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AgainstTheFlow

Why it’s getting hard to see Ardern’s government lasting past 2020

https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/13-06-2018/why-its-getting-hard-to-see-arderns-government-lasting-past-2020/

“I like this government, but I feel like it spends a lot of time making sure that people like me – educated urban liberals who are very unlikely to vote National – like it ….”
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June 14, 2018 8:01am
- Colville
  
  I read that article a day or so ago…
  
  I wondered why an “educated’ person could still believe in socialism with the evidence so strong that it has always been a failure.
  
  But then I remember..socialists dont love the poor..they just hate the rich.
  
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  June 14, 2018 8:05am
  - cmm
    
    Because it looks sophisticated to have self-loathing.
    
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    June 14, 2018 8:47am
  - mikenmildagain
    
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    Both of our main parties believe firmly in socialism, so I think you are going to have to get used to the idea that after 80 years it is hear to stay.
    
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    June 14, 2018 9:09am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      Degrees, MMA, it’s not black and white.
      
      A little bit of socialism goes a long way. But more isn’t better and it gets to the stage where productive people are just too highly taxed: it kills initiative.
      
      Funny, communists and socialist are all about not exploiting workers. But people running small businesses and the self employed can’t cope in a high tax and high rates environment. For instance, if Labour goes ahead with its former plan to slap CGT on any ‘business’ part of a home, how will that help women working from home while bringing up kids? How will it help young people with a startup business they are running from the family home? Parents won’t let them do it!
      
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      June 14, 2018 10:07am
    - starboard
      
      spell checker not workin mm…
      
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      June 14, 2018 12:54pm
  - Felt
    
    “I wondered why an “educated’ person could still believe in socialism with the evidence so strong that it has always been a failure.”
    
    This is one of the great puzzles for me. There are these socialists popping up all over the place as educated people who have the “new and improved” formula for a just society. All evidence suggests that socialism is a complete failure. Why are these so called ‘educated’ people following a failure of an idealogy? Even a basic understanding of economics (of which the COL do not have) shows that state led economies will fail. Maybe these peoples compassion overrides their logic, they are artists not scientists, dreamers not realists, and certainly not administrators!
    
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    June 14, 2018 9:12am
    - waikatogirl
      
      Look up Dr Jordan Peterson. He is appalled at the indoctrination of social science students in universities. History and the truth is disregarded, replaced by Marxist driven ideology.
      
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      June 14, 2018 11:30am
      - Justitia
        
        Yes indeed, the universities are the engine room of neo-Marxism. They have been for some time now. Today’s degrees are worthless scrip.
        
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        June 14, 2018 1:06pm
    - Jack5
      
      Similarly puzzling, Felt, has been the the leader of booming China, President Xi Jinping, reaffirming the country’s belief in Marxism.
      
      Speaking in Beijing’s “Great Hall of the People,” Xi said a few weeks ago:
      
      “Writing Marxism onto the flag of the Chinese Communist Party was totally correct… Unceasingly promoting the sinification and modernization of Marxism is totally correct.”
      
      State-led economies may ultimately fail, Felt, and perhaps ultimately all economies fail, but when will China’s?
      
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      June 14, 2018 11:40am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    They aren’t educated. Education is learning how to think, indoctrination is learning what to think.
    Proper political education requires reading of history and learning economics with an open mind. The humanities, source of socialism in our world, no longer teach how to think, they indoctrinate.
    
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    June 14, 2018 1:17pm
  - Piniwi
    
    Perhaps Colville it is all that can be expected from a Spinoff shrill. Often it is important to consider the who, what and where it comes before even attempting to digest the content. Such as Marvally/Herald garbage.
    
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    June 14, 2018 9:32pm
- softail 1450
  
  A T F, a good read ,well worth a few minutes.
  
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  June 14, 2018 8:17am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    Isn’t it interesting how the Left is keen to constantly insult average voters. They don’t even notice they’re doing it. I’m thinking of Andrew Little calling the 3 Strikes Law, supported by a huge majority ‘the height of stupidity’. And this Mclaughlan chap saying the CoL doesn’t “spend enough time appealing to the soft National voters who people like me don’t really like”. No reason, just a huge, insulting generalisation. He just doesn’t like people like me and my partner and many of my friends (actually all urban and highly educated) who could be called ‘soft’ National voters.
    
    Actually, Mclaughlan: we tend to be highly educated people who had the initiative to form our own businesses and are seeing what a hard socialist government will do to those businesses.
    
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    June 14, 2018 10:21am
hullkiwi

Looks like it won’t be just Toothy who will be a 1 term leader.

Listening to Mike Lee (Labour) on Red Radio this morning, it sounds like Goofy has created an atmosphere of mistrust with his leadership style.

That happens when the mayor’s office think they are more important than the elected councillors (most of whom are not the sharpest to start with).

Oh dear how sad, never mind.
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June 14, 2018 8:07am
- RW Capitalist
  
  Please don’t use Phil Goof, in the same sentence as the word “Leadership”, they are incompatible.
  
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  June 14, 2018 8:40am
  - sooty
    
    Far Goff! Correctly named. Serial trougher.
    
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    June 14, 2018 9:35am
    - Colville
      
      I prefer Phool Goof
      
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      June 14, 2018 10:14am
- Komata
  
  HK
  
  Re: ‘That happens when the mayor’s office think they are more important than…’ etc. etc. etc.
  
  Don’t forget that MISTER Goff has been a ‘Minister of the Crown’ and he is USED to thinking that he is important…
  
  He is merely doing what comes naturally.
  
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  June 14, 2018 11:34am
The Virgin

Coming soon to a neighbourhood like yours:

At sentencing hearings this week, Assad Hussain, 37, was handed a life sentence with a minimum term of 12 years for multiple counts of rape and indecent assault.

Moinul Islam, 42, got 15 years and nine months for rape, indecent assault and supplying class B and class C drugs.

Haji Khan, 38, got 10 years for conspiracy to rape. Raheem Ahmed, 41, got 12 years for indecent assault and false imprisonment.

Kamran Khan, 36, got eight years for false imprisonment and indecent assault. Kameer Iqbal, 39, got 12 years for multiple rapes.

Alladitta Yousaf, 48, got seven and half years for indecent assault. Khalid Hussain, 38, got 12 years for indecent assault and rape.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5838589/Oxford-child-sex-gang-jailed-75-YEARS.html
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June 14, 2018 8:08am
- Inandout
  
  They will each have a halal goat in prison. However there are thousands more mussies doing exactly the same thing to white UK girls. They won’t touch their own females though; bastards.
  
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  June 14, 2018 8:19am
  - Colville
    
    They won’t touch a Muslim girl because they know that shit will get you killed.
    We just need to apply the same rules.
    
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    June 14, 2018 10:18am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    If one doesn’t want to sound ‘racist’ (I know you’re not), just point out that Sikh girls were also ‘groomed’ by many of these gangs. And the Sikh community is extremely angry about it.
    
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    June 14, 2018 10:25am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Yep, Sikh girls have proved to be easy targets as their families are too shamed to admit that their girls have been abused.
      https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-23921570
      
      Lord Singh of Wimbledon slammed the Labour Party for their PC cover-up of the rape gangs
      https://www.sikhpa.com/lord-singh-speaks-out-against-grooming-gang-roots-cover-up/
      
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      June 14, 2018 10:36am
- G152
  
  Are they the ‘rape gang’ that Tommy was reporting on?
  
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  June 14, 2018 8:23am
  - kowtow
    
    Rape gang .
    
    Which one, there’s dozens.
    
    Britain has been so enriched by the diversity imported by its political class.
    
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    June 14, 2018 8:35am
  - stephieboy
    
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    G152, no he was convicted for a second contempt of court offence of which he pleaded guilty!
    
    Now out of the media spotlight, the fake is now gone and forgotten.
    
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    June 14, 2018 8:51am
    - Chris R
      
      No! Not forgotten…who are you again?
      
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      June 14, 2018 9:11am
    - pentwig
      
      more intelligence from our altleft troll
      well done silly boy
      
      LOL
      
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      June 14, 2018 9:27am
    - G152
      
      You wish.
      Look at the current You Tube videos.
      Definitely not forgotten
      
      Fake news is keeping up to its name.
      
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      June 14, 2018 10:15am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      SoB clearly doesn’t like it when someone investigates and brings the media attention to rape gangs. SoB must be OK with with rape gangs.
      
      Tommy Robinson was reporting outside the court, very carefully only using information already in the media and calling the crims ‘alleged’. He did nothing wrong and followed an appointed lawyer’s very bad advice to plead guilty.
      
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      June 14, 2018 10:28am
    - chuk
      
      Stooopid boy – you missed the point G152 was making. You’re pretty good at that.
      
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      June 14, 2018 1:06pm
- mandk
  
  The story includes a sad litany:
  Oxford
  Rotherham
  Rochdale
  Newcastle
  Bristol
  Aylesbury
  Peterborough.
  
  But it fails to state the obvious common factor: that the gangs consisted overwhelmingly of Pakistani Moslem men.
  
  To say they were Asian gangs is an insult to most Asian people, including Moslems in countries other than Pakistan.
  
  The problem won’t go away because the Brits won’t face up to the reality of the problem.
  
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  June 14, 2018 8:50am
  - kowtow
    
    ‘The problem won’t go away because the Brits won’t face up to the reality of the problem.’
    
