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Chuck Bird

No wonder the Herald is in trouble when the employ the likes of Paul Little and Lizzie Marvelly!

Paul Little: System failed serial drink-driver

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=12164640
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November 25, 2018 8:05am
- sooty
  
  No the judges failed. There should have been harder sentences!
  
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  November 25, 2018 8:08am
- Northland Wahine
  
  Paul Little, like so many apologists believe you can sprinkle glitter rainbows by an imaginary faerie and Hawthorns alcoholism and disregard for other people’s safety, will disappear.
  
  Only one person can help Hawthorn. And if he doesn’t want to stop drinking and driving, guess what Little. He’s gonna continue.
  
  If he takes the life of a loved one Little knows, I doubt he’d be so empathic towards Hawthorn.
  
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  November 25, 2018 8:13am
  - igm
    
    Why is it with all crime, judiciary and crim-loving pollies are never directly affected?
    Hopefully when one is directly impacted their gutless and pathetic views may start changing.
    
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    November 25, 2018 8:35am
    - Inandout
      
      Igm, I often wonder that too. I realise judges are drawn from the legal fraternity and tend to live in leafy suburbs, generally safe suburbs. Pollies are more likely to be exposed to crime but amazingly seem to escape being victims. The spread of Islamic terrorism though may change the game.
      
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      November 25, 2018 8:49am
      - G152
        
        Those leafy suburbs are one of the reasons that bush fires are so devastating in towns and cities
        
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        November 25, 2018 9:28am
  - Nookin
    
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=3566555
    
    It seems from the above article, that Hawthorn had couselling and underwent programmes.
    
    One gets the impression from Little’s article that there were no attempts at rehabilitation and the sole focus was on retribution.
    
    Maybe Little could have done further research and reported on all attempts at rehab before denouncing the system and treating Hawthorn as a victim of an oppressive and uncaring system.
    
    Maybe he could provide some analysis of the nature of a man who didnt did a tinker’s cuss that he killed his mate and let us know, given his inestimable wisdom in this area, what treatment would have turned him about.
    Otherwise, this article is no more than puddle deep pandering to the jaundiced SJWs who seem to love the Herald.
    
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    November 25, 2018 8:36am
    - GoVege
      
      Most of the counselling and programmes are useless, didn’t you know?
      Years ago in Sweden, they decided to give everyone caught drink-driving 3 months in prison.
      (I.e. before they actually maimed or killed anybody.)
      Wonder how their road toll compares with ours?
      
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      November 25, 2018 9:06am
      - GoVege
        
        Just checked….Sweden’s road toll is about a third of ours.
        
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        November 25, 2018 9:11am
      - realityczech
        
        Vege, I just checked – women in Saudi Arabia never get done for driving drunk.
        
        Lets be more like them?
        
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        November 25, 2018 9:15am
      - GoVege
        
        Don’t ever drive in the Middle East, RC.
        Apparently if you’re in a crash, you are automatically the guilty party because if you’d stayed in your own country, the accident couldn’t have happened!
        The marvellous reasoning of the Middle Eastern mind…. 🙂
        
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        November 25, 2018 9:31am
      - realityczech
        
        I was recently reading up how things currently are in Saudi Arabia – aside from the attrocities in Yemen using USA arms.
        
        Short answer – even worse. What a vile shit hole. Their fellow Sharia loving Sunni’s in ISIS are more moderate.
        
        Still it is allowed as they hate the same people as Israel, like Syria and Iran.
        
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        November 25, 2018 9:36am
      - Jack5
        
        They will be pleased with you in Tel Aviv, ❗?Realityczech❗
        
        Good work on your cover, RC. Keep building it.
        ?
        
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        November 25, 2018 11:46am
  - kevn
    
    Set him work at a morgue when deceased accident victims arrive. See consequences.
    
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    November 25, 2018 11:54am
- cmm
  
  The only way the system seems to have failed is removing the death sentence.
  
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  November 25, 2018 8:15am
- cmm
  
  The system really is stuffed when we have people like Little accepted as social commentators.
  
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  November 25, 2018 8:48am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Perhaps Paul Little needs to read the facts about Gavin Hawthorne.
  It was reported that Hawthorne refused alcohol counselling whilst in jail.
  https://www.pressreader.com/new-zealand/the-dominion-post/20130529/281741266956844
  
  Paul Little seems to have had little experience with alcoholics and alcoholism.
  Those of us who have observed loved ones on their paths of destruction know there are no solutions if the alcoholic refuses to come to the dry-out party.
  
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  November 25, 2018 9:06am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Could Paul Little be Angry Andy’s brother?
    
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    November 25, 2018 9:56am
    - sooty
      
      If he is, stupidity runs in the family!
      
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      November 25, 2018 11:06am
sooty

Tuesday is back to parliament for Labour to answer questions on corruption an lawnmowers,
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November 25, 2018 8:05am
- igm
  
  You have overlooked sex scandal at Labour indoctrination camp!
  Wood it have just been an oversight?
  
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  November 25, 2018 8:10am
  - DifferentPerspective
    
    Son! You can’t say that
    
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    November 25, 2018 8:31am
  - cmm
    
    Why is this being dragged on so long?
    
    About the same time as Fingergate, Haami Hanara murdered Kelly Donner. It took them over a month to hunt Hanara down where he was hiding in a shed on a property 270km from the scene.
    
    The system has managed to process this relatively complex case and reach a guilty verdict in just over 7 months.
    
    Fingergate is pretty straight forward. Lots of reliable witnesses, known perp, no hiding in sheds. Yet the case is being kicked down the road.
    
    Are they hoping that with enough time name suppression will be breached enough that they can calim miscarriage of justice etc etc? If so, everyone directing this case is complicit in defeating justice, just as the Labour party are already.
    
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    November 25, 2018 8:59am
    - igm
      
      Maybe the perpetrator is waiting to do a Ginga and shoot through when no one is looking.
      
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      November 25, 2018 9:12am
    - GoVege
      
      Is that the 14 year old now being described as NZ’s youngest killer?
      About 20 years ago a 13 year old raped and murdered a 21 year old in Wellington.
      Just shows you can’t believe everything you read in the newspaper…
      
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      November 25, 2018 9:34am
      - cmm
        
        Bailey Junior Kuraki was 12 and a bit in 2001 when he murdered the pizza bloke in Auckland. Got 7 years.
        
        Even back then they were blaming the system:
        https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=2351233
        
        “Kurariki’s involvement in the killing was the “end result of CYF’s failings”, he (Sr. Constable Len Johnston) said.”
        
        Been imprisoned twice now (once again for domestic violence).
        
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        November 25, 2018 11:51am
- G152
  
  Baabee
  
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  November 25, 2018 8:20am
- Komata
  
  Sooty
  
  You wish!!
  
  Hopefully Mr Bridges will do so, but don’t hold your breath…
  
  (Sad to actually have to write that!)
  
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  November 25, 2018 11:10am
Sir Cullen's Sidekick

Next week for Cyndy to shine in Parliament with her concerned looks and sideways head positioning and MSM to drool all over.
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November 25, 2018 8:09am
- RF
  
  You must not forget the bobbing head followed by a brilliant flash of ivory.
  
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  November 25, 2018 9:53am
  - Tall Man
    
    Flash…grimace more like.
    
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    November 25, 2018 9:59am
  - Tricati
    
    Until she has to answer a question she doesn’t like then she will snarl at the opposition and slump back in her chair with a pissed off look on her face – Showing the real princess
    
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    November 25, 2018 10:25am
    - sooty
      
      I wonder if one of those bobb
      ing head toys would sell, with Cindys head on it? You could even have the eyes light up when you hit the brakes!
      
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      November 25, 2018 10:58am
      - madamezucchininz
        
        ….the husband and I were just talking last night about whether a bobble head would be a big seller…..flashing lights hahaha…..the teeth could fall out as well….
        
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        November 25, 2018 11:50am
      - mic
        
        The teeth on the bobbing head could be used as a nutcracker, great Christmas pressie!
        
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        November 25, 2018 1:42pm
      - RF
        
        I heard a rumour that her associates at Uni called her “the shredder”.
        
        I have no idea in what context.
        
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        November 25, 2018 2:25pm
- Komata
  
  Sir Cullen…
  
  And don’t forget the ‘Flomp’ / Flounce’ when ‘madam’ doesn’t get her own way or is ‘out-thought’ by HM Loyal Opposition (a regular occurance BTW).
  
  The MSM never,ever, report THOSE little details, important though they are…
  
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  November 25, 2018 11:14am
Huevon

Last week, I met an amazing family from South America. The couple are both working hard as chefs and love New Zealand. However their daughter has been not been granted a Visa because she has an intellectual disability. According to her mother they are can support her and she isn’t a burden, but Immigration NZ disagrees so the family is now separated.

Meanwhile, Labour has granted residency to an imprisoned drug smuggler, in what the PM described as a careful and considered decision.
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November 25, 2018 8:12am
- igm
  
  What about the scum from Nauru and Manus that Gnashers wants to bring in?
  
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  November 25, 2018 8:15am
  - Tall Man
    
    I see you have received 2 down ticks. I’d ask those two to come forward and explain why they want the scum from Nauru and Manus here.
    
    Don’t be shy, show some courage for a change rather than hide behind your keyboard.
    
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    November 25, 2018 10:02am
    - MCos
      
      There’s another downtick with no explanation to piss you off.
      
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      November 25, 2018 10:22am
      - Tall Man
        
        Funny guy.
        
        At my stage in life very little pisses me off but plenty amuses me.
        
        Haven’t seen one person with the courage of their convictions to give an answer.
        
        Are they chicken shit or just too thick to enunciate their opinion?
        
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        November 25, 2018 2:01pm
- Paulus
  
  Yes but what do the Government know about the Drug Smuggler as to who are his clients and friends ?
  It is called Blackmail.
  
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  November 25, 2018 8:28am
  - igm
    
    Paulus: There is definitely something more to this than even compliant MSM know about.
    Someone has a lot to hide and it will come out one day . . . sooner the better!
    
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    November 25, 2018 8:31am
    - artemisia
      
      Sroubek decision. Might just be a cock up by the Minister. Meantime the rumours keep rolling on, and on, gathering embellishments daily.
      
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      November 25, 2018 8:41am
      - oldpark
        
        @artemisia 8.41am
        Will Lie-bour/Green/ .Peters Party/ friend Mike Bush Police Commissioner come to the rescue again. As he attempts to shut down rumours and innuendo. Maybe it is getting harder to fool all of the people all of the time. Nuff said!
        
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        November 25, 2018 8:54am
      - Inandout
        
        How true arte, and the latest rumour is this drug dealer has clients on both sides of the House, hence his being cuddled. There are even names, but not for this forum.
        
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        November 25, 2018 8:59am
      - tf78
        
        Rumours are allowed because we were told to read between the lines – carte blanche to think what you want.
        
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        November 25, 2018 9:38am
      - Viking2
        
        Asking on behalf of my Mental Health Nurse.
        Do lawn clippings create paranoia when eaten?
        
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        November 25, 2018 10:33am
    - RF
      
      Hopefully the PM will resign when the truth comes out.
      
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      November 25, 2018 9:02am
      - KevOB
        
        If ILG simply got it wrong the new evidence gave him an out for a review.
        Sroubek is all lawyered up. Should that be too scary?
        
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        November 25, 2018 9:08am
      - Captain Mainwaring
        
        “Hopefully the PM will resign when the truth comes out.”
        
        She won’t have any choice.
        
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        November 25, 2018 9:14am
      - igm
        
        Should not be a resignation, the harridan never being elected to the position.
        
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        November 25, 2018 9:14am
      - Keeping Stock
        
        Yes Kev, because if ILG now decides to deport Sroubek, you can be sure there will be a judicial review, and the case is likely to go all the way to the Supreme Court. I’d suggest that Sroubek will still be here in five years.
        
