General Debate 9 January 2018

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Ed Snack

First !

I beat the WO
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January 9, 2018 8:20am
- GazzaW
  
  One thing we can rely on is that the resident trolls are never here early in the morning. KB has an aura of peace about it – just like when the kids have gone to bed.
  
  ztev and the stephieteam must be about to sign on now having received their orders of the day from H2.
  
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  January 9, 2018 9:03am
  - ztev
    
    9am isnt early old troupe….
    
    The only person I take orders from is Z2
    
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    January 9, 2018 2:24pm
    - axeman
      
      Hey booby, is that still Caropotamus??
      
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      January 9, 2018 3:41pm
pseudonymous

Second!
So did I
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January 9, 2018 8:21am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Doesn’t matter now.
  
  WofO can come along when everyone is fast asleep and the down-tickers are off duty.
  https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/01/general_debate_8_january_2018.html#comment-2113047
  
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  January 9, 2018 8:27am
  - CHFR1
    
    That is just so sad, I almost feel sorry for him then I read his drivel and slap my self back into sensibility.
    
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    January 9, 2018 8:40am
  - stephieboy
    
    Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
    MW , how does the name” Waggy Waffle Leaf” sit with you ?
    
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    January 9, 2018 9:31am
    - Lance
      
      I think the 4 year olds at daycare would roll their eyes at that childish attempt.
      
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      January 9, 2018 9:37am
      - doggone7
        
        Why take it to the 4 year olds at daycare ? Maybe it could be considered to be in the appropriate forum.
        
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        January 9, 2018 12:13pm
    - Keeping Stock
      
      Stick to your day job Stephie. Comedy is not for you.
      
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      January 9, 2018 9:53am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      I prefer it to “Piece of shit”, which I have been called on this blog.
      I prefer it to “alt-righter”, a label you have thrown at me.
      But I don’t really care what I’m called.
      As I post under my married name, everyone has to make their own decision as to whether they refer to me by that name, or a witty nickname, or some abusive term.
      
      I’m sure the adults on KB can see what is happening.
      
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      January 9, 2018 10:01am
      - stephieboy
        
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        “I’m sure the adults on KB can see what is happening”
        
        “adults” ??
        
        I can identify with but I’m sure nobody has called you a C … , F….. Dickhead etc unlike me
        
        Yet ,t I thought W of O description was quite amusing and not abusive .
        
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        January 9, 2018 10:09am
      - lofty
        
        I quite like Maggy.
        
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        January 9, 2018 10:58am
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Something I have been musing on over the holidays: How much do Public Service Anouncments cost and has there ever been any cost/benefit analysis done to show if these are worth while in terms of saving lives of reducing the costs to the country caused by accidents?

Think “The faster you go, the bigger the mess” or the ACC one where the woman trips and falls through her coffee table – there are dozens of them and these would have cost an absolute fortune to produce. Does ACC have to pay to air these?

Some of these ads – the ghost chips one or Taika Waititi’s Blazed ad – have some entertainment value but have these ever been proven to saves lives or reduce injury? I half suspect that this is a government sop to the film and television industry because these ads would keep a lot of writers, camera crews, actors editors etc in employment.

This is without mentioning the print and radio ads and the many, many road signs (also not cheap) dotted around the country. Could this money be better spent on health or emergency services or road improvements?
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January 9, 2018 8:21am
- Viking2
  
  From my experience no one reads the papers thus a waste of money.
  Everyone uses add blockers so internet a waste of money.
  Never read road sign like that.
  Waste of money.
  
  Add agencies must love the Govt departments who have no clue about communication.
  
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  January 9, 2018 8:30am
  - Tauhei Notts
    
    The trouble with My Sky is that when people talk about Tv advertisements you have no idea what they are talking about.
    
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    January 9, 2018 11:48am
- Jack5
  
  Given rising road traffic and normal statistical variance, can the effectiveness of road-safety TV advertising be measured?
  
  If its value can’t be proved, perhaps the money would be better spent on road signage.
  
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  January 9, 2018 8:41am
  - simpleton1
    
    Road signs. Yeah nahhh.
    So many reflective arrow signs just to go around a corner.
    At night one has to dip, if not bedazzled to get around a corner.
    
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    January 9, 2018 8:50am
    - Ed Snack
      
      Maybe they could put up actually useful ones; like on a Motorway : If not overtaking please use the leftmost lane when possible. – or words to that effect.
      
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      January 9, 2018 9:09am
      - srylands
        
        Or like on the motorway to Melbourne. “Keep left when not passing. $80 fine.”
        
        Bloody menaces.
        
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        January 9, 2018 10:07am
      - srylands
        
        My favourite useless one is “Avoid delays. Plan ahead.”
        
        Another useless one is an odd set of signs with pictures that then proclaims “same diff”. I assume it is about equating risk but can rarely make it out. I risk running off the road from staring at it for too long trying.
        
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        January 9, 2018 10:15am
      - Chuck Bird
        
        When possible is the key. At very busy times will be in the right lane but allow a reasonable distance to the next car. Some clown will ether be up my bumper or go up the inside and jump in the gap and not too long later do the same to someone else.
        
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        January 9, 2018 11:56am
  - Albert_Ross
    
    Like all advertising – half of it is wasted, but it’s impossible to know which half
    
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    January 9, 2018 8:52am
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    This is where my thinking was going although I also doubt the effectiveness of road signage.
    
    It feels like someone in the 1980’s had the bright idea of putting shocking road accident PSAs on TV and while the ads themselves have become slicker and more sophisticated over time, no one has ever bothered to stop and ask if these ads achieve their purpose.
    
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    January 9, 2018 8:58am
    - G152
      
      And they always blame speed.
      Inattention and misjudgment never enter the equation because they’re not simple to show in an ad.
      Traffic cops do what they’re told, say what the script tells them to say..
      Cars are safer, roads are getting better, one day soon they’ll remove all the trees and poles from the sides of the road.
      And traffic will be separated to prevent those headons.
      
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      January 9, 2018 9:42am
- nasska
  
  …..”and the many, many road signs (also not cheap) dotted around the country”…..
  
  Best described as visual pollution. They are the communication industry’s equivalent of nagging & therefore rightfully ignored by all.
  
  If the same signs were hawking fast food or real estate the nannies would use the RMA to flatten them.
  
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  January 9, 2018 8:41am
  - calendar girl
    
    The stretch of road between Rotorua and Matamata displays a number of “road safety” signs that look as though they come out of a school social studies class.
    
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    January 9, 2018 9:10am
    - sooty
      
      Maybe they are. Pity the poor journallist are been done out of a job, before the newspapers and tv are even closed down.
      
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      January 9, 2018 9:46am
- cmm
  
  It makes everyone feel like they’re doing something…
  
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  January 9, 2018 9:01am
- artemisia
  
  ACC was one of the organisations that contributed to the University of Otago in Wellington’s rental warrant of fitness. (No traction after several years concentrated lobbying, but that may change with the current government.)
  
  I expect ACC had a say in requirements around handrails (requirements for Africa, at least in Wellington where every second rental has steps and stairs), security stays on upstairs windows to stop littlies falling out, and visbility strips on many doors and windows.
  
  Yes, people run or fall through doors and cost ACC a lot. Don’t have recent figures but in 2010 it was reported that 133 children a week make a claim from running through glass or falling from windows. A week. And just children.
  
  Some of course will live in owner occupied homes but the WoF doesn’t care about them.
  
  I wrote to a previous Minister for ACC suggesting a study comparing the cost of supplying free visibility strips to anyone who asks to the cost of running-through-glass accidents. Cost should include intangible costs, such accidents are painful to say the least. And indirect costs such as parents taking time of work to sit by their child’s hospital bed.
  
  No reply.
  
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  January 9, 2018 9:25am
  - cmm
    
    “comparing the cost of supplying free visibility strips to anyone who asks to the cost of running-through-glass accidents.”
    
    Of course anyone can just go down to Bunnings or Mitre 10 and get all the tape they need.
    
    Making it into a nanny state program just increases costs dramatically. It’s not just the tape, but then a need for a panphlet and TV andertising on how to stick the tape on the windows. All translated into 15 different languages and a CEO in charge of the program.
    
    $5 of tape soon becomes $20 of overheads.
    
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    January 9, 2018 3:12pm
    - artemisia
      
      I don’t disagree but that would be part of a cost benefit analysis including take up scenarios.
      
      My underlying point is that costs should lie with benefits. As proposed in the rental warrant of fitness the costs lie with the tenant and the benefits lie with ACC and the health system.
      
      The nanny state kicks in if the warrant of fitness in its current form becomes mandatory, which was election policy for 2 out of 3 of coalition partie. If so lack of visibility strips, handrails and window stays become mandatory and the rental will fail.
      
      Seems to me a voluntary scheme could save money all round, not to mention pain and suffering. So why not do the sums.
      
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      January 9, 2018 6:53pm
  - ztev
    
    Regulations to mandate safety glass was mandated ages ago.
    Sliding doors, glass doors , bathroom windows too as you can slip on wet floors
    
    http://www.wanz.org.nz/glass-impactsafety
    
    problem solved , that why they are ignoring ravings from some one who doesnt know what they are talking about
    
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    January 9, 2018 7:05pm
    - artemisia
      
      Glad to hear there are no more falling-through-glass door and window accidents. The visibility strips will be removed from the warrant of fitness then.
      
      Waiting …
      
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      January 10, 2018 6:11am
- Deadly pony
  
  NZTA spent more than 25m on advertising in the year Oct 2015 to Sept 2016, according to Nielson http://stoppress.co.nz/news/nielsen-top-30-advertising
  
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  January 9, 2018 10:44am
- kowtow
  
  It also let’s them pretend they are doing something . Anything.
  
  ‘The elephant in the room is that many drivers are psychologically or attitudinally unfit to be driving ANY vehicle on our roads; such individuals are a danger at ANY speed!’
  
  https://www.odt.co.nz/opinion/speed-booze-no-belt-only-part-story
  
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  January 9, 2018 11:28am
  - Chuck Bird
    
    But everyone like Hosking thinks they are perfect. He could not even past a written test. He failed on knowing when to signal on a roundabout. Instead of acknowledging he was wrong he said the law was stupid.
    
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    January 9, 2018 11:59am
    - Adolf Fiinkensein
      
      ” He could not even past a written test.”
      
      Apparently he’s not the only one!
      
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      January 9, 2018 3:02pm
- fylde
  
  Government and council adverts / announcements are largely a waste of money and we would be better off if the money saved would lower taxes. Of course the media never challenge such wasteful spending as it is filling their coffers
  
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  January 9, 2018 2:58pm
- Left Right and Centre
  
  No free market for govt ads so – other people’s money. Cool – let’s make a million of them.
  Could be accused of propping up tvnz with overkill taxpayer funded ads.
  Struggling for ad revenue ? Ah, we’ll just fill in the breaks with this big govt ‘really useful messages’ ad industry.
  
  You get about 42 minutes of content per hour – and you pay one way or another for the stinking ads – 99.9% are a farking sick joke.
  
  And for those with Sky – that’s a sick joke too.
  
  I try to mute and kill ads as much as possible with TV on. I want to switch to unlimited adblocked internet and then just about byebye TV.
  
  Bullshit begging and brainwashing.
  
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  January 10, 2018 5:51am
Jimmy

The better part of my conscience has approved of the gracious sentiments that have been expressed about the death of Jim Anderton. People from across the political spectrum have been dignified, decent and empathetic.

The evil part of me is worried that this sets a dangerous precedent for when Winston finally kicks the bucket!
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January 9, 2018 8:27am
- VicParking
  
  Jimmy he’s been dead for me since he last year.
  
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  January 9, 2018 8:50am
- Gabby
  
  Not to mention when it’s See You Jimmee time.
  
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  January 9, 2018 9:06am
  - softail 1450
    
    grubby ,,,,you’ve fallen off the wagon again.
    
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    January 9, 2018 9:12am
    - hmmokrightitis
      
      Its OK, she’ll revert to standard alt-left closet homophobia shortly.
      
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      January 9, 2018 10:00am
- Nigel Kearney
  
  There’s an exception to every rule and Winston is the exception to this one.
  
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  January 9, 2018 9:22am
Viking2

Luvely day in paradise today.
Suns out and going to 25 degree’s.
Don’t have to work or listen to political leeches or the radio.
Will skip KB for most of the day.
bliss.
Going rafting tomorrow.
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January 9, 2018 8:27am
- Jack5
  
  Jimmy makes nice comments about the death of Jim Anderton, and the very next post says “Luvely day in paradise today.”
  
  Thought for a second Jim himself might have been posting.
  
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  January 9, 2018 8:42am
  - Viking2
    
    Ha. 😆
    funny enough I had a discussion late yesterday with another camp resident. He had been secretary to the drivers union in a country centre. Nice old guy and very genuine but like Anderton very dogmatic about the way things need to be.
    Enjoyed the discussion though.
    Reminded me what we used to have to deal with in the bad old days.
    
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    January 9, 2018 8:52am
flipper

What has happened to the Milkybar Kid?
You know, the one that says he is mikeandmild (or something).
Has he been reincarnated as
• Morrissey
• Zetev
• Stupidboy (oops, sorry, Steviboy or whatever)
• W o O, or “Denis, Around the Horn”, aka the lignocaine pilot ?
• Et al
• ??????????????
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January 9, 2018 8:31am
- Viking2
  
  Has been visiting occasionally. Was here yesterday.
  
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  January 9, 2018 8:34am
- EAD_TWO
  
  He came back as Treadingthemill pretending to be a retired Bricklayer but disappeared after Starboard rumbled him.
  
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  January 9, 2018 8:35am
  - Longknives
    
    Really?
    Did Mikenmild pretend to be someone else?
    
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    January 9, 2018 9:20am
    - hullkiwi
      
      Milky has been over on the Oprah thread.
      
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      January 9, 2018 5:52pm
- Jack5
  
  Meanwhile, Team Kea is incommunicado in the mountains, and the Stephiestanis are delayed at the mosque.
  
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  January 9, 2018 8:44am
  - GazzaW
    
    …….and the resident ‘jokes’ of KB – Hugh, Gabby and marquess are very intermittent currently. Speaking of ‘jokes’ I see that the downticker is back again this morning.
    
