General Debate 16 October 2017

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PhilBest

Extraordinarily slow start this morn, where’s William?
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October 16, 2017 8:08am
- PhilBest
  
  Perhaps it would be more appropriate to say “Where’s Wally”?
  
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  October 16, 2017 8:15am
- PhilBest
  
  It’s like a game of whack-a-mole where the mole fails to appear….!
  
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  October 16, 2017 8:21am
  - RalphT
    
    Wonderful, isn’t it?
    
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    October 16, 2017 8:40am
- Biscuit
  
  Phil, I already had my finger poised over the Downtick button in the expectation that WoO had got his customary first post in as I opened up General Debate just before…
  
  Happily I managed to refrain from stabbing the keyboard!
  
  Truly is it said that there is NOTHING that can’t be made boring if someone (William, eg, but also Hugh and Penny spring to mind!) goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on (STOP it, Biscuit!) about it…
  
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  October 16, 2017 11:51am
oldpark

Today is the day Mr Peters will make a mistake. He could pick the wrong horse or in this instance wrong coalition.
At 72 years old ,and wanting a quiet time for peaceful walks with his female partner and doggie,in his age of the final years of a quality of life.
Why enjoin with a cauldron of screaming skulls and forever in a almost daily disagreement with power hungry coalition partners.
Surely for a quiet life ,and peace of mind there should be the only one correct decision.
He should support Bill English and the National Party who got 56 seats and almost 200,000 more votes than screaming skull “Commie Chic “Comrade Arderns Labour Party.
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October 16, 2017 8:09am
- waikatogirl
  
  Winston has assembled the NZF board to announce their decision, while Bill English stated this morning that negotiations are nowhere near complete. For example no discussions have been held with National on what portfolios Winnie or his other NZF would like.
  
  Winnie is trying to look like he is running the show announcing to the media a decision will be made today. Looks instead like Winnie is delusional unless he intends to announce today he is going with Cindy and her lefty mob.
  
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  October 16, 2017 8:18am
  - billmurray
    
    It now looks like the end of the week!.
    By the end of the week.
    It will look like the end of the week the following week.
    WILL IT EVER END!.
    Winnie NO.
    
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    October 16, 2017 8:41am
    - waikatogirl
      
      It was announced this morning the NZF board consists of 23 members, and they all must come to a consensus.
      We all know Winnie makes THE DECISION, but this way he can blame the board by saying the decision was delayed as it was like herding cats!
      
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      October 16, 2017 8:48am
      - VicParking
        
        Like nerding blind mice…
        
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        October 16, 2017 9:16am
      - oldpark
        
        Heard the board NZFirst board arrived in Wellington,this morning . The mirror factory worked all night. Rumour has it the mirrors would even talk with an immediate response to a question.A one liner was printed on top of each mirror. It went like this, “Mirror,Mirror on the wall, who is the smartest Politician of all”,”it is not hard to see, the answer is WP”.
        
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        October 16, 2017 10:11am
  - RF
    
    According to Bill this morning National are still waiting for Peters to have final discussions with them.
    
    On the other hand you have the commie chic winking furiously away confident that it is a done deal and she will be the next PM..
    
    This is what is known as a cluster fuck.
    
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    October 16, 2017 9:14am
- Dave Mann
  
  On my head I can understand how Peters’ choice can be viewed as either an entertaining train wreck, a death hug or a dance down the aisle etc….. but my heart tells me that NZ’s political system is deeply in the shit.
  
  We’re like someone sleeping in an airliner while the pilot and engineer struggle to deal the failure of both engines. At any moment the announcement to assume the crash position will wake them up, but for now they’re in a fantasy dreamland.
  
  Fuck… it has come to this. 7% and this cunt gets to (essentially) form a government.
  
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  October 16, 2017 8:39am
  - Rich Prick
    
    Yep. Your vote only gets you a Parliament. The troughers and an unelected and unaccountable Board of the 7% decide who wears the pants. Cindy will be our first appointed female PM.
    
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    October 16, 2017 8:55am
    - fylde
      
      Rich P what do you mean “first appointed female PM” ? All PM’s are appointed by the GG having secured a majority in parliament so she will be the third .
      
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      October 17, 2017 10:55am
- Liberty
  
  “He should support Bill English and the National Party”
  God NO
  Winston can Fuck off and join the losers.
  Three years may be less. Of watching of coalition of loser implode is a better choice.
  
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  October 16, 2017 11:16am
Colville

Please let today be the day that Winston and Taxcinda walk down the aisle as the happy couple.

A brief if volatile (but interesting) marriage shall ensue.
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October 16, 2017 8:09am
- PhilBest
  
  Hey, it’s a threesome, don’t forget, fitting for our progressive times. An even bigger mess to relish from the sidelines!
  
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  October 16, 2017 8:13am
  - VicParking
    
    Not a threesome a Ghidorah
    
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    October 16, 2017 8:23am
  - Rich Prick
    
    Well, it’s really a two-some, the Greens just get to watch.
    
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    October 16, 2017 8:57am
    - RF
      
      Shaw is the bridesmaid.
      
      That’s about all he is good for……
      
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      October 16, 2017 9:09am
      - sooty
        
        It’s like Whinnystone getting married to a solo mum. The kid gets sent to its room while the parents turn tricks!
        
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        October 16, 2017 10:37am
- Inandout
  
  That would be a bit of a ‘blow’ to lots of people.
  
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  October 16, 2017 8:14am
  - oldpark
    
    Sounds like “Vacuum” will be aboard. Heres something for the conspiracy theorists to get their “teeth” into .
    
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    October 16, 2017 8:56am
    - RF
      
      Blow that !!!
      
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      October 16, 2017 9:17am
- Simon
  
  Winston First and Princess. What a train wreck
  
  The amount of money they would borrow and spend would be staggering. If they chose not to borrow (unlikely) they would turn NZ into a police state in the hunt for revenue
  
  Buy US $ comrades.
  
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  October 16, 2017 8:22am
  - Colville
    
    Simon.
    Buy houses.
    one thing is for sure with the Greens in “power’ is the RMA aint gonna be improved!!
    
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    October 16, 2017 8:33am
    - Inandout
      
      Loan defaults will allow speculators to pick up some real bargains due to a Labour coalition. The economy will be screwed.
      
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      October 16, 2017 8:43am
    - Maxx
      
      Buy houses in Wellington. Guaranteed with Labour the public sector will put on some weight.
      
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      October 16, 2017 10:39am
- Elaycee
  
  Never thought I’d ever say it, but I want Winston to go with the left and form a coalition of losers.
  
  If the whispers are true, his demands are totally out of proportion for an outfit rejected by ~92% of the electorate. It all sounds too much like the flea on the tail trying to wag the dog.
  
  IMO, it’s a pity National didn’t pull out of all coalition discussions and tell Winston he was welcome to try and work with Taxinda and the Gweens. Because whoever sits on the Treasury benches alongside the venal narcissist, will be poisoned by his chalice for several elections to come.
  
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  October 16, 2017 8:31am
  - doggone7
    
    If the whispers are true? Tell us what they are.
    
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    October 16, 2017 8:58am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    I’ve come to the same conclusion Elaycee, despite having spent the six months leading up to the election actively campaigning for a National-led government.
    
    As much as I would prefer Bill English to continue as Prime Minister, I believe the price he and National would pay in the long term would be too high. I’d far rather see National go into opposition with a rejuvenated team of 56 MP’s (including 10 new MP’s, with Nicola Willis waiting on the sideline for a couple of inevitable resignations), and well placed to take the fight to a LabourGreenNZF hydra.
    
    I would be prepared to wager we will be going back to the polls sooner than the anticipated date of the 2020 General Election, such would be the hydra’s instability, especially when the opposition turns the heat up. Add to that Peters’ age and clearly failing health, and NZF will be on life support.
    
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    October 16, 2017 9:16am
    - Dave Mann
      
      I honestly don’t understand your logic, KS. If National have a minority of members compared to a Lab/NZF/Green government, then how could they ‘take the fight’ to them? Sure, they could form arguments on the select committees, but that’s about it. They wouldn’t be able to beat down any legislation on a vote and they wouldn’t be able to introduce their own legislation, except by hoping that a member’s bill will get selected by a random ballot. In addition to this, whatever the National party did or said would either be ignored or misrepresented by the country’s press, who would be concentrating on blushingly masturbating over Peters’ latest mess ups, Adern’s beautiful teeth or the pretty Green refugee’s opinions on whatever.
      
      Where’s the upside in any of this?
      
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      October 16, 2017 9:35am
      - pdm
        
        Dave – if my interpretation of what I read a week or two ago is right seats on Select Committees are allocated on the basis of seats held so National will in effect dominate the important select committees and the best `the hydra’ will manage is a stalemate position.
        
        Unfortunately I cannot remember where I saw this but I am sure DPF could expand on this.
        
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        October 16, 2017 10:01am
      - Keeping Stock
        
        That’s correct pdm. As the largest party in the Parliament, National would effectively control the select committee process. They would also have the biggest allocation of oral questions, and they would be robust in opposition by sheer weight of numbers.
        
        The size of their caucus would also give them advantages in terms of resources allocated to them by the Parliamentary Service, and they would most certainly be the largest single opposition party since MMP began. Any weaknesses by Ministers would be exploited relentlessly, and with the general absence of ministerial experience from Labour, Green and NZF MP’s, those weaknesses would be numerous.
        
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        October 16, 2017 11:02am
      - Paulus
        
        You are assuming that the new Labour NZF Green people can actually agree on anything.
        What a larff.
        
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        October 16, 2017 11:17am
      - Dave Mann
        
        Oh OK pdm. Thanks for the clarification. I was unaware of that. Cheers
        
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        October 16, 2017 9:44pm
    - fylde
      
      yep a new election sounds the best rather than have NZF decide
      
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      October 17, 2017 10:57am
- oldpark
  
  Yes ,brings to mind ,did you hear the one about the guy who died from a Viagra overdose. They couldnt’t close his coffin lid.Arrrrrrrrhh..Is that the way a honeymoon might go with the dreaded threesome coalition. Only thing is two could perform ,while one just hangs around and goes off from time to time.
  
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  October 16, 2017 9:56am
Happychappy

Well I wonder what Winston will say about which Party he will go with after Bill English has stated the Coalition talks have not finished yet and there is still a lot to be agreed on. So has Winston been leading the public down the road or has he pulled a swifty on National and has decided already that he is going with Labour and the Greens.
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October 16, 2017 8:13am
- Liberty
  
  “ there is still a lot to be agreed on”
  I suspect the coalition of losers have had a deal sawn up for months.
  The last few weeks have just been and charade.
  Why else would Greens capitulate to labour unless
  They had a few cabinets positions guarantied .
  
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  October 16, 2017 11:39am
  - treadingthemill
    
    Why else would Greens capitulate to labour
    
    Poor leadership. I had hope that Shaw would lead the Greens in a more independent direction, instead of being tied at the hip to Labour, which has done them no good over the years. It neuters the power of the party. But he has if anything made it worse. Imagine the power they would have had over Labour if they had made it clear that they might go with National? Or the power over National by giving them an alternative to Peters? Not to mention pulling the rug from under Peters so he could not be kingmaker alone. I really hope there are people in the Greens taking note of all of this, of how weak the party is because of this strategy of tying themselves exclusively to Labour.
    
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    October 16, 2017 11:58am
    - Liberty
      
      There is a lack of leadership in the Greens.
      The Greens have the same casting vote as NZF so why isn’t
      Shaw taking advantage. Is he gutless or inept?
      
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      October 16, 2017 1:07pm
      - Paulus
        
        Both !
        
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        October 16, 2017 2:09pm
      - Piniwi
        
        Yes Liberty but they might take the opportunity of an early teleconference to select a new co-leader. Then Shaw could be reprogrammed back to a female telling him what to do.
        
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        October 16, 2017 7:56pm
    - Mark Craig
      
      Could the same thing not have been said about the Actoids ,diddums how has that turned out for you drooling swivel eyed knuckle dragging wingnuts.?
      
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      October 16, 2017 11:01pm
      - double d
        
        Great contribution Mark
        You must have pondered that for hours
        Idiot
        
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        October 17, 2017 2:23am
PhilBest

Kurt Schlichter once again summed up the problem with liberal progressive circles and sexual predation, in his latest column. The underlying evil is a kind of institutionalised inverse puritanism, where libertinism is expected, otherwise you are a “prude” and an automatic suspect for politically conservative allegiances, shock, horror!
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October 16, 2017 8:20am
- kowtow
  
  It’s weird though , a large part of the institution of Hollywood has for many decades been dedicated to purveying perversity and the undermining of traditional western values to the masses and yet when one of them gets caught out the rest of them seem to think there’s a problem.
  
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  October 16, 2017 8:57am
  - PhilBest
    
    Exactly!
    
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    October 16, 2017 9:01am
- PhilBest
  
  Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” included state sanctions against anyone who “stays with one partner for too long” and anyone who rejects another’s advances and even to being groped – the traditional nuclear family having been long since deliberately destroyed by a combination of mandated “free love” and state rearing of all children on baby farms. Copulation completely and deliberately severed from procreation.
  
