
  
  Plenty of that around.
  
  95% socialist who want others to pay their way while they suck latte’s and go strolling around the world with no thought to their own futures.
  
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  June 10, 2017 10:32am
- jcuk
  
  I am reminded of the saying …”if you are not a socialist at 20yo you have no heart and if not a right wing at 40 you have no brain”
  
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  June 10, 2017 10:34am
  - Hugh Pavletich
    
    Viking and Jeuk … that’s nonsense about the young. Just insulting them.
    
    A couple on $100k a year should be able to buy a house in the range of $250 – $300k with a sensible mortgage load about the $250k .
    
    Housing at about 3.0 times incomes and mortgage loads at a sensible 2.5 times
    
    Why pay $600k ( 6 multiple … or an extra $300k) in Christchurch or a million bucks (10 multiple or an extra $700k) in Auckland … with grossly excessive mortgages of course ?
    
    Seems they are getting a gutsful of being taken to the cleaners …
    
    The NZ homeowners who hate high house prices are revealed in Labour polling | Stuff.co.nz
    
    http://i.stuff.co.nz/business/money/90244287/The-NZ-homeowners-who-hate-high-house-prices-are-revealed-in-Labour-polling
    
    We bought our first new home in the late 70’s as a young married couple with 2 kids at the time, when my single earner income was about $8k … the house $24k and the mortgage $20k.
    
    Why shouldn’t the young ones have the same housing opportunities we had … and they still do in middle North America … refer http://www.demographia.com …
    
    … Some sorry history on these issues …
    
    … 2017 …
    
    English aware of housing crisis in 2010 – Salvation Army | Morning Report, 7:21 am on 8 June 2017 | RNZ … incl audio interview …
    
    http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/201846736/english-aware-of-housing-crisis-in-2010-salvation-army
    
    The head of the Salvation Army’s social services says the Prime Minister, Bill English, contacted him in 2010 asking for his help to tackle a looming housing crisis in Auckland. Major Campbell Roberts says politicians in general haven’t acted quick or fast enough on the housing crisis despite knowing about it.
    
    https://www.google.co.nz/?gws_rd=ssl#q=salvation+army+housing&tbm=nws&spf=1496873562481
    
    … 2012 …
    
    Housing Affordability Announcement – 29 October 2012 – YouTube
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuCchEb-XOk
    
    … 2007 …
    
    PM John Key on Housing Reform 2007 – YouTube
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWPgoAI1cLE
    
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    June 10, 2017 11:22am
    - Happychappy
      
      You are a vidictive old prick that keeps on posting the same columns week after week did you go bankrupt or lose lot of money Hugh.
      
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      June 10, 2017 11:57am
      - Rodney Randall
        
        Hugh hit a nerve?
        
        You know he is deadly accurate and your ilk can’t stand being exposed.
        
        Death to the PONZI scheme.
        
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        June 10, 2017 8:28pm
    - Peter
      
      Agreed, Hugh.
      
      The centre-right ignore this at their peril. There is no reason why NZ can’t have ample, affordable housing as we are not short of land. We are 1% urbanised.
      
      Environmental town planning and anti-road building greens cause it by creating artificial scarcity. The LEFT have caused it, yet they blame it on the right.
      
      The right should stick to their guns and expand development in order to capture this vote. Redefine the argument to favour road building and land development, not intensification.
      
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      June 10, 2017 1:19pm
    - starboard
      
      “The NZ homeowners who hate high house prices are revealed in Labour polling ”
      
      Bollocks..homeowners in akl will be ecstatic with their newfound wealth.
      Any polling done by Labour will be full of lies Hugh, this is why they are called Liarbor.
      
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      June 10, 2017 1:43pm
    - jcuk
      
      I agree Hugh though my family home mortgage was less than 25% of my income at the time because of the sweat equity my wife and I put into the project though a nest egg of $2000 gave us the start to buy an old shop and build in the back garden while living with our baby son in the shop.
      Selling one’s soul to a bank for thirty years is foolish following what your peers do and we got our A’s into G and enjoyed a much higher standard of living subsequently …. though for starters we had very little. Small fridge, 16″ TV which I had brought to the marraige from living in a caravan for a couple of years in a motorcamp. My first step to ‘home ownership’.
      But with all the mollycoddling imposed on people I doubt if that would be possible today.
      
      edit … though at 85yo I am still a socialist … but a sensible one 🙂
      
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      June 10, 2017 2:20pm
      - Inandout
        
        Your generation were the grafters, your parents experiencing the Depression were generally more so. The socialists I used to know were hard working and honest people, salt of the earth. Then there were the wharfies, who spent a good part of the day in the pubs across from the Auckland wharves.
        
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        June 10, 2017 3:59pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        Tremendous comments everyone !
        
        Whatever our political inclinations, we are first and foremost fair go Kiwis.
        