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    January 9, 2018 9:23am
  - Manolo
    
    More likely the pious Muslims known as stephieboy are ogling some nubile females (of marrying age). 🙂
    
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    January 9, 2018 9:25am
- Johnboy
  
  Just spotted where Dennis is today! 🙂
  http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11972129
  
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  January 9, 2018 6:51pm
Paulus

Am looking at the new legislation concerning rental properties.
Who would be a domestic property landlord ?
The new rules are to say the least onerous in terms of further favouring the renter against the evil landlord.
These are called among other aspects the Healthy Homes 40% or so of rental in New Zealand and many are considered to be of good rental quality requirements.
There are many of the others too.
However the new requirements are overarching covering all properties.
For example rent reviews every 12 months instead of 6 months.
Abolishing letting fees and longer rent review periods.
It is already being muted by landlords and rental agencies that no matter what state a particular property is in a minimum of $50 per week increase is a starter.
There is provision for inflationary pressures associated with insurances, council rates (which are soaring) and of course maintenance.
A landlord may have to have the house vacated before any upgrades can be done – hoe do you do that to the average solo mother with 3/4 children and get the job done in a reasonable time and cost.
Who would be a landlord ?
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January 9, 2018 8:38am
- Digmen1
  
  Don’t worry, we’ll just give free social (4 bedroom, double glazed, fully insulated, games room) social houses to all ladies on the dpb and bludgers that don’t want to work, and economic refugees.
  
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  January 9, 2018 8:44am
  - VicParking
    
    Why own a house when the Tooth Fairy is going to give us all one for life. I have bagged one in Remuera although there is a nice one at 119 Mountain Road, Epsom that would do.
    
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    January 9, 2018 9:02am
    - edenman
      
      119 Mountain Rd is reserved for Comrade President For Life Helen Clark
      
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      January 9, 2018 9:38am
      - ztev
        
        Plenty of others wanting the job that involves endless silly rituals and meeting boring farts.
        
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        January 9, 2018 10:35am
      - VicParking
        
        Not unless she becomes the Gov. general.
        
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        January 9, 2018 1:44pm
      - GazzaW
        
        Silly rituals like awarding the VC to old fart, Willie Apiata? Silly rituals such as attending the Anzac memorials at Gallipoli and Passchendaele?
        
        Jeez you talk some shit ztev. Your sweeping statements are quite outstanding.
        
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        January 9, 2018 1:47pm
      - ztev
        
        How many times do VC winners come along ?
        
        Thats right , 70 years before.
        
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        January 9, 2018 3:50pm
    - ztev
      
      labours Affordable Houses have to be bought by their occupants, old troup
      No investment owners allowed
      
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      January 9, 2018 2:20pm
- oldgolfer
  
  Two people have told me casually (provincial South Island) that they are getting out. All seen now as too hard, too many regulations. I’m all for a fair deal, but it seems as if it is going to be much harder to shift unwanted tenants and small-time investors just don’t want the hassle. Watch a shortage develop and rents rise, and I note that wherever I go, I have yet to see a new government house go up – or a bloody tree planted, other than the one I put in myself without Jacinda’s help.
  
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  January 9, 2018 8:49am
  - Viking2
    
    The more that go the better.
    We have had to many accidental landlords and too many getting in on the price rises.
    That has made it easy for tenants to get houses and not care a shit about the way they treat them.
    I have noticed that the last 2 years has changed the attitudes a lot. genuine people have taken the place of the shit for brains. My tenants are better and som are genuinely grateful for being allowed to stay in my houses. They are all very basic 3 beddies.
    I am in the process of doing upgrades which I can now afford because of stable tenants, lower interest rates and higher rents.
    May even add some more later this year. Have a couple of properties where I can add a house.
    
    Whats not to like about the way things are. I like longterm tenants.
    
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    January 9, 2018 9:01am
  - VicParking
    
    I though I saw the numbers on the meter slow down for a second.
    
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    January 9, 2018 9:03am
  - JIV
    
    We chopped a tree down over Christmas so that cancels out your tree planted. Back to zero.
    
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    January 9, 2018 9:05am
    - oldgolfer
      
      Me too. I may have planted one, an apple, but a diseased maple came down. It’s hopeless.
      
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      January 9, 2018 9:29am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Be of brave heart:
        We can do this
        
        One white-fleshed nectarine planted today.
        
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        January 9, 2018 10:07am
  - GazzaW
    
    Six state units were completed seven weeks ago in our neighbourhood on a quarter acre site that previously held one state house. They are very attractive and all set to go with curtains, carpets, landscaped gardens, juliet balconies, garden sheds. Full marks Housing NZ but why are they still empty seven weeks on if we have such a crisis on our hands?
    
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    January 9, 2018 9:50am
    - Left Right and Centre
      
      Well if they’re new – they might be reserved for extra special snowflake people who tick all the boxes . . .
      
      eg – lesbian muslim v.i. gluten intolerant autistic refugees in wheelchairs.
      
      One of them is being held for that overstaying Indian widow for her return from mourning in her homeland.
      
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      January 10, 2018 5:56am
- Huevon
  
  Just curious, where did you find the legislation? I was trying to look before Christmas and couldn’t find anything. There are some vague statements on the Labour Party page, and we know what they are worth.
  
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  January 9, 2018 9:08am
  - ztev
    
    They invented it !
    
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    January 9, 2018 10:36am
  - artemisia
    
    The Healthy Homes Guarantee Bill No 2 is at the below link. Just waiting for Royal Assent before becoming law. It is short on detail, which is yet to be determined in regs.
    
    Appears to be more coming, and a couple of likely policies will have a significant effect on landlords staying in or exiting the industry. Namely ending no-fault terminations and removing the ability to offset negative net rents.
    
    http://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/bills-and-laws/bills-proposed-laws/document/00DBHOH_BILL66216_1/healthy-homes-guarantee-bill-no-2
    
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    January 9, 2018 11:09am
    - KevOB
      
      We have a place with a decent 2br flat–Now the kids can use it over the next 10-15 years.
      
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      January 9, 2018 1:05pm
    - ztev
      
      Royal Assent was given on 4/12/17 so its now an ACT
      
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      January 9, 2018 2:12pm
  - ztev
    
    The HH Bill was introduced in house from ballot back in 2015.
    And you didnt know about it before election?
    
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    January 9, 2018 3:52pm
- Gabby
  
  You could switch to rearing pigs Puller. You’d need to look after your property better but.
  
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  January 9, 2018 9:09am
- Longknives
  
  “Who would be a domestic property landlord ?”
  
  Just sold my Rental.
  Got a hiding on it but things are only going to get worse for Landlords under this Coalition of Communists so got out while I still could…
  
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  January 9, 2018 9:23am
  - RF
    
    With landlords pulling out of the rental market now is the time to purchase Army surplus tents.
    
    It can be advertised as portable housing. Maybe I should contact twit Twyford and run it by him.
    
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    January 9, 2018 9:46am
  - sam green
    
    What will change for the worse longknives?
    
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    January 9, 2018 11:08am
    - artemisia
      
      Have you looked at the Healthy Homes Bill and other Labour and coalition parties policies. Suggest you do then see if you can work out why landlords will be either leaving the business, being highly selective about tenants or pushing up rents as fast as they can. Consider the impact on provincial and rural rents and rentals, not just Epsom townhouses.
      
      It’s not rocket surgery.
      
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      January 9, 2018 11:15am
      - ztev
        
        Coalition polices ?
        This was long before election
        
        Healthy homes bill was drawn from ballot in 2015, it was making its way to RA by the time election happened.
        
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        January 9, 2018 3:46pm
    - sam green
      
      Robust minimum standards of insulation with grants available to upgrade stock ? I don’t see much wrong with that – I have two rentals, insulated and warm (they’re not Epsom townhouses by the way).
      
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      January 9, 2018 12:16pm
      - artemisia
        
        Is that the only proposal?
        
        Hint – the answer is no.
        
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        January 10, 2018 6:13am
  - Paulus
    
    As we may assume that interest rates even via the Banks will increase very shortly it would be safer to go there rather than stay in a rental.
    Returns will be better in bank deposits than the risks in rentals.
    More houses for the lower paid to buy – but a reduced rental market.
    
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    January 9, 2018 11:21am
    - GazzaW
      
      The stock market and managed funds could well be the recipient of refugee’s funds from the rental market. Two problems though, one being too few companies listed on the NZX which will drive money offshore and the second being the probability of a capital gains tax. No wonder business confidence is dropping.
      
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      January 9, 2018 1:35pm
- Harkman
  
  This country would have had a humanitarian crisis after the Christchurch earthquakes if it wasn’t for private investment properties. Personally, I’m still thankful that I found a a place to rent for the winter of 2011 (it snowed three times). Caravans are terrible on your health.
  
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  January 9, 2018 11:22am
Huevon

Die Hollywood, die.

That is all.
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January 9, 2018 8:39am
- Paulus
  
  Hollywood can’t die – Winfred wants to spend her Billions on becoming the largest President ever.
  I am glad to hear that the Billions “earned” by the ladies of Hollywood, not always by being on their backs, will go to a Trust fund to those who fell at the front.
  
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  January 9, 2018 8:52am
  - Harriet
    
    Hollywoed.
    
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    January 9, 2018 9:25am
    - Don the Kiwi
      
      Hollywierd
      
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      January 9, 2018 9:58am
      - Deadly pony
        
        Hollywank
        
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        January 9, 2018 10:48am
  - ex-golfer
    
    Oh the irony……all those bemoaning the fact that a wealthy TV-reality star with no political experience became President now want a wealthy TV-reality star with no political experience to run for Presidency in 2020!
    
    But, but……shes a SHE……and BLACK.
    
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    January 9, 2018 9:46am
    - Left Right and Centre
      
      Black woman with billions, yo-yo weight issue, millions of loyal followers and white-sounding.
      Natural candidate.
      
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      January 10, 2018 6:01am
  - G152
    
    I notice that none of those spoilt people are rushing over to the muslim countries in their little black numbers to protest their treatment of women.
    
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    January 9, 2018 9:49am
- JIV
  
  Its interesting whats been going on with the MeToo movement. When I was growing up the movements were that “girls can do anything” and more cringeworthy “girlpower”.
  Now every woman is trying to show how much of a victim she is. Tears to show vulnerability and sobbing to show how beastly men are.
  And if you dont come out publicly then you’re publicly admonished for not being outraged enough.
  What is the gain to be made here? Is it just to target a few men or make women look pathetic and vulnerable again
  
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  January 9, 2018 9:34am
  - sam green
    
    Every woman? Every single one? Maggy? Brigette? Harriet? KKKKateeeee?
    
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    January 9, 2018 1:08pm
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    I can’t quite figure out how these protesting heroines can claim any credibility.
    If Hollywood is so controlled by sexually predatory males, does that mean any woman who has reached the screen has been shagged by ‘the best/worst of them’ and has ‘laid back to think of England’ until she has established her career? And having achieved what she wanted is now positioning herself as brave and virtuous by denouncing the casting couch.
    I’m not sure I will see any leading lady in quite the same light again.
    Seems to me the real champions are those who said straight off: “If that’s what it takes, No Thanks” – the ones we’ll never hear of.
    
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    January 9, 2018 11:42pm
Johnboy

Great news for you ladies.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=11971212
I might buy a robot ewe to replace my virtual one when they start making them! 🙂
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January 9, 2018 8:45am
- RalphT
  
  But would the covering be wool or nylon? Surely a man of your refinement wouldn’t be satisfied with a fake wool?
  
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  January 9, 2018 8:50am
  - Johnboy
    
    Synthetics are actually quite good. The static discharge can give a chap quite a good jolt of extra stimulus! 🙂
    
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    January 9, 2018 10:53am
- nasska
  
  Life is cruel! Women get the latest in high tech bionic men while poor old Johnboy sits behind the woodshed fashioning a sex aid out of mutton chops & superglue. 🙂
  
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  January 9, 2018 8:59am
  - Johnboy
    
    I only use flour and water now nasska. I found that using superglue can cause a chap great embarrassment at the ED. 🙂
    
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    January 9, 2018 9:09am
    - Manolo
      
      You (or is it ewe?) epitomise the “wire number eight” mentality, dear Johnboy. Good on you, mate.
      
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      January 9, 2018 9:34am
  - stigie
    
    I believe Johnboy is very happy with Blossom now Nasska since he scuttled Flossie out of the shed and down the road..?
    
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    January 9, 2018 9:16am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Pffft…
  it’ll just be the same as the real-life man about the house and ignore my nagging.
  
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  January 9, 2018 9:16am
  - Johnboy
    
    But you’ll be able to train him NOT to drink Tui’s and fart all night in bed while pulling the blankets over your head Maggy. 🙂
    
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    January 9, 2018 10:50am
Digmen1

I see there was another dog attack on a young boy who was told the dog love children.

Was it a Labrador, or a bichon, or a collie, or a daschound?
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January 9, 2018 8:45am
- Jack5
  
  I want to hear the dog’s side of the story.
  
  But in America, it’s chihuahuas that bite most (first link below), while in Britain it’s labradors (second link).
  
  https://www.caninejournal.com/dog-bite-statistics/
  
  http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/dog-most-likely-bite-you-8535166
  
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  January 9, 2018 8:53am
  - Digmen1
    
    What are you saying?
    Do you support viscous attack dogs in our society?
    
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    January 9, 2018 9:07am
    - GazzaW
      
      A big NO to vicious attack dogs but I’m not so sure about viscous attack dogs. 😉
      
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      January 9, 2018 9:10am
      - calendar girl
        
        One or two of them are bound to stick.
        
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        January 9, 2018 3:25pm
    - Ed Snack
      
      Viscous dogs, do they just go with the flow ?
      
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      January 9, 2018 9:13am
      - G152
        
        Nope. They’re the thick ones 🙂
        
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        January 9, 2018 9:51am
      - Alan Matt
        
        Yes but more slowly.
        
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        January 10, 2018 1:33am
    - Jack5
      
      Digmen, I’m saying: Beware of chihuahuas.
      
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      January 9, 2018 9:14am
      - Digmen1
        
        People like you are part of the problem!
        No one ever ended up in hospital with half their face ripped off or a leg chewed off by a chihuahuas.
        
        You know full well that it is only the attack type dogs that cause this damage
        
        Other dogs may bit, then let go.
        Attack dogs bite and then don’t let go.
        
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        January 9, 2018 9:37am
      - Jack5
        
        Urban legend? Perhaps an expert can tell us:
        
        If a pitbull won’t let go your leg, poke your finger up its bum. This causes a reflex relaxation of the jaw.
        
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        January 9, 2018 10:04am
      - Classic Liberal
        
        Digman, reminds me a bit of German crime stats that pretend crime overall isn’t so bad and plenty of naughty ‘longer here’ Germans do things. It’s not until they admit that there has been a huge recent increase in *violent* crime and who’s doing it that you get the truth.
        
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        January 9, 2018 10:23am
      - stephieboy
        
        Classical Liberal , you do not get at the Truth with these kind of falsehoods ,
        
        http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/cologne-sex-assaults-muslim-rape-myths-fit-a-neo-nazi-agenda-a6872566.html
        
        plus ,
        
        http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/breitbart-news-dortmund-police-new-years-eve-fake-news-germany-angela-merkel-syrians-refugee-crisis-a7514786.html
        
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        January 9, 2018 10:28am
      - Classic Liberal
        
        Stephie, no I go straight to the German Police statistics, like this document: http://www.stmi.bayern.de/assets/stmi/med/aktuell/pks2016.pdf
        
        And nobody is denying what happened 2015 around Cologne Cathedral. Well, except people like you, who are clearly hunky dory with violent crime.
        
