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Duxton

Free speech rallies in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch at 12pm today.
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July 14, 2018 9:02am
- EAD_TWO
  
  This is the actual headline being splashed across Aussie papers:
  
  Lauren Southern in Australia: ‘I feel zero shame whatsoever for being white’
  
  https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/media/lauren-southern-welcomed-by-altright-australian-twitter/news-story/9f9f7dd343668945a2ac196bbb864327
  
  That this needs to be said by Southern is shocking. What is more shocking is that the people who run the MSM are trying to paint this – that it is shocking to say that you shouldn’t feel shame to be White.
  
  FFS.
  
  All day the MSM and Global Corporates promote that those gender benders, homos, trannies and all sorts of assorted freaks should have pride because they like doing disgusting and perverted things to each other – but dare say you have “pride” in the achievements of your forefathers in building the greatest civilisations the world has ever seen, and your literally cast as the most wicked person to walk the earth.
  
  We are living in surreal times.
  
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  July 14, 2018 9:19am
  - dave_c_
    
    All part of the plan EAD, all part of the plan – Has been for centuries, and will get worse going forward !
    
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    July 14, 2018 11:18am
  - itstricky
    
    Why is it not obvious to you that she is the one who has made it about race and not about her ideas?
    
    God knows there’s enough criticism of virtue signalling and use of the race card here, usually…
    
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    July 14, 2018 12:44pm
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      So left wing position, in general, is that it’s fine to celebrate being Maori or Tongan or African, but not ‘white’. Do you perhaps see any inconsistency in this position? Hypocrisy is a great way to win converts to your beliefs.
      
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      July 14, 2018 2:12pm
      - itstricky
        
        So left wing position, in general, is that it’s fine to
        
        Victim mentality and a broad brush statement about a complete social misread.
        
        inconsistency… Hypocrisy
        
        Inconsistency and hypocrisy is the 44 uptickers of a known Holocaust denier talking about “the freaks” and “the proud achievements of his forefathers”. Not 24 hours ago he was making jokes about “the holocaust scam”. And below… “the pompous NZers describing her as far right”. Well, yes, if her popular defenders here are holocaust deniers, yes.
        
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        July 14, 2018 6:54pm
      - realityczech
        
        Those deniers are a real problem for the Palestinians too. Forget the history and look under your nose.
        
        I get your point though. You should pour hate and venom on people you disagree with on some points, even when they make points you actually agree with.
        
        You are the definition of a zealot and a bigot.
        
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        July 14, 2018 7:00pm
  - paul scott
    
    Excellent EDE_TWO . I read pompous New Zealanders describing her as far right dangerous and repugnant. Lauren Southern ‘The only person recently of note to get into South Africa over the white farmer slaughter by Non-Whites. I wrote notes to the Immigration idiot Minister Iain Lees-Galloway asking if there would be any provision made to help farmers out from Pretoria. His secretary answered > no, don’t write back. b.
    People may be interested to know that the equally repugnant Russians are flying the Boers out of there and re-homing them. To hell with diversity and white hatred.
    
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    July 14, 2018 5:10pm
Harkman

If nurses want more money they should give less to their union.
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July 14, 2018 9:04am
- Colville
  
  Care to suggest who else would negotiate on their behalf with the DHBs?
  
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  July 14, 2018 9:31am
- VicParking
  
  30,000 to strike, no 25,000 strike. 5000 said FKU and went to work. Some nurses looking to set up alternative union. “Same old Same old for 15 years, we need new blood in the union”
  
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  July 14, 2018 9:38am
mikenmildagain

Happy Bastille Day, everyone.
Allez les Bleus for Monday morning.
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July 14, 2018 9:05am
- Colville
  
  a pox on the surrender monkeys…!
  
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  July 14, 2018 9:33am
- VicParking
  
  Who won. Not the 40,000 killed or the 300,000 arrested. Chop chop knit knit.
  
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  July 14, 2018 9:40am
- kowtow
  
  Ah yes, the French celebrating murdering their fellow country men in a gaol break.
  
  Meanwhile hightened security due to the diversity dividend that peaceful Muslim migration brought them , inflicted by the ever dangerous political class.
  
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  July 14, 2018 10:02am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    They would never have dared, kowtow, had not the English shown them 150 years before how to deal with errant monarchs.
    
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    July 14, 2018 12:36pm
double d

My wife and I can’t agree on this
I love Les Miserables
She prefers Phantom of the Opera?
Upticks for Les Mis
Downtocks for Phantom ?
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July 14, 2018 9:07am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Both good stories, but only Hugo’s novel rises to the standard of great literature.
  
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  July 14, 2018 9:18am
  - MCos
    
    Les Miserables is one of the best books I’ve ever read. I couldn’t see how a two hour flick could possibly do it justice so, even though I bought the DVD it sits on the shelf unwatched.
    Notre Dame is a splendid yarn too!
    
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    July 14, 2018 9:48am
- Inandout
  
  Les Mis is mostly a boring musical, interspersed with the occasional catchy song. Phantom on the other hand has some memorable tunes, almost on a par with Superstar.
  
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  July 14, 2018 9:29am
- geoff3012
  
  Les miserables is an apt name for it. Unfortunately went to stage show. B o r I n g……left half time, went to bar……
  
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  July 14, 2018 10:15am
- RF
  
  Phantom. I saw it overseas and it blew me away.
  
  My first taste of culture…. drove my wife mad continuously playing the tapes and CDs until I wore them out.
  
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  July 14, 2018 3:29pm
- double d
  
  Shit kiwi bloggers —- does this mean my wife is right ….. again?
  
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  July 14, 2018 3:42pm
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    No, it means you are wrong … very very wrong … again
    
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    July 14, 2018 10:38pm
- realityczech
  
  “Upticks for Les Mis
  Downtocks for Phantom”
  
  You tick-whore Tits. 🙂
  
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  July 14, 2018 3:50pm
- double d
  
  FOR SALE BY OWNER. Complete set of Encyclopaedia Britannica, 45 volumes.
  Excellent condition, $200 or best offer.
  No longer needed, got married, wife knows everything.
  
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  July 14, 2018 4:05pm
duggledog

On TVNZ’s ‘One News’ Friday 13th the bulletin led with Simon Dallow introducing Trump visiting the UK (quoting) ‘Where he’s making headlines for all the wrong reasons’

Editorially, the TVNZ newsroom is partisan. Why say that? Why not say he’s making headlines for all the right reasons?

Standard practice as the kiwis get brainwashed into Trump = Evil.

Trump’s comments in the UK remind me of this great scene from the classic movie ‘Remains of the Day’ starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and Christopher Reeve, where Reeve’s character (a US Congressman who visits the UK shortly before WW2) describes the British as ‘amateurs’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Jq7xgVqPYA

The Poms needed to hear it. So did the Germans.
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July 14, 2018 9:08am
- Huevon
  
  Everything Trump has said on his UK visit is perfectly reasonable:
  1. “soft” Brexit will make it hard for the UK to negotiate free trade deals with the US (and anyone else for that matter)
  2. The UK government is in turmoil
  3. Mass immigration is undermining British culture.
  4. London is run by a moron who facilitates crime and terrorism and is no longer the city it once was.
  
  The Brits need to hear it.
  
  (Of course, our media continues to talk up the protests as if they matter or Trump gives a shit. Like that type of reporting has been taken seriously in, what, 3 years now?)
  
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  July 14, 2018 9:18am
  - yossarian
    
    The irony is that those UK protesters probably helped Trump will the next presidential election.
    
    You can imagine middle America thinking, how dare they treat our president like that? And further confirms that what he is saying is correct, if it stirs up a bunch of purple haired lefties
    
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    July 14, 2018 9:31am
    - Inandout
      
      And hairy armpits on the girls.
      
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      July 14, 2018 9:33am
    - paul scott
      
      Yes yossarian the equal and opposite reaction is gaining strength . They call it the walk-away movement in USA. Normal people who recognise reality leaving the unhinged hysterical hate filled Demoncrats party.
      
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      July 14, 2018 5:16pm
  - Inandout
    
    Thank goodness the MSM is taken now with a grain of salt, except maybe for the rest home residents who have TV One stuck on their TV.
    
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    July 14, 2018 9:32am
    - GazzaW
      
      I couldn’t help thinking how shallow the media has become when listening to Kim Hills Irish locum interviewing the political editor of the Guardian on Trump’s UK visit. She may as well have been interviewing herself. Just a taxpayer funded echo chamber.
      
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      July 14, 2018 9:41am
      - Huevon
        
        That interview was appalling. Radio NZ has simply abandoned any pretence of editorial balance, and was recently rewarded with more funding by the Labour government. Why are our taxes funding this minority of left wing extremists?
        
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        July 14, 2018 10:05am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        I switch off as soon as I hear Noelle McCarthy’s voice.
        
        Still, it looks like she luvs us here in l’il NZ.
        https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10734853
        
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        July 14, 2018 11:46am
      - RF
        
        McCarthy is a boring plagiarising brat. RNZ lost many listeners thanks to her.
        
        Don’t let the swinging door hit you on the arse on your way out.
        
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        July 14, 2018 3:41pm
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  Dear Dallow,
  I don’t give a rat’s arse about the reporting of other media outlets.
  Please report what Trump, May & co are doing. Reporting the reporting is not reporting.
  Do your job you overpaid twat.
  StS
  
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  July 14, 2018 9:21am
  - Paulus
    
    Radio NZ Left Wing must be desperate to re import the Irish person.
    I turn over at hearing her.
    
