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duggledog

I just read DPF’s post about Mediaworks and their CEO’s concern the TV arm of the company may be suffocated and / or outcompeted by more and better resourced State owned services with less commercial imperative.

Well – that’s precisely the plan; I assume Mediaworks have grasped this.

It is now clear The Socialists do not look kindly on private enterprise, let alone foreign owned private enterprise. Public funds used to create revenue & profit for a company that is owned offshore will simply not do.

Here are Mediaworks’ two problems.

1: Their appalling fortunes would improve instantly if they simply replaced their liberal / elite / progressive lineup on, say, The Project with, say, Mike Hosking. His views represent about 50% of NZers; they are currently not served at 7 pm on either channel with ~ 1,000,000 viewers for the plucking.

But while there are literally dozens of Jesse Mulligans in broadcast media, I can only think of Hosking and Mark Richardson who could fill the yawning void and they are otherwise engaged. Backroom staff is an even bigger problem. The producers are just going to line up an endless succession of gender confused, Muslims and Trump haters.

2: Programming – again, if TV3 commissioned or broadcast controversial shows of interest to ordinary kiwis they would be handsomely rewarded but NZ On Air is infested with the same luvvies as the broadcast media. They work hand in glove. NZ On Air will not commission anything unless it involves Maori grievance, transgender issues or how wonderful 3rd world immigrants are.

If you are reading this and you work at TV3, or the wider media, I’ll nutshell it for you.

How many people do we need to tell us every day that Trump is an asshole?
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July 29, 2018 9:03am
- ztev
  
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  Advertisers are just not interested in the 50+ market represented by Hosking. Unless its funeral plans and ‘buy one get one free, but wait theres more’.
  They want millennials
  
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  July 29, 2018 9:11am
  - Prince
    
    The problem for you Trev is that National has 50% of the vote at any age group, despite the efforts of media to cloud that.
    Ddog has it spot on – present an alternative view and the audience will follow.
    
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    July 29, 2018 9:20am
    - Harkman
      
      Yes I love leftist smears on non-leftist voters. “National only represents the rich,” “National only cares about the top 1%,” “John Key’s mates,” “Donald Trump’s voters are stupid,” “Trump represents the rich billionaires.” Yet for the last 13 years National has polled around 45%, and the poor in America vote Democrat while Trump won middle class married white women, yet there is also “we need to spend more on education, so the poor have a future.” Rather contradictory, how come the poor lefty voters need educating?
      
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      July 29, 2018 9:33am
      - ztev
        
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        I only mentioned millennials and you did a rant!
        if national had 50% they would be in government – as its closer to 40% they arent.
        Media segment their demographics much better than just left-right voters. They use up to 7-8 categories and they certainly know more about their viewers than you think.
        
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        July 29, 2018 11:23am
  - mandk
    
    Do keep up, ztev.
    Millennials don’t watch tv
    
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    July 29, 2018 9:24am
    - igm
      
      Millenials are also not in the demographic that buys majority of goods.
      
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      July 29, 2018 9:39am
      - The Heat
        
        Correct, igm:
        
        “According to research presented by Fifty Not Out, the over 50s is the fastest growing consumer population in Australia while 50+ is the most asset rich group in the world, spending more than half a billion dollars on brands, every day.
        
        The over 50s comprises no fewer than eight million people in Australia alone, with someone joining the 50+ category every three minutes”
        
        Broadcast TV is not the right channel to reach Millennials. Digital media is.
        
        If broadcast TV moved in line with the older demographic, cut the tired youth-focused leftist luvvie tripe, and placed centre, they would see advertisers return.
        
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        July 29, 2018 10:44am
      - ztev
        
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        Digital media ?
        Oh yes the one with lowest recall of the ads.
        they say 50% of advertising is wasted but you dont know which half. Digital advertising just has higher waste
        
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        July 29, 2018 11:25am
      - The Heat
        
        Ztev, some people keep quiet and leave you guessing at their ignorance. This doesn’t afflict you, however.
        
        Digital media includes search, content, programmatic, mobile, email, social and display. You’re talking about one isolated aspect, namely display. You’re also wrong, because if display is used combined with retargetting, then recall and engagement is high. The appropriate measure is ROAS, and ultimately ROI, something that is far more measureable in digital then in broadcast.
        
        Best stick to your day job. Government sector, perhaps?
        
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        July 29, 2018 11:59am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Well then the advertisers are fools, aren’t they?
    ‘Coz who has the ready spending dough?
    
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    July 29, 2018 9:27am
    - artemisia
      
      Advertisers use the hip and edgy agencies. Agency staff average age is about 12 and anyone over 40 (30?) is invisible.
      
      Advertisers need to get smarter.
      
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      July 29, 2018 4:38pm
  - The Heat
    
    Millennials are on the interwebs.
    
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    July 29, 2018 9:43am
  - Salacious Crumb
    
    Really. And which time slot for advertisers is the most expensive at Newstalk ZB and why do you think that is?
    
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    July 29, 2018 9:49am
  - ex-golfer
    
    That’s a pretty short-termed view ztev.
    If advertisers had any sense they would be targeting the older spender.
    In less than 20 years 1 in 4 people living in NZ will be over the age of 65 and they will have significant combined spending power. They are also the most brand loyal cohort.
    Advertisers neglect them at their peril.
    
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    July 29, 2018 9:53am
    - igm
      
      Ztrev is a typical commercially illiterate left-wing fool. Once again a public servant attempting to try and show some form of fiscal ability. Give up loser, you are a leech, and always will be.
      
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      July 29, 2018 10:17am
    - ztev
      
      Trageting thye older spender ?
      They do . On the Chase and One news.
      
      Older viewers are more set in their buying choices and arent going to rush of to buy fad stuff.
      Thats why a lot of advertisers arent interested in the 50+ market , even though they have money and are still watching TV.
      So many European river cruise ads arent going to pay all the media bills. Oldys get a flat screen TV and keep it for 15 years !. Smart phones that cost $900+ ….pleeeeese
      
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      July 29, 2018 11:29am
- I Hate Wordpress
  
  Broadcast media is a dying platform anyway.
  
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  July 29, 2018 11:29am
- Holly Roggerz
  
  Well its not like they haven’t been campaigning for the last few decades at every opportunity i.e. every time-slot for the march of the left, and for the Labour Party.
  
  I hope this doesn’t change merely because they are the ones in question being screwed, after all they had no problems when it was the commoners, the prolateriat being royally screwed. Why to take offense to this and take a stand after so many decades of basically being a mouthpiece for the Labour party would simply make them look like selfish, self-serving hypocrites!
  
  Besides I am sure there are plenty of jobs at the new ministry of propaganda for all those whom are considered proper and ‘righteous’ party members. As far as I am concerned I hope the new propaganda arm of the labour party is a stunning success! That would be just desserts for this trash tv we have.
  
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  July 29, 2018 11:35am
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Oh dear that didnt end well did it, so Aussie voters werent interested in the peccadilloes of an MP who wasnt up for re-election.
The Libs got a real kicking in the few seats that mattered. Blow the trumpet , sound the Horn Shorten will be next PM ( as leader of the largest party !) and Dutton will be a gone burger ( is that Little giving a fist pump?)
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July 29, 2018 9:05am
- Prince
  
  Looks like a fist pump but it’s lower down.
  
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  July 29, 2018 9:21am
- wiseowl
  
  Turnbull may be gone before too long.
  Shorten is shocking .
  Bring back Tony. MAustraliaGA
  
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  July 29, 2018 9:29am
- srylands
  
  Ztev does Labor have a policy to cease sending New Zealand criminals and those that breach the good character test back to New Zealand? That would surprise me but I am sure you will know the avswer.
  
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  July 29, 2018 10:10am
  - ztev
    
    What about this criminal?
    Deported NZ pastor Logan Robertson doesn’t regret harassing Muslims
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12097253
    
    His crime ? None , His character – deplorable
    
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    July 29, 2018 12:46pm
Keeping Stock

The Minister for Open Government is at it again; berating a journalist for daring to proffer an opinion that differed from hers:

Clare Curran
‏Verified account
@clarecurranmp

Replying to @kiwidaveg
Hipkins. And you are a journalist Dave. Remember that

https://twitter.com/clarecurranmp/status/1023091985635139584

That’s definitely a veiled threat from the Minister. She’s reminding the journalist that HER word is gospel, and not to be contradicted.

The journalist in question had linked to a story about National’s promise to reintroduce charter schools. So the Minister for Open Government is going to do her best to shut down the debate. How very “open” of her.

New Zealand’s most open and transparent government ever strikes again. Journalists must keep their opinions to themselves.
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July 29, 2018 9:07am
- ztev
  
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  Thats nothing to do with Open Government, which is the proceses of Government.
  Politics continues as usual-
  
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  July 29, 2018 9:13am
  - KevOB
    
    Govt’s that don’t keep minutes–openness in action.
    
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    July 29, 2018 9:18am
    - ztev
      
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      Committee was wrong to do so. But it seemed the civil servant involved prompted them to do so.
      
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      July 29, 2018 9:20am
      - igm
        
        Why don’t you just eff off arsehole. You are not only a Labour apologist, but a union-loving POS that is unworthy of oxygen,.
        
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        July 29, 2018 9:55am
      - Nookin
        
        Do you mean that civil servants direct committees and that senior politicians, elected on a platform of open government, transparency and candour, simply roll over to have their tummies tickled?
        In blunt terms, the decision was inexcusable and wrong. There are no redeeming or mitigating factors.
        
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        July 29, 2018 11:00am
      - ztev
        
        Politicians arent on the committees !
        Fixed that for you
        
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        July 29, 2018 12:48pm
  - Prince
    
    That’s the broadcasting minister threatening a journalist because he doesn’t share her views.
    
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    July 29, 2018 9:27am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    The Minister of Open Government trying to strong-arm a journalist? Yes, it ‘s both political and dumb?
    
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    July 29, 2018 9:56am
    - ztev
      
      Was the person (a journalist )being ‘independent’ on that or making the bosses wishes news.
      
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      July 29, 2018 11:59am
  - Nukuleka
    
    It’s the semi-literate ztev clone on duty this morning.
    
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    July 29, 2018 10:30am
    - sooty
      
      I don’t think it’s the usual zit. Just not nasty enough.
      
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      July 29, 2018 12:46pm
- itstricky
  
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  That’s definitely a veiled threat from the Minister
  
  Correcting of a surname that a journalist should know is a “veiled threat”? Can’t wait to use that one in GD next time someone criticises a “liberal commie journo”!
  
  She’s reminding the journalist that HER word is gospel, and not to be contradicted
  
  Hipkins is his surname, isn’t it? That’s not her word, that’s his word. Or maybe, more precisely, it’s his mother & father’s word. Or perhaps his grandfather’s word. Or maybe it’s some Middle Ages English bloke’s word. It’s not Clare’s word though.
  
  So the Minister for Open Government is going to do her best to shut down
  
  By correcting an obvious typo. How daring. I bet he’s quaking in his boots, so afraid to say anything further.
  
  New Zealand’s most open and transparent government ever
  
  Too right. Tweets are very public, open and transparent.
  
  Journalists must keep their opinions to themselves.
  
  OK, now I know you were joking all along. Good one. You got me.
  
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  July 29, 2018 9:25am
  - itstricky
    
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    Redbaiter has chimed in with Yes Hipkins, an arrogant little Labour tyrant
    
    That’s a veiled threat. I’m calling the cops.
    
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    July 29, 2018 9:39am
    - igm
      
      Thought you would be a nark. Typical of a gutless left-wing Labourite.
      
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      July 29, 2018 9:56am
      - itstricky
        
        Thought you would be a nark.
        
        That’s a veiled threat. I’m calling the cops (again).
        
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        July 29, 2018 10:08am
      - starboard
        
        Why call the cops? You will probably get arrested again today anyway, loitering with intent, begging and graffiti related crimes. Loser.
        
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        July 29, 2018 1:19pm
      - itstricky
        
        Loser
        
        I’m sure you’d think different of me if I had a large chopper.
        
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        July 29, 2018 2:26pm
    - RightNow
      
      Let us know how that goes, sounds hilarious.
      
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      July 29, 2018 12:32pm
      - itstricky
        
        They called back.
        
        They’re going to charge igm and 21 other KBers with ‘failure to detect sarcasm and parody’
        
        The maximum sentence is 6 months of ‘lighten the f* up’. Repeat offenders (such as Redbaiter; already committed) are sentenced to 24 months of ‘developing stomach ulcer’.
        
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        July 29, 2018 1:14pm
- Albert_Ross
  
  Oh come on Kiwibloggers, if we’re seeing a threat here then we’re turning into precisely the kinds of hair triggered frightened offence trawling snowflakes we so like to mock if they are on the left.
  
  Curran is saying that professional journalists ought to be capable of getting simple and easily obtainable, checkable and verifiable facts, such as the names of Cabinet ministers, right.
  
