General Debate 29 December 2018

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CJames

I am a curnudgeon at the best of times, but sometimes The Herald does things beyond belief. They gave NZer of the year to a woman killed by her own stupidity.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12179546
I am sorry she died, but she was not a hero. She was swimming in a place where they knew it would flood. That was why they went there. There are lots of warning signs everywhere. They had to climb over safety barriers to get to the rock. The article makes no mention of any of this. The young adults put themselves in the path of danger for bravado and got it wrong.
The coroner might have called her brave, but that is more a reflection on their lack of intellectual horsepower than anything else.
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December 29, 2018 8:01am
- holysheet
  
  The people who voted this person POTY, are the same ones who think Cindy and baybeeeee are just wonderful. Dumb and dumber covers them all.
  
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  December 29, 2018 8:08am
- Longknives
  
  No way in hell would I swim less than 200m below a spillway.
  Especially AFTER they have let the Siren off…
  
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  December 29, 2018 8:09am
- Urban Redneck
  
  Yeah, the Darwin Award would be more appropriate.
  
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  December 29, 2018 8:40am
- kowtow
  
  ‘The article makes no mention of any of this.’
  
  Alas , proof of how deliberately deceptive our media are.
  
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  December 29, 2018 8:49am
  - Biscuit
    
    Way way back I went to that place because there’s an elevated lookout from which you can safely view the once-daily (if I remember right) opening of the sluice-gates.
    
    Quite a popular tourist attraction.
    
    What I remember was:
    
    1. The LONG and LOUD siren that sounded to warn anyone who was about (that couldn’t read the LARGE and VIVID signage) to get their butts out of the vicinity
    2. The sheer power of the water surge
    
    I think of that experience every time I see footage of a tsunami wave.
    
    Frightening.
    
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    December 29, 2018 8:58am
    - Chuck Bird
      
      I found it even frightening sitting in raft downstream of a dam near Tauranga when I was expecting the siren before we shoot the rapids.
      
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      December 29, 2018 3:06pm
    - Pharmachick
      
      I grew up 20 mins from the Aratiatia Dam. It was known as the “Aratiatia rapids”. No way we would swim there when there’s dozens of other lakes and swimming holes close by [beware the giant eels] … think Arapuni (Jones’ landing in particular), Atiamuri, Mangakino, Rotoma… etc.
      
      I mourn the loss of this woman’s life, and wish her family the best they can do, moving forward without her. I am so sorry.
      
      NZ Herald needs to do better supporting excellent people that have given back to NZ as “person of the year” and not get into this area where they can be accused of e.g. “PC sob stories”.
      
      And again, my deepest sympathies to the young woman’s parents for being caught up in what is little more than a political exercise in virtue signaling. I’m sure their daughter was a vibrant and strong young woman with so much to offer us all, but her memory ought not to be used in this way.
      
      Just a free opinion, and those are worth what you pay for them.
      
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      December 29, 2018 4:23pm
      - lofty
        
        Well said.
        
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        December 29, 2018 5:31pm
  - igm
    
    kowtow: Today’s issue of Fairfax news exposes why scum masquerading as journos are too scared to go into many bars in town because if recognised will get what they deserve . . . and bloody good job!
    
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    December 29, 2018 2:03pm
- Monique Watson
  
  Holy fuck. That’s a tragedy re the Victim of of the Year award. And fucking hell, the Herald is intent on making us feel miserable about just living now. She’s a hero who overestimated her physical strength but she’s dead. End of story. And they run it like it’s an act of selflessness to aspire to? Ummm. No.
  Parents raise your kids to stay the fuck away from spillways.
  
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  December 29, 2018 9:21am
  - waikatogirl
    
    Monique, Those of us with common sense see this for what it is. Those who wear rose-tinted glasses where everyone is either a hero or a villain vote for NZ’er of the Year 2018. ?
    
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    December 29, 2018 10:33am
- The Heat
  
  Airheads and really, really dangerous waterways don’t mix.
  
  /Darwin
  
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  December 29, 2018 12:04pm
- Kiwi_in_Paris
  
  Be interesting to see who the real media voted for, that is, the free media.
  
  Only a few simple minded individuals still trust the politically motivated “mainstream media”.
  
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  December 29, 2018 12:11pm
  - igm
    
    This is the reason why complicit media are now hated by decent people who strive to pay taxes and live within the law.
    This article shows how low and dangerous this CoL of vile envious scum, none having ever had a dollar in their pocket, other than that provided by taxpayers/ratepayers/unionists.
    This is tantamount to theft and media still idolise the bastards.
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/racing/109657110/a-bittersweet-day-for-what-could-be-the-last-race-day-for-stratford
    
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    December 29, 2018 6:33pm
- frankflintstone
  
  Doesn’t really sound like NZer of the year stuff. But who would you suggest should win?
  
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  December 29, 2018 12:26pm
- harvey wilson
  
  I decided five minutes ago I identify as a woman so I am proud to be NZer of the year.
  
  It’s just another example of the decline of the Herald, no surprises Kirsty Johnson wrote the article. Apparently her aura of sanctimony and unwarranted self worth is visible from outer space.
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12180110
  
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  December 29, 2018 12:54pm
- Interested Party
  
  I think she won the popular vote, but they selected “women” as NZer of the year – give me strength
  
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  December 29, 2018 12:59pm
  - Kiwi_in_Paris
    
    That’s because they pronounce “women” as “woman”.
    
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    December 29, 2018 3:59pm
- Dave Mann
  
  This brave young hero’s death is all the fault of the vast right wing conspiracy. The inevitable result of nine years of neglect under John Key and his band of racist capitalist Jews!!!!
  
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  December 29, 2018 2:06pm
slightlyrighty

https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/379103/men-over-35-urged-to-donate-blood?fbclid=IwAR0rjtNopiMZ-oLM5DLehBLuLO4U6RP2AT5rP09dCRhaQnWaJngJPs8tL-o

Good luck if you’re Transgender, and you turn up saying “But I IDENTIFY as male you Transphobes!”
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December 29, 2018 8:02am
holysheet

Bloody Salvation Army are just another bludging religious band of nutters. Last night on TV news, they were saying that the demand for support this year has been the worst ever. That there are thousands of children living in poverdy here in NZ. The very next item on the news was the devastation caused by the Tsunami in Indonesia. If you want to feel sorry for anyone, it’s got to be the survivors of this event.
Here in NZ, if any child is living in poverdy, it is because their parents are guilty of child neglect. We, the long suffering taxpayers, are paying more than enough to support these bludgers to providing the basics required to look after them and their kids. The fact that they spend this support on their own selfish needs instead of putting their kids needs first, is the real problem that needs fixing. Just throwing more and more cash at them is not the answer.
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December 29, 2018 8:03am
- Longknives
  
  The Salvation Army waded in and got involved ( spouting off against National) during the last Election.
  Always remember that when they come calling for donations…
  
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  December 29, 2018 8:06am
  - Paulus
    
    We have stopped a while ago after many many years supporting the Sallies because they have become a Political Party.
    Sad really.
    
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    December 29, 2018 8:35am
    - Harkman
      
      Yes the Salvation Army were hijacked by members of the Fabian (Socialist) Society perhaps hundred years ago, so you won’t get anything non-partisan or logical from them. They actually do themselves a disservice because none of us take them seriously.
      
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      December 29, 2018 9:06am
    - igm
      
      They identify more with Islam than Christianity and in our main shop they have removed all reference to Christianity . . . we no longer donate or give them anything.
      
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      December 29, 2018 9:55am
      - realityczech
        
        “they have removed all reference to Christianity”
        
        Are they Jewish?
        
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        December 29, 2018 10:38am
  - flipper
    
    Yes Mr Knives. quite agree.
    But we have established that they are also fucking liars and NOT to be trusted.
    Why???
    Many years ago we inherited a house full of furniture. We checked with family for needs/wants and then donated the lot to the SA on the specific understanding (in writing) that the furniture would be given , FOC, to families in need.
    Two weeks later the SA had our entire donation to those in need for sale to the public via their shop.
    Every time they wave their donation boxes at me or the family they are now told : Get stuffed!
    And why!
    
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    December 29, 2018 8:37am
    - Albert_Ross
      
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      Your condition was unreasonable, burdensome and an ineffective way of helping families in need. It would have been difficult and time consuming for the Sallies to find a poor and deserving family who actually needed/had the space appropriate for that particular furniture, more than they needed (eg) money for school uniforms, shoes, food, heating etc. Converting the furniture into money would have been an efficient way of enabling the Sallies to provide help that was actually needed by the recipient, as opposed to providing you with a free and easy house clearance, and they would have been right to prioritize the former.
      
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      December 29, 2018 8:52am
      - howzit
        
        I stopped supporting the twats after I worked in the same building as them and they repeatedly got my car towed. I then donated some furniture to them which was fully functional furniture but wasn’t the prettiest looking and the refused to take it saying they wouldn’t get much money selling it.
        
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        December 29, 2018 9:03am
      - flipper
        
        If we had wanted simply a “house clearance” there are dealers that will call, collect and pay. Albeit they pay peanuts. .
        There was nothing to prevent a bed being given to one family and/or a table to another.
        But may be I am taking you far too seriously!
        
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        December 29, 2018 9:06am
      - Tall Man
        
        Then if the condition could not be met wouldn’t the christian thing to be done would be to decline the offer?
        
        That’s right, they’re political activists as well.
        
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        December 29, 2018 10:13am
  - kiwibird
    
    Truth hurts ? So the sallies must say nothing even though they work on the front-line?
    
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    December 29, 2018 11:53am
    - Tall Man
      
      I suggest you go to the “front line” and have a wee peek before you make a fool of yourself posting a comment that clearly demonstrates you are ignorant.
      
      Or have you chosen your path for 2019 and that is to identify as an “idiot”?
      
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      December 29, 2018 1:20pm
  - MickMac
    
    I Do Remember the Sallies.
    
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    December 29, 2018 8:17pm
- Happychappy
  
  holysheet and I would say the Salvation Army will find it even harder to raise funds over the next few years as a lot of the large donors have pulled their donations because of the interference by SA in politics. A lot of older people used to swear by the Salvation Army because their parents did so before them, but now they are politically active they are losing support in the droves and deservingly so.
  
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  December 29, 2018 8:14am
  - adamsmith1922
    
    In fact a number of years ago the Sallies were cited in an EIU report as an example of how to run an efficient and cost effective revenue raising operation. They are very money focused, in NZ they seem to have become very political.
    
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    December 29, 2018 10:56am
- Scott
  
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  No the salvation army doesn’t cause poverty and although we may not agree with their every policy position they do help the poor.
  It disturbs me the mindless up ticking of salvation army bashers on this blog. You guys are hopeless.
  Before you criticise them ask yourself what are you doing for the poor? Indeed what are you doing for anyone else?
  
  This year are you giving? This year are you helping? Are you giving up anything to help others?
  The salvation army officer gives his or her whole life to help others. They get paid a tiny amount and they live in basic housing. They are told to move by the hierarchy and they go.
  
  So they do a lot of good and think about that before you display what can only be describe as religious bigotry.
  
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  December 29, 2018 8:17am
  - MT_Tinman
    
    I’m a taxpayer.
    
    As such I give as much to the bloody leeches pretending to be poor as I should!
    
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    December 29, 2018 8:20am
  - Nukuleka
    
    Another Hilary ‘deplorables’ moment, this time from Scott! If you truly wish to convince folk that your viewpoint is a valid one it might be wise not to dismiss those with whom you disagree as ‘hopeless’. Best just to use convincing argument, Scott, rather than mindlessly slag people off as ‘hopeless’.
    
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    December 29, 2018 8:24am
    - waikatogirl
      
      Yes, see how the “poor” would get on if the taxpayers were not there to increasingly bail them out. There is no resentment for helping those who are in real need, but quite a few appear to have joined the happy bandwagon of greed, clipping the taxpayers ticket when the money could be spent elsewhere on more deserving projects.
      
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      December 29, 2018 8:32am
      - Paulus
        
        We also have the highest Minimum Wage in the world by a long way.
        And going to soar too !
        
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        December 29, 2018 8:37am
      - stephieboy
        
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        Paulus etc , so lets day the Bangladeshi garment factories basic and minimum wage is a useful starting point?
        
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        December 29, 2018 8:40am
      - G152
        
        I donate fortnightly to St John.
        Unpolitical (currently) and they actually help all and sundry without fear or favour.
        
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        December 29, 2018 8:46am
      - GazzaW
        
        …..and our family donates to the Hospice movement for the very same reason G152. Hospices across the country are staffed by a mix of dedicated salaried professionals supported by selfless and hardworking volunteers and administered by professional boards. All of us (rich and poor) may need their services which are provided not only to the dying but to their families as well. We donate our time and money to Hospice knowing full well that they have no political axe to grind and that our donations are utilised very wisely. Hospice is all about compassion.
        
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        December 29, 2018 9:26am
  - holysheet
    
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    December 29, 2018 8:24am
    - holysheet
      
      Nah take your sky fairy and fuck off. If all the churches really wanted to help the poor, they wouldn’t build great big edifices and take money from the poor deluded followers of their quackery.
      
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      December 29, 2018 8:27am
      - Scott
        
        Holysheet – excellent example of bigotry concerning religion. What a horrible post. Please stop calling yourself holy anything.
        
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        December 29, 2018 9:05am
      - holysheet
        
        It’s called taking the piss out of the word Holy, you dumbarse.
        How about you address the more important part of the post of why these religions take money from those who can least afford it and use it on themselves and their flash new buildings.
        
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        December 29, 2018 9:26am
      - MickMac
        
        holy I want to uptick you and downtick you at the same time…..
        
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        December 29, 2018 8:23pm
  - Happychappy
    
    What a load of bullshit my father would be rolling in his grave to see what the Salvation Army has turned into and he gave right up to his death 37 years ago. They do have a place but once you become Politically Active don’t become crybabies because others won’t help you support the Labour ethos.
    