  Huxley saw this coming decades ago – the odd thing out at the current time, is the selective recycling of conservative ideas of a women’s honour. But a genuine Conservative woman in show-business and progressive liberal social circles, is like a pig farmer in the Middle East.
  
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  October 16, 2017 9:00am
  - treadingthemill
    
    the traditional nuclear family
    
    The nuclear family is not traditional. It’s only been around since the industrial revolution.
    
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    October 16, 2017 12:01pm
    - Ed Snack
      
      Incorrect, the family is at the heart oif virtually every culture that exists or existed. It may include multiple “wives” or very rarely, husbands, but the family is the basic unit. It extends to the wider family and typically surviving grandparents were included, but wider groupings were typically subservient to the family itself.
      
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      October 16, 2017 12:41pm
      - chiz
        
        The OP is correct. The nuclear family is a recent invention. There has been some debate among historians as to whether it post-dates the revolution – and perhaps arose as a result of it – or whether it predates the revolution and helped give rise to it.
        
        And not all societies have families as we know the concept.
        
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        October 16, 2017 1:00pm
      - rangitoto
        
        “And not all societies have families as we know the concept.”
        
        How does that support treading’s claim.
        
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        October 16, 2017 1:42pm
      - chiz
        
        How does that support treading’s claim.
        
        I was responding to Ed there rather than the OP. That is why I put it in a separate paragraph.
        
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        October 16, 2017 2:16pm
      - treadingthemill
        
        Ed
        
        Incorrect, the family is at the heart oif virtually every culture that exists or existed.
        
        I said the nuclear family, not families in general. Family was defined more widely prior to industrialisation and included grandparents and other relatives. This is still true in many places, China for example, and much of Asia, Africa and the Middle East. And in tribal societies the tribe itself is considered a family. The nuclear family definition of mum, dad and kids is a recent concept and mostly a recent Western one. Family has been defined in a wide variety of ways over the centuries.
        
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        October 16, 2017 2:26pm
      - rangitoto
        
        “I said the nuclear family, not families in general. Family was defined more widely prior to industrialisation and included grandparents and other relatives. This is still true in many places”
        
        I don’t know anywhere it isn’t true. I haven’t come across cultures where grandparents are not considered part of the family.
        
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        October 16, 2017 3:19pm
    - rangitoto
      
      Ridiculous. It goes back to Neolithic times. The main exception I can think of would be ancient Sparta where children more or less belonged to the state.
      
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      October 16, 2017 1:39pm
- Gabby
  
  Krut Schitter has a keen eye for the lecherous left and a closed eye for the rapey right apparently, philthiest.
  
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  October 16, 2017 9:08am
Cunningham

Interesting interview with English on ZB, his tone suggested he is not expecting Winston to go with National. Prepare for a tough few years comrades!
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October 16, 2017 8:33am
- CHFR1
  
  I think Bill has dodged a bullet if this is the case and many of my leftie friends will be happy today but crying in their chardonay in a few short months as they realise their princess gave away the silver to gain power.
  New Zealand will recover, we always do, and the smarter Kiwis will have already worked out how to avoid many of the new taxes coming in.
  
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  October 16, 2017 9:02am
- VicParking
  
  Agreed, I got that impression as well. Question time is going to be the show of the week. The coalition will be like a reality TV show ‘Ménage à trois at first sight’. The problem will be one of the three will be a two, a half man and a women. The male will need viagra just to get undressed and the women…….well fill in the gaps kiwibloggers.
  
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  October 16, 2017 9:03am
  - Happychappy
    
    I think Bill English words of wisdom this morning was a message to Winston to get on with the job of finishing the discussions to form a coalition or Pick Labour and the Greens at your peril and we will see you at the next Election in 2020.
    
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    October 16, 2017 10:29am
- freethinker
  
  Yes a three headed monster will do damage but like many I will postpone decisions and stay under the radar until the enemy has departed – hopefully to a permanent residence in the cemetery.
  
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  October 16, 2017 12:57pm
- Piniwi
  
  Perhaps C but it was just really political chatter as Bill English has more to think than say about the process. Be careful who you listen to with the Media party still thinking they are in control.
  
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  October 16, 2017 8:11pm
cas

general consensus down the local rural pub last night was that Bill should have just told Winston to f… it and walked away.
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October 16, 2017 8:36am
- softail 1450
  
  we are going to have 3 shit years if winston peters sides with the cabal that is the left , I make a prediction that the Green Party won’t swap the BMW ministerial limos for toyota vitz’s any time soon .
  
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  October 16, 2017 8:47am
  - JasonJohns
    
    we’ve just seen the greens blockading a weapons expo in wellington. does anyone think they could be acceptable to the nzdf and sis? and without the support of these services how could labour form a government? probably the security services have had a quiet word in winston’s ear by now and made it clear that an alliance with labour-greens is a no-go.
    
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    October 16, 2017 12:15pm
    - RF
      
      I feel sorry for the armed services. Labour / Greens would run them down until they are toothless and under resourced.
      
      There will be mass resignations and alliances such as ANZUS will be just a dim memory.
      
      There are so many negatives having a Labour / Green Govt…
      
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      October 16, 2017 12:48pm
      - Left Right and Centre
        
        ahem – even *more* toothless and under resourced.
        
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        October 17, 2017 12:40am
thedavincimode

It comes as no surprise that the drunk and the pathologically lazy deadbeats comprising his coat tail didn’t bother to sort themselves out over the weekend and chose instead to prolong the striptease into this week.
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October 16, 2017 8:46am
- softail 1450
  
  I’m hoping we can actually get a list of these mysterious board members so we can at least have a good laugh/cry at the fools who are choosing the future of our country, was it andy warhol that said “we can all be famous for 15 minutes” ? how fitting is that for this board of people I doubt any of us has ever heard of ,basking in their temporary power play.
  
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  October 16, 2017 8:53am
  - calendar girl
    
    The local MSM must know by now who has arrived in Wellington for the so-called NZF Board Meeting. If not, they are even more incompetent than they are generally believed to be.
    
    But if they know the identities of the people arriving, why haven’t they published details that are obviously newsworthy – such as their names, genders, home locations, ages and occupations? There are only two reasons that would make much sense to me:
    (1) They are all politically biased in favour of a Labour-led Government, and will do anything asked of them to achieve that end; or
    (2) They have been threatened by Peters in some fashion, and are keeping silent in order to avoid future retribution from the man.
    
    So much for our fearless and principled media.
    
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    October 16, 2017 1:01pm
kowtow

At least 230 killed in Mogadishu . But unlike the Las Vegas outrage I don’t expect the international MSM to give more than lip service and one or two days cover , afterall the victims aren’t blacks who’ve been killed by white cops or whiteys killed by an angry white guy, they’re just Skinnies.
And even though theMSM relentlessly push an equality agenda they don’t care about equality ,they only want to undermine the traditional west.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-41621660
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October 16, 2017 8:53am
- Gabby
  
  You reckon they’ll give more importance to events in America than in Africa kobknob? Fucking hell, that’s a novel thought.
  
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  October 16, 2017 9:13am
- RF
  
  pay back for Black Hawk Down. ?
  
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  October 16, 2017 6:13pm
Poppa

The more this goes on with Peters the more likely it is that he will sit on the cross benches. That way he may survive but even then it is unlikely.

If he does that National will govern but will be leg roped to do much with legislation. Could be a good thing in some ways
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October 16, 2017 8:54am
- freethinker
  
  Bill may refuse to sit on the Treasury benches leaving Taxinda the decision to try or effectively call an election.
  
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  October 16, 2017 1:00pm
Ross12

Meanwhile it looks highly likely a 31 year old Conservative ( Sebastian Kurz) has won the Austrian election and become Chancellor, with a strong anti immigration platform.
I suspect there was large element of the beltway crowd and the political elite becoming totally removed from the majority of voters —sounds familiar –USA & UK.
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October 16, 2017 8:57am
- kowtow
  
  The beltway elites don’t have to live in the same neighbourhoods that the hordes will be housed in and their children won’t have to compete for the shit jobs that the third worlders will be doing (if any).
  But at the dinner parties they host and at the charity boards they sit on ,they’ll be able to boast how much they care for the poor .
  Not that they ever cared for the domestic poor , they seem to think that solving the third world’s problems are a priority over their own long suffering citizens’ issues.
  
  Just look at the Trump haters who want America swamped with illegals and how they virtue signal that hatred , our own media and elites are full of that too.
  
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  October 16, 2017 9:03am
  - VicParking
    
    There are in every country, the USA included, those who long for the “hungry and poor” as they are seen as cheap labour that can be exploited for profit. By the time they start to cause problems the industrialists will have made their billions and be living on “The south of France”
    
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    October 16, 2017 9:12am
Nostalgia-NZ

It’s interesting that 73 is considered to old in NZ politics but not so in America. I guess it’s part of the forlorn moon encompassing the prospect of being in opposition. A little hard to resist, or so hard to resist the thought that the MP could arguably have been allowed to disintegrate after JK’s effort of bringing it together. If Labour do form a Government I’m not entirely sure they will keep the Maori vote in the next election but if they do the road back for National maybe even harder. This is certainly part of the NZF/Labour negotiations. Labour misstepped with the Maori vote once and paid the price. Beneath the surface NZ is still unable to embrace its culture outside the beltway. We recently had here some derision as to what Maoridom is, I’m no expert but certainly to me it was captured by the Pioneer Battalion and later its successor the Maori Battalion something of that dignity and pride was expressed by Flavell in his concession of defeat. The Maori Party had ventured where no other party representing Maori had gone before. So perhaps symbolism for something broken or lost through lack of care. No lack of care by Chris Finlayson however, much despised here but a fearless bridge builder nevertheless. Then there has been the Pike River mine coming back through the words of 2 party leaders. DPF argued that if in opposition National should not change leaders. I agree but perhaps for different reasons than DPF because I see BE as a long term player and thinker for the benefit of the country that came into his own during the campaign. He stepped out from a big shadow, a different man from that person shadowed by JK but someone with a long term vision for NZ’s social and financial progress.
However, all said and done the election has yet to be finalised.
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October 16, 2017 9:05am
- Keeping Stock
  
  Interesting post Nostalgia. Whilst Peters’ chronological age may be 72, Father Time, late nights, booze and smokes have ravaged him. He is clearly not in good health, and there still seems to be no succession plan in NZF to cope with Life After Winston. And LAW could be closer than anyone imagines.
  
  I agree with you about Bill English stayiong on the lead the opposition, if that is National’s lot. He is only 55, and has plenty of years left if that is what he chooses. He would lead a formidable opposition, and if National does end up in opposition, I can see further opportunities to refresh. For example, I doubt David Carter would want to remain if he is no longer Speaker.
  
  An interesting next few days awaits us.
  
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  October 16, 2017 9:23am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    There is a scary though; the duck as Speaker.
    
    Sends shivers down my spine but there is always going to be the the option of sorting it out behind the metaphorical bike sheds with Mallard in charge
    
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    October 16, 2017 9:41am
    - pdm
      
      Yep Paulus – he could make Margaret Wilson look a paragon of impartiality.
      
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      October 16, 2017 10:04am
    - Keeping Stock
      
      Indeed PG; the ultimate in parliamentary poacher turned gamekeeper…
      
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      October 16, 2017 11:03am
  - doggone7
    
    According to the Konrad Adenauer scale, Peters has many years to go. Many.
    
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    October 16, 2017 10:03am
- fylde
  
  Nothing to do with age rather his anti Asian policies are what put me off.
  
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  October 16, 2017 9:31am
- flipper
  
  Good stuff Nos-NZ.
  
  W English also made the following interesting point – they have been discussing policy with Peters “in detail”, not in generality or thrust.
  
  Since the IMF warned over the weekend that the 2007 GFC is “not yet over”, and cautioned all nations on a need for “economic prudence”, I wonder how that will sit with Peters and Jacindageddon. Both them and the Redmelons have made massive spending increase promises.
  
  Also interesting attitude by Faitawa of TVone. It seems that W English is no longer “Prime Minister” (albeit caretaking) or “Mr English”, but “Bill English”.
  Faitawa (he even said “Bill English how do you……..” ) and his crew, including that shrew Barry (maiden name?) are simply pompous, self aggrandizing jerks.
  
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  October 16, 2017 10:14am
- Paulus
  
  Could somebody please tell me how many Maori actually fought in WWI.
  I know some did but am puzzled as to how many as the Passchendaele commemoration appears to have been led by Maori warriors.
  Remember 400,000 British Soldiers died in the Battle of Ypres which was I believe the main battle with Passchendaele as a sad part.
  
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  October 16, 2017 11:24am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    This information is being collected and can be viewed on the 28th Maori Bn website here.
    http://28maoribattalion.org.nz/roll-ww1
    It’s a list of 2700 names (but Cook Islanders and Niueans also included)
    
    I can’t tell who were involved in battle and who worked in the background.
    
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    October 16, 2017 12:18pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    By the end of the war, 2227 Māori and 458 Pacific Islanders had served in what became known as the Maori Pioneer Battalion. Of these, 336 died on active service and 734 were wounded. Other Māori enlisted (and died) in other units.
    
    https://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/maori-units-nzef
    
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    October 16, 2017 3:10pm
- calendar girl
  
  I don’t accept the contention that Chris Finlayson is “a fearless bridge builder”. In my view he has facilitated different standards of NZ rights and citizenship.
  