  And we are seeing in this the seeds of a totalitarian Government?
  
  This is an excellent way of ensuring that you’re written off as an hysterical, shrieking ninny and thus ignored when you point to Government actions and statements that really are worth getting seriously concerned about. We are nowhere near running out of those to focus on.
  
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  July 29, 2018 9:54am
  - itstricky
    
    This is an excellent way of ensuring that you’re written off as an hysterical, shrieking ninny
    
    And only one day after DPF’s post about hysterical, shrieking lefties stuffing it up in exactly that way, no less. Gold post.
    
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    July 29, 2018 10:10am
- Nookin
  
  Curran never ceases to amaze on issues of open government. Her complete contempt for transparency and the Official Information Act is good cause for suspicion about her motives in contacting Carol Hirschfield. One wonders whether she had in mind promoting a known ally to replace Richard Griffin on his upcoming retirement. We will never know. Sadly, we are not in a position to trust her word.
  
  Her arrogance was highlighted when she criticised Media Works for “trying to influence the government”. She does not seem to have any concept of the fact that she is there to represent New Zealanders. New Zealanders are entitled to express their view. They have every expectation that the government will at least consider the views rather than reprimand those who dare to express them.
  This seems to be a theme with this government starting right at the top. Ardern stated that if labour is not re-elected it will be because it failed to bring the electorate around to Labour’s way of thinking. This almost suggests that labour’s views are preordained and nonnegotiable. Certainly, Curran gives this very impression.
  
  There was an interesting debate on the effect of the coalition agreement between Labour & New Zealand First and the confidence and supply agreement between Labour and the Greens, yesterday. There is a degree of specificity in the coalition agreement but not so much in the confidence and supply agreement. It is all a bit wishy-washy and the only specific obligation on the Greens appears to be the obligation to vote for the government on confidence and supply.
  
  One specific provision in the confidence and supply agreement that stood out was the policy promoting open and transparent government. The Greens plead that they are bound by the agreement, seemingly as a matter of contract. If, as they plead, they are driven to comply with the agreement, it surprises me that such egregious breaches of the provisions relating to transparent and open government by its fellow contracting party are so quickly and conveniently swept under the carpet by the Greens without any mention.
  I cannot see how Curran would ever have survived in any other government. She is a disaster waiting to happen.
  
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  July 29, 2018 10:57am
- rightoverlabour
  
  Dear Clare Curran. You are a fucking moron, Remember that. And that is not a veiled threat, its a statement of fact.
  
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  July 29, 2018 11:07am
Morrissey

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GROPERS
No. 38: Brock Turner

…. An attorney for Brock Turner, the former Stanford swimmer convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman in 2016, launched a bid to overturn his client’s convictions before a panel of sceptical appellate judges on Tuesday, arguing that Turner never intended to have sexual intercourse with the woman. He just wanted “outercourse,” attorney Eric S. Multhaup told the court in a brief and in oral arguments.

The distinction is central to Multhaup’s argument that Turner should not have been convicted of assault with intent to commit rape because, he claims, Turner’s clothes were on when two bicyclists saw him thrusting on top of the half-naked, unconscious woman behind a dumpster. He argued Turner was only engaged in “outercourse,” a “version of safe sex” with no “penile contact,” Multhaup explained, the Palo Alto Weekly reported. ….

https://www.theage.com.au/world/north-america/brock-turner-s-appeal-claim-of-outercourse-leaves-judges-baffled-20180727-p4ztw8.html

https://www.inverse.com/article/47515-brock-turner-appeal-claims-outercourse-misinformation

“GROPERS” is presented by GroperWatch®, a division of Daisycutter Sports Inc.

1 George Herbert Walker Bush; 2 Bill O’Reilly; 3 Al Franken; 4 Robin Brooke; 5 Lester Beck; No. 6 Arnold Schwarzenegger; 7 Joe Biden; 8 Rolf Harris; 9 Harold Bloom; 10 Sir Jimmy Savile; 11 Dr Morgan Fahey; 12 Prince Harry; 13 Bill Clinton; 14 Judge Roy Moore; 15 Matt Lauer; 16 Richard Branson; 17 Warren Moon; 18 Donald John Trump; 19 Damian Green; 20 Gene Simmons; 21 Sylvester Stallone; 22 Louise’s husband Charlie; 23 Father O’Hagan (AKA “Father Gropius”); 24 David Lloyd George; 25 James Franco; 26 Joel Kramer; 27 Rene Naufahu; 28 Steve Wynn; 29 Vince McMahon; 30 Rob Porter; 31 The old buffers at Russell McVeagh; 32 Otago law students; 33 Tom Brokaw; 34 David Scott; 35 Justin Trudeau; 36 Morgan Freeman; 37 Hugh Hefner’s guests
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July 29, 2018 9:07am
- pdm
  
  Then of course there is that so far unnamed Labour fellow who is before the courts at present.
  
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  July 29, 2018 9:38am
  - sooty
    
    You mean the child of some high labour party staffer or even an MP?
    
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    July 29, 2018 12:49pm
    - pdm
      
      I have no idea who he is sooty because he won’t man up and put his name into the public arena.
      
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      July 29, 2018 7:10pm
- Harkman
  
  So G H WR Bush is a vege and has no control of his organs and he regularly pats his nurse on the bum, while he drools. While O’Reilly didn’t actually sexually assault anyone, he pressured them to visit him at his mansion and he verbally abused his staff. ; 8 Rolf Harris; 10 Sir Jimmy Savile; 11 Dr Morgan Fahey are serious sexual offenders. Your list is crap. Um Bill Cosby???
  
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  July 29, 2018 9:46am
  - rightoverlabour
    
    Hugh Heffner’s guests. I googled that phrase
    
    I think Morrisey could potentially have a few lawsuits. I’m sure these people would not like being associated with the real sleazeballs on the list. DPF are you aware??
    
    https://www.thisisinsider.com/celebrities-at-playboy-mansion-photos-2017-9#director-quentin-tarantino-and-hugh-hefner-had-fun-at-the-video-release-party-for-kill-bill-vol-1-in-2004-10
    
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    July 29, 2018 11:03am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Labelling guests at the Playboy Mansion as ‘gropers’ doesn’t seem likely to attract defamation proceedings, snowflake. You’re just another enemy of free speech.
      
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      July 29, 2018 11:45am
      - rightoverlabour
        
        Ok, you goatfucking, maggot infested, necrophiliac. If you read any of my posts on free speech you will see that I am an absolutist on free speech with no boundaries. However, possible defamation may negatively impact the bloghost, and publicly stating that Hugh’s lucky guests are gropers could be seen as defamation. Unlike what I have called you.
        
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        July 29, 2018 6:28pm
- realityczech
  
  Gropers cont.:
  
  https://www.labour.org.nz/ourteam
  
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  July 29, 2018 12:55pm
ross411

Just watched a Aussie news segment on the policy of returning the unwanted
dregs of criminals and bad characters to New Zealand. Presenter talked to
some wife basher and a loser Maori gang member with FTP (fuck the police)
tattooed on his neck. They featured some other people like Winston and
Andrew Little, who pronounced that they were proud to not send the loser
Aussies we have here back to Australia and threatened that the policy of
Australia not keeping the bad eggs would harm our relationship.

What planet are these people from, why deal drugs or bash your wife or
hang around with gang members and get friendly tattoos saying “Fuck the
police” if you want to stay in Australia. How are the criminally inclined people
supposed to be kept in line if the consequences for their actions are
that fake news gives them a pass and says they’re just regular people
who shouldn’t have to pay the price for their choices at the expense
of other normal people in society.

This left wing lack of willingness to accept responsibility for one’s
owb actions shifts the responsibility onto others, and excuses the
bad eggs from having to think twice about their actions. We shouldn’t
be taking the bad eggs back, put them on Pitcairn island with the
child molesters, and any left winger who complains can go there and
live with the druggies and wife bashers they love so much.
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July 29, 2018 9:10am
- Morrissey
  
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  If YOUR family was routinely targeted by a racist police force, “FTP” would be written all over your complacent face.
  
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  July 29, 2018 9:14am
  - starboard
    
    If the special people stopped committing crime morris, they wouldn’t get arrested. Can you not see that? Are you that stupid ?
    
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    July 29, 2018 9:20am
    - Morrissey
      
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      “Special people”? No, they’re just normal human beings. Pity the Australian police and politicians are not.
      
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      July 29, 2018 9:22am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    No Morrissey,
    
    This is how it works. The families all get together, pool their resources, hire legal help, elect a spokesman, appeal to church and other neutral civic groups for support. Their spokesman meets with police officials and begin talks on how to remedy the situation.
    The local community take ownership of any antisocial behavior and work with the authorities to improve things.
    
    (At least this is how we would do it in Japan.)
    
    Now, if you are of sub-average intelligence and with lack of ability to delay gratification or take responsibility for your actions, then by all means get that FTP tattoo. How it will be anything other than a permanent marker to set things off on the wrong footing with every policeman you ever meet for the rest of your life, I don’t know.
    
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    July 29, 2018 9:23am
    - Morrissey
      
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      I know perfectly well how things work in Japan. It’s one of the most oppressive and racist places on earth.
      
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      July 29, 2018 9:26am
      - realityczech
        
        Japan preserves the rights of its tangata whenua ethnic indigenous first nation peoples. They are a shining example of how to resist colonisation.
        
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        July 29, 2018 9:28am
      - Odakyu-sen
        
        Morrissey,
        
        Leaving Japan aside, don’t you agree that my approach of grassroots community-based action would be better than reactionary and self-harming FTP tattoos on faces or necks?
        
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        July 29, 2018 9:31am
      - Odakyu-sen
        
        Sorry realityczech,
        
        Ethnic Japanese in Japan (whose Jomon and Yayoi ancestors came over from Asia a couple of thousand years ago) are not the “tangata whenua ethnic indigenous first nation peoples” according to the UN.
        That would be the Ainu (at least in the northern parts of the country).
        Japan is facing similar calls from people demanding funding for the preservation of the Ainu language and greater publication of it in Japanese school books. (Sounds familiar, doesn’t it.)
        
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        July 29, 2018 9:39am
      - realityczech
        
        Yes I thought about them as I wrote it 🙂
        
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        July 29, 2018 9:43am
      - Morrissey
        
        Leaving Japan aside, don’t you agree that my approach of grassroots community-based action would be better than reactionary and self-harming FTP tattoos on faces or necks?
        
        I agree pretty much with what you say, Odyaku san, my wise and witty friend.
        
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        July 29, 2018 1:14pm
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    “routinely targeted” = called out for stealing, assaulting people, and generally imposing themselves negatively on the people who just want to go about their lives.
    
    To quote the part of my post I described you in:
    
    This left wing lack of willingness to accept responsibility for one’s
    owb actions shifts the responsibility onto others, and excuses the
    bad eggs from having to think twice about their actions.
    
    You’re acting out what was laid out in my earler post. Other people should be punished for their actions, but not you, not ever you.
    
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    July 29, 2018 9:34am
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  What about ‘dog-nappers’?
  “The alleged dog-napping took place in Remuera last November. In court in April the former wife (to be referred to as D) admitted taking one of the two dogs as they were being walked by the new partner of her ex-husband (to be referred to as C).
  The court was told how D allegedly “grabbed, pushed and tried to wrench the dog” from the partner’s arms.
  Judge Burns said yesterday that the dog which was allegedly snatched off the street must be returned to the ex-husband and stay with him for three months to make up for the snatching.”
  http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/5069139/Shared-custody-follows-alleged-dog-napping
  
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  July 29, 2018 9:19am
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    Do you have a point to make?
    
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    July 29, 2018 9:27am
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      Thi zit is floundering around in the dark.
      
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      July 29, 2018 12:52pm
kowtow

Broken Britain.

Embrace and celebrate the diversity dividend.

‘A judge decided to name five 15-year-old boys who “tortured” a teenager to death in an alleyway in a move to deter young people from joining gangs.’

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/07/28/judge-names-five-15-year-old-boys-murdered-teen-deter-youngsters/
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July 29, 2018 9:16am
- calendar girl
  
  That’s an appalling story. Good on the Judge.
  
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  July 29, 2018 9:38am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  Identification of the problem is the first step to solving it.
  
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  July 29, 2018 9:43am
  - EAD_TWO
    
    Here’s the problem Odakyu – if I called these 5 murderers “Niggers”, it’d create more of an outrage than the murder itself.
    
    It shows how perverted and inverted our reality has become.
    
    Even right now, some of the free speech warriors will be red arrowing my post in order for it to be pulled.
    