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        November 25, 2018 9:34am
      - RF
        
        When you ignore the snow flakes and the great unwashed that leaves you with 90% of intelligent folk who do not support Ardern the liar.
        
        In the good old days royalty living in castles had food tasters so does Cindy have staff proof reading media articles and vetting the TV news protecting her from the real world.
        
        Jethro is missing in action. Has he hooked a new fish or is he dining on his favourite dish, cold turkey.
        
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        November 25, 2018 9:47am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @KS
        
        and in that case, everything connected with the case will be under wraps.. so it is imperative that all relevant information is made public now before the shutters are closed tight.
        (Most open and transparent and accountable Government eva)
        
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        November 25, 2018 9:58am
      - sooty
        
        So the dud cheque is lawyered up.
        Is that because he made a fortune drug running?
        
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        November 25, 2018 11:04am
      - Paulus
        
        Never – she does not care a damn about her lies as she in omnipotent and does not tell lies.
        
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        November 25, 2018 1:34pm
    - artemisia
      
      Our Prime Minister should regret the ‘read between the lines’ comment.
      
      Should but won’t. No time to read the vast number of comments taking the piss in the big job. And no way are her staff going to tell her unless they are ready for a growling and a foot stamp.
      
      Blissful ignorance.
      
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      November 25, 2018 12:45pm
- Woz
  
  I wonder how much it has cost the NZ taxpayer to support the Czech lawn mower for the duration of his detention?
  
  Everything is fucked.
  
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  November 25, 2018 8:35am
- kowtow
  
  PI’s have genetic disposition to kidney disease.
  
  That’s grounds for not granting visas.
  
  They cost the tax payer (via the health system ) a king’s ransom.
  
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  November 25, 2018 8:42am
  - Inandout
    
    Is that why Middlemore Renal is chocker?
    
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    November 25, 2018 9:02am
    - igm
      
      Obesity in PI women is supposed to make them desirable so maybe they have eyesight problems also.
      
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      November 25, 2018 9:15am
  - stephieboy
    
    kowtow, Many Asians too. Another grounds but very, fortunately, you are nowhere near to having a say in that!
    
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    November 25, 2018 2:09pm
    - Tall Man
      
      Good lord you spout nonsense. Are you drunk or just bloody ignorant.
      
      ardern is a liar
      
      steffy is a girl
      
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      November 25, 2018 9:08pm
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  The girl with an intellectual disability does not sell lawnmowers, the Czech does. The girl does not have dirt on the Labour Party, the Czech probably does. Read between the lines she said.
  
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  November 25, 2018 9:15am
  - Viking2
    
    Can those lawn clippings be dried and used to smoke fish?
    Quite partial to smoked trout.
    I know I can get different flavours using manuka, Rewarewa, even the old gum leaves. Never tried grass though.
    
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    November 25, 2018 10:37am
    - Tall Man
      
      What about stoned trout?
      
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      November 25, 2018 9:09pm
Nukuleka

All Blacks to wear rainbow boot laces. With g strings, mascara and rainbow glitter as well? Gosh this virtue signaling is an embarrassment.
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November 25, 2018 8:15am
- cmm
  
  Everything is stuffed.
  
  Look at the last Lions tour. They all leaned to sing in English, Welsh, Gaelic etc. Beautiful singing voices.
  
  One wonders if they would have done better on the field if they had rather spent some of that time training.
  
  People go to the rugby to watch rugby. If they want to hear singing they’;ll go to the opera.
  
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  November 25, 2018 8:19am
  - MCos
    
    Didn’t seem to do the the ABs any harm.
    
    Despite all the grizzling they had a 87% win record for the season.
    
    By the way.
    Ma’a Nonu has already used mascara years ago. Didn’t do him any harm either.
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/rugby/news/article.cfm?c_id=80&objectid=3606645
    
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    November 25, 2018 9:27am
- The only red for me is that of Manchester United
  
  Gavin Thomas got the crap beaten out of him by thugs who didn’t like the fact that he was gay. The rainbow laces were worn to show their support for Thomas. Not a show of virtual signalling. Perhaps you are ok with people being beaten up for who they are or what they believe in. I’m not. And I’m a paid up member of the National party and have done campaign work for a MP. Let’s leave the cliched right wing bigotry somewhere else.
  
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  November 25, 2018 9:27am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    Agree 110%. It was a show of support for a respected fellow player. Let’s not read anything else into it.
    
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    November 25, 2018 9:36am
  - big bruv
    
    “The rainbow laces were worn to show their support for Thomas.”
    Bullshit. If the NZ rugby team wanted to show their support for Mr Thomas they could have simply called him up.
    This is virtue signaling, blatant virtue signaling by an organisation that condones its players bashing innocent members of the public.
    
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    November 25, 2018 10:14am
    - Colville
      
      Hey Bruv.
      
      How good is that pom Farrell? Just drops the shoulder and dosent bother with the arms and the refs love him. Twice in 3 games, should have been carded both times.
      
      If only the ABs could get away with that huh?
      
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      November 25, 2018 11:28am
- itstricky
  
  With g strings, mascara and rainbow glitter as well?
  
  Someone’s got unacknowledged issues.
  
  this virtue signaling is an embarrassment.
  
  Is it virtue signalling when they put a poppy emblem on the jersey?
  
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  November 25, 2018 10:32am
calendar girl

So much for Ardern’s caring and empathetic Government, Huevon.
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November 25, 2018 8:16am
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Post of yesterday from the Who experiences online hate speech the most?

Muttonbird

Hate speech is particularly prevalent on Kiwiblog

The norm which must leave the National and ACT Party leadership and rank and file aghast! Also, make poor DPF cringe!

Now KB haters have regard and respect for your host!
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November 25, 2018 8:17am
- G152
  
  Solution.
  You stop posting and the ‘hate speech’ you claim will disappear.
  Instantly!
  The solution is in your hands
  
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  November 25, 2018 8:23am
  - kowtow
    
    Trolls aren’t covered as a “protected” minority , yet .
    
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    November 25, 2018 8:44am
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      Give it time…
      
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      November 25, 2018 9:09am
- Komata
  
  SB
  
  Whichever one of you are currently on duty:
  
  In respect of ‘Hate speech’, and given your activities on this site, a question:
  
  Do you have a mirror?
  
  Thanks.
  
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  November 25, 2018 8:56am
- Harkman
  
  “Hate speech is particularly prevalent on Kiwiblog
  
  The norm which must leave the National and ACT Party leadership and rank and file aghast! Also, make poor DPF cringe!”
  
  Just like the hate shown to John Key’s family? Ever seen the Standard? Bomber Bradbury?
  
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  November 25, 2018 8:58am
- Inandout
  
  Stephie, your boss in Iran has made a call to arms against the US. Join in the fun.
  
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  November 25, 2018 9:06am
- harvey wilson
  
  This is the same Muttonbird who said on the standard he wanted Cameron Slater to be killed?
  
  Why would anyone take that dishonest bitter losers opinion seriously?
  
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  November 25, 2018 9:25am
  - igm
    
    Harvey: He would not say that to Slater face-to-face . . . he would get what he deserved.
    
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    November 25, 2018 10:05am
- Tall Man
  
  I love the “hidden” function. I don’t have to read your drivel and yet you’ll see mine..
  
  Ardern is a liar
  
  steffy is a girl
  
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  November 25, 2018 10:10am
Paulus

It looks as though the Twit from Te Atatu has
well and truly phucked the Goff from Clevedon, with his new Super Empire which can override anything that Goff wants in Auckland.
I can hear the shit hitting the fan at Auckland Council along with the fight as to which new staff will transfer to the the New Wonder Super KiwiBuild organisation.
It will of course be a disaster as there are still no Builders who would want to take part in the Jerry Build Slums of the future.
Very Sad really.
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November 25, 2018 8:25am
- Woz
  
  How does creating another giant swarm of bureaucrats “cut through all the red tape”?
  
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  November 25, 2018 8:39am
  - sooty
    
    I think you would end up just breeding more clipboard worriers.
    
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    November 25, 2018 11:08am
- brett68
  
  Fletchers
  
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  November 25, 2018 9:08am
- peterwn
  
  Phil Twyford is not going to get the RMA changed, yet there is a pressing need to free things up to enable housing to be provided as cheaply as possible. Setting up an alternative legislative regime for specified blocks of land to ‘bypass’ the RMA seems a pragmatic way forward. Hopefully for Phil, hope he succeeded in getting this ‘bottom lined’ in the secret document, also he may have already had Phil Goff lined up ie Government money for train sets in exchange for Phil Goff’s support.
  The need for housing is far too important for things to get bogged down with RMA and the existing building inspection regime. Seems Phil Twyford is proceeding with a ‘circuit breaker proposal to help ease things and for that I support him in principle.
  
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  November 25, 2018 9:13am
  - G152
    
    Only be coming in a years time.
    The nats will be able to use it then
    
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    November 25, 2018 9:33am
  - Viking2
    
    Despite all the noise I have yet to see any real evidence that we are short of houses.
    Those that want one can get one, those that have a bad record can’t.
    Now we can’t always click our fingers and have instant gratification with a brand new house. At 72 I have had one. At 22 they seem to think they are entitled to do what most of the rest of us never do.
    
    There is already signs of overbuild in some places.
    House building is slowing and after this will go slower as builders respond to the market.
    Commercial on the other hand is flying.
    
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    November 25, 2018 10:44am
    - peterwn
      
      IMO it is essential that housing is provided for all, even those who have abused rental housing.
      I would establish container housing areas adjacent to refuse landfills and designed to be ‘foolproof’, eg having Corrections style toilets / handbasins. When the tenants show that they can keep it clean and tidy and pay the rent they can be offered something better.
      
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      November 25, 2018 12:24pm
    - peterwn
      
      Examples, please. And what about the areas that are underbuilt. IMO the RMA and the paranoid approach councils have to take with respect to subdivision requirements, building consents and building inspections is a significant contribution to affordable housing and the system is in dire need of re-balancing,
      
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      November 25, 2018 2:31pm
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        oops, I meant ‘unaffordable’ housing.
        
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        November 25, 2018 4:14pm
KevOB

I have known judges having to deal with serial offenders like Hawthorn. They are frustrated and it is a judgment call: is the prisoner this time going to exit the system or not?
There is a high cost in locking someone up and that is weighed up against the chances of re-offending. There are age cohorts for maturity where many criminal successively exit the system. These are well known to sentencing judges.
There are also probation staff who report on the criminal prior to inform the judges decision.
Frequently these sentencing decisions work out and the probation staff are active in supervision.

Judges cannot get it right all the time. It has to be a compromise otherwise a robot can do the job and we would have neither justice or mercy. The only solution to preventing re-offending is to eliminate the offender completely at the first offence. That might cut parking ticket revenue in the cities.
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November 25, 2018 8:30am
- cmm
  
  “There is a high cost in locking someone up”
  
  There shouldn’t be. Why does it cost over $100k per prisoner?
  
  Families of 5 can exist perfectly happily on far less than $100k including paying off a mortgage, running a car and a whole lot of other things that a prisoner does not have/need.
  
  A couple on NZ super has to make do on $15k a year each.
  
  Since prisons are large organisations they should have economy of scale advantages. The prisoners should also be providing some labour: cooking, cleaning, gardening etc.
  
  It really should cost no more than $10k a year to hold a prisoner, including all the admin costs.
  
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  November 25, 2018 9:18am
  - MCos
    
    We live on the National Superannuation. However we don’t have anyone cooking our meals, making sure we don’t make a run for it (a walk more likely), tuck us into bed every night or check every now and then to make sure we’re not going to top ourselves.
    
