General Debate 15 January 2019

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January 15, 2019 8:01am
- holysheet
  
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  January 15, 2019 8:05am
  - Steve (North Shore)
    
    Try doing a search. You will find that the Google Cache has been scrubbed. Why is that?
    
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    January 15, 2019 3:58pm
    - igm
      
      All details deleted shortly after the filthy pervert made his first court appearance.
      
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      January 15, 2019 4:25pm
  - noskire
    
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    January 15, 2019 7:50pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Starboard:
  
  A busy sexual deviant:
  
  Four people, all aged 16, were sexually harassed or assaulted by a 20-year-old. Three of them said the 20-year-old put his hand down their pants.
  
  Once was an accident. Twice was a misunderstanding. Three times and you’re destined for Morrissey’s groper list. Oh wait…
  
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  January 15, 2019 8:05am
  - starboard
    
    Gee, the victims of the Labour Party camp’s sexual molester are very young. I hope they will recover from all of this.
    
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    January 15, 2019 8:09am
    - starboard
      
      Compensation wood have to be made available.
      
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      January 15, 2019 8:12am
      - igm
        
        Maybe a few more pies!
        
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        January 15, 2019 8:32am
    - aldo
      
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      Where I from use of word which make men innocent is alleged. Why does this starboard make such noise? Labour good people. Max Key I know of. He wants to ‘ride woman’ instead of bike. Max not good guy.
      
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      January 15, 2019 8:23am
      - aldo
        
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        I see down tick people. Do this mean they agree that alleged not a problem? Maybe the woman. Maybe they LQBLT.
        
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        January 15, 2019 8:29am
      - Keeping Stock
        
        Has Max Key been arrested and prosecuted for four counts of alleged indecent assault aldo? There’s a world of difference between stupid teenager talk, and actually allegedly sexually assaulting people.
        
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        January 15, 2019 8:36am
      - Tall Man
        
        Not sure where you are from but here we speak english and maybe your comments would get a better respnse if you made the effort to learn the language of the country you choose to live in.
        
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        January 15, 2019 8:59am
      - starboard
        
        “Where I from”..you can always go back there if you want, dont let the gate hit ya arse on the way out.
        
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        January 15, 2019 9:04am
      - JibberJabber
        
        Aldo Breen, fail troll.
        
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        January 15, 2019 10:17am
      - GoVege
        
        I think Aldo is Italian.
        We need more hunky Italian dudes in this country. 🙂 🙂
        
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        January 15, 2019 10:35am
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        Italians have (equal) lowest birth rate in world (8 per 1000). Italian men must be a crap shag.
        
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        January 15, 2019 10:43am
      - alloytoo
        
        New Summer intern?
        
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        January 15, 2019 10:47am
      - lilman
        
        Question if a trailer is 1.04m deep
        2.23 long
        1.40 wide
        what is the cubic metre of this trailer?
        
        lol,lets see whos right.
        
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        January 15, 2019 12:09pm
      - GoVege
        
        UN: that’s exactly the ignorant attitude that fuels overpopulation in the 3rd world….and leads to 3rd worlders trying to get into first world countries and infect them with their chauvinist beliefs.
        
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        January 15, 2019 12:11pm
      - Sideoiler
        
        @ Lilman, 3.24688 meters3
        Handy resource here, https://www.calculator.net/volume-calculator.html
        
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        January 15, 2019 12:53pm
      - Nermal
        
        If you’re going to troll at least do it believably
        
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        January 15, 2019 2:50pm
  - Longknives
    
    I have no idea who the alleged offender is.
    
    But I find it amazing that Labour have managed to completely bury this.
    If this had happened at any other organisation (Think Law Firms/Facultys and NZ Police ten years ago etc etc) there would be a freaking outrage and all hell would break loose..’Rape Culture’ ‘Commission of Enquiry!’ etc etc
    
    Just shows how utterly morally bankrupt the Labour Party (and in particular their lying leader) are..
    
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    January 15, 2019 8:11am
    - ldypen
      
      And the MSM, if it had been Max Key or any National MP’s son there would be calls for pitchforks and burning at the stake!
      
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      January 15, 2019 8:19am
      - Longknives
        
        The worst part is that Labour blatantly tried to cover it up!
        Could you just imagine if National did the same?
        
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        January 15, 2019 8:36am
      - AgainstTheFlow
        
        And the academics and activists –
        
        Where are Alison Mau and Lizzie Marvelly?
        
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        January 15, 2019 9:00am
      - Morrissey
        
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        Where are Alison Mau and Lizzie Marvelly?
        
        Here at Chez Breen?
        
        Nah, just kiddin’, fellas!
        
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        January 15, 2019 10:29am
      - harvey wilson
        
        “Where are Alison Mau and Lizzie Marvelly?
        
        Here at Chez Breen?
        
        Nah, just stalking ’, fellas!”
        
        FTFY .
        
        That youth camp can’t come soon enough for you can it? You’re fizzing like a champagne bottle that’s been in a paint can shaker .
        
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        January 15, 2019 10:34am
    - GazzaW
      
      It will be fascinating to see extent of the media coverage at trial time. What are the chances of a breathless Tova O’Brian and a team of cameramen being parked outside the District Court demanding comment from the accused and his accompanying legal entourage? Or of daily front page coverage from the Herald’s much vaunted investigative team? I’m guessing nine tenths of bugger all chances rather a media blackout once Labour’s spin team have called in all of their favours.
      
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      January 15, 2019 8:22am
      - Biscuit
        
        Fear not, Gazza.
        
        I happen to know that that shining beacon of the New Zealand investigative political reporting scene, Nicky Hager, is toiling away on a new expose book: ‘Sexual Politics’…
        
        Not…
        
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        January 15, 2019 8:54am
      - Chuck Bird
        
        I will be at the court if the date is not kept secret.
        
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        January 15, 2019 11:10am
      - Paulus
        
        Tova will say it’s all Simon’s fault.
        JLR told her !
        
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        January 15, 2019 2:01pm
      - suzieq
        
        Chuck, by all means be in court but remember the court rules about reporting its proceedings. They’re expected to be obeyed or risk contempt.
        
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        January 15, 2019 4:16pm
    - igm
      
      When an unelected PM parades a belly full of illegitimacy on the word stage what would one expect.
      
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      January 15, 2019 8:34am
      - RF
        
        She brought shame on her parents who had high ideals. A major disappointment to family with behaviour more fitting of a low life scrubber.
        
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        January 15, 2019 2:26pm
      - Tall Man
        
        If the shoe fits RF or the gumboot in this case….
        
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        January 15, 2019 2:54pm
    - doggone7
      
      You contend that “Labour has managed to completely bury this.”
      
      Are they responsible for completely burying all the cases from 2017 and 2018 which will make their way into courts (finally) this year?
      
      You’re free to manufacture a continuing “freaking outrage and all hell” while others get on with their lives and let the processes work through as they are with thousands of cases. Some cases on the lists which involve what many would see as heinous crimes are lined up with no freaking outrage and all hell.
      
      The outrage in the Labour camp situation would seem to be about politics not the alleged heinous acts.
      
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      January 15, 2019 11:34am
      - Tall Man
        
        Wrong, an admission of guilt would have had the matter long done and dusted by now.
        
        That means the little toe rag is planning a defense which is likely to turn the offending back onto the victims.
        
        Had this matter been approached sympathetically by the labour party, which is what should have happened, these victims would be well on the way to recovery by now but they will have to relive the events again during the trial process. Really lovely victim abuse by the labour party and especially the little deviant and his mother.
        
        Where are all the dyke commentators now…..silence reigns supreme.
        
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        January 15, 2019 2:52pm
  - harvey wilson
    
    Ah so twice is only a misunderstanding? That explains why Assanges two rapes ( that we know of ) don’t get him on the gropers list .
    
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    January 15, 2019 8:18am
    - Morrissey
      
      The Gropers list is fact-checked. Fantasies concocted by criminal conspiracies do not reach the standard required for inclusion on the list.
      
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      January 15, 2019 1:40pm
- Paulus
  
  It will all be hushed up and the Judge will be told that there was no case to answer as it might affect the deviant’s political future.
  Despite charges having been formalised.
  
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  January 15, 2019 8:30am
  - igm
    
    Maybe the compliant big cop will become involved!
    
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    January 15, 2019 8:35am
    - RF
      
      Never mind Uncle Mike and the Trollop will soon make a joint public statement announcing there is nothing to see as it’s a case of mass hysteria.
      
      First fish will then produce photos of his recent catch including a mermaid that he happened to find in his net.
      
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      January 15, 2019 9:21am
    - MickMac
      
      Is there corruption in your innuendo IGM?
      