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    July 14, 2018 2:02pm
- VicParking
  
  NZ TV last night 2,000,000 expected to protest Trump.
  Early this morning, Red Radio, 200,000 protesting.
  BBC, who should know “Tens of thousands protesting”. Photos show fuck all. Trump blimp only up for two hours before organisers pissed off and go home. Pro Trump counter protest nearly just as big.
  
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  July 14, 2018 9:21am
  - Inandout
    
    Fox often shows up the frauds on other networks, and CNN has the most dour faced idiots and are the least popular amongst US viewers.
    
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    July 14, 2018 9:36am
    - VicParking
      
      You would have a dour face if your employer was tanking and losing 1000’s of viewers per day.
      
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      July 14, 2018 9:44am
    - Harkman
      
      Somehow I had it on CNN late last night and Becky Anderson and her team had such contempt for Trump and outright hatred for him it was staggering. Most Brits think the protesters were morons. In a few weeks everyone there will concede that he was right in Brexit etc, but they’ll never admit it.
      
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      July 14, 2018 10:08am
- DifferentPerspective
  
  Dallow is a sad beta-male, imagine falling for a bull dyke like Alison Mau Mau.
  
  Trump could feed 5000 hungry souls with only 2 loaves and 5 fishes and the headline would read
  
  “Fat Fuck Trump reluctant to provide even basic food to starving victims of his refugee policy”
  
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  July 14, 2018 9:36am
  - MCos
    
    You’re pretty sad yourself , if this comment is anything to go by . . .
    
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    July 14, 2018 9:59am
    - dime
      
      his comment is bang on.
      
      total beta male wimp.
      
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      July 14, 2018 10:42am
    - softail 1450
      
      MCos, its only words man get over yourself,, D P is correct mau is a bull dyke and probably always was.
      
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      July 14, 2018 10:53am
      - GoVege
        
        Have you ever seen the average “bull dyke”?
        A scary, scary beast.
        Mau is nothing like one of them!
        
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        July 14, 2018 2:24pm
      - realityczech
        
        Mau is a bitter little lipstick-lezzy bitch. Not a bull dyke. At least you can have a beer and a yarn with a bull, unlike snotty little lipsticks.
        
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        July 14, 2018 5:24pm
  - paul scott
    
    Excellent DP
    
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    July 14, 2018 5:21pm
- calendar girl
  
  Agreed, Shaun. In fairness to Dallow himself, however, he’s just the presentable ‘face’ to read the lines – I imagine that he either does that or he looks for a new job somewhere.
  
  The very real problem of TVNZ’s ‘news content’ (i.e. the quality / accuracy of its broadcast news) is the responsibility of the corporation’s management, and ultimately its seven Board members:
  http://tvnz.co.nz/tvnz-corporate-comms/our-board-4902648
  
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  July 14, 2018 10:05am
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    According to Wiki, Dallow is a journalist, barrister and television personality.
    I’m comfortable with my own description though.
    
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Dallow
    
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    July 14, 2018 2:36pm
secondcumming

A great piece of investigative journalism from the Sydney Morning Herald……

Australia’s *Independent Commission against Corruption* (ICAC), releases secret recording of a Liberal MP………it’s PURE AUSSIE GOLD!!

https://twitter.com/smh/status/1017642546120536064

I wonder if we have a similar organization to the *ICAC* in this country……and could something like this ever happen here??
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July 14, 2018 9:11am
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  Are you implying the Minister for Transparency and Open Government isn’t doing her job?
  
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  July 14, 2018 9:24am
  - VicParking
    
    No she just cant remember what her and little said at their secret meeting with Google. Fuck the OIA.
    
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    July 14, 2018 11:13am
    - sooty
      
      But goggle will remember.
      
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      July 14, 2018 12:28pm
    - RF
      
      She is the type person heard shouting…. don’t you know who I am…..
      
      Sounds like dementia.
      
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      July 14, 2018 4:54pm
Jack5

I admire Israel for its courage and for its great technology industry growth.

But you also have to like its great intelligence services. Brilliant. An example: who ever would suspect Kiwiblogger EAD as a Mossad man? What great cover. I doubt even his wing man, Realityczech-Kea, has an inkling.
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July 14, 2018 9:23am
- realityczech
  
  “I admire Israel for its courage and for its great technology industry growth.”
  
  So do I. Same for Nazi Germany. The contribution of Nazi scientists can not be overstated.
  
  Question: Does that make all the Nazi did right?
  
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  July 14, 2018 9:27am
  - Jack5
    
    ‼️Got ya!‼️
    
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    July 14, 2018 9:29am
  - stephieboy
    
    rc, especially those who fled especially the most important ones like Albert Einstein.
    
    An important reason why dumb Adolf lost the war.
    
    https://www.amazon.com/Hitlers-Gift-Scientists-Fled-German/dp/0749922397
    
    LOL!
    
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    July 14, 2018 10:11am
    - Shaun the Sheep
      
      Why would that cause you to LOL?
      
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      July 14, 2018 2:14pm
- kowtow
  
  In that case don’t ever use a mobile phone he might give you.
  
  Te he he.
  
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  July 14, 2018 10:09am
- Inandout
  
  I just admire Israel, full stop. As an aside, so does all the technology I use. In fact if we relied on camel rooters we would still be using smoke signals.
  
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  July 14, 2018 10:21am
realityczech

✟ ☪ ✡ The five best reasons not to believe in God
Most religions, at best, have some kernels of morality that come with a lot of baggage that make people do appalling things. The world can do without religion. Here are five reasons why. ✟ ☪ ✡
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July 14, 2018 9:25am
- Fletch
  
  Without God, morality comes down to opinion.
  
  If there is no God, then no man is in a position to force his opinion of morality upon another. One man’s subjective view of morality is equal to another man’s equally subjective view of morality. Thus, there is no reason to believe in any morality just because another man tells you that it is good.
  
  It would take an authority that was above having only a subjective view of morality to legislate that morality. God’s view of morality is objective, not subjective.
  
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  July 14, 2018 9:43am
  - realityczech
    
    Fletch – That is a statement of why you want a god to exist. Not evidence that god does exist.
    
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    July 14, 2018 9:45am
    - rightoverlabour
      
      I would argue its not morality but love that is more powwrful proof for the existence of God. Love is not natural, in fact it goes against the concepts of survival of the fittest etc in nature. Only humans show true love ( and I am not talking about sexual attraction or feeling in “Love”), ie putting someone else’s wellbeing above your own even to the point of dying for this. One could then argue that absolute love is a definition of God.
      
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      July 14, 2018 12:32pm
      - Classic Liberal
        
        RoL, people can’t force themselves to believe. One either does or doesn’t. If god exists, why doesn’t he make us all believe?
        
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        July 14, 2018 1:56pm
      - rightoverlabour
        
        @cClassic Liberal – Because that removes choice and an important aspect of love is choice.
        
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        July 14, 2018 2:16pm
      - GoVege
        
        That’s a very nice definition, ROL.
        But “only humans show true love”?
        That’s absurd.
        Most other animals are WAY more loving, affectionate, kind, loyal, generous, you name it, than the average human.
        And why do you think that most animals instinctively fear humans?
        Because they’re so nice?
        If God is love, then that’s a great big doggy person up in the sky! 🙂
        
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        July 14, 2018 2:33pm
  - rangitoto
    
    “God’s view of morality is objective, not subjective.”
    
    Prove it. You may begin by demonstrating the existence of this entity.
    
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    July 14, 2018 10:16am
    - Fletch
      
      If we went into that we’d be here all day 🙂
      But the fact that most people believe that there is a right and wrong, a “real morality” as C.S Lewis liked to say, points to there being a real morality maker.
      
      Other people wrote to me saying ‘Isn’t what you call the Moral Law just a social convention, something that is put into us by education?’ I think there is a misunderstanding here. The people who ask that question are usually taking it for granted that if we have learned a thing from parents and teachers, then that thing must be merely a human invention. But, of course, that is not so. We all learned the multiplication table at school. A child who grew up alone on a desert island would not know it. But surely it does not follow that the multiplication table is simply a human convention, something human beings made up for themselves and might have made different if they had liked? I fully agree that we learn the Rule of Decent Behaviour from parents and teachers, and friends and books, as we learn everything else. But some of the things we learn are mere conventions which might have been different – we learn to keep to the left of the road, but it might just as well have been the rule to keep to the right – and others of them, like mathematics, are real truths. The questions is to which class the Law of Human Nature belongs.
      
      There are two reasons for saying it belongs to the same class as mathematics. The first is, as I said in the first chapter, that though there are differences between the moral ideas of one time or country and those of another, the differences are not really very great – not nearly so great as most people imagine – and you can recognize the same lay running through them all: whereas mere conventions, like the rule of the road of the kinds or clothes people wear, may differ to any extent. The other reason is this. When you think about these differences between the morality of one people and another, do you think that the morality of one people is ever better or worse than that of another? Have any of the changes been improvements? If not, then of course there could never be any moral progress. Progress means not just changing, but changing for the better. If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilized morality to savage morality, or Christian morality to Nazi morality. In fact, of course, we all do believe that some moralities are better than others. We do believe that some of the people who tried to change the moral ideas of their own age were what we would call Reformers of Pioneers – people who understood morality better than their neighbors did. Very well then. The moment you say that one set of moral ideas can be better than another, you are, in fact, measuring them both by a standard, saying that one of them conforms to that standard more nearly than the other. But the standard that measures two things is something different from either. You are, in fact, comparing them both with some Real Morality, admitting that there is such a thing as a real Right, independent of what people think, and that some people’s ideas get nearer to that real Right than others. Or put it this way. If your moral ideas can be truer, and those of the Nazis less true, there must be something – some Real Morality – for them to be true about. The reason why your idea of New York can be truer or less true than mine is that New York is a real place, existing quite apart from what either of us thinks. If when each of us said ‘New York’ each means merely ‘The town I am imagining in my own head’, how could one of us have truer ideas than the other? There would be no question of truth or falsehood at all. In the same way, if the Rule of Decent Behaviour meant simply ‘whatever each nation happens to approve’, there would be no sense in saying that any one nation had even been more correct in its approval than any other; no sense in saying that the world would ever grow morally better or morally worse.
      