    The Missus is a fan of Coronation St ( yeah I know).
    The other day they were running some catch up stuff and the theme was some girl , barely 16 , being abused by her boyfriend, white, and controlled into becoming an unwilling prostitute and pimped out to queues of leering white men .
    
    Court scene , all defendants in the dock , white males. Jury foreman . Indian male.
    
    Hopeless.
    
    And yet in Britain they keep voting for the same two parties who have wrought this disaster upon them.
    
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    June 14, 2018 11:47am
- Southern Raider
  
  Rape and murder in a Melbourne park yesterday and linked to another sexual assault earlier in the year.
  
  Wonder who the suspect is as police releasing no details
  
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  June 14, 2018 9:23am
- Rich Prick
  
  This is what happens when you take in a breed of people with an education deficit filled by the rantings of a paedophile prophet.
  
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  June 14, 2018 9:50am
secondcumming

Bumper Sticker – spotted on Police car at Manukau Shopping Center….

BRING BACK GIDEON
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June 14, 2018 8:08am
- igm
  
  Wonderful!
  
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  June 14, 2018 8:24am
- mikenmildagain
  
  That would deal to those Midianites, for sure
  
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  June 14, 2018 9:12am
  - KiWombat
    
    Sorry – I don’t speak moron !
    
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    June 14, 2018 9:51am
    - sam green
      
      But you fooled everyone so well.
      
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      June 14, 2018 12:18pm
      - starboard
        
        stooooooooopid boy green sam
        
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        June 14, 2018 1:15pm
  - Dafixeruppa
    
    I have you an uptick only because I recognized the attempt at a biblical reference.
    
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    June 14, 2018 10:04am
- Jack5
  
  On a police car! Is this a reference to Gideon Tait, an assistant commissioner of Police in the mid-1970s?
  
  He was a tough man.
  
  Earlier in his career, in Christchurch, he crunched a gathering of the then-white motorbike gangs using tear gas. This was in an ambush by 25 police cars.
  
  Similarly, he used tactics based on rugby forward packs to subdue demonstrations against the US Navy Antarctic support air base in Christchurch.
  
  http://www.laworderreferendum.org.nz/Tait.htm
  
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  June 14, 2018 11:53am
  - starboard
    
    A fantastic man. I just finished reading his autobiography. Unfortunately, with the loons running the asylum, we shall never see again such a fine upstanding Policeman like GT again.
    
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    June 14, 2018 1:19pm
  - secondcumming
    
    Gideon Tait??
    
    To be honest ‘Jack5’, I thought some arsehole had stolen a Bible.
    
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    June 14, 2018 1:23pm
    - Jack5
      
      But it’s interesting that today’s young cops know about Gideon Tait hammering Christchurch gangs half a century ago.
      
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      June 14, 2018 3:19pm
      - secondcumming
        
        My missus reckoned they were probably more ‘Senior Cops’…..she said the one in the passenger seat had some pretty serious bling on his cap.
        
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        June 14, 2018 4:39pm
      - RF
        
        Never back down……
        
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        June 14, 2018 8:17pm
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  Sommeone’s in for a telling off!
  
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  June 14, 2018 8:18pm
artemisia

Antisocial HNZ tenants might stay in homes and neighbours moved, CE Andrew McKenzie says

State house tenants can and do apply for a transfer to another state house. One reason is neighbours, aka neighbourhood safety issues. I can’t see state or other tenants, or home owners being required to move because of antisocial behaviour by state tenants.

So the CEO must be referring to voluntary requests to transfer by existing state tenants.

That is not how he is coming across though.

There are about 1800 state tenants on the transfer list, and it is by no means automatic to be accepted onto that list. That may change with this new direction by Mr Twyford. I expect to see more transfer applications and a longer transfer register. The transfers process soup to nuts is time intensive (more money needed) and often stressful for administrators, not just tenants.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=12069851
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June 14, 2018 8:09am
- jp_1983
  
  Interesting development
  With the injection of state homes next to private rentals/homes
  
  Does that mean the state will “move” those households away from the antisocial neighbors.
  
  Rinse and repeat
  
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  June 14, 2018 8:24am
  - GazzaW
    
    Labour tried ‘pepperpotting’ back in the 70s. It was a social disaster. We had a row of state units built next to us in the then very working class Onehunga and our valuation dropped 20% almost overnight which almost cost us our new home given that we were paying 16% interest on a first mortgage and 23% on a second mortgage under the Labour government of the day.
    
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    June 14, 2018 8:42am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      Gazza, we’re the people actually bad neighbours or was the valuation drop mainly due to fear and perception?
      
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      June 14, 2018 10:37am
      - GazzaW
        
        A bit of both. Valuations fell as soon as the plans became public knowledge and then after occupation the reality of all night parties from one unit and light fingered tenants in another. The local MP, Hugh Watt couldn’t give a rat’s arse. We ended up bailing out and were lucky enough only to lose $2k but that was significant given we purchased for $21k.
        
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        June 14, 2018 12:41pm
      - GazzaW
        
        A bit of both. Valuations fell as soon as the plans became public knowledge and then after occupation the reality of all night parties from one unit and light fingered tenants in another. That was an era when drugs werent really an issue so God knows what it’s like now with the spextre of meth to consider. The local MP, Hugh Watt couldn’t give a rat’s arse. We ended up bailing out and were lucky enough only to lose $2k but that was significant given we purchased for $21k.
        
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        June 14, 2018 12:42pm
  - Harkman
    
    These guys are creating chaos (and ghettos).
    
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    June 14, 2018 9:07am
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      It’s their clever way of crashing house prices so that first home buyers can ‘afford’ them.
      
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      June 14, 2018 9:09am
      - Harkman
        
        The thing I’ve noticed about first home buyers over the years, is they only want to live in good areas and when house prices are not rising they don’t seem to be interested in buying.
        
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        June 14, 2018 11:10am
Monique Watson

Watch Marama Davidson go off today. Wreck of the train variety.
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June 14, 2018 8:14am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  What will make today any different for her?
  
  Perpetually outraged, insulted, offended and victimised; something in any of the above will start her off or reignite a previous cause de jour.
  
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  June 14, 2018 8:30am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    But Eugenie going off the reservation will cause her to implode.
    
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    June 14, 2018 9:11am
    - sooty
      
      Hey, Clint!
      
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      June 14, 2018 9:39am
- suzieq
  
  And mother of oodles of children. When will we be brave enough to introduce a population policy — two kids max? No state help for the parents of those who keep whelping even more kids, and make any state largesse follow the children.
  
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  June 14, 2018 7:11pm
kowtow

More of that diversity “dividend”

The west needs to urgently change citizenship laws to stop these abuses.

‘But the phenomenon of “birth tourism”, in which pregnant foreigners travel to Canada to give birth in order for automatic citizenship to be conferred upon their children, is on the rise, and Richmond Hospital is at the epicentre of the phenomenon.

One in five of births at Richmond Hospital involve non-resident mothers, in what is now considered a daily occurrence.’

http://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2150497/canadian-hospital-sues-mother-million-dollar-baby
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June 14, 2018 8:17am
hullkiwi

Then we get Kelvin Davis with his corrections hat on. After listening to him, I’m left wondering what papers, what discussion & what decisions go to & come out of a cabinet meeting.
This morning he was being interviewed about the new prison to be built at Waikeria. Being polite, we are being very short changed with him as a minister of anything. He needs to go back into the witless protection programme.

He needs to learn, if you are going to speak publicly or be interviewed or go before a select committee, at least be well briefed & know your subject matter.

Toothy may be able to get away with mouthing hollow sound bites, but Davis can’t!
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June 14, 2018 8:20am
- Simon
  
  Kelvin Davis eh? Like a lot of Labo he works in a fantasy land.
  
  He is considered a corrections expert by Labo which means for the rest of us the patients are already running the asylum.
  
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  June 14, 2018 8:42am
- Rich Prick
  
  It’s hard to believe that this quivering and stumbling mess once got to interfere with the minds of young children.
  
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  June 14, 2018 9:53am
  - Jack5
    
    Our schools are in a mess, with fuckwits like Kelvin Davis among the few men in front of classes.
    
    Maori language and environmentalism are being rammed down our children’s throats by semi-literates with minimal maths skills.
    
    Charter schools and other independent schools are desperately needed.
    
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    June 14, 2018 12:16pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Make macrons illegal!
      
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      June 14, 2018 1:42pm
      - Jack5
        
        The Āōtēārōā Mācrōnīā Sōcīētȳ’s NZ Pīdgīn award of the day goes to ? Mīkēnmīldāgāīn. ?
        
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        June 14, 2018 4:03pm
  - suzieq
    
    He apparently was a very good principal, to be fair. The old saying … Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach.
    
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    June 14, 2018 7:13pm
- Paulus
  
  He didn’t know that the new Waikeria was to be double bunking – CEO had to answer to him when the media asked.
  Idiot without a clue – Shane will get his seat with ease and taxpayers money.
  
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  June 14, 2018 2:11pm
graham

And yet another person completely loses it.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=12069258

Bryce Edwards covered the police apology and payout to Nicky Hager on Tuesday. In his “Political Roundup” column he included some of the reaction on Twitter, which included this delightful, gracious comment from who else but Rachel Stewart:

“Everybody on the right of NZ politics will be having a septic, shitty little day. And I’m glad. You can’t buy integrity, and that’s what Nicky Hager has in spades. Not you, though. You’re just a toilet brush.”

