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Maggy Wassilieff

I wonder if this will open a can of worms.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/109103499/oranga-tamariki-reinvestigating-sex-abuse-complaint-at-drama-school-run-by-kiwi-actor

I often used to walk past Jim Moriarty’s garage… I thought all the kids there were part of his acting crew.
I had no idea that up to 12 kids in that locked garage were CYFS placements.
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December 16, 2018 8:06am
- igm
  
  Maybe it was a training ground for Labour indoctrination camps . . . wood not be surprised.
  
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  December 16, 2018 8:15am
- DigNap15
  
  What is Oranga Tamariki?
  
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  December 16, 2018 8:16am
  - yomcat
    
    Re-branding of CYF.
    
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    December 16, 2018 8:18am
    - Woz
      
      The horification is nearly complete.
      
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      December 16, 2018 9:19am
      - sooty
        
        Oranga Tamariki, is the maori name for President Trump!
        
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        December 16, 2018 10:16am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    Oranga Tamariki?
    
    I thought it was Orangatanga Tamariki (for wild children?)
    
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    December 16, 2018 10:21am
    - igm
      
      Tamariki on display at a bird sanctuary yesterday:
      My wife and I were viewing birds in an aviary where there were a family of maori. A young girl, no more than four, picked up a stick and poked it through the netting continually at one of the birds, a young boy with her had also been involved. The mother or whatever it was in control did nothing.
      Where the hell will these two end up?
      
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      December 17, 2018 7:25am
- KevOB
  
  It will have no effect. State institutional care for young people is a wilderness inhabited by sadists and perverts. It continues from generation to generation. I hope they have ceased the solitary confinement and now provide underwear particularly in the cold weather.
  
  Change the title, change the keys, change the time–the outcome remains the same.
  
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  December 16, 2018 8:18am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I wonder if there has been any assessment of the success of Moriarty’s transformational theatre on kids in CYFS care.
    
    This full-time, 24/7 residential programme, contracted through the Government’s National Bednight Provider Contract, Child Youth and Family, sees rangatahi live as whānau, marae style, alongside their mentor and tutors for somewhere between 18 months and three years.
    
    They eat, sleep, study and perform through an intensive series of education and rehabilitation programmes, where Māori theatre is key.
    https://artsaccess.org.nz/theatre-as-a-tool-to-transform
    The programme ran for 7 years before being closed down in 2011.
    
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    December 16, 2018 8:37am
    - Southern Raider
      
      That’s awesome. Only last week I was looking to hire someone with a background in intensive Maori theatre performance
      
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      December 16, 2018 9:50am
    - Swifty
      
      I knew him when he was a chippie.
      
      Might still be for all I know.
      
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      December 16, 2018 10:05am
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  Nine long years of neglect bro. Nothing to see here. Move on.
  
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  December 16, 2018 8:26am
- Inandout
  
  I was once told by a young woman aspiring to be an actor that a certain well known Maori ‘director’ was a ‘bit naughty’ and had wandering hands. No names, no pack drill. I am of the opinion that the NZ theatre and film industries hold many Weinsteins, their stories just waiting to be told.
  
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  December 16, 2018 10:00am
  - 3-coil
    
    Inandout – not just “naughty” but chillingly sadistic too. Supported by testimonies from victims, children and youths who experienced his attentions at Porirua psychiatric hospital in the 1970’s (many have suicided, but many still survive).
    
    Edit: Miriama Kamo (TVNZ) and lawyer Sonja Cooper know more.
    
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    December 16, 2018 12:23pm
MrTips

Guys a psychopath and liar. Thanks ILG/Cindy. At least 5 more years post jail release of this turd running amok in our legal system.

Re his poor ex-wife, it is ironic that it’s about the only time Winston has criticised anything Russian….
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December 16, 2018 8:08am
- Rich Prick
  
  I imagine the Police will have an interest in that $2.4m home. Money doesn’t grow on lawnmowers, or does it?
  
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  December 16, 2018 9:55am
wiseowl

Wonder if anyone listened to interview on Red Radio this morning about a UN declaration re peasants.

New Zealand have seen sense and not signed this one but what was alarming was the UN guy that talked about Non binding agreements and how they were a mechanism to become embedded in International Law and through that mechanism they can become binding.
The sheer arrogance of the guy and his attitude toward NZ because we had not signed , was astonishing.
UN can foxtrot oscar.
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December 16, 2018 8:08am
- kowtow
  
  And then into our constitution, by convention.
  Scary.
  
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  December 16, 2018 9:48am
- tf78
  
  That’s exactly what Simon Bridges said would happen – a week or two ago.
  
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  December 16, 2018 11:35am
Thought Criminal

How often does Ardern not attend PM question time? Is it a common occurrence?
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December 16, 2018 8:09am
- DigNap15
  
  Hardly ever
  And yes
  
  Its a disgrace
  Unless she’s off overseas attending some SJW left wing conference saving the world.
  
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  December 16, 2018 8:10am
  - MrsAnnie
    
    She needs quality time with Neve – and gets $400k for it.
    
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    December 16, 2018 8:20am
- MrTips
  
  Based on Hamish Price’s assessment around half the time, a new record for laziness.
  
  I’ve noticed the left twitterati go batshit on Price – usually that’s a sign someone’s right or is close to the truth.
  
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  December 16, 2018 8:13am
  - MrsAnnie
    
    What was the average for other PMs?
    
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    December 16, 2018 8:21am
    - sooty
      
      What for kindergarden visits?
      She would have exceded all of the others in her first year!
      
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      December 16, 2018 2:56pm
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  PMs generally don’t attend Thursday sessions. So that is an excuse for Tooth Fairy to run away from the heat of the question time. Her lapdog Drunken Dwarf will take all the hard questions and give useless answers.
  
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  December 16, 2018 8:28am
  - tf78
    
    Maybe Cindy doesn’t know what day of the week it is either.
    
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    December 16, 2018 11:38am
- VicParking
  
  Never on thursday, leaders don’t go on thursdays
  One other because she has photo ops at schools.
  Winston however steps up and laughs his way through his own jokes.
  
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  December 16, 2018 8:33am
  - GazzaW
    
    ……..ably assisted by the grinning numpty that sits behind him who dutifully laughs at Peters’ crass witticisms. NZF must be the first political party to have appointed an official court jester.
    
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    December 16, 2018 10:04am
- Inandout
  
  How often does Simon drop a bombshell in Parliament..still waiting.
  
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  December 16, 2018 10:03am
  - GazzaW
    
    He doesn’t have to drop bombshells personally. He could have chosen to expose Curran’s or ILG’s appalling decisions but left it to his MPs who are responsible for those shadow portfolios. I have no doubt that he will have Collins make the big move on Twyford when the time is right.
    
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    December 16, 2018 10:13am
    - Inandout
      
      Well Gazza the truth about the Czech and politicians is so much discussed in public venues and gathering places, names and all. If this had happened in many western countries their parliaments would have exposed the whole sorry matter by now. Our MSM is too scared or too complicit, so that only leaves parliament. Twyford is just an incompetent idiot so Judith can’t really destroy him. Simon is supposed to be a leader.
      
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      December 16, 2018 10:32am
toby1845

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12177545

Interesting ‘open letter’ from drug dealing thug, Karel Sroubek, in today’s Herald. (It is also remarkably well written for someone for whom English is not a first language, but that’s another matter.)

He is, of course, extraordinarily unlucky that his bleating rant has been published so soon after the murder of Grace Millane. Yesterday your paper published a perfectly reasonable request from a number of respected NZ women (and, it must be said, a couple who are held in widespread contempt, such as the airheaded Lizzie Marvelley) that men should take greater ownership of their treatment of women; and that women must be taken seriously when they say they feel unsafe.

If the Czech druggie’s ex-wife feels unsafe, she is unsafe. He can’t blame the National Party or anyone else.

National need to pursue this to the very end. Did Sroubek’s clients include a part-time dad who likes to fish? Was that part-time dad’s number found on Sroubek’s phone when he was arrested? Did that part-time dad and/or his skanky girlfriend attend Sroubek’s wedding in Queenstown? And did Police try to do a favour for their former colleague, the NZ High Commissioner to Niue, by trying to shut down speculation about the fisherman earlier this year? The very precise wording of the statement seemed odd at the time, but now looks quite illuminating.

So many questions. If only we had a real media, and real investigative journalists who were prepared to ask them.
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December 16, 2018 8:09am
- mjw
  
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  The fact that the NZ right is reduced to peddling nutjob conspiracy theories, with MPs dogwhistling about them, shows that National will be in opposition for a very very long time.
  
  What’s next? The PM faked the moon landing?
  
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  December 16, 2018 8:15am
  - Huevon
    
    The Richie Hardcore connection was discussed on this blog for over a month before it was publicly revealed.
    
    Ardern is absolutely and utterly full of shit. There is much more to come with this saga.
    
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    December 16, 2018 8:19am
    - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
      
      You think? Here is what will happen. Tooth Fairy will release a text that reads like this – “Jacinda, I appreciate your government’s compassion towards a person whose life is in danger. God bless”. MSM led by Tracy Watkin and Audrey Young will declare Tooth Fairy is Mary reincarnated and the opposition is witch hunting. TVNZ will publish a headline 5 minute item saying how the innocent princess was framed by the evil opposition. Duncan Garner and the Labour poodle Paddy Gower will discuss how National has stoop so low. Winston Peters will make fun of Bridges with smart arse comments. Nothing good happens to National. Remember that.
      
