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krazykiwi

I’ve become a grandfather for the first time. She’s the most beautiful creature to be born as she takes after her grandmother. I’m bursting with pride. Her mum and dad are pretty stoked too.
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November 28, 2017 8:01am
- RalphT
  
  We achieved that status a few months ago; isn’t it a wonderful feeling?
  
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  November 28, 2017 8:05am
- Ed Snack
  
  Congratulations to the proud grandparents (and the parents who did and will do all the hard work going forward !). Sadly, I suspect it will be a considerable time before I get to enjoy the same.
  
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  November 28, 2017 8:07am
- pdm
  
  We have a dozen – youngest coming up 7 so shouldn’t be any more but great grandchildren could be imminent as the eldest grandchild got engaged about 6 weeks ago.
  
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  November 28, 2017 8:09am
- DifferentPerspective
  
  Congratulations 🙂
  
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  November 28, 2017 8:12am
- Lance
  
  This is where you can apply the grandparent double standard 🙂
  E.g. our daughter was with us at her grandparents and she was colouring in a book… and going off the edge of the book and onto the carpet. I exclaimed.. ‘no’ but my Mother replied “don’t worry about it”. What????
  We would have been persecuted for such behaviour.
  
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  November 28, 2017 8:16am
- Longknives
  
  Congrats!!!
  Nice to read some good news for a change…
  
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  November 28, 2017 8:23am
- lifesgood
  
  Grandchildren are the greatest joy in a life, better than your own kids, I reckon. You can love them with all your heart but don’t have to discipline them….mostly!
  
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  November 28, 2017 8:30am
- Keeping Stock
  
  Congratulations krazykiwi. I hope to have that privilege some time in the not too distant future.
  
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  November 28, 2017 8:40am
- dime
  
  awesome! congrats!
  
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  November 28, 2017 9:05am
- Right of way is Way of Right
  
  Congratulations, it’s a pretty good feeling isn’t it!
  
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  November 28, 2017 9:13am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  Omedetou-gozaimasu!
  (Congratulations)
  
  I tell my two daughters that if they have no children, then not to worry; the New Zealand government will make up for the shortfall with more immigration…//
  
  Here’s hoping…
  
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  November 28, 2017 9:42am
- Don the Kiwi
  
  Congrats Kk.
  Yes, it is a joy – I have 7 grandchildren – only 1 boy though 14, all the rest girls. The oldest, 19, is in her second year at Vic. Uni. – the others range from 17 down to 12,all at secondary school – the next to go to Uni is a 17 y/o.
  The beauty with grandkids is – you can hand them back to their parents if they become a pain. 😉
  
  I reckon I’m only 4 or 5 years away from being a GREAT grandfather. 🙂
  
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  November 28, 2017 10:16am
- radvad
  
  You know how good you were as a parent when you see how your grandchildren turn out. I am watching my 2 year old grandson with bated breath. My grand daughter is one month old.
  You have much to look forward to kk, all the best.
  
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  November 28, 2017 10:19am
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  It is good, and may it continue. My Grandkids are now 18, 17 and 15. They live with me (long story)
  Now back in September we went to Alaska. See I have this sort of stepdaughter from Thailand who married an Alaskan man. Son is 6 months old now and yeah it is like having a step Grandson.
  Anyway krazykiwi, the best is yet to come. Enjoy.
  
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  November 28, 2017 6:10pm
- Piniwi
  
  Are you crazy krazykiwi? Second most beautiful after my granddaughter perhaps. It is true it is a very special thing and likely the main contributor to the old getting better with age.
  
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  November 28, 2017 6:33pm
- Chris R
  
  Good on you! Congratulations! But: Who would be so mean spirited to down-tick you…that’s shabby.
  
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  November 28, 2017 7:48pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Labour going to do a flip-flop on paid parental leave?
https://yournz.org/2017/11/28/more-on-paid-parental-leave-plans/
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November 28, 2017 8:05am
- Inandout
  
  Bloody hell, how many more about faces?
  
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  November 28, 2017 8:12am
- VicParking
  
  ThighKiss was interviewed on Red Radio his morning. “Its very complicated, but will will add to to legislation in the new year”. When asked that “should it be the parents choice” he waffled on about something different as he had no reply.
  Will they add it to the legistation making all adult males liable for three weeks tree planting per month.
  
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  November 28, 2017 8:19am
- Rich Prick
  
  Let’s hope the promised student feebies are next for the chop.
  
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  November 28, 2017 8:46am
  - sooty
    
    Labour should paint faces on their arses, with the amount of about faces they do!
    
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    November 28, 2017 8:49am
    - insider
      
      Wouldn’t that make them about faeces?
      
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      November 28, 2017 9:33am
    - Steve (North Shore)
      
      Grant’s arse
      
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      November 28, 2017 6:56pm
      - Shaun the Sheep
        
        Mind bleach, please!
        
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        November 28, 2017 8:30pm
  - alloytoo
    
    Primary Decile 1 schools are gearing themselves for funding cuts to successful programs in order to fund tertiary education bribes.
    
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    November 28, 2017 10:01am
- hullkiwi
  
  What it amounts to, is to look proactive in the first 100 days forced through legislation they hadn’t thought through, refused to take amendments & refused to allow to go to a select committee. Now they have heard they screwed up over the matter, they are tried to find a way to back pedal without losing face. Will be good to watch this unfold in the media.
  
  PS. Please keep Iain Lees Galloway exactly where he is, he is such a shinning example of the CoL’s incompetence every time he is faced with fronting to the media.
  
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  November 28, 2017 8:56am
  - ztev
    
    Thats because the paid parental leave was previously a private members bill which was successful through all its stages including committee until vetoed by bill english as ‘too expensive’
    Come the election and national did an ‘about face’ and had their own proposal for the election .
    
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    November 28, 2017 10:21am
    - hullkiwi
      
      What the current govt does (or doesn’t do) is irrespective of what the National government did prior to 23rd September.
      As you stated correctly, the original bill was a private member’s & it passed through the select committee, but that didn’t mean it had to be passed under urgency in week 1 of the new parliament. Instead they pushed it through, & it is there with all its inadequacies for all to see.
      
      So, if you want someone to blame for the government finding itself in a hole over this issue, go and chat to Sue Mulroney. It was her bill after all, that Bill English stopped.
      
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      November 28, 2017 12:38pm
      - ztev
        
        Why repeat the committee process ?
        
        The question you havent asked is why did national vetoe bill supported by labour and then announce their own version ?
        
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        November 28, 2017 1:18pm
    - Prince
      
      That’s a lie. Vetoed because it wasn’t in the budget for that year.
      Of course those were the days when Govt planned their spend and kept to it. Not throwing money at every dog that barked.
      It’s called governance, mr speaker.
      
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      November 28, 2017 6:29pm
- Rachael Membery
  
  Sensible, they have to realise they are no longer in opposition. is seeing sens a flip flop? I would hate to discourage it
  
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  November 28, 2017 9:45am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    It’s a flip flop because they have resisted the idea so vehemently until now. It would be ‘seeing sense’ if they had said ‘Hm, good idea National, let’s work out how to build that into the legislation’.
    
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    November 28, 2017 4:17pm
  - treadingthemill
    
    It’s good that they have changed their view. The outcome is all that matters. Both parties flip flop and play politics in equal measure.
    
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    November 28, 2017 4:25pm
EAD_TWO

A friend of mine showed me their sons fortnightly school newsletter sent out on Friday.

Perhaps it’s the Labour administration emboldening the civil service but their Christmas message was as follows:

Happy holidays to all……Christmas is a time where all the diverse cultures of Aoteoroa New Zealand celebrate what it means to be a Kiwi…… Christmas is all about spending time with those you love as you unwrap the presents under the tree

After reading that load of sanctimonious PC dribble and despite not being religious, we both agreed that everyone this year is going to be getting a Christmas card with baby Jesus and the 3 wise men.

For all all the multikult “all cultures are equal” lefties (there aren’t many to be fair), willll be getting the card with a message to to take the time to remember the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ

Watching them grit their teeth as they read it will bring mote of a a smile than giving any kind of present ever will❗

Small victories….
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November 28, 2017 8:08am
- Longknives
  
  It’s not Christmas to Lefties anymore EAD-
  It’s ‘Happy Holidays’ or ‘Winterval’…
  
  *Imagine being so full of hate and self-loathing that you try to rename Christmas!
  
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  November 28, 2017 8:25am
  - EAD_TWO
    
    It’s insidious, but actually quite funny to watch them explain that Christmas has no real meaning beyond shopping, consuming & “celebrating all Cultures” yet they go blue in the face explaining to us that ancient NZ festival of Diwali (or the festival of colour as we’re supposed to remember it)
    
    Even the Indian IT thought the Marketing person promoting it was a tool.
    
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    November 28, 2017 8:35am
    - kowtow
      
      Insidious?
      It’s in your face.
      Last night on the evening propaganda broadcast they had the Chief Plod proudly declaring their were too many Minion Plods who looked liked him , white male , and they wanted a lot more of different than .
      
      I don’t care what colour they are as long as they’re good at the job and selected for their potential to be good officers.
      
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      November 28, 2017 9:30am
      - Longknives
        
        Does the Police Commissioner’s ‘White Guilt’ extend to giving back some of his 700k salary??
        
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        November 28, 2017 10:06am
    - MrLovebucket
      
      Not to mention the recently invented Matariki which is getting forced down our throat more and more.
      
      What’s next? Some bearded “academic” will suddenly discover an ancient maori equivalent of the Mexican “day of the dead” and we will be forced to endure that as well.
      
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      November 28, 2017 10:51am
      - softail 1450
        
        love bucket ,you are a bit slow ,we are already enduring that, it’s called the Labour Party .
        
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        November 28, 2017 11:08am
      - Steve (North Shore)
        
        Wait until ‘Subaru’ find out that Moari are using their symbol and brand of the so called ‘Matariki’
        Who will pay the Law suits? Not fucking Moari – it will be the Govt, and the Taxpayer – who are ……….
        fill in the dots
        
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        November 28, 2017 6:22pm
  - waikatogirl
    
    Apparently Don Brash was on TV3 last night and dared to say he wanted RNZ announcers to STOP speaking so much “Te Reo”.
    Like changing the name of Christmas, the resounding response was this is 2017, get with the programme Don.
    
    The message is times have changed, get used to it.
    
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    November 28, 2017 8:40am
    - Random T Person
      
      Lefties are noisy. The majority thinks the other way, but stays silent on the principle of ‘pick your battles’.
      
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      November 28, 2017 8:58am
      - waikatogirl
        
        Lefties don’t get that. They think silence means everyone agrees with them.
        
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        November 28, 2017 9:22am
    - Jack5
      
      The response should have been:
      
      “Radio New Zealand is now an NZ Pidgin organisation, and the staff ho’s support that. When we don’t go fully into Maori, our language is Pidgin. We proudly pronounce the macrons.”
      
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      November 28, 2017 8:58am
      - EAD_TWO
        
        Don’t laugh but the BBC recently launched a new service called BBC Pidgin so that low IQ Blacks could understand di newzzzzzzzz
        
        https://www.bbc.com/pidgin
        
        Here is that purveyor of the Queens English, the BBC, reporting on Prince Harry’s engagement:
        
        https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/world-42134875
        
        Di prince, wey be di fifth person in line to England royal throne, go marry Ms Markle next year and dem go live for Nottingham Cottage for Kensington Palace, London.
        
        Prince Harry, wey don dey with im girlfriend since 2016, propose to Ms Markle earlier dis month.
        
        Seriously – this is not made up. This is what da Briteeeshh taxpayyyazzz bling bling be a spent oon
        
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        November 28, 2017 9:03am
      - treadingthemill
        
        Don’t laugh but the BBC recently launched a new service called BBC Pidgin so that low IQ Blacks could understand di newzzzzzzzz
        
        A quick Google would have told you that Pidgen is actually a spoken language in many countries, and has nothing to do with IQ.
        
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English-based_pidgins
        
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        November 28, 2017 9:49am
      - hullkiwi
        
        Correction EAD, the Beeb is still funded by TV licence (supplemented by the taxpayer and commercial sales/activities). But no advertising.o
        
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        November 28, 2017 9:50am
      - EAD_TWO
        
        A quick Google would have told you that Pidgen is actually a spoken language in many countries, and has nothing to do with IQ.
        
        Troden – are you Mikenmild reincarnated? You seem to share a lot of his beta characteristics……
        
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        November 28, 2017 10:08am
      - treadingthemill
        
        Troden – are you Mikenmild reincarnated?
        
        Hah. No. My first name is Robert. I’m a semi-retired bricklayer, and a Pagan.
        
        You seem to share a lot of his beta characteristics……
        
        You mean the ability to use Google?
        
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        November 28, 2017 10:17am
      - Paulus
        
        Isn’t Kim Hill in trouble as she does not intend to speak Maori in her programmes ?
        
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        November 28, 2017 1:50pm
      - Don the Kiwi
        
        treadingthemill.
        
        ” I’m a semi-retired bricklayer, and a Pagan.”
        
        Well, what else would we expect from a semi-retired bricklayer. You’re not a Freemason too , are you? 😉
        
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        November 28, 2017 7:39pm
      - Jack5
        
        Re Treadingthemill (10.17):
        
        A semi-retired bricklayer?
        
        The Labour Zillion Dollar Housing Bonanza needs you! Your retirement is henceforth cancelled.
        
        You can put down the trowel when you are 97.
        
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        November 28, 2017 10:32pm
- Gruffydd
  
  If you want to waste your money go ahead.
  I occasionally get Christmas cards with religious overtones from even atheist friends.
  As one of KB’s hard atheists I still place such a card on display
  Such cards are a token of the season and the friendship of the person who sent it… no more no less. Happy holidays …..
  
  In short it is only snowflakes like you who give a fuck.
  
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  November 28, 2017 8:31am
  - starboard
    
    You can also use them to roll fat doobies eh stoner..?
    
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    November 28, 2017 8:45am
    - Gruffydd
      
      No one I know rolls fat doobies.
      We use a pipe and have a cone or two.
      Trying to smoke a big fat joint with strong modern pot is pointless ….ya lose interest before it is finished.
      It would be like trying to drink a jug of whisky.
      
      Hows the move to Thailand fantersy going story worked out that we know you are full of shite yet?
      
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      November 28, 2017 8:57am
      - Jack5
        
        Griff, as a matter of interest, how has cannabis been made stronger? Is it plant breeding?
        
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        November 28, 2017 9:14am
      - starboard
        
        Its against the law Gwiff..but you lot are above the law eh…loon.
        Im on the Gold Coast at the mo staying with family.
        Back to Phuket April. You’re welcome to come and stay anytime Gwiff so I can throw you off my balcony. ?
        
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        November 28, 2017 9:21am
      - kowtow
        
        jack 5
        
        Global warming is doing it or haven’t you heard , it’s blamed for everything these days.
        
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        November 28, 2017 9:35am
      - Gruffydd
        
        Sorry Story if I wanted to go to Thailand I have plenty of friends and contacts in the NZ Thai community that would look after me.
        
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        November 28, 2017 9:43am
      - starboard
        
        Which brothels do they work in Gwiff?
        
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        November 28, 2017 10:08am
      - Gruffydd
        
        Ah story thinks because he fucks bar girls we all need to pay trash to get laid.
        
        No story I know quite a few in the Ak restaurant community . A close mate owned the Thai takeaways in wellsford . Another friend of mine has a Thai furniture import and retail business and does a lot of work supporting Thai immigrants.
        
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        November 28, 2017 10:31am
      - starboard
        
        Sure Gwiff..dont be embarressed..its ok to pay for it. ?
        
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        November 28, 2017 11:34am
      - starboard
        
        Please dont call Thai women trash you drug addled neandathal.
        
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        November 28, 2017 1:40pm
    - Brito
      
      Hey Starboard, you’re right, it is against the law. But that’s not the main issue with dope. It causes the synapses to lengthen which means the speeeeecchhh beeecccommmes slooowwweeerr.
      