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      January 15, 2019 2:13pm
  - namron
    
    I have been curious to know why this case has been so delayed!
    What influence has there been – perhaps in the hope that it might be forgotten?
    Isn’t it about a year since the actual Camp?
    Apart from the result of the Court case, I am almost more interested in how and who of the News media handle it.
    
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    January 15, 2019 8:58am
    - calendar girl
      
      The Labour youth camp was held 9-11 February 2018. The accused appeared in Court 5 July 2018. At this rate, the process is going to take forever.
      
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      January 15, 2019 9:15am
      - Rachael Membery
        
        Are they having another one this year?
        
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        January 15, 2019 11:10am
      - KevOB
        
        Counsel can make delays. I have known charges being dismissed because it took 18 months for them to be ready for trial.The Police can slow things down too.
        
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        January 15, 2019 11:38am
      - Keeping Stock
        
        I gather the matter is set down for a trial in March 2019, with the defendant having denied the offences.
        
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        January 15, 2019 3:05pm
      - suzieq
        
        Normal time frame, I’m afraid.
        
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        January 15, 2019 4:19pm
  - Colinxy
    
    If the judge is Phillipa Cunningham, that would be a given.
    
    With her in charge, he wouldn’t even necessarily need a political future: he might try to tell a joke in his future for example.
    
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    January 15, 2019 9:20am
holysheet

Facebook founder is to marry friends star Courteney Cox .
She said “I have decided to slightly shorten his name to add to mine as it was far too much of a mouthfull”.
Not that Courteney Cox Zucker isn’t ?
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January 15, 2019 8:03am
starboard

The Labour Party sexual deviant. Wood he be a tad nervous right now?
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January 15, 2019 8:03am
- starboard
  
  Sorry about the double up there chaps, delete not working.
  
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  January 15, 2019 8:06am
  - Harkman
    
    I was going say Starboard, am I seeing double? ?
    
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    January 15, 2019 9:26am
    - starboard
      
      “Drinking can cause memory loss…..
      
      or even worse, memory loss “
      
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      January 15, 2019 10:08am
      - Tall Man
        
        But memory should be fine..now where were you?
        
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        January 15, 2019 2:47pm
Southern Raider

So the mum of the two dead brothers was a solo mum (who can’t spell) “love yous” and so another statistic for no fathers

Sounds like the other boy had been passed around and a family conference decided to keep him in ChCh although that’s were he was getting into trouble rather than sending him to stay with his big sister in another city to start again

Wait for Police to be blamed
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January 15, 2019 8:05am
- DigNap15
  
  A Stuff Opinion piece has just called for police chases to be stopped!
  I said that Steeling Cars needs to Stop
  And that running from the Police needs to Stop
  
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  January 15, 2019 8:11am
  - Chris R
    
    Typical Stuff! In this instance I understood that there was little dispute that the police chase had already been abandoned? Needless to say the media will take an anti-police stance regardless of whether it is authentic or not.
    
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    January 15, 2019 8:14am
    - dubya
      
      Hundreds of popular comments in support of the police on the Stuff story, amazing how the tone of their stories so rarely reflects public opinion these days.
      
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      January 15, 2019 8:18am
      - Longknives
        
        Comments will be closed shortly and deleted a bit later in the morning.
        It’s how the Labour Party Propaganda that masquerade for ‘Media’ in this country work..
        
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        January 15, 2019 8:23am
      - sooty
        
        So stuffed closes the comments when it’s not what they want!
        
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        January 15, 2019 8:23am
      - godruelf
        
        I note comments closed off on this article. One of the best was thanking the writer of the article for providing a platform to get the thoughts of the stuff readers out there. Overwhelmingly in support of Police intervention
        
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        January 15, 2019 8:27am
      - slightlyrighty
        
        and amazing how comments are now closed, as usual.
        
        It must be galling at stuff when the journos realise that the masses are not thinking the way they want us to.
        
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        January 15, 2019 8:32am
      - oldgolfer
        
        Sounds like Stuff – pissing off readers from day one. Morons.
        
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        January 15, 2019 8:51am
      - Colinxy
        
        Stuff have continued their hagiography with more stories about police chases.
        
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        January 15, 2019 1:44pm
    - Colville
      
      So a 16 yr old drive a stolen car thru red lights at 3 times the speed limit and refuses to stop.
      
      3 kids die in fireball after crashing.
      
      Very sad but what is the choice? Have a “no chase’ policy? No fucken way.
      
      If you flee then you take it upon your own shoulders. There has to be a zero tolerance policy, they will be caught and prosecuted 100% of the time AND the Judges need to get onboard with this and send a message. If you run then you get a proper spanking when you are up before the beak.
      
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      January 15, 2019 8:24am
      - All_on_Red
        
        The problem is that once the ‘flee’ reaction kicks in there’s probably no way a teenager has the ability/control to overcome that instinct.
        The Police might stop the chase but the runners never seem to slow down after that.
        
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        January 15, 2019 8:44am
      - redeye
        
        At the risk of sounding like a virtual signaler, I have been thinking about the poor copper who threw the road spikes out.
        He (she?) will probably never fully recover. Unlike the other victims he didn’t have a choice and had to do his job.
        If these kids had of kept driving like that and killed someone else?
        
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        January 15, 2019 8:45am
      - howitis
        
        It was a technical suicide by the driver.
        He stole a car then would not stop when indicated to
        He drove off at speed
        He drove hard at road spikes
        and so on and so forth.
        
        He killed himself and 2 x 13 year olds.
        Where is the Liebour Govt on Road deaths and suicides?
        Until they address this it is another – yep another- unfilled ‘promise’ a.k.a. ‘LIE’ from Liebour.
        
        Stopping road pursuits.
        Not an option.
        Drink drive stops etc will mean anyone can drive off and the police cannot pursue.
        Add at least 200 more road deaths p.a. from this.
        
        The blood is on the hands of the people who stop law enforcement.
        Former EPMU National Secretary responsible for Pike River, Andrew Little, wants to have less enforcement and allow criminals to take over the streets.
        We have seen eight years ago how his oversight and lack of enforcement of rules e.g. allowing gas sensors to be covered over in the mine, led to 29 deaths.
        The stopping of law enforcement will lead to more deaths, repeating every month, until crime is treated as crime.
        Andrew Little will be complicit – just like with Pike River – in these deaths and will have more blood on this hands.
        Of course the well-rewarded media will not report as such.
        
        I call Sunday night a suitable outcome under the circumstances given no other parties were killed or injured. Not optimal but acceptable.
        The behaviour at that age indicated a dark path. Now no other party can be injured by them.
        
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        January 15, 2019 12:04pm
      - KH
        
        “All in Red”. Yes we know 16 year olds are pretty dumb but they still have some modicum of decision making ability. You portray them as intellectually completely unable to cease a chase. To the contrary I believe that they can, and often probably do cease.
        
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        January 15, 2019 12:21pm
    - Paulus
      
      Look at the road maps and timetable provided – the Police stopped and the car went round two tight bends away from the stopped police car.
      Spikes were used.
      
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      January 15, 2019 8:33am
    - igm
      
      https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/109923972/police-chases-for-traffic-offences-must-end
      So long as we have soft cock scum like current CoL running the circus we will not have any justice.
      What about the poor person who has had their car trashed . . . seems lefties don’t give a stuff for victims, only the ferals.
      When we had a detention centre, a borstal and other institutions that were bloody tough, very few dared drive while disqualified or flout the law. But now we have filth such as Little prescribing lighter sentences for offenders.
      Geoffrey Palmer was the starter of this namby pamby bullshit, and like he, a failure.
      
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      January 15, 2019 8:41am
      - tf78
        
        They used to hang horse thieves – so stop stealing full stop.
        
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        January 15, 2019 10:58am
  - rockape
    
    Just put a mandatory 2 years inside as the minimum add ed to any sentence for a crime for running from the police.
    
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    January 15, 2019 11:29am
    - KevOB
      
      For a young person that’s a way of making a permanent inmate. To survive prisoners have to adapt rendering them unfit to rejoin regular society. Institutionalisation has a very high price.
      
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      January 15, 2019 11:47am
      - Tall Man
        
        What utter pc crap.
        
        ” 70% of prisoners reoffend within two years of being released from prison and 52% return to prison within five years (some of them more than once). For teenage prisoners, the recidivism rate (return to prison) is 71%”
        
        That means that 29% do not reoffend, not a good number but it shows that it is not neccessarily a “permanent” change.
        
        It is more likely that many are past redemption long before they get to prison. Check with your local probabtion service and you may be stunned at what they have to say.
        