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  October 16, 2017 1:20pm
EAD_TWO

Just to show you that the MSM truly is on another planet

How the teachings of Islam could help us prevent more sexual abuse scandals

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/harvey-weinstein-islam-sexual-assault-rape-womens-rights-a8001521.html

the cancer of sexual abuse against women that we see in Christian majority America is just as prevalent in Muslim majority Pakistan, but also in Hindu majority India and state atheist China…..

Weinstein is a symptom of the greater disease of arrogance, unaccountability, societal apathy, and from men who knew of the abuse but did nothing. Islam and Prophet Muhammad provide a practical solution.

Got that Christians. Despite the fact that Hollywood has been rampant with sexually perverted Jews and we’ve had case after case after shocking case of Islamic rape throughout the Western World….it’s the Christian majority in America and “men in general” that are the problem.

You couldn’t make this shit up.
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October 16, 2017 9:13am
- fylde
  
  EAD not sure why you are making generalisations
  
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  October 16, 2017 9:30am
  - EAD_TWO
    
    See my 9.31am if you think I’m making generalisations Fylde.
    
    Or can’t think I’m making generalisations about the Islamic rape epidemics occurring in places like Sweden, Britain and Germany?
    
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    October 16, 2017 9:33am
    - fylde
      
      EAD – yes one has to be careful. The independent article was silly but there over 1 billion Muslims in the world and most of them I am sure are wonderful human beings. Like all large groups they have some rotten apples and these need to be sorted but talking about Islamic rape epidemics is a generalisation.
      
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      October 16, 2017 11:08am
      - Left Right and Centre
        
        if by wonderful you mean boring braindead dipshits then yes – truly wonderful.
        
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        October 17, 2017 12:51am
- SPC
  
  Men with power abuse it. Film studio moguls did (and yes many were Jews).
  
  The Behavioural Science Unit of the FBI did a world study that identified crime with an ethnic identity underclass behaviour. Immigrants fit the profile (not so when they meet a points test for high skills etc), thus Irish and Italian gangs in the USA a few generations back. Moslems in Europe fit this profile today – for how long?
  
  If a group stays underclass (blacks/slavery USA), then it becomes politicised. If the Moslems in Europe become a political issue then integration becomes more difficult (two way street if they do not want to integrate or are radicalised in the mosque to war on their host culture).
  
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  October 16, 2017 11:19am
fylde

Looks like Sebastian Kurz will gain power via a coalition in Austria. I like his economic policy but he is too anti Muslim
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October 16, 2017 9:29am
- Digmen1
  
  He is not anti muslims in Austria enough!
  
  Note also that as the largest party he gets first chance at forming a coalition!
  
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  October 16, 2017 10:16am
  - Paulus
    
    Hitler was an Austrian.
    
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    October 16, 2017 2:14pm
    - AgentBallSack
      
      Austrians are good people. Honest and hardworking. I have nothing bad to say about them.
      
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      October 16, 2017 8:46pm
Harriet

Well it has been ‘Labour Lately’ – hasn’t it?

And besides, wasn’t the ‘rejuvenated cabinet/parliament’ under Key supposed to beat one single 72yld – Labour and the Greens aside?

As I said for the last couple of years – John Keys lazy – pissed ALL his political capital away on dizziness such as flags and gays.

It’s not National who will pay – they’re just gonna take a pay cut — it’s the public who will now pay expensively for the sure as hell ‘excesses’ that will now be introduced.

Mugs the lotta ya – Key simply put pacifiers in your mouths, and you simply kept listening. 😎
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October 16, 2017 9:30am
AgentBallSack

Who’s next on the Clinton supporter bonfire?
Word on the street that De Niro who owns Weinstein’s favourite restaurant provided private booths and security for Weinstein’s “business meetings” (read pre-rape parties), and is a well known Democrat benefactor and supporter will be next to be hit with reputation damaging scandals.

Meanwhile Trump says “they let you grab them by the pussy” while talking about these women and he is pilloried.
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October 16, 2017 9:30am
- Victor Omega
  
  Go back and watch Ashley Judd’s nasty woman speech to all the pussy hat wearing feminazis in Washington in January.
  Watch it, now knowing that she had her first encounter with Weinstein 20 years ago and did nothing. How many girls suffered at the hands of this monster over 2 decades because of her silence in protection of her career. She will scream until she has to wipe the foam from the corners of her mouth about a locker room comment from 12 years ago, but she sits idly by and does NOTHING when she knows an actual sexual predator is active in Hollywood.
  The hypocrisy of these people knows no bounds.
  
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  October 16, 2017 10:07am
- Dave Mann
  
  I can’t understand why there’s all this fuss about ‘sexual predation’ etc in the American movie world. Beautiful young women fuck overweight ugly rich men and get to appear in movies where they undress and behave like out of control sluts with scripts where everything is sexualised and nothing is real.
  
  Why is anyone surprised by this? Men like to fuck and women see this as their golden opportunity. In a society as depraved and debased as America, this is just normal.
  
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  October 16, 2017 10:13am
  - Victor Omega
    
    Your post says more about you than anything else. Get help.
    
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    October 16, 2017 10:15am
  - AgentBallSack
    
    No one is surprised. We all knew it was happening Dave. But it’s time to hoist the liberals by their own petard. The outraged screaming over Trumps pussy tapes by people who were actively HIDING a sexual predator in their midst.
    Clinton when asked about Weinstein yesterday dodged the question and mentioned how America had elected a known molester as President. And no, she wasn’t talking about her own husband.
    
    The hypocrisy of these people fucking disgust me.
    
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    October 16, 2017 10:28am
    - Dave Mann
      
      I get your point about the hypocrisy, but do people really believe that this Weinstein character is the main bad guy here? What about all the women who were more than willing to feed his ego and his libido for a chance of the action?
      
      Seems like a huge double standard here. Just sayin’…..
      
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      October 16, 2017 10:40am
      - AgentBallSack
        
        No he’s not the main player. Plenty more “stars” are sweating like a rapist as we speak. He’s just the start, and you can put money on it he won’t be the last. The important thing is how big he is, it shows others that they can’t rely on Democratic favours and protection any more.
        
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        October 16, 2017 10:52am
      - Victor Omega
        
        The central motive behind sexual assault and harassment is power, not sexual desire.
        Demonising victims (many of whom were children at the time) because they are “beautiful young women” who wanted “a chance of the action” is disgusting. Four of the women have said they were raped. You know that means they were violently “fucked” against their will, right Dave?
        Sadly, you’re not the only idiot suggesting that these girls could have avoided being harmed if only they were good girls who weren’t so dang pretty.
        It’s an absolute disgrace. Shame on you, and shame on anyone who upticked your bullshit.
        
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        October 16, 2017 12:16pm
  - kowtow
    
    “In a society as depraved and debased as America, this is just normal”
    
    You go from talking about Hollywood to the whole of American society , as if there’s no chlamydia in Aotearoa or no fucking to get ahead here or anywhere else for that matter ?
    
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    October 16, 2017 11:12am
- gump
  
  @AgentBallSack – why are you telling lies? Can you not cope with the fact that Trump is a pervy creep?
  
  Trump did not say: “they let you grab them by the pussy”
  
  What Trump actually said was “And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. […] Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything.”
  
  Here is a link to the recording and its transcript:
  
  https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/10/08/us/donald-trump-tape-transcript.html
  
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  October 16, 2017 10:16am
  - AgentBallSack
    
    And when you’re a star, they let you do it.
    
    Tomaytoes tomahtoes gumpstain. Thats exactly what he said.
    
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    October 16, 2017 10:29am
    - gump
      
      According to Reddit, here is the list of women who have claimed that they have been sexually assaulted by Trump:
      
      Ninni Laaksonen, former Miss Finland. “Trump stood right next to me and suddenly he squeezed my butt” in July 2006.
      
      Jessica Drake. Said Trump grabbed and kissed her without consent, then offered her 10K for sex in 2006.
      
      Karena Virginia. Says she was groped by Trump at the U.S. Open in 1998.
      
      Cathy Heller. Says Trump grabbed her and attempted to kiss her at Mar-a-lago in 1997.
      
      Summer Zervos. Apprentice contestant says Trump started kissing her and grabbing her breasts, began “thrusting his genitals.” 2007.
      
      Kristin Anderson. Said Trump reached under her skirt and grabbed her vagina through her underwear in the early 1990s.
      
      Jessica Leeds. Said Trump lifted up the armrest, grabbed her breasts and reached his hand up her skirt in the early 1980s.
      
      Rachel Crooks. Says she was assaulted by Trump in an elevator in Trump Tower in 2005.
      
      Mindy McGillivray. Says Trump groped her while she was attending a concert at Mar-a-lago in 2003.
      
      Natasha Stoynoff. Says Trump pushed her against a wall and jammed his tongue down her throat at Mar-a-lago in 2005.
      
      Jennifer Murphy. Apprentice contestant says Trump kissed her on the lips after a job interview in 2005.
      
      Cassandra Searles. Says Trump grabbed her ass and invited her to his hotel room in 2013.
      
      Temple Taggart McDowell. Former Miss Utah says Trump kissed her directly on the lips the first time she met him in 1997.
      
      Jill Harth. Says Trump repeatedly sexually harassed her and groped her underneath a table in 1993.
      
      “Jane Doe” or Katie J. In June, a California woman — “Jane Doe” ― filed a lawsuit alleging that Trump raped her at a party when she was 13 years old. Video testimony from Katie J, who accuses Trump of raping her at 13. 1994
      
      Ivana Trump. In a 1992 deposition during their divorce, Trump’s first wife described an incident in which she says her then-husband forced her to have sex with him.
      
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      October 16, 2017 10:36am
      - Fletch
        
        If these are credible then they should be investigated but so far most of these claims seem to have faded away after the election when they couldn’t be of anymore political use by the Dems – that’s how seriously they are taking it. There are FAR more credible claims against Bill Clinton, including real sexual abuse and the rape of Juanita Broaddrick (twice). And we know he settled with one complainant, Paula Jones, for $800,000.
        
        If you’re going after Trump, you have to look at Clinton.
        
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        October 16, 2017 12:58pm
      - gump
        
        @Fletch
        
        You’re arguing that Bill Clinton was also a creepy perve and therefore Trump should be exonerated?
        
        What kind of fucked up logic is that?
        
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        October 16, 2017 2:25pm
- PhilBest
  
  Back when Trump actually SAID that about grabbin’ ’em, he was one of the New York progressive liberals himself, including being a Clinton donor. His biggest sin was coming out as a Republican and saying he’d changed his mind about Life in the womb.
  
  If the grabbin’ the pussy comment was the worst thing his now infuriated former friends could come up with, he must have actually lived a lot more sainted life than the “progressive” norm, and I must admit I am surprised by this. Of course a bit of marital infidelity resulting in divorce and remarriage, on multiple occasions, arouses no comment at all from the progressives. And the conservatives hold their noses while they vote for him as the lesser evil….
  
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  October 16, 2017 1:24pm
  - Mark Craig
    
    Could the same thing not have been said about the Actoids ,diddums how has that turned out for you drooling swivel eyed knuckle dragging wingnuts.?
    
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    October 16, 2017 11:16pm
EAD_TWO

~~Allan Stewart Konigsberg~~ sorry “Woody Allen” goes into bat for his fellow Tribesman Weinstein saying he is “sad Weinstein messed up”

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4981948/Woody-Allen-defends-Harvey-Weinstein-saying-sad.html

Sorry Konigsberg, “messing up” is something you do as a once off. A pattern of predatory behaviour spanning generations is pschyopathic.

What next, is Konigsberg going to defend his fellow Tribesmen Louis Mayer of MGM or the ~~Wonskolaser Brother~~ sorry “Warner” Brothers for their behaviour?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2017/10/10/monster-mgm-louis-b-mayer-terrorised-hollywoods-women-long-harvey/

http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/life/860628/Warner-Bros-Hollywood-John-Wayne-legend-film-history
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October 16, 2017 9:31am
- SPC
  
  The problem with being of a tradition is that one fails to note that things evolve.
  
  The power that the studio system gave bosses (called Hollywood Babylon – because of the power to reduce wannabe actresses to harlots) no longer exists, nostalgia for the good old days is a dangerous thing in the age of twitter accounts and phone cameras.
  
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  October 16, 2017 10:25am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Woody Allen who was accused of abusing his adopted daughter – Dylan Farrow
  https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2014/02/woody-allen-sex-abuse-10-facts
  
  Woody Allen who married his adopted daughter
  https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/05/woody-allen-soon-yi
  
  How extraordinary that all this Weinstein affair has seen the light of day after research by Woody Allen’s son – Ronan Farrow.
  http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/my-father-woody-allen-danger-892572
  
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  October 16, 2017 10:40am
Ross12

Looks like Clinton has given up on the “Russians helped me lose” and now it seems the Brexit vote is to blame. The Poms did it !!!
What a miserable human being she is.
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October 16, 2017 9:32am
- AgentBallSack
  
  Apparently her and Bill haven’t talked since he threw her manuscript in the bin when she refused to listen to him regarding changes and how it made her look like an idiot right up to and including the title.
  Add that to her refusing to listen when offered advice regarding how and where she should campaign, which she completely ignored.
  What Happened? Hillary knew best.
  