        That is very much part of who and what we are.
        
        As you will see by going through my archival website, there is now a global leading public consensus on these issues …
        
        http://www.PerformanceUrbanPlanning.org
        
        The only ingredient we desperately need is the political leadership necessary to get a GRAND COALITION in place on these issues … as we saw during the recent RMA amendment legislation recently … and too … back early September during the extension to the HASHA legislation.
        
        What Bernard Hickey wrote following the former (RMA amendment) is important. Very important.
        
        Please note Bernard is simply reporting here … not opining. I used to have some wonderful debates with him when I wrote for Interest Co … finding him a very courteous adversary. Please note carefully what he REPORTS here …
        
        https://pro.newsroom.co.nz/articles/1629-newsroom-pro-s-8-things-at-8-trolling-millennials-is-easy-defamation-retrials-loom
        
        7. Just in case you missed it…
        
        One curious coda to the RMA debate that concluded last week was that the Opposition parties plus ACT and United Future all voted again during the third reading debate for amendments that would have abolished Rural Urban Growth Boundaries and allowed the financing of infrastructure bonds paid for with targeted rates.
        
        The amendments were defeated by National and the Maori Party.
        
        The irony of a Government that has railed against restrictions on land development by councils voting against removing those restrictions should be noted. And also that the proposal for infrastructure bonds was backed by the right-leaning New Zealand Initiative and voted for by the Greens and Labour. Strange times indeed.
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        .
        Why is the current Government leadership failing to date to pull this grand coalition together on housing issues ?
        
        They owe it to young Kiwis … so they have the same housing opportunities our generation had.
        
        We are just RESTORING affordable housing … not INVENTING it !
        
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        June 10, 2017 4:48pm
Tom Barker

To Jason Johns – do you also happen to believe in the Man in the Moon, by any chance?
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June 10, 2017 9:30am
- mikenmild
  
  I believe Jason Johns is one of the Kea stable of trolls. I very much doubt there are any sincere opinions behind the provocative comments.
  
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  June 10, 2017 9:33am
Sir Leslie Bottocks

Fantastic win for the Bangles sticking it to the bullies and thugs. Let’s all hope the Swedish team can do something similar!
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June 10, 2017 9:36am
- Kimbo
  
  By any measure Bangaledesh’s Shakib Al Hasan is a world class all rounder and match winner. Don’t know why people talk about “shock loss” because the days are long since past where Bangladesh can be taken for granted. Has taken a while for them to become competitive, but they are now at that stage Sri Lanka were in the early 1990s just before their break through at the 1996 World Cup – tough at home/on the sub-Continent, and able to win on occasions abroad.
  
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  June 10, 2017 10:57am
JasonJohns

It shows how insulated from reality the far left are that they cannot even conceive of anyone sincerely holding opinions that the vast majority of people in the heartlands of NZ, US, and UK accept. As the upticks here show my stance in favour of white nationalism, Biblical principles and the mass internment of Muslims is mainstream. It is the liberals like Mike who are marginal. Now with the DUP in London and Trump in Washington the people are taking back government. The day of the white man has come.
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June 10, 2017 9:38am
- stephieboy
  
  JasonJohns , was Jesus a Nordic Aryan ?
  
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  June 10, 2017 10:16am
  - UpandComer
    
    The original church fathers say he had such features.
    
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    June 10, 2017 10:23am
    - stephieboy
      
      Upandcomer . so he was a Aryan Nordic Jew ?
      
      LOL
      
      Sources please !
      
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      June 10, 2017 10:26am
      - jcuk
        
        Just as Man was made in the image of God so early folk made a Jesus like themselves. Human nature!
        
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        June 10, 2017 2:28pm
- MCos
  
  I’m a white Kiwi?
  When can I expect a cheque in the mail?
  We need the money to bring some of my wife’s whanau out here so they can over run the place with bloody Asians!
  Damned sight more agreeable people than the likes of you, matey.
  
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  June 10, 2017 10:33am
- Peter
  
  Obvious troll is obvious.
  
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  June 10, 2017 1:22pm
Stars And Stripes

Air NZ ‘racist’ for questioning Tongan mum at Premium check-in, family claims
http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2017/06/air-nz-racist-for-questioning-tongan-mum-in-business-class-family-claims.html
“The daughter of a woman at the Premium check-in on a flight to Tonga claims her mother was racially profiled by an Air New Zealand staff member”.

Yes pull out the old racist card for maximum effect.
Shame a number of your claims don’t stack up like your mother flying business class when it didn’t even exist on that flight and no record of the incident on CCTV , but hey don’t let that stand in the way of a good story.
Sounds like you are just trying to bludge some freebies out of Air NZ to me lady.
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June 10, 2017 10:20am
- Longknives
  
  My favourite part is- “The daughter claims to have then asked for help getting her mother, who is blind in one eye, from..”
  