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        January 15, 2019 2:45pm
      - Nermal
        
        So what’s the public downside if these morons are permanently out of harms way?
        
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        January 15, 2019 2:57pm
      - KevOB
        
        @Tall Man
        You give percentages of recidivism at 71%. I did not say that all will be permanently incarcerated but that’s the route to institutionalisation. It may be less than 20% but the numbers are significant. I have known such people commit crimes to get back inside. Further, to them being jailed is like being home with family. Crime they commit has ceased to have significant concern for them. It doesn’t bother sociopaths and if they are brutalised inside they return it.
        
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        January 15, 2019 3:26pm
    - MickMac
      
      Driver 6 months, no parole. + 3 months suspended for 3 yrs
      All other passengers 3 months suspended for 3 yrs.
      
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      January 15, 2019 2:18pm
- SGA
  
  So the mum of the two dead brothers was a solo mum (who can’t spell) “love yous” and so another statistic for no fathers
  
  She’s a widow, is that right?
  
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  January 15, 2019 8:17am
  - All_on_Red
    
    I can’t imagine the agony of having two of your children killed in a car crash
    If she is a widow, then this is pretty awful
    
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    January 15, 2019 8:35am
    - dubya
      
      What kind of mother doesn’t know where her 13 year old is, though? (Or if we are to believe worse, knows where her son is and that it is dangerous, but does not stop him?)
      
      My parents raised four sons and a daughter, and whilst we lived at home, had to inform our parents where we would be and who we were with. Nothing overly strict or unusual, just mutually respectful. They could smell bullshit from a mile away, too.
      
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      January 15, 2019 8:48am
      - Southern Raider
        
        And this wasn’t a one off. They had been out all night stealing cars for months
        
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        January 15, 2019 9:03am
      - igm
        
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        January 15, 2019 9:09am
      - MickMac
        
        mine too.
        
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        January 15, 2019 2:19pm
    - igm
      
      The loss of one of child is bloody tough so cannot imagine the grief losing two.
      I still blame weak justice for these deaths. If there was a knowledge of severe repercussions for stealing cars and failing to stop for police, I am sure there would be a monumental decrease in these crimes.
      
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      January 15, 2019 8:58am
    - Sacha
      
      The kids were probably on a high – just completed a robbery, and made a get-away in a stolen car. Yeah!
      Of course they were speeding -it’s part of the whole scenario. If they ever gave it a moment’s thought they would probably have said ” – way to go!”
      
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      January 15, 2019 9:14am
      - Komata
        
        Sacha
        
        And don’t forget that such things are glamourised on TV and in the movies. ‘Gone in 60 Seconds’ comes to mind
        
        It’s ‘cool’ to steal cars, get one over the cops, and not get caught. It makes you a ‘man’ (and pulls chicks too).
        
        And if you do get caught, no big deal, a bit of PD or a wet bus ticket and you’re back out.
        
        What is there not to like?
        
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        January 15, 2019 11:09am
      - Nermal
        
        Lol, the proverbial “they died doing what they loved”
        
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        January 15, 2019 2:59pm
      - Nermal
        
        They should be made to watch the other side: a shortened lifetime in bed or wheelchair, shitting and pissing into a plastic bag
        
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        January 15, 2019 3:02pm
    - RF
      
      Obviously our glorious leader is a role model they look up to. Birds of a feather etc…
      
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      January 15, 2019 2:31pm
    - suzieq
      
      Yes, but the kids won’t do it again …
      
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      January 15, 2019 4:27pm
  - Southern Raider
    
    I believe the other boys dad died not the father of the two brothers?
    
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    January 15, 2019 9:02am
- Chris R
  
  I suppose the funeral costs will be met by the taxpayers. As Dad won’t be around to contribute…
  
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  January 15, 2019 8:17am
  - SGA
    
    Well, he’s dead, so…
    
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    January 15, 2019 8:25am
  - cmm
    
    ACC covers funeral expenses.
    
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    January 15, 2019 8:25am
    - MT_Tinman
      
      ACC is funded how?
      
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      January 15, 2019 8:40am
      - igm
        
        MT: You are wasting your time attempting to show a lefty where money comes from. They, in the main, think money most receive (CoL supporters) for doing nothing is from government . . . they have never heard of taxpayers, being leeches, who only receive.
        
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        January 15, 2019 8:45am
      - holysheet
        
        Not by the “taxpayer”
        Employees, employers, users of fuel, all pay ACC levies in some way.
        Your gst, paye tax does not fund ACC.
        
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        January 15, 2019 8:49am
    - kevn
      
      @cmm… ACC covers for ‘accidents’ (waiting to happen).
      
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      January 15, 2019 8:51am
      - igm
        
        holysheet: As a taxpayer, ratepayer, ACC levy payer, I am fully aware the money is levied, but that is tax in my eyes. It still is not funded many Labour supporters as they are not in business and do not work.
        
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        January 15, 2019 9:23am
      - Paulus
        
        40% of families are Tax Recipients – they pay no taxes or levies – incl ACC.
        
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        January 15, 2019 2:08pm
- Than
  
  Oh, no need to wait – No Right Turn has already come out and essentially labelled the police as murderers.
  
  This was a no-win situation for police. Some people (including NRT) have said the police should have let the car go and just arrested them later, but I call bollocks on that. For a start it was a stolen car, so police had no easy way to identify the occupants. But far more importantly , the way the car was being driven it represented a serious immediate hazard to members of the public. It needed to be stopped ASAP.
  
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  January 15, 2019 8:21am
  - john1234
    
    Stuffed continue to amaze by defining the *drivers* of fleeing cars as *victims*.
    
    No, I am not making this shit up:
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/109924118/the-faces-of-fatal-police-chases-teens-make-up-half-of-crash-victims
    
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    January 15, 2019 8:44am
    - lifesgood
      
      All I can say is “good oh” three fewer future crims on our streets.
      
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      January 15, 2019 8:56am
    - kowtow
      
      Note the author of that stuff piece is Joel McManus.
      
      If I’m not wrong that is the over opinionated wanker who was the editor of the Otago Uni students mag .
      
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      January 15, 2019 9:46am
    - howitis
      
      Stuffed is Fairfax (Nine) so Australian.
      You would expect the descendents of criminals to support criminals.
      Where Ned Kelly is a hero.
      
      I would say these crim-huggers ‘deify’ crime but such a word will beyond their diction!
      They certainly hate truth as anyone who tries to comment of ‘the weather’ articles will know.
      
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      January 15, 2019 12:18pm
    - dubya
      
      Can’t help but notice that aside from the lady in Nelson who was ‘collateral’, the so-called victims are all shown flashing gang signs or taking inane selfies.
      
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      January 15, 2019 3:01pm
  - Nermal
    
    In fact these car chases that end fatally are a cost effective way of reducing the longer term crime stats, road toll, jail populations and unemployment payments
    
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    January 15, 2019 3:05pm
- Huevon
  
  This is how the police roll in Chile
  
  https://youtu.be/wpin8qvjCoU
  
  The feral scum in Aotearoa New Zealand don’t know how lucky they are.
  
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  January 15, 2019 8:36am
- hullkiwi
  
  They were by the Libore media feedback team on RNZ 5pm show last night.
  
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  January 15, 2019 8:40am
- Keeping Stock
  
  The moment a driver refuses to stop for Police and hits the gas pedal to escape, they alone are responsible for the consequences of anything that happens afterwards.
  
  I had an interesting discussion with a Twitter friend last night who argued that 16 year olds have no idea about consequences, as their brains are not yet fully developed. My response was that if 16 year olds cannot grasp consequences, they shouldn’t be allowed behind the wheel of one of those high-powered killing machines called a car.
  
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  January 15, 2019 8:41am
  - alex Masterley
    
    or have the vote!
    
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    January 15, 2019 8:50am
    - Keeping Stock
      
      That’s the one that frightens me Alex. How long before the Greens convince the government to reduce the voting age to 16?
      
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      January 15, 2019 8:51am
  - KevOB
    
    Why do they steal them then? I know of a 14 yr old who sneaked out at night and stole cars to “joy ride” in. Some young people crave the high they get that way. Even the act of hidden disobedience brings a high. Immaturity is a curious thing.
    
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    January 15, 2019 11:56am
  - Paulus
    
    But if not driving cars what else are they going to do at night.
    
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    January 15, 2019 2:09pm
    - Tall Man
      
      Maybe study so they can break out of the realm of ignorance that they inhabit……..
      
