General Debate 9 December 2018

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dave_c_

Might just give up on making comments today – It’s a magnificent day here. The garden beckons.
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December 9, 2018 8:02am
- lifesgood
  
  Good idea!
  
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  December 9, 2018 8:11am
  - waikatogirl
    
    Going to rain in the Waikato for the next few days so today’s the day for tending the garden. Spring/Early summer is glorious. Have a wonderful Sunday everyone. ?
    
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    December 9, 2018 8:15am
- Biscuit
  
  dave_c_, and Chelsea are 2-0 up over Manchester City!
  
  A great day to a be Liverpool fan after we struggled to a 4-0 away win earlier on!
  
  When you walk etc etc etc!
  
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  December 9, 2018 8:12am
  - big bruv
    
    Liverpool, I remember them, they used to be a big club in the way that Preston North End and Blackpool once dominated English football.
    Can’t remember the last time that Liverpool won the premiership….oh that’s right, they never have.
    
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    December 9, 2018 3:14pm
    - Harkman
      
      Everton are way cooler.
      
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      December 9, 2018 3:20pm
      - kiwitoffee
        
        Indeed.
        And cheaper to run.
        
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        December 10, 2018 4:43am
  - Pharmachick
    
    🙂
    
    Pharmachick’s cousin’s name is Stephie G
    
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    December 9, 2018 6:25pm
    - SGA
      
      Do you mean Stevie G?
      
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      December 9, 2018 7:09pm
      - Pharmachick
        
        Yeah, for some reason on Kiwiblog my autocorrect hits Stephie 😉
        
        But it is true.
        
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        December 10, 2018 3:46pm
- cmm
  
  Yup me too.
  
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  December 9, 2018 8:36am
- Harkman
  
  Yes it is brilliant here in Chch too, clear blue skies, light breeze and 18°c. Have a great day folks.
  
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  December 9, 2018 8:41am
holysheet

Two of Shanes nephews were out planting some of the one hundred million trees. One slowly digs a hole, the other slowly fills the hole.

A confused passerby asks: “Why do you dig a hole and fill it up again?”

The digger leans on his shovel and replies: “The lazy cussie who plants the trees is off sick again today.”
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December 9, 2018 8:03am
Dave Stringer

Following the education reform review?
How about this as a thought.

“We’ve got a system that encourages competition and we think unhealthy competition,”Haque said. “That in our view is hugely damaging particularly for schools in disadvantaged communities.”

I have watched this perspective on life play out in England. Younger (by 12 years) brother in law went to a “no competition“ school. After not being good enough for six jobs he applied for, he was judged to be suffering PTSD and spent 11 years on benefits.

Our children and grandchildren need educating for the real world, not some dystopian dream where nobody stands out from the crowd from any perspective.
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December 9, 2018 8:09am
- Jazzby
  
  Socialists believe that life is a zero-sum business; so, if one person succeeds, then it must be at someone else’s expense. They don’t seem to realise that we can all be better off, if we make the effort; the only ones who then fall by the wayside are those who can’t be bothered. But this is a fact of life that the political left simply can’t digest.
  
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  December 9, 2018 8:16am
  - MCos
    
    “the only ones who then fall by the wayside are those who can’t be bothered.”
    Complete fallacy, of course.
    Plenty of people have worked their arses off, made honest mistakes or got greedy or been incompetent and fallen by the wayside, dragging other people down with them.
    Conversely there are plenty of people who have gone aimlessly through life doing the bare minimum and still having a pretty good lifestyle.
    Some people are not the brightest of sparks or their English ain’t too flash, but they might find a niche as a cleaner or whatever, which they tackle with enthusiasm. And there’s plenty of people around who object whenever someone suggests that people such as them might just deserve something better than minimum renumeration.
    
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    December 9, 2018 3:25pm
    - Jazzby
      
      No, it’s not fallacious: sure, there are many unbidden events that send people off track – either through their own ill-judgement or, as you suggest, someone else’s fault – but there are plenty of support mechanisms in place to help them climb back. It all comes down to motivation. It was my job, over forty years, to help such folk recover their lives, and it was sometimes staggering to see how, despite incredible adversity, some succeeded: these were the people who chose to make it. Others took a passive stance, and didn’t do well.
      Let me make it clear: a caring society should help those who can’t help themselves, but not those who won’t help themselves. It is the latter to whom I refer.
      Your point about some people coasting along, yet doing well, is irrelevant to that argument.
      As for the poorly-paid, that again is another issue. I agree that effort is not infrequently inadequately rewarded, because what tends to dictate remuneration is the crude rule of supply and demand. This is, as things currently stand, a fact of life. If you have some alternative, presumably superior scheme to suggest, I’d like to hear it – but the only one I can think of is a controlled economy, and that is a recipe for disaster.
      
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      December 9, 2018 4:36pm
- Salacious Crumb
  
  Haque is as PC Pinko as they come. He’ll be thinking “great we can screw over the Auckland Grammars and McLeans Colleges” of this country instead of looking at why these schools are so successful academically. The NZEI has really showed its true nature under this bereft government.
  
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  December 9, 2018 8:18am
  - Jazzby
    
    This also explains Labour’s ‘politics of envy’: Cullen’s “rick pricks” jibe was a classic example of this.
    The lazy, stupid, and indifferent are those attracted to Labour because they’re promised an easy ride; indeed, they’re encouraged by the likes of Haque to resent the more motivated and talented amongst us. Left wing politics is inherently socially divisive.
    
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    December 9, 2018 8:44am
    - MCos
      
      Politics is inherently socially divisive, which is why the two main NZ parties have drifted towards the centre; particularly since the instigation of MMP.
      Whatever you might want to believe the NZ public doesn’t care much for parties that stray too far to the left or right. ACT & the Conservative party have withered away and the Greens were lucky to survive the Metiria Turei fiasco.
      
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      December 9, 2018 3:40pm
      - Jazzby
        
        You have neatly contradicted yourself: if, as you claim, politics is inherently socially divisive, then this would flow from the polarised nature of the political ideologies being espoused. But, as you observe, there tends to be a drift towards the centre, and a rejection of fringe parties. The two major parties have far more in common than they have differences; sometimes, indeed, the so-called ‘left’ is actually to the ‘right’ of the other party – cf. the Douglas-era of Labour. Policy fields regularly overlap. Sure, there is the ‘tribal’ vote for both National and Labour, but it doesn’t necessarily follow that these supporters are radically at odds with each other.
        The Maori Party disappeared, I suggest, for the very fact that it was socially divisive, with its support of a ‘two state’ solution.
        
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        December 9, 2018 4:48pm
    - GoVege
      
      Labour recognizes that many people do not start on an even playing field.
      Divorce or death can cause devastation to a kid’s chances of life.
      Labour is the party that has done something about this.
      They need to go further and acknowledge that there are actually more impediments to a young person’s chances that are less obvious, such as useless selfish parents who put their own needs before their children’s.
      
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      December 9, 2018 5:20pm
      - realityczech
        
        What is Labour’s plan to deal with the most marginalised people. The ones at the top of all the negative social statistics, according to official figures you can google right now, MEN?
        
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        December 9, 2018 5:28pm
      - Prince
        
        Are you joking, Labour deals to inequalities ?
        Closing Charter schools ?
        Giving a huge slice of the surplus to first year uni students ?
        Spending millions on committees stacked with their flunkies ?
        Tax breaks for horse racing ?
        Billions to ex Labour MP Shane Jones to spend on his reelection fund ?
        
        Labour has no interest in actually delving into the long-term causes of inequalities.
        
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        December 9, 2018 5:47pm
  - Philview
    
    These proposed education reforms are a blue print for educational communism and must be shut down.
    The ideas sound very similar to what was already in the Labour manifesto.
    
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    December 9, 2018 11:35am
    - KevOB
      
      No communist would set up a working group that would not give the required recommendations.
      
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      December 9, 2018 12:47pm
  - trout
    
    The feminist/maori driven Education Department has tried for years to cut Auckland Grammar down to size. Something to do with elitism and male patriachy. Grammar gets the same funding as a low decile schools and builds on it by asking parents for donations; this arrangement is to be prohibited under the new proposal.
    
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    December 9, 2018 6:20pm
- Southern Raider
  
  Disadvantaged kids were being helped by charter schools
  
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  December 9, 2018 9:17am
  - Jack5
    
    It’s not only traditional, strong schools that are opposed and resented by the Labour Party, whose core is now teachers and academics rather than the “working class”.
    
    A parent who showed interest in a fairly new independent school in Christchurch tells me the waiting list for kids to get in is bigger that its current roll.
    
    People want new types of schools, but the teacher unions hate them and block them wherever they can.
    
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    December 9, 2018 9:54am
    - GazzaW
      
      We live in a suburb not previously favoured by the wealthier sector but over the last year homes are being snapped up by families so that they can afford to send their kids to private schools. Never has our suburb seen so many private school uniforms at the bus stops or rail station.
      
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      December 9, 2018 11:04am
      - MCos
        
        Good to see the kids are using public transport.
        
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        December 9, 2018 3:42pm
- James Stephenson
  
  not some dystopian dream
  
  *utopian* is the word you’re looking for. Dystopian is when everything has turned to custard and is a nightmare rather than a dream.
  
  HTH etc.
  
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  December 9, 2018 10:02am
- kiwitoffee
  
  Sadly, Mr Haque is the embodiment of the condescending, pseudo-intellectual elite who spout the latest educational (and other) jargon with the aim of sounding clever and pulling the wool over peoples’ eyes.
  Glib?
  Smug?
  Highly paid?
  Pencil sucker?
  All of the above, and more.
  Dangerous too.
  
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  December 10, 2018 4:49am
secondcumming

Within minutes of their arrival at the homicide scene, Police had taken a man into custody and found the murder weapon.

It was a brief case.
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December 9, 2018 8:13am
- Komata
  
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  Tardish ‘Oi’!
  
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  December 9, 2018 8:31am
Sofia

Heather du Plessis-Allan: Trevor Mallard is protecting Jacinda Ardern

Du Plessis-Allen says Mallard’s first big mistake was the Stupid Little Girl incident, where no one but Mallard apparently heard the claimed comment and it appears on no tapes, television or audio.
There’s the banning of photos of the Prime Minister and her daughter, when they may not be taken anyway.
Then Mallard has – inquired (twice) into the leaking of Bridges’ expenses and (once) into bullying in Parliament. All three inquiries generated negative news stories for National. That’s not flash for a supposedly impartial guy.

But she does miss mentioning the way Mallard often interrupts Bridges or deals with other trivial matters, giving Ardern time to think. That is a point Bridges himself makes.
And that would seem to actually be the more consistent favouritism Mallard displays.
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December 9, 2018 8:13am
- Salacious Crumb
  
  Its notable how quiet the likes of Marxquess and Muttonturd have been. It must be truly embarrassing to be an avowed supporter of such an intellectually and morally bereft party.
  
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  December 9, 2018 8:21am
  - stephieboy
    
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    Salacious Crumb,
    
    “.. intellectually and morally bereft ..”?
    
    Rich irony alert of the morning with more to come!
    
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    December 9, 2018 8:45am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      Stuffy: denies that sexual assaults happened in front of Cologne Cathedral and considers fear of sexual abuse ‘moral panic’.
      
      So of course knows all about true morality…
      
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      December 9, 2018 8:53am
    - Tall Man
      
      Can I suggest that KB’s refrain from responding to this disturbed woman.
      
      steffy girl has no interest in adding value to a discussion or even intelligent comments. I see shades of JLR mental issues and for her own health it may be best to just downtick and move on.
      
      ardern is a liar
      
      steffy is a girl
      
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      December 9, 2018 9:56am
      - sooty
        
        Stupid was quite for a few days aswell.
        
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        December 9, 2018 11:59am
      - softail 1450
        
        Tall man,au contraire tall man ,theres many a red faced nanny goat that will attest to the fact that septicboy is in fact male….
        
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        December 9, 2018 3:03pm
      - Woz
        
        Sooty: inpatients aren’t allowed to use the internet.
        
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        December 9, 2018 3:52pm
- waikatogirl
  
  Is this the final week of Parliament sitting?
  The col must be desperate for a long summer holiday where there are no hard questions to answer. The poor wee lambs of the col are just not made for actually having to justify their taxpayer paid pay packets. ?
  
  Perhaps a few weeks off enjoying the sunshine and playing with Neve will be a revelation for Cindy.
  
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  December 9, 2018 8:22am
  - freethinker
    
    Yes and ample time for more information on past COLL stuff ups and new ones to emerge into the sunshine ready to be disinfected.
    
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    December 9, 2018 9:08am
  - sooty
    
    Will Comrade Cindy No Show go to work for the whole week?
    
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    December 9, 2018 12:00pm
  - KevOB
    
    Catch up on lawnmowing too.
    
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    December 9, 2018 12:50pm
- Classic Liberal
  
  “the Stupid Little Girl incident, where no one but Mallard apparently heard the claimed comment ”
  
  Total parapraxis!
  
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  December 9, 2018 8:37am
  - tf78
    
    SLG I think can only have come from Mallard’s brain – it’s how he thinks. No wonder he’s over compensating.
    
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    December 9, 2018 9:58am
- JibberJabber
  
  The fact that she feels the need to preface her piece
  
  I’ve got a lot of time for Trevor Mallard. He’s a good laugh. He’s (surprisingly) a sucker for babies. And he was a really good electorate MP.
  
  shows her bias and is uncomfortable stating the bleeding obvious that even the most ardent cheerleaders of this CoL can see.
  FFS the Saffa scribbler is apologetic that Labour turn everything they touch to shit.
  
  t wouldn’t be the first time National’s pulled this stunt to create a distraction.
  
  heh, WTF would she know? She`s only been in the country 10 minutes, Bazza is obviously feeding her these lines.
  