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    November 25, 2018 9:49am
    - cmm
      
      Let’s do a bit of a budget:
      
      The Super is $41 per day per person for a couple.
      
      1) Let’s say a prisoner’s basic feeding, clothing etc should cost 25% of the super: $10 per day. It should not have to be more than that given the prisoners can make clothing, grow produce (would do them good), milk cows,… and food is bought in bulk so hefty discounts.
      
      2) Let’s say that the majority of prisoners are non-violent, so most of them should need no more than 1 guard per 10 inmates. If the guard is paid $70k a year then that’s $20 a day for direct guard costs.
      
      3) If the prisoners do maintenance etc, then the cost of the actual buildings drops significantly: $20 per day per prisoner.
      
      4) Other costs: admin, welfare, etc. : $20 per day.
      
      Total so far = $70 per day, $25k per year.
      
      5) Prisoners do work that earns $5 per hour = $40 per day of which they pay $30 as board and lodging and keep $10 for lollies.
      
      We’re at $40 per day = $15k
      
      Any more than that is nonsense.
      
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      November 25, 2018 12:09pm
      - realityczech
        
        2) Let’s say that the majority of prisoners are non-violent
        
        Yes lets. Why keep them in prison at all?
        
        We can save a fortune by having them out working in society.
        
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        November 25, 2018 5:50pm
      - cmm
        
        Yup, in many countries prisoners work. THey earn a bit of pocket money and some actually learn useful skills.
        
        In the South African wine lands many of the vine pruners are prisoners. Once they get out they are normally in high demand for their skills.
        
        THe bullshit NZ/UN directive banning forcing crims to work actually does the crims more harm than good. It helps to keep them in cycles of offending.
        
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        November 25, 2018 7:53pm
  - KevOB
    
    You want to build a prison for profit? The accountant in me feels the numbers are high but there are massive capital costs and staffing.
    
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    November 25, 2018 11:58am
    - cmm
      
      Sure there ARE those costs, but we don’t need them.
      
      Prisoners get TVs and heat pumps. Why?
      
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      November 25, 2018 5:38pm
secondcumming

Free-to-Air Television in this country is fast becoming an absolute joke!

Last night me and the missus were watching the ads on TV3, and they kept interrupting them with the final of The X-Factor.
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November 25, 2018 8:44am
- DigNap15
  
  Yes, and try to watch a movie, no ads for the first half an hour, then they start coming, and in the last hour they come every 5 minutes
  
  F them!
  
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  November 25, 2018 8:58am
- Harkman
  
  I know, on Saturday night they just need to put on a good movie (I spelt it right today ?).
  
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  November 25, 2018 9:00am
- Inandout
  
  I briefly went to TV1 last night and saw Simon Cowell, then to TV3 where I saw the same man. There was a woman on stage reading jokes from a book. I recoiled and went onto streaming user-choice and ad-free Netflix. I have also found some interesting stuff on YouTube.
  
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  November 25, 2018 9:31am
- MCos
  
  Read a book
  
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  November 25, 2018 12:48pm
  - Inandout
    
    I tried your book, Das Kapital, but found it too boring.
    
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    November 25, 2018 1:33pm
Fletch

I had a minor argument with some otherwise-intelligent teens at my brothers’ work yesterday. They really believe in this climate change stuff – spouting the slogans, “there is no planet B”, and that the world only has 12 years left (seriously!). And there was nothing I could say to disabuse them of the notion. I poo-pooed the plastic bag ban and they were horrified – what about the whale they cut open recently with bags inside etc…

The media and academics really do have a lot to answer for, for their part in the brainwashing of today’s youth.
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November 25, 2018 8:50am
- realityczech
  
  The fact a whale had a bag inside it proves nothing. Most people who die of heart attacks are found to have vegetables in their digestive tracks and water.
  
  I like to dip my plastic bags in engine oil, before throwing them in the sea, just to make sure a whale wont eat them. I am working on a way to make them radioactive.
  
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  November 25, 2018 8:57am
  - Tall Man
    
    Get Ardern the liar to pass water over them…….
    
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    November 25, 2018 10:14am
  - kevn
    
    @rc… Just leave the bags in a radioactive Jap import car from Fukushima. Should do the trick.
    The Russians turned a car transport boat around recently due to radioactivity, where did the cars end up? Ummm
    
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    November 25, 2018 11:48am
- cmm
  
  Unfortunately far too many do believe this stuff. They think short term and bugger the long term consequences.
  
  Why think of the future if there isn’t one? This stuff is extremely destructive to society.
  
  You could point out to them that back 2006, in Al Gore promised an ice free Arctic and extinction of polar bears etc by now.
  
  Yet somehow there are now massive booms in polar bear populations and the ice is still there.
  
  And in another 12 years there will probably be even more polar bears and the ice will still be there.
  
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  November 25, 2018 9:25am
  - All_on_Red
    
    In 1981 we were told “snow will be a thing of the past”
    
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    November 25, 2018 9:37am
    - Tall Man
      
      You silly bugger…that was the Colombian snow they were talking about…wrong about that as well. You should czech your facts more carefully 😉
      
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      November 25, 2018 10:17am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      And in the 1970s we were being warned that Earth was experiencing a cooling period
      http://www.denisdutton.com/newsweek_coolingworld.pdf
      
      And looks like we are fast approaching another very cold period.
      
      Still we’ve only got a couple of years before we find out whether the astrophysicists/solar observers are on the right track or not.
      GWPF Interview: New Solar Research Raises Climate Questions, Triggers Attacks
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sh_nlz43Pc
      
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      November 25, 2018 10:22am
- Inandout
  
  Fletch, take them to Mumbai for a real-life pollution experience.
  
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  November 25, 2018 9:34am
  - Tall Man
    
    Maybe a “give a little” page to send Ardern the liar and winnie the poo….
    
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    November 25, 2018 10:17am
Chuck Bird

A judgement call takes judgement. Would anyone argue that there are not incompetent teachers, police, doctors and individuals in every other professor and trade?

The fact is there are some incompetent judges and there should be a system to remove them.
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November 25, 2018 8:50am
- realityczech
  
  If a judge decides to go off script and do his own thing then it is grounds for appeal. They don’t just sit there doing what ever they like.
  
  I would suggest most of the judges he appeared before would have done something very different if they could.
  
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  November 25, 2018 8:55am
  - stephieboy
    
    Good Morning Moron!
    
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    November 25, 2018 9:05am
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      Hate speech!
      
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      November 25, 2018 9:19am
    - big bruv
      
      Muhammad was a pedophile.
      
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      November 25, 2018 10:19am
    - Tall Man
      
      Ok, stop looking the mirror and come on line and post some really relevant stuff.
      
      Oops, it’s you steffy girl.
      
      Ardern is a liar
      
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      November 25, 2018 10:19am
    - pentwig
      
      oh goody, the stupidthing is here
      now we can all sit back in awe and digest the comments of this self confessed disgusting pervert,
      and wonder how anything could be so stupid.
      LOL
      
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      November 25, 2018 10:25am
    - Nostradamus
      
      Stephieboy:
      
      Good Morning Moron!
      
      The St Albans roster states that you’re on tea duty today. Now get me a coffee (with milk and no sugar) and a scone. Hurry up. Chop chop!
      
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      November 25, 2018 10:33am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Is this the same person who posted up a comment about Muttonbird and people abusing Our Host’s rules.
      (I see that these comments have now been disappeared).
      
      A wee reminder, stephieboy…
      check out our Host’s commenting policies:
      I want arguments attacked, not people. As an example it will be unacceptable to call someone a moron,
      
      Hypocrisy is so unattractive in a troll.
      
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      November 25, 2018 10:41am
      - sooty
        
        But, but, it was the other stephie troll!
        
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        November 25, 2018 11:14am
  - KevOB
    
    An out of boundaries decision may be appealed by the Crown or the criminal.
    
    Judges do not act merrily on their own in sentencing. Sentencing is not immediate. The criminal will have been reported on by the probation service and others such as doctors, employers…
    The Police have a say too. That can be implied in the charges they choose to offer for prosecution. There is an implied ranking of severity and sentence options. The Police present a statement of facts and their comments in those are intended to be influential.
    
    In general the Judge delivers the sentence that the officials agree with and the criminal’s lawyer expects.
    Many people would consider any sentence other than exile for life as one from a dud judge.
    
    I have sat through more hours in sentencing courts than I would have liked. Our judges do care for the best all around outcomes. Aberrations are rare.
    
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    November 25, 2018 9:36am
    - gorse
      
      Well said, couldn’t agree more. Too many commentators believe locking them up and throwing away the keys is the answer. I am surprised that the call from some to bring back the guillotine hasn’t been made. There is a system for removing “dud” judges, but they have to be severely unfit, a threshold rarely met.
      
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      November 25, 2018 10:31am
      - Jazzby
        
        I take your point; however, there is a case to be made for a change in the law, whereby a recidivist addict such as this, who is a clear and present danger to the public, could be subject to a form of preventative detention. The number involved would be probably very small.
        Failure to comply with rehabilitation plans would result in further detention. It might be hard on the addict who is, after all, arguably sick rather than bad, but public safety must come first.
        
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        November 25, 2018 10:59am
      - Inandout
        
        Oh gorse, that globalist stuff is so predictable and reactionary. Keeping them locked up means you and I can be that little bit safer.
        
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        November 25, 2018 1:37pm
    - KevOB
      
      @Jazzby
      That is where it becomes a very tough judgement call. Everyone in Court or advising the Court is usually agreed. Because offenders mature at different rates and maybe by the time the offender reaches the next exit age group they may have matured makes it doubly difficult. Evidence for that is sought for.
      
      A long prison sentence after a string of appearances over an extended time almost invariably is an admission that the criminal can expect to be incarcerated almost permanently in future. The lengthy sentence will institutionalise the prisoner so they will not fit outside society. Prisoners often re-offend to get back inside.
      
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      November 25, 2018 12:21pm
    - Chuck Bird
      
      Hey Kev, are you a lawyer or a judge?
      
      This moronic judge not only gives this criminal Home D but allows him to legally own and drive a car after just 2 years. This crim should not be able to own or drive a car at the very least until he has not had a drink or taken drugs for at least 10 years.
      
      If Hawthorn injures or kills again this useless judge will have blood on his hands.
      
      We need a system to be able to sack useless, activist or dodgy judges who let those with connections off far lighter than the rest of us.
      
      DPF has just posted about another activist judge who does not agree with 3 Strikes.
      
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      November 25, 2018 1:37pm
      - KevOB
        
        I’m neither but I’ve done prosecutions, law drafting, spent quite a lot of time supporting in the criminal Courts and in social work dealing with outcomes.
        
        My opinions are personal and others may not agree. I have seen the input and outcomes of the justice system. I believe the merciful approach aiming to avoid incarceration unless necessary is to be preferred. Creating institutionalised persons is fairly easy: getting them back into regular society is not. Most won’t be employable. Giving the younger ones hope to establish themselves in regular society as useful citizens is important. We need them in work not prison.
        
        In my view the Courts don’t tolerate dangerous thugs readily. An offender aged 20 is much more likely to be given the opportunity to grow up and be useful than one aged 34 who bashes someone deliberately in apparently similarly circumstances. The differences are in the likelihood of eventual outcomes. The older is exhibiting behaviour that suggests very strongly that this will continue and so they should be ejected from society for its safety. The younger may be part of a bad group and immature. Probation Officers and social workers work with these wild youth in transition and thankfully most do drop out of the Justice System over about a 15 year period.
        
        I wouldn’t like to be a judge no one allows them any relief for not knowing the future. I believe we are blessed with a judiciary of integrity who aim to do their best. Some outcomes will be disastrous: that is the nature of decision making.
        