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    July 29, 2018 10:05am
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      EAD,
      Rather than use (in the current political climate) inflammatory language, the UK should investigate the root causes of this gang violence and ask the following kinds of questions.
      – Did the 5 murderers have fathers in their households?
      – What has been the role of welfare in encouraging women to become wed to the State?
      – Are the 5 young men of below-average intelligence? lack self-control? lack the cognitive ability to foresee the consequences of their actions?
      – What steps are the black community (whatever that is) taking to “own” this problem?
      – Are social services (that are run by people with the best intentions) actually making the problem worse?
      And the list goes on.
      Frankly, the point to start is before birth. By the time these boys are in their teens, the damage is mostly done.
      
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      July 29, 2018 12:01pm
- EAD_TWO
  
  Kai Fisher-Dixon, Shuayb Mahomud, Tremayne Gray, Omarion Stephens and Abdulqaliq Mohamed
  
  Good British Names those ones…
  
  This comment here is spot on:
  
  It will fill you with horror at just what mindset these cold blooded dangerous parasites have and live by,the total opposite of a White civilised society,the thought of White children being forced to live with this worthless shit makes my blood run cold.
  
  As I said it is hard not to feel for the good blacks stuck living with this sewage but it is not my problem and I have never and will never want these people anywhere near me,and they try and call the Whites who have fled the shithole racist?
  
  I knew it was bad up there as my family had to flee South East London many years ago because of these scum but it seems that things have become as bad as the worst crap holes in Africa…………
  
  If things are somehow not turned around our children/Grandchildren face a future as nothing more than rape robbery and murder fodder for this wqrthless shit.
  
  I do genuinely feel real sorrow for the parents of these kids that are being murdered but I did not want these people foisted on me and my only heartfelt concern is for my fellow Whites although I must admit I do draw some comfort when leftist race traitor trash get “culturally enriched”.
  
  I am not being no drama queen but we are well on the way to finding ourselves in the same boat as the Whites in South Africa,there are areas in this country now that are more or less there,it may not be tomorrow, next week or next year but it is coming.
  
  Indeed – the f***wits who foisted upon us the “enriching diversity” need to understand their postcode won’t save them forever.
  
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  July 29, 2018 9:50am
  - Nermal
    
    Don’t forget the victim’s name, Jacob Abraham, or doesn’t that suit your narrative
    
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    July 29, 2018 2:57pm
    - EAD_TWO
      
      Que?
      
      A court heard three of the teenagers had to change out of their school uniforms before carrying out the “punishment mission” on behalf of the “AP gang” to teach him a lesson because he was a rival to their “county lines” drug operation.
      
      The murder victim was in a rival drug gang.
      
      You need to help me out here- what does his name (also not British) have to do with any kind of narrative real or imagined?
      
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      July 29, 2018 4:45pm
slightlyrighty

I see that Chelsea Manning, the convicted treasonist, is being hosted in Auckland at the Q Theater, an Auckland Council Venue.

I guess this controversial figure is fine by Goffs standards then, unless we contact him with our dismay that this convicted traitor is being allowed to speak, and that there may be strong feelings leading to civil unrest.

This seems to be how things work these days…..
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July 29, 2018 9:19am
- Morrissey
  
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  Chelsea Manning should win the Nobel Prize. Are you trying to say she’s on a par with a couple of unintelligent Canadian Klan members?
  
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  July 29, 2018 9:21am
  - ross411
    
    Bradley Manning is mentally ill. If you asked him a challenging question, you’d be castigated for making him break or cry, or both.
    
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    July 29, 2018 9:36am
    - Morrissey
      
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      Idiot. You know nothing.
      
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      July 29, 2018 10:02am
      - ross411
        
        Morrissey: Idiot. You know nothing.
        
        Only you know the truth, but no-one else can seem to see it, right? It couldn’t possibly be that you’re wrong. Nope, inconceivable!
        
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        July 29, 2018 10:06am
      - sooty
        
        Oh, yes the morris dancer is one of the special people.
        
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        July 29, 2018 12:55pm
      - Morrissey
        
        Only you know the truth, but no-one else can seem to see it, right?
        
        Thanks to Bradley (now Chelsea) Manning, we ALL know the truth. There is no excuse for the likes of you pretending to be ignorant any longer.
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXPrfnU3G0&t=169s
        
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        July 29, 2018 1:17pm
  - Monique Watson
    
    No. Further down the ladder.
    
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    July 29, 2018 9:37am
  - Nukuleka
    
    Now which Nobel Prize would that be, Morrissey? The one for Chemistry, Physics, Medicine, Literature. Or the fake one that Obama won for making the world a more dangerous place?
    
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    July 29, 2018 10:36am
  - slightlyrighty
    
    Morrissey.
    
    Your default position on issues causes you to miss the very point.
    
    I actually believe that Manning has a right to visit and be heard in the same way that Southern and Molyneax do, and that the council has no right to stop either.
    
    But they have attempted to stop one, and it happened to be the one you don’t agree with, and you are happy with that. THAT is the problem.
    
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    July 29, 2018 11:30am
    - Morrissey
      
      I believe that Southern and Molyneaux have the right to be heard too. Where did you get the idea I do not support their right to be heard?
      
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      July 29, 2018 1:20pm
      - slightlyrighty
        
        If that is the case, then I apologise.
        
        However, referring to them as Canadian Klan Members did give me the impression that you were happy to see the back of them, even if that statement is bordering on libel, particularly in the case of Molyneax, who seems to me more of a logical reasonist who happens to state difficult facts.
        
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        July 29, 2018 1:56pm
- Monique Watson
  
  Oh. Fuck. And you’re not joking. I just checked Eventfinda. And check the date. Couldn’t get closer to 9/11 without actually speaking on 9/11.
  https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2018/06/28/chelsea-manning-loses-maryland-democratic-primary-in-a-landslide/
  
  So heads down to Socialist haven to spread their weasily lies.
  
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  July 29, 2018 9:36am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Apparently Chelsea Manning’s appearance will feature a live cross from President Trump to expand on his famous “I love Wikileaks” comment.
    
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    July 29, 2018 11:50am
- Nermal
  
  Doesn’t His criminal record stop him getting a visa?
  
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  July 29, 2018 2:59pm
Morrissey

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Israel Has No Right to Self-Defense Against Gaza
by NORMAN FINKELSTEIN and JAMIE STERN-WEINER, July 28, 2018

Since the overwhelmingly nonviolent demonstrations in Gaza began on March 30, 2018, the international community has strongly condemned Israel’s armed attacks.

A UN General Assembly resolution “deplore[d] the use of any excessive, disproportionate and indiscriminate force by the Israeli forces against Palestinian civilians,” while the UN Human Rights Council denounced Israel’s “disproportionate and indiscriminate use of force.” After Israeli snipers killed Razan al-Najjar, a twenty-one-year-old unarmed Palestinian paramedic, the UN special coordinator for the Middle East peace process warned Israel that it “needs to calibrate its use of force.” In a devastating report, Human Rights Watch concluded that “Israeli forces’ repeated use of lethal force in the Gaza Strip … against demonstrators who posed no imminent threat to life may amount to war crimes.”

Welcome as these condemnations are, the question nonetheless remains whether they go far enough. Simply put, does Israel have the right to use any force under any circumstances against the people of Gaza?

…….

Read more…..
http://normanfinkelstein.com/2018/07/28/israel-has-no-right-to-self-defense-against-gaza/
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July 29, 2018 9:19am
- ross411
  
  Isn’t the UN is renowned for sex crimes? Why don’t we hear this guy looking into that? Like the EU, the UN is a left-wing political organisation that needs to be reined in and held accountable.
  
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  July 29, 2018 10:08am
  - DJ Ward
    
    So you couldn’t argue with that so resorted to referencing a small group that hired protitutes in Haiti.
    
    You would have had a better argument if you said the Palistinian was witnessed throwing a pebble at a Tank. A sniper shot him just in case he damaged the Tanks paint job.
    
    Try to participate in the subject next time.
    
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    July 29, 2018 10:29am
    - ross411
      
      Not just Haiti, it’s been reported for years. The organization is corrupt. And you excusing their culture of molestation, is complicity in it.
      
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      July 29, 2018 10:47am
      - DJ Ward
        
        You didn’t get that did you. It was an individual’s action. When the UN found out they condemed it. Just because an individual offends it doesn’t then prove the organisation is offending. The Catholic Church is a better example of your point of view.
        If you are correct every large organisation on the planet is guilty. Especially very large ones with thousands of people. If 1% of people are sexually predatory any large organisation has lots of offenders.
        
        Being corrupt is one thing. They employed Aunti Helem and ban Men’s Issues so not hard to prove. Being an organised sex crime ring is stretching it.
        
        Your turn.
        
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        July 29, 2018 11:42am
- realityczech
  
  Israel has a right to self defense of Israel. The issue here is it is not defending Israel, it is invading.
  
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  July 29, 2018 10:58am
- RightNow
  
  Bollocks. Stop believing Hamas propaganda
  
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  July 29, 2018 12:43pm
  - Morrissey
    
    “Hamas propaganda”? I think you should tell Messrs Finkelstein and Stern-Weiner that they are in Hamas. They aren’t aware of it, but they’re only brilliant academics, whereas you are obviously on a far loftier plane.
    
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    July 29, 2018 1:23pm
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There must be some consolation for our rabid righters with the news that Pauline Hanson is crossing the ditch to our fair and green pastures. Rumours abound that she is actually on stress leave and R&Rafter the meltdown and implosion in her own One Nation party,

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2018/07/polarisin
g-australian-politician-pauline-hanson-to-visit-new-zealand.
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July 29, 2018 9:27am
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  Says a lot that our own SLG makes Pauline Hanson look smart.
  
  https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/video-we-have-sent-clear-message-people-smugglers-jacinda-ardern-disputes-pauline-hansons-claims-nz-backdoor-refugees
  
  Rumours abound?
  Do you have evidence of these rumours?
  References please
  
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  July 29, 2018 9:36am
- Harkman
  
  I bet that you were watching Naked Attraction Friday night. That show is all you.
  
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  July 29, 2018 9:50am
  - DJ Ward
    
    Was that a confession.
    
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    July 29, 2018 10:31am
Captain Mainwaring

Is Morris dancer on the SIS watch list?
If not he should be.
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July 29, 2018 9:28am
- Morrissey
  
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  Ha ha ha! Good one Cap’n!
  
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  July 29, 2018 9:30am
DJ Ward

A man once said.

The masses are feminine and stupid.

Our education system is doing a good job at helping.
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July 29, 2018 9:39am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  You do seem to have a problem with half of humankind.
  
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  July 29, 2018 10:58am
  - DJ Ward
    
    I believe men should have equal rights with women.
    
    I’m therefore a Feminist.
    
    Being feminine is not the same as gender.
    
    When Hitler said this he was referring to the ability to manipulate and brainwash his audience. Both male and female.
    
    You say I have a problem with half the population, your wrong. I have a problem with our government not being Feminist as in my first line. You have a problem with my pointing out bigotry, and offending men experience at the hands of women.
    
    You may cliam that you, not I, am the Feminist. I would point out I’m just not the hate men kind.
    
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    July 29, 2018 11:21am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      I love men… always have, hope I always will.
      
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      July 29, 2018 12:04pm
      - waikatogirl
        
        Me too Maggy. Even with their foibles.
        Afterall we all have a few quirks. ?
        
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        July 29, 2018 1:26pm
      - DJ Ward
        
        I would point out that you ladies are quite different from Jan Logie, Curren, or JAG.
        
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        July 29, 2018 1:37pm
    - DJ Ward
      
      I’m not concerned about the downvotes. Stuff has written articles about Men’s Rights Activists like myself and places me with Nazis, and the Alt Right. Since people here on KB are so loving of left wing media and propaganda the down voting is of no surprise.
      
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      July 29, 2018 3:47pm
- realityczech
  
  “The masses are feminine and stupid.”
  
  That simple sentence explains most of what is wrong in the Western world. It has been observed that as life becomes easier men become more feminised. Logic is replaced by feelz.
  
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  July 29, 2018 1:43pm
Fletch

If you want to read a good book about the Trump/Russia hoax. I just started reading it. There’s a good interview with the author –

https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2018/07/27/exclusive-gregg-jarrett-trump-russia-collusion-hoax-a-scheme-to-clear-hillary-undo-election/
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July 29, 2018 9:40am
- ross411
  
  It’s too early for this book. There’s still the mass hysteria and political manipulations going on.
  
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  July 29, 2018 10:09am
  - ztev
    
    Wrong. Manforts ( 1st) trial is coming up . Plenty of indictments and quite a few early guilty pleas.
    
    Donald Jnr is in BIG BIG trouble as more evidence puts him in direct knowledge of the Russians offering specific info stolen from the Dems emails.
    
    Will it go all the way to the top ?
    Remember the Watergate indictments, Nixon was named as an ‘unindicted’ co conspirator’ which may well be Trumps fate
    
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    July 29, 2018 12:03pm
    - KevOB
      
      What in the world do you agree with? The indictments are hilarious if not serious. This farce may yet terminate in a civil war. Ignorant bullies don’t how to stop.
      