      I conclude then, that though the difference between people’s ideas of Decent Behaviour often make you suspect that there is no real natural Law of Behaviour at all, yet the things we are bound to think about these differences really prove just the opposite.
      
      More reading – http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/questionofgod/ownwords/mere1.html
      
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      July 14, 2018 10:33am
      - Odakyu-sen
        
        We can talk about morals all we want. (Westerners tend to love to talk.)
        
        I believe that you judge the morals of a society by its actions and the outcomes for its citizens.
        
        I can ask myself if I have lived a moral life. The answer will be apparent in my grandchildren.
        
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        July 14, 2018 12:07pm
      - Kiwi Dave
        
        But the fact that most people believe that there is a right and wrong, a “real morality” as C.S Lewis liked to say, points to there being a real morality maker.
        
        Maybe, maybe not, at least in the sense of gods as morality makers. Those who believe in a natural moral law (not me) do so without gods. Lewis’s argument is weak: his claim of a ‘real morality’ is undermined by his own last paragraph and the weak New York analogy.
        
        Anyone who wants to argue that gods are the source of morality needs to show:
        1) a god exists;
        2) The moral commands or character attributed to that god are actually god’s rather than human fabrications;
        3) God’s commands are are good.
        
        Good luck with all that.
        
        If humans are fallen, defective beings, how do they know God and his/her commands are perfect?
        
        Meanwhile, I am out of here for several hours, in the words of Voltaire, to tend my garden.
        
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        July 14, 2018 12:48pm
      - Classic Liberal
        
        Various gods people really believed in supposedly wanted human sacrifice, wars, murders and rapes. But the believers really thought that was the correct moral code.
        
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        July 14, 2018 2:00pm
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    Morality is a system of rules for social interaction between individually limited humans (with pressures of fertility control and exceedingly long child raising process) arrived at through evolutionary processes to allow them to out-compete alternative systems. Essentially game theory in action. Chimps develop similar rules. No God except as a post-hoc rationalisation
    
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    July 14, 2018 2:24pm
slightlyrighty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ8huLUzxQE

Dear Julie-Anne Genter.

Please watch this, and listen to what is being said.
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July 14, 2018 9:26am
- Harkman
  
  Good link, back about 13/14 years ago I did postgraduate study in business, mostly in Finance and Economics. The interesting thing was the only females in those classes (and there was only a few) were foreign, mainly Chinese with one Papua New Guinean (or Fijian) woman on a NZ (Hulun Cluck) scholarship. The rest were males (mostly Chinese). And the Chinese girls all wanted to go into real estate. However (local) females could be found in Marketing and some Business management classes. At this time the woman in management movement was starting to gain traction but I thought to myself at the time, “How on earth can females expect good jobs if none of them do accounting, economics, finance or the business math classes.” Having a 50/50 split is dangerous, the pool for starters isn’t 50/50 and most are unlikely to be properly trained. And I for one actually want females to succeed in business. We need more capitalist women.
  
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  July 14, 2018 10:33am
- Classic Liberal
  
  Excellent SR: correlation does not imply causation. Is Genter incapable of understanding such an obvious fact?
  
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  July 14, 2018 2:12pm
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    Green ergo understands almost nothing. And hopelessly bigoted to boot. So ‘yes’ in answer to your question.
    
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    July 14, 2018 2:30pm
Huevon

More of the diversity dividend in New Zealand…why are these people allowed here to undermine our culture, security and prosperity?

the number of abandoned brides was increasing and most of the cases were from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Iran and Fiji

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/105409804/growing-number-of-new-brides-being-abandoned-in-nz
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July 14, 2018 9:27am
- Stars And Stripes
  
  Reason being is because if you suggest that they should be sent home again given a lot of them were actually involved in an immigration fraud then you will be condemned as a heartless racist.
  Instead you start another charity to support these con artists.
  
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  July 14, 2018 9:32am
  - kowtow
    
    The reason being is gubmints and activists want to inflict constant grief on their own citizens and taxpayers.
    
    https://www.dw.com/en/osama-bin-ladens-ex-bodyguard-sami-a-must-return-to-germany-court-rules/a-44669066
    
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    July 14, 2018 10:13am
- Jack5
  
  Another hole in the national border, Huevon.
  
  Multiculturism is going to be what kills the Welfare State. They are incompatible.
  
  Would foreigners be dumping families in NZ if it wasn’t for our welfare system? I don’t think so.
  
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  July 14, 2018 10:54am
Tauhei Notts

When discussing the unusually large numbers of cars with only one headlight, driving through the Waikato pea soup fog with a mechasnic mate, he put it down to;
“Those shoddy cheap Chink headlight bulbs that have a working life of about eight days. Why, oh why, are Repco and the likes allowed to import such shoddy stuff.?”
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July 14, 2018 9:30am
- softail 1450
  
  T N,unfortunately most of what Repco sell is shit, I’m in this business as a user of auto parts and if you want quality you must buy from the cars manufacturer and the parts must be wrapped or boxed with the manufacturers trade marks..
  The problem is the cost ,genuine spares can be 2 or 3 times the price of aftermarket crap…
  
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  July 14, 2018 10:19am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    The problem, gentlemen, is not: “Made in China”; it is “Sold in New Zealand.”
    
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    July 14, 2018 12:09pm
    - GazzaW
      
      If you want ‘made in China’ then go online and save yourself the obscene NZ retailers’ profit margins.
      
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      July 14, 2018 1:20pm
Maggy Wassilieff

You think you have the right to consensual sex with 16-18 year olds in NZ?… might pay to learn the rules.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/105446073/teen-sex-contract-deemed-as-prostitution
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July 14, 2018 9:38am
- Jack5
  
  To serve his home detention in his home country?
  
  If only.
  
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  July 14, 2018 9:43am
- realityczech
  
  Will the little Whore give back the money she took?
  
  This is an outrageous judgment and an abuse of the Act.
  
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  July 14, 2018 9:43am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Now, now RC.
    The poor girl was underpaid.
    $200 for a sleepover – that’s barely minimum wage, and no mention of holiday pay, sick-leave…
    
    As a businessman, her sugar daddy should have known the rules, but he seems to have a disregard for our Law.
    http://www.stuff.co.nz/marlborough-express/news/8477822/Greed-drove-drug-importer-judge
    
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    July 14, 2018 10:00am
    - Jack5
      
      A dairy owner!
      
      Any self-respecting country would deport this ratbag.
      
      Dairy ownership is used as a way to get into NZ under the business-entrepreneurship encouraging provisions of our immigration system. The business people provisions were going to diversify NZ exports. They failed.
      
      Let’s hope we aren’t going to get a repeat of the ethnic paedophilia wave that has blighted England.
      
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      July 14, 2018 10:20am
      - stephieboy
        
        Jack5.HysteriaParanoid.com
        
        “Let’s hope we aren’t going to get a repeat of the ethnic paedophilia wave that has blighted England.”
        
        I strongly doubt we ever will.
        
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        July 14, 2018 10:25am
      - realityczech
        
        “deport this ratbag.”
        
        Jacksie you want to deport Jews?
        
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        July 14, 2018 10:46am
      - Jack5
        
        No, ☪️Realityczech☪️- New Zealand would have benefited by taking in many more Jews when the Nazis were persecuting them.
        
        NZ’s average IQ would be higher, and I doubt we would have implemented the MMP electoral system.
        
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        July 14, 2018 10:50am
      - realityczech
        
        Jacksie, I voted for a Jew banker every time. Why are you telling me?
        
        Stop being a spaz.
        
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        July 14, 2018 10:53am
      - Viking2
        
        um, no. read what it says.
        
        Nabil Shendi, described as the director of accommodation premises in central Nelson, entered into an arrangement with the girl once she’d turned 16. He had known her since she was 14.
        
        More to the point is that the IRD should be asking some questions here. Was cash from his business. (well of course it was. So not declared income) and did the “working girl” declare her income or was it just koha?
        
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        July 14, 2018 2:51pm
    - Sideoiler
      
      The poor girl was underpaid.
      $200 for a sleepover – that’s barely minimum wage, and no mention of holiday pay, sick-leave…
      
      No clearly she was an independent contractor Maggie.
      
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      July 14, 2018 10:43am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Nuts
        where was the written contract agreement?
        https://www.legalbeagle.co.nz/handy-stuff/blog/business-law/how-to-write-a-contract-for-services/
        
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        July 14, 2018 11:33am
      - Paulus Gnome
        
        and be fair Maggie, there will have no declaration and no tax paid so the $200.00 is really $300.00 (at my rate)so $30.00 per hour is time and a half of the living wage without the possibility of being dismissed for being asleep on the job!
        
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        July 14, 2018 12:02pm
      - GoVege
        
        Paulus has hit the nail on the head.
        This is all about the government wanting their cut!
        How’re they gonna pay the nurses if men get away with giving their girlfri….hookers cash tax-free? 🙂
        
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        July 14, 2018 1:55pm
      - Sideoiler
        
        @ Maggie
        
        where was the written contract agreement?
        
