General Debate 3 November 2018

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November 3, 2018 8:00am
- Salacious Crumb
  
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  November 3, 2018 8:02am
  - krazykiwi
    
    Take one iPhone. Eat toast, ensuring index finger is heartily smeared with butter. Attempt to write comment 🙂
    
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    November 3, 2018 8:09am
    - Biscuit
      
      IPhone, toast, BUTTER?
      
      You rich prick, krazykiwi, wait till the Cullen Tax Working Group gets its grubby mitts on you!
      
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      November 3, 2018 8:13am
      - VicParking
        
        Nothing wrong with a coke and a pie for breaky an Auckland staple. Better than an almond milk lattie and a gluten free roll. Mind you I’m having bacon and scrambled eggs on white toast.
        
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        November 3, 2018 8:33am
    - Salacious Crumb
      
      As long as you didn’t get your hands mixed up KK.
      
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      November 3, 2018 8:17am
- peterwn
  
  Something needed to get the ball rolling ….
  
  I disagree with most of Phil Twyford’s proposals for residential tenancies, but I do concur with his plan for abolishing letting fees paid by the tenant.
  My reason is, the letting agent is chosen by the landlord and works for the landlord so it is anomalous that the tenant should pay the fee. The landlord should and is given an incentive to either negotiate fees or dispense with the agent altogether. Some agents structure things to extract a fee each year. Naturally, letting agents and property managers are squealing like stuck pigs over this as if it is the end of the world as they know it. They say it will cause rents to increase. Rents may well increase – slightly but the amount is small and in any case increases due to shortage of flats etc would be far higher. Tenants would no doubt prefer a slight rent increase rather than having to fork out the fee in addition to initial rent payment and bond. A few landlords could leave the game over this but are more likely to leave because of the other proposals affecting residential landlords which will have far greater adverse effects. My heart bleeds for them.
  
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  November 3, 2018 8:04am
  - hello
    
    Yeah, I tend to agree with you. I think it’s naive to think we won’t see rent go up by $5 -10 p/w in response, but I do think that’s probably preferable. Renters – like myself – are now on more of a payment-plan type scheme.
    
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    November 3, 2018 8:16am
  - sooty
    
    I left! It’s the combination of all Labours policies, that drove me out and all the unwritten ones still to come! All returned to private homes again, so less in the rental pool.
    
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    November 3, 2018 8:17am
    - peterwn
      
      Interesting. I know three multi property residential landlords and none of them intend selling up, despite all the nasty things Labour is threatening. None use letting agencies – they do their own advertising and tenant selection. They take a ‘Quocunque Jeceris Stabit’ (whichever way you throw, it will stand) attitude.
      Some are selling up but others are staying in the game, since they consider that they can make a go of it despite what the Government throws at them.
      
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      November 3, 2018 9:00am
      - kevn
        
        @peter… My observation is that many of the rental homes being sold, are being re-let as BookaBach/AirBnB properties. Higher returns.
        
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        November 3, 2018 1:39pm
  - VicParking
    
    Rent is $450 PW for first six weeks and then if you are no behind in rent and there have been no complants I will drop it to $425.
    
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    November 3, 2018 8:35am
    - KevOB
      
      Fixed it.
      
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      November 3, 2018 8:59am
  - Chuck Bird
    
    I have an empty house that was rented. When it is done up I will sell it. I will invest my money in syndicated property which gives a far better return.
    
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    November 3, 2018 8:41am
    - peterwn
      
      Consider listed property companies too – this includes Auckland Airport.
      
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      November 3, 2018 9:02am
      - sooty
        
        Is theis goverment going to stuff the airport for been richpricks!
        
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        November 3, 2018 9:13am
      - peterwn
        
        sooty – the Government has limited options. The Airport Company can simply stop investing in expanding facilities (as it is the company makes small incremental investments to meet growth so facilities remain near or at capacity).
        If the Company has an ‘investment strike’ the Government would either have to accept that it makes a reasonable return for investors (including Kiwisavers and 22% shareholder Auckland Council) or would have to nationalise it – think what that would do to business confidence in general. It the Government nationalises it, the Government would have to invest in it for needed expansion. Its shares went up in the last few days despite the Commerce Commission finding they were making too much profit.
        
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        November 3, 2018 9:48am
      - GazzaW
        
        @peterwn
        
        It would be a masterpiece of hypocrisy were the Government to nationalise Auckland Airport given that it was Winston who fought tooth and nail to give ordinary Kiwis the right to buy shares in AIA. I still have my original parcel of shares (since multiplied several times) purchased for 50 cents each and now valued at over $7 and having paid some very handsome dividends in the interim. I’m sure that most Kiwisaver funds would hold substantial parcels of AIA shares.
        
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        November 3, 2018 3:05pm
  - flipper
    
    Oh for Lord’s sake this issue is a diversion.
    
    Talking it over with the Memsahib this morning she made the point that the Lees-Galloway cock up and national economic issues are actually important.
    
    She complains about tax increases, petrol price rises due to this nutty regime, the wider cost of living, the oil and gas disaster, the teachers and medicos (already over-paid) holding the nation to ransom, all the trade union nonsense. And now she says that if renters cannot pay the fee then go find a cheaper place. Look after themselves for a change …. and not at our expense. To expect us to foot the bill, is she says and I agree (to paraphrase W S Churchill), like standing in a bucket and using its handle to try and lift it.
    
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    November 3, 2018 9:52am
  - Tall Man
    
    As an ex landlord, I see the letting fee is payment for the amount of vetting that needs to be done these days and if you wanted to rent my flat why should I pay for vetting on you and maybe 25 others? The weekly fee is charged for inspections and collecting the rent so I pay that but you would be a bit slow to have not figured out that I will recover that cost somewhere.
    
    You may not see it that way But a landlord does.
    
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    November 3, 2018 10:55am
    - peterwn
      
      I fully appreciate that. However YOU choose the letting agency and YOU choose to do vetting. So the cost should be on YOU, not the tenant. I quite understand that there would be a slight upward movement in rental to cover this, but it seems tenants would prefer it this way. Also it incentives landlords to control this cost – which does not happen when it is lumbered on to tenants.
      
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      November 3, 2018 12:19pm
      - Tall Man
        
        Nope, as I said, the letting agency does the vetting. Yes on my behalf to select the tenant but why should I pay for all the unsuccessful ones or those that fail the vetting.
        
        We have recently seen an outcrying by the liberal anti landlord left that asking to see confirmation of a tenant’s ability to pay the rent is a breach of their privacy and I am sure that asking for a criminal conviction list would be equally frowned upon.
        
        As I said, you want to prove to me you are a good tenant, your cost or don’t bother.
        
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        November 3, 2018 1:16pm
      - Tall Man
        
        You also say that you expect there will be a slight upward movement in rental to cover this and that tenants would prefer it this way…I think you will find that the tenants fully expect letting fees to disappear without any other increase to offset this.
        
        You may speak for the rational tenant but this is designed to appeal the the dipshit labour voting ones who have to relocate on a regular basis because they are such fine upstanding citizens. That was sarcasm for the slower among the left 🙂 )
        
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        November 3, 2018 1:20pm
      - peterwn
        
        Tall Man – Seems you are not get used to the new regime, better do a favour to those landlords who are going to hang in and sell up now.
        The looming serious lack of rental properties is the real issue – who pays the letting fee is just a sideshow.
        Tenants obviously do not want letting fees even though it may cost them in the long run – but remember ‘the customer is always right’.
        
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        November 3, 2018 2:18pm
- oldpark
  
  @krazikiwi 8.00am
  Thanks for the chance to fill in the space. Should Landlords be afraid,very afraid. Latest tenant rip off against a Landlord ,with the law on his side. it took documented evidence of 11 Months to get rid of a wayward tenant,who refused to vacate the rental. Said hurty feelings allowed her to refuse to vacate the rental,and wanted to leave on her own terms,not some legal clap trap forcing her to leave the property.
  Also now the once dirty “P” or Meth poison found to be in many rentals or state houses is to be made out to be not a problem and removed from (LIM ) Land Information Memorandom reports.
  Seems nothing to report here,move on. Thanks to the present Regime.
  Of course just a start on the attack on Landlords by the awful sicko trio led by Foxy Peters ,small town Twerp Ardern and the mad dog Misandrists from the far Left Lunatic Green Party.
  Landlords should be afraid ,very afraid.Yes! Yes! Yes!.
  
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  November 3, 2018 9:07am
  - peterwn
    
    Apparently in East Germany before the Wall came down, there were some people who hung on to their properties with grim determination since ‘bricks and mortar’ is tangible. This was despite the Communist government nailing them to the wall with rent controls, inability to kick tenants out, etc.
    
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    November 3, 2018 9:18am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/108223999/a-tenant-from-hell-facing-her-16th-tribunal-hearing
    
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    November 3, 2018 9:50am
- DifferentPerspective
  
  Democrat poster boy arrested for violence
  
  Icon of the DNC – Alec Baldwin – via cataclysmically unfunny SNL Trump impersonation – arrested for punching someone over a parking spot!
  
  But still, the narrative is that it’s Republicans who are the problem – the amazing thing is that despite the proof that violence always comes from the Democrats – they manage to convince over 50 million morons that the Republicans cause it.
  
  Still the CNN hate-monger Don Lemon will be right now for the first time in his sorry sad little life – here is finally an example of a white man being the violent problem.
  
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  November 3, 2018 4:22pm
Biscuit

Is that a ‘read between the dot’ type post, krazykiwi?
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November 3, 2018 8:02am
- pdm
  
  Definitely was not a read between the lines post.
  
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  November 3, 2018 8:15am
  - Salacious Crumb
    
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    November 3, 2018 8:18am
    - pdm
      
      Clever Salacious.
      
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      November 3, 2018 8:33am
holysheet

Breaking News
The tax working group propose a whopping 90% tax break on dildos and sexual lubricants such as KY Jelly.
This is confirmation that they think we can either be shafted, or go fuck ourselves.
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November 3, 2018 8:03am
- NewInoffensiveName
  
  No, this means that we cannot afford to fuck ourselves and they are asserting that is THEIR job.
  
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  November 3, 2018 8:13am
  - softail 1450
    
    N I N, It wood me my luck that when my turn came to be done it would be 3 pies woods that would be sent around to see me….or nanaia FFS.
    
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    November 3, 2018 9:45am
- freethinker
  
  Straight out of Robbos playbook, and a nod to Aunty.
  
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  November 3, 2018 9:05am
  - stigie
    
    Bet Alf played a part in it as they consume alot !~
    
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    November 3, 2018 9:37am
krazykiwi

It has been brought to my attention that I have been unkind to our Czech friend. I am sorry. I hereby commit to giving him my houses, cars, the boat and all my investments. I appoligise unreservedly for any offence caused to him, or indeed to members if his family. I would like to see him make his permanent home here in New Zealand
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November 3, 2018 8:04am
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  ‘dat u ILG?
  
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  November 3, 2018 9:27am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    No
    If it was ILG
    He would
    commit to giving him YOUR houses, cars, the boat and all my investments.
    
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    November 3, 2018 9:48am
    - Shaun the Sheep
      
      He would know the difference?
      
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      November 3, 2018 10:08am
- Fletch
  
  It’s all about Czech’s and balances 😉
  
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  November 3, 2018 10:19am
  - Tall Man
    
    His Czech and your balance I think.
    
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    November 3, 2018 11:00am
  - GoVege
    
    Where’s Realityczech?
    Has he got a date at last? 🙂
    
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    November 3, 2018 12:15pm
waikatogirl

“There will be no nationwide strikes on my watch”

We have now reached critical services striking under Cindy’s watch. St John’s Ambulance staff will be striking during November. ?

This is approx the 20th strike since the beginning of the year, all under Cindy’s watch. I do hope nobody dies as a result of ambulances being in short supply because they bloody well aren’t working.
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November 3, 2018 8:05am
- Southern Raider
  
  My kids school is off in two weeks again
  
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  November 3, 2018 8:12am
- Harkman
  
  I’ve spent the last 2 nights in A&E, and what a f’ken mess. They discharged a family member yesterday without any proper assessments, they went to the gp yesterday who immediately called the neurology ward for a CT scan. You walk into the hospital and they make you talk to a front office nurse, they check all the contact details, then you walk to an old battle axe that looks like she smokes 40 a day and was on Coro St 40 years ago, who then asks all the same questions again and you inform her they are expecting you and she gives you a snarky remark that “it doesn’t work like that.” After an hour and a half wait you go through to the doctor who says “I’ve been waiting for you guys for an hour and a half.” After the scan you have to wait a day for any info. What a mess and Bernie Sanders wants some of our action.
  
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  November 3, 2018 9:38am
  - Dave Mann
    
    What country are you in? Which city/town’s A&E?
    What has an American politician got to do with any of this?
    
    I have extensive (non clinical) work experience in a major A&E in Auckland and our professional standards and patient care is of the very highest standard and nothing like what you describe. There’s no way patients are discharged without proper assessment and if a CT scan is needed it is invariably carried out on site with ongoing patient care while the results are evaluated.
    
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    November 3, 2018 10:18am
    - Nermal
      
      My three experiences with A&E at Whangarei hospital (2 medical, one accident) were amazing. Staff were so helpful and caring, and kept me informed about what was happening at all times. I’m so grateful that we have such professional and dedicated medical staff.
      
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      November 3, 2018 11:31am
  - Komata
    
    Harkman
    
    Sorry to learn about your experience at the hands of your local hospital. FWIW: As a result of an old injury reasserting itsself while overseas (a country in which I had no intention of becoming a patient if it could be helped), I became an unexpected (and, it must be said, somewhat unwilling), guest of my local DHB 16 hours after returning to NZ. Granted there was a wait at ‘Inwards’ reception, although this was not unexpected as the reception staff were flat out, but the overall experience was very positive and the caring evident to see. I had/ have no complaints at all, the staff were very professional and well-informed, and were quite tolerant of my questions. I also found that my family were kept appraised of developments, something for which I was thankful. . As you mention Bernie Sanders, I can only presume that your experience was at an American hospital, an environment which might be slightly different from that in NZ.
    