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        November 25, 2018 2:37pm
      - Chuck Bird
        
        Kev, you are thinking emotionally not logically. You talk about being blessed with a judiciary of integrity.
        
        What is the public’s view of lawyers? Most people would not say the majority of them had high integrity. No doubt some lawyers have high integrity.
        
        All judges have been lawyers. Do you have any evidence that some lawyers with little integrity do not become judges?
        
        Some notes on the career of District Court
        Judge James Johnston:
        He is a relatively inexperienced judge having been was sworn in on the 10th of June 2016.
        He is Ngati Porou, and has done a lot of work with Waitangi Claims.
        He works in the Youth Court, also with an influential Marae Based Justice outlook.
        He is part of the Rangatahi Courts (for Maori and Pacific youth) which means finding information on their ‘sentencing’ decisions will be nil. Youth court sentences are not published nor do they appear in national offending statistics.
        He is pro restorative/whanua led Justice. (he rarely sends an offender to prison)
        
        http://www.judgethejudges.co.nz/
        
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        November 25, 2018 3:33pm
- Harkman
  
  It’s not only judges immune from bad decisions but Doctors, Nurses, Physios, and Podiatrists.
  
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  November 25, 2018 9:06am
DifferentPerspective

Picking Losers – Macron

Another globalist lunatic is on the ropes with their insane Chicken Little Climate Alarmist policies.

I suppose a Frog would have to back the Paris accord – even if it is the most inane of ideas (taxes will lower the proportion of a vital trace gas in the atmosphere and let’s not worry about the poverty it will cause)

But Macron is in trouble in France with nationwide carbon tax protests.

And then you’ve got another cretin with a stupid-sounding Froggie surname lying his globalist ass off in Canada because of his inane Chicken Little policies – “Not my fault, yes I oppose every single pipeline that would make it economical to get oil to refineries – but not my fault that refineries are closing down and petrol is so expensive”

Vapid socialist virtue-signalling, support it and you will always end up paying through the nose for it!

Proof that the human species is de-evolving. Voting for those kinds of economic terrorists is no different to those turkeys voting for an early Christmas.
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November 25, 2018 9:04am
- Harkman
  
  “But Macron is in trouble in France with nationwide carbon tax protests.” Cindy will copy him and justify it because everyone else is doing it.
  
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  November 25, 2018 9:09am
- KeaRea
  
  https://www.apnews.com/d3033b920af449b594e66b51890b517b
  
  “…the obvious and inevitable consequence of the government spending vast quantities of money on unproductive foreigners living off handouts in various guises is higher taxes and lower benefits for the natives.”
  
  Macron is a nappy wearing **g.
  
  God bless the French. If the Canadians had any balls they would have done the same years ago.
  
  Justin Trudeau needs to have a plane crash.
  
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  November 25, 2018 10:42am
  - KeaRea
    
    I will temper my language.
    
    But just note that these protests are quasi-nationalist.
    
    Also read about the Canada Century Initiative and related sub-initiatives.
    
    The social engineering being undertaken by Trudeau is quite breath-taking. The degree to which he is destroying Canada in every possible domain is unprecedented.
    
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    November 25, 2018 11:23am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Yep,
  Trudeau is heading for major trouble with his energy policies…
  https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/11/24/peter-foster-another-report-reluctantly-admits-that-green-energy-is-a-disastrous-flop/
  He had better hope that a global cool period isn’t on the immediate horizon.
  
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  November 25, 2018 10:47am
  - Morrissey
    
    Oh, yes, those global cool periods which deep thinkers and empiricists such as, errrrr, ummm, ahhhh, Leighton Smith and Mike Hosking and —- God help us all— Donald Trump have brilliantly pointed out, is evidence that all those “scientists” and “experts” and “university types” are wrong, dead wrong. All of their thousands of studies and their computer models and all their other academic horseshit—it’s all fake news.
    
    Common sense tells us that it’s a bit cooler today, and it’s snowing in some parts of the country, so of course “global warming” and “climate change” is just FAKE NEWS. Any fool can see that. All you need is commonsense.
    
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    November 25, 2018 11:55am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      deep thinkers and empiricists such as, errrrr, ummm, ahhhh, Leighton Smith and Mike Hosking and —- God help us all— Donald Trump have brilliantly pointed out, is evidence that all those “scientists” and “experts” and “university types” are wrong, dead wrong.
      
      Nah, Morrissey.
      
      It’s Valentina Zharkova…and her associates.
      Check her out here:
      
      https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/z/professor-valentina-zharkova/
      
      http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/view/creators/Zharkova=3AValentina=3A=3A.html
      
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      November 25, 2018 12:03pm
      - stephieboy
        
        Nah , MW would like to add the stellar Anthony Watts, James Delingpole. Christopher Monckton etc to your list?
        
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        November 25, 2018 12:12pm
      - Morrissey
        
        Monckton, that swivel-eyed loon, was (disastrously) championed by Cameron Slater’s slave Jordan Williams.
        
        https://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-17042013/#comment-620413
        
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        November 25, 2018 12:16pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @stephieboy
        
        Are those folks solar physicists?
        
        I think not.
        
        Do you have any clue as to what Zharkova’s Solar Magnetic Field hypothesis entails?
        
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        November 25, 2018 12:20pm
      - stephieboy
        
        MW, nope. Do enlighten us and a way overdue reminder about climate denier Christopher Monckton for company ,
        
        The last refuge for Climate deniers ,
        
        https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Christopher_Monckton
        
        LOL!
        
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        November 25, 2018 12:28pm
      - KevOB
        
        Zharkova can’t be favourite with the Hadcrut hinterlectuals whose climate fraud promoting emails were leaked.
        
        She will appreciate the IPPC TAR where they comment substantively on the impossibility of predicting climate change in a mathematically chaotic system.
        
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        November 25, 2018 12:43pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @KevOB
        
        Climategate was around 2009-2010.
        Zharkova’s work on the Sun’s magnetic field has been published from 2014 onwards.
        https://www.nature.com/articles/srep15689
        
        Yep, some of the Climate research folk have tried to pressure the Royal Astronomical Society to shut up her work.
        short link here:
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sh_nlz43Pc
        Her latest public talk here:
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_yqIj38UmY&t=272s
        
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        November 25, 2018 12:57pm
      - Morrissey
        
        They’re not merely “climate deniers”, Stephie, they’re science deniers.
        
        https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/18/flat-earthers-keep-the-faith-at-denver-conference
        
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        November 25, 2018 12:57pm
      - KevOB
        
        @Maggy Wassilieff
        
        I know the timing. I see Zharkova’s a mathematician so she’ll understand chaotic systems and the point that the IPCC rubbished themselves.
        There’s a lot of good work going on in solar physics at present.
        I’m fully expecting that the next 10 years will show that we are heading South.
        
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        November 25, 2018 3:13pm
      - DifferentPerspective
        
        Morrissey – talking about ‘swivel-eyed loon’ …. can’t help but think that the pot is calling the kettle black !
        
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        November 25, 2018 3:15pm
    - stephieboy
      
      MW, the Global Warming Policy Foundation has a fascinating pedigree,
      
      https://www.youtube.com/user/GWPF
      
      Tell us more about them with a who’s who?
      
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      November 25, 2018 1:59pm
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DUM BRITONS
Exhibit 3: Sir Mark Thatcher

shithead slang, vulgar 1. a complete dumbass; a genuine moron; someone who has committed an act which causes harm or temporary discomfort to another; 2. a stupid, inept, unlikable, or contemptible person.

Mark Thatcher, son of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, was reported missing in the Sahara desert while competing in the Paris-Dakar rally on this day in 1982.

Thatcher, 28, his co-driver and mechanic had last been spotted two days previously, driving in convoy with two other cars near the border between Mali and Algeria. It later transpired that they had become separated after stopping to repair a damaged rear axle.

The trio, driving a Peugeot 504, waited for help and told the other members of their convoy to report their position. Unfortunately, these cars’ crews passed on the wrong location to the rally’s organisers. With only a compass to help them navigate, Thatcher and his team were hopelessly lost.

The Prime Minister’s son, a motor racing enthusiast, had taken part in the Le Mans 24 Hour race in 1980 and 1981. He was then asked by his eventual co-driver, Anne-Charlotte Verney, to take on the gruelling Paris-Dakar Rally, but later admitted making no special preparations for it.

A huge search-and-rescue operation was launched, with spotter planes and helicopters dispatched to find the missing crew, while Thatcher’s father Denis flew out to Algeria to assist with the hunt.

http://home.bt.com/news/on-this-day/january-12-1982-pm-margaret-thatchers-son-mark-goes-missing-in-sahara-during-desert-rally-11364033020128

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/apr/14/thatcher-knew-of-equatorial-giunea-coup-attempt

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/fury-files-mark-thatchers-corrupt-8460468

DUM BRITONS is compiled by Hector Stoop, for Daisycutter Sports Inc.

Collect ALL the Dum Britons….
No. 1 Michael Gove; No. 2 Chris Leslie
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- realityczech
  
  Nice story Morrie – great to see the adventurous colonial spirit of the Brits live on. They did so much to bring civilisation to Africa.
  
  Got a story about the ignorant black warlord Obama ? How about one of his drone attacks in Africa taking out a hospital or a wedding?
  
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  November 25, 2018 9:22am
  - Morrissey
    
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    Yes, indeed, they “civilized” the Africans all right.
    
    In your fevered imagination, “civilize” means “to slaughter”, right?
    
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    November 25, 2018 9:30am
    - realityczech
      
      Yes.
      
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      November 25, 2018 2:37pm
  - Inandout
    
    And Michelle has balls. LOL
    
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    November 25, 2018 9:36am
- harvey wilson
  
  Dumb Britons , Michael Foot .
  
  Thought there was a public appetite for far left socialism in the Uk , his party’s 1983 election manifesto was described by one labour mp as the longest suicide note in history.
  
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  November 25, 2018 9:30am
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    Foot, for all his failings as a politician, was a brilliant academic and a fine speaker. None of those things applies to any of the Dum Britons in Hector’s series.
    
    And, although you cling to it in the absence of anything witty, one forgotten Labour MP’s quip is worth about as much as you’d get trying to flog a book entitled The Parliamentary Speeches of Kennedy Graham.
    
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    November 25, 2018 9:33am
    - harvey wilson
      
      It’s far from a forgotten quip, it was also accurate and hilarious.
      
      I understand you being huffy and pouting about it though .
      
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      November 25, 2018 10:02am
      - Morrissey
        
        You understand fuck all, clearly. I’m not “huffy” about the sad spectacle of people like you clinging to anything at all, even the most witless utterances of the most obscure politicians, to attempt to bolster flimsy attempts at a riposte.
        
        If, on the odd occasion I do spend a moment considering sad cases like you, the overwhelming emotion is one of compassion.
        
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        November 25, 2018 11:48am
      - harvey wilson
        
        Hahahaha not huffy ! Yet you post in high dudgeon in response .
        
        Thanks you for your compassion though it means very little obviously but the sentiment is there. Perhaps instead you should offer some to your friend Muttonbird who thinks hate speech is an issue here yet says on the standard that he wants Cameron Slater murdered. He’s obviously a deeply troubled individual and I know you’ve given him your undying support over the years but perhaps it’s time you pointed out to him that such behaviour is abhorrent? That’s what a real friend would do.
        
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        November 25, 2018 12:17pm
      - Morrissey
        
        I posted “in high dudgeon”, did I? With respect, I don’t think you even understand what that means.
        
        Your fantasy projection about Muttonbird’s little joke is almost as sad as your clinging to that forgotten Labour MP’s attempt at a witticism.
        
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        November 25, 2018 12:35pm
      - harvey wilson
        
        Yeah you did.post in high dudgeon You know it too, hence the attempt to deflect.
        