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      July 29, 2018 12:39pm
    - Fletch
      
      The indictments have nothing to do with collusion. It’s just about lying to the FBI. They can pretty much find anything to charge you with to ruin your life.
      
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      July 29, 2018 2:02pm
ex-golfer

The resident pest, liar and fuckwit has recently been proclaiming all over KB that Bill English has left parliament only to get a job at Bunnings.

For the educated:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/103540753/bill-english-appointed-as-director-of-wesfarmers

So ztev is equating being appointed to the Board of one of Australia’s largest retail giants (which includes Bunnings) as now “working for Bunnings”. Typical fuckwit leftist ztev thinking.

Compare this of course for the sorts of places the Labour MPs get jobs (or don’t) after leaving parliament:

Georgina Beyer ……..
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/6154368/Former-MP-Georgina-Beyer-unemployed

And it seems its not just NZ Labour MP’s that can’t get decent work:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/7820080/Labours-Nick-Palmer-become-first-ex-MP-to-go-on-the-dole.html
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July 29, 2018 9:41am
- Swifty
  
  Heh heh.
  
  Yeah, it’s going to be glorious to watch what becomes of the current crop of under 50 (and especially those now in their 20s or 30s) CoL MPs when they eventually lose their jobs.
  
  Never had a real job, going into politics, creaming $200k plus perks while lecturing the peasants about what’s good for them and with the media placing palm fronds before you as you walk.
  
  Nek minnit….
  
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  July 29, 2018 10:03am
  - Nermal
    
    Which reminds me, I wonder how the investigation into Metiria’s benefit payments is going. It’s all dreadfully quiet
    
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    July 29, 2018 3:06pm
- ztev
  
  Silly old fartparker.
  
  of course his job at Bunnings was the ‘board’.
  But its a non entity for English, who hasnt a brass monkeys about ‘retail’. Wheres the big ‘finance’ job. or was he not that good as finance minister.
  And Joyce still looking for work outside the charity sector .
  
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  July 29, 2018 12:07pm
  - ex-golfer
    
    Listen and learn fuckwit. We know you have zero idea how Boards work – so here’s a little education.
    Board members are generally given certain portfolios as well as, as a whole, setting strategic direction for the organisation, so Bill English could be contributing in many ways. He is afterall, known around the world as the best economic manager of a country through the GFC.
    
    And you don’t need retail experience to be on the Board of a multi-national conglomerate you complete fucktard. Or are you saying the only job Ardern could ever do is run a Fish and Chip empire?
    
    Joyce? He doesn’t need to work.
    He is a self-made man. Something you will never experience in your useless lifetime.
    
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    July 29, 2018 3:06pm
- KevOB
  
  The present lot will need help in filling out their dole application forms. What a standard of achievement for those who claim to be running the country.
  
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  July 29, 2018 12:42pm
- MCos
  
  That article about Georgina Beyer was years ago. Since then she has been layed low with crook kidneys & had a replacement last year.
  
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  July 29, 2018 4:22pm
  - ex-golfer
    
    Nice try at deflection MCos.
    On leaving Parliament Beyer couldn’t find work and ended up on the dole.
    
    Which goes to the point that ztev has been trying (but as usual failing) to make over the last week or so when talking about English and Joyce leaving.
    
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    July 29, 2018 4:54pm
Manolo

As red as the accidental PM, the American Jacinda.
https://www.usnews.com/news/the-report/articles/2018-07-27/alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-risky-road-show
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July 29, 2018 9:41am
Maggy Wassilieff

Hey Morrissey,
I’ve just finished reading Tom Wolfe’s “The Kingdom of Speech”.
It’s a hoot.
I do recommend it.
I’m sure you won’t like it.
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- Morrissey
  
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  Tom Wolfe (may he roast in Hell) was a poseur. He bit off more than he could chew by having a go at Chomsky, who had dispatched far smarter people than Wolfe—e.g. Christopher Hitchens, who he damned, memorably, as “incoherent.”
  
  Did you catch his characteristically brilliant dismissal of Wolfe’s book? I’m pleased to say that Wolfe lived just long enough to savour the exquisite humiliation.
  
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  July 29, 2018 10:01am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Oh dear, Morrissey
    
    That sounds such a crushing put-down.
    
    Anyway, if you come across a copy or a decent link to his Ph.D thesis:
    The League of American Writers: Communist Organizational Activity Among American Writers, 1929-1942.
    I’d love to know.
    
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    July 29, 2018 10:40am
    - Morrissey
      
      Sounds intriguing, Maggy! I’d love to see it myself.
      
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      July 29, 2018 1:26pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Yeah, I reckon Reality Czech might like it too..
        
        It was rejected when he first handed it in…. so he did a little rewrite for his Yale professors.
        
        “These stupid fucks have turned down namely my dissertation, meaning I will have to stay here about a month longer to delete all the offensive passages and retype the sumitch. They called my brilliant manuscript ‘journalistic’ and ‘reactionary,’ which means I must go through with a blue pencil and strike out all the laughs and anti-Red passages and slip in a little liberal merde, so to speak, just to sweeten it. I’ll discuss with you how stupid all these stupid fucks are when I see you.” [T.W., aged 26, letter to a friend, June 9, 1956.]
        
        He re-writes his thesis. He lards it up with academic jargon and creates a phony emotional distance from his material (he refers to “an American writer E. Hemingway”), and it is accepted.
        
        https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/10/how-tom-wolfe-became-tom-wolfe
        
        Priceless!!
        
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        July 29, 2018 3:04pm
      - realityczech
        
        ✌ ?
        
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        July 29, 2018 3:10pm
  - Jack5
    
    Morning Morrissey, you are throwing plenty of wood on the General Debate fire today.
    
    Outside of linguistics, Chomsky is as fallible as the rest of us. Outside of linguistics, Chomsky is just a Morrissey who the liberal media, rather than mere blogs, can always get a quote from.
    
    And in linguistics, where he made his name, some experts would say Chomsky’s famous theory of Universal Grammar has been disproved.
    
    In matters outside linguistics, what if Chomsky’s position were reversed, Morrissey? What if he were an academic Arab, known among intellectuals for his work in a speciality subject, but who also vigorously promoted the political views of Israel? Would he get a centimetre in the liberal print-media world?
    
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    July 29, 2018 11:21am
    - realityczech
      
      Nice anti Semitic rant from Jackboot this morning attacking a leading Jewish intellectual.
      
      Here is another Jew for you to attack. This one’s parents survived the holocaust.
      
      The American Jewish scholar is one of the world’s leading experts on the Israel-Palestine conflict and the political legacy of the Nazi holocaust. Apart from his parents, every member of Finkelstein’s family, on both sides, was exterminated in the Nazi holocaust.
      
      ” He argues that although Israel justified its blockade and violent assaults in the name of self-defense, in fact these actions were cynical exercises of brutal power against an essentially defenseless civilian population. Based on hundreds of human rights reports, his new book scrutinizes the many flagrant violations of international law Israel committed both during its operations and in the course of its decade-long siege of Gaza.
      
      War crimes?
      
      When we think “refugees” from war, disaster or oppression, images of large numbers of people come to mind, crossing borders, departing on the last flights out, fording streams, boarding leaky transport ships, washing ashore. That what’s completely different about Gaza: The borders are sealed and there is no place to flee. The population is trapped in a tiny sliver of land equal in size to twice the District of Columbia. Some have named it “the largest open-air prison in the world,” but others claim that implies guilt on the part of the inmates, preferring bluntly to call it a “concentration camp.”
      https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/hopeless-in-gaza-a-talk-with-scholar-norman-finkelstein/
      
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      July 29, 2018 11:36am
      - Jack5
        
        And good morning to you, ❗Kea – Realityczech❗
        
        I’m truly sorry if I have offended the memory of the Middle Eastern ancestor in your family tree that you have mentioned in the past. I should not have dared to criticise Chomsky.
        
        I concede that, as a Jew who criticises Israel, Chomsky himself should be beyond criticism.
        
        More pertinent to what’s going on now: how well is the Iron Dome working? Could a mountain parrot get through it?
        
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        July 29, 2018 11:53am
    - KevOB
      
      Chomsky was a gnome.
      
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      July 29, 2018 12:47pm
    - Morrissey
      
      He was on Sky TV channel 83 last night, Jack. Like the rest of the civilized world, Prof. Chomsky was full of praise for this very brave young woman….
      
      http://normanfinkelstein.com/2018/07/25/where-theres-life-a-real-live-human-being-theres-hope/
      
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      July 29, 2018 1:32pm
      - starboard
        
        Morris, you seem to be repeating your posts…
        ‘Hidden due to low comment rating.’
        
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        July 29, 2018 4:01pm
Swifty

Place your bets!

Parker or Whyte?
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July 29, 2018 9:48am
- ex-golfer
  
  Whyte – I think Parker for too long was dished up easy fights and now he’s in the big boys club its a lot harder than he thought..
  Joshua completely out-boxed him and Whyte is landing more punches.
  It doesn’t seem like Parker (or Barry) has a plan B when he starts getting hit.
  
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  July 29, 2018 10:09am
  - Colville
    
    Parker needs some muscle and mongrel, Currently he has neither.
    
    Bye bye Barry.
    
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    July 29, 2018 10:18am
    - Jack5
      
      It’s all over: Parker beaten on points.
      
      Parker down twice, then puts Whyte down in the final round.
      
      https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=12097280
      
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      July 29, 2018 11:29am
- G152
  
  Whyte.
  Parker has run out of easy beats
  
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  July 29, 2018 10:41am
lastmanstanding

There sure must be some people with very low self respect. I couldnt bring myself to work for most of the Left pollies. They come across as a bunch of legends in their own lunch time. Arseholes that know it all and wont listen to reason or anything other than their own opinions.
Having sat on numerous Boards across a number of sectors since the mid 1980s I know the difference between good governors and bad governors. Can spot them a mile away, And this lost are bad governors. They have none of the qualities. Not time here but if you Google Traits of Good Governance there is plenty of stuff to contrast with this lot of losers.
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July 29, 2018 9:49am
Manolo

Barred from entering Italy, the African invaders are now targetting Spain:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5998449/Spanish-mayor-warns-town-new-migrant-crisis-epicentre.html

The news comes as the mayor of the nearby Spanish port of Algeciras warned that his town is at the centre of a ‘new migrant crisis’ after 1,000 arrivals flooded his town in the last week alone.

Slamming the EU for its lack of action José Ignacio Landaluce warned his town risked becoming ‘the new Lampedusa’ – an Italian island which has been overrun with migrants.
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July 29, 2018 9:52am
Hugh Pavletich

Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
… AUSSIE HOUSING SHAME GOING GLOBAL …

Mortgage Prison: Sydney Home Prices Suffer Largest Annual Decline Since 2008 | Zero Hedge

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-07-27/mortgage-prison-sydney-home-prices-suffer-largest-annual-decline-2008

Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk,

Home prices in Sydney and Melbourne are back to 2016 levels. That is a tiny down payment as to what is coming.

News AU reports House Prices Drop in Sydney, as Melbourne Prices Stall.

Tumbling house prices in Sydney and Melbourne are the main drivers behind the first annual drop in national property prices in six years, a new report shows. The national median house price fell 1.0 per cent over the June quarter and year, according to a report by property classifieds group Domain released on Thursday. … read more via hyperlink above …
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… Australian politicians programme of economic destruction … continued … essential reading …

The price of vacant land in Melbourne has jumped by a staggering 40% in a year | Business Insider

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/australia-housing-affordability-population-growth-property-prices-2018-7

• The cost of vacant residential land in many parts of Australia is soaring, especially in Melbourne.

• Lot sales are tumbling. Along with falling home prices, this is starting to have an impact on new residential investment.

• Land costs make up the vast bulk of housing prices in most instances. … read more via hyperlink above …
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House price crisis: Sydney home values drop up to 10 per cent in just one year – with property markets down across Australia in a clear sign the boom is over … UK Daily Mail

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5992875/The-average-cost-house-Australia-FALLS-time-years.html
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July 29, 2018 10:03am
- ross411
  
  Hugh’s curated selection of articles, selected to paint some kind of story that suits Hugh’s narrative, but mostly serves as undirected noise.
  
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  July 29, 2018 10:11am
  - DigNap15
    
    I never get the point of them.
    He just cut and pastes, with no comment!
    
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    July 29, 2018 10:27am
    - Hugh Pavletich
      
      Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
      Oddles of comment here … http://www.PerformanceUrbanPlanning.org
      
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      July 29, 2018 10:40am
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
        Hasn’t the “Tories In Tears’ circus gone on long enough ? …
        
        With no new policies to fall back on, National has become trapped in an endless cycle of just opposing anything the Government says. Jason Walls asks, is it time for a circuit breaker? | interest.co.nz
        
        https://www.interest.co.nz/opinion/95021/no-new-policies-fall-back-national-has-become-trapped-endless-cycle-just-opposing
        
        Talk about an embarrassment !
        