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  October 16, 2017 9:44am
  - Paulus
    
    Wonder whether Cinderella will listen to anybody except her Helen when she becomes Prime Minister this week.
    Certainly not Robertson or Little.
    Roll on ASEAN meeting in November – she should be great for a laugh.
    
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    October 16, 2017 2:20pm
- SPC
  
  Not the vote, but the issue that it represented was also a factor in the vote in the rust belt states that went for Trump.
  
  That said the “vpn using Russians” operating in the US media were big on the issues of (American) nationalism and Christian identity to deliver votes for the Duck.
  
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  October 16, 2017 10:02am
Lucia Maria

Russian trolls were schooled on ‘House of Cards’

“At first we were forced to watch the ‘House of Cards’ in English,” said Maksim in the interview. It was part of a documented “strategy” in the English language department to fully understand how the American political system works. “It was necessary to know all the main problems of the United States of America. Tax problems, the problem of gays, sexual minorities, weapons,” he said.

“You were given a list of media that you had to monitor and comment on — New York Times, Washington Post,” he added. The trolls were required to look through thousands of comments on the publications’ articles. “It was necessary to look through all this and understand the general trend, what people were writing about, what they are arguing about,” he said. “And then get into the dispute yourself to kindle it, try to rock the boat.”

The trolls were even measured by “how much you got ‘likes.’ The comment was supposed to provoke a discussion.”

The trolls were also instructed to use VPN’s — virtual private networks — for their posts in order to disguise their Russian origin. “If they caught you using a Russian IP address, you’d get a dressing down,” he said.

Among the major themes the trolls were to write about in their posts were guns and gays. “When it was gays, we almost always had to bring out the religious themes,” he said. “Americans are very religious, especially those [who post] on news sites and write comments. You had to write that sodomy is a sin. That could always get you a couple of dozen ‘likes.’”
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October 16, 2017 9:35am
- AgentBallSack
  
  Well they’re right. Sodomy is a sin. It says it right there in the bible.
  
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  October 16, 2017 9:47am
  - SPC
    
    And identifying those who believe what the bible says as gullible and easily misled ..
    
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    October 16, 2017 9:54am
  - Lucia Maria
    
    Trolling with the purpose of agitating, enraging and fooling people about who you are and what you believe is also sinful.
    
    Not everyone can be fooled of course, but many are easily taken in if certain things said match their belief systems.
    
    To focus on only the truth of what the troll says rather than what they are and their purpose in saying it misses the point of the post.
    
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    October 16, 2017 10:15am
  - Fletch
    
    Actually, you don’t even have to be religious at all to believe that sodomy is wrong. It goes against the very design of the body to try and use the sewer line of the body for procreation – it’s science.
    
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    October 16, 2017 1:14pm
    - Left Right and Centre
      
      Recreational use – not procreational.
      People are rooting each other up the arse 24/7 around the globe man – and have been every second of your existence from conception. Suck on that.
      
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      October 17, 2017 1:01am
SPC

Israel is upset that UNESCO says that a heritage site at Hebron is in Palestine (when Israel wants to have a veto on the existence and recognotion of a Palestine state and claims Hebron’s only status is as part of Israeli occupied territory).

So Trump takes the USA out of UNESCO.

Israel wants permanent economic sanctions on Iran, thus opposed the multi-national nuclear (IAEA monitored) agreement which ended these sanctions.

So Trump de-certifies the agreement.

Whose Bennie Yahoo’s poodle?
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October 16, 2017 9:51am
- flipper
  
  Fuck off you anti-Semitic jerk !
  
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  October 16, 2017 10:24am
  - SPC
    
    Look what knowing the truth does to someone, it makes them an anti-Semitic racist bigot.
    
    I suppose it makes you want to cry, and ask for this to be censored by hate speech legislation, so no more Jews, or Moslems can have their sensitive feelings hurt. Or those who believe they are good people, on the side of God and righteousness, because they will not allow Benny Yahoo, or those who do his bidding, to be criticised.
    
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    October 16, 2017 10:36am
    - Ed Snack
      
      I guess that the small matter of declaring that the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem is a purely Moslem site and that the Jews have no connection with the Wailing Wall may have contributed a tad. Just sayin…
      
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      October 16, 2017 12:49pm
      - SPC
        
        Fake news, UNESCO never said that the Jews had no connection to the wailing wall (there is by the way a debate as to whether the wall is actually the remains of a Roman fort). UNESCO declared both the mosque and the dome on the Mount to be Moslem sites – because they are. There is no denial that the wider Mount area exists or that there is a wall nearby. Nor that state of Israel also exists nearby …
        
        FYI certain Zionists want the UN to recognise the state of Israel’s annexation of East Jerusalem, and to describe the Temple Mount as a Jewish site, so that Moslems access this city and this site only by permission of the person in Benny’s office.
        
        What UNESCO did was a challenge to that agenda of his and that of all his useful poodles.
        
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        October 16, 2017 2:54pm
      - treadingthemill
        
        Religious monotheism is the problem. When you have one group insisting that their god is the only true god, and that he (it’s always a he) has revealed himself exclusively in one book or tradition, then conflict with other monotheist groups making the same claim is inevitable.
        
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        October 16, 2017 3:00pm
SPC

Model claims women who post naked images on social media are ruining the careers of nude models.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=11933162

Prostitute claims women who have sex before marriage, or who have extra-marital affairs are ruining the careers of …
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October 16, 2017 9:51am
SPC

Do we need a rate your boss as a bully site to protect workers?

Do we need a rate the level of sexual harrassment at your workplace site/in your industry to protect workers?

Is the corporate expectation of no employee criticism of the company on social media a means by which workplace bullying and sexual harrassment is enabled?

What we need is to make it easier to speak out, the bullying and sexual harrassmeent cannot continue if it is going to be exposed.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11933197
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11930910
https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/film/97775351/when-my-tormentor-died-i-didnt-feel-a-thing
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October 16, 2017 9:52am
- Inandout
  
  But The Cone admits she hasn’t been groped, can’t speak from experience. Best she sticks to her barrage of anti Trump articles.
  
  Mau’s comments about her former hetrosexual boss are interesting.
  
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  October 16, 2017 10:15am
SPC

The myth of sex addiction, and an industry that has emergeed to afford men with money with a service to rehabilitate themselves

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=11933131
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October 16, 2017 9:52am
Inandout

Look at the difference at how Fox and CNN report Trump’s speech on bringing back Christmas.

http://www.fox13news.com/news/trump-vows-return-to-merry-christmas

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/10/13/politics/merry-christmas-donald-trump/index.html

CNN just can’t help getting offside with the 75% of US voters who want to keep some traditions. Obama was happy to stroke the other 25%.

NZ retailers that persist in avoiding the word ‘Christmas’ by replacing with ‘Happy Holidays’ may feel some kickback from customers.
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October 16, 2017 10:02am
- SPC
  
  Big difference – as here in Enzed we have Christmas as start to the summer holiday break that goes onto the New Year and well into it.
  
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  October 16, 2017 10:07am
  - Inandout
    
    Enjoy it because Winston’s decision is looking at taking a similar time.
    
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    October 16, 2017 10:21am
    - SPC
      
      Unfair!
      
      The Germans had a vote the same weekend – we all know that the CD with form a government with CSU, FD and Greens, yet they do not expect to formalise their coalition agreement till December.
      
      We get ours within 2 weeks of the final result being known. Despite uncertainty over which coalition will form.
      
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      October 16, 2017 10:29am
- SPC
  
  Because Christians so love being consumers and association of their faith with serving the profit seeking motive material world?
  
  Or to send a message to those who love money to cower before the GOP voting Christian and their God?
  
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  October 16, 2017 10:51am
  - SPC
    
    I can only guess but this “Christmas” story is more about the cultural war practices by the GOP to retain the votes of the common people – will the victims of health care reform believe that Trump is their champion against liberal society multiculturalism all the same.
    
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    October 16, 2017 11:06am
    - Inandout
      
      No, ‘it is all about’ (using that socialist intro) Obama slowly encouraging Christmas advertising to be replaced by neutral, Islam friendly, ‘happy holidays’.
      
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      October 16, 2017 11:53am
- Scott
  
  I’m really excited that Trump is going back to “Merry Christmas” and bringing back Christmas and away with the bland and saccharine “happy holidays”.
  
  Trump is winning. Every day I feel joy in my heart with the winning that is going on and the rolling back of political correctness. It’s just awesome!
  
  Examples of Trump winning include –
  “Nominating judges and justices who can be counted on to interpret and enforce the law but do not endeavor to use the law to promote their social agenda;
  Addressing the problem of illegal immigration and securing the borders of the United States;
  Developing America’s vast energy resources;
  Rolling back the regulatory state, especially the administrative overreach of agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency;
  Pursuing policies that put America, and American workers, first, not to the detriment of our relationships with our international partners but through a recognition that strength and sovereign independence make nations more reliable actors;
  Restoring the combat readiness and morale of the United States military;
  Simplifying the U.S. tax code, making it more competitive for U.S. businesses and more equitable for individuals;
  Getting a handle on the unconstitutional and shockingly inefficient monstrosity ironically called the Affordable Care Act;
  Putting a stop to the obscene violation of due process that Title IX fanatics brought to college campuses across the country.”
  
  https://amgreatness.com/2017/10/15/yes-trump-is-winning/
  
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  October 16, 2017 11:18am
  - kowtow
    
    Killing terrorists. Hoorah.
    
    ‘A British Islamic State recruiter known as the White Widow and her 12-year-old son are believed to have been killed in a CIA operation, after Donald Trump relaxed restrictions on the US spy agency’s drone strike programme.’
    
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/11/britons-wanted-female-terrorist-white-widow-sally-jones-killed1/
    
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    October 16, 2017 11:53am
KevOB

I was very surprised that Winston stood this election-his health status was evident last time.
Westminster conventions give Bill English the right to approach the GG to attempt to form a government. MMP may have clouded this but the convention is fair.

Another problem with Winston now is aging and that shows up in his being querulous. I think Bill English is being smart appearing to accept/ignore Winston in his media perceived role. That avoids feeding irresponsible media and diverting Winston. Age can make for loss of attention and wandering minds.

Some “policies” may be flight of fancy but not appreciated as such. I am sure Bill English has the capacity to deal with Winston capably and respectfully as he enters his final term. I am equally uncertain about Jacinda that way. Winston does charm which may mislead Labour. Any fool through age having his policies acceded too could render a young government actually foolish. Add the Greens who are naturally playful and childish and that is a recipe for disaster NZ.

Today wisdom needs to prevail.
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October 16, 2017 10:10am
- chris
  
  Yes, Bill English can approach the GG, but the first thing she will ask is will he have the confidence of Parliament. Unless he has the support of NZ First (or a promise they’ll abstain on confidence & supply), he’ll have to say “no” and she’ll say “come back to me when you do”.
  
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  October 16, 2017 1:19pm
AgentBallSack

5D chess breakdown.

There was no way Trump could take down the establishment while Hollywood and media were running interference. The power of those institutions were too much for him to counter.
So instead he has to tackle those that are protecting the head of the snake by cutting off the tail first.
We are seeing the start of it.

Discredit those who are protecting Clinton, Lynch, the deep state operatives which means first destroying the credibility of MSM – which he has done by associating them with fake news.

Now comes the power brokers in Hollywood who also pull the strings at the media organisations. By pointing out they are a self serving cabal of mostly Jews who are destroying the fabric of normal society

YOU ARE HERE
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October 16, 2017 10:10am
- SPC
  
  You mean the same women, who Trump wanted to grab by the pussy, are serving him by taking down people like him? Really? That desperate for fake good Trump news?
  
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  October 16, 2017 10:40am
  - AgentBallSack
    
    I don’t give a fuck who takes down the rapists and abusers in our society as long as it’s done. By any means necessary. If that means using the lefts tactics against them, so be it. Sounds like you want to protect them though.
    
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    October 16, 2017 10:47am
    - SPC
      
      Why, coz you want to lie about anyone you regard as a leftie?
      
      What’s telling is that your comment about Jews (and those of EAD) will not get any reaction from Flipper, yet criticism of Benny Yahoo or Trump will.
      
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      October 16, 2017 10:54am
      - AgentBallSack
        
        I am not a liar, but whatever floats your boat rape enabler.
        
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        October 16, 2017 10:59am
      - SPC
        
        Congratulations for being the first person I have reported.
        
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        October 16, 2017 11:10am
      - AgentBallSack
        
        If you have no idea that the majority of Hollywood is run by Jews, you’re fucking retarded SPC. Fuck’s sake go look at the owners of all the major studios. Google is your friend. I am not disrespecting the majority of Jews just pointing out a fact.
        
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        October 16, 2017 11:24am
      - AgentBallSack
        
        SPC
        
        Congratulations for being the first person I have reported.
        
        Wow sweetie, I am shaking.
        
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        October 16, 2017 11:26am
      - SPC
        
        I presume the sweetie remark is designed to demonstrate your masculine supremacy.
        
        T r y i n g t o o h a r d.
        
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        October 16, 2017 11:29am
      - AgentBallSack
        
        I presume…..blah blah blah
        
        Oh Sweetie,
        Not knowing who (Trumps #1 troll) Bess is. The shame you must feel.
        