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      January 15, 2019 2:34pm
- peterwn
  
  Let’s say three young guys steal a car then see a cop car while driving down Moorhouse Avenue. Reaction on seeing a cop car is to ‘gas it’ to get out of it before the cops can respond. So they go up to 130kph, run read lights and somehow negotiate the dog leg into Blenheim Road and keep going. They then collide with another car at the SH1 junction in Hornby, and the innocent occupants are injured/ killed.
  Meanwhile the cops in their car in Moorhouse Avenue are too scared stiff to even think of chasing the stolen car, so they radio ‘control’ who can do little but alert other cars who are in turn too scared to react in any way. Well, this is what a ‘no chase’ policy requires – just leave the offenders alone until they crash or run out of steam.
  Then the family and friends are understandably furious that their innocent loved ones have killed/ injured by a pack of hoons and demand ‘justice’. This seems to be the scenario ‘Stuff’ is demanding.
  
  Now look at reality. The patrol car signalled to the offenders to stop but when they did not, pulled back and radiod ‘control’ who arrange road spikes to be laid in Blenheim Road. No doubt a patrol would have been assigned to Hornby to direct traffic away from Blenheim Road. So the only people who were at risk from the road spikes were the offenders who perhaps had a 1 in 10 chance of hitting lamp post, tree, etc which was preferable.
  
  Which scenario is preferable?
  
  It is similar to the ethical dilemma cited with respect to self drive cars where if a collision is pending the self drive logic can either take action to save the occupants of its vehicle or can risk its occupants but save the occupants of the other vehicle.
  
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  January 15, 2019 8:56am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    Great analysis peterwn. The Police are in a no-win situation, but I maintain that a blanket ban on Police chases is the first step on the slippery slope towards anarchy.
    
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    January 15, 2019 9:37am
  - septic skeptic
    
    I think they should revise the policy like this:
    Make attempting to flee a VERY serious offence. Then change the policy to take down any fleeing vehicle as quickly as practical having regard for the safety of the general public. Essentially make fleeing a 100% losing option.
    
    It would be nice to have a no pursuit policy where the car owner was subsequently required to prove on the balance of probability they weren’t driving. But that doesn’t sort the stolen car cases and these seem to be a majority of dangerous chases.
    
    The current policy is having the unintended consequence of encouraging fleeing drivers to drive dangerously.
    
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    January 15, 2019 10:11am
    - KevOB
      
      Immature youths will drive dangerously–many are not licenced. The buzz is in being out and about illegally and doing something others cannot. They get high from such actions without weed.
      
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      January 15, 2019 12:02pm
      - Tall Man
        
        Oh well, that’s alright then.
        
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        January 15, 2019 9:10pm
    - peterwn
      
      The problem here is no level of penalty would be a deterrent for the first time someone tries it. Not even a Singapore style sentence is likely to be a deterrence in such cases. The offender perceives he has a realistic chance of avoiding consequences by driving off at speed and just wants to avoid consequences. The consequences are severe enough, making them more severe is unlikely to influence the offender’s decision making. Even more so if the offender is under the influence of drink or drugs.
      The Police can only respond the best they can to minimise consequences on a case by case basis. I would respect their judgment more than MSM (especially Stuff) armchair critics, or what the rellies of the offenders think should have happened.
      
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      January 15, 2019 2:26pm
      - KevOB
        
        I agree. A terrifying judgement call for any law officer.
        
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        January 15, 2019 3:29pm
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  Nana Woodham this morning describing the youths as having died in their stolen car.
  Stealing it doesn’t make it theirs.
  
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  January 15, 2019 10:19am
- Northland Wahine
  
  No parent, even the shittiest of parents (and I’m not saying their parents are) deserve to bury their children.
  
  But how about taking some responsibility for what you didn’t do in raising these kids. Don’t wail about how precious these “angels” were. You should have been taking care of your bloody kids so they grew into responsible adults. Too damn late now.
  
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  January 15, 2019 10:53am
  - KevOB
    
    Even the best of parents may not succeed in growing some children into responsible adults. Alcohol provided by a neighourhood Public Health Dr’s wife to an 11 year old weekend stay over created an alcoholic and dependency. The State completed the damage.
    
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    January 15, 2019 12:08pm
- lastmanstanding
  
  3 more winners of the Darwinian Award for 2019. Also saved the taxpayers a shit load of money keeping them in prison over the next couple of decades. Win Win I say.
  
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  January 15, 2019 12:19pm
- Right of way is Way of Right
  
  I’ll tell you who needs to shoulder a part of the blame here, it’s those stupid so called ‘car enthusiasts’ who organised that big meeting in Christchurch a few weeks back!
  
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  January 15, 2019 1:31pm
secondcumming

*P.C. GRANDMOTHER BACK BEHIND MIKE*

Thousands of *Leighton Smith* fans would have found more useful things to do yesterday morning as they gave IZB a big swerve.

For those who might be wondering exactly what transpired in those opening moments after 9am, you can watch here live what you missed…….. [begins @ 2min 8sec]

https://youtu.be/mIAM3aajkm8
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January 15, 2019 8:12am
- Souvlaki
  
  It was total blamange as a show…tried 3 times to listen driving from Whangarei to Auck…forced by frustration each time to turn the noise off?
  
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  January 15, 2019 9:06am
G152

Noticed in the ‘cultural appropriation’ claims the claimant was wearing European style clothing outside a bungalow with the lights on and standing next to his car parked on the tarsealed street.
Where’s Monty Python ???????
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January 15, 2019 8:13am
Longknives

So Stuff are attacking the Police and shrieking that ‘Police Chases’ must be banned.
The kiddie ‘journo’ who wrote this attack piece on Police (And those Cops who were involved will be going through hell right now) needs a dose of fucking reality…
Those kids are to blame.
Not Police.
Not ‘Colonialism’.
Not ‘Society’.
Just the kids who made the decision to steal a car and drive like freaking maniacs.
I have zero sympathy. Thank Christ they didn’t hit an innocent family coming the other way..
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January 15, 2019 8:15am
- Longknives
  
  What chance Ardern calls a Press Conference and bursts into phony tears at the demise of these future Labour voters?
  Perfect opportunity for her to make a ‘Captain’s Call’ and completely ban Police chases…
  
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  January 15, 2019 8:28am
  - Pascal
    
    Nissan Leaf.
    
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    January 15, 2019 8:34am
    - holysheet
      
      Nah bongo van
      
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      January 15, 2019 8:50am
  - Biscuit
    
    Nah, Longknives.
    
    The way to go will be for Jass to set up a Working Group to investigate things.
    
    And, of course, before that Working Group reports back, the American Green lady will have reduced the road toll to zero as she promised … so there’ll be no need for any Working Group recommendations to be implemented, right?
    
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    January 15, 2019 9:03am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  It’s funny how the authoritarian-loving (Left) blame forces for social control (the “oppressive” police).
  
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  January 15, 2019 8:31am
- Paulus
  
  Don’t worry Stuffed will soon be stuffed and closed down unless some mug wants to throw money at the shell.
  Once Trade Me is paid for to the owners Channel 9 who now own Stuff have said openly and clearly they do not want it.
  
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  January 15, 2019 8:37am
  - igm
    
    “Big Rupe” may take it on, but he will have no time for sickly left-wing Labour-compliant scum employed there currently.
    
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    January 15, 2019 9:03am
- Fletch
  
  Reminds me of that scene in Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift when the two protagonists (who are in Japan) go speeding past a police car and the American visitor asks his Japanese friend why the police aren’t giving chase. It is explained to him that police only have a certain make of car which would never be able to catch the souped-up car the protagonists are driving, so they don’t even try.
  
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  January 15, 2019 8:46am
- Sacha
  
  I’d go so far as to say that the 16yo was the first one to blame. He was surely the leader in this jaunt and probably lived in the moment for most of his short life, skipping and dodging the consequences of his impetuous actions.
  Jordan Peterson could have sorted this kid out in half an hour. And his little friends. And quite likely his mum as well.
  
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  January 15, 2019 9:26am
  - rockape
    
    Look on the bright side, his mum should take on board the fact he died doing what he loved doing! sarc
    
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    January 15, 2019 11:37am
Lee C

There’s also the small matter of the government ministers who were signing off the policies and strategies that led to this behaviour. As I was writing this, Helen Clark was denouncing the use of private investigators on Twitter. She failed to mention it was happening on her watch. A case of the magnitude of the White trial – where allegations of sexual and other abuse of children in the care of the state, a case where the Crown was at risk of monumental liability – would have definitely been flagged under the no surprises policy. Ditto Lake Alice.
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2018/12/20/371112/hypocrisy-at-the-highest-levels
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January 15, 2019 8:16am
- kowtow
  
  Govt policy .
  
  Can’t discipline them at home with a corrective smack.
  
  But when they go feral who sorts them out ?
  