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  December 9, 2018 8:45am
  - Tall Man
    
    Of course he’s a good laugh, the bulk of the country is laughing at him.
    
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    December 9, 2018 9:58am
  - Viking2
    
    Well Mallard was a well known philanderer. Is it possible do you think?
    
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    December 9, 2018 10:01am
- DifferentPerspective
  
  A liar’s gotta lie
  
  Leader’s Debate 2017……..
  Mike Hosking “So that’s a rock solid guarantee? We are not going to see a return to endless strikes if you win?
  Labour’s lyin’ leader: “No. We. Will. Not”
  
  I don’t see much of our fearless, principled MSM “holding to account” the SLG.
  Why aren’t they off “speaking truth to power” about Air NZ engineers striking on the busiest day of the year or the teachers banking their long, long summer holidays before coming back at the start of the new school year for another round of strikes? Or the bus drivers? Or the PSA bludgers? Or the nurses? Or the rest home workers?
  
  She can’t be held to account in Parliament! She barely shows up half the time!
  
  Whatever happened to “Of course she can be a mum and a PM?” At least the evil Helen Clark showed up for her job.
  
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  December 9, 2018 8:53am
- artemisia
  
  I guess an Opposition always thinks a Government Member as Speaker is biased.
  
  A Speaker will sometimes get a decision wrong, but still has to be Caesar’s wife most of the time.
  
  Mr Mallard fails to meet that standard. IMO.
  
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  December 9, 2018 8:57am
  - freethinker
    
    The only standard Mallard meets is that of “The Standard” – pun intended.
    
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    December 9, 2018 9:11am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    I have watched clips of the ‘here comes the protection’ comment and I just cannot hear it.
    
    I am sure it is there but wonder if it was another ‘silly little girl’ moment.
    
    Anybody got a link good audio (or Hansard perhaps) for an ex-aircraft technician who got $11,000.00 a year and no strikes
    
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    December 9, 2018 9:12am
    - yomcat
      
      It’s in the transcript from Hansard.
      
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      December 9, 2018 9:29am
    - Tall Man
      
      Simon Bridges has clearly “owned” the comment and has justified it by pointing out that while it may be a breach of house rules it needed to be clearly identified to the electorate.
      
      Mallard’s continual deflection of the onslaught that National are visiting on the coalition and the “Clayton’s” prime minister in particular is also a breach of the rules of the “house”.
      
      It’s just a shame that our pm is so bloody useless that she needs this “protection” from mallard.
      
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      December 9, 2018 10:02am
      - niggly
        
        “The “Clayton’s” prime minister” – I like that (mind if I steal it to use it?)!
        
        It is a perfect representation of the situation, especially with Winston (and Robbo) pulling the strings!
        
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        December 9, 2018 10:45am
- Albert_Ross
  
  Didn’t you love the way she portrayed the Parliamentary walkout as a way for National to distract attention from the Maggie Barry business, but managed completely to avoid noticing how the Maggie Barry business is itself a blatant attempt to distract from the far more serious Sroubek business.
  
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  December 9, 2018 8:59am
- pdm
  
  An excellent piece by Mrs Soper until her last two or three sentences. Old habits die hard and she could not resist putting the knife into National and Bridges at the end of the article.
  
  Spoiled one of her better efforts.
  
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  December 9, 2018 9:25am
  - double d
    
    I thought it was a rubbish piece.
    It was very clear it was written under the instruction of “Mallard is bias so write an article”
    So she frames it as “he is a good guy”’ “ he likes babies (shudder)” etc to ensure that Trev knows that all is well between them …. nudge nudge – just doing my job.
    Then as Albert Ross points out, infers the walkout was a distraction away from the real story – Maggie Barry – when we all know the Barry story is the beatup of the year and a clear squirrel to take the heat off Labour over the Sroubek affair.
    Soper did it on the radio with Larry Williams on friday evening – he wanted the story to be Bridges contriving a parliament walkout to cover his poor polling. He is more interested in leadership spills and exclusives than holding this very corrupt government to account. As is his wife.
    The article from HDPA was written in the very reluctant and sycophantic way.
    
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    December 9, 2018 9:38am
  - Tricati
    
    And the ongoing puff pieces by Soper, Watkins and kirk having a go at Simon Bridges and National are becoming nauseating.
    They are clearly running an agenda to take the spotlight of Cindy and her inept government, especially giving the lack of scrutiny over the migration pact, the dodgy lawnmowers and the kiwibuild ball ups just to name a few
    
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    December 9, 2018 9:46am
- wreck1080
  
  Margaret Wilson was the worst speaker.
  
  The duck is pretty bad too though.
  
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  December 9, 2018 9:58am
  - pdm
    
    I think Mallard is more biased and therefore worse than Wilson who was just an incompetent screecher!!
    
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    December 9, 2018 10:13am
    - Jazzby
      
      Agreed. Wilson was silly, shrill, incompetent and a caricature of a schoolmarm; Mallard, in contrast is overtly partisan, and just plain nasty, for good measure.
      
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      December 9, 2018 12:31pm
      - Woz
        
        He’s a piece of shit, always has been.
        
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        December 9, 2018 3:55pm
      - kiwitoffee
        
        Not happy unless he’s kicking someone.
        
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        December 10, 2018 4:52am
Manolo

Another casualty. Trump is running out of people:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/12/08/john-kelly-out-donald-trump-chief-staff/339220002/

Former White House chief of staff John Kelly, who was assigned to bring a level of discipline to President Donald Trump’s often chaotic administration, is leaving the post after internal tensions increasingly spilled into public view in recent months, Trump said Saturday.
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December 9, 2018 8:20am
- G152
  
  In a country of millions how can you run out of people?
  Another anti Trump article.
  Doesn’t fake news have anything else to do like, just maybe, actually print the news.
  A radical idea I know but why not try it and just maybe people will buy the papers, listen to the radio, watch TV news and go online to become informed as to what’s going on in the world and not what a biased media want them to believe
  
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  December 9, 2018 8:28am
  - stephieboy
    
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    G152, a revolving door in rapid overdrive is nothing unusual?
    
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    December 9, 2018 8:33am
    - DifferentPerspective
      
      Just like Jacinda’s office, the only problem is she’s going through staff far faster than Trump – she must be much, much worse by your logic.
      
      (I apologise to other KB readers – of course, I know SB doesn’t apply “logic” to any aspect of his/her/it/their comments – but you know, it was just a way to point out the loopy doopiness of his/her/it/their comments)
      
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      December 9, 2018 8:57am
      - Tall Man
        
        Ha ha ha. steffy girl took the bait on that one and again proved she is a brainless turd.
        
        Well done DP.
        
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        December 9, 2018 10:29am
- Jules99
  
  I was pretty impressed with Kelly. Makes me wonder whether there is another role lined up for him. Maybe more related to his military background.
  
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  December 9, 2018 9:53am
  - SGA
    
    It would usual to announce that role first, wouldn’t it? It would then look less like a reignation/sacking and more a sideways move/promotion?
    
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    December 9, 2018 7:18pm
Paulus

Why is it the female columnist and her husband seem to think that National has had a terrible year when our SLG and her associates have made such a mess of the year in power that it is always National who get the stick.
Talk about built in feminist prejudice – is it because Bridges is a normal family man (and married to his wife) and has normal children ?
He is not a radical lefty like the so called Government.
Must be horrible to be like these feminist reporters who look for something to say but not against the stuff ups of this so called Government.
Presumably it is possible that SLG has vacancies in her Department and they are looking for a job there.
Strange prejudices ?
There are many more stories to come about this worse Government ever and they will not be all washed away over the holidays.
Watch Stroubec and the Young Labour pants fiddler in the New Year.
These reporters will be “encouraged” to ensure that these are all swept under the carpet – but they will not.
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December 9, 2018 8:22am
- Classic Liberal
  
  She’s lucky Bridges isn’t a Leftard: then he’d cry ‘racist!’ every time she criticised him.
  
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  December 9, 2018 8:40am
  - stephieboy
    
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    Classical Liberal, just a gentle reminder there is such a species called Rightard just like you.
    
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    December 9, 2018 8:49am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      Stuffy: denies the sexual assaults happened in front of Cologne Cathedral and considers fear of sexual abuse ‘moral panic’.
      
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      December 9, 2018 8:58am
      - Salacious Crumb
        
        Don’t forget he is an apologist for the Pakistani rape gangs responsible for a million young girls being systematically groomed and raped. He has their to show any empathy or concern for them. Says so much about our Stephieboy.
        
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        December 9, 2018 1:31pm
- Harkman
  
  If it wasn’t for JLR (who never should have been in Parliament in the first place) National would be over 50%.
  
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  December 9, 2018 8:47am
  - Tall Man
    
    However, he has given Simon Bridges a great opportunity to shine and he has done that admirably.
    
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    December 9, 2018 10:25am
oldpark

The NZ Taxpayer owned TVNZ and Coalition of Corruption and Chaos controlled on what propaganda or lies or fake news gets onto that embarrassment for “News” Channel or lack of it.
Makes one wonder how a TVNZ newsroom with 263 employees surpressed a huge news story very crucial for the well being of NZs.
Yes it was the huge gathering in Auckland by concerned NZs about the Muslim Federations generated UN Migration Pact.
There appears to be a directive by NZs selected Government by the renegade Peters to our biased so called Mainstream Media to suppress as much as possible if NZ signs up to the UN and Islamic Federation demands that refugees can choose which country they can demand to be settled in.
Yes Peter Party/Commie Chic Comrade Ardern Party/ Plus the mad dog far left misandrist Lunatic Green Party, it appears will be signing the agreement in fact selling out NZs heritage and birthright to who controls our borders and who can cross them. Looks like UN/.Islamic Federation will be in charge.What a bloody disaster.
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December 9, 2018 8:26am
- Komata
  
  Has anyone actually got anything about this anti-UN protest in Auckland (as alluded-to by Oldpark)?
  
  Thank you.
  
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  December 9, 2018 8:48am
- simpleton1
  
  20 countries that will not sign
  
  Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Denmark, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Switzerland, United States.
  
  Belgium’s coalition risk of breaking up in now heated parliamentary debate.
  
  U.K. has a rapidly filling petition that should lead to at least a parliamentary debate.
  
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  December 9, 2018 9:17am
  - Tall Man
    
    Google search reveals nothing in NZ from the msm.
    
    https://www.google.co.nz/search?ei=2jcMXIGZDs-1rQGOoaOABg&q=un+refugee+convention+nz+will+sign&oq=un+refugee+convention+nz+will+sign&gs_l=psy-ab.3..33i22i29i30l2.21753.25210..25578…0.0..0.269.2298.2-10……0….1..gws-wiz…….0i71j33i160.LLrYN39hOY4
    
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    December 9, 2018 10:31am
  - simpleton1
    
    2 more will not sign UN migration pact.
    
    Dominican Republic, Latvia.
    
    Conflating refugees and economic migrants to equal rights, of all citizens.
    
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    December 9, 2018 10:57am
- Jules99
  
  To be fair, it wasn’t huge, but might have been bigger if the media was shining a light on the story. Most NZers still have no idea what is going on and only blogs like this and the other one are providing an alternative point of view.
  
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  December 9, 2018 9:57am
Biscuit

Pick your CoL ‘Excuse of the Day’:
• It’s an operational matter. You’ll need to talk to (xxx).
• It’s important we allow the process to run its course
• Trevor, they’re PICKING on me again. Help!
• Nine years of neglect
• Winston hasn’t told us what the Government’s policy will be yet
• Can’t talk – Neve needs feeding
• We can’t fix it all in one budget…
• No, I dunno why it is that, having eradicated poviddy, all the Food Banks report that they’re snowed under with ‘customers’ as we head into Christmas
• Look, we’re the most transparent Government this country has ever seen but I can’t comment until the Inquiry we set up to look at that reports back. When, do you ask? Oh, I have no idea…
• Yes, I do recall saying ‘No strikes under my watch’ … but I had my fingers crossed behind my back so it doesn’t count
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December 9, 2018 8:28am
- Harkman
  
  And if that all fails there’s always, “That’s interesting” or “child poverdy.”
  
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  December 9, 2018 8:51am
  - sooty
    
    Don’t forget, lookit the baabbee!
    
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    December 9, 2018 2:04pm
igm

Even their little kids are animals:
https://www.whaleoil.co.nz/2018/12/saturday-nightcap-296/
Thanks MSM for the information!
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December 9, 2018 8:30am
- stephieboy
  
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  igm, the full facts are not available that allows whale blubber and other alt-righters like you to jump to conclusions.
  
  What if had been a two-year-old “white “child doing the biting?
  
  What then, eh?
  
  Can you imagine a sreaming headline , White Eiropean 2 year old…”
  ???
  
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  December 9, 2018 8:38am
  - igm
    
    Once again you are attempting to cover for the lowest scum on earth . . . Islam!
    
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    December 9, 2018 8:46am
    - stephieboy
      
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      No I’m not. Again we don’t have the full facts.
      
      Does this happen in other preschool centres in the UK and those in NZ by Somali 2-year-olds?
      
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      December 9, 2018 8:51am
      - Shaun the Sheep
        
        What an outrageously stupid statement – even from you.
        
        We all know that some pre-school children bite others. It can be a challenging behaviour to curb.
        
        I have never known biters to operate in pairs, to combine biting with strangling, or to bite more that once on any given occasion.
        
        There is plenty of information in the article that shows the attackers are very disturbed children.
        If you can’t see that you are completely lacking compassion for the victim and the poor damaged and dangerous mites who attacked her.
        
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        December 9, 2018 9:23am
      - Gravelroad
        
        Three ways to defend the indefensible-
        1. Don’t address the specific issue being discussed – spin the “full facts” are not available excuse instead.
        2. Deflect attention to what might happen/not happen at other places.
        3. Blame the victim.
        