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        January 9, 2018 11:06am
      - Shaun the Sheep
        
        Any chihuahua that bites me will be in for a long distance boot-propelled flight.
        
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        January 9, 2018 4:01pm
    - Soffet
      
      I find the viscous dogs a bit thick and sticky. In fact I wash my hands of them!
      
      (ba-dum-bing!)
      
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      January 9, 2018 9:47am
  - Longknives
    
    What are the Stats for Dogs who rip kid’s faces off or eat their owners Jack??
    I’m guessing Pit Bull/Bull Terrier breeds would make up 90% (conservatively) of these?
    
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    January 9, 2018 9:25am
    - Jack5
      
      The NZ Veterinary Association says:
      
      Dog breed is not the biggest contributing factor to a dog bite incident (Patronek, Sacks, Delise, Cleary, & Marder, 2013) and to target specific breeds or types as menacing is a gross oversimplification of this complex issue.
      
      For the full view of vets on dangerous dogs, see the link below.
      
      Dog owners should be licensed – at some minimal fee so that poor families, who can benefit most from ownership, are not shut out.
      
      http://www.nzva.org.nz/?page=policydangerousdogs
      
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      January 9, 2018 9:44am
      - srylands
        
        But I am sure damage and death is highly correlated to breed. I would back myself to escape a Spaniel attack with minimal damage.
        
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        January 9, 2018 10:25am
      - Classic Liberal
        
        Dog owners should be licensed at the fee it takes to properly control dogs. That fee could be quite high. Except for guide dogs there is no need for dogs to be subsidized by the tax payer or rate payer.
        
        As for not telling which breeds are dangerous, obviously size matters in an attack. Sure, chihuahuas can be a total pain, but they can’t do you nearly as much harm as a large, aggressive dog.
        
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        January 9, 2018 10:29am
      - srylands
        
        I don’t know what you do about feral dog owners. I was recently walking my (small) dog on a beach. Came across a guy sitting on the beach. His dog not on a leach. Growling at me and my dog. I asked him to control his dog. His response “I’m not going to do a thing.”
        
        What do you do with people like that?
        
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        January 9, 2018 11:33am
      - Kleva Kiwi
        
        I’m sorry, but breed has very little to do with a dog being dangerous.
        The most dangerous dogs are the most neglected.
        Responsible ownership requiring proper training and care for any dog regardless of the breed is the solution.
        
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        January 9, 2018 11:47am
      - Shaun the Sheep
        
        Poor families should concentrate on feeding their children No poor family needs a dog.
        
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        January 9, 2018 3:58pm
    - Jack5
      
      Keeping things in perspective. A report in the Huffington Post says that in America:
      
      … you are FAR more likely to die from eating a hot dog (choking from inhalation of food) than from being attacked by an actual dog.
      
      Death by a real dog- 1 in 116,448.
      
      Death by a hot dog- 1 in 3,375.
      
      https://www.huffingtonpost.com/steffen-baldwin/the-lies-damn-lies-and-st_b_8112394.html
      
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      January 9, 2018 10:36am
      - SGA
        
        Well yeah, Jack5, you might be more likely to die from eating a hot dog, but you are much more likely to be mauled by a dog.
        What’s in NZ papers isn’t usually deaths from dog attacks, it’s moderate to severe injury.
        
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        January 9, 2018 10:45am
      - Classic Liberal
        
        Jack, how well trained, looked after and controlled do you think all these State Home dogs are going to be? That’s the issue here.
        
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        January 9, 2018 10:49am
  - SGA
    
    But in America, it’s chihuahuas that bite most (first link below), while in Britain it’s labradors (second link).
    
    Hard to know how to interpret those stats without knowing how common each breed is. If there are 20 labs for every Great Dane (say), then it’s not so surprising there would be more bites reported.
    
    And, Chihuahuas aren’t dogs. Not really. Not sure what they are, to be honest.
    
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    January 9, 2018 9:52am
    - Ed Snack
      
      Overbred rats ?
      
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      January 9, 2018 10:43am
EAD_TWO

Just browsing through the Times of Israel this morning and I see that the German Bundestag is passing a bill that will expel migrants who “expresses Anti-semitism”:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/german-bill-seeks-deportation-of-migrants-who-express-anti-semitism/

Quite the contrast when European nations are ordered by the EU that they cannot deport murderers and rapists because of their “human rights”.

Normally I would try encourage critical thinking by talking about the right to free speech, pondering if the punishment fits the crime or by quoting Voltaire” – “to see who rules over you first learn who you’re not allowed to criticise” but I’ll take a different tact today which might actually help the European people……….

Europeans should actually encourage migrants to say mean things about Jews then all of a sudden hundreds of thousands of military age men might be on the next Lufthansa flight back to Africa or the Middle East.

Genius or what❗
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January 9, 2018 8:48am
- twofish
  
  The draft legislation states that “absolute acceptance of Jewish life” is a “benchmark for successful integration” in Germany.
  “Anyone who rejects Jewish life in Germany or questions Israel’s right to exist can not have a place in our country.”
  … A recent study found that anti-Semitism is rampant among Muslim refugees in Germany and requires urgent attention.
  
  So what then of possessing a copy of the Koran in Germany?
  Or are they not really serious
  
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  January 9, 2018 9:18am
  - Harriet
    
    “Anyone who rejects Jewish life in Germany or questions Israel’s right to exist can not have a place in our country.”
    
    How things have changed since WW2 —– Germany supporting the existence of Israel, and NZ mostly questioning it. 😎
    
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    January 9, 2018 9:23am
    - stephieboy
      
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      “NZ mostly questioning it “??
      
      All the previous government recognised was that for a durable peace in the Middle East the rights of role of the Palestinians need be considered .’
      
      Not the extinction of Israel !
      
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      January 9, 2018 9:57am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    They are not really serious. They are still arguing about whether a simple hand X-ray can be used to check people’s age when they claim to be minors but don’t look it (‘Oooh, the poor darlings would be exposed to a wee bit of radiation.)
    
    They don’t get rid of criminals, because the poor darlings might be in trouble back home.
    
    They don’t check people’s origin – just saying you’re from Syria got all sorts of people in who later turned out not to be.
    
    This law is just trying to appease people who are concerned that ‘antisemitism is on the rise from islamist immigrants. It won’t produce any results.
    
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    January 9, 2018 10:35am
  - UpandComer
    
    Lol.
    
    This is what happens if you question the Rabbi’s and their project to islamify Europe:
    
    http://tapnewswire.com/2017/10/swedish-dentist-who-revealed-80-of-migrant-children-are-adults-fired-may-lose-home/
    
    Lose home. Fired. Destroyed. Because all these 40 year old child refugees raping their hosts are the equivalent of the post world 2 diaspora, you understand. If you say otherwise you’re anti-semitic. Stop it.
    
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4001266/The-victim-Merkel-s-welcome-culture-Death-teenager-raped-murdered-Afghan-migrant-Germany-sparks-protests-latest-backlash-against-open-door-policy.html
    
    This was the daughter of a German political official who supported the open-doors policy.
    
    The official later apologised to the Islamic groups for the words of anger expressed about the murder and rape of his daughter.
    
    Of course the real tragedy of the issue was the fact that it might be used by evil Nazbol like the AfD to stoke up unfair conflict.
    
    There are literally dozens and dozens of these stories that never make the news. One day I’ll just link all of them. Dozens and dozens and dozens. People think people like me suddenly change positions for no reason. There is a whole host and range of very, very good reasons.
    
    Merkel meanwhile is focused on ‘hate-speech’ and celebrating Frankfurt becoming the first city in Germany with a non-native majority.
    
    What an absolute execration the communist is. I said yesterday that Theresa May was worse. Hard to decide really. It is so incredibly sad to see Germany being destroyed in real time. So incredibly sad.
    
    They have their own Rotherhams, but they’re better at preventing any kind of speech. Their anti-speech laws are absolutely unbelievable.
    
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    January 9, 2018 11:24am
  - UpandComer
    
    Absolute acceptance:
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKzlh9kN4HI&t=2708s
    
    Just watch this. It will increase the diversity of your perspectives, and such diversity is incredibly important.
    
    https://www.nswjbd.org/Statement-on-Australian-Refugee-Policy/default.aspx
    
    It’s so weird to me that all these groups want to import hundreds of thousands of their historical enemies, then gravely allude to rising anti-semitism, and the need to control speech with ruthless Jewi sh supremacist hate speech laws, like this:
    
    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/20/world/europe/germany-36-accused-of-hateful-postings-over-social-media.html
    
    If I linked to the story about Radenburger in Germany, I’d get a swat team – because it’s anti-semtic and Islamophobic.
    
    Hitches was right when he said speech would die within one decade in 2005.
    
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    January 9, 2018 11:41am
Paulus

Sorry I forgot in my comments on Rentals that “No property shall be rented to anybody with a Chinese sounding name”.
Ok Twitford !
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January 9, 2018 8:49am
- Harkman
  
  Did you see Muppethead Twyford on One last Friday? He wants all Housing NZ tenants to be allowed to have dogs/pets. The entire point of state housing was for people that were too poor to pay standard rents. If they can afford pets they can afford normal rents. Naturally, One News, the broadcasting arm of the Labour party, obliged him by talking to a chap who had been in an accident and actually needs a dog, the exception not the rule. Twyford then gave a moronic soliloquy about how his lonely mother needed a cat for company. He may be able to fool the idiots but we will see him fail spectacularly over the next 24 months.
  
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  January 9, 2018 10:17am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    Problem is this: once this rule is in, National would have huge trouble changing it. The MSM would get right behind the sob stories if anyone tried to change the rules back.
    
    Once those dogs are in the state homes, via tax or rates *we* will be paying for their registration, we will be paying for their feed, we will be paying for Council work on complaints, we will be paying for dog attack victim care etc. Forever.
    
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    January 9, 2018 10:39am
    - Harkman
      
      Exactly C.L. the sob stories from our media would stop any repeal, “My boys have fetal alcohol syndrome and all they have in life is their pitbull puppies.”?
      
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      January 9, 2018 11:29am
  - Left Right and Centre
    
    hmm – all the new houses will come with the option of your very own govt supplied Paddles. Or Rover.
    
    Just one pet ? How many goldfish ?
    
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    January 10, 2018 6:12am
Manolo

The incompetent messiah is so modest:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/01/08/obamas-criticized-for-lavish-library-plans-including-test-kitchen.html

Reports first surfaced last fall that the monument to the first black president’s legacy was taking on an activity-center vibe. There would be a museum – but also a basketball court, possibly a room for yoga classes, and a test kitchen to teach visitors “about the full production cycle of nutritious food.”
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January 9, 2018 8:59am
lastmanstanding

Like most pollies in 12 months the COL will be scratching their balls ( the wimmin have them to) and wondering why their is the shortage of private rentals and rents have increased 20%.

The pollies just dont get consequences because they dont inhabit the real world where actions jave reactions.
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January 9, 2018 9:01am
Jack5

The Rwandans have invited Golly Ghahraman to Rwanda for a friendly chat. (Tks to Whale for the tip):

http://ktpress.rw/2018/01/genocide-survivors-invite-new-zealand-mp-defending-convicts/
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January 9, 2018 9:03am
- GazzaW
  
  …….and who’s paying?
  
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  January 9, 2018 9:07am
  - Jack5
    
    If you’re talking about a one-way ticket for Golly, let’s get the crowd-funding campaign rolling.
    
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    January 9, 2018 9:11am
- VicParking
  
  I here shes going to Rwanda on her way back from defending the arrested protesters in Iran.
  
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  January 9, 2018 9:20am
- niggly
  
  Crikey, from that article the Rwandan journalists don’t beat about the bush so to speak, and tell it like it is – puts the feeble politically correct NZ MSM to shame!
  
  There was a shock in New Zealand, and Rwanda alike when the latest details emerged. She was accused of falsely painting herself as an “angel” when she had actually been “defending evil”.
  …
  Despite the scandal, Ghahraman has not come out to make a clear statement about her past and its relationship to her today. Instead, she has left it to her supporters to speak for her.
  
  “Survivors…are troubled that you have failed to adequately clarify your position on the events of 1994,” says GAERG.
  
  “As a current and future leader of New Zealand, we are eager that you gain first-hand understanding of the Genocide, and the role of survivors in rebuilding our nation in its aftermath.”
  
  Ouch – what a smackdown! The Rwandan’s are calling her out!
  
  Meanwhile unlike the fake pretender GG, the Rwandan MSM acknowledge a honest and caring NZ’er:
  
  New Zealand was on the UN Security Council during the genocide, and it’s diplomat stood out as one of few determine voices that spoke out against the inaction to stop the massacres. Ambassador Colin Keating has also been awarded in Rwanda for his efforts.
  
  Colin Keating has more integrity in simply one of his fingers that GG has in her entire body!
  
  What’s the bet GG will be too chicken to go? The NZ MSM should be asking her about that …
  
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  January 9, 2018 9:34am
  - stephieboy
    
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    I would of thought the fees she sought would be modest compared to defending former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic’
    
    Hague Tribunal and Serbs Spent €2m on Mladic Trial
    Former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic’s defence team, plus his relatives’ visits to the detention unit and financial aid to him personally, have cost the Hague Tribunal, the Bosnian Serbs and Serbia over two million euros.
    
    http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/hague-tribunal-and-serbs-spend-2m-on-mladic-trial-11-15-2017
    
    It raises the question were the Nazi defendants entitled to Defence counsel or do the rules of natural selection prevail ?
    
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    January 9, 2018 9:51am
    - Keeping Stock
      
      Everyone is entitled to a defence Stephie.
      
      But the question here is why Ms Ghahraman was so coy about her involvement in the defence of Rwandan and Bosnian genocide trials, and her continued work on behalf of a genocide accused trying to evade extradition from New Zealand.
      
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      January 9, 2018 10:03am
      - stephieboy
        
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        Thus even Mr Asia ( Terry Clark ) was not entitled to a defence ?
        
        http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=3565403
        
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        January 9, 2018 10:12am
      - Jack5
        
        Stephie (10.12 post): are you talking about the Mr Asia lawyer who was struck off?
        
        http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11586325
        
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        January 9, 2018 10:15am
      - stephieboy
        
        Jack5 , no. Sir Peter Williams QC,
        
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Williams_(lawyer)
        
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        January 9, 2018 10:21am
      - Keeping Stock
        
        Read my comment again Stephie; it’s crystal clear:
        
        Everyone is entitled to a defence Stephie.
        
        Even the most vile criminals, kiddy-fiddlers, murderers of old ladies and terrorists are entitled to a defence. If Ms Ghahraman has chosen to defend criminals, she is doing her job, and shouldn’t have to lie about it, simply to make her appear more saintly to the Green rank and file.
        
