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tas

Random question for the day: All Jews are entitled to live in Israel and gain citizenship. The Australian constitution forbids anyone “entitled to the rights or privileges of a subject or citizen of a foreign power” from being a member of parliament. Does that mean Jews cannot be Australian MPs? If so, that would be deeply concerning and a good reason for repeal.
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January 14, 2018 8:00am
- KH
  
  LOL. these folk will have to renounce Israel.
  
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  January 14, 2018 8:32am
- fernglas
  
  The children and grandchildren of people born in Ireland are Irish citizens by right. Does it apply to them, too? No Jews, no Irish. Sounds like an English pub sign from the 50’s.
  
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  January 14, 2018 8:34am
- stephieboy
  
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  tas , nope. All it means you have to be an Australian citizen whether a Jew or not . Likewise I assume apples to Israel as I believe it applies here in NZ .
  
  Pretty dumb first up question IMO
  
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  January 14, 2018 8:34am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    You may think it is a pretty dumb question, but Professor Kim Rubenstein, ANU College of Law, and the Australian Jewish News have considered this matter is of some importance.
    
    https://www.jewishnews.net.au/section-44-affect-jewish-mps/68414
    
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    January 14, 2018 8:39am
    - tas
      
      Maggy: Thanks for the link. I see that I am not the only person who thought of this!
      
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      January 14, 2018 8:44am
    - KH
      
      I think it a serious question and we need to be sure where peoples real loyalty lies. Especially MPs.
      Remember that member of the NZ jewish council who bolted to Israel when we arrested those Israeli spys. Clearly split loyalty and activity from him.
      MPs must be required to be loyal to New Zealand and nowhere else.
      
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      January 14, 2018 9:03am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        The religious vs political affiliations of people are always of interest and sometimes of concern.
        
        I am particularly interested in the political dimension of what is happening between Indian authorities and the Sikh diaspora.
        http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/01/indian-officials-banned-sikh-gurdwaras-180110101549090.html
        
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        January 14, 2018 9:27am
      - stephieboy
        
        MW, the conflict between Sikhs and the central government goes back to the Khalsitsan Insurgency when there was attempt to set up a breakaway Sikh state in the Punjab
        
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punjab_insurgency
        
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        January 14, 2018 9:35am
  - fernglas
    
    Stephieboy
    I thought Barnaby Joyce was an Australian citizen by birth as well as a New Zealand citizen by decree. So perhaps not such a dumb question after all.
    
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    January 14, 2018 8:41am
  - tas
    
    stepieboy. That is not what the Australian constitution says. If your understanding were correct, then there wouldn’t be a dual citizenship crisis. It forbids being a subject or citizen of a “foreign power” or being entitled to the rights thereof. Interestingly, it does not require MPs to be Australian citizens!
    
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    January 14, 2018 8:42am
  - VicParking
    
    You would know being an expert on being dumb.
    
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    January 14, 2018 9:25am
  - thedavincimode
    
    Pretty dumb first up question IMO
    
    pervieboy just doesn’t learn, This latest own goal, nothing more than rude and uncalled for attempt to assert some sort of intellectual high ground before the inevitable occurs, appears to be symptomatic of a progressive disintegration of pervieboy over the last two or three years. I can’t recall if this concides with Maggy’s appearance, but he has most certainly completely lost it in that direction – resorting not just to stalking her but frequent abuse for no apparent reason other than being routinely bested by her with rational argument. It may be my imagination, but the rate of his progressive unravelling appears to have further increased in the wake of his remarkable confession to being a shopping mall perv at pubescent girls – a borderline kiddy fiddler in fact.
    
    We all, no doubt, have our views about which contributors are idiots, and we each may suffer such impressions in the minds of others however, we all continue on in the knowledge this this is part of the sandpit in which we play. However, I must confess that to me, this place just seems a little unsavoury now that we have a borderline kiddy-fiddler prowling about, irrespective of the fact that he’s an ignorant idiot.
    
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    January 14, 2018 12:20pm
- Southern Raider
  
  Surely no different to a Catholic and potential conflicts with allegiance to the Pope and the Vatican?
  
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  January 14, 2018 10:22am
  - GazzaW
    
    …..and where will that leave Anglicans should NZ become a republic? HM is head of the Church of England.
    
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    January 14, 2018 11:07am
    - big bruv
      
      Don’t worry Gazza. NZ is not going to become a republic anytime soon.
      
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      January 14, 2018 12:13pm
- UpandComer
  
  It’s an interesting question.
  
  It’s quite an important one. Because the law as written in the case of dual Israeli citizenship is working as the constitution intends, protecting Australia from dual loyalties.
  
  Because this:
  
  https://www.nswjbd.org/Statement-on-Australian-Refugee-Policy/default.aspx
  
  Where they want to re-start the boats, and get Auburn to spread.
  
  Is propagated by this community:
  
  https://dbs.bh.org.il/place/sydney
  
  Which makes up 0.4% of the population in Australia.
  
  https://www.google.nl/search?biw=1920&bih=900&ei=p8laWtPhLIPCwQK9_pHADg&q=How+much+of+the+population+of+Australia+are+jewish&oq=How+much+of+the+population+of+Australia+are+jewish&gs_l=psy-ab.3…10394.16321.0.16622.50.21.0.7.7.0.450.3653.3-4j5.9.0….0…1c.1.64.psy-ab..35.14.2864…0j0i67k1j0i22i30k1j33i22i29i30k1.0.55ku_3bsDuE
  
  Who also push this:
  
  https://www.jewishnews.net.au/community-unites-for-18c/56000
  
  The completely illegitimate destruction of free speech in Australia. Those laws are a complete disgrace, and a rort, and are against the interests of Australia.
  
  It all doesn’t reconcile, does it.
  
  So if the law does mean that, and well, it does, that would be a good thing, and a reason to keep in place, not repeal it.
  
  Because Australia shouldn’t have to do things that 0.4% of the population want. It should do things that the Australian people as a whole want. And the Australian people as a whole:
  
  Don’t want the boats to re-start – because they know none of the occupants will ever make their way up to Mosman, or Neutral Bay, or Vaucluse; and
  
  Don’t want speech laws that are used to quell dissent to what 0.4% of the country want to impose on the other 99.6%.
  
  So tell you lawyer friend that the laws won’t be repealed.
  
  If they want refugees, they can use their very considerable money, put together trust funds, and create private refugee outreach initiatives and house them, clothe them, and feed them, in their own communities.
  
  The Australian tax-payer and communities are not a salve and a foil for 0.4% of the Australian populations ideas about the world and self-concepts.
  
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  January 14, 2018 4:16pm
- realityczech
  
  “If so, that would be deeply concerning ”
  
  Really why ?
  
  The Jew is a tribal cult who only has loyalty to Jews. They regard non Jews with utter contempt. That is why they always end up overstaying their welcome.
  
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  January 14, 2018 11:34pm
William of Ockham

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The sun is beating down. A man is sitting on a beach staring out to sea, chanting to himself, “GOD NO! NO! NO! …” The lifeguards are starting to get worried when a passing psychiatrist offers to examine the man.

“Oh, he’s all right,” reported the doctor in due course, “He’s a climate science denier who’s just realised he’s been conned by Trump and the fossil fuel billionaires…”

Stephen Hawking: ” “Next time you meet a climate-change denier, tell them to take a trip to Venus; I will pay the fare.”
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January 14, 2018 8:01am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  That’s the thread screwed, so early in the day
  
  Sigh . . . .
  
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  January 14, 2018 8:02am
  - William of Ockham
    
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    In a moment of rare empathy, Trump decides to address vets in a military hospital. One old soldier keeps calling out, “Rubbish! Nonsense! Lies.”
    
    Afterwards Trump says to the superintendent, “I suppose you realise by now you’re wasting your time with this man?”
    
    “On the contrary,” replied the doctor quietly, ” This officer has been here since Viet Nam and it’s the first sign of improvement we have seen… ”
    
    China has spent US$83 billion planting forests over the past five years.
    https://www.ecowatch.com/china-reforestation-project-2524893906.html
    
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    January 14, 2018 8:04am
    - Digmen1
      
      Id like to see a report on some of these forestry projects in the desert.
      Do they actually start to bring rain back? I’d liek to think so.
      
      I ‘d like the whole of Africa do it in the Sahara, gradually work upwards from the jungle and downwards from the Mediterranean.
      
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      January 14, 2018 8:37am
      - G152
        
        I rather suspect a very large irrigation project began before any of these trees were planted and the day the irrigation fails is the end of the project
        
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        January 14, 2018 8:55am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        China is having great success with afforesting desert regions where plants can access ground water.
        https://www.shine.cn/archive/feature/In-Kubuqi-turning-vast-desert-into-a-forest/shdaily.shtml
        
        The southern Sahara has been greening for decades.
        http://www.thegwpf.org/images/stories/gwpf-reports/mueller-sahel.pdf
        However, overpopulation, war, corrupt governments
        etc, ensures that the region’s inhabitants do not enjoy the benefits of their potentially productive land.
        http://www.un.org/africarenewal/magazine/december-2013/sahel-one-region-many-crises
        
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        January 14, 2018 9:51am
      - Southern Raider
        
        The issue goes back to why there is deforestation in the first place.
        
        I suspect the local villages would chop down and burn the trees for building and heating materials quicker than you could grow the new ones.
        
