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January 1, 2018 8:01am
gravedodger

happy and prosperous new year
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January 1, 2018 8:01am
starboard

Happy New Year all !! ?

Not you Morrissey. ?
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January 1, 2018 8:03am
- Morrissey
  
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  Well, I shall rise above that gratuitous little kick in the head, starboard, and wish you and yours all the best for 2018. Season’s Garrotings to you, my friend….
  
  http://www.badnewsaboutchristianity.com/pics_05/garrote_4.jpg
  
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  January 1, 2018 8:14am
  - Inandout
    
    And to you sand head:
    https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_medium/public/thumbnails/image/2015/03/04/11/isis2.jpg
    
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    January 1, 2018 8:41am
  - cmm
    
    Rather magnanimous of you Moronsey…. until you got to the garroting part.
    
    Most of us probably don’t want what you consider “the best” .
    
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    January 1, 2018 9:35am
  - Don the Kiwi
    
    Actually, that was pretty good – earned my first uptick ever for the Morris Minor. 🙂
    
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    January 1, 2018 11:13am
    - Morrissey
      
      Good on you, Don. You’re a champion!
      
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      January 1, 2018 12:43pm
Paulus Gnome

Best wishes to all here for 2018, I hope all goes well for all including all those from team muppet who sometimes make the debate more interesting by the responses that they illicit

I intend to stay off ladders for another year thereby increasing my chances of writing something equally banal next year!
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January 1, 2018 8:05am
Captain Mainwaring

The bitter and twisted downtickers are up early this morning. Happy New Year to everyone else.
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January 1, 2018 8:06am
- you stupid boy
  
  A happy new year to you too Captain Mainwaring.
  
  Regards
  Pike
  
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  January 1, 2018 8:39am
  - Don the Kiwi
    
    Stehieboy? – looks like he has adopted his abuse name? or is it someone new who is being eithr honest, or ironic?
    
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    January 1, 2018 11:16am
waikatogirl

1 January 2018.
Where does the time go!

Have a prosperous and happy new year, and get everything you deserve. ?
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January 1, 2018 8:09am
- Morrissey
  
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  Where does the time go!
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeZL2FXkGqI
  
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  January 1, 2018 8:18am
  - Kiwi Dave
    
    Eleven down ticks for linking to Fairport Convention and a classic song. Tough audience!
    
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    January 1, 2018 8:56am
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      No, eleven downticks (now 13) for being Morrissey.
      
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      January 1, 2018 8:59am
      - GoVege
        
        That nearly earned an uptick….but not quite. 🙂
        
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        January 1, 2018 9:59am
    - Morrissey
      
      Tough crowd, all right Dave. If they like you, they let you live.
      
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      January 1, 2018 12:44pm
- Rachael Membery
  
  That could be something unpleasant for some ;).
  
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  January 1, 2018 9:09am
Manolo

Some American bureaucrats are afraid:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-the-trump-era-is-changing-the-federal-bureaucracy/2017/12/30/8d5149c6-daa7-11e7-b859-fb0995360725_story.html?utm_term=.787ad30ba64d

By the end of September, all Cabinet departments except Homeland Security, Veterans Affairs and Interior had fewer permanent staff than when Trump took office in January — with most shedding many hundreds of employees, according to an analysis of federal personnel data by The Washington Post.

The diminishing federal footprint comes after Trump promised in last year’s campaign to “cut so much your head will spin,” and it reverses a boost in hiring under President Barack Obama. The falloff has been driven by an exodus of civil servants, a diminished corps of political appointees and an effective hiring freeze.
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January 1, 2018 8:10am
- Inandout
  
  And these Obamaphiles will be forced to either go on welfare or opt for a real job in the private sector. It is indeed a good year in the offing.
  
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  January 1, 2018 8:45am
  - cmm
    
    I know a couple of these Obamaphiles personally.
    
    They were both highly productive members of society – one a world class engineer who had single-handedly improved the efficiency of truck engines by a few %.
    
    Both got drawn in to the Obama government to “do great things”, but only really helped administer the trough for Obama corporate hand outs.
    
    If that trough gets shut down (as everyone assumes it will), then they will go back to being productive members of society again.
    
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    January 1, 2018 9:40am
- Scott
  
  I’m really looking forward to what’s going to happen in the USA this year. Merry Christmas is back. The economy is booming, unemployment low and Isis is almost defeated. The USA is going in the right direction.
  Here not so much. We in NZ are determined to embrace the identity politics of the left and all its attendant secular PC nonsense.
  So I’m excited about what’s happening overseas, here not so much.
  
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  January 1, 2018 9:59am
  - stephieboy
    
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    ISIS “almost “defeated ?I thought you stated he single handledly defeated them .
    
    Yes the economy has been tracking upwards long before Trump took office under his former’s sound stewardship .
    
    Thats right its good to keep alt right fundie Christianity and related Trumpist politics out of NZ Politics .
    
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    January 1, 2018 11:07am
    - holysheet
      
      I think Cindy will find it a lot harder to defeat homelessness and poverdy than Trump did in helping defeat the swarming hoards of paedophile proffit followers.
      
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      January 1, 2018 12:41pm
    - cmm
      
      “Yes the economy has been tracking upwards long before Trump took office under his former’s sound stewardship .”
      
      The only thing tracking upwards under Obama’s watch was US National Debt. Anyone can fake economic growth when you’re cranking through over a trillion dollars of extra debt a year.
      
      Under Trump there has actually been a significant reduction in debt: https://www.snopes.com/national-debt-trump/
      
      There has also been a huge uptick in employment – particularly amongst Hispanics and Blacks.
      
      And it is likely only going to get better as Trump cuts spending on crap that does not build the economy but just drains it. Crap like corporate welfare for Tesla.
      
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      January 1, 2018 5:30pm
- Manolo
  
  And to think our distinguished host DPF was rooting for Hillary! 😀
  
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  January 1, 2018 10:30am
  - flipper
    
    Hard, on the basis of any dispassionate analysis, to understand why DPF went down that road. He is usually a sensible fellow ! 🙂
    
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    January 1, 2018 10:47am
    - stephieboy
      
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      Yes .DPF usually a sensible fellow unlike an alt righter Trumpeter like you .
      
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      January 1, 2018 11:10am
  - stephieboy
    
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    Manolo , time line for the completion of the Mexican border Wall ?
    
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    January 1, 2018 11:08am
    - Nukuleka
      
      Yawn.
      
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      January 1, 2018 11:13am
    - Don the Kiwi
      
      I,m very tempted to offer Stephieboy the first ” F**k Off” for 2018 – but that would be a bit harsh in this time of goodwill and rapproachment.
      Have a good year stephie – I pray for your conversion 😉
      
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      January 1, 2018 11:24am
      - stephieboy
        
        ” I pray for your conversion”
        
        To what ?
        
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        January 1, 2018 11:34am
      - All_on_Red
        
        ‘To what’
        How about a worthy representative of St Albans Church where you stand up and give Readings?
        Instead of the Whited Sepulchure you are.
        Tick tock
        You just know they are going to ask you to stop eh Stephie.
        Why don’t you save yourself the embarrassment and just do it now.
        
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        January 1, 2018 11:39am
      - holysheet
        
        I don’t see stooopidboys name among this lot
        
        http://www.saintalbans.org.nz/rosters.html
        
        It’s false news I say, false news.
        
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        January 1, 2018 12:48pm
      - cmm
        
        Don’t worry Don. I’ve got this covered.
        
        Fuck off stephie.
        
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        January 1, 2018 5:32pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Holy sheet
        Check what ‘Stephie’ says here
        https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2017/12/general_debate_24_december_2017.html#comment-2105623
        
        Then see who did that reading…
        
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        January 1, 2018 7:07pm
      - holysheet
        
        AOR, only someone as stupid and skyfairy crazed as Ralph would leave a trail like that. Shows you the old saying “stoopid is as stoopid does” is very apt in this case.
        
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        January 1, 2018 8:56pm
      - holysheet
        
        Ralph taylor ring any bells?
        
        https://www.facebook.com/ralph.taylor.524/posts/10208061344050755:0
        
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        January 1, 2018 10:11pm
    - Rich Prick
      
      Stephie, time line for punctuation lessons?
      
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      January 1, 2018 11:30am
      - stephieboy
        
        Rich Prick , so long as you attend to your BO !
        
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        January 1, 2018 9:24pm
  - Morrissey
    
    Did somebody say “rooting”?
    
    https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/k/r/v/l/u/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620×349.1krv7p.png/1501632501063.jpg
    
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    January 1, 2018 3:25pm
    - Don the Kiwi
      
      Bloody hell – 2 upticks in one day for Morris Minor.
      Maybe he’s seen the light. 🙂
      
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      January 1, 2018 5:43pm
Disaster Area

The best thing about Kiwiblog on New Year’s Day?