  How the heck is that even relevant to the story???
  
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  June 10, 2017 1:21pm
  - starboard
    
    Should have put her in the hold.
    
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    June 10, 2017 1:45pm
  - itstricky
    
    And, yet, here:
    
    http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2017/05/another_white_male_bites_the_dust.html#comment-1935574
    
    You were quite encouraging of using the race card. Go figure.
    
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    June 10, 2017 2:01pm
big bruv

I was listening to a podcast this morning from the UK. It featured that spoiled brat Owen Jones. On that podcast Jones was bemoaning The Tories for doing a deal with the DUP because of their views. Jones went further and accused the DUP of being misogynists, anti LBGT and anti abortion.

Of course the very fact that Jones is a staunch defender of Islam and that religions well known hatred of LBGT, abortion and females did not seem to matter. Of all the things I hate the hard left for it is their naked hypocrisy that tops the list.
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June 10, 2017 10:28am
Viking2

The day of the white man has come.

Making the world an interesting place.
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June 10, 2017 10:36am
- mikenmild
  
  Really?. I should have thought it quite evident that the world is already run by white men.
  
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  June 10, 2017 10:40am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    @mikenmild
    
    You do have a very limited conception of the World, don’t you?
    I s’pse folks like
    Wang Jianlin, Xi Jinping, Mukesh Ambani or Carlos Slim don’t register for you.
    
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    June 10, 2017 11:06am
  - Reid
    
    Then why are white men and only white men painted as oppressors in the cultural marxism heroes and villains pantheon?
    
    No.
    
    The people who run the world are the people who begat and inflict such movements mm. To them, white men are their biggest enemies because we are the only group who can take them down if we are awakened and united.
    
    They don’t care about Arab men, Black men or Asian men. But they do care about white men. That’s why they spend so much time on schemes designed to weaken, dilute and divide us. Just look at everything cultural marxism has done to white men since the 60’s, up to and including the Muslim invasion of Europe which will in 40 years change the demographics of that continent forever.
    
    Because they know that without us, there is nothing to stand in their way. They’re the rulers of this world.
    
    But not surprising you get it completely wrong, again.
    
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    June 10, 2017 11:22am
- MCos
  
  How am I going to break the news to blokes who run the dairy down the road that their day is over?
  
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  June 10, 2017 10:51am
- stephieboy
  
  V2 , if Donald , Vladimir and Benjamin N are not white then what are you ?
  
  Thought of topping your self up at a local whites only sperm bank ?
  
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  June 10, 2017 10:54am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    @stephieboy
    
    I realise you have difficulty with English Idiom…
    
    but if you think it’s clever to suggest that someone should top themselves, then think again.
    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Topping%20yourself
    
    It is illegal to incite someone to commit suicide.
    
    CLEAN YOUR ACT UP!
    
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    June 10, 2017 11:20am
    - Kimbo
      
      As objectionable as stephieboy’s comment was (and the racist implications in Viking2’s for that matter), that’s not what he meant, despite the similarity of many of the words.
      
      Yet again, I give the advice – don’t feed the troll, let alone engage in the attempt to reform them. You’ve asked once, you’ve asked twice, you’ve asked many times. It won’t happen. So ignore, and leave “cleaning up” in the hands of DPF…
      
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      June 10, 2017 12:00pm
      - stephieboy
        
        Maggy W will never listen . She simply can’t get over herself on a range of scholarly questions including Lord Monckton’s erudite contribution to the climate change denial industry and “science ”
        
        LOL
        
        Kimbo, and you need to get over your unsuccessful attempts to white wash Richard Nixon and his woeful Presidency .
        
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        June 10, 2017 1:22pm
    - Gabby
      
      Lame.
      
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      June 10, 2017 1:29pm
    - jcuk
      
      Maggy .. do you never top up your fuel tank at the garage ….. english has many meanings and uses of some words 🙂
      
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      June 10, 2017 2:34pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Topping-up is quite different from topping yourself.
        
        I’d be fascinated to know how a male tops-up at a sperm bank.
        
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        June 10, 2017 3:57pm
- itstricky
  
  The day of the white man has come.
  
  Making the world an interesting place.
  
  I like how humble you are. Sure to go down well.
  
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  June 10, 2017 2:06pm
RF

I see the rugby gods are comparing Crusaders first five, Ritchie Mo’unga to Dan Carter.

That’s good and I wish him well.

He should be ok following in DCs footsteps as long as he does not have his penchant for getting on the turps and drunk driving.