        So wanting someone murdered is a joke now is it? Sigh , just when you think the far left couldn’t be more hypocritical they lower the bar even more.
        Is there any political movement more morally bankrupt than socialism?
        
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        November 25, 2018 12:48pm
      - Morrissey
        
        Ha! He’s on Kiwiblog, the home of bile, brain explosions and extreme frothing at the mouth, bloviating against a joke death sentence against against possibly the lowest POS in this country. By the way, I thought said POS was already dead.
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2houSdLjKBw
        
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        November 25, 2018 1:02pm
      - Swifty
        
        Well done Harvey – you really have got the sleazy little prick riled up, despite his protestations.
        
        Good on you.
        
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        November 25, 2018 1:14pm
      - harvey wilson
        
        Tut tut Morrisey , the only brain explosions and frothing at the mouth here seem to be coming from you ?
        
        I find Slater as abhorrent as I do you and Muttonbird but I don’t wish death on him or you.
        Why do you condone such behaviour? You are ill my friend , to say such things or excuse them is not healthy.
        
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        November 25, 2018 1:29pm
    - Inandout
      
      http://www.funtrivia.com/askft/Question142649.html
      
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      November 25, 2018 1:50pm
Odakyu-sen

When an Indian-owned business employs only Indians.
When a Chinese-owned business employs only Chinese.
When an iwi-owned trust employs only iwi members.

Are these all examples of “white privalege”?

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November 25, 2018 9:17am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Not at all.
  It shows enterprising folks who have figured out how to get around restrictive employment law.
  
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  November 25, 2018 10:51am
Fletch

Teresa May’s Brexit deal is a dog, and pretty much leaves the UK in an even worse position than what it was to begin with, which probably was the plan all along. She never wanted to leave.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8h9PQUUMzE
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November 25, 2018 9:19am
- MCos
  
  From what I can see whatever happens when the big day rolls around and the UK is obligated to leave the EU ready or, more likely, not, they will be worse off than before.
  
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  November 25, 2018 10:17am
  - calendar girl
    
    I disagree, MCos. The UK will have back the power to:
    a) govern its own people and to follow its own laws; and
    b) control its own borders; i.e. decision-making power as to who enters the country and who is entitled as of right to residency in the UK.
    
    Those matters are the ultimate basics of independent nationhood. Well done to the UK in retrieving its national independence. If it wants to make concessions to other countries, it can still do so through specific nation-to-nation agreements that suit both parties.
    
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    November 25, 2018 11:19am
Yvette

Michael Cullen has responded to criticism that the proposed rules on capital gains tax will require every small business to have a valuation done on the same date.

Jacinda Ardern’s Tax Working Group, conceived just prior to the last Election to allow her to shove undeveloped water tax ideas sideways, is now talking about a Capital Gains Tax for “small businesses”.

So what is the definition of a “small business” and does it include “self-employed”?
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November 25, 2018 9:21am
- KevOB
  
  Cullen is effectively saying “near enough is good enough” for valuations.
  How do yo tax on “I think the amount to pay is…$”
  Only Cullen (senile) could utter such rubbish.
  Try collecting in Court on that basis.
  
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  November 25, 2018 3:28pm
- VicParking
  
  Easy if you take your empty bottles and cans and sell them you are a small Business and the COL with want 33% of any increase in value of your Batch and 25% of your car if you sell it. I’m not sure how much they will want if your wife gets a Boob job.
  
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  November 25, 2018 4:13pm
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November 25, 2018 10:10am
rightoverlabour

One positive we can take form the ILG’s fuck up

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/108836737/chicken-farmer-liable-for-deportation-uses-sroubek-decision-in-legal-bid

However, if this guy does get deported, there should be pitch forks, tar and feathers for the ministers and officials…

This government can best be described as a bunch of Fucking Cunts, the lot of them.
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November 25, 2018 10:11am
- backster
  
  Unfortunately he is white,ageing, and a South African, doesn’t give him much chance either with Immigration Dept or this socialist government.
  
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  November 25, 2018 11:15am
  - alloytoo
    
    Worst still he’s a productive member of society.
    
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    November 25, 2018 1:13pm
  - michael_s2
    
    He is being deported on the decision of a Polynesian Assistant Minister of Immigration. Would it be the same decision were he a black South African?
    
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    November 25, 2018 2:10pm
fatman43us

I suggest the Jonquil casts an eye at the riots in Paris at the moment. Fuel Taxes caused by the idiotic Climate scam are their origin. – To the barricades Citizens – no, we are too bloody obsessed with Santa Parades and getting into the tunnel of death on the West Coast.
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November 25, 2018 10:21am
MCos

Tweet of the day

I was in a hipster coffee shop this morning surrounded by young Democrats taking a break from Black Friday shopping. A group of them next to me were whispering about how grateful they are that President Trump cut gas prices, giving them piles of extra cash to shop with
Jacob Wahl @JacobAWahol

I’ve heard of this chap before. Wasn’t he the bloke who was pushing the conspiracy theory the Mueller had sexually assaulted someone?

Well, it’s raining in Auckland. I might head off to one of the hipster cafes in Mangere Bridge and see what the young Nats are saying about what they’re going to do with all the money they’re saving from the plunging petrol prices.
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November 25, 2018 10:48am
- Tall Man
  
  There are times when your logic seems to be well hidden.
  
  Your analogy here is well misplaced.
  
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  November 25, 2018 11:20am
- RightNow
  
  I’m not exactly a “young” Nat but I have booked another holiday in Bali.
  On another front am looking into building a couple of cheap houses – I think we can sell them to HNZ Build off the plans.
  
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  November 25, 2018 2:36pm
Manolo

The hopeless Mr Cheika seems untouchable:
https://www.smh.com.au/sport/rugby-union/wallabies-horror-year-ends-with-37-18-defeat-to-england-20181125-p50i5n.html

The Wallabies have officially registered their worst calendar year since 1958 in embarrassing fashion with a 37-18 defeat to England that comes after a tumultuous preparation and major questions over the side less than a year out from the World Cup.
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November 25, 2018 10:57am
- Colville
  
  well we put 115 points on them in 3 games …. what chance the Occkers do an “England RWC 15″and cant get out of the pool?
  
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  November 25, 2018 11:53am
DigNap15

What about that Indian girl found in the sea in Wellington.
The police say her death was not suspicious!’

But I say it was caused by her Indian husband wanting a baby boy. So she committed suicide.

And yet 6 months ago she was a successful fitness and personal trainer!

What a wonderful culture to bring into NZ.
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November 25, 2018 11:05am
- Tall Man
  
  Not impressed with that comment at all.
  
  You have no idea and what you are saying will cause both offense to pain to an already grieving family.
  
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  November 25, 2018 11:18am
  - MCos
    
    I agree
    
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    November 25, 2018 5:30pm
- Odakyu-sen
  
  Let’s see. She marries a man from a son-oriented culture, but doesn’t know that he MUST have a son? (Didn’t see that one coming…)
  Doesn’t have a strategic plan in place in case her first baby is a girl?
  Something is not quite right here. Maybe she suffered from depression but couldn’t get help due to cultural taboos surrounding mental illness.
  Who knows.
  
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  November 25, 2018 11:19am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Rubbish, DigNap 15
  
  We’ve been fed some speculative guff from the media.
  We have no idea of the previous state of mind of the young mum-to-be.
  It’s easy for outsiders to speculate why someone has committed suicide; but it’s often a mystery to those close to the one who takes their own life.
  
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  November 25, 2018 11:25am
- SGA
  
  DigNap15
  
  But I say it was caused by her Indian husband wanting a baby boy. So she committed suicide.
  
  Say what you like – but unless you have some special insight into their relationship, then I think that you have no grounds for such nasty, bigoted speculation.
  
  Most of the Indian families that I know have a mixture of boys and girls, and the girls seem loved and encouraged to do well for themselves (seem to be plenty of them floating around the universities).
  
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  November 25, 2018 11:35am
  - Sacha
    
    It passed my mind that a. it was possibly an arranged marriage. Not all of those work out, despite the cultural expectations. b. The scan of the foetus may have shown some abnormality. This may well have been the tipping point for an already distressed woman.
    But we will never know, will we? And it’s none of our business anyway.
    
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    November 25, 2018 11:45am
    - Viking2
      
      It passed my mind that a. it was possibly an arranged marriage.
      
      Public knowledge that it was.
      
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      November 25, 2018 11:50am
      - KevOB
        
        We have no facts so only idle speculative gossip.
        
        I know of Indian families in NZ enjoying and honouring their daughters. One of those daughters aged 18 was working at a Montessori School and her parents arranged a marriage with a surgeon intern living in the USA. Within weeks she was on her way there. She had never met the fellow but her happiness was real. I know it has since continued.
        
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        November 25, 2018 12:59pm
      - Tall Man
        
        I personally know three Indian couples with an “arranged” marriage. It is not always as it seems and these three span 3 separate generations.
        
        All are still together and all seem happy to me. I just wish that when the wound is so deep and so fresh others would show a little restraint before spouting their unhelpful comments, although I see original abusive comment received 10 up ticks, so far, and my condemnation has received 6 down ticks so far so I guess there is plenty of hatred on this site towards Indian immigrants or those citizens of Indian descent.
        
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        November 25, 2018 2:09pm
      - realityczech
        
        Tall Man, oh yes they have turned KB into the nations leading zionist hate site. Unless you are Jewish, or an Israeli, you are fair game. This is normal zionist behaviour.
        
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        November 25, 2018 4:31pm
  - DigNap15
    
    She was a pretty, successful personal trainer, so did she have heart attack?
    I cannot think of another reason for her to do it?
    As I said Indian culture is very male orientated.
    Try leaving an Indian man – petrol attacks etc.
    
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    November 25, 2018 12:48pm
    - backster
      
      If she drowned on the West Coast (Island Bay) it is difficult to imagine how he could float through Tory Channel and end up well up on an East Coast beach.
      
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      November 25, 2018 3:43pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Tory Channel runs down the Marlborough Sounds between Arapawa Island and the ENE side of the South Island.
        
        There is a strong West to East current through Cook Strait. It is not unexpected that something placed in the water at Island Bay ends up on the Wairarapa Coast.
        http://www.academia.edu/18925795/A_study_of_tides_and_currents_in_Cook_Strait_New_Zealand
        
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        November 25, 2018 4:09pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Here’s a diagram of the main currents affecting Cook Strait
        https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Mytilus-galloprovincialis-Map-of-New-Zealand-showing-major-regional-currents-influencing_fig1_270087099
        
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        November 25, 2018 4:53pm
      - realityczech
        
        Wiggles, that is all good and well, but how does that help reinforce racist speculation about Indians?
        
        I think you are missing the point.
        
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        November 25, 2018 4:57pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Alas RC,
        I’m always missing the point about ethnicities and race.
        Perhaps I’m just colourblind… and all folks look the same to me.
        
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        November 25, 2018 5:00pm
      - realityczech
        
        Maggy, it is really very simple, If they don’t wear a crucifix or kippah they are subhuman and should be exterminated.
        
        Its been like this for centuries and you should really try and catch up.
        
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        November 25, 2018 5:06pm
  - RF
    
    SGA
    
    Perhaps the expression… “floating around” might not be PC.
    
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    November 25, 2018 3:10pm
    - SGA
      
      Not sure it falls under not “PC”, but certainly an inadvertently unfortunate choice of phrase on my part under the circumstances 🙂
      
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      November 25, 2018 6:04pm
- stephieboy
  
  DigNap5 , you have the inside of the police investigation that we don’t?
  
  Tell us about your informants?
  
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  November 25, 2018 12:14pm
  - DigNap15
    
    No but “not suspicous” is police code for suicide.
    