        I hope however she doesn’t have the same dilemma as Greg King, who ultimately found it hard to live with himself, despite being one of New Zealand’s most successful criminal defence lawyers.
        
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        January 9, 2018 11:42am
      - ztev
        
        keeping stock
        You should be very careful not to breach supression orders on certain cases.
        
        Wouldnt want me to be a tattletail, like you do, would you now ?
        
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        January 9, 2018 6:49pm
    - Classic Liberal
      
      Stephie, I can’t take you seriously when you write ‘would of’ instead of ‘would have’.
      
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      January 9, 2018 10:41am
      - GazzaW
        
        Stephie obviously does the lefty protest placards as a sideline.
        
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        January 9, 2018 12:36pm
      - Left Right and Centre
        
        Wouldn’t dare misspell ‘muslim’ the fucktard.
        
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        January 10, 2018 6:15am
- KKKKatee
  
  The heat is piling on our wonderful ‘refugee’. I’ll be very surprised if she accepts the invitation from this group. She hasn’t got the guts to put her money where her mouth is unfortunately. The sooner James Shaw shows her the door the better, which won’t happen in a thousand years……
  This awful human being, GG, has no shame and I’ll go over to Twitter to see if she has issued a response to the invitation. My bet is that she hasn’t and she won’t. Loves to shoot her mouth off telling everyone how wonderful she is, but when it comes to explaining her actions – she hasn’t perfected that art yet….
  
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  January 9, 2018 10:54am
- ztev
  
  “Rwandans have invited Golly Ghahraman to Rwanda for a friendly chat”
  
  Thats all Phil Quins doing, hes been playing ‘fetch’ of the Rwanda government for some time
  
  I consulted to the Government of Rwanda: setting up a whole-of-government communications operation, as well as assisting Rwandan Government as it successfully sought a UN Security Council berth; commemorate twenty years since the Genocide against the Tutsi; and navigate a raft of sensitive and complex diplomatic and political challenges.
  http://www.philquin.com/pqc/2015/8/31/xcolhrwvyrtr8966bzhljtc0yhimzb
  
  Thats the older version, the current version is far more coy
  I’ve worked in the field of political communications for a long time, including, most recently, a fascinating three year stint consulting in Rwanda. These days, I’m on an indefinite sabbatical… blah blah blah
  
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  January 9, 2018 7:00pm
pdm

Click – that was the off switch on my radio being activated when Kerre McIver came on at 9.07 approx this morning. I am just letting NewstalkZB know that is what will happen at about 8.35 each morning next year.
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January 9, 2018 9:10am
- Jack5
  
  PDM, meanwhile Mad Morrissey Breen has two of his radios tuned to NewstalkZB and is frantically transcribing the dialogue.
  
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  January 9, 2018 9:12am
- Digmen1
  
  Yes, we need to email them to let them know, or they will carry on replacing all the good talk back hosts.
  
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  January 9, 2018 9:39am
- GazzaW
  
  Not only the listeners switching off but the advertisers as well. Kerre is just too lightweight for the role and Leighton’s audience has zero interest in the new grandchild or the latest goings on in the Peoples Republic of Grey Lynn.
  
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  January 9, 2018 9:40am
  - Left Right and Centre
    
    ‘My daughter went to law school, my daughter went to law school, my daughter went to law school . . ‘
    
    Farking straw hatter. I wonder if she’d go on about her daughter all the time if she’d been a waitress ? Probably.
    
    I love her smug, know it all, knitting circle, clucking, superior voice.
    
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    January 10, 2018 6:29am
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  They’re all pretty lightweight now. Some fool was withering on over the hols about how we need a Minister for Tourism.
  Kelvin, Kelvin, Oh Kelvin where are you?
  
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  January 9, 2018 4:16pm
Longknives

Is there anything more Nauseating than Hollowood’s collective ‘Virtue Signalling’ at the moment??

The latest Fashion Accessory is to turn up to the Awards with an ‘Activist’ as your date-Bonus SJW points if this ‘Activist’ is black…
How offensive and insulting to Minorities.
Honestly- Meryl Streep and Co have their heads stuck so far up their own arses…
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January 9, 2018 9:30am
- Inandout
  
  Then there is the Academy Awards. I think Marlon Brando started this political shit with his barrow pushing for his island girly.
  
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  January 9, 2018 9:42am
- KKKKatee
  
  Agree. And a lot of the dress the women wore were pretty revealing as well. They didn’t exactly turn up looking like Muslim women. Lots of flesh was on display. Talk about tease the fellas……
  
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  January 9, 2018 11:03am
  - Left Right and Centre
    
    How many of those blokes could get whatever pussy they want anywhere anytime ?
    They’d be as cool as Hef about lame award ceremony frocks etc
    
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    January 10, 2018 6:32am
- kowtow
  
  “Is there anything more Nauseating than Hollowood’s collective ‘Virtue Signalling’ at the moment??”
  
  Our media’s uncritical repeating of it comes close.
  
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  January 9, 2018 12:35pm
Digmen1

Merryl Streep is just upset because no Hollywood moghul wanted to grope her.
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January 9, 2018 9:40am
- Jack5
  
  Digmen, are you saying Merryl is losing her grope?
  
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  January 9, 2018 9:50am
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The Alt-Right Doesn’t Know What to Do With White Women
F. Roger Devlin is the leading voice of far-right gender politics. But he’s facing pushback from a new group of white nationalist women.
BY HANNAH GAIS

October 17, 2017
“In a basement conference room in the Ronald Reagan Center in Washington, D.C., on November 19, 2016, following one of the first alt-right press conferences after the 2016 election, F. Roger Devlin (the “F” stands for Francis) took to the stage with a curious tale about Norwegian women. Their “lizard brains,” he said, were causing them to abandon Norwegian men for Pakistani immigrants, causing a crisis in heterosexual relations among Norwegian whites.

It was familiar territory for Devlin. Devlin is not a household name the way other white nationalist leaders like Richard Spencer are, and he certainly lacks the pomp of some of the far-right’s bombastic hangers-on, such as Milo Yiannopoulos. Yet the self-described “independent scholar” is a major voice on the alt-right, and has been critical in shaping the movement’s understanding of gender, marriage, and the place of white women among its ranks. He is a longtime contributor to far-right publications including The Occidental Quarterly, VDARE, and Counter-Currents. Like many on the intellectual wing of the alt-right, he has mainstream credentials, namely a doctorate in political philosophy from Tulane. But as his work veered right, he began to fancy himself a dissident. In light of the rise in mainstream media attention toward the alt-right movement and women’s role in it, Devlin’s work sheds a great deal of light on a question of what today’s white nationalists think of women’s place in society….”

https://newrepublic.com/article/145325/alt-right-doesnt-know-white-women
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January 9, 2018 9:42am
- Inandout
  
  In the basement of the White House Bill Clinton was eaten by a young woman.
  
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  January 9, 2018 9:45am
  - stephieboy
    
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    Inandout , here there and every where President Trump was busy groping and sexual assaulting women.
    
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    January 9, 2018 9:53am
    - Jack5
      
      What about the lecherous young Stephiestanis leering at young girls at the malls?
      
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      January 9, 2018 9:57am
      - stephieboy
        
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        Jack 5 , if I had the wherewithal I would relish the chance of suing you for defamation seeking exemplary damages .
        
        However its best for the time being to ignore your infantile name calling .
        
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        January 9, 2018 10:00am
      - Jack5
        
        Or you could go to Dame Devoid! She will spend a week trying to find out where Stephiestan is.
        
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        January 9, 2018 10:09am
    - Keeping Stock
      
      Do you have evidence that Trump, as President, has sexually assaulted women Stephie?
      
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      January 9, 2018 10:29am
- Jack5
  
  Norway toughens its stance on refugees.
  
  https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/11/norway-is-hard-on-migrants-but-tough-love-works/
  
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  January 9, 2018 9:56am
  - Digmen1
    
    Long live Poland, Hungary, Myanmar, Slovakia, and now maybe Austrian and Norway.
    
    Muslims belong in muslim countries.
    They want to take over the whole world and enforce their stone age Sharia Law.
    
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    January 9, 2018 10:11am
    - stephieboy
      
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      Digmen 1, your dream of ethnic cleansing baring fruit ?
      
      The logic of Lebnensaurum and subhuman .
      
      You certainly give us insight to your alt right credentials .
      
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      January 9, 2018 10:17am
      - Classic Liberal
        
        Islam is not an ethnicity. It’s an ideology that strictly controls people’s lives. You know that.
        
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        January 9, 2018 10:44am
      - Digmen1
        
        It is slowly bearing fruit.
        
        I do not know what race or religion you are, but I am proud of mine.
        I just want Europe and the West to stay mainly white and with Christian values.
        
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        January 9, 2018 11:06am
      - Classic Liberal
        
        Haha, Stephie, ‘baring fruit’? Phoa, you’re probably thinking about the delights of sucking a peeled banana.
        
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        January 9, 2018 11:10am
      - Rich Prick
        
        Naked fruit? What are you on about?
        
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        January 9, 2018 12:11pm
      - GazzaW
        
        Are you referring to Stalin’s efforts at ethnic cleansing in the Ukraine and the southern republics of the USSR in the 30s Stephie? Hitler was a rank amateur by comparison.
        
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        January 9, 2018 12:41pm
      - Left Right and Centre
        
        Piss off to Iran dick.
        
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        January 10, 2018 6:34am
    - Jack5
      
      Re Digmen at 10.11:
      
      Hear! Hear! And that applies to New Zealand. Let’s get persecuted Christians into our refugee intake.
      
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      January 9, 2018 10:39am
      - Digmen1
        
        I’m all for that!
        I will be emailing Golriz and asking her to do that!
        
        No more muslims.
        
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        January 9, 2018 11:09am
      - GazzaW
        
        A great suggestion Jack. Our daughter works with two middle-aged Iraqi Christians and there is already a small but well established community in Auckland. They have been here since the Saddam era and are so well integrated into the local NZ community as to be invisible. They are above all very proud Kiwis and there lies the difference. Their calls to bring in more Iraqi Christians and support them have fallen on deaf ears.
        
        And before you jump down my throat ztev/stephie both administrations are equally to blame.
        
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        January 9, 2018 12:50pm
      - ztev
        
        No need to gazza, You make your points clearly and rationally
        
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        January 9, 2018 6:40pm
- EAD_TWO
  
  Their “lizard brains,” he said, were causing them to abandon Norwegian men for Pakistani immigrants, causing a crisis in heterosexual relations among Norwegian whites.
  
  I’m pretty sure nobody on the alt-right has referred to women having “lizard brains”, but we do warn of the dangers of race mixing and the grim future it portends for White women.
  
  Here is Millenial Woes and Morgoths Review from the alt-right discussing the perils of race mixing following all the miscegenation adverts over Christmas:
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_anw3F8R_w
  
  Copy pasted with Google translate {warning – trigger alert for Stephiegoy}
  
  We don’t need to paint that in very detailed strokes, because it’s just so, it’s so f*cking grim, you know❗
  
  That beautiful White girl today who’s flirting with a black man on the train in the adverts. It’s a bit exotic, it’s a bit exciting, it would annoy daddy!
  
  Well her future is, she’s going to be surrounded by, first of all, lower IQ half-caste kids, and then even lower IQ, god knows what, grandkids. And, you know, the security that she could have had from having a White family is just going to be totally gone.
  
  When like now they’ve got the White woman and she’s just a sort of half-caste breeding factory, but then in 20, or 30 years time she’s just gonna be this sad old granny slumped in the corner, pissed [drunk]!
  
  And then with all of these complete racial aliens running around. It’s not like the nicest of futures. It’s okay now when she’s being romanced on the train in her 20s by this nice black man! But her future is shit!
  
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  January 9, 2018 10:19am
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    EAD TWO , your new Reich would ban this type of union ?
    
    http://i50.tinypic.com/2q36vip.jpg
    
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    January 9, 2018 10:26am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    EAD, if you keep making this about race, you won’t get much support and probably there will soon be hate speech laws that will go after you. I don’t support such laws, but just saying…
    
    Also, you bring sites like this into disrepute. Sensible people criticize ideologies and policies, not people’s colour.
    
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    January 9, 2018 10:47am
    - EAD_TWO
      
      If I were to sum up yoir position Classic Liberal, it’s that you’re against people stating the truth in that race is real.
      
      You also seem to think race mixing is something that is natural rather than the intended consequence of the Coudenhove Kalegri Plan designed to permanently lower the quality of European nations.
      
      The statistics are terrible for mixed-race partnerships, when a White woman marries a black guy. The amount of violence, the frequency of divorce, the frequency of being on welfare is shocking.
      
      This contrasts with the alternative reality that is painted by those who control the advertising industry. They paint white women/black male relationships as some sort of ideal romantic relationship where it just works, you know. And the Black man in the adverts is always invariably middle-class as well❗
      
      Nothing could be further from the truth. The reality of mixed race marriages is that they are frequently sordid, miserable, poverty-stricken, and violent. I mean, this is the kind of thing where you actually realise that the social conditioning is not only immoral, not only irresponsible in the grand scheme of things on the macro level, it’s also very cruel and irresponsible and immoral towards each of these individual women who’s being inveigled into doing this, to herself.
      
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      January 9, 2018 8:44pm
    - realityczech
      
      “Also, you bring sites like this into disrepute.”
      
      This site did that long ago by being an extremist pro zionist hate site. The stuff on here would get you banned for life on Stormfront. This site represents the very worst of religious hatred and bigotry on a daily basis.
      
      That is one of its strengths as it reveals just how unhinged and dangerous zionists like you are and the threat your type pose to decent people.
      
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      January 9, 2018 9:23pm
  - UpandComer
    
    EAD
    
    There is nothing inherently wrong with people making romantic choices.
    
    Arguments based around miscegenation are just inherently awful and ugly and discredit discussion.
    
    If you’re going to go there and I’d highly recommend not going there, present only valid scientific debates, and only refer to evidence.
    
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/4548943/British-teenagers-have-lower-IQs-than-their-counterparts-did-30-years-ago.html
    
    For example – there is an interesting debate around the Flynn Effect (Jim Flynn who teaches at the University of Otago in political science and psychology, traced increases in IQ over time since about 1960) and it’s reversal in many places in the past decade.
    
    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886905001145
    
    https://theeconomyofmeaning.com/2015/11/12/new-study-shows-reversed-flynn-effect-no-more-rising-iqs/
    
    http://increasingintelligence.blogspot.com.au/2017/06/the-flynn-effect-are-we-getting-smarter.html
    
    Now that is a very important empirical phenomenon, that deserves evaluation. It’s also really interesting – what does it mean to have a vastly higher IQ then your great grandparents – were they really not as intelligent as you?
    
    What does ‘societal IQ’ impact?
    
    What do IQ tests actually measure?
    