None of the pretend-inspirational, humble brag posts about achievements in 2017 and how we are all going to be ‘a new me’, live life to the full and have a fantastic 2018.

I’m 45 this year. If I haven’t already scuba dived with sharks whilst free fall parachuting a marathon, the chances of me getting my arse off the sofa to do it this year are marginally smaller than they were last year.

That being said, happy new year everyone!
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January 1, 2018 8:14am
- RalphT
  
  And I intend to be in a position to welcome in 2019 by doing none of those adventurous things.
  
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  January 1, 2018 8:27am
- jcuk
  
  You DA are just the right age to take up long distance running which the older body is more suited to.
  
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  January 1, 2018 9:11am
  - GazzaW
    
    DA I’m sure does not want to emulate my old fart colleagues who took up long distance running in response to some sort of midlife crisis. Most just brought old rugby injuries to the surface and are forever at the physio, a couple have had knee replacements whilst one paid the ultimate sacrifice by karking it while training for a marathon. Bloody idiots!
    
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    January 1, 2018 11:27am
    - Disaster Area
      
      *embarrassed cough*
      *wanders away, whistling nonchalantly*
      
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      January 1, 2018 11:54am
    - waikatogirl
      
      “DA I’m sure does not want to emulate my old fart colleagues who took up long distance running in response to some sort of midlife crisis. ”
      
      I believe the modern equivalent is long distance cycling including nauseatingly walking through cafes, where people are eating at eye level, seeing their meat and 2 vege in their skin-tight lycra. ?
      
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      January 1, 2018 12:32pm
      - GazzaW
        
        Golden rule in Auckland for Saturday morning brunch.
        
        Avoid cyclist’s post-riding venues at all costs. Rowdy, genital bulging, lycra-clad yahoos and the BO is something else.
        
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        January 1, 2018 6:48pm
- holysheet
  
  Well I have 20 years on you and I can tell you that its going to be nigh impossible to get any of those things and more done. If you want to be stupid in your life, best to do it when you are young. That way it’s easier to recover from your stupidity and hopefully lean from it as well.
  HNY
  
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  January 1, 2018 9:24am
Humble Capitalist

Happy New Year to all! And happy January (my fave month). I had a night off politics last night but there was some table banging political debate at the New Years party I was at. Haven’t seen anything like that for a long time. Here’s to plenty of good table banging outrage and debate in 2018!
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January 1, 2018 8:15am
- holysheet
  
  No! your doomed. Doomed, I say.
  Table banking is a precursor to head banging. You seem like an intelligent poster. Don’t let yourself be swayed by the likes of stooopid boy and seccumb to headbanging
  
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  January 1, 2018 9:30am
  - Humble Capitalist
    
    HS I have no intention of turning to the dark side. However plenty of intention to give government and council heaps
    
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    January 1, 2018 10:14am
starboard

Imagine downticking good folk on new years day ?
The left are loons, bitter and twisted scum.
Aww well only 2 and a bit years to go and they will be back where they belong..on the opposition bench.
Good nite from the 29th floor in Bangkok.
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January 1, 2018 8:16am
- Happychappy
  
  The bitter and twisted have no shame starboard just imagine if they had children the poor barstards don’t stand a chance. Have a great year folks and many more of them.
  
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  January 1, 2018 8:24am
- Brito
  
  …oh 29th ‘floor’! Sorry I thought you wrote ‘whore’.
  
  Silly me! Time for new glasses…
  
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  January 1, 2018 8:31am
- Longknives
  
  “The left are loons, bitter and twisted scum”
  
  The Left certainly are that Starboard
  Over at The Standard they are celebrating the New Year with a ‘Which White Dude do we Hate Most?’ poll
  What bitter,twisted racist fuckheads.
  
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  January 1, 2018 8:52am
  - jcuk
    
    What is a ‘dude’?
    
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    January 1, 2018 9:13am
    - holysheet
      
      Ask starboard, he is with his nude whore.
      
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      January 1, 2018 9:49am
  - niggly
    
    Bwhahaha silly Standardistas, they’ve left themselves wide open, how about the following detestable white dudes:
    
    *Greg Mickey Savage Presland!
    
    *Lynn Worlds Greatest SysOp Prentice!
    
    *All the “Old” White Men that run the Labour Party (yes despite “diversity” and the odd feminist wimmin within, the Labour Party is run by well connected white men behind the scenes)! Even the Green Party puts Labour to shame!
    
    *All the White Men Labour MP’s/Minsters that have the “top ranking” portfolios!
    
    Anyway Happy New Year all!
    
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    January 1, 2018 1:32pm
- stephieboy
  
  Bangkok Hilton ?
  
  http://www.aveleyman.com/Gallery/ActorsE/5244-31114-0.jpg
  
  LOL
  
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  January 1, 2018 11:11am
nasska

Same to you Starboard. May all your ladyboy conquests this year be post op & free from clap. 🙂
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January 1, 2018 8:28am
- Awww C-mon
  
  He’ll be happy about missing the clap Nasska. Not so sure about the rest of your greeting ?
  
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  January 1, 2018 8:53am
- GoVege
  
  Thank God (sorry) you’re OK, nasska!
  Was worried you might have succumbed to the annual overdose of Compulsory Christianity. 🙂
  
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  January 1, 2018 10:25am
  - nasska
    
    Not a chance GoVege. I was inoculated against the crap by three years at a Christian boarding school.
    
    The sanctimony coupled with the gross hypocrisy I’ve since witnessed was the booster shot. 🙂
    
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    January 1, 2018 10:49am
    - GoVege
      
      Glad to hear it nasska.
      Apparently the suicide stats skyrocket at this time of year, with everything closed down to keep Christians happy.
      A young cop relation had to go to half a dozen such scenes over Christmas.
      Bloody religion…..
      
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      January 1, 2018 4:56pm
  - kowtow
    
    As opposed to compulsory sodomy?
    
    “This New Year’s Eve, I can’t wait to see the rainbow waterfall cascade from Sydney Harbour Bridge at midnight to celebrate a historic year for Sydney’s LGBTI community,” Moore wrote.’
    
    http://www.newnownext.com/sydney-new-years-2018-rainbow-fireworks-marriage-equality/12/2017/
    
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    January 1, 2018 10:58am
    - nasska
      
      Look on the bright side kowtow. Compulsory gayness will make Australia & NZ less attractive as destinations for Muslim immigrants. 🙂
      
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      January 1, 2018 11:13am
    - stephieboy
      
      kowtow, whose telling you to go out and sodomise ?
      
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      January 1, 2018 11:16am
- softail 1450
  
  nasska ,or post clap and free from op,,,,,
  
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  January 1, 2018 10:47am
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His aggressive start to the morning suggests a brain affected by … I hate to say it on New Year’s Day… but… syphilis.
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January 1, 2018 8:33am
- Awww C-mon
  
  Does your constant passive aggressive stance mean your in control of your own infection?
  This being on subject you seem to be knowledgeable on.
  
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  January 1, 2018 8:55am
- waikatogirl
  
  Was it standing room only at your NY Eve party Morrissey? ?
  
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  January 1, 2018 9:13am
  - Morrissey
    
    Well, it wasn’t quite the barn-burning mad shindig it used to be. On the plus side, we have several dozen cases of wine and spirits and beer to see us through most of 2018.
    
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    January 1, 2018 1:33pm
- softail 1450
  
  morronissey ,can you tell us what the other symptoms are since going by your posts you’ve been suffering from that ailment for many years?
  
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  January 1, 2018 10:49am
VicParking

Happy new year to the 100 monkeys that work at the failing newspaper bringing us the news. Happy new year to the Comrades at Red Radio who bring us our daily dose of the great leaders achievements.
Happy new year to those at WO and the Standard who bring us nothing worth reading.
Happy new year to our politicians who bring us wasted space of proportions not seen since 2007.
Happy new year H2, this will be the year you rise like the phoenix and hopefully incenerate the COL to ashes.
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January 1, 2018 8:42am
- Inandout
  
  I disagree that WO brings us nothing worth reading. Milo is a shining example of clear thinkers, and how he handles socialists and flakes.
  
  https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_medium/public/thumbnails/image/2015/03/04/11/isis2.jpg
  
  WO mentions Nicky Hager, who I chanced to sight while on holiday. He was with a young woman, who hopefully was his daughter, at a supermarket. She was choosing and he was hanging back with a stupid smirk on his face.
  
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  January 1, 2018 8:59am
  - softail 1450
    
    inandout ,that wasn’t his face ,the POS has shaved his arse and was walking backwards.
    
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    January 1, 2018 10:55am
  - stephieboy
    
    Inandout , is this Milo ? The one who suggested in certain situations pedophilia is OK
    
    https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos
    
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    January 1, 2018 11:20am
    - All_on_Red
      
      Telling lies again Stephie.
      He said older men having relationships with young men. Not children.
      Weren’t you trying to justify your perving at ‘young’ women?
      