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      December 16, 2018 8:32am
    - Steve (North Shore)
      
      She would do well to read this blog – instead of getting her thrills from TVNZ, Herald, and Stuff.
      Then again, not sure if she has an IQ higher than room temperature.
      
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      December 16, 2018 8:36am
      - stephieboy
        
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        Steve (North Shore) read brain drain posts like your one?
        
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        December 16, 2018 8:46am
      - Nostradamus
        
        Stephieboy:
        
        Here’s something to think about before you shit all over the thread (again). Tom Hunter advised Ztev:
        
        Christ! Keep this up and you’ll soon be challenging Stephieboy for the coveted title of Kiwiblog’s Dumbest Commentator. Tell you what, only comment once out of every ten times you feel like commenting; at that rate you might say something intelligent every now and then.
        
        Actually, on second thoughts, keep up your “LOL”, Duh” and “See your doctor”. That way we can see what an unintelligent dick whacker you are!
        
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        December 16, 2018 8:52am
      - Rich Prick
        
        Or snowdropper.
        
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        December 16, 2018 10:02am
      - holysheet
        
        Stooopidboy got an internet advert asking if he wanted to improve his sex life.
        He answered all the questions and waited for the advice.
        It was a short answer.
        Change hands.
        
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        December 16, 2018 10:02am
      - sooty
        
        Haven’t heard the term snowdrops for yonks!
        I must be an old white man.
        
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        December 16, 2018 10:26am
      - waikatogirl
        
        I performed a magic trick.
        31st click on SB and poof, he disappeared! ?
        
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        December 16, 2018 10:57am
  - Chris R
    
    No! Not at all! What is next is not a conspiracy or fake news: The PM is a non-thinking self-preening idiotic fake. How’s that mjw?
    
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    December 16, 2018 8:46am
    - stephieboy
      
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      Chris R, another rich irony alert of the morning!
      
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      December 16, 2018 8:53am
      - softail 1450
        
        Septicboy gets confused early in the day,the reason his posts are sometimes nonsensical is because he gets mixed up with English and “goat speak”and posts quite often with a mixture of both….
        
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        December 16, 2018 9:01am
    - mjw
      
      Quod erat demonstrandum.
      
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      December 16, 2018 8:54am
      - rightoverlabour
        
        ooh a Latin scholar. We are impressed. Pity about the garbage that precedes this pearl of wisdom. Since you may be of average intelligence, please explain why ILG granted residency. There are two options. He is a moron. He is not a moron but was under instruction. Pick the one that seems most plausible.
        
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        December 16, 2018 9:17am
      - toby1845
        
        Actually, there is a third option. He is a moron under instruction from another moron.
        
        I’m going for #3.
        
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        December 16, 2018 12:25pm
  - oldpark
    
    @mjw
    Anything is possible in the fake stakes. Seem to recall Ardern is a “fake” PM. Ask her Puppet Master a wee man called Peters.
    
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    December 16, 2018 9:12am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  It looks very much like Sroubek is stitching his ex-wife up as being complicit in his drug-importing.
  
  Sroubek said Mitchell had failed to appreciate his former wife was a partner in the business which was used to import the MDMA drug.
  
  “He calls me a ‘gangster’ but, ironically, blindly (and conveniently) defends my business partner.”
  
  If Sroubek can’t see that those 2 sentences are THREATENING to his ex-wife, then he has a funny idea about not threatening anybody.
  
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  December 16, 2018 8:17am
  - MrsAnnie
    
    Not saying all kick boxers are drug dealers but the gangs are really into kick boxing- headhunters, killer bees.
    
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    December 16, 2018 8:24am
  - Psycho Milt
    
    I guess you could say that someone alleging you’re a criminal is a “threat,” but that depends on whether the allegation is false or not. It may be not so much a “threat” as a “statement of fact.”
    
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    December 16, 2018 8:56am
    - stephen2d
      
      Also, what you just said is libellous.
      
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      December 16, 2018 9:52am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      You think having an ex-husband splashing private details out to the Public is non-threatening?
      
      How many Kiwi’s knew Mrs Sroubek was a Russian non-resident before she worked for Sroubek?
      
      How many people knew she was a business partner of her husband?
      
      How many people knew she had been working in a bank before she hitched up with Sroubek?
      
      None of that information had been covered in Parliament.
      
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      December 16, 2018 9:55am
      - Psycho Milt
        
        Is it more threatening than having an ex-wife splashing private details out to the public?
        
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        December 16, 2018 11:48am
      - gump
        
        I was more surprised to read that Mrs Sroubek is now attached to Dr Mark Darvey – the Confitex founder.
        
        It seems like an appalling lapse of judgment to attach himself to such damaged goods.
        
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        December 16, 2018 2:25pm
      - Psycho Milt
        
        I expect he’s just “taking one for the team.”
        
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        December 16, 2018 4:11pm
- JibberJabber
  
  It is blatantly obvious we now are living in a country run by people with connections to the wealthy gangs that infest the general population, the police are instructed by this govt to go softly/softly on criminal behaviour and the judiciary are instructed to keep them out of jail.
  This social experiment by successive governments will end very badly for all of us, especially as law-abiding citizens are having their rights and ability to protect themselves continually eroded.
  
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  December 16, 2018 8:19am
  - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
    
    You need to put up with this for another 8 years or until the Drunken Dwarf snaps.
    
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    December 16, 2018 8:34am
  - stephieboy
    
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    Jibberjabber, keep up the JibberJabber Clinton body count , Seth Rich, Pizzagate etc like conspiracy theories!
    
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    December 16, 2018 8:48am
  - waikatogirl
    
    And our tax monies extracted on an increasing scale to pay for it all.
    
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    December 16, 2018 11:00am
  - Jules99
    
    No surprise that crooked Hillary dropped in for a visit when she did.
    
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    December 16, 2018 4:17pm
- KevOB
  
  It seems to be breaking.
  
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  December 16, 2018 8:21am
- waikatogirl
  
  from the article:
  ” Convicted drug smuggler Karel Sroubek claims a property dispute with his former wife over a $2.4 million Remuera home is behind her claims she is at risk.
  
  He says the National Party has been drawn into the collapse of a marriage and is being fed false claims about her safety.
  
  In a letter to the New Zealand Herald, Sroubek has asked the public to be “fair” and wait for the legal process to complete.
  
  “It is the Kiwi way,” he wrote.
  
  Sroubek is in prison and facing deportation after Immigration Minister Iain Lees-Galloway flipped on his original decision to grant New Zealand residency.”
  
  “a $2.4 million Remuera home is behind her claims she is at risk.”
  A drug importer/dealer with a $2.4m home. Surely this home will be seized under the Proceeds of Crime Act?
  
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  December 16, 2018 9:42am
  - Viking2
    
    One would certainly hope so.Just to be consistent with kiwi’s being imprisoned for the same deeds.
    
    Oh wait a minute the govt. has told the police not to be so bothered and use their “directed” common sense about who they charge.
    
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    December 16, 2018 10:13am
  - KevOB
    
    For a prisoner Sroubek is very well heeled and surprisingly freely treated for a convicted drug importer.
    
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    December 16, 2018 12:56pm
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    Excuse me if I am monumentally offended that a criminal who lied his way into my country and committed crimes while he lives here dares to lecture me on what is The Kiwi Way.
    Sroubek can pack up his collection of dodgy passports and piss off.
    Kiwi Way, my arse.
    
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    December 16, 2018 5:36pm
    - waikatogirl
      
      Many more upticks Shaun. NZ seems to attract self-important imports who know best for us Kiwis!
      
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      December 16, 2018 6:31pm
- toby1845
  
  Incidentally, the post above was an email I sent to David Fisher earlier – hence the reference to ‘your paper’.
  
  I’m not expecting a reply from the lying scumbag, Fisher, but will share it if I do.
  
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  December 16, 2018 12:21pm
DigNap15

Maori should stop being so violent to us, our shop keepers, our tourists, our bar patrons, their wives and girl friends and each other.
Let Them do that.
In the meantime lock them up
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December 16, 2018 8:13am
- stephieboy
  
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  All 600,000 of them?
  
  Clown!
  
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  December 16, 2018 8:54am
  - WaveyDavey
    
    .
    
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    December 16, 2018 9:09am
  - DigNap15
    
    Why not, that would keep us all safe.
    Save lots of taxes in the future
    And raise New Zealands ratings in all areas.
    
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    December 16, 2018 10:42am
  - DifferentPerspective
    
    SB – Nearly as clownish as say calling 60 million Trump voters racists – yet that doesn’t seem to stop you Pennywise!
    
    (Oh yeah – I forgot – it’s different when the left do it)
    
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    December 16, 2018 11:47am
- Albert_Ross
  
  Yes, because we are totally opposed to the notion of group responsibility for the actions of some of that group, unless the group in question is one that does not include ourselves, such as Maori, women, Catholic priests, Chinese tourists, Muslims or cyclists.
  
  Then we totally support action against the entire group. And they can fuck off.
  
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  December 16, 2018 9:18am
  - rockape
    
    Yes even men as a group .
    
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    December 16, 2018 9:39am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    Albert_Ross,
    Let’s see if those categories tend to be collective or individualistic.
    Maori: tribal collectives
    Women: stick together
    Catholic priests: as above
    Chinese tourists: no comment (follow the flag)
    Muslims: definitely collective (us vs. the infidel)
    Cyclists: pack mamils (Middle Aged Men In Lycra)
    
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    December 16, 2018 10:26am
    - waikatogirl
      
      “Women: stick together.”
      I’ve never agreed with other females on the basis of their sex. I am an individual thinker and prefer to go with reason, practicality and common sense. I know this concept is alien to some women, but not all of us. Stupid comes in all shapes and sizes.
      