        I don’t think the contract was the problem.
        
        He was sentenced to nine months home detention on a charge of contract for sex with a girl under 18
        
        It seems that the problem was her age rather than the contract.
        
        Nabil Shendi, described as the director of accommodation premises in central Nelson, entered into an arrangement with the girl once she’d turned 16. He had known her since she was 14
        Sounds like a right little slag probably comes from a single parent household.
        
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        July 14, 2018 2:20pm
      - Viking2
        
        So $200 for say and 8 hour sleep over. $25.00 an hour. Slightly better than an average wage, not hard work,gets to sleep while working, no tax and no ACC plus perks like meals, dresses etc.
        $ times a week. $800 a week. Not bad for a 16 year old.
        
        The question is was it consensual and if it was as it appeared to be than who complained and why?
        
        To many fucking busy bodies in the country.
        She quit when she decided that it wasn’t for her anymore.
        
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        July 14, 2018 2:58pm
    - dime
      
      why on earth would he want the sleepover?
      
      the point of paying is they fuck off afterwards 😛
      
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      July 14, 2018 10:45am
      - realityczech
        
        “why on earth would he want the sleepover?”
        
        Cuddles? ?
        
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        July 14, 2018 10:55am
    - VicParking
      
      She was a contractor, so no hol pay or sicke leave. Should however added GST.
      
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      July 14, 2018 11:16am
      - Viking2
        
        And paid tax.!!! 😆
        
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        July 14, 2018 3:00pm
- rightoverlabour
  
  I am going to play devil’s advocate here. So I start a sexual, consensual, relationship with a 16 yr old and give her gifts and she becomes a prostitute? I give my wife gifts, is she now a prostitute as we may have had sex shortly before that? Does sex in a relationship thus forbid the giving of gifts?
  
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  July 14, 2018 12:38pm
  - MCos
    
    Things must be pretty desperate if you have to pay a sixteen year old to pretend she’s your wife.
    
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    July 14, 2018 1:05pm
    - rightoverlabour
      
      Now Maggy argues sensibly and you have to write shit as always. No, I am not desperate. Do you need an explanation of “Play Devil’s Advocate”. And, for the record, I think it’s sad that some have to pay for sex.
      
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      July 14, 2018 1:17pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    you seem to be confusing a few things here…
    
    Let’s say your wife is 16.. then you are in a legal relationship with her defined under NZs Marriage Act. You can give her pressies and have sex with her.
    You can’t hire her out to work as a prostitute until she’s 18.
    
    This chap wasn’t married to the 16 year old.
    He fell foul of the Prostitution Reform Act.
    
    Under the Prostitution Reform Act, “no person may enter into a contract or other arrangement under which a person under 18 years of age is to provide commercial sexual services to or for that person or another person”.
    
    And I brought the item up to show some of the folks who were pooh-poohing some days back that 16 year olds weren’t covered by the Oranga Tamariki Act (C & YP Well-being Act).
    
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    July 14, 2018 1:12pm
    - rightoverlabour
      
      Hi Maggy, what I am trying to ascertain is when is payment contractual verse a gift? Let’s say he had sex and then took her shopping for clothes which he paid for. Gift, or payment?
      
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      July 14, 2018 1:20pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        I’m not a lawyer..
        
        I imagine if it’s a one-off consensual sex, it may not be a problem.
        
        The fact is.. this wasn’t a one-off arrangement.
        
        And folks may discover that what they think is consensual sex with a 16 year old is no such thing if the 16 year-old is a vulnerable person.
        
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        July 14, 2018 1:30pm
      - Stars And Stripes
        
        “If the 16 year old is a vulnerable person”.
        Meaning anyone who is not male, white and heterosexual.
        
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        July 14, 2018 1:36pm
      - rightoverlabour
        
        @Maggy. And of course, that brings in the definition of a vulnerable person. For the record, I think the guy is an arsehole, and the judgement is correct, however, I also find that the most controversial judicial cases in involve sex, partly because every country seems to have different interpretations of what is and what is not allowed.
        
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        July 14, 2018 2:23pm
  - waikatogirl
    
    Certainly not rol. Gifts for your wife are given with love and no strings attached and are not meant to predetermine sex. Well in theory! Let’s just say, gifts make wives more receptive and leave it at that.? ?
    
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    July 14, 2018 1:32pm
    - rightoverlabour
      
      LOL, I think that explains diamonds in an engagement ring!
      
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      July 14, 2018 2:20pm
    - Viking2
      
      Gifts for your wife are given with love and no strings attached
      
      You are not male then.
      There is always a string attached. We respond when SHMBO gives it a yank. 😆
      
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      July 14, 2018 3:04pm
      - stigie
        
        Lets just say that the 16 year old girl was a very nice root and leave it at that !~
        
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        July 14, 2018 3:27pm
  - realityczech
    
    rightoverlabour, yes the learned Judge considers your wife a whore. Sorry.
    
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    July 14, 2018 3:01pm
- KevOB
  
  The judgement seems quite proper.
  I won’t comment on the character of the mal(e) involved.
  
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  July 14, 2018 1:15pm
stephieboy

Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
This should give something for Putin and his lapdog the US president to talk about( in private),

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-13/mueller-indicts-12-russian-spies-for-hacking-in-2016-campaign
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July 14, 2018 10:04am
- softail 1450
  
  septicboy ,”Goat Husbandry”,,,,,,
  
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  July 14, 2018 10:09am
- Harkman
  
  Will Mueller indict companies that actually exist this time? Lately he’s been losing in courts left right and centre. Half the Russian companies he indicted never existed. When’s Hillary going to jail Ralph?
  
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  July 14, 2018 10:13am
  - stephieboy
    
    HArkman, jail for what?
    
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    July 14, 2018 10:15am
    - Shaun the Sheep
      
      This:
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC1Mc6-RDyQ
      
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      July 14, 2018 1:38pm
      - Harkman
        
        Hey Shaun, I want to be a billionaire just so Trey Gowdy can be my lawyer. He’s one SoB of a lawyer.
        
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        July 14, 2018 7:40pm
      - Shaun the Sheep
        
        Cooler than the other side of a pillow!
        
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        July 14, 2018 8:45pm
  - KevOB
    
    This latest episode is a bit much.
    I’ve read the indictment–now let Mueller prosecute it.
    Allegations are made about what is purported to have all disappeared. No date/time stamps are cited. It reads like middle grade techno fiction with a legal addendum. How can any of it be proven? How can any prosecutor not see it as comic class?
    
    What about the Pakistani family that had full run of DWS, DNC and other politicians servers and actual possession of hard drives?
    
    A useful backgrounder:
    wattsupwiththat.com/2018/07/13/dangerous-pseudo-science-in-cyber-security/
    
    I suspect a large hidden slow roasting pit is being prepared for Pres. Trumps opponents. This chess game may have 5 levels.
    
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    July 14, 2018 1:33pm
- Fletch
  
  Did you read all of Rosenstein’s comments? ?
  
  “There is no allegation in this indictment that any American citizen committed a crime. There is no allegation that the conspiracy altered the vote count or changed any elected result.”
  
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  July 14, 2018 10:15am
  - stephieboy
    
    Fletch , the indictment was not against US Citizens but 12 Russian spies,
    
    DUH!
    
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    July 14, 2018 10:17am
    - KevOB
      
      Alleged Russian State military officers–implicated by their office. Wait till they seek discovery.
      
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      July 14, 2018 1:36pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        You think the Russians spies are going to participate in a US legal process?
        
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        July 14, 2018 2:05pm
secondcumming

RANDOM IMPERTINENT QUESTION…..

‘If Helen Keller fell down in the forest, would she make a sound?’

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dh-GCIhX4AATtUU.jpg
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July 14, 2018 10:06am
- stephieboy
  
  Your point, Sicko?
  
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  July 14, 2018 10:14am
  - secondcumming
    
    To suck-in goatshaggers like you stephenie boy….looks like the days off to a good start 😎
    
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    July 14, 2018 10:44am
  - softail 1450
    
    septicboy , your posts are nearly always pointless….
    
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    July 14, 2018 12:22pm
- softail 1450
  
  S C, she certainly wouldn’t see what tripped her.
  
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  July 14, 2018 12:21pm
  - secondcumming
    
    I was standing behind an old partially blind lady at an ATM the other day and she asked me if I’d mind checking her balance. So I pushed her over.
    
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    July 14, 2018 1:14pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Oh dear..
Actors musn’t act as different genders…
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-44829766
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July 14, 2018 10:29am
- KevOB
  
  It was only acting: others want effecting.
  
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  July 14, 2018 1:41pm
Manolo

Would you heed this Muslim’s advice?
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/13/trump-is-wrong-london-mayor-sadiq-khan-says-the-uk-is-not-afraid-of.html
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July 14, 2018 10:41am
Monique Watson

Q: You know what’s fun about being sober?
A: Nothing.
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July 14, 2018 10:45am
- softail 1450
  
  M W, I give it a good bashing on sundays only then don’t drink the other six days , this way the recovery period is only monday and by thursday i’m feeling like a million bucks and looking forward to sunday,
  it works for me,daily drinking will catch up on you one way or another.
  I know this from experience……..
  
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  July 14, 2018 12:13pm
- Odakyu-sen
  
  I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
  
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  July 14, 2018 3:57pm
- paul scott
  
  Give it another two weeks Monique, maybe three.
  