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      January 1, 2018 11:26am
      - stephieboy
        
        All on Wed , but I don’t perv young women and unlike possibly you I don’t find the female form disgusting and shameful !
        
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        January 1, 2018 11:37am
      - All_on_Red
        
        ‘Unlike possibly you’
        Is that one of those ‘questions’ you think aren’t insults?
        Stephie – Wake up. Perhaps you should stop being so rude.
        Dear Father John…
        
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        January 1, 2018 11:42am
      - stephieboy
        
        I suggest you take a closer look at that link . Scroll down to Downfall .
        
        Here it is again ,
        
        https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos
        
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        January 1, 2018 11:44am
      - All_on_Red
        
        Nice bit of selective editing
        Here’s the transcript
        Milo: “You’re misunderstanding what pedophilia means. Pedophilia is not a sexual attraction to somebody 13-years-old who is sexually mature. Pedophilia is attraction to children who have not reached puberty. Pedophilia is attraction to people who don’t have functioning sex organs yet. Who have not gone through puberty. Who are too young to be able (unclear and cut off by others)…That’s not what we are talking about. You don’t understand what pedophilia is if you are saying I’m defending it because I’m certainly not.”
        
        By your definition since you were perving at teenagers you are a pedophile too.
        What is it with religious people who are creepy towards young girls.
        
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        January 1, 2018 11:54am
      - holysheet
        
        The difference between them and us is we know right from wrong. The likes of stoopidboy know they can commit all sort of damage, go to their church, confess all their wrongdoing and be forgiven by their sky fairy. It’s all in their mind however. We used to commit these nutters to the looney bins.
        Now thanks the all the progresives they live among us. Be afraid, be very afraid.
        
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        January 1, 2018 12:56pm
    - stephieboy
      
      All on Red , now just for a moment imagine if that freak had been one of Hilary Clinton’s aides ?
      
      What then ?
      
      Aye !
      
      I think that many of Trump’s supporters are obviously distancing themselves from the plague .
      
      http://thehill.com/homenews/media/358438-billionaire-trump-backer-cuts-ties-to-milo-yiannopoulos-distances-from-bannon
      
      Holysheet ,as always trying to make sense !
      
      LOL
      
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      January 1, 2018 1:11pm
    - Inandout
      
      You twist what Milo meant stephie and you know it. I laugh when you speak of the female form because Muslim women are covered in black from head to toes. It would take a gender trained person to pick a male sack from a female sack.
      
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      January 1, 2018 4:00pm
      - Don the Kiwi
        
        Yeah I&O.
        They’re all a sack of shit. 🙂
        
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        January 1, 2018 5:45pm
wiseowl

Happy New Year to all right thinking people.
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January 1, 2018 8:43am
Happychappy

Winz will be handing out plenty of food Vouchers after the festive season as my wife said she has never seen a busier xmas in the countdown supermarket she has worked at for over 15 years. Without pushing the poverty button she also commented on how the so called poor seem to have plenty of money this year to enjoy the festive season, so obviously Jacinda will take lots of credit for the equality that her magic wand has produced.
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January 1, 2018 8:55am
- JibberJabber
  
  The with cognitive dissonance that is endemic to our media, they always seem to miss the contradiction of the endless items on the ever increasing queues at the Auckland City Mission which are followed by Items on the ever increasing congestion at the Malls and Millions/Billions of dollars spent over the holiday break.
  And yet poverty is always getting worse (according to the perennial glass is always empty left)in this country.
  
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  January 1, 2018 9:04am
- Tauhei Notts
  
  My wife likes visiting Countdown solely because it makes her feel like a young nymph, when she sees so many lardos there. The choice on the shelves is pathetic, though.
  Interestingly she visited Sylvia Park on a late shopping night and was surprised to see so many trimly built women there with big fat men alongside them. Apparently they so hate living alone that they will put up with those couch potatoes.
  
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  January 1, 2018 9:18am
  - Morrissey
    
    “Young nymph”?!!?!!!?!!?
    
    https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/nintchdbpict000018381352.jpg?strip=all&w=752
    
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    January 1, 2018 7:44pm
    - Don the Kiwi
      
      Nah – that’s his mother-in-law. 🙂
      
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      January 1, 2018 8:10pm
- GazzaW
  
  ……..and all well within the 100 days HC. In fact there were reports of immediate improvements in poverty levels on 24 September. Such are Jacinda’s miraculous powers.
  
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  January 1, 2018 9:35am
hullkiwi

Happy New Year to all. May everyone have a prosperous new year and enjoy those adventures that life may through at us, and remain positive.

Now on another note & sorry to start the climate debate, but please can someone explain how North America is freezing with record low temperatures?…..Given they are the worst polluters etc.

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/world/niagara-falls-freezes-after-wind-chill-factor-drops-temperature-to-67%C2%B0c-degrees-across-usa-ahead-of-new-years-eve/ar-BBHwOql?li=AAaeXZz&ocid=spartandhp
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January 1, 2018 8:59am
- Inandout
  
  China takes the prize for mega pollution. If consumers could see what putrid water China used in their food products they would avoid them like the plague. I am amazed our food manufacturers aren’t required to announce where their ingredients are sourced.
  
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  January 1, 2018 9:05am
  - waikatogirl
    
    That’s why I avoid food from China… NZ has mandatory health and safety in every area so “country of origin” should be compulsory on all food labels. ??
    
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    January 1, 2018 9:25am
  - kowtow
    
    “From tainted additives in noodles, to growth hormones in pork, to industrial filler posing as meat, presenter Steve Chao finds that anything is possible for producers looking to cut corners and make a fast buck.”
    
    http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/101east/2014/08/food-thought-201486125625816917.html
    
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    January 1, 2018 9:28am
  - holysheet
    
    To be fair, China is spending billions in trying to get their environment upgraded. They are shutting down 1000’s of dirty mining sites. We in the west can expect to pay more for goods. An example is Magnesium. There was a shortage of magnesium oxide last year. This is sourced almost entirely from China at what were cheap prices in the past. Now they are having to clean up their act, at huge costs, it makes alternate suppliers more competative.
    
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    January 1, 2018 9:40am
    - Liberty
      
      It not only mining the Government is clamping down on.
      Manufactures are being told to clean up. Change to gas
      Coal is out. There is none of this “ we will think about it for a few years
      As it is done in NZ.
      The Chinese Government is being very draconian.
      The Manufacture has to fix the problem by yesterday or they are closed down.
      
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      January 1, 2018 11:04am
    - stephieboy
      
      holysheet , not forgetting a massive investment in alternative sustainable energy like Solar Power ,
      
      https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-20/china-on-pace-for-record-solar-installations-as-forecasts-jump
      
      Do you think US and other fossil fuel interests and others like ClimateDeniers have something to learn from this ?
      
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      January 1, 2018 11:23am
    - Inandout
      
      Holysheet, if wealthy Chinese hesitate to buy Chinese made food you know it is shit. They opt instead for Euro food.
      
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      January 1, 2018 4:03pm
- VicParking
  
  Remember its not Global warming but climate change. Over population causes excess farting which causes cooling. Dont laugh its as true as any other of the hair brained ideas.
  
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  January 1, 2018 9:12am
- JIV
  
  Its the same argument that the two hurricanes that hit the USA earlier this year prove AGW, just as long as you dont look at the previous 142 months that were bereft of such winds.
  
  In fact all thats required now is a picture of a polar bear starving. It proves the most convoluted theory ever made up by man.
  
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  January 1, 2018 9:18am
  - G152
    
    Don’t forget the crumbling edge of the ice shelf. That’s a keeper.
    And the long long look up the glacier.
    No snow in our future, the ice free Arctic.
    Just a few
    
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    January 1, 2018 10:12am
  - DifferentPerspective
    
    Sadly though for the Chicken Little Alarmists, since Leonardo di (I fly my eyebrow groomer out to the Oscars from Australia – fuck the carbon cost) Caprio highlighted the tragic plight of the starving polar bears… their population has ballooned upwards and sightings of fat polar bears is outstripping the numbers of obese PI beneficiaries at Countdown.
    
    If you want to fix anything, get a deranged socialist to call out a crisis.
    
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    January 1, 2018 2:59pm
    - GoVege
      
      Very few P I people are beneficiaries DP, although a few double dip to support the family back in the Islands.
      It’s true they have an unhealthy obsession with greasy food.
      Pity, as they would be the best looking people in the country otherwise.
      
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      January 1, 2018 4:40pm
      - GoVege
        
        P.S. DP: it’s Maori who are mostly beneficiaries.
        How else do you support 15 children on unskilled wages except with the state’s assistance?
        Most P I women, when they escape the Islands, endeavour to only have 3 or 4 children, even with their chauvinist husbands doing their best to keep them continually pregnant.
        Unfortunately many Maori women are brainwashed that their only worth is in pushing out ten or more babies.
        