      I’d like to believe you have faith in your daughters to think for themselves.
      
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      December 16, 2018 12:33pm
      - Odakyu-sen
        
        Yes, waikatogirl.
        Of course.
        From the time my daughters were in primary school I have always told them to form their own opinions. My strategy seems to have worked.
        
        Now, if I could only get my 23-year-old out of my basement and into flatting in Auckland, but the costs are so incredibly high (plus she likes her mother’s cooking (mine, not so much)).
        
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        December 16, 2018 1:03pm
      - secondcumming
        
        There’s still some room in my basement, Odakyu-sen.
        
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        December 16, 2018 1:49pm
      - Jules99
        
        Agree. I supported Trump even though women were supposed to support Clinton (not in the US so it was solidarity rather than actual voting). Also thought Blasey-Ford was a liar. Women lie and cheat too.
        
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        December 16, 2018 4:16pm
DigNap15

When referring to Peter Williams, please note which one you are referring to.
This applies to the MSM as well
The news reader and now Tauranga resident.
The ex laywer and defender of scum and prison apologist.
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December 16, 2018 8:15am
- lifesgood
  
  Peter Williams, lover of scum, lawyer, consorter with crims is dead.
  
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  December 16, 2018 8:20am
  - KevOB
    
    The late Peter Williams was a lover of Justice.
    
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    December 16, 2018 8:23am
    - JibberJabber
      
      Ahhhh, I love the smell of sarcasm in the morning.
      
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      December 16, 2018 8:26am
      - Tarquin North
        
        Ghost writer?
        
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        December 16, 2018 9:24am
  - peterwn
    
    Never criticise criminal defence lawyers because of the clients they represent. A lawyer is virtually essential for a fair trial and all things equal a lawyer must accept the case if asked. Judging guilt happens at the trial, it would be a abomination if lawyers pre-judge cases by declining to represent clients.
    A usually law abiding person if unlucky could be involved in an incident out of the blue and face a manslaughter charge or careless driving causing death charge. That person needs and would expect access to proper legal representation.
    
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    December 16, 2018 8:31am
    - Aliog
      
      Apologies Peter – accidental downtick.
      
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      December 16, 2018 8:39am
    - Chuck Bird
      
      Peter, are you referring to the late Peter Williams?
      
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      December 16, 2018 8:51am
      - peterwn
        
        Yes, that precipitated my comment. However I am thinking of criminal defence lawyers in general.
        I also have in mind the late Kevin Ryan QC. He was passed over being made a QC for a long time because as he put it ‘I did not have drinkies at the Northern Club’. He was made a QC soon after pointing this out.
        If there was a disturbance at Auckland Prison the authorities were quick to seek his assistance to calm things down.
        
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        December 16, 2018 1:38pm
Happychappy

They come from all occupations and social groups Maggie it used to be Cubs, Scouts and some youth sports leaders even in my day. I believe making homosexuality Legal has not helped the situation but that is my belief and maybe I am wrong.
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December 16, 2018 8:16am
wiseowl

Last night a guy rang talk back.
Devastated .
10 year relationship and a five year old daughter.
Two weeks ago after some arguing Mrs leaves.
Straight to cops and gets a non molestation order against him although all they did was argue.No violence.
Cops turn up 11 .30 one night take his air rifle.
He has spoken to his daughter on phone for 2 minutes in the last two weeks.
This morning one of the she men who signed the recent petition to prioritise gender based violence, (from Amnesty International ) talks of equality and more resources .
Stuff all those bent and twisted women that signed that petition.Stuff them and their hatred toward men and there continued destruction of our society.
Stuff them bigtime.
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December 16, 2018 8:17am
- DigNap15
  
  I agree with you, the system is biased against men.
  (and women wonder why men get violent towards them)
  White men matter!
  All men matter!
  
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  December 16, 2018 8:21am
- peterwn
  
  Seems strange this can happen so suddenly when the victim of the Kapiti councillor convicted of indecent assault could not get a court order requiring him to keep away from and not communicate with the victim or her family (which he should not be doing anyway).
  
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  December 16, 2018 8:38am
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  Been there, done that. Had the feminazis follow me to drop the kids off at day care, then follow me to work. Same on the way home. This was in the 80s, would hate to deal with the bastards now. I fought them and won, but I would fail today. Fuck them.
  
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  December 16, 2018 8:44am
- Psycho Milt
  
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  How awful. And yet no men ever do anything bad to their wives – the injustice of it!
  
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  December 16, 2018 8:53am
  - double d
    
    Yep, you ARE a total fucking idiot.
    
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    December 16, 2018 10:51am
- waikatogirl
  
  I doubt the woman concerned, or any woman who uses the scape-goat of a phoney non-molestation order is worried about “their hatred toward men and there continued destruction of our society.” Their motivation is much more mercenary – to get as much control and sympathy out of the situation and therefore more financial control. Who wants to be seen to take their share of responsibility for a marriage breakup? It is so much easier to be seen as the victim and garner all that lovely sympathy.
  
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  December 16, 2018 9:53am
  - wiseowl
    
    Agree WG.
    It is just that there is a connection here .
    The current situation with the law is that females have everything stacked in their favour.
    In effect there is already inequality , a heavy bias against men but the feminazis want ‘equality’.
    It is men who need equality.
    
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    December 16, 2018 10:36am
    - waikatogirl
      
      Yes, and those women who are mercenary enough to use the system do so because it is easy for them when the system is stacked in their favour. I feel very sorry for fathers who are taken advantage of. There is a breakdown in all areas of society. Generations have been taught to take, take and take for their own benefit. Some have mastered this art. If you are honest and caring and don’t hurt others climbing over them for your own advantage, then you are at a distinct disadvantage. Sad but true.
      
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      December 16, 2018 12:39pm
DigNap15

This child abuse has got to stop.
It affects those people for the rest of their lives.
The perpetrators need to be locked up for life as a punishment and an example.
How can this happen in our modern sophisticated society?
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December 16, 2018 8:19am
- KevOB
  
  Very easily. Hatred is a two edged sword.
  
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  December 16, 2018 8:25am
- Jules99
  
  I was chatting to guy who had done research in prisons and interviewed some of the most violent criminals. A very high proportion of them had suffered child sex abuse as children. I think its and issue with both men and women as well. Some suggest that the reason it is never dealt with is because some influential people are involved. Who knows.
  
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  December 16, 2018 4:10pm
- Jules99
  
  Perhaps you need to ask the person who down voted you.
  
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  December 16, 2018 4:11pm
dime

Media promote the hell out of Grace’s murder

People react

Media then imply we are assholes cause we don’t care as much about other murders.

Apparently some woman was killed by a guy last week in flatbush.

First I heard of it was when the herald called me an asshole for not caring. Maybe if it had been front page for a week I would have known about it.
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December 16, 2018 8:25am
- JibberJabber
  
  the herald called me an asshole for not caring
  
  You`re in good company, Jacinduh doesn’t give a shit either.
  
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  December 16, 2018 8:30am
- stephieboy
  
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  dime, especially for you with an erudite response,
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xvfPIBO4Ng
  
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  December 16, 2018 8:51am
  - dime
    
    For the last time, I don’t want to see miss world goat edition 2018
    
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    December 16, 2018 8:59am
  - pentwig
    
    stoopidthing
    your intellect of a 5 yearold is truly amazing
    
    banned from your local cafe?
    
    whoo, whoo
    
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    December 16, 2018 9:58am
- lifesgood
  
  You read the herald?
  
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  December 16, 2018 9:28am
- waikatogirl
  
  Same with the guy who was decapitated. First I heard about it was someone complaining Cindy hadn’t been outraged about it. Perhaps she had not heard about it either?
  
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  December 16, 2018 9:58am
- toby1845
  
  I have been told by a family member who works for Corrections that the killer in the Flatbush incident was out on bail.
  
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  December 16, 2018 12:38pm
artemisia

Still a lot of spin coming from the government, Mr Twyford in particular, about a housing crisis denied, deficit of 71,000 homes, 9 years of neglect. All to be fixed by Mr Twyford, one day, maybe. But hey, it’s hard so we might miss a few targets here and there.

Meantime, it will be interesting to see what happens to the number of private rentals nationwide, last (AFAIK) published as close to 600,000. The number of properties on the market is increasing according to Trademe listing numbers – 9% up on November last year in Auckland for example. One or two will be landlords selling up.

Equally of interest is whether landlords will continue to build new or buy off the plans, especially flow on impacts in the large new apartment market where many were traditionally bought as rentals. (Friend of mine lives in a 92 apartment complex, all tenanted except 2 owner occupied. That would not be unusual.

The following is from a professional investor, published elsewhere this week and reprinted with permission:

….. 2 years ago we invested multiples of our nett revenue to build more rental accommodation which had a large impact on capital values and a long term impact on nett profitability. This capital investment program has ceased. It will not restart until the business environment becomes less hostile. What this means in real terms is we won’t be building new housing and this could mean over the next decade 20 – 50 houses are not added to the rental supply.
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December 16, 2018 8:32am
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  Big deal if 20-50 houses are not added in the next decade. By then Labour would have built 99,950 houses. 50 houses have been built already.
  
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  December 16, 2018 8:37am
  - Viking2
    
    You forgot the ””sarc” emoicon.
    
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    December 16, 2018 10:19am
Morrissey

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Can’t see “Sir” Robert Jones or Eric “Shithead” Watson ever doing this

https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/passenger-gives-up-first-class-plane-seat-for-mother-with-ill-child-20181214-p50mbr.html
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December 16, 2018 8:33am
- dime
  
  Someone does something nice so you use it as an opportunity to have a crack at bob. You’re a dick.
  