      Also your willy becomes inverted and you grow breasts. So Griffoid can be a ladyboy bargirl thing!!
      
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      November 28, 2017 12:28pm
  - Jack5
    
    Talk about the Christmas Grinch!
    
    Griff, you should now boycott the days of the week named after heathen gods:
    
    Tuesday comes from Tiu, or Tiw, the Anglo-Saxon name for Tyr, the Norse god of war. Tyr was one of the sons of Odin, or Woden, the supreme deity after whom Wednesday is named. Similarly, Thursday originates from Thor, the god of thunder. Friday is derived from Frigga, the wife of Odin, representing love and beauty.
    
    Source: https://www.almanac.com/fact/where-did-the-names-of-the-days
    
    And then there’s Saturday, named after the Roman god Saturn.
    
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    November 28, 2017 9:03am
    - Gruffydd
      
      What was Grinch like about placing cards in a prominent position?
      Christmas has its roots in the pagan celebrations of winter solstice . https://listverse.com/2012/12/15/10-remarkable-origins-of-common-christmas-traditions/
      For me and mine it is about the extended family gathering together not some cults god delusions.
      
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      November 28, 2017 9:17am
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      In Japanese,
      Monday is the “Moon” day
      Tuesday is the “Fire” day
      Wednesday is the “Water” day (to put out the fire?)
      Thursday is the “Tree” day
      Friday is the “Gold” day (Fridays are gold, all right.)
      Saturday is the “Earth [soil]” day
      Sunday is the “Sun” day
      
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      November 28, 2017 9:46am
- lifesgood
  
  I make a point of always sending religious Christmas cards because it is, Christmas, e.g. the date commemorated as Christ’s birthday, after all. Trouble is religious cards are getting very hard to find.
  
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  November 28, 2017 8:33am
- Rachael Membery
  
  Hope you can find said cards!!!
  
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  November 28, 2017 9:47am
- treadingthemill
  
  It’s Yule Ead. You Christians stole it from us Pagans, so what goes around……
  
  Yule or Yuletide (“Yule time”) was and is a festival observed by the historical Germanic peoples. Scholars have connected the celebration to the Wild Hunt, the god Odin, and the pagan Anglo-Saxon Mōdraniht. It later underwent Christianised reformulation resulting in the term Christmastide.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yule
  
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  November 28, 2017 9:54am
  - Ed Snack
    
    Maybe, but the classical germanic culture is contemporaneous with the rise of the Abrahamic religions.
    
    All religions (or almost all) appear to celebrate specific calendar points, so it’s not a case of stealing but absorption. No doubt the original Germans derived their beliefs from some other people and so on back to the distant past…
    
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    November 28, 2017 12:33pm
Sarkozygroupie

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11451/hijab-barbie

In case you are short of Christmas present ideas this year.
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November 28, 2017 8:11am
- Inandout
  
  I would buy one and expose the hair on the head, and if no hair then poke some in. Would be a riot.
  
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  November 28, 2017 8:14am
  - Sarkozygroupie
    
    Obviously your down ticker has a thing for bald women. Kinky.
    
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    November 28, 2017 8:21am
    - Steve (North Shore)
      
      Clever, I like that view.
      
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      November 28, 2017 6:39pm
- Ashley Schaeffer
  
  Where’s Jihad Ken with the bomb vest and AK-47 accessories?
  
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  November 28, 2017 9:30am
  - Sarkozygroupie
    
    Having his hair done.
    
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    November 28, 2017 10:30am
VicParking

Bill English’s interview on Red Radio this morning was cut short because of “reception issues”. It was not Bill’s cellphone however it was because Guyon was being destroyed in his attempt to put National in a bad light. He cut Bill off before he could mentioned the thousands of questions Mallard submitted. They don’t like the fact the the government is flip flopping on their announcement that they will be a “Open and transparent government”.
Cooking the popcorn and looking forward to 2pm.
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November 28, 2017 8:13am
- Harkman
  
  The issue I have with Conservative Governments whether here or afar (Britain) why don’t they just close down (or privatise) some of these blatantly leftie statist/Stalinist media organisations (red radio, BBC, TVNZ, etc). They need to grow a pair and just do it.
  
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  November 28, 2017 11:36am
- Piniwi
  
  Sorry VP OQT is even worse than what you heard on Red Radio. Mallard is turning it into a sideshow as he seems to ignore all previous Speaker’s Rulings and wings it.
  
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  November 28, 2017 6:45pm
Tarquin North

Anyone else tired of hearing Tongans bleating about losing a league game? Apparently they are now trying to mount a legal challenge. They should have just bowed out gracefully and be remembered as good sportsmen instead of sore losers. Take your protest back to your own country and leave ours alone.
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November 28, 2017 8:14am
- Lance
  
  Their leaders are saying ‘move on’ but some aren’t listening
  
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  November 28, 2017 8:20am
- VicParking
  
  Talking to Tongans, 90% of them have moved on. Its just a fad, no matter who you are, there are snowflakes who like to be seen to be front and centre.
  
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  November 28, 2017 8:27am
  - Tarquin North
    
    I must admit, after years of intensive heavy alcohol therapy I have finally stopped making Wayne Barnes voodoo dolls.
    
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    November 28, 2017 8:32am
    - Prince
      
      Can you send one to me. And while you’re at it, can I have a Steve Walsh one also (I’m from Wellington).
      
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      November 28, 2017 8:55am
    - Kimbo
      
      Did you see Wayne Barnes’ performance on the weekend? Really impressive, and his good humour and liberal officiating of the breakdown (I was thinking shades of 2007! 😉 ) helped make it an outstanding game of movement. To performance.
      
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      November 28, 2017 9:17am
    - James Stephenson
      
      I never thought that a decade later, I’d still be pointing out that it was the touch judge (Stuart Dickinson) who should have picked up the forward pass.
      
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      November 28, 2017 10:18am
      - Longknives
        
        And a decade later nobody ever mentions that the All Black try in the first half came off a forward bloody pass! (Even mentioned by the Commentators at the time)
        But I guess NZ Fans love a ‘we were robbed’ conspiracy…
        
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        November 28, 2017 11:21am
    - alwyn
      
      Why on earth are you worrying about this modern trivia?
      I am still trying to get justice for Bob Deans in the New Zealand / Wales match at Cardiff Arms Park. Deans did score his try. It is just that those cheating Welshmen pulled him back before the referee got there.
      Justice for Bob I say. When I get that dreadful miscarriage rectified I will be able to get onto more recent events.
      
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      November 28, 2017 12:00pm
      - Prince
        
        I’m with you.
        Let’s start a twitter meme or something. #JusticeforBob
        Demand a full apology from UK Parliament, compensation for Bob’s whanau (except Robbie, the traitor), re-write all record books, fully=paid trip for us to Millenial Stadium to perform a blessing on that piece of grass.
        
        And yes Kimbo, I hardly noticed Barnes which means he was very good.
        
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        November 28, 2017 4:19pm
- Stars And Stripes
  
  Maybe a more culturally appropriate form of protest is needed here.
  Eat the referee and have the touch judges for dessert.
  
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  November 28, 2017 9:17am
- Suze Wainwright
  
  Actually I disagree – I’m sure there must be someone in the Labour Party who will willingly draft a formal complaint about the injustice of it all to the League Referees’ Association. If nothing else, it will make someone look as though they are doing some meaningful work. Someone needs to lead a march and champion placard holders outside Parliament.
  
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  November 28, 2017 9:34am
- oob
  
  I live in central Auckland, the fucking Tongans were driving around with PA speakers on their cars playing Bollywood music until 3 a.m. this morning.
  
  I hate Bollywood music.
  
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  November 28, 2017 1:21pm
oldpark

What is going on with NZ Politics. It is starting to look and sound that Mugabe type of politics are being mirrored in NZ.
The Peters formed “Coalition of Fear” with “Commie Chic” Comrade Ardern has now mushroomed in a Mafia type of “Coalition of Confusion and Corruption”.
The Mafia or better known as the “Mob” made out secret and clandestine deals and agreements,which were never allowed to see the light of day.
Now it has been revealed that “Luigi” Peters and “Commie Chic” Comrade Ardern have done a 38 Page secret agreement,which they are refusing to release. Rumour has it they have virtually sold out NZs, as well as their many loyal voters.
Stories are now doing the rounds ,that if the secret 38 page agreement or document is made public,that the so called “selected” Peters Government ,could legally be classed as a bastard Government,or for the PC term . Illegitimate in total.
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November 28, 2017 8:15am
- niggly
  
  Yesterday Jacinda claimed it was only a 33 page document. Which begs the question, if it were originally 38 pages last month, then what was in the 5 pages that the likes of H2 thought ought to be removed (and is now too secret to release anyway)?!!
  
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  November 28, 2017 8:33am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Maybe it’s a case of Taxcinda can’t count (much like the first day of Parliament). After all, she only did a degree in communications (whatever that is).
    
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    November 28, 2017 9:56am
  - Piniwi
    
    Yes niggly but it only added to the confusion and quips from the old geezer. It we recall when first revealed here it was quoted as being a 38 page “addendum” in the words WP. Their obfuscation is making it a bigger issue the longer they delay it’s release. Even made more so since it may be now version A and version B. They are battling hard to hide this while again exposing claims of openness and transparency as the original lie. However the original 8 page vague precise was much less without the pages that were devoid of text.
    
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    November 28, 2017 6:57pm
- starboard
  
  Sorry, downticked ya oldpark…fat fingers?
  
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  November 28, 2017 8:41am
- calendar girl
  
  Look at the way the Greens’ human rights lawyer, Golriz Ghahraman, is trying to distance herself from the content (and therefore the accuracy) of her highly-misleading profile.
  
  There’s no problem with a defence lawyer doing his or her job to ensure that an accused client is given a fair trial. The problem for Ghahraman, however, is that part of her work has been portrayed as prosecution of genocide perpetrators, rather than their legal defence.
  
  Ghahraman may or may not have written the wording in question; who knows? But, if she did not draft the wording personally, it is inconceivable to me that her personal profile was not submitted to her for her clearance in advance of publication.
  
  Curiously, her profile in the Greens’ website still includes the following:
  
  “Golriz has lived and worked in Africa, The Hague and Cambodia putting on trial world leaders for abusing their power, and restoring communities after war and human rights atrocities, particularly empowering women engaged in peace and justice initiatives.”
  
  Part of that statement is still factually incorrect and materially misleading. The Greens organisation is incompetent in its failure to correct the misrepresentation.
  
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  November 28, 2017 9:24am
  - ztev
    
    Gasp…you have found the the H fee …again…. good luck with that.
    
    Remember Keys story changed again and again…. first he had left Elders before that happened, ….then he was on gardening leave when it happened…then he heard about it on the day of his leaving lunch before gardening leave.. and finally that signature was a colleagues which ‘only looked like mine’
    
    Good luck with your expose…..
    
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    November 28, 2017 10:29am
    - Ed Snack
      
      Oh, so that’s why the “H Fee” was such a terrible scandal, bringing down John Key and the government he led…..oh, wait, what ?
      
      LOSER !
      
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      November 28, 2017 12:36pm
      - ztev
        
        Does Keys ‘changing story’ intrigue you?
        
        But wait theres more about Key – ‘that he kept secret’
        
        “Key’s office told Stuff.co.nz that he had visited one strip club overseas and one in New Zealand, but that both visits were a long time ago.”
        Long time ago !! hahahaha
        http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/41291/Key-open-about-strip-club-visits
        
        Apparently being a woman and a Green means you must be persil clean
        
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        November 28, 2017 1:23pm
      - Prince
        
        Still with the kds mr speaker ?
        
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        November 28, 2017 6:33pm
    - Lance
      
      Squirrel… over there… look
      SSSQQUUIIIRRRRRELL
      
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      November 28, 2017 2:12pm
  - calendar girl
    
    Reference my comment above at 9:24am today, the same text (see below) still appeared more than 7 hours later – at 4:40pm – in the Golriz Ghahraman profile on the Greens’ website .
    
    “Golriz has lived and worked in Africa, The Hague and Cambodia putting on trial world leaders for abusing their power, and restoring communities after war and human rights atrocities, particularly empowering women engaged in peace and justice initiatives.”
    
    Failure to do anything promptly about such highly-misleading material is disgraceful inaction on the part of the Greens. It may even be an element of a Greens’ strategy to defend vehemently the pedestal of human suffering and international human rights on which Ghahraman’s fledgling political career has been launched. Well, that pedestal now has a few cracks. It’s time for Greens’ leader James Shaw to show some leadership and deal firmly with with the latest female problem in his Party. Or does he still find it a problem having to confront misbehaving women?
    
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    November 28, 2017 5:10pm
    - Classic Liberal
      
      I’m quite glad: Kiwis who have been a bit slow to understand the issue can look it up and see exactly what was written.
      
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      November 28, 2017 5:19pm
Paulus

How do you know when somebody is lying – she opens her big mouth.
So Peters is incorrect we now know in that he did not say that the details of the coalition agreement would be released.
Has he been summoned to Heather’s office to be told to STFU – all decisions (and lies) come from here.
I assume by now he has been told that he is only here to make up the numbers in exchange for the baubles.
I wonder whether Cindy wakes up every morning and decides what to flip flop on today with a lie that we are supposed to accept.
Having thought that Helen Clark was the worse Prime Minister in living memory I can see that within a month her team is back in charge in telling Cindy what to do and how to lie.
For Clark it is unfinished business – she has never forgiven New Zealand for giving her the boot.
Now through her parasites she is continuing to exact her form of UTU.
It is believed Cindy’s temper is getting rapidly worse – am not surprised at he incompetence showing so soon. She is so far up herself it is becoming farcical.
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November 28, 2017 8:17am
- Simon
  
  Peters after been given instructions by Heather ain’t gonna remember them the next day
  
  As for Princess the pressure of all the promises and halfwit Labo and green MPs is going to hurt her mental health. She will need a break and just zone out with Gaylord sooner rather than later
  
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  November 28, 2017 8:29am
  - lifesgood
    
    With Gayford? Seriously? Will he still be around?
    
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    November 28, 2017 8:36am
    - Paulus
      
      Gayford will be instructed to remain by Heather – it would be a bad look to the modern unmarried sexual relationships upon whom she depends for votes.
      
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      November 28, 2017 8:41am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Gayford will be instructed by Heather to remain.
        or
        Gayford will be instructed to remain by Heather.
        
        Actually, neither is a good look.
        
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        November 28, 2017 8:52am
      - Jack5
        
        It might be a worse train crash if Heather instructs Jacinderella.
        
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        November 28, 2017 9:47am
- RF
  
  Cindy is a very complex stressed woman who apparently suffers from anxiety. She most probably is in the early stages of dementia as she has been known to stamp her feet and shout out – “do you know who I am.”
  
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  November 28, 2017 2:11pm
  - sam green
    
    More fibs – oh dear RF.
    
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    November 28, 2017 3:33pm
RF

The Greens genocide denier has slipped under the radar until now. The Herald appears to be first to break the ice.

Must admit she fooled me and 99% of the population as I really thought she had been involved in prosecuting murderers of innocent people.

Her blurb is very misleading and I believe very deliberate in order to portray her as the persecutor of evil.

She is a fraud and a liar.

She must resign as when it becomes public knowledge I believe all hell will break lose.

I hope James Shaw gets his balls back from Labour.. is Ardern dunking these in milk for gay Man ?
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November 28, 2017 8:18am
- krazykiwi
  
  It is public knowledge, and there’s not an ice cube’s show in hell of her resigning. Sadly.
  
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  November 28, 2017 8:23am
  - Bullion
    
    https://podcast.radionz.co.nz/mnr/mnr-20171128-0822-green_mp_criticised_for_not_disclosing_war_criminals_defence-128.mp3
    
    Storm in a tea cup
    
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    November 28, 2017 8:44am
    - starboard
      
      Sorry..upticked you..fat fingers.
      