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        January 1, 2018 4:46pm
- jcuk
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  There was an excellent article in The Standard explaining it is because the change of weather patterns and jet streams which permit cold arctic to come south and warm equitorial to move north resulting in cold northern area of the states while hot dry conditions causing fire in CA.
  I note more worthwhile subjects being discussed on the Standard than on KB which apart from David’s contibutions are pretty purile and back biting which I used to associate with the left.
  
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  January 1, 2018 9:23am
  - JIV
    
    I assume there was an accurate prediction of the freezing temperatures decades ago. They havent just made up an explanation to suit the circumstances, have they? Surely as the science has been settled for some time now, this was anticipated and we should now look closer at their predictions as they prove ever more accurate.
    
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    January 1, 2018 9:34am
    - kowtow
      
      Making it up to fit their agenda.
      
      Al Jazeera is running a story that rising sea levels threaten Cuba. Using one coastal town as “proof”.
      I opine it’s all lies and instead of rising sea levels what they have is coastal erosion caused by population pressures and poor planning.
      
      ” Erosion is seen today at around 84 percent of the beaches from one end of Cuba to the other.
      
      Among the types of human intervention that cause erosion, the researcher noted the removal of sand for different uses, the incorrect location of docks and breakwaters at the entrance to canals, as well as construction on areas of natural sand dunes.”
      
      http://www.cubaheadlines.com/2012/08/28/35987/more_than_400_cuban_beaches_affected_by_erosion.html
      
      Same thing happening in the Pacific , but honkeys’ emissions must be blamed , not the third world practises of the natives.
      
      Same with plastic pollution. It’s not honkey whose at fault……..
      
      “The Nile and the Niger in Africa, the Yangze, Yellow, Haihe, and Mekong in China, and the Ganges and Indus in India are the chief culprits of environmentally disastrous pollution, according to the study”.
      
      https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/891361/Plastic-waste-pollution-90-per-cent-rivers-India-China-Africa
      
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      January 1, 2018 9:55am
  - kowtow
    
    How does that explain the 1923 fire?
    Bare in mind the current warming climate pattern started in about the 1890’s.
    
    “The 1923 Berkeley Fire was a conflagration which consumed some 640 structures, including 584 homes in the densely built neighborhoods north of the campus of the University of California in Berkeley, California on September 17, 1923.”
    
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1923_Berkeley,_California_fire
    
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    January 1, 2018 9:38am
  - All_on_Red
    
    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/skirball-fire-cause-illegal-cooking-fire-los-angeles-fire-department/
    
    Regarding the Polar Vortex, observational evidence doesn’t prove or disprove AGW is having any effect in term of increased or decreased frequency or extremes.
    The National Climatic Data Center has a page where you can plot the % of the country with a extreme low minimum temperatures (blue bars). The percentages are declining, which does NOT suggest cold waves are getting more extensive.
    This graph goes only from 1910 to 2014 but the point remains. It’s been hot in the past and it’s been cold. It’s been very hot in the past and it’s been very cold.
    http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WJQaLQsQGb8/UsuY8SK2CFI/AAAAAAAAYsc/CLeFdRMCYCg/s1600/multigraph.png
    
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    January 1, 2018 9:41am
    - freethinker
      
      The common factor throughout the f Ice Ages and Warm periods is the Sun and I suggest its variable output is a major factor.
      
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      January 1, 2018 10:38am
  - flipper
    
    Time you came back from dreamland !
    
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    January 1, 2018 10:57am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Ocean cycles (Pacific Decadal Oscillations, El Nino, Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillations) are major drivers of our weather systems.
  The Northern hemisphere is in a La Nina phase at the moment; and as a few informed meteorologists predicted a few months back.. there would be a repeat of severe winter weather for Britain and the Atlantic side of N. America.
  
  https://www.express.co.uk/news/weather/868400/winter-weather-uk-2017-britain-la-nina-big-freeze-forecast
  
  https://weather.com/storms/winter/news/2017-12-28-arctic-record-cold-outbreak-forecast-midwest-east-south-new-year-2018
  
  The climate models promulgated by IPCC, etc are useless for forecasting anything in the real world.
  
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  January 1, 2018 9:53am
  - wiseowl
    
    Thanks for the whirlpool link Maggie.
    It gave me an idea and last night while in the pool. I had the chicks take off their bikini tops for a physics lesson.
    Making a double whirlpool with bikini cups was so much fun.
    
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    January 1, 2018 10:28am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      I always told my pupils that fyzixs iz phun.
      
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      January 1, 2018 10:46am
Digmen1

Our winter was very long and cold
I’d like to go back to Global Warming!
In the meantime I call it the weather.
PS
Let me know when the water is rising
PPS
The main problem is over population is some countries
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January 1, 2018 9:40am
- waikatogirl
  
  As Billy Connelly states, “there is no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothes”. ?
  
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  January 1, 2018 9:50am
  - kowtow
    
    “Police have named a man who was found dead on a beach in northeast England wearing just his socks.”
    
    https://news.sky.com/story/police-identify-man-found-dead-on-whitley-bay-beach-wearing-only-his-socks-11190354
    
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    January 1, 2018 10:15am
- Harkman
  
  Yes, much of the US is the coldest on record, thanks in large part to global warming.
  
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  January 1, 2018 10:56am
All_on_Red

Happy New Year everyone
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January 1, 2018 9:47am
Rodney Randall

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/nation-world/world/article192361779.html

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Sunday issued a “red alert” for more unity in 2018 after what he called a year of setbacks.

Nationalism and xenophobia are on the rise, inequality is growing, climate change is accelerating and the world is seeing horrific violations of human rights, he said. Global anxieties about nuclear weapons were the highest since the Cold War.

The Portuguese diplomat made no mention of specific countries in his brief New Year’s message.

Guterres said he took office a year ago with an appeal that 2017 would be a year of peace.

“Unfortunately — in fundamental ways, the world has gone in reverse,” he said. “On New Year’s Day 2018, I am not issuing an appeal. I am issuing an alert — a red alert for our world.”

Guterres was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees from 2005 to 2015

A softening up for the 2018 Migration Compact and its associated hate speech laws.
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January 1, 2018 10:07am
- Rodney Randall
  
  “We will decide how best to control our borders and who will be allowed to enter our country. The global approach in the New York declaration is simply not compatible with US sovereignty.” – Nikki Haley US ambassador to the UN
  
  Helen Clark, Jacinda Adern, Golriz Ghahraman = UN poodles.
  
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  January 1, 2018 10:36am
  - nasska
    
    Someone should remind those who want to flood our country with poorly vetted, misogynist, third world refugees that if you add shit to ice cream nothing is improved.
    
    It merely spoils the ice cream.
    
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    January 1, 2018 10:57am
    - GoVege
      
      Same with paying gang members to have 14 kids.
      Do they really think all our tax money goes to the KIDS?
      
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      January 1, 2018 4:32pm
Manolo

Con-man Al Gore is disappointed:
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/dec/28/global-warming-films-flop-box-office-2017/

Climate change got its close-up in 2017. A gaggle of films either name-checked Al Gore’s biggest fear or built their narratives around it.

The timing, in theory, couldn’t be better for Hollywood bean counters: Three major hurricanes. Massive fires in the West. Record-setting chills. Media reports routinely connected the disasters with a warming planet.

Yet audiences stayed away from films influenced by eco-concerns. Far, far away.
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January 1, 2018 10:33am
Brigitte

By the way, the United States is NOT the world. Temperatures at present are half a degree warmer than quarter of a century ago – that’s talking about GLOBAL temperatures (see here: http://cci-reanalyzer.org/wx/DailySummary/#t2anom).

The wavy polar vortex means that at present cold air is coming down from the Arctic and making Canada and North East US very cold. The rest of the world is rather warm.

The same wavy polar vortex can also have warm air go north from the equator making for unseasonably warm weather, as happened in the same US states only a couple of Xmas’ ago (see here: http://mashable.com/2015/12/24/record-warm-christmas-temp-tracker/#cyGGv89jhuqC).

In other news, happy new year everyone.
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January 1, 2018 10:50am
- All_on_Red
  
  Yep, the temp goes up and it goes down. Parts of the world are warm and parts are cold.
  We are currently.36C warmer than in 1980
  http://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/UAH_LT_1979_thru_November_2017_v6.jpg
  
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  January 1, 2018 11:30am
  - stephieboy
    
    It actually says 0.36 C warmer
    
    LOL .
    