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    November 3, 2018 2:26pm
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When people here talk of the importance of MPS having ‘real world experience’, are they thinking particularly of those National MPs with experience as lobbyists for the tobacco industry?
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November 3, 2018 8:06am
- Salacious Crumb
  
  Agree Tom but what did they do before they became lobbyists? Just for balance.
  
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  November 3, 2018 8:09am
  - Tall Man
    
    But it’s alright for our current prime minister to have been a policy analyst for a foreign power and a political researcher for aunty helen. Read “spin doctor” or bullshit artist.
    
    Pray tell, what is the difference?
    
    I do find it interesting that horsey claims that she never met Tony Blair yet worked for him for almost a year. Odd?
    
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    November 3, 2018 11:09am
    - calendar girl
      
      And she was described in a bio on the internet as a “senior advisor” to PM Tony Blair. When she was elevated to the role of NZ Labour Party Leader, that embarrassing piece of puffery disappeared from the record, without explanation.
      
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      November 3, 2018 12:15pm
    - madamezucchininz
      
      …policy analyst…..rubbish…..more likely was a tea bag
      
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      November 3, 2018 12:33pm
      - RF
        
        With those teeth…. no thanks…… not called chompers for nothing….
        
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        November 3, 2018 8:49pm
- MrTips
  
  Nah, thinking of those with experience as nurse union hacks and talent for using a Pole to hide a dodgy Czech. Oh, and running stenographers through.
  
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  November 3, 2018 8:27am
- GazzaW
  
  …….or Cabinet Ministers with experience as executives of aid organisations now under investigation for sex abuse?
  
  A very silly argument Tom Barker.
  
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  November 3, 2018 8:42am
- backster
  
  No Tom , thats Labour’s definition along with lobbying on behalf of Drug importing gangsters, and sexual deviants.
  
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  November 3, 2018 8:56am
- peterwn
  
  How many? I know of only one and he has been a hard working and successful MP – put the skids under Trevor Mallard.
  
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  November 3, 2018 9:22am
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Another book to put under the Christmas Tree or widen ones intellectual and knowledge horizons often so desperately amiss among many KB Posters.

“Travellers in the Third Reich: The Rise of Fascism Through the Eyes of Everyday People”

by Julia Boyd

Without the benefit of hindsight, how do you interpret what’s right in front of your eyes?

The events that took place in Germany between 1919 and 1945 were dramatic and terrible but there were also moments of confusion, of doubt – of hope. How easy was it to know what was actually going on, to grasp the essence of National Socialism, to remain untouched by the propaganda or predict the Holocaust?

Travellers in the Third Reich is an extraordinary history of the rise of the Nazis based on fascinating first-hand accounts, drawing together a multitude of voices and stories, including students, politicians, musicians, diplomats, schoolchildren, communists, scholars, athletes, poets, journalists, fascists, artists, tourists, even celebrities like Charles Lindbergh and Samuel Beckett. Their experiences create a remarkable three-dimensional picture of Germany under Hitler – one so palpable that the reader will feel, hear, even breathe the atmosphere.

These are the accidental eyewitnesses to history. Disturbing, absurd, moving, and ranging from the deeply trivial to the deeply tragic, their tales give a fresh insight into the complexities of the Third Reich, its paradoxes and its ultimate destruction. (less)

GET A COPY

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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34594504-travellers-in-the-third-reich
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November 3, 2018 8:06am
- hello
  
  Have you read this? A lot of new history books can be a little revisionist, and ignore the socialist tendencies of Nazism.
  
  Obviously I’m keen to broaden my horizons, but I’d love your take on who the book ‘put the blame on’. Something more nuanced than ‘Hitler was bad and Donald Trump is doing the same thing’ would be ideal (though, of course, Hitler was absolutely evil and I don’t mean to imply otherwise)
  
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  November 3, 2018 8:13am
  - holysheet
    
    Nah It’s all the fault of Sir John Key.
    
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    November 3, 2018 8:17am
    - stephieboy
      
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      holycrap, fall out of the top bunk this morning?
      
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      November 3, 2018 8:27am
      - flipper
        
        The stupidboy did the falling …. and ….landed on his head, destroying the last vestiges of brain tissue.
        
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        November 3, 2018 10:17am
    - pdm
      
      The ANZ profits especially – are Sir John Keys fault!!
      
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      November 3, 2018 9:33am
  - stephieboy
    
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    hello, like nationalising Farben, Krupp Steel, Messschermidt, Heinkel etc, etc
    
    LOL!
    
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    November 3, 2018 8:21am
    - softail 1450
      
      septicboy,,,,,goatboy is googling hard this morning,still a whiff of nanny in the air though ?.
      
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      November 3, 2018 9:49am
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    SB doesn’t read anything he posts.
    This is just another cut and paste from Goodreads.
    
    Sigh
    
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    November 3, 2018 9:30am
- kowtow
  
  GET A COPY
  
  …..or we’ll smash your windows.
  
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  November 3, 2018 8:14am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    And then we will burn your copy along with all the other books . . .
    
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    November 3, 2018 9:00am
- Salacious Crumb
  
  Looks interesting.
  
  Here’s on for you Stephieboy:
  The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  
  More disturbing in that the tenets of this ideology are still seen today and are growing.
  
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  November 3, 2018 8:14am
  - stephieboy
    
    Comparing Apples and pears really. Yes, there were many visitors to Stalin’s Russia in the 1930s who were similarly gullible!
    
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    November 3, 2018 8:24am
  - CHFR1
    
    I read this book a few months ago, it is one of the most horrific books I have ever read and I can see how it brought down the Soviet Union. The many millions killed are just a number but Solzhenitsyn by giving them names and stories makes your heart bleed.
    This book should be compulsory reading for all kids and forced down the throats of anyone still stupid enough to call themselves a communist.
    
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    November 3, 2018 8:25am
    - stephieboy
      
      CHFR1, matched by reading an equivalent about Nazi Germany?
      
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      November 3, 2018 8:29am
    - Salacious Crumb
      
      Completely agree. The most harrowing books I’ve ever read; especially when you consider the underlying messages that everyone knew but carried on anyway. It’s never that far away in all of us really.
      
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      November 3, 2018 8:32am
    - Komata
      
      CHFR1
      
      Clearly Cindy doesn’t seem to have read it, either that or it has given her ideas beyond her mental capabilities…
      
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      November 3, 2018 9:48am
  - EAD_TWO
    
    The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    
    I prefer Solzhenitsyns 200 Years Together which is very applicable to modern times when we see the sheer level of hate by the MSM towards White European Christians.
    
    Here is is chilling reminder and warning:
    
    You must understand, the leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of human remorse. It cannot be overstated. Bolshevism committed the greatest human slaughter of all time. The fact that most of the world is ignorant and uncaring about this enormous crime is proof that the global media is in the hands of the perpetrators.
    
    http://irishsavant.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-incredible-disappearing-man.html?m=0
    
    The MSM is still in the same Communist Hands – just contrast the coverage Antifa get vs. anybody left of Karl Marx gets.
    
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    November 3, 2018 8:51am
    - backster
      
      EAD …”The fact that most of the world is ignorant and uncaring about this enormous crime is proof that the global media is in the hands of the perpetrators”
      
      Are there not signs of history repeating itself?
      
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      November 3, 2018 9:01am
      - EAD_TWO
        
        The NYT is the worst they don’t hide their agenda at all:
        
        Here was an article by Michelle Goldberg titled “We will replace them”
        
        https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/29/opinion/stacey-abrams-georgia-governor-election-brian-kemp.html
        
        and more:
        
        https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/24/opinion/america-white-extinction.html
        
        https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/style/white-guilt-privilege.html
        
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        November 3, 2018 9:15am
      - Jack5
        
        I hope, 卐 EADolf, that any new reader to Kiwiblog, coming across your salvos at the Jews, doesn’t make the mistake of assuming you are sane. ?
        
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        November 3, 2018 9:20am
      - EAD_TWO
        
        Jacqueline,
        
        What part is incorrect?
        
        Did Solzhenitsyn not say that in his book “200 Years Together”?
        
        We’re those articles not written in Sulzbergers New York Times?
        
        I look forward to your response ?
        
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        November 3, 2018 10:32am
    - Fletch
      
      Solzhenitsyn gives his ultimate final reason for what happened –
      
      “Over a half century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of old people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: “Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.” Since then I have spent well-nigh 50 years working on the history of our revolution; in the process I have read hundreds of books, collected hundreds of personal testimonies, and have already contributed eight volumes of my own toward the effort of clearing away the rubble left by that upheaval. But if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: “Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.”
      
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      November 3, 2018 10:37am
- Swifty
  
  “widen ones intellectual and knowledge horizons often so desperately amiss among many KB Posters.:
  
  Says the most stupid poster on Kiwiblog.
  
  Anyway, outside of alt-left echo-chambers who really cares?
  
  LOL!
  
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  November 3, 2018 8:18am
  - stephieboy
    
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    Swifty, chipping away into a rich vein of irony there, yes ?
    
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    November 3, 2018 8:25am
    - Swifty
      
      At least I’m man enough to admit when I’m wrong.
      
      Oh, and I can string a sentence together. And spell.
      
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      November 3, 2018 8:30am
      - stephieboy
        
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        Swifty, “admit I’m wrong “??
        
        Like… ?
        
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        November 3, 2018 8:33am
      - Swifty
        
        Why don’t you just have a little think about that.
        
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        November 3, 2018 8:37am
  - Woz
    
    Wee Stephanie isn’t stupid. Far from it. I’ll give the little fellow credit where it’s due. Sadistic, yes, because he derives a perverse pleasure (possibly erotic) from coming here and stirring up the ranks. Masochistic, too, for the same reason. But the book recommendation I will take seriously. I have read other works by Boyd, and whilst I don’t particularly agree with her world view, she has made a good career out of shining a light into ill-explored corners of history.
    
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    November 3, 2018 8:45am
- stephieboy
  
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  A sample review of Julia Boyd’s book,
  
  Chele Hipp
  
  Jul 17, 2018 Chele Hipp rated it it was amazing
  Utterly fascinating and terrifying. No, I don’t think Trump will try to exterminate people like Hitler. But, yes, I do believe he is attempting to lead us to fascism. And that he aspires to be a dictator.
  This book BRILLIANTLY chronicles how and why ordinary people endured, accepted, and often cheered Hitler’s rise and if you don’t think you could do the same thing then you definitely need to read this book.
  
  The primary reasons for the complacency and/or enthusiasm are happening here and now:
  1. Pre-existing racism and fear. Anti-semitism was rampant in Germany and throughout the world. Just like anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant feelings are plaguing our world now.
  2. Personal economic circumstances. In the short term, Hitler took Germany from desperation to prosperity and people were feeling much better. Sounds a lot like the 401(k) Trumpers.
  3. Personal comfort. People were having a good time. Social life was fun and full. Food, drink, entertainment, travel, festivals. Just like our lives are when we choose to look away from the hardships others are enduring.
  4. Propaganda. The Nazi propaganda machine convinced many people that Hitler was a peace loving man who only wanted the best for his country and was leading the country back to its pre-WWI greatness. Fox News and MAGA.
  5. Ignorance. Citizens didn’t have access to information and eventually, Hitler took control of all information anyway. This is the place where we differ the most. We have an informed citizenry and an extraordinary press. We must hold these things dear. It is what will protect us from fascism and maintain our American principles. That and voting. Vote. Vote. Vote. (less)
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  November 3, 2018 8:36am
  - Woz
    
    Stephanie, you are about to blow your hard-earned shreds of credibility with me by quoting a review by a spittle-flecked blithering anti-Trumper.
    
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    November 3, 2018 8:49am
  - Scott
    
    Unfortunately this is where stephieboy and the rest of the left are going at the moment. Donald Trump is literally Hitler.
    
    We can see this when we examine what Donald Trump is doing. He is building a wall to keep illegal aliens out of the country. This is obviously literally the same as a concentration camp!
    
    The economy is booming. Under Hitler the economy was booming as well.
    
    In this economy we have record low black unemployment and Hispanic unemployment. This is literally the same as sending Jews to a concentration camp!
    
    Under Trump the American Embassy to Israel has been moved to Jerusalem. Trump has a Jewish son-in-law. This literally means that Trump is Hitler because of the Jews!
    
    Trump gets huge crowds to his rallies. Hitler got huge crowds to his rallies. This surely nails it. Trump is literally Hitler!
    
    So let’s sum it up. Trump is a good friend to the Jewish nation of Israel, we have a booming economy, record low unemployment, building a wall to secure the border. I rest my case 🙂
    
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    November 3, 2018 9:29am
  - Vory v zakone
    
    Fuck off Ralph. You ignorant asswipe. Stick to pushing the broom around St Albans because that’s all you are good for
    Sigh
    
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    November 3, 2018 9:36am
  - Tall Man
    
    Aesome, another hidden comment.
    
    Keep it up steffy girl. By 2020 you will have driven enough people from the labour vote to ensure we never see or hear from the tooth fairy ever again.
    
    Thanks again.
    
    Is Ardern a liar?
    
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    November 3, 2018 1:10pm
- VicParking
  
  Stephie Jealous?
  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6345613/Man-caught-bed-GOAT-guilty-bestiality-South-Africa.html
  
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  November 3, 2018 8:42am
  - softail 1450
    
    V P, now thats going to take some beating for todays laugh of the day ,
    or for septicboy ,todays greatest love story……..????.
    
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    November 3, 2018 9:58am
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    Oh dear, I’m not sure Mr Matlou gets out much.
    
    Animal welfare inspector Mishack Matlou confessed it was the ‘highest form of animal cruelty’ he had seen
    
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    November 3, 2018 10:19am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Well it’s good that you are reading about life in Nazi Germany…
  Remember some of us on KB know folks and have loved ones who grew up in Nazi Germany.
  One of the things they remember is folks who spread filthy rumours and told lies about their fellow citizens.
  