Charming.
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June 14, 2018 8:22am
- softail 1450
  
  graham ,wasn’t that the vacuous slag that left her hubby because she thought she might try carpet munching for a change?
  The hubby dodged a massive bullet there…..
  
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  June 14, 2018 8:32am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    No, I don’t think she has had a husband.
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/81691372/rachel-stewart–the-woman-who-turned-on-her-own-tribe?rm=m
    
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    June 14, 2018 11:35am
    - graham
      
      She has previously threatened to break DPF’s legs for daring to disagree with her.
      
      Interestingly, she once apologised to Whaleoil after he wrote about her Tweeting that she wanted Labour to get on with killing me. In this apology she stated, “Knowing what I know now, about how receiving relentless threats and abuse feels, it is something I will never do ever again.” And that was before she threatened to break DPF’s legs.
      
      Having read some of her columns over the years, I get the feeling she is a very bitter, angry, and therefore probably quite sad person.
      
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      June 14, 2018 12:34pm
- Chris R
  
  It appears Ms Stewart is in the market to buy some integrity? It may be necessary for her to do so…?
  
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  June 14, 2018 9:17am
- alloytoo
  
  Integrity and Hager = Oxymoron.
  
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  June 14, 2018 9:23am
- KevOB
  
  We may not have heard the last of Hager’s making use of property he was not entitled to and Police reward.
  
  This matters flies in the face of common decency and also challenges law. Hager may have had a technical win on law but publishing intercepted (believed to have been hacked [stolen]) emails is despicable.
  Hager’s brush with Police was brought on by his own actions. They are reported to have done nothing which any other suspect could not have expected.
  
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  June 14, 2018 10:40am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Are you really so moronic that you can’t understand that Hager broke no laws while the Police failed to follow their most basic procedures?
    
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    June 14, 2018 11:02am
    - KevOB
      
      Interception of other peoples property without their permission has always been regarded as bad conduct. A 10 year old could be transported for life for that.
      Why should emails be different?
      
      As to Police procedure: Hager put himself in the suspect category. I have seen Police evidence searches and they can be all of reasonable, frightening and damaging. It’s a risk suspects have to take.
      
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      June 14, 2018 1:35pm
  - backster
    
    Probably explains the Police apparent lack of action concerning the Labour Camp Sexual predator.
    
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    June 14, 2018 11:55am
stephieboy

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Now to the much more important stuff –

ONLY TWO MORE SLEEPS !!!

Altogether again-

ONLY TWO MORE SLEEPS !!!
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June 14, 2018 8:24am
- rangitoto
  
  You are going to field days on Saturday? You should have gone today or Friday.
  
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  June 14, 2018 8:30am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    He’s afraid they’d get confused and keep him.
    
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    June 14, 2018 8:44am
  - Paulus
    
    Catastrophe Cinderella is going to Field Days on Friday.
    
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    June 14, 2018 2:14pm
- Paulus Gnome
  
  Yep, I’m looking forward to the rugby in Wellington as well!
  
  Aĺllllllllllllll Blacks!
  
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  June 14, 2018 8:32am
- Simon
  
  And Trump has given little baby Ardern a gift of peace in the pacific at the same time. Both happy contrasting memories for the Ardern family.
  
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  June 14, 2018 8:33am
- VicParking
  
  Your goat coming back from the vet? ??
  
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  June 14, 2018 8:34am
  - igm
    
    Has it been to the vet for another re-sleeve?
    
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    June 14, 2018 8:46am
    - dubya
      
      Don’t flatter him, I’m sure the goat can barely feel a thing.
      
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      June 14, 2018 9:33am
    - VicParking
      
      I heard it was for another dose of ceftriaxone, plus azithromycin just in case it also had chlamydia.
      
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      June 14, 2018 9:39am
- softail 1450
  
  septicboy, WTF are you on about goat botherer ?
  
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  June 14, 2018 8:36am
  - KiWombat
    
    He’s counting down to the birth of our first bastard messiah !!
    
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    June 14, 2018 9:17am
    - VicParking
      
      The artists are practicing their baton sinisters.
      
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      June 14, 2018 9:41am
    - igm
      
      Ki: Watch out for Waynie Boy, he takes exception to any unfavourable references to the illegitimate bulge.
      
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      June 14, 2018 10:52am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  No, It’s Donald J. Trump’s birthday Today.
  
  Happy Birthday, Mr President.
  
  https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/trump-meets-pm-lee-menu-beef-birthday-cake-10420734
  
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  June 14, 2018 8:54am
- Harkman
  
  You do realise that the baby news will soon wear thin and as the economy turns to sh!t, Cindy’s popularity will nose dive? The emperor has no clothes.
  
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  June 14, 2018 9:14am
  - sooty
    
    She has to come back first.
    
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    June 14, 2018 9:44am
- pentwig
  
  you taking your goat to field day sillyboy?
  best you keep it on a leash
  
  LOL
  
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  June 14, 2018 9:41am
  - VicParking
    
    Silly boy? Don’t you mean Silly school girl
    
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    June 14, 2018 9:43am
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  Another struggle for relevance from the galah.
  
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  June 14, 2018 9:53am
oldgolfer

Is there any business leader on which the prolix Mr Jones has not yet fixed his sight?
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June 14, 2018 8:30am
- softail 1450
  
  oldgolfer, PORNHUB & CLEENEX,
  
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  June 14, 2018 8:37am
  - oldgolfer
    
    Haha.
    
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    June 14, 2018 8:44am
EAD_TWO

FFS – the MSM making a global story about some coon being filmed climbing a couple of stories up the outside of a building:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/104673874/raccoon-scales-office-tower-captivating-public
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June 14, 2018 8:32am
- stephieboy
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  EAD TWO, scaling a 25 story building according to your link.
  
  Makes a nice change of your usual let’s blame the Jews ( including the claim from Times of Israel Jews own the Media.)
  
  With at least three different dates for the alleged report.
  
  Hmmm
  
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  June 14, 2018 8:45am
  - EAD_TWO
    
    Stephiegoy,
    
    the article you refer to was written by Manny Friedman and published in the July 12 2012 edition of the Times of Israel.
    
    Look it up
    
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    June 14, 2018 8:57am
    - stephieboy
      
      EAD TW0 , I have and we have not only a different date ( Ist of July) but a different writer,
      ,
      https://www.google.com/search?q=jews+control+media+time+of+Israel&client=safari&rls=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwinu8OLxtHbAhWGzLwKHWKRBHUQ_AUICygC&biw=1226&bih=912#imgrc=Tp7OtS38t
      SQZ8M:
      
      Please explain?
      
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      June 14, 2018 9:13am
      - KiWombat
        
        As an outsider – what do you think of the human race ?
        
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        June 14, 2018 9:53am
      - sooty
        
        Who cares stephie. Today is the Dons birthday. A special day after bringing peace to the pacific. They will be giving him a real gold plated peace prize, not like Obumas plastic one.
        
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        June 14, 2018 9:54am
  - EAD_TWO
    
    Stephieboy,
    
    Do you still wish to attend this weekend’s Association of National Socialists conference in downtown Auckland to see what we’re all about?
    
    It’s officially sold out (300 attendees) but I can easily squeeze in a few more.
    
    The only thing I ask is that you don’t bring any smelly Antifa protesters to stink up the Hotel 🙂
    
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    June 14, 2018 11:24pm
igm

Best those not financially involved with Fonterra keep their leeching ill-informed opinions to themselves. This useless unemployable tosser Jones best stick to pouring Toxic Gnome’s drinks and plant some trees. Even hear some pom-accented bint rambling on radio . . . bet she has never even put a tit cup near a cow!
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June 14, 2018 8:35am
- Awww C-mon
  
  As much as I detest Jones, Fonterrible needs some attention because the farmers are being screwed by the bastards.
  
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  June 14, 2018 8:46am
  - peterwn
    
    Well, the farmers as shareholders are in the best position to take action.
    
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    June 14, 2018 8:49am
    - Awww C-mon
      
      Yup, that’s why they are leaving in droves.
      
      The waiting lists at OCD are huge.
      
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      June 14, 2018 9:11am
    - Justitia
      
      Mum and dad dairy farmers have no influence over Fonterra these days – pushed to the sidelines by corporates. I dislike Jones’ grandstanding intensely but Fonterra has made massive and costly mistakes with its China investments and needs to be held to account.
      
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      June 14, 2018 9:42am
  - big bruv
    
    ” because the farmers are being screwed by the bastards.”
    As the tax payers are being screwed by the farmers.
    
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    June 14, 2018 11:08am
RW Capitalist

So
The road toll is increasing
M-Bovis is not getting fixed
Housing is more unaffordable
Still no tax reform (thank god)
the only growth industry is “working groups” and prison population.
Davis is STILL trying to interfere in PRIVATE business (Fonterra)
Just waiting for the unemployment figures.
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June 14, 2018 8:47am
- kevn
  
  @RW C… Jones.
  
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  June 14, 2018 9:35am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    Thank you for the correction.
    jones and Davis
    Dumb and Dummer?
    
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    June 14, 2018 4:26pm
- Gravelroad
  
  RW: you didn’t include that, as well as working groups, one of NZ’s fastest growing businesses is the production, supply and use of meth/P.
  A report today states drug use is a rising cause of road accidents.
  We have had, over the years, a great deal of attention focussed on drink driving, and the evils of cigarette smoking.
  When are we going to see the same blowtorch applied to the meth heads, dealers and P cooks who are employed by gangs to go from town to town to cook up?
  I would actually support a “ working group” prepared to tackle that.
  