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        January 14, 2018 10:24am
      - Chuck Bird
        
        I wonder if something like it could be done in the Australian deserts.
        
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        January 14, 2018 11:54am
- softail 1450
  
  WTF,,,,WOO.?
  
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  January 14, 2018 9:41am
  - sooty
    
    THE TWIT DE WOO.
    Sorry it doesnt look right in lower case.
    
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    January 14, 2018 11:45am
- Notsofast
  
  Look at this great hoax article
  
  Global warming will expose millions more to floods
  
  https://phys.org/news/2018-01-global-expose-millions.html
  
  Oh wait, these are scientists, but they are despised on kiwiblog. I wonder if scientists have anything to do with eliminating commercial air crashes to make your holidays more pleasant.
  
  You really are a knuckle dragging lot of neanderthals.
  
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  January 14, 2018 12:03pm
  - Ross12
    
    Yesterday in response to WoO I mentioned that Germany was facing reality and was abandoning it’s Paris agreed emission reduction targets. He reckoned I was wrong and reading the wrong sites. Well it was via Reuters who were reporting on the coalition talks still ongoing in Germany.
    In response WoO said renewables were so successful people were being paid to use more electricity !! ( BS. I’m sure the Germans know about reducing prices).
    But this is the reality , what’s actually happening in Germany . When you are desperate for coal they will do anything.
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5262641/German-cathedral-torn-make-way-coal-mining.html?ito=social-twitter_mailonline
    
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    January 14, 2018 12:36pm
    - Notsofast
      
      Nothing exhibits confirmation bias like GW.
      A quick google of the search
      
      sealevel and co2 historical correlation
      
      got this article at random
      
      https://scripps.ucsd.edu/programs/keelingcurve/2014/06/20/how-do-co2-levels-relate-to-ice-ages-and-sea-level/
      
      “By contrast, as humans burn fossil fuels, we are creating a new driver of snow and ice melt and accompanying sea-level rise. This time, additional CO2 entering the atmosphere is coming from sources of carbon that had previously been sequestered in fuels such as oil and gas. We know from basic physics that CO2 traps heat. The phenomenon is perhaps best demonstrated by Earth’s neighbor Venus. If we lived on Venus, the computer you’re reading this post on now would be melting. That’s because Venus has 100,000 times the amount of CO2 in its atmosphere as Earth does and its average temperature of 462° C (863° F) is high enough to melt lead.
      
      Thus, while in the past sea-level rise as a result of melting glaciers and thermal expansion was driven by changes in Earth’s orbit and amplified by oceanic CO2 released after initial warming, today anthropogenic CO2 is directly driving this melting and sea-level rise.”
      
      What level of proof is needed? I know from all internet discussions that there is a tragic adherence to a position previously held in the face of all evidence. This has a few causes, but the paradigm seems concrete.
      I am not a climate scientist, and have no need to be to weigh the opposing arguments. I happen to think NZ is the best place in the world to benefit from global warming, but the science is bleakly stright forward, despite prize jerks like Leighton Smith playing guru in the mountain cave.
      
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      January 14, 2018 1:02pm
      - Happychappy
        
        A tad like you trying to convince NZ that a double murderer is innocent when he has been convicted twice for the murders of his wife and daughter.
        
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        January 14, 2018 2:36pm
  - howitis
    
    ….You really are a knuckle dragging lot of neanderthals…..
    
    So it is clear now!
    None-too-quick likes to hang out with a ‘knuckle dragging lot of neanderthals’.
    
    Welcome, insulting geezer who likes to mix with neanderthals and expound your minority opinion.
    I guess to be here today you did not go to a Black Power party last night and call them neanderthals.
    
    You are judged by the company you keep.
    
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    January 14, 2018 1:40pm
    - Notsofast
      
      This is dubbed a general debate, which tradition suggests is where people bring their basket of evidence and discuss it to reach some sort of concensus. I don’t see much of that happening here.
      What am I missing?
      
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      January 14, 2018 1:45pm
      - starboard
        
        Good afternoon Mr Lundy..?
        
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        January 14, 2018 1:58pm
      - Johnboy
        
        A fan club for utterly boring bastards? 🙂
        
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        January 14, 2018 6:13pm
      - Notsofast
        
        Mr Lundy will be on the board in a month or so to explain how it feels to have your family massacred by knuckle dragging neanderthals, and then to have more knuckle dragging neanderthals being idiots enough to suggest you did it.
        
        Or maybe he won’t. But he will have the same rights as all you knuckle dragging neanderthals.
        
        He is far from one himself.
        
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        January 14, 2018 6:14pm
      - Johnboy
        
        Lundy can’t be too bright Notso. His crappy, pretend marble kitchen sinks were utter shit. He had to supply three for the cost of one before we got a good one at my place. Must have lost him a bloody lot of dollars. Maybe that’s why he needed the life insurance money? 🙂
        
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        January 14, 2018 6:20pm
      - Notsofast
        
        That is a civil matter.
        The criminal actions by New Zealand police that resulted in his arrest will be laid bare in the coming months.
        
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        January 14, 2018 6:49pm
    - namron
      
      If some of you blokes had your DNA done, you would, no doubt, be surprised to discover that you are roughly 2.7 Neanderthal too.
      You can’t escape it. That is where we all came from, so your frequent references to “Neanderthals” includes you too – howitis !
      namron
      
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      January 14, 2018 3:51pm
      - Johnboy
        
        I just find it so hard to accept that Winston’s descended from a slit-eyed Asian race and I’m descended from a race of African Pygmy folk! 🙂
        
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        January 14, 2018 6:23pm
  - calendar girl
    
    NSF, I object to your describing those who disagree with you (they include me) as “a knuckle dragging lot of neanderthals.”
    
    You’re well outside DPF’s principles for comments on his blog site (despite DPF himself being generally in line with your total acceptance of ‘global warming’). So I’ve reported your comment.
    
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    January 14, 2018 5:37pm
    - Notsofast
      
      You can object all you like. I see with dismay the treatment of serious analysts on the board.
      This is how knuckle dragging neanderthals debate. They don’t. I posted an argument, a link to science and you report me for making a kindly remark which should alert you to your profound ignorance on the matter.
      
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      January 14, 2018 6:10pm
stigie

An interesting article from Heather du you please me Allan..?

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=11972421
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January 14, 2018 8:02am
- redeye
  
  I thought this was an interesting take by HDPA.
  “his bullying of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un”
  
  He should use kid gloves when dealing with a psychotic megalomaniac who’s threatening a nuclear attack?
  
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  January 14, 2018 8:31am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    HDPA again revealing the depths of her stupid
    
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    January 14, 2018 8:44am
    - Paulus Gnome
      
      I thought that science was settled
      
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      January 14, 2018 8:49am
  - Manolo
    
    The hack is useless, isn’t she?
    
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    January 14, 2018 6:17pm
- cmm
  
  Trump is calling this right: It is a dick-swinging contest.
  
  The Kims pull their dicks out, everyone appeases them and the Kims feel the power rush. That feels good, so they make their dicks a bit bigger and flash them again…
  
  Then along comes Trump and tells them to zip up unless they want to see the size of his dick.
  
  Appeasement is never going to work with the Kims.
  
  The Kims don’t care about the Norks. They care about themselves. That’s why they spend up on nukes while the people starve.
  
  Sanctions don’t work either. They didn’t work in South Africa. They don’t work against Israel and they don’t work against the Kims. All sanctions do is make things worse for the poorer people: the black people in South Africa or the Nork population. The Kims’ lifestyle is completely unaffected.
  
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  January 14, 2018 9:26am
  - dime
    
    lol @ koreans getting into a dick measuring contest
    
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    January 14, 2018 10:23am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Not that I can vouch for the statistics herein, but:
      http://brobible.com/life/article/average-penis-size-study/
      
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      January 14, 2018 11:23am
    - starboard
      
      Reminds me of a saying thai bar girls have about japanese ‘customers’…
      4-4-4
      
      4 inches
      4 minutes
      4000 baht ( about 160nz)
      
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      January 14, 2018 2:03pm
- Dave Mann
  
  Thanks for the interesting link stigie.
  
  I have never liked Trump, but I’m beginning to see that he is actually achieving some worthwhile things – and this article by HDPA paints the other side of the picture pretty well.
  
  Many of the things that Trump stands for are valid and well overdue….. its just a pity that the man is such a vile human being. But hey, them’s the breaks I guess. 😀
  
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  January 14, 2018 10:06am
  - Ross12
    
    “. its just a pity that the man is such a vile human being. But hey, them’s the breaks I guess. ?”
    
    The picture painted by the biased US MSM makes him out to be this. Not the reality in, my view.
    
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    January 14, 2018 10:11am
  - dime
    
    a vile human being?
    
    really? there are some amazing stories out there about trump. the things he has done for people over the years.
    
    ya dont have to like him, but vile should be spared for people who actually are
    
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    January 14, 2018 10:24am
  - MickMac
    
    Make America Great Again
    
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    January 14, 2018 6:03pm
flipper

The inbound missile alert in Hawaii this morning lasted 30 minutes before it was withdrawn as “a mistake a false alarm”.
If it had been the real thing Hawaiians would have hade just 20 minute4s to get into their few shelters.
Once bitten ….
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January 14, 2018 8:09am
- stephieboy
  
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  flipper , hope your trigger happy President does not believe in using the Red Button when the alert was actually a mistake ?
  