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      November 28, 2017 8:55am
    - Bullion
      
      https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/28-11-2017/on-golriz-ghahraman-human-rights-and-defending-the-devil/
      
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      November 28, 2017 10:35am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    Quite so kk; only the Greens being ejected from Parliament will prise Ms Ghahraman from the parliamentary trough now.
    
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    November 28, 2017 9:00am
    - ztev
      
      Really. There was bigger dirt on Key and that never worked either….. you lot are even more away from reality earlier than labour was in 2008.
      
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      November 28, 2017 10:32am
      - Lance
        
        You’re right ztev
        Key should resign… no… wait
        
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        November 28, 2017 2:15pm
    - Paulus
      
      Ghahraman would come back on the Labour List anyway.
      
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      November 28, 2017 1:54pm
- Longknives
  
  She lied.
  It’s pretty simple.
  
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  November 28, 2017 8:27am
  - Gravelroad
    
    This woman was not voted for by anyone.
    She is not accountable to people in an electorate through an election process so why would she resign?
    Sweet gig for her. Who cares about voters?
    Not the Greens that is for sure.
    
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    November 28, 2017 8:41am
    - backster
      
      If she resigns we just get the next one on the list also un-elected.
      
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      November 28, 2017 9:28am
    - ztev
      
      Neither was Bill English – a list MP- voted for by anyone- off with his head then.
      Have you been drinking from the stupid bottle this morning
      
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      November 28, 2017 12:33pm
  - Paulus
    
    Normal practice to lie these days – look daily at Cinderella.
    
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    November 28, 2017 8:42am
  - Bullion
    
    She never lied, she has talked about it interviews and information is available on various public pages of hers (facebook, linkedin etc.)
    
    This from over a month ago:
    
    As a lawyer, Ghahraman has worked in International Criminal Tribunals in Yugoslavia, Cambodia and Rwanda. She’s worked on both sides of the fence—while in the Khmer Rouge Tribunal she was working as a prosecutor, but in Rwanda and Yugoslavia Ghahraman worked on the defence teams of people accused of appalling human rights abuses.
    
    Despite coming from a strong advocacy background, she says she didn’t find it difficult defending perpetrators.
    
    “No, I believe so strongly in the process,” Ghahraman says. “If you’re going to convict someone, you have to know what those individuals were actually responsible for. We have to have a fair process, because how we treat the worst people in our society actually does define us. Having that fair process after a war has happened really will define the kind of society that comes out of it.”
    
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    November 28, 2017 10:19am
  - pdm
    
    So what – she is a Green.
    
    Lying comes naturally.
    
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    November 28, 2017 10:33am
  - matchbox
    
    She did lie.
    
    Worse, in her maiden speech, she misled Parliament — and she misled with many of the things she said. Watch the way her mouth and eyes give her away when she lies — assuredly not a poker player. The bullshit about the Iran/Iraq war was the worst packet of claptrap — she was 1200 kms away from this war, and only 0 to 6 years old.
    
    Ironically though, I can’t see her losing her seat from any of this.
    
    She’s cagy. She’s sharp. She’s dangerous. And from all this, (yes, I know you will not like me saying it, so downtick away) I predict she is the most likely to become the Vagina CoLeader.
    
    Watch this space.
    
    To me, she is very good at what she does. I suspect she will go a long way. It’s no exaggeration, I think she is huge leadership potential.
    
    Just a shame she bats for the wrong side. Green and mean, and it turns out, mighty unclean.
    
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    November 28, 2017 11:22am
    - matchbox
      
      Plus, she didn’t even stay in Rwanda. This Rwandan trials took place in Tanzania, in the foothills of Kt Kilimanjaro, where she stayed in a plush compound for international staff.
      
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      November 28, 2017 11:36am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Here’s the story.
  
  http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11948524
  
  Let’s hope that this festers on for a long time.
  
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  November 28, 2017 8:30am
  - RF
    
    I hear that Chris Lynch from News Talk ZB Christchurch is running the story now. It was his introduction so it will get publicity……
    
    Lynch is now demanding her resignation….
    
    Good…..
    
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    November 28, 2017 8:43am
- niggly
  
  Her whole backstory was suspect from the start, remember it was stated (words to the effect) that she used to be a high-profile UN war crimes prosecutor.
  
  When I first heard that I thought if she’s 27 (?) years old now, how on earth could someone who was in their early to mid 20’s (a few years ago) achieve such high status?
  
  Turns out she was an “intern” (as she tried to spin it yesterday to minimise her association) and then a junior member of another team etc. Which means again (like Ron Mark and his “SAS” backstory) she was content to sit back and let the MSM repeat time after time that she had more experience than she actually had. What a fraud!
  
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  November 28, 2017 8:45am
  - Rich Prick
    
    It seems that fraudulent behaviour is a virtue with the Greens. Mind you, I’m not sure volunteering to defend genocidal maniacs would sit too well with the Green’s peacenik crowd. But you never know, it’s probably OK when one of their lot does it.
    
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    November 28, 2017 8:55am
  - waikatogirl
    
    She couldn’t remember how she ended up on the defence team for the war criminals, thinks, um, it may have been, um been that she was placed with them, um…
    
    Not to worry if your human rights principles get in the way of a great UN gig…
    She’s got to go.
    
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    November 28, 2017 8:56am
    - Paulus
      
      If she cannot remember how she ended up on the Defence Team then perhaps she was on something ?
      
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      November 28, 2017 1:56pm
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    “I thought if she’s 27 (?) years old now”
    
    She’s 36.
    
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    November 28, 2017 8:58am
    - NgaioLes
      
      According to the law society she was admitted in 2005 if that helps the age calculation
      
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      November 28, 2017 9:30am
- KKKKatee
  
  Shaw has to make a public statement on this surely? The thing is that the Greens knew the backstory of this batshit crazy individual, yet they promoted her in the rankings anyway. So, this begs the question of the integrity of the entire Green bloc?
  They are not a ‘Green’ party in the true sense of the world. They have strayed a long, long way from their roots when they turn a blind eye to people with dubious backgrounds. Now this has come out, Shaw has to step up and make a decision on this woman’s suitability to be a Politician I think.
  He’s hugging a corpse like he did with Me Tu. Let’s hope be buries this one pdq otherwise the stench of hypocrisy will be the end for him.
  Why the heck is the Green Party full of idiots – what is it about the people this organisation attracts?
  Even Barry Soper has jumped on the Ghahraman bandwagon.
  Ghahraman has to go. She has misled the Green hierarchy.
  
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  November 28, 2017 9:00am
  - SPC
    
    this from a NZ Herald journalist
    
    Kirsty Johnston@kirsty_johnston
    
    To clear things up: I interviewed @golrizghahraman about six weeks before the election, we openly discussed her time in Rwanda as a defence intern. It (like much of her story) didn’t make my final story due to space. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11898165 …
    
    11:53 AM – Nov 28, 2017
    
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    November 28, 2017 5:34pm
redeye

Heard a rumor, probably made up, that the 38 page document promises Winston a knighthood in return for his support.
Thought I would mention it here in case it happens.
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November 28, 2017 8:18am
- VicParking
  
  Knighthood or douchehood.
  
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  November 28, 2017 8:31am
- geoff3012
  
  Sir Winston mugabe
  
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  November 28, 2017 8:58am
- dime
  
  sounds about right!
  
  did winnie vote for the dropping of knight hoods? he should be made to have a nzb1/496a or whatever it was called. its a real door opener.
  
  also, its been a while redeye! incase you are wondering, my love for the ioane brothers is on par with my kaino/ toeava love!
  
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  November 28, 2017 9:12am
  - redeye
    
    Homo.
    
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    November 28, 2017 11:58am
    - dime
      
      #noshame
      
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      November 28, 2017 3:41pm
      - redeye
        
        #upticked #stilleasilyoffended
        
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        November 28, 2017 5:04pm
Left Right and Centre

From website ‘Noted’ article Simon Wilson . . .

A third of international students apply for permanent residency and stay.

Wow – you mean to say that it’s not 100% of them, and some actually *go back home* ? Just wow. I am freedom of speechless.
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November 28, 2017 8:18am
- VicParking
  
  BUT: One third move to Australia and one third marry a New Zealander. The rest go home…..
  
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  November 28, 2017 8:33am
  - Jack5
    
    Yep, New Zealand is the the back door to Australia.
    
    The student-rort industry is discussing the feasibility of a tunnel under the Tasman for when the Aussies introduce visas for all New Zealanders.
    
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    November 28, 2017 9:21am
- Left Right and Centre
  
  The boom is Chinese. Auckland Airport, he says, now has 51 flights a week to China, rising to 70 by year’s end, up from a mere 14 just eight years ago.
  
  Article from 2016. Whoa – let’s try and crack 100 flights per week. Totally ‘do-able’. Learning a lot from that site. (Look mummy – I re-learnt how to code a link with text – clever boy !!)
  
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  November 28, 2017 8:49am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Seems such a fag to
    Text links
    
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    November 28, 2017 9:19am
  - backster
    
    Don’t panic! don’t panic! all those chinky names .
    
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    November 28, 2017 9:34am
Sofia

The secret section of the coalition agreement

So because it is an agreement between Labour and NZ First, it is not an official Government document so Ardern won’t release it. But it is binding on Labour and NZ First Ministers so the secret codicil to the coalition agreement is very important and significant.

If it is not an official Government document, placing it outside Parliament’s purview, but is binding on Labour and NZ First Ministers, does it not then become an unlawful influence on Parliament’s function, but outside or beyond Parliament, which I thought was some infringement of democracy and New Zealand law, although I don’t know quite the right term for it.
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November 28, 2017 8:21am
- Paulus
  
  Winston said it would be released as he was the other signatory to it.
  
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  November 28, 2017 8:43am
  - holysheet
    
    Whats to stop him releasing it if cindy will not?
    
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    November 28, 2017 1:42pm
    - Paulus
      
      Cause Heather will cane him !
      
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      November 28, 2017 1:58pm
- Rich Prick
  
  By Cindy’s protestations you would think the OIA prohibits the release of the agreement. How about some of that absolute transparency Cindy?
  
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  November 28, 2017 9:13am
  - ztev
    
    Bill signed a ‘protocol’ with NZ first as well, will he release that, after all he was PM when he signed it.
    
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    November 28, 2017 12:25pm
    - All_on_Red
      
      I hope he does. So we can see how much Cindy bent over for Winston.
      But let Labour release theirs first.
      
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      November 28, 2017 12:39pm
    - Rich Prick
      
      By all means. But we couldn’t care less about National’s as it has no effect whatsoever on the Government. But as AoR says, it will be a laugh to see just how much Cindy bent over in her desperate bid to be the “chosen” one.
      
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      November 28, 2017 1:00pm
      - ztev
        
        But wait , OIA OIA! English was PM at the time.
        Someone ask what HE was doing on that morning in question. lest ask 1000s of questions about the doings of nationals ministers after the election.
        
        WE MUST KNOW THIS!
        
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        November 28, 2017 1:27pm
      - starboard
        
        Nurse! Ztevs needs his meds..quickly now
        
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        November 28, 2017 1:48pm
waikatogirl

Duncan Garner says Cindy not releasing the hidden addendum is “Crap”. He said “Jacinda saying it is not a government document does not need to be released is crazy and does she believe what she is saying?”

DGarner during an interview with Bill, Garner also gave National the win over the Parental leave legislation allowing for parents to take time off together, which the CoL had blocked but is now considering.

Are the msm already fed up with the games this new government are playing?
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November 28, 2017 8:21am
- Lance
  
  I expected far more lefty butt covering at this stage by the MSM for the CoL.
  I am surprised and ‘slightly’ pleased.
  
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  November 28, 2017 8:26am
  - CHFR1
    
    I am wondering if the media are beginning to see they have been played by H1 and have elevated someone who is not capable to the top job. I believe there is only so much interference they can give and Jacinda is already asking more than capable of giving and they are pushing back.
    
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    November 28, 2017 8:36am
  - ztev
    
    Played ?
    
    You mean when English vetoed Labours parental leave bill when it passed through parliament and then indroduced his own ‘proposal’ just before the election….. in desperation I might add.
    Who the player ?
    
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    November 28, 2017 12:27pm
    - starboard
      
      NURSE!
      
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      November 28, 2017 1:49pm
  - Piniwi
    
    Lance it is however proving a very big task for the trolls with so many weak links showing up in the COL. They are also failing with their diversionary tactics to shut down good threads.
    
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    November 28, 2017 7:09pm
- KevOB
  
  It may not be a government document but the social contract between the public and the government needs to be clear. At present it looks like we have been sold a lemon.
  
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  November 28, 2017 8:42am
  - Inandout
    
    If the coalition documents are not worth making public, then one presumes that the MMP hook up with Winston is not worth the paper it is written on. Sounds like MMP is a sham system.
    
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    November 28, 2017 8:59am
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      No government is possible based on sham.
      
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      November 28, 2017 11:54am
Longknives

Tongan League Supporters are making absolute twats of themselves.
If they aren’t rioting with Police they are they shutting down half of Auckland CBD screaming for the result to be overturned…

Pathetic.
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November 28, 2017 8:29am
- Left Right and Centre
  
  Yeah – well, there’s today’s feedathon excuse anyway.
  
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  November 28, 2017 8:41am
- dime
  
  yeah, its a real bummer.
  
  the administrators should try and get a game or two booked next year. have something new to look forward too.
  
  i want to see full strength tonga v kiwis ever year at origin time. or a tri series with samoa as well.. or fiji..
  
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  November 28, 2017 9:14am
  - Left Right and Centre
    
    We’ll have to ask the Fijians and Tongans if they want such weak opposition included on a yearly basis.
    
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    November 28, 2017 11:51am
    - dime
      
      the only way we can catch up is if we play them more often 😀
      
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      November 28, 2017 3:41pm
flipper

I posted this on the KB discussion yesterday afternoon on the Iranian wench. It was sent to me yesterday afternoon by a former Australian Liberal Party MP who lives in Melbourne.
I believe it deserves a re-run on GD. So …….

I just posted this gem on Kiwiblog. It is a cracker ! 🙂

A Green tree-hugging lady activist, responsible for
getting horses banned from National Parks & State Forests, was climbing a big tree to have a look out over the forestry when a Tawny Frog-mouth Owl attacked her for invading its nesting site.

In a panic to make her escape, she slid down the tree, getting many splinters in the crotch of her designer shorts.

In considerable pain she hurried to the nearest doctor, told him she was an environmentalist, and how she got all the splinters.

The Doctor listened with great patience and then told her to go into the examining room and he would see if he could help her.

She waited for three hours before the Doctor reappeared.

The angry woman demanded: “What took you so long?”

He smiled and then told her: “Well, I had to get permits from the Environmental Protection Agency, the Forestry Service, National Parks and
Wildlife Service, Rural Fire Service, and Conservation and Land Management, before I could remove “Old Growth Timber” from a recreational area…. I am sorry but they turned me down!”
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November 28, 2017 8:31am
krazykiwi

Ever had a rental property you’ve struggle to find a tenant for? Well spare a thought for this aircraft leasing company, who have 8 Airbus A380’s sitting idle.

Their fix-it strategy is an interesting one. Instead of leasing assets, they’re going to create a services business – and airline – to lease capacity to existing airlines.
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November 28, 2017 8:33am
- dime
  
  yeah man, the 380 is a dog, with fleas.
  
  boeing is killing it this year.
  