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  November 3, 2018 8:56am
  - stephieboy
    
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    Like persecuted Jews and dissident Socialists etc ?
    
    To think many of DPFs’ ancestors would be most unwelcome persona non gratis in 1930s Nazi Germany
    
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    November 3, 2018 9:47am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      My in-laws were Slavs.
      Think about that stephieboy?
      Not NAZIS…
      
      So how difficult will it be for my children and their cousins to travel in Europe or to get a German Passport when you have linked the Wassilieff name to the Alt-right and neo-Naziism here on KB?
      
      NZ immigration mightn’t check details, but I’m damn sure other countries do.
      
      (Note: there is only one extended family with my surname in NZ)
      
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      November 3, 2018 9:59am
- lilman
  
  Pissoff you goat screwer, Christmas is our celebration.
  The Christmas tree is also ours.
  Stick too tossing off goats.
  
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  November 3, 2018 9:05am
- Harkman
  
  Fascism = Fabian Socialism= John Maynard Keynes = Labour
  
  Maybe your side should read this.
  
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  November 3, 2018 9:40am
  - stephieboy
    
    Harkman , how many concentration camps did FDR and the fourth Labour Government open?
    
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    November 3, 2018 9:48am
    - softail 1450
      
      Dont worry folks ,the goat fancier is about to burn out for the day ….
      
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      November 3, 2018 10:01am
    - Tall Man
      
      Go on dipshit..
      
      Google it…”Is Ardern a iar?”
      
      Is Ardern a liar.
      
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      November 3, 2018 11:17am
    - Tall Man
      
      Too busy making “Camp Molestation” a “go to” place.
      
      Steffy girl, you really are as thick as a plank and every day you drive another swing voter away from you. Thanks.
      
      Is Ardern a liar?
      
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      November 3, 2018 11:19am
    - alloytoo
      
      Stephieboy asked:
      
      “how many concentration camps did FDR and the fourth Labour Government open?”
      
      FDR had at least 40 camps under his watch
      
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      November 3, 2018 1:25pm
      - Harkman
        
        Yes Japanese Americans.
        
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        November 3, 2018 2:06pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Hautu Detention Camp, Turangi 1943
        https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/35693/hautu-detention-camp-1943
        
        Whitaunui Detention Camp, Shannon
        Paiaka Detention Camp
        https://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/news/81697932/history-of-shannon-war-camps-uncovered
        
        https://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/second-world-war-at-home/in-dissent
        
        https://rdln.wordpress.com/2011/07/20/the-secret-history-of-ww2/
        
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        November 3, 2018 2:45pm
      - stephieboy
        
        Forty camps like Dachau, Belsen, Sachsenhausen. Mathausen etc???
        
        Go and visit your Doctor!
        
        You also, MW!
        
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        November 3, 2018 3:29pm
    - Ed Snack
      
      FDR, well apart from the Japanese internment concentration camps, not that many. But they were both illegal and pretty nasty.
      
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      November 3, 2018 3:15pm
      - stephieboy
        
        Rd Snack , but nothing lie Belsen or Buchenwald etc?
        
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        November 3, 2018 3:31pm
      - Ed Snack
        
        And not like the Gulag either. But by the definition, concentration camps. You did ask…
        
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        November 3, 2018 3:49pm
- RW Capitalist
  
  AAAAHHH proof of loss.
  Godwin’s law.
  In your case, it could be Godwit’s law….
  Bird brain.
  
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  November 3, 2018 9:52am
- Tall Man
  
  Awesome steffy girl. Again, no need to read your stupid shit thanks to the “hidden comment” option.
  
  Please keep posting though because every post you make drives another swing voter away from your rabid attitude and….
  
  It gives me the chance to post this…
  
  Is Ardern a liar?
  
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  November 3, 2018 11:13am
Manolo

The communist Green Party wants to do the same here:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/washington-dc-could-let-16-olds-vote-president-130203700–election.html

The Washington, D.C., City Council is preparing to vote on a bill to lower the voting age to 16 for all elections, both local and federal.
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November 3, 2018 8:14am
- gump
  
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  The school leaving age in NZ is 16.
  
  If the state considers you to be old enough to leave school, get married, and live independently at the age of 16 then you should also be able to vote.
  
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  November 3, 2018 8:22am
  - Salacious Crumb
    
    Yet the state also says you can’t gamble until you’re 20. If you can’t throw your money away in a casino why should you be able to throw it away voting for tax and spend governments?
    
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    November 3, 2018 8:34am
    - All_on_Red
      
      The State also says under 18 you’re a Minor and Contracts are unenforceable unless the other side can prove it was ‘fair and reasonable’
      
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      November 3, 2018 8:38am
    - gump
      
      Tax and spend Governments?
      
      Are you talking about National? During their nine years in power they increased our net Government debt from $10 billion to over $60 billion.
      
      They paid for tax cuts by increasing Government debt. Remind me how that was supposed to work?
      
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      November 4, 2018 12:28am
      - softail 1450
        
        Dump ,,,,once again the crackhead gump is awake and on KB at 12.28 am ?
        
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        November 4, 2018 4:40am
  - Tall Man
    
    So now we have gumpie and steffy girl. Awesome…
    
    Dumb and dumber from the left.
    
    You poor buggers got the am shift on a Saturday did you?
    
    I guess mummy Ardern is displeased…
    
    Is Ardern a liar.
    
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    November 3, 2018 11:15am
- Harkman
  
  It should be put up to 25.
  
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  November 3, 2018 9:41am
  - Flash
    
    25 yo rate payers
    
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    November 3, 2018 10:40am
Southern Raider

I see Dunedin has rolled out the red carpet for Labour

Mayor Cull has been spewing out all week about his romance with labour
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November 3, 2018 8:14am
- kowtow
  
  A cold , damp , miserable day in Dunedin today, socialist weather, suitable to the occasion.
  
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  November 3, 2018 9:45am
- RW Capitalist
  
  Saw SLG on the news, at the conference, the other night.
  Since she is all about the look…
  How come the crowd at the conference, from the mezzanine, where she was interviewed, looked like about….a couple of dozen people.
  Surely they have more members than that?
  
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  November 3, 2018 9:56am
holysheet

Has Jethro been seen anywhere lately?
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November 3, 2018 8:15am
- Southern Raider
  
  He’s walking the straight white line
  
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  November 3, 2018 8:17am
  - holysheet
    
    Is that a euphemism for a line of coke?
    
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    November 3, 2018 8:18am
    - Swifty
      
      Is Gaylord our new Casey Jones?
      
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      November 3, 2018 8:27am
      - Komata
        
        Swifty
        
        Which Casey Jones are you refering to please; there are several in the public arena…
        
        Thanks.
        
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        November 3, 2018 9:54am
      - Swifty
        
        This one:
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x2m6i4KFqg
        
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        November 3, 2018 11:16am
  - geoff3012
    
    Had a dog who used to walk the white line. Did not end well.
    
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    November 3, 2018 3:52pm
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  Remember when Melania Trump was recovering from surgery and there were rumours DT has done her in/beaten her up/imprisoned her?
  Stephieboy make gleeful insinuations of domestic abuse.
  
  No one has seen Jethro.
  You don’t suppose ….
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  November 3, 2018 9:13am
Southern Raider

Is Cindy the most confused women on the planet?

This week she claimed ramming the oil and mining law changes through would assist new mining permits, yet in her opening speech at labour conference yesterday she stating on of their biggest achievements (apart from killing charter schools) was killing all oil and gas
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November 3, 2018 8:16am
- Manolo
  
  Actually, PM Ardern is rudderless and hopeless.
  
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  November 3, 2018 8:17am
  - G152
    
    At first read I though that you’d written ‘Udderless’ 🙂
    
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    November 3, 2018 8:25am
    - VicParking
      
      Could be. Yesterday someone told me Gaylord was an almighty tit so maybe he’s been stepping up.
      
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      November 3, 2018 8:46am
      - lilman
        
        Good one,enjoyed that.
        
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        November 3, 2018 9:07am
      - G152
        
        Breasting the b(r)ar eh 🙂
        
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        November 3, 2018 9:27am
- waikatogirl
  
  When can the voters of NZ expect a statement from Cindy on how she feels about the need to import boatloads of coal into NZ to keep the lights on??? How does that sit with you after you cancelled the oil and gas industry???
  
  Cindy, what do you reckon???……………………………(dead air)…….
  
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  November 3, 2018 8:27am
  - GazzaW
    
    If we have to use coal at the Huntly power station then why are we importing it?
    
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    November 3, 2018 8:52am
    - Southern Raider
      
      Because if the greenies can’t see if coming out of the ground it didn’t actually happen
      
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      November 3, 2018 9:09am
    - waikatogirl
      
      Haven’t you been listening Gazza. NO to mining!!!
      (Ssssh don’t tell anyone but it’s okay to import coal as long as we don’t mine it ourselves).
      
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      November 3, 2018 9:43am
      - GazzaW
        
        So to rewrite that old phrase about ‘it’s like taking coal to Newcastle’ it is now like taking coal to Huntly.
        
        What a waste of fucken’ space these people are.
        
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        November 3, 2018 10:17am
    - RF
      
      Hang on. Last month David Parker was questioned if they were going to import coal.
      
      His response was to laugh and call it another conspiracy theory….
      
      Lying Wanker….
      
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      November 3, 2018 7:12pm
- AgainstTheFlow
  
  Amongst the party faithful, she be boasts of that decision.
  Out in public, not so much.
  
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  November 3, 2018 8:33am
- Nermal
  
  Binge watching brilliant Norwegian TV series ‘Occupation’, where their country gets occupied by the Russians after their Green government shuts down oil & gas production for conservation reasons. Inept government keeps reminding me of Cindy and the COL
  
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  November 3, 2018 11:41am
  - Jules99
    
    Where are you watching it, e.g. Netflix?
    
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    November 3, 2018 12:35pm
kowtow

Interesting how foreign criminals get better protection in our courts than natives ……..

‘A Balclutha man who pushed his wife and threatened her with a knife has been discharged without conviction, after the judge heard he was at risk of deportation.’

https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/south-otago/man-discharged-due-risk-deportation
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November 3, 2018 8:17am
- backster
  
  I thought it came out in the Stroubeck matter that Judge Wade was wrong , and that Judges were not permitted to consider the risks of deportation in their sentences.
  
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  November 3, 2018 9:10am
- peterwn
  
  Crown Law should appeal this – and would almost certainly win.
  
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  November 3, 2018 9:27am
  - VicParking
    
    Not if Little has anything to say about it. One less Labour voter
    
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    November 3, 2018 10:02am
    - sooty
      
      Where is Jethro?
      
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      November 3, 2018 12:10pm
      - Rachael Membery
        
        Dunedin last night I think at the Labour conference, Neve got to watch Mummy again, more people this time though hopefully. To the already converted though and Phil Goff went for s schmooze also.
        
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        November 3, 2018 2:53pm
      - GazzaW
        
        I guess that Auntie Hels is there as well. No show without Punch.
        
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        November 3, 2018 3:15pm
hello

Interesting suggestion I had put to me yesterday: nobody should be able to vote until they’re 25.

Obviously that’s never going to happen – people would outrage – but I think there’s possibly at least a case for it.

What do you all think? Should one be required to gain some life experience before they can decide who runs the country? Or completely undemocratic?
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November 3, 2018 8:19am
- gump
  
  Some people believe that there should be no taxation without representation.
  
  Why should under 25 year-olds pay tax if they’re denied political representation?
  
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  November 3, 2018 8:25am
  - hello
    
    I paid tax when I started working at 14 (though admittedly, it would have been completely cancelled out by whatever the Government was paying for my public education at the time); should I have had the vote?
    
    I do see where you’re coming from (and ultimately agree with you), but tax isn’t a perfect litmus test.
    
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    November 3, 2018 8:30am
  - kowtow
    
    Yes but the revolting colonists were happy to have the English fight and die for them and for the cost of the war to be carried by the Home government.
    
    Context is every thing.
    
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    November 3, 2018 9:43am
- JIV
  
  Perhaps it should be a requirement that you no longer live with your parents or you cant vote unless you have a job and pay taxes.
  
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  November 3, 2018 8:31am
  - peterwn
    
    Would there then be a surplus of basements with broadband internet connections?
    
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    November 3, 2018 9:30am
  - Tall Man
    
    Well that’s the green/labour vote gone in a flash……I like it 🙂
    
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    November 3, 2018 11:43am
- JibberJabber
  
  The Greens are going to introduce a bill where no one over the age of 19 will be allowed to vote.
  We are to harness the Knowledge of Teenagers while they still know everything.
  
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  November 3, 2018 8:33am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  You can join the Army in NZ at 17.
  If you are old enough to serve (and die for) your country, then you should have the right to vote for your Parliamentary representatives.
  
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  November 3, 2018 9:06am
  - G152
    
    I joined the RNZN at (almost) 16..
    RF Cadets NZA I understand join at 16
    
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    November 3, 2018 9:29am
    - Kabull
      
      But you are not allowed to deploy on operations until you are 18 – international convention on rights of children, or something like that.
      
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      November 3, 2018 9:50am
  - kowtow
    
    Agreed, and to buy a beer .
    
    Perhaps the franchise could be tailored , instead of being universal , to the employed / net tax payer / contributor . Old age pensioners would not necessarily be excluded , it could be managed through the IRD .
    
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    November 3, 2018 9:40am
  - waikatogirl
    
    The good news is the young won’t all be dumb enough to vote for Labour/greens.
    
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    November 3, 2018 9:46am
    - Komata
      
      Waikato
      
      Really? Sadly, those ‘young’ that I know would quite happily vote for those who offer them the greatest means of self-gratification, at the lowest cost and for the longest time. With very rare exceptions, they are totally self interested and out for what they can get, and will quite happily abandon everything they have previously commited-to if it is in their perceived best interest.
      
      On that basis, and if it suited their agenda, they would DEFINITELY be dumb enough to vote for the CoL…
      
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      November 3, 2018 10:05am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      A friend of mine is pointing out to her previously leftie adult daughter that Taxinda’s government will do everything it can to reduce her inheritance. Had a good effect on the young woman.
      