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  June 14, 2018 9:56am
  - kowtow
    
    We live in a country that seeks to ban booze and ciggies but legalise smoking cannabis!
    
    WTF!
    
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    June 14, 2018 3:03pm
- rangitoto
  
  Drivers on drugs has now exceeded drunk drivers as a cause of crashes. Meanwhile SLG’s gang are telling state house tenants that drugs are ok.
  
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  June 14, 2018 12:33pm
Inandout

Someone has referred to Kelvin Davis as ‘special K’; brilliant.
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June 14, 2018 8:49am
Fletch

I heard a story on the radio about Shane Jones saying the CEO of Fonterra should step down. I don’t know what business he has saying that…. Fonterra isn’t govt owned is it?
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June 14, 2018 8:52am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Not yet.
  
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  June 14, 2018 9:14am
- Felt
  
  In a socialist economy all business is the business of Govt and our dear leaders should control all aspects of our economy! Not!
  
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  June 14, 2018 9:17am
- Ross12
  
  Fletch it was actually the Chairman of the Board he was referring to. He said he should follow the CEO out the door when he leaves ( The CEO has already resigned).
  The worst part of Jones comment was he said he had asked O’Connor to look at the structure of Fonterra when the dairy industry restructuring exercise was carried out. He cannot see the difference between the two and Jones used to be the Chairman of Sealord at one stage!!
  As you say Fonterra and how it is run has nothing to with him or Government.
  The industry restructure could involve removing the requirement that Fonterra take all the milk offered to it which is the law/regulation now, I believe.
  
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  June 14, 2018 9:23am
- kowtow
  
  Another nail in the coffin for the business confidence index.
  
  Jones really is shit for brains.
  
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  June 14, 2018 3:00pm
Chris R

I am thoroughly enjoying the spat within the Greenie Party. Sage is an airhead but acting as a Minister she has made the correct decision to grant a water right to a Chinese bottling/exporting company. The vandal of a deputy leader doesn’t have the brains to understand that there is a distinction between Green nonsense and ministerial duties. This inability depicts how unsuitable for government this absurd Party is. I hope the internal spat serves to crash them into obsolescence forever as that is what they truly deserve.
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June 14, 2018 9:09am
- kevn
  
  @Chris R… I am a bit surprised that the landowner of the water bottling location didn’t do a long term lease rather than sell.
  
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  June 14, 2018 9:35am
- KevOB
  
  The vandal of a deputy leader
  A Nga Puhi scrapper. It’s not brains but axes in the far North.
  They are all so self orientated they haven’t even been able to agree on a representative for their treaty claim.
  
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  June 14, 2018 10:46am
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  I am amused the the Greens are just finding out that idealism is all fine and dandy, but we have to obey the law.
  Sage had to make the approval or she would be acting outside the law and would face expensive action for remedy.
  Welcome to the real world where we don’t always get what we want.
  
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  June 14, 2018 11:17am
Harkman

Last weekend some lefty idiot on one of the weekend political shows said that NZ should be hosting summits like in Singapore. This is comical. Interestingly, these types of events were usually held in Switzerland, a wealth haven, nonaligned, with a strong currency and banking security (in short a financial centre). Singapore is identical to this, NZ isn’t that, because of the left. But interestingly, the G7 meeting in Canada cost them $150m, it was a bit of a disaster, nobody cared about it, while Singapore says the Trump-Kim summit cost them $20m, and they got something like 3000 journalists fly in, the city was booked out and they got free tourist publicity for years to come.
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June 14, 2018 9:29am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Singapore has a very clever Prime Minister (top Maths undergrad at Cambridge Uni), with decades of real-life work experience.
  
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  June 14, 2018 9:45am
  - kevn
    
    @Mag… Makes our virtue signalling one look a bit ordinary doesn’t it.
    Real life work experience. Like John Key.
    
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    June 14, 2018 9:57am
- Justitia
  
  Yes, Singapore offers much to admire. They are highly intelligent and very effective operators. Personally I have always greatly enjoyed their company and their clearsighted, realistic and long-term worldview. New Zealand could learn a great deal from Singapore’s way of conducting its relationships but I fear we are simply too dumb.
  
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  June 14, 2018 9:48am
  - namron
    
    Check Singapore’s crime statistics. Low number of recidivist criminals due to a fear of the punishment. Can’t imagine the CoL even being bothered to investigate it!
    
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    June 14, 2018 10:38am
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      An absence of certain ethnic groups might be helping them as well.
      One day, we might have a generation of politicians who are prepared to tackle the issue.
      
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      June 14, 2018 11:04am
      - stephieboy
        
        Captain Mainwaring, dumbo fumbo! Acquaint your self with Singapore’s diverse and multicultural population,
        
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Singapore#Religion
        
        Diversity is working as is the case here in NZ.
        
        Note their crescent flag too,
        
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Singapore#/media/File:2012_Flag_of_Singapore_Photo.jpg
        
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        June 14, 2018 12:09pm
      - Captain Mainwaring
        
        septic, I don’t see any of NZ’s biggest minority groups on the Singapore list (except Chinese, and they don’t tend to clog our prisons).
        Your comparison is flawed, but what should we expect?
        
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        June 14, 2018 12:55pm
      - Justitia
        
        Islam is tightly regulated in Singapore which has been the victim of muslim terrorism in the past. The Singaporeans are well aware they are a target for extremist Malays and IS who regard Singapore as Islamic land that has been illegally occupied by Chinese kafirs. The presence of IS in Mindanao is of particular concern.
        
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        June 14, 2018 3:06pm
      - GazzaW
        
        The Muslim religion is widely practised in Singapore but extreme forms of Islam are not tolerated. Singapore banned the burqa back in 2015.
        
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        June 14, 2018 4:39pm
  - Gravelroad
    
    They also have some innovative, low cost, family based housing options in Singapore.
    Sorry, can’t provide link as it was a while ago that I read about it, but thought at the time that some of their ideas might work here.
    We had a smile this week when it was reported that Trump and Kim Jong Un visited Singapore’s iconic and “most famous bar” at Marina Bay Sands.
    What about the Long Bar at Raffles Hotel?
    That’s the iconic one for us – but the Marina Bay Sands is very impressive also.
    
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    June 14, 2018 11:16am
    - Rich Prick
      
      The Long Bar, the only place in Singapore where you are actually encouraged to litter.
      
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      June 14, 2018 3:54pm
  - Piniwi
    
    Right Justitia and Changi airport is a massive area with it’s own trains running between terminals apart from the many attractions housed with the terminals. Talking to locals they all seem pretty happy with their lot in life while all sporting the latest of techno gear.
    
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    June 14, 2018 9:59pm
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  This dude, Harkman?
  Just wants us all to love one another – but not like Stephie and his goat.
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/91486979/max-harris-young-gifted-and-political
  
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  June 14, 2018 11:20am
Manolo

A good forecast for the US economy:
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/13/fed-raises-2018-outlook-for-us-economy.html

The Federal Reserve raised its outlook on U.S. economic growth on Wednesday.

The median real GDP forecast rose to 2.8%, up from 2.7%, for this year.

Economic activity has been rising at a “solid” rate, the Fed’s statement said, marking an upgrade from “moderate” in the previous statement. The central bank raised its benchmark short-term interest rate a quarter of a percentage point on Wednesday and indicated two more hikes will likely come this year.
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June 14, 2018 9:38am
Manolo

I listened to the foolish Mr Jones, too. He is an embarrassment.
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June 14, 2018 9:40am
Harkman

The nonsense of boys competing as girls is out of control. The lefties in Connecticut made it illegal to discriminate against trannies, so boys that are getting nowhere in their own class are claiming they’re suddenly girls. Look at this girls high school 100m race, the first two are boys. Notice the girls shake their heads and none congratulate them afterwards. The far left is destroying women’s sport, great feminists.

https://mobile.twitter.com/GameTimeCT/status/1003739370736816129
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June 14, 2018 9:47am
- stiglet
  
  11.7 is a very poor time at high school level for a male.
  
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  June 14, 2018 5:20pm
Albert_Ross

Everybody on Kiwiblog is highly sophisticated and cultured, so you probably don’t know how the scoring system on “Dancing With The Stars” works.

Contestants dance, three professional dance judges comment and give a mark out of ten, and then the public votes by telephone for their favourite contestant. (This costs a bit of money, which is donated to the chosen charity of the contestant that you vote for). The lowest-voted two contestants then do a dance-off, and the judges decide, on technical merit, who should stay in the competition.

Why I am explaining this: Because I am wondering whether the same combination of professional technical expertise and popular vote could be used to decide the results of actual elections. Experts advise on whether the parties’ policies are based on good evidence and make analytical sense, the public votes (which may or may not be influenced by the experts’ advice – it certainly isn’t on Dancing With The Stars), and then the experts eliminate from among the lowest-voted parties until there is left a winner capable of forming a government.

What do you reckon?!
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June 14, 2018 9:55am
- stephieboy
  
  Albert Ross, a BS idea! Imagine a panel of Trumpeters from KB deciding on parties policies and the outcome of elections.
  
  Leave that for the voters decide.
  