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  July 14, 2018 5:31pm
- Nermal
  
  Your life must be pretty sad if you can’t have fun without alcohol
  
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  July 14, 2018 6:07pm
Manolo

Mr Mueller prepared and timed his attack:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/12-russians-accused-hacking-democrats-2016-us-election-161839939–politics.html

Twelve Russian military intelligence officers hacked into the Clinton presidential campaign and Democratic Party and released tens of thousands of private communications in a sweeping conspiracy by the Kremlin to meddle in the 2016 U.S. election, according to an indictment announced days before President Donald Trump’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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July 14, 2018 10:45am
- Fletch
  
  Watch the Dems get all upset in the interviewing of creep Peter Strzok, when Gohbert brings up Strzok’s infidelity. 😆
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9OTSR4Qdbk
  
  SOme are commenting that Strzok is possessed by the same demon that got to Hillary.
  
  https://mobile.twitter.com/Noncon49285/status/1017594214023090177/video/1
  
  It is creepy, to be sure…
  
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  July 14, 2018 11:19am
  - paul scott
    
    Fletch If you watch this arrogant swamp creature Strzok in cross-examination it is staggering. They hold the entire process in contempt, with a > you can’t touch me attitude.
    
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    July 14, 2018 5:35pm
- Brigitte
  
  And yet, politicians tell us they have great policies and that’s why they’re the best and why people vote for them. Now they also saying that a few unspecified facebook posts can fool everyone.
  
  Well, which is it then? Bet the cognitive dissonance is making it hard for them to think.
  
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  July 14, 2018 11:25am
- marcw
  
  Please can someone tell me why would the Russians want to work against Clinton getting elected, and favour Trump? They had the Democrats by the short and curlies, Clinton would have rolled over for anything they needed, and Putin could have invaded Alaska and the American armed forces under Clinton would just lie down in protest.
  
  Why would they want Trump elected to put a spoke in their plans?
  
  This Trump – Russia conspiracy thing just makes no sense to me.
  
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  July 14, 2018 12:01pm
- KevOB
  
  He will get bitten for this.
  
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  July 14, 2018 1:42pm
dime

has anyone seen clips of this Strzok dude?

holy fuck that is one creepy sociopath.
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July 14, 2018 10:48am
- Jack5
  
  In some pictures, Strzok looks a fairly typical Slav or Central European putting on a serious, “no nonsense now” face.
  
  But in this one on the left he looks like an NZ country cop:
  
  https://rickwells.us/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/1072-tom-fitton-peter-strzok-mueller.jpg
  
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  July 14, 2018 11:02am
- softail 1450
  
  dime , yes imagine him turning up to your door saying “i’m from the government i”m here to help”…..
  He sat there in front of congress and looked like he’d forgotten to remove a sex toy from his butt.
  
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  July 14, 2018 11:18am
- Fletch
  
  Yup, I just commented above.
  
  https://mobile.twitter.com/Noncon49285/status/1017594214023090177/video/1
  
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  July 14, 2018 11:19am
- paul scott
  
  Indeed Dime the pathology is immediately recognisable > he pulls psychotic faces like Jack Nicholson in the “Shining”
  
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  July 14, 2018 5:38pm
Harriet

“…..Lauren Southern in Australia: ‘I feel zero shame whatsoever for being white’….”

Exactly:

“…I’m so old I remember when other people’s achievements were an inspiration, rather than a grievance….” – Thomas Sowell, African American. 😎

i’d love to have the wisdom that Sowell has – and I’m white. The grievance industry is nothing more than blatant racism.
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July 14, 2018 11:47am
- softail 1450
  
  Harriet, there’s nothing to worry about Harriet because the consensus is that God is a Pakeha.
  
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  July 14, 2018 12:01pm
  - KevOB
    
    God was made manifest is Son Jesus Christ who was born as an Israeli from Nazareth in the lineage of King David. Fully human and fully divine. Strange to human understanding.
    
    God’s beyond classification as to race, gender and anything else that mortals can comprehend. Once you encounter a miracle reality changes.
    
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    July 14, 2018 1:52pm
    - realityczech
      
      ✟God’s beyond classification as to race, gender and anything else that mortals can comprehend. ✟
      
      So it the tooth fairy moron.
      
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      July 14, 2018 5:44pm
  - paul scott
    
    yes, you’re on to it softy
    
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    July 14, 2018 5:40pm
- stephieboy
  
  Harriet, the wisdom of Thomas Sowell? Like his neurosurgeon, Ben Carson counterpart,, he has some really bizarre ideas.
  
  Like comparing Obama to Adolf Hiter and Iran armed with Nukes would force a surrender by the USA.
  
  https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Thomas_Sowell#Pseudohistory
  
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  July 14, 2018 1:03pm
  - Harkman
    
    You’re a racist Ralph.
    
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    July 14, 2018 1:08pm
    - stephieboy
      
      Harkman, racist? Why?
      
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      July 14, 2018 1:15pm
- realityczech
  
  “The grievance industry is nothing more than blatant racism”
  
  Like the Jews?
  
  Or is that magically different in your mind?
  
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  July 14, 2018 1:19pm
  - Harriet
    
    The first Christians were mostly black.
    I don’t have a problem with race, but I do with grievance based solely on race, like it is in NZ, Aus, US, Canada…… 😎
    
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    July 14, 2018 1:40pm
    - realityczech
      
      So like the Jews then who consider themselves a victim and a race?
      
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      July 14, 2018 1:42pm
- Manolo
  
  Me too! 😀
  
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  July 14, 2018 1:33pm
Fletch

As has been pointed out in the indictment of the 12 Russians – it all happened under Obama and Hillary’s watch. Obama knew and did nothing for 8 years. In fact, Obama spent 8 years surrendering to Putin and let him run amok in Ukraine, Syria, and the election.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/06/29/white-house-downplays-russian-agent-plot-says-obama-knew-medvedev-visit.html
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July 14, 2018 11:56am
- stephieboy
  
  Fletch, no evidence is produced except that the former President met with the Russian PM.
  
  I guess some kind of guilt by association?
  
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  July 14, 2018 1:18pm
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    So Obama meeting the Russian president is evidence of nothing, but Trump meeting with the Russian president makes him Putin’s lapdog?
    
    No wonder you find it hard to keep up, what with those moving goalposts and all!
    
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    July 14, 2018 6:29pm
- KevOB
  
  I’m not sure whom this indictment is designed to please.
  Law professors will be delighted at an example that cannot be prosecuted.
  Comics will skriek about the inepitude.
  Hackers will scoff about the reported reuse of their code.
  DWS will be pleased she’s off the hook.
  Trump & Putin will have a laugh about the media and get on with re-organising the world.
  
  Meanwhile a large roasting dish is being prepared.
  
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  July 14, 2018 2:02pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Hey middle-class mums,
Stop driving your kids to school.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jul/13/uk-schools-move-to-ban-the-school-run-to-protect-pupils-from-air-pollution
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July 14, 2018 12:08pm
- Harkman
  
  From a ‘runner’s’ perspective this could be good for our Olympic athletes in 20 years but with angry-Andy potentially letting sickos out of prison, this could be really dangerous.
  
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  July 14, 2018 1:16pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Yep,
    
    That’s the dilemma for parents.
    There are plenty of creepy folks in NZ who think they have a right to touch, abuse and/or frighten our kids.
    
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    July 14, 2018 1:24pm
    - realityczech
      
      No there are not Wiggles. There is less of that stuff now days than in the past. You have taken the blue pill of extreme feminist propaganda. They are out to marginalise men, not protect kids.
      
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      July 14, 2018 1:26pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        My goodness rc,
        You seem to have stumbled onto something..
        I can not find one attempted abduction/assault of kiddies on their way to or from school since Jacinda came to power.
        
        These examples from last year are all from when the other folks were in power.
        
        https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/92768012/attempted-abduction-of-children-on-their-way-to-christchurch-school-reported
        
        https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?
        c_id=1&objectid=11814539
        
        https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/90092026/police-left-school-in-the-dark-over-girls-abduction-attempt
        
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        July 14, 2018 1:51pm
      - realityczech
        
        So you googled up 3 examples on the world wide web. That must be conclusive proof of an epidemic.
        
        Not even fun debating you because you know you are wrong and are probably just mad a men today 😉
        
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        July 14, 2018 3:06pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @rc
        
        I’m not mad at men today (and hardly ever am.. I do seem to have a bit of a failing that way).
        
        The husband is actually doing some WORK today…
        (well, he’s made an unholy mess of the croquet lawn, trying to locate some ancient drainage system).
        
        As a loving wife I made him 2 dry tomato sandwiches for his lunch.
        
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        July 14, 2018 3:31pm
      - realityczech
        
        “2 dry tomato sandwiches”
        
        Maggy, I don’t want you hanging out with Vege anymore.
        
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        July 14, 2018 3:36pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        He will be getting 2 “beef-flavoured” sausages for his T. (5 for $2.50 … I spare no expenses for my man).
        
        They are 66% meat.
        
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        July 14, 2018 3:50pm
- rangitoto
  
  I guess that means sales of 4WD off roaders will tank.
  
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  July 14, 2018 3:18pm
  - realityczech
    
    Yeah 4WD’s keeps the pedos away like nothing else.
    
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    July 14, 2018 3:52pm
DJ Ward

There are comments wanting increased immigration for economic growth.
Population increase, increases demand on land use and resources, water, electricity, food, schooling, hospitals,justice, etc etc.
Population growth props up the housing market and building industry.
Population growth supports retail, services growth.
Etc, etc.

So population growth has enormous vested interest generally.

But one group is not, on far to many occasions a consential, or willing, or even aware they are participants in that population growth.

Around 22400 men each year have a baby that they never consented to having. Some will happily accept thier fate but many do not.