  Bet Bob has given more to charity than you ever will in your miserable life.
  
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  December 16, 2018 8:43am
- VicParking
  
  Sir Robert has his own Plane and does a lot for the ‘less fortunate’. Morrissey you would not stand for a women on a bus in fact you would proberly drag one out of her seat so you could sit down.
  
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  December 16, 2018 8:47am
  - Swifty
    
    Sit down to piss.
    
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    December 16, 2018 8:52am
    - secondcumming
      
      Me too. I got a bad twinge in my back recently and the doctor suggested I shouldn’t lift anything heavy.
      
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      December 16, 2018 9:43am
Morrissey

If that downtick was by either of you two talentless rich pricks, shame on you. And pay your fucking taxes, you deadbeats.
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December 16, 2018 8:39am
- dime
  
  Get a job
  
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  December 16, 2018 8:44am
- Harkman
  
  The top 15% pay 90% of net taxes in NZ.
  
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  December 16, 2018 8:48am
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  The village idiot is awake
  
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  December 16, 2018 8:49am
  - stephieboy
    
    Rich Irony alert of the morning.
    
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    December 16, 2018 8:52am
    - Swifty
      
      What a cock you are.
      
      Three posts from you and all three just having digs at people here.
      
      What’s the matter with you?
      
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      December 16, 2018 8:56am
      - dime
        
        Lack of friends. Lack of prospects. Can’t get laid.
        
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        December 16, 2018 9:00am
      - Nostradamus
        
        Dime:
        
        Can’t get laid.
        
        Well, if his target demographic is “honeypots” at St Lukes with “small but ample breasts”, then I’m inclined to think that’s a good thing!
        
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        December 16, 2018 9:06am
      - WaveyDavey
        
        “Small but ample” – divide by zero error
        
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        December 16, 2018 9:08am
      - itstricky
        
        Not that I’m sticking up for stephie but Steve has just called someone ‘the village idiot’. And you’re going on about stephie being a dig taking cock? Selective reading?
        
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        December 16, 2018 9:22am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  That downtick was the first of many.
  Shit you’re a miserable lefty bastard.
  But I do agree with you on one thing. Watson IS a shithead.
  
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  December 16, 2018 8:52am
  - Morrissey
    
    Good on you Cap’n. I knew we’d see eye to eye on something, eventually.
    
    You must head round to Chez Breen for a tipple some time. Our annual Christmas do is coming up….
    
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    December 16, 2018 4:24pm
- Huevon
  
  Put the laptop down and go feed Neve.
  
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  December 16, 2018 8:55am
  - Morrissey
    
    Brilliant, Honvue! I nearly came over Cindy!
    
    Whoops, nearly blew my cover there….
    
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    December 16, 2018 4:25pm
Lee C

Yes, The Herald’s attitude to life and people is evident today.
To quote Bridges:
“Here comes the protection”.
They spend the week capitalising on the murder of a young woman, neatly ignoring the Prime Minister’s questionable performance about Sroubeck, but runnig with ‘Jacinda in Tears’.
They continue to blow this smoke over our Prime Minister’s shoddy attitude towards Shroubeck’s wife, who is in hiding and fearful choosing instead to close ranks on Peters’ nasty contemptuous dismissal of Shroubeck as a “National Party Informant’. And the Labour Party’s publically washing their hands of her. Remember, a woman living in fear?
(An ironically Soviet-style tactics to discredit a dissident, I thought).
And on Sunday, the Herald run a puff-piece detailing the brain-farts of a convicted drug-dealer, whose affiliates are terrorising his wife.

All to protect Ardern and Peters, while they go about villifying a terrified young woman under parliamentary privilege, with the active collusion of a sychophantic newspaper.

But remember everyone, Jacinda was almost in tears about another terrified young woman – when it suited her.

She really is amazeballs.
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December 16, 2018 8:53am
- stephieboy
  
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  Lee C,
  
  “They spend the week capitalising on the murder of a young woman, ..”??
  
  The rest is just ludicrous stun balls.
  
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  December 16, 2018 8:57am
  - Salacious Crumb
    
    Well we can hardly expect our resident rape apologist to show any concern for a woman who fears for her safety.
    
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    December 16, 2018 10:26am
- KevOB
  
  a convicted drug-dealer, whose affiliates are terrorising his wife.
  
  Have gangs been bothering Mrs Sroubek? I have known crims expect another to take over the business when the other party died–long term imprisonment/deportation is equivalent.
  
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  December 16, 2018 1:04pm
Huevon

The fact is most people in NZ care more about the death of an attractive white girl, than Maoris, Indians or immigrants.
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December 16, 2018 9:01am
- dime
  
  Yeah shock horror. People care the most about people who look like them.
  
  It’s how we survived for thousands of years
  
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  December 16, 2018 9:28am
- Salacious Crumb
  
  Not entirely true. It was more the fact she was a visitor doing what many young folk do. I recall a similar outpouring when Blessie Gotinco was murdered; as there rightly should have been.
  
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  December 16, 2018 10:28am
  - SGA
    
    Largely true though. The more boxes ticked of female, young, photogenic, respectable, then the more likely a murder will generate a lot of attention and outrage. “Tourist” adds to that too.
    
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    December 16, 2018 11:34am
- Jules99
  
  I’m not sure how reflective the media coverage is of real NZers. I’m white, but I feel sad at the tragic death of all people whatever colour they are. I was sickened by the mawkish coverage of this girl, while another person’s death went unremarked upon.
  
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  December 16, 2018 4:01pm
WaveyDavey

Pretty much everything this govt has done with regard to housing has made it worse.

Wasted resources on building home that nobody wants. Changes to the rules around renting that, without exception, have caused rents to increase, demand to rise and supply to fall.

Probably the same in other policy areas too.

Answer me this. When will something actually stick and otherwise previously sensible people, often not solid labour supporters, stop giving them a pass and saying “at least they’re trying to do something.”

Since when did a govt trying and failing regularly become acceptable or indeed a good thing?
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December 16, 2018 9:04am
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This screed of hate is from our friends the Jews. They are demanding, among other things, that all negative things about Jews be removed from the internet and that stories promoting Jews be emphasised. And that the bible be edited to make the Jews look better.

What a vile bunch of people.

https://anendtoantisemitism.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/p_anendtoantisemitism/PDF/Catalogue_FINAL_webversion_short.pdf
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December 16, 2018 9:12am
- WaveyDavey
  
  Ahh our resident one-note obsessive cunt crawls out from his dung heap
  
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  December 16, 2018 9:17am
  - realityczech
    
    While you and others rant and foam about Muslims, Chinese, Russians, Maori, Indians etc non stop every day.
    
    Why is all that okay, but not calling out the ongoing and current Jewish atrocities against humanity?
    
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    December 16, 2018 9:22am
    - WaveyDavey
      
      Nope still a cunt
      
      Psst handy hint for an anti-semite like yourself when you use Jews instead of Israelis it’s fairly strong evidence that you’re an anti-semitic cunt.
      
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      December 16, 2018 9:25am
      - realityczech
        
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        You are a vile hate monger that uses the excuse of defending Jews to justify your ignorant hatred and racial prejudice.
        
        You are pure filth and should not be tolerated in a civilised society.
        
        I used Jews instead of Israelis because it is Jews in this case. And can someone please explain why calling out Jews is bad, but anything goes with Muslims, Maori, Slavs…???
        
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        December 16, 2018 9:28am
      - WaveyDavey
        
        Still a proven anti-semitic cunt. How’s the holocaust denying working out for you?
        
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        December 16, 2018 9:34am
      - Swifty
        
        “You are pure filth and should not be tolerated in a civilised society.”
        
        That’s more like it Kea – but isn’t it time for ‘human scum’ too? It’s been a while.
        
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        December 16, 2018 9:43am
      - realityczech
        
        Is that like you being anti Muslim, except better?
        
        By semites I assume you mean the Arabs?
        
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        December 16, 2018 9:44am
      - realityczech
        
        Hey Swifty, do you reckon we should remove and outlaw anything negative about Muslims, promote pro Muslim propaganda and allow Muslims to re-write the bible?
        
        We could do it as a job lot with the Jews.
        
        Sound over the top? Nutty? Well read the list of Jewish demands in the linked document. It goes well beyond that.
        
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        December 16, 2018 9:49am
      - Swifty
        
        Of course not – and I’ve slim read that .pdf and would resist much of it.
        
        Please know that I regard extremist Jews and the views they hold with as much derision as any other fundies. They make me sick with their warped view of the world, their place in it, their views on women and non-Jews etc etc.
        
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        December 16, 2018 9:59am
      - realityczech
        
        Finally – someone who is not a two faced hypocrite.
        
        There are religious extremists on all sides and like you I dislike all of them.
        
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        December 16, 2018 10:12am
      - WaveyDavey
        
        But especially the Jews eh? Still a cunt
        
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        December 16, 2018 10:33am
      - realityczech
        
        No I generally prefer them over the others.
        
        Now go back to demanding genocide of the various gentiles you hate on.
        
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        December 16, 2018 10:39am
      - WaveyDavey
        
        My apologies. Obsessive cunt
        
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        December 16, 2018 10:47am
    - tf78
      
      Maybe you should remove yourself from this website as our dear host is Jewish.
      
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      December 16, 2018 12:01pm
      - realityczech
        
        No he is not.
        
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        December 16, 2018 10:28pm
  - Monique Watson
    
    Brilliant burn. Not Kind and Compassionate at all. Honest and right on the fucking nail though.
    