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        December 9, 2018 10:40am
      - stephieboy
        
        Shaun the Sheep, the facts are the article was very short on the facts with no in-depth investigative reporting with interviews of both parents etc.
        
        Why is it deemed important to emphasise one’s ethnicity other than stoke the flames of prejudice?
        
        There is no attempt to blame the victim but more the fact that the offenders ethnicty has nothing do do with the incident!
        
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        December 9, 2018 12:04pm
      - Shaun the Sheep
        
        Oh dear Stephieboy, you just can’t pass up an opportunity to miss the point.
        Did you actually watch the video link?
        There was information in the article about the victim and her family but none whatsoever about the attackers and theirs. That was the point.
        The media attempts to alter societal norms by manipulating the information it elects to share or suppress.
        Their social engineering works well on fools like yourself who are unwilling or unable to critically analyse a news article, detect bias and adjust for it.
        
        Sigh
        
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        December 9, 2018 1:59pm
  - Northland Wahine
    
    stephieboy, if it was a white child in the UK that had repeatedly bitten a Somalian immigrant child, it would have been all over the papers and classed as a racial attack taught by the white kids parents.
    
    Personally, I don’t think it had another to do with the kids race but the fact that he has shit parents. But I’m sure many will disagree. All races have undesirables, bullies, muppets, entitled bludgers.
    
    The media will always publish what sells.
    
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    December 9, 2018 8:49am
    - stephieboy
      
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      Biting is not uncommon in preschool centres and I can assure you that it is not a Somali or another black child exclusive in the UK, NZ and elsewhere!.
      
      The news item appeared to place great importance on race and ethnicity.
      
      Why?
      
      Shit parents occur everywhere!
      
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      December 9, 2018 8:54am
      - Northland Wahine
        
        12 bites to one child? Multiple kids
        
        Commonsense would suggest this is over and above what is considered “normal” preschool behaviour. The child should have been isolated immediately. The children’s parents should have been spoken too. Asked if the children displayed this behaviour at home. If the parents refused to take any responsibility, the children should have been removed for the safety of all the other children but mainly for the child who was bitten.
        
        Otherwise you send a message that it’s okay for someone to physically harm you, because it’s just “normal” behaviour.
        
        Sorry Stephieboy that is pack mentality.
        
        UnPC or not. My youngest was repeatedly poked in the eye by another preschooler. He apparently had behavioural problems. Amazing how quickly that stopped when I told my son to poke the kid in the eye, back.
        
        This year, my foster child was repeated bullied by a much bigger girl who is suppose to have ADHD. Had the whanau conference shot. It continued. After being kicked, pushed off the monkey bars, teased and harassed, I told her to punch the girl in the nose hard.
        
        And she did, making it bleed. Funny enough, my foster girl was stood down for 2 days. But she is no longer bullied. And my foster girl no longer feels like a victim.
        
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        December 9, 2018 9:12am
    - waikatogirl
      
      Willow Ivy was blue when the boys were pulled off her. They had attempted to strangle her while biting her 15 times and had blood around their mouths.
      
      Anyone remember the disgust and outrage at the two 10-year-old English boys who lead James Bolger down the railway tracks and murdered him. Why is there no outrage in the case of these boys against a defenceless 17 month old???
      
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      December 9, 2018 9:03am
  - mandk
    
    No, but I can imagine a headline that says: “Islamophobic children attack Somali toddler …”
    
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    December 9, 2018 8:57am
  - simpleton1
    
    Is this is what stephieboy’ of needing to know more?
    
    Children who don’t study the Quran are close to Satan, says Turkey’s [Directorate of Religious Affairs] top religious head. ….. “First we will start teaching them correct information on religion slowly. By doing that, we will help our children form their identities. When they are forming their identities, our children will become Muslim persons,” he said. https://ahvalnews.com/religion/children-who-dont-study-quran-are-close-satan-says-turkeys-top-religious-head
    
    Is that taking the “jinn” out of the unbeliever’s child?
    
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    December 9, 2018 9:49am
    - RW Capitalist
      
      some thoughts
      1. Isn’t this EXACTLY how ISIS etc “teach” the children?
      2. Did they get this idea/method from NZEI and PPTA, or the current govt.’s discussion paper?
      3. Teaching the kids WHAT to think, not HOW to think?
      
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      December 9, 2018 10:07am
  - calendar girl
    
    No stephie at 8:38am, I cannot imagine a ‘screaming headline’ like the one you suggest. Is there anyone who speaks English who could spell quite so atrociously?
    
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    December 9, 2018 9:59am
  - softail 1450
    
    septicboy “sreaming,eiropean” WTF ,I always thought you goat harassers avoided alcohol, especially at 8.38 am on a sunday….
    
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    December 9, 2018 3:12pm
- tknorriss
  
  Understandable. The Somalian kids were probably hungry.
  
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  December 9, 2018 8:55am
- Rich Prick
  
  No surprise really, not long out of the trees with an appetite for bush meat.
  
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  December 9, 2018 8:56am
  - stephieboy
    
    Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
    The last part of your alias is well chosen and thought through!
    
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    December 9, 2018 8:58am
    - Rich Prick
      
      Talk to someone else. You’re too low rent for me.
      
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      December 9, 2018 9:03am
    - holysheet
      
      Speaking of pricks;
      
      Stoooopidboy, Your family tree is a cactus.
      Everyone on it is a prick.
      
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      December 9, 2018 9:07am
  - simpleton1
    
    There may be a point as their young understanding could be they were “bush meat” as they slowly learn about Mohammad.
    
    AND LO! We accepted your solemn pledge, raising Mount Sinai high above you, [and saying;] “Hold fast with [all your] strength unto what We have vouchsafed you, and bear in mind all that is therein, so that you might remain conscious of God!” And you turned away after that-! And had it not been for God’s favour upon you and His grace, you would surely have found yourselves among the lost. For you are well aware of those from among you who profaned the Sabbath, whereupon We said unto them, “Be as apes despicable!” and set them up as a warning example for their time and for all times to come, as well as an admonition to all who are conscious of God. koran (2:63-66)
    
    Say: “O followers of earlier revelation! Do you find fault with us for no other reason than that we believe in God [alone], and in that which He has bestowed from on high upon us as well as that which He has bestowed aforetime? – or [is it only] because most of you are iniquitous?”
    Say: “Shall I tell you who, in the sight of God, deserves a yet worse retribution than these? They whom God rejected and whom He condemned, and whom He turned into apes and swine because they worshipped the powers of evil: these are yet worse in station, and farther astray from the right path [than the mockers].” koran (5:59-60)
    
    …And then, when they disdainfully persisted in doing what they had been forbidden to do, We said unto them: “Be as apes despicable!” koran (7:166)
    
    Many may be guided by the ‘perfect man’, Mohammad’s sayings, actions and deeds per koran, hadith and sunnah.
    
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    December 9, 2018 11:30am
Lee C

Winston Peters And Shane Jones approach the Pearly Gates. (Perhaps a last-minute reprieve?)
St. Peter says “Begone! We don’t accept your kind here!”
God hears this and calls St. Peter over.
“You can’t turn people away like that. These are souls seeking redemption. Go and invite them in..”
St Peter returns to the Gates, and then looks over his shoulder to God.
“They’re gone!” he cries.
“What you mean they’ve just left because they were so offended by your biased outburst?”
“No.” replies St. Peter. “I meant
The Pearly Gates;

…. They’re gone!”
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December 9, 2018 8:42am
- waikatogirl
  
  And here endeth the lesson!
  
  Awesome joke LC ?
  The pearly gates will look spectacular outside Winnie’s residence.
  
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  December 9, 2018 8:55am
  - Tall Man
    
    Another bauble…is there still room?
    
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    December 9, 2018 10:34am
Happychappy

I wonder whether National should return to looking into the large donation that Matt McCarten got when organizing Slave gate and accommodation for all the oversea’s interns while Andrew Little was the Leader of the opposition. There were rumours then of Willie and another Radio host using other Government Identities budgets just like has happened with the Whanau Ora incentive payments that the Minister Peeni Henare is considering removing now. These rumours were fairy strong at the time so I just wonder now what people are thinking and now they are the government how many other times this has happened.
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December 9, 2018 8:51am
- cmm
  
  THe biggest problem with this mob is that they stuff up so fast there is not enough time to complete any investigations etc.
  
  Slavegate got buried by Fingergate.
  Fingergate by Curran’s RNZ interference.
  RNZ by Handley.
  Handley by Sroubek…
  Sroubek by the latest Kiwibuild farce.
  etc etc etc.
  
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  December 9, 2018 11:06am
Hugh Pavletich

Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
ANZ’s chief Australian economist says house prices in Sydney and Melbourne could fall 20% from their 2017 peak, but the big question is how this affects the wider Australian economy | VIDEO INTERVIEW | interest.co.nz

https://www.interest.co.nz/property/97267/anzs-chief-australian-economist-says-house-prices-sydney-and-melbourne-could-fall-20

ANZ in Australia has revised its forecast downwards for the Australian housing market, and now believes house prices in Sydney and Melbourne could fall by 15% to 20% from their 2017 peaks.

The bank had previously been expecting price falls to be limited to 10% to 15%.

In a Double Shot interview with interest.co.nz, ANZ’s Head of Australian Economics David Plank said recent price falls in Melbourne and Sydney had been greater than the bank had been expecting. … read more via hyperlink above …
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Real estate market: The extra $30k you may need to sell your hous … News com aue

https://www.news.com.au/finance/real-estate/selling/sellers-forking-out-up-to-60000-on-renovations-to-attract-picky-buyers-as-housing-market-cools/news-story/85607392d889d23225f66a07d9d3c99d
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Watch the ‘spillover’: housing downturn’s ripples already being felt … Sydney Morning Herald

https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/watch-the-spillover-housing-downturn-s-ripples-already-being-felt-20181205-p50kg6.html
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http://www.performanceurbanplanning.org/ ( Just updated )
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December 9, 2018 9:08am
- Rich Prick
  
  Jesus, we’ve almost got the full set this morning.
  
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  December 9, 2018 9:20am
  - Tall Man
    
    How about a lower down tick threshold for repeat cut and paste trolls like this guy and a few others.
    
    By all means allow them to post their drivel and those that are interested can click and read but they seem to get a buzz by doing what they do.
    
    To be honest, I have never bothered to read this guys drivel and I generally skip morrisey, steffy girl and the rest of these disturbed posters.
    
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    December 9, 2018 10:15am
- JibberJabber
  
  And still, no one visits little Hughs lonely blog…
  
  Maybe SLG needs to run for office in Aus, given she has eradicated homelessness, child poverty and the housing issues here according to our media.
  
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  December 9, 2018 9:39am
  - Hugh Pavletich
    
    THE KIWI TORIES HOUSING FAILURES … STAYING BITTER & TWISTED WONT SOLVE ANYTHING ! …
    
    Clearly … the Kiwi Tories are still bitter and twisted about (justifiably) losing the election … September / October last year … mainly because of their housing failures …
    
    Gone Gone Going; The Demise of the National – led government 2017 … Performance Urban Planning.org
    
    http://www.performanceurbanplanning.org/National%20News.html
    
    Subsequent polling by IPSOS found that just 20% are of the view National will fix the housing problem … while about 40% are of the view Labour will.
    
    Housing is ther major issue.
    
    That’s why NZ First with its leader Winston Peters tossed the pathetic Tory Tinkerers … and went in to coalition with Labour.
    
    The big question is … what are the Kiwi Tories learning in Opposition ?
    
    They need to get Allister Heath of the UK Tele (Tory) graph out to educate them …
    
    Google search ‘Telegrapgh Allister Heath Tories Housing’ …
    
    https://www.google.co.nz/search?ei=hTMMXKufBJn_rQGqqqmgDg&q=telegraph+allister+heath+tories+housing&oq=telegraph+allister+heath+tories+housing&gs_l=psy-ab.12…0.0..94073…0.0..0.0.0…….0……gws-wiz.WP0624qt1H0
    
    As a Tory myself, it is rather sad to see the Kiwi Tories still so bitter and twisted 12 months following being deservedly tossed on the Opposition benches.
    
    Remember what John Key said in 2007 … and all the rest of it ( the whole sorry history is on record at http://www.PerformanceUrbanPlanning.org … after all I ‘wet nursed’ the Kiwi Tories from about 2005 … helping them enormously in the lead up to the 2008 election !!! ) ! …
    
    John Key on Housing Reform 2007 – YouTube
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWPgoAI1cLE
    
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    December 9, 2018 10:28am
Ross12

It looks like Stuff may have done “Macron you turn”.

They had an article yesterday on climate change which allowed comments, most of which were anti the article and CC (or at least anti the standard arguments for CC)
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December 9, 2018 9:12am
- howitis
  
  Was it simply entering supernova stage? :-
  
  “The brilliant point of light is the explosion of a star that has reached the end of its life, otherwise known as a supernova.”
  