        It was housing failure that put you guys on the Opposition benches last October.
        
        What have you learned since ?
        
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        July 29, 2018 10:49am
      - ztev
        
        But Hugh … they have a new approach on cannabis reform ….
        
        While the Crusher is in charge of housing policy, there wont be anything new unless it can be in a boxing ring
        
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        July 29, 2018 11:45am
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        Ztec … Housing Minister Phil Twyford ‘man-ages’ Judith exceptionally well.
        
        It is beautiful to watch the ‘mellowing’ Judith with Phil on the Garner Newshub show.
        
        Phil Twyford certainly is doing wonders for Judith’s leadership aspirations of the National Party.
        
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        July 29, 2018 12:56pm
      - starboard
        
        Are you still pissed from last nights session Hugh?
        You’re not making any sense …again.
        
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        July 29, 2018 1:32pm
  - KevOB
    
    If he cuts the Aussie feed there would be less downticks.
    
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    July 29, 2018 12:50pm
    - Hugh Pavletich
      
      KevOB … What is happening in Aussie on the housing front is hugely relevent to us here in New Zealand.
      
      It is even more serious there than it is here in NZ.
      
      Do read the above material closely … and draw your own conclusions of course.
      
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      July 29, 2018 1:06pm
      - starboard
        
        “Hic…Hic “, phart.. burp.. fap fap”
        
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        July 29, 2018 1:35pm
      - KevOB
        
        I have. I am on standby for a GFC. The tightening is being strung out as the scale has to encompass the failure to deal fully with the last one. Too much greed coming home to roost.
        
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        July 29, 2018 3:33pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        … CHRISTCHURCH HOUSING BUBBLE BURSTS FIRST …
        
        … Severely unaffordable (5.4 Median Multiple) Christchurch: A story of panicked speculators / investors exiting in droves, due to a sustained period of ramped up new housing production …
        
        … Check out the massive numbers of new subdivisions on the City fringe and wirthin the adjoining Counties of Waimakariri and Selwyn …
        
        (Excuse the idiot title) …
        
        Christchurch house prices may pick up as city buyers enjoy most affordable market in more than a decade | Stuff.co.nz
        
        https://i.stuff.co.nz/the-press/105774354/christchurch-house-prices-may-pick-up-as-city-buyers-enjoy-most-affordable-market-in-more-than-a-decade
        
        Home values by suburb and annual change … CoreLogic (median or average ?) … as the market starts tamking from the bottom …
        
        https://infogram.com/_/9ClImBYh4YBE5Wzow2ZG
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        Surge in new dwelling consents in Auckland could be the beginning of the end for the region’s housing shortage … Interest Co NZ
        
        https://www.interest.co.nz/property/94554/surge-new-dwelling-consents-auckland-could-be-beginning-end-regions-housing-shortage
        
        There was a surge in the number of new dwelling consents issued in May, particularly in Auckland where they hit a 15 year high, Statistics NZ says.
        
        Around the country 3407 new dwelling consents were issued in May, up 25% compared to April and up 22% compared to May last year.
        
        It was the highest number of homes consented in any month since June 2004. … read more via hyperlink above …
        
        https://www.stats.govt.nz/information-releases/building-consents-issued-may-2018
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        QV’s average property values have fallen in Auckland, Tauranga and Wellington over the last three months – vendors warned against unrealistic price expectations … Interest Co NZ
        
        https://www.interest.co.nz/property/94608/qvs-average-property-values-have-fallen-auckland-tauranga-and-wellington-over-last
        
        Quotable Value is warning flattening or falling house prices mean we are now in a buyer’s market and some vendors may have unrealistic expectations about what their property is worth …
        
        … In Christchurch sales activity was slowing while property values were flat overall, according to QV Christchurch property consultant Hamish Collins.
        
        There was growing interest for new builds in and around the city centre, but an oversupply of land and developments in fringe districts and on the outskirts of the city, he said.
        
        These included areas such as Halswell, Wigram, Preston and the Selwyn and Waimakariri districts.
        
        “We are seeing some developers offering new builds or recently constructed properties at discounts as a way to free up cash for their next project,” Collins said.
        
        “This is having a flow on effect on the overall value of new builds or existing properties in these areas,” he said. … read more via hyperlink above …
        
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        July 29, 2018 5:05pm
dime

Parker is fighting like shit

Just knocked down..
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July 29, 2018 10:28am
- Harkman
  
  Yep, his management rushed him into big fights too early. They got money, but his career is in trouble, Whyte is nowhere near the top of the pile. Right now somewhere Sir Bob is smiling, “I told you so.”
  
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  July 29, 2018 11:08am
  - Longknives
    
    What is Kevin Barry’s next move?
    a) Invent a fake ‘injury’ that hampered Parker’s performance? (And old KB trick)
    b) Drag up the fact that Whyte failed a drug test a few years back and try to discredit him?
    c) Find another young fighter that he can brainwash Non-Boxing people into thinking he is the next Muhummad Ali?
    
    Joseph Parker seems a genuinely nice bloke but the hype from his Management turned him into possibly the biggest fraud ever perpetuated on the New Zealand Sporting Public-
    ‘He’s the fastest Heavyweight since Ali’
    ‘The Boxing World are running scared of Joseph’
    ‘I rate him better than Holmes or Foreman’
    Blah Blah
    Reality is he is a bit of a journeyman who won the WBO (Joke organisation) title.
    I rate him right up there with other WBO ‘Champions’ Herbie Hide, Henry Akinwande and Siarhei Liakhovich..
    
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    July 29, 2018 11:30am
    - ztev
      
      I agree on that… hes likeable to the NZ public who arent all that wild about boxing.
      But his coach and promoter by their crazy talk just turn them away
      
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      July 29, 2018 11:47am
    - Longknives
      
      Who would have guessed?
      Kevin Barry is attacking the Ref and crying ‘We was robbed’!
      
      https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=12097425
      
      Is there anyone on the Planet still buying Barry/Duco’s endless bullshit?? (Apart from Mikenmild- obviously)
      
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      July 29, 2018 5:08pm
      - ex-golfer
        
        Its Barrys MO.
        He did the same with Tua (not to mention taking advantage financially).
        
        Parker would do well to ditch Barry – but I fear he’s too much of a nice guy to recognise it.
        
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        July 29, 2018 5:54pm
Rocky Jnr

Dermot Nottingham. If anyone out there has ever had dealings with this person you will be interested in seeing the articles attached to these links.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12095711

https://yournz.org/2018/07/27/dermot-nottingham-sentenced-for-criminal-harassment/#comment-294213
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July 29, 2018 10:38am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Yep,
  and yesterday Pete George outlined the long, protracted Court proceedings that he has endured after being targeted by D.N. and coterie.
  https://yournz.org/2018/07/28/the-nottingham-private-prosecutions/
  
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  July 29, 2018 10:49am
  - ztev
    
    Guess who was a Mckenzie Friend for Slater in one of his court battles ?
    Nottingham
    
    First rule of internet. DONT use your own name as PG found out. PG may get under people skin but hes essentially a decent bloke
    
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    July 29, 2018 11:51am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Pete George got hit just as he was starting up his own blog….
      
      I warned him…. but who listens to little old ladies?
      
      He should have told the Courts to get stuffed.
      
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      July 29, 2018 12:03pm
      - Pete George
        
        As you probably know, if charges are filed against you, you don’t have any choice but to deal with them as the court demands and allows.
        
        The police declined to prosecute, so Nottingham applied to file charges and was allowed to by a judge, on what I think were very flimsy and false claims. It included allegations of a police/court/media conspiracy against Nottingham.
        
        The claims against me – that I was colluding with Prentice, were ridiculous and easy to refute, but I never had to defend them. During the prosecution he moved on to try and find other things to pin on me.
        
        I think that the only reason I was charged was because I was tacked on to other charges against NZ Herald, Prentice and ODT and the judge would have had no idea that there was no conspiracy, but he did warn that the evidence as presented was not in a form suitable for trial and most would be inadmissible.
        
        If courts allow wastes of time like this to start let alone go on for three years no wonder they are overloaded.
        
        I’ll be posting again soon outlining details of the case and proceedings. It was a farce.
        
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        July 29, 2018 1:10pm
  - MrTips
    
    IIRC, Slater commented on his blog some time ago he had no idea who ran or contributed to LF. This doesn’t marry with that but maybe Nottingham never told him; that’s certainly possible reading PGs account.
    
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    July 29, 2018 4:54pm
    - Pete George
      
      Nottingham also used to claim he had nothing to do with LF, and LF used to claim they had no NZ input (although they contradicted themselves often enough).
      
      Given how much crossover there was between WO and LF on attack campaigns, how Slater got a hold of data by dubious means and then LF got the same information, and how much Spring had to do with Slater, WO, LF and Nottingham, yeah, right.
      
      It could be that they all lied to each other about LF I suppose.
      
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      July 29, 2018 5:01pm
    - Pete George
      
      If I recall correctly on 9 May 2016 LF published a statement from Slater about his paying for a hack of The Standard that apparently never happened, which breached a suppression order that hadn’t quite lapsed.
      
      It’s possible someone passed it on for Slater and he didn’t know who was involved in LF.
      
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      July 29, 2018 5:09pm
rightoverlabour

why do we bother with Stuff.co.nz

*An incorrect file photo was initially used on this story. Stuff apologises for any distress caused by this.

Muppets of the first order, especially when dealing with a fatal accident.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/105832749/bus-heading-up-turoa-skifield-rolls
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July 29, 2018 10:46am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Even worse…. why would any Business owner even consider buying Stuff?
  https://www.nbr.co.nz/article/nbr-owner-says-he-has-backing-make-bid-stuff-hold-video-ck-217086
  
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  July 29, 2018 10:51am
  - Jack5
    
    The Otago Daily Times is showing how print media can survive longer.
    
    It has a network of free community newspapers that seem to be doing well with advertising, and the newspaper itself seems closer to the political centre than the newspapers of the two big chains.
    
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    July 29, 2018 11:49am
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      To be fair, Otago is still in the 1960s.
      
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      July 29, 2018 8:12pm
- itstricky
  
  An incorrect file photo was initially used on this story
  Muppets of the first order
  
  That’s a veiled threat*
  
  * https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/07/general_debate_29_july_2018.html#comment-2268031
  
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  July 29, 2018 11:42am
DigNap15

Because Stuff has a comment section which a lot of people use, and it gets lots of right orienated ticks
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July 29, 2018 11:05am
- rightoverlabour
  
  Fair enough. But their reporting is crap.
  
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  July 29, 2018 11:14am
  - DigNap15
    
    And so is the Heralds, and TV1 and TV3.
    So where can we get fair balanced news about NZ?
    And not Womens Weekly stuff either!
    
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    July 29, 2018 11:48am
wiseowl

Lauren on ch 85 now re legal action in NZ
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July 29, 2018 11:20am
- ztev
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  Dont you know its ‘forbidden’ to promote on KB what she actually says !
  
  There is post after post on the ‘circumstances’ around her events . The ‘circus’ is mentioned plenty of times but the lead act of the clown princess is conspicuous in its absence.
  Zero posts on what she actually says. Thats because even DPF thinks shes a moron and her ’cause’ isnt something he wants to be directly involved with.
  Lauren Southerns free speech doesnt extend to having her directly spout it on KB
  
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  July 29, 2018 11:33am
  - DJ Ward
    
    Hah here you go.
    
    https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/16218800.Lauren_Southern
    
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    July 29, 2018 11:55am
  - rightoverlabour
    
    Good quotes in the link posted below. I look forward to the day when I can read your quotes published on that site , other than “Hidden due to low comment rating”…..
    
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    July 29, 2018 6:46pm
Jack5

Radio NZ’s web site is promoting compulsory Maori language in schools.

In support it interviews an African and a Muslim Middle Easterner who explain the benefits Maori studies give in learning colonisation’s effects on Maori.

Not surprising, after the partnership deal Wily Willy Jackson, now a Labour Cabinet Minister, negotiated with Radio NZ on behalf of the network of 20 or so tribal radio stations.

Radio NZ puts a case of why dying Maori language should be compulsory for everyone:

https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/insight/audio/2018655478/insight-should-te-reo-maori-be-compulsory-in-school

The Maori-Radio NZ deal:

https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/312240/rnz-signs-partnership-with-te-whakaruruhau
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July 29, 2018 11:47am
- ztev
  
  The Irish tried compulsory Gaelic after they kicked the British out. Didnt work
  
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  July 29, 2018 11:54am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    It’s still compulsory for Irish kids wanting to go to Uni in Ireland.
    