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    December 16, 2018 12:26pm
Doubledimp

I would like to know how many other “institutions” the NZ government and the food banks around the country are sponsoring. If a family donates a tithe to the local church, then asks for more food from a food bank, is that sponsorship-by-stealth? If money is being sent overseas to assist families there and then hardship grants are being requested, is that money lost to the NZ economy? Likewise for family members living at home with no income. I would be interested to know what checks are performed before these extra “entitlements” are dished out, and whether the political right could make some traction over this with middle NZ.
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December 16, 2018 9:19am
- MCos
  
  ‘If a family donates a tithe to the local church, then asks for more food from a food bank, is that sponsorship-by-stealth?’
  I don’t know how many of the people that to use a food bank also tithe a proportion of their income to a church.
  Do you?
  Perhaps questions should be asked of some of these churches about where the money goes and why they take money off people who cannot afford to give.
  I can understand why the people give the money. They don’t want to be chucked out of the church.
  
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  December 16, 2018 1:31pm
secondcumming

As a Child:

“YOU’RE GROUNDED!”

As an Adult:

“YOUR PACKAGE WILL BE DELIVERED BETWEEN 8AM AND 6PM”.
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December 16, 2018 9:20am
Ross12

This is a “small” problem for the Greens –how can they reconcile the two ? On top of that, the work was done by scientists –those guys/gals we are told we should always have blind faith in.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6496777/Organic-food-WORSE-environment-study-suggests.html
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December 16, 2018 9:21am
- The Heat
  
  It’s all “feels” with them, so, no, it will make no difference. If it’s “organic”, it’s good. Science is only useful if it aligns with feels. If it doesn’t, it’s “bad”.
  
  Appeals to airheads.
  
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  December 16, 2018 11:38am
holysheet

The angry wife met her husband at the door. There was alcohol on his breath and lipstick on his cheek. “I assume,” she snarled, “that there is a very good reason for you to come waltzing in at six o’clock in the morning?”

“There is.” he replied, “Breakfast.”
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December 16, 2018 9:21am
Huevon

I went to drop of a spare heater and unneeded clothes at the Sallies yesterday. They wouldn’t take it because they were full!

The poor can’t be that hard done by. Wish i had my tax cut now instead of funding more of the bennie.
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December 16, 2018 9:27am
- lifesgood
  
  Yep, that’s happened to me before. We upgraded our lounge suite, they didn’t want our old one because it wasn’t good enough. It was perfectly good we just wanted a new look. I couldn’t believe the “needy” were so fussy. In the end we gave it to young friends just married and they were delighted. I’m rapidly going off the sallies who I used to admire.
  
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  December 16, 2018 9:35am
  - waikatogirl
    
    Try Hospice. They seem to do a great job and were grateful for any donation of household goods.
    
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    December 16, 2018 10:07am
    - Komata
      
      Waikato
      
      Agree. We were suppliers to the Sallies for many years but gradually realised that while they were metaphorically buying short, they were actually selling very, very long; this for an organisation that supposedly assists the ‘poor’ by enabling them to purchase necessary items at a ‘discounted’ price.
      
      The ‘money’ has become the purpose.
      
      We switched to the Hospice and find that they don’t try to profit out of others misfortune and are more concerned wi.th the individual than the cash flow.
      
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      December 16, 2018 12:29pm
  - kevn
    
    @life… Sallie shops are full because the donated/free goods they sell are quite expensive. I would have thought, sell supercheap and get the contents out the door. Turn it over.
    The SPCA shops are the same. Stuff just sits around.
    Yes, I do check out the op shops.
    
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    December 16, 2018 10:12am
    - Viking2
      
      Nope they should all put their prices up!
      That will stop tenants leaving and leaving behind all their belongings because its cheap to buy new ones from the opp shops. Its a bloody plague in the last couple of years. The landlord then has to store for 3 months and then dump.
      Off course the right thing to do is leave them on the front lawn of the new house.
      
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      December 16, 2018 10:27am
    - Paulus
      
      Habitat in Tauranga are wonderful and will collect whatever you wish to give.
      
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      December 16, 2018 1:49pm
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    I hear the food banks don’t want canned tomatoes or chick peas.
    The “needy” are so fussy/lazy/entitled.
    
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    December 16, 2018 10:30am
    - lifesgood
      
      A can of tomatoes, two cups of pasta, meal for a family, done. But if there are idiots handing out goodies to all and sundry, why bother. They keep talking about how it is terrible that more and more people are coming to foodbanks. Of course they are, why wouldn’t they, cos, free stuff.
      
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      December 16, 2018 11:40am
    - waikatogirl
      
      I’ll have them. ?
      
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      December 16, 2018 12:46pm
  - Dave Mann
    
    Right. The Sallies are political activists dressed up as a ‘charity’ and the SPCA are guilt-tripping bleeding hearts leeching off a non-existent problem.
    
    St John is a genuinly charitable organisation which does incredible work on many levels and same with the Hospice.
    
    I give to these two.
    
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    December 16, 2018 1:32pm
  - Jules99
    
    On the old days in Auckland you use to put it out during the organic rubbish collection and a bunch of people with entrepreneurial spirit came by and took it all. Council has stopped all that now.
    
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    December 16, 2018 3:56pm
Tauhei Notts

Things are a bit tricky in France.
A friend of a friend who lives in an outer arrondissement (spelling?) of Paris tells us that when taking the children to school she was threatened with severe damage to her car unless she donned a yellow vest to show her solidarity with the demonstrators. Her hubby has a construction company employing about 50 workers, predominantly Egyptian and Italian.
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December 16, 2018 9:30am
- kowtow
  
  Funny innit, how the very people who demand “justice” are the among the biggest bullies themselves?
  
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  December 16, 2018 10:10am
  - waikatogirl
    
    All French socialists. One protesting bloke interviewed said it was time the rich were taxed much more to pay for the rising cost of living for everyone else.
    Viva La France!
    
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    December 16, 2018 12:48pm
- Jack5
  
  Interesting that French generals are calling Macron a traitor for signing the UN Compact on Migration.
  
  https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/a6afdy/french_generals_accuse_president_macron_of/
  
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  December 16, 2018 11:29am
  - realityczech
    
    What should we do with these immigrants Jacksie and what measures should we take to eliminate them ?
    
    This problem keeps coming up doesn’t it?
    
    https://www.bbc.com/news/av/magazine-39857056/the-jewish-refugees-the-us-turned-away
    
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    December 16, 2018 11:34am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  In (civil) wartime one is under great pressure to choose a side.
  
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  December 16, 2018 12:22pm
Notsofast

I see another reprise of Lockerbie in the herald

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12177596

“In 2001, al-Megrahi was jailed for life after being found guilty of 270 counts of murder.

Fhimah was found not guilty.

In 2003, Gaddafi accepted responsibility for the bombing – but he never admitted guilt – and paid compensation to the families of the victims (around $11 million AU per victim) But he always maintained that he never gave the order for the attack.”

Al Megrahi had nothing to do with this crime, nor did Gadaffi
The truth lies in this definitive book by Dr Morag Kerr, where she proves the bomb was loaded at Heathrow.

https://www.amazon.com/Adequately-Explained-Stupidity-Lockerbie-Luggage-ebook/dp/B00HAL0AJ8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1544906905&sr=8-1&keywords=morag+kerr
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December 16, 2018 9:52am
- realityczech
  
  I wonder when they will take action over the brutal murders of those on the USS Liberty?
  
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  December 16, 2018 10:22am
  - realityczech
    
    The Liberty was a lightly armed surveillance ship.
    
    Only hours after the Liberty arrived it was spotted by the Israeli military. The IDF sent out reconnaissance planes to identify the ship. They made eight trips over a period of three hours. The Liberty was flying a large US flag and was easily recognizable as an American vessel.
    
    Soon more planes came. These were Israeli Mirage III fighters, armed with rockets and machine guns. As off-duty officers sunbathed on the deck, the fighters opened fire on the defenseless ship with rockets and machine guns.
    
    A few minutes later a second wave of planes streaked overhead, French-built Mystere jets, which not only pelted the ship with gunfire but also with napalm bomblets, coating the deck with the flaming jelly. By now, the Liberty was on fire and dozens were wounded and killed, excluding several of the ship’s top officers.
    
    The Liberty’s radio team tried to issue a distress call, but discovered the frequencies had been jammed by the Israeli planes with what one communications specialist called “a buzzsaw sound.”
    
    As the Liberty listed in the choppy seas, its deck aflame, crew members dropped life rafts into the water and prepared to scuttle the ship. Given the number of wounded, this was going to be a dangerous operation. But it soon proved impossible, as the Israeli attack boats strafed the rafts with machine gun fire. No body was going to get out alive that way.
    
    After more than two hours of unremitting assault, the Israelis finally halted their attack.
    
    https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/06/08/israels-attack-on-the-uss-liberty-a-half-century-later-still-no-justice/
    
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    December 16, 2018 10:28am
    - Jack5
      
      You’ll be on your umpteeth ban from Kiwiblog before Christmas, ❗Kea❗Realityczech.
      
      Sadly, little humour in your latest outbursts.
      
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      December 16, 2018 11:31am
      - realityczech
        
        Banned for reporting facts? Shall we ban people talking about the holocaust while we are at it?.
        
        You people need to step back and look at yourself. Look at what you justify, hide and defend. It is disgusting and I don’t give a fuck if I am banned. I will never be like you freaks.
        
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        December 16, 2018 11:38am
      - realityczech
        
        Israel attempted to blame the Egyptians for their cowardly attack. Just as they did with the mass murder at the King David Hotel, and the attempted global bombing campaign of the Lavon Affair.
        