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  December 9, 2018 10:55am
- Piniwi
  
  But Ross12 it is interesting watching comments on Stuff when it soon becomes apparent the lefty trolls are directed to control the comments. They all seem to only achieve a +1 to -1 reaction as the majority see the pattern. The Watkins piece was a good example but it could not go without a challenge even if it did get moderated to the bin. Perhaps to close to the bone:
  Watkins knows much better than most that the accidental PM is starting to show new cracks as well as all the earlier widening bigger than her smile. Simon Bridges has them worried big time as he brings a different style of leadership they can not match with unity they can only hope for. The hardest task for his team with so many sharpening up their question Technic is the growing number of weak targets.
  The COL assisted by the Speaker have developed wordy tactics to avoid addressing questions that are meaningless. Outside the House the Media party energetically carry the banner for them with so much garbage that it become worthless while they too avoid the tough issues they should be challenging the Government on.
  It is not without note that the peoples Princess though being the subject of so many puff pieces is more conspicuous by her absence in the House where she seems to leading yet another list. Poorest attendance levels. Her popularity in the proffered PM job has started to slip which could lead to an even bigger Circus in the new year as they rush to find yet another NEW leader.
  As others have stated the COL are doing a great job of self destructing almost as efficient as a vest cloaked suicide bomber as we just wait for the powder to dry until the big bang finally comes. They are already nursing so many nasty self inflicted wounds that remain no go areas for the Media party as they hope they self heal and recover. Sit tight trendsetters as the best is yet to come.
  Regular followers of OQT will have noted the absolute shock that came from the opposition benches when the Speaker ejected Simon Bridges so abruptly. Now the Media party are trying to spin as a staged event. They just cant help themselves but such a pity they are not so diligent with real news.
  
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  December 9, 2018 2:23pm
  - madamezucchininz
    
    …Piniwi….this piece is excellent…..you read my mind….QT will be interesting this week….will the PM be in the house?…..Will there be questions on the Kiwi Farce as to why the CEO has lasted only five months….Was he given a golden hand shake….etc….and the on going Sroubek saga and who made representations on his behalf….will the Nats put a motion of no confidence in the speaker forward……I am sure this useless lot are hoping and wishing that the Xmas break will put some distance between them and their self created mess….it won’t ….there will be more mess…..and more disasters just waiting in the wings to be exposed….
    
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    December 9, 2018 4:12pm
Southern Raider

So some lady make Stuff because she pulled her son out of school so he wouldn’t have to learn about Christmas, yet he still seems to have the day off and get the presents

Also seems like a stuck up 7 year old shit who goes around telling over children that Santa isn’t real

A real paper would have run a story about how bullshit PC this country is and how this mother is an example of that
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December 9, 2018 9:13am
- Gravelroad
  
  A real paper wouldn’ t have run the story at all because it is not news.
  
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  December 9, 2018 9:44am
- Sacha
  
  There are always kids like that.
  We told our kids when they asked if Santa was ‘real’, that he is real only to those who believe in him, and would stop coming to those who didn’t.
  However – if any one said to another child that he wasn’t real, Santa would know immediately, and NEVER visit again. By about 8years, they were going along with the pretence so that the younger ones could have the excitement of early Christmas morning –
  Thus are customs preserved.
  
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  December 9, 2018 10:03am
  - Tall Man
    
    And thus are they destroyed by absolute tossers.
    
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    December 9, 2018 10:11am
Southern Raider

Welcome to NZ.

Heaven on earth where tourists come to be robbed and murdered.
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December 9, 2018 9:14am
- Sacha
  
  Poor girl – travelled safely in South America, only to arrive in ‘safe’ NZ, and find the one person in the country . . . . .
  
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  December 9, 2018 10:06am
  - Tall Man
    
    “The one person”….
    
    Sacha, we have heaps of these scum bags and neither the Police nor the Justice system have a way of dealing with them.
    
    All very well to arrest them after the event but our judiciary is hell bent on getting “rehabilitated” and back onto the streets and our coalition govt is hellbent on keeping them out of prison full stop.
    
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    December 9, 2018 10:10am
    - rightoverlabour
      
      That’s why we need the death penalty for these types of scum. They seldom re-offend when offed. I particularly like the Chinese method. One bullet, and charge the family for it. For most perps, this would be classified as “Koha”.
      
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      December 9, 2018 10:35am
    - Paulus
      
      How much did the apartment in City Lights cost – a good class hotel so was not cheap.
      
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      December 9, 2018 10:45am
      - secondcumming
        
        This whole matter is absolutely dreadful, although my missus is actually more concerned about whether or not they’ll be able to use *City Lights* again for the next series of ‘Married at First Sight’.
        
        Wimmin, eh…..
        
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        December 9, 2018 11:14am
    - Jules99
      
      Same thing happening in the UK. Unfortunately many Brits think NZ is how the UK used to be. A quick look at the stats would tell them otherwise but sadly many don’t stop to look. I’m a female in my later years but I have to say, at 22, I wouldn’t have travelled on my own, and when forced to, e.g. going home late from work, I knew to take care. Not blaming the victim here – everybody should be safe on the streets, but sadly both men and women need to be aware of the risks.
      
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      December 9, 2018 10:58am
      - lifesgood
        
        I cannot understand why a 22 year old girl would go to the apartment of a man she had just met. It doesn’t make sense. I agree she should have been safe but you do make your own decisions. Deepest sympathy to her poor family. So devastating for them
        
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        December 9, 2018 1:35pm
    - waikatogirl
      
      “Such a good boy”
      ?
      
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      December 9, 2018 2:41pm
      - secondcumming
        
        Remember this guy from a wee while ago? Tragic upbringing…….
        
        Abandoned by his mother at 6 months of age, placed in care of his aunty, sexually abused by his uncle, shuffled thru a number of foster homes, turned to hard drugs at 13, faced numerous charges of car theft and driving under the influence, assault on females, has already served 6 short jail terms, currently out on bail. Writes letter of apology……
        
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        December 9, 2018 3:27pm
  - Happychappy
    
    Sacha I wonder if Andrew Little will tell the truth to this girls Father about how long he will stay in prison dispite Andrew wanting to lower the prison population. This scumbag is likely to be out in under ten years and if I was the father I would not be happy.
    
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    December 9, 2018 12:45pm
- igm
  
  SR: Interesting to take odds 10:1 on ethnicity of offender?
  
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  December 9, 2018 12:31pm
  - secondcumming
    
    Form?
    
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    December 9, 2018 12:48pm
  - DigNap15
    
    I’d say its a white guy.
    The ethnicities you speak of don’t take girls to flash hotels.
    
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    December 9, 2018 5:52pm
    - secondcumming
      
      Just not the sort of thing a white guy would do.
      Not anyone we know anyway…….
      
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      December 9, 2018 6:27pm
krazykiwi

In the UK today:

1. It’s freezing

2. No wind, so no wind generated electricity

3. National Grid says 100% chance of blackouts within 24hrs unless old coal generation fired up

4. Owners of old coal generators oblige and price gouge

5. The EU Court of Justice has just ‘ruled’ that none of these plants should be allowed to operate.

Investing in the UK? Candles and undertakers are looking like good long positions.
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December 9, 2018 9:27am
- stigie
  
  Sounds very close to a shithole KK..?
  
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  December 9, 2018 9:36am
  - krazykiwi
    
    Getting that way. Eurostar to Paris will get you there faster!
    
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    December 9, 2018 9:43am
  - Sacha
    
    And I read recently that the UK has only 5-days supply of food.
    Really?
    
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    December 9, 2018 10:53am
  - stephieboy
    
    stigie, very deep.
    
    Sigh!
    
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    December 9, 2018 12:08pm
- holysheet
  
  When we were in Stow-on-the-Wold 2 weeks ago, it snowed heavily for about 4 hours.
  
  It was windy all the trip, so nothing surprises me about your report.
  
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  December 9, 2018 9:44am
- Rich Prick
  
  For those who don’t understand the Brexit vote, here’s reason #2,514.
  
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  December 9, 2018 10:11am
- Jules99
  
  The UK imported quite a lot of coal from Russia recently – guess they better stop harassing the oligarchs in London. Or pal up with Trump.
  
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  December 9, 2018 10:35am
- Jules99
  
  OK, I went to Google to fact check my vague memory that the UK imported electricity from France when it was short. I got this:
  1. UK coal power generation has declined rapidly in recent years under the carbon tax.
  2. Most of the time, France sends electricity to the UK through 43-mile-long cables between Folkestone and a site near Calais, but in November (2017) there have been more hours when power has flowed in the other direction due to shutdowns of reactors following safety concerns.
  3. Essentially this means that France is importing higher carbon electricity than it can produce at home,
  4. The UK has pledged to phase out the country’s remaining coal power stations by 2025. This week it led the launch of an alliance of 19 nations, including New Zealand and Mexico, committed to quitting coal as quickly as possible.
  
  Detail in the link below. Sounds like a complete shambles which will only get worse as the promised warming fails to materialise and the widely predicted solar minimum hits – something Russian scientists have been well aware of, hence their focus on achieving fuel independence in the last few decades.
  
  Source: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/nov/18/french-reactor-repairs-generate-profits-old-uk-coal-power-plants
  
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  December 9, 2018 10:44am
  - oldpark
    
    @Jules99 10.44am
    That is the real story on why the French are out protesting. Having to pay for the myth of Climate Change.Once more the truth is being hidden by the sicko Mainstream Media.
    
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    December 9, 2018 12:06pm
- softail 1450
  
  krazykiwi, they could start incinerating refugees ,they have a growing population of them.
  and it would work out cheaper because the pomms wont have to pay the benefits those refugees come for.
  
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  December 9, 2018 3:19pm
krazykiwi

A lower voting age?

The Head of Politics at the University of Cambridge has called for the voting age to be lowered to six in the wake of the EU referendum.

Professor David Runciman proposed a dramatic expansion of the franchise on his Talking Politics podcast, claiming it would help to correct what he described as a “huge structural imbalance” in favour of older Britons in the voting system.

“I would lower the voting age to six, not 16. And I’m serious about that,” he insisted, as most children are able to read by that age.

At 6 kids are wrapped in cotton wool, with zero real-world experience. At 16 most are still wrapped. Until kids have left the cloistered world of school, and have been left to deal with the consequences of their own decisions (ie life!) they shouldn’t have the vote.

I suggest Professor Runciman retires before making a fool of himself again.
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December 9, 2018 9:39am
- Gravelroad
  
  So many these days see “kids” as mini adults- and expect adult behaviour, thought patterns and political knowledge.
  Another example is the recent children’s “Santa” parade where there was no Santa.
  The adults who organised this did it for their own politically based purpose – not for the expectations and enjoyment of the children.
  
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  December 9, 2018 9:52am
  - stigie
    
    So correct Gravelroad, for the life of me why can’t they keep this one bloody day for the kids without have to be all pc.
    There’s another 364 days to be multicultural FFS !~
    
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    December 9, 2018 10:27am
- Rich Prick
  
  What’s more, the average six year old doesn’t pay tax and still believes in Santa Clause. Imagine that demographic voting.
  
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  December 9, 2018 10:25am
  - Gravelroad
    
    The other aspect to consider is the reported implied insults directed to the number of “older Britons in the voting system”.
    That is ageism directed at a hugely politically varied cohort of voters most of whom will have paid taxes all their working lives.
    Bias against older people is becoming more and more prevalent. If a child of six’s vote and opinion about the governance of a country is going to hold more weight than the vote and opinion of a person aged 76 – then we are really living in lala land.
    
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    December 9, 2018 10:52am
    - KevOB
      
      Any land governed by academics is lala.
      
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      December 9, 2018 1:07pm
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    One of the arguments against giving women the vote was that they would vote the way their husbands told them to.
    Gee, what might happen with 6 year olds?
    
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    December 9, 2018 11:57am
    - Gravelroad
      
      So who do six year olds take notice of?
      Parents/caregivers/teachers, the cat/dog/guinea pig? Yep, maybe.
      More likely though it is what their favourite characters on tv shows, electronic games and perhaps books, tell them.
      Whole new industry there.
      Be prepared for the “Now we are Six” classic children’s book by A.A. Milne, to be reissued as a new light of opportunistic indoctrination.
      
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      December 9, 2018 12:33pm
  - lifesgood
    
    Have you ever heard this kids on TV mouthing off about pollution and global warming and saving the whales. They simply mouth what their teachers/parents want them to because, most of all, kids want their approval. I always cringe when kids come on TV with these statements.
    
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    December 9, 2018 1:39pm
  - softail 1450
    
    R P, they’d all get automatic NZ first membership with those credentials.
    
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    December 9, 2018 3:24pm
  - madamezucchininz
    
    ….six year olds voting…..what a joke…..all Simon would have to do to get their vote is dress up as Santa Claus…..Santa would get more votes than the Tooth Fairy…..what a laugh…..
    
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    December 9, 2018 4:56pm
- Jules99
  
  Are these the same people who wanted to lower the age of consent to 12? It’s about delivering a malleable population who will do what it’s told to do. That was the problem with Brexit – the little people didn’t do as their ‘betters’ instructed.
  
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  December 9, 2018 10:29am
- Southern Raider
  
  Children don’t understand consequence of action
  
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  December 9, 2018 12:16pm
  - alloytoo
    
    Sadly neither do socialists.
    
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    December 9, 2018 1:09pm
harvey wilson

In France if you disagree with the government they can preemptively arrest you , I’m sure they can come up with a convincing contrived excuse though

https://www.google.co.nz/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/08/paris-police-flood-streets-gilets-jaunes

How much longer can Macron hold on after this?

“ let them eat pepper spray”
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December 9, 2018 9:40am
- Jack5
  
  Macron better sweat if the yellow-jackets start calling for the return of Madame Guillotine.
  
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  December 9, 2018 10:26am
  - Manolo
    
    Is the coward Macron running out of time?
    
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    December 9, 2018 10:36am
Tall Man

This what we need in Parliament

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/03/nyregion/hot-duck-mandarin-central-park.html

Perhaps if our xenophobic posters could relax a bit and we get a few more Mandarins in the house the Mallard’s wings may get clipped.
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December 9, 2018 9:52am
- gump
  
  Another day, another Tall Man post praising China…
  
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  December 9, 2018 11:24am
Jack5

Stuff prints the views on the non-traditional Santa Claus in Nelson today then closes comments on the parade.

The writer was Oscar Kightley, who earlier in his life a stand-up comedian or similar.