    Flynn charts the last 50 years of the nature vs nurture debate, and he is one of the very few liberals who doesn’t simply dismiss evolutionary biology as a racist discipline out of hand.
    
    I’d highly recommend looking at Flynns work ‘What is Intelligence?’.
    
    That’s the one book to start with, as he analyses pretty honestly stuff like the Bell Curve by William Murray.
    
    Flynn is quite unique in that he is happy to address politically incorrect material even if he at times has to reach in order to achieve politically correct conclusions, but he still is fundamentally a liberal humanist, and he is THE world expert on this matter.
    
    The Torchlight List is also excellent – lists off what he regards as the liberal humanist canon of books to read.
    
    The focus must always be on evidence, data, and empiricism, and fisking interpretations.
    
    For example see here:
    
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3146070/Mixed-race-relationships-making-taller-smarter-Children-born-genetically-diverse-parents-intelligent-ancestors.html
    
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2003/10/31/mixed-race-teens-prone-to-depression/ff04745b-be4a-473d-ac59-58abdda8845d/?utm_term=.ece2ba5ec448
    
    So there is legitimate sociological data that is studied which can bear on choices, but there is nothing whatsoever wrong with people exercising their individual romantic choice.
    
    There has been a lot of analysis of the Daily Mail story.
    
    Come on man David is being veeery generous allowing us to post what we post.
    
    David does stirling work and provides a very rare forum. Lets not bring Kiwiblog into disrepute. Flynn calls your statement ‘vulgar ethnocentrism’. Sure, everybody else is doing it, but it’s not necessary here.
    
    Don’t get blacklisted like Jamie Damon at Google:
    
    https://www.scribd.com/document/368688363/James-Damore-vs-Google-Class-Action-Lawsuit
    
    Ah man I hope he trashes Google.
    
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    January 9, 2018 3:31pm
    - UpandComer
      
      And when I say ‘everybody else’ I mean the left.
      
      http://edition.cnn.com/2016/11/23/politics/dnc-leadership-diversity/index.html
      
      http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/11/01/dnc-white-men-shouldnt-apply-for-tech-jobs.html
      
      https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/03/24/the-disease-killing-white-americans-goes-way-deeper-than-opioids/?utm_term=.fb65c33c8552
      > Read the comments.
      
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      January 9, 2018 3:43pm
    - realityczech
      
      “There is nothing inherently wrong with people making romantic choices.”
      
      I agree with you. It is not however a view shared by the self declared master race of the Jew.
      
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      January 9, 2018 9:19pm
- UpandComer
  
  Lol zie virtuous left is happy to see one million English women raped in England and fire and doxx and destroy the only woman who would say anything about it from the Labour party, and then do absolutely nothing, just as long as God forbid they aren’t considered racist!
  
  http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/child-sex-abuse-gangs-could-5114029
  
  One million little girls. One million. All considered as so much trash and garbage by the remainder and our fellow people of the book in England of both stripes. So no one gets fired, but if you talk about it like me anywhere in Europe, you get doxxed, massive fines, fired and destroyed.
  
  Everyday there is a new book taken seriously by academics about the validity of the child sexual gaze especially that of little girls, I’ve linked to stories in the past from Salon, the BBC, slate, mother Jones, and the New York Times. See the general debate yesterday. And no one on the leftlooks askance or raises a query or regards the academic persual or evaluation as suspect, especially when it accompanies some good old ‘cultural poetics’ on gender or marriage.
  
  Oh, but if an academic talks about the weird dissonance between feminism and the fetoshization of literal rape cultures and patriarchies, he’s wacist and sexist.
  
  I showed yesterday the catastrophic strate of female health in the UK, where 30% of all the women have a DSM mental illness, and TWENTY PERCENT cut themselves, slashing up their thighs and arms and torsos to reduce and anxiety. Well as the Labour MP Miss Champion noted before she was fired for speaking out, they’ve been raped to the tune of one million and this has been effectively endorsed by the government and the Jewish groups and the Muslim groups. Just a cultural misunderstanding. Oh, but don’t you see? The answer is more diversity and hard core feminism yeah.
  
  uknews/law-and-order/11405962/Woman-killed-herself-after-struggling-to-deal-with-being-unmarried-and-childless-by-30.html
  
  article-3387810/Are-men-blame-women-childless-Record-numbers-women-never-mothers-not-choice-FEMAIL-investigates.html
  
  There are ever increasing numbers of husk women ruined by feminism and committing suicide at high rates. I have older archives wiped off Google apparently because, well who knows.
  
  But yes, we must have serious discussions about transgendering 3 year old girls and boys but don’t even dare any of you Xist ‘der alt righten’ (which doesn’t exist) examine our feminist intersectional kulturkampf. If you substitute ‘muslim and Jewish men’ into almost all the nasty statistics you understand why were told it’s always just ‘men’ who do awful things.
  
  What is so hilarious is that the war on women is all coming from one direction. Yours. You imbecile. I really can’t wait for the next Hollywood Pedo Wizard or lady enabler to stand up and denounce academics looking at the catastrophic estate of female health in Britain, and concluding the answer is more feminism and diversity.
  
  Seriously you guys are going to lose this argument. It doesn’t even matter what he says. All the matters is that he has to be punished for questioning the kulturkampf.
  
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  January 9, 2018 10:28am
  - EAD_TWO
    
    Outstanding comment UpandComer
    
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    January 9, 2018 10:37am
  - Salacious Crumb
    
    Great comment Upandcomer.
    The tragedy of this is the continued faux social constructs the post modernists continue to perpetuate around “equality at all costs”; willfully enabled by weak willed government’s and complicit media.
    
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    January 9, 2018 10:54am
  - Brito
    
    The Mirror is your point of reference for this story.
    
    Right! Authoritative, credible, serious…not.
    
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    January 9, 2018 11:16am
    - UpandComer
      
      Lol is the quote from Miss Champion wrong?
      
      Anything regarding the story itself? No?
      
      Anything regarding her constituents?
      
      http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/16/sarah-champion-quits-jeremy-corbyns-shadow-cabinet-warning-pakistani/
      
      Oh, here she is in the Telegraph, where her efforts to raise the profile of the issue in the Sun led to her being fired because her statements were ‘Islamophobic’ according to the intrepid Naz Shah.
      
      So in England, the shadow secretary for woman gets fired and trashed as racist for speaking up about the rape of 1million young women.
      
      http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4813870/MP-shares-Twitter-post-telling-abuse-victims-shut-up.html
      
      I should ‘shut my mouth for the good of diversity’ like the Daily Mail reports is the Labour party policy in the Uk.
      
      http://www.sedaa.org/2017/08/amina-lone-and-the-shame-of-the-labour-party-in-the-uk/ Here is another woman who get’s destroyed for speaking out about women being raped in England.
      
      As if the BBC, Reuters, MSNBC would ever report such a major story in the UK. But of course, their diverse ownership have other priorities.
      
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      January 9, 2018 12:38pm
  - stephieboy
    
    Upandcomer and EAD TWO etc , preparing a blueprint for an anti womens rights dystopia ”
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJTonrzXTJs
    
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    January 9, 2018 12:30pm
    - Salacious Crumb
      
      The only dystopia is a society where women cannot even correctly point out the rank hypocrisy of sex crime reporting and the ensuing stifling of free speech. Looks like it’s already arrived.
      How on earth do you reconcile calling out the appalling statistics of rape of British nationals as “anti-women”?
      
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      January 9, 2018 2:06pm
Prince

Is anyone else concerned that the recent revisions to NZ GDP may have had an impact on the election result, had they been known to the electorate ?
Has there been any investigation as to why these errors were allowed to continue up to the election ?
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January 9, 2018 10:04am
- Digmen1
  
  I don’t think it would have made much difference.
  
  What would have made a difference would have been for NZ First to declare its refereed coalition options.
  
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  January 9, 2018 10:13am
  - stephieboy
    
    Digmen1 , likewise National and Labour too ?
    
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    January 9, 2018 10:18am
    - UpandComer
      
      Labour always said theyd go with anyone not Act or National. Had Winston declared his hand he wouldn’t have got 5 percent because 2.5% of his vote was for an anti immigration national government. He will learn this at the next election when he and his party of slightly inbred looking dumb dumbs disappear for good. I love the fact that with all the power in the world he brought in the pending unionizarion of our economy, no obligations Greens Metoroa Turei welfare, the dismantling of sophisticated targeted social welfare for huge universal waste projects so that rich arseholes like him can use ‘heating money’ to buy ornamental cactii, and white collar families will be better off to he tune of tens of thousands of dollars per year to get their kids white collar jobs. Oh and Cuthberts Cassandra’s get their free driving lessons.
      
      But the best bit is that he isn’t cutting immigration one Pennywise. They are keeping permanent residencies at 45k, highest in the OECD. All they’re doing is cutting our fifth largest exporter market. Because of its possible to find the worst possible triangulation on policy, Ardern and the drunk uncle will find it. He sold out on thirty years worth of rhetoric on every major issue lol. Who in National could have believed it. Ah well.
      
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      January 9, 2018 10:38am
      - GazzaW
        
        The first serious political polls are going to be very interesting. The big question is whether the head sponsors, TV One and NZ Herald (both left leaners) will be overly keen to run them.
        
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        January 9, 2018 1:00pm
      - ztev
        
        last year numbers of all types was around 75k
        
        Wait and see that drop quite a bit…
        
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        January 9, 2018 2:06pm
Inandout

Is Cindy training herself to step down as PM? She has been absent from natural disasters in the last week, and no comment from her chosen Ministers.
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January 9, 2018 10:33am
- ztev
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  Those high tides ? Not disasters as the local councils didnt declare states of emergency
  
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  January 9, 2018 10:40am
  - GazzaW
    
    Pure semantics ztev.
    
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    January 9, 2018 1:01pm
    - srylands
      
      He specialises in semantics.
      
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      January 9, 2018 4:50pm
  - KevOB
    
    They were to the locals.
    
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    January 9, 2018 1:12pm
    - ztev
      
      Are you ‘one of those locals’….. or concern trolling.
      
      I thought so
      
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      January 9, 2018 2:03pm
      - GazzaW
        
        Were you an affected ‘local’ in Christchurch, Edgecumbe or Kaikoura ztev? If not please desist from commenting on those disasters and their aftermath. Or maybe you’re just ‘concern trolling’.
        
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        January 9, 2018 2:36pm
      - ztev
        
        Not a local in Christchurch, Kaikoura or Edgecumbe but accepted local councils declaration of state of emergency for it to be a real disaster.
        
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        January 9, 2018 3:59pm
      - GazzaW
        
        Gerbils again? You told Kev to keep his nose out of it as he wasn’t a ‘local’. Nothing to do with councils declaring an emergency.
        
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        January 9, 2018 4:58pm
- KKKKatee
  
  Supposedly on holiday although the press did wheel her out for comment after Jim Anderton died.
  I’m loving it that we don’t have to see her on the news. All this ‘conversation’ bizz does my head in.
  Looks like, though, she’s been very busy behind the scenes rewriting the terms and conditions of employment and that the biggest losers are the Employers. Fancy that. Wouldn’t have expected anything less from a Marxist. Hey Jacinda, who the hell do you think is employing you? Certainly not a privately owned business….
  
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  January 9, 2018 10:59am
  - ztev
    
    back in NZ old trop.
    
    We never heard from Key either when he was in Hawaii, till he got home
    
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    January 9, 2018 2:04pm
    - GazzaW
      
      English was always ready to step up if needed ztev and there’s the difference. You above all should know that politics is all about perception and it’s taken until today for Faafoi to get off his arse and visit the area. Meantime, even the Herald is running stories of ruined homes and businesses. Not good for perception.
      
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      January 9, 2018 2:40pm
      - ztev
        
        national had duty ministers too… English was far too grand for him to be one over the hols..
        
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        January 9, 2018 4:00pm
      - Salacious Crumb
        
        You seem quite well informed ztev. What would your criticisms of the current government to date be?
        
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        January 9, 2018 4:04pm
      - GazzaW
        
        English was never ‘too grand’ ztev and you know that full well. Sure he had duty ministers but if he was needed he would be there.
        
        Who is Labours duty minister over the break? Very conspicuous by their absence.Perceptions again ztev.
        
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        January 9, 2018 5:02pm
  - Left Right and Centre
    
    Conversations, transparency, committees, working groups.
    Here’s a word she’ll never use though . . .
    ‘referendum’.
    
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    January 10, 2018 6:40am
- stephieboy
  
  Inandout , what natural disaster comparable to Feb 2011 , Kaikoura ,Pike River etc ,,
  
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  January 9, 2018 12:20pm
  - Inandout
    
    Just a minor hiccup I am sure.
    
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    January 9, 2018 2:32pm
Jack5

Has Jacinderella got a shoe collection, or is she happy with her glass slippers?
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January 9, 2018 10:40am
- KKKKatee
  
  She only wears those funny little ankle boots and another pair which have a broad strap across the top of the foot. She even wore here fav ankle boots with a long dress to some flash do…….
  Don’t get me wrong, I also have ankle boots, but there is a time and place to wear them i.e. not with black tights and the blue and red the party dress she wore on her swearing in day. She looked like a kid all dressed up ready to go to a party. Totally inappropriate….
  
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  January 9, 2018 10:48am
  - Manolo
    
    Allow me to say it: our PM is sartorially-challenged.
    
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    January 9, 2018 10:50am
    - RalphT
      
      Manolo, the word sartorially wasn’t needed; just saying that she is challenged is sufficient.
      
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      January 9, 2018 11:05am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Here’s a PM who can wear boots.
      http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/11450145/Theresa-Mays-greatest-footwear-hits.html
      
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      January 9, 2018 11:12am
    - Paulus
      
      Sorry – don’t think she would know what sartorial means despite a communications degree at Waikato – nobody else there would know the word either.
      Maori translation please.
      
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      January 9, 2018 11:29am
    - stephieboy
      
      Manolo and other alt right nutters , still feel left out in the icy cold come and post 23/09/17 /
      
      Where you were all and still are totally irrelevant .
      
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      January 9, 2018 12:22pm
      - Inandout
        
        As you react to Trump being President, totally irrelevant.
        
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        January 9, 2018 2:34pm
    - GazzaW
      
      She’ll go down a treat at CHOGM in London and for a real dose of national embarassment the State Reception at Windsor Castle beckons.
      
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      January 9, 2018 1:07pm
      - ztev
        
        Dont need to clutch your dewlaps over Windsor castle , old chap.
        Shell be fine, at least they wont be confusing her as the PM of the wrong country !
        
        hahahaha!
        
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        January 9, 2018 4:05pm
      - GazzaW
        
        No fear at all unfortunately for NZ ztev.
        
        WTF are dewlaps? Showing your age a tad.
        
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        January 9, 2018 5:04pm
    - KevOB
      
      She needs lesson from my youngest daughter (16).
      