        Note that in all cases the Jews targeted the goy who were trying to help them! Largely British and US people.
        
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        December 16, 2018 11:40am
      - stephieboy
        
        rc, nobody is banned from talking about the Holocaust here in NZ including deludedly denying it.
        
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        December 16, 2018 12:04pm
      - Odakyu-sen
        
        realityczech,
        
        ” I will never be like you freaks.”
        
        What good will come to you from saying things like that?
        
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        December 16, 2018 1:09pm
      - realityczech
        
        As opposed to the good that will come from hiding and denying everything from murder to child molesting, if Jews did it?
        
        They rant all day every day about Chinese, Muslims, Indians, Maori, Africans, Arabs… then meltdown when an actual event is made known concerning Jews.
        
        Moral and intellectual cripples.
        
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        December 16, 2018 1:15pm
    - rightoverlabour
      
      There is a very good documentary on that attack on AL Jazeera. What the Israeli military did there that day seems very odd. And I generally don’t have many issues with the Israeli military .
      
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      December 16, 2018 3:48pm
    - Tauhei Notts
      
      I saw the documentary on that dreadful attack. The most cunning part was that all of the survivors were posted to different parts of the vast American Defence Forces. It was important that they never ever get the survivors together to discuss their ordeal. A most cunning stunt from stunning …. American Defence Forces.
      And when Realityczech brings this to the attention of Kiwiblog readers he gets pilloried. Fourteen downticks!!! I think it was our Lord Jesus Christ who said;
      “Blessed are the ignorant, for they shall inherit the earth.”
      
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      December 16, 2018 9:12pm
Felt

Here is a good question.

Just who is Richie Hardcore?
1. We know that he has been involved with Cindy for some time. He was there at the launch of her bid for the Auckland Central seat (which she lost)
2. They have been together on numerous talk fests. Many aimed at lifting her profile
3. He was at the Hamilton Press club event Friday aggressively protecting the socialist left.
4. His name is Hardcore (by changing his name) but he appears to be a soyboy.
5. He appears to have major influence over Cindy but behind the scenes. Maybe her kindness, compassionite profile is being groomed by him.
6. This one is my view. They appear to have been intimately linked in the past.

Who is this guy, how is he benefiting or earning an income (OIA request any Govt money to Hardcore or associates)? What are his links to the gangs?

There are so many questions that need to be answered.
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December 16, 2018 10:06am
- waikatogirl
  
  In the article yesterday about him Hardcore cried a lot, cause he FEELZ so deeply.
  
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  December 16, 2018 10:11am
  - sooty
    
    You have to ask the questions,
    Was Jacinduh, Hardcores girl friend, at the time?
    There has been alot of photos surfacing lately.
    If this is the case, you really do need to read between the lines!
    They do seem to have been pally for sometime!
    Explain this Jacinduh!
    
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    December 16, 2018 10:51am
  - stephieboy
    
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    waikato girl and other rabid righters continue chasing and ghost busting!
    
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    December 16, 2018 12:05pm
    - pentwig
      
      the stoopidthing
      continues to be arrogant, ignorant and juvenile
      
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      December 16, 2018 1:15pm
- secondcumming
  
  By Sindy’s own admission, he is nothing more than an ‘acquaintance’…….and by the sound of it, a pain in the arse who insists on sending her unsolicited txts about shit she knows nothing about.
  
  With ‘friends’ like that, who needs enemas?
  
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  December 16, 2018 10:33am
  - VicParking
    
    “Acqaintance”. Just show how free she was with her Liberalism in the past
    
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    December 16, 2018 12:10pm
- simpleton1
  
  Also the connection of Richie Hardcore to Jan Antolik. Just how much deeper than the camaraderie in common of kick boxing and training.
  Just what are the time lines in common.
  Wedding times of travel, besides to Czech as well.
  
  When did Jan Antolik change his name?
  “Jan Antolik the former European champion”
  http://message.axkickboxing.com/index.phtml?action=dispthread&topic=16113&topicgroup=axmain&junk=9914
  What name was he using when this title was won?
  I would presume that title was fought for in Europe.
  How many other bouts did he do in Europe? and under what name?
  Where was it won? or was it just all hype?
  
  What is the connection to Štěpán Císař?, being Czech convicted murderer. Kickboxer I think.
  https://www.blesk.cz/clanek/zpravy-krimi/574494/paserak-karel-dopadeny-na-zelandu-v-cesku-je-zapleteny-do-vrazdy.html
  Google translate helps, but far from perfect.
  Karla Šroubka became Jan Antolík
  
  Perhaps another dot? another connection?
  
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  December 16, 2018 10:57am
  - realityczech
    
    They lead an exciting life those celebrity drug dealers, rubbing shoulders with the rich and powerful. You would be amazed who they know.
    
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    December 16, 2018 11:12am
    - kevn
      
      @rc… Reading between the lines as ‘they’ say.
      
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      December 16, 2018 11:32am
    - Longknives
      
      Realityczech- You are not wrong about that my friend!
      
      I was involved with the prosecution of a number of Auckland drug rings.
      And so many people I know are biting their tongues over all this…
      
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      December 16, 2018 2:12pm
  - kevn
    
    @simple… The contorted web she weaved.
    Time generally sorts it.
    
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    December 16, 2018 11:33am
- Psycho Milt
  
  Here is a good question.
  
  Just who is Richie Hardcore?
  
  What makes it a good question? I mean, what makes it in any sense better than looking up a name in the phone book and saying “Here is a good question. Who is [random name here].”
  
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  December 16, 2018 11:52am
  - VicParking
    
    Cindy’s. Ex Squeeze
    
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    December 16, 2018 12:12pm
    - Rich Prick
      
      I’ve been reading between those lines too.
      
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      December 16, 2018 12:19pm
    - Psycho Milt
      
      Cindy’s. Ex Squeeze
      
      Well, possibly I guess, who knows? Were you under the impression she was a virgin when she met Clarke Gayford?
      
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      December 16, 2018 4:14pm
      - Morrissey
        
        Careful, Milt: Poor old Vic is likely to boil over in an autoerotic disaster at any moment.
        
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        December 16, 2018 4:20pm
      - Rich Prick
        
        Waikato Uni rumours had it that you were best advised to supply the mouth guard.
        
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        December 16, 2018 8:38pm
- Komata
  
  Felt
  
  Concerning No. 5, might I suggest that there is ‘influence’ and there is INFLUENCE and that the ‘fisherman’ has none of the latter.
  
  The phrase ‘supply and demand’ comes to mind…
  
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  December 16, 2018 12:41pm
Captain Mainwaring

Morris Moron has been consigned to outer space already.
How sad.
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December 16, 2018 10:20am
- Salacious Crumb
  
  Yeah but it looks like Notsofast has another crackpot cause to post about ad nauseum
  
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  December 16, 2018 10:33am
secondcumming

Alex Swney for Minister of Education?

He’s reported as saying he spent his time in jail helping other inmates by teaching them…. ‘LITERACY’

Reading between the lines, it looks like he’s done an excellent job with convicted Czech speaking drug dealer Karel Scroubek –

https://twitter.com/nzherald/status/1073995033450373120
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December 16, 2018 10:23am
- Nostradamus
  
  Secondcumming:
  
  Alex Swney taught literacy? That’s ironic, really, because his surname “Swney” seems to be missing a vowel or two!
  
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  December 16, 2018 10:26am
  - sooty
    
    Much like Mrs Bookay (spelling) not Bucket!
    On old tele show.
    
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    December 16, 2018 10:58am
Monique Watson

Hope there is some decent debate worthy points made today. I’ve got my Don’tFuckWithMe side engaged.

I did just have to tell a grown adult male who should know fucking better to stop pulling the Peter Pan act on me cos I ain’t no fucking Wendy here to save his ass and he better get with the programme.
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December 16, 2018 11:14am
- realityczech
  
  Well aren’t you a little buddle of joy today. 🙂
  
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  December 16, 2018 11:17am
- stigie
  
  Christ Monique, don’t make him feel sorry for being a man !~
  
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  December 16, 2018 11:24am
  - Monique Watson
    
    He’s not a man. Doh. I used to be a sucker for a sob story but life has a way of hardening you up.
    
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    December 17, 2018 3:27am
- stephieboy
  
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  Monique Watson is that how you relate to your children with a splash of expletives?
  
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  December 16, 2018 12:02pm
  - Longknives
    
    I’d much rather send my kids to stay with Aunty Monique than to a ‘Young Labour’ Camp to be preyed upon by all manner of depraved sexos…
    
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    December 16, 2018 2:06pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I’m glad my kids grew up knowing a few choice expletives.
    
    We did omit to teach them how to post comments to old ladies about dirty underwear, though.
    
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    December 16, 2018 4:08pm
    - waikatogirl
      
      The only funny thing I’ve ever heard about old ladies underwear was my hubby’s very large and jovial aunt telling us about when she threw her’s out of a train window.
      I bet those large bloomers hanging next to the track would have been a source of amusement and wonder to other train passengers who wondered what they were doing there!
      
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      December 16, 2018 4:35pm
- Morrissey
  
  Monique, will you come to our Xmas Party please? I want you to talk to moi like that. Ask Cap’n Mainwaring to bring you.
  
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  December 16, 2018 4:53pm
  - stigie
    
    If it’s the Young Labour Xmas Party would you excuse Monique and the Captain from being there..?
    