      This could certainly apply to any family with a bach or property investment that the kids would like to inherit one day and would like the family not to have to sell for all the new taxes.
      
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      November 3, 2018 1:27pm
Salacious Crumb

Get well soon Monique Watson!
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November 3, 2018 8:20am
- waikatogirl
  
  Where is Monique? I miss her more insightful comments. Best wishes for whatever you’re sorting Monique. ?
  
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  November 3, 2018 8:44am
sooty

Don’t you love it. The ODT has that story when the Labour conferance is in town. Bet their reporters are last in line.
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November 3, 2018 8:23am
- kowtow
  
  Nah , the ODT editorial on the gubmint’s one year anniversary was quite complimentary.
  
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  November 3, 2018 9:36am
Swifty

Howard Temple gets the top spot at Gloriavale:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/108302747/former-navy-engineer-new-leader-at-gloriavale

I had my money on the spectacularly named Enoch Upright or, failing that, Fervent Steadfast!

Instead they went with boring old Howard.
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November 3, 2018 8:25am
- Woz
  
  What’s your Gloriavale name, Swifty? Mine’d be something like Angry Outraged.
  
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  November 3, 2018 9:04am
  - Swifty
    
    A great question.
    
    I’ll give it some thought.
    
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    November 3, 2018 9:09am
  - VicParking
    
    Mine is the best “Kiddy Fiddler”
    
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    November 3, 2018 10:04am
  - Nermal
    
    Mine would be Indolent Illegitimate
    
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    November 3, 2018 11:43am
MrTips

What the hell has Audrey Young been snorting?
Ardern a” leader of substance”? LOL. What a crock.
She’s cocked up Handley, cocked up the O&G debacle, spoke to an empty room at the UN and is now in the middle of backing the 2018 Parliamentary HideandSeek Runner Up Slease for Czech.
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November 3, 2018 8:35am
- Salacious Crumb
  
  The only word for that is propaganda. Pure and simple.
  
  Sorry Audrey; but the emperor really has no clothes.
  
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  November 3, 2018 8:53am
  - Rachael Membery
    
    And it shows with her dress sense, surely someone could help.
    
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    November 3, 2018 5:06pm
- Woz
  
  I was going to post the same link with a very similar comment, but you beat me to it. I mean, FFS. I’ve never read such delusional crap. Oh, wait, yes I have. Every day in fact, from Audrey and her friends.
  
  I do admit to being puzzled by Toothy’s continued high preferred-PM rating. I’m inclined to think it’s a combination of the stupidest 42% of the population still being blinded by stardust, and the lack of truly credible alternatives, but I welcome other interpretations.
  
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  November 3, 2018 8:59am
  - krazykiwi
    
    Some of that 42% would favour for a goat if it were wearing a red rosette. Others ‘prefer’ her as PM because she’s a she, has a baby, isn’t old etc. These people have no idea what it takes to lead a team, and govern a country so Ardern’s utter lack of skills in these areas is of no consequence. Voter ignorance will drive us towards recession. Rinse and repeat.
    
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    November 3, 2018 9:23am
  - kowtow
    
    When you see the number of people who text and drive ,can you be surprised ?
    
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    November 3, 2018 9:28am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    Young people have been trained up to be utterly biased: male bad, white bad, old bad, wealth bad. Taxinda is popular basically because of her gender, age and spinning a socialist line.
    
    But I’m not sure that popularity will translate to actual votes for Liebore. I hope people look at their wallets and the failing economy and decide that her socialist line sounded pretty but doesn’t really help them.
    
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    November 3, 2018 1:38pm
- RW Capitalist
  
  “Leader of substance”
  I’ll go with that.
  The question is, what substance?
  So far we have seen…
  Slime
  Invertebrate…(spineless)
  Venom
  Vacuum…(to be fare that’s a lack of substance)
  Lying shit
  any more???
  
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  November 3, 2018 10:08am
- Jazzby
  
  Trudeau, Macron and Ardern – these three ‘bright young things’ were going to put the world to rights, through their vision, energy, and so on… Well, the gloss has gone off the first two, and will fade from the third. People are waking up to the fact that fluff and spin don’t pay the bills; sadly, this country will fall further into disarray before it recovers. We just have to wait.
  
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  November 3, 2018 11:11am
AgainstTheFlow

Ian Lees-Galloway is still a Minister this morning because his possible replacements in the Labour Caucus are even more talentless.
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November 3, 2018 8:35am
- GazzaW
  
  I’m surprised that the Immigration portfolio hasn’t gone to Minister for Everything, Kris Faafoi.
  
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  November 3, 2018 8:56am
  - Woz
    
    Do you notice how every government seems to end up with a Minister for Everything? Is this actually the same as being competent, though?
    
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    November 3, 2018 9:01am
    - GazzaW
      
      As a Minister outside Cabinet, Faafoi seems to have more portfolios than those inside Cabinet. I suppose they can’t seat him with the grownups because it would upset the balance of power in this sham of a Government. Faafoi is probably more competent than 99% of them too.
      
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      November 3, 2018 12:06pm
      - Tall Man
        
        A very low bar though.
        
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        November 3, 2018 1:01pm
      - alloytoo
        
        It is imperative that Faafoi be kept out of cabinet, lest he show up the rest of the lazy bludgers
        
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        November 3, 2018 1:33pm
Inandout

I enjoy watching ‘Shetland’ on Netflix, and this new BBC (of course) series comes with a link to ‘right wing groups’ in Norway. A rather wet behind the ears Norwegian cop extols the ‘wonders’ of diverse cultures in his country. With more twists and turns than the Parapara road this series is not designed with a typical short attention span person (such as our sam) in mind.
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November 3, 2018 8:43am
- waikatogirl
  
  Thanks. I’m looking forward to watching the new series of ‘Shetland’.
  
  A recommendation: Have you watched the ‘Bodyguard’. A political thriller that had my hubby and I were glued to and speculating until the end on who the baddy was.
  
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  November 3, 2018 8:57am
  - Inandout
    
    Great, will watch next.
    
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    November 3, 2018 9:02am
  - krazykiwi
    
    Yes, Mrs kk and I have just finished The Bodyguard. Shetland and Wallander also worth a look.
    
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    November 3, 2018 9:25am
    - waikatogirl
      
      Watched the complete series of Wallander the first time around. Spectacular.
      
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      November 3, 2018 9:51am
      - krazykiwi
        
        Watched Line of Duty? Same writer as Bodyguard – Jed Mercurio.
        
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        November 3, 2018 9:59am
      - Tall Man
        
        English or Swedish?
        
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        November 3, 2018 1:00pm
- GazzaW
  
  The Scottish accents are so thick in Shetland that the programme should have English subtitles.
  
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  November 3, 2018 3:21pm
kowtow

The multiculturalists argue all cultures are equal , to be embraced , celebrated , imported to the west …….

In NZ a judge refuses to convict a shit head so he won’t be deported and a gubmint minister gives him residency.

Reaction ? Newspapers cover it , questions in parliament , no disruption .

Pakistan sentences Christian woman to death for blasphemy ( wtf ?) but when she’s acquitted the whole country goes mental.

And the west imports millions of people who think that’s normal behaviour.
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November 3, 2018 8:45am
- Woz
  
  And that is exactly why I am utterly dead against Muslim immigration.
  
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  November 3, 2018 9:02am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  All because a couple of women told lies about their neighbour as she tried to get some water.
  
  https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/02/opinion/pakistan-bibi-blasphemy-death-sentence.html
  
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  November 3, 2018 9:37am
- stephieboy
  
  kowtow, and Asia released on appeal by their Supreme Court!
  
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  November 3, 2018 9:51am
  - kowtow
    
    I don’t generally reply to the troll , but this is for any open minded type interested in the case .
    
    Yep , she should be really grateful to the Muslim Paki legal system for letting her off .
    
    The woman spent eight years in solitary , under the death penalty ,what the fuck kind of country does that , in this day and age.
    
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/31/asia-bibi-verdict-pakistan-court-overturns-blasphemy-death-sentence
    
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    November 3, 2018 10:02am
    - Komata
      
      Kowtow
      
      What kind of country…?
      
      A country where islam is in control.
      
      THAT is what kind of country, and it is exactly that sort of country that cinders et al are trying to create.
      
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      November 3, 2018 10:18am
      - MCos
        
        Slight correct.
        Islam isn’t in control of Pakistan, or any other country for that matter.
        People are in control of everything. People who use a religion or an ideology or whatever to pass off responsibility for their actions.
        
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        November 3, 2018 1:15pm
      - Swifty
        
        It’s both MCos.
        
        If they didn’t have a book purportedly narrated by a god then no-one would give two shits what they babbled on about.
        
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        November 3, 2018 3:41pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    @stephieboy
    Did you read the article I posted?
    Do you know what is happening in Pakistan since Asia has been released?
    
    She is not safe; Imran Khan is not safe.
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/01/asia-bibi-anti-blasphemy-protests-spread-across-pakistan
    
    https://www.thenational.ae/world/asia/woman-acquitted-of-blasphemy-to-leave-pakistan-1.786951
    
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    November 3, 2018 10:29am
  - Tall Man
    
    Is Ardern a liar?
    
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    November 3, 2018 12:59pm
  - Classic Liberal
    
    Wow Stuffyboy, that’s just about the stupidest thing you’ve ever written! Why can’t you admit that Asia Bibi has been treated abysmally and that islamists are to blame for it? As in: a bunch of irate muslims accused her of blasphemy and even now that she’s released they want to *murder her*?!
    
    That’s all OK with StuffyBoy it seems.
    
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    November 3, 2018 1:43pm
  - pentwig
    
    goodgrief stupidthing
    one can only ponder your stupidity in awe!
    how can any person (if that is what you are) be so naive?
    
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    November 3, 2018 2:36pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Look at this, stephieboy
    Asia Bibi: Deal to end Pakistan protests over blasphemy case
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46080067
    
    1. Asia Bibi has not been released.
    
    2. The hard-liner Islamists are fighting to prevent her from leaving the country if she is released.
    
    3. There have been 3 days of protest against the Supreme Court ruling.
    
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    November 3, 2018 3:34pm
    - Jack5
      
      The Pakistan Government now seems to have given ground to the protesters, reports the Guardian. It will “begin the process” of preventing Asia Bibi from leaving the country.
      
      https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/02/outrage-as-pakistani-government-vows-to-stop-asia-bibi-leaving
      
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      November 3, 2018 3:42pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Key phrase:
        
        Administration accused of signing Bibi’s ‘death warrant’ in deal with hardliners
        https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/02/outrage-as-pakistani-government-vows-to-stop-asia-bibi-leaving
        
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        November 3, 2018 4:29pm
      - Southern Raider
        
        And who are the Black Caps playing at the moment?
        
        NZ Cricket should pull out of the rest of the series
        
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        November 3, 2018 6:47pm
Jack5

The PR Prime Minister’s PR operatives have begun trying to divert attention from the coming boost in inflation.

We will notice it at the supermarkets as high fuel prices push up food transport costs.

So we have the media starting to hammer comparative costs of baked beans in NZ and Britain.

The geography of NZ and the spread-out population means that manufactured food costs will likely always be higher here than in most Western countries.

But it’s the old socialist propagranda tactics of divert, divert, divert.

Get the voters mad about evil supermarkets charging more for baked beans than British supermarkets do.

Anything but the effect of duties and taxes and hostility to finding our own fuel resources.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/108266476/supermarkets-should-be-first-off-the-blocks-for-a-competition-study
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November 3, 2018 9:08am
- KevOB
  
  Yeah. Increase our population to 100m and readjust our geography to within 50k of Europe then our prices should be comparable.
  
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  November 3, 2018 9:31am
- VicParking
  
  Filled my car today $80.60. Looked up cost same day last year $64.25. Same Petrol Station. Not in Auk.
  
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  November 3, 2018 10:08am
  - stigie
    
    Alls good, i have a V8 and it costs $160 to fill up……
    I have this motivation to burn more now..?
    
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    November 3, 2018 11:31am
  - peterwn
    
    Professor asked his students to give examples of things possible today but not possible years ago. One response – ‘putting $5 worth of petrol into a VW Beetle’.
    
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    November 3, 2018 3:13pm
- DigNap15
  
  Yes, I accept that we do have higher costs due to our small population, distance from overseas suppliers, and high transport costs.
  But how much extra should we pay?
  5%
  10%
  50%
  
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  November 3, 2018 10:19am
  - Tall Man
    
    Look at the profit margins extracted by importers, suppliers and retailers here.
    
    It is acknowledged that supermarket food prices in Australia fell when Aldi arrived. “We are not big enough to attract Aldi, Costco and Ikea” we are told.
    
    I don’t buy that but something is holding them back. Land prices, bureaucracy, employment practices, government attitude? I don’t know what the answer is.
    
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    November 3, 2018 12:57pm
    - Jack5
      
      In the baked beans example, importers don’t come into the picture. We grow and process them in NZ.
      
      Perhaps supermarket costs could come down by cutting choice of products and reducing number of suupermarkets. I’m not sure people would like that.
      
      In a bigger economy you can have tiers of supermarkets: expensive ones with lots of choice, and then the restricted choice, bare bones one lower prices.
      
      The yelling about supermarket prices is a Labour diversion to divert blame for the coming rise in inflation. Voters are going to be unhappy about rising prices, so divert the blame from Government-primed transport costs.
      
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      November 3, 2018 1:15pm
slightlyrighty

I have given a great deal of thought to the concept of diversity as a virtue.

I am starting to get the feeling that as we welcome more diversity, we become more divided as a society, and not more united.

So we have to ask ourselves, does diversity help? I am now of the opinion that it does not. While I welcome other cultures, and the experiences that they bring, and I feel enriched by exposure to and experience of other cultures, I am constantly confused by the lefts behavior in respect of these cultures. In particular, the concept of “Cultural Appropriation”

The net effect of this concept seems to be that we must welcome other cultures, but not experience them, or incorporate aspects of these cultures into our own.