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  November 28, 2017 9:15am
  - krazykiwi
    
    That upper deck on the Emirates bird is a place I could easily spend more time. Seats 23A and 23K.. and the lounge bar 🙂
    
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    November 28, 2017 9:25am
All_on_Red

So last year National said that to encourage the growth of Electric cars it would allow them to use Bus Lanes at Motorway on ramps.
When Auckland Transport was asked why it hasn’t been implemented they stated their strategy revolved around Public Transport.
Reading the below article it looks like AT’s wants to deliberately make the roads more congested and force people out of cars using a strategy called the ‘Road Diet’
‘In July of 2017, Los Angeles imposed a “road diet” in the quiet beach community of Playa del Rey, replacing car lanes with bike lanes and parking spaces. The roads were suddenly jammed with traffic. The community was livid.’
http://reason.com/reasontv/2017/11/20/los-angeles-war-on-commuters-road-diet
Cycle lanes taking road lanes and car parks, no ramp access for electric cars, narrowing roads because of trams.
Looks like AT is implementing Road Diet to me. So our Council is purposely making life difficult for us all.
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November 28, 2017 8:33am
- Gruffydd
  
  Some priority lanes already include “EV’s” on the sign.
  
  The NZ Transport Agency today announced that electric vehicles (EVs) will be allowed to use 11 priority bypass lanes on state highways in Auckland for a 12 month trial, starting this month.
  
  http://www.nzta.govt.nz/media-releases/green-light-for-auckland-electric-vehicle-bypass-lane-trial/
  
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  November 28, 2017 8:48am
  - All_on_Red
    
    Yes Griff, we know that but the Council won’t do their part in allowing it to happen. AC manages the roads leading to the motorways.They will only test them using T2 and T3 lanes which isn’t as effective.
    Do try to keep up.
    ‘Auckland Transport in its report on the issue agreed that allowing electric vehicles would negatively affect bus lanes, which are seen as a priority due to the roll out of the New Network.’
    ‘c. Not support EVs in bus lanes but supports the testing of EVs in T2 and T3 lanes on roads managed by AT for one year once the necessary legislation and rules are in force, subject to additional funding from Central Government.’
    https://www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2017/04/06/at-rejects-allowing-electric-vehicles-in-bus-lanes/
    Additional funding for what? They just hate cars.
    
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    November 28, 2017 9:01am
    - Gruffydd
      
      Agreed .
      Auckland transport should be renamed Auckland public transport.
      That’s all they support.
      
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      November 28, 2017 9:32am
- krazykiwi
  
  Virtue signalling from AT. There are close to 4 million vehicles on NZ roads, and fewer than 4000 of these are EVs (~0.1%).
  
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  November 28, 2017 9:09am
  - All_on_Red
    
    Virtue signalling to the Bus and light Rail supporters!
    It’s a terrible decision. We should be encouraging the reduction of polluting emissions. Electric cars are a good way to make effective progress in achieving that.
    It’s pretty clear where ATs priorities lie. Make it harder for cars.
    
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    November 28, 2017 9:14am
  - Gruffydd
    
    The number of electric and hybrid cars – EVs – on our roads has increased dramatically – from just 190 in January 2013 to 4541 last month.
    
    That’s a 2290 per cent increase in less than five years. During January 2013, not a single electric vehicle was registered in New Zealand. In August this year, 331 were registered.
    
    Figures from the Ministry of Transport (MoT) map the growth in the EV fleet and shows that, in the seven months since 2016, it has almost doubled – up from 2535.
    
    You are looking backwards at what was rather than looking forward at what will be Krazy.
    2% of new registrations now.
    It will be over 50% in a decade.
    
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    November 28, 2017 9:37am
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      I am not against electric cars, but doubt that the economics will support such growth – once they start getting taxed the same as other road users.
      
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      November 28, 2017 11:14am
    - krazykiwi
      
      Griff, I’m an entrepreneur and I can assure you I spend a good deal of time looking and moving forward, while learning by looking backward. The ICE’s days are numbered, but battery energy density is a limiting factor for EVs, as is the lack of distribution. If 2% of Auckland’s cars were EVs today and those required charging every few days there would be part of Auckland blacked out.
      
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      November 28, 2017 11:50am
      - Gruffydd
        
        As long as we don’t all charge them between 5pm and 8 pm on a cold winter night there will be no problem with supply constraints in Auckland .
        If you are charging over night 10amp 240v is more than sufficient to power a 100km commute .
        
        battery energy density …
        More bullshit.
        How far do you travel in a day ?
        For the average male driver in NZ its 32 km .
        
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        November 28, 2017 1:47pm
      - krazykiwi
        
        Travel? Some days it’s 0km. Other days it’s 20km. Some days its 1,200km. And for a while, on Thursdays, it was 4350km. Go figure 🙂
        
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        November 28, 2017 6:38pm
DifferentPerspective

Actual investigative journalism on lying Green Golriz

As much as many here hate WOBH, there is a good piece there showing how much of an out and out porky pie-er the Green genocide denier is – with her “revisionist” work about her lies on her Wiki page.

Meanwhile – in NZ’s least trusted profession, the MSM shows just how utterly dishonest they are. Stuff has turned a blind eye to this issue totally and the Herald has run a puff piece.
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November 28, 2017 8:33am
Digmen1

Annother of our trusted journalists….

Rachel Smalley says they should be allowed to stay.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11948226

What she did not say was that they have been working here illegally as they only came in on a visitors permit.

They should be deported right now and their employer should be charged for hiring illegal workers!
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November 28, 2017 8:59am
- Jack5
  
  “NZ women are lardo’s” Smalley went to Europe and cheered on the invasion from the Middle East, then was cheer leader of the campaign to increase NZ’s intake.
  
  More suprising is the new (National!!) MP for Southland-Clutha taking a leading part in the campaign to have the migrants stay.
  
  Perhaps the southerners were better off with Todd Barclay, hounded out of the country by the media posse. They won’t be hounding out the new MP: his brain’s operating on the same frequency as the media flower petals’.
  
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  November 28, 2017 9:42am
- Surely Knott
  
  I agree that the illegal hiring/immigration should have been addressed long ago. But overall, they look pretty decent people, so I would be willing to swap this Sri Lankan family for Smalley.
  
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  November 28, 2017 1:19pm
- Jack5
  
  A problem for the new MP for Southland-Clutha, is that it contains Queenstown, which has more than the average NZ town’s share of get-rich-quick narcissists.
  
  If ever a feasible right-wing party rises, perhaps there’s a chance in this electorate by appealing to the farming folk and to its traditional towns.
  
  In this case, the people may look decent, but they will add to the load on our health system. Perhaps sadly, this tiny country can’t afford to be the free-health resort for the hundreds of millions of people in Asia.
  
  Contrast this with the approach of Singapore, where the average intelligence must be higher. It has developed a flourishing health business in which foreigners come and pay for high-standard treatment. Bit of a contrast with Queenstown.
  
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  November 28, 2017 1:45pm
waikatogirl

Nice to see Prince Harry and Meagan Markell have announced their engagement.

They are sure to have a wonderful life together. ? ?
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November 28, 2017 9:04am
- EAD_TWO
  
  It won’t last – I dated an actress once and they sure fooled me. Actresses are floaty as hell, high maintenance and emotionally incontinent – hardly marriage material especially considering he’s been with her for one year on a part time basis so doesn’t really know here.
  
  She’s a 36 year, divorced, trashy, z list soap actress who gets her kit off on screen. The sort of girl only a Beta Soy-boy would go for. If that’s all being a Royal can get you, it’s time to scrap the institution.
  
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  November 28, 2017 9:11am
  - Digmen1
    
    Damm, I missed that, what show was she on?
    
    Yeah she was married for 9 years, hardly a fairly tale princess.
    
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    November 28, 2017 9:16am
    - EAD_TWO
      
      Here is the future “Duchess of Sussex”.
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bmv3PyoHeo
      
      I would laugh in someone expected me to call her “Her Royal Highness”.
      
      Harry would be best stepping down from Royal duties and renouncing his title if the Royal Family is to survive. Otherwise they’ve lost what mystique they had after the likes of the opinionated Charlie & the tackless Fergie.
      
      If it’s good enough for Mike Tindall and Zara Phillips to drop their titles, it’s good enough for a divorced Z list soap star.
      
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      November 28, 2017 9:24am
      - Left Right and Centre
        
        Have you heard of our very own KB royalty ?
        Prince Weed – His Royal Highness.
        
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        November 28, 2017 11:58am
      - Left Right and Centre
        
        Which reminds me – some Maori hordes were blocking my way – and mother says to young boy ‘watch out King’.
        
        They are mental mate – hahaha
        
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        November 28, 2017 12:04pm
      - alwyn
        
        “If it’s good enough for Mike Tindall and Zara Phillips to drop their titles”.
        It is hardly a matter of world-shattering importance but Zara Phillips has never had any form of title. She has always been plain Zara. One of the few good things about her father Mark was that he refused to accept any form of title when he married Anne.
        Mike of course never had any title either.
        
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        November 28, 2017 12:15pm
    - waikatogirl
      
      They are in love, get over it.
      
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      November 28, 2017 9:34am
  - dime
    
    yeah the novelty will wear off.
    
    Dime watches suits (go fuck yourself i like it).
    
    cant stand her though.
    
    id rather horse that little blonde aussie thing on the show.
    
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    November 28, 2017 9:17am
    - Prince
      
      Enjoyed the first few seasons but last couple have been rubbish. Formulaic now. Excuse me prying, but I don’t recall a blond Aussie. Is that the counsellor ? Please elaborate.
      
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      November 28, 2017 9:40am
      - dime
        
        the little sidekick on the ugly guy. lewis litt.
        
        shes an ex professional ballerina. ill leave it at that
        
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        November 28, 2017 10:41am
      - Lance
        
        Lewis makes the show. Best douche bag character ever
        
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        November 28, 2017 2:23pm
    - Inandout
      
      Buck Gaylord is already checking out ‘her royal highness’.
      
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      November 28, 2017 9:52am
      - sam green
        
        I wonder if National’s Weinstein will check her out.
        
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        November 28, 2017 3:46pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    @EAD 2
    You do seem like a miserable old bugger, but I hope a lovely lady (non-actress) has discovered your finer points.
    
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    November 28, 2017 9:41am
    - EAD_TWO
      
      Yes indeed Maggy – I am a very lucky man 🙂
      
      I was head over heals about the Actress (West end musicals) about 6 years back but after a few months I worked out she was flaky as a Cadbury bar but I couldn’t see it. All my mates could but I was blind to reason. I call it a good lesson learned!
      
      There is a word that describes Harry’s state of mind right now – it’s called c**tstruck. It’s only having experienced that same all-consuming state of mind that I can confidently say that is where Harry’s mind is at.
      
      Give this relationship 2 years – max.
      
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      November 28, 2017 9:56am
  - backster
    
    Pity Don Trump didn’t have another like Ivanka coming on.
    
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    November 28, 2017 9:44am
    - Harkman
      
      Tiffany?
      
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      November 28, 2017 11:42am
      - Lance
        
        Who?
        
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        November 28, 2017 2:24pm
  - VicParking
    
    How long did it fool you before you realised it was Chandler Bing’s father.
    
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    November 28, 2017 9:56am
  - Kimbo
    
    She’s a 36 year, divorced, trashy, z list soap actress who gets her kit off on screen.
    
    So she is a recycled combination of the most controversial aspects of Lillie Langtry and Wallis Simpson. All forgivable – including the fact that she is also American. 😉 But far worse…
    
    …she is Roman Catholic!! So another Henrietta Maria! Is asking for trouble as per the 1701 Act of Succession. 😉
    
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_of_Settlement_1701
    
    But Harry is a good bloke and deserves to marry whomever he wants.
    
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    November 28, 2017 10:10am
  - mandk
    
    Easy now, EAD.
    
    You’re beginning to make me wonder if Ms Markle is Jewish or something.
    
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    November 28, 2017 11:26am
    - EAD_TWO
      
      You might be onto something there mandk – let me investigate 🙂
      
      Despite having some Jewish features, and there being rumours, Jewish magazine Forward has confirmed that she is not a member of the tribe.
      
      https://forward.com/schmooze/372756/is-meghan-markle-going-to-be-prince-harrys-jewish-princess/
      
      I still find it incredible however that the Queen will be a grandmother to a quadroon.
      
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      November 28, 2017 11:34am
  - Komata
    
    It was fascinating to watch the American media reaction to this. Given that the Yanks are absolutely besotted with the ‘concept’ of the British Monarchy, the whole US female ‘reporter/ presenter’ TV clique was absolutely besides themselves with glee, a sentiment summarised by one well-known presenter (who will remain nameless) saying in awestruck delight ‘She’s OUR princess’, with emphasis on the ‘our’.
    
    I suspect that the Prince is seen as a ‘trophy’ by the fiance, with the ‘ultimate’ goal being the crown; something that ‘establishment’ Britain won’t tolerate; a ‘low-level’ divorcee is simply not acceptable, as Wallis and Edward discovered. She might be hopeful, but she doesn’t know the culture she’s tangling with.
    
    Out of interest, what is British protocol for the breaking of a ‘Royal’ engagement?
    
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    November 28, 2017 12:55pm
Prince

Saw a very odd scene on TV One news last night. I wasn’t paying much attention but Winston Peters was in the foreground, peering around at the camera. Ardern standing behind him. He was grinning like a loon, she looked very angry. Anyone know what was going on there ?
I wasn’t listening because I’d caught up on the politics of the day with Barry Soper on Larry Williams earlier;
– Labour refusing to answer National’s written questions – nothing to see there apparently. All OK, Nats being childish. Different when Labour did it.
– Secret agreement between Soper’s Winston and Labour – nothing to see there apparently. All OK. Doesn’t need to be published. Winston must have been misreported when he said he would publish it. Different when English held things back.
– Green MP misrepresenting her past. Nothing to see there. All OK. Everyone does it. Despicable when National does it.
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November 28, 2017 9:06am
- waikatogirl
  
  Noted this last night Prince:
  I watched Winnie as Cindy was announcing she will not release the addendum. He was not looking vague, he was restraining himself from grinning ear to ear while trying to catch the eye of someone in the room, which made him look decidedly shifty. Winnie was enjoying every moment of Cindy squirming while she attempted to cover her decision with the msm.
  
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  November 28, 2017 9:09am
- VicParking
  
  Winston was being spanked for saying it would be released. Had to stand and watch while she said NO.
  
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  November 28, 2017 9:58am
waikatogirl

More than 100 reindeer have been killed by trains in Norway during the reindeer migration.

Merry Christmas!
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November 28, 2017 9:07am
- VicParking
  
  Another reason to bring back rail. Deer culling.
  
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  November 28, 2017 9:59am
flipper

Did anyone else notice that the silly, cuckolded Dallow, at 6pm last night, in reference to the missing 38 pages, said to that paragon of objective reporting, Bradford: “What is all this about, Katie?”
Now, if that is his question it confirms an abysmal lack of knowledge on a crucial matter of Government administration. If it was scripted for him, by an anonymous producer, it is yet another example of pejorative language designed to help the corrupt Peters/Ardern/Dyke Regime.

Departure of all long overdue !!
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November 28, 2017 9:15am
- dime
  
  “he silly, cuckolded Dallow, at 6pm last night”
  
  lol how he shows his face on national television…
  
  as for his ex-wife “my children saw an alcohol poster” etc etc your children saw their mum break up their family to hook up with another chick. the damage is done lady.
  
  rant over
  
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  November 28, 2017 9:19am
Sofia

If the waka-jumping bill is to preserve integrity for voters, the coalition needs to display a little integrity itself.

In the “democracy” section of Labour’s coalition agreement with NZ First is a promise to introduce and pass a ‘waka jumping’ bill as “a matter of honouring the electorate who voted for us”.
Winston Peters sees this measure as maintaining the integrity of Parliament to truely reflect the result as New Zealanders voted.

This is after Winston has negotiated up to seventy changes or deletions in policies New Zealanders have voted for, and his coalition continues to modify what remains.

Regarding those deletions or changes to policies people voted for –
Labour and NZ First have released a brief coalition document, but in October Peters spoke of the existence of a 38-page document underlying the list of policy wins, and setting out how the Government would work.