        That’s what happens when you live in a bubble.
        
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        October 16, 2017 11:33am
  - softail 1450
    
    spc , are you gabbys drinking buddy ?
    
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    October 16, 2017 11:41am
    - Gabby
      
      Don’t drink and ride your girly bike softcock. You’ll bruise your bollocks when you sit on them.
      
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      October 16, 2017 7:24pm
Digmen1

I knew the final decision would not be made today, because both sides have to agree on portfoloios (if any)
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October 16, 2017 10:19am
Michael

Is Winston Peters unhealthy? I can’t find any mention of him having any health problems.
He’s looking pretty good for his age, in my opinion.
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October 16, 2017 10:28am
- lifesgood
  
  Well I guess the slurred speech, mumbling and confusion he’s shown in parliament could be put down to something other than poor health, maybe, perhaps, just saying.
  
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  October 16, 2017 11:11am
MCos

Winston doesn’t need to go to the doctor for a checkup. He can save his money and get a full report on Kiwiblog.
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October 16, 2017 10:32am
Michael

Bill English says talks with Winston not completed.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/97903347/bill-english-says-talks-with-winston-peters-to-continue
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October 16, 2017 10:41am
Ross12

Oh the unintended consequences.
McCain & co pressure US “payment” companies (eg. Visa , Amex , Paypal etc) to block donations to Wikileaks in 2010. So Wikileaks invest in Bitcoin and now have a MASSIVE return.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-10-15/julian-assange-thanks-john-mccain-us-government-his-forced-bitcoin-investment
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October 16, 2017 11:06am
- Gabby
  
  Unless that was the plan ALL ALONG Woss.
  
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  October 16, 2017 7:22pm
tom hunter

Camilla: You, sir, should unmask.

Stranger: Indeed?

Cassilda: Indeed it’s time. We have all laid aside disguise but you.

Stranger: I wear no mask.

Camilla: (Terrified, aside to Cassilda.) No mask? No mask!
….
Cassilda: “Not upon us, oh, king! Not upon us!”
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October 16, 2017 11:11am
JasonJohns

Anyone else feel for Sean Plunket, forced down from the BSA by the PC police?
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October 16, 2017 11:20am
- fernglas
  
  Harvey Weinstein perhaps?
  
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  October 16, 2017 11:22am
  - AgentBallSack
    
    Probably a bunch of rape enablers do. Weiner, Weinstein, SPC, Woody Allen et al
    
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    October 16, 2017 11:30am
    - SPC
      
      Reported a second time for the same offence.
      
      Keep striking out.
      
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      October 16, 2017 11:32am
      - AgentBallSack
        
        Back away from the crack pipe SPC.
        It’s free speech sweetie. You haven’t given me any reason to think you don’t condone what Weinstein did. You seem to think it’s some sort of right for men in power to do this to women. Hope your daughters don’t have to casting couch for their positions because then we would see what a hypocrite you are.
        
        PS. Keep stroking, bans don’t bother me. 4Chan is more amusing than your fucking moronic arguments any day
        
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        October 16, 2017 11:37am
      - softail 1450
        
        spc. , I smell another man hater,am I correct spc ?,you and vege are probably members of the sisterhood aye.
        
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        October 16, 2017 11:47am
      - SPC
        
        There there, don’t be confusing the abs story-line.
        
        By inserting your own.
        
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        October 16, 2017 12:58pm
    - DifferentPerspective
      
      Woody Allen is keen that the Weinstein thing doesn’t turn into a witch hunt.
      
      Surely this is because the man who married his adopted daughter has nothing to fear eh?
      
      All those Hollywood liberals lining up to spit on Trump for saying the word “pussy”, turns out they’re infinitely more depraved and drowning in their own hypocrisy.
      
      Trump keeps on winning!
      
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      October 16, 2017 1:32pm
      - Rich Prick
        
        You really do have to wonder about Hollywood, it wasn’t that long ago they launched the “Free Polanski” campaign, yet claim to be the moral arbiter for the rest of the US. Weirdos and freaks.
        
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        October 16, 2017 3:58pm
JasonJohns

Sean Plunket was bullied off twitter and out of the BSA by a PC mob. As DPF said he was a great asset to the BSA. Now he’s gone. Kiwiblog should defend him.
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October 16, 2017 11:28am
JasonJohns

In the US the PC left is starting to realise that patriots won’t take their propaganda any more. This professor is losing his job after making unpatriotic and anti-white tweets
http://www.philly.com/philly/education/drexel-professor-george-ciccariello-maher-twitter-20171010.html
Freedom of speech is one thing, sedition another
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October 16, 2017 11:31am
JasonJohns

Petitition to fire George Maher for his anti-American views
https://www.change.org/p/fire-george-ciccariello-maher-professor-drexel-univ-requesting-white-genocide-defending-his-statements-spread-love-not-hate
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October 16, 2017 11:32am
Inandout

JJ, the tide in the US is indeed changing against the mad Left. The cowardly masked ANTIFA thugs are the next to go, because when all is said and done, they are just a vocal minority. Put a group of bikers against those snowflakes and they would shit their nappies.
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October 16, 2017 12:03pm
JasonJohns

Yes indeed inandout. The left’s day is over. President Trump has signalled he’s going over the seditious media next…he’s going to take the broadcasting licenses off them.
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October 16, 2017 12:05pm
- SPC
  
  He has no such power.
  
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  October 16, 2017 4:06pm
JasonJohns

LA Times can’t handle it because Trump is saying he’ll remove NBC from the airwaves for its anti-American stories
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-updates-trump-tweets-network-news-partisan-htmlstory.html
Welcome to the future seditionists!
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October 16, 2017 12:07pm
JasonJohns

as well as dealing to the media trump is taking on the global health conspiracy…he’s hitting the immunisers hard

“I’ve seen people where they have a perfectly healthy child, and they go for the vaccinations, and a month later the child is no longer healthy,” President Trump said on Fox. “It happened to somebody that worked for me recently. I mean, they had this beautiful child, not a problem in the world. And all of a sudden, they go in, they get this monster shot. You ever see the size of it? It’s like they’re pumping in — you know, it’s terrible, the amount. And they pump this into this little body. And then all of the sudden, the child is different a month later. And I strongly believe that’s it.”

During the GOP debate in September 2015 he spoke about that supposed case again, and claimed that vaccines were causing an “autism epidemic.”

“People that work for me, just the other day, two years old, beautiful child went to have the vaccine and came back and a week later, got a tremendous fever, got very, very sick, now is autistic,” he said.
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October 16, 2017 12:12pm
- DifferentPerspective
  
  This is about finding another prominent Hollywood victim to be the lightning conductor for conservative’s assault on the twin swamps of Hollywood and Washington.
  
  This time it De Niro (who is an anti-vaxxer, preferring the return of liberal diseases like cholera, diptheria, smallpox and mumps because he believes his feelings when they tell him that vaccines cause autism).
  
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  October 16, 2017 1:29pm
  - JasonJohns
    
    our president Donald Trump is an ‘anti-vaxer’, as you so crudely put it.
    
    Trump is a man of Biblical science. He knows immunisations are a tool of the NWO.
    
    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-appoints-robert-kennedy-jr-chair-vaccine-safety-committee-sceptic-autism-conspiracy-a7520351.html
    
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    October 16, 2017 1:32pm
publicwatchdog

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NZ WHISTLE-BLOWER UPDATE!

MORE EVIDENCE OF ‘BANANA REPUBLIC’ NZ.

(Monday 16 October 2017)

How can Tamaki Regeneration Ltd, (100% Crown-owned) with $1.6 billion of formed HNZ Tamaki properties, be a ‘subsidiary’ of Tamaki Redevelopment Company Ltd – which owns NOTHING?

How good is our supposedly leading ‘public audit’ body – the Office of the Auditor-General (OAG)?

How come the OAG didn’t apparently pick up that neither Tamaki Redevelopment Company Ltd NOR Tamaki Regeneration Ltd were even listed as ‘Crown Entity Companies’ under Sch 2 of the Crown Entities Act 2004?

https://www.parliament.nz/resource/en-NZ/51SCSS_ADV_00DBSCH_ANR_71779_1_A546817/74107eb85bc690846d7d489774d35f6130f9798c

“During the year three additional subsidiary entities were established.

Tāmaki Regeneration Limited (TRL) was established for the purposes of housing redevelopment.

THA GP Limited (THAGP) for tenancy/property management and Tāmaki Housing Association Limited Partnership (THALP) for future use.

TRL and THALP are Crown entity subsidiaries under the Crown Entities Act 2004.

TRL is not, however, a subsidiary of TRC for financial reporting purposes as the Crown controls TRL through the convertible preference shares it holds.
________________

Crown Entities Act 2004 No 115 (as at 01 July 2017), Public Act Schedule 2 Crown entity companies – New Zealand Legislation

http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2004/0115/latest/DLM331125.html

There is NO Crown Entity Schedule for ‘Crown Entity subsidiaries’.

Just Crown Entity Companies.

Neither Tamaki Redevelopment Company Ltd, nor Tamaki Regeneration Ltd are listed under the Crown Entities Act 2004, Schedule 2 as ‘Crown Entity Companies’!

File under “You Couldn’t Make This Sh*t Up’!

This 5 minute video explaining the, IMO, ‘Tamaki Scam’ has now had over 174,000 views on facebook.

IMO, the essence of the ‘Tamaki Scam’ has been to use similar-sounding names for different companies, in order to disguise the real private property developer-driven GENTRIFICATION’ agenda, as ‘Regeneration’ of poorer communities.

https://www.facebook.com/penny.bright.104/posts/1796625243683493‬
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October 16, 2017 12:20pm
- VicParking
  
  Come on team three hours and not at 30 yet??
  
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  October 16, 2017 3:01pm
  - Scott
    
    Sorry just got here! But did make tick number 30 once again. I’m feeling quite chuffed ?
    
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    October 16, 2017 4:47pm
  - waikatogirl
    
    Happy to help Vic… she disappeared after my downtick. ?
    
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    October 16, 2017 4:56pm
- rightoverlabour
  
  Ahh the Village Idiot is back. Now, be a love and Fuck Off.
  
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  October 16, 2017 7:40pm
SPC

An interesting take on 4chan, and its relationship with the Trump era.

https://medium.com/@DaleBeran/4chan-the-skeleton-key-to-the-rise-of-trump-624e7cb798cb
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October 16, 2017 12:25pm
- AgentBallSack
  
  A bunch of fucking autists on a mongolian nostril flute forum got him elected.
  
  Feels good desu
  
  //
  
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  October 16, 2017 12:29pm
- Ed Snack
  
  TL:DR on that link, but what I could skim strongly suggests another Clinton supporter badly in need of stronger meds and a life.
  
  He doesn’t understand Trump, or Trumpism or what is happening, so he resorts to crude caricatures. He is amazingly ignorant, one of those who believes so much that simply isn’t so.
  
  4 Chan pushed the election Trump’s way, the couple of thousand denizens who mostly inhabit it (and who probably never voted in their lives, even those old enough to do so) would be very pleased at the thought, but somehow, it strikes me as a theory only remotely more believable than “The Russians did it !”
  
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  October 16, 2017 1:05pm
  - SPC
    
    It was more about 4chan, and its demographic than Trump. In that regard, it does raise the issue – just how high is US unemployment? Is it as high as the New Yorker reported (linked in the story), how many are there living in their parents basement (they lose welfare after 2 years and are they still counted in their statistics)?
    
    I was unaware of their connection to Anonymous, support for Occupy Wall Street and WikiLeaks.
    
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    October 16, 2017 1:10pm
    - AgentBallSack
      
      Connection to Anonymous Maybe 5 years ago.
      
      Support for Occupy Anything to piss off people and the status quo
      
      WikiLeaks About the only thing 4Chan /pol/ does agree on as it supports their conspiracy theories.
      
      The truth is 4Chan exists to stir up as much trouble as they can, which is why they pretend to be white supremacists at the moment. They unironically worship the god of chaos.
      
      And they revel in the fact that no one can predict their next move.
      It’s a fun place to cause trouble.
      
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      October 16, 2017 1:28pm
waikatogirl

I see today there is a call for clarification on when unmarried couples actually begin their defacto relationship.

It seems that unlike marriage, where there is a clear legal contract date married couples relationship was cemented, the date a defacto relationship begins is not so clear and becomes an issue when they separate. Apparently the two individuals can have different ideas of when the relationship started and when they became defacto. The date can seriously affect the result of claiming joint assets. ?
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October 16, 2017 1:05pm
- SPC
  
  It should not be before cohabitation.
  
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  October 16, 2017 1:15pm
  - VicParking
    
    Three minutes after the start of copulation?
    
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    October 16, 2017 3:02pm
    - SPC
      
      Given Tinder and polyamory not really a viable start point.
      
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      October 16, 2017 3:22pm
    - rightoverlabour
      
      Why 3 minutes? As soon as the sausage is hidden, the clock starts ticking….
      
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      October 16, 2017 7:37pm
JasonJohns

Veteran journalist Sean Plunket has resigned from the Broadcasting Standards Authority without once sitting on the board.

The former broadcaster faced outrage after asking if “anyone else” felt for disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. Speaking after his resignation, Plunket remained defiant. He did not regret the tweet and said the outrage was really just “a sadly predictable social media pile on”.