Nelson’s Maori Santa Claus has been done to death. The reason Stuff has kept it alive so long must have been to give the fingers to the big slice of its readership that likes a traditional Santa Claus legend with the bearded old fellow at the North Pole with elves and a sleigh full of kids’ presents, and reindeer. The Christmas tree goes with the legend. A big slice of consumerism, with big retail spending has been nailed on to the legend, but the present, Leftist Stuff won’t much thought to its retail advertisers.

Nothing wrong with a brown, or black, or yellow face, but you needed the winter regalia to fit the traditional tale. But reshape it too much and it’s no longer the old legend. It’s a bit like commemorating Maui with a statue of him in a wet suit with a spear gun about to jump off a tinny.

This may be the last such trivia from Stuff. A decision is surely imminent on Stuff’s fate after the merger of its owner Fairfax Media Ltd with Nine Entertainment Co. Holdings (Fairfax ends up with 48.9 per cent).

One future for the NZ subsidiary might be breaking Stuff newspapers up into regional, locally owned publications, probably sooner rather than later with non-daily output.

Hopefully, that would curb the PC Leftism at present strong in Stuff.
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December 9, 2018 10:19am
- Longknives
  
  Oscar is ranting and raving that people ‘Couldn’t handle a Maori Santa’ etc
  Talk about rewriting History for your own Political Agenda,
  Nobody cares what skin colour Santa is- They just want Santa Claus! A fat, jolly man with a red suit and beard…
  The Nelson Santa was strutting round acting like a ‘staunch’ Maori Warrior. He was clearly trying to create controversy and make a Political Statement- At the expense of thousands of upset children!
  For that reason alone he (And Oscar Knightley) can fuck right off..
  Let innocent kids have Christmas- Leave your Activism and Politics out of it.
  
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  December 9, 2018 10:27am
  - lifesgood
    
    I’m sorry, but Santa was a white man. The original St Nicholas was a white man too. Maori scream bloody murder about cultural appropriation, well stuff them, they can leave Santa alone.
    
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    December 9, 2018 1:41pm
    - GoVege
      
      Cultural appropriation only works in one direction didn’t you know? 🙂
      
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      December 9, 2018 2:01pm
    - Jack5
      
      Lifesgood, apart from St Nicholas, the Santa Claus legend brings in sleighs and reindeer, and the North Pole workshop.
      
      So into the legend come the reindeer people, the Nenets of Russia, who look to be at least partly Asian in origin. And if Santa’s workshop’s at the top of Scandinavia, we have as his locals the Laplanders, or Sami, with a non-Indo European language, and often looking at least partly Asian.
      
      The Nenets:
      
      https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=Russia%27s+reindeer+people&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjiv8PcopLfAhWUWX0KHf3pDJcQ_AUIDigB&biw=1920&bih=969#imgrc=UnJRxY0FvdkyaM:
      
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      December 9, 2018 8:57pm
- Jack5
  
  A broken up Stuff less Left wing?
  
  But wouldn’t it be interesting if Ngai Tahu bought the Christchurch Press, the Timaru Herald, and the Southland Times?
  
  And Waikato Maori bought the Waikato Times.
  
  Macrons, macrons, macrons every fucking where.
  
  Thank goodness, the Otago Daily Times hasn’t yet been macronated.
  
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  December 9, 2018 10:35am
  - realityczech
    
    “Macrons, macrons, macrons every fucking where.”
    
    Would you prefer it in Hebrew Jacksie?
    
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    December 9, 2018 1:53pm
Morrissey

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Move over, Yenta Hodge!—we’ve found the stupidest, nastiest woman on the planet.

http://normanfinkelstein.com/2018/12/07/a-stupid-little-whore-performing-one-last-trick-to-get-sheldon-adelsons-money-when-she-runs-for-president/
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December 9, 2018 10:33am
- Longknives
  
  Challenging Jacinda ‘Um Ahh Umm I can’t answer that’ Ardern for the title is she?
  
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  December 9, 2018 10:37am
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    Jacinda Ardern is not perfect—hell, she worked for Tony Bliar, for pity’s sake!—but she’s not a brutal liar and propagandist like Yenta Hodge or Thicky Haley.
    
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    December 9, 2018 10:45am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      So there’s degrees of lying that are acceptable to you..
      
      On a sliding scale from 1-10 for little white liar (1) to brutal liar (10) where do you think we should place our Prime Minister?
      
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      December 9, 2018 11:43am
      - harvey wilson
        
        Interesting question for Morrisey there . Not expecting an answer though, apparently whether or not you are a liar depends on if you agree with his politics.
        He profiles “ gropers” on his blog who are men who have fir the most part not even been questioned by the police let alone charged with anything yet says Assanges accusers are liars and won’t add him to his list of gropers.
        
        Selective morality much?
        
        #metoo
        #believewomen*
        
        *except when it’s an amoral scumbag who happens to be one of Morriseys heroes .
        
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        December 9, 2018 12:20pm
      - harvey wilson
        
        To back up my earlier posts about Morriseys misogyny and selective morality the article he linked to refers to a Nikki Haley as “ a stupid little whore” and Morrisey liked it so much he shared it here.
        Disgusting , why would anyone condone let alone celebrate such vile behaviour.?
        Have you always been a misogynist Morrisey? Or like most incels has years of rejection made you bitter?
        
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        December 9, 2018 12:36pm
      - Morrissey
        
        So there’s degrees of lying that are acceptable to you..
        
        ????? I neither wrote nor implied that.
        
        On a sliding scale from 1-10 for little white liar (1) to brutal liar (10) where do you think we should place our Prime Minister?
        
        1, as far as I can see. Or do you know something the rest of us do not?
        
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        December 9, 2018 2:56pm
    - Tall Man
      
      Tony Bliar..so you agree that ardern is a liar.
      
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      December 9, 2018 1:52pm
      - Morrissey
        
        She certainly worked for the Rt Dishonorable Tony Bliar, who is beyond a shadow of any doubt one of this century’s most notorious liars. So she was complicit with his lies in that sense.
        
        However, in her role as Prime Minister of New Zealand, she has not lied—in stark contrast to the two dishonorable gentlemen who proceeded her.
        
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        December 9, 2018 2:51pm
  - realityczech
    
    We already found her Mozzie. We call her the PM.
    
    I guess that makes her, to quote from your article ”
    A stupid little whore “.
    
    This is how the left refer to women they disagree with folks.
    
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    December 9, 2018 1:56pm
    - harvey wilson
      
      I think I’ll have to remind Morrisey about him rejoicing over someone calling Nikki Haley a “ stupid little whore” every chance I get .
      It’s almost as bad as him calling rape victims liars like he did the other day.
      
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      December 9, 2018 2:57pm
      - Morrissey
        
        Nearly everything you write is factually incorrect, and deliberately so. Are you employed by the National Party, by any chance?
        
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        December 9, 2018 3:18pm
      - harvey wilson
        
        Ok Morrisey are Assanges victims lying ?
        
        Did you post a link to an article calling a woman a “ stupid little whore”?
        
        Anything I got wrong there?
        You are some sort of misogynistic incel by the looks of things.
        
        I’ll ignore your pathetic attempt to deflect away from your misogyny by accusing me of working for national, your desperation to avoid discussing your hatred of women is understandable though .
        
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        December 9, 2018 3:26pm
    - Morrissey
      
      Thicky Haley should not be compared to a whore, I agree. Whores are generally honest, and perform a useful service, according to my friends in the National Party.
      
      The stupid part of that epithet re Thicky Haley is unarguable, though.
      
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      December 9, 2018 4:33pm
      - harvey wilson
        
        As if you have friends, National party or otherwise.
        
        Misogynist.
        
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        December 9, 2018 4:35pm
      - Morrissey
        
        I just pointed out that I thought it was inappropriate to elevate Thicky Haley to the status of “whore”.
        
        That’s misogynistic, is it?
        
        Oh yes, you’re the one that supports state-sponsored black fantasies, aren’t you.
        
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        December 9, 2018 5:05pm
      - realityczech
        
        Mozzie, did you touch yourself when you read that article, you posted, referring to her as a – Stupid Little Whore?
        
        Edit: I see you think she is not worthy to be called a Whore. Stay classy Mozzie.
        
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        December 9, 2018 5:09pm
      - harvey wilson
        
        More deflection from the misogynist , I don’t even know what a “ state sponsored black fantasy “is.
        
        Then again I don’t move in a world of rape apologists and people who women whores or worse to worthless to be a whore,
        
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        December 9, 2018 5:19pm
      - harvey wilson
        
        Morrisey is so proud of his misogyny and rape victim blaming he’s immortalised this thread on his blog .
        
        #metoo
        #believewomen……..if they weren’t allegedly raped by your hero that is.
        
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        December 9, 2018 7:45pm
Morrissey

On 37th Friday of Great March of Return and Breaking Siege, Israeli Forces Wound 72 Civilians, including 11 Children, 1 Woman and 2 Paramedics

Ref: 129/2018

Date: 07 December 2018

Time: 17:00 GMT

On Friday evening, 07 December 2018, Israeli forces wounded 72 Palestinian civilians, including 11 children, 1 woman and 2 paramedics in the peaceful demonstrations in the eastern Gaza Strip despite the decreasing intensity of the demonstrations there for the sixth week consecutively and absence of most means usually used during the demonstrations since the beginning of the Return and Breaking the Siege March 7 months ago.

According to observations by PCHR’s fieldworkers, for the fifth week since the beginning of the Return March on 30 March 2018, the demonstrators abstained from burning tires while the attempts to cross the border fence and throw stones and incendiary balloons were completely absent.

Though the demonstrators were around tens of meters away from the border fence, the Israeli forces who stationed in sniper positions and military jeeps along the fence continued to use excessive force against the demonstrators by opening fire and firing teargas canisters at them, without the later posing any imminent threat or danger to the life of soldiers.

On 07 December 2018, the incidents were as follows:

At approximately 14:30, thousands of civilians, including women, children and entire families, started swarming to the five encampments established by the Supreme National Authority of Great March of Return and Breaking the Siege adjacent to the border fence with Israel in eastern Gaza Strip cities. Hundreds, including children and women, approached the border fence with Israel in front of each encampment and gathered tens of meters away from the main border fence. Further, setting fire to tires and throwing stones, incendiary balloons and Molotov cocktails were almost absent. The demonstrators gathered in areas open to the Israeli snipers stationed on the top of the sand berms and military watchtowers and inside and behind the military jeeps. Despite the prevailing calmness, the Israeli forces fired live and rubber bullets in addition to hundreds of teargas canisters, particularly in eastern Jabalia, Gaza and al-Bureij refugee camp. The Israeli shooting, which continued at around 17:00, resulted in the injury of 72 Palestinian civilians, including 11 child, 1 woman and 2 paramedics. The injury of 3 civilians, including a child, was reported serious. In addition, hundreds suffered tear gas inhalation and seizures due to tear gas canisters that were fired by the Israeli forces from the military jeeps and rifles in the eastern Gaza Strip. ….

Read more….
http://normanfinkelstein.com/2018/12/07/a-brave-people-a-sick-country/
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December 9, 2018 10:42am
- Southern Raider
  
  Last night of Hanukkah tonight.
  
  Time to party and be happy and forget about all the snivelling, depressed, illogical left wing nutters that try to bring us down.
  
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  December 9, 2018 12:20pm
Komata

Morrissey

So you’re not a fan of Israel’s then?

(Asking for a friend).
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December 9, 2018 10:46am
- stigie
  
  Thought Darren Hughes would have been on your gropers list before now Morris…..
  And btw, don’t forget the groper at the sordid Young Labour camp..?
  
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  December 9, 2018 10:52am
  - Morrissey
    
    We are still working on this one. Wood you care to provide us with a little more information?
    
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    December 9, 2018 11:14am
  - harvey wilson
    
    See my post above, if Morrisey likes your politics he will excuse your behaviour and call your victims liars .
    
    Anyway , thoughts on a speaker for next years labour youth camp? Joseph Fritzl or Stewart Murray?
    
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    December 9, 2018 12:25pm
- Morrissey
  
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  I don’t like the scofflaw Israeli government, no. I am a great fan of heroic and brilliant Israelis—the thousands of young people who refuse to join the IDF, the truth-telling soldiers from Breaking the Silence, human rights activists like the folks in B’tselem, journalists like Amira Hass and Gideon Levy, academics like Ilan Pappé, Teddy Katz….
  
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  December 9, 2018 11:11am
  - Southern Raider
    
    So all the traitors then
    
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    December 9, 2018 12:21pm
    - Morrissey
      
      “The traitors”.
      
      Ha! Listen to this ignoramus.
      
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      December 9, 2018 2:52pm
  - realityczech
    
    Good on you Mozzie for supporting those who demonstrate the best of Jewish culture and values.
    
    Unlike Southern who represents the most fallen and vile of souls. A depraved being who spends his days on KB spewing hate on other; religions, races, cultures and countries. A demented coward who rejoices when kids are shot.
    
    Ignore him.
    
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    December 9, 2018 2:02pm
Rodney Randall

Free Speech Coalition
Media Release

Opinion: Government should not sign UN Migration Compact.

Next week, New Zealand is expected to sign the United Nations’ Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. While it is non-binding, the protocol could still damage New Zealanders’ right to free speech and debate.

The Free Speech Coalition is indifferent on immigration policy matters; reasonable people can agree to disagree. However, the Government should not be signing an agreement that says it will seek to restrict free speech on immigration matters.

Objective 17 of the Compact looks to prevent critical speech of immigration policies in an attempt to combat xenophobia and racism. The problem with this is that many legitimate and genuine concerns about immigration are framed as ‘racist’ by some people. The Compact says that governments should defund media which report “intolerant” views. It goes further and says they should be denied “support”, which seems to mean the government should interfere with private funding. Almost any unwelcome truth can be termed “intolerant”, so the Compact will be a tool to suppress New Zealanders speaking their minds.