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    December 29, 2018 8:24am
  - Awww C-mon
    
    The Sallies should have stayed out of the political arena
    As an organisation they now chase government contracts for social services aggressively
    The blurred line between church, their missions, shops/business and social agencies leaves plenty of scope for questions
    
    But I give an uptick because Holy is right, we have parenting and neglect issues, not financial ones.
    
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    December 29, 2018 8:25am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      I’m old enough to remember the Salvation Army’s active campaign against Homosexual Law Reform.
      I’ve never had much time for them as an organisation since then.
      Sure, they apologised for their stance
      http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/7085256/Salvation-Army-apologises-for-anti-gay-stance
      but I think they got a taste for the political limelight then.
      
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      December 29, 2018 9:07am
      - SGA
        
        Likewise.
        
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        December 29, 2018 11:31am
      - Aunty
        
        #MeToo
        
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        December 29, 2018 1:11pm
  - dime
    
    A friend used to live next door to one of these selfless salvation army officers. The dude lived the high life.
    
    Had plenty of money. Lots of overseas trips paid for by the army.
    
    I used to collect for them when I was a kid. Did it for years. Now I think they can fuck off. They should have stayed out of politics.
    
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    December 29, 2018 8:31am
    - stephieboy
      
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      dime , with the latest model BMW / Audi SUV?
      
      Sure!
      
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      December 29, 2018 8:42am
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        A refresher on the Seven Deadly Sins for the crap christian Stephie:
        pride
        greed
        lust
        envy
        gluttony
        wrath
        sloth
        
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        December 29, 2018 8:56am
      - sooty
        
        You missed one urban.
        Goat.
        
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        December 29, 2018 9:49am
      - Woz
        
        Goats are included in “lust”, sooty. Covers other possible SB targets, like sheep, cows and shop mannequins.
        
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        December 29, 2018 12:36pm
    - Scott
      
      Don’t agree with the salvation army political views. However the salvation army officers I know give their whole lives to helping the poor. They are paid very low wages and live in basic housing.
      
      Kiwiblog contributors need to realise that the salvation army is one of the few organisations that work with the poorest of people, the drug addicts, the homeless, who everybody else shuns.
      
      I have never met a salvation army officer living the High life. I have met many living lives of selfless devotion.
      
      The criticisms I cannot reconcile with the army officers I know.
      
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      December 29, 2018 9:11am
      - Monique Watson
        
        It all goes in “Admin”, “Scott” and please either go full on pseudonym or use your actual name. “Just do it”.
        
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        December 29, 2018 10:14am
      - Tall Man
        
        https://www.salvationarmy.org.nz/sites/default/files/files/%5Bfile_field%3Atype%5D/tsa_annual-report_17-18_web.pdf
        
        You need to have a closer look.
        
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        December 29, 2018 10:38am
      - realityczech
        
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        They are a miserable bunch of bastards on KB Scott.
        
        It is because of pricks like them that National got the boot. Totally lacking in compassion.
        
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        December 29, 2018 10:40am
      - Paulus Gnome
        
        It is because of Natioanal ‘pricks’ like us that you have a place in this forum; fuck off to the standard and see how you get along there in the ctrl left wankfest.
        
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        December 29, 2018 10:44am
      - realityczech
        
        My place on the forum has nothing to do with you. But your comment shows the other reason National got the boot – arrogance and elitist thinking.
        
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        December 29, 2018 11:56am
      - Aunty
        
        Everybody works with those people, Presbyterian Social Support Services, the various City Missions up and down the country, the Budgeting Services up and down the country, Lifeline, the Drug and Alcohol Centres up and down the country, Family Planning, Maori Authorities, Marae up and down the country, Women’s Refuge not to mention our cradle to the grave welfare system, Dept. of Corrections and hospitals that we all pay huge amounts in tax for and that are provided to the end user for free. So what on earth are you talking about?
        
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        December 29, 2018 1:21pm
  - Biscuit
    
    Scott, with respect, I disagree.
    
    My experience of ‘charities’ is that they are largely set up to be charitable to themselves.
    
    I had to Google: this is from The New Zealand Herald on March 4 2012:
    
    ‘A private company which collects money door-to-door for some of our best-known charities keeps the entire first year’s takings from some donors.
    The Appco Group’s own documents contain a pricing schedule of charges for collecting door-to-door for its charity clients, including WWF and Barnardo’s. It shows that if donors agree to pay $20 a month, APPCO takes 100 per cent in the first year – all $240.
    Face-to-face marketing has developed as a growth area in New Zealand. Members of the Professional Fundraising Association collected $28 million from 44,000 people last year.
    APPCO’s “tiered fee model” earns it a lower percentage for higher donations: when donors sign up to give $30 a month, it keeps $306 (85 per cent) of the first year’s $360; at the $60-a-month level, it keeps $504 (70 per cent) of the $720 donated.
    The Professional Fundraising Association stipulates that the cost of signing up a new donor should not be more than 20 per cent of the average rate of donation. Fundraising Institute of New Zealand chief executive James Austin said Appco’s fee schedule was designed on the basis that most people who signed up to charities gave for five years. The company’s 100 per cent take in the first year was within the rules on the basis donors stayed for five years.
    “That’s very legitimate and very accurate,” he said. “Most people still have this belief charities should be voluntary and no one should be paid to be a fundraiser, that people shouldn’t be paid to ask for money. It is a total bloody nonsense.”
    Appco Group’s NZ manager Sarah Ibbs refused to be interviewed about its charges. In a written statement, she said professional fundraising gave charities an effective “return on investment” and donors stayed for a number of years. “It is public knowledge that Appco is paid and so are the fundraisers.”
    The Appco documents also set out a schedule of fees for managing a “regular giving database”. It told charities it could pull in $1,719,000 a year if it signed up 5000 donors.
    After that, it would charge a “marketing fee … needed per year to maintain the donor base” of $244,715.
    Barnardo’s doesn’t mention Appco on its website, refused an interview about the company and would not reveal how much it paid it for fundraising. Acting chief executive Niamh Lawless said in a statement: “We pay a one-off, flat fee to Appco for face-to-face fundraising, leaving the majority of the funds raised to go to supporting service delivery.”’
    
    Yeah, right.
    
    Throw in the fact that, more and more, ‘charities’ are becoming political – your Sallies and Barnados as above, Greenpeace, Forest & Bird et al – and you will forgive me if I tell you I now restrict my charitable contributions to Poppy Day and Daffodil Day.
    
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    December 29, 2018 8:31am
    - holysheet
      
      Yeah but once the charities get their money, THEY then take out their fees……
      How much this is is any ones guess, But that CEO doesn’t work for peanuts.
      
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      December 29, 2018 8:40am
      - Biscuit
        
        Exactly, holysheet.
        
        Russell Norman won’t have come cheap to head Greenpeace here, right?
        
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        December 29, 2018 8:43am
      - stephieboy
        
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        holysheet , ignorant post of the day thus far. Keep it up old cock!
        
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        December 29, 2018 8:43am
      - holysheet
        
        Yay stoooooooopidboy has arrived.
        Now we will see some really really really really erudite comments. Head banging does wonders for an empty head. Sorts out the protons in there.
        
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        December 29, 2018 8:48am
      - Jack5
        
        The biggest charity rorts enable businesses free of company tax: the Seventh Day Adventists’ Sanitarium Corporation, Ngai Tahu’s many businesses sheltered under its group charity registration, and Waikato Maoris’ similar registration.
        
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        December 29, 2018 8:53am
      - jcuk
        
        Last year and this one I have started donating to a couple or so of charities which seem to be good IMO but whar pissed me off was getting the next begging letter in the same mail drop as the receipt for my previous donation … urrgh!
        Neither do I ask the IRD to subsidise me either.
        
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        December 29, 2018 12:10pm
    - realityczech
      
      The worst are the organised gangs of charity muggers investing the town. Usually for unworthy causes like – political activists pretending to be environmentalists, or anti male hate groups pretending to be about protecting women and kids.
      
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      December 29, 2018 8:59am
    - MickMac
      
      Biscuit thanks, I didn’t know that.
      
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      December 29, 2018 8:28pm
  - Longknives
    
    The Salvation Army are Looney Tune Left-Wing Fuckstains.
    *Ooh am I going to burn in a fiery lake now Scott?
    
    Oh and I’d hazard a guess I have done more in my Professional career to actually help people than most of these self righteous Salvation Army wankers could even dream…
    
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    December 29, 2018 8:32am
    - stephieboy
      
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      Longknives , even more of an ignorant plus stupid post of the day!
      
      Keep it up!
      
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      December 29, 2018 8:44am
      - Biscuit
        
        stephieboy’s credo:
        
        Any post not adhering to stephieboy’s propaganda = Ignorant post of the day.
        
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        December 29, 2018 8:50am
      - Longknives
        
        Morning Stephieboy!
        St Luke’s Mall not open yet then?
        
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        December 29, 2018 8:51am
      - Shaun the Sheep
        
        Sqwark! sqwark!
        
        Snooze button alert
        See your doctor
        Who outside of KB bubble actually cares?
        Trumpeter
        Sigh
        LOL
        
        Cut and paste, cut and paste
        
        Sqwark, Sqwark.
        
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        December 29, 2018 9:20am
  - Inandout
    
    Correction there Scott on their ‘humbleness’, as I know of one Sallies couple who own a rental in a rural town. The tenants keep the property like a weed factory and partake, I am told, in various drugs. The Army’s second hand outlets are known for the high prices they charge, even though they are mainly staffed by volunteers. I suspect as an organisation they got political so they can suck on government funding.
    
    Their organisation is quite extensive:
    
    https://www.salvationarmy.org.nz/contact-us
    
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    December 29, 2018 8:34am
  - KeaRea
    
    The Salvation Army bashed social investment. Ergo, they are now political hacks, and they deserve nothing, until they stop being political hacks. They can access the IDI data off Github any time. They won’t do it. They’d rather complain. Fine. Labour voters in all their generosity can fund their prognostication.
    
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    December 29, 2018 8:35am
    - stephieboy
      
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      KeaRea, you forgot about the ((( Jewish))) infiltration of the Sallies?
      
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      December 29, 2018 8:45am
      - pentwig
        
        gosh you are a silly stoopidthing
        perhaps you understand child jibber easier
        i prefer to say you are a total fuckwit and pervert
        sigh
        
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        December 29, 2018 9:54am
    - Awww C-mon
      
      The sallies made significant coin out of social investment.
      
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      December 29, 2018 8:53am
      - KeaRea
        
        Whilst bashing it. Which makes it irritating.
        
        To their credit they did pan Clark. ‘No change’ to social stats after increading govt by half lol.
        
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        December 29, 2018 9:04am
      - RF
        
        Over the last couple of years I have discovered that the Sallies were Labour in drag.
        
        I was once a supporter but no longer…..
        
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        December 29, 2018 10:20am
  - VicParking
    
    There is a difference between a hand up and a hand out. The problem with these socialist do-Gooders is they dont know the difference between the two.
    If you look after the aninals they forget how to look after themselves.
    
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    December 29, 2018 8:40am
    - Dave Mann
      
      If you think that there is an important difference between a hand up and a hand out, then go look at this:
      
      https://www.newconservative.org.nz/welfare-policy
      
      “New Conservative’s intention for welfare is to provide a safety net and short to medium term support to empower people in difficulty to discover, or return to, the dignity of personal independence and prosperity. It may look like a hand out, but it must be a hand up.”
      
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      December 29, 2018 9:41am
  - tf78
    
    Our charity begins and ends at home – big family and all need help on occasions.
    
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    December 29, 2018 9:31am
  - Tall Man
    
    The salvation army encourages false advertising to generate more income for themselves.
    
    They are also involved in supervised accommodation for prisoners released under supervision and that takes a shit load of money from the tax payer. They “tender” for this contract and beat many other providers due to their tax free status.
    
    They are business, nothing more, nothing less.
    
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    December 29, 2018 10:18am
  - Tall Man
    
    Perhaps you need to peak at the accounts.
    
    https://www.salvationarmy.org.nz/sites/default/files/files/%5Bfile_field%3Atype%5D/tsa_annual-report_17-18_web.pdf
    
    Have a look at the “Governance Committee”. A couple of husband and wife troughers, then look for salary declarations as per most corporate accounts.
    
    If you truly believe they work for peanuts you truly live in la la land.
    
    Look at total assets. Perhaps that would be better spent helping the poor……..
    
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    December 29, 2018 10:31am
- Doubledimp
  
  I want to start a campaign where I sit outside a foodbank and count the number of children going in with the parent. Then reporting weekly on the average family size on welfare over time. Let’s start a political party called “two and out”, where any third or more child is discouraged through a ceiling on benefits or decreasing subsidies for that child. We would of course insist on free implant contraception being available for all women as part of this policy.
  
  Kind of like the UK which caps per-child benefits after 2 children.
  
  https://www.gov.uk/guidance/claiming-benefits-for-2-or-more-children
  
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  December 29, 2018 9:01am
  - Tall Man
    
    When one of our protected MPs has managed 6 sprogs from a variety of sperm donors such a policy would never gain traction in NZ.
    
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    December 29, 2018 10:32am
    - igm
      
      Our unmarried, living in sin with illegitimate sprog unelected PM does not exactly set the world alight when it comes to morals and fiscal decency.
      
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      December 29, 2018 4:49pm
      - realityczech
        
        “unmarried, living in sin with illegitimate sprog unelected PM”
        
        Not a fan then?
        
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        December 29, 2018 4:53pm
  - Aunty
    
    First-rate policy. When is New Zealand going to follow the UK’s lead in this?
    
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    December 29, 2018 1:58pm
  - igm
    
    What about any child born out of wedlock then we would see lazy welfare leeching breed for feeders looking for work!
    
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    December 29, 2018 4:47pm
- dave_c_
  
  NZ’ers have absolutely no idea what poverty really is. We are being misled (as is the norm these days) to believe that we have a significant poverty issue in this country.
  Just google for ‘poverty images’, despair, and compare real poverty with what is being pushed in this country.
  
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  December 29, 2018 9:17am
  - tf78
    
    These people need to watch Angela’s Ashes – now that’s poverty.
    