    The federal National University of Ireland requires all students educated in Ireland to pass Gaelic as part of their matriculation
    https://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/international/europe/ireland/
    
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    July 29, 2018 11:59am
    - Jack5
      
      Compulsory Maori would mean Maori teachers in every school of reasonable size, and teachers in all other schools competent in Maori language.
      
      Then would follow Maori history, Maori culture, and anti-colonialism, anti-Westernism bullshit.
      
      If NZ wants to stop falling further in national wealth (at present we are 48th in the world in GDP per capita) we need to concentrate on teaching mathematics, science and critical thinking tools such as basic logic.
      
      English continues to dominate world culture, business, diplomacy, science … why fight it, when it’s one of our natural advantages.
      
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      July 29, 2018 12:18pm
      - DigNap15
        
        Most Maoris don’t even want to speak it.
        Its an irrelevant language with a VERY limited vocabulary.
        And it not Beautiful, its very aggrresive and gutteral to me.
        
        PS what is the Maori word for Irrelevant?
        
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        July 29, 2018 12:49pm
      - realityczech
        
        “PS what is the Maori word for Irrelevant?”
        
        Pakeha
        
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        July 29, 2018 12:50pm
    - Jack5
      
      Ireland’s most recent Nobel Prize winner (2015 – medicine), William Campbell, was raised a Protestant.
      
      Now in his late 80s, he finished his university education in America, but in Ireland he studied at Trinity College in the days when the tradition was that Protestants headed for university went to Trinity or to Queen’s University Belfast while Catholics tended to go to University College Dublin, or University College Galway or Cork.
      
      I don’t know if Irish Protestants in those days had to speak Gaelic, or if they did, they were as enthusiastic about it as Irish Catholics were.
      
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      July 29, 2018 12:35pm
      - realityczech
        
        Jacksie, so you reckon little Jewlets should only be taught English in their imaginary homeland?
        
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        July 29, 2018 12:52pm
    - Twinkletoes
      
      This applies only to the Republic which is why many of those students apply to N. Ireland or British universities.
      
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      July 29, 2018 1:17pm
  - Kiwi Dave
    
    Didn’t work.
    
    True. Eventually the government changed the census question, which immediately made the statistics look better but did not change the policy’s failure, and revamped Irish language teaching to make the language more relevant, but that hasn’t led to any discernible improvement.
    
    It’s a classic example of ideologically driven policy where no amount of sustained failure to achieve the intended goal – in this case, make Irish the preferred national language – can ever dissuade the policy’s supporters.
    
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    July 29, 2018 12:50pm
- KevOB
  
  There isn’t even a standardised current Maori language. It’s a mess. There is no Maori nation as such but a group of disparate Tribes who do not know from whence they came or when. Their mutual warrior prowess nearly brought them to extinction when muskets became available and utu requirements ramped up.
  
  Maori language has little relevance in present NZ society. It has too few root words to be useful and the grammar is likely to be subversive to the learning of English. The Maori Elders determined in the 1930’s that their language would not be helpful in the future. What’s the point of transliterating English into Maori?
  
  Now Maori is a Mt Victoria plaything.
  
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  July 29, 2018 1:08pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Just because you don’t value something does not mean that no one values it.
    
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    July 29, 2018 1:37pm
    - KevOB
      
      When their former Elders rejected Te Reo as a way forward we should have accepted their wisdom. This issue is not peculiar to NZ.
      
      Maori never became a nation: the tribes all speak for themselves. As NZ has become more urbanised who or what is now Maori is more vague. How many people of some Maori descent have not been on a Marae?
      
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      July 29, 2018 3:42pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        I guess Maori today should be more grateful that they have someone like you to tell them who they are and how they should live.
        
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        July 29, 2018 3:55pm
  - Komata
    
    KevOB
    
    A tale which might amuse concerning ‘Maori’ language. Many years ago I was told by an amusing tale about how ‘Correct / Standardised ‘ Maori came to be used in NZ. The teller was a now deceased Maori gentleman (no names), a komatua by the way, who was from a very small North island iwi, It seems that the subject of ‘standardising’ Maori language came up in the Government Department (Min. of Education?) responsible for such matters and no-one wanted to know or cared. The ‘big’ tribes were looking after themselves while maintining a jealous eye on weach other ‘just in case’ one got more than ‘their fair share’. This gentleman’s neice (a fluent speaker of her own local dialect) was working for said department and she offered to do something about it. Long story very short: The young lady did all the research and presented her results, findings and and recomendations to her HoD and they were accepted. Her version of ‘Maori’ was subsequently standardised and is now used throughout all government departments and in schools etc. Not a bad achievement at all, EXCEPT that the ‘Maori’ that she used was her own , very-localised dialect!! The new initiative was promptly put in place and became well -established (it still is).
    
    As already noted, the ‘important’ tribes meanwhile hadn’t paid much attention and it consequently took a while took a while before the impact of what had been done (that they had been ‘upstaged’ by a tiny iwi whose langauge was now the NZ standard) dawned on those who should have been aware of such things, and evidently Ngati- Porou, Arawa, Ngai Tahu et al were highly ticked-off on making said discovery. TOOO Late!!
    
    The old chap who told me this was absolutely delighted of course, and saw it as ‘one-up’ for his iwi against those who would have dearly loved for it to have been otherwise. Knowing that (a) The tiny, tiny dialect was now in common useage and (b) that there was absolutely NOTHING that any of the ‘big’ tribes could do to change things only added to the ‘joke’.
    
    As I said, a tale to amuse.
    
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    July 29, 2018 4:13pm
  - Jack5
    
    The Guardian today trumpets:
    
    “New Zealand’s native tongue is undergoing a revival – lessons are packed, songs are top of the pops, and even the prime minister wants to be part of it.”
    
    The report is from a Dunedin journalist, Eleanor Ainge Roy. Her article includes:
    
    “According to Statistics New Zealand, the proportion of Maori people able to hold an everyday conversation in te reo decreased 3.7% between 1996 and 2013. But anecdotal evidence suggests numbers of non-Maori speakers of the language are rising, as are young Maori adults and professionals, who would not have been captured in the last census.
    
    “Big business is on board, too. Google has launched a Maori version of its website, Vodafone has helped Google Maps record more accurate Maori pronunciations, Disney has released a Maori version of the hit Polynesian film Moana, and Fletcher Building has rolled out bilingual signs on all its construction sites.”
    
    Eleanor Ainge Roy also says: “Maori language experts say the language has never been more widely used, normalised or respected.”
    
    And, of course, there’s Jacinderella giving her child a Maori second name, Te Aroha. The girl’s first name is Neve, an Irish name that may or may not be related to the Latin for “snow”.
    
    Eleanor Ainge Roy has written elsewhere:
    
    “What many people don’t know is what I try to cover in my work for the Guardian.
    
    “That we have the second highest rate of youth suicide in the OECD. That a third of our children live below the poverty line and 10% of our working-age population is on social welfare.
    
    “Many New Zealand homes are cold, mouldy and damp, and our prisons are over-flowing. We have serious problems with alcohol, methamphetamine and cannabis – the Kiwi way is to binge to the point of oblivion.
    
    “Choosing to live at the bottom of the planet can sometimes feel like you have checked out of life – that you can’t hack it in “the real world”. The perennial angst of antipodeans, former convicts – are we good enough? Why do we live on islands that are so far away, and so expensive to flee?”
    
    New Zealanders descended from convicts? She’s got the wrong country. Perhaps Eleanor thinks Dunedin’s in Tasmania.
    
    Of course, if Maori language is spreading so rapidly, there’s no need to make it compulsory in schools, is there?
    
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    July 29, 2018 4:27pm
  - rightoverlabour
    
    I’d like to see a paper on quantum physics translated into maori….
    
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    July 29, 2018 6:48pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      I’m not sure why you would like that, as you cannot read Maori and have no understanding of quantum physics.
      
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      July 29, 2018 6:58pm
      - rightoverlabour
        
        True, I have no understanding of Maori, but I have read a bit of quantum physics, although I would never be so stupid as to claim I understand the finer points, nor follow the mathematics involved. However, since you raised the point, where would you like me to begin?
        
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        July 29, 2018 7:11pm
DigNap15

I would not be surprised if there are more European speakers of Maori than Maori.
And I mean more than just Morena, Whanua, and Kai etc.
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July 29, 2018 12:44pm
realityczech

Don’t you love how they call invading forces “settlers”?

Christians are at risk of being driven out of the Holy Land

For millennia, Jerusalem has been hallowed ground for all religions. But the activities of radical settler groups are putting this peaceful status quo at risk.

Now various sides want to claim the Holy Land, including Jerusalem, as the exclusive possession of only one people…one of the foremost threats to Christians in the Holy Land is the unacceptable activities of radical settler groups, which are attempting to establish control over properties around the Jaffa gate. The properties in question are in the heart of Jerusalem’s Christian quarter, the seat of all the patriarchates and headquarters of the churches, and less than 500m from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
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July 29, 2018 1:00pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  For fuck’s sake. Are you telling me the Anzac Mounted Division’s campaign to liberate the Holy Land was all in vain? Did our boys die so that 100 years later the Christians could be expelled once more from Jerusalem?
  
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  July 29, 2018 1:30pm
  - Morrissey
    
    ….the Anzac Mounted Division’s campaign to liberate the Holy Land…
    
    Please don’t talk so flippantly about those murderers and cowards, Mike.
    
    In late 1918, after the war had ended, New Zealand and Australian soldiers from the ANZAC Mounted Division rounded up more than one hundred boys and men in the Palestinian village of Surafend, then methodically clubbed them to death. After that, the ANZAC soldiers burned the village to the ground.
    
    General Allenby called these ANZAC troops “cowards and murderers”.
    
    http://alh-research.tripod.com/Light_Horse/index.blog?topic_id=1115959
    
    http://www.theage.com.au/national/massacre-that-stained-the-light-horse-20090723-dv3o.html
    
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    July 29, 2018 1:41pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Is it very tiring being so pure all the time?
      
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      July 29, 2018 1:47pm
    - Jack5
      
      Calling the NZ mounted troops “murderers and cowards” is a step too far, Morrissey. I presume that, like me, you haven’t had bullets whistling aruond your ears.
      
      In the report you quoted, Morrissey, a 2009 article from the Melbourne newspaper, The Age,this is what is reported:
      
      ” The British commander-in-chief, General Sir Edmund Allenby, is said to have called them “cowards and murderers”.
      
      “Is said”? I think you will find other accounts state that Allenby said of the New Zealanders in the division, something on the lines of:”I once was proud of them, now I am ashamed of them.”
      
      Allenby had ridden into Jerusalem with the Anzac light horsemen about him as a bodyguard.
      
      The Surafend massacre was wrong, but you can’t judge the whole division and its brave and otherwise outstanding performance by that one incident.
      
      For example, the New Zealanders around the same time saved a thousand or so surrendering Turks from being massacred by Morrissey and Kea-Realityczech’s beloved Arabs.
      
      Milky has brought up the Surafend massacre a number of times on Kiwiblog, and here it looks at though he has provided a patsy mention for Morrissey and Kea-Realityczech to launch from.
      
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      July 29, 2018 2:25pm
      - realityczech
        
        Jewish terrorists bombed the King David Hotel killing more than 90 people. Most were British people there to help the Jews. They attempted to blame the Muslims for it.
        
        I have seen interviews with the terrorists. One they made prime minister and he spoke with joy about it. Another said she felt nothing for the dead goyim and seemed annoyed she would be asked.
        
        Such is the utter contempt zionists Jews have for humanity.
        
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        July 29, 2018 4:50pm
      - realityczech
        
        The ~~Surafend~~ holocaust massacre was wrong, but you can’t judge the whole division and its brave and otherwise outstanding performance by that one incident.
        
        The German military was famously noble and civilised. They can’t be judged by the excesses of a few.
        
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        July 29, 2018 4:51pm
      - Jack5
        
        ❗☪️Kea Realityczech ☪️❗equates the New Zealand military with the Wehrmacht.
        
        Someone’s adulterated the parrot seed.
        
        Or is it just the usual ~~psittacosis~~ shittacosis?
        
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        July 29, 2018 4:57pm
  - realityczech
    
    Looks like it milky.
    
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    July 29, 2018 1:47pm
realityczech

Why do Jews hate the Christians so much, and not just in Israel?

Why Don’t Jews Like the Christians Who Like Them?

In the United States, the two groups that most ardently support Israel are Jews and evangelical and fundamentalist Christians.

…There is a second puzzle: despite their support for a Jewish state, evangelical and fundamentalist Christians are disliked by many Jews. And a third: a large fraction of African-Americans are hostile to Israel and critical of Jews, yet Jewish voters regard blacks as their natural allies.