The Compact encourages signatory nations to “enact, implement or maintain legislation that penalizes hate crimes…”. The problem here is there is that common definitions of “hate crime” may extend to so called “hate speech” which can often mean “hearing truths we hate”. The Compact will therefore support interpretations of existing law that give authorities the power to suppress unpopular opinions and be used to claim that we must get new law to restrict unwelcome discussion of politically awkward or embarrassing information. The Compact will be used to claim that we must have such law to retain international respectability

Probably well-intentioned hate speech laws have been implemented in Sweden, Britain, and France. As they have worked out citizens have been prosecuted for merely speaking their mind or highlighting issues the authorities would rather not debate, or have debated.

FSC supports out traditional law against incitement of violence. The Compact says we must seek to go much further. FSC says New Zealand must remain free to have open frank debate about immigration. The Compact says the state should strongly promote one side of the argument and gag the other.

It is claimed that we should not worry because the Compact is not binding, only aspirational. It should not be an aspiration of New Zealand to align with forces that threaten free speech. Immigration is a core issue for nation states. In democracies like ours, there is a legitimate expectation that all sides can be heard on this complicated issue. This agreement says the state’s powers and resources should weigh in on one side, against the other.

The compact threatens the independence of our fourth estate. The Compact says the state must encourage ‘independent’ and ‘objective reporting’ on migration issues. It is easy to fear the opposite intention in a country where the media are presently independent without any coercive restrictions on objectivity. The Compact seems to mean the opposite. It calls for ‘sensitising’ and ‘educating’ reporters on terminology and appropriate message. State sanitising the fourth estate is dangerous to democracy, and not compatible with a free society.

The provisions seems to seek deplatforming of views inconsistent with the Compact’s view of objectivity, by defunding outlets which convey them. Given the pervasive role of government in our society, if the Compact justifies discrimination by all state connected advertisers against outlets that convey the side of a debate that the government considers to be not objective or helpful or tolerant, that could dramatically affect New Zealanders’ practical ability to seek and to impart views and information. Our current broadcasting regulations require “balance”. Will they be amended or reinterpreted to reflect a view that it need not extend to views unwelcome to the United Nations on immigration and immigrants?
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December 9, 2018 10:51am
- greybeard
  
  Not one word on Stuff as far as I can see, about the anti-signing protest yesterday.
  
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  December 9, 2018 12:16pm
  - howitis
    
    Well the reason is it was a pathetic event
    There was about 50-60 people including organisers and speakers
    A few placards and that was it.
    I sat on the edge for 30 mins or so.
    Completely uninspired.
    
    Stephen Berry is a weak speaker with the personality of a rubber duck.
    He is simply a grocery worker playing politics, largely on his own.
    Despite virtually no followers, if you contact him he does not reply or answer anything.
    I tried a few years ago.
    He turns up, sprays and walks away.
    Peter Dunne and Dusted is similar.
    When I wanted to engage re his good idea of flexible retirement age he never responded on 3 channels.
    They may wonder why they get no traction.
    
    The Samoan guy – I suspect is a flash in the pan.
    He is trading under the ‘Conservative’ name but with the Colon Craig History that is silly.
    
    Apathy is the name of the game.
    National are not even opposed.
    Bridges agrees with most of what COL does.
    National will reverse nothing of what this COL shambles introduce.
    They never have in 40 years.
    Muldoon was the last one to reverse Labour introduced Acts of Parl in 1976.
    
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    December 9, 2018 1:00pm
    - Tall Man
      
      FFS with your talent for reading the future I’m stunned you aren’t collecting lotto wins on a weekly basis.
      
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      December 9, 2018 1:49pm
    - rockape
      
      Employment law?
      
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      December 9, 2018 3:07pm
    - Rodney Randall
      
      “Despite virtually no followers, if you contact him he does not reply or answer anything”
      
      If you swap out your fax machine for a Twitter account you may discover that Stephen Berry is very approachable and responds in a timely manner. Boring or not he turned up and spoke!
      
      The same cannot be said for National. Not one fucking rep got iff their fat troughing arse publicy voice opposition ON THE STREET. Their, late to the party, joint statement detailing their Migration Compact opposition was a contrived ploy to garner votes.
      
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      December 9, 2018 5:23pm
- simpleton1
  
  It seems to have become the “money or the ̶b̶a̶g̶ migrant” as the EU sees an “alternative measures of solidarity.”
  
  https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/eu-proposal-migrant-compensation-1.4934888
  
  The price of that will be arranged later as more development money for Africa could be an acceptable compromise.
  Is that cheap at any price?
  
  How much money would our Government go along with?
  
  Though we are not part of the EU, would it look good as NZ punching above its weight for the UN. // 🙂
  
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  December 9, 2018 1:16pm
- Classic Liberal
  
  “Probably well-intentioned hate speech laws ”
  
  No such thing. No laws restricting free speech are well-intentioned.
  
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  December 9, 2018 2:39pm
Manolo

Another tragic event and senseless murder:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/video/109197546/Police-charging-26-year-old-with-murder-over-disappearance-of-British-backpacker

Police will charge a 26-year-old man with the murder of missing backpacker Grace Millane.

They had previously been speaking with him over the disappearance. He will remain in police custody until Monday morning when he will appear in the Auckland District Court.
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December 9, 2018 10:54am
- KevinH
  
  It is a real shame that this young lady lost her life so close to Christmas and after landing in New Zealand for a great adventure.
  I’m sure I can express my condolences and commiserations to her family on behalf of all New Zealanders over this tragic news.
  
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  December 9, 2018 11:47am
  - Philview
    
    I agree with your sentiments. Sadly, the family don’t know what is ahead of them with the NZ judicial system. The poor girl will have her reputation dragged through the mud culminating in a lenient sentence for the killer.
    
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    December 9, 2018 11:54am
    - stephieboy
      
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      Phiview, how can you know that when the alleged Murderer has yet to be arraigned and put in a plea?
      
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      December 9, 2018 12:12pm
  - GoVege
    
    Terrible horrific crime.
    Another sadistic creep murders (or rapes) a young female tourist just trying to enjoy her life after studying hard for her degree.
    Probably a low-life dragged up by thieves on the benny.
    We need to start warning tourists that it is NOT safe to travel alone in this country, especially for young women.
    This place is full of shameless predators looking for an easy target.
    I hate to imagine what her poor family are going through.
    
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    December 9, 2018 1:02pm
    - stephieboy
      
      Govege, correct but of which there are no easy answers or solutions.
      
      Yes, the answer in part is for women not to travel alone
      
      The family deserves our deepest sympathies from the top up to down!
      
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      December 9, 2018 1:22pm
      - lifesgood
        
        Women can safely travel alone if they use common sense.
        
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        December 9, 2018 1:43pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Yes, the answer in part is for women not to travel alone
        
        No, stephieboy.
        
        The answer is for folks to treat others with respect.
        
        Women have every right to travel alone and be free from abuse and violence.
        
        Start looking at where the problem begins:
        
        It begins with folks thinking they have the right to impose their warped desires on vulnerable people.
        
        Sure, equip your daughters, granddaughters, mothers and girlfriends with a brutal fact of life:
        Some people are not to be trusted.
        
        But don’t deny females the right to go about their business/travels solo.
        
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        December 9, 2018 2:04pm
      - stephieboy
        
        MW, by all means, travel alone but accept the attendant risks.
        
        Reality and as observed common sense should prevail.
        
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        December 9, 2018 2:13pm
      - GoVege
        
        I suppose if they follow these simple rules it might be possible, lifesgood:
        1. Never leave your room after dark.
        2. Never go anywhere without lots of families in close proximity.
        3.If a male starts to follow you, head for a crowded shop and try and lose him.
        4. If you do have to walk past a group of males after dark, put on your meanest face and glare at the ground to deter unwanted contact.
        5. Only use public loos in busy shopping centres.
        6. Never walk through parks or school grounds or quiet areas.
        Worked for me as a young ‘un.
        Might put a damper on a girl’s OE though…
        
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        December 9, 2018 2:17pm
      - realityczech
        
        The girl did nothing wrong. So what if she went home with some bloke. That is not a crime or a lapse of judgment. It is normal human behaviour.
        
        The only person who did wrong was the predator who killed her.
        
        Some of you lot need to step out of your bubble world and meet some humans.
        
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        December 9, 2018 2:19pm
      - sooty
        
        Stephies ideal would that they would all have to have a minder and dress in a rubbish sack.
        
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        December 9, 2018 3:40pm
    - Northland Wahine
      
      Given Citylife Hotel isn’t exactly cheap, I’m guessing the perpetrator isn’t on the benefit.
      
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      December 9, 2018 5:20pm
      - Rich Prick
        
        About 8 years ago the CityLife stared renting out rooms on the lower floors to longer term tenants, mostly English language students so far as I could tell. I stopped staying there some time ago, so not too sure whether that’s still the case.
        
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        December 9, 2018 5:42pm
      - Northland Wahine
        
        Accck, sorry Rich, I ticked report in error.
        
        I had heard that was the case and it wasn’t uncommon for the students to share the bed in shifts to cut costs.
        
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        December 9, 2018 6:10pm
- skyblue
  
  Have heard thru a police source the perp is not a NZer but a foreign national allowed to stay in NZ.
  
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  December 9, 2018 3:03pm
  - realityczech
    
    Ahhh so this is a case of cultural enrichment. No doubt the media will tell us how we have all failed this man due to our racism.
    
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    December 9, 2018 3:42pm
    - GoVege
      
      We HAVE failed RC by letting these savages into a relatively civilized country without dinning into their thick brains that violence, especially against women, is not permitted.
      
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      December 9, 2018 4:15pm
      - realityczech
        
        Care to explain why violence is “especially” bad when it is against women – even though the vast majority is against men?
        
        Oh and remember women are just as physically capable as men. We are told that constantly and it is enshrined in law.
        
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        December 9, 2018 4:21pm
      - GoVege
        
        Because it’s not a FAIR FIGHT when it’s man against woman, RC!!
        Most women are not nearly as strong as men.
        That’s why most victims of DV are female.
        (Or if is a gay couple, all it comes down to is who’s bigger and meaner!)
        
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        December 9, 2018 6:32pm
      - realityczech
        
        You sexist PIG !!!~!
        
        It is enshrined in law that women are equal to men. That is why we have the bitches in the Army, Police etc.
        
        Oh and women are far far more violent in relationships. They just lie about it and play victim.
        
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        December 9, 2018 6:52pm
      - GoVege
        
        RC: women and men have equal rights (in this country anyway.)
        It doesn’t necessarily follow that they have equal physical strength.
        
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        December 9, 2018 10:03pm
      - realityczech
        
        No vege. You man haters made it law that you can not say that. Employers are prosecuted for saying that.
        
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        December 9, 2018 10:09pm
- Northland Wahine
  
  Grace Millane was a young woman on her journey to explore the world. Isn’t this what every parent would want for their child, be they male or female?
  
  The memories she would have had, the experiences she could have shared with her own daughters, grand daughters. Experiences she could never have had staying in her room after dark, taking risks, having crazy adventures. It’s called having a full life.
  
  Hundreds of thousands of young people do it every day and survive. Sadly this will not be the case for young Grace. So celebrate her courage. And remember she did nothing wrong. The stranger to whom she placed her trust in is the only person at fault.
  
  Condolences to her family.
  
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  December 9, 2018 3:52pm
  - secondcumming
    
    My missus reckons *Tinder* has a lot to answer for……
    
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    December 9, 2018 4:35pm
  - Scooter
    
    It looks like the Police did a very good job in quickly finding her and her murderer, let’s see how long it takes for it to go to trial and then his punishment.
    
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    December 9, 2018 10:14pm
Rodney Randall

https://www.google.com/amp/s/croakingcassandra.com/2018/12/05/un-compact-on-migration/amp/

A good read.
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December 9, 2018 11:01am
- Ross12
  
  Thanks Rodney.
  He is basically saying it is useless document, so why even consider signing it. If the Government does sign it, it will just a political stunt or a personal political move by the PM.
  
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  December 9, 2018 12:42pm
  - simpleton1
    
    A nice warm visit in Morocco.
    Enjoy 5* star accommodation.
    Other similar people to net work with, most certainly to check out UN options.
    
    Just the price of sign here, and a few camera shots. 🙂
    No need to worry about the subtle effects or demands that may later accrue. 🙂
    
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    December 9, 2018 12:50pm
The Heat

The older I get, the more I realise that there are entire worlds that exist within this country of which I know nothing.

Take this:

https://spy.nzherald.co.nz/spy-news/hilary-barry-crashes-wedding-live-tweets-all/

I get celebrity culture. It’s for the easily impressed, but I get it. I don’t understand how MSM is “celebrity”. I don’t understand the people who would consider media to be celebrity. Even less, the people who report on what some MSM “celebrity” does on the weekend.

I ask myself why I noticed this, and figure it’s the same reason I’d look at a car crash. It just makes me feel sad.
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December 9, 2018 11:09am
- Komata
  
  Proving yet again that she has absolutely no ‘Class’.
  
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  December 9, 2018 11:27am
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May His Many Victims Across the Globe Rest in Peace.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqiq8P8dRtY
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December 9, 2018 11:12am
- DifferentPerspective
  
  Meanwhile – Obama is still adding to his list of corruption, dishonesty, thievery, cronyism and crookedness
  
  Over a 1000 and still counting – it’s going to be hot where he’s ending up.
  
  Do have a look at #65 – I wondered where our SLG leader got that one from!
  