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    November 25, 2018 12:43pm
  - Tall Man
    
    He has “squat”.
    
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    November 25, 2018 2:10pm
Tauhei Notts

There is something very wrong with our pricing structure for electricity. Spot prices for electricity spiked at $440 per megawatt hour throughout the North Island, BUT my home heaters, which are all on ripple feed control, still work.
Somebody somewhere is talking crap.
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November 25, 2018 11:09am
Tall Man

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2018/11/us-vice-president-mike-pence-requested-to-sit-next-to-jacinda-ardern-at-asean-summit.html

Why has there been no retraction of this total bullshit from ardern the liar.

“Ms Ardern said spending time with the US Vice President will be a good chance to raise questions about aluminium and steel tariffs that the US has placed on New Zealand and other countries.

“It’s a great opportunity for me to raise issues that New Zealanders are focused on,” she said, “of course, aluminium and steel tariffs”.”

Come on MSM, retract this blatant lie.

Hey steffy girl, what have you got to say and to the rest of the labour interns infesting this site like the parasites they are, please justify your support for this lying poiece of baggage.

We all know there will be silence apart from the usual bullshit soundbites that labour trot out when under .

Yes, we all know it is Sir John Key’s fault because he was such an awesome leader and we already know ardern the liar and the rest of the wanna be’s are scared shitless of Simon bridges and his competent team.
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November 25, 2018 11:15am
- Yvette
  
  You only need to see the photograph of the table, the distance the seats were apart – perhaps six to eight feet – and the fact Karen Pence sat between them, to know that any claim of a deep discussion of anything would be utter bullshit.
  
  photo – https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2018/11/jacinda-ardern-reveals-what-she-talked-about-with-us-vice-president-mike-pence.html
  
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  November 25, 2018 11:38am
  - Jack5
    
    An Asian reporter’s recorder with a tiny super-focused microphone did pick up some tidbids from the conversation between Karen Pence and Jacinda Kate Laurell Ardern.
    
    Miss Ardern said to Mrs Pence: “I would be really, really, really grateful if you could get Mr Pence to have the CIA keep an eye on my partner, Clarke Gayford. So many women are trying to get their hooks into him, and some are from unfriendly countries.” ?
    
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    November 25, 2018 11:52am
    - Tall Man
      
      And we all know he is an expert in relation with literally “hundreds of successful relationships behind him.”
      
      Actually, that might be Grant’s line……
      
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      November 25, 2018 11:54am
    - Tall Man
      
      Miss Ardern…do you mean Louise?
      
      Ardern the liar I think is more accurate.
      
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      November 25, 2018 11:57am
- RF
  
  More crap from SLAG.
  
  I have come across some publicity whores in my time but this one tops everything.
  
  I’m just waiting for the money to run out as the way she is spending up there’s going to be bugger all left when National cleans up after her.
  
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  November 25, 2018 2:14pm
  - Komata
    
    RF
    
    Labour have form on this; Cullen did the same then walked away laughing.
    
    He hadn’t reckoned on John Key…
    
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    November 25, 2018 3:07pm
Nostradamus

This is an interesting article: Poor English, few jobs: Are Australian universities using international students as ‘cash cows’?

Universities and industry bodies insist nothing is wrong in Australia’s booming $32 billion-a-year international education industry, but an ABC investigation has uncovered an abundance of international students who describe struggling to communicate effectively in English, participate in class, or complete assignments adequately.

Here’s an extreme example:

Recently at an elite Australian university, a senior humanities lecturer opened her office door to a young international student who was accompanied by another woman and seemed nervous. The student had emailed the lecturer in advance about changing to another degree — but right away there was a problem. … The woman accompanying the student, whom the lecturer assumed was a friend, was in fact a translator hired for the meeting. The student had gone through the first year of her degree without the ability to speak English.

The article provides some interesting statistics:

University / Total # / Int. Students #
UNSW 59,781 / 20,204 (34%)
Melbourne Uni 50,270 / 19,903 (39%)
Uni of Sydney 60,000 / 19,000 (32%)
RMIT 49,408 / 22,034 (45%)
Monash Uni 62,400 / 27,800 (45%)

So the international student percentage at those 5 universities ranges from 32% to 45%. That’s an extraordinary statistic.

Some international students will have academic-level English proficiency, but others (perhaps a majority) won’t – leading to a drain on lecturers’ time in providing extra tuition or detecting cheating – to the detriment of local fee-paying students.
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November 25, 2018 11:22am
- Jack5
  
  Nosty, are they following NZ universities and tertiary institutions in this?
  
  They effectively sell rights to NZ citizenship (via residency) as part of the reward for tuition fees.
  Worse are the private, foreign-owned colleges that are able to sell NZ citizenship.
  
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  November 25, 2018 11:28am
- kevn
  
  @Nost… They just pay assignment writers. Happens in NZ as well apparently.
  
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  November 25, 2018 11:52am
Keeping Stock

Stunning win from the U17 Football Ferns at the U17 Women’s World Cup. They have beaten Japan in a penalty shootout after the match finished tied 1-all.

They become the first ever New Zealand team to make the semifinals of a FIFA World Cup at any level, men’s or women’s.

Let’s not forget that until a few months ago, Andreas Heraf, in his role of Technical Director, set the direction for our age-grade teams. He didn’t think New Zealand could compete with the likes of Japan. I hope he was watching this morning’s match 😀
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November 25, 2018 11:25am
- big bruv
  
  Yawn. It’s chick sport, therefore, its rubbish and nobody really cares.
  
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  November 25, 2018 11:49am
  - Jack5
    
    Except for beach volleyball and women’s tennis? They seem to draw in the male spectators. There will likely be other sports like this.
    
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    November 25, 2018 11:56am
  - Biscuit
    
    What a delight you must be to live with, big bruv.
    
    Moan, moan, moan … with occasional breaks for megamoaning…
    
    I just Wikipediaed.
    
    New Zealand has won 120 medals at the Olympic Games…
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_Zealand_Olympic_medallists
    
    A quick scan through that shows that our ‘chick sport’ folk have won (or been involved in) 35 of those.
    
    ‘Chick’ successes we should, using your ‘logic’, ignore include 9 of our 46 gold medallists.
    
    Me, I’d rather live in the 21st Century (Hell, big bruv, its only 82 years to the 22nd Century) and be ‘inclusive’…
    
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    November 25, 2018 12:13pm
- Biscuit
  
  Indeed, Keeping Stock, great news.
  
  You really hope that the teams Heraf rubbished, this latest one doubtless included, remember to send him a ‘Wish You Were Here. Lol’ postcard…
  
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  November 25, 2018 11:55am
Jack5

Has Theresa May signed away British sovereignty over Gibraltar to get her deal with the EU?

From the Daily Mail:

“Spain today dropped its threat to veto the deal, saying Mrs May had caved in to Madrid’s demands to have a say over the future of Gibraltar and take the Rock out of UK-EU trade talks.”

If the UK ever gets a populist government, I guess full support for Catalonia nationalists and for Basques will be up for discussion.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6424001/Spanish-PM-threatens-hammer-blow-Theresa-Mays-Brexit-deal-using-VETO-block-it.html
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November 25, 2018 11:25am
- realityczech
  
  They did the same thing giving Palestine to the zionists Jacksie. In return the Jews bombed the King David Hotel which was full of Brits – and tried to blame the Egyptians. Same as the USS Liberty attack and the Lavon Affair.
  
  Ironic since Egypt is the real homeland of the Jewish cult.
  
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  November 25, 2018 4:36pm
Suze Wainwright

JUST LEAKED! Nicky Hager’s latest book – to be released the week before Christmas – is an expose of the Dirty Politics involved in the Karel Sroubek affair!
There will be insightful details of exactly who’s involved, the names of Govt MPs trying desperately to cover arses, what the coded words involved in the electronic communications really mean…
Apparently there are two chapters of hacked emails and texts between high ranking Govt MPs and high ranking political party officials!
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November 25, 2018 11:39am
- Suze Wainwright
  
  /sarc!! Ha! Ha! ROTFL LMAO…
  
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  November 25, 2018 11:39am
  - Jack5
    
    It’s a whole new book genre: Hagerography.
    
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    November 25, 2018 11:41am
- Biscuit
  
  Hager has already used ‘Dirty Politics’ as a title for one of his novels.
  
  May I suggest ‘Snow White Politics’ for this one?
  
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  November 25, 2018 11:52am
- Komata
  
  Suze
  
  So, due to the huge amounts of absolutely salacious and government-destroying information it contains, this new masterpiece is going to consist of a single blank page and tranparent (but recycled) plastic covers?
  
  And I thought Bob Jones was ‘cheap’…
  
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  November 25, 2018 3:03pm
kevn

The 3 weeks been and gone to report the Czech crim caper. But, JA said it would be sooner not later…
Now, who was on the crims wedding guest list back in 2016?
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November 25, 2018 11:50am
- Longknives
  
  Labour are feverishly trying to bury this whole affair!
  If only someone in the NZ Media had the balls to scratch beneath the surface…
  
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  November 25, 2018 1:19pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  The review has been completed and has been delivered to Sroubek.
  
  Appears there are going to be a swathe of legal issues if Lees-Galloway wants to reverse his decision.
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/108603525/Immigration-probe-into-Karel-Sroubeks-residency-completed-but-will-be-reviewed
  
  Expect a close-down, opacity and no accountability over this matter.
  
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  November 25, 2018 1:21pm
- RF
  
  Now how Wood you know the answer as I Wood not.
  
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  November 25, 2018 2:18pm
secondcumming

AN AMAZING READ……..

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DsxALdLXoAA20Xw.jpg
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November 25, 2018 11:51am
stephieboy

AN AMAZING VIEW,

The Real London,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxeTSFSWMLY
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November 25, 2018 12:02pm
- Tall Man
  
  Ms Ardern said spending time with the US Vice President will be a good chance to raise questions about aluminium and steel tariffs that the US has placed on New Zealand and other countries.
  
  “It’s a great opportunity for me to raise issues that New Zealanders are focused on,” she said, “of course, aluminium and steel tariffs”.
  
  Come on steffy girl justify that lie for us.
  
  ardern is a liar
  
  steffy is a girl
  
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  November 25, 2018 12:09pm
  - stephieboy
    
    I’ll bet our PM has breathed a sigh of relief that she did not get anywhere near the madman,
    
    Mike Pence, Holy Terror
    
    Are you sure you want to get rid of Donald Trump?
    
    There are problems with impeaching Donald Trump. A big one is the holy terror waiting in the wings.
    That would be Mike Pence, who mirrors the boss more than you realize. He’s also self-infatuated. Also a bigot. Also a liar. Also cruel.
    
    To that brimming potpourri he adds two ingredients that Trump doesn’t genuinely possess: the conviction that he’s on a mission from God and a determination to mold the entire nation in the shape of his own faith, a regressive, repressive version of Christianity. Trade Trump for Pence and you go from kleptocracy to theocracy.
    
    That’s the takeaway from a forthcoming book by the journalists Michael D’Antonio, who previously wrote “The Truth About Trump,” and Peter Eisner. It’s titled “The Shadow President: The Truth About Mike Pence,” it will be published on Aug. 28 and it’s the most thorough examination of the vice president’s background to date.
    
    I got an advance look at it, along with a first interview about it with D’Antonio, and while it has a mostly measured tone, it presents an entirely damning portrait of Pence. You’ve seen his colors before, but not so vividly and in this detail….”
    
    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/28/opinion/sunday/mike-pence-holy-terror.html
    
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    November 25, 2018 12:25pm
    - Tall Man
      
      Yep…blah blah blah cut and paste in action because we all know you struggle with English sometimes, depending on who is logged in under your account.
      
      Please justify the ardern blatant lie.
      