    Correct me if I’m wrong ?
    
    https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/global-temperature/
    
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    January 1, 2018 11:48am
    - All_on_Red
      
      Sure,
      You’re wrong
      Scientifically you need over 30 years for a trend to be determined Your source refers to a longer time frame . It’s more like.85 for 100 years which isn’t huge Rise anyway.
      The UAH series is 37 years long and is the most accurate temp measurement system we have. So that period being measured is accurate.
      Stevenson Screens have significant margins of error.
      Do some research on the science of Metrology. Those NASA figures are dubious. They admit that which is why they are phasing out the Stevenson Screens.
      How’s that?
      
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      January 1, 2018 11:57am
      - Brigitte
        
        Yes and you cherry picked 1980 which was one of the warmer years at the start to get your 0.36C warmer. If you’d used the first year of the series (1979 and the 13 month average) it would currently be 0.6C warmer. But as you point out it’s the longer term trend that counts and that is warming at an alarming rate.
        
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        January 1, 2018 12:03pm
      - stephieboy
        
        All on Red ,
        
        You’re Wrong .
        
        For the time being I will defer to this research ,
        
        30 years of above-average temperatures means the climate has changed
        
        https://phys.org/news/2015-02-years-above-average-temperatures-climate.html
        
        And these 52 Nobel Laureates too,
        
        https://qz.com/444787/a-group-of-nobel-laureates-have-signed-a-declaration-calling-for-urgent-action-on-climate-change/
        
        Rather than Trump , US Fossil Fuel interests and alt right climate denial pseudo science !
        
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        January 1, 2018 12:05pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        ‘Cherry picked’
        Don’t be a moron. The Satellite wasn’t launched until 1979 and that’s when they started collecting Data.
        How about you stop referring to data from instruments which aren’t accurate.
        It’s pointless talking about a year to year rise of, say .17 when the margin of error of the measuring instrument is .5-1 C
        Really, wake up.
        
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        January 1, 2018 12:07pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        But let’s use your Data.
        What about GISTEMP, because it has a reputation as a heavily adjusted, warmist friendly, temperature series.
        Check out this graph.
        Note the last decade warming has eased.
        https://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/clip_image0049.jpg
        
        Of course in the last two years we have had an El Niño which means warmth. And as the UAH data shows, now that has passed the temperature has dropped.
        You didn’t look at the graph either did you? IT DOES START AT 1979
        
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        January 1, 2018 12:12pm
      - Brigitte
        
        Just been to GISTEMP and downloaded the monthly data. I’ll note that this series excludes urban areas in order to avoid potential problems of bias.
        
        Taking your linked example I can reproduce the graph and slopes. But, when I bring it up to date by having the decades finishing on November 2017 (or 2007, 1997, 1987) the result is somewhat different. The final decade goes from 0.04C/decade slope to a rather higher 0.44C/decade slope. And it’s not like the link is an old one either so no excuses for using 5 year old data unless they were cherry picking to get the desired result.
        
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        January 1, 2018 12:42pm
      - stephieboy
        
        All On Red ,” Whats up with that ” ??
        
        Anthony Watts ??,
        
        https://www.desmogblog.com/anthony-watts
        
        and ,
        
        Anthony watts rational wiki
        
        Favoured son of American Thinker , Fox etc, etc
        
        LOL
        
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        January 1, 2018 12:55pm
      - 2clever4U
        
        The UAH series is 37 years long and is the most accurate temp measurement system we have.
        
        Unadjusted, or v6?
        
        Time you converted some of your “kinetic energy” pushing bullshit round in circles into some “potential” for yourself … you don’t have much.
        
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        January 1, 2018 1:14pm
      - Brito
        
        Wanna know something funny?
        
        A lot of temperature gauges were set in areas with a lot of bitumen and concrete.
        
        Reflective light and radiated heat caused the temperatures to show an upward trend as the amount of seal increased around them.
        
        Fuck me with a temperature probe…
        
        https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/09/22/new-usgs-study-shows-heat-retaining-concrete-and-asphalt-have-encroached-upon-us-climate-stations/
        
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        January 1, 2018 2:01pm
sooty

Prince Philip, buy that man a beer. Or a single malt. You are a ledgend! May you wit never cease.
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January 1, 2018 10:52am
- Rachael Membery
  
  Too late to be pc now, he would be a hoot.
  
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  January 1, 2018 12:12pm
  - nasska
    
    I love some of Prince Philip’s quotes. Few have done more than him to offend the perpetually offended. eg:
    
    To a British trekker in Papua New Guinea, 1998: “You managed not to get eaten then?”
    
    At party in 2004: “Bugger the table plan, give me my dinner!”
    
    To Scottish driving instructor, 1995: “How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?”
    
    To Aboriginal leader William Brin, Queensland, 2002: “Do you still throw spears at each other?”
    
    To Simon Kelner, republican editor of The Independent, at Windsor Castle reception: “What are you doing here?” “I was invited, sir.” Philip: “Well, you didn’t have to come.”
    
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    January 1, 2018 12:35pm
Manolo

Lovely, peaceful and tolerant cult, isn’t it?
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/iran-said-protesters-pay-high-price-break-law-083652733.html

Anti-government protesters demonstrated in Iran on Sunday in defiance of a warning by the authorities of a tough crackdown, extending for a fourth day one of the most audacious challenges to the clerical leadership since pro-reform unrest in 2009.

Giving his first public reaction to the protests, President Hassan Rouhani appealed for calm, saying Iranians had the right to protest and criticize the authorities.

But he warned, according to official media: “The government will show no tolerance for those who damage public properties, violate public order and create unrest in the society.”
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January 1, 2018 11:02am
- Harkman
  
  “Islam, the religion of peace.” ?
  
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  January 1, 2018 11:09am
- stephieboy
  
  Manolo , your New Year’s resolution action plan to conquer and subdue the world’s 1.3 billion Muslims
  
  LOL
  
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  January 1, 2018 12:08pm
  - Rachael Membery
    
    I will settle for them not conquering and subduing, me, mine and the rest of Western civilisation.
    
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    January 1, 2018 12:28pm
    - stephieboy
      
      How will you do that other than hammering away at the keyboards on KB ?
      
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      January 1, 2018 1:06pm
      - Digmen1
        
        Yes I’d like some realistic, practical, workable suggestions on how we could do it.
        
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        January 1, 2018 1:15pm
      - Rachael Membery
        
        By not being a white apologist for a start, being proud of my culture and what it has achieved through the enlightenment for one thing, I do not want to go back to the dark ages.
        If you think that that would be a good thing, does that mean that you wish to oppress women, again?
        Are we getting too uppity?
        
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        January 1, 2018 5:56pm
  - Manolo
    
    Vile, barbaric and violent cult. Believe me, stephieboy, I’ve seen it from a close distance.
    
    My advice: stay away from primitive Islam.
    
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    January 1, 2018 1:10pm
    - stephieboy
      
      Manolo, yours is the sleep of reason and conscious irrational fear .
      
      Walked through Mt Roskill stan in the fear of your life ?
      
      LOL
      
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      January 1, 2018 1:18pm
      - Jack5
        
        Duty Stephie – that is, Mrs Stephie:
        
        This “LOL” you sprinkle your contributions with – have you thought of trying valium to help?
        
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        January 1, 2018 2:07pm
    - RalphT
      
      Isn’t most Islam primitive? Better to stay away from Islam fullstop.
      
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      January 1, 2018 1:33pm
Huevon

Happy New Year ladies! Here’s some prejudice to trigger the lefties out there….

In Dunners for the holidays catching up with family. Plenty more ragheads here than ever seen before, I got concerned when the fireworks started exploding last night. Sadly only a matter of time e before the real deal…
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January 1, 2018 11:06am
- stephieboy
  
  Huevon , ZZZZZZZZZ….
  
  There fixed for you .
  
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  January 1, 2018 7:35pm
Sofia

Rāhui in place after whānau spread ashes near boat ramp – stuff

The “unheard of” scattering of ashes near a boat ramp in coastal Taranaki has caused upset to locals and a ban on collecting kaimoana.

Following Christmas, ashes were scattered by a whānau near the boat ramp at Bayly Rd, just past Warea.
– https://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/100271101/rhui-in-place-after-whnau-spread-ashes-near-boat-ramp

This article raises a question: Does the word “whanau” just mean “family” in a sort of “we are using as many Maori words as we think our readers will understand” or does it specifically mean “a Maori family” which then perhaps carries the implication they do not know traditions as they should.

The use of Maori in this item does nothing to clarify the actual content.

It appears the contamination of the ashes bans gathering seafood (fishing or shell fish) for a 10 kilometre length of coast, until further notice.

Further, why does a rah apply to cremated remains?
Once the body is cremated, all that remains are materials that are natural to the body and safe for human contact. With knowledge of the makeup of cremated ashes and how those remains are made, you can rest easy with the understanding that human ashes do not pose a health hazard. Cremated remains are mostly dry calcium phosphates with some minor minerals, such as salts of sodium and potassium.
So does a rahui, for the reason some ashes were dropped in the ocean – not an “intact” missing drowned person – restrain Non-Maori or not?
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January 1, 2018 1:09pm
- holysheet
  
  How do they know it was cremated ash? Might have been from the BBQ or fire pit. If they do DNA check they better hope pork wasn’t on the BBQ menu.
  