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  December 9, 2018 11:44am
  - stephieboy
    
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    DP , the latest survey from Transparency International suggests things have got worse under Trump in terms of corruption,
    
    https://www.transparency.org/news/feature/corruption_in_the_usa_the_difference_a_year_makes
    
    Otherwise, your rag link is full of baloney!
    
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    December 9, 2018 12:20pm
    - All_on_Red
      
      In Stephie world, a Survey of public opinion is taken as fact.
      No wonder he is so ignorant
      
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      December 9, 2018 12:41pm
      - stephieboy
        
        All on Red, so the Transparency Survey taken under Obama is valid but the one under Trump is invalid?
        
        How so?
        
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        December 9, 2018 1:25pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        No
        I think any Survey done like this is worthless
        Just like anything you say is worthless.
        You’re so constantly wrong it’s a running joke on KB.
        
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        December 9, 2018 2:14pm
      - stephieboy
        
        All on Wed, so it is taken that Different Perspectives original post was ignorant and worthless?
        
        Yes?
        
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        December 9, 2018 2:20pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        No
        Because DPs example lists actual charges of corruption.
        Your ‘Survey’ is a fact free opinion Poll
        There is a difference between a list of facts and just people’s opinions.
        But thank you for proving AGAIN that anything you say is worthless and wrong.
        You’re soooo dumb
        Lol
        
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        December 9, 2018 2:25pm
      - stephieboy
        
        All on Wed, will this definitive list do?,
        
        Trump’s Corruption: The Definitive List
        The many ways that the president, his family and his aides are lining their own pockets.
        By David Leonhardt and Ian Prasad Philbrick
        
        Opinion
        
        They don’t even try very hard to hide it.
        
        President Trump, his family and more than a few of his appointees are using his presidency to enrich themselves. They are spending taxpayer dollars for their own benefit. They are accepting sweetheart deals from foreigners. And they are harnessing the power of the federal government on behalf of their businesses.
        There’s a word for this: corruption.
        
        Given how widespread Trumpian corruption has become, we thought it was time to make a list. It’s meant to be a definitive list of self-dealing by the president, his family, his staff or his friends — since he began running for president. To qualify, an incident needs to seem highly credible, even if it remains unresolved, and needs to involve making money.
        
        Compiling the list made us understand why some historians believe Trump’s administration is the most corrupt since at least Warren Harding’s, of 1920s Teapot Dome fame. Trump administration officials and people close to them are brashly using power to amass perks and cash. They are betting that they can get away with it. So far, Congress has let them…”
        
        https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/28/opinion/trump-administration-corruption-conflicts.html
        
        Shall we go through the list one point a time?
        
        LOL!
        
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        December 9, 2018 2:34pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Yes go on.
        Go through the list one at a time
        Then provide a link to where Charges are being laid.
        
        Frankly I think we all know you’re so dumb you believe this nonsense.
        Ive heard it claimed that if a foreigner stays at a Trump Hotel then that’s corruption.
        I mean go figure, Trump has a Hotel in Washington and Politicians from everywhere stay there!
        It must be stopped!
        Lol.
        
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        December 9, 2018 2:39pm
  - realityczech
    
    Obama prosecuted and took legal action against more journalists and whistle blowers than any president in US history.
    
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    December 9, 2018 2:25pm
    - stephieboy
      
      rc, examples with links!
      
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      December 9, 2018 6:03pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        James Rosen for a start.
        https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/may/20/fox-news-reporter-targeted-us-government
        
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        December 9, 2018 6:12pm
      - Salacious Crumb
        
        Tsk tsk Ralph.
        LOL!
        
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        December 9, 2018 6:44pm
- Sir Leslie Bottocks
  
  and the victims of Jimmy Dore?
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma_9Vts5cpw
  
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  December 9, 2018 12:36pm
  - harvey wilson
    
    Jimmy Dore is such a dishonest useful idiot . He’s almost a parody of himself at this point ,
    
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    December 9, 2018 12:58pm
    - stephieboy
      
      This is an interesting point from the comments section,
      
      edy kubiak
      
      Hey, Jimmy Dore has a point. When Obama was President, the right was all up in arms over police drills, how they’re over-armed and about to take over. So now with Trump everything has changed and they’re suddenly the good guys?
      
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      December 9, 2018 1:27pm
- realityczech
  
  Mozzie the biggest warmonger and criminal in modern history was Obama. I thought you listened to Chomsky ?
  
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  December 9, 2018 2:05pm
  - stephieboy
    
    rc, garbage in garbage out so the saying goes.
    
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    December 9, 2018 2:14pm
    - sooty
      
      You have proved that saying, once again.
      
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      December 9, 2018 3:36pm
secondcumming

*David Seymour* is our electorate MP……..but it’ll be ‘2 ticks blue’ from me next time!

A few minutes ago he told Tracy Nelson on her RadioLive show, “…… it’s time National gave up questioning Labour about Karel Scroubek and moved on”

WTF?!!
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December 9, 2018 11:32am
- James Stephenson
  
  Did you not bother to continue listening to understand why?
  
  I’ve no idea why DS said that, but it seems to me that they’ve exhausted the impact they’re having on the government on that subject and might be wise to pursue another angle of attack, at least until the inevitable court case as he challenges ILG’s u-turn on deportation.
  
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  December 9, 2018 12:10pm
  - KevOB
    
    That matter is likely to be deferred until Sroubek is due for release.
    
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    December 9, 2018 1:15pm
  - waikatogirl
    
    Sorry, meant to downtick your comment. There is much more muck to come out. National must keep digging.
    
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    December 9, 2018 3:26pm
    - James Stephenson
      
      *pokes tongue*
      
      I think that’s wishful thinking. You’re looking for a conspiracy when I think, as is usual, it’s cock up / incompetence.
      
      I think the usefulness of pursuing this has gone, the media are bored and the Nets would be better to add another new example of incompetence to the list.
      
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      December 9, 2018 4:00pm
- Nookin
  
  When the Prime Minister gives a straight answer to what are relatively simple questions then they should stop. Very soon she will be saying that it is all sub judice and refuse to answer. Indeed, she does seem to be playing for time.
  Obfuscation is becoming her default mode. This could have been cleared up very quickly had she been up front.
  
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  December 9, 2018 12:17pm
- holysheet
  
  Reading between the lines, might Seymour have something to hide?
  
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  December 9, 2018 2:48pm
Hugh Pavletich

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Is Nick Smith still Nationals Housing Spokesperson ! ? ! ?

If National cant do housing properly … it should shut down.

Housing Minister Phil Twyford calls National’s claims it could do more housing ‘laughable’ …

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/housing-minister-phil-twyford-calls-nationals-claims-could-do-more-laughable
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THE KIWI TORIES HOUSING FAILURES … STAYING BITTER & TWISTED WONT SOLVE ANYTHING ! …

Clearly … the Kiwi Tories are still bitter and twisted about (justifiably) losing the election … September / October last year … mainly because of their housing failures …

Gone Gone Going; The Demise of the National – led government 2017 … Performance Urban Planning.org

http://www.performanceurbanplanning.org/National%20News.html

Subsequent polling by IPSOS found that just 20% are of the view National will fix the housing problem … while about 40% are of the view Labour will.

Housing is ther major issue.

That’s why NZ First with its leader Winston Peters tossed the pathetic Tory Tinkerers … and went in to coalition with Labour.

The big question is … what are the Kiwi Tories learning in Opposition ?

They need to get Allister Heath of the UK Tele (Tory) graph out to educate them …

Google search ‘Telegrapgh Allister Heath Tories Housing’ …

https://www.google.co.nz/search?ei=hTMMXKufBJn_rQGqqqmgDg&q=telegraph+allister+heath+tories+housing&oq=telegraph+allister+heath+tories+housing&gs_l=psy-ab.12…0.0..94073…0.0..0.0.0…….0……gws-wiz.WP0624qt1H0

As a Tory myself, it is rather sad to see the Kiwi Tories still so bitter and twisted 12 months following being deservedly tossed on the Opposition benches.

Remember what John Key said in 2007 … and all the rest of it ( the whole sorry history is on record at http://www.PerformanceUrbanPlanning.org … after all I ‘wet nursed’ the Kiwi Tories from about 2005 … helping them enormously in the lead up to the 2008 election !!! ) ! …

John Key on Housing Reform 2007 – YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWPgoAI1cLE
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December 9, 2018 12:04pm
- Happychappy
  
  You jumped up bitter twisted moron like Labour and the Coalition your all piss and wind. All your good for Hugh is posting the same outdated drivel everyday.
  
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  December 9, 2018 12:58pm
  - Hugh Pavletich
    
    Happychappy … please tell us … is Nick Smith National’s idea of a ‘new’ housing spokesperson ?
    
    The TVNZ interview above is a shocker. So embarrassing.
    
    It really saddens me as a Tory to see that National is still not learning anything.
    
    I am indeed a “Tory in Tears”.
    
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    December 9, 2018 1:59pm
    - Swifty
      
      You’re not a ‘tory in tears’ – you’re just a spamming compulsive wanker.
      
      And a joke.
      
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      December 9, 2018 2:58pm
      - Morrissey
        
        He’s a housing policy expert, Swifters, and you know it. Being an expert, a scholar, an academic—not something that’s respected a great deal on this blog, sadly.
        
        The world’s scientists? Rubbish. Leighton Smith, OTOH? Quoted assiduously and endorsed nearly every day.
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRnGlsvGJYk
        
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        December 9, 2018 5:14pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        He’s not an ‘expert’
        He just repeats the same old dogma which was started by others (Owen McShane springs to mind)
        
        Basically he says;
        Smart Growth policies limiting growth are bad
        Income multiples for debt servicing are too high above 3
        He’s right, but its common knowledge
        He’s never done Residential Development in his life.
        
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        December 9, 2018 5:21pm
    - KevOB
      
      Judith Collins spends her afternoons demolishing Twyford in the House.
      
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      December 9, 2018 4:26pm
      - Morrissey
        
        Judith Collins spends her afternoons demolishing Bridges in the House.
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFzu6CNtqec
        
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        December 9, 2018 4:44pm
MrTips

Repeat from last night’s GD. I didn’t know Cindy moonlighted for Emirates: https://www.ispot.tv/ad/dK6H/emirates-upgrade-your-airline-economy-class
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December 9, 2018 12:07pm
Stars And Stripes

From the website of 100% Pure New Zealand.
“What is the most important thing in the world? It is people! It is people! It is people!
Wherever you go in New Zealand, you’ll be embraced as one of our own. Here, fascinating stories, captivating experiences, and legendary landscapes await you”.

Shame the authorities in this country keep pumping out propagandist diarrhoea like this because deaths of tourists like Grace Millane just show what a load of rubbish it is.
If this is how we “embrace someone as our own” and give them a “captivating experience” then something is really fucked up.
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December 9, 2018 12:29pm
- GoVege
  
  What a load of cr*p.
  Why can’t those idiots just tell the truth?
  This country has some amazing scenery….but beware of the locals…
  
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  December 9, 2018 1:16pm
- Chuck Bird
  
  It will take a while for us to find out about this evil killer. If he is an illegal that will not be good for those supporting open borders.
  
  If he was no bail or parole this will not be good for Little and his ilk with their mantra, there are not bad people – just good people who do bad things.
  
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  December 9, 2018 1:27pm
  - realityczech
    
    And if he is a smug white National voting middle class prick – what then?
    
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    December 9, 2018 2:08pm
  - Komata
    
    CB / RC
    
    And if the murderer is none of the above but is actually a Maori??
    
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    December 9, 2018 3:31pm
    - realityczech
      
      Then it is colonialism and YT’s fault.
      
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      December 9, 2018 5:53pm
- Albert_Ross
  
  “Deaths of tourists like Grace Millane”.
  
  So there have been plenty of similar cases, have there?
  
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  December 9, 2018 3:22pm
  - Komata
    
    Albert
    
    ‘Plenty of’? No (in a situation of even one such death is one too many), but enough over the years to be concerning, as you (assuming you are both a Kiwi and still resident here) will well know.
    
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    December 9, 2018 3:30pm
  - GoVege
    
    There have been plenty, Albert.
    Don’t you remember the 6 year old tourist brutally raped in a caravan park by a kid of gang members?
    Or the British tourist murdered by another very young local in a schoolground in Rotorua I think.
    Or the other British tourist murdered in a public toilet in Hamilton by another “local”.
    Funny how the murder victims are almost always female.
    I suppose males might be able to put up more of a fight…
    
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    December 9, 2018 3:53pm
    - realityczech
      
      Overwhelmingly most victims of violence are male and even then most attacks go unreported. If this was a murdered male you would not even be talking about it and it would hardly rate a mention.
      
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      December 9, 2018 3:56pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Off hand:
    Birgit Bauer
    Dagmar Pytlickova
    Jae Hyeon Kim
    Jennifer Beard
    Urbin Hoglin
    Heidi Paakkonen
    Kayo Matsuzawa
    Monica Cantwell
    Karen Aim
    
    Seems we forget out murdered tourists rather quickly
    
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    December 9, 2018 3:56pm
    - realityczech
      
      Jae Hyeon Kim, had his head cut off with a shovel by skinheads. Govege don’t care though. He was from a patriarchal culture.
      
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      December 9, 2018 3:59pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        OK, I put up a list of Tourist killings in NZ with only 2 male names on it…
        It would seem to indicate that females are victims of violent men.
        Why do you have to turn on Go Vege?
        
        Yes, I realise men are victims of violence, too…but no-one is saying that Men shouldn’t travel or go out alone.
        
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        December 9, 2018 4:13pm
      - realityczech
        
        Most victims are men. Not women. MEN.
        
        Vege is a raving anti male nut job who blames men for every social ill. Stop trying to portray her as a victim.
        
        In fact it is her sort of institutionalised misandry that is producing dysfunctional men who prey on women.
        