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      January 9, 2018 1:13pm
  - Left Right and Centre
    
    Only shops at no.1 shoo-in warehouse.
    
    She looked like a kid all dressed up ready to ~~go to~~ lead a party. Totally inappropriate….
    
    hmmm – like bring your daughter to work day gone badly wrong. Er – erm . . .
    
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    January 10, 2018 6:43am
Digmen1

Here is an email I just sent to NewsTalkZB

Please note that I am very disappointed that Leighton is leaving and that you are putting Keree is the top morning slot.

Your station is fast becoming another left wing, socialist orientated station.

Please get some more balanced hosts, or I will no longer listen to you.

Larry Williams is the only credible host you have left.

Concerned Regards
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January 9, 2018 11:04am
- Classic Liberal
  
  Could you copy it to their advertisers Digmen1? And tell ZB you’ve done so?
  
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  January 9, 2018 11:17am
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    How can I do that?
    Do you have the emails of all their advertisers?
    
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    January 9, 2018 11:29am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      Can’t be hard to find, if you’ve heard the ads. They want customers to find them.
      
      I bet they have Twitter accounts, too.
      
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      January 9, 2018 11:51am
    - Inandout
      
      An older article, but still true about radio advertising.
      
      https://www.marketingfirst.co.nz/2009/09/radio-advertising-is-mostly-a-waste-of-money-but-heres-4-tips-to-give-you-a-chance-at-making-a-radio-ad-that-works/
      
      If your audience is turned off by political views that can hurt the advertiser even more. I have noticed even on normally innocuous music stations they read anti Trump articles.
      
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      January 9, 2018 2:43pm
- marcw
  
  I think you are well intentioned Dm, but ultimately they just won’t care. They will only take notice when the next ratings survey goes tits-up, and even then they will know they are right still. It’s just we don’t understand. Then the Board will sell the network off, all the staff will be made redundant, and they will move on to their other hobbies.
  
  Next they will bring back JC, because they know we want him!
  
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  January 9, 2018 11:32am
- ztev
  
  If you are over 54 Digmen, ZB will likely respond by saying ….
  F.O
  All the media want Gen i, millenials, Gen x.
  Baby boomers are poison for advertisers
  
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  January 9, 2018 2:00pm
  - GazzaW
    
    Absolutely ztev. Kerre McIvor, Tim Wilson, Andrew Dickens and Bruce Russell et al are real magnets for the millennials. Jeez you talk some right tosh – the baby boomers have a massive and still growing discretionary spend.
    
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    January 9, 2018 3:37pm
  - Inandout
    
    Zit: Listen to the callers to ZB or Live and you will soon pick up the age group. Better go to Bay Audio.
    
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    January 9, 2018 3:57pm
marcw

Just a warning to anyone using Win 7 on an older laptop or desktop PC – Microsoft (bless them) have released a security update (KB4056894) rollup on 4/1/18 which will kill any computer with an AMD processor. If you allow this to install, at reboot there will be a BSD, or possibly just no start at all.

If you have a restore point, it can be fixed by restoring back with the startup fix software, or by searching Google for fixes to the KB stuffup on- line. Then hide the offending update until they make some amendments, so it doesn’t install automatically. The update is about 137Mb in size if this helps to identify they culprit.

It killed my old laptop that I use for TV streaming at night when I updated at about 8pm last night.
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January 9, 2018 11:06am
- Digmen1
  
  Anyone still on Windows 7 is a luddite, and should have gone to Specsavers (W10 when it was free)
  
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  January 9, 2018 11:30am
  - marcw
    
    Piss off wan..er (rhymes with anchor). Maybe I should have just dumped it in the e-waste instead of using it for one task where it was still useful.
    
    I added the last sentence so idiots like you might desist, but you are obviously just ‘special’.
    
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    January 9, 2018 11:35am
    - Jack5
      
      If the hardware’s fine have a look at one of the Linux operating systems.
      
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      January 9, 2018 12:05pm
  - Inandout
    
    Win7 is a perfect system that works with just about anything. Regarding the update, I am glad I opted for Intel.
    
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    January 9, 2018 11:39am
  - ztev
    
    W10 runs daily updates to Microsoft of what you have been doing on the computer, websites, emails, keystrokes. The code word they call it is ‘telemetry’
    Free means comes with hooks
    “Windows 10 is also spying on nearly everything you do.
    http://bgr.com/2015/07/31/windows-10-upgrade-spying-how-to-opt-out/
    
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    January 9, 2018 1:56pm
- KevOB
  
  There are some excellent versions of Linux so you can avoid Microsoft for most things. It also gives older machines a new lease of life.
  My preferred versions:
  PCLinuxOS
  Linux Mint
  MX linux
  The Mate desktop is fast and easy to work with.
  Not much learning required.
  Some versions can even be run from a data stick.
  
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  January 9, 2018 1:20pm
Maggy Wassilieff

“Somaliland” passes a law against rape.

There is no such law against rape in Somalia.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-42604496
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January 9, 2018 11:21am
Digmen1

Here’s a video of Donal Trump talking about his tax cuts. Its only a few minutes long

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/01/08/trump-tells-farming-convention-american-dream-is-roaring-back-to-life.html

They are for middle class familes as well as the rich.

But listen to the applause near the end!
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January 9, 2018 11:28am
Manolo

The changing face of Sweden:
https://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2017/06/economist-explains-20?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/howimmigrationischangingtheswedishwelfarestatetheeconomistexplains

Tensions were running high when your correspondent visited Sweden at the height of Europe’s migrant crisis, in late 2015.

Although most Swedes happily accepted the 163,000 asylum-seekers who arrived in their country that year, others were far less welcoming. In Malmo, a heavily immigrant city in the south, one cashier in a local shop was particularly angry. “They are just here for welfare and benefits,” he said, before telling your correspondent to “get out”.

Such language was once the preserve of politicians from the far-right Sweden Democrats party, which has capitalised on the crisis to boost its support. Since then the government has been trying to adapt the Swedish welfare state to suit the times: both to accommodate hundreds of thousands of refugees and to try to diminish such right-wing sentiment.
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January 9, 2018 11:34am
- kowtow
  
  Interesting language there from the “journalist”.
  
  Most Swedes “happily accepted” , citation required .And who says protecting ones borders , taxes and welfare system is a “right wing sentiment”.
  
  It is simple common sense.
  
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  January 9, 2018 12:28pm
  - Digmen1
    
    Protecting the borders is actually the main reason governments existed in the first place.
    
    Not health, education or welfare. They were only invented in the 20th century, and paroted on by Helen Clark.
    
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    January 9, 2018 12:36pm
kowtow

Austrian , German?

By citizenship perhaps , but not ethnically or culturally.

Borders matter.

“Austrian teen charged with plotting Christmas market attack with German boy”

https://www.thelocal.de/20180108/austrian-teen-charged-with-plotting-terror-attack-with-german-boy
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January 9, 2018 12:08pm
- stephieboy
  
  kowtow , now why do you believe e local is a credible source ?
  
  Confirmation bias ?
  
  https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/11/muslim-overpopulation-myth/545318/
  
  etc , etc
  
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  January 9, 2018 12:26pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Here’s the same story – on DW
    
    http://www.dw.com/en/austrian-teen-charged-with-plotting-terror-attack-with-12-year-old-in-germany/a-42055355
    
    Or is Germany’s International Broadcaster not a “credible source”?
    
    Perhaps Stephieboy would like to publish his list of
    ‘credible” media sources for all of us here on KB.
    
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    January 9, 2018 2:39pm
- Digmen1
  
  So one was Albanian, and the other was Iraqi.
  Both well known Christian countries!
  
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  January 9, 2018 12:32pm
UpandComer

This is the genius logic of the modern Brussels Eurocrat.

Problem

> Aging population
> Massive welfare state
> Toxic anti-family culture
> Can’t afford government net transfers and unfunded liabilities

Solution

> Import millions of people
> Who hate you and your culture
> Who after years of resourcing won’t integrate or assimilate, and don’t work
> To pay for your unfunded liabilities

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-migrants-germany-survey/only-13-percent-of-recent-refugees-in-germany-have-found-work-survey-idUSKBN13A22F

https://www.ft.com/content/022de0a4-54f4-11e7-9fed-c19e2700005f

https://www.politico.eu/article/most-germany-migrants-fail-to-get-jobs-unemployment/

What is the result of this economic genius from the statists in Brussels?

http://www.france24.com/en/20171214-sweden-raise-earliest-retirement-age-64

Sweden raises it’s retirement age, for no reason at all!

http://www.dw.com/en/germans-complain-about-taxes-as-election-looms/a-38470752

The average German as opposed to fake non-Germans migrating there is now paying half of all their income in tax! Hooray!

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/taxes/germany-about-to-raise-property-taxes-significantly/

Huge increases in property tax! For municipalities struggling even before the refugees who don’t work arrived! Ingenious.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/727091/Migrants-skip-housing-queue-Swedish-families-homes

This is one of my favourites. In Sweden they now kick out actual Swedes from their homes, and don’t offer an alternative home.

Did you read that correctly? Yes – in Sweden which is dead and it’s unbelievably sad, they kick out the native Swedes to allow the fake non-Swedes to have a free house, and don’t give the natives an alternative.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/11902296/Second-German-woman-evicted-from-her-home-to-make-way-for-refugees.html

Here is the same process in Germany.

Germans, being evicted from their houses, so the government can give the houses to rapefugees.

I understand my language is pretty strident and forceful and that can be a turn-off. But look at what is happening! How is this possible?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3477510/Migrant-attacks-conspiracy-hide-truth-Europe-s-liberal-country-Sweden-stopped-citizens-discussing-refugee-influx.html

Sweden doesn’t have a migrant crime catastrophe because they don’t collect the ethnicity of perpetrators and gag their citizens.

Lol imagine being in Europe, and being forced at literal gun-point by your government to pay half of your wages and work an extra 5 years so that immigrants who hate you can breed until they break your welfare state, and if you express dissatisfaction, you will be doxxed, fired, and imprisoned. Also, you can’t let your daughters walk around except in large groups, and the feminists you’ve listened to your whole life have nothing to say about you constantly being groomed by these new compatriots.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/14/opinion/sweden-antisemitism-jews.html

So it’s terrible being Jewish in Sweden because of the migration.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/saved-holocaust-his-countrymen-jewish-refugee-hopes-denmark-can-once-again-find-its-humanity-180958459/

But it’s anti-semitic to express reservations about letting in millions of anti-semites.

I must now have that high enough IQ to deal with all the illogic.
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UpandComer

This comment should not be moderated. It’s economic, and I’ve removed all immoderate language.

This is the genius logic of the modern Brussels Eurocrat.

Problem

> Aging population
> Massive welfare state
> Toxic anti-family culture
> Can’t afford government net transfers and unfunded liabilities

Solution

> Import millions of people
> Who hate you and your culture
> Who after years of resourcing won’t integrate or assimilate, and don’t work
> To pay for your unfunded liabilities

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-migrants-germany-survey/only-13-percent-of-recent-refugees-in-germany-have-found-work-survey-idUSKBN13A22F

https://www.ft.com/content/022de0a4-54f4-11e7-9fed-c19e2700005f

https://www.politico.eu/article/most-germany-migrants-fail-to-get-jobs-unemployment/

What is the result of this economic genius from the statists in Brussels?

http://www.france24.com/en/20171214-sweden-raise-earliest-retirement-age-64

Sweden raises it’s retirement age, for no reason at all.

http://www.dw.com/en/germans-complain-about-taxes-as-election-looms/a-38470752

The average German pays half of all their income in tax.

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/taxes/germany-about-to-raise-property-taxes-significantly/

Huge increases in property tax.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/727091/Migrants-skip-housing-queue-Swedish-families-homes

This is one of my favourites. In Sweden they now kick out actual Swedes from their homes, and don’t offer an alternative home.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/11902296/Second-German-woman-evicted-from-her-home-to-make-way-for-refugees.html

Here is the same process in Germany.

Germans, being evicted from their houses, so the government can give the houses to newcomers.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3477510/Migrant-attacks-conspiracy-hide-truth-Europe-s-liberal-country-Sweden-stopped-citizens-discussing-refugee-influx.html

Non-reporting of events.

So instead of the newcomers paying for the existing unfunded liabilities and welfare states, the natives have to pay for the newcomers instead.

It’s absolutely ingenious.
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January 9, 2018 12:26pm
- Digmen1
  
  Its absoluteley criminal.
  
  But the Swedes and the Germans are so soft and liberal these days. I have spoken to some, and they genuinely believe that the imports are going to work in their factories and pay for their pension when they get older!
  
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  January 9, 2018 12:34pm
  - Johnboy
    
    They probably need another funny little mustachioed chap with a great line in oratory to jerk them out of their complacency I suspect! 🙂
    
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    January 9, 2018 1:17pm
    - UpandComer
      
      They just need free speech. No need for any-one with distinctive facial hair.
      
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      January 9, 2018 1:29pm
      - Johnboy
        
        Quite so. Angela’s make-up person should give her a shave more often! 🙂
        
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        January 9, 2018 1:31pm
  - UpandComer
    
    I can’t blame them. The statistics I’ve cited are censored in Germany.
    
    If you try and post them on social media and say ‘how can people who don’t work, and if they do, don’t pay taxes, and if they pay taxes, the barest minimum, pay for our pensions and our welfare state’ you will now have Bundespolezei turn up at your house, haul you out of bed, interrogate you, imprison you, fine you, and you will lose your job.
    
    All members of the AfD are surveilled by the state. One reason they don’t punish rapists is because so many resources are tied up in policing and punishing speech.
    
    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9934/germany-rape-january
    
    Now I know it’s the Gatestone Institute who have their own set of problems (they’re the John Bolton guys) but you can’t deny their empirical evidence on these matters.
    
    Literally any form of speech which states facts the government doesn’t like can be designated as ‘volksverhetzung’ which means incitement of the masses. Volksverhetzung is based purely on subjective feelings, no objective measure. So my statements, even if they are true, could be considered an affront to the dignity of the individual who raped the two eleven year olds and his social democrat facilitators, or defamation (there is no truth defence) and the penalty is 3 months to 5 years in prison. And this is applied ruthlessly.
    
    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-hatecrime/german-opposition-calls-for-abolition-of-online-hate-speech-law-idUSKBN1EW0Q9
    
    Even the Greens who are the party who actually want to destroy Germany (Erin Von Berg one of their senior members openly celebrates the day when Germans will become a minority in Germany) think it’s a bit iffy to have one of the worlds most important countries have it’s political discourse decided by Mark Zuckerberg.
    
    But Merkel wants this law because it allows a complete shut-down of resistance to her program from a second-hand source. She can always say ‘oh ja, it isn’t me, it’s und Facebook’.
    
    These people are indoctrinated from the moment they are born to hate themselves. I have several German ex girlfriends and I can’t even talk about these issues to them. They simply are programmed. You have to hand it to Dr Gregor Gysi and his set of special people – they have successfully equated native German with Nazi.
    