Let’s be careful out there.
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June 10, 2017 10:56am
Happychappy

You can always tell when the news has not gone down well and the polls polls have fucked up Whale Oils view as he has to return to his same old story of the Israel and have his patrons pen letters to Parties that don’t agree with their view. David Seymour is the latest to get a kick in the nuts from Slaters loyal band of followers for his view of Winston Peters and for his support of the resolution to the UN that was sponsored by National.
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June 10, 2017 11:02am
- Kimbo
  
  Yes, ~~Israel’s~~ Likud’s embedded New Zealand journalist may not like folks trolling his blogsite, but he has no qualms winding other up to do that to politicians. Good, forthright and honest response by David Seymour:
  
  There are 46,000 Muslims in NZ, 1 per cent of the population. The best way to make sure the few radicals amongst them do some thing stupid is to have an idiot like Winston persecuting the whole community for political gain. Any clown can get up and blame a whole religion for something that is rather complex, ACT has always been a thinking person’s party.
  
  David
  
  https://www.whaleoil.co.nz/2017/06/utter-disconnect-act-party/
  
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  June 10, 2017 11:49am
- Paulus
  
  WO cannot get over his fetishes – Craig first and Israel second because he has been there on holiday.
  Used to be readable but got crashed out for disagreeing with something trivial.
  
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  June 10, 2017 2:18pm
Kimbo

US President Donald Trump says he is “100 per cent” willing to testify under oath that sacked Federal Bureau of Investigation director James Comey has lied about their encounters.

… When asked whether he would be willing to speak under oath to give his version of events, Mr Trump said “100 per cent”.

He also said he would be happy to give evidence to Robert Mueller, the Justice Department special counsel overseeing the investigation into whether the Russians interfered with the US election and whether anyone in Mr Trump’s camp helped.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11873752

Hmm. Not sure that is a wise thing, nor even Constitutional given the separation of powers. Or at the very least it could set a precedent that could weaken the office of the POTUS. For example, Richard Nixon’s attitude in Watergate was (rightly) that the case had to be made against him by the legislative branch (through the Ervin Committee and later the House Committee that voted for impeachment), or the courts.

However, while the SCOTUS ruled (perhaps wrongly) that what turned out to be the “smoking gun” tape could not be withheld under Presidential executive privilege…the Chief Executive responding to an invitation to give testimony concerning his executive decisions is a whole different kettle of fish. Where do you draw the line, and say that an investigator has no right to expect an answer to question x, y or z, as they may include matters that affect national security.

Whether you are for or agin Trump, or, like me amused/bemused by the spectacle surrounding him he last two years, there is no doubt that the objectionable habit of “criminalising policy” that was a part of Watergate is now in full force. A POTUS being willing to respond to a subpeona or Congressional invitation is a severe loss of power. Did Trump know this when he answered the question?
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June 10, 2017 11:15am
- Reid
  
  the objectionable habit of “criminalising policy” that was a part of Watergate is now in full force
  
  The same Deep State forces that took down Nixon are looking to use the same tactics on Trump. Don’t take my word for it.
  
  http://www.wnd.com/2017/05/deep-state-took-down-nixon-plans-same-for-trump/
  
  But don’t underestimate Trump, he’s got the second highest IQ of any POTUS in history, and the legal minds on his team are seriously brilliant people. Fake news tells the sheeple otherwise, but who is dumb enough to believe them, apart of course from people like stephie and mm?
  
  http://www.snopes.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/president-iq.jpg
  
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  June 10, 2017 11:58am
  - Reid
    
    Just to forestall any arguments about that IQ statement, which will come from people like stephie and mm, all you need to do is look at his life results.
    
    Forget about the fact he’s a self-made billionaire, just look what he did to get elected. He not only triumphed over the political opposition, he also triumphed over an unprecedented lockstep in unison media campaign against him the strength of which we’ve never seen before, plus he triumphed over the myriad forces in his own party trying to prevent him from success, even after he’d won the nomination. All of this from a man who’d never even stood in a local let alone a national election. How could a dummy such as the MSM portrays him possibly achieve even a fraction of that?
    
    So people like stephie and mm will need to address those facts first, if they care to argue the toss on the IQ.
    
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    June 10, 2017 12:09pm
    - jonar
      
      Forget about the fact he’s a self-made billionaire
      
      Uh, huh…
      
      https://www.alternet.org/story/156234/exposing_how_donald_trump_really_made_his_fortune%3A_inheritance_from_dad_and_the_government%27s_protection_mostly_did_the_trick
      
      Trump was born in New York City in 1946, the son of real estate tycoon Fred Trump. Fred Trump’s business success not only provided Donald Trump with a posh youth of private schools and economic security but eventually blessed him with an inheritance worth an estimated $40 million to $200 million. It is critical to note, however, that his father’s success, which granted Donald Trump such a great advantage, was enabled and buffered by governmental financing programs.
      
      In 1974 Donald Trump became president of his father’s organization. During the 15 years following his ascension, he expanded and innovated the corporation, buying and branding buildings, golf courses, hotels, casinos, and other recreational facilities. In 1980 he established The Trump Organization to oversee all of his real estate operations.
      