If Winston wants a law to prevent change in one aspect of what we voted for, he should at least facilitate information on changes he has already negotiated to the policies we did vote for.

It will be a measure of Winston’s integrity as to whether the 38-page document is released or not – honest transparency of changes he has negotiated, or remain a secret direction of Cabinet Members.
It will reflect on whether the waka-jumping bill is worthy legislation or just a maintenance of Winston’s coalition advantage.
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November 28, 2017 9:19am
DifferentPerspective

Well that wasn’t hard to predict!

The NFL kneeling protests continue and now the stadiums are half empty!

Lol, mainly black millionaires protesting how awful their country has been to them and now the people footing the bill (the fans) are outta there!

Virtue-signalling morons
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November 28, 2017 9:20am
- tom hunter
  
  I had to laugh at an interview about this that I saw a few days ago on the US TV network, PBS. They constantly imply what a serious and sober outfit they are as they hit all the right messages and stories – and bury the others they don’t want to talk about.
  
  So it was with this interview, for the whom the talking head presented was not some one from the NFL but….
  ESPN.
  
  And of course he dismissed in a couple of sentences any suggestion that all these collapsing ratings and empty stadiums might be connected with the “protests”. No, no. It’s concerns about concussion and blah, blah, blah. The yakker also made the point about how the Superbowl still far outranks other such events in the US, such as the NBA finals and the World Series – and I thought to myself that January’s coming fast and we will see. My bet is that Superbowl 2018 is going to be the lowest rating in thirty years.
  
  No mention of ESPN’s falling ratings and subscribers either, or the reasons for that. No Sirree Bob; an issue so non-existent it doesn’t even need a question.
  
  Excellent. Justice for a bunch of multi-millionaire player-morons and their billionaire asshole owners – and the SJW shits who comment on them on ESPN.
  
  Die, Mainstream Institutions. Die.
  
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  November 28, 2017 9:39am
  - itstricky
    
    It’s concerns about concussion and blah, blah, blah
    
    Sure, that’s your opinion, but I don’t really see how blah, blah, blah is any firmer evidence of the hypothesis that the dropping numbers are due to the protests than anything that the ESPN talking head offered up.
    
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    November 28, 2017 9:50am
    - JasonJohns
      
      How New Zealand’s history has been stolen from right under our noses!
      
      On the 17 April 2017 the National Government dismantled the Constitution Room at Archives New Zealand and separated our true Constitutional Documents from the Declaration of Independence, the Treaty of Waitangi and the Women’s Suffrage Petition.
      
      The Declaration, Treaty and Women’s Suffrage Petition being place in the $7.2 million He Tohu exhibit at the National Library, Wellington, while the Royal Charters and Proclamations that made New Zealand into a British Colony under one flag and one law being placed in Archives New Zealand’s Repository where they will be forgotten and lost forever amongst the other 6 million documents. These Constitutional Documents must now be ordered to research them if future researchers know they exist.
      
      This corrupt act is to allow the National Government to write a new Constitution based on the Treaty of Waitangi that played absolutely no part in shaping New Zealand or New Zealand becoming a British Colony with a political, legal or justice systems under one flag and one law, irrespective of race, colour or creed.
      
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      November 28, 2017 5:59pm
  - Kimbo
    
    You’ve no doubt seen it before, but it is still a goodie:
    
    George Carlin – Football and Baseball
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIkqNiBASfI
    
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    November 28, 2017 9:50am
  - DifferentPerspective
    
    I’m with you on that last point sir!
    
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    November 28, 2017 11:14am
- Morrissey
  
  They’re not protesting how awful the country has been to them personally, they’re protesting police murders of unarmed, innocent black people, and they’re also protesting the crimes committed by the United States overseas. The flag and the anthem are symbols of those crimes.
  
  https://www.gq.com/story/colin-kaepernick-cover-men-of-the-year
  
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  November 28, 2017 10:06am
  - tom hunter
    
    GQ??
    
    Yeah – GQ editors know how to pick them that’s for sure….
    
    Hahahahahahahahah.
    
    Idiot.
    
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    November 28, 2017 10:30am
    - DifferentPerspective
      
      Top zinger of the day to Mr Hunter!
      
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      November 28, 2017 11:16am
    - Ed Snack
      
      About the only one missing is Rolf Harris…
      
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      November 28, 2017 12:55pm
- Longknives
  
  When those Virtue Signalling NFL players all ending up taking massive pay cuts (or even losing their contracts) I’m going to laugh my arse off..
  
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  November 28, 2017 10:20am
Morrissey

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GROVEL.
State-sponsored adulation of shepherd-murderer moves into overdrive
Tuesday 28 November 2017

RNZ National, 7:24 a.m.
GUYON ESPINER: …. [drily amused] I’ve been taken to task for asking what Harry’s going to wear.
SUSIE FERGUSON: It’ll be a uniform, of course!
GUYON ESPINER: Of course it will. ….. [grovel, grovel…]

three, a.m. show, 7:25 a.m.
DUNCAN GARNER: Royal correspondent Dicky Arbiter, good morning!
DICKY ARBITER: [beaming] The Twitter universe has come alight! …[widens his eyes to indicate his great joy]… Like any young couple in love, they’re not hiding their love for each other!
AMANDA GILLIES: She wore a BEAUTIFUL new coat, designed by Line the Label. What does this mean for dress designers in the U.K.?….[grovel]….
DICKY ARBITER: They’ll look on her as they did Harry’s mother—as a clothes horse rather than a work horse. They do a tremendous amount of good work; let’s focus on what they DO rather than on what they wear, for a change.
DUNCAN GARNER: Yeah, I’m WITH you on this!
DICKY ARBITER: [worshipfully] Harry was a soldier. He was at the sharp end in Afghanistan. …. The couple meeting and they see each other across a crowded room, and that’s IT!… They just clicked, just like a jigsaw puzzle. … Younger people see them as role models. ….

7:52 a.m.
DUNCAN GARNER: Are you interested in the royal engagement? Some of you are. Some of you aren’t at all! That’s next!

…Advertisements (paid ones, not free ones for the Royal Family)….

7:54 a.m.
DUNCAN GARNER: Okay, welcome back. So much feedback for the royal wedding!

MARK RICHARDSON: Prince Harry was happy before this American came along. Well maybe not happy, but he was having a good time.

AMANDA: He wasn’t happy, he’s said that.

DUNCAN GARNER: Our poll question this morning is: “Do you care about the royal engagement between Prince Harry and Mehan Markle?” Well, not everybody does, it seems. Stuey says: “There are lots of unsung heroes in the community. He’s a privileged pillock and welfare beneficiary.”

The others in the studio—Gillies, Richardson, and social presenter Shannon Redstall—titter with pity and amusement.

DUNCAN GARNER: The woooorld of Stuey! I tell you what, Stuey, you can be the producer for the next sixty-threee minutes, and you can decide what’s going to be on the television.

8:02 a.m.
DUNCAN GARNER: Coming up on our panel is Rawdon Christie, broadcaster and royalist. We’ll be talking about Prince Harry, because Stuey hasn’t had enough of that yet…

8:35 a.m.
DUNCAN GARNER: All right, some things we don’t know about Meghan Markle. Everybody’s talking about this right now! …She has two adopted dogs, Bogart and, and….
AMANDA GILLIES: Guy.
DUNCAN GARNER: Yes! You know that? …. Mark, you seem sad.
MARK RICHARDSON: He was my guy. He was my royal guy!

8:42 a.m.
DUNCAN GARNER: We can’t get away from royal news today! It appears the royal couple may be related….

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November 28, 2017 9:25am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Morris dancer, your meds are in the pantry, second shelf from the top.
  
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  November 28, 2017 9:27am
  - Morrissey
    
    Surely you don’t approve of this state-sponsored obscenity, Cap’n? Or are you a groveler too?
    
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    November 28, 2017 9:30am
- Jack5
  
  If you listen to air heads, you get light headed.
  
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  November 28, 2017 9:36am
  - Morrissey
    
    Fair comment, Jack. I need to stop, and I need to stop now.
    
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    November 28, 2017 9:49am
    - softail 1450
      
      Morrissey ,yes it was spew inducing crap,breakfast tv is “BRAINDEAD “
      
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      November 28, 2017 10:21am
- flipper
  
  Piss off Morrissey, back to your douche bag nd stay there.
  
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  November 28, 2017 12:42pm
Chuck Bird

Many critisize Barry Soper but he is right about this Green phony.

Barry Soper: Political perception isn’t always reality

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11948555
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November 28, 2017 9:43am
- fernglas
  
  It’s not really a reply, Chuck, although I agree that she has allowed her experience to be both embellished and glossed over, either by her hand or by others. That suggests that the truth is either unpalatable or embarrassing to her, which is an insult to members of her profession who are not ashamed to have defended people. However, Phil Quin has said that she published an article which made her a genocide denier, and that is bullshit. From the abstract that I read, it is a treatise on whether there was sufficient evidence to put the Rwandan president on trial for war crimes following the shooting down of a plane in 1994, and had nothing to do with genocide denial. Whaleoil seems to be spouting the same line. Criticism, like credit, should go where it is due.
  
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  November 28, 2017 10:01am
- ztev
  
  next week Soper will discuss the political con job Bill English has done to hide his real job as a Treasury analyst and become a southland sheep farmer when he ran for parliament
  
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  November 28, 2017 12:20pm
  - flipper
    
    Oh crap, crap x 2 and illuminated crap in the duck pond.
    Why don’t you tell us, grubby little duck :
    
    1 What Peters has done with the $154,000 filched from taxpayers, and
    2 When will the Iranian Redmelon be explaining her falsehoods, and
    3 When will Dyke Simpson be cited by the Privileges Committee for improperly instructing MPs on their actions as MPs, and
    4 When you will be resigning as “Speaker” ?????????
    
    quack, quack, quack…..
    
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    November 28, 2017 1:00pm
    - ztev
      
      Drinking from the stupid bottle again I see. That was sorted out ages ago who is an MP and who isnt!
      
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      November 28, 2017 1:29pm
    - holysheet
      
      Stop while you are ahead flipper. The duck who is now the speaker, IS NOT Ztev.
      Although they exhibit the same crappy thoughts, DPF has confirmed that they are different entities.
      
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      November 28, 2017 1:59pm
  - Jack5
    
    Ztev gets it wrong again. He says Bill English “and become a Southland sheep farmer when he ran for parliament.”
    
    Bill English was born on a farm, raised on a farm, and was a farmer before he worked for Treasury or became an MP.
    
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    November 28, 2017 4:02pm
Morrissey

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GROPERS
No. 12: Prince Harry

Groping in England….

Prince Harry has been photographed groping and kissing girls in a London nightclub. Britain’s The Sun newspaper printed pictures – taken earlier this summer – of Harry and his brother Prince William, partying at London’s Boujis nightclub. … He had his hands all over her and was kissing her on the face. At one point he reached his arm around her and gave her a proper grope on her breast. ….
http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/royal_family/Britains+Prince+Harry-22051.html

Groping and snorting in Las Vegas…

The giggling prince’s demeanour here is a world away from his attitude following the firestorm of controversy that engulfed him after his fun and games in his hotel room. He and his friends took over a £1,000-a-day VIP bungalow at the MGM Grand Hotel for one of its infamous Wet Republic pool parties.

These raucous alcohol-fuelled events are popular in Vegas and involve several thousand young people attempting to get as drunk as humanly possible while pulling members of the opposite sex in the fierce sunshine.

By the end of the day, say those with intimate knowledge of such events, the pools contain more urine than water and couples are openly having sex.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2194207/Intimate-pictures-Prince-Harrys-wild-weekend-Vegas.html

“GROPERS” is presented by GroperWatch, a division of Daisycutter Sports Inc.
No.1 George Herbert Walker Bush; No. 2 Bill O’Reilly; No. 3 Al Franken; No. 4 Robin Brooke; No. 5 Lester Beck; No. 6 Arnold Schwarzenegger; No. 7 Joe Biden; No. 8 Rolf Harris; No. 9 Harold Bloom; No. 10 Sir Jimmy Savile; No. 11 Dr Morgan Fahey
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November 28, 2017 9:49am
- backster
  
  But no Clintons.
  
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  November 28, 2017 9:55am
  - Inandout
    
    And the many Democrats who groped.
    
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    November 28, 2017 10:04am
    - Harkman
      
      Bill Clinton is actually a rapist, GHW Bush is barely alive so to have him at No. 1 is a joke as he doesn’t know what he is doing. Most of O’Reilly’s pay offs were for verbally abusing female staff and screaming at them. What got rid of O’Reilly at Fox was a blonde bombshell attention seeking Psychiatrist who thought she was invited up to his hotel room, although they were both single.
      
      Where’s Anthony Weiner?
      
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      November 28, 2017 11:53am
      - Morrissey
        
        Weiner’s coming up, Harkman, and so is William Jefferson Clinton. All in good time, my friend, all in good time.
        
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        November 28, 2017 4:53pm
- fernglas
  
  And your point is?
  
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  November 28, 2017 9:55am
  - Morrissey
    
    Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
    My point is: Prince Harry is a scoundrel, a murderer, a whore-chaser, a groper of women, a coke-snorter, and… hell, the ACT Party has a leader-in-waiting!
    
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    November 28, 2017 10:09am
    - treadingthemill
      
      WTF? Got any evidence for those claims? Like who did he murder?
      
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      November 28, 2017 10:18am
      - Longknives
        
        I’ll take a stab at what Morrissey is getting at with the “Murderer” call-
        Prince Harry was a member of British Armed Forces who umm allegedly ‘Murder’ people?? So that makes him a sort-of ‘Murderer’ as well??
        
        I should post on The Standard! I’m good at this Lefty Thinking…
        
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        November 28, 2017 10:25am
      - treadingthemill
        
        Oh cripes, really? The Afghanistan mission is a legally authorised military action. Morrissey keeps telling me he’s not an extremist, but keeps proving otherwise with his comments.
        
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        November 28, 2017 10:30am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      You seem to idolise Noam Chomsky – illustrious professor of blah,blah, blah for decades at MIT.
      
      Ever wonder how he reconciled working at that institution fuelled by the Yankee War Machine?
      http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1986/4/2/mit-tops-in-pentagon-funding-pharvard/
      
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      November 28, 2017 10:31am
      - ztev
        
        He was an expert in Linguistics there, nothing to do with Pentagon.
        
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        November 28, 2017 12:18pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @ztev
        
        You clearly know nothing about Chomsky or MIT.
        
        http://scienceandrevolution.org/blog/2017/1/13/chomsky-at-mit-between-the-war-scientists-and-the-anti-war-students
        
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        November 28, 2017 3:33pm
- flipper
  
  Morrissey…..
  Surely the Milkybar kid in drag?
  He sure talks the Milkybar crap!
  
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  November 28, 2017 1:03pm
waikatogirl

Can someone in the msm please ask Cindy on camera whether she is pleased for Prince Harry and Meagan on their engagement.

I suspect our PM Select is not a royalist and I would be interested whether her response is sincere. ?
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November 28, 2017 10:00am
- sooty
  
  Taxinda can not go to the wedding as there is no one to run the chippie. They are all tits useless. Who the hell would you bring up to replace Kelvin? How’s Whinney going to spend his baubles, even if you could promote him.
  
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  November 28, 2017 12:37pm
  - ztev
    
    More interesting , how do they keep Trump away, as formally they may have to invite him ?
    
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    November 28, 2017 1:31pm
- MCos
  
  I’m in Thailand right now.
  Fail that sort of test and you’re off to prison for fifteen years. Is that what you want for NZ?
  
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  November 28, 2017 2:27pm
waikatogirl

TV3 breakfast have announced they are going to question Don Brash tomorrow morning on his stance that RNZ stop speaking so much maori.

Times have changed, get used to it is how DGarner sees it, and he intends to put that to Don Brash during his appearance on their panel.
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November 28, 2017 10:09am
- Jack5
  
  I hope Brash raises the point that English and Maori are distinct languages, from separate language families.
  