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  January 14, 2018 8:44am
  - Inandout
    
    St Obama killed more people in his tenure than Trump can ever dream of. That ‘red button’ is there for all to use.
    
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    January 14, 2018 8:54am
    - stephieboy
      
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      Inandout , Trump has had only a year in office. Obama 8 years .
      
      Stupid comparison
      
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      January 14, 2018 9:22am
      - calendar girl
        
        Exactly, stephieboy. Trump has achieved a great deal more in one year than the ineffective and indecisive Obama achieved during his 8 years.
        
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        January 14, 2018 9:30am
      - stephieboy
        
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        calendar girl , like what ? The Mexican border wall ? And don’;t give me that clap trap that he single handled beat ISIS !
        
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        January 14, 2018 9:38am
      - Liberty
        
        It has taken great skills to antagonise, and to piss of so many people in just 12 months.
        
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        January 14, 2018 9:48am
  - flipper
    
    Lordy, Stupidboy (and his clones) are assholes …or to use the current DEM terminology …
    “S***hole”.
    
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    January 14, 2018 8:56am
    - Harkman
      
      Well I thought Stephanopoulos was collecting thumbs downs, but I now think it’s all about collecting pinks. Labour pays him/her/it/them on the number of pinks per day.
      
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      January 14, 2018 9:34am
JibberJabber

Jacinda seems to be a little thick, scoring the gig as PM of NZ she doesn`t understand that she doesn`t get to dictate policy to the Aussies.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/100551094/criminal-who-has-never-set-foot-in-new-zealand-to-be-deported-here-from-australia
Maybe concentrate on Making NZ great again?
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January 14, 2018 8:17am
- Jack5
  
  The report you link to includes this:
  
  Alex Viane, 40, was born in American Samoa and became a New Zealand citizen as a child, but never entered the country.
  
  How does someone become a citizen of NZ without ever coming here? Is this because a parent is an NZ citizen?
  
  Regardless, this may just be the beginning. Jacinderella will have more to worry about if Australia decides to shut the NZ back door to Australia for Third Worlders.
  
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  January 14, 2018 8:21am
  - igm
    
    It highly probable we will face tough entry conditions to Aus owing to antics of Crockery, crim hugger Davis, Miner Little, and NZ media. Even Labour in Aus don’t want the scum we welcome here and give citizenship with gay abandon.
    
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    January 14, 2018 8:35am
  - SGA
    
    How does someone become a citizen of NZ without ever coming here? Is this because a parent is an NZ citizen?
    
    Probably, at least one parent. If a US couple living in NZ have a child, then they can apply for its US passport and Social Security # without ever setting foot in the USA (but they would have to visit the US consulate in Auckland, I think). And if one is ex-pat US and the other an ex-pat Australian, say, they could get the child passports for both without ever leaving NZ. Such arrangements aren’t that unusual.
    
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    January 14, 2018 9:18am
  - cmm
    
    ” Is this because a parent is an NZ citizen?”
    Yes.
    
    But perhaps he’s also an American Samoan citizen and we don’t have to take him.
    
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    January 14, 2018 9:28am
    - Southern Raider
      
      Agree. So why doesn’t he get sent back there or to the USA
      
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      January 14, 2018 10:27am
      - SGA
        
        For better or worse, I don’t think you can easily deny someone entry into a country of which they are a citizen – just the way it usually works.
        
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        January 14, 2018 10:33am
  - doggone7
    
    Don’t know how someone can become a citizen of NZ without ever coming here but s ‘five minute Thiel visit’ does the trick.
    
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    January 14, 2018 10:15am
    - Jack5
      
      Giving citizenship to Thiel, a leading, successful technology entrepreneur was smart.
      
      A billion times smarter than bringing in Muslim refugees, carefully screened by the UN selectors to keep out Christian refugees in the Middle East and now Burma-Myanmar.
      
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      January 14, 2018 10:26am
  - srylands
    
    “How does someone become a citizen of NZ without ever coming here?”
    
    Easy. If both parents are New Zealand citizens but reside overseas, you register your child as a New Zealand citizen when they are born. eg if you are a kiwi and posted to Dubai for work, and you are pregnant, your child does not miss out on being a New Zealander just because you gave birth in Dubai.
    
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    January 14, 2018 10:52am
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      I understand that there are three ways to become a New Zealander:
      a. By birth
      b. By descent (non-inheritable)
      c. By grant (decree)
      
      If you were born overseas and at least 1 of your parents is a New Zealand citizen by birth or grant, you can register as an NZ citizen by descent and get an NZ passport.
      If you were born overseas and at least 1 of your parents is a New Zealand citizen by birth or grant, you are an NZ citizen by descent.
      
      This means that if two New Zealanders by descent have a child in a country outside NZ that does not automatically give citizenship to those born within its borders (such as Japan or Germany) the child would legally be stateless. The child can not gain a NZ passport because citizenship by descent is a 2nd-class of citizenship in that it cannot be passed on to one’s children.
      
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      January 14, 2018 8:13pm
- srylands
  
  It is naive to expect Australia to only deport “some” bad egg New Zealanders based on whether they have “ties” to New Zealand.
  
  The thing about citizenship is that it is “indivisible”. New Zealand (and no OECD countries) have ‘second class’ citizenship. That means that if you ARE a citizen we always have to take you in. No matter what you have done. If you are NOT a citizen we don’t and we can send you home to the country stamped on your passport.
  
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  January 14, 2018 11:00am
- backster
  
  Jibber..I note that Winston’s Minister Martin thinks they need more support over here despitePeople on Returning Offender Orders can receive accommodation costs for up to 12 weeks, help finding long term accommodation, jobs, and may be referred to alcohol, drug and anti-violence programmes.
  
  There have been around 560 people on Returned Offenders Orders *
  
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  January 14, 2018 12:52pm
The Virgin

Another arsehole being sent our way.

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/100551094/criminal-who-has-never-set-foot-in-new-zealand-to-be-deported-here-from-australia

NZ immigration should refuse entry and the prick can live in the Australian Airport Transit Lounge for perpetuity.
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January 14, 2018 8:18am
- Digmen1
  
  Yes, I read about a family of 4, from Zimbabwe living in Bangkok airport, as Thailand did not want them, and they were trying to find other places to take them. They were very arrogant!
  
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  January 14, 2018 8:32am
  - Jack5
    
    It’s a family of eight: four adults and four children.
    
    This is from the Independent:
    
    A now deleted Facebook post by airport employee Kanaruj Artt Pornsopit said that he had spoken to the family, who told him they were there “because of the unsettled situation in their country.”
    
    According to the UN, 258 million people are now living in a country other than their own, and between 2000 and 2015, migration contributed 42% of the population growth in Northern America and 31% in Oceania.
    
    The Trump administration has pulled out of the United Nations’ plans to create a global strategy on migration, saying involvement interferes with American sovereignty, and runs counter to US immigration policies.
    
    Let’s watch what former international socialist leader Jacinderella will do on this UN move, backed by Helen Clark and by apparatchiks who were with Clark at the UN.
    
    My guess is that Jacinderella will want to fully multiculturise New Zealand.
    
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    January 14, 2018 10:41am
    - calendar girl
      
      The last thing that we need the UN involved with is migration. If NZ (or any other ‘attractive’ country) loses its absolute right to decide who enters the country – or who is denied entry – that’s the end of the relevant country’s ability to determine the make-up of its own population.
      
      What other UN involvements in our domestic laws and policies? The UN to determine NZ’s taxation policy? Or the standard language to be used in its legislature and Courts? (Personally, I wouldn’t trust the UN with determining the days on which race meetings could be held!)
      
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      January 14, 2018 6:20pm
- srylands
  
  Under no circumstances can he be refused entry if he is a New Zealand citizen.
  
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  January 14, 2018 11:02am
- Left Right and Centre
  
  va-vwooooouche . . .
  Aussies flushing another turd down the dunny.
  Geez that must be deeply satisfying – oh yeah.
  
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  January 15, 2018 7:49am
flipper

SO what is the phantom down-ticker saying ????
A nuc missile attack on USA would be good for NZ ?
Dumbass !
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January 14, 2018 8:20am
KH

Time for New Zealand to tighten our own rules. We should be able to cancel the citizenship and kick the Aussie rejects back to the original s**thole they came from.
Will Jacinda do it. Don’t think so.
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January 14, 2018 8:38am
- cmm
  
  If someone has lived their whole life in Oz then it is surely Oz’s “fault” they turned out bad – not ours.
  
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  January 14, 2018 9:33am
- alloytoo
  
  Deport her own voting base?
  
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  January 14, 2018 10:56am
KH

Trouble is that may be a South Auckland slum.
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January 14, 2018 8:39am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  There is nothing wrong with South Auckland although I concur that there are parts of it that are a slum and there a a lot of scummy people making that place into a slum.
  
  The point is, the inhabitants chose to make it into a slum, all those houses were bright and new x years ago and the inhabitants have turned them into shit-holes through neglect and lack of personal responsibility.
  
  I live in a house parts of which are 60 years old and it is anything but a slum, it is all about ones attitude to life and respect for property
  
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  January 14, 2018 8:56am
  - waikatogirl
    
    So you don’t have a rusting heap of old car up on blocks on your front lawn PG. ?
    