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      June 10, 2017 12:51pm
    - virtualmark
      
      Um, the financial world is pretty sure he’s not a billionaire. Yes, he’ll tell you he is. But most estimates place his net wealth in the mid-hundred millions.
      
      And he’s not self-made. Daddy helped quite a lot.
      
      And I very very much doubt he’s the second most intelligent President ever.
      
      But hey, Scientologists think L. Ron Hubbard is an outstanding chap, and Trumpists think the Don is one too. Freedom of religion …
      
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      June 10, 2017 2:14pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        ‘Um, the financial world is pretty sure he’s not a billionaire”
        err No.
        https://www.forbes.com/donald-trump/#19317ad72899
        
        Full of shit as usual VM
        
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        June 10, 2017 6:13pm
      - mikenmild
        
        I expect he’d be upfront about his financial disclosures it those disclosures would actually confirm his putative billions.
        
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        June 10, 2017 6:19pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Forbes are probably a bit conservative.
        Why dont you just have a look at the Financial Disclosure he had to make as a Presidential Candidate? Debt, who to, assets, their worth and income. All there in 90 pages.
        Some morons are claiming he cant raise money from mainstream Banks. Thats clearly wrong. Banks know Atlantic City was a disaster for everyone.
        If anything is wrong in there I’m sure someone would have had a go at him. Clinton and Steins are available too.
        I reckon he’s not releasing his Tax Forms simply because it annoys the Dems!
        
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        June 10, 2017 6:35pm
      - stephieboy
        
        All on Red ,
        
        “I reckon he’s not releasing his Tax Forms simply because it annoys the Dems!” ?
        
        Remarkably feeble even by your rock bottom standards
        
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        June 10, 2017 6:50pm
  - Paulus
    
    And his mother was a Scot, which cannot be all bad.
    
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    June 10, 2017 2:19pm
- stephieboy
  
  Reid , WND ??
  
  When they publish this kind of stupidity ,
  
  http://www.snopes.com/lions-save-christians-from-islamic-militants/
  
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  June 10, 2017 1:25pm
  - Reid
    
    No the subject wasn’t WND stupidboy, it was Pat Buchanan who says he worked in Nixon’s Administration from the first day till the last, explaining how the Deep State took him down.
    
    And BTW moron, WND is not, repeat not, Snopes.com.
    
    You really are extraordinarily dim, aren’t you. How the fuck could anyone possibly be so profoundly stupid as to mistake a subject such as the one Buchanan was discussing for the one you stupidly hallucinated was under discussion? Then on top of that idiocy you can’t even get the correct site.
    
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    June 10, 2017 1:37pm
    - stephieboy
      
      Reid , as Snopes states archived in and quoted WND,
      
      https://archive.is/04BYu
      
      LOL
      
      Now what is the appeal of Pat Buchanan ? His anti- semistism or Holocaust denial ?
      
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      June 10, 2017 2:44pm
- Notsofast
  
  I read this commentary:
  
  “Firing Comey was above all a bad political move. The substantive criminality depends on what revelations Trump hoped to suppress. Trump screwed so many creditors back in the 90s he cannot get financing from reputable sources, so he has gone offshore and fallen in with thugs from Russia and central Asia – the kind of people who would kill Comey if he lived in their country. Trump’s business has become a front for their money laundering. Anyone can go to jail for RICO. It’s not just a partisan trap.
  
  Beyond that, how might these shady investors affect Trump’s policy decisions? Does anyone trust him to rise above his own business interests for the sake of the country? I don’t. Is it possible they have leverage over him because of what they know and could leak at any time? I think so. I think we’re looking at real criminality with risks for US national security, not just political theater.”
  
  It makes a lot of sense given that Trump has lied his ass off about everything to do with money, tax, philanthropy and so on.
  The guy that wrote that is a serious insider.
  
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  June 10, 2017 2:01pm
  - Inandout
    
    You go from Comey to Trump’s business. If there was anything incriminating don’t you think Obama would have been informed via Comey? That cut n paste looks like a Democrats quote.
    
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    June 10, 2017 4:13pm
- Happychappy
  
  Kimbo:
  On another subject I would like to hear your view I have been lucky in my earlier year to have been to a lot of Rugby Test Matches all over the country through my job at no cost. So a couple of days Go I happened to be going through some of my memorabilia and have come across a Stand TIcket The Rose Stand that i gave to my father inlaw to attend the 1981 Otago v Springbox Game as I was going with the sponsors. The point is that to attend any Lions midweek or Saturday Superteam game it costs $169.00 for a Stand ticket and I do realise that 1981 today’s game is a lot of years ago but a Springbox Province game had also not been Seen for a lot of years 1964 I think, any how that game at Carisbook Game the cost of the stand ticket was $7.00 so the cost today for a young adult to go and watch his super team compete us quite expensive.
  