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    December 29, 2018 9:38am
- Rich Prick
  
  Why is it that “16,000” people are only poor for the few days of the year when there’s free stuff on offer? How do they survive the other 360 days of a year?
  
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  December 29, 2018 10:28am
  - waikatogirl
    
    RP,
    Didn’t you see the call as Christmas approached that the schools must be kept open to feed hungry children and that they have a safe place for them to play away from their abusive families?
    Why not just re-open orphanage style accommodation again as the State appears to be raising these children by proxy?
    
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    December 29, 2018 10:46am
    - MickMac
      
      WG only if we snip their tubes first!
      
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      December 29, 2018 8:32pm
- Aunty
  
  The Salvation Army is a deeply political organisation with a strong Left-wing political agenda.
  
  It is NOT as it tries to portray itself a politically impartial Christian church/ charity out in the community trying to do good deeds by supporting those less fortunate and to spread the news of Christ.
  
  Twice in my lifetime, it has directly involved itself in the political processes of this country. Once over Homosexual Law Reform and now over “Poverty”. And in the latter case, it is aided and abetted in that cause by the Left-wing controlled news media of this country with its bearly hidden Marxist-Leninist agenda.
  
  The Salvation Army is no different to or more impartial than any of the other so-called charities that are in truth little more than fronts for advancing Left-wing politics, e.g., Greenpeace, Oxfam, Forrest and Bird etc.
  
  And it is really important that anyone on the Right fundamentally understands that. And like Greenpeace, it too should probably be stripped of its tax-free charity status.
  
  So over the next 18 months the Left and its tool the media is going to build this notion of poverty into a deafening crescendo to support the governments aim to bring in a CGT as the fairest and most appropriate thing to fix poverty the country can do. And those who are against it will be branded as little more than enemies of the people.
  
  Make no mistake there are interests and forces afoot in this country who are fighting very hard to force the country to take a hard turn to the far-Left and keep it there. And are the Right going to do anything about it or are they going to roll over like the pussies they are?
  
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  December 29, 2018 12:16pm
  - realityczech
    
    “And like Greenpeace, it too should probably be stripped of its tax-free charity status.”
    
    It should be listed as a terrorist organisation. Its active members should be in prison.
    
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    December 29, 2018 12:27pm
  - Jack5
    
    Meanwhile, in the Christchurch Press, Martin van Beynen looking at Christianity and Christmas says (in part) in his readable and interesting article:
    
    “…. our lurch to the Left politically brings the country closer to Christian values.”
    
    Van Beynen describes Jacinderella as “an incredibly cool vicar with the biggest parish in the country.”
    
    He goes on to say that Jacinderella is in fact advocating, rather than Christianity, the indigenous concept of manaakitanga, meaning “to show respect, generosity, and care for others”.
    
    Van Beynen adds:
    
    “It is typical of the bleeding heart Left to ascribe the best human virtues to indigenous people and ignore the fact that their histories are no less bloody, unfair, irrational, or disputatious than any others.”
    
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/109580191/godless-nz-not-entirely–were-actually-becoming-a-more-christian-nation
    
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    December 29, 2018 1:10pm
    - Aunty
      
      The argument that Left-wing economic values are closer to Christian values than Right-wing economic values is not a new one. It’s been argued over many times over the decades by those who firmly say it is, and by those who equally firmly say it isn’t. You can take your pick. Most people will probably take whatever side their pre-existing Left/ Right worldview is.
      
      For me, the fact that in Communist countries Christianity was (and is) viciously suppressed causes me to take the view that Left-wing values and Christian values have little if anything in common with each other except superficially.
      
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      December 29, 2018 1:41pm
      - Philview
        
        The Left believe in a centralised State power base and control and decision making consolidated in the hands of a few associated people. Jacinda is typical of this way of thinking. The Church is a threat in communists countries for the very reason that the State can’t control it.
        
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        December 29, 2018 2:27pm
  - Scott
    
    Aunty – the picture is not as clear as you would suggest. The salvation army spoke against the homosexual law reform of 1986. It was not advocating a left wing position but rather the traditional Conservative position on marriage and sexuality.
    
    The organisation does bid for social contracts but is able to win many contracts because of the low renumeration it pays its officers and the big volunteer component which keeps costs down.
    Unfortunately it has gone more left wing as society and the ruling class has got more left wing.
    But it still does excellent work and the animus against it shown by my fellow kiwi bloggers appals me quite frankly.
    
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    December 29, 2018 1:34pm
    - Aunty
      
      I think you’re conflating the two, Homosexual Law Reform with the Army’s left-wing political stance in my post which was not my intention.
      
      I agree that these are entirely separate from a moral or economic point of view. My point in raising them was to show that the Salvation Army is a political entity and that it has no hesitation in engaging in politics to advance its worldview when it wants to. And those examples are the evidence for that.
      
      Yes, the Army does do good work, but the criticism of it is justified and largely correct. No institution is above criticism or critique, and the Salvation Army is no exception. It has become more Left-wing and political over the years and I believe that that is starting to endanger its good works as it is going to be turning people off.
      
      It needs to make its mind up about what it is and what it wants to be. A Church/ Charity that helps the less advantaged and troubled in society or a politically active ginger group pushing a Left-wing agenda.
      
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      December 29, 2018 2:21pm
      - Scott
        
        Regarding homosexual law reform the salvation army in 1986 was against it because of its adherence to basic Christian morality. Christianity is against homosexuality because of what the Bible says.
        The salvation army was quite right to rail against homosexual liberalisation in 1986. If you are working with families then it’s important to lobby for things you believe will help families. Families being mom and dad and the kids. It is entirely within the army’s purview to say that the homosexual agenda is detrimental to family values.
        
        Indeed today no politician gives a toss about traditional marriage. The only thing they care about is homosexual marriage.
        
        So traditional marriage is declining, consequently families are getting weaker. Consequently there are more social problems including poverty and fatherlessness and depression. All these things are quite within the purview of the salvation army to comment on. And none of these things are particularly political or even left wing.
        
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        December 29, 2018 5:16pm
      - realityczech
        
        Bible boy is making sense.
        
        The destruction of the family unit was no accident. It was the deliberate work of radical feminists. The social and economic impacts are devastating.
        
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        December 29, 2018 5:22pm
- Durden
  
  “Major Campbell Roberts says being shortlisted for New Zealander of the Year..” that is last year i.e. 2018
  
  “Campbell was nominated for his work over 46 years as a Salvation Army officer, including helping found The Salvation Army’s Social Policy and Parliamentary Unit in 2003”
  
  https://www.salvationarmy.org.nz/research-policy/social-policy-parliamentary-unit
  
  When an organisation sets up a whole department to influence parliament and social policy, they simply become common garden variety lobbyists — costing a lot, becoming interfering busy bodies who are never satisfied, meddling in things other than religious charity.
  
  They say part of their mission is “reforming society”. While the logic may be that fundamental change and prevention is better than a cure or a band-aid, organisational self-preservation instinct means that this group will never be satisfied with whatever is achieved. They have been operating since 2003. Wonder what their budget is and how much their budget has grown since 2003. And what their annual objectives and achievement score cards looks like.
  
  I refuse to donate anything to organisations who do not report such key metrics–which is unfortunately most of them. To ensure that the cost of collecting and delivering my donations is zero — I simply annually take a huge load of groceries and gifts and dump it directly at the local community center that does collections. Or a direct cash donation to hospices etc. I refuse to give them any of my personal details.
  
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  December 29, 2018 12:34pm
artemisia

The problems with the Opal Towers building in Sydney have generated some wider discussion in Australia, and a little here as well. (The builders are constructing a very high profile apartment tower in Auckland, and I expect it will be getting plenty of scrutiny from inspectors. Now.)

The author of the Sydney Morning Herald article at the below link may not be 100% objective (as from a waterproofing company) but still raises some very concerning and much wider issues about structural deficiencies under the headline ”Developers cutting costs are root cause of defects”.

Specifically, the article refers to a problematic design-and-construct approach that might not be used here anyway, I don’t know –

…. the wide use of design-and-construct contracts to commission many high-rise projects. These contracts, which supply builders with the first half of the design (which builders then have to finish) are often the first stop for developers looking to reduce cost and time of a project. The builder then takes responsibility for the design, however inadequate, and has to meet the developer’s budget and time restrictions, however inadequate, and manage further tweaking of key design elements by the developer to cut costs even more.”

Where are the NZ investigative journalists when we need them. Might have to see if the always reliable Ms Collins asks a lot of questions in the House.

But there will be a new working group for sure. Right?

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/huge-pressure-developers-cutting-costs-are-root-cause-of-defects-20181226-p50o97.html
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December 29, 2018 8:05am
- ldypen
  
  “Where are the NZ investigative journalists”, quite bloody obvious…we don’t have any!
  
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  December 29, 2018 8:15am
  - VicParking
    
    NZ ‘Investigative journalists’, cut and paste merchants. And then they get it wrong.
    
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    December 29, 2018 8:42am
  - stephieboy
    
    Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
    But, but, but a step up from Tucker Carlson or Alex Jones?
    
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    December 29, 2018 8:47am
    - Inandout
      
      Oh stephie, you are so out of your depth here. Hollywood is crawling with pedos and those who have been ‘touching’ for as long as that town existed. Your heroes like De Niro and Carrey have very murky pasts, as do many actors/actresses. Best you just shut up on this matter.
      
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      December 29, 2018 8:56am
  - Jack5
    
    Do we have any scribblers like this?
    
    http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/the-relotius-scandal-reaches-fergus-falls-in-america-a-1244944.html
    
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    December 29, 2018 8:57am
    - realityczech
      
      Yes Jacksie. In fact you believe a lot of fake and fabricated stories.
      
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      December 29, 2018 9:03am
      - Jack5
        
        ‘Morning, KRC – another day at the races.
        
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        December 29, 2018 9:14am
      - realityczech
        
        Yep – I wonder what we will find to talk (((about))) today ? 🙂
        
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        December 29, 2018 9:23am
  - Doubledimp
    
    John Campbell so busy practicing is lines in front of a mirror that he never gets around to delivering it to anyone else. (TBH, where else will he get that much love?)
    
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    December 29, 2018 9:03am
  - G152
    
    Theres no money in investigative journalism.
    And the media no longer have the hierarchies as in the past.
    For an article to be printed it had to go from reporter to linotype/typesetter to readers, to sub editors to paste up and finally onto plates and the press with criticism at every stage.
    Now the heads are clickbait and are in no way related to the attached article.
    Fake news is a worthy title
    
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    December 29, 2018 10:35am
    - bouden
      
      G152 you got it in one! Like most big businesses they no longer provide full employment and nurturing to their (journalist) staff. It’s outsourcing and gig economy practices that rule the day, and good journalists (who need to eat while they spend time investigating in depth) are reduced to selecting issues where they can stitch a story for a quick return.
      
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      December 29, 2018 12:19pm
- GJM
  
  Plenty of “design and build” contracts in NZ, either for parts such as air conditioning or the whole building. With good scoping documents, realistic budgets and good contractors it can work ok for simple projects. None of these requirements are common in the NZ building industry and of course, fly by night developers mean there is very little chance of success.
  
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  December 29, 2018 8:59am
- tf78
  
  Quite a few years ago a relative of mine was involved in an apartment building on the Gold Coast – he told his mother never to stand underneath it. (I think it’s still ok though so far). It’s all the concrete that worries me – who made up the mix without cutting costs.
  
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  December 29, 2018 9:42am
holysheet

At an evening performance, the head usher at the Wellington Opera House was quite surprised. During an intermission, one middle aged lady stopped and whispered in his ear, “Sir, I believe that I was sexually harassed!” The usher didn’t think much of this complaint, but promised he would check into it soon.
At the end of the nights performance in an area close to the first complaint, a second little lady bent down and whispered in his ear, “Sir, I believe I was sexually harassed!” This time, he knew it had to be taken care of soon.
A few guests had remained in the opera house, and he decided to go back and question them, to see if they had any knowledge of what was going on. He found one old man crawling along the opera house floor underneath the seats and stooped down to question him.
“Excuse me, sir, can I help you?”
A bald Winston looked up and said, “Well, look here sunshine. I’ve lost my toupee and I’m trying to find it. I thought I’d found it twice, but they were both parted in the middle…and mine’s parted on the side!”
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December 29, 2018 8:11am
- adamsmith1922
  
  In fact a number of years ago the Sallies were cited in an EIU report as an example of how to run an efficient and cost effective revenue raising operation. They are very money focused, in NZ they seem to have become very political.
  
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  December 29, 2018 11:02am
KeaRea

Robert Mueller personally intervened to get convicted pedo Jeffrey Epstein off any serious charges or punishment and avoid trial.

https://neonnettle.com/news/5881-fbi-docs-show-mueller-cut-deal-to-free-pedophile-jeffrey-epstein

Mueller also let David Asimov walk free with zero charges despite possessing the worst trove of child porn ever seen.

https://www.dangerous.com/48192/robert-mueller-let-a-prolific-child-porn-collector-with-a-famous-dad-walk-free/

Kevin Spaceys latest vidya is a request for a reprieve in the same manner.

It’s good to be a Stein. Isn’t it. Pedo-steins and pedo-bergs just get, nothing. FBI docs at links.
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December 29, 2018 8:17am
- Harkman
  
  Mueller looks more and more like the gate keeper of the swamp. He is as filthy as they come and he is determined to sink Trump on things unrelated to Russia. The thing is there is absolutely no way Jefferson, Madison and Adams would’ve allowed a position like the Special Counsel to exist with unlimited power because they knew Washington wouldn’t take the job and they all needed him to pull the country together. No way Lincoln or the Roosevelt’s would have stood for this either.
  
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  December 29, 2018 9:14am
- Swifty
  
  Are you a left-footer KeaRea?
  
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  December 29, 2018 12:12pm
- cha
  
  If you’re looking to lay blame, Alexander Acosta is your man.
  