    Even when they gleefully talk about native Germans dying off, the natives are programmed to agree it’s a good thing. When I see the odd German tourists now I actually get a tear in my eye. They’re like magnificent walking talking artifacts. In 50 years only around half of them will be left. In 100 years all of them will be gone and it will be unimaginable to conceive of Germany as anything but an extension of Turkey. Frankfurt has been identified already as the first major non-German german city. Anyone who talks about Germany not being characterised by Sharia and Mosques will be regarded as a raving lunatic.
    
    I just can’t fathom how such an intelligent group of people with such formidable physical and intellectual prowess have allowed themselves to be worm-tongued into national suicide.
    
    Mysteriously, it’s the same pressure being applied in every western nation, to start the boats and open the borders by the same people, with the key difference to standard nativism as being that they always want the same Volksverhetzung laws to shut down any form of dissent, under the guise of preventing racial discrimination. Whether it’s Australia, or Britain, or the United States, or Canada. New Zealand is the last western country that doesn’t have some form of black letter Volksverhetzung laws. Canada is arguably worse then Germany. If you want to be depressed, read about what’s happening in Canada.
    
    Merkel is very proficient in Stasi methodology.
    
    All of this of course is easy to dismiss as nuts, because it’s a slow drip. But it’s happening. Christopher Hitchens picked it as far back as the early 2000’s when he was assaulted on both sides. First when he was hit with death threats for his friendship with Salman Rushdie. Second when he was hit with death threats from our other friendly superiors for his defence of David Irving. It shows just how adroit Hitchens was in these spheres that he was able to keep all his jobs writing for liberal publications despite angering all the wrong people at the same time.
    
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    January 9, 2018 6:14pm
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Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
Upand Comer , all alt right clap trap

e g ,Toxic anti family culture ? Women should be kept home under local and key ?

Massive welfare state , rolled back in more ways than one since Lady Thatcher .

Ageing population ? Common problem in most Western democracies including here . Not forgetting Japan

Import Millions of people ?? Including naturally v East Europeans or . ? And who hate their culture?
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January 9, 2018 12:39pm
- UpandComer
  
  Women shouldn’t be kept under lock and key Stephieboy.
  
  But I’m at a complete loss to understand how feminists get away with saying this is pro-women:
  
  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/france-man-rape-11-year-old-consensual-relationship-cleared-law-change-marlene-schiappa-a8052766.html
  
  So in Germany the age of consent is 14. Also in Italy, Austria, Portugal, Hungary. Well, okay. 14 seems a trifle low to me, remembering what I was like at 14 but fine.
  
  Then in France there has been no age of consent since the revolution, because, well, because France’s enlightened statist administrators and patriarchy and women’s rights.
  
  So a migrant who raped 11 year old girls was acquitted because, somehow, the prosecution couldn’t prove ‘coercion’. Of course, the identity of the rapist which the BBC nobly doesn’t allude to perhaps modulates this mysterious inability.
  
  http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41966245
  
  So now in France they have the ability to set an age of consent. What do they choose.
  
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5080839/When-child-sex-isnt-rape-French-set-age-consent.html
  
  Well it’s looking like 13.
  
  Now mate I can tell you, if my kid when she is 13 starts having sex with guys in their twenties, he will have his car brakes untraceably cut.
  
  So you say these guys are trying to corral women.
  
  Well what are they responding to?
  
  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/10666875/Patricia-Hewitt-called-for-age-of-consent-to-be-lowered-to-ten.html
  
  They are responding to bureaucrats and experts constantly looking to lower the age of consent. Here is one in the UK wanting to lower it to TEN. A respectable feminist.
  
  https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jul/08/lower-age-consent-14-1979-home-office-report
  Here are efforts to make it 14 in Britain.
  
  Now given what I’ve already said about rape in Europe due to it’s current enrichment, and the absolutely catastrophic mental health in Europe, do you think it makes sense for these guys to question some feminist consensus?
  
  I don’t necessarily agree with anything they say. But merely blurting out pathetic third wave slogans isn’t helping suffering women in Europe. These issues need to be examined from all sides. I mean my god what is it with the need for SJW’s to double down? Always, the answer is always more of the problem.
  
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  January 9, 2018 1:25pm
  - Salacious Crumb
    
    Why do they double down? It’s because the neo-Marxist way of the post modernists cannot bare the scrutiny of rational debate. Victimhood by way of race, sexual identity and theocracy is the new “working class” who require saving. Their ideology cannot bare the scrutiny so they resort to labelling anyone who challenges it in the most extreme negative.
    
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    January 9, 2018 2:35pm
- Left Right and Centre
  
  Japan could well do with a few million muzzas eh stiffie ? Nah – Japan says – yeah, nah. Fark off muzzies !!
  
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  January 10, 2018 6:50am
Chuck Bird

This is not the first time this has happened. What is wrong with the police. They can search cars without a warrant yet will allow the thieves to hide the stolen goods.

Rough justice: Robbed golfer tracked phone to nearby house but police won’t act

He then got a friend to call his phone, which he now thinks was not the best idea.

“I probably made a mistake because one of my friends gave me a call and they obviously realised there was a phone in there and they switched it off.”

Owen said he was still waiting to hear back from police.

Today a police spokesman said it was an “active file”.

Police dealt with a high number of cases at any given time and based on the type of crime and resources available some investigations could take some time.

“Police do our best to follow up lines of enquiry in a timely manner. Police have received a report of this theft and have lines of enquiry to follow up in this matter,” he said.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11971595
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January 9, 2018 1:22pm
- Johnboy
  
  If the robbers had broken the speed limit by more than 4kph of course CB, during their getaway, the full force of the law would have nobbled them.
  All those NZTA ads are just training crims to be more sensible about their activities! 🙂
  
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  January 9, 2018 1:29pm
- Longknives
  
  Agree that this is disgraceful service by Police- Who are clearly too busy either filming their next ‘Hip Hop’ Dance video or maybe at a Mosque for ‘Diversity Training’ with Susan Devoy..
  
  But it’s not a ‘Robbery’.
  It’s Theft.
  
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  January 9, 2018 2:12pm
  - Johnboy
    
    Whatever. If you amputate the turds hands they cant do either very easily again! 🙂
    
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    January 9, 2018 2:26pm
- doggone7
  
  There was another of these stories recently where some English tourists were robbed.
  
  Like this one I wanted the address of where the phone had been tracked to be to be publicised.
  
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  January 9, 2018 3:12pm
Chuck Bird

Another left wing talk show host on ZB this afternoon having a go at Trump.
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January 9, 2018 1:40pm
- Johnboy
  
  I never actually realised that anyone other than doddery old farts actually listened to ZB since Justin expired. I’m into modern trendy stuff….Coast for me all the way! 🙂
  
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  January 9, 2018 1:46pm
  - Chuck Bird
    
    I will be listening mornings for most of next year while Leighton Smith is still there.
    
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    January 9, 2018 1:50pm
    - Johnboy
      
      I got sick of listening to the Jaffa ZB feed because of that dreadful bone-waver Danny whatsit….What a bloody wanker! 🙂
      
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      January 9, 2018 1:55pm
      - Chuck Bird
        
        Agreed but he was afternoons.
        
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        January 9, 2018 2:03pm
      - GazzaW
        
        Danny Watson disappeared to his South Island country estate at the end of 2015. A blessing for the world of radio.
        
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        January 9, 2018 2:45pm
      - Left Right and Centre
        
        Bone-waver !! Save to memory.
        
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        January 10, 2018 6:52am
- doggone7
  
  Is everyone who has a go at Trump automatically left wing?
  
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  January 9, 2018 3:11pm
  - GazzaW
    
    Not at all. I’m a not totally happy Republican supporter. I’m happy with some facets of Trump’s administration, not so happy with others. The MSM, social networks and a very influential Hollywood have not given him a fair go. Still a waiting game for me.
    
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    January 9, 2018 3:50pm
Digmen1

Yes, and no mention of Trumps achievements in the Herald or Stuff.

It really is time that we had a decent news media not run by left wing apologists.

How can we fix this?
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January 9, 2018 1:45pm
- Johnboy
  
  Re-incarnate Julius Streicher and Joseph Gobbels? 🙂
  
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  January 9, 2018 1:50pm
Manolo

Crook after crook:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/01/08/grand-jury-seeks-testimony-about-bernie-sanders-wife-10m-college-loan-report.html

A federal grand jury looking into a soured $10 million real estate deal that involved the wife of Sen. Bernie Sanders sought information on statements made to secure the loan, according to a witness and former trustee at the college where Jane Sanders served as president.
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January 9, 2018 1:49pm
Manolo

The Clintons, supreme thieves until the end of time:
https://powderedwigsociety.com/clinton-foundation-tax-rtn/

This should be investigated: Spent $86 million in salaries and expense to donate $5.1 million.

And when she didn’t win, the donations completely stopped and they closed the business.

Wonder why the Clinton Foundation folded so suddenly after she was no longer in a position of influence perhaps will give some insight into the crooks.

They list 486 employees, who were paid $34.8 million and $86.1 million in fees and expenses, to give away $5.1 million.
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January 9, 2018 2:09pm
- Johnboy
  
  That’ll be petty cash compared to the NZCTU after the COL lets them flex their newly reinstated muscles! 🙂
  
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  January 9, 2018 2:42pm
- ztev
  
  Expenses?
  Clinton Foundation
  Kevin Thurm COO/Executive VP $ 440,292
  Hardly extravagant
  CharityWatch, gives the organization a solid “A.” The group says that the foundation spent 88% of its 2014 outlays directly on programs (rather than overhead) and that it only has to spend $2 to raise $100.
  
  88% from the experts the American Institute of Philanthropy
  https://www.charitywatch.org/ratings-and-metrics/clinton-foundation/478
  
  Thats across all the various initiatives they use:
  Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation
  Clinton Climate Initiative
  Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership
  Clinton Global Initiative
  Clinton Health Access Initiative
  Clinton Health Matters Initiative
  No Ceilings: The Full Participation Project
  Too Small to Fail
  William J. Clinton Foundation
  
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  January 9, 2018 6:20pm
  - UpandComer
    
    https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-16/haiti-official-who-exposed-clinton-foundation-found-dead
    
    0.6%
    
    According to the Haitian official who mysteriously showed up dead with a shot-gun wound to the head in Miami who exposed what the Clinton Foundation were doing in Haiti. It wasn’t charitable.
    
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    January 9, 2018 6:34pm
    - ztev
      
      zerohedge ?
      
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      January 10, 2018 6:25pm
UpandComer

Steven Adams is such a boss.

Anyone here follow the NBA?

He’s getting a lot of kudos over there at the moment for his consistency and professionalism.
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January 9, 2018 2:10pm
- Keeping Stock
  
  It’ll be interesting to see if he makes the All-Star Game. He’s certainly been a beast in recent games.
  
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  January 9, 2018 3:28pm
- aldo
  
  I am new to blogs, well to any blogs. I can only agree with you about Steven. We watched NBA in my town of Byblos in Lebanon. We are glad to be here to discuss things. Thank you.
  
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  January 9, 2018 4:11pm
Johnboy

Another attack by a member of the nasty, vicious race.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/100425805/motorist-kicked-in-the-head-during-road-rage-incident
Note:
“Lawyer Neal Harding said Tamou accepted what he had done and had been remorseful. At the time of the incident, Harding said the defendant was tired and looking forward to seeing his family after a long shift at work”.
Does anyone other than other lawyers (like the silly old judge) really believe any of the crap defence lawyers come up with to try and get their nasty clients some clemency?
Is there a paper to be sat at law schools called “Utterly dreadful and pathetic excuse’s that flummox stupid doddering old judges”? 🙂
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January 9, 2018 3:42pm
- starboard
  
  C’mon JB..its ok for the specials to go around beating white folk..hey shit im even surprised the chocolate drop has a job!
  
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  January 9, 2018 4:10pm
  - aldo
    
    Can you please tell us what is specials and why would this chocolate drop have a job? We are looking at this starboard and wondering thank you. Why do they beat white folks thank you.
    
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    January 9, 2018 4:50pm
- ztev
  
  Thats what lawyers do in these cases.
  A load of tosh of course….
  
  Thats what the judge thought after a person running for mayor lied about his donations.
  His case was he was tired and overworked and didnt think about the formal declaration, which was all someones elses work, when he signed it.
  
  GUILTY.
  
  He skipped the country before the paternity case came to court, perhaps some more lies to the judge avoided ?
  
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  January 9, 2018 4:13pm
- aldo
  
  Is violence such a thing for anger. Why do the Maori men strike the people with this violence. My family is seeing things like this and have no violence to give back.
  
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  January 9, 2018 4:15pm
- Longknives
  
  “the defendant was tired and looking forward to seeing his family after a long shift at work”
  
  What a pile of steaming fucking bullcrap!
  Think of the thousands of Emergency Services Workers (Cops,Ambo Officers, Nurses etc) who are so tired, driving home after massively long Nightshifts with their eyes hanging out of their heads.. (These guys work all through Christmas as well)
  I’m sure they miss their families as well? Why aren’t they kicking people in the head?…
  
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  January 9, 2018 4:24pm
- Left Right and Centre
  
  Actually – I think I’m with Tamou.
  Some total fucking knob who shouldn’t have a licence clips your vehicle while you wait to turn into your own drive ?
  
  Kick to the face ? Can’t hurt his driving style.
  Oh – he’s got previous convictions. Shock.
  
  I’d have to see it – who knows if Tamou indicated, drove smoothly etc
  
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  January 10, 2018 7:01am
Chuck Bird

NewstalkZB

Tim Wilson is now on saying it is not good enough if a woman says yes but she must say yes enthusiastically.
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January 9, 2018 4:24pm
- ztev
  
  That was the lie that used to be put about, ‘she didnt say an emphatic NO’
  
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  January 9, 2018 4:29pm
  - Chuck Bird
    
    Have you ever had sex with woman?
    
    If so, did you ask them may a touch your breast?
    
    May I strike your pussy?
    
    Would you like to suck my dick?
    
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    January 9, 2018 4:38pm
    - aldo
      
      Hello Chuck Bird why do you ask ztev these questions. Here we are looking at these posters that you have done and we are wondering.
      
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      January 9, 2018 4:41pm
    - nasska
      
      …..”May I strike your pussy?”…..
      
      Most of the old farts on this thread are a little too vanilla for that BDSM lark Chuck. 🙂
      
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      January 9, 2018 4:50pm
      - Johnboy
        
        Most of my sexual partners have been dogs nasska.
        It would have been very dangerous to ask them about pussies in case we got knotted as they rushed off to attack! 🙂
        
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        January 9, 2018 4:57pm
    - Awww C-mon
      
      Just ask if she’s dtf Chuck… much quicker, easier and accurate
      
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      January 9, 2018 5:02pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      Chuck Bird:
      
      [D]id you ask them may [I] touch your breast?
      May I strike your pussy?
      Would you like to suck my dick?
      