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  June 10, 2017 2:09pm
  - Paulus
    
    Rugby is boring.
    
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    June 10, 2017 2:20pm
    - Kimbo
      
      Fuck off, commie pinko! 😉
      
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      June 10, 2017 3:36pm
    - KevOB
      
      Rugby is also thuggish. I retired from it at age 7 on the playing field at Johnsonville School and haven’t looked back. None of my children have succumbed either although one took to soccer, a much more civilised sport, for a while.
      
      The nearest I ever got to it after my retirement from it was to sell tour match souvenirs.
      
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      June 10, 2017 4:52pm
      - Awww C-mon
        
        Hand in your man card at the desk…
        
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        June 10, 2017 7:26pm
  - Kimbo
    
    @ Happychappy
    
    Yep. I paid $77 to see the Blues vs Lions game on Wednesday night. Stayed dry, and had a good panorama view, but lots of dickheads getting up and down, spoiling the view. FFS, you flew half way round the world, paid lots of money for a ticket, will you kindly sit down and watch the rugby and/or get your over-priced snacks and drinks at half time!
    
    Other than splashing out for pool games at RWC2011, and despite knowing some of the current All Blacks and/or their parents and families through my club, I don’t usually go to big games due to the cost, inconvenience (although I’m close to the Western train line) and “rugby fatigue” factor, and limit myself to club rugby.
    
    But as my mum got pregnant with me in the course of touring around the country watching the 1966 Lions (not to one of the players I hasten to add! 😉 ), the first big rugby tour I was aware of as a kid was the 1977 Lions (the Sid Going, Grant Batty, Ian Kirkpatrick and Lawrie Knight tries, especially, as well as Andy Irvine, the “Flying Scotsman”), and I had seen a young Grant Fox drop a last minute goal to see Auckland beat the 1983 Lions (John Kirwan’s first big game, too, having been plucked out of the Marist Under 21s)
    
    …I figured I should maintain continuity. But not going to the test matches.
    
    A consequence of professionalism. It cost the likes Chris Laidlaw and Earle Kirton to play for Otago against the 1965 Springboks, just as it did for the likes of Dean Kenny and Wayne Graham in 1981. Or David Latta when they won that Springbok head in 1994! Did I mention Otago’s magnificent record against the Lions, too? Beat ’em in 1950, 1959, 1966, and 1993.
    
    The NZRU is looking to milk the Lions supporters of as many of their GBP as possible. And they seem to do a good job of paying the likes of Richie McCaw, Daniel Carter and now Beauden Barrett enough to stay in NZ, that is the price to pay…rather than losing them all to the UK, or, if rugby had not gone professional to rugby league.
    
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    June 10, 2017 3:52pm
    - Happychappy
      
      Kimbo: I love all sports and never played Rugby but enjoy watching it and was lucky enough to be sitting very close to where Ian Kirkpatrick burst out of the pack and run 55m to score one of the greatest forward tries I have ever seen at Lancaster Park in any test match that I have attended.
      
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      June 10, 2017 5:24pm
      - Kimbo
        
        As per Bob Irvine’s immortal commentary: “And awaaaaay goes Kirkpatrick. He’s got the defense spreadeagled…”
        
        The NZBC’s coverage of the try was in black and white, and also cut to a ground level shot during Kirkpatrick’s run, so it doesn’t capture the accomplishment in a full panorama. However, the Welsh TV camera (from about the 10:28 mark of this link) got it superbly:
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIkZy92bL-k
        
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        June 10, 2017 5:51pm
      - Nookin
        
        Sitting? On the bank?
        
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        June 10, 2017 6:49pm
Harriet

Have just connected to NBN in regional aussie 5min ago – have streaming to the tv and that’s good, and the net is much faster too. Plug and play for the modem and the TV box was 2min. Telstra. So far so good.
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June 10, 2017 11:33am
starboard

Good news. Hopefully the tides a turning. Prick should be hung, but small steps first I guess.

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/93526357/extra-jail-time-for-robber-who-bashed-dairy-owner
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June 10, 2017 12:29pm
stigie

Can Milky get to the magical 30,000 by tonight ?

Yes he can with the help from Johnboy arguing about their rugby and Starboard going hard out with his mum !~
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June 10, 2017 1:05pm
- mikenmild
  
  While I can appreciate your desire to read another 140 comments from me today, stigie, I can’t guarantee it.
  It will depend on the level of engagement from our resident loonies.
  
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  June 10, 2017 1:11pm
  - dad4justice
    
    “resident loonies.”
    
    Haha what rubbish from the king of loonies. Go away troll.
    
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    June 10, 2017 4:30pm
    - mikenmild
      
      Full moon tonight, D4J, best stay away from Hagley Park.
      
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      June 10, 2017 4:40pm
      - dad4justice
        
        Oh milky so original full moon and Hagley Park, yawn, yawn, yawn. I would expect nothing more from a retarded troll. Get a life creep I am out the door to watch the rugby. What a jerk you are.
        