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  January 15, 2019 9:56am
- MickMac
  
  Hellen Clark is a Liar.
  I suspect it is a requirement of Labour Leaders
  
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  January 15, 2019 2:26pm
  - Tall Man
    
    I don’t know but ardern is certainly doing her bit.
    
    ardern is a liar.
    
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    January 15, 2019 9:08pm
Happychappy

“Wait for the police to get blamed” it started on social media yesterday and of course even on here, it’s about time people started taking responsibility for their family instead of trying to pay the buck.
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January 15, 2019 8:17am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  Once people take responsibility for themselves, they won’t be so supportive of socialism. This can not be allowed to happen!
  
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  January 15, 2019 8:33am
oldpark

Notice Commie Chic Comrade Ardern was not available today for radio interviews. Maybe she is out on location checking who would or could be the sexual deviant said to be going around touchy feeling little boys and girls at lie-bour Summer Camp said to have taken place almost a year ago. Also see she has sent the guy Robertson to stand in for her while she attempts to get to the ‘bottom’ of the claims.
On the other hand her being a part time Peters selected PM maybe she is still on holiday.At Ten Thousand Dollars a week ,maybe she dosnt need the overtime .Nuff said.
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January 15, 2019 8:20am
- Paulus
  
  Understood she in Gizzie getting ready for her Photo Shoot shortly in the Ski Resort of Davos in Switzerland.
  Hope her private 757 makes it this time along with all her entourage and friendly lady reporters – what about Bubba ?
  
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  January 15, 2019 8:41am
- Harkman
  
  She’s away getting her teeth done (again).
  
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  January 15, 2019 9:28am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Sweetcheeks filled in for her on ZB. What’s happened to deputy Liarbore leader the Kelvinator?
  
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  January 15, 2019 9:30am
  - GazzaW
    
    Gone fishin’ with Winston.
    
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    January 15, 2019 1:39pm
  - Paulus
    
    Who ?
    
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    January 15, 2019 2:13pm
GazzaW

It will be fascinating to see extent of the media coverage at trial time. What are the chances of a breathless Tova O’Brian and a team of cameramen being parked outside the District Court demanding comment from the accused and his accompanying legal entourage? Or of daily front page coverage from the Herald’s much vaunted investigative team? I’m guessing nine tenths of bugger all chances rather a media blackout once Labour’s spin team have called in all of their favours.
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January 15, 2019 8:23am
- nasska
  
  …..”rather a media blackout once Labour’s spin team have called in all of their favours”……
  
  Release the squirrels!
  
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  January 15, 2019 8:29am
- freethinker
  
  Won’t matter social media will all over this like a rash and piccys of his mum will reveal the identity.
  
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  January 15, 2019 8:30am
freethinker

Reading Stuff this morning on Junior Doctors strike, predominately supportive and a reminder of Mike Hosking’s interview with Taxinda and her “Cast iron guarantee of no strikes on her watch” now we know the value of a cast iron guarantee value is zilch National in next election debate can remind her and ask if other guarantees are anything but hopes at best lies at worst.
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January 15, 2019 8:27am
- GazzaW
  
  C’mon freethinker. You know full well all of these strikes are due to “nine long years of neglect by the previous Government.”
  
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  January 15, 2019 8:34am
  - sooty
    
    With the 150 odd talkfeast that the Labour is running there is no money left!
    All of the flunkies have eaten and pissed it in 5 star accom.
    No money left to put in place any reccomendations.
    No money for teachers, nurses, police, firemen.
    Nine long years of sitting on their arse and did not expect to be there now.
    But was selected by the PM in disguise.
    
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    January 15, 2019 8:44am
    - Right of way is Way of Right
      
      Also the 1.8 billion set aside to rectify long standing deficiencies in the Defence Force Estate has suddenly vanished! Where has it gone??
      
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      January 15, 2019 1:34pm
      - Steve (North Shore)
        
        Working Groups
        
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        January 15, 2019 4:05pm
      - Tall Man
        
        757 expenses…..
        
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        January 15, 2019 9:07pm
- Paulus
  
  See the Doctors Union leader appears to receive $970,000 from these so called clever people, and from another Union APEX $627,000
  Lucky people as her husband is of course also a Union leader.
  Annual Millionaires.
  I though Doctors had brains, but not apparently.
  
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  January 15, 2019 8:45am
- doggone7
  
  Mike Hosking’s interview with Taxinda and her “Cast iron guarantee of no strikes on her watch” ?
  
  Maybe you’re referring to what was said in one of the televised pre-election ‘debates.’
  There was no “cast iron guarantee of no strikes on her watch” as applying to Junior Doctors. Her comment was about new industry standards which specifically cannot be subject to industrial action.
  
  From 57:00
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ch1k1bz7Rc
  
  The National party twisted it, lied and portrayed it as a promise of no strikes.
  
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  January 15, 2019 11:54am
Happychappy

A story that happened in our town last week our Supermarket was robbed of thousands of dollars worth of smokes and I am not talking retail price, so how can these young people parents not know what they are up to. These same youths are on camera in other robbers so why don’t they dob them in, but this is probably the start next it will be cars and another crash and the same people will be out in force blaming the police if they die.
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January 15, 2019 8:28am
- sooty
  
  I bet that they did not turn to flog smokes in their grannys nissan micra!
  Stolen car, what’s the bet!
  
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  January 15, 2019 8:35am
Maggy Wassilieff

Another child sex-abuse ring in England
Fifty-five men arrested in West Yorkshire over child sex abuse
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leeds-46867001
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January 15, 2019 8:31am
- Inandout
  
  These arrests happen pretty quickly when the Muslims aren’t involved like in Rochester.
  
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  January 15, 2019 8:43am
  - fernglas
    
    What make you say Muslims aren’t involved? The town of Dewsbury has a high Pakistani population.
    
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    January 15, 2019 8:48am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Na, this is historic stuff… it has taken the authorities nearly 20 years to get around to believing the abused girls and their families.
    
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    January 15, 2019 8:57am
    - stephieboy
      
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      MW , when can we expect another update from Melbourne with respect to the African and Muslim population?
      
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      January 15, 2019 9:03am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        What are you on about stephieboy?
        I know nothing about the Muslim population of Melbourne.
        
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        January 15, 2019 11:26am
    - Inandout
      
      That’s right Maggy, just like the Cliff Richard rumours, Kray Twins, that ‘house’, merely rumours.
      
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      January 15, 2019 9:51am
- Scott
  
  “Banaras Hussain, 37, of Shipley, charged with one count of rape of a female over 16.
  Banaris Hussain, 35, of Huddersfield, charged with one count of rape of a girl aged 13-15.
  Mohammed Suhail Arif, 30, of Huddersfield, charged with rape of a girl aged 13-15.
  Iftikar Ali, 37, of Huddersfield, charged with attempted rape of a girl aged 13-15 and three counts of rape of a girl aged 13-15.
  Mohammed Sajjad, 31, of Huddersfield, charged with four counts of rape of a female aged 13-15”
  https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/aug/15/thirty-men-charged-sexually-abusing-girls-west-yorkshire
  Well there is this from August 2018. Again in West Yorkshire. Note the names of those charged. Not a lot of John Smith’s among them?
  
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  January 15, 2019 9:28am
  - kiwitoffee
    
    Apparently, under Islamic law, if the victim marries her rapist, then all is well.
    
    If this is correct, then we have genuine barbarism in our midst.
    
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    January 15, 2019 9:40am
    - stephieboy
      
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      kiwitoffee, can you verify with some factual evidence?
      
      Does it occur in our country amongst our 50,00 Muslims?
      
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      January 15, 2019 10:13am
      - kiwitoffee
        
        To answer your first question, yes, have a look at the link posted by MW.
        
        And your second question: It’s hard to say, isn’t it, because the Police tend to handle the Muslim community with kid gloves and are inclined to let them get on with their customs and practices, in keeping with the prevailing multiculturalist agenda.
        
        But my guess is, yes, it sure does go on.
        
        (I take it you mean 50,000 Muslims.)
        
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        January 15, 2019 11:27am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Not just in Islamic Law:
      
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marry-your-rapist_law
      
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      January 15, 2019 10:27am
      - kiwitoffee
        
        Thanks for that clarification.
        
        An interesting and surprising read.
        
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        January 15, 2019 11:18am
- simpleton1
  
  The names, photos and lives of the arrested alleged Gatwick airport drone ‘hassler’ were freely and quickly released by the police, to be dammed by the media and to suffer public ire.
  Then the back down, as Inandout mentions also about Cliff Richards.
  
  It seems that there is a ” “perfect” power above”, controlling police, judicary and media, suppressing names of a grooming gang of rapists, to also stop “public ire”.
  