  But court records reveal details of the negotiations and the role that Acosta would play in arranging the deal, which scuttled the federal probe into a possible international sex trafficking operation. Among other things, Acosta allowed Epstein’s lawyers unusual freedoms in dictating the terms of the non-prosecution agreement.
  
  https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article220097825.html
  
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  December 29, 2018 12:57pm
KeaRea

http://www.unz.com/isteve/trump-on-syria-withdrawal-we-give-israel-billions-of-dollars-theyll-be-ok/

Martyn Indyk at the Brookings Institute says:

” Trump: “We give Israel billions of dollars, they’ll be okay.” This cavalier attitude is deeply worrying. Ignores the role of US as force multiplier for Israeli deterrence. From here it’s a short step to Trump asking: why are we giving Israel so much money?”

Wow. A ‘force multiplier’. So the US is literally just a tool for Israel. Lol Trump might ask ‘why’ – amazing. President Goy shouldn’t ask Goy questions?

Never ask ‘why’. ‘Why’ is a trigger for badthink. Just give gibs.

Israel has 3000 tanks and the second largest air force in the world and nuclear weapons on submarines. They will be fine. They’re the smartest bestest people in the whole world!

This is a good point:

“Why do conservatives believe welfare is any better for the IDF than it has been for the black family, or, for that matter, the white American family? The inarguable strategic fact is that Israel would be considerably safer and militarily stronger if Trump would send them America’s Jews rather than America’s money. And so, for that matter, would America.”

Yeah the world’s biggest welfare Queens should get a jerb.
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December 29, 2018 8:30am
- VicParking
  
  KeaRea, were you the bald man in holy’s last comment. You seem to be stumbling around in the dark searching for Trump’s no existant toupee.
  You would fit into the SS no trouble.
  
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  December 29, 2018 8:51am
  - realityczech
    
    “You would fit into the SS no trouble.”
    
    Right so if you don’t want to give money to a foreign war machine, you are a Nazi.
    
    Why are supporters of Israel always such vile scumbags? Lying dishonest and disgusting people.
    
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    December 29, 2018 9:13am
    - VicParking
      
      “If Trump would send them America’s Jews rather than America’s money.”
      jerb: ‘A sexy group of friends, much like a gang, that spend every moment together and like to fuck shit up.”
      KeaRea’s next step would be to send them all to ‘internment’ camps in Nevada’
      
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      December 29, 2018 10:42am
      - realityczech
        
        Or treat the Jews like we do Muslims and send them to a to a concentration camp to be tortured.
        
        https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/torture-guantanamo-bay-detention-centre-9-11-conspirator-un-human-rights-investigation-pentagon-a8109231.html
        
        https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/oct/09/cia-torture-black-site-enhanced-interrogation
        
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        December 29, 2018 10:46am
      - KeaRea
        
        I just meant jerb as a job.
        
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        December 29, 2018 6:44pm
      - stephieboy
        
        rc, Guantanamo Bay ( controversial as it is) was nothing like the terror and mayhem the Nazis and the SS Death Heads ( Totenkopf ) units rendered in the East amongst defenceless Jewish populations and other civilians!
        
        They call it false equivalence by making historically false and highly inaccurate comparisons!
        
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        December 29, 2018 7:14pm
  - KeaRea
    
    I wouldnt be in the SS because I’m not a Nazi. I’m paternally Jewish. So Im not Jewish due to a cultural construct but I am by strict heredity and an older tradition which needs to be restored.
    
    The first book I read after famous five aged five was the Hope by Herman Wouk.
    
    It’s all just rhetoric. Israel has to understand that calling anyone who runs Israels own domestic and foreign polucy on immigration a Nazi and collaborating with the wests’ enemies and giving them our technology and military infrastructure is not sustainable.
    
    Flooding the west with enemy immigrants who are electing politicians who are genuinely anti semitic and anti western like Ilhan Omar in Minnesota isn’t sustainable. Why? Why would you call Somali anti semites the Jewish diaspora if you weren’t trying to harm your own communities?
    
    Trying to end the constitution in the United States by banning speech and criticism isn’t sustainable
    
    Instigating cultural marxism in the west and calling anyone who opposes it a Nazi isn’t sustainable.
    
    Running massive Hasbara propaganda and deceit and interfering vastly more then Russia could dream of in sovereign donor states is not sustainable. Calling good men anti semites in NZ for observing precedent and consistency isn’t sustainable because it will create opposition.
    
    I actually like Netanyahu. I just want him to support the west to uphold his own sound policies and support Christians and disavow the evil globalist Jews who hate him. He and others are turning the gentiles into the Jews in exile by brazen subversion and that is dangerous and will end badly for everyone.
    
    I was a big fan of Moshe Dayan and Jabotinski and I support the right of Israel to exist now that it is there. But I expect white gentiles to be afforded a right to exist and I will oppose relentlessly efforts to end the west and reimpose a semitic and now perhaps sino international socialism on the world.
    
    That is not unreasonable. I wouldn’t qualify for the SS. But given multiple Israeli Prime Ministers’ like Yihtzak Shamir were pen pals with Hitler, Bormann, Himmler and Todt I wouldn’t be in bad company I suppose if I did qualify.
    
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    December 29, 2018 7:03pm
    - stephieboy
      
      “Flooding the west with enemy immigrants..”
      
      Flooding?? and ” enemy immigrants. “??
      
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      December 29, 2018 7:16pm
- realityczech
  
  “So the US is literally just a tool for Israel”
  
  Hell yes. Every single war and conflict the USA is involved with is due to those places being out of favour with Jewish extremists in the Israel lobby.
  
  In spite of people shilling about how prosperous and rich Israel is, those same people demand Israel feeds like a bloated parasite on the USA sucking billions out of American tax payers pockets. On top of that Trillions are spent murdering people on Israels behalf.
  
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  December 29, 2018 9:11am
lifesgood

I’ve been thinking about the constant reports we are getting about the growing number in poverty in NZ. Why is this never tackled at source? Why are there not concerted pushes to get the children of the poor educated… that’s the way out and another concerted push for the low income people to limit their families. It is all too easy to be poor in NZ. For many it is the easy option, just lie about all day, draw the benefit and breed. Our current policies simply do not help. The other thing that is constantly overlooked is human nature, if you give away free stuff people will come. I don’t believe for one minute that the increased demand for food parcels and free Christmas lunches comes entirely from need. I give as generously as I can to other charities, hospice, cancer research, Fred Hollows etc, but not to poverty causes.
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December 29, 2018 8:41am
- waikatogirl
  
  Why is this never tackled at source?
  Bill English had this in his sights. He had the facts and figures and was intending to tackle neglect and poor choices at the source with targetted funding and wrap around services. The CoL take the easy route of ‘no judgement’ on anyone who applies for a handout from the taxpayer. Hence the growing numbers climbing on board for state funding housing, WINZ loans and the call for more and more funding for the basic benefits.
  If National had been in power this policy would have been well in hand instead of the free-for-all largess that is becoming a growing problem.
  
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  December 29, 2018 8:46am
  - Awww C-mon
    
    Hear hear! 100% Mrs Y-kato
    
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    December 29, 2018 8:55am
    - VicParking
      
      Agree
      
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      December 29, 2018 10:43am
  - Muttonbird
    
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    Bingles had 9 years to get the idea off the ground but left it till the last minute.
    
    I suspect it was idle afterthought from double-dipper rather than benevolent conviction.
    
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    December 29, 2018 10:23am
    - Tall Man
      
      5 down ticks and soon to be more. Then your mindless drivel gets consigned to it’s rightful spot…hidden.
      
      You support the slimiest, most dishonest, lying government we have ever seen so your comments are about as useful as your scumbag government…zero value.
      
      Off you go you economically ignorant man.
      
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      December 29, 2018 10:47am
  - Wangas Feral
    
    One year of lefty government has undone most of what English spent nine years trying to accomplish. You have to remember that Labour wants people poor and downtrodden. It is in their interest.
    
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    December 29, 2018 10:50am
    - Muttonbird
      
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      The opposite is true. The business class and their political arm, the National Party, require a low wage labour force to advance their interests. It’s a fine balancing act to have this ‘dumb and happy’ proletariat kept dumb and happy. Problem is they all have a vote. The mistake the Nats made was to take their eyes off what pressures families were under during their reign of octane fuelled small government. They were rubbish at housing, they were rubbish at immigration management, and they were rubbish at infrastructure.
      
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      December 29, 2018 11:17am
      - realityczech
        
        “they were rubbish at infrastructure.”
        
        Well to be fair – they did want to build the most expensive road in human history, to win a few more Auckland votes.
        
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        December 29, 2018 11:23am
      - Swifty
        
        Why do the left hate so much?
        
        Were they born with it, or was it fed to them as kids?
        
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        December 29, 2018 12:11pm
      - sooty
        
        Or taught at school?
        
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        December 29, 2018 1:04pm
  - Piniwi
    
    Right waikatogirl it is exactly as expected from Labour who this time to their surprise are being forced to deliver on their election bribes to their astonishment. Such a surprise they can not get out of opposition mode while finishing their first full year spending like it was an election year to hold onto power.
    No surprise the beneficiaries are screaming for more just like the unions who have reverted to strike action to get that bigger share promised. They still do not grasp the magnitude of the problem they have created by throwing money at the welfare problem they created does nothing more than increase the unintended consequences. These are becoming the most consistent dominating factors in all their policies.
    
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    December 29, 2018 1:52pm
  - Durden
    
    If only the Salvation Army supported Bill English’s Social Investment initiative and worked with National’s plans they would have genuinely made a difference to eradicating the root causes of poverty long term. The key finding from the data analysis done was that there were relatively small number of troubled kids, genuinely poverty stricken or dysfunctional families that were creating the greatest long term burden on the state. It also showed who were the bludgers.
    
    Instead Sallies prefer to apply band-aids while mouthing off on their lobbyist megaphones. And work with the no-questions asked, no-fault assistance proposed by the tooth fairy. Of course they would, because if there was meaningful long term improvements the Sallies would become less and less relevant.
    
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    December 29, 2018 2:36pm
    - Manolo
      
      The Sallies are social engineers, members of an organisation who love dependent people to maintain its relevancy. For that reason it is better not to give the buggers even one dollar.
      
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      December 29, 2018 2:43pm
  - DigNap15
    
    yes, that was a good idea, but National never really announced what they were doing and why.
    And like most things National doe sit was too little and too slow.
    And I’m a two ticks blue man
    
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    December 29, 2018 4:07pm
- MrLovebucket
  
  The left has absoludely no interest in lifting people out of poverty. The poor are their core constituency, so would be shooting themselves in the foot by doing so. This is why the left increase and remove barriers to welfare dependency. They need as many people addicted to welfare as possible and their policies are designed to do exactly this (law and order etc.). The only problem with this strategy is the people who avoid the welfare trap by educating themselves and working for a living. Envy soon kicks in and you hear terms like “Haves and Have Nots”. Their solution to this issue to increase taxes on those not on welfare. This has a breaking point.
  
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  December 29, 2018 8:52am
  - Swifty
    
    You’ve got it.
    
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    December 29, 2018 12:06pm
- VicParking
  
  But But But, We gave them $70 per week, well it will be when we fully roll it out. We gave then an energy payment, well we will next winter. We will build then affordable houses, well we will in 2025.
  We will be open an transparent, Ahh we are , the voters are starting to see right through us as well as between the lines.
  
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  December 29, 2018 8:56am
  - DigNap15
    
    Its all gone on the all weekend parties in my street.
    
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    December 29, 2018 4:08pm
- Muttonbird
  
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  Why are there not concerted pushes to get the children of the poor educated… that’s the way out
  
  You might like to go back to Farrar’s union-bashing post of a few days ago titled, “Principals fight back”. In that post Farrar and most of his followers attack the very concept you have just asked about. They attacked a idea to improve education for children of the poor.
  
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  December 29, 2018 10:47am
  - lifesgood
    
    What utter rot! Who was it that killed charter schools? Why? Give me one good reason…., you can’t, can you?
    
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    December 29, 2018 11:41am
KeaRea

Finally here is what Merkel just said at the Konrad Adenaur Institute:

“There were [politicians] who believed that they could decide when these agreements are no longer valid because they are representing The People”.

“[But] the people are individuals who are living in a country, they are not a group who define themselves as the [German] people,” she stressed.

There are no German people. There never were a ‘German people’. Just people, living in a country.

She echoed Macron calling Nationalists ‘anti- patriotic’. Because words have no meaning in the kabbalah. Just will.

She reiterated EU member states must surrender national sovereignty to Brussels over “foreign affairs, migration, and development” as well as giving “an increasing part of our budgets and even fiscal resources”.

Wow, it really looks like all the conspiracy theories”” are real.

Why did Winston decide to betray New Zealand to these people? Wherefore all the reassurances from Merkel about the UN Migration Compact? She doesn’t believe distinct people’s exist, or can exist. She doesn’t believe sovereignty is legitimate or can exist. Certainly it is no basis to deny the binding nature of a ‘non binding’ agreement.

Nice one Winston. What a legacy for a Pygmy.
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December 29, 2018 8:42am
- Inandout
  
  ‘It is nonsense to say that Germans are unable to change’. Angela Merkel
  So she wants them to dissolve into globalists? And she spoke at Konrad Adenauer Institute; how ironic.
  
  ‘Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher’.
  Konrad Adenauer.
  
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  December 29, 2018 9:10am
- kevn
  
  @Kea… Yep, JA is part of this strange decision although her future plans are ‘UN’ clearer ‘UN’, ‘UN’, ‘UN.’
  As for whinney… must have been a trade off for the pending knighthood?
  
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  December 29, 2018 9:14am
- realityczech
  
  Here’s ya problem
  
  Look into her dead empty eyes. She has sold her soul and her people.
  
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  December 29, 2018 9:17am
  - RF
    
    Presume you are also referring to Ardern. She is a cold looking fish with a death stare.
    
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    December 29, 2018 10:24am
    - Paulus Gnome
      
      And a baby, don’t forget the babeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
      
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      December 29, 2018 10:49am
      - softail 1450
        
        Paulus Gnome, Merkels only baby is Islamic crime.
        
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        December 29, 2018 11:28am
      - realityczech
        
        “Merkels only baby is Islamic crime.”
        