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        June 10, 2017 4:45pm
      - stigie
        
        Just beautiful again Dad !~
        
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        June 10, 2017 7:49pm
      - starboard
        
        mm’s trawling Hagley P tonight Dad, in his pink gimp suit. Filthy pervert.
        
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        June 10, 2017 11:36pm
Fletch

Leftie Antifa SJWs attack Andrew Bolt (an Australian conservative commentator) with a “glitter bomb” (made of shaving foam, dye, glitter, etc). In return he smacks them around a bit (a punch to the face and a kick to the nuts).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjWdYqTjx70

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e_1XTt9Kbc

He also said –

“I am sick of people trying to intimidate me, trying to threaten me,” he said. “I’m sick of the threats on my life and my reputation. I’m sick of being sued and bullied and I’m not going to take it. I’m just not going to take it. We should be free to have a debate and to walk down the street without fear of being attacked. The right to free speech has to be better protected — everywhere but particularly in Melbourne. It is ridiculous how dangerous it is for conservatives in this town to speak out. If you don’t like what I say just prove me wrong. Don’t threaten me, don’t threaten my house, don’t threaten my family, don’t abuse me — just argue with me. It must be a question of the principle and not the side.”
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June 10, 2017 1:20pm
- Peter
  
  This creeping fascism amongst the left is a concern. Their words are meaningless. Watch their actions.
  
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  June 10, 2017 1:36pm
  - itstricky
    
    Yeah, nasty lefties
    
    http://i.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/93542370/shut-up-slave-spilled-starbucks-drink-leads-to-racist-tirade-and-fight
    
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    June 10, 2017 2:24pm
    - Peter
      
      I don’t see anyone condoning or excusing that behaviour, do you?
      
      I hope he gets charged and dealt with appropriately for his unacceptable behaviour.
      
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      June 10, 2017 3:16pm
- Longknives
  
  I did enjoy watching the cowardly little Lefty ‘Activists’ getting their absolute arses handed to them by a 60 year old man!
  Christ the Left are pathetic little creeps…
  
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  June 10, 2017 1:39pm
- mikenmild
  
  Poor Andrew Bolt…
  
  People like Bolt do not need to be suppressed. They need – they desperately need – to be mocked. Mocked for their ignorance. Mocked for their paranoia. Mocked for their delusions of adequacy.
  
  http://www.smh.com.au/comment/blunt-instrument/how-andrew-bolt-should-be-punished-20111003-1l53v
  
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  June 10, 2017 1:44pm
  - Manolo
    
    You are defending the indefesible, mikenmild. No justification can be found for the attack on Mr Bolt.
    
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    June 10, 2017 1:58pm
    - stephieboy
      
      Manolo , such as this ?
      
      “Bolt is a gift to likes of me; a self parodying buffoon who rushed to blame the recent massacre in Norway on jihadi extremists, hours before the real perp was revealed to be the sort of unhinged, Aryan culture warrior who’d probably find Bolt’s columns about jihadi extremists to be a jolly engaging read.”
      
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      June 10, 2017 2:34pm
      - Manolo
        
        No, not even that, stephieboy.
        
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        June 11, 2017 6:43am
SPC

Don’t mention the cricket.
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June 10, 2017 2:11pm
Notsofast

Is everyone being moderated today or just me?

ETA ok this post wasn’t so question sort of answered.
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June 10, 2017 2:15pm
virtualmark

World class trolling:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYZKrn7Bbl8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWlrauHGAbY

The wannabe troll on Kiwiblog should be taking lessons.
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June 10, 2017 2:30pm
virtualmark

“I’ll release my tax returns after I’m elected”

Um, no you won’t.

“James Comey better hope that there are no “tapes” of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!”

Um, there are no tapes … or you’d be producing them right now.

“I’m 100 percent prepared to testify under oath to the special prosecutor”

Look, was that a pig flying by? Riding on a unicorn?

But, Trump though has testified under oath once before. How’d that work out for him? Not very well at all.
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June 10, 2017 2:47pm
Fletch

Um, there are no tapes … or you’d be producing them right now.

The threat of tapes is most likely why Comey changed his story and doesn’t dare lie about Trump and Russia. He knows Trump may well have tapes of the actual truth somewhere.
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June 10, 2017 3:12pm
- SPC
  
  Did Comey change his story?
  
  And the fact remains, Congress will ask Trump to provide tapes to back up his own version.
  
  If they exist, but he will not provide them to back up his testimony, what will his excuse be?
  
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  June 10, 2017 3:26pm
  - mikenmild
    
    Even Trump would not be stupid enough to testify before a congressional committee.
    
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    June 10, 2017 4:21pm
- Kimbo
  
  No President after Nixon should ever be stupid enough to tape conversations! If not, they can forfeit plausible deniability, and as the SCOTUS ruled in 1974, they are not necessarily subject to executive privilege.
  