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    January 14, 2018 9:02am
  - MCos
    
    From what I’ve seen of South Auckland there are are no areas that could be described as slums.
    Bangkok has slums all over the place. Some are downright pitiful and might spring up temporarily in a piece of vacant land that will one day be a new shopping mall or whatever. Others such as Khlong Toei are permanent communities that may look like shitholes to us, but to the residents are home where nobody is neglected.
    
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    January 14, 2018 10:06am
  - Left Right and Centre
    
    The ‘nothing wrong with’ law.
    
    There is always something wrong with anything described as ‘there’s nothing with’.
    
    Also read: ‘explaining is losing’ law.
    
    MCos – always add left-wing first world qualifying word ‘ relative’. Relative slum. Full of too many relatives.
    Taking turns to use a bed in shifts – one bed can sleep three people over 24 hours. Yukky.
    
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    January 15, 2018 7:52am
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Why we should all be concerned about President Trump’s mental stability .And you don’t need to be a Psychiatrist to understand that ,

More here ,

‘Like, Really Smart’

I resist applying clinical diagnoses to people, and that includes Donald Trump. I’m not a doctor, and a proper diagnosis would require a personal evaluation.

But I would be basking in false virtue if I simply pretended that I’m not aware that some of the behaviors displayed by this man line up with the symptoms of certain personality disorders.

So I must couch my concerns this way: There is no way for me to know for sure, but all indications lead me to believe that Donald Trump struggles to fit into the frame of what we call normal behavior, and he often fails at it in spectacular ways.

And it is not only you and I worried about the president’s mental stability. According to Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury,” the book that has so gotten under the president’s skin and into his mind, those closest to him also worry about his mental health. .

Trump was so bothered by the book that he took to Twitter over the weekend to defend himself against the damaging portrait it contains: that of a mentally unstable simpleton…”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/07/opinion/trump-stable-genius-smart.html?rref=collection%2Fcolumn%2Fcharles-m-blow&action=click&contentCollection=opinion&region=strea
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January 14, 2018 8:46am
- Inandout
  
  NY Times again stephie?
  
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  January 14, 2018 8:56am
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    Much, much better than Pizzagate and Dortmund fake news , Breitbart
    
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    January 14, 2018 9:00am
    - Simon
      
      Nyt??? Ha ha ha you are being played
      
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      January 14, 2018 9:18am
      - stephieboy
        
        Simon , in what way ?
        
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        January 14, 2018 9:24am
      - Harkman
        
        Watch out Simon ‘it’ will call you “Alt Right” to hurt your feelings.
        
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        January 14, 2018 10:01am
  - DifferentPerspective
    
    when one has to quote utterly discredited fake news institutions to support one’s hallucinations that’s when you know the Don is living inside your head SB
    
    And those bloody bastards at Breitbart – they don’t report anything that supports your hallucinations – so of course they must be telling porky pies.
    
    As Ronnie said “It’s not that socialists are liars, it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so”
    
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    January 14, 2018 9:25am
    - stephieboy
      
      DP , but they report yours like Pizzagate , Dortmund etc and e.g any tinpot climate denial conspiracy theory going
      ,
      
      http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/03/28/climate-change-the-biggest-conspiracy-against-the-taxpayer-in-history/
      
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      January 14, 2018 9:41am
- cmm
  
  a stephbot commenting on anyone’s mental stability, let alone the most effective political operator the USA has seen in decades….
  
  Oh irony!
  
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  January 14, 2018 9:35am
  - stephieboy
    
    cmm , said like a fervent Trump true believer !
    
    https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2015/09/12/gettyimages-484797712_custom-695b9781e4a550ac0cdd3eba481660feefd333a8-s900-c85.jpg
    
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    January 14, 2018 9:45am
    - Inandout
      
      stephie, a good picture of enthusiasm for Trump, but for sheer obedience of Muslims for Obama look at this:
      
      https://timedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/obama-mosque.jpg?quality=85
      
      The secret service man looks very wary, and the wrapped girls very subservient.
      
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      January 14, 2018 10:28am
- Harkman
  
  Did Cindy ‘grant’ you permission to socialist on Sunday?
  
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  January 14, 2018 10:06am
flipper

” ….. Earlier Saturday, Hawaiian citizens reported receiving an emergency alert on their phone that stated: “BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.”
House Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, tweeted in regard to the alert: “HAWAII – THIS IS A FALSE ALARM. THERE IS NO INCOMING MISSILE TO HAWAII. I HAVE CONFIRMED WITH OFFICIALS THERE IS NO INCOMING MISSILE.” …… “
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January 14, 2018 8:49am
- stephieboy
  
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  flipper , quit the cap locks and relax . There are protections against a mad President with checks and balances of a complex chain of command before he can get his hands on the Red Button. ( nuclear codes )
  
  The writer was thinking of quite different situations where the President appears to have a poor grasp with reality .
  
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  January 14, 2018 8:57am
  - flipper
    
    Tell the Hawaiian State Emergency Office asshole. That is how they sent it.
    I suspect they were trying to yell….. but nothing sensible penetrates your dumbskull !
    
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    January 14, 2018 9:52am
- cmm
  
  The Hawaiians… same bureaucracy that bungled Obama’s birth certificate…
  
  See stephie, two can play the wind-up game!
  
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  January 14, 2018 9:39am
  - stephieboy
    
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    cmm , the “ forged Birth certificate is myth.
    
    Talk about a poor grasp on reality !
    
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    January 14, 2018 9:48am
redeye

Catherine Zeta-Jones making her stand against men treating women in Hollywood as sex objects at the Golden Globes.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5247741/Catherine-Zeta-Jones-takes-handsome-brother-Globes.html
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January 14, 2018 8:50am
- redeye
  
  [Sarcasm]
  
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  January 14, 2018 8:58am
- stephieboy
  
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  redeye , so it has to be a good thing that like the current President to treat women like sex objects ?
  
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  January 14, 2018 9:03am
  - redeye
    
    it’s about what she was wearing to protest being sexualised. It’s essentially lingerie.
    
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    January 14, 2018 9:08am
    - matchbox
      
      The entire ceremony can be summed up as being:
      
      “Hundreds of highly self-sexualised women all clamouring to out-sexualise each other; but all complaining about a handful of males who have sexualised women.”
      
      What a stupid world lefties have created for themselves.
      
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      January 14, 2018 11:47am
  - redeye
    
    Stephie was it a good thing when Clinton did it?
    
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    January 14, 2018 9:10am
    - stephieboy
      
      redeye , No !
      
      http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/president-clinton-impeached
      
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      January 14, 2018 9:25am
  - cmm
    
    Making this about Trump is a complete squirrel.
    
    Weinstein has always been in bed with the Democrats.
    
    * Both the Clintons and the Obamas absolutely loved him
    * Obama even sent his daughter to hang out with him – how gross is that!
    * He donated $1.4M to Clinton’s campaign.
    
    http://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/171009105637-harvey-weinstein-hillary-clinton-2012-large-169.jpg
    
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    January 14, 2018 9:52am
    - stephieboy
      
      cmm , rather like Donald Trump with pedoi Jeffrey Epstein,
      
      https://i.redd.it/qgv19nbo994z.jpg
      
      LOL
      
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      January 14, 2018 10:09am
      - cmm
        
        You often say LOL when you have proved a strong point.
        
        Is LOL the Arabic equivalent for QED?
        
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        January 14, 2018 10:28am
      - Ed Snack
        
        Stephieboy, you’rather behind the times. Look up the Testimony from the head of Fusion GPS – they tried to tie Trump to Epstein for the election campaign but had to back off because Trump’s rather peripheral association with Epstein was on a much lower scale than Bill Clinton’s – over 20 trips on the “Lolita Express” for Bill. The Fusion GPS guy said that they didn’t dare take it into a full accusation of Trump because it would probably rebound very badly on the Clinton’s, so they didn’t do any more.
        
        I’d advise you the same, think before you try such a pathetic smear.
        
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        January 14, 2018 11:09am
      - cmm
        
        So something about Weinstein has now been double stephied into something about Trump and Epstein.
        
        Double squirrel!!
        
        Epstein has had more, and much more recent, association with the Clintons, so you’re not really helping the cause.
        
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        January 14, 2018 2:44pm
- waikatogirl
  
  So Catherine took her brother instead of Michael Douglas to the Golden Globes where Kirk Douglas her 101-year-old father-in-law was being honoured. Why did Michael not attend such a prestigious event honouring his own father?
  
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  January 14, 2018 9:06am
- Inandout
  
  If he is a chip off the old block then she is stuck with Michael for another 30 years it seems, when she will be 79. He has vehemently denied past sexual misconducts as a pre-emptive measure, but can she say the same?
  
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  January 14, 2018 9:08am
Steve (North Shore)

Trump should have sent a few MOABs to downtown Pyongyang, then tweeted ‘ Opps, sorry, false alarm’
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January 14, 2018 8:58am
- stephieboy
  
  Intelligent response that would invite a real Nuclear alarm and devastation in the region and US West Coast .
  
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  January 14, 2018 9:06am
  - Inandout
    
    Playing with your ‘red button’ again stephie?
    
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    January 14, 2018 9:09am
  - Digmen1
    
    I hardly think NK can devastate the US west coast (yet)
    
    The real problem is all of NK’s artillery just north of the border.
    