        Softy, What a bigoted intellectual cripple you are.
        
        German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s ‘spectacular’ Jewish legacy
        The longtime leader of the Christian Democratic Union, who has announced her pending departure, has been a strong ally of Israel and the Jews
        
        https://www.timesofisrael.com/german-chancellor-angela-merkels-spectacular-jewish-legacy/
        
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        December 29, 2018 1:14pm
    - realityczech
      
      Ardern looks filled with hate and conflict. I also think she looks a bit out of it, probably just prescription medication from the ~~Hell Angels~~ doctor.
      
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      December 29, 2018 10:49am
  - stephieboy
    
    rc. look at mate’s dead soul eyes,
    
    https://goo.gl/images/u8m7T2
    
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    December 29, 2018 11:55am
    - realityczech
      
      He has very kind eyes. A gentle artist, animal lover and vegetarian. His only crime was caring too much.
      
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      December 29, 2018 3:30pm
      - stephieboy
        
        rc, “caring too much “? This will explain why he proved to be such an inept commander and leader!
        
        A thousand year Reich that lasted only 12 years.
        
        Hmmm…
        
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        December 29, 2018 7:19pm
- Paulus Gnome
  
  East Germany finally can see their light dawning in West Germany.
  
  How many lives have been squandered to get to this point in German and European history?
  
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  December 29, 2018 9:40am
- Classic Liberal
  
  Here’s the next step in how the Migration Compact will become open borders in NZ:
  
  ‘An Australian woman has complained to the United Nations that New Zealand is denying her the right to challenge the Department of Conservation’s higher hut fees for non-citizens.’
  
  ‘as a signatory to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, New Zealand had promised to treat citizens and non-citizens equally or offer an effective remedy,’
  
  https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/379159/australian-woman-complains-to-un-over-nz-s-treatment-of-non-citizens
  
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  December 29, 2018 10:28am
  - cmm
    
    I wonder if this can be used to get rid of Maori seats, Maori-specific government departments etc etc etc.
    
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    December 29, 2018 6:50pm
Harkman

So I turned on my pc last night and the MSN news feed had a NewsHub headline, “Pike River re-entry delayed.” Surprise, surprise. Expect more of this to come.
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December 29, 2018 9:17am
- holysheet
  
  Wait, they have found the remains of a taniwha. It wants it’s koha. That 35 million is soon not going to be enough.
  
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  December 29, 2018 9:35am
  - RF
    
    Yep budget blow out soon to be announced.
    
    Anything Angry is involved in is a clusterfuk.
    
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    December 29, 2018 10:27am
    - Paulus
      
      But expect within 12 months that Angry is back in charge of the Labour Party elected by the Unions, and not by the quirk in the rules, which did not elect Ardern.
      
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      December 29, 2018 11:00am
- G152
  
  And its only entry to the drift and not to the actual faces
  
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  December 29, 2018 10:38am
Jack5

In Australia, the state capitals seem to be sucking people out of the states’ smaller centres.

Is this happening in NZ, too?

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/the-capital-cities-that-ate-australia-20181226-p50o8k.html
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December 29, 2018 9:18am
- Jack5
  
  Except that Auckland, with around a third of the country’s population, isn’t the capital, and its growth could be stymied if one of its volcanoes blows.
  
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  December 29, 2018 9:19am
redeye

Oh the shame of being misgendered.
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1078744167751110656

Especially when you’re a premenstrual linebacker.
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December 29, 2018 9:19am
- Awww C-mon
  
  Haha do I look like a man to you??
  
  Yeah. Ya fucking do ya big bastard ?
  
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  December 29, 2018 9:30am
- Longknives
  
  That is magnificent!
  And pretty much sums up the perennially outraged ‘How dare you assume my identity!’ community….
  
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  December 29, 2018 10:19am
- Inandout
  
  This is the crazy shit Trump wants to rid the US of.
  
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  December 29, 2018 10:41am
- Wangas Feral
  
  A clear case of toxic masculinity. The poor sales clerk was more feminine.
  
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  December 29, 2018 10:53am
- Rich Prick
  
  Heh, quite the lady.
  
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  December 29, 2018 12:04pm
Jack5

Housekeeping …

The edit function seems to be out of action.
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December 29, 2018 9:20am
wiseowl

Talking of the UN.
Half asleep at 5am this morning and news had an item about a couple walking some track and complaining how there were two fees ,she was a kiwi , he was not.
They want to complain to the UN because they consider this is discrimination and all should pay the same.
Well FO people ,if we want to have a cheaper rate for kiwis we bloody will.
Other story was also about some agreement we had signed with the UN and how it should be binding.
Oh for a party to tell the UN to get stuffed.
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December 29, 2018 9:22am
- realityczech
  
  She could have paid more and addressed the problem that way.
  
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  December 29, 2018 9:28am
- peterwn
  
  There is similar ‘discrimination’ in other countries such as India. They need large sums for the upkeep of ancient sites but want to make access affordable for local people.
  
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  December 29, 2018 9:29am
  - wiseowl
    
    I see now that this couple complaining to the UN must be lefty activists.
    David Faulkner ‘advocates for New Zealanders fighting discrimination.’
    Bet he is tied up with the loopy Greens.
    
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    December 29, 2018 12:30pm
    - Harriet
      
      Getting an admission rebate by lodging the admission receipt with your taxes fixes the matter as tourists would be none the wiser, and besides, ‘general NZ taxpayers’ have all paid tax for conservation costs already and whether they use parks or not, tourists on the other hand haven’t paid any tax, and therefor should of course pay ‘full admission’ prices as part of “their fair share” – for actually using the amenity . 😎
      
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      December 29, 2018 12:58pm
      - Tall Man
        
        Too expensive to administer.
        
        Many countries charge tourists extra to visit their National Parks.
        
        In Thailand it’s at the entry point and you need a Thai passport or residence visa to avoid the charge.
        
        Seems a fair system to me but hey, let’s ask the UN what ardern the liar should do.
        
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        December 29, 2018 1:17pm
    - alwyn
      
      Well, he won’t be a Greenie very much longer if he is really unhappy with the extra cost.
      It is the Green Party who want tourists to have to pay extra taxes and higher charges than New Zealanders after all.
      
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      December 29, 2018 1:00pm
      - Tall Man
        
        You don’t really expect a green supporter to waste time reading the green “Manifesto” do you?
        
        After all, it’s just word soup until wynston the prick tells them what their policy is.
        
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        December 29, 2018 1:15pm
      - MCos
        
        I’ve got no problem with non locals paying what amounts to a surcharge when the facilities are maintained by public funding.
        In Thailand, however, some private enterprises join in and charge up to ten times the locals price for tourists who aren’t aware of the scam because the Thai prices are written in Thai script including the rarely used numerals.
        
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        December 29, 2018 4:17pm
Jack5

Dear old Britain – slow to wake up to threats.

Home Secretary steps in and talks of a “major incident” in the cross-Channel invasion:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/12/28/sajid-javid-declares-major-incident-number-migrants-trying-cross/

PS: Edit function is back.
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December 29, 2018 9:24am
- realityczech
  
  Jacksie, what measures do you want taken to protect Anglo Saxton race purity?
  
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  December 29, 2018 9:30am
  - GazzaW
    
    You can be assured that the Brits will not entertain ‘resesettlement’ as an option rc.
    
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    December 29, 2018 10:23am
secondcumming

A superb day here yesterday at Tindalls, best so far. I decided to put the boat in and go for an afternoon fish. I gave a mate of mine from the gun club a call to see if he’d like to come out. Since his wife left him, Liam lives with his mother at Torbay, so it’s not too far away. He said he’d promised his mum he’d clean his room, so he should be here about noon.

I suggested to the missus we put the boat in early to save a bit of time. Backed the trailer down the ramp with the trusty old International, and the Tristram 691 slid into the tide. I had the missus hold the bow rope while I took the tractor back up to the house. Told her it would be best to turn the boat around, as there was a slight chop with the incoming tide and I didn’t want to risk getting the Yammy 225 covered in salt water.

Just as I got back home, Liam phoned to say he was at the Whangaparaoa turn-off, and would be there in 15. I has a quick check at what was new on KB, and waited for him to arrive. Soon his big black Chevy truck roared into the driveway. For a moment there, I’d thought he’d brought his mother with him, but suddenly realised of course, the Chevy is left hand drive.

We made our way down to the beach. By this time the tide was really pushing in, and the poor missus was nearly up to her neck. I called to her to move in a bit so me and Liam could get on board. We climbed over the motor-well and I lowered the prop just into the water. The missus made her way along the starboard side hanging on to the deck to make sure the bow stayed pointing out. As she got around the back I told her to give us a good push out. As I looked around to wave goodbye, the silly bitch had fallen over. She appeared to be ok, so I gunned it out towards the open sea. We were up on the plane in no time

We’d only gone out about half a km, when I caught sight of some grey haired prick on a lime-green kayak, yelling out and signalling for us to slow down. Liam said, “Look at that ignorant old cunt”.

About 20 minutes later we were out at my secret fishing hole behind Tiri. The pik was set and we had the Rapala Jigs doing the business. I asked Liam what he’d been up to over the holidays. He was saying things had been fairly quiet, except for the week before Christmas when him and another of our mates from the gun club, got invited to a Charity Fundraiser in Epsom, for ‘Women Born Without Legs’. He said it was absolutely crawling with fanny.
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December 29, 2018 9:28am
KeaRea

What do you call an Irishman who is impervious to bullets?

Rick O’Shea.

Fine I’ll show myself out.
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December 29, 2018 9:42am
- RF
  
  Don’t forget your hat.
  
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  December 29, 2018 10:31am
Komata

KR

Wasn’t Illshowmyself Out Rik’s second cousin twice removed on his great grandfather’s side?

You can never be sure with the Irish…
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December 29, 2018 10:05am
- softail 1450
  
  Komata, Irish scientists were astounded to discover that after 106 years the swimming pool on the Titanic was still full,,,,,,,,,
  
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  December 29, 2018 11:33am
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December 29, 2018 10:07am
- Longknives
  
  Zzzzzz…
  
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  December 29, 2018 10:18am
secondcumming

It’s being reported there’s been yet another fatal roadside bombing of a tourist bus in Egypt, somewhere near the Pyramids. Something like 14 dead and injured.

What’s with the stone-age bastards? It’s bound to do wonders for their tourism industry…….
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December 29, 2018 10:13am
- Longknives
  
  “What’s with the stone-age bastards? It’s bound to do wonders for their tourism industry……”
  
  Yep- At least we’re not batshit crazy enough to open our borders to unlimited Muslim Immigration here!
  Oh Wait…
  
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  December 29, 2018 10:25am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  The terrorists want to tear it all down to start afresh in an ideal islamic state believing that magically Allah will provide. In reality should their state fail (almost inevitable given their rate of population increase) then they are all going to starve. They import about half their food. It will create the biggest refugee crisis the world has ever seen (100 million Egyptians now up from 20 million 60 years ago).
  
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  December 29, 2018 10:31am
  - realityczech
    
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    You mean like the religious theme park of Israel, cause you know, God gave it to them? Don’t worry about them starving. They can divert the billions and billions of dollars in aid from Israel.
    
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    December 29, 2018 10:36am
    - alloytoo
      
      God didn’t give it to them, they won it, and retain it by force of arms.
      
      Pisses their neighbours off no end.
      
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      December 29, 2018 12:30pm
      - realityczech
        
        No they were handed it by the British. In return they set of a bomb in the King David Hotel murdering 91 people there to help them set up their religious fantasy land.
        
        Being the gutless scum they are – they tried to blame the Muslims.
        
        Israel is the most vile and cowardly (fake) country on earth. Without the USA they would be nothing. Smart young Israelis are leaving the shithole in droves.
        
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        December 29, 2018 5:59pm
- Inandout
  
  If I hear anyone saying they want to make Egypt their next travel destination I reply they are mad. Won’t be long before their travel insurance is loaded against such dangerous destinations.
  
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  December 29, 2018 10:45am
- Rich Prick
  
  Why anyone would want to visit an Islamic shithole is beyond me. You’d have to be into extreme adventure tourism.
  
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  December 29, 2018 11:56am
  - realityczech
    
    It was fine until the USA promoted Jihadist groups on behalf of Israel. The idea was to destroy the country, same as Libya and Syria. All formerly stable and prosperous countries by the standards of the region. Then along came Obama with prompting from the Israel lobby…
    
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    December 29, 2018 12:02pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Look you fullas up in the big smoke don’t think you can shuffle your homeless down here to Gizzy.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/dec/28/revealed-homeless-people-given-one-way-tickets-to-leave-areas
We’ve got our own tent cities along the beaches and all the choice spots on Kaiti Hill are Occupied.
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December 29, 2018 10:20am
- Inandout
  
  I watched a video last night on Christmas in the London area around Regent St. The camera operator just walked as a pedestrian and took in all the sights and sounds of London. The streets were copiously festooned with overhead Christmas decorations, and the shops equally so. I sighted only one footpath tramp and heard many languages spoken. The people were using phones to photograph the amazing sights and my wife recalled walking those very streets when she lived there. With our large TV it was almost like being there, but without the tired feet. One thing that did amaze us was almost all the pedestrians were slim, unlike the baby elephants that occupy our malls and high streets.
  
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  December 29, 2018 10:57am
Manolo

The results of trying to integrate savages into society:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6534735/Fears-Melbournes-St-Albans-Lunar-Festival-turned-war-zone.html

A Vietnamese festival scheduled for Sunday week could turn into a bloodbath with fears fed-up Asian youths will go to war with African gangs at the popular event.
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December 29, 2018 10:28am
- fernglas
  
  To be fair, Australia has historical form for that problem. The English and Irish went well before the Africans and Asians.
  “Later that year, on August 8, 1929, the “Battle of Kellett Street” was waged between rival gangs affiliated with Kate Leigh and Tilly Devine and occurred in Kellett Street, near King’s Cross. Considerable amounts of bootleg alcohol and cocaine were consumed beforehand, leading to thrown bottles, physical assaults, firearm exchanges and razor attacks”
  And
  “The gang was engaged in running warfare with other larrikin gangs of the time such as the Miller’s Point Push,[1] Straw Hat Push, the Glebe Push, the Argyle Cut Push, the Forty Thieves from Surry Hills and the Gibb Street Mob. They conducted such crimes as theft, assault and battery against police and pedestrians in The Rocks area. Female members of the Push would entice drunks and seamen into dark areas to be assaulted and robbed by the gang.
  