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  June 14, 2018 12:14pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Jarrod Gilbert lobs a hotball

Race role requires special talents – Dame Susan Devoy didn’t have them
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12069905
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June 14, 2018 9:56am
- Manolo
  
  The word useless comes to mind when speaking about the unfortunate Mrs Devoy.
  
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  June 14, 2018 10:59am
  - Paulus
    
    I understood at the time of appointment that whilst it was well advertised nobody actually wanted it, but Susan was “persuaded” to put her name into the hat – and got the job.
    She was totally controlled by the Department of hardened left wingers.
    She was a great squash player and not a hard left wing politician which was a major requirement for the job.
    
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    June 14, 2018 2:23pm
- stephieboy
  
  M W,
  
  I thought this might disqualify Jarrod Gilbert in your estimation,
  
  http://www.jarrodgilbert.com
  
  And especially this ,
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=11681154
  
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  June 14, 2018 12:23pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I thought this might disqualify Jarrod Gilbert in your estimation,
    
    Surprise, surprise, stephieboy.
    
    You thought wrong.
    
    I don’t hold Jarrod Gilbert in great esteem, but sometimes even NZ Herald hacks can be on the money.
    
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    June 14, 2018 2:48pm
Monique Watson

Bell just rang. Someone should tell the SLG’s to close their gobs.
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June 14, 2018 9:57am
Chuck Bird

What a fucking left-wing idiot Soper is. There are plenty of counties with poor human rights. Would he be happy with all the North Koreans and most of the south killed in a nuclear war? The Americans rightly were not prepared to allow NK to develop multiple missiles with nuclear warheads that could hit the US. It rocketman does what his father and grandfather did the US will strike. Would Soper prefer that scenario?

Barry Soper: Getting rid of nukes is one thing – the test is shutting the gulags

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=12070145
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June 14, 2018 10:01am
- Ross12
  
  No surprise Chuck.
  The leftie MSM “journalists” the world over are scrambling to find negatives about the Singapore meeting. Only months ago when President Trump was talking tough they were screaming about not going to war and start talking. Now he is talking they are saying Kim gets a win because he is talking to him. There is only one word for them –hypocrites.
  We had ztev on here yesterday going on about the two previous agreements that did not work, suggesting it is a waste of time having the meeting. He ignores the fact that the current NK leader is a new guy and he just might have different ideas.
  
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  June 14, 2018 10:18am
  - cha
    
    the two previous agreements
    
    Fun fact: North Korea reckoned they were going to denuclearise in 1985, 1992, 1994, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2016.
    
    https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/09/asia/north-korean-denuclearization-promises/index.html
    
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    June 14, 2018 8:36pm
- stephieboy
  
  Chuck Bird, I suppose you will be shortly posting the US President closing his predecessors FEMA camps and Gulags?
  
  LOL
  
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  June 14, 2018 12:19pm
- Manolo
  
  Yes, the same Soper, the veteran hack who cried with joy when Obama visited Cuba.
  
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  June 14, 2018 12:41pm
big bruv

The NZ female cricket team proving once again that woman’s sport is a complete joke. Not that you would know this if you listen to our media who insist on treating the three match ODI victory over that cricket powerhouse Ireland in the same mode as a series win over Australia or England.
I really don’t mind if chicks want to play men’s sports, good on them, but do we really have to pretend that it is anything other than rubbish?
The NZ female football team would be hammered (by at least six goals) if they were to play the Auckland under 16 side, that proves just how crap chick sport is.
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June 14, 2018 11:01am
- ex-golfer
  
  You’re a sad and bitter human being BB.
  Ever celebrated a personal achievement in your life?I can’t imagine you have, as you prefer to spend your time denigrating others.
  
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  June 14, 2018 11:25am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    He celebrates any NZ sporting defeat as a special triumph for himself.
    
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    June 14, 2018 11:40am
    - Harkman
      
      Gosh Mike I just gave you the thumbs up.
      
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      June 14, 2018 10:26pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  It must be a great disappointment for you not to live in Saudi Arabia or some other place where real men share your views on the desirability of letting women play sports.
  
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  June 14, 2018 11:36am
- Classic Liberal
  
  Many sports are about relativity, Big Bruv. Would you expect men weightlifting and boxing and doing martial arts to all compete with each other, or are you happy with weight/size categories? Well maybe your name indicates: the big guys should be allowed to dominate every sport- small guys can get crushed ;).
  
  I’m all for women’s categories and celebrating their achievements, it just gets ridiculous when men can claim they are women and win in them!
  
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  June 14, 2018 11:55am
- publicwatchdog
  
  I didn’t know the feathered egg-laying things played sport?
  
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  June 14, 2018 6:01pm
- sooty
  
  Just you wait till cocks in frocks, turn up.
  
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  June 14, 2018 7:26pm
  - Harkman
    
    Did you just say Semenya or Hubbard?
    
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    June 14, 2018 10:28pm
- Morrissey
  
  The NZ female football team would be hammered (by at least six goals) if they were to play the Auckland under 16 side…
  
  Doubt that. Not many young male footballers would be up to the challenge of stopping Portia Woodman.
  
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  June 14, 2018 9:09pm
Inandout

US gays seem to have finally realised they are targets and they are arming themselves.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/06/13/gay-community-arming-up-two-years-after-orlando-pulse/

On a similar subject it appears Tommy Robinson has been moved to a 70% Muslim populated maximum security prison. Who heads the Home Office?:

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office
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June 14, 2018 11:11am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Would you like me to Google that for you?
  
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  June 14, 2018 11:38am
MrTips

Dear Lord, I am a wretched sinner, but can you please grant the wonderful schadenfruede of allowing Clark and Cindy’s baby to be born after mid-night tonight, but surely tomorrow, so that it can enjoy the same birthday (US time) as her favourite mentor:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump
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June 14, 2018 11:18am
Komata

HK

Re: ‘That happens when the mayor’s office think they are more important than…’ etc. etc. etc.

Don’t forget that MISTER Goff has been a ‘Minister of the Crown’ and he is USED to thinking that he is important…

He is merely doing what comes naturally.
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June 14, 2018 11:48am
- Poppa
  
  Goff is a dickhead
  
  The end
  
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  June 14, 2018 11:54am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    Not the end for us rate payers :(.
    
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    June 14, 2018 11:58am
    - Paulus
      
      As a former Aucklander I have only one comment
      You voted for him !
      
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      June 14, 2018 2:25pm
      - alex Masterley
        
        I did bloody well not vote for him. So there.
        
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        June 14, 2018 3:58pm
      - sooty
        
        Don’t you know who I am!
        
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        June 14, 2018 7:24pm
  - alex Masterley
    
    Sums it all up really.
    
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    June 14, 2018 3:59pm
Cobolt24

One more idiot dead, shame it didn’t kill the driver of the stolen car too:
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12070072
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June 14, 2018 12:17pm
- MCos
  
  The kid who died was thirteen
  
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  June 14, 2018 2:25pm
  - starboard
    
    Your point MCos?
    
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    June 14, 2018 2:52pm
  - kowtow
    
    What was he doing in a stolen car.
    
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    June 14, 2018 2:56pm
- mandk
  
  “The car was not being pursued by police at the time of the crash”
  
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  June 14, 2018 2:45pm
  - RF
    
    But wait there’s more. There was a Police patrol car several miles away so that’s close enough for a pursuit.
    
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    June 14, 2018 8:24pm
Longknives

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/cricket/104705924/a-17yearold-kiwi-has-just-played-the-greatest-ever-game-of-odi-cricket

“Has a 17-year-old Kiwi just played the greatest all-round game of international 50 over cricket?”
“but at just 17, bettering the likes of Sir Viv Richards..”

What utter bollocks!
Well done Amelia Kerr but for fuck’s sake our Media go over the top don’t they??
I notice the spotty Stuff ‘Journalist’ who is making such nonsensical claims hasn’t got the guts to even put his or her name to this ludicrous article-As they clearly know absolutely nothing about cricket.
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June 14, 2018 12:27pm
- VicParking
  
  Cut and paste from somewhere else i bet
  
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  June 14, 2018 12:59pm
- MCos
  
  Quite clearly it wasn’t the greatest performance of all time, but that’s not quite the question posed by the article.
  ‘Has a 17-year-old Kiwi just played the greatest all-round game of international 50 over cricket? The statistics say yes.’
  In this case the opposition was useless & in each of the three games outrageous scores were posted by our team. So there’s no way, no matter what the stats say that this is up there with the great performances & the article lists a few others far more notable.
  
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  June 14, 2018 2:52pm
- alex Masterley
  
  The Irish are bunnies. The scores show that.
  The bollocks that is being spouted about these results is nauseating.
  
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  June 14, 2018 4:05pm
Manolo

Some European countries are prepared to stop the African invasion:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5840047/Hardline-interior-ministers-Germany-Austria-Italy-form-alliance-protect-borders.html

The hardline interior ministers of Austria, Germany and Italy have formed an ‘axis of the willing’ to combat illegal immigration, Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said Wednesday, escalating a Europe-wide row over the issue.

The announcement by Kurz in Berlin after talks with German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer marks a shot across the bow at Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is trying to pull together a deal for EU cooperation on placing asylum seekers.</i<
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June 14, 2018 12:53pm
- Classic Liberal
  
  Merkel has been acting like an absolute dictator over the rest of Europe on this. A dictator telling European countries whom they should have to take in.
  