    If I was Trump and Japan and SK, I would keep enforcing the sanctions. And tell Kim Jung Un that each time he launches a missile, they sanctions will be increased.
    
    Then tell him that they will gaurantee the NK state and remove the sanctions, if and only if, he gives up all nuclear testing, weapons AND moves all of his artillery 100k further north.
    
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    January 14, 2018 9:13am
    - stephieboy
      
      NK could potentially devastate South Korea and Japan with a nuclear attack .
      
      That is the real concern. If not the West coast of the US then Canada .
      
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      January 14, 2018 9:18am
      - flipper
        
        Time for you to grow up “boy”.
        Children like you are a “Clear and Present Danger” to NZ !!!!
        
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        January 14, 2018 9:47am
  - Ed Snack
    
    NK doesn’t yet have the confirmed capacity to reach the US mainland, and their targeting is suspect so both Hawaii and Guam might be tricky targets. Japan might be easier.
    
    Their real threat is a short term one to Seoul and the surrounds, with conventional artillery. Short term because if they unleashed it much of their artillery would not last very long, but they do pose a earl threat to parts of South Korea. Rest of the world, not much….yet.
    
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    January 14, 2018 11:13am
cmm

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/100558417/australian-man-dies-after-snake-bites-him-as-he-tries-to-protect-pet

Don’t screw around with snakes unless you know what you are doing.

He’s probably watched far too many of those shows where some joker picks up a snake by its tail. That doesn’t work in the real world.
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January 14, 2018 9:15am
- stephieboy
  
  No 2 of the most venomous snakes in the world according to this list,
  
  http://listverse.com/2011/03/30/top-10-most-venomous-snakes/
  
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  January 14, 2018 9:20am
  - cmm
    
    It doesn’t matter if it is number 1 or number 20. Don’t screw around with snakes unless you know what you’re doing.
    
    And, btw, the strength of the venom is only a small factor in how dangerous a snake is.
    
    btw2: listverse is a really shit reference source.
    
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    January 14, 2018 10:06am
  - GazzaW
    
    Do you feel the need to comment on everything stephie? Hint – we all know how to google.
    
    You’re obviously struggling to keep up with the troll quota with ztev apparently gone AWOL this morning.
    
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    January 14, 2018 11:29am
  - G152
    
    No Stephistan …
    
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    January 14, 2018 12:35pm
Simon

There is high risk to your security in the Port-au-Prince districts of Carrefour, Cite Soleil, Martissant and Bel Air due to high levels of violent crime. We advise against all tourist and other non-essential travel.

Violent Crime
The security situation in Haiti is unpredictable and crime levels are high throughout the country. Murder, armed robbery and carjacking is prevalent and there is an increased risk at night and in isolated areas. Local law enforcement’s response to crime is often limited.

https://safetravel.govt.nz/haiti

What a shithole.

Or wearing my leftard pussy hat Terrible racism from a NZ government department
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January 14, 2018 9:23am
- stephieboy
  
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  Simon , What a shithole ?,
  
  Like this one ?
  
  https://safetravel.govt.nz/israel-and-occupied-palestinian-territories
  
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  January 14, 2018 9:30am
  - Simon
    
    Ha ha ha there will never be a Palestinian State. You can put a ring around that one.
    
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    January 14, 2018 9:34am
    - stephieboy
      
      Simon , safe travel lists Israel as potentially dangerous for obvious reasons !
      
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      January 14, 2018 10:11am
      - cmm
        
        What are the “obvious reasons”?
        
        You’re more than 10 times more likely to get killed in a traffic accident in Israel than by terrorist attack.
        
        And your chance of getting killed in a road accident in Israel is only about half the chance of New Zealand.
        
        So freaking about about terrorist dangers in Israel is not logical.
        
        BTW: Arab Israelis are woefully badly represented in traffic statistics.
        
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        January 14, 2018 10:39am
      - srylands
        
        Everywhere is potentially dangerous. I had a wonderful time in Israel and experienced no problems.
        
        Then I arrived home to find my car’s windows smashed and all the audio, GPS and radar detector kit gone.
        
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        January 14, 2018 11:09am
  - Harkman
    
    Yes because calling a place a “shit show” is alright according to snowflakes.
    
    https://www.theatlantic.com/press-releases/archive/2016/03/the-obama-doctrine-the-atlantics-exclusive-report-on-presidents-hardest-foreign-policy-decisions/473151/
    
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    January 14, 2018 9:43am
  - softail 1450
    
    streppieboy ,KB’s very own uber masochist, his greatest bucket list accomplishment will be to get over the 1000 down ticks in a single day.
    good for you strepp ,but without google I doubt you could make 1 post that would make any sense .
    give it a break you cretinous goat.
    
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    January 14, 2018 10:01am
    - stephieboy
      
      softail 1450 , 1000 downticks does not mean that they’re right for quite obvious reasons . And remember it is confined to KB . Not the real world out there as e.g last years poll strongly emphasises .
      
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      January 14, 2018 10:14am
      - cmm
        
        Are you saying you get lots of up-ticks in the real world?
        
        Where’s that? Standard?
        
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        January 14, 2018 10:43am
    - Harkman
      
      Softtail, it may actually have happened recently, “it/them” averages about 23 thumbs down per post and about 6 days ago stroppyboy posted 51 times in a day.
      
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      January 14, 2018 10:58am
      - softail 1450
        
        Harkman ,he’s like one of those North Korean newsreaders, it doesn’t matter if what he spews is factual as long as he gets to vomit it out.
        
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        January 14, 2018 11:06am
    - Harkman
      
      That would be classic if Stroppyboy was actually an extremely aggressive North Korean woman, shouting the words out. (Makes sense).
      
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      January 14, 2018 12:03pm
Digmen1

Haiti has been a basket case / shit hole for the last 50 years at least.
The UN has tried to help to no avail (who would have thought).
They gets lots of aid (and from Hilary), but it never gets seen.
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January 14, 2018 9:30am
- MCos
  
  One thing you’d have to say about Pres Trump, he doesn’t tell it like it is
  Certainly not pc when the pressure comes on.
  
  “Never said anything derogatory about Haitians other than Haiti is, obviously, a very poor and troubled country. Never said “take them out.” Made up by Dems. I have a wonderful relationship with Haitians. Probably should record future meetings – unfortunately, no trust!”
  
  Did he or did he not call the place a shithole?
  
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  January 14, 2018 10:41am
  - Ed Snack
    
    Probably not, reports conflict but this was a deliberate leak by a Democrat politician so it’s veracity is extremely suspect.
    
    Have to say that even if true Trump ain’t a patch on the most profane President- LBJ.
    
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    January 14, 2018 11:17am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Yep, LBJ didn’t ~~fuck~~ muck around with PC talk
      
      Fuck your parliament and your constitution. America is an elephant. Cyprus is a flea. Greece is a flea. If these two fellows continue itching the elephant, they may just get whacked by the elephant’s trunk, whacked good.”
      
      – Lyndon Johnson to the Greek Ambassador 1965
      
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      January 14, 2018 11:50am
VicParking

I Posted late last but as Stephie has not down ticked it I thought I would post it again:
It’s ok to call them “HellHoles” but not “ShitHoles”
American Senitor who leaked ‘so called’ Trump comments is a “Lorde”, Woops sorry “Bigot”
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/01/12/watch-lindsey-graham-who-blasted-trump-for-shithole-comment-called-mexico-a-hellhole-in-2013/
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January 14, 2018 9:35am
- Harkman
  
  Obama called Libya a “shit show,” yet somehow Don Lemon forgot to call him a “racist.”
  
  BTW, I have a new favourite past time, as primitive as it sounds, the first thing I do each day is give all StephieBoy’s posts a thumbs down. It is frightfully addictive.
  
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  January 14, 2018 9:49am
  - stephieboy
    
    Harkman, no comparison as was pointed out yesterday .
    
    Obama was referring the way the aftermath of the UN sanctioned bombing of Libya and downfall of Gadaffi
    
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    January 14, 2018 12:41pm
  - namron
    
    Harkman, me too!
    namron
    
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    January 14, 2018 4:04pm
Digmen1

Donald Trump should subscribe to our Safetravel Site!
Its got some great non rascist info!

El Salvador does not look” too” bad.

But I checked two African countries and they are shit holes
Rwanda
Niger
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January 14, 2018 9:37am
- lifesgood
  
  Lots of countries are shit holes…we all say it in our conversations as in “I wouldn’t go to Haiti, it’s a shit hole” . People leave them because they are shit holes. The POTUS says it and suddenly it is the worst thing anyone has ever said. Give me a break!
  
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  January 14, 2018 9:47am
  - stephieboy
    
    lifesgood , a very stupid comment to make that may reflect the Presidents mental instability and grasp of reality .
    
    I think he merely reflects what his alt right followers have been thinking all the way along inside their bubble heads .
    
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    January 14, 2018 12:46pm
    - lifesgood
      
      Prove how open minded you are you idiot, go to Haiti. I bet you wouldn’t dare, you are all talk, like all your comrades. You wouldn’t go because it’s a shit hole. And just as a matter of interest I have been to some shit hole countries in Africa and calling them shit holes is being polite.
      