  One wonders what part of the public make the most amount of “ire” and what actions they use?
  
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  January 15, 2019 12:20pm
sooty

I see Paula Bennet is on the cover of a girlie magazine. She looks a heap better than our PM.
Classy! You could not tell by the cover shot, but I would imagine that she was wearing shoes and not the cutdown redbands Cindy wears. The only time I think ours got dressed up was when she met the Queen!
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January 15, 2019 8:33am
- Longknives
  
  What you don’t like Ardern’s frumpy mustard trenchcoat and cankle boot look?
  
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  January 15, 2019 8:38am
- Inandout
  
  She got ‘dressed up’ in a moth eaten feather cloak if I recall.
  
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  January 15, 2019 8:39am
- stephieboy
  
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  “. She looks a heap better than our PM.” ? Albeit, a tad more buxom and plumpy?. A bit of a turn on for you, sooty?
  
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  January 15, 2019 8:57am
  - Tall Man
    
    ardern is a liar
    
    Paula Bennett is the next deputy PM.
    
    ardern will be back in the chip shop…chippie for the chippy.
    
    ardern is a liar
    
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    January 15, 2019 9:13am
  - GazzaW
    
    You obviously haven’t seen our Paula lately steffie. Quite different to the the frumps over on the Treasury Benches.
    
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    January 15, 2019 9:15am
    - oob
      
      She gave me a brilliant smile as we passed each other in an aisle at Countdown Britomart about a month ago.
      
      In my opinion she is looking fantastic and beyond that, elegant and poised. Not altogether easy to pull off for a middle-aged lady holding a shopping basket.
      
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      January 15, 2019 3:26pm
  - pentwig
    
    stoopidthing
    are you obsessed with sex?
    
    the poor goats
    LOL
    
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    January 15, 2019 9:25am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  https://www.magshop.co.nz/next?gclid=Cj0KCQiAg_HhBRDNARIsAGHLV51QL-TbMKw2clu_HEqLjvo7NBYdtVbxisY3bsvoVz4kFD8hMrdofgkaArQjEALw_wcB
  
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  January 15, 2019 9:25am
  - holysheet
    
    Is she deliberatly being provocative?
    Whats with the leopard skin frock?
    What will all the luvvies think about this?
    
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    January 15, 2019 9:44am
    - sooty
      
      She’s aiming to explode the snowflakes heads.
      
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      January 15, 2019 11:07am
    - Sacha
      
      COUGAR!
      
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      January 15, 2019 1:36pm
- GoVege
  
  I saw that too Sooty.
  What a woman….went from eating everything (even her pets 🙂 ), to a stunning svelte size 8.
  
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  January 15, 2019 11:05am
- rockape
  
  Paula does love her shoes, NZ’s answer to Immelda Marcos.
  
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  January 15, 2019 11:44am
  - Tall Man
    
    Have to chuck in a slight eh?
    
    At least she doesn;t wear gumboots.
    
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    January 15, 2019 9:05pm
backster

An interesting half page item in last week’s Kapiti News extolling the virtues of a Science teacher who received Membership Of the Order Of Merit for Teaching. Well done Rose Hipkins whose talents seem to have gone unrecognised by previous Education Ministers.
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January 15, 2019 8:40am
- Nukuleka
  
  Rose Hipkins, mother of Minister of Education Chris Hipkins. My, what a coincidence.
  
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  January 15, 2019 8:54am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    She was one of my Science tutors when I went through Secondary School training 20+ years ago.
    She was good: Hard-working, well prepared, practical, experienced.
    
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    January 15, 2019 9:01am
    - Tall Man
      
      Unlike her progeny?
      
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      January 15, 2019 9:13am
    - harvey wilson
      
      Is Chris adopted?
      
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      January 15, 2019 9:17am
      - GazzaW
        
        No. He was manufactured in a lab.
        
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        January 15, 2019 9:20am
oldpark

Now what was the spin by Peters selected gang of no hopers on the drug running gangster. A guy called Karel Sroubek. Let us all remember nothing has changed in 2019 regarding the drug runner and supplier to some people who are running scared and looking over their shoulders in case the get singled out again. Think this time Police Commissioner Bush will be too busy putting out fires on the allegations against his deputy. A guy called Wally Hauhama.Even if he is a buddy of Foxy Peters and the Peters Party. Go figure.
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January 15, 2019 8:41am
Fletch

Gregg Jarrett on the corrupt FBI.

Dishonesty and corruption are endemic at the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The latest proof comes in a New York Times report that the FBI initiated an investigation in May of 2017 into whether President Donald Trump was serving as a covert Russian agent. The accusation itself was ludicrous on its face. But from a legal standpoint, the FBI’s probe constituted an egregious abuse of power. The Bureau had no probable cause, no evidence, and no reasonable suspicions. They investigated Trump because they could. They defied the law, ignored or perverted facts, and debased the integrity of a heretofore-respected law enforcement agency.

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It is now undeniable that critical decisions made by senior FBI leadership were driven by political bias and personal animus, not sustainable facts or credible evidence. These powerful officials could not abide that Donald Trump had emerged, against their wishes, as the duly elected president of the United States. They could not accept that he had unceremoniously shown Comey the door. In an act of rank retaliation, they decided to abuse their positions of power to drive him from office. They invented facts and ignored the law to subvert our system of justice and undermine the democratic process. They compromised essential principles and betrayed the nation’s trust. Their conduct was, and is, unconscionable.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/gregg-jarrett-an-fbi-that-is-corrupt-and-dishonest-latest-reports-offer-only-more-proof

Worth reading the whole thing. The FBI had nothing on Trump – no reason to start an investigation, no evidence, etc. They only did it because they hated Trump.
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January 15, 2019 8:41am
- stephieboy
  
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  Thus saith faux Fox news ” speak”!
  
  “Trump Defends Hush-Money Payments In Fox News Interview”
  
  https://www.npr.org/2018/12/13/676465610/trump-defends-hush-money-payments-in-fox-news-interview
  
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  January 15, 2019 8:50am
  - Harkman
    
    Virtually every Hollywood lefty does the same, that’s why the Liberal California judge defended Trump in the case with Stormy Daniels.
    
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    January 15, 2019 9:30am
  - Inandout
    
    Fox is one of the few outlets that actually gives a sensible alternative to the grossly biased CNN crowd. Thankfully many US voters have seen through the MSM tactics.
    
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    January 15, 2019 9:57am
- G152
  
  Were I Trump the FBI would be reorganising under an entirely new management right about yesterday
  
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  January 15, 2019 10:00am
  - KevOB
    
    The next month will be very interesting. The “Democrats” cannot stifle legitimate government much longer.
    
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    January 15, 2019 12:18pm
- cha
  
  Greg has a problem with authority.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GFzFVd4CbI
  
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  January 15, 2019 12:27pm
sooty

I see that the journalist Jim Tucker from don’t do anything to Mt Messengar, has had a reply by the local Mayor.
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January 15, 2019 8:46am
wiseowl

Yet another story on stuffed that should make people weep.
The lesbian that has had three kids through donors and is now going to be a surrogate.
Project in to the future and think about the consequences of this action.
All these kids at some stage are going to wonder who they are.
When they find out that they were created for convenience , not through love, when they try and find biological fathers and fail, when they ask why to so many questions , there will be major fallout.
It should not be allowed to happen.
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January 15, 2019 8:48am
- Fletch
  
  But, LOVE. Anything can be done in the name of “love”. That’s what the liberals say.
  
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  January 15, 2019 8:50am
  - stephieboy
    
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    Fletch, rest assured anything thing is possible with a jealous and vengeful God!
    
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    January 15, 2019 9:05am
    - Inandout
      
      stephie you hypocrite, you know Islam would destroy this woman instantly, in the name of Allah.
      
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      January 15, 2019 10:00am
- lifesgood
  
  There’s going to be a massive back lash. It seems the fashionable thing to do now days. Women are playing around all through their 20s and 30s, refuse to marry any man who isn’t rich, handsome, successful and perfection around home and then, when the body clock starts ticking have artificial insemination to produce a trophy child. Then you have the gay couples having children as well. There will be a whole generation of children growing up angry about their conception and demanding compensation.
  Children are not trophies, they should be the product of a loving relationship.
  
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  January 15, 2019 9:07am
  - holysheet
    
    And we need go no further for proof of this than our very own, Jimmy-two-mums.
    Such a useless hypocrytical piece of useless shit you will ever see.
    
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    January 15, 2019 9:49am
  - KevOB
    
    Watch these wannabe parents attempt to grow them on to responsible adults.
    