What is the costs to society of this issue.
Helen Clark (a feminist) banned discusion or publication of information on the raw data but it can be assumed that at least 1/4 of male suicides are heavily influenced by this issue.
Around 2000 men leave NZ each year never to return due to the lifelong effects of Child Support being forced on them. This causes an annual GDP loss of around $2 billion. Plus CS is proven to stagnate, limit, or cause many to drop out of the workforce. It’s an failed socially distructive idea.

A significant proportion of DV is caused by relationships forced on the male by conception that they never consented to. This also causes murders of women and children. Results include law inforcement costs, social services costs, prison costs, child developement failures, drug dependancy.
Easy access to the DPB as a career choice for women and Lesbians. It’s easy for women to get a random male to have sex. It’s easy to lie about being on the pill. It’s easy with stupefying (drugs, alcohol) to get males to have sex without using condoms, using I’m the pill lie, or I’ll take the morning after pill lie. This career choice costs us billions and billions more in the Statisticaly underperforming children they raise.

There is a easy solution to significantly lower those negative and costly outcomes of non consential conception. Give the victim the ability to protect themselves.
Those that benifit from population growth, and the side effects benefactors of non consential pregnancies, and ironically Feminists hate the idea of males having control over thier bodies and the ability of females to treat men as slaves.

But it is going to happen. A solution healthier, safer, and more effective, exists.

Sadly even though the solution will be soon available our Feminist Government will steadfastly ban this product.

https://coconuts.co/jakarta/news/university-says-indonesias-long-awaited-male-birth-control-pill-finally-ready-mass-production/
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July 14, 2018 12:08pm
- Harriet
  
  ‘Choice’ for females in NZ is about allowing your daughter to live or die – not the choice of where and how she should be educated; birth is a matter of womenhood, while motherhood is now a matter of governance by the government, in NZ women have become as dumb as fuck and it’s the government which has imposed that condition upon them, not their fathers, husbands or partners.
  
  Education is the new civil rights – Ted
  Cruz. 😎
  
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  July 14, 2018 12:29pm
  - DJ Ward
    
    This is about choice for men.
    The choice not to have women’s choices imposed on them.
    
    What’s the daughters live or die rubbish?
    Don’t women have boys?
    
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    July 14, 2018 12:44pm
    - Harriet
      
      im not disagreeing.
      
      I’m just stating that women are ‘choosing’ abortion but as mothers can’t ‘choose’ an education for their daughters. The NZ govt allow women to abort their daughters but as mothers won’t allow them the choice of where and what education the get.
      In other words it is the government that damages generations of women.
      
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      July 14, 2018 1:27pm
      - Shaun the Sheep
        
        That didn’t get any clearer second time around.
        
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        July 14, 2018 6:35pm
- GoVege
  
  What do you mean “lifelong support”, DJ?
  Child support only lasts 18 years at most.
  I despise these wimps who run away overseas to avoid paying.
  One NZ murderer’s father did that, had another son and gave him the same name as his abandoned son….I wonder why he grew up so twisted and angry.
  Nia Glassie’s “dad” abandoned his kids to run off to Oz also, only coming back to attend her funeral.
  Every time a male has sex with a female there is a possibility of conception.
  Either take precautions yourself, DIY, go gay or abstain.
  There are lots of choices available.
  And yes it’s true….there are a lot of slack, lazy chicks dragging up poor neglected kids on the DPB.
  Why risk being part of this?
  Thankfully men have yet another choice available.
  
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  July 14, 2018 3:19pm
  - realityczech
    
    Every time a male has sex with a female there is a possibility of ~~conception.~~ a false rape complaint, or her saying he is the baby-daddy to force him to fund her slutty lifestyle.
    
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    July 14, 2018 3:32pm
    - GoVege
      
      There’s DNA nowadays to sort that one out.
      Though some real jerks refuse to take the test, even when the kid is the spitting image of themselves.
      
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      July 14, 2018 4:32pm
      - realityczech
        
        Around 30%+ kids are not related to their “fathers”.
        
        Laws need to be passed. The women should be charged with fraud and any future benefits and earnings of the female should go to the man who was robbed. She should have no rights until the money is paid.
        
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        July 14, 2018 4:35pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Around 30%+ kids are not related to their “fathers”.
        
        Seems a tad high, rc.
        https://theconversation.com/what-are-the-chances-that-your-dad-isnt-your-father-24802
        You wouldn’t be looking at FAKE research wouldja?
        
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        July 14, 2018 5:25pm
      - realityczech
        
        Wiggles, that is probably because I pulled it out of my arse like most of Tofu Tit’s statistics 🙂
        
        However there was a story about Welsh school kids who did some blood test as part of a study. One of the things they found is a huge percentage could not possibly have the parents they did. I was too lazy to search for it. Kill me.
        
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        July 14, 2018 5:34pm
      - nasska
        
        I’m bored so I had a look:
        
        …..”they’re more in the 1-5% range, with 3.7% being a high-bound figure for one study”……
        
        http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2010/06/the-paternity-myth-the-rarity-of-cuckoldry/
        
        The article goes on to suggest that higher percentages quoted “are strongly sample biased toward those who have a reason to have suspicions.”
        
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        July 14, 2018 5:54pm
      - realityczech
        
        I believe it is much higher. You simply won’t get an honest study on this sort of thing.
        
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        July 14, 2018 6:02pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Kill me.
        
        Jeez, rc,
        I want to put you up for a knighthood.
        How often have we had “science” advocates admitting they’re shoving crap on the blog?
        
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        July 14, 2018 6:09pm
      - realityczech
        
        Maggy, the figure from that Welsh story was pretty high as I remember it. Have a look and see if you can find it.
        
        I gotta go do normal people stuff ✔
        
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        July 14, 2018 6:14pm
Monique Watson

Night of Drinking:
A man and his pet sheep walk into a bar. It’s about 5pm, but they’re ready for a good night of drinking. They start off slowly, watching TV, drinking beer, eating peanuts. As the night goes on they move to mixed drinks, and then shooters, one after the other. Finally, the bartender says: “Last call.” So, the man says, “One more for me… and one more for my sheep.” The bartender sets them up and they shoot them back. Suddenly, the sheep falls over dead. The man throws some money on the bar, puts on his coat and starts to leave. The bartender, yells: “Hey buddy, you can’t just leave that lying’ there.” To which the man replies: “That’s not a lion, that’s a sheep.”

source: http://www.jokes4us.com/animaljokes/sheepjokes.html
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July 14, 2018 12:56pm
- paul scott
  
  Dogs make quite good drinking companions. They remember how to get home as well.
  
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  July 14, 2018 5:44pm
  - nasska
    
    Dunno about that. My heading dogs were probably smart enough to drive the ute home from the pub but their feet wouldn’t reach the pedals. 🙂
    
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    July 14, 2018 6:14pm
Keeping Stock

It’s been an odd week. For the second time in seven days, I find myself agreeing with Idiot/Savant at No Right Turn:

The Minister for Open Government, yet again

Clare Curran attended a secret meeting with Google and refused to take notes about it:

At least two Cabinet ministers attended a dinner at an exclusive club hosted by Google’s top lawyer under secretive “Chatham House” rules, but made no notes of what was discussed.

National open government spokesman Nick Smith blasted their attendance, accusing Labour of hypocrisy.

Google’s chief counsel, Kent Walker, hosted the dinner at the capital’s swanky Wellington Club for invited guests who included Justice Minister Andrew Little, Open Government Minister Clare Curran and top public servants and lawyers.

[…]

Walker’s visit came at a time when the world’s fifth largest company faces the possibility of additional regulation in the areas of tax, privacy and competition policy.

Little said in a letter sent in response to an Official Information Act request that he didn’t generate any notes or memos from the event. A spokeswoman for Curran said she hadn’t either.

In which case, they should have generated them in response to the request. The Ministers attended in an official capacity, so any information that resulted is official information. And that includes information in Ministers’ heads. Their failure or refusal to take notes does not protect them from requests, only from poorly-worded ones (though arguably, that would violate the duty of assistance). As for the “Chatham House rule”, the government can not contract out of the OIA. It may be able to withhold information provided to them under such an express obligation of confidence, if the interest in receiving such information in future is not outweighed by the public interest. But they cannot withhold information they provided to others simply by declaring it “confidential”. The problem is that refusal to record gives deniability, so even if Smith successfully appeals this atrocity to the Ombudsman, Curran will be able to smile and say she remembers nothing – while providing Google with whatever secret backhanders it wants.

And that’s why refusal to keep records is bad: because it enables the government to lie to us, and it enables them to behave corruptly. Ministers who deliberately do so (and Curran is a serial offender) need to be held to account.

http://norightturn.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-minister-for-open-government-yet.html

It would seem that “Chatham House rules” is the new standard of openness and transparency for this government. Let’s not forget; it’s barely nine months since Jacinda Ardern was promising that her government would be New Zealand’s most open and transparent ever.
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July 14, 2018 1:31pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  I think there should be an immediate amendment to the Cabinet Manual: all ministers must take notes at any function which they attend.
  This is simply sensible for anyone. Myself, I always take notes when dining out, to ensure I have an accurate record of what was said should any legal proceedings ensue,
  
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  July 14, 2018 2:11pm
  - Stars And Stripes
    
    Most people wouldn’t class McDonalds as dining out.
    
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    July 14, 2018 2:14pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Maybe – but my notes on the conversations there will make a great contribution to my memoirs.
      
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      July 14, 2018 2:34pm
      - sooty
        
        Three pies Curran might beg to differ!
        