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      January 14, 2018 3:58pm
JibberJabber

Another genius journalist from the Stuff stable,heehaww…
https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/life/100492051/nadine-higgins-men-youre-not-being-attacked-youre-being-recruited

Sez, men aren`t being attacked then attacks him cos` he didn`t say anything….jeezus you used to have to be married to cop this sort of shit, now it`s everyday day in the media from these fucking BunnyBoilers…
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January 14, 2018 9:46am
Manolo

Stating the obvious:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/world/europe/trump-immigration-outrage.html

The Czech president has called Muslim immigrants criminals. The head of Poland’s governing party has said refugees are riddled with disease. The leader of Hungary has described migrants as a poison.
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January 14, 2018 9:51am
- stephieboy
  
  Manolo , you mean this drunk ? ,
  
  http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/czech-president-drunk-crown-jewels-viewing-article-1.1344772
  
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  January 14, 2018 10:17am
  - Inandout
    
    You idiot, Churchill was often tipsy, but was a fantastic leader for his times.
    
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    January 14, 2018 10:44am
    - stephieboy
      
      Inandout , I can assure you that a bottle of brandy did not win Churchill the Battle of Britain etc .
      
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      January 14, 2018 12:47pm
- Digmen1
  
  Yes keeping your borders safe is not being rascist.
  
  No one has the “right” to enter another country.
  
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  January 14, 2018 10:30am
  - Jack5
    
    Yep, every country has the right to decide who moves into it.
    
    A tip for the Stephiestanis: if you still want to move on to Australia, go now. The back door from NZ could close at any time.
    
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    January 14, 2018 10:50am
Manolo

Good news for stephieboy:
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/12/president-donald-trump-finishes-undergoing-medical-exam.html

President Donald Trump on Friday received his annual medical checkup, his first ever while serving as commander in chief.

The doctor in charge of the exam said it “went exceptionally well,” although he did not divulge any further details.
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January 14, 2018 9:54am
- MCos
  
  This piece from the article would explain his continuing good healh
  “On Trump’s jet during the campaign, “There were four major food groups: McDonald’s, Kentucky Fried Chicken, pizza and Diet Coke,” Lewandowski and Bossie wrote.”
  
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  January 14, 2018 10:19am
  - Paulus
    
    People are surprised to find that Trump does not drink alcoholic drinks.
    Unlike most of his predecessors – some recent ones to excess.
    
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    January 14, 2018 1:49pm
- Dave Mann
  
  Went exceptionally well.
  
  “We found that in certain areas of his brain the neurons are connected in reverse, which explains why the President’s perception of reality differs from what is usual in humans. Furthermore, we established that despite their small size, the President’s hands function normally and he can do lots of things with them.
  
  All in all, our examination went exceptionally well.”
  
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  January 14, 2018 10:28am
  - BananaLlama
    
    i always thought your mouth was attached to an anus tbh
    
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    January 14, 2018 12:50pm
    - Piniwi
      
      Almost BL but for trolls they are interchangeable.
      
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      January 14, 2018 5:27pm
- stephieboy
  
  Manolo, I think that check up was physical and not mental.
  
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  January 14, 2018 12:49pm
Digmen1

And then we have idiots like the new head of the UN and a “top” banker analysist I saw on tv the other day, saying that there should be free movement of people all over the world!

This is what we are up against.
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January 14, 2018 10:32am
- Jack5
  
  Yep, Digmen1, that’s why we should be grateful that Trump pulled America out of UN talks to set up such a global strategy.
  
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  January 14, 2018 10:51am
Inandout

cmm 10.28: QED in Arabic means ‘Queers Endup Dead’. Does LOL mean ‘Lots Of Length’?
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January 14, 2018 10:41am
- Keeping Stock
  
  Lots of Lolitas, I think 😀
  
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  January 14, 2018 12:57pm
Inandout

Interesting that diesel submarines tend to stay with lead batteries because of their ability to withstand rough handling, and their cheapness. The average life of a sub battery is 6 years. I did not realise that lithium batteries, used in many electric cars, can explode if roughly handled or pierced. As a result, they are rarely used in subs.
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January 14, 2018 10:58am
- cmm
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_8QGBv4v7E
  
  Can’t have something like that in a sub.
  
  It’s bad enough if sea water gets into the battery area because this can generate chlorine.
  
  Also, there is no need to save weight in a sub. Subs tend to need huge amounts of dense ballast to make them sink, so using LiPo batteries would just increase the amount of ballast they need.
  
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  January 14, 2018 11:05am
- gump
  
  Petrol and natural gas also explode when their containers are roughly handled or pierced. The reason why we use them as the energy sources for cars is because their energy density is incredibly high.
  
  This is the same reason why lithium batteries are preferred for most applications. Their higher energy density means that more energy can be delivered from a lithium battery of a fixed volume or weight.
  
  The other reason why lithium batteries are preferred is because they have incredibly low internal resistance. This makes them much more efficient at delivering power to their load. But the flipside of their low resistance is that they can generate incredibly high electrical currents when they are short-circuited or damaged (which can lead to fires or explosions if they are mistreated).
  
  Lithium batteries are relatively safe. But it makes sense to treat them with respect at all times – as you would do to a petrol tank or gas cylinder.
  
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  January 14, 2018 11:41am
  - Inandout
    
    Of course with leccy cars using the air con or heater somewhat reduces their range. Every year a new battery is developed so fingers crossed, but there is a lot of downsides to today’s electric vehicles.
    
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    January 14, 2018 12:31pm
  - cmm
    
    “Petrol and natural gas also explode ”
    
    No they do not. Petrol only explodes when mixed into an air/vapour mixture. They both need to be mixed with oxygen to react.
    
    LiPo batteries will “burn” without oxygen because all the stuff they need for the reaction is in the battery itself.
    
    Same deal with explosives. Gun powder etc do not need oxygen to burn.
    
    The context is submarines. Weight does not matter on a sub. If you make the battery lighter then you’re just going to need more ballast.
    
    “when they are short-circuited or damaged”… like in a military situation when you’re being shot and and depth charged?
    
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    January 14, 2018 2:55pm
    - nasska
      
      …..“Petrol and natural gas also explode”…..
      
      In the context of vehicle fires Mythbusters put this theory to the sword a while back…..Hollywood please note. 🙂
      
      https://auto.howstuffworks.com/car-driving-safety/accidents-hazardous-conditions/can-you-blow-up-a-car-by-shooting-the-gas-tank.htm
      
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      January 14, 2018 3:53pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  lithium batteries are now cheaper than lead acid on a kWh/kg basis. Tesla is paying as charging as little as USD $100/kWh in 2019 given the price difference between the 300 and 500mile range Tesla Semi Truck.
  
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  January 14, 2018 1:07pm
  - Inandout
    
    Of course Tesla is heavily subsidised.
    
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    January 14, 2018 1:40pm
Manolo

Crooked Hillary should run again, I reckon:
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/368860-jamie-dimon-dems-dont-have-a-strong-candidate-for-2020

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said in an interview on Friday that the Democratic Party does not have a strong candidate for the 2020 presidential election.

“The thing about the Democrats is they will not have a chance, in my opinion. They don’t have a strong centrist, pro-business, pro-free enterprise person,” Dimon told Maria Bartiromo.
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January 14, 2018 11:11am
- Simon
  
  No Clinton Foundation funds—dedicated to Haiti or otherwise—were used to pay for Chelsea’s wedding. It’s not only untrue, it’s a personal insult to me, to Hillary, and to Chelsea and Marc
  
  From Bill the rapist
  
  More Trump winning
  
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  January 14, 2018 11:46am
  - stephieboy
    
    Simon ,
    
    From Bill the rapist
    
    More Trump winning
    
    Rich irony alert !
    
    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/13/trump-porn-star-alana-evans-stormy-daniels-report
    
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    January 14, 2018 12:51pm
    - cha
      
      Stormy Daniels is Ivanka.
      
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      January 14, 2018 6:56pm
  - Ross12
    
    Dear old Bill has been caught on his wedding not paid by the Foundation claim
    http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/01/bill-clinton-says-haiti-relief-funds-didnt-pay-chelseas-wedding-wikileaks-dropped-document/
    
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    January 14, 2018 6:38pm
- Harkman
  
  Ha, only a couple of weeks ago Dimon was saying that he anticipated a Dem President in 2021, perhaps with all this Oprah nonsense he has thrown in the towel.
  
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  January 14, 2018 12:09pm
- Inandout
  
  Hannity has a lot of stuff on Hillary yet to surface, and his sources are impeccable. The truth eventually outs.
  
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  January 14, 2018 12:35pm
VicParking

It seems the new government want us to plant a billion trees, that’s if however you don’t have the chingy sounding name.
Also the already $20 billion of trees already planted and owned by oversea interests wont be able to be sold overseas.
Boy Venezuela here we come.
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January 14, 2018 12:51pm
DifferentPerspective

Lol CNN totally lost their minds (again)

Once more, epic trolling showing how utterly out of touch the Marie Antoinette MSM are – Trump made CNN say “shithole” hundreds of times – over and over again!

(The same time the shithole story was playing out, CNN dedicated a 20 minute slot reporting how a TV drama had a President being impeached – they honestly think reporting on a fictional drama is news????)