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        December 9, 2018 4:24pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        There are probably numerous reasons why men prey on women:
        
        1. An inability to form a steady sexual partnership
        2. Because they are bullies and need a weaker person as their victim
        3. Because they think women are their possessions
        4. Because they think women are pieces of meat
        
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        December 9, 2018 4:45pm
      - realityczech
        
        * Because men are over represented as victims of violence.
        * Because men are marginalised and negatively portrayed in popular culture.
        * Because men are over represented in every negative social statistic.
        * Suicide, murder and all forms of preventable death feature men overwhelmingly.
        
        Smart Maggy would look up the figures. Feminist Maggy goes with feeeeelz.
        
        Do you honestly expect an oppressed underclass to grovel to and respect their abusers?
        
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        December 9, 2018 4:49pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Feminist Maggy goes with feeeeelz.
        
        No rc..
        I’m accounting for the times in my life when someone said:
        1.You can’t go tramping this weekend ‘coz you’re the only female
        2. You can’t do your Honours project in Nelson Lakes NP, coz you’d be a female on your own
        3. You can’t go to the Chatham Is with your L&S work ‘coz you are pregnant
        4. You can’t go to the Subantarctic on a Navy Boat coz you’d be the only female on the boat…..
        etc.
        
        So I had to figure out ways to get around this misogynist crap.
        
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        December 9, 2018 5:02pm
      - realityczech
        
        I am sure you shone through Wiggles. Good to hear people were looking after you though.
        
        However, as heartbreaking as your personal story is, it does not refute the statistics and evidence of my point. And I could have gone much further with it based on evidence, not my personal story, or feeelz.
        
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        December 9, 2018 5:07pm
    - Viking2
      
      There was a girl killed on Mt Maunganui a few years ago
      Ah yes Monica Cantwell.
      
      https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11713992
      
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      December 9, 2018 8:21pm
    - GoVege
      
      Thanks Maggy.
      And I’m used to RC calling me a man-hater/ nut-job.
      🙂
      
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      December 9, 2018 9:58pm
secondcumming

What do you call a guy that’s half human / half plant?

Demitri.
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December 9, 2018 12:52pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  What do you inter a dead half human/half plant?
  
  Cemetery
  
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  December 9, 2018 2:11pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Woops, that should read…
    Where do you inter….
    
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    December 9, 2018 3:30pm
    - lifesgood
      
      Maggy, don’t worry about realityczech, he seems to think it is normal and OK behaviour for a young woman to go to the apartment of a man she has just met late on a Saturday night. It SHOULD be OK but it isn’t, as the tragic story of Grace proves. I’ve been feeling sick about this girl all day. Heart breaking for her family. Girls need to be taught what is safe and what isn’t.
      
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      December 9, 2018 5:39pm
      - realityczech
        
        So you believe the crime was going to some guys apartment and not her murder.
        
        Wow. How is the weather in Saudi Arabia today?
        
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        December 9, 2018 5:55pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        My only worry about rc is why(s)he isn’t out enjoying this wonderful sunshine…
        (my excuse… I have to retreat indoors to cool off).
        
        Girls need to be taught what is safe and what isn’t.
        Of course that is true.. but by the same token, boys/men must learn/be taught that they do not have the right to inflict sexual abuse and violence upon anyone.
        
        And Good men must reinforce the message that no-one is “asking for it” or “deserves it.”
        
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        December 9, 2018 6:00pm
Chuck Bird

The police have done an incredible job. The family of Grace are very good people and thanked the people of New Zealand. Unfortunately, there is evil scum everywhere.

Grace Millane: Police at crime scene in Waitakere Ranges

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12173844
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December 9, 2018 2:00pm
Tall Man

FFS, the world has gone mad.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12173818

I was often called Kiwi when working in Oz and I wore it like a badge of honour.

What a pathetic bunch of tossers there are out there.

She probably voted for ardern the liar because she is a woman and failed to see the irony of her actions.
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December 9, 2018 2:02pm
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  Prob has ADS, Auzzie Derangement Syndrome
  
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  December 9, 2018 4:27pm
MrTips

I would have told her to piss off. Nosey cow and she’s not an icon – she’s a self indulgent Chardonnay socialist prat.
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December 9, 2018 3:50pm
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  Another narcissist. The left is full of them
  
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  December 9, 2018 4:23pm
- Viking2
  
  Got to do something to raise her dismal ratings. Not worth the money being paid. Never was mind you.
  
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  December 9, 2018 7:29pm
Longknives

Who has the bigger ego?
Hilary ‘I’ll invite myself to their wedding’ Barry or Clarke ‘The World is watching me’ Gayford?
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December 9, 2018 4:30pm
MickMac

Worth a read and posting to all the Climate Change wallies you know.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/12/climate_modeling_illusions_not_based_in_reality.html
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December 9, 2018 5:14pm
MickMac

Love this, “An irrational Construct”

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/12/virginia_teacher_fired_for_refusing_to_use_new_pronouns_for_transgender_student.html
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December 9, 2018 5:23pm
- kowtow
  
  And what of the teachers’ right to work ?
  
  I’m amazed at how quickly people are sacked these days when they are perceived to have “offended” some alleged minority’s feelings.
  
  Extraordinary.
  
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  December 9, 2018 9:06pm
RF

The PM’s kept man is self opinionated tosser.

He will eventually fall from grace and I want to be around to see it happen.

Gold digger…..
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December 9, 2018 5:27pm
- Longknives
  
  RF- You and me both.
  
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  December 9, 2018 5:38pm
  - nasska
    
    To describe him as a “self opinionated tosser” & a “gold digger” is undue flattery.
    
    But show some mercy…..look at what he has to service on a regular basis! 🙂
    
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    December 9, 2018 5:48pm
    - Longknives
      
      https://www.foxnews.com/us/mugshot-of-ohio-woman-with-unique-face-tattoos-goes-viral-after-walmart-shoplifting-arrest
      
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      December 9, 2018 6:04pm
  - RF
    
    Now that the SLAG has had her crocodile tears in public I’m waiting for her pet clown to try to hog the limelight.
    
    He will not be able to keep his mouth shut and miss the opportunity to wear his stupid suit.
    
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    December 10, 2018 6:11pm
wreck1080

I wish we could have the death penalty here in NZ. I’d be happy to pull the lever on some of these low lives.
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December 9, 2018 5:54pm
- Tall Man
  
  Big zip tie around the neck.
  
  Give him some time to thing about it.
  
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  December 9, 2018 8:08pm
sooty

Had to laugh, I just showed the wife the news item of the Walmart shop lifters mugshot. She reckoned it looked like Comrade Cindy, our PM!
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December 9, 2018 5:59pm
- Longknives
  
  We all said the same thing!
  It’s fucking hilarious-
  
  https://www.foxnews.com/us/mugshot-of-ohio-woman-with-unique-face-tattoos-goes-viral-after-walmart-shoplifting-arrest
  
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  December 9, 2018 6:04pm
DigNap15

Sadly girls get attacked and murdered all over the world.

Eg I say a video on YouTube yesterday of a drunk British girl being encouraged to walk down an ally in Bangkok by a Thai guy.
He tried to rape her but failed.
She is OK and the police have arrested him.
But she was out at night on her own and drunk in a foreign city.
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December 9, 2018 6:01pm
- Viking2
  
  Three tourists were allegedly attacked in an alleyway in Nelson on Saturday night.
  
  Police said up to six men attacked them in an alleyway leading from Bridge St to Montgomery Park at 1:50am.
  
  Personal items were taken and one of the men sustained a broken nose and fractured jaw.
  
  Police have asked any witnesses to call Nelson Police on 03 546 3840.
  
  https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2018/12/three-tourists-attacked-and-robbed-in-nelson.html
  
  Past time we toughened up on these pricks.
  
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  December 9, 2018 8:28pm
- lifesgood
  
  Stupid girl, vile man.
  
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  December 9, 2018 8:57pm
DigNap15

I have said several times before that anyone who rapes, robs, attacks or murders a foreign tourist should get double the maximum sentence for the offense.
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December 9, 2018 6:02pm
- fernglas
  
  Two lives?
  
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  December 9, 2018 8:10pm
- rightoverlabour
  
  No, just death. And not only for foreigners. You murder, or violently rape, the only sensible punishment is death. Rapists and psychopathic murderers are seldom rehabilitable. The only course of action that works is death. It generally prevents re-offending.
  
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  December 9, 2018 10:00pm
DigNap15

That new anti-cycling party in Wellington sounds great.
I hope they do well
I might even send them a donation.
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December 9, 2018 6:03pm
Swifty

Kea will love this one:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6475277/Victim-born-ultra-orthodox-Jewish-community-tells-finally-courage-flee.html
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December 9, 2018 6:32pm
- realityczech
  
  This is normal. Conservative religious Jews are no different to conservative religious Muslims. Their beliefs are incredibly similar.
  
  It was Jews who invented this vile shit. And their other gift to the world – Communism.
  
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  December 9, 2018 6:55pm
  - stephieboy
    
    rc, wrong. It was the French Philosopher Auguste Comte who was said to have invented Communism!
    
    https://www.scribd.com/doc/306869301/Wilson-Edmund-To-the-Finland-Station-A-Study-in-the-Writing-and-Acting-of-History
    
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    December 9, 2018 7:54pm
    - All_on_Red
      
      That’s odd
      I used the search function on the document in the scribd link to find Auguste Comte and it came back nothing found.
      Then looking at the Wiki link for Auguste Comte it says nothing about communism
      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_Comte
      
      Could be wrong though
      Over to you Stephie…
      
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      December 9, 2018 8:11pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        I think you will find Comte is better known for Fetishism
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_three_stages
        
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        December 9, 2018 8:25pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Would that be fetishes like perving in Malls and harassing women about their underwear?
        
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        December 9, 2018 8:33pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        A_o_R
        
        I thought I’d check…but when I got to this sentence:
        
        Through this practice, people believe that all things root from a supernatural source.
        
        I decided I didn’t need to know any more.
        
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        December 9, 2018 8:39pm
      - nasska
        
        Bail will be set at 200 goats. 🙂
        
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        December 9, 2018 8:41pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Merry Christmas Stephie
        https://www.amazon.com/Pipedream-Blow-Up-Billy-Goat/dp/B0016399DY
        
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        December 9, 2018 8:45pm
      - nasska
        
        I always thought thought that he liked girl goats.
        
        Never mind…..he probably swings both ways! 🙂
        
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        December 9, 2018 8:49pm
wreck1080

More info in the british papers….the ‘alleged’ murderer (who knew where her body was located), is a New Zealander and they were on a tinder date.
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December 9, 2018 7:05pm
- mandk
  
  What happened to that poor girl is evil.
  
  But why do people go on dates with people they know absolutely nothing about?
  
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  December 9, 2018 7:22pm
  - realityczech
    
    To get to know them. Never been much chop with the ladies have you mate?
    
    The girl did nothing wrong. The prick who killed her did.
    
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    December 9, 2018 9:06pm
    - mandk
      
      She was completely blameless, but she paid a very high price to get to know someone.
      
      I wonder how many women get assaulted, or worse, on Tinder dates, but don’t report it for fear of not being taken seriously.
      
      And I really don’t think you have any reason to sneer at other people’s success in relationships, kea.
      
      You strike me like the sort of bloke who boasts in changing rooms about his prowess, but is actually a complete failure with the ladies.
      
      Still, I expect you can impress 14-year-old boys.
      
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      December 9, 2018 9:29pm
      - realityczech
        
        I wonder how many men get assaulted, or worse, on Tinder dates, but don’t report it for fear of not being taken seriously.
        
        Stop the mawkish crap.
        
        It is sad, but intelligent people don’t lose their minds over it or use it as a platform to push hatred of men or victorian era views.
        
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        December 9, 2018 10:29pm
  - stephieboy
    
    An even more important question, why do certain people murder someone they just met? Where does the impulse come from? Does it cross their mind they’re killing someone or that they will almost definitely be caught?
    
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    December 9, 2018 9:34pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Why do people abuse folks they have never met?
      
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      December 9, 2018 9:38pm
Jack5

At Michael Reddell’s Croaking Cassandra blog … the relative earnings of the tertiary educated in OECD countries, on how the NZ tertiary educated compared with those of other OECD countries, and on whether this puts into question NZ’s immigration policy.

https://croakingcassandra.com/
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December 9, 2018 9:11pm
- realityczech
  
  Bloody interesting graph that Jacksie.
  
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  December 9, 2018 9:17pm
Jack5

Aussie bikie gang into sex with alpacas?

https://www.theage.com.au/national/nsw/gypsy-jokers-clubhouse-declared-restricted-premises-after-court-hears-alpaca-allegations-20181207-p50kte.html
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December 9, 2018 9:25pm
- sooty
  
  Stephie will be on the plane already.
  He will be in to that!
  
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  December 9, 2018 10:06pm
Wired-one

Just watched Sir John Key on Q+A. What a shame he didnt stick around for the last election, seeing him again reminded me just how impressive he is. Sir Bill did great, but Key would’ve made kiwis realise just how much of an idiotic lightweight Ardern really is. Shame.
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December 9, 2018 9:54pm
Wired-one

Twitford on the other hand continues to come across as a complete idiotic buffoon.
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December 9, 2018 10:09pm
Vory v zakone

Did you see JK put the sneering asswipe Dann in his place about Trump. Another leftard media TDS sufferer from 13,900 miles away
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December 10, 2018 2:05am
cmm

Oes noes! Captain’s call gone wrong!

https://www.stuff.co.nz/bay-of-plenty/109222162/50-million-superyacht-encore-damaged-after-colliding-with-pier-in-tauranga

They should have the PriNZess in charge.

Better for us if she was only driving a $50M superyacht and not the whole NZ economy.
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