  Fine, all the more support for the AfD.
  
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  June 14, 2018 1:34pm
  - UpandComer
    
    Now they want to ban talk back shows from talking about immigration lol:
    
    Olaf Zimmerman
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/13/populist-talkshows-fuel-rise-of-far-right-german-tv-bosses-told
    
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    June 14, 2018 3:22pm
    - EAD_TWO
      
      Olaf (((Zimmerman)))
      
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      June 14, 2018 9:28pm
- kowtow
  
  About bloody time too.
  
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  June 14, 2018 2:54pm
slightlyrighty

Kelvin Davis is being hammered in the house, and Mallard is tying himself up in knots trying to protect him.

Nikki Kaye is having a good day, but getting nowhere with answers.
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June 14, 2018 2:31pm
- alex Masterley
  
  Back into witless protection for you my lad.
  
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  June 14, 2018 2:57pm
starboard

Special K is going under..bawhahahaha!!
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June 14, 2018 2:33pm
Monique Watson

Another one to roam the grounds without walls:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12070623
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June 14, 2018 2:35pm
starboard

Mark Mitchell is starting to shine.
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June 14, 2018 2:42pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  A little bit, then he gets walloped by Mallard.
  
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  June 14, 2018 3:23pm
- Morrissey
  
  You can’t have heard his inept performance on Morning Report. I was embarrassed for the poor fellow.
  
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  June 14, 2018 9:05pm
UpandComer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grlIqThqPos

This is quite a good video on recent studies on the reversal of IQ growth in the West – in fact apparently it’s on the level of a 7 point reduction per 25 years since 1970. All manner of causation is speculated. None mention immigration.

And no, I’m not including myself in the favoured group.

I am woefully more stupid then my parents. But it’s good stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU3kyF6rQtY

This one is also good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU3kyF6rQtY

Ivan Suvorov on Barbarossa – it was pre-emptive and defensive. Soviet Union troop composition and nature was an exact scaled replica of the offensive doctrines that completely destroyed the Japanese at Khalkin Gol, under Zhukov.

Everything forward. Medium tanks for European roads, thousands of amphibious tanks, hundreds of thousands of paratroopers, thousands of fighter-bombers 5.1million men mobilised, most then two thirds in proximity to the Ribbentrop line.

It completely flips narratives:
1. Hitler actually saved Western Europe
2. Barbarossa was a desperate ploy not a hubristic attempt at colonialisation.
3. The defense of mother Russia was actually the defense of western Europe.
4. The US lend-lease and British convoys were materially irrelevant to Soviet outcomes – they didn’t need the supplies

Everything we’re told about the war in the East is a lie. Remember ‘Enemy at the Gates’? It’s the orthodox depiction of Soviets sharing rifles and ammo pouches?

They actually had so much ammunition for offensive purposes that even if you count all the ammo the Wehrmacht captured, they only used 15% of what was already produced pre 1941.

I had no idea that Poland actually invaded Czechoslovakia after Munich. I also didn’t know that the German invasion of Poland actually stalled due to logistical/material shortages, and the Soviet invasion was the only reason the Germans were successful.

I love youtube. No wonder the EU Commission wants to ban alt-media.
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June 14, 2018 3:19pm
- stephieboy
  
  UpandComer, sharpen up n your critical thinking skills. Ivan Suvorov’s claims about alleged Soviet Preparedness at the beginning over Baraboarrs.
  
  Rejected here ,
  
  Customer Review
  1.0 out of 5 stars
  A first class Red Herring
  ByM.Richon April 28, 2017
  
  The author uses a decent collection of facts in which he uses some extremely flawed logic to produce highly unlikely interpretations. This is a conspiracy theorists book, nothing more.
  
  Overall a poor representation of the facts, many of which are simply and willfully ignored. Some of the more glaring issues: Suvorov trumpets the 1 million Red Army paratroops as being a major sign of offensive aspirations of Stalin against Europe, yet he fails to explain that those same paratroopers lacked the necessary transport aircraft to move even a few thousand. That being said, the lack of drop aircraft also had the obvious effect of the Red Army lacking the capacity to train paratroopers in jump training and conduct training jumps. That also means that these million paratroopers were that in name only, completely lacking in specialized training, equipment, doctrine and leadership.
  
  Another issue is his claim of the BT series tanks treads/wheels being designed for Europe and Germany’s autobahn as opposed to the Soviet Union’s rough terrain. The problem is the autobahn didn’t exist (to any significant extent) at the time of the BT tank’s design or during WWII. Also, the BT tanks served throughout the war and proved to be as good as their contemporaries with off road performance. There is substantial evidence that the track design was intended to reduce wear on the poorly designed and expensive track system…”
  
  The theory that the Germans beat the Soviets to the punch is the reason of poor Red Army performance due to the Soviets being prepared for offensive operations and not defensive is a fools argument. The Red Army was in a poor state of readiness and that needs no qualifiers. The Red Army would have performed worse in offensive operations than it did in defensive operations due to the inherent deficiencies in its own formations that severely limited its capabilities in any form of operation. Poorly trained tactical leadership of understrength, undertrained units that lack key equipment and/or had unserviceable equipment is a recipe for disaster. Suvorov completely glosses over these deficiencies as if to suggest that 1 Soviet tank equates to one German tank and the Soviets had thousands more. The fact is most Soviet tank units had worn out equipment, lacked tactical communication (radios), poorly trained crews, poorly trained and equipped mechanics to keep them running, poorly trained leadership and no tactical experience. …”
  
  https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R1DIW7K63458LZ/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1591148065
  
  Love YouTube? Not much good if you are not able to engage in some logic and common sense.
  
  Interesting that Suvorov finds favour amongst the far right and Neo-Nazis.
  
  Now I wonder why that would be?
  
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  June 14, 2018 4:06pm
  - pentwig
    
    sillyboy
    wonder no more you are a fuckwit
    stop ogling little girls in your cafe and concentrate
    tsk.tsk
    
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    June 14, 2018 5:02pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      Pentwig:
      
      Stephieboy missed the irony of his own comment:
      
      Love YouTube? Not much good if you are not able to engage in some logic and common sense.
      
      His “oink oink wank wank” snarky comment from yesterday seems to have disappeared too.
      
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      June 14, 2018 5:14pm
  - UpandComer
    
    Some of that is fair.
    
    The truth is, every side is discredited according to Suvorov’s thesis.
    
    Having read some criticism I agree he overstated his case a bit, used some selective referencing, and perhaps needed to perform more research.
    
    But his case is still made out IMHO.
    
    I accept Nigel Askey’s opinion in the contrary. But Askey’s exhaustive analysis just demonstrates that the Soviets would have been able to invade in 1942 and been unstoppable. Which means the logic of Barbarossa in 1941 was sound and accords with Suvorov’s thesis.
    
    Even if only one mech division had completed div level manoeuvres in 1941, all would have done so by 1942. Even Askey says the Stavka doctrine for echelon defence in depth was predicated upon flexibility for offensive action.
    
    Even with poor training, logistics, command and control, and misaligned equipment the Soviet Union was able to beat the Wehrmacht. Germany didn’t even fully mobilise until almost 1943.
    
    Had the RKKA Red Army had until 1942 under Zhukov, they would have rolled across Europe and probably into England with relative ease. I accept Suvorov has overstated his case, but his core thesis in my opinion is valid.
    
    http://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-when-stalin-almost-conquered-europe/
    
    Ron Unz gives a pretty good take.
    
    A single Amazon comment isn’t sufficient.
    
    Apparently Suvorov’s thesis has been debated in non-English since 1990.
    
    Now why on earth would fairly mundane historical revisionism be kept out of the Anglosphere?
    
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    June 14, 2018 9:12pm
    - EAD_TWO
      
      Now why on earth would fairly mundane historical revisionism be kept out of the Anglosphere?
      
      Because the truth is treason in a world built on lies.
      
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      June 14, 2018 9:25pm
Monique Watson

Jayzus Joseph and Mary! It wasn’t turbulence, It was the casing that went.

https://www.9news.com.au/national/2018/06/14/07/23/qantas-nosedive-wake-turbulence-terrified-passengers
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June 14, 2018 3:31pm
Morrissey

A tribute to a mensch

http://normanfinkelstein.com/2018/06/12/anthony-bourdain-the-only-mensch-on-gaza/
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June 14, 2018 4:01pm
Morrissey

Bewildered septuagenarian rages and rages

Stupid old man…

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12070477
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June 14, 2018 4:04pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Morrissey:
  
  The issue between Bob Jones and Leonie Pihama is of limited interest to me.
  
  But I will comment on the letter written by the law firm (which is shown in the article you’ve linked to). The subject line is “My Client Sir Robert Jones”. I’ve read plenty of legal correspondence in my time, and I can’t recall a non-descriptive subject line like that.
  
  The letter states (in part):
  
  On or about 7 June 2018 you “tweeted” a message referring to Sir Robert as “racist Bob Jones”.
  
  The term “racist” is clearly defamatory by any reasonable standard.It was simply used as a label in this case,and cannot be defended as part of some wider debate,or discussion about issues of race.
  
  So, in terms of the punctuation, there’s a full stop with no spacing between the two sentences. And there are two commas with no spacing after them. Sloppy.
  
  Then, on the substantive point, the second paragraph contains weak and unsubstantiated assertions. I’d be embarrassed to send a letter like that with my name on it!
  