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  June 10, 2017 4:24pm
- Reid
  
  He wasn’t referring to literal tapes is why he put that into quote marks. He was referring to the NSA bugging which wss used against him by Obama but which now he’s POTUS he can now use against his own enemies, such as the treasonous Comey.
  
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  June 10, 2017 5:08pm
  - SPC
    
    No. Trump earlier referenced bugging of him prior to his arrival in the White House and certainly not of the White House itself.
    
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    June 10, 2017 5:28pm
    - Reid
      
      Trump Towers was bugged and I thought remained so after he became POTUS-elect but probably not after be was inqugurated? Not sure. And who knows what Comey and he discussed, then.
      
      Anyway, who cares.
      
      I don’t trust the MSM to accurately report and I’m not interested enough to read the testimony myself, so here’s some quotes about the testimony from someone else, which shows Comey has things to answer for.
      
      http://www.rense.com/general96/whatcomeytesti.html
      
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      June 10, 2017 5:41pm
DifferentPerspective

Well the stupidest President ever seemed to have been recording conversations – good one Barry!
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June 10, 2017 4:49pm
Rodney Randall

https://youtu.be/WxpcqNMTMQc

Tucker on Muslim Safe Spaces?

Yeah, go into the Mosque, yet and scream how you are a black queer Muslim and enjoy the view down from the roof.
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June 10, 2017 5:27pm
- Rodney Randall
  
  “I’m black first, then queer…then Muslim.
  
  GTFO! I think your ‘safe’ space might be an asylum.?”
  
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  June 10, 2017 5:44pm
  - Inandout
    
    Mt Roskill would be a pretty safe place for her. I noticed she had a wee bit of hair showing under her hood; sacrilegious!
    
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    June 10, 2017 9:48pm
RF

Remember when the Telly Tubby Green bellowed about Mojo Mathers not receiving suitable communication equipment to allow her to function as an MP. The speaker finally agreed and approved some very expensive gear.

Now a few years later I have to ask what benefit has this been to us. You never hear from her and I believe it has been a complete waste of time and money.

Never mind she will have her hand out again this September ….
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June 10, 2017 5:28pm
- nasska
  
  ….”You never hear from her”…..
  
  More than we can say for the rest of her fellow nutters…….unfortunately!
  
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  June 10, 2017 5:34pm
- itstricky
  
  Remember when the Telly Tubby Green
  
  Keeping Stock will be here any second to tell you off.
  
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  June 10, 2017 5:56pm
  - mikenmild
    
    True – he’s a great one policing standards of civil discourse.
    
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    June 10, 2017 6:17pm
    - RF
      
      Bugger.. I will just have to bite the bullet and take any punishment given.
      
      I should not have called the obese green slug a telly tubby. My bad.
      
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      June 10, 2017 9:45pm
- Gabby
  
  I reckon the taxpayer could spring for a gastric band for Jeery Browneye though. Money well spent.
  
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  June 10, 2017 8:00pm
  - mikenmild
    
    I think diet and exercise should tried first.
    
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    June 10, 2017 8:13pm
Rachael Membery

Lucky us
http://i.stuff.co.nz/national/93546658/deported-criminal-says-hell-join-a-gang-and-commit-more-crime-on-return-to-nz
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June 10, 2017 8:26pm
- RF
  
  Surname is Sau. Another solid citizen returning home.
  
  This POS should be removed from society.
  
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  June 10, 2017 9:41pm
  - starboard
    
    The POS isn’t very bright, signalling he will ” join a gang and commit more crimes ” Braindead moron.
    Cops will be all over him like a cheap suit.
    Better we take him out with a few vigilantes, scumbag won’t be missed.
    
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    June 10, 2017 11:31pm
  - Rachael Membery
    
    I think that the ‘hell’ in the heading is quite apt. Where are the editors or proof readers or god knows spell check!!!!
    
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    June 11, 2017 8:36am
nasska

A road crew foreman calls up the depot.

Foreman:” we have a problem.”

Boss:” What’s wrong?”

Foreman:” we forgot our shovels & stop signs.”

Boss:” I’ll be with you as quick as I can. Lean on each other until I get there.”
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June 10, 2017 8:41pm
- mikenmild
  
  Reminds me of this old one:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQEe5BeIF-k
  
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  June 10, 2017 8:49pm
Rodney Randall

https://youtu.be/qWNpZ3Dwf68

Tommy Robinson and Stefan Molyneux

ENEMY OF THE STATE.

Uk govt infiltrated. British Police kowtow to Islam
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June 10, 2017 9:59pm
Manolo

Our multiculturalists, Green and Labour stooges are worried:
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/anti-muslim-act-america-stage-marches-against-sharia-law-nationwide-n767386
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