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  January 1, 2018 1:28pm
  - Sofia
    
    … neither the trust nor mana whenua were informed prior to the act taking place.
    But word had quickly spread after the whānau posted to social media notifying the ashes had been scattered. They were very apologetic for their actions, she said.
    
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    January 1, 2018 1:53pm
- Longknives
  
  Considering some of the ‘delicacies’ Maori were wolfing down on as recently as the 19th Century I struggle to understand why they are so precious about Human Remains now..
  
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  January 1, 2018 6:40pm
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    Money (and exercise of power derived through obsequious leftie idiocy as means of obtaining said money)
    
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    January 1, 2018 7:53pm
Rachael Membery

So who is giving up smoking with the 10% increase?
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January 1, 2018 1:10pm
- Jack5
  
  The rise will encourage more attacks on isolated tobacco-stocking dairies, and calls for ever more police for Auckland.
  
  The question is: will the extra revenue from the tax increase match the cost of extra policing?
  
  There’s much talk of how much Auckland contributes to the economy. But is it a net liability? Vast consumer of imports, exports little. Spreading into some of the country’s best and previous horticultural land. Calling out for huge national investment in its housing…
  
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  January 1, 2018 2:01pm
Doubledimp

Breaking: Lorde is subject of full page ad taken out in Washington post, criticizing her for skipping israel but playing russia (and linking russia to syria).

https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/music/100278337/proisrael-group-calls-lorde-a-bigot-in-fullpage-newspaper-ad

Guess she should have just kept her trap shut and it would have been a one day story.
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January 1, 2018 1:50pm
- SPC
  
  The specific targeting here (in the ad) is of New Zealand for our UN votes (Netanyahu suggested a near state of war with us over with the UNSC vote in Dec 2016), Lorde is just used for double down on the singling out for targeting/exampling purposes.
  
  The purpose is to call for smaller nations (easy marks) to be made to feel at risk if they stand up to Israel. Trump’s threat to nations that voted against the US in the General Assembly vote resulted in many abstentions and non appearances – even if the majority of members of the UN did turn up and oppose the US position.
  
  The Israelis are ramping up their attacks to prepare for the votes to come.
  
  The important UN votes to come are
  
  1. The UN determining a replacement for the USA as mediator of the peace process between Israel and Palestine.
  2. A General Assembly vote recognising a Palestine state on 1967 borders (until any peace resulting any other borders).
  
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  January 1, 2018 7:50pm
  - SPC
    
    It is a strange mix of hubris and desperation, it will intimidate some and it is a form of bravado boasting of their power.
    
    But many will note it follows the pattern of holding border customs revenue for Palestine and not passing it on, to blackmail the PA into appeasement etc. It just reveals the practice of bullying is now systematic/cultural within Zionist activism and apologetics.
    
    It will alienate those in the middle ground and will lose them what credibility they have left within the human rights orbit of democratic society.
    
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    January 1, 2018 7:57pm
    - SPC
      
      Of course there are two places in New Zealand where attacks on our government and society by Zionists are popular, Whaleoil and Kiwiblog. But they are not representative of New Zealand on the matter, nor for that matter of any party in the New Zealand parliament.
      
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      January 1, 2018 8:03pm
- Jack5
  
  The free advertising continue to roll out for Lorde.
  
  Her singing doesn’t appeal to me and she dances like a hippo might, but Lorde, or her managers, are brilliant at PR.
  
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  January 1, 2018 8:05pm
Jack5

The following is a snippet from an article by Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph about the British Empire. The article was sparked by the savage reaction of the Left to an earlier newspaper article by Nigel Biggar, the Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at Oxford. He was branded a bigot and a racist by Left-wing students, while 58 Oxford historians signed a letter denouncing him, followed by 170 of their colleagues from other universities.

Sadly the article is behind the pay wall:

Bertrand Russell, himself an anti-imperialist, pointed out long ago that victimhood does not confer virtue. The opposite is also true: being a powerful and advanced country doesn’t make you wrong. The Empire was morally mixed in every sense. Parts of it, notably India, were seized in acts of shocking rapaciousness that were in no sense mitigated by Westminster’s vague disapproval. Other parts were acquired largely thanks to anti-slavery campaigners. Some countries, such as Malta, asked to join. Others asked and were refused: Ethiopia, Mexico, Uruguay, Sarawak, Katanga and Morocco.

There were territories, including Kenya and Cyprus, that broke away following monstrous acts of violence and repression. There were others that were brought to independence without a shot being fired in anger.

Hannan says:

A chunk of the Left – I don’t think many of the signatory historians would take issue with being described that way – have a blinding obsession with race. Anti-racism is the highest card in their deck, trumping women’s rights, free speech and everything else. Once you press the story of Britain’s imperial episode into their racial paradigm, everything the Empire did must, by definition, be wrong.
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January 1, 2018 1:54pm
- Ross12
  
  I’m not sure about including Sarawak in that list Jack. I recently visited the museum in Kuching which displays the history of the Brookes family and it’s influence on western Borneo. It started with James Brooke helping the Sulltan of Brunei to quel a major uprising of the “natives”. In return the Sultan gave a large area of land to Brookes who became known as the White Raj as he set up administrative system working along side the locals. His son Charles carried on the work to a much greater extent. he and subsequent family leaders were also referred to as the White Raj.
  After WWII, during which the Japanese took control, the UK Government pushed to include Sarawak and Sabar into the Empire. A large movement was setup to avoid this and go back to having the Brookes continue the role they had prior to the war. The movement failed but it was not long before the two areas joined what we now know as Malaysia.
  
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  January 1, 2018 3:32pm
  - Jack5
    
    That’s interesting, Ross.
    
    If it hadn’t been for the British, Aussie, NZ, Fijian troops in the Malaysian campaign against communism, and then in the Confrontation with Indonesia, Sarawak would probably now be part of Indonesia.
    
    The Indonesians are colonialist and expansionist, as in west Papua, handed over to them by the Leftist UN when the Dutch quit. One colony, new masters.
    
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    January 1, 2018 8:33pm
- SPC
  
  A bit silly, the precious critics should have enjoyed the platform for their criticism to censorship of the issue.
  
  One wonders if there is a hubris involved, equivalent to the sole super power hubris of the USA PNAC.
  
  Where the progressives feel their political correctness has prevailed (or should) in their account of history (as fixed by the winners), and cannot be called into question by any review/new perspective on the past.
  
  A bit early to call, given the era of dominant democratic powers in the world (1945-20xx ) with a purported respect for equal human rights may not even last one century.
  
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  January 1, 2018 8:28pm
Brigitte

Further to my comments on the US/Canada being cold, it is possible that the Niagara Falls could freeze over. Last time it did some intrepid daredevils climbed the falls (which is actually a lot safer than going over them in a barrel) – as seen here: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/01/150129-niagara-falls-ice-climb-first-ascent-red-bull-canada-gadd/
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January 1, 2018 3:05pm
- Manolo
  
  Do we need further proof of AGW?, shouts a pious stephieboy clutching his dog-eared copy of the Quran.
  
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  January 1, 2018 5:19pm
  - Don the Kiwi
    
    A rarely recognised truth, Manolo. 🙂
    
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    January 1, 2018 5:49pm
    - stephieboy
      
      Don the Kiwi and Manolo when did you both start experience hearing voices and being watched ?
      
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      January 1, 2018 6:52pm
      - Manolo
        
        Years ago, when the Indonesian Islamic police had me under surveillance. Hence my escape to this free country. 😀
        
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        January 1, 2018 7:23pm
      - stephieboy
        
        Manolo , os did you seek Asylum in the NZ Embassy and gained refugee status by Foreign Affairs ?
        
        LOL
        
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        January 1, 2018 7:28pm
      - Jack5
        
        It would be surprising if Manolo got refugee status. That seems to be reserved for Muslims.
        