      Try to stick to the point although like your leader you are inclined to miss the point because you don’t understand it but..if Pence is such a bad man, why was ardern the liar so keen to pretend he wanted to talk too her
      
      Ardern is a liar
      
      steffy is a girl.
      
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      November 25, 2018 12:29pm
    - DigNap15
      
      Is that you Mike?
      
      Ardern was boasting that she was going to sit next to Vice president Pence1
      
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      November 25, 2018 12:52pm
      - stephieboy
        
        After “Holy Terror,” I bet she is relieved she didn’t!
        
        Mike Pence VP
        
        Wank, wank, oink, oink!
        
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        November 25, 2018 2:07pm
      - Tall Man
        
        She was and that is what I object to, she lies publicly which receives major media coverage here yet the truth that she was bullshitting gets quietly shelved.
        
        When the leader of our country publicly lies our media has a responsibility to find out why and then ensure that the country is aware of the act and the reson.
        
        Fat chance I know.
        
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        November 25, 2018 2:14pm
    - Tall Man
      
      As a troll, you are an embarrassment to your party. I think it is time to re-post your comments on the bullshit labour sites and let them see what a truly pathetic individual you are with the intellect of a 3 year old.
      
      I bet you still laugh at your own farts as well.
      
      ardern is a liar
      
      steffy is a girl
      
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      November 25, 2018 2:16pm
Monique Watson

All I want for Christmas is a drone. I’ll be the coolest Mom on the block. Mavic Pro Quadcopter.
Seen the rubbish coming out on Netflix?
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November 25, 2018 12:10pm
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  I can tell you now that the Mavic Pro is fantastic. You have to be an idiot to crash it. I have taken mine to Hawaii and Alaska! Register with the FAA
  
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  November 25, 2018 2:43pm
Jack5

Could the takeover of Radio NZ by the Maori tribal radio network in 20016 be followed by a Maori takeover of TVNZ?

Radio NZ, reporting on changes coming to Maori TV, reports:

“The funding agency Te Mangai Paho had already proposed amalgamating news programming for Maori Television, TVNZ and the iwi radio network Te Whakaruruhau.

“That was put on hold because of the Te Puni Kokiri review which is due to report back in March.”

https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/2018672544/radical-changes-for-maori-television-news

The Maori- Radio NZ agreement:

https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/312240/rnz-signs-partnership-with-te-whakaruruhau
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November 25, 2018 12:22pm
Jack5

In Paris, fires, barricades, tear gas, and mobs singing La Marseillaise ….

Macron under attack.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cars/comment/paris-burns-fuel-tax-anger-grows-outside-cities-drivers-suffer/
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November 25, 2018 12:37pm
- DigNap15
  
  Yes it is funny as only 2 weeks ago a nice young French girl was telling me how peaceful we are here in NZ.
  She said that in France things get very heated sometimes!
  And then 2 weeks later over petrol prices….
  
  We will need to do this to stop some of Ardern’s policies.
  
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  November 25, 2018 12:50pm
Prince

What has happend to the concept of news being
a) accurate, and
b) balanced.
Following is a direct transcript from the TV news about the plastic bag ban, read out by someone called Juliette Speedy.
“Kiwis use 1.6 billion plastic bags every year, which end up as litter or in oceans, or break down and enter our food chain.”
No wonder Eugenie Sage was smiling.
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November 25, 2018 1:09pm
- Swifty
  
  I noticed that – shameful.
  
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  November 25, 2018 1:16pm
- stephieboy
  
  Prince, your evidence that shows differently?
  
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  November 25, 2018 2:01pm
  - Awww C-mon
    
    The beach you stupid cunt. FFS
    
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    November 25, 2018 2:16pm
  - Swifty
    
    The burden of proof is on those making the assertion.
    
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    November 25, 2018 3:17pm
Fletch

Someone dropped this message on the Auckland City Council Facebook –

Hey, my dog decided today that she identifies as a cat so just letting you know we won’t be paying the $135 registration fee next year and it means we’re now officially exempt from the new law not allowing dogs on beaches from 10am-7pm © Thank you xx
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November 25, 2018 1:21pm
dcrown

The French are revolting!!!

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/macron-slams-violent-protests-in-france-shame-to-those-who-tried-to-intimidate-our-elected/
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November 25, 2018 2:12pm
- Komata
  
  Dtc
  
  We know that (it’s the food), mind you, they aren’t exactly complimentary towards us ‘English’, so I guess it’s mutual.
  
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  November 25, 2018 2:47pm
RW Capitalist

https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/108836737/Chicken-farmer-who-can-t-stay-in-NZ-uses-Sroubek-decision-in-legal-bid
So Sroubek, would have had to be hard working, unfortunate (his wife dying), honest, tax paying and South African, to be deported?
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November 25, 2018 2:34pm
- MrTips
  
  Mr Hedderwick obviously didn’t think to sell chickens to MPs and high profile NZers.
  
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  November 25, 2018 2:43pm
stigie

Im fucking livid. How can this senseless government ban oil and gas and are now banning triple use plastic bags when they are turning a blind eye to disposable baby nappies ?
These single use disposable nappies are 50% plastic and 50% wood pulp which can take 200/500 years to break down !~
Can anyone on here tell me why this petty government haven’t banned these nappies..?
If the answer is they don’t want to make a change they perceive as difficult, why ban oil and gas..?
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November 25, 2018 2:44pm
- realityczech
  
  Easy to answer. These people do not care about the environment. Their concern is fake and they have another agenda.
  
  This is the difference between doing the right thing and virtue signalling.
  
  If they wanted to save the planet they could cut the single parent benefit and working for families. Then you will see less nappies choking the landfills.
  
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  November 25, 2018 2:49pm
  - stephieboy
    
    “Their concern is fake and they have another agenda.”
    
    Which would be…?
    
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    November 25, 2018 2:52pm
    - stigie
      
      “Which would be…?”
      
      To get all the unpragmatic pricks like you to vote for them !~
      
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      November 25, 2018 3:10pm
      - sooty
        
        Free disposible nappies for all babies!
        
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        November 25, 2018 3:32pm
      - realityczech
        
        To be fair – Ardern teamed up with Clark to shut down a fund raiser for baby incubators, because the noise might have disturbed Clark in her gated mansion.
        
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        November 25, 2018 3:35pm
- RW Capitalist
  
  Dog poo bags?
  Kitchen tidy liners?
  Council rubbish bags?
  ALL plastic bags?
  What will you carry your new pair of shoes, trousers etc home in?
  Will this mean people will buy less stuff and therefore, negatively impact retailers?
  
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  November 25, 2018 2:51pm
- KevOB
  
  We will neaver know.
  
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  November 25, 2018 3:38pm
Komata

Stigie

Connect the dots:Who amongst current members of the COL would be most likely to be using disposable nappies…?

There would seem to be a certain ‘vested interest’ at play methinks, enough to NOT ban such items for another two or so years…

Just saying.
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November 25, 2018 2:50pm
- RW Capitalist
  
  Didn’t Nicolae Ceaușescu, ban condoms, to increase the Romanian population.
  After the fall of communism, they found rooms full of condoms in his “palace”.
  Maybe SLG is trying to emulate him? re Nappies.
  
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  November 25, 2018 2:55pm
- stigie
  
  JAG and SLAG (silly little Ardern girl) are the only 2 that i can think of Komata ?
  
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  November 25, 2018 2:57pm
  - Komata
    
    Stigie
    
    Exactly.
    
    As I said, ‘vested interests’.
    
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    November 25, 2018 3:53pm
secondcumming

According to my father-in-law, he has it on good authority that Winston Peters is preparing to announce a ‘one-off weekly payment bonus’ for all Superannuitants, to be paid the week before Xmas.

Probably more political capital in that than Jaca throwing millions of hard earned taxpayers dollars at the Manus refugees.
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November 25, 2018 2:53pm
- Komata
  
  Sc
  
  Dob’t forget though that Winnie has form in both giving and taking away; often simultaneously…
  
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  November 25, 2018 3:51pm
- barnacle bill
  
  Which pub was the father- in-law in when he heard that rumour ?
  
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  November 25, 2018 4:01pm
- barnacle bill
  
  And if I remember correctly, Robert Muldoon paid the Pensioners an extra payment as a Christmas bonus one year while he was PM.
  
  Also, it is quite common for other countries to do so.
  
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  November 25, 2018 4:15pm
  - toby1845
    
    Actually, it was the adulterous draft dodger, Norman Kirk, who did that. Christmas 1972.
    
    Against the advice of Treasury.
    
    You’re welcome.
    
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    November 26, 2018 12:16am
realityczech

I see Morrie and Stupidboy have teamed up to attack our resident scientists – for suggesting the Sun might warm our climate.

This bizare behaviour can not be simply explained away by their political leanings. They are mentally ill.
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November 25, 2018 3:19pm
RF

secondcumming.

That does not surprise me although a contact I know in WINZ believes that there will be a substantial pension boost pre election in 2020.

She is a Labour supporter and suspects Ardern will do a Helen Clark and buy the election. Remember the student loans.
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November 25, 2018 3:21pm
- stigie
  
  Free dentistry for low income and bene’s come 2020 !~
  
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  November 25, 2018 3:27pm
- realityczech
  
  I am more comfortable with a [unaffordable] pension boost than I am with giving our money away to foreigners to improve Arderns UN cred, or more handouts for commercial baby farmers.
  
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  November 25, 2018 3:29pm
igm

So Sleeze-Galloway welcomes gaoled criminals and Gnashers welcomes scumbag Muslims worldwide, yet a decent hard-working guy gets the arse card.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/108836737/chicken-farmer-liable-for-deportation-uses-sroubek-decision-in-legal-bid
Wake up Kiwis, these CoL scum must be dumped, and soon!
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November 25, 2018 3:37pm
- cmm
  
  Perhaps he should have sold some chooks to Labour mates?
  
  Cases like this would be the 100 or so cases that National signed off on, not drug smuggling crims. PRiNZess told a fat lie there!
  
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  November 25, 2018 5:28pm
MCos

Spinning the dial on a wet afternoon and came across this story.
Two undercover cops in Detroit posing as dealers try to arrest two undercover cops posing as buyers who were trying to arrest them.
Things deteriorated from there leading to a fist fight in the street.
http://amp.fox2detroit.com/news/local-news/detroit-police-officers-fight-each-other-in-undercover-op-gone-wrong?fbclid=IwAR3dzm1ebLOnm9e8AnFG5CjftqHwFWD2I4OXqLCFKK4PRFp1emX_FPffMBM&fbclid=IwAR3dzm1ebLOnm9e8AnFG5CjftqHwFWD2I4OXqLCFKK4PRFp1emX_FPffMBM&__twitter_impression=true
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November 25, 2018 4:59pm
gump

I see that Bitcoin is having an 80% off sale for Black Friday weekend.

Will there be further reductions for Cyber Monday?
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November 25, 2018 5:00pm
Odakyu-sen

Did anyone just get that NZ Civil Defence “Presidential Alert”?

I thought it had something to do with President Trump.

I don’t think that “Presidential” is a good choice of words.
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November 25, 2018 6:18pm
- cmm
  
  Five seconds after hitting Ok, I got the alert here in CHch. 18:31.
  
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  November 25, 2018 6:31pm
- nasska
  
  …..”Why did some alerts say “presidential alert”?
  
  The Emergency Mobile Alert system uses an international standard and the broadcast channel we use is often called “Presidential Alert” overseas.
  
  We have worked with the phone manufacturers and New Zealand mobile network operators to use the term “Emergency Alert” instead. However, some phones pre-dating this, or bought overseas, will use the American international standard and will display “Presidential Alert”.”……
  
  https://www.civildefence.govt.nz/get-ready/civil-defence-emergency-management-alerts-and-warnings/emergency-mobile-alert/emergency-mobile-alert-frequently-asked-questions-faq/#presidential
  
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  November 25, 2018 6:34pm
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    I get that “Presidential” is the appropriate term under the American international standard, but we aren’t Americans.
    