  It’s one thing if Radio NZ wants to provide taxpayer funded broadcasts in Maori, augmenting the Maori service of the 21 taxpayer supported tribal radio stations.
  
  However, it’s another if it intersperses bursts of Maori, substitutes Maori for English versions of place names, and mixes Maori and English constantly. That is is turning its English into NZ Pidgin.
  
  An example is the introducing of its announcers using Maori descriptions for their roles (ahau or similar which sounds like “ho’s” in Pidgin).
  
  I hope Brash also points out that the change in language on Radio NZ came about after an agreement between it and Labour apparatchik Willie Jackson as chairman of Te Whakaruruhau, the federation of 21 (taxpayer supported) tribal radio stations.
  
  Garner will give Brash a stiff time. Garner is biased when it comes to promoting Maori language. He had two children with his former wife, the part-Maori Mihingarangi Forbes (born Joanne Forbes). Wikipedia reports that, in an interview, Forbes has said that she supports bilingualism, and is raising her children to speak both English and Maori.
  
  The Radio NZ deal with Jackson:
  
  https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/312240/rnz-signs-partnership-with-te-whakaruruhau
  
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  November 28, 2017 10:38am
  - Jack5
    
    The likelihood is that the Radio NZ – Jackson deal may have been political play by Radio NZ.
    
    It may have been seeking Maori Party support in the then National Coalition as the State radio provider began planning to transform itself into a State internet provider as well.
    
    Since then its learned that State radio also has hopes of running its own TV channel. Maori political support would help it achieve this goal.
    
    From the Jackson side, it seems to be, with Maori radio, and national state radio: what’s mine is mine, and what’s yours if half-mine.
    
    I hope Garner bears in mind that a goal of Radio NZ, now implicitly supported by Maori, is to run yet another State TV channel, which would compete with TV3.
    
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    November 28, 2017 10:52am
  - softail 1450
    
    jack5 ,Jackson is the biggest beneficiary in nz’s history ,that guy has had millions of taxpayers dollars come his way over the last 40 years and he’s still at it with only his designer sneakers now visible in that labour coalition trough.
    a good days work would frighten him to death.
    
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    November 28, 2017 10:56am
  - itstricky
    
    An example is the introducing of its announcers using Maori descriptions for their roles (ahau or similar which sounds like “ho’s” in Pidgin)
    
    I really though you were joking about that, horse, but it’s clear you’re not. That’s a bit sad.
    
    That is is turning its English into NZ Pidgin
    
    For 30, 40 or 50 years, we’ve been using kia ora, pakeha, whanau, hangi, haka, pakaru, tu meke, waka, tiki tour and more. What are you afraid of?
    
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    November 28, 2017 12:58pm
    - Jack5
      
      We’re not talking about a language absorbing words. That’s normal.
      
      What we have here is Radio NZ pushing sentences and paragraphs into its non-Maori language. It’s more than trying to expand English. It’s created a new pidgin language – NZ Pidgin.
      
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      November 28, 2017 2:23pm
    - Rachael Membery
      
      Not having a choice? Choice is good, right?
      
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      November 28, 2017 5:13pm
  - KevOB
    
    raising her children to speak both English and Maori.
    Pidgin. There’s very little actual Maori. It’s a waste of education space. Hu’s or should that be huhu in the plural and koti or kotikoti. Kindy Maori for shoes and coats.
    
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    November 28, 2017 10:50pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Oh Shit,
look what RNZ has put up in relation to our new Green MP
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/344871/green-mp-under-scrutiny-for-role-in-rwandan-genocide-trials

Don’t think that pic will go down well with our Rwandan refugees.
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November 28, 2017 10:19am
- treadingthemill
  
  That’s really not a good look. It was one thing when she was, supposedly, just doing her job in acting as defense, but she looks very chummy with that guy. Anyway, her role as the self-appointed voice of Human Rights is hopefully dead.
  
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  November 28, 2017 10:26am
  - Inandout
    
    He is so big and she is so small.
    
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    November 28, 2017 10:38am
    - dime
      
      pornhub?
      
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      November 28, 2017 10:45am
      - softail 1450
        
        dime,what’s that? (smiling).
        
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        November 28, 2017 10:49am
      - Stars And Stripes
        
        She looks kind of shall we say submissive in the photo but none the less content so it begs the question of where exactly that guys hand really is?.
        
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        November 28, 2017 11:24am
  - waikatogirl
    
    A picture paints a thousand words.
    She’s sunk lower than a snake’s belly.
    
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    November 28, 2017 1:41pm
- RF
  
  It gets bloody worse.
  
  Where is James Shaw. Hiding under his mothers skirts ?????
  
  He should be fronting this. What a gutless little prick….
  
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  November 28, 2017 10:57am
  - holysheet
    
    Which mother?
    
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    November 28, 2017 2:06pm
  - howitis
    
    James Shaw is a weak, wee cuck who takes orders from the women is life – multi-mums, feisty hairy-legged green she-devils, Jiggy * Cindy, H2, H1, et al.
    I’d guess he is not even allowed to pick his own socks.
    
    I won’t pick on Gareth Hughes. He has enough of a burden in life being taken seriously.
    Macron and Trudeau are in this cuck-camp.
    
    Duncan Garner is also a cuck. Broken down, one might assume, by feisty Joanna Forbes.
    (Mind you she is one scary alpha woman; even Maori TV could not contain her. She did her job on wee Duncs in a few short years.)
    His mate Espiner is a complete cuck with a (controlling? ) Maori wife.
    The two of them on the short-lived taxpayer-funded Third Degree TV3 show was a sign of their weakness. I struggled through 3 episodes of cuck-central. The taxpayer dollar>> not working for you at all!
    
    Glarke Gaylord is a cuck despite his cockiness. He will serve at the will of the women in his life – [insert name] at current point in time.
    
    Cuck Guy Williams of TV3 is tweeting furiously about nasty Kiwibloggers (ah, it’s a beautiful thing to get under their thin skin). You KBers are so mean to his Persian Princess he has to defend her.
    
    The time is upon us.
    The age of Girlie Men (entered semi adulthood post 1990) is here. ie ‘Mr.’can wear long trousers, pre-ripped or not, but still have childish thoughts and hate it when others disagree with their under-developed thoughts.
    TV3 may be ground zero for Girlie Men. I don’t watch TVNZ so can’t fairly comment.
    
    They are now in politics and media and generally controlled by the women in their lives.
    This cohort is generally in the 35 to 45 age range. What happens when they get to 50?
    Do they become despised ‘old white men’ or are they investing in their testosterone -free future now?
    Sadly they missed a solid diet of The Who, Zeppelin, Jethro Tull, Deep Purple in their formative years and instead got Madonna , Whitney, Alanis, and Celine. So sad!
    
    If you see these cucks on public transport please stand up for them!
    
    * See https://www.thefreedictionary.com/jiggy
    Defn 1 and 3.
    
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    November 28, 2017 2:30pm
    - sam green
      
      What the fuck is wrong with you?
      
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      November 28, 2017 10:58pm
- Ashley Schaeffer
  
  That’s a really bad photo. And her excuse for it is weak as piss –
  
  She said she posed for a photo with one of the war criminals she defended because she was part of the legal team.
  
  I could almost swallow the reason for the photo. But looking like a star-struck adolescent posing for a celebrity photo-op is damning.
  
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  November 28, 2017 11:21am
  - Rich Prick
    
    Anything for a geno-selfie. Serriously though, what’s wrong with that woman?
    
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    November 28, 2017 1:10pm
- Kimbo
  
  @ Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Bikindi was a pop singer who wrote songs encouraging the slaughter of Tutsi and moderate Hutu. His music – played on the radio station which coordinated the slaughters – lead to a charge of inciting genocide.
  
  Bikindi was also accused of taking part in some of the murders.
  
  So he is the Julius Streicher (so beloved by EAD) of the Rwandan Genocide.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Streicher
  
  As per yesterday, even Streicher*, like Bikindi deserved an adequate defence, and the issue isn’t that Golriz Ghahraman did so, or even volunteered to do so…but allowed the Greens to misrepresent it.
  
  * ..and just for EAD, Streicher went to the gallows screaming “Purimfest 1946”, and “The Bolsheviks will hang you one day!”. Goodbye to bad, Jew-baiting, Genocide-enabling rubbish 😉
  
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  November 28, 2017 11:38am
  - EAD_TWO
    
    I was so glad whem Stalin executed the Jewish mass murderer Genrikh Yagoda who slaughtered over 10 million Christians.
    
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genrikh_Yagoda
    
    Yagoda was summarily shot soon after the trial.[27] His wife Ida Averbakh was executed in 1938
    
    Goodbye to bad, Gentile-baiting, Genocide-enabling rubbish
    
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    November 28, 2017 12:01pm
    - Kimbo
      
      Surprised you didn’t mention your favourite go-to, ~~Lev Bronstein~~ Leon Trotsky.
      
      Um, why is it when Soviets from a Gentile family and upbringing committed atrocities they are primarily regarded as Bolsheviks, but when they were non-Gentiles, they are regarded primarily as…Jews? And how come, if the “Jews” really are in charge, they let Trotsky get his head caved in with an ice pick?! Then again, why bother asking about anomalies? I’m talking to someone with a non-falsifiable plot theory! 😉
      
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      November 28, 2017 12:08pm
      - EAD_TWO
        
        But to have 1% of the Russian population yet 85% of the leading Bolsheviks has got to be more than a cohencidence?
        
        Jews can admit to this so why can’t Kimbo from Kiwiblog?
        
        https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3342999,00.html
        
        https://www.timesofisrael.com/putin-first-soviet-government-was-mostly-jewish/
        
        Why did the Bolsheviks make “anti-semitism” a crime as soon as they got into power?
        
        Do you want me to post Churchill or Solzhenitsyn’s quotes about Jews in the Soviet Union?
        
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        November 28, 2017 12:15pm
      - Kimbo
        
        Do you want me to post Churchill or Solzhenitsyn’s quotes about Jews in the Soviet Union?
        
        Er, no. How about you just answer my questions directly first before you expect answers to yours. Your ability to answer questions with (deflecting) questions almost leads me to suspect you are…Jewish! 😉 Here, I’ll refresh your memory so you do things “decently and in order” :
        
        Um, why is it when Soviets from a Gentile family and upbringing committed atrocities they are primarily regarded as Bolsheviks, but when they were non-Gentiles, they are regarded primarily as…Jews?
        
        And how come, if the “Jews” really are in charge, they let Trotsky get his head caved in with an ice pick?!
        
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        November 28, 2017 12:20pm
      - EAD_TWO
        
        It’s funny how a totally reasonable and observable phenomenon like Jewish power is branded a “conspiracy theory”, while abstract and unfalsifiable ideas like “white privilege” or “the patriarchy” are taken seriously by the likes of yourself Kimbo.
        
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        November 28, 2017 12:28pm
      - Kimbo
        
        ….so still not answering the questions, and now you are trying another shell-game tactic by questioning the alleged assumptions of the questioner. Anyone would think you are a self-loathing Jew, EAD 😉 Here, a third time, have a go answering them directly, rather than wandering to the left and to the right 😉 :
        
        Um, why is it when Soviets from a Gentile family and upbringing committed atrocities they are primarily regarded as Bolsheviks, but when they were non-Gentiles, they are regarded primarily as…Jews?
        
        And how come, if the “Jews” really are in charge, they let Trotsky get his head caved in with an ice pick?!
        
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        November 28, 2017 12:34pm
    - Jack5
      
      EAD has misled before on Kiwiblog about Solsenytsin on Russia’s Jews. The book EAD refers to has not been fully translated into English as far as I am aware, but Solsenytsin in it does criticise the role of Jews in the Bolshevik Revolution.
      
      However, in it also, reports Wikipedia:
      
      Solzhenitsyn criticizes the “scandalous” weakness and “unpardonable inaction” that prevented the Russian imperial state from adequately protecting the lives and property of its Jewish subjects. But he claims that the pogroms were in almost every case organized from “below” and not by the Russian state authorities. He criticizes the “vexing,” “scandalous”, and “distressing” restrictions on the civil liberties of Jewish subjects during the final decades of the Russian old regime. On that score, in chapter ten of the work he expresses his admiration for the efforts of Pyotr Stolypin (Prime Minister of Russia from 1906 until 1911) to eliminate all legal disabilities against Jews in Russia.
      
      In the spirit of his 1974 essay “Repentance and Self-Limitation in the Life of Nations”, Solzhenitsyn calls for the Russians and Russian Jews alike to take responsibility for the “renegades” in both communities who supported a totalitarian and terrorist regime after 1917. At the end of chapter 15, he writes that Jews must answer for the “revolutionary cutthroats” in their ranks just as Russians must repent “for the pogroms, for…merciless arsonist peasants, for…crazed revolutionary soldiers.” It is not, he adds, a matter of answering “before other peoples, but to oneself, to one’s conscience, and before God.”
      
      Solzhenitsyn also takes the anti-Communist White Movement to task for condoning violence against Jews and thus undermining “what would have been the chief benefit of a White victory” in the Russian Civil War: “a reasonable evolution of the Russian state.”
      
      I have posted this before and I apologise to those who read that post, but when EAD repeats his distortions the facts need to be repeated, too.
      
      The link:
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Hundred_Years_Together
      
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      November 28, 2017 1:04pm
    - Brito
      
      I’ve been back to the homeland to report in EAD and all I can say is we are here to help people like you. Address please. My team will come around and your pain will be eased and then remove (as will ours).
      
      And…”I was so glad whem (sic) Stalin executed”….
      
      This implies that you were either present or heard about it at the time it occurred. This tells me you are probably 120 years old. Reach over and pull out the plug and ………..
      
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      November 28, 2017 3:20pm
- GoVege
  
  What a stupid dork.
  How could she stand to stand so close to that creep?
  And why are all the worst idiots in the Greens women??
  
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  November 28, 2017 12:04pm
  - softail 1450
    
    govege, and the smile ,she was obviously to silly to know that a photo like that probably would’ve been better with a sullen face.
    
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    November 28, 2017 12:33pm
softail 1450

this cluster—k is back on full show today at 2pm, I’m hoping the opposition will start winding up the attack, unlike the 1st lame week.
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November 28, 2017 10:39am
Digmen1

I’m am sick of all the organisations calling them selves Aoteroa this and Aoteroa that.

Its New Zealand!

When Maori get themselves out of the gutter and start being productive members of society and not a drain on us all I will start to respect them.
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November 28, 2017 10:44am
- Inandout
  
  There was a part time Maori on Garner this morning who was talking about Aotearoa marine reserves that were our toanga and should be precious. She spouted other te reo words that went over my head.
  
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  November 28, 2017 11:11am
treadingthemill

When Maori get themselves out of the gutter and start being productive members of society

‘Māori business leaders driving New Zealand’s success’

https://www.callaghaninnovation.govt.nz/news-and-events/māori-business-leaders-driving-new-zealand’s-success

I will start to respect them.

Call me skeptical, but no, I don’t think you would.
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November 28, 2017 10:52am
- EAD_TWO
  
  Treading the mill – Maori “business” pretty much consists off buying up monopoly businesses using taxpayers handouts (treaty settlements).
  
  Not to mention getting first right of refusal on underpriced assets sold by the State.
  
  Add in State created inflation, and it’s easy to be fooled into thinking that “Maori are driving NZ’s success” but all they’re doing is either collecting monopoly rents on things such as Seafood/Forestry, or using their handouts to buy already successful businesses or developing prime land that they bought for peppercorn prices.
  
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  November 28, 2017 11:18am
  - treadingthemill
    
    How they are creating business success is irrelevant to the fact that they are, contrary to Digmen1’s blanket generalisation. Analysing that success according to some kind of purist, free market fundamentalist ideology is meaningless because no business in New Zealand, or anywhere else, operates in such an environment.
    