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        January 1, 2018 8:07pm
UpandComer

https://thegoldwater.com/news/14594-350-Arrests-in-Pedo-Ring-after-Cincinnati-FBI-s-Operation-Pacifier-ends-Dark-Web-Child-Porn-Site

I know when I quote the Kabbala or refer to Laura Silsby Clintons best friend conducting child sex trafficking in Haiti it makes people look askance. Due to the media Weinstein’s all blacking out everything, it’s hard to grasp. But it’s real. It literally doesn’t matter what Trump does, as long as he keeps fighting the pedo-ocracy and its facilitators in media, academia, and the rainbow movement. This is real, this is happening. The Dutroux affair this isn’t. It won’t be swept under the rug. There are going to be a lot of mainstream MPs from the US going before military tribunals in Guantanamo.
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January 1, 2018 3:07pm
- stephieboy
  
  Upandcomer , the allegations of sex trafficking in Haiti belong with Pizzaagate , Dortmund Sheriff Arpaio and Ron Hubbard etc stupidity ,
  
  https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2017/09/29/arpaio-says-hell-resume-hunt-obamas-birth-certificate/718598001/
  
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  January 1, 2018 6:55pm
UpandComer

https://truepundit.com/saudi-prince-al-waleed-bin-talals-ex-wife-tells-orgies-underage-girls-drugs-bangladeshi-children-traded-sex-slaves/

https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/dec/17/nancy-pelosis-super-pac-keeps-donations-from-backp/

http://thegoldwater.com/news/13823-Pedophile-Walt-Disney-Executive-Jonathan-Heely-Arrested-for-Multiple-Child-Rape-Charges

The Washington Post even noted high level DNC taking and keeping money from convicted child sex traffickers. I love the arguments that say if it’s on a peripheral news source, it can’t be right. As if the New York Times will implicated their own. There is acres of well sourced cited material. And yes, the rainbow shines all over this.
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January 1, 2018 3:14pm
- stephieboy
  
  Upandcomer , undoubtedly the POTUS will severe diplomatic ties and impose sanctions( DPRK style )on the Royal House of Saud if allegations are found to be true ?
  
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  January 1, 2018 7:01pm
  - UpandComer
    
    Of course, you don’t even deny it. Well one of them apparently recently was tortured to death by US affiliated paramilitaries. So I imagine they’ll clean house. Man, 3000 pedophiles, many of them part of the homosexual movement in the US jailed by Trump already, and he hasn’t even really got started.
    Anthony wiener the retard somehow hasn’t been suicided yet, it’s profoundly amazing, so he must be naming names. Looks like Mr Google resignation was one. Chrissy Teigen can’t leave the country either. Shame.
    
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1249280/Haiti-earthquake-Missionaries-led-Laura-Silsby-accused-stealing-orphans.html
    
    Oh look, here is Silsby stealing orphans. I wonder what was happening to those children? Less then 2% of Clintons money went to the actual charity, so it presumably wasn’t charitable. You commie bastards deny reality until the last. The degree of psychic damage this is going to do to people like you once the way is clear for publication is going to be amazing. Trump is going to have seven more years to purge this evil. Anyone who wants to understand what this is look up the Dutroux affair first. Then read the Wikileaks summaries on /v/pizzagate and make up your own mind. Even if that’s too much, look up the Awan brothers and Clinton Foundation in Haiti.
    
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    January 1, 2018 7:21pm
    - stephieboy
      
      upandcomer ,
      
      ” .. 3000 pedophiles, many of them part of the homosexual movement in the US jailed by Trump already, and he hasn’t even really got started…”
      
      Can you document that ?
      
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      January 1, 2018 7:30pm
    - stephieboy
      
      WikiLeaks’ Latest ‘Find’ Is a Conspiracy Theory From Trump’s Subreddit
      
      The organization has spent the fall leaking hacked emails from the Clinton campaign, but it really had to reach for Thursday’s post about the Clintons and a ‘baby stealer’ in Haiti.
      
      “WikiLeaks posted a screenshot of a Reddit conspiracy theory on Thursday afternoon riddled with incorrect information that attempted to tie a “woman caught stealing children in Haiti with the Clintons.”
      At 1:40 p.m. ET, WikiLeaks’ Twitter account tweeted “Significant, if partisan, find showing how the Clintons supported child stealer Laura Silsby,” then linked to a post titled “BREAKING: I believe I have connected a convicted child abductor who was caught stealing children in Haiti with the Clintons.”
      “If we can connect the Clintons to a child abductor their campaign is DONE!!!” the post reads….”
      
      https://www.thedailybeast.com/wikileaks-latest-find-is-a-conspiracy-theory-from-trumps-subreddit
      
      Like Pizzagate the Haiti child abduction allegations are pure Bunk !
      
      Shall we give your gullibility a rest for the day !
      
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      January 1, 2018 8:13pm
DifferentPerspective

Golriz continues on with no sense of shame

WOBH usefully points out the lyin’ little liar in the Greens woodpile is still shouting out her sainthood on Twitter!

Al Jazeera is heralding her – nasty little 5th columnist.

And she “crushed it” how?
For crawling in to Parliament like an after thought on the specials???
For getting caught lying through her teeth?
For genocide defending?
For crass exaggeration?

I wonder what the muslim world mouthpiece thinks this is so great for????
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January 1, 2018 3:18pm
- Longknives
  
  For someone who snuck in on the List only after Special Votes she sure likes to brag!!
  *I know some people who know her ‘Professionally’- They tell me she is a compulsive bullshit artist and her whole life is a fabrication..
  
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  January 1, 2018 6:23pm
nasska

Only in the Bible could a man stand next to a naked woman & be tempted by a piece of fruit.
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January 1, 2018 3:22pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Do you suppose the man was gay, Nasska?
  
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  January 1, 2018 4:26pm
  - nasska
    
    If he was it blows the whole fairy tale apart Nostra. I don’t think the story would hold up even for the most delusional of believers when faced with that plus Cain & Abel begetting tribes of no hopers without a woman in sight other than their mother.
    
    Personally, were I God, I’d put a restraining order out on the lot of them! 🙂
    
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    January 1, 2018 4:34pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      Yay – my first downticks in 2018 from some sensitive petals!
      
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      January 1, 2018 4:50pm
      - nasska
        
        We’ve picked up a sad case who’s downticked 99% of the comments from 8AM Nostra.
        
        Add in some outraged believer in the Sky Fairy determined to earn his place in the next world & there you have your downtick score. 🙂
        
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        January 1, 2018 4:57pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Did Johnboy ever unmask his “Minus” friend, Nasska?
        
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        January 1, 2018 5:02pm
      - nasska
        
        Not that I remember Nostra. I reckon he’s a bit like me in that he sees downticks as proof that you’ve managed to offend a snowflake or a wanker.
        
        For bland go to ‘Your NZ’ or Whale’s site……for conflict & disagreement KB rules! 🙂
        
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        January 1, 2018 5:13pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Nasska:
        
        I’ve just checked YourNZ and the Happy New Year thread wasn’t exactly humming:
        
        However you see out 2017 and see in new year have a good one. It will be a quiet one for me.
        
        I think your “bland” description sums it up well! Pete wasn’t known as the Beige Badger for nothing after all!
        
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        January 1, 2018 5:26pm
    - Rachael Membery
      
      You forget Lilith.
      
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      January 1, 2018 6:27pm
      - SPC
        
        Women older than your mother do not really exist to young men, and even if they thought she did rumours are that she was the first of women to separate milk from the meat (to use the apple food metaphor) -she would have children but not lie down with the patriarchy/preferring women’s music etc.
        
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        January 1, 2018 7:35pm
- Inandout
  
  Cox’s Orange apple I would wager. In a good year our apples are huge and juicy and taste heavenly.
  
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  January 1, 2018 5:05pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Definitely not Cox’s Orange apple which is a domesticated apple.
    
    Anyway my version of the Bible doesn’t state what the fruit tree in the midst of the Garden was.
    
    Genesis 3:3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
    
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    January 1, 2018 6:00pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      Maggy:
      
      Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die
      
      You’d think they’d be slightly more specific when it came to documenting the “forbidden fruits” rule. As things stand, many people flout the rule by using bananas inappropriately on a daily basis!
      
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      January 1, 2018 6:01pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Probably safest to never eat fruit.
        Stick to bacon and eye fillet.
        
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        January 1, 2018 7:05pm
      - nasska
        
        It’s like I’ve been trying to convince GoVege Maggy.
        
        I’m a second level vegetarian……cows eat grass & I eat cows. 🙂
        
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        January 1, 2018 7:13pm
      - GoVege
        
        But how do you look in their big brown moo-cow eyes before you shoot ’em, nasska?
        Don’t have that problem with veges! 🙂
        
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        January 1, 2018 9:06pm
      - hullkiwi
        
        GV, don’t you hear/feel the cries of pain of the vegies/fruit as they are ripped from the earth or vines?
        
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        January 1, 2018 11:02pm
Nostradamus

A weird headline: Game of Thrones’ dragon noises were inspired by tortoise sex

Unless you’re David Attenborough, you wouldn’t have a good reason to listen to the sound of tortoises having sex, I would’ve thought?
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January 1, 2018 4:57pm
Nostradamus

Wife bites off husband’s testicle during sex

A man in Taiwan was reportedly rushed to hospital on Boxing Day after his wife chewed off one of his testicles during an aggressive lovemaking session.

When paramedics arrived at the couple’s home, they apparently saw the 51-year-old man, surnamed Wang, wearing a robe and holding his severed testicle in a rice bowl while the wife repeatedly explained: “I accidentally bit it off!”
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Reports said Hsieh suffered from a mental illness and that she bit off her hubby’s testicle in a “surge of excitement”.