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        July 14, 2018 3:23pm
  - Keeping Stock
    
    You should have read I/S’s piece more carefully mikenmild:
    
    The Ministers attended in an official capacity, so any information that resulted is official information. And that includes information in Ministers’ heads.
    
    If they are attending functions as a Minister, they have an obligation to provide information if requested. “I didn’t take notes”, “I can’t remember” and “But it was Chatham House rules” are NOT valid excuses, if you’re going to be the most open and transparent government ever. Ms Curran has already failed that particular test on several occasions.
    
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    July 14, 2018 3:18pm
    - waikatogirl
      
      It’s time Ms Curran, the minister of secret government be moved to the back benches.
      
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      July 14, 2018 3:25pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Surely John Key’s simple “I don’t recall” would cover most situations?
      But your are correct about my ‘official capacity’. I should have said that “I always take notes when dining out in my official capacity, to ensure I have an accurate record of what was said should any legal proceedings ensue”. Some of my colleagues raise their eyebrows at our functions, but I always tell them it is better to be safe than sorry, even if it means no one will talk to me at lunch or dinner anymore.
      
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      July 14, 2018 3:55pm
    - KevOB
      
      Ministers do not have the privilege of conspiring in private. That goes with the pay grade. They may get to be parents at home but mostly they are on duty as members of the Executive.
      
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      July 14, 2018 4:25pm
- rangitoto
  
  Collective Noun:
  
  a noun that appears singular in formal shape but denotes a group of persons or objects.
  
  Example:
  
  A corruption of Labour MPs.
  
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  July 14, 2018 3:37pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    A collection of collective nouns for MPs
    http://all-sorts.org/nouns/mps
    
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    July 14, 2018 4:00pm
    - paul scott
      
      I’ll go for a “fiddle “ of MP’s, direct enough and still ok in polite company.
      
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      July 14, 2018 5:49pm
Classic Liberal

LOL, apparently the anti-Trump protests in the UK fell flat – just a few thousand. The funniest part is listening to interviews of people who did attend. They had no clue exactly why they were protesting, except that they had Trump Derangement Syndrome: “Trump shows sexism and racism and just about every ism in the book” said one. Hilarious.
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July 14, 2018 2:38pm
- rangitoto
  
  The bulk of the anti trump squealing comes from the media and a handful of lefty loony’s.
  
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  July 14, 2018 3:40pm
RF

Has this useless Govt gone fucking mad.

Now looking at a budget blowout of another 12 million to enter the Pike River Mine.

I am sure the Nurses, Teachers and Police will be pleased to hear that it could cost 35 million to bring out any bodies left in there so they can be reburied.
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July 14, 2018 2:38pm
- niggly
  
  Has this useless Govt gone fucking mad.
  
  Yes!
  
  They surely are the most fucked up Govt in NZ’s history, that’s quite a feat!
  
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  July 14, 2018 3:12pm
- realityczech
  
  That is outrageous. The front lines of the public service are often underpaid, overworked and with terrible morale. These are the ones who actually serve the public. Not the fuckwits playing politics in Wellington’s national offices. They are doing ok.
  
  Yet they go and spend this sort of money on virtue signalling. It is a sad fact workers have been worse off under Labour for decades now.
  
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  July 14, 2018 3:17pm
- Viking2
  
  Almost surely the final cost will be in the order of 70 Mil.
  
  Note my prediction on your calendar.
  
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  July 14, 2018 3:47pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    At least Key had the guts to bail out on his assurances once the costs became a bit clearer.
    
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    July 14, 2018 3:57pm
    - MCos
      
      He should never have made the promise in the first place, but that was typical modus operandi for him.
      
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      July 14, 2018 5:14pm
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    My 2018 calendar and many of its successors will be in the bin long before we stop paying through the nose for the West Coast grief mining industry.
    Pike River has turned into an endless and lucrative gravy train.
    
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    July 14, 2018 6:46pm
    - RF
      
      And a pool of votes for labour from West Coasters who feel the miners should come come.
      
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      July 14, 2018 7:20pm
- KevOB
  
  Little has said Cabinet have agreed to a top-up.
  What’s indeterminate is safety. It’s still only a speculation and may take another tunnel etc, etc, etc. “Former Air NZ chief executive Rob Fyfe, had approved the process and the concept plan.”
  
  Why hasn’t Little sought Golriz’s advice? Meturia is also out of work.
  
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  July 14, 2018 4:42pm
  - RF
    
    I am waiting for a new committee of experts to be appointed so they can review the current committees recommendation.
    
    It’s true…. Shane Jones is planting money trees.
    
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    July 14, 2018 5:12pm
    - waikatogirl
      
      The ironic thing is they are looking at drilling a new ventilation shaft into Pike River Mine. If the extra ventilation shaft/s had bee included originally instead of being vetoed by the Greens it may have avoided the inevitable build-up of methane and deadly explosion.
      
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      July 14, 2018 6:54pm
    - rangitoto
      
      “The ironic thing is they are looking at drilling a new ventilation shaft into Pike River Mine.”
      
      Will no one think of the snails.
      
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      July 15, 2018 1:16am
- rightoverlabour
  
  I doubt they will get past the rock fall. I can’t see what the fuss is about walking to the rockfall. Moving through a rockfall of undetermined size will be expensive and dangerous, although doable. Once past that they will have to deal with the methane. Now that’s when things get interesting, although the existence of the mine means it can be done. I don’t believe anyone has a clue as to how much that will cost. If I was in charge I would be going in from the top to make it open cast and financially viable once again.
  
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  July 14, 2018 6:44pm
DigNap15

Great, they have 3 plans for Pike River entry after 2 years, and they have no idea what they will cost.

I have said all along, it was very sad, but the bodies should stay there and a nice memorial built.
But the people that designed and operated the mine should be prosecuted.
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July 14, 2018 5:23pm
DigNap15

I am all for a much bigger population.
Providing they are all spread out over NZ and they are good, well educated, English speaking people, who want to stay and make a commitment to NZ.
Not wave after wave of third world pizza makers, and service station attendants.

A bigger population will make everything in NZ more viable and vibrant.

Prices, entertainment, business, roading etc etc.
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July 14, 2018 5:27pm
DigNap15

I see the killer bee guy is coming out soon,
The Physiatrist report said he had a high risk of offending.
But the sickly white liberal parole board said he should be allowed to come out and follow strict conditions.
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July 14, 2018 5:30pm
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  Bees die when they lose their sting, just saying.
  There will be a new fat controller
  
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  July 14, 2018 6:46pm
wiseowl

Bangladesh must be extremely viable.
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July 14, 2018 6:11pm
Inandout

One day a Board member will be affected by the trash they release. It is bound to happen.
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July 14, 2018 6:14pm
- rightoverlabour
  
  Actually, the sooner the better.
  
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  July 14, 2018 6:45pm
- nasska
  
  ….”One day a Board member will be affected by the trash they release”…..
  
  Statistically it’s possible…..maybe even probable. Ten years ago I would have applauded but now I’m not so sure that they still deserve the crap we traditionally showered on them. Two points:
  
  1) The garbage are serving finite sentences & are going to be released sooner or later. Parole at least allows some supervision initially.
  
  2) Since Graeme Burton murdered Karl Kuchenbecker in 2007 while on parole for a previous killing the Parole Board have got their shit together. Read some of their decisions http://www.paroleboard.govt.nz/decisions-of-public-interest/decisions/decisions_2018.html It seems that rubber stamping & hope are far less common.
  
  In any case the real blame lies at the feet of the judiciary who will not under any circumstances sentence close to the maximum Government legislates for. That’s where the fault lies!
  
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  July 14, 2018 7:05pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    True Kiwibloggers won’t appreciate that realism, nasska.
    
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    July 14, 2018 7:11pm
LabourDoesntWork

Someone tell the pathetic dropkicks at TV3 that US presidents don’t bow to royalty.

Nothing whatsoever about the issues at stake in the talks between two important world leaders, affecting the lives of hundreds of millions. Great (((report))), Newsflub.

Fake News.

Breach of royal protocol? Obama breached US presidential protocol bowing to the Saudi King.
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July 14, 2018 6:47pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  Storm in a teacup, of course, but I can only imagine how Kiwiblog would erupt if Jacinda Ardern kept the Queen waiting for ten minutes and then cut in front like a big oaf.
  What did if have to do with the (((Jews))) by the way?
  
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  July 14, 2018 7:16pm
- Brigitte
  
  Doesn’t bow to royalty, yet salutes a North Korean General.
  
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  July 14, 2018 7:19pm
  - KevOB
    
    POTUS is not under fealty to the English monarch.
    
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    July 14, 2018 7:33pm
    - Brigitte
      
      Are you suggesting that he is under the thumb of Kim then? Or just that Vlad has told him who’s in charge?
      
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      July 14, 2018 7:36pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        No
        He’s saying that Americans arent British subjects and don’t have to bow.
        
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        July 14, 2018 7:48pm
      - Brigitte
        
        They’re not North Koreans either so by that logic he shouldn’t salute their generals. Of course we all know that he’s been “put in” by Vlad so knows which side to kowtow to.
        