He resigned less than two weeks after he took a seat on the board, starting what was supposed to be his three-year-term. The authority’s board is responsible for ruling on official broadcasting complaints.

The BSA and Plunket issued a joint statement announcing his resignation on Friday afternoon. Plunket said earlier in the day that his future with the BSA was “up to them”. He later said the decision to resign was his, made in the interests of the authority.
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October 16, 2017 1:19pm
- DifferentPerspective
  
  The moment the infinitely self-absorbed idiot Lizzie Marvelly weighed in on Plunket (she thought he shouldn’t be on the BSA because of her feelings) I was in his corner.
  
  There are a few twats (like moronic Marvelly) on the fringes of the NZ media who are very useful in that if I adopt the opposite viewpoint to them on any current issue I can rest assured that I am on the side of right, fairness and justice. Jack Lame is the other one – anything Jack is opposed to I find myself strongly in favour of.
  
  Free Sean Plunkett!
  
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  October 16, 2017 1:24pm
  - sam green
    
    “Free Sean Plunkett!:
    
    With every packet of Weetbix!
    
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    October 16, 2017 3:13pm
  - Gabby
    
    She might have spotted that he’s a contrarian arsehole dippy perspex.
    
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    October 16, 2017 7:13pm
  - Left Right and Centre
    
    weighed in – nah
    
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    October 17, 2017 1:11am
Manolo

Crooked Hillary claims the rapist’s money is good enough for her:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4982956/Clinton-Foundation-won-t-return-cash-Harvey-Weinstein.html

The Clinton Foundation told DailyMail.com it will not return as much as $250,000 in donations from Harvey Weinstein, saying on Sunday the money had already been spent on the organisation’s programs and used for charitable purposes.

The foundation’s decision comes as politicians and philanthropic groups grapple with whether to return donations they have received from Weinstein, after numerous women stepped forward this month to accuse the movie mogul of sexual assault, harassment and rape.
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October 16, 2017 1:26pm
Manolo

Is this the Germany envisaged by Mamma Merkel?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/german-towns-filled-with-refugees-ask-who-is-integrating-whom-1508074522

Many of those born or growing up in Salzgitter say they want to help refugees but that the influx has become too big to handle. Concerns range from the impact on schools to rising welfare costs, crime, and a diffuse sense that the local culture is becoming diluted, defeating the purpose of integration.
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October 16, 2017 1:30pm
- Ashley Schaeffer
  
  The idiots are being colonised and are too brainwashed to even comprehend what is happening.
  
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  October 16, 2017 2:11pm
- kowtow
  
  They want to help the refugees?
  
  Fuck ’em . Germany should rise up against the tyrants who rule them and send the illegals back to where they came from.
  
  Hopefully they will.
  
  “They would find an ally in Christian Lindner, the leader of the FDP, who made a comeback after a dismal previous governing stint in the shadow of Merkel.
  
  Lindner on Friday insisted that there must be a “clear time limit for the residency of war refugees in Germany”.
  
  “On war refugees, the aim is not integration in Germany, but their return to their homeland after the end of the war to help rebuild it,” he told regional newspaper group Suedwest Presse.”
  
  https://www.thelocal.de/20171015/merkels-party-suffers-election-defeat-in-lower-saxony
  
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  October 16, 2017 2:28pm
  - AgentBallSack
    
    Did Germany learn from history? It appears not. We know what happens next.
    
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    October 16, 2017 2:43pm
Fletch

Funny how NZ is going through the big potato chip famine, and the episode of Victoria on TV last night was about the big Irish potato famine.
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October 16, 2017 2:14pm
- VicParking
  
  A couple of months ago the MSM where against potato chips because of the salt content. Should not thEY be celebrating the shortage.
  
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  October 16, 2017 3:05pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  False news… another media beat-up
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/97924440/potato-chip-supplies-not-affected-by-potato-shortage
  
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  October 16, 2017 3:15pm
- MCos
  
  One difference that doesn’t make the comparison quite so funny. Approximately a million Irish died because of the famine & another million emigrated; including many to NZ.
  Even though there was famine throughout the land vast amounts of food were exported to the UK mainland . . . .
  
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  October 16, 2017 3:36pm
- Left Right and Centre
  
  yeah – maybe they’ll make a shit awful tv programme about the nz potato famine too then.
  
  Victoria is just nonsense for noddys.
  
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  October 17, 2017 1:14am
Manolo

Welcome to Aotearoa:
http://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/hitchhiker-robbed-at-knifepoint-police/ar-AAtxwh1?li=BBqdg4K&ocid=mailsignout
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October 16, 2017 2:22pm
- starboard
  
  ” would like to hear from anyone who may have information and was in the Matamata area at about 5pm on Sunday.”
  
  Yeah it was those 2 maori fellas..again
  
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  October 16, 2017 3:36pm
  - Brito
    
    That’s an appalling thing to say. You need to take a deep breath and start again. Its…”Yes, it was those two Maori fellows again”. Should have a macaroon but can’t be arsed.
    
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    October 16, 2017 3:45pm
    - itstricky
      
      Yum. Macaroons. Red or Pink?
      
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      October 16, 2017 6:06pm
      - starboard
        
        Vagina
        
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        October 16, 2017 6:57pm
      - Brito
        
        Definitely macaroons…
        
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        October 16, 2017 7:46pm
  - rightoverlabour
    
    Not Jacinda?
    
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    October 16, 2017 7:31pm
AgentBallSack

Macron announces he will strip Weinstein of the Legion d’Honneur, Frances highest non military award.

“Yes,I have indeed taken steps to withdraw the Legion d’Honneur. I wish, as these acts lack honour, that we take all the consequences” Macron said.
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October 16, 2017 2:32pm
- Flash
  
  To be consistent, he’d better stop all American investment in films, in France.
  
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  October 16, 2017 4:47pm
- Gabby
  
  He’s going to give it to Roman Polanski instead Ballbag.
  
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  October 16, 2017 7:09pm
  - AgentBallSack
    
    That’s Honore de Balzac to you, mon ami
    
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    October 16, 2017 7:42pm
    - Gabby
      
      Not even close Scroty.
      
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      October 16, 2017 8:47pm
AgentBallSack

From 2015:

“We better stand up and kick these guys in the ass,” movie mogul Harvey Weinstein said about present-day anti-Semites as he accepted the Humanitarian Award at the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s National Tribute Dinner on Tuesday night at the Beverly Hilton. “We’re gonna have to get as organized as the mafia,” he continued. “We just can’t take it anymore [from] these crazy bastards.”
At the conclusion of a ceremony that celebrated four Jewish and gentile heroes (several posthumously), and at which more than a dozen Holocaust survivors were asked to stand and be applauded, Weinstein was introduced by his longtime friend and competitor Jeffrey Katzenberg — the event’s master of ceremonies — and Christoph Waltz. The actor has twice won the best supporting actor Oscar for roles in Weinstein films, the first time for portraying a Nazi in Inglourious Basterds. Weinstein said to hearty applause, “Too bad movies can’t all be like Inglourious Basterds, where Hitler gets what he deserves.”
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October 16, 2017 2:42pm
- AgentBallSack
  
  Earlier in the evening, Weinstein was described as “a larger-than-life personality” but also “a really nice Jewish boy” by Katzenberg. The emcee pointed out that Weinstein and his brother, Bob, named their first company, Miramax, after their parents, Miriam and Max, asking — to laughter and applause — “In all the thousands of years and annals of dutiful, nice Jewish boys, how many of them named their company after their parents? C’mon, this is like the ultimate mitzvah!” He also described Weinstein as having “an outsized personality” and “an outsized heart,” and also being “an extraordinary and dedicated philanthropist.”
  
  Waltz handled the actual presentation of Weinstein’s award. Calling Weinstein a man with “a heart of gold,” Waltz pointed out that the honoree has handled the distribution of a great number of films connected to Jews, Nazis and/or the Holocaust — not just Basterds, but also The Truce, Life Is Beautiful, The Reader, Sarah’s Key, Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, The Imitation Game and the upcoming Woman in Gold. (He then introduced a clip from Woman in Gold — a film about an elderly Jewish woman seeking the return of artwork stolen from her family by Nazis — which opens next week.) He closed, “Harvey’s words, philanthropy and brilliant films inspire all to strive toward righteousness without shielding our eyes from the past.”
  
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  October 16, 2017 2:46pm
  - SPC
    
    He attended charity events as if he was a fellow donor when he was not. He then formed a foundation in his own name and collected money from others to donate to charity. He celebrated the ability of celebrities to get away with grabbing pussy and then ran for President. While running he said he could shoot someone but was untouchable because his supporters would stand by him all the same. He is now President.
    
    The other inglorious bastard has been celebrated for his donations to charity and to fundraising to politicians. It was at least his own money.
    
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    October 16, 2017 3:14pm
    - AgentBallSack
      
      …While running he said he could shoot someone but was untouchable because his supporters would stand by him all the same. He is now President.
      
      I wish he was a bit more like Duterte TBH.
      
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      October 16, 2017 3:20pm
SPC

Quotes.

1. they are a self serving cabal of mostly Jews who are destroying the fabric of normal society

2. Did Germany learn from history? It appears not. We know what happens next.
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October 16, 2017 3:09pm
- AgentBallSack
  
  SPC
  
  Quotes.
  
  1. they are a self serving cabal of mostly Jews who are destroying the fabric of normal society
  
  2. Did Germany learn from history? It appears not. We know what happens next.
  
  1. I personally believe that the false mores and morals being pushed on society by Hollywood are destroying the fabric of normal society. It’s not normal to be a transgender so why the fuck are we celebrating gender dysphoria? Liberals are pushing it on pre-teen children. They are purposefully changing the nature of societal relationships to the point of deifying freaks and criminalizing straight white men.
  
  Just as well I am allowed to have an opinion?
  
  2. Look at the rise of alt-right political groups in Germany, including violence. Shit, it’s almost like the 1920’s versus the Bolsheviks. And what happened when Germany united against them under a leader?
  
  I don’t see anything wrong with that statement.
  
  So what point are you trying to make?
  
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  October 16, 2017 3:28pm
  - SPC
    
    Just following the legend of the points you are making.
    
    It is interesting that you explain both without reference to Jews, or the holocaust, but prefer to do so in reference to Hollywood corrupting values of normal society and criminalising straight white men. And that the threat comes from liberals who might be seen as the threat that the communists once were.
    
    Putin’s white Christian nationalism. Using a vpn?
    
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    October 16, 2017 3:42pm
    - AgentBallSack
      
      I guess you are trying to paint me as a Jew hater but I haven’t given you enough proofs yet? We both know that DPF is proud of his Jewish heritage so that would be rather stupid of me don’t you think?
      
      My beef is not with the Jewish people, rather with the cabal of Jewish honchos who run Hollywood and inform the direction of entertainment, including the introduction of minorities into every fucking story line out there.
      
      Remakes that bomb because they make the Ghostbusters women and POC because “muh diversity”. Lena “Have you seen my vagina, its a huge vagina, no really” Dunham, one of the liberals most disgusting potty mouthed actresses as Barbie.
      
      Are you really that stupid you can’t see it?
      
      Cabal:
      A cabal is a group of people united in some close design together, usually to promote their private views or interests in an ideology, state, or other community, often by intrigue, usually unbeknown to persons outside their group.
      
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      October 16, 2017 3:51pm
      - SPC
        
        So you are being careful because of whose site this is. Not sure it is that necessary, you and EAD do just fine. The blog is first for free speech – though you might look at comments policy, as to attacking other posters.
        
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        October 16, 2017 4:12pm
      - AgentBallSack
        
        Jesus Christ, does SPC stand for Stephieboy Posting Cooperative? You’re acting as thick as them. Get it through your fucking thick head I am not anti-semitic.
        
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        October 16, 2017 4:21pm
      - SPC
        
        Have you read the comments policy?
        
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        October 16, 2017 4:23pm
      - AgentBallSack
        
        What’s a Comments Policy? Oh shit that’s right the nebulous rules you are trying to hold me to.
        
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        October 16, 2017 7:18pm
  - treadingthemill
    
    It’s not normal to be a transgender
    
    Transgender people have been a proportion of every society throughout history. In some cultures they were considered shamans for their ability to walk between different worlds. Your definition of normal is extremely narrow.
    
    They are purposefully changing the nature of societal relationships
    
    Social relationships are changing anyway. I don’t agree with forcing anything on anybody, except the basic rules necessary for any society, like laws against murder and theft. Authoritarianism is not a good thing imo. But I suspect you would want to force your definition of normal on society, so what makes you different to the people you are criticising? Some people on the left want to force their views on others, and some on the right want to. A curse on both.
    
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    October 16, 2017 4:45pm
    - starboard
      
      Weirdo
      
      There’s no such thing as a transgender.
      
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      October 16, 2017 4:49pm
      - treadingthemill
        
        The trouble with normal is that it always gets worse. I embrace weirdness.
        
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        October 16, 2017 4:55pm
    - AgentBallSack
      
      In a very low percentage of births, freaks occur. Such as siamese twins, two headed babies or hermaphrodites, but these are the exception not the rule.
      It’s not normal to get your cock cut off because you identify as a female, it’s a mental illness. Pushed as normal by the liberal MSM and Hollywood.
      Self inflicted protandry is not a natural human state nor should it be glorified as one.
      