Most!
Entertaining!
President!
Ever!
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January 14, 2018 1:01pm
Manolo

Hollywood’s Chavez and Maduro supporter and close friend of the Venezuelan revolution speaks:
https://www.thewrap.com/sean-penn-donald-trump-enemy-mankind-sh-thole-comments/

In a blistering op-ed for Time on Friday, Sean Penn called president Donald Trump “an enemy of mankind” and “an enemy of the state” over his reported remarks about “shithole countries.”
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January 14, 2018 1:09pm
- Jack5
  
  Who Sean Penn is friends with:
  
  https://www.newsmax.com/thewire/sean-penn-america-el-chapo/2016/01/11/id/709003/
  
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  January 14, 2018 1:31pm
- UpandComer
  
  Penn would know all about creating shit holes in Haiti, both geographic and anatomical.
  
  When is Kim Jong Un just going to nuke Hollywood and do the world a service.
  
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  January 14, 2018 2:30pm
- starboard
  
  Trump is the man!
  Give it to ’em Trumpy!
  Stick it right up ’em!
  “USA..USA ..USA..USA” ✌
  
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  January 14, 2018 4:12pm
Jack5

Is the relentless, night-after-night, one-sided hammering and ridiculing of Donald Trump by New Zealand’s State television network, TVNZ, a threat to our national interest?

We are a small trading nation, and America is an important trade partner.

The Guardian says Britain’s deteriorating relationship with Trump now threatens the possibility of a quick trade deal. The ethnic-Pakistani Mayor of London is among those who have told Trump he is not welcome in Britain.

Here’s what’s happening with UK-US trade possibilities:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jan/13/trump-tension-risk-quick-us-uk-trade-deal
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January 14, 2018 1:26pm
- cmm
  
  The situation is in no way improved by our politicians.
  
  We fly Cindy all the way to APEC and all she comes back with is the astute observation that Trump isn’t as orange as she thought he was.
  
  Good basis for decision making!
  
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  January 14, 2018 3:00pm
  - sooty
    
    The big revell of the trip! Man she’s at the top of her game. Sadly it can only go downhill from here!
    
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    January 14, 2018 4:29pm
- wiseowl
  
  Well the London Mayor has been getting some attention today.Another who wants an apology for past wrongs.
  The guy is an absolute a -hole.What the hell is wrong with Londoners?
  
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  January 14, 2018 9:49pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Two pieces telling of concerns with drug-trial research.
https://sciblogs.co.nz/infectious-thoughts/2018/01/12/time-academics-stand-bad-science/

https://sciblogs.co.nz/news/2018/01/12/investigation-raises-concerns-animals-trials/

The paper detailing the history of the Oxford TB vaccine study:
http://www.bmj.com/content/360/bmj.j5845

Let’s hope there’s no TB outbreak in NZ.
Who would you trust….. top scientists from Oxford University or your local GP?
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January 14, 2018 1:46pm
- Jack5
  
  Good work by Siouxsie Wiles and Deborah Cohen.
  
  Scepticism seems in short supply everywhere, not just in the sciences.
  
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  January 14, 2018 1:54pm
- cmm
  
  ” Who would you trust….. top scientists from Oxford University or your local GP?”
  
  Neither?
  
  The science left institutions like Oxford a long time ago. The majority are serious troughers now.
  
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  January 14, 2018 3:02pm
  - S.Hawking
    
    “The science left institutions like Oxford a long time ago.”
    
    Where has all the science gone?
    
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    January 14, 2018 3:21pm
    - itstricky
      
      Long time passing?
      
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      January 14, 2018 8:48pm
Jack5

An interesting article on Stuff giving a consumer’s disappointment with the economics of installing solar panels. He’s lost on the deal.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/money/100484649/solar-power-not-yet-financially-worthwhile-for-many-people-eeca
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January 14, 2018 1:49pm
- Ross12
  
  Jack5
  They are softening us for subsidies and higher feed in tariffs. You can bet the Green Party will jump all over this.
  
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  January 14, 2018 4:35pm
- oob
  
  We’ve recently put solar in at the batch. For a 2-3 kW system using eight lead carbon batteries for storage it’s worked out about $18K for parts and labour.
  
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  January 14, 2018 4:39pm
  - Inandout
    
    That is a lot of electricity purchasing.
    
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    January 14, 2018 5:10pm
    - oob
      
      The batch is on a remote island, with no mains supply. The $18K solar is the alternative to the cost of petrol for a noisy generator, so the solar affords us constant electricity (as opposed to a few hours in the mornings/evenings with the generator) and peace and quiet.
      
      Still if there was mains supply I think it might work out cost-effective. The life expectancy of the panels is 30 years and the batteries 20.
      
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      January 14, 2018 5:55pm
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    Wow, that’s surprisingly expensive. Sounds like the market needs more integrated modular components to reduce install costs.
    
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    January 14, 2018 10:10pm
    - oob
      
      The components worked out at about $13K, roughly:
      
      $7,500 – 8x Lead-Carbon batteries.
      $3,200 – 6x PERC Mono panels.
      $2,000 – Inverter.
      $500 – Sundries.
      $300 – Battery monitor.
      
      Our additional costs were mostly build, travel and freight costs. Erecting a free-standing frame to mount the panels, trenching to run cables, and so on.
      
      The most important cost though -not least for insurance purposes- was retaining the services of a certified installer.
      
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      January 14, 2018 11:19pm
cha

Shitfaced.

Newt Gingrich is slurring his words so much that I'm waiting for Bauuer to start playing in the background pic.twitter.com/IalCW7eGcc— Brendan Karet ? (@bad_takes) January 13, 2018

https://twitter.com/bad_takes/status/952009479901646848
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January 14, 2018 1:54pm
UpandComer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OQ9-OE2Q1g

Here is a good example of CNN Fake News in action.

Buy O’Keefe’s book on ‘The American Pravda’.

There is no “”news”” anymore.

NZ is no different really. Our media are an extension of the Labour party.
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January 14, 2018 2:28pm
Digmen1

The relentless hammering of left wing views and agenda’s and anti National and anti Trump, climate change articles is more of a threat to the NZ intelligence quota.

Many of us do not believe it.
But many will be influenced by it.

It needs to be stopped.
We need to put pressure on them to report the news fairly, and to make them look stupid whenever we can!
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January 14, 2018 2:31pm
gorse

WO still pusing Judit Collins as the preferred leader of National. Big mistake, divisive person, not liked by many, myself included. She would be enough for me to vote for anoter party. National would be opposition for nine years, mark my words.
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January 14, 2018 2:36pm
- doggone7
  
  If Judith Collins is the answer the problem is unsolvable.
  
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  January 14, 2018 4:12pm
- Digmen1
  
  I like her, but she is tainted with that Chinese deal.
  
  I do wish Whale Oil would stop pushing her.
  I am very happy with Bill.
  He just about won the election on his own with no help from Judith or Paul Bennet.
  
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  January 14, 2018 4:53pm
  - Inandout
    
    Twyford is also tainted by Chinese but it hasn’t hurt his career.
    
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    January 14, 2018 5:12pm
UpandComer

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qbe8bp/the-child-rape-assembly-line-0000141-v20n11

Well would you look at this.

I wonder if it’s related to this:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2428592/Roy-Naim-Jewish-Face-Immigration-Reform-Struggle-featured-Time-magazine-arrested-child-porn-charges-denied-bail.html

Or this:

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/video-shows-toddlers-understand-consent

Lol it’s always a gay of uncertain background.

Or this:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-5228857/A-10-year-old-drag-queen-founded-drag-club-kids.html

“You can just do you” – drag queens for under tens.

Or this

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/the-sexual-revolution-and-children-how-the-left-took-things-too-far-a-702679.html

Or most importantly this:

http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/belgium-to-lower-age-of-consent-to-13/

Laws on pedophilia are outdated claims top German attorney, “”Hans Goldsberg””.

“There will be the need for a consolidation of national laws under the current European system on the legal aspects of sex. Most of these national rulings don’t represent the modern social complexities of our times and are legally baseless. Some even argue that a law on the age of consent has become superfluous and should no longer exist” claims the lawyer who has worked for more than 35 years in his field of work.

Some even argue that a law on the age of consent has become superfluous and should no longer exist.

Who are those some?

The same people arguing for ever increasing expansions of euthanasia:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37395286 – euthanasia extended to minors.

Because ‘age of consent’ is a meaningless phrase under self-determination theory.

So the Left goes marching on and on, and there will be no limit. Because as I keep saying, conceptually, logically, philosophically, there is no limit possible.

Yesterday of course I linked to the story where Canadian government agents can confiscate children of parents who don’t want them to have a sex change, or want to teach them Christian theology.

I wonder how long it’s going to be, and I’m quite serious, before it becomes illegal to stop a child having se x with an adult who desires that se x, or it becomes illegal to oppose your child wanting to be euthanised for a non-terminal disease? Illegal in two ways. Illegal in the sense that government agents, armed, will imprison you for opposing these laws, and of course, the same agents will turn up for merely speaking about them, like I am now.

Or we get all the Google ‘soft censorship’ where armies of sexual minority deviants engage in mass ‘poking’ to enforce their political consensus.

This all seems pretty important.

Why isn’t it reported in the media more widely? Instead of what colour tie Trump is wearing today? (Oh my god, Trump wore a white tie! KKKKKKK!)

Because of who owns the media, and what the media believe.

Haiti is a shit-hole. Haiti equivalents are shit-holes for the same reasons.