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    December 16, 2018 5:51pm
  - Longknives
    
    Monique is a regular at our Christmas Party Morrissey!
    What’s that? You never got your invite??
    Must have been lost in the mail old chap….
    
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    December 16, 2018 6:29pm
Jack5

Peters Pan calls for more American aid for the Pacific.

But what’s the story on NZ and the United Nations Compact on Migration? According to the UN web site an “intergovernmental” conference to adopt the compact took place in Marrakech, Morocco on December 10 and 11.

Where does NZ stand? On the Beehive site Winnie has one or two statements about horse racing, but I can’t see anything about the Compact on Migration.
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December 16, 2018 11:42am
- realityczech
  
  Jacksie we are still waiting for your final solution to the refugee question?
  
  Is it a bit hard for you?
  
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  December 16, 2018 11:55am
  - stephieboy
    
    Jack5, I understand you have started NZ’s first coastal watch since WW2 based at Akaroa.
    
    Hows the recruitment drive going?
    
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    December 16, 2018 12:00pm
    - Shaun the Sheep
      
      How are you going with setting up your own blog, Stephieboy?
      You’d be fabulous at it because you know so much about absolutely everything, and have so much witty repartee, and those legendary snappy comebacks.
      And it would leave KBers to their alt-right echo chamber, where no one really cares.
      
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      December 16, 2018 6:56pm
- realityczech
  
  Jacksie is it true you have been scanning the horizon for any of the mudraces coming in by boat? Asking for a friend.
  
  We can’t be too careful can we?
  
  https://www.bbc.com/news/av/magazine-39857056/the-jewish-refugees-the-us-turned-away
  
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  December 16, 2018 12:07pm
wreck1080

Councils have been issuing non-notifed resource consents all over the place, knowing that people don’t have the 100k plus it takes to go to the environment court.

Happened near me, council gave a developer non-notified consent to exceed height rules which blocked off views to a whole bunch residents. But , affected residents didn’t want to stump up the 100k to go to court.

Finally, the first time I’ve seen a council given a trouncing by the nearby residents who are luckily wealthy enough to afford the environment court….

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12177427

This was a despicable act by the auckland council.
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December 16, 2018 12:01pm
- secondcumming
  
  Mind you some neighbours can be jealous old narks.
  
  I mean, where’s the problem having helicopters land on a Public Beach?
  What could go wrong??
  
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  December 16, 2018 12:58pm
  - Paulus
    
    Understand the Helicopter wasn’t going to land on the beach but on the top of his reinforced boat house on his land, adjoining the small narrow difficult to get to beach.
    But he is a very successful Australian running and largely owning one of the Countries best and most liked Group of Companies.
    Rich so hate him.
    
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    December 16, 2018 1:56pm
    - gump
      
      Helicopters are loud and obnoxious.
      
      If I lived in Herne Bay then I wouldn’t want my quiet enjoyment of my property spoiled by a dickhead neighbour.
      
      He’s welcome to own and fly a helicopter. He just isn’t allowed to build a helipad at the bottom of his garden.
      
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      December 16, 2018 3:04pm
    - secondcumming
      
      Thank fuck we live in Remmers!
      There’s far fewer nasty old busybodies over this side.
      
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      December 16, 2018 4:02pm
      - JibberJabber
        
        LoL, oh really? I seem to recall a collective Clutching of Pearls about Auckland Airports flight path awhile back from that neck of the woods.
        
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        December 16, 2018 4:58pm
      - gump
        
        Are you taking the piss?
        
        “An Auckland local board member who complained the police Eagle helicopter was a “nuisance” flying over the Remuera area too often at night on its way to attend jobs in South Auckland has complained to police 169 times since December, including 12 times in one day in June.”
        
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        December 16, 2018 5:29pm
    - Viking2
      
      Most liked. Fuck haven’t been near one of his stores in donkey’s years. Apart from that the should be banned for his shit TV adds.
      
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      December 16, 2018 5:00pm
  - waikatogirl
    
    Back before the GFC in 2009 our neighbour had one of those tiny 2 man helicopters. Annoying enough without sand included in the mix. Luckily for the neighbours, he had to sell it as was horribly over-extended and the banks foreclosed.
    
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    December 16, 2018 3:21pm
  - Viking2
    
    Not so many weeks ago some clever dick real estate mogul was made to remove one he tried to build down the sounds.
    
    Being wealthy(which is great) doesn’t allow you to please yourself what you do.
    
    Only councils are allowed to do that.
    
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    December 16, 2018 5:02pm
RF

Remember the NZ comedian who indecently assaulted his daughter mistaking her for his partner. From memory he was not convicted until it was appealed.

A similar incident occurred in America and the father now faces 80 to 280 years in prison.
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December 16, 2018 12:07pm
- Longknives
  
  Name permanently suppressed RF!
  
  Seems if you are a minor TV ‘celebrity’ in NZ you can get away with just about anything.
  *And have PNHQ running defence for you when people start asking questions…
  
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  December 16, 2018 2:04pm
Chuck Bird

Did the guy in America make people laugh?
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December 16, 2018 12:17pm
nasska

As if more instances are needed, yet another has emerged of a religious leader showing a total lack of empathy with the people he connects with an imaginary deity.

On this occasion a priest officiating at a funeral for a teenager who took his own life started waffling on, “condemning our son, pretty much calling him a sinner. He wondered if he had repented enough to make it to heaven”. Then he mused, “that he might be blocked from heaven because he took his own life”.

Typical religious arsehole! If they’re not fiddling kids they’re fucking with the minds of the gullible.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz//lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=12177709&ref=clavis
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December 16, 2018 1:04pm
- Manolo
  
  Indeed, those are the never-ending tasks of the sellers of smoke.
  
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  December 16, 2018 1:38pm
- Inandout
  
  It happens in all cults where the children are trapped.
  
  http://projectsakinah.org/Family-Violence/Child-Abuse/Child-Sexual-Abuse
  
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  December 16, 2018 2:05pm
Inandout

To all you wealthy tossers who crow about owning EVs, and how it is ‘saving the planet’. I don’t agree with everything Cadogan says, but on this he is correct. The comments are good old Aussie gutsy as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_OYbZzWk5E
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December 16, 2018 2:02pm
- Rich Prick
  
  I’m quite happy putting dead dinosaurs in and getting plant food out.
  
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  December 16, 2018 2:15pm
  - Inandout
    
    NZ is 73rd for oil production but imagine our wealth if the coastal reserves were exploited?
    
    https://www.globalfirepower.com/proven-oil-reserves-by-country.asp
    
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    December 16, 2018 3:01pm
    - Rich Prick
      
      That would be a darn sight better than sending coal down the power wires. But Cindy says no.
      
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      December 16, 2018 5:08pm
dcrown

Iran Deal – DEAD
Paris Deal – DEAD
ObamaCare – DEAD
Cap and Trade – DEAD
Obama’s Legacy – DEAD

ALIVE – Obama’s prosecution for illegal surveillance of a political campaign via fraudulent FISA court applications.
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December 16, 2018 2:20pm
- Inandout
  
  But, but…Russian collusion! Hookers!
  
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  December 16, 2018 2:56pm
  - stephieboy
    
    Inandout, with the President’s golden shower!
    
    LOL
    
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    December 16, 2018 3:10pm
    - All_on_Red
      
      Heh, Trumps certainly pissing all over Obamas record.
      And dumbass like you.
      Nice and warm is it Stephie?
      
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      December 16, 2018 5:12pm
- stephieboy
  
  dccrown, ” fraudulent? ??
  
  According to whom?
  
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  December 16, 2018 3:09pm
  - dcrown
    
    Jim ComeDy
    
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    December 16, 2018 3:23pm
  - kevn
    
    @septic… Constant tripe. Downtick champs.
    You need to get your mothers to check on what you all utter on this site.
    
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    December 16, 2018 5:28pm
- dcrown
  
  This guy needs to be gagged immediately!
  Obama is actively encouraging people to participate in an unconstitutional act.
  
  https://www.mediaite.com/trump/obama-responds-to-texas-judge-striking-down-aca-last-nights-ruling-changes-nothing-for-now/
  
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  December 16, 2018 3:25pm
SaltyCroc

Unsure if anyone else has commented on this – but I looked in my letterbox this morning and there was Jacinda staring back at me – shit that was a bad way to start a Sunday!! I have sterilised my letterbox and disposed of the said political BS with extreme prejudice!!
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December 16, 2018 3:03pm
- Longknives
  
  “and there was Jacinda staring back at me – shit that was a bad way to start a Sunday!”
  
  Now you know how Clarke Gayford feels!
  
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  December 16, 2018 4:27pm
The Heat

I can’t believe something this good appeared in a New Zealand newspaper.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12177726

An excellent, balanced view, for those who like this sort of thing.
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December 16, 2018 3:20pm
- realityczech
  
  A few trivial first world problems from someone who clearly is an anti Brexit Trump hater.
  
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  December 16, 2018 3:43pm
  - The Heat
    
    Even if one does not agree with his conclusions, I think it we can say it is well written and well argued.
    
    What strikes me is how rare such qualities have become in the MSM. Usually, I see some airhead repeating their social media feed, or some even bigger airhead gunning for a job running Comms for the PM.
    
    Needless to say, it wasn’t written by a New Zealand journalist.
    
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    December 16, 2018 3:54pm
    - realityczech
      
      I do agree with that point.
      