I bet the guy won’t ask his wife for a blowjob again!
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January 1, 2018 5:07pm
- Inandout
  
  She must be a proper nutter.
  
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  January 1, 2018 5:09pm
  - Rachael Membery
    
    You are what you eat?
    
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    January 1, 2018 6:28pm
  - GazzaW
    
    A right nutter……or maybe even a left nutter.
    
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    January 1, 2018 7:26pm
- Morrissey
  
  Wang? His surname is really Wang?
  
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  January 1, 2018 7:50pm
  - Jack5
    
    I think his full name is Half Hang-Lo Wang.
    
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    January 1, 2018 8:23pm
  - Left Right and Centre
    
    Er – yeah. Probbabbly quite common – unless you’re feigning ignorance for a laugh.
    
    I saw a dude called Thong at Interloc Miramar.
    Embroidered name on dustcoat.
    
    Thong – yankee for G string of course. Hey thong mate.
    
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    January 1, 2018 10:50pm
    - Left Right and Centre
      
      Probbabbly ? That’s a bad start to 2018 man.
      
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      January 1, 2018 11:03pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Damn incomers.
don’t know how to wipe their bums and hands correctly.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/100281964/fifteen-rhythm-and-vinesgoers-in-hospital-with-noroviruslike-symptoms
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January 1, 2018 5:34pm
- stephieboy
  
  MW, are you the honorary Chief Health and sanitation inspector for Poverty Bay ?
  
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  January 1, 2018 7:32pm
- Inandout
  
  Can I shake your hand?
  
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  January 1, 2018 9:30pm
  - Jack5
    
    Careful! Watch which hand you shake.
    
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    January 1, 2018 9:50pm
cmm

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11968310

People at Rhythm anf Vines throwing up…. St Jizz will do that to you.
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January 1, 2018 5:35pm
Nostradamus

New Year’s revellers build sandcastle in Coromandel estuary to avoid liquor ban

Kiwis will do anything to drink at the beach, it seems. This group of New Year’s Eve revellers got busy at low tide on Sunday and spent the early afternoon building a sandcastle in the middle of the Tairua estuary … Upon building their sandy fort, members of the group were reported to have said the liquor ban didn’t apply to them as they were “in international waters”.

And the police response:

Waikato eastern area commander Inspector John Kelly said police weren’t aware of the novel attempt to circumvent the liquor ban. “That’s creative thinking – if I had known that I probably would have joined them.”

How refreshing – three cheers for Inspector John Kelly! (They should reserve a place for him at the midwater picnic table next year.)
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January 1, 2018 5:48pm
- Longknives
  
  Good on Ya John Kelly!
  *I freaking guarantee his wowser Bosses at PNHQ will be dragging him over the coals for that comment as we speak..
  
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  January 1, 2018 6:20pm
- Rachael Membery
  
  I was once in a liquor shop, when a man rode in on a bicycle, (no joke), when I asked why, he replied that he was on curfew and had been told that he was not allowed to set foot in a liquor shop.
  Technically he hadn’t, but it would have been interesting explaining that to a Judge.
  
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  January 1, 2018 6:31pm
Prince

15 people admitted to hospital at ‘rythym and vines’ festival. Arden happy to take selfies but oddly silent about this. Time for the pm to step up and do more than just use these events for social media advertising.
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January 1, 2018 6:14pm
- Longknives
  
  Wouldn’t want to appear ‘Uncool’ with the rest of her Peers…
  *She’s like 21 right??
  
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  January 1, 2018 6:18pm
nasska

…..”Time for the pm to step up”…..

If Chompers has diarrhoea she’s probably scared to cough never mind indulging in stepping. 🙂
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January 1, 2018 6:18pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Jacinda has inspired this article headline: Former DJ Jacinda Ardern arrives at Rhythm and Vines
  
  A “former DJ” – FFS!
  
  If this article is to be believed, then her DJ talent is in the same league as Paris Hilton, which isn’t much.
  
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  January 1, 2018 6:28pm
  - Jack5
    
    Did I hear on TVNZ 1 news tonight an item described as good news of the year/or of 2017?
    
    It contained snippets about Jacinderella’s election ascent.
    
    If I heard correctly, how’s that for independent (State) journalism? TVNZ says Jacinderalla’s ascent is good news.
    
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    January 1, 2018 8:12pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      Jack5:
      
      TVNZ says Jacinderalla’s ascent is good news.
      
      The subtext: Labour won’t privatise TVNZ. This is good news for an organisation that relies on large dollops of taxpayer funding. It’s also bad news for taxpayers, but that’s not news, right?
      
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      January 1, 2018 8:49pm
      - Jack5
        
        I agree, Nosty. The bureaucracies and staff at both TVNZ and Radio NZ seem to have an implied pact with the Labour Coalition.
        
        Don’t squeeze us or sell us, and we’ll be a friend.
        
        WTF didn’t National sort them out in its nine years in the driving seat?
        
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        January 1, 2018 9:47pm
      - softail 1450
        
        Nostradamus ,it makes no difference to the viewing public, seriously ,anybody that is still watching any NZ free to air tv is already without a pulse.
        
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        January 2, 2018 5:32am
Nostradamus

Nasska has investigated a secretive religious sect in India:

48 underage girls have been rescued from the ashrams of a ‘godman’ in Delhi

The sect, Adhyatmik Vishwa Vidyalaya (AVV) preaches that its leader is an incarnation of various Hindu gods and has descended to earth to unite people of all faiths and transform them into deities. Little is known about the sect’s origins or its leader Virendra Dev Dixit, though followers say it is an offshoot of Brahma Kumaris – a large, international sect with over three dozen centres in the United States and millions of followers worldwide. … Dixit claims to be an incarnation of, among others, the Hindu god Krishna, who according to myth has 16,000 wives.

Another piece of shit who uses religion as a pretext to prey on women and girls.
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January 1, 2018 6:22pm
nasska

…..”Another piece of shit who uses religion as a pretext to prey on women and girls”…..

It must be some odd practise endemic to the sub continent. Deviant Western religious leaders divide their attentions between boys & girls.

With a slight preference for pretty choristers with little penii & bouncy bottoms. 🙂
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January 1, 2018 6:31pm
Jack5

Australia’s benefits from multiculturism:
Young, violent Sudanese thugs are running amok in Melbourne.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-01/african-gang-crime-out-of-control-in-melbourne-minister-says/9296476
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January 1, 2018 8:21pm
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  Jack 5 , would expect this to be replicated in say diversity dividend Auckland ?
  
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  January 1, 2018 9:31pm
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    Stephie, your Stephiestani family is a great diversity dividend, not only to Auckland, but to all of us who follow Kiwiblog.
    
    Perve, post, perve, post, perve, post …
    
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    January 1, 2018 9:44pm
    - Manolo
      
      More perv than post!
      
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      January 2, 2018 7:12am
Jack5

Nigerian internet scamsters are using local accomplices:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-31/man-arrested-over-nigerian-prince-internet-scam/9295446
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January 1, 2018 8:37pm
- stephieboy
  
  Your point ?
  
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  January 1, 2018 9:31pm
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    Remember, duty Stephie (Mum Stephie???) – no space before the question mark.
    
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    January 1, 2018 9:43pm
Jack5

Fox News claims clothing magnate mate of Hillary Clinton put up half a million dollars to fund women accusing Trump of sexual misconduct.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/12/31/hillary-clinton-backer-paid-500g-to-fund-women-accusing-trump-sexual-misconduct-before-election-day-report-says.html
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January 1, 2018 10:00pm
Jack5

Trivia for a quiet holiday night…

Six weeks and four days until Chinese new year, and the beginning of the Year of the Dog.

The link below is a 2018 horoscope for folk born in other Years of the Dog:1934, 1946, 1970, 1982, 1994, 2006.

(Our Beloved Leader, Jacinderella was born in 1980, the Year of the Monkey.)

Horoscope for Dog folk:

https://www.yourchineseastrology.com/horoscope/dog/yearly.htm
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January 1, 2018 10:18pm
Rachael Membery

And so it begins, surely if it is good enough for men to go topless without their moobs being grabbed then women should be accorded the same rights.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11968384
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January 1, 2018 11:59pm
Rachael Membery

Shall I say it first?

Why is this woman or her ‘partner’ not using contraception?

She has now had four children removed from her by the state, the stats for kids in care are not great and yet she is adding to that number, at 27 she has a number of breeding years before her.

Next we will have arguments about her ‘Human rights’.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/video.cfm?c_id=1&gal_cid=1&gallery_id=186682
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January 2, 2018 7:15am
- jcuk
  
  And gutless National did nothing about the problem, probably a very small one, during the nine years it had the reins.
  
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