Yet at the same time as Pakeha New Zealanders are criticized for using Maori imagery in arm tattoo, or kids are criticized for drawing Ta Moko on themselves, they are forced to learn the language and engage in Maori Studies and Kapa Haka group, and we now face the possibility that Te Reo will be compulsory.

Diversity is derived from the same nomenclature as Divide. It seeks to categorize us, and conjoined with cultural appropriation, divide us.

The left can’t have it both ways. It forms the basis of identity politics, which divides us even further.
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November 3, 2018 9:18am
- KevOB
  
  An uncivil society is a communists opportunity.
  Divide then conquer. Communism has its opportunistic ruling classes too–not the former ruling ones.
  
  KiwiBuild for the masses? Only if you earn 100K+.
  The slopes have been greased and Shane has a lot more to go.
  
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  November 3, 2018 9:26am
- krazykiwi
  
  The left’s motivation? A divided, conflicted society demands more state influence to fix the divisions. The result, of course, is more of the division and conflict… meaning more state influence. Control without weapons.
  
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  November 3, 2018 9:30am
  - kowtow
    
    Just look at what a shit hole they’ve turned Melbourne into , and people are warned by the elites to not talk about it , or when they do they are labelled racist .
    
    ‘The 24-year-old was approached by a gang of what he describes as African youths, armed with knuckle dusters and a metal pole, who demanded he hand over his belongings.’
    
    https://www.9news.com.au/national/2018/11/02/14/45/donovans-st-kilda-chefs-bashed-by-group-of-youths-melbourne
    
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    November 3, 2018 10:10am
    - DigNap15
      
      Its not rascist to tell the truth!
      
      What is racism anyway?
      
      I like black people, as long as they stay in their own country or continent.
      
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      November 3, 2018 10:17am
      - MCos
        
        Would you like me to dig mother up and send her back to where she came from?
        
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        November 3, 2018 12:25pm
    - Swifty
      
      Animals.
      
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      November 3, 2018 11:35am
- Kabull
  
  I agree totally with your second para.
  This issue about diversity is what Lauren Southern and Stephan Molyneux have been warning about – but no-one listens.
  
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  November 3, 2018 9:54am
Yvette

Jami-Lee Ross, still
In the case of the text message, Ross had said he was with Bridges when it was received. It would mean – if he was in the room – he had sent it while with Bridges. By Ross’ description of events, he then pressed Bridges to drop the inquiry into the expenses leak. – https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12152876

Risky, eh? – had Simon returned the text immediately, instead of seeking medical advice in the matter, would Jami-Lee’s pocket have rung?
Like in “The Bourne Ultimatum”: “If you were in your office right now, we’d be having this conversation face to face”?

A “You deserve to die” text was sent August 11 by the woman MP with whom Ross had a three year affair, ending “messily” last May.
The leak of the expenses information was August 13.
While the investigation by PWC does not conclusively prove the leak was by Ross, and he denies it was him, does it totally eliminate the “jilted” woman MP – that the target, ID of the leaker, was Ross (ipso facto), and Bridges just collateral damage ?
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November 3, 2018 9:29am
- DJ Ward
  
  Correct concerns Yvette.
  
  Don’t ever underestimate the nasty manipulation a bitter woman can engage in.
  
  If JLR was present when the text was sent then it’s like women who accuse men of DV violations when the male has proof they were in another town at the time. The women will still be seen as the victim, even by the Judge. The one event proving innocence, proving dishonesty, is no match for the bulk of circumstantial evidence agianst the male victim. The man is always at fault blinkers are on.
  
  Why didn’t Simon tell us that JLR was present in his office when the text was sent and received? Wait, was there when 3 text messages were sent. With no return contact from all 3. Fanciful at best.
  
  Was the female MP in contact to reporter A in the report. JLR seems to never have contacted that reporter.
  
  Finally males that are raised without fathers experience severe harm to emotional delopement. They develope emotions but don’t develope tools to overcome those emotions. Hence JLR and irrational responses in an emotionally stressful situation.
  
  I noticed errors in the linked article.
  
  For example the $100,000 donation that JLR may have provided police with evidence it was a $100,000 donation. Is still majicaly being presented as seperate, independent, majicaly identical, topped up to cover the last bit, not $100,000 donation. That Simon never denied was a $100,000 donation in the secret recording. All he cared about was making sure it was presented as legal.
  
  The police are still investigating. Obviously well past the bullshit complaint phase, in the putting the evidence together phase. Facing the JLR may leak the real evidence on Simon, we have to prosecute our prosecutor mate, or look dodgy dilemma.
  
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  November 3, 2018 11:44am
  - Tall Man
    
    The “Bourne Ultimatum” is a perfect analogy as it is a work of fiction.
    
    I think you all need to let this go until either the Police the Speaker release their findings.
    
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    November 3, 2018 12:49pm
krazykiwi

Hungary: Birth rates up, abortions down, divorces down, marriages up. Sounds like a formula for a healthy society to me

Hungary is preparing to hold a country-wide national consultation on its family policy, which has already resulted in an increase in marriage and a decline in abortion and divorce.

The Fidesz-KDNP government has chosen to support couples with children rather than accept mass migration to ameliorate long-term demographic issues, to the chagrin of its critics in the European Union’s power elite.

“In recent years, finding the proper response to Europe’s demographic decline has become one of the biggest sources of disagreement between European and Hungarian politics,” observed Dr Zoltán Kovács, official spokesman for Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s Cabinet Office, in a post on the official About Hungary website announcing the upcoming national consultation.

“While Brussels bureaucrats and the European liberal, pro-migration mainstream see immigration as the necessary and unavoidable solution, the Hungarian government stands committed to the idea of increasing birth rate through more effective family support measures,” the Hungarian added.

Dr Kovács claimed existing pro-family policies implemented by the Orbán government are already bearing fruit, with abortion number dropping by more than a third from 40,449 to 28,500 from 2010 to 2017, divorces falling from 23,873 in 2010 to 18,600, and — perhaps most remarkably — marriages increasing by a striking 42 percent.
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November 3, 2018 9:41am
- DJ Ward
  
  Birth rates are a direct result of government policy.
  
  If it is made attractive to people to have kids then the birth rate will rise.
  
  If people think they will experience hardship if they have kids then the birth rate will drop.
  
  Other inputs include the reliability and availability of contraception options. Obviously female options have dramatically reduced the birth rate. The introduction of the male pill based on available data indicates a birth rate drop of around 16% from the present 1.81 births per woman.
  
  The government should already be engaging in increasing the rate to replacement rates of 2.1 births per woman.
  
  The law commissions matrimonial property changes are of significant concern.
  Introducing alimony for stay at home mums.
  Making 50:50 asset split adjustable to support the custodial parent.
  Giving the house to mothers by default.
  Making all decisions, best interests of the child, which in reality is best interests of the mother.
  
  Many men have abandoned the idea of parenthood after seeing how their fathers were destroyed by the family court. Adding more anti male, incentivising de-fathering, bias can only increase male rejection of parenting. This is the opposite of what should be happening when the birth rate is below 2.1.
  
  Being good men. Being good fathers. Must be incentivised.
  
  Being good men. Being good fathers. Then having those things systematically destroyed in the desire to support women, is no incentive.
  
  Legalise the male pill. Bring on the destruction of our false feminist society.
  
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  November 3, 2018 12:43pm
  - Classic Liberal
    
    “Legalise the male pill.” A.k.a a condom.
    
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    November 3, 2018 1:52pm
    - DJ Ward
      
      How is the condom the pill?
      
      I was referring to the thousands of years use, proven safe, no side effects, increases health, non hormonal, 3 day reversible, 99.96% effective, media shut down discussion, synthesised, factory ready, one pill a day male pill.
      
      Condoms in research is proven to be as effective as the withdrawl method. IE proven not to be effective contraception. A couple has the same chance of pregnancy in a year only using condoms as couples only using the withdrawl method.
      
      People who use the, “use a condom” rhetoric are either ignorant, or feminist who despise the loss of power and control over conception that will result.
      
      Or religious loons and want to populate the world with indoctrinated children, and take over the world.
      
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      November 3, 2018 2:13pm
      - Classic Liberal
        
        I’ve never heard such nonsense! Where do you get your stats from? Condoms, properly used, are far more effective than withdrawal method.
        
        I’ve not nothing against a male pill, but if men then think they don’t need a condom as well they will be setting themselves up for STDs and that busy day when they forgot to take the pill…
        
        You seem to have a huge chip on your shoulder about something. I hope you make that clear to any woman who might get involved with you…
        
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        November 3, 2018 2:48pm
      - cmm
        
        “Condoms in research is proven to be as effective as the withdrawl method”
        
        These sort of stats are the outcome of shonky research where people use condoms, but only 50% of the time.
        
        The pill is no better if you get it and only take it half the time.
        
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        November 3, 2018 3:38pm
      - Morrissey
        
        cmm writes: “Condoms in research is proven to be as effective as the withdrawl method”.
        
        Withdrawl? Is that the contraception they use in Alabama?
        
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        November 3, 2018 3:42pm
      - DJ Ward
        
        @Classic liberal.
        
        Maybe this will help.
        My partner is perfectly aware of my past, the result lives with me. Do you think it’s OK for your unprotected boys being lied to about being on the pill. I have seen far to many young men and boys having their lives destroyed by dishonest females. Or should I label them correctly. Female sex offenders. There’s my chip on my shoulder. I don’t like sex offenders but your ok with it.
        
        https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/ywmm9k/pulling-out-is-as-effective-as-using-condoms
        
        @cmm
        
        It’s fine to say use condoms and your correct in saying controlled clinical trials show much higher protection than actual use. Just as the female pill has a very high clinical trial rate vs reality.
        
        That does not justify leaving males without a in reality contraceptive choice when a proven safe and effective one exists. Plus unlike the female pill if you miss a day it’s ok.
        
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        November 3, 2018 3:54pm
  - cmm
    
    “If it is made attractive to people to have kids then the birth rate will rise.”
    
    The problem with this policy is that not everyone considers the same factors.
    
    What looks like a good deal for the baby factory in social housing does not look like a good deal to people like me.
    
    Hence, we get a demographic shift caused by lower decile people breeding and higher decile people not breeding.
    
    That’s not going to generate a healthy society.
    
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    November 3, 2018 3:47pm
    - DJ Ward
      
      My point is not about money in the form of social spending. It’s about how men are treated.
      
      If custody was 50:50 with consent to deviate, and the courts didn’t automatically de-father children. Negating the justification for child support often called the man tax. This also affects the arguments of solo mums for not working at least part time, reducing your tax burden. Increasing incentive for males to work as well. Many men subject to pregnancy without consent give up, go on the dole, or sickness benifit due to the psychological harm.
      
      Men may be more willing to engage in pregnancy. Presently 40% of children are born without consent for conception. That’s an abhorrent figure.
      
      It is also a known fact that if men spend more time with their kids they also spend more money on them. IE present ideology harms children.
      
      Male contraception is inevitable. The consequences of its introduction will be economically disastrous if incentive for male participation in raising kids is not addressed.
      
      The solution is also mass immigration. Is that OK for you.
      
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      November 3, 2018 4:22pm
  - cmm
    
    “That does not justify leaving males without a in reality contraceptive choice when a proven safe and effective one exists.”
    
    Does one actually exist? There seems to be some reversible vasectomy stuff called Vasalgel.
    
    An actual reversible “male pill” might be harder to achieve than the female pill because the female hormonal cycle is easier to fiddle with. Sure, there are side effects, but I suspect male hormonal methods would require far more side effects.
    
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    November 3, 2018 4:12pm
    - DJ Ward
      
      Interesting.
      
      I too did a search today to see what I could find. Nothing at all on the pill I reference. None of the first few pages articles even mention it. Even RNZ recently did an in depth article on the subject.
      
      Nothing on the pill I reference.
      It’s only able to be found if you specifically name it.
      
      I am not surprised by your comment.
      
      You have fallen victim to propaganda. An organised effort to not introduce the pill I reference, or for people to understand that the options you gave has nothing to do with the male pill. Men will never support having their testicals injected with plastic or anything else and the hormone versions cause men to grow breasts.
      
      Justicia Gendarussa is none of those things.
      
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      November 3, 2018 7:21pm
Manolo

~~Obama’s~~ magic:
https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/156562000-record-employment-12th-time-under-trump

The number of employed Americans has never been higher. The 156,562,000 Americans employed in October is the twefth record set under President Trump.
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November 3, 2018 9:47am
- stephieboy
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  Manolo, oh more miracles from the incumbent wonderworker?
  
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  November 3, 2018 9:52am
  - softail 1450
    
    septicboy ,did you see Vic Parkings post at 8.42 am?
    Its something you may find interesting, probably give you the warm and fuzzie feelings.LOL.
    
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    November 3, 2018 10:06am
  - Manolo
    
    Just facts, numbers, and statistics, dear stephieboy.
    
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    November 3, 2018 10:07am
    - RW Capitalist
      
      Maybe Trump is watching what Ardern does,…and …
      does exactly the opposite and that is why he is succeeding?
      
      HAHAHAHAHA
      Sorry a moment of stephieboy insanity there
      I’m back now.
      
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      November 3, 2018 10:43am
- Scott
  
  Apparently the news jobs report in the USA is outstanding! Growth in real wages and lowest unemployment since 1969!
  
  Meanwhile in NZ our government is doing the exact opposite of the American economic strategy. The result? Business confidence in NZ is plummeting!
  