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  June 14, 2018 4:35pm
  - Morrissey
    
    Thanks Nostradamus. I too was rather surprised to see that Sir Bob is represented by such lacklustre counsel.
    
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    June 14, 2018 8:03pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Very successful for a stupid old man. Are you jealous?
  
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  June 14, 2018 5:02pm
  - Morrissey
    
    If you call being a laughing stock “successful”, then that old buffer is the epitome of success.
    
    What the old fool really fancies himself as, though, is a satirist. Trouble is, all the talent in the family went to his little brother Lloyd….
    
    https://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-29082012/#comment-514451
    
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    June 14, 2018 8:15pm
- rangitoto
  
  I would back septuagenarian Sir Robert in a ten round contest against Morrissey any day.
  
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  June 14, 2018 5:56pm
- Inandout
  
  That man would leave your tiny mind in the dust.
  
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  June 14, 2018 6:48pm
  - Morrissey
    
    Not if he performed like he did on this debacle in 2013…..
    
    https://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-18072013/#comment-664471
    
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    June 14, 2018 7:53pm
    - pentwig
      
      thanks for wasting 5 minutes of my time morrissy
      what an absolute wanker you are
      self editing a TV programme on the standard blog designed for altleft idiots and referring the hashed garbage on KB
      are you related to sillyboy?
      
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      June 14, 2018 9:43pm
      - Morrissey
        
        You’re shootin’ the messenger, my friend. Your beef is with the silly old codger who ran amok on that show, with the fools who put him in that studio in the first place, and with people like Linda Clark, who encourage the old bore instead of ignoring him.
        
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        June 15, 2018 5:50pm
Nostradamus

Good news: Chief ombudsman to investigate Auckland councillors’ stadium report complaints

The Chief Ombudsman has launched a formal investigation into Auckland councillors’ complaints regarding access to a report into a proposed downtown stadium. … Councillors Cathy Casey and Efeso Collins complained to the Ombudsman about three weeks ago over Mayor Phil Goff’s refusal to give councillors a full copy of the stadium reports they said they could only see at his mayoral office.

Phil Goff has claimed he was honouring “confidentiality obligations”. The document is described as a “National Stadium and Precinct Pre-feasibility Study” but a “pre-feasability study” shouldn’t raise any confidentiality issues. And PwC charged $923,000 – which seems excessive.

In a response to the letter from nine of the 19 councillors yesterday, Goff said he had “made copies of the full reports immediately available to councillors to read”. “To honour obligations to those who required confidentiality, the report was not circulated in an electronic form. In response to requests from councillors, I was happy subsequently for councillors to hold and to read the report in their offices,” he said.

Phil Goff needs to explain who “required confidentiality” (presumably not PwC) and why. I seem to recall some vague wittering that landowners whose sites were being investigated as possible options for a downtown stadium wanted the pre-feasibility report contents to be confidential.

In the letter Goff said council staff had advised him “that the Ombudsman is satisfied with this arrangement and regards it as acceptable”.

Now this will be interesting. Let’s see if the Chief Ombudsman agrees that, first, council staff consulted with Ombudsman staff regarding the “arrangement” and, second, that council staff correctly “advised” Phil Goff what Ombudsman staff told them…
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June 14, 2018 4:10pm
- publicwatchdog
  
  HAS MAYOR PHIL GOFF KNOWINGLY AND WILFULLY BREACHED HIS STATUTORY DUTIES BY FAILING TO UPHOLD HIS ‘VISION’ REGARDING ‘TRANSPARENCY?
  
  Is the Ombudsman investigating THIS?
  
  Mayor Phil Goff’s vision for Auckland
  
  aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/mayor-of-auckl…
  
  “We want Auckland to be a high performing city, strongly governed and managed, efficient and transparent in how it provides services to its people.”
  
  How does the secrecy surrounding the PwC Report – before and after its publication, and the role of Mayor Phil Goff in this obvious lack of transparency, comply with his statutory duties arising from the Local Government (Auckland Council) Act 2009, section 9?
  
  http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2009/0032/83.0/DLM2044937.html
  
  9. Mayor of Auckland
  
  (1) The role of the mayor is to—
  
  (a) articulate and promote a vision for Auckland; and
  
  (b) provide leadership for the purpose of achieving objectives that will contribute to that vision.
  …”
  
  _____________________
  
  Is this underpinning legislation part of the scope, or terms of reference for this inquiry by the Ombudsman?
  
  If not – why not?
  
  Penny Bright
  
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  June 14, 2018 6:05pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    Penny:
    
    Is this underpinning legislation part of the scope, or terms of reference for this inquiry by the Ombudsman?
    
    Short answer: no.
    
    Longer answer: no (see section 13 of the Ombudsmen Act 1975 for further information).
    
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    June 14, 2018 6:21pm
Manolo

A Muslim Kiwi has seconded the motion. Trump is as safe as money in the bank. 😀
http://dailycaller.com/2018/06/13/nominate-trump-nobel-peace-prize/
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June 14, 2018 5:15pm
- nasska
  
  From Manolo’s link:
  
  …..”the last president was handed Nobel Peace Prize. This president is actually going to earn it.” “….
  
  I applaud the nominators for their perception about Trump but I’d like to point out that the magic Negro received his for being black & having a good line of yap, two attributes in which he excelled.
  
  Nothing else so he’s justified in keeping the award.
  
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  June 14, 2018 5:53pm
  - stephieboy
    
    nasska,
    
    “This president is actually going to earn it.” “….
    
    Touching your child like faith.
    
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    June 14, 2018 7:15pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      Stephieboy:
      
      Touching your child
      
      Your sexual fantasies are getting more disturbing by the day. Is it time for another St Albans intervention?
      
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      June 14, 2018 7:25pm
Captain Mainwaring

So Peters is backing Jones for his attack on Fonterra but Cindy is sitting on the fence. “It’s not Government policy.”
But she won’t censure either of them. She needs to grow a pair or one day someone will ask her who’s actually running the country, “you or Mr. 2.5%?”
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June 14, 2018 5:24pm
- MCos
  
  Good news, Captain.
  The Royal Mail has issued a stamp with your picture!
  https://www.royalmail.com/dadsarmystamps?iid=PROMO_H1_DA50
  
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  June 14, 2018 5:51pm
- RF
  
  Jesus, the cat has not left the room and the rats and mice are already playing.
  
  With Peters backing Indiana Jones over Fonterra it’s obvious NZ First has gone rogue and given Cindy the two fingers.
  
  The next 6 weeks are going to be bloody interesting.
  
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  June 14, 2018 5:52pm
- Morrissey
  
  She needs to grow a pair…
  
  She can’t do that, Cap’n. But she’s already got “a pair”. His name is Clark. And you and your mates are insanely envious of him.
  
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  June 14, 2018 8:05pm
  - pentwig
    
    morrisy
    you jest surely!!
    good grief you poor thing you
    you must push a wheelbarrow in front of yourself to carry your balls to say you are envious of him
    i admire the man to go where no other man would dare to go. yuck
    you are sick
    
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    June 14, 2018 9:57pm
  - Duxton
    
    Snort!!!!!!!
    
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    June 15, 2018 4:20am
MCos

“Justify won the Belmont Stakes, becoming the 13th triple Crown winner, and turned down an invitation to the White House. Asked why, the winner neighed, “If I wanted to see a horse’s ass, I would’ve finished second.” ”
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/6/13/1771644/-Triple-Crown-Winner-Won-t-Visit-White-House
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June 14, 2018 5:25pm
- Nostradamus
  
  MCos:
  
  If you like that, then you’ll roar with laughter at this revised punchline:
  
  Asked why, the winner neighed, “If I wanted to see a horse’s ass, I would’ve stood behind Jacinda”.
  
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  June 14, 2018 5:35pm
  - MCos
    
    Too late, that line’s run it’s course.
    
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    June 14, 2018 5:44pm
  - stephieboy
    
    Nostradamus,
    
    Oink, oink etc …
    
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    June 14, 2018 7:16pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      Stephieboy:
      
      Oink, oink etc
      
      In your case, yes, I can see you living on a farm with grassy meadows and a little billy goat to service your needs!
      
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      June 14, 2018 7:22pm
  - Duxton
    
    Or it would have simply snorted……and stood behind Jacinda anyway.
    
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    June 15, 2018 4:23am
nasska

Does anyone know how to cancel a bid on Trade Me?

I put one in for a Cowboy Outfit yesterday & now I’m only ten minutes away from owning Fonterra!
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June 14, 2018 6:09pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Nasska:
  
  I put one in for a Cowboy Outfit
  
  Does it come with a whip? Are you sure you didn’t go to an online BDSM costume and toys store by mistake?
  
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  June 14, 2018 6:13pm
  - nasska
    
    …..” go to an online BDSM costume and toys store”….
    
    Been there…..done that but it was so long ago I’ve forgotten who ties up who. 🙂
    
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    June 14, 2018 6:18pm
    - Johnboy
      
      Be careful what bit of cowboy kit you bid for nasska! I went for the sheepskin chaps once and Flossie’s never spoken to me since! 🙂
      
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      June 14, 2018 6:24pm
      - stigie
        
        Thats because you shot Flossie down the road when on good advice not to, you purchased Blossom for a change of excitement had a bad dose of fly strike.
        You are between a rock and a “hard” place JB..?
        