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    January 15, 2019 12:21pm
- kiwitoffee
  
  It’s called ‘culture collapse’ I believe.
  
  And our Muslim friends are preparing to step in.
  
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  January 15, 2019 9:48am
- Peter S
  
  I could not help but laugh at the short article title for this that seems to have gone from the front page now.
  It read “Family, with a helping hand”
  
  I suspect a case of unintentionally accurate….
  
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  January 15, 2019 10:24am
- Komata
  
  ‘owl
  
  Sadly, if similar situations in the USA are anything to go on, the kids will probably have massive emotional problems, something that ‘the Mummies’ give no thought to.
  
  Unpallatable though it may be to such ‘ladies’, the absence of a father is extemely damaging (especially to daughters) and having two mummies won’t change that at all.
  
  It’s very, very hard on the kids.
  
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  January 15, 2019 11:23am
- srylands
  
  It was notable that she talked about her “wife” in the past tense.
  
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  January 15, 2019 2:16pm
- lifesgood
  
  When they accidentally marry their half sibling.
  
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  January 15, 2019 8:53pm
secondcumming

Are you telling me an egg fried this rice?
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January 15, 2019 8:55am
EAD_THREE

It was Dime that got me into Stefan Molyneux and have been following him for a while.

It’s great to see that he has been noticing things lately to:

https://mobile.twitter.com/StefanMolyneux/status/1083916066424643585

To my Jewish friends:

I’ve spent years fighting against anti-Semitism.

I’m not sure you are pulling the same weight fighting against anti-white racism.

I’m watching.

I hope to be proven wrong.

Very red-pilling from someone with such a big following.
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January 15, 2019 9:00am
- stephieboy
  
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  EAD THREE, you will find this response to Molyneux most reassuring,
  
  https://mobile.twitter.com/Theofash1/status/1083923367088910336/photo/1
  
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  January 15, 2019 9:08am
  - EAD_THREE
    
    Yes Stephiegoy – that response is a great red-pill as well.
    
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    January 15, 2019 9:42am
    - Cobolt24
      
      Hehehehehe…. I like that nickname “stephiegoy”
      
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      January 15, 2019 12:18pm
    - Cobolt24
      
      EAD, it’s a must read! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apollo_Affair
      
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      January 15, 2019 3:45pm
- EAD_THREE
  
  I’m curious about the Downtickers…..
  
  Do they not think Jews should take a stand against the most prevalent racism of the lot – obnoxious anti white racism?
  
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  January 15, 2019 10:32am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    The downtickers are because you are a tedious unhinged Nazi conspiracy theorist with a hate-boner for anything remotely related to anyone Jewish, and as a result we don’t want to see anything you write. On this blog only Stephietwat is more repulsive than you.
    
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    January 15, 2019 11:03am
    - Cobolt24
      
      Nothing wrong with what EAD writes! I find it insightful.
      
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      January 15, 2019 12:22pm
    - EAD_THREE
      
      Oy Vey (((UrbanNeocolonialist)))❗
      
      people like you don’t like to admit to uncomfortable truths, so instead of trying to reconcile facts they dislike they instead downtick and attack the person disseminating the facts so to stop them speaking them.
      
      A classic case of “SHUT IT DOWN if ever there was one❗
      
      Ask yourself why opposition to white interests is praised as combatting “white supremacy” while opposition to jewish interests is stigmatised as “anti-semitism.?
      
      Answers on the back of a post card marked “chutzpah” please.
      
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      January 15, 2019 8:47pm
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    I think that “anti-white racism” will make whites more aware of their environments and make them more mindful. This in turn will make them stronger and more resiliant.
    
    If you want to weaken a race, then give them special treatment and treat them as victims.
    
    If you want to toughen a race, then do the opposite.
    
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    January 15, 2019 4:08pm
- dime
  
  Stefan has been going off lately. taking no shit.
  
  I don’t get Jews. The left hate them and yet they seem to swing left. its odd.
  
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  January 15, 2019 2:10pm
  - MickMac
    
    Dime
    I’m discombobulated with Jews who hate Israel?
    Go Figure!
    
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    January 15, 2019 2:32pm
Paulus

Regarding the Irish Marauders on the North Shore creating social mayhem – and their families of delinquents, will Cathy Pacific undertake to fly them back to Ireland ? Tell them to swim !
According to passengers on the same flight these “people” caused passengers to have a memorably shocking flight.
Understand the airline staff are very embarrassed by this.
A first class airline.
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January 15, 2019 9:00am
- stephieboy
  
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  Paulus , like the same with these Brits in Spain ?,
  
  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5938071/Mass-brawl-daylight-involving-British-tourists-breaks-latest-episode-mayhem-Magaluf.html
  
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  January 15, 2019 9:11am
  - harvey wilson
    
    Jesus how many squirrels does Stafaknee have, every post today seems to be followed up by some irrelevant nonsense.
    
    Also why does it defend Pakistani rape gangs?
    
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    January 15, 2019 9:22am
    - Tall Man
      
      Because she has no relevance anywhere and so tries to gain it here by thriving on the reactive comments by the rest of us.
      
      She is probably medicated to some degree and unemployable so this is her life, plus any other forum she belongs to.
      
      ardern the liar is just a “cult” to her and she is just as likely to form an “adoration” complex with a washing machine as another when ardern the liar fades away.
      
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      January 15, 2019 9:31am
- GazzaW
  
  Cathay Pacific will no doubt deny them boarding and refund them the balance on their tickets. Then it’s over to the Irish to find another airline and move on before their visas expire. Next stop Irish Embassy and they can handle it.
  
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  January 15, 2019 9:25am
  - Tall Man
    
    Can’t see them wanting to leave and they will fit in with our ferals eventually but ardern the liar may not be so welcoming as they aren’t a “big tick” with the UN, her preferred location.
    
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    January 15, 2019 9:32am
- G152
  
  The British cops here should be called in on this one. They have been dealing with traveler scum for years
  
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  January 15, 2019 10:03am
  - MCos
    
    Pattaya survives on people like that on holiday from the UK, Russia, Australia . . .
    If they don’t pay their bills they get sorted out with varying degrees of violence ranging from a basic roughing up to ‘suicide’.
    Generally speaking the low life don’t make it this far because it’s too expensive and the hospitality industry doesn’t have the experience to handle them, I would have thought.
    Airlines probably see their type fairly regularly.
    
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    January 15, 2019 10:18am
  - kowtow
    
    Don’t count on it. They’re so PC there…….
    
    ‘A police force has come under fire after it told a community fed up with travellers to consider how “upsetting” it would be to be “uprooted every few days”.’
    
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/08/09/consider-upsetting-must-uprooted-police-force-fire-sympathising/
    
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    January 15, 2019 10:33am
    - wreck1080
      
      Looks like they’ve made it to Hamilton…these people need to be removed immediately…. they are terrorising people and businesses.
      
      Travellers are the ‘special people’, similar to maori here.
      
      Irish citizens are not supposed to criticise them.
      
      https://www.thejournal.ie/fianna-fail-councillor-sean-mceniff-traveller-comments-758655-Jan2013/
      
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      January 15, 2019 3:16pm
- kowtow
  
  Had the airline known these people were “travellers” they’d have been within their moral rights not to issue tickets , but that would be “discwimination”.
  
  I’m all for discrimination . The law abiding and well behaved are entitled to peace , quiet and enjoyment of the services they’ve paid for.
  
  “Travellers” are trouble.
  
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  January 15, 2019 10:06am
  - harvey wilson
    
    I wonder if these scum will be able to get a meal in any restaurant in the country now ? Mind you that fat sack of crap leaningon the van can afford to miss a few meals .
    
    Rare example of the media not siding with scumbags and warning people about these human effluvia. Pikies/travellers/knackers are a plague on humanity.
    
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    January 15, 2019 10:11am
    - kowtow
      
      The media seem very happy to be able to take a swipe , for a change . I suppose it’s cos these particular scum are white ?
      
      Tell ya what if it was the Beeb they’d be scared shitless of highlighting the “diverse” nature of this lot.
      
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      January 15, 2019 10:28am
    - Nermal
      
      I suspect it will be on a cash up front basis
      
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      January 15, 2019 3:20pm
- tf78
  
  The cargo hold would be the answer.
  
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  January 15, 2019 11:27am
- lifesgood
  
  The plane would have touched down somewhere before it reached NZ. Why didn’t they offload them then?
  
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  January 15, 2019 12:23pm
  - Paulus
    
    Hong Kong en route from UK.
    
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    January 15, 2019 2:20pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  likely not Irish, more likely UK resident travellers (that keep the accent in their tight knit communities) that have never even been to Ireland.
  