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  November 3, 2018 1:08pm
krazykiwi

Government just love a good ‘ol virtue signal. Immediately after the Fukushima nuclear accident in 2011, the Japanese government commissioned the worlds largest offshore wind turbine. Now it’s being decommissioned. Too expensive to maintain. Instead they’re increasing the use of coal to provide the energy needed by Japanese society. Good move.
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November 3, 2018 9:55am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Yep,
  It was an absolute Fail
  https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/27/national/fukushima-wind-turbine-symbol-tohoku-earthquake-recovery-removed/#.W9zDQRMzZmD
  
  As is Wind Power, in General.
  http://notrickszone.com/2018/11/02/4-charts-expose-abominable-inadequacy-of-europes-wind-energy-power-collapses-within-minutes/
  
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  November 3, 2018 10:38am
  - DJ Ward
    
    I like the anti wind energy group one. Pick the lowest wind month then cliam that they don’t produce energy when the wind stops blowing.
    
    Why the anti capitalism Maggy?
    
    If I want to invest in a wind generator and sell my product to a willing buyer, why can’t I.
    
    If I make a investment mistake, wasn’t that the reality of capitalism, risk.
    
    If I wish to make a solar farm, contract out of market to a willing buyer as it’s cheaper than on grid power, why can’t I.
    
    Nuclear is clearly the answer. We only have two examples of whole regions being abandoned due to its dirty pollution.
    
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    November 3, 2018 12:03pm
    - cmm
      
      “If I want to invest in a wind generator and sell my product to a willing buyer, why can’t I.
      
      If I make a investment mistake, wasn’t that the reality of capitalism, risk.”
      
      No worries with that at all.
      
      But they get huge handouts and have the playing field tilted in their favour – that is problematic.
      
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      November 3, 2018 3:34pm
DigNap15

Three hotties….
Claire Curran
Megan Woods
Aubrey Young

They could be sisters
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November 3, 2018 10:14am
- Morrissey
  
  Did someone say “three hotties”? Start up the bus, Billy…
  
  http://media.beam.usnews.com/1d/47/d7f5a173446899808909a5efb751/170202-donaldtrump-editorial.jpg
  
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  November 3, 2018 10:27am
  - igm
    
    Bet at school you were a snitch, did not play sport, and tried to hang out with little girls. You sound like the sort of gutless scumbag that would associate with Hager.
    
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    November 3, 2018 2:40pm
    - Swifty
      
      Probably got beaten up a lot too.
      
      And the girls laughed at him and his little todger.
      
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      November 3, 2018 3:42pm
- RW Capitalist
  
  Spelling correction
  It’s spelt H A R P I E S
  not hotties
  
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  November 3, 2018 10:44am
Morrissey

GROPERS
No. 53: Andy Rubin

“Don’t be evil” is a motto used within Google’s corporate code of conduct. Following Google’s corporate restructuring under the conglomerate Alphabet Inc. in October 2015, Alphabet took “Do the right thing” as its motto, also forming the opening of its corporate code of conduct.

Google gave Andy Rubin, the creator of Android mobile software, a hero’s farewell when he left the company in October 2014.

“I want to wish Andy all the best with what’s next,” Larry Page, Google’s chief executive then, said in a public statement. “With Android he created something truly remarkable — with a billion-plus happy users.”

What Google did not make public was that an employee had accused Mr. Rubin of sexual misconduct. The woman, with whom Mr. Rubin had been having an extramarital relationship, said he coerced her into performing oral sex in a hotel room in 2013, according to two company executives with knowledge of the episode. Google investigated and concluded her claim was credible, said the people, who spoke on the condition that they not be named, citing confidentiality agreements. Mr. Rubin was notified, they said, and Mr. Page asked for his resignation.

…..

Mr. Rubin was one of three executives that Google protected over the past decade after they were accused of sexual misconduct. In two instances, it ousted senior executives, but softened the blow by paying them millions of dollars as they departed, even though it had no legal obligation to do so. In a third, the executive remained in a highly compensated post at the company. Each time Google stayed silent about the accusations against the men. ….

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/technology/google-sexual-harassment-andy-rubin.html

https://www.axios.com/andy-rubin-left-google-after-a-sexual-misconduct-claim-8d38e441-351b-4cea-b460-31520bfbb3dd.html

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

1 George Herbert Walker Bush; 2 Bill O’Reilly; 3 Al Franken; 4 Robin Brooke; 5 Lester Beck; No. 6 Arnold Schwarzenegger; 7 Joe Biden; 8 Rolf Harris; 9 Harold Bloom; 10 Sir Jimmy Savile; 11 Dr Morgan Fahey; 12 Prince Harry; 13 Bill Clinton; 14 Judge Roy Moore; 15 Matt Lauer; 16 Richard Branson; 17 Warren Moon; 18 Donald John Trump; 19 Damian Green; 20 Gene Simmons; 21 Sylvester Stallone; 22 Louise’s husband Charlie; 23 Father O’Hagan (AKA “Father Gropius”); 24 David Lloyd George; 25 James Franco; 26 Joel Kramer; 27 Rene Naufahu; 28 Steve Wynn; 29 Vince McMahon; 30 Rob Porter; 31 The old buffers at Russell McVeagh; 32 Otago law students; 33 Tom Brokaw; 34 David Scott; 35 Justin Trudeau; 36 Morgan Freeman; 37 Hugh Hefner’s guests; 38 Brock Turner; 39 Les Moonves; 40 Asia Argento; 41 [name withheld]; 42 NY subway groper; 43 His Dishonor Brett Kavanaugh; 44 Corey Lewandowski; 45 Brooke Howard-Smith; 46 Dr. Filth McGraw; 47 Dominique Strauss-Kahn; 48 Roger Ailes; 49 Louis C.K.; 50 Geoffrey Rush; 51 Michael Douglas; 52 Bill Cosby (Mike Hosking’s favorite philosopher)
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November 3, 2018 10:21am
- rightoverlabour
  
  Fuck off, CUNT.
  
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  November 3, 2018 10:44am
  - Morrissey
    
    Hah! That’s precisely what women say to the blokes on this list.
    
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    November 3, 2018 10:55am
rightoverlabour

Although I think the Unions are scum, I actually support the teachers going on strike, for very selfish reasons. It embarrasses the fuckwit Hipkins. It adds fire to the “no strikes” mantra. It pisses people off and ultimately they will start to hate the unions and Labour. I get an easy day off while the school is closed, but I still get paid while the union lackeys protest in the street. And I’ll probably benefit from a wage increase. Selfish? I suppose so, but as SLG so often states the “majority” of voters wanted this….
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November 3, 2018 10:41am
- GazzaW
  
  With a niece who teaches I totally agree with you ROL. She, along with the majority of teachers at her school is not a union member and will use the day for the multitude of tasks that need doing. It’s fascinating to watch Hipkins wriggle.
  
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  November 3, 2018 3:37pm
Fletch

Funny video of Obama saying that jobs won’t be coming back and anyone that says otherwise doesn’t know what they’re talking about, superimposed with news of the current great employment situation in Trump’s America.

https://www.facebook.com/CRTV/videos/2158208401174597/

Just proves that Obama didn’t have a clue…
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November 3, 2018 10:43am
- stephieboy
  
  Fletch, a” great” employment situation which he inherited from Obama and didn’t magically create in 18 or so months
  
  Unemployment 2009 10,00 % ( highest )
  
  ” ” ” ” ” 2016 4.4 % ( lowest)
  
  https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000
  
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  November 3, 2018 4:30pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    Obama started off a low base. That’s the easiest to find jobs for as the more qualified get jobs quicker as the economy improves.
    The last group is the hardest.
    Unemployment is now 3.7%
    So yes Trump did create it.
    152 million now in jobs
    But you keep fooling yourself Dumbass
    
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    November 3, 2018 4:45pm
    - stephieboy
      
      All on Red, look at the figures supplied and steady downward trend from 2009,
      
      4.4 % 2016 3.7% 2018
      
      Significant drop?
      
      Go and figure.
      
      DUH!
      
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      November 3, 2018 6:42pm
  - Fletch
    
    stephie, so then why didn’t Obama say at the time, yes jobs are going to come back because of the policies I have put in place? Because he didn’t believe it himself. That much is obvious from the video. He couldn’t do it, and he didn’t believe anyone else could either. He thought it was impossible and that it was foolish to promise such a thing.
    
    Face it – he was just plain wrong. And he couldn’t turn it around because he was a bad president. Because he believed in liberal policies that didn’t produce results.
    
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    November 3, 2018 5:41pm
    - stephieboy
      
      Fletch, what do you think he should have done to the US car Manufacturing and Finance Banking system. Let them fall on their own swords and put up unemployment to unacceptably politically high levels?
      
      This is what the dilemma Obmam was confronted with 2009.
      
      What would of you have done? Let them go to the wall?
      
      Yeah right!
      
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      November 3, 2018 6:40pm
  - softail 1450
    
    septicboy ,Obama was a fucking useless Negro ……..
    
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    November 4, 2018 4:57am
Captain Mainwaring

Well the idiot Morris Dancer didn’t last long.
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November 3, 2018 10:57am
- Morrissey
  
  A quick eight runs before being forcibly removed, i.e. censored.
  
  But don’t worry, Cap’n—it’s all HERE. (Warning: Dear old Righty’s salty remonstration contains a four-letter word….)
  
  http://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2018/11/gropers-no-53-andy-rubin-nov-3-2018.html
  
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  November 3, 2018 11:24am
  - sooty
    
    Promoting your own blog. Getting no traffic moron.
    
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    November 3, 2018 11:52am
    - Swifty
      
      He doesn’t give a shit, because it’s ALL ABOUT HIM!
      
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      November 3, 2018 12:03pm
      - Morrissey
        
        Not quite, Swifters. Your attempt at a putdown reminds me of a story told by the brilliant actor Warren Mitchell, who played the part of the racist curmudgeon Alf Garnett in Till Death Us Do Part. In fact, Mitchell was an intelligent and thoughtful person, and a staunch supporter of the Labour Party. He regularly expressed contempt for the Conservative Party, which he rightly called “moribund.”
        
        One day, walking in the street somewhere in London, some fool recognized him and shouted, “Love the way ya always ‘ave a go at them Pakis, Alf!”
        
        Warren Mitchell replied: “I’m not ‘aving a go at the Pakis, mate, I’m ‘aving a go at YOU!”
        
        Similarly, The Breen Report is partly about moi, of course, but more importantly, it’s ‘aving a go at the likes of YOU!
        
        And at lightweights like Susan Hornsby-Geluk and Mike Rehu….
        
        http://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2018/11/a-couple-of-moral-pygmies-discuss.html
        
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        November 3, 2018 2:51pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  So he put up a link to his pathetic ‘gropers’ post and now that’s gone as well.
  What a loser.
  
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  November 3, 2018 1:34pm
- rightoverlabour
  
  Yup Reporting three times seems to do the trick. Telling him to “Fuck Off, CUNT”, also possibly alerts DPF to the comment.
  
  Well done lads.
  
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  November 3, 2018 7:56pm
EAD_TWO

A Dartmouth professor argued on Tuesday that “if we don’t abolish capitalism, capitalism will abolish us.”

Dartmouth College lecturer Mark Bray made the remark in an op-ed for Truthout, titled “How Capitalism Stokes the Far Right and Climate Catastrophe.”…..

The professor donated half of the profits from his book “Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook” to Antifa.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-11-01/dartmouth-prof-if-we-dont-abolish-capitalism-capitalism-will-abolish-us

Who in this revolutionary Marxist spouting such nonsense???

A quick Google search reveals it’s…………(((Mark Bray)))

https://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Antifa-Academic/241002

Every damn time
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November 3, 2018 11:09am
- Jack5
  
  For any who don’t know …
  
  The triple brackets around a person’s name is the far right’s code for “this person is a Jew”.
  
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  November 3, 2018 11:55am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    Thanks Jack. Information instead of censorship is how EADolfs will be beaten.
    
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    November 3, 2018 1:55pm
  - EAD_TWO
    
    For anyone that doesn’t know, the so called “far-right” bogeymen who use this code to get around censorship as, like Katie Hopkins found earlier this week, naming the Jew and their role and their continual attacks on Europeans will see one censored.
    
    https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/katie-hopkins-chief-rabbi-pittsburgh-shooting-synagogue-tree-of-life-robert-bowers-1.471688
    
    Hence CLs strawmen above – the likes of him don’t want this being discussed.
    
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    November 3, 2018 7:00pm
Hugh Pavletich

UNITED STATES: October jobs report smashes expectations, wages rise at fastest pace since 2009 … Yahoo Finance

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live-october-jobs-report-2-112742973.html

… with U.S 10 Year Treasuries now 3.22% …

US10Y: U.S. 10 Year Treasury – Stock Quote and News – CNBC

https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/?symbol=US10Y

… note what Sir Ron Brierley said on an Australian Broadcasting Corporation programme October 2017 … a year ago …

30 years on, Lessons of the 1987 share market crash with former PM Paul Keating (and others) … ABC The Business 18 October 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhiE_zXAxx8

… New Zealand is not immune…

Falling Australian house prices a warning for NZ: commentator | Catherine Harris | Stuff.co.nz

https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/property/108168646/falling-australian-house-prices-a-warning-for-nz-commentator

… with the major concern of New Zealanders … the risks, costs and consequences of bubble – priced housing …

New Zealand Issues Monitor – Concerns about housing grow

https://www.ipsos.com/en-nz/new-zealand-issues-monitor-concerns-about-housing-grow
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November 3, 2018 11:20am
- Hugh Pavletich
  
  Sydney and Melbourne house prices among worst in Australia as property slump continues | Daily Mail Online
  
  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6343955/Sydney-Melbourne-house-prices-worst-Australia-property-slump-continues.html
  
  • CoreLogic released a report that revealed the worst-hit areas for property prices
  
  • Eight of the top 10 worst performers over the year were found in Sydney
  
  • Melbourne’s inner east ranked at the top of worst-hit places in the city
  
  • Western Australia and Queensland had some of Australia’s price downturns
  
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  November 3, 2018 1:12pm
- Classic Liberal
  
  Sounds like a really bad time to be building anything. Quick, Hugh, tell Twitford to stop Kiwibuild! Even high income Kiwibuild lottery winners don’t want negative equity.
  