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      October 16, 2017 6:43pm
      - starboard
        
        Well said Ballsack..
        
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        October 16, 2017 6:54pm
      - Gabby
        
        A few Ancient Ballbags more or less is neither here nore there Ole Scrote.
        
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        October 16, 2017 6:59pm
      - treadingthemill
        
        In a very low percentage of births, freaks occur. Such as siamese twins, two headed babies or hermaphrodites, but these are the exception not the rule.
        
        That they may be the exception is irrelevant. They occur, so they are part of nature, and so according to nature, normal. All things that occur in nature are normal.
        
        It’s not normal to get your cock cut off because you identify as a female, it’s a mental illness.
        
        They used to claim homosexuality was a mental illness as well, and give homosexuals electric shock therapy. You are just perpetuating the same mentality. But as I doubt your’re a psychiatrist you have no real basis on which to make that claim. It’s just your opinion, as is your claim to what is or is not normal. Forms of gender expression and sexuality outside the heterosexual have been recorded in all societies throughout history. That makes them normal. And the only thing that defines normal is nature, and nature is wondrous in her diversity and weirdness.
        
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        October 16, 2017 7:19pm
      - AgentBallSack
        
        “…Forms of gender expression and sexuality outside the heterosexual have been recorded in all societies throughout history
        
        56%
        
        In case you’re wondering 56% is the percentage of transsexuals who kill themselves after transitioning. But it’s not a mental illness or anything. The rest live in a haze of drug addiction and self loathing. But it’s not a mental illness or anything
        
        Edit. LOL at being a psychiatrist. L Ron Hubbard told me to stay away from mentalists. They cause most of these problems
        
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        October 16, 2017 7:31pm
      - AgentBallSack
        
        Also, although I know gays and am related to some, I do believe that gay behaviour especially the extreme sexual acts and amount of sexual partners they have is a form of mental illness. Like they’re compensating for being broken inside. Just my opinion though. I would say the same about a woman who had multiple sexual partners and indulged in risky sexual behaviour.
        
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        October 16, 2017 7:39pm
Manolo

It backfired bi time on crooked Hillary:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/730459/Julian-Assange-Wikileaks-Hillary-Clinton-Donald-Trump-pied-pipers

Hillary Clinton may have paved the way for Donald Trump’s victory and sealed her own fate by trying to elevate the controversial business tycoon in the press in the hope it would damage the Republicans.
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October 16, 2017 3:28pm
tom hunter

Sigh! As expected.

The Cubs go down – and it’s due to a leaking bullpen. Even bringing up former star starting pitcher Lackey did not get it done. In fact he’s the one who – with two out and a 3-2 pitch, gave away a walk, bringing up the most dangerous Dodger hitter – Turner – who promptly smashed a game-ending, bottom-of-the-9th 3-run home run. Before this game the Cubs bullpen had an ERA of 7, FFS! Their starters are like 1.9.

Same old story. When the Dodger bullpen is pitching you feel like even a one run lead is enough for them to defend – whereas the Cubs bullpen? Even a four run lead is not enough – and the Cubs batters are not getting even that off the Dodger’s starting pitchers.

And while Lackey has had a great career, he’s 39, and even last year the guy made me nervous every time he pitched. Always felt like he was on the verge of giving up runs, and today he planted one low-and-away in the strike zone. Turner, who had threatened all the Cubs pitchers all night, never looked like missing.

Onto Wrigley Field. But as well as Hendricks may pitch, it won’t fix save them from their other problems.
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October 16, 2017 4:08pm
- SPC
  
  Well, at least you can expect them to keep it close to the later innings. Just await the inevitable disappointment … the Californians did not vote for Trump, so there will be no miracle.
  
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  October 16, 2017 4:27pm
- nasska
  
  While the excitement afforded by Yank baseball may prove terminal for less than robust Kiwi sports fans they’ve seen nothing yet.
  
  On the 10th July Konstantin MIKIRTUMOV of Carcavelos – PORTUGAL beat off stiff competition at the Quinta do Peru Golf and Country Club to win the 9 holes under 10 yo boys tournament. 🙂
  
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  October 16, 2017 4:44pm
- Kimbo
  
  Sorry, tom, was detained today with other matters. Just remember, the Dodgers are chokers. 😉
  
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  October 16, 2017 8:06pm
  - tom hunter
    
    They haven’t bloody choked in the final innings of the last two games when they needed runs!!!!
    
    If I wanted to be fair to the Cubs bullpen I could say that they’re not being handed any leads to defend or (in the case of the Nationals) very much of a lead – and that’s down to the Cubs batters not doing the business against the starting pitchers.
    
    BUT – even a frigging 4 run lead might not be enough to defend the way these guys are pitching. Watching the two bullpens today was cringe-inducing. The Dodgers guys were whacking out the Cubs with minimal pitches; 7-8 for an inning and that was it. The Cubs? They were painfully getting the Dodgers out each inning with perhaps 12 pitches – if they were lucky?
    
    And it’s obvious the Dodgers batters are grinding out the Cubs starters as well; refusing to chase balls, forcing strikes and thus making sure they’re pushed to 100+ pitches by the 6th inning – after which the Dodgers can feast on the bullpen. It’s strategically smart.
    
    By contrast the Dodgers can pull their starter after just five innings if he’s struggling – as Kershaw was yesterday and Hill today – because they know they’ve got strong relief and closing pitching all the rest of the way through the innings.
    
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    October 16, 2017 8:15pm
Hugh Pavletich

Ryan Greenaway-McGrevy argues NZ is looking less like a developed nation and more like a pretender as well educated young people flock overseas | interest.co.nz

http://www.interest.co.nz/opinion/90349/ryan-greenaway-mcgrevy-argues-nz-looking-less-developed-nation-and-more-pretender-well

… concluding …

… Yet instead of declaring a war on housing affordability, our leaders appear more intent on protecting and inflating their own housing portfolios. Instead of tackling our persistently high and shameful rate of child poverty, our leaders have been preoccupied with what our flag should look like. (The right choice, by the way, was laser-eyed kiwi – although a certain red fish may have been the most appropriate symbol.)

The unspoken message to our young people has been loud and clear: If you want to secure your future, build your lives somewhere else. And they have. While banging on about how the youth are disengaged and don’t vote, we have failed to notice that they have been voting en masse for decades. They have been voting with their feet.

I don’t blame them. With so many of us tenants in our own country, with a quarter of our kids growing up in poverty, and with so many of us ultimately choosing to leave, we are looking less and less like a bona fide developed nation, and more and more like a pretender. … read more via hyperlink above …
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October 16, 2017 4:14pm
- nasska
  
  Booked your air tickets yet Hugh? You don’t have to suffer!
  
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  October 16, 2017 4:46pm
stigie

Oh you poor snowflake Hugh, we are starting to feel a tad sorry for you on Kiwiblog now.
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October 16, 2017 4:22pm
- Hugh Pavletich
  
  Stigie … The views of a yellow feral fascist are of no interest.
  
  Did your mother give you a name at all ?
  
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  October 16, 2017 4:26pm
  - Happychappy
    
    Hugh : Well why did you read it you senile bitter twisted prick.
    
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    October 16, 2017 6:32pm
starboard

“with a quarter of our kids growing up in poverty,”

Call bullshit on that Hugh, and you know its bullshit, you are not a silly man. Poverty is what you see in India. I’ve been and I’ve seen it. What we have here in NZ is poor spending choices made by beneficiaries and ferals, generally maori and PI’s. Fags, alcohol, P, dope, KFC, lotto tickets, gambling, food, rent, electricity is the order of the day.. then the kids.
Let’s call it ‘chosen poverty’.
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October 16, 2017 5:14pm
- stigie
  
  Well said starboard, you can buy a loaf of bread for $1 and costs fuck all to put something on it.
  Sending your kid to school with no food is child abuse, it’s not the cost, it’s the lazy feral mothers can’t be bothered and snowflakes like Hugh feel sorry for them..?
  Give me fucking strength !~
  
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  October 16, 2017 5:37pm
  - starboard
    
    Exactly stigie. They think if they yell it loud enough and often enough, everyone will believe it.
    Just pushing their own agendas. Fuck them.
    
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    October 16, 2017 5:54pm
    - Hugh Pavletich
      
      Good comments guys … thank you.
      
      The social and economic problems created unnecessarily by politically induced unaffordable housing should not be brushed under the carpet.
      
      New Zealand’s Fair Go culture is important. We don’t have class distinction … but we sure have behavior distinction.
      
      As I have hopefully made clear over the years, it is just institutional failure at the local level … where they lose control of their coats.
      
      I am really infuriated that the Centre – Right appears to be losing control of this issue here in NZ … and gifting the issue to the Centre =- Left on a plate.
      
      Allister Heath, former Deputy Editor of the UK Torygraph / Telegraph is well worth reading on this issue. Here is a sample …
      
      The real ticking time bomb for the Tories is home ownership – Telegraph
      
      http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/property/11917816/The-real-ticking-time-bomb-for-the-Tories-is-home-ownership.html
      
      While President of the South Island Division of The Property Council at the time, I got land supply opening up here in Christchurch in the early 1990’s, when the then Chair of the Christchurch Councils Enviro Committee Labour (a classics lecturer at Canterbury University) Cl Charles Manning came on board.
      
      The Tories on the Council were pathetic.
      
      House prices pretty much flat – lined through to 2002 … check out the Councils Quick Facts ‘Home Sales’ graph …
      
      https://www.ccc.govt.nz/culture-and-community/christchurch/statistics-and-facts/facts-stats-and-figures/housing-and-dwellings/
      
      It seems this is now starting to happen at a national level … Labour Housing Policy …
      
      http://www.labour.org.nz/housing
      
      Back 2007 … a decade ago … John Key knew pretty clearly what needed to be done … watch this Youtube video …
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWPgoAI1cLE
      
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      October 16, 2017 6:36pm
      - Shawn Herles
        
        Hugh,
        
        mono-obsessive much?
        
        By the way, just to rain on your bash-National party, the housing and infrastructure crisis in NZ began under Clark’s government, as did the reliance on high levels of immigration to pump prime the economy.
        
        Blaming JK and National alone is dishonest bullshit.
        
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        October 16, 2017 6:41pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        London House Prices Fall Most Since Financial Crisis – Bloomberg
        
        https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-15/london-house-prices-fall-at-fastest-pace-since-financial-crisis
        
        London house prices are falling at their fastest pace since the financial crisis, confirming the British capital as the worst-performing part of a slowing market.
        
        Early data point to home values in London declining 2.7 percent in the year through September, the most since 2009, according to Acadata and LSL property Services. A 0.7 percent fall in August marked the first negative reading since 2011 as sellers in some of the city’s most expensive boroughs, including Westminster, Wandsworth and Hammersmith, were forced to cut prices. … read more via hyperlink above …
        
        Good News About Brexit: Leaving London and Paying Less Rent – Bloomberg
        
        https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-16/good-news-about-brexit-leaving-london-and-paying-less-rent
        
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        October 17, 2017 1:31am
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        Shawn … but 9 years is more than enough time to sort out these problems … something the Key crowd promised to do in the lead up to the 2008 election.
        
        It is a serious matter a so called centre – right government has failed at this.
        
        One important aspect of it is that the centre – left can now incorrectly portray the problem as a ‘market failure’ requiring totally unnecessary interventionist (e.g. Kiwibuild) solutions.
        
        Sadly … John Key has much to answer for.
        
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        October 17, 2017 1:41am
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        London house prices falling at fastest pace since GFC – MacroBusiness
        
        https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2017/10/london-house-prices-falling-fastest-pace-since-gfc/
        
        Good News About Brexit: Leaving London and Paying Less Rent – Bloomberg
        
        https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-16/good-news-about-brexit-leaving-london-and-paying-less-rent
        
        London’s Stock of Unsold Homes Under Construction at Record High – Bloomberg
        
        https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-16/london-s-stock-of-unsold-homes-under-construction-at-record-high
        
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        October 17, 2017 2:43am
  - Left Right and Centre
    
    $1 bread is just low quality duck dinner junk food. That is just fucking ridiculous. It’s not even food mate. It’s worse going in than coming out.
    
    Bad example I reckon.
    
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    October 17, 2017 1:22am
- rightoverlabour
  
  Yup. Go to Johannesburg and see squatters living on the side of a polluted, filthy river. As some shit in it upstream, others are using the water for cooking downstream. Go to Somalia to see poverty. There is NO poverty in New Zealand.
  
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  October 16, 2017 7:25pm
  - Left Right and Centre
    
    yep – poverty is the wrong word, and shouldn’t be used in NZ.
    