Evangelical Christians have a high opinion not just of the Jewish state but of Jews as people. That Jewish voters are overwhelmingly liberal doesn’t seem to bother evangelicals, despite their own conservative politics. Yet Jews don’t return the favor: in one Pew survey, 42 percent of Jewish respondents expressed hostility to evangelicals and fundamentalists.
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July 29, 2018 1:04pm
- stephieboy
  
  Kea,
  
  “Why do Jews hate the Christians so much, and not just in Israel?”
  
  And etc , etc
  
  Why do people believe in such weird and screwball stuff?
  
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  July 29, 2018 1:21pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Behemoth, bully, thief: how the English language is taking over the planet

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jul/27/english-language-global-dominance
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July 29, 2018 1:44pm
- KevOB
  
  It’s happened in the Pacific and here in NZ Maori too. The English grammar forms have caught on.
  
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  July 29, 2018 3:58pm
  - Jack5
    
    Kevin, so the PC mob are speaking pidgin Maori while Radio NZ and the chain newspapers are speaking NZ Pidgin English?
    
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    July 29, 2018 4:35pm
Ross12

Great see to the remains of the 55 US soldiers from the Korean conflict finally leaving North Korea.
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July 29, 2018 2:11pm
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  Well done Trump
  Must be a great thing for families.
  
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  July 29, 2018 2:59pm
realityczech

Burning of Christian churches in Israel justified, far-Right Jewish leader says

Head of Lehava, known for violent campaign against Jew-Arab assimilation, risks arrest with public defence of setting fire to Holy Land churches

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/11786802/Burning-of-Christian-churches-in-Israel-justified-far-Right-Jewish-leader-says.html
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July 29, 2018 2:25pm
- Jack5
  
  I think it’s relevant, Realityczech, that this report is almost three years old. It’s dated 6th of August 2015.
  
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  July 29, 2018 2:37pm
  - realityczech
    
    “it’s relevant… this report is almost three years old.”
    
    Imagine how irrelevant the 80 year old holocaust is then, and the 3000 year old claim to Israel made by the Jews.
    
    Are you saying the Jewish leader has changed his mind and loves Christians and intermarriage now?
    
    Why not just admit you are a bigoted pile of shit Jacksie and be done with it?
    
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    July 29, 2018 2:49pm
    - Jack5
      
      Jack5 1, ☪️❗Kea-Realityczech❗ ☪️ 0.
      
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      July 29, 2018 3:59pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        It’s easy to win when you keep score for yourself.
        
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        July 29, 2018 4:33pm
      - Jack5
        
        Shsh! Milky! Mr Never-Forget-Surafend!
        
        Your job is just to bring on the oranges at half-time.
        
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        July 29, 2018 4:37pm
realityczech

UK News

UK Jews ban women from driving

It was revealed last week that the ultra-Orthodox Jewish Hasidic sect Belz in north London has been forbidding women to drive. In fact, as was made clear in a call by “Joshua in Tottenham” to the LBC radio station they’ve been forbidding women to drive for about the past 60 or 70 years – it’s just that they only recently put it in writing, in a letter sent to parents of pupils at Belzer schools saying that children whose mothers drive them to school will not be admitted to class.
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July 29, 2018 2:29pm
- DJ Ward
  
  The men are punishing thier mothers for failing to protect them when their genitals were mutilated as children.
  
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  July 29, 2018 4:14pm
Fletch

1 News finally does a video showing the other side of the plastic bag debate. A single use plastic bag is better for the environment than paper, cotton bags, etc…

https://www.facebook.com/1NEWSNZ/videos/10155584732491218/
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July 29, 2018 2:31pm
realityczech

Israeli Politician Demands Racial Purity For Jews

Typhus, cholera and intermarriage of U.S. Jews
It’s a plague. Like typhus, cholera, smallpox. In Herzog’s view, intermarriage, too, could cause the collapse of bodily systems
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July 29, 2018 2:33pm
- VicParking
  
  There are always ‘radicals’ in very political party or group of people But thats what freedom of speech is all about.
  So realityczech tell us now why he is wrong otherwise whats your point.
  Just like your Miloš Zeman who is “brash, provocative and blatantly politically incorrect. He recently called 90 percent of Czech Roma “unadaptable” and lazy. He has been accused of being a racist and a cynical opportunist” the Israeli Politican is intitled to his views.
  
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  July 29, 2018 3:17pm
  - realityczech
    
    “There are always ‘radicals’”
    
    Why don’t you trot that out for Muslims filthy sleazy bigot?
    
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    July 29, 2018 4:54pm
  - Jack5
    
    ❗☪️Kea Realityczech☪️❗ calls another poster a “filthy sleazy bigot”.
    
    Yep, Realityzcech parrots Kea.
    
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    July 29, 2018 5:04pm
    - realityczech
      
      Jacksie, so aside from Murder, Pedophillia, Terrorism, and acts of war, is there anything a Jew could do that you will not defend? I have not noticed anything.
      
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      July 29, 2018 5:10pm
- DJ Ward
  
  If you close a community too much you end up with people marrying cousins. The children of such relationships are not always that nice to Jews. (Hitler)
  
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  July 29, 2018 4:20pm
RF

Dear God.

The mother of the nation has announced that she will be back and hitting the ground running. Can someone please point her in the right direction.

Just when I was getting used to not hearing her whining slurping speech.

After seeing a video of her today I am confident that her Wonder Woman title will not last much longer. She will have to borrow Helen Clark’s photoshop artist.
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July 29, 2018 3:29pm
- nasska
  
  …..”She will have to borrow Helen Clark’s photoshop artist”…..
  
  That bad? Mightn’t be possible although.
  
  I heard that Dear Leader’s make-up artist went back to gib-stopping. 🙂
  
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  July 29, 2018 4:05pm
- Longknives
  
  My God! This woman simply has no class whatsoever does she?
  Labour got a hammering with yesterday’s news about Business Confidence and our Economy tanking- So what does Ardern do? Drags out her poor newborn Baby for a distraction piece..
  I see she is ‘Promising more details soon of her home life with Baby’
  Christ on a Bike..Have some decency Ardern and think of your poor kid
  
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  July 29, 2018 4:18pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Snowflakes like Longknives should avoid viewing material that is likely to trigger them.
    
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    July 29, 2018 4:38pm
    - Longknives
      
      I’ve got my Safe Space and my Emotional Support Hamster thanks Mikey…
      
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      July 29, 2018 4:47pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Yes, Kiwiblog will always be a shelter for your rage against any of New Zealand’s achievers. Writers, musicians, athletes, politicians – are there any you admire?
        
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        July 29, 2018 4:56pm
  - Jack5
    
    Don’t fret! Jacinderella and Neve will soon be upstaged by the McCaws’ new baby.
    
    There will be a burst of Jacinderella again through the magazines for celebrity airheads, and then nothing. Too old hat.
    
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    July 29, 2018 4:43pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      It must be comforting to you to think that. Do you think Gemma McCaw will combine her career with motherhood?
      
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      July 29, 2018 4:57pm
      - Jack5
        
        Richie will be too busy to play Clarke Gayford.
        
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        July 29, 2018 5:01pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        But will Gemma pursue her career?
        
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        July 29, 2018 5:34pm
      - ex-golfer
        
        @mmm – that decision is none of our business.
        We don’t pay Richie or Gemma through our taxes.
        They are private citizens free to do as they please.
        
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        July 29, 2018 5:51pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        But a nation waits with bated breath.
        
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        July 29, 2018 5:53pm
      - RF
        
        Plus Ritchie is not sleezy unlike the pretender who craves public recognition.
        
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        July 29, 2018 6:18pm
  - RF
    
    Might I suggest a new name for the royal Bub.
    
    “Squirrel”
    
    To be used in the case of emergency such as when Cindy needs to divert our attention from other of her clusterfuks..
    
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    July 29, 2018 8:19pm
- ex-golfer
  
  Purposely timed to get leading headlines on the same weekend the National Party is holding is annual conference.
  
  Extremely poor form to be using a baby for political gain – but we better get used to is.
  
  I’m sure many lefties think the first baby’s shit doesn’t stink and it comes out pure white!
  
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  July 29, 2018 4:58pm
starboard

‘special’ on the job again. This is why the prisons are full of them..eh morrissey.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/105843138/west-auckland-postshop-robbed-at-gunpoint
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July 29, 2018 4:12pm
EAD_TWO

A group of ultra-Orthodox men attacked a police car in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Yisrael on Thursday, shattering its front and back windshields.

Police were called to the scene after the neighborhood’s so-called “modesty patrol” beset a car in which a group of ultra-Orthodox women were traveling, claiming that they were dressed immodestly.

Several ultra-Orthodox men broke the car’s windows, punctured its tires and poured fish oil on it.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/ultra-orthodox-modesty-patrol-clash-with-police/

I wonder the ultra orthodox would have made of the actions of their brethren in Weimar Germany❗

https://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/09/24/sexual-decadence-weimar-germany/
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July 29, 2018 4:55pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  What should decent, right-thinking white folk do about those evil Jews, EAdolf?
  
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  July 29, 2018 4:59pm
  - EAD_TWO
    
    Just curious Milky – why don’t you pursue such lines of questioning with say our Maori bashing or YT bashing or Arab bashing folk on here?
    
    Should the affairs of the tribe be above examination?
    
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    July 29, 2018 5:04pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      As it happens, I have very little time for those folk either, and believe I have made that plain many times. Especially when they make basic factual errors and endorse pseudo-historical bullshit
      Your distinction, EAdolf, is to be a proud ‘modern’ national socialist, willing to defend those old-time Nazis, even if your described them as ‘cartoonish’. That’s why I’m always so interested in how you and your buddies would pursue the Endlosung today should we be so unfortunate as to see you grab some actual power. So, don’t be a shy Nazi.
      
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      July 29, 2018 5:33pm
      - realityczech
        
        milky, what would you have us do with these white people who seek to protect their culture from extermination?
        
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        July 29, 2018 5:35pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        I think ‘white culture’ – however one might describe it – is very, very far from extinction.
        But perhaps concerned white people could self-deport to England.
        
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        July 29, 2018 5:55pm
      - stephieboy
        
        Kea, into another of your rorts?
        
        This time White Genocide?
        
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        July 29, 2018 5:58pm
      - realityczech
        
        Actually milky if they were a bird they would count as endangered:
        
        1. Habitat destruction.
        2. Low and falling birth rate.
        3. Invasive introduced species competing with them.
        
        Glad you mentioned England. The native Brits are extinct. Their language, culture, religion are all gone.
        
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        July 29, 2018 6:00pm
- realityczech
  
  Eddy, did they get the harlots in the end?
  
  Factoid: Goyim women live in a state of perpetual filth. Which is why observant Jews will not sit next to them in a plane.
  
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  July 29, 2018 5:12pm
realityczech

WATCH: Rabbi Says Muslim Invasion Of Europe Is “Excellent News” Because “Christianity Must Be Destroyed”

He says it is written that Christianity must be destroyed ahead of the Messiah’s return. Sounds just like the Shia Muslims trying to create necessary conditions for the return of their 12th Imam.
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July 29, 2018 4:58pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  Are you Rapture-ready?
  
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  July 29, 2018 5:00pm
  - realityczech
    
    You just focus on – praying the gay away – milky.
    
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    July 29, 2018 5:05pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      I pray daily that you can keep away from gays, Kea. Does it help?
      
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      July 29, 2018 6:01pm
realityczech

Archaeologist: Egyptian religion forms the roots of Jewish, Christian, Islamic religious tree

The ~~Egyptians~~ Jews should have left it in Africa where it belongs.
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July 29, 2018 5:04pm
Kabull

How many have seen this from to Daily Mail?
http://disq.us/url?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymail.co.uk%2Fnews%2Farticle-6001135%2FA-devastating-report-reveals-300-000-illegal-migrants-living-one-French-suburb.html%3AEhPvcvP0MCT8J_eGALfdOGix62o&cuid=1035183

No matter what your opinion of the DM might be, this is a solid bit of reporting that should be ringing alarm bells throughout Western nations. Listen to Lauren Southern and reflect that our only safeguard here in NZ is our distance – which stops the mass migration Europe is experiencing. I understand there are ghettos in Australia that are not very dissimilar to the situation in Paris.
Time to wake up, Kiwis.
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July 29, 2018 5:09pm
slightlyrighty

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/somali-family-wins-fight-to-stay-in-country/ar-BBLcdMw?li=AAaeXZz&ocid=spartandhp

Disgraceful, considering how many people have been deported for far less, and who are usually white when it happens….
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July 29, 2018 5:19pm
Jack5

Our Leftist, ultra-liberal Immigration and Protection Tribunal keeps the doors of the country open to border crashers:

https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/362897/somali-family-wins-fight-to-stay-in-country
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July 29, 2018 5:35pm
- realityczech
  
  What ever shall we do with them Jacksie?
  