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  November 3, 2018 1:57pm
  - Hugh Pavletich
    
    In California, Home Sales Are Plunging Like It Is 2008 All Over Again | Zero Hedge
    
    https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-11-02/california-home-sales-are-plunging-it-2008-all-over-again
    
    Google search ‘California housing’ …
    
    https://www.google.co.nz/search?source=hp&ei=uxbdW4qHAo6S9QOtrKK4CQ&q=california+housing&oq=california+housing&gs_l=psy-ab.12..
    
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    November 3, 2018 4:35pm
    - Hugh Pavletich
      
      Classic Liberal … negative equity ? … a few thoughts …
      
      WHAT HAS BEEN LEARNED FROM THE IRISH ’07 EVENT ?
      
      Going forward, there is some $NZ600+ billion to wipe out of New Zealand’s grossly over – inflated $NZ1.2 trillion housing market … some $3.5+ trillion out of Australia’s grossly over – inflated $A7 + trillion one.
      
      The unweighted average metros median multiples of the Aussie housing market is currently about 5.9 … NZ about 5.8 …
      
      Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey: All Editions
      
      http://www.demographia.com/db-dhi-index.htm
      
      Back in 2007, Ireland’s unweighted median multiples for its major metros was about 4.7 … that in subsequent years readjusted to 2.8 … putting all its Banks to the wall and requiring bailouts of in excess of 70 billion euro.
      
      Subsequent research by the Central Bank of Ireland found high multiple lending a far greater problem than high loan to value lending … and generally capped mortgage lending at 3.5 times household incomes …
      
      Mortgage Measures | Central Bank of Ireland
      
      https://www.centralbank.ie/financial-system/financial-stability/macro-prudential-policy/mortgage-measures
      
      In due course the Courts here in Australia and New Zealand will be asking the Banks what they learned from the Irish experience .. and likely will be doing a wholesale readjustment of mortgages to 3.5 times annual household incomes … leaving the Banks to wear it … as best they can.
      
      The Banks will be asked by the Courts whether or not they adequately explained the risks of high multiple lending to their clients.
      
      No doubt international legal firms such as Slater & Gordon ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slater_and_Gordon_Lawyers ) will see enormous scope to lead class actions against the Banks …
      
      More than 350,000 households at risk of negative equity | afr.com
      
      https://www.afr.com/personal-finance/more-than-350000-households-at-risk-of-negative-equity-20181025-h1732r
      
      I don’t know what the capital base of the Irish Banks was in 2007.
      
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      November 3, 2018 4:42pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        Classoc Liberal … The problem is that Phil Twyford knows exactly what the REAL SOLUTIONS are …
        
        … NEW ZEALAND LABOUR – LED GOVERNMENT ON HOUSING: THE WASTED FIRST YEAR …
        
        … When will (long overdue) performance begin ? …
        
        … When is the National Opposition holding the Government to account ?…
        
        … July this year …
        
        Govt criticised (by Hugh Pavletich) for moving slowly on Auckland growth boundary | Stuff.co.nz
        
        https://i.stuff.co.nz/auckland/105295016/govt-criticised-for-moving-slowly-on-auckland-growth-boundary
        
        … concluding …
        
        … Writing on his Performance Urban Planning website, Pavletich said (note the front page Ardern / Twyford section … http://www.PerformanceUrbanPlanning.org …) Twyford had gone “seriously off message, inflicting us with constant doses of density drivel (with light rail for bad measure), as he unwisely capitulated to elements to the left of Labour”.
        
        Pavletich believed the former National-led government had lost the election mainly due to its housing failures, and the current Government’s survival would depend on whether it could meet public expectations to solve the housing crisis.
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        .
        … November 2017 …
        
        Speech from the throne pledges that Auckland’s urban limit will be removed and density controls will be freed up in this term of Government … Interest Co NZ
        
        https://www.interest.co.nz/property/90780/speech-throne-pledges-aucklands-urban-limit-will-be-removed-and-density-controls-will
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        .
        … August 2018 …
        
        Reality check for Ministers (really some … just some … asleep enviros) at environment conference | Politik
        
        http://politik.co.nz/en/content/Environment/1400/Reality-check-for-Ministers-at-environment-conference-Environmental-Defence-Society-Gary-Taylor-Phil-Twyford-David-Parker-RMA.htm
        
        … extract …
        
        … Attendees probably left last night with more questions than when they arrived as Ministers, who in Opposition had seemed sympathetic to environmental issues were left qualifying and modifying their stance on major issues.
        
        This was starkly evident in an exchange between Urban Development Minister, Phil Twyford, and the EDS CEO, Gary Taylor over urban sprawl.
        
        Twyford had set out an impassioned description of the impact of high house prices in Auckland and advocated the linking together of transport and other infrastructure and new housing developments.
        
        But he also advocated the scrapping or urban-rural limits.
        
        “We believe that we have to manage growth on the fringes of the city,” he said.
        
        “If we do not allow new land to come into the supply we will never ever fix the problem of absurdly expensive urban land.
        
        “With good investment in infrastructure and transport, with more planning, not less to create the future urban environment that we want, setting aside areas of special value and open spaces, acquiring land for transport and other infrastructure, if we then allow the city to grow we will bring down urban land prices and it is absolutely critical that we do,” he said.
        
        Twyford had proposed this when he was in Opposition but, even so, any suggestion that more rural land was going to be absorbed for housing was going to be controversial at an environmental conference.
        
        And Taylor was quick to respond.
        
        “Everything makes sense except I worry about why you need to do away with rural-urban boundaries altogether,” said Taylor.
        
        He said that giving free reign to developers seemed inconsistent with Twyford’s overall objective of having a compact city.
        
        Twyford replied that it was a question of values.
        
        “This is for us, for Labour, for our coalition government, this is fundamentally a social justice issue.
        
        “Our objective is not to build a Copenhagen of the South Pacific.
        
        “We could build a beautiful city with a whole lot of the policies we have talked about.
        
        “We could build a Vancouver of the South Pacific; beautiful but utterly unaffordable.
        
        “I’m interested in us fixing this totally dysfunctional urban land economy.
        
        “If we don’t deal with affordability we will have completely wasted the opportunity that has been given to our generation.”
        
        Twyford said the only way to deal with the affordability issue was to deal with the land price issue and that meant dealing with the artificial scarcity of land caused by the planning system and the availability of finance for infrastructure.
        
        However he didn’t dispute that the Auckland region was going to become more heavily built up.
        
        “You know what,” he said. “In two or three generations this is going to become a tri-city conurbation between Hamilton, Tauranga and Auckland whether we like it or not.” … read more via hyperlink above …
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        .
        … 2 plus years ago … May 2016 …
        
        Labour, National both tell council Auckland city growth limits should be abolished | Stuff.co.nz
        
        https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/80113578/labour-auckland-city-growth-limits-should-be-abolished?rm=m
        
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        November 3, 2018 4:50pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        … The painful process of repeating (very) recent history …
        
        In California, Home Sales Are Plunging Like It Is 2008 All Over Again | Zero Hedge
        
        https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-11-02/california-home-sales-are-plunging-it-2008-all-over-again
        
        For years, the California housing market was on the cutting edge of “Housing Bubble 2” as we witnessed home prices in the state soar to absolutely absurd levels.
        
        In fact, it got so bad that a burned down house in Silicon Valley sold for $900,000 earlier this year, and a condemned home in Fremont sold for $1.2 million. But now things have changed in a major way. The hottest real estate markets in the entire country led the way down during the collapse of “Housing Bubble 1”, and now it looks like the same thing is going to be true for the sequel.
        
        According to CNBC, the number of new and existing homes sold in southern California was down 18 percent in September compared to a year ago… read more via hyperlink above …
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        .
        … What I wrote following the collapse of ‘Housing Bubble 1’ … clearly setting out the differences of land supply strangled California and open and normal Texas.
        
        For housing bubbles to be triggered, land supply must be strangled. Finance in all its forms (equity; bubble equity; debt) is simply the ‘fuel’ …
        
        Housing Bubbles: Jumbo Mortgages = Jumbo Problems | Hugh Pavletich | | Scoop News
        
        http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1003/S00019.htm
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        .
        … If housing prices exceed 3.0 annual household incomes (median multiple) it is evidence that basic structural land supply and infrastructure financing issues need to be sorted out …
        
        Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey: All Editions
        
        http://www.demographia.com/db-dhi-index.htm
        
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        November 4, 2018 2:59am
kevn

@who…. She is uttering again, helen clark for Auckland mayor. Make goff look ‘ok’.
Now there’s a Halloween night’mare’ for you all.
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November 3, 2018 11:29am
- Morrissey
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  It would certainly be (yet another) nightmare for the beleaguered National Party.
  
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  November 3, 2018 11:35am
  - sooty
    
    Front page off a newspaper using Helen Clarks airbrushed photo from her last election to rubbish the new waterfront stadium. She hasn’t looked like tha since she was 21yrs old. She’s more like 75yrs old now. Talk about poetic liecence.
    
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    November 3, 2018 11:50am
Swifty

Hmmmm, a young girl AND a goat.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/rodney-times/108316449/no-kidding-auckland-girls-pet-goat-stuns-beachgoers-on-walks

Steer well clear of St Lukes young Ali!
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November 3, 2018 11:43am
wiseowl

Labour Party conference being informed about the ‘well being’ budget.

How many politicians realise this ‘well being’ path is straight out of the UN ?
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November 3, 2018 12:44pm
Captain Mainwaring

The bilious bitch proving yet again that she can’t keep her busybody nose out of the public arena.
You were shown the arse card ten years ago. Just f**k off.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12153899
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November 3, 2018 1:16pm
- Morrissey
  
  bilious bitch…keep her busybody nose out… shown the arse card… f**k off.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI-WRb2u4po
  
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  November 3, 2018 3:08pm
nasska

If you eat today…..

…..thank a farmer.
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November 3, 2018 1:20pm
- Morrissey
  
  Ignorant and destructive “farming” practices have ruined much of our precious land and water.
  
  Dirty Dairy has a lot to answer for….
  
  https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2018/10/one-does-have-to-ask-should-they-get.html
  
  https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/l/f/i/z/s/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620×349.1lfi0o.png/1504501119377.jpg
  
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  November 3, 2018 3:16pm
  - kowtow
    
    So have towns and cities……
    
    …….who’s going to feed the hordes?
    
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    November 3, 2018 4:11pm
- Swifty
  
  Nasska, Morrissey’s a real cup half empty kind of guy.
  
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  November 3, 2018 3:58pm
  - Morrissey
    
    ?????
    
    Do those louts destroy the environment or not?
    
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    November 3, 2018 4:00pm
  - Morrissey
    
    FARMER No. 1: Well you’re battling Mother Nature a little bit here. I mean, it was all swamp that was drained. Mother Nature wants to take it back one day probably but we’ll keep fighting!
    
    ….Stunned silence…
    
    COUNTRY LIFE: Hearing THAT, one does have to ask: SHOULD they get support to keep farming here?
    
    https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2018/10/one-does-have-to-ask-should-they-get.html
    
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    November 3, 2018 4:04pm
    - Swifty
      
      You’re a real sanctimonious little fucker, aren’t you, but I’d put money on there being more than a few skeletons in your closet eh noddy?
      
      Your type always have.
      
      Sleazy too.
      
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      November 3, 2018 4:10pm
      - Morrissey
        
        So you think those vandals should be supported with taxpayer handouts to keep polluting marginal land in the Bay of Plenty?
        
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        November 3, 2018 5:14pm
      - Swifty
        
        Real Good Bastards:
        
        https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/108250405/our-land-our-people-stories-about-the-good-bastards
        
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        November 3, 2018 5:32pm
Jack5

The difference in links with fish and chip shops is stark when you compare Pauline Hanson with Jacinderella Ardern.

Australian journalists are snobbishly scathing about Hanson’s earlier experience of running a fish and chip shop. Ardern’s first job was working in a fish and chip shop. But somehow having a bachelor’s degree in ~~public relations~~ communications absolves Ardern’s CV from being stained by that.

The Australian media elite’s loathing of Hanson is the subject of an interesting post by Karl du Fresne at the Breaking Views web site today.

https://breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2018/11/karl-du-fresne-canberra-elites-visceral.html
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November 3, 2018 1:26pm
- Morrissey
  
  Fish and chips? I LOVE fish and chips. Running a fish and chip chop requires formidable organization, tenacity, people skills and the strictest standards of hygiene.
  
  Who the hell disrespects Hanson because she ran such a place? I thought the problem with her was because of something else…..
  
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  November 3, 2018 3:55pm
  - rangitoto
    
    Oh dear, I hope those chips weren’t made from potatoes grown by a farmer and the batter the fish was coated in flour made using farmed wheat. Morrissey, you will have to wear sackcloth and ashes for the next month at least.
    
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    November 3, 2018 4:38pm
    - Swifty
      
      The two-faced little rat will have an explanation for that – a rationale that soothes his conscience of the hypocrisy.
      
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      November 3, 2018 5:24pm
      - nasska
        
        Given his stance I reckon his diet must consist of roadkill . I can’t think of anything else he could eat that doesn’t involve farmers.
        
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        November 3, 2018 5:36pm
calendar girl

My thoughts about Helen Clark are not much different from yours, Captain. But on this subject, I believe that she is right on the money. To build a giant multi-story ‘carpark’ on an important section of the Auckland Port waterfront would be unspeakable.

In addition, it’s not intended as a ‘carpark’ in the normally-accepted sense of that word. Car owners won’t be parking their cars there as they go shopping, or for a meal, or for a show in Central Auckland. What’s being talked about is an ugly bulk-storage building for ‘warehousing’ large quantities of used cars in transit from overseas. It’s designed to benefit shippers and the used-car trade, not the citizens of Auckland who want to retain the magic of their picturesque waterfront.
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November 3, 2018 1:39pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Whether she’s right on the money or not, it’s time for her to stop offering her unwanted opinion on everything.
  
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  November 3, 2018 2:18pm
- DJ Ward
  
  The picturesque waterfront. Don’t you notice the very large comericial enterprise called a port.
  
  What if they made the building look picturesque from the outside?
  