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    October 17, 2017 1:24am
fluffykiwi

Just a thought. I feel that if Winnie goes with National NZ First will cease to exist after the next election. National would probably not get a 5th term so with National failing to win another term NZ First becomes irrelevant, because difficult for NZ first to say they can go with Labour if they have been supporting a National government for the past 3 years.
However the reverse is true.
But I prefer the reverse from a National Party point of view, National can revamp the party, make the labour government extremely accountable for everything they do. Question time in the house would suddenly become relevant, less patsy questions.
Winston would eventually pack a sad, Jacinda either is capable or quickly proves her ineptitude in the role and labour has a complete cleanout which is something they need, as does National , and thus we might in 2020 get back to some sort of normality with our Government acting in the best interests of New Zealanders, and not pussyfooting around the place because of Winston Peters.
The greens, well if they are bright they might reconsider the word “Green” and what it actually means and perhaps become a true environmental party and of relevance to both sides of the house and thus their options become larger.
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October 16, 2017 5:16pm
- Hugh Pavletich
  
  Observe closely caretaker PM English on RNZ this morning …
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDsxOpChY88
  
  … and ask the question … Is National very keen to go in to coalition with NZ First ?
  
  … and from that … will Winston Peters be getting a more welcoming approach from Labour ?
  
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  October 16, 2017 6:01pm
  - stigie
    
    “will Winston Peters be getting a more welcoming approach from Labour ?”
    
    With other people’s money, that’s for sure Hugh !~
    
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    October 16, 2017 6:09pm
- nasska
  
  Two points Fluffykiwi:
  
  1) Labour is resistant to rejuvenation. Most of the no hopers that serve as its MPs have run sausage sizzles, sucked dick & sold their grandmothers for their place at the trough. It’s the best lurk they’ve ever had or ever will have.
  
  2) The Greens are a far left bunch of rabid red socialists with a thin spray coat of Green ideals. They honestly believe that National is far right.
  
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  October 16, 2017 6:17pm
Digmen1

Apparently the winner of the recent Austrian election gets to chose his coalition partner first!
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October 16, 2017 5:26pm
Lucia Maria

Jon Stewart Grants Trump’s Request For Equal Time On Late-Night
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October 16, 2017 6:13pm
starboard

Finally..a ‘Kiwi connection’..we are part of the big league, that’s great.
NZ really does have short man’s disease.

https://i.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/celebrities/97940050/anna-paquin-among-celebrities-revealing-they-were-harassed
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October 16, 2017 7:08pm
- AgentBallSack
  
  One of the first to come out was a Kiwi model who got sexually abused then ghosted by Weinstein.
  
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  October 16, 2017 7:14pm
starboard

I smell marketing bullshit..

https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/97924440/potato-chip-supplies-not-affected-by-potato-shortage
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October 16, 2017 7:10pm
Harriet

“……The greatest ‘tree saving’ event in recorded history was the discovery of the use of coal for fuel. Europe was doomed to be virtually treeless before coal. If the ‘tree huggers’ really like trees and not just hate humans they would encourage more fossil fuel use.
I can only add that some of the Central and South American ‘civilisations’ [eg. Mayans] of the past indulged in human sacrifices to appease the ‘climate gods’ of their day. It apparently didn’t work too well in most cases because those ‘civilisations’ no longer exist. It is frightening that in the 21st century that the high priests of Gaia [the modern ‘climate god’] are no longer satisfied with just the odd warrior or maiden as a human sacrifice they want to sacrifice most of humanity with their mania to ‘decarbonise’ industry and with it civilisation…”

And oil/kerosene for lantern use saved whales. And then there is the sun.
But none of that would matter with the current deal making going on to form government…..and that includes National.

“MMP is also crap!” – Tony Abbott 😎
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October 16, 2017 7:11pm
- Digmen1
  
  I saw a doco that showed that several North American Indian civilisations died out because they had cut down all the trees. No trees no fires, no food etc.
  
  I think the next thing will be electric cars dropping the need for oil. Esp in countries with renewables eg solar and hydro (eg NZ)
  
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  October 16, 2017 7:15pm
  - Left Right and Centre
    
    dropping the need for ragheads
    
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    October 17, 2017 1:28am
- rightoverlabour
  
  I could think of a few worthy of sacrifice on the High Altar of Climate Fraud…..
  
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  October 16, 2017 7:18pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Anyone keeping track of all the Colin Craig defamation cases?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/97938617/Details-emerge-of-defamation-case-settlement-between-former-Conservative-Party-members?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

https://yournz.org/2017/10/16/craig-v-stringer-defamation/
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October 16, 2017 7:15pm
- waikatogirl
  
  Maggy, you must have too much time on your hands today. Better to be out in your garden than keeping an eye on Colin Craig’s shenanigans. About as interesting as Winston is this week! ?
  
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  October 16, 2017 7:19pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    It’s getting a tad dark for gardening now, and I had to come inside to feed hubby.
    
    I gave the links, hoping someone else might precis it.
    
    Well, let’s just flag it then.
    
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    October 16, 2017 7:44pm
    - sam green
      
      Did his hands fall off?
      
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      October 16, 2017 10:03pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        No, they were otherwise engaged.
        http://images2.sina.com/english/life/p/2009/1019/U137P200T1D278842F12DT20091019203320.jpg
        
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        October 16, 2017 10:06pm
      - sam green
        
        ?. Good on him.
        
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        October 16, 2017 10:07pm
      - sam green
        
        Is that his Santa suit?
        
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        October 16, 2017 10:12pm
- nasska
  
  Could you do the decent thing & give us a synopsis Maggy.
  
  It’s just that I don’t want to risk what’s left of my sanity by wading through the crap. 🙂
  
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  October 16, 2017 7:30pm
- Gabby
  
  Are there poems? Let there be poems.
  
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  October 16, 2017 8:16pm
rightoverlabour

Can someone actually tell me what this data actually shows. What is NZ Above/ Below average on the map here: What is the average they talk about?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/97917491/these-are-the-voters-who-gave-winston-the-keys-to-power
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October 16, 2017 7:15pm
- waikatogirl
  
  rol, Looks like a map of heavy older population on the sunny Hibiscus coast and down through to Tauranga retirement villages!
  
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  October 16, 2017 7:23pm
Digmen1

Below average refers to their intelligence level.
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October 16, 2017 7:16pm
dad4justice

The country is doing fine without a government why do we need political parasites ?
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October 16, 2017 7:44pm
- stigie
  
  Correct Dad, all we need now is Winston to come in and fuck it all up..?
  
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  October 16, 2017 8:34pm
Maggy Wassilieff

晚上好

Chinese Language Week
5day -5 phrases challenge
http://nzclw.com/events/nzclw-challenge.html
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October 16, 2017 7:45pm
- Left Right and Centre
  
  that’s right – kiwis have to integrate to our new masters.
  
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  October 17, 2017 1:30am
rightoverlabour

Fuck, time to Nuke the ME and get rid of these fractious arseholes. Today we fight together, tomorrow I slit your throat…

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-41631697
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October 16, 2017 7:52pm
RF

Winston.. hat tip to Dennis Connor the famous yachtsman.

YOU ARE FULL OF SHIT !!!!!!
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October 16, 2017 7:59pm
- AgentBallSack
  
  Context?
  
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  October 16, 2017 8:38pm
  - softail 1450
    
    Connor said this to our yachtsman at a news conference way back after a controversial race ,may have been on paul homes show,memory fails me.
    and it does suit being said to winston as well .
    
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    October 17, 2017 6:42am
nasska

How long before Harvey Weinstein suddenly finds Jesus?
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October 16, 2017 8:09pm
- AgentBallSack
  
  And nails him to a cross
  
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  October 16, 2017 8:20pm
  - EAD_TWO
    
    ??????
    
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    October 16, 2017 8:28pm
- Longknives
  
  How long before Lucy Lawless wades in with her own ‘revelations’ about sleazy old Harvey?
  Seemingly every other struggling D-list Actress has tried to spark their career by getting on the bandwagon…
  
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  October 16, 2017 8:21pm
- treadingthemill
  
  He’s Jewish, so that would be interesting.
  
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  October 16, 2017 8:26pm
- treadingthemill
  
  I think he will go into some kind of residential therapy center for a few weeks and then claim he’s healed and ask for his company and previous life back. I really hope people don’t fall for that.
  
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  October 16, 2017 8:31pm
  - AgentBallSack
    
    Not going to happen. He is the sacrificial lamb for people more powerful than him. And with a worth of billions of dollars, you have to wonder just who is more important, that a movie mogul can be disposed like this?
    You have to think between the lines….
    
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    October 16, 2017 8:55pm
    - nasska
      
      Imagine what sort of hold they would need to have over him to stop him blabbing.
      
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      October 16, 2017 9:05pm
      - AgentBallSack
        
        Cheese Pizza. Podesta, Island visits and secret recordings. Comet Ping Pong. Nickleodeon and Disney starlets.
        Choose one or all of the above.
        
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        October 16, 2017 9:10pm
      - nasska
        
        Washington or Hollywood initiated?
        
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        October 16, 2017 9:18pm
      - AgentBallSack
        
        nasska these people don’t have bases, they’re mostly completely apolitical, but buy politicians like you and I buy dinner. I would say that Soros is involved somehow, at the risk of getting suicided.
        What I wonder is what the hell is really being hidden? MSM is sliding this like they knew NOTHING, when they knew everything all the time.
        Whatever the hell is being hidden under this, that is really important, we may never know.
        Speaking of which – Las Vegas shooter crime pics… check them out. Where are the hundreds of used shells in the shooters room?
        Perhaps I have said to much already
        
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        October 16, 2017 9:28pm
      - EAD_TWO
        
        @ AgentBallSack
        
        NAIL…………….
        HEAD………….
        HIT
        
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        October 16, 2017 9:33pm
      - softail 1450
        
        nasska, he may suffer a Clinton suicide ,3 shots to the back of the head.
        
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        October 17, 2017 6:46am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I think he’ll be finding geegees before Jesus.
  
  He’s booked in for equine therapy
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-4981436/Sex-addict-therapy-unlikely-help-Harvey-Weinstein-experts.html
  
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  October 16, 2017 8:31pm
- Harriet
  
  “……How long before Harvey Weinstein suddenly finds Jesus?….”
  
  No one else ever has Nasska – what do you mean? 😎
  
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  October 16, 2017 8:36pm
  - nasska
    
    ….”No one else ever has”…..
    
    That’s right. It would be like looking in a dark room for a black cat that wasn’t there. He exists only in your mind!
    
    But Harvey may try to pull the old “found God” trick to redeem himself in the eyes of the gullible Bible bashing Yanks.
    
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    October 16, 2017 8:45pm
    - Inandout
      
      He could find Allah, now that would be a twist, and he would fit in with what Muslim males are doing to infidel women in Europe.
      
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      October 16, 2017 9:44pm
  - Jack5
    
    Weinstein won’t find a cheque from the Clinton Foundation.
    
    It’s keeping his donations totalling about $US250,000.
    
    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/10/16/clinton-foundation-to-keep-harvey-weinsteins-250000-donation.html
    
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    October 16, 2017 10:29pm
- Left Right and Centre
  
  probably called out the name enough during the ‘encounters’ . . .
  
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  October 17, 2017 1:32am
AgentBallSack

Who hasn’t done this?

A gardener got so fed up with his wife’s nagging he ran away from home and lived in the woods for ten years.

Malcolm Applegate, 62, was married to his wife for three years before upping sticks after the relationship reached breaking point.

He then made his way from Birmingham, where they lived, to London – making half the three-week journey on foot after his bike was stolen, the MailOnline reported.

Malcolm said: “I was married to her for three years, but unfortunately it got too much.

“First of all I met her in Eastbourne and I married her in Birmingham.

“For three years it was alright, we got on with one another and the gardening got too much for her.

“She said, ‘Why don’t we have more time together?’ I said, ‘How can I? I have been recommended to people’.

“I just upped and left, I got fed up with her because we used to get so many arguments.
‘It took me three weeks to get back to London.

“I didn’t lock my bike up in Oxford and someone helped themselves to it, so I had to walk back from Oxford.”
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October 16, 2017 8:19pm
Harriet

Aussie gay marriage debate:

“Arguing with a Yes voter is like playing chess with a pigeon. It doesn’t matter how good your game is, your opponent will s*** all over the board and strut about as though they won.”

The part-time musician also lamented he can’t use the word “gay” to mean “carefree and nonchalant and generally a cheerful person” any more; and that he has a rainbow-coloured guitar strap that he “can’t use any more” … “somebody asked me the other day if I was gay”.
“It (the rainbow) used to mean running in the backyard under the sprinkler now it means you support the gay cause,” he said.

On gender theory being taught in schools:
“our kids are not your social experiment”

And on another site the gays went absolutely fucken mental when it was pointed out that :

“Truth be known it will always be ‘concessional marriage’ as you won’t EVER be married until the law is CHANGED; a GRANT. ‘marriage equality’ has always been an impossibility.
btw ‘civil union’ sounds much better. ” 😎 😎
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October 16, 2017 11:12pm
Left Right and Centre

celebrating cultural diversity with your host, LR&C

I’m at a checkout – paid and getting ready to leave. Checkout operator leaves without a word. A black woman – African – has walked up as operator left.

So now there’s no operator and she’s just standing there like the mouth breathing moron that she is – dazed and confused. And takes root at a now empty checkout. What would you do ?
I look at her with the ‘are you a total moron’ look. Nothing. She asks me – I think – if anyone is there or coming back.
Thick as pigshit – how did she get into this country ? Use your brain – there’s no-one there now, so now what should I do ? Er – find another checkout ? I say black – she was medium chocolate. Dairy milk ? Did she dress herself today ? One leg, one hole, yeah ? Did she go to school in her country of origin ?
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