  The leaders of the Rocks Push were crowned through victory in bare-knuckle boxing matches. Larry Foley, later to be regarded as the ‘Father of Australian Boxing’ was the leader of a Roman Catholic larrikin gang known as the Greens. On 18 March 1871, at the age of twenty-one, Foley fought Sandy Ross, leader of the ‘Orange’ or Protestant group. The fight lasted 71 rounds before police intervened.”
  
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  December 29, 2018 10:34am
- Wangas Feral
  
  I hope they do. Those asians should not let themselves be pushed around.
  
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  December 29, 2018 10:55am
  - Inandout
    
    How true WF, and they don’t seem to inhabit welfare offices like many of the black variety. Asian = work ethic.
    
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    December 29, 2018 11:01am
- kiwitoffee
  
  Again, the unacceptable face of multiculturalism.
  
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  December 29, 2018 2:43pm
stephieboy

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It’s heartening and reassuring to know that Charles Dickens felt very differently about the poor in his own time and most likely today,

http://www.historyisnowmagazine.com/blog/2014/4/13/charles-dickens-poverty-and-what-he-might-think-of-britain-today#.XCamIy17G3c=

This in stark contrast to the Scrooges and misers who regularly post on KB.
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December 29, 2018 11:47am
- Tall Man
  
  And you’ve cornered the “moron” and “idiot” section all for yourself…with a little help from a couple of other vocal fools.
  
  ardern is a liar
  
  no one cares at all what steffy is
  
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  December 29, 2018 11:55am
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    Jacinda, our country’s Person of the year.
    
    Not care? But taking the trouble to respond !
    
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    December 29, 2018 11:57am
    - GazzaW
      
      …..you’re only taking the trouble to respond because you drew the short straw to be steffie of the day. Not to do so would land you in hot water with the local Politburo.
      
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      December 29, 2018 12:04pm
    - Swifty
      
      You set a very low bar.
      
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      December 29, 2018 12:14pm
    - Tall Man
      
      “Not care what you are or are not” you stupid girl. What you say is irrelevant but it does give me a chance to keep “Google” ticking over with ” ardern is a liar”.
      
      Reading, comprehension, economics, intelligence and manners….all lacking in the supporters of ardern the liar.
      
      No more money for you stupid girl as those of us with shitloads are smarter than you and the twerps in the coalition.
      
      Our money is safe from the thieving hands of ardern the liar who has no intention paying interns like you.
      
      Remember, labour don’t pay interns, they just get selfies from ardern the liar and “feelz” at camp molestation.
      
      So steffy girl, how many hands down your pants at camp “molestation” or are you just too dumb to even waste a finger on?
      
      ardern is a liar
      
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      December 29, 2018 1:11pm
    - Inandout
      
      Our country’s Poison of the year.
      
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      December 29, 2018 5:32pm
- Swifty
  
  This is the arrogance and lack of principles of the left on full display.
  
  If ever burgeoning and rapacious state wealth confiscation and redistribution would have solved poverty it would have succeeded by now – we’ve been at it for decades and decades and the ‘problem’ is worse than it’s ever been; according to the left.
  
  This is the same foolishness that leads some witless folk to call for ever-increasing minimum wage levels, or who mock calls for the abolition of same – the fools will never learn.
  
  If you wish everyone who can work in work then you must abolish minimum wages – you can’t have both.
  
  Lefties constantly raise minimum wage levels then blame ‘capitalism’ or ‘market failure’ when people can’t find work.
  
  Lying hypocrites the lot of them.
  
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  December 29, 2018 12:02pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Dickens died a very wealthy man.
  He left an estate of £93,000 in 1870.
  
  On today’s figures that’s equivalent to £10,860,531.10 or NZ$ 20, 580,907.
  
  Shows what a bit of hard work can do.
  
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  December 29, 2018 1:00pm
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    Our ‘journalists’ could learn a lesson here.
    
    Write what people will read and you too could leave a legacy more than your writing.
    
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    December 29, 2018 5:01pm
EAD_THREE

Another one of these survivor con-men busted in Spain after he made his money:

https://www.npr.org/2018/09/20/649858876/javier-cercas-uncovers-the-truth-behind-spains-impostor

A SPANISH citizen who was chairman of an association of Spanish Republicans deported from France to Nazi concentration camps during World War II has admitted his tale of surviving the Flossenbuerg camp was a lie.

Enric Marco, 84, chaired the survivors’ association right through to the eve of this week’s 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Mauthausen camp in Austria, but now says he never set foot in a Nazi camp.

A historian researching the Mauthausen anniversary used the opportunity to look into events at Flossenbuerg – and failed to find any trace of Mr Marco ever having been there.

Mr Marco has given hundreds of conferences in schools about his pretended experiences and wrote a biography called Memory of Hell in 1978.

He was also secretary general of the Communist CNT union and chairman of a pupil- parents federation.

Next person I’d like to see investigated is Moshe Peer and his tales of survival.
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December 29, 2018 12:06pm
- realityczech
  
  US-Israeli teen convicted of threats against Jewish centres
  
  A court in Israel has convicted a 19-year-old American-Israeli man of making hundreds of threats to bomb or attack Jewish schools and community centres.
  
  Michael Ron David Kadar was also found guilty of extortion, money laundering and assaulting a police officer.
  
  He used the internet to make hoax telephone calls to the US, UK, Canada, New Zealand and Australia.
  
  The threats forced evacuations and prompted concern among Jewish leaders about a resurgence of anti-Semitism.
  
  Several airlines also received threatening calls, which led to planes carrying out emergency landings.
  
  This was breathlessly referred to as a “rise of anti semitism” by the morons on KB.
  
  They have a history of this sort of thing. USS Liberty attack, Lavon Affair, King David Hotel bombing – all hideous terrorist attacks against the very gentiles trying to help them – and all blamed on … The MUSLIMS!
  
  Lies always the lies.
  
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  December 29, 2018 12:14pm
  - alloytoo
    
    What part of :
    
    “A court in Israel has convicted”
    
    did you find difficult to understand?
    
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    December 29, 2018 12:37pm
    - realityczech
      
      “The necessity of the anti-Semite in Jewish identity; the insistence that anti-Semitism is an irrational, mystifying, psychological “disease” and that Jews are categorically innocent and blameless for the tragedies that have befallen them.”
      
      http://holywar.org/jewishtr/19antis1.htm
      
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      December 29, 2018 12:51pm
    - realityczech
      
      What part of :
      
      “A court in Nuremberg has convicted”
      
      did you find difficult to understand?
      
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      December 29, 2018 12:52pm
      - alloytoo
        
        All of it, since you’re referencing it here in this thread for the first time.
        
        I find it hypcritical to condemn a state for the actions of an convicted individual especially when the mechanisms of the state in question have provided the conviction.
        
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        December 29, 2018 2:44pm
      - realityczech
        
        I agree. Most were decent people and we should not condemn all Nazis.
        
        I guess you are not a fan of Germany paying billions in “reparation” to Israel then?
        
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        December 29, 2018 3:08pm
      - alloytoo
        
        You again seem confused between the state sanctioned actions and state condemned actions.
        
        Does explain your muddy thinking.
        
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        December 29, 2018 7:22pm
  - Komata
    
    RC
    
    Out of interest, are you Jewish?
    
    (Serious question BTW).
    
    Thanks.
    
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    December 29, 2018 1:10pm
    - realityczech
      
      I’m an atheist.
      
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      December 29, 2018 1:16pm
      - Komata
        
        That tells me absolutely nothing, as you are well aware.
        
        Given your evident familiarity with certain matters, my question stands, with something added (just for you): aun deyn muter; iz zi a ‘eytyas’ vi gut?
        
        Thank you.
        
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        December 29, 2018 2:11pm
      - realityczech
        
        Judaism is a tribal religious cult, not a race. DNA testing has dealt with that myth. They are made up of a variety of races.
        
        Check out the work of the Jewish scientist – Eran Elhaik
        
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        December 29, 2018 2:21pm
    - stephieboy
      
      rc, “DNA testing has dealt with that myth”?
      
      What DNA testing?
      
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      December 29, 2018 2:45pm
  - Cobolt24
    
    The pro Israel lobby in America; an Al Jazeera documentary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CNspeQYplk
    
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    December 29, 2018 2:07pm
    - Inandout
      
      Long may Israel have influence in the US against the mindless Arabs. In Europe it is a different story with the Arab invasion, but heck even they need Israeli technology and inventions, especially when Europe becomes one big Muslim welfare state.
      
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      December 29, 2018 10:34pm
- Komata
  
  EAD
  
  Proving once again that ‘Where there’s Muck, there’s Brass’.
  
  Thank you.
  
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  December 29, 2018 1:12pm
- stephieboy
  
  Your writer Ari Shapiro might suggest a certain Jewishness.
  
  Can you confirm?
  
  There are always those ready to spin a yarn or tale but certainly not those Jews liquidated in the Nazi-occupied East (Poland, USSR etc ) that you have consistently failed to account for.
  
  Try again?
  
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  December 29, 2018 1:34pm
Swifty

An apology from me to Scott.

Scott was right all along. There is a God and my choosing to ignore him was pure wilfulness on my part – I didn’t want to believe there was a god.

But thanks to Scott and Pastor David Manning and his Word of Prophecy I have now seen the light.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gpw819uR_8M

Thank you Pastor David.
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December 29, 2018 12:34pm
- Tall Man
  
  Chilli sauce salesman maybe?
  
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  December 29, 2018 1:03pm
- realityczech
  
  ✟ Hallelujah – preach that word brother ✟ 🙂
  
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  December 29, 2018 1:20pm
  - realityczech
    
    Harlem Pastor James David Manning Believes Starbucks is Flavoring Your Drink With Homosexual Semen
    
    Harlem pastor James David Manning claims Ebola started at Starbucks and your drink is actually made of the semen of sodomites
    
    https://www.bustle.com/articles/48473-harlem-pastor-james-david-manning-believes-starbucks-is-flavoring-your-drink-with-homosexual-semen
    
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    December 29, 2018 1:26pm
    - JibberJabber
      
      Why are we not surprised that a Pastor knows what homosexual semen tastes like?
      
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      December 29, 2018 2:41pm
KeaRea

https://i.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/109543455/plans-to-film-1-billion-lord-of-the-rings-television-series-in-nz-under-threat

I hope we get the lord of the rings series. It will be converged to heck but fingers crossed we get no needless lgbtqi or ‘elves were racist’ ‘the numenorians fell because they didn’t empower women’ ‘the orcs were just misunderstood refugees’ ‘the men of Harad were noble muslims’ ‘Sauron wasnt evil, he brought balance’ or what have you. But will be good for NZ.

Can someone in National resuscitate ‘the hobbit haters’ for Labour? When John Key said it with a grin, they went absolutely apoplectic and it was extemely funny. Bishop should do it in a general debate if they look like losing it…
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December 29, 2018 12:55pm
BananaLlama

“It was his third conviction for indecent assault.” Why has he not been deported!!!!
https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/109545511/auckland-man-who-groped-women-in-cinemas-can-now-be-revealed
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December 29, 2018 1:01pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Might have been his 3rd conviction… but it wasn’t his 3rd offence
  
  Crown prosecutor Erin Woolley said the incident on July 22 was the fourth time Patel committed the “exact type” of offending in five years.
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/108554296/auckland-man-who-groped-women-in-cinemas-driven-by-ocd-court-hears?rm=a
  
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  December 29, 2018 1:12pm
  - stephieboy
    
    MW, brings to mind this recent most serious offender,
    
    ,https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2018/09/auckland-businessman-martin-henry-lawes-jailed-for-four-years-for-sexually-exploiting-children.html
    
    Or this chap ?
    
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/104510998/serial-paedophile-could-be-housed-near-christchurch-primary-school
    
    Thoughts?
    
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    December 29, 2018 3:01pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Thoughts?
      
      Is there something you haven’t figured out yet, stephieboy?
      I abhor abuse of any form.
      
      It’s irrelevant to me if the perpetrator is man, woman or child.
      
      I have contempt for those in power who permit abuse to continue.
      
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      December 29, 2018 3:12pm
      - realityczech
        
        “Thoughts?”
        
        Wiggles, he needs yours as he can’t generate any good ones himself.
        
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        December 29, 2018 3:15pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      Stephieboy:
      
      “The 23-year-old victim had been at St Lukes cinema with her fiance when Patel sat next to her and rubbed her thigh for two minutes, gradually getting higher up her left before she moved seats.”
      
      Looks like you’re not the only pervert who goes to St Lukes for the wrong reasons.
      
      “Spending hours at the cinema without the normal intention of watching any movies clearly gives cause for concern,” Judge Mather said.”
      
      The same could be said for someone who goes to a cafe, supposedly for “coffee”, but actually writes a detailed logbook of perverted observations about underaged girls.
      
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      December 29, 2018 3:15pm
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        December 29, 2018 3:35pm
- secondcumming
  
  Good to see the horrible indian prick come up before a ‘tough judge’ for a change!
  
  At least *Justice Whata* made him reimburse Event Cinemas $35 for sneaking in without paying.
  
  FMS!!
  
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  December 29, 2018 1:13pm
  - Jack5
    
    Even if sentenced to deportation, the Immigration and Protection Tribunal would overrule this and let the pervert stay in the country.
    
    Not only is the tribunal ultra-liberal and pitifully weak, it can’t cope. Its web site says that residence appeals take an average of six months to be determined.
    
    Our border security and immigration system is a mess, and Winston Peters, who many had hoped might sort out immigration, sadly has given only the Judas kiss to his concerned voters.
    