And the rainbow movement and the euthanasia movement are tied to the immense pedophil e agenda slowly being implemented all across the West, which is related to the desperate attempts to load countries up with as much Islam and the other abrahmaic brother religion as possible.
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January 14, 2018 2:47pm
- igm
  
  You can bet Crockery, Toxic Gnome and weirdo with two mothers will support this depraved political view, supported by the filth that profess to be journalists in MSM.
  
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  January 14, 2018 3:35pm
- JibberJabber
  
  LoL, the Haitian govt called up the US Ambassador for an explanation on the “shithole” remark, I`m assuming he told them to look out the window.
  
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  January 14, 2018 3:42pm
  - igm
    
    Bet he did not tell ambassador to jam US aid up his arse though. These professional troughers play to a gallery and are supported by media.
    
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    January 14, 2018 4:16pm
UpandComer

The New Zealand media are worse then CNN. They just pick at CNN’s leavings.

We’re going to bypass them in this country going forward. The Jacinda anointment was the last straw.
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January 14, 2018 2:53pm
- Digmen1
  
  I agree, but how.
  I blame them for Jacinda winning.
  There was so much stardust.
  Yes I Notice they do copy CNN
  
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  January 14, 2018 4:54pm
  - calendar girl
    
    She didn’t win – she was appointed by Winston Peters.
    
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    January 14, 2018 6:56pm
    - gump
      
      Labour and NZ First received more than 50% of the vote. How is that not winning?
      
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      January 14, 2018 9:20pm
      - Loddenthinks
        
        Jacinda is not a member of NZ Winston First. Do try and keep up.
        
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        January 14, 2018 9:27pm
  - GazzaW
    
    She was created by the media for her current purpose. Perfect pulp fiction raw material – Barbie & Ken do politics.
    
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    January 14, 2018 7:51pm
JibberJabber

WoW, Mainland butter $15.20 a kilo at Countdown. Thanks, Jacinda you`ll have ur face on the $3 billion bill in no time.
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January 14, 2018 3:38pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  OMG!!!
  
  tell me you are joking.
  
  edit:
  Just found Anchor Butter on special at $11.60/kilo
  https://shop.countdown.co.nz/#url=/Shop/ProductDetails%3Fstockcode%3D281759%26name%3Danchor-butter%26searchString%3Dbutter
  
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  January 14, 2018 4:03pm
- doggone7
  
  How is Mainland butter being $15.20 a kilo at Countdown Arden’s fault?
  
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  January 14, 2018 4:11pm
  - nasska
    
    Not enough fairy dust & unicorn farts…..with the way they worked for “poverdy” the Peoples’ Princess could get butter down to a penny a pound overnight!
    
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    January 14, 2018 4:14pm
  - GazzaW
    
    Likely it’s not Arden’s fault but politics is all about perception and I’m sure that the Nats will use it for all its worth. Just as Labour would have done a year ago.
    
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    January 14, 2018 4:49pm
  - Johnboy
    
    You’ll have to ask Gaylord that doggo! 🙂
    
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    January 14, 2018 5:07pm
  - Happychappy
    
    Jacinda won’t be able to let the poor pay that there will be more handouts on the way. Can’t have capitalism making money off the poor.
    
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    January 14, 2018 7:31pm
  - Loddenthinks
    
    Who, pray tell, is Arden?
    
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    January 14, 2018 9:30pm
- Inandout
  
  Aussie food prices are not that cheap according to this survey. Butter similar prices.
  
  https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/in/Gold-Coast
  
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  January 14, 2018 5:26pm
UpandComer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tGutFcN560

Life, is winning again, in America.

It’s going to start winning again in New Zealand and Australia.
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January 14, 2018 4:25pm
- Digmen1
  
  Hell yes.
  Make America great again.
  
  I hope Kim Jung Un watches that every day.
  
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  January 14, 2018 5:02pm
Johnboy

I’ve been away up the scrub since Friday. Where’s Aldo, his wife, his elder brother Brito and all the camels? 🙂
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January 14, 2018 4:59pm
- GazzaW
  
  Even ztev is AWOL today. Trollsters Union on strike for triple time Sundays or has he been redcarded?
  
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  January 14, 2018 5:40pm
  - Digmen1
    
    Now we just need Jacinda to resign and call a new election.
    That would be heaven
    
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    January 14, 2018 6:47pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Could you clarify JB…
  have you been up the scrub or
  did you scrub up?
  
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  January 14, 2018 7:16pm
  - Johnboy
    
    A moot point Maggy. Being a very clean living sort of chap I generally have a scrub up in suitable pools when I’m up the scrub. Sometimes over the years this has caused serious shock to various tramping ladies who have happened on my ablutions. 🙂
    A few of course have been quite appreciative of my hygiene standards! 🙂
    
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    January 14, 2018 7:38pm
- Happychappy
  
  The school children must have got home detention but you still have Notsofast that is notsobright spewing his abusive crap because people won’t listen to his climate change or my mates innocent theory.
  
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  January 14, 2018 7:21pm
Digmen1

What we really need to do to make the west great again is to start reversing the muslim invasion.
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January 14, 2018 5:03pm
Johnboy

I only asked because it seemed a tad slow round here today from what I’ve just read. 🙂
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January 14, 2018 5:04pm
Digmen1

Gee, I think I’ll move to Venezuala I am sure butter is not that dear there!
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January 14, 2018 5:05pm
- Loddenthinks
  
  It’s more affordable now, since Maduro ordered the minimum wage to increase, whilst passing a law requiring the supermarkets to lower their prices. The only problem is there is no butter to be had, anywhere.
  
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  January 14, 2018 9:34pm
Digmen1

Hopefully they have gone back to their shit holes.
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January 14, 2018 5:06pm
Digmen1

Have you noticed that all the arab countries and NK and Russia and China have their armies doing Nazi style and goosestep marches.

Whereas the USA and the UK and NZ just do nice precise normal marches.
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January 14, 2018 5:13pm
- Johnboy
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS5D9csaySU
  🙂
  
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  January 14, 2018 5:15pm
- Johnboy
  
  What about the hats Digi?
  Why do our chaps wear fairly reasonable sized hats and Russia, China and taken to the ridiculous extreme DPRK have to wear such big ones?
  Is it to impress us with the huge intelligence of their cannon-fodder? 🙂
  
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  January 14, 2018 5:21pm
- Jack5
  
  A stack of countries’ troops goose step, Digmen1.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goose_step
  
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  January 14, 2018 5:40pm
Harriet

A xenophobe is someone who wants to save the culture that put men on the moon from being replaced by a radical Islamic rape culture.

I can see another shit hole forming from my kitchen window. 😎
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January 14, 2018 5:19pm
- Johnboy
  
  A nice new high-tec septic cured that problem for me. Cost a shit load of course! 🙂
  
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  January 14, 2018 6:10pm
  - Harriet
    
    “….Cost a shit load of course!…’
    
    And it will cost you a shit load more to fill it, and then a shit load more to empty it.
    
    You must literally be made of fucken money JB. 😎
    
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    January 14, 2018 6:47pm
Harriet

So the lynched turned into a lynch mob, talk about hanging oneself:

Homophobia; getting parliament to legislate a heteronormative lifestyle onto gays; marriage, adoption, and now child birth[surrogacy].

Clearly then no one is born gay, and one no longer wants to be gay.

We won. 😎
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January 14, 2018 6:37pm
nasska

Girl writes into the problem page in The Press :

“Dear Anne, I am a 14 year old born & bred Christchurch girl & I’m still a virgin….”

“Do you think my brothers are gay?”
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January 14, 2018 7:52pm
- Jack5
  
  C’mon Naska, You left out the last paragraph:
  
  “Mum says not to worry, virginity is a Christchurch thing. Before it splits the family we’ll all move to Auckland, where she’s from and where my brothers were born. She told me, ‘It’s all gone by age 11 up there – so just hang on until we get there’.”
  
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  January 14, 2018 9:46pm
Jack5

When multiculturists took about refugees and Third World refugees they don’t mention the “echo effect”.

This report from Canada explains that, after taking in 48,000 Syrians in two years, the country is faced with demand for entry from their families and relatives:

https://www.thestar.com/news/immigration/2017/09/25/cap-on-refugee-sponsorships-means-syrians-in-canada-remain-separated-from-family-members.html

Meanwhile, though Canadian politicians haven’t been reported calling Haiti a shit hole, Canada is warning there are limits to the number of Haitians it will allow to settle in the country.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/13/world/canada/quebec-immigrants-haitians.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
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January 14, 2018 9:50pm
- Digmen1
  
  Canada’s Minister For Immigration is a refugee himself!
  
  Anyway Canada is on its way to being a shit hole.
  I saw on tv the other day the government wants 1 million new immigrants over the next few years.
  How many will be from Norway?
  
  And in one of those articles the digusting lady from Haiti who entered Canada illegally says “I cannot go back I have nothin there.”
  Well she probably has nothing in Canada except a benefit from soft weak lilly livered Canadian tax payers.
  
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  January 14, 2018 10:10pm
Manolo

Keep a cautious eye on the DJI!
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/13/business/stock-market-too-quiet-for-own-good.html
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January 15, 2018 5:29am
Manolo

How long before the MSM blames Trump for the Hawaii nuclear fiasco?
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January 15, 2018 6:22am
oob

Watching Shabbos goy Cameron Slater prostrate himself is ghastly to watch.
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