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    November 28, 2017 11:39am
    - Digmen1
      
      I do admire tribes such as Ngai Tahu who seems to be doing well in business, and helping their people with housing and education.
      
      But where are the Maori small buinesses, taxi drivers, takeways, bakery’s etc etc.
      
      How many Maoris do you see working in our supermarkets – outnumbered 10 to 1 by our sub continent friends.
      
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      November 28, 2017 12:04pm
      - kevn
        
        Dig… Maybe the charitable trust, tax free status that Ngai Tahu (and the other tribes) enjoy, helps their business success? They do dispense regular cheques to the (very quickly growing membership, you only have to be a 640th Ngai Tahu Maori apparently) Ngai Tahu tribal members. Might be easier than driving taxi’s etc. Like winning Lotto regularly.
        
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        November 28, 2017 1:39pm
      - Rachael Membery
        
        I wonder if their Ngai Tahu cheques are considered income against their benefits or would they be just under the threshold?
        
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        November 28, 2017 1:54pm
      - Brito
        
        “How many Maoris do you see working in our supermarkets…”
        
        The key problem with your question rest on one word…”working”. Remove that word and the sentence then makes sense.
        
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        November 28, 2017 3:23pm
      - kowtow
        
        ‘The $170 million settlement in 1997 was the tribe’s fifth.’
        
        https://www.odt.co.nz/opinion/complaint-industry-still-rambles
        
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        November 28, 2017 5:31pm
      - Jack5
        
        Kowtow, there’s been a top-up since then.
        
        No problem with Ngai Tahu businesses thriving, but they should be on the same tax footing as other businesses.
        
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        November 28, 2017 5:49pm
Hugh Pavletich

Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
NEW ZEALAND: MEET THE NATIONAL PARTY ‘CONFESSOR’ ON HOUSING … MICHAEL WOODHOUSE

Flat house prices prove there’s no crisis – National housing spokesman Michael Woodhouse | Newshub

http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2017/11/flat-house-prices-prove-there-s-no-crisis-national-housing-spokesman-michael-woodhouse.html

Following the disastrous Newshub poll late May 2016, the Sainsbury interview and the NZ Herald Mood of the Boardroom (refer GONE GONE GOING section http://www.PerformanceUrbanPlanning.org ), it was easy to predict John Key would bail … as a I did last August …

Housing campaigner predicts spiralling house prices will be Key’s ‘Waterloo’ | Stuff.co.nz

http://i.stuff.co.nz/business/83627043/Housing-campaigner-predicts-spiralling-house-prices-will-be-Keys-Waterloo

Key bailed early December … giving Bill English the hospital pass to face the music in 2018.

Immediately … Bill English said the new administrations focus would be on housing, infrastructure and shared prosperity.

Remarkably … within the week … bucking to vested interests pressure and the hammering his government was taking for its 9 years of housing failure … English panicked by extinguishing the housing ministers role altogether !

That was the National Party’s dopey way of trying to get the housing issue to go away.

Since deservedly going in to Opposition October … rather amusingly … National has ‘rediscovered’ housing and appointed Michael Woodhouse a its ‘confessor’ on this issue.

Watch Mr Woodhouse apprehensively explain away the previous governments massive housing failures.

Some of these failures were outlined at the time of the release of this year’s Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey within NEW ZEALAND’S HOUSING CONSENSUS: WHERE IS THE POLITICAL LEADERSHIP ? …

http://pc.blogspot.co.nz/2017/01/auckland-worlds-fourth-hardest-to-buy.html

… extract …

‘…Auckland’s median house price was $427,500 when Mr Key’s Government came to office late 2008 (refer 2009 5th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey ).

If prices had even been held at this level … with a sound mix of land releases and progressive bond financing of infrastructure … and with Auckland’s current median household income of $83,000, Auckland’s median multiple today would be 5.1 not the current 10.

Median house prices are currently way out of control at around $830,000.

Better still … if prices had been allowed to gently ease since late 2008 (as polling has illustrated most New Zealanders prefer … and currently getting underway in Greater Christchurch, led by easing rentals), then Auckland today would be well on the road to restoring housing affordability.

Auckland’s house prices would now be around 4 times household incomes, not the egregious 10 times incomes they are.

The median house price would be about $330,000 … not the current stratospheric and grossly irresponsible $830,000 !

Political failure of epic proportions ! …’

No wonder National’s new housing spokesman Michael Woodhouse looks so guilty within the Newshub interview.
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November 28, 2017 11:09am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  As predictable as night follows day, here’s the terminally boring Hugh again.
  
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  November 28, 2017 11:25am
  - Hugh Pavletich
    
    Captain … Woodhouse was appalling on Newshub.
    
    Sheer arrogance and ignorance.
    
    As I keep reminding my fellow Tories … dumb is not beautiful … unless you are Goldie Hawn (and in contrast to Woodhouse, she is only acting it … as she is very bright indeed) …
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mez8LZzA-tw
    
    Captain … please show me some compassion. I had to deal with Phil Heatley back through 2006 – 09.
    
    We deserve a break from dumbness.
    
    Lets de – dumb the National Party !
    
    Can you lead the charge on your zimmer frame Captain ?
    
    Start disrupting those National Party Tea Mornings … that sort of thing.
    
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    November 28, 2017 12:20pm
    - sooty
      
      What ever you do Hugh, don’t look in the mirror!
      
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      November 28, 2017 12:28pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        No magic bullet for housing but better renting, more stock may help | Stuff.co.nz
        
        https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/property/99320015/no-magic-bullet-for-housing-but-better-renting-more-stock-may-help
        
        … concluding …
        
        … “I don’t know the detail of what the minister is planning but I do know before the election the Greens, New Zealand First and Labour, all had similar polices around housing and all were similar to what we had in Generation Rent.”
        
        No one should expect a magic solution, he said. Any change would take time.
        
        “It’s taken decades to get where we are. It’s still top think it can be resolved quickly.”
        
        The argument that because the housing market had cooled there was no need for action – National’s housing spokesman Michael Woodhouse said this week flatlining property prices in Auckland proved there was no crisis – was the “most disingenuous thing I’ve ever heard”, Eaqub said.
        
        “This has built for decades. It’s not about one political party or another. They’ve all been useless.”
        
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        November 28, 2017 1:34pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        Meet NZ’s newest housing idiot – Leith van Onselen – MacroBusiness Australia … with Pavletich comments on thread …
        
        https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2017/11/meet-nzs-newest-housing-idiot/
        
        Apparently Auckland’s housing market is no longer in “crisis”, according to the National opposition’s housing spokesman, Michael Woodhouse: … read more via hyperlink above …
        
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        November 28, 2017 5:39pm
Tauhei Notts

This morning’s NZ Herald reports on Wilson Parking New Zealand’s 2017 annual report.
So I searched the annual report. The Herald’s reporting seemed to me to be more of what one would expect from Wilson’s public relations agency.
No mention was made that the company has eight directors, only one of whom is a New Zealander. No mention of the fact that their ultimate holding company is based in that well known tax haven, the British Virgin Islands.
I think the above paragraph might give Kiwiblog readers a better understanding of that company’s corporate mentality. The main stream media won’t.
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November 28, 2017 11:11am
- cmm
  
  Open press release document, Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V, save artcle.
  
  Need another coffee – this journalism is really hard work!
  
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  November 28, 2017 11:15am
  - itstricky
    
    Open press release document, Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V, save artcle.
    
    And yet, the highest upticked stories today in GD have references of http://www.nzherald. Nobody is questioning, or double-checking those stories. Go figure.
    
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    November 28, 2017 11:40am
    - cmm
      
      People posting here are not journalists. We are not being paid to be “the eyes and ears” of the public.
      
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      November 28, 2017 3:19pm
      - itstricky
        
        I didn’t say you were. I was just questioning the depth of the questioning, based on the belief of the story.
        
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        November 28, 2017 3:52pm
- EAD_TWO
  
  Wilson Parking should be one of the biggest scandals in this country.
  
  Instead it’s another sad chapter in how our political elite have sold us out while we’ve been asleep at the wheel.
  
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  November 28, 2017 11:27am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  OK CoL, here’s your big chance. Save us from the price-gouging, tax-evading Wilson Parking. Make an example of the bastards, run them out of town.
  The voters would be eternally grateful.
  
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  November 28, 2017 11:27am
  - starboard
    
    Wilson parking issues ‘invoices’. If you receive an ‘invoice’ from Wilson Parking do what I , and other relos do. Rip it up and biff in rubbish bin. Been over 2 years now..heard nothing. Screw you WP.
    
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    November 28, 2017 5:58pm
  - GazzaW
    
    Wilsons is more akin to a pandemic virus than an international corporation.
    
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    November 28, 2017 10:13pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Deadly Green spin and the Grenfell tower disaster

https://news.sky.com/story/long-read-grenfell-britains-fire-safety-crisis-11146108
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November 28, 2017 11:33am
Maggy Wassilieff

Alleged terrorist arrest in Melbourne

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/man-arrested-over-alleged-melbourne-new-years-eve-terror-plot-20171127-gztznw.html
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November 28, 2017 12:29pm
- Digmen1
  
  Yes, that is why I am against ANY muslims coming to NZ.
  One day they WILL make terror attacks on us.
  And they WILL try to impose their way of life on us.
  He was born in Australia to Somali muslim immigrants.
  How can the Australian police Gaurantee there is no longer any threat.
  They did well to find this guy, but how many others are there?
  
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  November 28, 2017 1:18pm
  - starboard
    
    Kill him.
    
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    November 28, 2017 6:01pm
    - starboard
      
      Oh ok downticker..embrace him. Good luck.
      
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      November 28, 2017 6:56pm
Stars And Stripes

Anyone who likes a bet take a look at todays Addington Dogs Race 5 and check out No 8 “Jacinda”.
Word is the dog is bit sneaky and has been known to trip and hustle opponents to get out in front but is well liked by the media hence it’s the favourite for the race.
Biggest downside however is it’s been known to backtrack and prevaricate quite badly leading it to sometimes not fully commit itself to the task at hand resulting in some flaky performances.
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November 28, 2017 1:02pm
- Tauhei Notts
  
  Stars and Stripes; at the risk of being labelled exceedingly pedantic, please note that male greyhounds are referred to as dogs. Female greyhounds, like Jacinda, are referred to as bitches.
  So, your second sentence should start;
  Word is the bitch is a bit sneaky….
  I would be grateful if you could possibly accept my criticism as being helpful criticism, and no offence was intended or wished for.
  
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  November 28, 2017 2:14pm
Chuck Bird

I was not that concerned about a tax cut when people with cancer and some other very serious diseases had to go on Give a Little to pay for their own life saving drug.

I now see Labour is going to fund a drug to healthy people to prevent them from getting HIV while the NZ AIDS Foundation will not suggest that homosexuals could lower their risk if they did not sodomize or allow themselves to be sodomized by multiple partners.
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November 28, 2017 1:31pm
- ztev
  
  The government doesnt decide which drugs are funded normally, its pharmacs and their doctors team
  eg this decision from June 2017
  Decision relating to widening funding criteria for antiretroviral agents for the treatment of HIV
  https://www.pharmac.govt.nz/news/notification-2017-06-12-antiretroviral/
  
  There has been many new HIV drugs funded in last 9 years, are you concerned that ‘national has been funding drugs for gays’?
  
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  November 28, 2017 1:37pm
- Chuck Bird
  
  ztev, there is a difference between funding treatement for someone with HIV and someone who is HIV negative who wants to frequent homosexual clubs and saunas as well as look for anonyomous partners at public toilets.
  
  Pharmac’s proposing funding a revolutionary daily pill that can prevent people from contracting HIV.
  
  When taken on a daily basis, PrEP has been proven to reduce an HIV negative person’s risk of contracting the virus by over 90 percent.
  
  Pharmac said use of the drug by people at high risk of HIV has been associated with major reductions in infections overseas.
  
  It expects the same would occur here in New Zealand.
  
  Labour pledged to fund the drug during its election campaign, as part of its rainbow policy.
  
  The New Zealand AIDS Foundation has been campaigning for PrEP being funded, and said it would be a “game-changer” for HIV prevention.
  
  Our HIV rates have been on the rise. In 2016 we had the highest number of new infections recorded since monitoring began in 1985, at 244.
  
  http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/health/pharmac-looking-into-funding-hiv-prevention-pill/
  
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  November 28, 2017 1:55pm
  - starboard
    
    Filthy sodomisers wallowing in shit. Wash yourselves in janola.
    
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    November 28, 2017 6:05pm
    - treadingthemill
      
      “Filthy sodomisers”
      
      in your own time….
      
      https://healthpages.co.nz/directory/categories/psychiatry
      
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      November 28, 2017 6:09pm
- sam green
  
  Bet you’ve had one up the chunga Chuck – at least a finger?
  
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  November 28, 2017 8:43pm
Jack5

The boat people arrive!

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11948797
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November 28, 2017 1:57pm
Jack5

Interesting information in a ruling by the Immigration and Protection Tribunal….

A report from the Immigration and Protection Tribunal about an abused Sikh woman in NZ as an “IELTS” bride.

IELTS stands for International English Language Testing System, which is jointly managed by the British Council, IDP: IELTS Australia (an international education company), and Cambridge English Language Assessment (part of Cambridge University).

Radio NZ reports the NZ tribunal ruled the woman would not be safe if she returned either to her home region or as a single Sikh divorcee elsewhere in India.

In its report, the tribunal says the woman passed her English test, but was rejected for student visas in Australia, Canada, Britain, and the United States.

However, she was granted a visa for New Zealand.

Radio NZ reports:

Eventually the first part of his plan worked – the woman was granted a student visa in New Zealand – but his application for a dependent’s visa was twice rejected.

The tribunal was told he controlled her from India, including where she could live and work, and she was forced to send him money.

He told her to put her phone on video mode so he could watch her with colleagues at work and threatened to rape her sister, kill her brother and get her deported when she said she wanted a divorce.

The tribunal ruled she would not be safe if she returned either to her home region or as a single Sikh divorcee elsewhere in India.

The woman couldn’t get a student visa for four other Western Anglo countries, but got one for NZ. Now she can stay.

http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/344900/woman-not-safe-from-husband-if-returned-to-india-refugee-panel-rules
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November 28, 2017 3:54pm
Digmen1

How about those people are told we do not do this sort of thing here in NZ.
So If you don’t like our rules and culture, don’t come here.
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November 28, 2017 4:18pm
Happychappy

I actually find it funny when Bill English was answering questions from Winston First over the Todd Barclay affair there were people on here calling him a liar and playing games by not answering the question to their or Peters likening. So now Winston is playing the same games and people like wise owl, MCos, doggone7 and a few others don’t say a dicky bird when the NZ First and Labour Leaders turn Parliament into a laughing stock by trying to be Comedians in answering their questions today. Obviously their views are helped by a Speaker that think he is God and he is the star of question time with his childish rebukes.
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November 28, 2017 5:07pm
softail 1450

the biggest mystery facing our country at the moment is, who was the fucking idiot that told Gareth Hughes that his fucking rediculous moustache looks good.
any citizen that hasn’t seen this thing growing under his nose must go to parliament tv and have the biggest laugh of the year so far,FFS.
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November 28, 2017 5:11pm
- ex-golfer
  
  Didn’t you see him when he had his full beard?
  Rumor has it he grew it so it would stop being asked for ID at his local New World.
  
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  November 28, 2017 7:31pm
JasonJohns

On the 17 April 2017 the Constitution Room at Archives New Zealand was dismantled and our historic documents separated with the Declaration of Independence, the Tiriti o Waitangi and the Women’s Suffrage Petition being moved under darkness to the new taxpayer funded $7.2 million He Tohu exhibit at the National Library, Wellington, while all our true Constitutional documents being filed away with over 6 million documents in Archive’s repository where the government hopes they will soon be forgotten and lost for ever.

The three documents moved to the He Tohu exhibit had nothing to do with, “Our constitutional documents that shape New Zealand”. Absolutely nothing!