    The Immigration and Protection Tribunal:
    
    https://www.justice.govt.nz/tribunals/immigration/immigration-and-protection/
    
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    December 29, 2018 1:23pm
    - realityczech
      
      Jacksie, tell us more about your groups race purity policy?
      
      You have made it clear you want them all rounded up and disposed of, but what about the native Maori you rant about daily, do you people want to send them to India too?
      
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      December 29, 2018 1:32pm
  - BananaLlama
    
    Fined $400 for grouping women at a cinema! Cheaper than the whore houses in Auckland!! I bet he is laughing.
    
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    December 29, 2018 1:27pm
    - Tall Man
      
      Time payment as well…….interest free.
      
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      December 29, 2018 2:14pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    He would have been jailed if it hadn’t been for a court balls-up….. they forgot to send him a written warning.
    
    Would-be eighth three-strikes offender dodges hefty prison sentence after court botch-up
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12159205
    
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    December 29, 2018 3:21pm
    - secondcumming
      
      We can expect a lot more crap like this to happen as well Maggy. Just out of curiosity, I took a look inside the Magistrates Court in Albert Street a couple of weeks ago. What an eye opener!
      
      I’ve never seen such a gormless looking bunch of unwashed no-hopers under one roof in my entire life! And I’m not just referring to those waiting outside the court rooms….you should see what they’ve got manning the counters!!
      
      FFS….
      
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      December 29, 2018 3:48pm
- sooty
  
  Is his name stephie?
  
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  December 29, 2018 1:23pm
  - Tall Man
    
    No but she’s been going there regularly on the off chance he’s still at it.
    
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    December 29, 2018 1:36pm
- Inandout
  
  ILG will deal with him quick smart and let him stay…oh wait, he seemingly is not on the ‘circuit’.
  
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  December 29, 2018 1:27pm
- Tall Man
  
  In training for labour’s youth camp maybe?
  
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  December 29, 2018 1:34pm
Chuck Bird

There is no simple way to address the issue of the poor. One way is to give to whoever and not penalize welfare. The other way is to be too tough and cause great hardship to those in genuine need.

I think Bill English had it about right with mentoring. That is the best way out in intergenerational welfare.

It Labour dumped first year uni fees paid for by the taxpayer and spent it on primary and secondary schools they would accomplish more.

They, of course, will not do so National should rather than just offer tax cuts.

I am confident that senior National MPs along with our host’s polling company will develop policies close to the election that will attract swinging voters.
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December 29, 2018 1:15pm
- Tall Man
  
  Very hard to promote education here though as most of the media pushed “role models” seem to be as thick as a plank.
  
  Look at the selection of person of the year by the herald. She’s dead through stupidity.
  
  That’s a horrible event but glorifying it is just moronic however, you could say that a dead person out performed ardern the liar.
  
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  December 29, 2018 1:33pm
  - Piniwi
    
    Perhaps Tall Man that tells us a lot more than we might expect about the readership as they display a “peoples” choice. Like Goff for Mayor they can only find a silly dead person as POTY.
    
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    December 29, 2018 2:50pm
- Piniwi
  
  Sadly Chuck Bird all that hard work done by the government departments by staff finally working with a true purpose and goal will be forgotten. That was just one part of a very big solid plan to get the help to those who needed most in targeted manner. It was almost to the stage of one on one support for the seriously vulnerable struggling to make their way.
  The initial target was ECE where almost 100% were being enrolled getting them started in the right direction. Charter schools were proving the most effective education safety net for those falling out of the state system in the next age groups. Meanwhile there was a drive to get more off the benefit into the workforce only thwarted by resistance and bad habits making holding down a job a serious challenge for many. This is nothing new as so many families have stuck by their own to help instill good work habits for those who go through some growing work pains. It is others constant faith (the complete trust kind) and support that help them most even if it takes a brush with the law or a conviction to straighten them out.
  Sad indeed watching all that being unrivaled by more of the same that created this total mess with their past solutions. Yet again embedding the potential for so many unintended consequences. This time however the radical changes being rushed on command have the potential to fuel a fire that will compete with the eternal flame.
  
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  December 29, 2018 2:45pm
  - Chuck Bird
    
    Pinini, the fact is that in a democracy one party does not stay in power forever. Chris Finlayson was right when he said National dodged a bullet.
    
    The last time a party stayed in for 4 terms was the Holyoake government. There have also been very few 1 term governments.
    
    This government can be a one term government. If so National will almost certainly get more than one term. If that is the case it will be a lot easier to change things back than if Labour last 2 or 3 terms.
    
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    December 29, 2018 4:53pm
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      The last two one-term Governments were both Labour – 1957-60 and 1972-75.
      It seems we are now into the third one. The end can’t come soon enough.
      
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      December 29, 2018 5:08pm
- holysheet
  
  The shame of it is that if fuck wits like you hadn’t voted for the drunken dwarf last election, none of your comments would be necessary. English would have been a long way to doing what he was trying to achieve with these needy people.
  Hang your head in shame.
  Keep national honest?
  Bullshit!!!!!!
  
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  December 29, 2018 4:04pm
  - Chuck Bird
    
    Holy fuck wit. Your view is not shared by many if any National MPs. I am able to email some National MPs and often get a personal reply within a couple of hours. I was very pleased to receive a Christmas card with a handwritten thank you.
    
    You will probably say that is bullshit even though you were not man enough to admit you were wrong when you made the claim I did not vote at the last AGM.
    
    However, I may be wrong assuming you are a man. You may be a woman or a tranny.
    
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    December 29, 2018 4:38pm
    - holysheet
      
      Whoopty fucken do. you receive an email or two from national MP’s. One of the reasons I left facebook was because I was sick of all the emails from national MP’s and the constant money groveling. I will donate to them when and if I want to.
      
      Do they know you are flirting with the conservatives?
      The older one gets, the more wisdom one is supposed to accumulate. What happened to you? Early onset dementia?
      Sorry for you if it is.
      
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      December 29, 2018 5:00pm
      - Chuck Bird
        
        “Do they know you are flirting with the conservatives?”
        
        They know I believe that the New Conservatives would be an ideal coalition partner. I introduced Elliot Ikilei, NC Deputy Leader to a number of them one of them on the front bench.
        
        You better hope you get wiser as you get older as you are not very bright now.
        
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        December 29, 2018 5:14pm
      - Awww C-mon
        
        Fuck your a name dropping, big noting cock sucker.
        
        I like some of your posts, you make some interesting points. Then you reach down and grab your dodger firmly between your thumb and forefinger and become a complete wanker.
        
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        December 29, 2018 5:46pm
      - Chuck Bird
        
        Awww C-mon
        
        Hey genius, do you know the meaning of context?
        
        Some cowardly bottomfeeder continues to make attacks on me.
        
        I doubt if he or you is as helpful as me in helping National. My so-called name dropping came after his unjustified attack.
        
        Has it occurred to you to you that in a democracy people can change the party they vote for? Potential swinging voters see KB and the think many National supporters dislike Maori and also do not care about people of have stuck hard times.
        
        I suggest you come up to me at the next AGM and introduce yourself and call me a cocksucker.
        
        I regret voting for Peters but cowardly scum who attack anonymously are not fit to lick his boots.
        
        None of you would front him, Jones or the Comrade Ardern if she was with her partner and insult her to her face. There would not be any violence but you would slick away.
        
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        December 29, 2018 7:17pm
      - Awww C-mon
        
        Context. It seems I get it better than you fella, you just use it as an excuse to inflate your ego.
        Helping National. Fuck that I’m not interested in helping them.
        Democracy. A party jumping political whore like you must love voting all over the shop.
        Introductions. If I saw you at an event I’d leave. Ditto Peters and Ardern. Any event that you’d all be at is not one for me.
        
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        December 29, 2018 7:46pm
  - realityczech
    
    holysheet, National burnt their bridges with NZ First due to their own arrogance and cliquey way of working. That is why they are not in power. They needed a trimming down to size.
    
    And sorry to tell ya this – but they will lose the next one if they don’t do away with Simon-7% and his entire front row of bitter snobbish old harpies.
    
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    December 29, 2018 4:48pm
    - Chuck Bird
      
      @realityczech
      
      There is no way I can say that Peters would have ever gone with National. However, I think he would up until he got caught claiming for more than he was entitled to with super.
      
      After that he had no intention of going with National. Some at the time said National should have said they should have stated they would not go with NZF as they had done before. If they had it may have made a difference.
      
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      December 29, 2018 5:04pm
      - realityczech
        
        National need to leave the door open to the minor parties. Will that mean compromises?, hell yes. But that is the electoral system we voted for.
        
        With a very special leader they could possibly get enough of the vote to govern alone, but I am not even sure if that would be a good thing either.
        
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        December 29, 2018 5:16pm
- Odakyu-sen
  
  “There is no simple way to address the issue of the poor. ”
  
  You will never address the issue until you can define what “poor” means.
  – If a man can work, but choses not to and so has no money, is he “poor”?
  – If a parent spends their welfare allowance on drugs and gambling, are her children “poor”?
  – What is the moral responsibility of “poor” people to end their poverty?
  
  Who is responsible for poverty?
  Who benefits from poverty?
  Who elevates the social status of poverty?
  
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  December 29, 2018 5:50pm
  - KevOB
    
    Poverty is redefined almost weekly to suit current political needs.
    
    The poor we will always have: pollies come and go. Ideologues are the worst as compassion has to fit their model too.
    
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    December 29, 2018 6:33pm
Jack5

Will the Syrian government be the force that saves Syrian Kurds from massacre by Turks now that Trump is pulling American troops out of Syria?

The Kurds are a big minority in Turkey. Bashar al-Assad and his mate, Putin, could cause a lot of trouble for Turkey by stirring up the Kurds.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/28/syrian-kurdish-militia-manbij-turkey
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December 29, 2018 1:45pm
- realityczech
  
  The time to worry about the Syrians was when Obama backed jihadists were destroying the country. Wikileaks revealed why – for Israel as Syria gets on okay with Iran.
  
  Not that anyone with half a brain needed to read a leaked document to know that.
  
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  December 29, 2018 2:01pm
  - realityczech
    
    NCLASSIFIED U.S. Department of State Case No. F-2014-20439 Doc No. C05794498 Date: 11/30/2015
    
    RELEASE IN FULL
    
    The best way to help Israel deal with Iran’s growing nuclear capability is to help the people of
    Syria overthrow the regime of Bashar Assad.
    
    Negotiations to limit Iran’s nuclear program will not solve Israel’s security dilemma. Nor will
    they stop Iran from improving the crucial part of any nuclear weapons program — the capability
    
    to enrich uranium. At best, the talks between the world’s major powers and Iran that began in
    Istanbul this April and will continue in Baghdad in May will enable Israel to postpone by a few
    months a decision whether to launch an attack on Iran that could provoke a major Mideast war.
    
    Iran’s nuclear program and Syria’s civil war may seem unconnected, but they are. For Israeli
    leaders, the real threat from a nuclear-armed Iran is not the prospect of an insane Iranian leader
    launching an unprovoked Iranian nuclear attack on Israel that would lead to the annihilation of
    both countries. What Israeli military leaders really worry about — but cannot talk about — is losing their nuclear monopoly…
    
    https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/18328
    
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    December 29, 2018 2:08pm
    - stephieboy
      
      rc, whats the issue?
      
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      December 29, 2018 2:43pm
      - realityczech
        
        Mass murder and destruction. War.
        
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        December 29, 2018 2:46pm
      - stephieboy
        
        rc, by whom? This? ,
        
        https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/gbu-43b-mother-of-all-bombs-massive-ordnance-air-blast-afghanistan-isis-a7682996.html
        
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        December 29, 2018 2:54pm
Manolo

The Argentinian socialist, supreme con man, forges ahead:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6507407/Dont-blame-migrants-Pope-tells-politicians.html

Pope Francis condemned nationalist leaders who blame migrants for their countries’ problems by pursuing xenophobic and racist policies.

The 82-year-old pope, who has made defence of migrants a plank of his papacy, made the comments in his message for the Catholic Church’s World Day of Peace, which is commemorated on New Year’s Day.
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December 29, 2018 2:22pm
- JibberJabber
  
  Lol, the pope, what a cunt, throw open the gates to the Vatican then arsehole, put your parishioners money where your mouth is. Hypocrite.
  
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  December 29, 2018 2:35pm
  - realityczech
    
    “throw open the gates to the Vatican”
    
    Don’t let any little boys go in there.
    
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    December 29, 2018 2:50pm
    - JibberJabber
      
      LoL, the rent-boys have their own swipe-cards.
      
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      December 29, 2018 4:17pm
- Inandout
  
  Failing mental faculties?
  
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  December 29, 2018 4:05pm
Manolo

Even our pious resident Muslim agrees: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-26/new-york-hot-dog-rabbi-to-make-qatar-kosher-at-soccer-world-cup

The rabbi who brought kosher hot dogs to New York baseball stadiums wants to help the Persian Gulf state of Qatar host Jewish fans with food they can eat at soccer’s 2022 World Cup.

Visitors with Israeli passports, currently barred from the Muslim country by law, will also be welcome, Schneier said, citing the Qatari official.
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December 29, 2018 2:27pm
Chuck Bird

I understand Judge Andrew Becroft, Children’s Commissioner is a strong contender for New Zealander of the Year. He is a far left as the Greens and Comrade Ardern.
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December 29, 2018 3:11pm
- realityczech
  
  Those sorts of lefties can afford to virtue signal as they have the income to isolate themselves from the policies they promote.
  
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  December 29, 2018 3:36pm
- Kiwi_in_Paris
  
  At least he can tttttttttalkkkk nnnnnnow.
  
  Twenty years ago he could barely get a sentence out.
  
  They must have given him the ol shock treatment.
  
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  December 29, 2018 4:02pm
- MT_Tinman
  
  The only judge I have ever come across who introduces himself as “judge”.
  
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  December 29, 2018 4:29pm
  - realityczech
    
    Do they refer to you as – The Defendant?
    
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    December 29, 2018 4:41pm
- KevOB
  
  Ideologue first class?
  
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  December 29, 2018 6:29pm
wreck1080

Nz herald awards New Zealander of the year to …. women.