  Jewish refugees interned during the War
  
  Jewish Internees in New Zealand during the Second World War
  
  An account of Jewish refugees interned on Somes Island during the Second World War with Germans, and other enemy aliens with Nazi sympathies. It describes the security concerns about aliens in general, the classification of refugees and the experience of Jewish refugees is the internment camp.
  
  At least eight of the men who were interned in New Zealand during World War II were Jewish, part-Jewish or had a Jewish background. They had come to New Zealand before the war as refugees from Germany and Austria, fleeing Nazism.[2] For three or four years of the war they and other anti-fascist refugees were imprisoned with German nationals who included among them some fervent Nazis.[3] At camps set up on Somes Island in Wellington Harbour and for a shorter time at Pahiatua in the central North Island, they were locked up and guarded ‘lest [they] escaped to help their mortal enemies’.[4]
  
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  July 29, 2018 5:39pm
- Swifty
  
  This again sends the clear message that if you lie and cheat your way into NZ as long as you have children then you’ll be rewarded with a blessing to stay.
  
  I’ve seen this time and time again.
  
  We’re just chumps.
  
  We’re the weakling in the schoolyard who everyone takes the lunch from.
  
  These are not the people we want as citizens – if kids are disadvantaged as a result of deportation well that is the fault of the criminal parents. Our hands are clean.
  
  NZ must place a higher value on citizenship and we must preserve the integrity of our immigration systems.
  
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  July 29, 2018 6:02pm
Jack5

Keep this to yourself, KRCzech. No need to upset EAD …

Adolf Hitler was likely part Jewish, DNA analysis of surviving relatives showed eight years ago.

If known then , this would not have gone down well with Hitler’s mate, the Palestinian Arab leader, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-two/7961211/Hitler-had-Jewish-and-African-roots-DNA-tests-show.html
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July 29, 2018 5:47pm
- realityczech
  
  Jacksie, Eddy will be fine with that. All he wants is for Jews to be treated like everyone else. He should be Race Relations Commissioner.
  
  I am an atheist race mixer and just want an end to the war and bullshit of religion.
  
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  July 29, 2018 5:50pm
realityczech

More religious news:

Cardinal Theodore McCarrick Resigns Amid Sexual Abuse Scandal

ROME — Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, the former archbishop of Washington, from the College of Cardinals, ordering him to a “life of prayer and penance” after allegations that the cardinal sexually abused minors…
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July 29, 2018 5:54pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  Did you see the bit that noted how, after the Spotlight scandal, the American RCs adopted a new, stricter policy for priests, which conveniently excluded bishops?
  If it was okay to suppress the Nazi Party after WWII, how much longer can it be before civilised countries accept the need to suppress the Catholic Church?
  
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  July 29, 2018 6:00pm
  - realityczech
    
    The Catholics adored the Nazi’s. The Croatians shocked even Hitler who asked them to use more human means in achieving their goals!
    
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    July 29, 2018 6:02pm
    - stephieboy
      
      Kea, all kinds of people were complicit in the murder of Jews including the Mufti of Jereslum and here reviewing battalion of SS Bosnians,
      
      https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-what-really-happened-when-the-mufti-met-hitler-1.5412261
      
      Slavs too,
      
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust_in_Ukraine
      
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      July 29, 2018 6:06pm
      - realityczech
        
        Yes stupidboy, there is no end to the evils of the religious.
        
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        July 29, 2018 6:11pm
      - stephieboy
        
        Kea , and the irreligious like Hitler and Stalin,
        
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        July 29, 2018 6:13pm
      - realityczech
        
        “I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so”
        
        [Adolph Hitler, to Gen. Gerhard Engel, 1941]
        
        “Any violence which does not spring from a spiritual base, will be
        wavering and uncertain. It lacks the stability which can only rest in
        a fanatical outlook.”
        
        [Adolph Hitler, _Mein Kampf_, p. 171]
        
        “I had excellent opportunity to intoxicate myself with the solemn
        splendor of the brilliant church festivals. As was only natural, the
        abbot seemed to me, as the village priest had once seemed to my
        father, the highest and most desirable ideal.”
        
        [Adolf Hitler, “Mein Kampf”, Vol. 1, Chapter 1]
        
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        July 29, 2018 6:24pm
      - Swifty
        
        WTF?
        
        Has stiffy just labelled Hitler as irreligious?
        
        Snigger 🙂
        
        Dear me, how can someone be so wrong so often?
        
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        July 29, 2018 6:28pm
      - stephieboy
        
        Swifty,
        
        “As a human being it is my duty to see to it that humanity will not suffer the same catastrophic collapse as did that old civilization two thousand years ago, a civilization which was driven to its ruin by the Jews. . . I am convinced that I am really a devil and not a Christian if I do not feel compassion and do not wage war, as Christ did two thousand years ago, against those who are stealing and exploiting these poverty-stricken people.”
        
        https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Religious_views_of_Adolf_Hitler
        
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        July 29, 2018 7:44pm
      - realityczech
        
        stupidboy, you realise that comment reinforces the claim Hitler was a Christian and was in fact driven by his Christian beliefs in his actions against the Jews?
        
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        July 29, 2018 7:47pm
      - Swifty
        
        Stiffy – you’re fooling nobody.
        
        He was born a Catholic and died a Catholic – never once repudiating his belief in God or his church.
        
        Oh, and one interesting fact of hundreds I could give you, his SS troops had ‘Gott mit uns’ stamped on their belt buckles!
        
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        July 29, 2018 7:58pm
      - realityczech
        
        Nazi and Clergy. Birds of a feather
        
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        July 29, 2018 8:04pm
      - Jack5
        
        Swifty at 7.58 repeats an error that has been made before on Kiwiblog when he says the SS had “Gott mit uns” on their belt buckles.
        
        In World War 1, German soldiers had this on their belt buckles, and so did German Army troops in World War 2. Members of the Waffen SS wore on their belt buckles the motto Meine Ehre heißt Treue (‘My honour is loyalty’).
        
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        July 29, 2018 10:23pm
    - MrTips
      
      Yeah, absolutely. That’s why Pius XI wrote Mit brennender sorge in 1937. Your pathetic rants on here are beaten only by your frenetic Google driven tenuous grip on reality RC.
      
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      July 29, 2018 6:27pm
      - realityczech
        
        By Google you mean evidence driven. Unlike your religion driven fantasy world.
        
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        July 29, 2018 6:47pm
- Inandout
  
  That is terrible news, and it sure leaves genital mutilation in the background.
  
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  July 29, 2018 6:28pm
Nostradamus

Moulin Rouge calls for ‘well proportioned’ Kiwi dancers

Is Megan Woods available?

And staying with the dance theme: Royal New Zealand Ballet’s cultural adviser threatened to quit over Māori portrayal

A bust up over the use of Māoridom is on full display in a documentary of the Royal New Zealand Ballet’s production of The Piano.
…
“[Dancers were dressed in] plastic tikis that looked like frogs, the ‘Māori’ dancers were all wearing wigs. The piupiu [traditional skirts made of flax] were bits of little plastic hanging off, the dancers were wearing moko all over there bodies that looked like something out of a high school production,” Patterson said.

Well if the cloth fits…
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July 29, 2018 6:15pm
- nasska
  
  …..’she was looking for “tall, healthy, gorgeous girls”.”…..
  
  We’re a bit short of those in present day NZ. Would she settle for a few slouching, sick looking lardarses? 🙂
  
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  July 29, 2018 6:25pm
  - realityczech
    
    Fat, angry, lazy and covered in tattoos with purple hair?
    
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    July 29, 2018 6:33pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    There’s lots of local talent to choose from, Nasska.
    
    New Zealand’s plus-size model
    
    Michelle maintains her weight for her work – if she dropped dress sizes she would be too small for plus-size modelling yet too big for other jobs.
    
    “I’m happy with the size I am,” she asserts. “I don’t exercise every day but if I feel I need to work out I will.”
    
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    July 29, 2018 6:35pm
    - nasska
      
      …..”“I prefer to say I’m ‘real-size’ rather than sample-size like most models,” says the Aucklander, who is 178cm (5ft 10in) and has a size 12 bust, size 10 waist and size 14 hips.”…..
      
      Dear God! Faced with something with size 14 hips I’d turn gay! 🙂
      
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      July 29, 2018 6:42pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Nasska:
        
        I can’t say that being pounded by a gay guy with size 14 hips appeals to me. Different strokes for different folks, I guess! 🙂
        
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        July 29, 2018 6:45pm
      - Longknives
        
        Live a little Nasska!
        As Freddie said –
        ‘They make the Rocking World go round’
        
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        July 29, 2018 6:51pm
Nostradamus

Claire Curran doesn’t like unfavourable media coverage: “I am concerned that MediaWorks appears to be running a campaign to influence the Government”.

Here’s an idea to get favourable media coverage:

Cambodia’s Information Minister has been seen giving local journalists $US200 just minutes after voting in an election labelled a “sham” by rights groups. … “I want to give these guys (local media) some money but you guys (ABC) are here,” he said.

The queue of journalists lining up to order coffee at Cafe Astoria is 100m long!
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July 29, 2018 6:29pm
Odakyu-sen

Food time!
I so wish I could get Hiroshima-styled okonomiyaki in Auckland.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjpSKxlNAds

Who has been to Osaka to try the food? (I really need to go there.)
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July 29, 2018 6:40pm
nasska

Not many takers on Osaka take-aways Odakyu-sen. What about https://www.lolwot.com/10-of-strangest-things-about-japans-sex-culture/ ?

…..”Masanobu Sato works for a Japanese sex toy company, but he’s also a world champion in masturbation. In order to become one, he needed to stay aroused without ejaculating for as long as possible. He blames his success on his extensively vivid imagination.”…..

AND

…..”Tokyo also houses plenty of craziest fetish scenes in the world. It caters to literally every need you may have, from bondage to eating sushi from naked bodies. However, it also goes to extremes with dental exams and inserting eels.”….. 🙂
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July 29, 2018 7:14pm
- stephieboy
  
  nasska, praise be there is still hope for your erectile dysfunction! ie minute wee wee!
  
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  July 29, 2018 7:33pm
  - Longknives
    
    ?
    
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    July 29, 2018 7:37pm
    - stephieboy
      
      Longknives , yours tiny too?
      
      LOL
      
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      July 29, 2018 7:42pm
      - Swifty
        
        Always with the sex talk stiffy – just what is wrong with you?
        
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        July 29, 2018 8:06pm
      - realityczech
        
        Soon as they hit puberty stupidboy loses all interest, unless “they” is a goat or something.
        
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        July 29, 2018 8:09pm
    - nasska
      
      I’m going to look on the bright side Longknives.
      
      At least while he’s fantasising over my chopper he’s laying off Maggy & her underwear! 🙂
      
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      July 29, 2018 7:48pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        You’re a gentleman, nasska.
        
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        July 29, 2018 8:03pm
      - stephieboy
        
        MW, nasska a gentleman??
        
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        July 29, 2018 9:05pm
starboard

Another violent special… attacks an 87 year old man.
Filthy scumbag mongrel bastard.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/105843951/elderly-hawkes-bay-man-attacked-and-has-his-car-stolen
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July 29, 2018 8:39pm
EAD_TWO

It is interesting to observe the rather tired “Hitler was/wasn’t a Christian” blah blah blah debate raging in such a tired circuitous fashion, with virtually no-one being able to look much beyond what the History channel has told them.

Hitler & Jesus (along with the likes of JFK and Andrew Jackson) were courageous men who had the courage to fight the international bankers and bring down their house of cards. The pair of them share a unique biographical duality – there is, in the latters case, the Jesus of history and there is the Christ of faith; two completely different personae.

In Hitler’s case there is the brilliant, mesmeric, selfless servant of his beloved volk, whose Faustian spirit, by sheer force of will, brought into being what was arguably the only state in history whose primary purpose was “to scatter plenty over a smiling land”, rather than to benefit an elite minority which was why he had to be finished off by the twin powers of the (((State capitalism))) of Soviet Russia and the (((‘private’ capitalism))) of America and Europe.

And then there is the malevolent creation of Allied propaganda, which is to say the acme of evil; the monster who wanted to conquer the world and whose chief delight lay in mass genocide.

This view of course being a complete lie when one takes an honest revisionists look at history but one for which 95%+ of the population can’t move on from – such is the power of propaganda and insidious programming.
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July 29, 2018 8:50pm
- EAD_TWO
  
  https://i.redd.it/7egeiyxh3kty.png
  
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  July 29, 2018 8:57pm
- stephieboy
  
  “honest revisionists” ??
  
  “The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
  
  ― George Carlin
  
  LOL
  
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  July 29, 2018 8:57pm
Jack5

Ahrrrrrr!

As well as macrons being added to NZ Pidgin English, there seems to be a move in it to drop the letter “r”.

On the Q&A political show on TV1 tonight, it was noticeable that the speakers were talking about the “pahty” – the “pahty” this and the “pahty” that …

The party is over – at least in NZ.
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