      I wonder if Stephieboy will try his luck with these pick-up lines next time he’s at St Lukes!
      
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      January 9, 2018 5:28pm
      - Left Right and Centre
        
        Daleks – exsperminate !!
        
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        January 10, 2018 7:03am
kowtow

Longknives

Talking of Plod management filming fuck ups!

‘Constable Heber Gasu, who is Samoan, can be seen in the video wearing the turban as he races through a container yard.

Singh said police “violated tradition” and wished a Sikh officer had been used in the video.’

https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/more-criticism-police-recruit-video

Personally I think if you join the Aotearoa Polisi Sefisi then you wear what we wear and that’s not turbans.
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January 9, 2018 4:33pm
- Longknives
  
  Ha Ha that NZ Police Ad is nauseating Kowtow- A desperate attempt to show how wonderfully ‘Diverse’ they are (Sniffing their own farts you might say..)
  Can’t believe Mike Bush made a statement with that Ad saying he didn’t want any more White Males in the Police…What an asshole!
  And now it seems they’ve been caught fudging it- Putting a Turban on a Non- Indian? Jesus that’s as bad as ‘Blackface’ isn’t it??
  NZ Police are drowning in Political Correctness- So reap what you sow assholes!
  
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  January 9, 2018 4:55pm
aldo

I am pasting and stick cutting this for you.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11972069

We found this man to be disagreeable and was he often viewed with the contempt.
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January 9, 2018 4:47pm
Chuck Bird

I understand this yank who had glitter on her boobs at a music festival is organizing a march down Queen Street where some will be bare breasted.

I wonder if she has PR or hope to settle here. Some people think no one who is not born in NZ had no right to protest about anything but it is a bit much for someone who has been here six months to say NZ should change the law to suit her.

To make things worse there will be anti-Trump protests included in the march.

I should bring a pro Trump sign. Are Trump hats or tee-shirt available.
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January 9, 2018 4:56pm
- Johnboy
  
  I’ll bring my big hands! 🙂
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-E39htndsmA
  
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  January 9, 2018 5:03pm
- Longknives
  
  The ‘Glitter Tits’ Girl is starting to look a bit dubious to me.
  A fucking seven minute scripted rant about ‘Inequality’ and ‘Diversity’ to the Media?
  And now she’s organising protests and encouraging ‘Gender Diverse’ people along?? (What the fuck does this have to do with Trannies?)
  All seems a bit scripted and political to me..
  
  Grow up lady- You went topless to a Music Festival with thirty thousand people off their faces on drink and drugs. ONE idiot makes a grab at your breasts (Though your subsequent desperation for Media attention has me wondering if this was maybe a ‘work’??) and this gives you the right to pontificate to the whole Country and arrange protests that will grind Auckland CBD to a halt??
  The Green Party List awaits this person…
  
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  January 9, 2018 5:04pm
  - nasska
    
    There’s an upside Longknives. If the Auckland CBD has to be gunked up with protests surely young Yank tits & a few trannies beats watching Waterwoman making an arse of herself again. 🙂
    
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    January 9, 2018 5:18pm
    - Longknives
      
      You haven’t thought maybe Penny might join them Nasska??
      
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      January 9, 2018 5:46pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Longknives:
        
        The thought of Penny exposing her saggy breasts in public isn’t appealing!
        
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        January 9, 2018 5:50pm
      - nasska
        
        Dear God! The mere thought of Penny sans much other than glitter would have half the populace lined up for their turn to jump off the bridge. 🙂
        
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        January 9, 2018 6:09pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        One downticker likes the idea of Penny exposing her breasts. Morrissey, is that you? 🙂
        
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        January 9, 2018 7:34pm
  - Chuck Bird
    
    I wonder if Cindy will join the protest. Would one commit and offense they yelled show us your tits.
    
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    January 9, 2018 6:00pm
    - Johnboy
      
      As long as she never deputised the appearance at the parade to her mentor Helen I’m certain no offense to humanity or good taste would ensue CB. 🙂
      
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      January 9, 2018 6:05pm
  - Digmen1
    
    They were a bit saggy if you ask me.
    
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    January 9, 2018 6:11pm
    - Chuck Bird
      
      Ask Peter when he last seen them if ever.
      
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      January 9, 2018 8:41pm
  - KevOB
    
    If she hasn’t got permanent residency she should be deported.
    
    Freedom of speech is not a licence to breach the peace and to threaten further breaches.
    
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    January 9, 2018 7:34pm
- GazzaW
  
  Easy solution. City Council refuses a permit to protest march. Kitzmuller will march anyway or block an intersection. Arrest her and deport her to sort out her own sorry mess of a country – never to return.
  
  Show some balls Goff and deny the march permit.
  
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  January 9, 2018 5:16pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Bear in mind, that “to bare one’s breast” means that the young lass may just be crying into her beer.
  
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  January 9, 2018 5:30pm
- Paulus
  
  Understand that the silly bint is American so I expect that she could do that in, say ,Hollywood and get a good job and sue 20 years later.
  
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  January 10, 2018 8:23am
Chuck Bird

Does any lawyer here KNOW if a female is commenting an offense going topless down Queen Street?
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January 9, 2018 5:26pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Chuck:
  
  It wouldn’t be any different to the Boobs on Bikes parade. I don’t recall any police-initiated arrests for that.
  
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  January 9, 2018 5:30pm
  - Chuck Bird
    
    Thank you.
    
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    January 9, 2018 5:36pm
  - ztev
    
    Councils used to try and stop it by refusing a permit
    
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    January 9, 2018 6:08pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Under the Summary Offences Act, it is not indecent exposure to bare your bozzies.
  
  Every person is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months or a fine not exceeding $2,000 who, in or within view of any public place, intentionally and obscenely exposes any part of his or her genitals.
  http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1981/0113/latest/whole.html#DLM53587
  Bosoms/Tits/Mammary glands are not genitalia.
  
  (I’m not a lawyer, tho’)
  
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  January 9, 2018 5:46pm
  - Johnboy
    
    But do you speak from a position of huge judgement regarding said bosoms and their effect on impressionable chaps Maggy? 🙂
    
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    January 9, 2018 6:01pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      For some odd reason, I’m really not an expert on other ladies’ boobs.
      And the older I get, the more of an encumbrance mine are becoming.
      
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      January 9, 2018 6:11pm
      - Johnboy
        
        If you need any assistance with controlling them Maggy I’m happy to get an even bigger set of hands made. 🙂
        
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        January 9, 2018 6:14pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        If you own an engineering works then you might just be the answer.
        https://grimshaw.global/assets/uploads/97028_N144_banrimgland.jpg
        
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        January 9, 2018 6:28pm
      - starboard
        
        Eewwwwww ?
        
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        January 9, 2018 6:30pm
  - Chuck Bird
    
    Thanks. Your are not a lawyer but you are pretty smart.
    
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    January 9, 2018 6:03pm
    - Johnboy
      
      Sycophant! 🙂
      
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      January 9, 2018 6:07pm
- KevOB
  
  It can be a breach of the peace.
  
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  January 9, 2018 7:36pm
Johnboy

That bloody Ngati Rolleston tribe have always been troublemakers.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/bay-of-plenty/100434172/matakana-island-blockaded-with-barbed-wire-and-fence-posts.
We should deport the whole fuckin lot of them back to Staffordshire where they came from. 🙂
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January 9, 2018 5:29pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Johnboy:
  
  Visitors to Bay of Plenty’s Matakana Island were greeted with piles of a barbed wire and a sign saying “Bugga Off!” this morning.
  …
  Western Bay of Plenty District Council deputy Chief executive Gary Allis said it appeared to be an isolated, lone protest. “We’re aware of a protest on Matakana Island that looks like it wants to restrict public access from the wharf to the land,” he said.
  
  I’m sure any public access restrictions would be lifted as soon as a generous serving of koha was provided to appease the local dignitaries!
  
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  January 9, 2018 5:38pm
  - Johnboy
    
    Quite so Nostra. If that didn’t work we could put an axe through that colonialist oppressor power cable that keeps their traditional murri beer fridges cool! 🙂
    
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    January 9, 2018 5:42pm
    - starboard
      
      Chuck the scum a couple of blankets and some shitty rifles that dont work..has worked before with the ferals.
      
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      January 9, 2018 10:23pm
  - Paulus
    
    No – I think you will find that the sign did not say Bugga Off but put up a Maori accepted sign which said Bugga Off.
    These people cannot read, write, or spell Bugga.
    
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    January 10, 2018 8:26am
Johnboy

Another angry man in the news and he’s not even protesting about his whenua being violated by day trippers just his fairy lights being trampled by kindergarten wimmens incompetence! 🙂
https://www.stuff.co.nz/oddstuff/100343382/tramp-bounces-into-hamilton-mans-backyard-prompts-call-for-council-bylaw
Why are we all so angry these days?
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January 9, 2018 6:26pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Johnboy:
  
  A stray trampoline from a neighbouring kindergarten wrecked a Hamilton man’s fairy lights.
  
  I know who can fix the fairy lights: Tamati Coffey’s partner knocked out by ceiling fan while decorating Christmas tree!
  
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  January 9, 2018 6:37pm
- Left Right and Centre
  
  Good – got the lights up too long anyway.
  Let me guess – Frankton is some bottomfeeding Hamilton suburb full of idiots ?
  
  Idiots that leave lights up can be a nightmare for neighbours.
  
  Maybe just maybe they used the weather as an excuse. Yeah – the wind blew the tramp into your lights.
  
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  January 10, 2018 7:23am
nasska

Those who have remarked on the absence of Team Kea may have missed this article:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/100321972/roadconemoving-kea-get-gym-to-distract-them-away-from-traffic

Bloody good on Downers & DOC getting together to come up with a novel way to keep the birds safe & occupied.
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January 9, 2018 6:47pm
Happychappy

I see Winston has decided that it is time to have another go at getting his core base of voters back by starting a process of taking funding from iwi organizations and replacing them with Pan Maori to distribute the funds well that’s the way I read it being a dumb pakiha. But no doubt he has backed in people’s hate of giving funds to iwi and decided that People will flock back to his Party with his honest way of most liking trying to deceive the public in by cracking down on how funds are delivered. How will Willie Jackson and the Maori Caucus of Labour take Winstons new way of financing Maori.
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January 9, 2018 7:25pm
UpandComer

Infrastructure:

https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/amp.smh.com.au/nsw/staff-shortage-bad-weather-causes-another-day-of-major-delays-on-sydneys-rail-network-20180109-h0fkni.html

Australia really do their infrastructure well. Hours of delays on their busiest train line because of a couple of lightening strikes and about 0.1% of the workforce being sick.

It’s systemic too. Will be like this for months. Lol the unions will be ready to help.
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January 9, 2018 8:14pm
Nostradamus

Gay Imam hopes to open Australia’s first LGBTI-friendly mosque<

Australia’s only openly gay Imam says he is dealing with an “avalanche of misery” among LGBTI Muslims, and wants to create a safe house and counselling centre for them.

No throwing them off a roof then?
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January 9, 2018 8:15pm
nasska

From the link Nostra was referring to:

“That really was the most depressing time of life, when you are physically hurt by your family and when they are trying to beat the gay out of you.”

Now where have I heard religious nuts prescribe that particular cure for homosexuality before?

(Hint; I’ve never set foot in a mosque.)
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January 9, 2018 8:29pm
- Chuck Bird
  
  “(Hint; I’ve never set foot in a mosque.)”
  
  Does that mean you are looking for an invite to poke your nose up some guy’s arse?
  
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  January 9, 2018 8:45pm
  - nasska
    
    I’ve seen enough two faced hypocrisy & cant in our home grown Christian churches for me to ever think that any other organised religion would be different.
    
    They all smell.
    
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    January 9, 2018 8:49pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    Chuck:
    
    an invite to poke your nose up some guy’s arse
    
    Nasska doesn’t strike me as someone who you’d find getting up to mischief at Hagley Park!
    
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    January 9, 2018 8:58pm
    - nasska
      
      Not a lot of chance I agree Nostra.
      
      But what I will state is that I’m a social liberal, bordering on libertarian with a touch of anarchist. That is I consider the state (read us collectively) has no business in imposing moral standards, religious belief or censuring those who don’t follow the norm.
      
      We get one life & it should be ours to live. Advocating a hive mentality is an insult to humans & humanity.
      
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      January 9, 2018 9:12pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Nasska:
        
        the state (read us collectively) has no business in imposing moral standards, religious belief or censuring those who don’t follow the norm.
        
        I sense, from some vigorous air movement, that Johnboy and Blossom are nodding in agreement! At least I think it’s nodding!
        
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        January 9, 2018 9:19pm
      - Rachael Membery
        
        But look how efficiently it works for bees, and who can argue with what happens to the drones when resources get tight.
        
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        January 10, 2018 11:44am
Manolo

The Obama effect!
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/dimon-thinks-economists-are-dead-wrong-about-gdp-predicts-4-us-growth-2018-01-09
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January 10, 2018 6:49am
Rachael Membery

As an over thinker myself, I do not think that I would think what some of these people do. I can’t think of the song but I think that it is Michael Jackson’s black or white where in the video people morph from one thing to another, colour, gender, age etc. Some people are too sensitive, aren’t they?

Or do I just not get it from my ‘privileged’ stance?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/fashion/100416463/hm-apologises-for-ad-showing-black-child-model-wearing-monkey-hoodie
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January 10, 2018 7:23am
Left Right and Centre

You know I **hate** ads, but I can’t kill them all . . .

>> Buy a spa pool. 50 months interest free.
ffs mate – who is that for ? Strawhatters can afford spa pools. Peasants pay off cheap cars. Who is paying off a damned spa pool ?

>> Names. Some people are naming their children things like Hunter or Felix or Mason. Stop it. You stop that now. I want to see Gatherer for a girl’s name. What’s the female version of Hunter ? Huntress ? Oh dear. Noah ? Oh Noah !!

And then there’s Arlo. Ar-lo-o-o-o ?

>> Otago scientists say Wellington playgrounds aren’t shaded enough. Children are at risk when playing outside. With a picture of a mother who clearly makes her precious little boy wear a cycle helmet at all times. What – no padded suit ? As a former Wellingtonian – I only ever knew the sun from pictures – so – ??

>> Japan is 98.5% – er – Japanese people. Those poor sods – no diversity dividend. Boy are they ever missing out. Wake up, racists !!
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January 10, 2018 7:52am
wreck1080

Bullied girl takes her own life.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11972612

This has happened many times.

The thing I don’t understand (and i assume it would be the same in this case), that bullies often rejoice when their victim commits suicide.

How can people be happy when their actions make someone commit suicide???

If i said nasty things to someone who went on to kill themselves, i’d feel terrible.
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