That means Lisa Kuka is nz’er of the year, being a member of the group we would call women.

A number of other child killers are also in this group.

What an inane world with weak minded journalists reporting on it.
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December 29, 2018 3:35pm
- realityczech
  
  Kiwi women are the most awful bitter angry sluts on the planet. Yet they continually talk themselves up. It is not working though as depression is steadily climbing among the dreadful bitches.
  
  Apologies to the few good ones, but you ladies don’t disprove the general rule. 🙂
  
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  December 29, 2018 4:39pm
  - waikatogirl
    
    Thank goodness for your last minute ‘clarification’ rc!!!
    I was about to be triggered!!! ? ? ?
    
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    December 29, 2018 4:47pm
    - realityczech
      
      You and Wiggles are like a beacon of hope dear 😉
      
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      December 29, 2018 4:51pm
      - waikatogirl
        
        That’s nice, but quite frankly I give little positive regard for most of what you post. ?
        
        Each to their own.
        Best wishes for 2019. ?
        
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        December 29, 2018 4:58pm
      - realityczech
        
        Lucky for me my comments are not about getting approval from anonymous strangers. Or else I would be devastated.
        
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        December 29, 2018 5:03pm
      - Kiwi_in_Paris
        
        Who needs Tinder when there is Kiwiblog, lol
        
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        December 29, 2018 5:31pm
      - nasska
        
        …..”my comments are not about getting approval from anonymous strangers”…..
        
        Settle down & relax RC. I’ve just completed a mail-order course in psychobabble & I’d love to offer my services before I specialise in deprogramming unfortunate religious converts..
        
        I’m certain that after a few thousand dollars worth of counselling combined with extensive therapy to adjust your phobias & philias you’ll be everyone’s favourite blog commentator. 🙂
        
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        December 29, 2018 5:40pm
      - realityczech
        
        I just need to hate on Muslims, worship the Jews, and the upticks will come from the gape-jawed sheeple. They are simple folk here on KB.
        
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        December 29, 2018 6:03pm
      - waikatogirl
        
        “Who needs Tinder when there is Kiwiblog, lol”
        
        LOL indeed KiP. ?
        
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        December 29, 2018 6:23pm
  - Komata
    
    RC @1639
    
    Not married to a Kiwi then?
    
    Did one rebuff you and you’ve never got over it?
    
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    December 29, 2018 7:50pm
- Longknives
  
  It’s funny Wreck
  I also mentioned Nia Glassie’s Mother when we were drinking with friends today and discussing this ‘All women are awesome’ thing from the Herald.
  A Lefty associate piped in with “Oh but she was clearly a victim as well”…
  
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  December 29, 2018 7:22pm
Biscuit

I see the UK has released its New Years Honour List.

(Why do WE wait until the day itself?)

Not a lot I’d disagree with – you have to expect the usual array of politicos – but I especially liked:

Dame Twiggy

Sir Michael Palin

Sir Alastair Cook (he played Creekit a bit)

Sir William Beaumont (ditto re Rugby, although he has turned out to be a pretty good head of World Rugby, too)
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December 29, 2018 5:55pm
- Longknives
  
  Ali Cook got a Knighthood??
  Good opening batsman but Jeesus….
  
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  December 29, 2018 7:14pm
  - Jack5
    
    The British list will be mundane when compared with the NZ New Years Honours, which will star Sir Judas, for services both to the United Nations and to horse racing.
    
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    December 29, 2018 9:38pm
Maggy Wassilieff

They don’t waste time in Falkirk dealing with creepy chaps
Man wrote obscene message in Christmas card to neighbour
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-46700365
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December 29, 2018 6:13pm
- waikatogirl
  
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  December 29, 2018 6:33pm
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  That’s a justice system to admire.
  
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  December 29, 2018 6:40pm
- stephieboy
  
  Don’t see what the issue is. They put those kinds away here too!
  
  Some here on KB deserve similar treatment by the UK Falkirk Sheriff Court.
  
  Thoughts?
  
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  December 29, 2018 7:05pm
  - Longknives
    
    My thoughts are that ‘Low Level’ Sexual Offending (Like stalking young girls at St Luke’s Mall etc) is a warning bell for more devious and potentially dangerous activity further down the track..
    So Yep- Agree with Stephieboy…
    Lock ‘Em Up!
    
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    December 29, 2018 7:08pm
    - stephieboy
      
      Longknives, infantile and inane alert!
      
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      December 29, 2018 7:23pm
      - Longknives
        
        You forgot to mention ‘ignorant’ this time Stephie!
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHqgHFcmAOc
        
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        December 29, 2018 7:31pm
  - nasska
    
    …..”Thoughts?”…..
    
    Hand yourself in & beg for the Judge’s mercy! 🙂
    
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    December 29, 2018 7:10pm
    - stephieboy
      
      nasska, for what? Like your deep puritanical shame, guilt and disgust at the female form?
      
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      December 29, 2018 7:26pm
      - sooty
        
        Do they know that you are a deviat at St Albans?
        
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        December 29, 2018 9:14pm
      - Manolo
        
        Would you confess how young you like them, dear stephieboy? Be honest and answer me!
        
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        December 29, 2018 11:43pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    Stephieboy:
    
    “Some here on KB deserve similar treatment by the UK Falkirk Sheriff Court. Thoughts?”
    
    Well, seeing as you’ve asked, here’s my thoughts. I’m sure that Kiwiblog readers would happily buy you a one-way ticket to Falkirk. You won’t need a return ticket. Based on your Kiwiblog comment history, which includes examples of perversion and sexual harrassment, you’ll be locked up for a long time!
    
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    December 29, 2018 7:26pm
    - stephieboy
      
      Nostradamus ..
      
      “..which includes examples of perversion and sexual harassment, you’ll be locked up for a long time!”
      
      ????
      
      Otherwise,
      
      Wank, wank oink, oink!
      
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      December 29, 2018 7:28pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Stephieboy:
        
        “Wank, wank oink, oink!”
        
        Save that one for the judge! (And see your doctor for your compulsive masturbation disorder.)
        
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        December 29, 2018 7:30pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Don’t see what the issue is.
    
    The clue is at the start of my first sentence:
    They don’t waste time
    
    The perv sent the card through the lady’s door slot on the afternoon of Christmas Day.
    He was arrested at 9:30pm, 25 December.
    
    By 3:25pm 27th December, his case had been heard by the local sheriff, he had been sentenced to 2 months jail, and the story was published in the local newspaper.
    https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/3674325/scots-perv-shocked-neighbour-vile-message-christmas-card-caged/
    Quick Justice.
    
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    December 29, 2018 7:27pm
    - stephieboy
      
      And a quick admission of guilt by the offender it appears!
      
      I doubt if Falkirk has huge court lists and trials to deal with.
      
      But you might know differently?
      
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      December 29, 2018 7:28pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        You can check for yourself
        http://www.scotcourts.gov.uk/current-business/court-rolls/court-rolls-search?indexCatalogue=sheriff-court-rolls&searchQuery=falkirk&wordsMode=0
        
        But you reckon you’d get such a quick turnaround in NZ over the Xmas_New Year?
        
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        December 29, 2018 7:38pm
      - stephieboy
        
        MW, don’t be so boorish. It was the accused’s quick admission of guilt that saw speedy justice delivered. If he had entered a plea of not guilty then the wheels of justice at Falkirk could have dragged on and on….
        
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        December 29, 2018 7:44pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        boorish
        
        I think not.
        
        I very politely replied to your 7:05pm post where you admit that you don’t see what the issue is; and then I politely replied to your 7:28pm post and gave you a link to follow up the records at Falkirk’s Sheriff Court yourself.
        
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        December 29, 2018 8:48pm
nasska

Conservonutter jargon explained:

compassionate conservatism:

n. Poignant concern for the very wealthy.

God:

n. Senior political adviser.

liberal(s):

n. Followers of the Anti-christ.
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December 29, 2018 6:37pm
- stephieboy
  
  nasska, so typical of your weak, assinine and pointless posts!
  
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  December 29, 2018 7:21pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I don’t think calling someone assinine is very wise when you don’t even know how to spell the word.
    
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    December 29, 2018 7:34pm
    - stephieboy
      
      MW, would “extremely stupid or foolish” be to your satisfaction?
      
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      December 29, 2018 7:47pm
      - Awww C-mon
        
        It appears neither stupid nor foolish are to her tastes… kinda explains why she has little time for you fella.
        
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        December 29, 2018 8:06pm
    - Manolo
      
      Please understand, cara Maggy. This stephieboy was the one with lousy spelling! Un vero cretino.
      
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      December 29, 2018 11:41pm
Jack5

German ISIS recruit kept child as slave, chained her up outside, and let her die of illness.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46705252

❗?Kea❗ can show her class by trolling off that bit of nastiness. Her favourite people – Germans AND Muslim.
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December 29, 2018 7:24pm
- stephieboy
  
  Jack5 , yes ISIS were a nasty lot and its good to see some are being brought to justice as we witnessed with the massacre of 8,000 Bosnian by Serbians.
  
  I believe your problem is to ignorantly conflate ISIS despicable acts with Muslims like Kurds, Shia and Iraqis who fought long and hard against them.
  
  This is why nobody outside KB takes you seriously.
  
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  December 29, 2018 7:39pm
  - rangitoto
    
    Thankfully, Mr Trump defeated Obama’s JV team, otherwise known as Daesh/ISIS.
    
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    December 29, 2018 8:46pm
- realityczech
  
  “AND Muslim”
  
  No I reject all religious nuts Jacksie. I don’t have double standards like you.
  
  You would be defending that if Jews did it.
  
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  December 29, 2018 8:02pm
  - Jack5
    
    Gotcha, ❗?Kea❗
    
    Softly, softly, catchee monkey,
    Softly, softly, catchee parrot.
    
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    December 29, 2018 8:40pm
Komata

Irony Alert methinks…
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December 29, 2018 7:40pm
- stephieboy
  
  Komata, it applies to you as well. The audience for rabid and alt righters beyond KB or Whale Oil etc is very limited.
  
  Fifty or so may seem a lot here on KB but out in the real world, it is tiny. I would say 0000.1% of the NZ voting public!
  
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  December 29, 2018 7:52pm
  - Longknives
    
    “I would say 0000.1% of the NZ voting public!”
    
    How many more votes did National get than Labour again? Was it two hundred thousand or so..??
    
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    December 29, 2018 7:56pm
    - Jack5
      
      Stephie X says: “I would say 0000.1% of the NZ voting public!”
      
      That’s a bigger chance than the Stephiestani Trolls Ltd junior who leers at tiny, newly pubescent, breasts at the mall has of ever, ever getting laid. ?
      
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      December 29, 2018 8:43pm
      - nasska
        
        The last time he had sex with a woman he filmed it…..
        
        …..on Beta Max! 🙂
        
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        December 29, 2018 9:02pm
      - sooty
        
        It was the only time, stephie had sex with a woman!
        
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        December 29, 2018 9:07pm
    - stephieboy
      
      Longknives , the most liberal of estimates that rabid righters like you would of contributions to no more than several hundred of those votes.
      
      Tiny! !Insignificant!
      
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      December 29, 2018 9:32pm
  - pentwig
    
    stoopidthing
    you really are a total fuckwit
    if you do not like right wing politics so much, why the fuck are you trolling on here every day
    you hate conservatives
    you are a self confessed pervert
    you are totally illiterate
    you have no brain
    you are a muslim terrorist apologist
    apparently you fuck goats
    you really are a sick individual
    you need help
    
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    December 29, 2018 9:14pm
  - DigNap15
    
    I would say the tide is truing, as more and more people realise that the MSM is feeding them crap and as they wake up to what the evil left is trying to do to the world!
    
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    December 30, 2018 7:35am
Jack5

A parrot joke seems appropriate at this solemn time – the unveiling of ❗?Kea❗ in her latest revelation to the blogosphere…

From the internet:

A bloke inherits a parrot when his friend dies. But the parrot won’t stop swearing at him. Worse, the parrot is an anti-Semite. The bird calls him a dumb-fuck Jew, a Jewish cunt, and a bunch of other names.

The bloke tries everything to get the parrot to stop swearing at him and stop its racist smears.

Nothing works. He finally gets fed up and sticks the bird in the deep freeze. Even from in there, he hears him cussing him out and insulting the bloke’s religion.

Then the parrot falls silent.

The bloke thinks, ” Oh shit, I killed him.”

He opens the freezer. The parrot hops out saying, ” Very sorry for the way I spoke to you, sir. I just have one question… What did the chicken do?”
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December 29, 2018 9:17pm
pentwig

stoopidthing
re the goats
you have never denied the fact so we must assume it as true as your little girl perversion
sigh
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December 29, 2018 9:24pm
- stephieboy
  
  Goodnight pent” twit”!
  
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  December 29, 2018 9:49pm
pentwig

stoopidthing
i did not mention your attempted bullying of Maggie
you really are a lowlife picking on such a beautiful lady. even sexually you harass her
Maggies superior intellect is such that she doesn’t need us to protect her, she throws you to the wolves adequately herself everytime
you are a total sicko
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December 29, 2018 9:44pm
Jack5

The tatts story that tops ’em all – would you call him a silly prick or just a bit soft…

Tattooed man drapes penis over rolling pin to complete his full body tattoos:

https://www.inkedmag.com/sports-2/body-builder-tattoos-penis-to-complete-tattoo-transformation

AND
https://nypost.com/2018/12/28/bodybuilder-wraps-penis-around-rolling-pin-to-finish-tattoo-body-suit/
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December 29, 2018 10:51pm
- Tauhei Notts
  
  A brewery worker from Mangatainoka had TUI tattooed on his penis. When a woman fondled it she found that the tattoo revealed his place of birth; TAUMARUNUI
  
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  December 30, 2018 4:08am
  - Monique Watson
    
    Brilliant!
    
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    December 30, 2018 5:34am
  - softail 1450
    
    Tauhei Notts,Lucky for the tattooist he wasnt born in taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuanuakitanatahu,,,,the longest word in written language,,fact.
    
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