  Do you own something who’s view might be blocked.
  
  Shall they move the port to Whangarei or Tauranga. One of those NIMBY things. Then snowflakes can walk toy dogs on the waterfront and view the picturesque masterpiece of the cities buildings unimpeded.
  
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  November 3, 2018 2:29pm
  - kevn
    
    @DJ… didn’t whinney have it all sorted?
    Oh, that was last year.
    
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    November 3, 2018 7:23pm
nasska

Often on this forum commenters note that should a judge or a member of their family be the victim of violent crime then the sentencing would be different from the normal slap with a damp bus ticket. They are right:

…..”A man who shoved a High Court judge to the ground during a road rage incident, causing her to break her wrist has failed in a bid to escape a conviction.”…..

It seems that the judiciary’s concern over offenders’ future travel & career prospects doesn’t extend to cases when hurt is caused to one of their own. To describe them as two faced scum doesn’t seem to me to be inappropriate.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz//nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12152622&ref=clavis
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November 3, 2018 2:40pm
- JibberJabber
  
  A bit of a win/win here, entitled millennial toerag gets a taste of consequences, Judge gets a taste of the real world.
  But yeah, the hypocritical double standard was noted.
  
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  November 3, 2018 3:15pm
JibberJabber

No matter what we say, no matter what we do…
The US has its own version of Katie Bradford,

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/02/22/msnbcs_brzezinski_trump_thinks_he_can_control_exactly_what_people_think_but_thats_our_job.html?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=mixi&utm_campaign=realclearpolitics
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November 3, 2018 3:17pm
- stephieboy
  
  Or more the point our version of Katie Hopkins and or Pauline Hanson?
  
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  November 3, 2018 6:48pm
  - JibberJabber
    
    Not the sharpest tool in the garden shed are ya, Stiffy?
    
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    November 3, 2018 8:32pm
Cobolt24

The driver involved in a crash on Malfroy Road, Rotorua on Thursday 1 November has since died.

The 24-year-old man received critical injuries in a crash where he was fleeing from Police. The man died of his injuries in Waikato Hospital overnight.

http://www.police.govt.nz/news/release/driver-dies-following-crash-rotorua
Good riddance I say!
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November 3, 2018 3:18pm
- Morrissey
  
  You ignoramus.
  
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  November 3, 2018 3:20pm
  - JibberJabber
    
    A slow learner gives its opinion.
    
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    November 3, 2018 3:22pm
    - Morrissey
      
      ????
      
      Is this thing trying to be funny?
      
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      November 3, 2018 3:43pm
  - holysheet
    
    Why?
    If some lowlife piece of shit wants to flee from police, knowing full well he might have a fatal crash at any time, makes it a bit hard to have any sympathy for him.
    But he was such a good boy……..
    
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    November 3, 2018 3:23pm
    - cmm
      
      Quite.
      
      He committed a crime.
      He endangered other people (including the cops).
      He would no doubt have done this again if he had survived.
      
      The only thing to say in his defence is that he didn’t kill anyone else.
      
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      November 3, 2018 3:31pm
      - Captain Mainwaring
        
        Another positive outcome for the gene pool.
        
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        November 3, 2018 3:56pm
- DigNap15
  
  He was a fleeing driver
  He probably broke the law
  He tried to avoid the police
  He put other people at risk
  
  God riddance I say
  Just make his family for any damages caused.
  
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  November 3, 2018 6:39pm
- kevn
  
  Prob p fuelled and just off a Playstation car race game.
  
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  November 3, 2018 7:21pm
Jack5

Good Matt cartoon on Guy Fawkes at the UK Telegraph site today – and I think it’s outside the pay wall.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/
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November 3, 2018 3:35pm
- Morrissey
  
  Now THAT’s a funny cartoon.
  
  Can somebody show it to that pitifully untalented John Stringer? He might learn something about draftsmanship and how to write witty captions.
  
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  November 3, 2018 3:58pm
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    If this is an argument between the pitifully untalented (which he is) John Stringer, and Morris Marina, I’ll throw my lot in with John.
    
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    November 3, 2018 5:46pm
    - Morrissey
      
      Good on you, Cap’n. You’re honest.
      
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      November 3, 2018 7:45pm
stigie

Ardern still backing Lees Galloway but throwing the officials under the bus. Lees Galloway is not fit for purpose !~

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/108333461/jacinda-ardern-says-how-govt-handles-sroubek-case-will-be-what-matters
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November 3, 2018 3:44pm
- Swifty
  
  “Please give us another chance!” She says….
  
  Yeah, like she and her mates gave plenty of National Ministers plenty of chances as they bayed for blood over trivial mistakes over nine years.
  
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  November 3, 2018 3:50pm
  - stigie
    
    Nothing this bad that i can remember Swifty..?
    
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    November 3, 2018 3:59pm
    - Swifty
      
      Certainly not stigie!
      
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      November 3, 2018 5:25pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  If the officials find it too uncomfortable under the bus, they might dig a bit deeper and find the REAL reason the prick was given residency.
  
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  November 3, 2018 3:59pm
  - holysheet
    
    You think they don’t already know?
    It’s only a matter of time before we are told yet again to “read between the lines”
    Only this time the lines will be so wide you could find Jethros ex dealer driving down them.
    
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    November 3, 2018 4:46pm
cha

Don’t let the facts get in the way….

An incendiary video tweeted Thursday by President Donald Trump not only shockingly compared members of a migrant caravan heading to the U.S. to an immigrant cop-killer, it also falsely held the Democrats solely responsible for his presence in America.

[…]

Bracamontes initially entered the country illegally in 1993 and was deported in 1997 following a drug sentence. He was back in the country a year later and arrested on another drug charge in Phoenix but was released for “unknown reasons” under Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s custody and continued to live in the U.S.

He was deported again following another drug charge in 2001 and returned soon after to marry in the U.S. during the Bush administration, the Bee reported. He killed the deputy and detective 13 years later.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/cop-killer-trump-video-returned-014328855.html
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November 3, 2018 5:23pm
- holysheet
  
  And do you actually believe the democrats are not telling as many lies.? They are as bad as each other, but Trump has got middle america in behind him along with more and more black americans who are benefiting from MAGA.
  
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  November 3, 2018 5:28pm
  - cha
    
    It’s contagious, too.
    
    http://www.eclectablog.com/2018/11/michigan-republican-party-sends-out-political-mailers-lying-about-their-candidates-endorsements-in-three-state-house-races.html
    
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    November 3, 2018 5:32pm
  - stephieboy
    
    holycrap, you seriously believe that 100 Isis terrorists have infiltrated the Caravan?
    
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    November 3, 2018 6:59pm
Fletch

This is friggin’ unbelievable. The Trump Administration is being sued by Honduran migrants for violating their ‘constitution rights’, even though they don’t have any because they aren’t Americans, and aren’t even in the country. That doesn’t stop idiot lawyers like this guy from representing them –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LOoUPX5_xc

Tucker tries to speak logically to this guy, but somehow he just doesn’t get it..
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November 3, 2018 5:32pm
- stephieboy
  
  Fletch, fox and Tucker Carlson?
  
  Are you serious?
  
  Is Fox News Host Tucker Carlson in Critical Condition After Head-On Collision?
  
  Reports that the Fox News Channel host succumbed to injuries from an automobile accident are fake news.
  
  https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/tucker-carlson-car-crash/
  
  Sheesh!
  
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  November 3, 2018 6:51pm
  - Swifty
    
    You see this is one of the reasons why people think poorly of you.
    
    Instead of debating the issue – you frequently google and then link to, or cut and paste, articles attacking the man.
    
    Do you think you’re clever doing this?
    
    Do you think you’ve got secret knowledge that you must share with us drongoes on KB? To educate us?
    
    Why don’t you just stick to playing the ball and not the man. It will go well for you, believe me.
    
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    November 3, 2018 7:02pm
    - stephieboy
      
      Swifty, no my main approach is to check out the credibility of people like Tucker Carlson which I believe it is seriously wanting!
      
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      November 3, 2018 7:16pm
      - Swifty
        
        You see that is your mistake.
        
        Do you always rely on other people to tell you what to think? How do you know the credibility of those you go to for credibility assessments?
        
        Why don’t you just stick to debating the issues?
        
        Watch the video, if you’d care to, and then tell us what you think.
        
        Apart from anything else it’s more intellectually honest to do so.
        
        And it will give the rest of us a break from the arrogant, lazy and snide sneering that you specialise in.
        
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        November 3, 2018 7:25pm
  - Swifty
    
    Oh, and when you go back and edit your posts – you should say so.
    
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    November 3, 2018 7:03pm
- DJ Ward
  
  Tucker is one of the bravest people in news.
  He talked about men’s issues.
  
  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o_F3zv-hAYs
  
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  November 3, 2018 8:19pm
Komata

Fletch

The obvious question, given that these are poorly educated peons: Who is putting them up to this and who is paying the bills?
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November 3, 2018 6:14pm
- stephieboy
  
  Komota , now let’s think hard about this one?
  
  Jew George Soros and Clinton One Foundation ?
  
  DUH!
  
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  November 3, 2018 6:55pm
big bruv

I wonder what time the sexual assaults are scheduled to begin at the Labour party conference and have they made sure there are enough youngsters to go around?
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November 3, 2018 6:17pm
- nasska
  
  What are they going to to stupefy the children with BB? Alcohol is so ‘passe’ & all the traditional supply conduits for MDMA seem to be drying up.
  
  The life of a Labour party knees-up organiser is not a happy one. 🙂
  
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  November 3, 2018 6:40pm
  - big bruv
    
    Not sure Nasska, although I imagine that somebody closely related to a person high up in the party wood know where to obtain all that is required to stupefy children.
    
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    November 3, 2018 6:55pm
- stephieboy
  
  big bruv, maybe like Donald Trump they are in danging of persisting!
  
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  November 3, 2018 6:56pm
  - big bruv
    
    stupidboy
    
    It’s no wonder that you’re a fan of the Labour party, Islam and Labour have one thing in common, both like to have sex with children.
    
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    November 3, 2018 7:01pm
    - starboard
      
      Heh..chortle. Shariaboy..giving it to goats since, forever.
      
      LOL !
      
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      November 3, 2018 10:38pm
Swifty

For your musical enjoyment.

Wynona’s Big Brown Beaver:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYDfwUJzYQg
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November 3, 2018 6:42pm
- cha
  
  Duo de Twang’s version.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0fyYBXVaCU
  
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  November 3, 2018 6:55pm
  - Swifty
    
    Yeah, same guy.
    
    Les Claypool.
    
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    November 3, 2018 7:08pm
    - cha
      
      Said so on the box, but anyhoo, anarchic Claypool /Duo De Twang cover of Alice in Chains’ Man In The Box.
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh2giMlcqls
      
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      November 3, 2018 7:19pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Well, who would have thunk it?
Judge Kavanaugh’s sexual assault accuser allegedly admits she lied, wanted attention
Following an investigation into the woman, the committee reportedly found she was a “left-wing activist” who is “decades older than Judge Kavanaugh” and lives in Kentucky, not California.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2018/11/judge-kavanaugh-s-sexual-assault-accuser-allegedly-admits-she-lied-wanted-attention.html
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November 3, 2018 7:02pm
- stephieboy
  
  MW. according to this link, Dr Chrsitine Blasey Ford and others have been the subject to a campaign and torrent of disinformation to discredit and smear tehm
  
  https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/19/us/politics/christine-blasey-ford-kavanaughs-fact-check.html
  
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  November 3, 2018 7:10pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    When people deliberately tell lies and post misinformation about folks they have never met, it can become very difficult for 3rd parties to work out the truth about someone.
    
    As you well know stephieboy, I have been the subject of your lies and misinformation on this blog.
    
    Perhaps you can explain why you behave in this manner.
    
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    November 3, 2018 7:18pm
    - stephieboy
      
      MW, examples of those lies?
      
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      November 3, 2018 7:21pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        You posted them; you must know what you have written about me.
        
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        November 3, 2018 7:24pm
      - Swifty
        
        Don’t act all innocent Stiffy – you slur all manner of posters here daily.
        
        And not very cleverly either.
        
        You have labelled me a Trumper and alt-right when I have never posted anything remotely consistent with those views.
        
        It’s your lazy push-back to those who disagree with you.
        
        You really should cut it out – it gets you nowhere.
        
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        November 3, 2018 7:31pm
- cha
  
  Well, who would have thunk it?
  
  Well, anything is possible….
  
  Which brings me to this week. Burkman and Wohl announced that they had learned of evidence that Robert Mueller had “brutally raped” a woman named Caroline Cass.
  
  This evidence came from Surefire Intelligence, a supposedly highly regarded investigation firm.
  
  Before their Thursday press conference, Wohl denied having anything to do with Surefire Intelligence. “I don’t have any involvement in any investigations of any kind,” he told NBC News.
  
  But Wohl apparently had no idea that the journalism profession contains individuals who know how to use the Internet. Many of the photos on the Surefire Intelligence website were stock photos, including one of the Israeli model Bar Refaeli. Another shadowy image, when brightened, revealed Wohl himself. When NBC called the listed phone number for Surefire, it went straight to Wohl’s mom’s voicemail.
  
  https://www.nationalreview.com/g-file/jacob-wohl-jack-burkman-robert-mueller/
  
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  November 3, 2018 7:30pm
- GoVege
  
  Unfortunately there are a lot of nutty women out there who cause honest women to be disbelieved.
  
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  November 3, 2018 8:17pm
nasska

Stephieboy has now completely given up all hope.

His Russian mail-order bride arrived, took one look at him & then asked to go back in the crate. 🙂
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  What do you think would have been his requirements when he placed his order nasska?
  
  Let’s have a go at listing them. I’ll start:
  
  lovely supple body proportions
  small but ample breasts
  good animal husbandry skills
  
  What else?
  
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    …..”What else?”…..
    
    Muscle expression in the forequarter, flat/narrow loin & leg for a start Swifty. Then a good udder & sound hooves. 🙂
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYOkHDNcL3Q
    
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