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        July 14, 2018 7:53pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        I suggest you re examine what logic means.
        Your thinking indicates a tendency towards ‘false fallacy’ or as we call it on KB, you’re a fuckwit suffering from TDS…
        
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        July 14, 2018 7:57pm
waikatogirl

Shane Jones $1billion dollar regional slush fund (for this year) is being spent mostly in Northland. With Winnie and Shane both coming from the far North is anyone surprised that Northland gets the biggest chunk of the $1b with 40% going to Northland projects, while the whole of the South Island is to receive only 1%! Taranaki to receive 14% and the rest I presume is still to be handed out. Shane assures us it is all kosher. Time will prove if he is right I guess.
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July 14, 2018 6:48pm
- nasska
  
  I’m not much of fan of Peters, Jones or their slush funds but it wouldn’t be hard to justify some Government spending in the Far North. The infrastructure is rooted & the housing situation would find equivalence in Bangladesh!
  
  I’m not certain that the injection of money without accountability is advisable but their 40% vs 1% for the South Island is understandable.
  
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  July 14, 2018 7:15pm
  - waikatogirl
    
    I tend to agree the North has been left behind. It will be interesting to see if Shane’s fund can fix some of the deeply ingrained problems that Northland has.
    
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    July 14, 2018 7:18pm
    - nasska
      
      Whatever happens it won’t be an instant fix Waikatogirl. There are a few point to consider:
      
      1) The area has few resources. The soil is poor & alternates between steep erodible hill country & flats better described as swamp.
      
      2) The Maori are fractured along tribal lines. From what I was reading in the Advocate a few weeks ago there are funds sitting awaiting allocation from the sale of cutting rights on Western pine plantations decades ago. There are three hapu involved & they still can’t decide who will represent them! Hence nothing happens which seems to be the default in the Far North.
      
      3) The roads & bridges are fucked.
      
      4) Since Maori affairs loans were shitcanned there’s been almost no new housing built yet the population increases.
      
      5) Meth.
      
      Shane & Winston don’t possess the wisdom of Solomon but that is what is required to pull the area out of the mess.
      
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      July 14, 2018 7:34pm
      - realityczech
        
        I hear the fishing is good though.
        
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        July 14, 2018 7:58pm
      - nasska
        
        Very true RC. The climate is also more agreeable to my worn out & broken down old body.
        
        Hence my presence! 🙂
        
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        July 14, 2018 8:04pm
      - waikatogirl
        
        No 2). Yes, apparently the fight for who has the “greatest mana” (is the big cheese) gets in the way of anything actually being achieved for the good of everyone. ?
        
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        July 14, 2018 8:38pm
  - Viking2
    
    Agree with you. CHCH has had its share as has Wellington.
    Northland is a great place for holidays so open up the road north and create some work.
    
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    July 14, 2018 7:36pm
RF

For those that miss Ardern go to Sky 36.

My little pony is the movie.
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July 14, 2018 7:24pm
Viking2

https://tenor.com/view/horse-smile-gif-10862144
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July 14, 2018 7:37pm
Brigitte

I know how we can do Pike River cheaper. We flood it with water then tell the world that there are some young kids trapped in there (well “miners” does sound like “minors”) and the now experienced cave dive teams will be over in a shot.
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July 14, 2018 7:39pm
Viking2

We now have a new lot of ban anything crew.
Ballons ffs

A Christchurch mum says she wishes they had become socially unacceptable like plastic straws.

“It’s sad we’re perpetuating this culture of short-term gratification for our kids but ultimately leaving them with the huge long-term problem of a poisoned environment”.

She does not want to come across as the “fun police” and understand parents have a hard time giving up on balloons because they want their kids to enjoy themselves.

“I would never want to ‘shame’ anyone but I wish people would educate themselves about single-use plastic.”

https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/parenting/big-kids/105253494/balloons-are-not-cool-anymore

So is it OK to use balloons at a child’s birthday party as long as they are safely disposed of at the end?

Patterson is loathe to tell people what to do but says single-use items are wasteful. (Perhaps she/he should try using arse paper twice then.) 😆

In the last year, there has been a “huge shift in attitudes” in New Zealand over plastic bags, he says.

“We have now moved onto plastic straws and I can see balloons and takeaway coffee cups next in that movement.”

“We need to be reusing things.”

He suggested not tying balloons up completely so they could be deflated and reused.

His father should have done the same with his condom.
fucking awful people.
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July 14, 2018 7:41pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  Is there something inherently wrong with reusing things?
  
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  July 14, 2018 8:01pm
  - Viking2
    
    Oh MM a reused condom wouldn’t be much fun and have you ever tried to blow up a balloon with a hole in it?
    
    Nothing but that’s not what they want. They want to ban all plastic. It’s the new way of getting oil exploration closed down.
    
    The same stupid tarts will be driving around in the latest electric RUV with all its plastic and think they are saving the fucking planet.
    Stupid is as stupid does.
    
    Still it’s from Christchurch, the city of the dammed and pommes.
    
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    July 14, 2018 8:19pm
fernglas

Two sporting absurdities in 24 hours. First, the agonisingly protracted Isner/Anderson semi at Wimbledon, then the futility of a playoff for 3rd and 4th at the World Cup.
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July 14, 2018 8:11pm
- Brigitte
  
  Works out pretty good in my view. Get to see the end of the other men’s semi as a warm up for the Ladies Singles final. And tomorrow can ignore the tennis and watch France take the big prize in Moscow.
  
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  July 14, 2018 8:17pm
  - fernglas
    
    Vive la France!!
    
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    July 14, 2018 8:18pm
    - Viking2
      
      Croatia. fuck the frogs.
      
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      July 14, 2018 8:20pm
      - realityczech
        
        “Croatia. fuck the frogs.”
        
        Hitler asked Croatians to be more humane in achieving their goals when the Fuhrer heard of how they were dealing with Jews. They did it all again in the 90’s. A soccer game should be easy for them.
        
        A very pleasant place to visit and refreshing to be in a place that is proud to be white Christian Europeans.
        
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        July 14, 2018 8:41pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        One country where there are still memorials to Hitler’s enthusiastic allies.
        
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        July 14, 2018 8:52pm
      - realityczech
        
        milky oh they do more than that !
        
        Nazi memorial in Croatia a disgrace to Europe
        
        A service for Hitler is unthinkable. So why is the world quiet in response to a service for Ante Pavelić?
        
        Imagine for a minute that memorial masses were held in two major cities in Germany on the anniversary of the death of Adolf Hitler. Needless to say, such a ceremony would arouse fury, indignation, and widespread protests not only in Germany, but throughout the entire world. Last week, the local equivalent of such an event took place in Croatia, but instead of anger and demonstrations, not a single word of protest was heard from anywhere in the country.
        
        http://www.wiesenthal.com/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=lsKWLbPJLnF&b=7929811&ct=11577565
        
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        July 14, 2018 8:56pm
EAD_TWO

Here is an image from the Trump protests side by side with the famous meme of the freaks united against family, patriotism and deceny – the meme has literally become real❗

https://mobile.twitter.com/Alba_Risen/status/1017856688051900417

Remember these words from Pikes letter to Mazzini?

“We shall unleash the Nihilists and the atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil. Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilization”
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July 14, 2018 8:19pm
- Viking2
  
  So its the atheists who create all the religious wars then is it?
  
  Not the baptists, Catholics, Islamists et al.
  
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  July 14, 2018 8:22pm
  - realityczech
    
    “Not the baptists, Catholics, Islamists”
    
    Correct.
    
    The war with Muslims and troubles with Korea and Russia are all due to the US Israel lobby. They are all due to Jews.
    
    It is not even a secret to those of us who read The Times of Israel. They are constantly braying for the US to take down countries as part of their holy war. Korea because they might sell nukes stuff to Iran and Russia for supporting Iran.
    
    Nearly all the wars today are the result of militant zealot Jews. The biggest single threat to humanity – when combined with US Christians.
    
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    July 14, 2018 8:32pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Just EAdolf banging on with his fraudulent shit. He’ll be on to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion next, with a few other bogus quotes to liven things up.
    
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    July 14, 2018 8:43pm
    - realityczech
      
      Milky you need to go hang out in some Jewish neighborhoods so you can enjoy their praise for all your good work on KB. Don’t mind the spitting or the fact they can barely stand the sight of you – they are probably just shy.
      
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      July 14, 2018 8:51pm
  - EAD_TWO
    
    War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it. – George Orwell
    
    Why else did Foreign secretary Balfour write to “Lord” Rothschild promising him a state called Israel in Nov 1917?
    
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    July 14, 2018 8:51pm
    - realityczech
      
      Was it the holocaust 20 years later?
      
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      July 14, 2018 8:52pm
- realityczech
  
  “and the atheists”
  
  Eddy, us atheists have endured centuries of persecution. We have been tortured to death by the thousands and slaughtered by the millions. It continues on today.
  
  I therefore demand the following:
  
  • I get a country of my choosing.
  • I am never held to account.
  • Anyone who is critical of me is persecuted.
  • Anyone who denies my stories goes to jail.
  • Billions of dollars a year forever.
  • I am worshiped as a superior being.
  
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  July 14, 2018 8:27pm
waikatosinger

According to the British media it seems Donald Trump has insulted the Queen by not bowing properly or walking in the wrong place or something. Ridiculous. He is the US president. Have the Brits forgotten that the Americans won the war of independence. That means he isn’t obliged to play by their silly royal rules. Even ordinary Americans don’t bow or show obeisance to royalty. I’d expect him to be polite to the nice old lady, but if the British tried to tell him where to walk, how to stand, and how deep to bow I am not at all surprised that he ignored them.
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July 15, 2018 4:43am
realityczech

Check this out for an attack on free speech. Vegans say the most appalling things about normal people including massive abuse and accusing them of rape and murder. The fake “victims” of “trolls” mostly what licence to abuse others with impunity.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/105389474/could-this-be-new-zealands-worst-troll-kiwi-youtuber-could-be-exposed-by-a-california-lawsuit
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