    I guess we’ll get used to it.
    
    Here are some of the emergency warnings in Japan.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5fFXa_xh4U
    
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    November 25, 2018 6:58pm
    - realityczech
      
      How do they understand the messages when they are all in Japanese?
      
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      November 25, 2018 7:10pm
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    I guess they haven’t heard of “localization.”
    
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    November 25, 2018 6:59pm
  - Swifty
    
    My curry flatmate got it as a ‘Maharaja Alert’! 🙂
    
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    November 25, 2018 7:06pm
- realityczech
  
  Yep, its the Globalists ensuring the tracking chips are working okay.
  
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  November 25, 2018 6:35pm
  - cmm
    
    Good yarn, but it is actually broadcast (1-way transmission). Your phone will still pick it up even if it is not transmitting.
    
    That is different to, say, texting which requires a 2-way connection.
    
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    November 25, 2018 6:40pm
    - realityczech
      
      cmm is clearly working with Mossad on this one. The signal is sent from HAARP and bounces off the Chemtrail layer to cover the entire planet.
      
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      November 25, 2018 6:47pm
      - cmm
        
        Bugger, blown my cover! Better get mowing….
        
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        November 25, 2018 6:55pm
  - stephieboy
    
    With one implanted into your brain!
    
    Notice the big bump?
    
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    November 25, 2018 6:48pm
    - realityczech
      
      Stupidboy, did you find that it interfered with the GPS on your ankle bracelet?
      
      Remember – No closer than 3km to a school or mall.
      
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      November 25, 2018 6:52pm
    - Muttonbird
      
      Stephieboy. Do you know why your comment earlier in the day was censored by the host of this site?
      
      Seems there’s a lot of censorship of views critical of right wing thought going on at the moment.
      
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      November 25, 2018 7:32pm
      - realityczech
        
        Then try some right wing thought 🙂
        
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        November 25, 2018 7:56pm
      - Swifty
        
        Titi – your statement about our host is factually incorrect and you’ve been here long enough to know better.
        
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        November 25, 2018 7:57pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Apart from being so dumb Meathead doesn’t know how the site works, he’s teaming up with Resident Pervy creep Stephie.
        Going to invite him to the next Labour Sex Camp are you?
        Good luck with that!
        Lol
        *Graham Capill*
        
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        November 25, 2018 8:07pm
      - Muttonbird
        
        Swiftly. How does the site work? Who other than the host can delete a post?
        
        Six complainants you say? Well commenters here are a little over sensitive then, aren’t they. They give it but can’t take it.
        
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        November 25, 2018 8:13pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        30 downticks and you’re gone. But still able to be viewed.
        To his credit DPF doesn’t censor the site.
        It’s self governing.
        If you get reported, your comment goes to moderation for review.
        Say, what’s this we hear about you wanting people dead?
        Arderns a liar isn’t she. That was bullshit about meeting Pence eh.
        
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        November 25, 2018 8:18pm
      - Muttonbird
        
        Nope. I’m not an idiot. Stephie’s comment is literally gone. It has been deleted either by the owner or by the complaint system. That is censorship.
        
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        November 25, 2018 8:25pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        It’s gone to moderation for review,probably due to its content
        If it’s ok, it will reappear tomorrow
        And sorry to break it to you Meathead, but you are an Idiot.
        Soooo, about you wanting people dead.
        The ultimate form of censorship huh
        Lol
        
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        November 25, 2018 8:29pm
      - Swifty
        
        Yep, they frequently reappear once DPF has looked at them.
        
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        November 25, 2018 8:32pm
      - realityczech
        
        “Nope. I’m not an idiot.”
        
        And they say lefties don’t have a sense of humour 🙂
        
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        November 25, 2018 8:40pm
      - Muttonbird
        
        All_on_Labour. Please link to where I’ve said I want people dead.
        
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        November 25, 2018 8:46pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Harvey showed us the link to your Standard comment the other day.
        Btw, the All on Red is about Roulette not Labour.
        I could tell you more but what goes on in Vegas stays in Vegas.
        The non de plume is apropos for a political blog though. Kiwi or US…
        Works either way
        ?
        
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        November 25, 2018 8:51pm
      - Muttonbird
        
        Ah yes, harvey is my own personal stalker who archives my every post across multiple forums the globe over. It’s creepy.
        
        I asked you to link to it though.
        
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        November 25, 2018 8:59pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        True then
        Nasty leftie. Wanting people dead so they can’t speak out.
        Hardly a surprise
        What were you saying about censorship?
        
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        November 25, 2018 9:03pm
      - Tall Man
        
        Yep, you are an idiot. Apologies to David but you need to be told frequently.
        
        It’ll never sink in because you are clearly not well.
        
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        November 25, 2018 9:18pm
- cmm
  
  Bugger. I deleted my original message.
  
  THey are called Presidential because in the USA the Federal govt controls this channel and the prez is in harge of the federal govt. Likely other people actually send the messages.
  
  Whether or not you get the alert will depend on various factors including your phone firmware.
  
  The messages are similar to, but not the same as, text messages so they are handled differently by different phones.
  
  Unlike text messages which get stored by the carrier if your phone is off (or in flight mode), these messages are broadcast – not sent to individual phones – so are not stored if you are out of range, phone off, etc.
  
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  November 25, 2018 6:38pm
  - Komata
    
    Fascinating.
    
    No ‘Emergency’ notification received, and my five year-old mobile phone model isn’t listed on the manufacturers list appearing on the CD site.
    
    Evidently it can’t be ‘modified’ either!
    
    Perhaps the ‘Nationwide’ system isn’t as wide as some might like to believe…
    
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    November 25, 2018 7:07pm
    - realityczech
      
      You will need to have the rectal tracking chip installed then. They are a small triangle about 75mm a side.
      
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      November 25, 2018 7:14pm
cmm

Shoot up in Darfield area. AOS etc. Rumours of a cop being hurt.

Bugger. Hope you’re OK Dave!
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November 25, 2018 6:43pm
- simpleton1
  
  …. It is believed a police officer responding to the incident has been hurt. ……
  ….. It is also believed another person has died. …..
  https://i.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/108858139/police-attend-firearms-incident-in-darfield
  
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  November 25, 2018 6:51pm
  - realityczech
    
    The cop was run over.
    
    We need to ban cars.
    
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    November 25, 2018 6:53pm
    - sooty
      
      The gunts are trying as you write!
      
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      November 25, 2018 7:40pm
- cmm
  
  Scummy Herald have a photo of an AOS officer with the caption
  
  “Armed offenders squad have been called out to the incident. Photo / Doug Sherring”
  
  This is clearly a file photo and not taken at the scene. To put this photo with the article is fake news.
  
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  November 25, 2018 7:02pm
  - realityczech
    
    They will be desperately checking to see if the baddie is white and politically conservative.
    
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    November 25, 2018 7:08pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Interesting results in the latest elections in Victoria, Oz.
Minor Parties on the up…
Greens have been slaughtered.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-25/victorian-election-results-upper-house-fiona-patten-derryn-hinch/10552692

https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/victoria-state-election-result-greens-lie-low-as-they-count-down-their-fate-20181125-p50i87.html
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November 25, 2018 8:04pm
- nasska
  
  This is all it takes to tank the vote for the scummy Greens. Before long it will happen here.
  
  https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/risk-of-blackouts-in-victoria-on-the-rise-this-summer-report-warns-20170906-gybool.html
  
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  November 25, 2018 8:14pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    I still think a Green Party could rise on the West Coast.
    I hear there’s a lot of dissatisfaction with OConnor.
    If it got the Nat Party blessing…
    
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    November 25, 2018 8:24pm
    - realityczech
      
      Ah Clark’s infamous haters wreckers and inbred ferals. Yet the stupid buggers still vote Labour. As you would expect from inbred ferals mind you.
      
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      November 25, 2018 8:29pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Party Vote is very strong to Nats though.
        
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        November 25, 2018 8:31pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Probably didn’t help that one of their candidates got accused of being a rapist.
    https://www.9news.com.au/2018/11/23/10/59/victorian-greens-candidate-dominic-phillips-stood-down-over-rape-alledations
    
    And having to defend another candidate that used to rap about date rape
    Separately, the Greens have defended their candidate for Footscray, Angus McAlpine, after it emerged that he had previously performed in a hip hop group with lyrics about date rape.
    https://www.canberratimes.com.au/politics/victoria/greens-candidate-stood-down-following-rape-complaint-20181122-p50hpm.html
    
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    November 25, 2018 8:26pm
    - sooty
      
      Just as well we are not talking about the NZ Labour Party!
      
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      November 25, 2018 8:38pm
      - realityczech
        
        In other countries the police sometimes do their job, instead of trying to cover it up, and giving the offenders time to do their own investigation, lean on witnesses, and construct cover stories.
        
        All of which happened in the case of the Labour perverts in NZ.
        
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        November 25, 2018 9:07pm
- realityczech
  
  “One candidate quit after posting inappropriate messages on social media; another was revealed to have used misogynistic lyrics in their rap music; while yet another was accused of rape.”
  
  What is it with the left and all this rapey business?
  
  Is it because they think the world is ending and they might as well go for it?
  
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  November 25, 2018 8:24pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    Stephie,Morrissey and Muttonhead will know.
    Guys?
    
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    November 25, 2018 8:25pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    You’ve had a busy day on KB, realityczech.
    
    Have you been partaking of victuals?
    We’d hate for you to have a wee turn from lack of protein.
    
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    November 25, 2018 8:28pm
    - realityczech
      
      Thanks for your concern Wiggles but I have evolved to live on the tears of authoritarian lefties.
      
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      November 25, 2018 8:31pm
    - nasska
      
      Like the mayfly RC’s visits tend to be short ones so it follows that he likes to pack as much as possible into his days Maggy. 🙂
      
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      November 25, 2018 8:33pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Yes,
      I was wondering how we could tempt him to linger awhile longer.
      
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      November 25, 2018 8:37pm
- IC5000
  
  There has never been a more exciting time to be a Victorian state Liberal MP.
  
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  November 25, 2018 10:56pm
Captain Mainwaring

I see that the Pakistanis have found a batsman who’s almost as slow as the infamous Geoffrey Boycott.
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November 25, 2018 8:26pm
Tall Man

Camp molestation…maybe hard to give up.Pretty sure steffy is a getter not a giver…
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November 25, 2018 8:56pm
- nasska
  
  His thought processing suggests that he has the maturity of an agro fourteen year old whose uncle uses him as his bitch. 🙂
  
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  November 25, 2018 9:02pm
- Muttonbird
  
  The parents of the Young Nat responsible obviously have some high powered lawyers. Hence why the report isn’t out yet!
  
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  November 25, 2018 9:04pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    Oh Wood that were true.
    You know Meathead, your BS might work on the Unionised Workers you bludge off,but not here.
    
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    November 25, 2018 9:08pm
  - realityczech
    
    Did they use the same high powered lawyers Labour employed to threaten anyone who talked about Gayford’s shenanigans?
    
    The police never did say what it was they were not investigating. Strange busines that…
    
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    November 25, 2018 9:13pm
    - All_on_Red
      
      Sooner or later, some reporter is going to realise that the scalp of a Prime Minister is worth getting.
      
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      November 25, 2018 9:17pm
      - nasska
        
        They’d take that scalp tomorrow but are conflicted in knowing that it would bring down the far left government they support.
        
        Yet every day they must look at the clusterfuck & wonder if it’s worth protecting. This represents a massive burnoff of political capital for Labour.
        
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        November 25, 2018 9:31pm

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