The Declaration of Independence was a failed attempt by James Busby to have tangata maori sovereignty recognised over New Zealand and the Tiriti o Waitangi to cede to Britain the remaining territories “still occupied” by tangata maori. Documents held in the NSW Supreme Court show tangata maori had sold 2/3 of New Zealand before the Treaty was signed.

The Women’s Suffrage Petition was a milestone in women gaining the right to vote and deserves recognition, but it still had nothing to do with our Constitution or New Zealand becoming a British Colony under one flag and one law, irrespective of race, colour or creed. This was achieved by the Charters of 1839 and 1840
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November 28, 2017 6:01pm
- nasska
  
  …..”The Women’s Suffrage Petition was a milestone in women gaining the right to vote and deserves recognition”…..
  
  That & the abolition of the property requirement in 1879 spelled the start of the end. Workshy renters & women saturated in ‘feelz’ voted themselves money & privileges at the expense of the real earners of wealth.
  
  The poor old cockie copped it up the clacker again. 🙂
  
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  November 28, 2017 6:23pm
Rodney Randall

Tvnz One News lead with the Globalist Multi Culti “Mixed Race” Royal marriage proposal.

Not simply enough to say that Harry has found someone he loves.

Nooooo. MIXED RACE, euphemism for White bad.

They are not even hiding this shit now

True to form our MSM are nothing more than parrots/poodles as Larry Williams correctly pointed out on his Drive show a few weeks back.
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November 28, 2017 6:04pm
- EAD_TWO
  
  It’s like all the MSMs Coudenhove Kalegri Plan Christmases have come at once.
  
  They’re pushing a narrative that by marrying a half caste, Harry has made the Monarchy “relevant” and “modern”:
  
  Blacks and “the Left” on Twitter haven’t held back either in telling us how they really feel about it❗
  
  https://mobile.twitter.com/RightWingStand/status/935253212076142594
  
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  November 28, 2017 7:37pm
starboard

Sir Gallagher..I salute you.
Well said.
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November 28, 2017 6:14pm
- treadingthemill
  
  Gallagher = crackpot conspiracy theorist.
  
  ‘Treaty of Waitangi denialism: a long, dark and absurd history’
  
  https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/28-11-2017/treaty-of-waitangi-denialism-a-long-dark-and-absurd-history/
  
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  November 28, 2017 6:27pm
  - starboard
    
    Sir Gallagher should be knighted a second time.
    His comments reflect what the MAJORITY of New Zealanders feel with regard to the treaty fraud gravy train.
    
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    November 28, 2017 7:06pm
    - itstricky
      
      You’ll be providing a reference for that, of course. ’cause if I know you, starboard, the one thing you’re big on is references and evidence.
      
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      November 28, 2017 8:00pm
      - starboard
        
        No, sorry sticky/mm..just accept what I say as gospel ok boys.
        
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        November 28, 2017 8:40pm
    - treadingthemill
      
      His comments reflect what the MAJORITY of New Zealanders feel
      
      So you can provide a poll taken in the last year or so confirming that?
      
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      November 28, 2017 8:39pm
      - starboard
        
        See above mm.
        
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        November 28, 2017 8:41pm
      - treadingthemill
        
        Oh, so you were basically talking crap. Well colour me surprised.
        
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        November 28, 2017 8:45pm
  - EAD_TWO
    
    Gallagher = crackpot conspiracy theorist.
    
    ‘Treaty of Waitangi denialism: a long, dark and absurd history’
    
    Are you sure you’re not Mikenmild?
    
    You sure have the same beta characteristics and the ability to post on here all day every day which means you’re probably a public sector “worker”
    
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    November 28, 2017 8:05pm
    - starboard
      
      Agree..hi mm.
      
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      November 28, 2017 8:30pm
      - Brito
        
        He’s lactating, give him a little space.
        
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        November 28, 2017 9:34pm
    - treadingthemill
      
      Are you sure you’re not Mikenmild?
      
      Why would I be?
      
      You sure have the same beta characteristics
      
      Where did you pull “beta characteristics” from? Looks like something invented by one of those alt right types who can’t get a girlfriend and has to simultaneously jerk off to porn and pictures of Hitler to get his kicks.
      
      the ability to post on here all day every day
      
      Like I said before, I’m a semi-retired bricklayer. I work for mates now and then, and run a little lifestyle farm, otherwise my time’s my own.
      
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      November 28, 2017 8:37pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Sacrifice a few Virgins in the backyard- just kidding
        
        Starboard, TTM isn’t Mikey.
        There’s no snark.
        
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        November 28, 2017 8:44pm
      - starboard
        
        Ppfft..liar mm.
        
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        November 28, 2017 8:44pm
      - treadingthemill
        
        Sacrifice a few Virgins in the backyard- just kidding
        
        It’s illegal, otherwise….
        
        Nah, the blót nowadays is purely symbolic. Mostly.
        
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        November 28, 2017 8:46pm
      - treadingthemill
        
        I’m curious though. Who the hell is mikenmild and why do I sound like him? Was he a swing voter, a Pagan, a farmer, a bricklayer???
        
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        November 28, 2017 8:51pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Good luck finding a virgin.
        Actually…
        Itstricky, do you fancy going to a BBQ in the country?
        
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        November 28, 2017 8:52pm
      - EAD_TWO
        
        Mikewimp – your cover is blown.
        
        There is no way a Bricklayer, let alone a retired one would have such Soy views on the world.
        
        https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Soy%20Boy
        
        Bricklayers are hard men, you’re a girly man.
        
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        November 28, 2017 8:53pm
      - treadingthemill
        
        What the hell is a Soy view? And why do you have a problem speaking plain English? Beta this, Soy that, just speak plainly. It’s what an Alpha male would do.
        
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        November 28, 2017 8:55pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Mikenmild is one of KBs longstanding posters.
        On here from early to late . Did over 32,000 (yes…) posts.
        Of the left , king of snark and could be quite cutting.
        Very smart. Liked War history.Rumoured to be a union guy/public servant/ local govt maybe.
        Lived in Hutt Valley.
        A standing joke was Starboard was screwing his Mum, but Mikey said Starboard just used her to carry his gay porn around.
        Yep, this is Kiwiblog
        Lol
        
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        November 28, 2017 8:56pm
      - treadingthemill
        
        Bricklayers are hard men, you’re a girly man.
        
        I’m a girly man because I support the Treaty? Shit man, you need to get out more.
        
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        November 28, 2017 9:00pm
      - treadingthemill
        
        Of the left , king of snark and could be quite cutting.
        
        I see. Well, I’m not left as such, I voted for John Key three times. And I’m normally very polite on internet forums, but I’m making an exception for Ead. And I don’t do snark. I say what I mean, usually politely.
        
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        November 28, 2017 9:03pm
      - treadingthemill
        
        Come to think of it, Iv’e probably pissed off almost as many lefties here as righties. That’s the great thing about being a centrist. You get to piss off twice as many people! Morrissey, SPLOOGE and Psycho Milt are not in my fan club.
        
        Edit: Hah! And just as I posted that, Psycho is on another thread accusing me of being a rightie!
        
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        November 28, 2017 9:09pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Hmmm. Up to you what you do but some are best left to their…..interests.
        
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        November 28, 2017 9:09pm
      - treadingthemill
        
        For a supposedly alpha male, Ead doesn’t seem to stick around and defend his claims, or argue his case much. Looks a little beta to me.
        
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        November 28, 2017 9:15pm
starboard

My Gawd..Liarbor’s megan woods needs to lay off the pies and custard squares.
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November 28, 2017 6:17pm
- RF
  
  You an’t seen nothing yet.
  
  Wait until after Xmas… pies, plum pudding etc.
  
  She will be like the Goodyear Blimp or Mr. Frosty in the New York City parade.
  
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  November 28, 2017 6:36pm
  - itstricky
    
    KEEPING STOCK!
    
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    November 28, 2017 8:00pm
- sam green
  
  She must be friends with Bennett. Perhaps they lunch together with Gerry.
  
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  November 28, 2017 8:39pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    ITSTRICKY!
    
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    November 28, 2017 8:42pm
  - sam green
    
    Actually Bennett’s fucking porker – you should see her in real life.
    
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    November 28, 2017 8:54pm
    - All_on_Red
      
      Megan Woods ain’t slim either
      
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      November 28, 2017 9:01pm
JasonJohns

The One New Zealand Foundation Inc. has spent over 30 years researching New Zealand’s history and we have found many parts have either been overlooked by previous researchers or today’s researchers are just too lazy to do their own research and follow the “sheeple before them like lambs to the slaughter”!

The One New Zealand Foundation Inc. researched the final draft of the Treaty in 1990 which was named the Littlewood Treaty and found it was Lt. Governor Hobson’s final draft written by James Busby that was translated into the Tiriti of Waitangi by the Rev Henry Williams and his son Edward. But Dr Claudia Orange stated, “It was just another translation of the Maori version by an unknown author”, and most believed her. It took others 14 years to realise it was the final draft that went missing soon after it was read to the gathering at Waitangi on the 5th February 1840. By then too late as the government had organised its $6.5 million Treaty 2U Exhibition to destroy the Final Draft in the public’s eye, the only true record of what the Treaty really said.

We have recently stated the Treaty was signed by tangata Maori and not tangata whenua, something many researchers are still trying to prove when in fact over 500 tangata Maori chiefs agreed they were tangata Maori when the signed the Treaty so why waste time on something over 500 tangata Maori chiefs freely admitted.

Our latest research shows Queen Victoria’s Royal Charter/Letters Patent dated the 16 November 1840 was our true Founding Document and first Constitution that the government and Te Papa completely ignores, but many of our researchers still insist the Treaty is our Founding Document including our Governor General. How can it be when all it did was place New Zealand under the control of New South Wales until Britain made New Zealand into a British Colony in its own right with a political, legal and justice system under one flag and one law, irrespective of race colour or creed.

Wake up you modern day researchers and authors, New Zealand research has advanced since the likes of Dr Claudia Orange, Lyndsay T Buick, Dr Peter Adams, Keith Sinclair, James Belich and many others that wrote of their research they completed 50 to 100 years ago. Things have changed and you need to catch up. History never changes but further research can change what researcher thought 50 to 100 years ago.
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November 28, 2017 6:19pm
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  November 28, 2017 8:55pm
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    Stupid boy
    
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    November 28, 2017 9:04pm
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      November 28, 2017 10:52pm
Viking2

So whats wrong with this news item?

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11948091&ref=NZH_fb

Mt Ruapehu emits high levels of poisonous gas
27 Nov, 2017 8:21am

High levels of carbon dioxide from Mt Ruapehu have prompted a warning from Government scientists.

Oh dear me. CO2 in now poisonous.
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November 28, 2017 7:09pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  https://www.climateconversation.org.nz/2017/11/hark-the-herald-on-poisonous-gases/
  
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  November 28, 2017 7:54pm
- realityczech
  
  All that CO2 is needed to feed Labours trees.
  
  But seriously here is the “science” LOL 🙂
  
  Climate Change May Increase Volcanic Eruptions
  
  https://www.livescience.com/25936-climate-change-causes-volcanism.html
  
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  November 28, 2017 9:50pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Christians are dangerous
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/nov/28/christians-deemed-dangerous-tim-farron-speech
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November 28, 2017 7:53pm
- nasska
  
  He must have been due to be outed for something.
  
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  November 28, 2017 8:07pm
nasska

“I am a single man (30) seeking a life-partner to share my soul with. I am sensitive, caring and have a deeply loving nature. If you wish to give me your heart, I will give you mine and know that, held within your gentle hands, it will be safe for ever. No fat chicks.”
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November 28, 2017 8:30pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Dearest single man (30)
  I can diet (I think), but before I give my heart to you 4 eva, could I just enquire about the size of your financial assets?
  xxxx
  
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  November 28, 2017 8:50pm
  - holysheet
    
    At that age, affairs of the heart rely more on the size of something else rather than financial assets. Its only when you get to be a rich prick that the 30 somethings put the size of ones finances before the other things.
    
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    November 28, 2017 9:27pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      I do hope that isn’t the advice you give to your daughters.
      
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      November 28, 2017 9:39pm
Jack5

Trump has another dig at Democrats’ Pocahontas:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-27/trump-jabs-at-pocahontas-warren-in-meeting-with-navajo-vets
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November 28, 2017 10:37pm
Jack5

As Maori language fights to survive, the resistance of Cantonese speakers in the south to China’s focus on Mandarin – Putonghua – is interesting.

Cantonese is a colourful language. Here’s an example. When a Mum wants to rebuke a child she might use the expression: “Better to have given birth to a piece of barbecued pork than you”.

A report from Hong Kong:

http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/2120659/biting-lemons-and-giving-birth-barbecue-pork-some-canto-expressions
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November 28, 2017 10:55pm
softail 1450

golriz has made the MSM this am ,tv3 has a poll which is running 90% that the woman has mislead us all.
this fricking woman who started her political life attacking the folk of NZ ,especially white people is now getting some fair kiwi justice…
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November 29, 2017 6:19am
Anne Glen Eden

I see Angela Lansbury, full points to her, has set off the usual furore – ” Women must accept some blame for sexual harassment and abuse because they “go out of their way to make themselves attractive” to men (note the ‘to men’ is not part of her quoted speech)… There are two sides to this coin. We have to own up to the fact that women, since time immemorial, have gone out of their way to make themselves attractive. And unfortunately it has backfired on us – and this is where we are today. We must sometimes take blame, women. I really do think that. Although it’s awful to say we can’t make ourselves look as attractive as possible without being knocked down and raped,” the 92-year-old told Radio Times.

It provoked the usual response – Rape Crisis England & Wales… said in a statement: “It is a deeply unhelpful myth that rape and other forms of sexual violence are caused or ‘provoked’ by women’s sexuality or ‘attractiveness’. Rape is an act of sexual violence, power and control that has little to nothing to do with sexual desire. It is as insulting to men as it is to anyone to suggest they’re unable to take responsibility for their own behaviours and that the way a woman presents herself can cause them to lose control or force them to sexually harass or assault her. There is no excuse or mitigation for sexual violence and there is no circumstance in which it’s even partially the victim’s or survivor’s fault. Until we accept and acknowledge that, it will be very difficult for us as a society to reduce or prevent rape, sexual assault, sexual harassment or sexual abuse.”

I agree with both. What needs to be accepted and acknowledged is that sexuality is all about power and control, always has been, and is throughout nature. Primarily, biologically, it’s about control of the gene pool. Socially, it’s always been about control of the ‘tribe’. Women (and men) make themselves ‘attractive’ to others to enhance their power – whether physically, socially, emotionally, politically, economically – or whatever the currency is. Just look at how Jacinda rose to power.

Modern human beings persist in romanticising it and constantly confuse it with ‘love’. There’s no dispute it’s better if it involves a caring, nurturing, mutual relationship and that the opposite in rape and assault is deeply damaging to all concerned – making the former the most successful option for social mutuality and cohesiveness and personal health and wellbeing – more particularly for ensuring those things for progeny both biologically and emotionally.

That doesn’t change the fact that it is all about power; that how people handle sexuality and relationship reflects deeply and inevitably how they handle power – over themselves and over others.

So what Lansbury might have said is that ‘women have to acknowledge that they are completely committed to playing their side of the ‘power game’, which experience has taught them is generally best advised through passive aggression, given that they will often come off second best on a physical level in conflict with men – ‘often’ because they have their own abusers, if much less often reported. They don’t get a free pass by portraying their comparative passivity as being without ‘power’ or being ‘powerless’.

Rape Crisis might have said ‘Until we accept and acknowledge that all sexuality is about power, the latter needing to be managed caringly, responsibly, and appropriately on both personal and social levels, it will be impossible for us as a society to reduce or prevent rape, sexual assault, sexual harassment or sexual abuse.’ – by either sex, irrespective of gender orientation.
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