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      December 16, 2018 4:49pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Hildibrande sure can write but I think he fails to see he’s part of the problem
        
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        December 16, 2018 5:14pm
sooty

Why should the the dud cheque be allowed to write in the ferald via David Fisher and be allowed to advertise that he is such a goody two shoes that butter would not melt in his mouth! Yet here he is sitting in jail!
Are they not screwing the scrum, in regaurds any future courtcase by inferancing any juries?
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December 16, 2018 3:21pm
kevn

@sooty… The Czech is lawyered up with legal aid. They have to produce something for him to ‘sign’ off.
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December 16, 2018 3:23pm
- realityczech
  
  If he is not happy about the outcome he may turn around and start telling what he knows. That could mean the end of a few political careers.
  
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  December 16, 2018 5:25pm
  - Longknives
    
    Not to mention a few prominent TVNZ careers….
    
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    December 16, 2018 5:32pm
    - nasska
      
      Longknives
      
      As I remember things you have had fairly close experience with cops & courts.
      
      After reading noskire’s revelations the other day the thought struck me that people who aren’t charged or are given diversion for crimes have usually paid for the lenience by narking. Do you reckon lover boy’s case(s) would have been any different?
      
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      December 16, 2018 5:48pm
      - Longknives
        
        Who said I was talking about a bloke?
        
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        December 16, 2018 5:56pm
      - nasska
        
        Good point yet I still reckon that everyone who got let off would have been singing like canaries to save their reputations, travel prospects & careers.
        
        Leaning on the right dorks would have given the cops a list of Auckland’s party drug users & suppliers that would have challenged the phone directory in volume.
        
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        December 16, 2018 6:04pm
      - sam green
        
        Fantasyland- the happiest kingdom of all.
        
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        December 16, 2018 6:19pm
      - stigie
        
        And what do you fantasize about then Sam ?
        
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        December 16, 2018 6:26pm
      - realityczech
        
        Gayford and Co will be fine. Mike Bush will just tell the troops not to investigate. Again.
        
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        December 16, 2018 7:01pm
      - sam green
        
        I fantasise about you stigie.
        
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        December 16, 2018 8:45pm
    - nasska
      
      …..”the happiest kingdom of all”….
      
      People have been using substances to take the painful edge off their existences since forever Sam. Cannabis, kava, opium & alcohol are not recent inventions. Most people use social drugs occasionally yet regrettably there are & always will be those who want to live their lives in another dimension. It is for those that we suffer draconian social control laws.
      
      This allows conservatives power. It is they who say “alcohol good…..dope bad” & they get to dictate everyone else’s life according to their Skyfairies & prejudices.
      
      It is also why I’m determined to do everything I can to undermine & torment Chompers & her consort. The former has made it into a position where she can change laws but won’t because she’s scared of a few nutters in the electorate. On the other hand it would appear that people close to her are using whatever drugs they wish at will & with few consequences.
      
      More than anything on this planet I loathe hypocrisy.
      
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      December 16, 2018 6:40pm
      - sam green
        
        I suspect they will change laws along the same lines as Portugal. Evidence based and all that. The mental health review outcomes will be interesting.
        
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        December 16, 2018 8:56pm
Morrissey

GROPERS
No. 59: Jeffrey Epstein

evil adj. profoundly immoral or wicked

March 2005: A 14-year-old girl and her parents report that Jeffrey Epstein molested her at a mansion in Palm Beach. She said a female acquaintance and classmate at Royal Palm Beach High School had taken her to the house to give him a massage in exchange for money. ….

May 2006: Police sign a probable cause affidavit charging Epstein and two of his assistants with multiple counts of unlawful sex acts with a minor. The Palm Beach state attorney, Barry Krischer, instead refers the case to a grand jury. …

January 2008: Epstein attorney, Lefkowitz, calls Acosta, telling him his client will not go through with the agreement because it requires him to register as a sex offender. …

March 2008: In court documents, the U.S. Attorney’s Office notes that Epstein’s victims are being harassed by his lawyers….

September 2009: …. at least a dozen civil lawsuits have been filed by women who allege they were molested by Epstein when they were underage. Epstein begins the process of settling them out of court.

November 2009: One of Epstein’s former butlers tries to sell to an undercover FBI agent a black book filled with the names of hundreds of girls and young women that Epstein allegedly procured for sex and massages. The butler tells FBI agents he witnessed nude underage girls at Epstein’s pool and had known that the millionaire was having sex with them. He also said he saw pornography involving underage girls on Epstein’s computers. …

April 2010: Flight logs obtained as part of civil lawsuits against Epstein show an assortment of politicians, academics, celebrities, heads of state and world leaders flying on Epstein’s jets in the early 2000s. Among them: former President Bill Clinton, former national security adviser Sandy Berger, former Colombian President Andrés Pastrana and lawyer Alan “Dearth o’ Wits” Dershowitz. …..

March-December 2012: Calling himself a “celebrated philanthropist’’ and a “renowned educational investor,’’ Epstein undertakes a public relations campaign to counter bad press about his sexual exploits. ….

January 2015: Virginia Roberts files court papers in Florida claiming that she was forced by Epstein to have sex with Prince Andrew and lawyer Alan Dershowitz when she was underage. In a sworn affidavit, she provides photographs of her with the prince and with Epstein’s close associate, British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell. She claims Maxwell worked as Epstein’s madam, which she denies. Dershowitz and the prince deny her claims as well, setting off a series of legal actions between Dershowitz and Roberts’ attorneys that are later resolved in an out-of-court settlement.

June 2016: A lawsuit is filed in Manhattan by a woman who once used the name Katie Johnson, claiming that she was raped by then-presidential candidate Donald Trump at a party at Epstein’s Manhattan mansion in 1994 when she was 13 years old. Trump and Epstein both categorically deny it ever happened.

November 2016: Johnson backs out of a press conference just days before Election Day, saying she had been threatened and was fearful. She later drops the lawsuit. ….

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article221404845.html

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/12/alan-dershowitz-proud-deal-got-billionaire-serial-child-molester-jeffrey-epstein-one-year-jail/

http://normanfinkelstein.com/2018/11/30/justice-american-style/

“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; 53 Andy Rubin; 54 Marcelo Vanzuita; 55 Al Gore; 56 Neil deGrasse Tyson; 57 Samuel Cooper; 58 Craig Graham Wright
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December 16, 2018 4:12pm
waikatogirl

Peter Williams, TVNZ news reader and sports presenter for nearly 40 years is retiring tonight.
Thanks Peter. One of the few who still had personal integrity.
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December 16, 2018 6:56pm
- Longknives
  
  If he had any ‘Integrity’ he would have walked off that Labour Party cheerleading team at TVNZ years ago…
  
  And lets not forget his astonishing attack on Wanaka’s ‘Old White Men’-
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/98049118/wanakas-rich-white-growing-pains
  
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  December 16, 2018 7:05pm
Viking2

Yep, another piece of lefty crap.
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December 16, 2018 7:34pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  When I mixed in the same social circles in the 1980s he was a good guy.
  But after that he got poisoned.
  Didn’t stop him becoming a ‘rich prick’ though.
  
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  December 16, 2018 8:22pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    It’s always the same
    They make their money then think they should start ‘caring’ about those less fortunate by being generous to them but in doing so forget they made their money by stint of hard work and applying their talent.
    Just dumb
    
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    December 16, 2018 9:17pm
Jack5

Bad news for dreamers …

The cryptocurrency market has fallen more than one trillion NZ dollars in value since its peak in January, according to an article behind the paywall in the Telegraph.
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December 16, 2018 10:18pm
- Rich Prick
  
  I’ll see your ponzi and raise you two bits of Venezuelan toilet paper.
  
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  December 16, 2018 10:23pm
- realityczech
  
  People made a fortune out of it in the mean time. If you want to invest in a real ponzi scheme try residential property.
  
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  December 16, 2018 10:26pm
Jack5

This is no bloody good. Australia has appointed a straight, white family man as its next Governor-General: David Hurley. A former Army officer, he is the present Governor of New South Wales.

The Ozzies either just don’t get the PR value of a middle-aged mum with a BAYBEE, or, they can’t find one.

On the other hand, the liberal gibberers will be confused that, having got rid of the colonial past (except for the English language), Africans have now begun pulling down statues of Mohandas Gandhi, that old piss drinker and sexual abuser of his two grand-nieces (simultaneously).

I wonder whether Morrissey Breen has Gandhi on his groper list?

https://www.foxnews.com/world/racist-gandhi-statue-removed-from-african-university

Gandhi and his grand-nieces:

https://www.minoritiesofindia.org/gandhis-sexual-abuse-of-grandnieces/
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December 16, 2018 10:35pm
- Jack5
  
  If the Aussies do ever get a Prime Minister with a BAYBEE, what a great fallback in a political disaster. Just bring in the dingoes. Headlines, searches, trials … it could go on across three or four elections.
  
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  December 16, 2018 11:22pm
- Inandout
  
  Black Africans have always been at the bottom of the heap. Arabs enslaved them and Asians traditionally looked down on them. Idi Amin targeted his Asian citizens by kicking them all out, some 300,000 of them. Racism is alive and well in non white cultures.
  
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  December 17, 2018 7:08am
Jack5

No bite .. Okay, we’ll change the bait…

???

“Here ❗Kea,” “here ❗Kea”, “here ❗Kea,” something for you to peck at.

Your soulmates, the Israelis, apparently don’t regard parrot flesh as kosher. Especially not kosher are the mountain parrots that have been known to peck at the fat around live sheep’s kidneys.

https://www.quora.com/Is-a-parrot-a-kosher-bird
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December 16, 2018 10:53pm
- sam green
  
  You are such a cock.
  
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  December 17, 2018 1:53am
  - Jack5
    
    Slimy Sam up late.
    
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    December 17, 2018 10:33am
Morrissey

This makes sense.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50778.htm
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