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        June 14, 2018 8:19pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      Nasska:
      
      I’ve forgotten who ties up who.
      
      I’m sure that a Kiwiblog reader or two could provide specialist advice if you need it!
      
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      June 14, 2018 6:25pm
      - nasska
        
        I’m certain that one of the religio/conservatives who know just how my family & I should live our lives could make enquiries during their next visit to Madam Lash’s House of Pain. 🙂
        
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        June 14, 2018 6:30pm
MrTips

Just saw Police Commissioner Mike Bush on the visual wireless. Never seen him before.

Hmmm…..not sure I’d buy a car off him.
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June 14, 2018 6:12pm
- Johnboy
  
  Don’t be too hard on the poor fellow MrTips.
  He could have been named Mike Hunt after all! 🙂
  
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  June 14, 2018 6:26pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    Johnboy:
    
    I have to say that “Bush” as a family name conjures up unfortunate images of a smelly Greenie with unshaved private parts!
    
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    June 14, 2018 6:29pm
    - Johnboy
      
      I wish you’d stop bringing up images of Eugenie in my oddly, warped mind. 🙂
      
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      June 14, 2018 6:32pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Sheesh Johnboy! I said “Greenie” and you have this list to choose from or for old-time’s sake!
        
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        June 14, 2018 6:35pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        As I am a shallow old thing…..
        
        The new Green females are much easier on the eye than the older versions.
        
        Can’t say that the men are likely to knock Sean Connery off my pedestal.
        
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        June 14, 2018 6:44pm
      - Johnboy
        
        If I didn’t have piles I’d go for Sean as well Maggy! 🙂
        
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        June 14, 2018 6:46pm
    - stephieboy
      
      giggle, giggle, snigger, snigger.. behind the primers school toilet block.
      
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      June 14, 2018 7:21pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Stephieboy:
        
        behind the primers school toilet block
        
        Surely you could take your goat somewhere more private?
        
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        June 14, 2018 7:24pm
      - Johnboy
        
        Don’t be so cruel Nostra. That’s where the “big boys” took Stevie and after they’d finished called him Stephie! 🙂
        
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        June 14, 2018 7:32pm
- kowtow
  
  He has an agenda,
  
  ‘Several changes to police values have been brought about by Commissioner Mike Bush.
  
  In late 2014 “valuing diversity and empathy” was added to the existing police value system.’
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/104718870/senior-cop-it-took-me-more-than-20-years-to-say-i-was-muslim
  
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  June 14, 2018 7:22pm
Johnboy

What can I say Nostra? Julie’s the gal for me even if I have to catch a tram to pop round to her place for a bit of good old rumpie-pumpie!
However since Gareth’s grown a beard he’s looking almost as handsome as Blackadder’s bridesmaid! 🙂
Decisions…decisions! 🙂
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June 14, 2018 6:42pm
- nasska
  
  Looking at them you’d never guess just how screwed up their minds are.
  
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  June 14, 2018 6:46pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Johnboy:
  
  This playboy bunny may be of interest to a broad-minded chap like you? He looks even better in a hot tub! 🙂
  
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  June 14, 2018 6:57pm
  - Johnboy
    
    I’m not certain that I’d want to be close to anyone that Mark’s been that close too Nostra! 🙂
    
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    June 14, 2018 7:06pm
noskire

FFS, this bullshit has to stop “Senior cop: It took me more than 20 years to say I was Muslim” https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/104718870/senior-cop-it-took-me-more-than-20-years-to-say-i-was-muslim
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June 14, 2018 7:21pm
- stephieboy
  
  noskire , with crazed idiots like you it’s small wonder.
  
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  June 14, 2018 7:22pm
  - noskire
    
    Take your pills steph.
    
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    June 14, 2018 7:32pm
- Jack5
  
  Noskire, I see Inspector Naila Hassan is saying the inspector was involved in Counties Manukau police being a part of Ramadan and hosting an Iftar dinner at its headquarters.
  
  She is reported as saying it was great to have others to support and have others observe Ramadan alongside her.
  
  Christmas applies to most traditional New Zealanders, but I wonder if the police do anything for Christians in the same way as they do for Muslims? Joint Easter observance, for example?
  
  Also, Inspector Hassan’s views would be interesting on the niquab and burka which cover and face coverings of some Muslim women. Does she think they should be legal in NZ?
  
  Now that the media is highlighting Muslims in the police force, will they give us an insight of whether in the police there are also Exclusive Brethren, Quakers, Seventh Day Adventists, Jehovah’s Witnesss, Salvation Army members? If there are it would be nice to know whether the police help with their religious observances.
  
  Interestingly, wasn’t Inspector Hassan was Waikato Police Western Area Commander when three hijab-wearing Muslim women were harassed by a drunk woman as they went to use a public lavatory in Huntly early last year?
  
  The offender was described by her family as suffering from mental problems, and the woman claimed her own mother was Muslim.
  
  Multiculturalism in the police deserves to be watched, given that Police HQ has indicated it supports “hate speech” controls: that is, in this democratic country, the police are not fully supportive of freedom of speech.
  
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  June 14, 2018 8:36pm
DigNap15

Yes the Trump and Kim deal could be good. Getting rid of the nukes etc.
But it does not need to be tied to all the other social issues.
As others have said, there are many countries with bad “human rights” records.
And some human rights issues should not be issues at all.
Who are we to dictate to others?
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June 14, 2018 8:23pm
- cha
  
  But it does not need to be tied to all the other social issues.
  
  A few excerpts from the 2014 UN report about North Korean social issues.
  
  /
  
  Inmates are imprisoned, usually for life, in camps without ever having been brought before a judge… They have never been charged, convicted or sentenced… [Many] are incarcerated based solely on the principle of guilt by family association. Some are even born prisoners.
  
  […]
  
  The living conditions in the political prison camps are calculated to bring about mass deaths. Forced to carry out grueling labour, inmates are provided food rations that are so insufficient that many inmates starve to death.
  
  […]
  
  The death toll is further exacerbated by executions, deaths from torture, the
  denial of adequate medical care, high incidence of work accidents, lack of shelter and lack of appropriate clothes… the camps have the objective of
  gradually eliminating the camp population.
  
  […]
  
  The intentional killings… through summary executions, beatings, infanticide, deliberate starvation and other illegal means, all amount to the crime of murder… The prisoners are often so weakened from malnourishment and disease that they are literally worked to death.
  
  […]
  
  Rape is regularly committed in the political prison camps of the DPRK. They are a product of the environment of the prison camps and the impunity generally enjoyed by camp officials… In other cases, women are pressed into ‘consensual’ sexual relations.
  
  […]
  
  The imposition of forced abortions on female inmates who become pregnant without authorization not only results in immediate physically harm, it also interferes with the victim’s reproductive rights and causes severe emotional suffering.
  
  […]
  
  Hundreds of thousands of inmates have been exterminated in political prison camps and other places over a span of more than five decades… This raises the question of whether genocide or an international crime akin to it has been committed.
  
  […]
  
  There is an almost complete denial of the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, as well as of rights to freedom of opinion, expression, information and association… The State operates an all-encompassing indoctrination machine that takes root from childhood.
  
  […]
  
  During the period of famine, ideological indoctrination was used in order to
  maintain the regime, at the cost of seriously aggravating hunger and starvation… It also delayed international assistance that, provided earlier, could have saved many lives.
  
  […]
  
  The commission finds that decisions, actions and omissions by the State and its leadership caused the death of at least hundreds of thousands of people and inflicted permanent physical and psychological injuries on those who survived.
  
  […]
  
  The police… systematically employ violence and punishments that amount to gross human rights violations in order to create a climate of fear that pre-empts any challenge to the current system of government… The institutions and officials involved are not held accountable.
  
  […]
  
  These crimes against humanity entail extermination, murder, enslavement, torture, imprisonment, rape, forced abortions and other sexual violence, persecution… the forcible transfer [and] the enforced disappearance of persons and… knowingly causing prolonged starvation.
  
  https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G14/108/66/PDF/G1410866.pdf?OpenElement
  
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  June 14, 2018 9:03pm
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    It is absolutely appalling that the Chinese have propped up these monsters for 70 years.
    
    And Gareth Morgan destroyed any credibility he had when he talked them up.
    
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    June 14, 2018 9:34pm
  - rangitoto
    
    So what is your proposal? Drop nukes on them perhaps.
    
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    June 14, 2018 9:49pm
Shaun the Sheep

Looking forward to Hillary’s Egg on Face party tomorrow at the IGs office.
Don’t suppose anyone will be explaining themselves to a judge, the evidence being well tainted, but I’ll settle for some sunlight on a few of the wrong ‘uns
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June 14, 2018 9:00pm
sooty

Labour minister of justise thinks its ok for prisoners to play with female prison gaurds tushes. He must have graduated as a groper from their sex camps.
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June 14, 2018 9:26pm
- Awww C-mon
  
  JAG won’t be happy… then she’ll read about this and be really unhappy!
  
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  June 14, 2018 9:41pm
emmess

How is this not the top story round the world now?
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/more-2300-suspected-online-child-sex-offenders-arrested-during-operation-broken-heart
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June 14, 2018 9:51pm
Monique Watson

I called it wrong. Not mechanical. But under the headline of “Whadda Fuck”. How does Qantas manage to have two incidences in five weeks of planes on the same flight-path.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/04/qantas-planes-near-miss-take-off-aborted-perth-airport
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