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  January 15, 2019 3:02pm
Lee C

Quick question. What are the top three issues KB would like to keep alive about the current administration?
Mine
‘Gropegate’
‘Lawn-Mower Man’
‘Pants-on-firedern’
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January 15, 2019 9:06am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  PGF accounting – Show where 2018’s $1Bn has been spent.
  https://www.budget.govt.nz/budget/2018/at-a-glance/the-provincial-growth-fund.htm
  
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  January 15, 2019 9:16am
  - KevOB
    
    It doesn’t show any expenditure but the vote allocation of the $1Bn. An idealised slush fund as approved by Parliament. Details awaited.
    
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    January 15, 2019 12:28pm
- Philview
  
  The Venezuela Socialist checklist.
  
  Failed promises on mass building. (Tick)
  Massive hikes in minimum wage. (Tick)
  Destroy Petroleum Industry (Tick)
  Currency Losing Value (Tick)
  Destroy private rental property sector (WIP)
  Replace inflation measures with wellness index (WIP)
  Stop foreign investment (WIP)
  Price fixing (Work underway)
  Increasing state bureaucracy (Work underway)
  Nationalisation (Not started)
  
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  January 15, 2019 10:00am
- kowtow
  
  Oil and gas industry destruction w/o “consultation”.
  
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  January 15, 2019 10:55am
secondcumming

Welcome to the world of *Irish Traveller Scum*
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January 15, 2019 9:08am
- Philview
  
  If the PM could get her way over “open borders’ we would have quite a few coming here to live and enjoy our benefit lifestyle, caravans, abundance of pot, new relaxed judicial system.
  
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  January 15, 2019 9:31am
- Dave Mann
  
  Could somebody please provide a link to a story about these people? I can’t find any reports. Maybe I’m not using the right search keywords. Thanks.
  
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  January 15, 2019 10:36am
  - kowtow
    
    https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/tourists-behaving-badly-group-refuses-pay-food
    
    It would be nice if the media put the same spotlight on our home grown ferals.
    
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    January 15, 2019 10:58am
    - Dave Mann
      
      Many thanks kowtow. Cheers!
      
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      January 15, 2019 11:06am
kevn

@sc… The UK is plagued by these same people.
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January 15, 2019 9:23am
- kowtow
  
  Where ever they go they’re a plague.
  
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  January 15, 2019 10:30am
  - Jack5
    
    This Irish report (link below) suggests the travellers split off from other Irish as a separate group about four centuries ago.
    
    Some Brits on Kiwiblog might confirm for us that these are the same people as the “Pikeys” of the Guy Ritchie film, “Snatch”. That is a truly funny film.
    
    Apparently “Pikey” was originally British prison slang for gypsy/Romani people, but has come to mean an Irish traveller.
    
    If NZ’s journalists weren’t such a Lefty mob, some of them might have seen the film “Snatch” and subsequently labelled the boisterous Auckland tourists as Pikeys. On the other hand that might have got them a visit at their office by some tattooed, beer-bellied tourists.
    
    https://www.irishcentral.com/news/irish-travellers-are-genetically-different-from-the-people-of-ireland
    
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    January 15, 2019 2:39pm
- secondcumming
  
  I recall reading where the Nazi regime knew how to treat them…..gypsies were subject to arbitrary internment and forced labour. You can understand why, if these low-lifes are any indication.
  
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  January 15, 2019 11:31am
Manolo

On edge: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/brexit/8191144/gareth-johnson-quit-brexit-theresa-may-vote/

Another member of Theresa May’s government has quit today, ahead of the crunch vote on her deal.

Assistant Tory whip Gareth Johnson threw in the towel this afternoon as the PM battles to win last-minute support for her hated deal.
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January 15, 2019 9:25am
- Colville
  
  Hard brexit . Bring it on!
  
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  January 15, 2019 9:39am
  - DigNap15
    
    I tend to agree with you.
    Stuff the EU.
    And that will save the UK $40 billion in compensation.
    
    But it will then leave its financial sector and its car manufacturing well out in the cold with huge disruption.
    
    May should have been tougher in her negotiations.
    
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    January 15, 2019 11:40am
- Keeping Stock
  
  Things aren’t good for the leader when one of the Whips bails out. The Whips are chosen to be part of the inner circle, control caucus discipline and ensure that the leader always has the numbers. With Johnson’s departure, things look grim for May on the numbers front.
  
  The Tories however should be looking at the bigger picture. It may be bad now (unintentional pun), but just imagine what Britain would be like with Corbyn as PM.
  
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  January 15, 2019 9:47am
kiwitoffee

Apparently, under Islamic law, if the victim marries her rapist, then all is well.

If this is correct, then we have genuine barbarism in our midst.
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January 15, 2019 9:45am
- Nermal
  
  It is, and we do
  
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  January 15, 2019 3:23pm
EAD_THREE

Molyneux on twitter:

https://mobile.twitter.com/stefanmolyneux/status/1082699767380029440

I do sometimes think of that when I see Jewish people rail against “white supremacy.”

It’s kind of hard to think of something more supremacist than “preferred by God over all other people.”

Can’t argue with that – keep up the logic bombs Stefan❗
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January 15, 2019 9:51am
KeaRea

The American Psychological Association has declared that masculinity is a mental illness and a pathology, whilst homosexuality constitutes mental health.

https://www.latimes.com/health/ny-news-traditional-masculinity-harmful-psychological-association-20190109-story.html?fbclid=IwAR0F5hIDqM7Pv_xYChUyJA1OHncVeAVH-bZ1smhfEC9zVM9ZPMdBkWz_lSU

Masculinity to the APA is:

““a particular constellation of standards that have held sway over large segments of the population, including: anti-femininity, achievement, eschewal of the appearance of weakness, and adventure risk and violence.”

They go on to say:

“Traditional masculinity ideology has been shown to limit males’ psychological development, constrain their behavior, result in gender role strain and gender role conflict and negatively influence mental health and physical health,” according to the 36-page report, featured in January’s issue of Monitor on Psychology.

Because all those men in history who built everything we stand on were all actually mentally ill for seeking adventure and being strong.

“Though men benefit from patriarchy, they are also impinged upon by patriarchy,” says Ronald F. Levant, EdD, a professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Akron and co-editor of the APA volume “The Psychology of Men and Masculinities.”

In the same issue the APA says that homosexuality is an expression of a healthy masculinity and should be encouraged.

Just by the way – the symbol for the APA is a Menorah and it’s always a Levant.

So what does this mean? It means our sons and grandsons aren’t going to stand a chance.

Someone should raise this with Jordan Peterson when he is here.
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January 15, 2019 9:54am
- KevOB
  
  What credibility have the APA? Their own study showed the 10yr outcomes to be statistically indistinguishable whatever the 1/200 recognised modalities of treatment the chose.
  
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  January 15, 2019 12:35pm
  - KeaRea
    
    Sorry I don’t understand that.
    
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    January 15, 2019 3:03pm
    - KevOB
      
      The APA conducted a survey in recent years about the effectiveness of their diagnosis/treatment modality prescribed. They recognised 200 valid different treatment methods among all the schools of teaching.
      The results horrified them as it showed that whatever they diagnosed and however they treated it the tested outcomes at the end of a 10 yr period could not be distinguished from each other. In short one therapy was as good as another among their members: pick your label and go for it.
      
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      January 15, 2019 3:42pm
- KeaRea
  
  https://metro.co.uk/2019/01/13/marvel-create-first-drag-queen-superhero-who-rocks-up-at-x-men-mutant-pride-parade-8340560/
  
  And now almost simultaneously, Marvel have released their brand new super-hero Shade, the ‘Drag-Queen’ ‘X-Man’. Who traditionally reads or read comic books? Young men and boys.
  
  Being a conservative is to conserve things. What is left to conserve?
  
  Masculinity for western males is will end up in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. The DSM always reflects the stances of the APA.
  
  https://www.rt.com/news/448804-paris-opera-anti-gay-dancer/
  
  And now Sergei Polunin has been fired from his ballet company because he pointed out that gays and women exploit male weakness.
  
  Better learn about culture.
  
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  January 15, 2019 3:26pm
  - Longknives
    
    Marvel jumped the shark ages ago when they went all ‘Political’ with the Avengers franchise…
    I’m not at all surprised they now have a Transgender Superhero- It will likely be in a relationship with the female Captain America in the next Avengers film….
    
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    January 15, 2019 4:24pm
KeaRea

https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/a-new-narrative-control-firm-works-to-destroy-alternative-media-6b6ba43dc8ce

The scale of online censorship is increasing – now there is ‘Newsguard’ or ‘neo-con’ guard, which literally blocks all forms of bad-think. It is being rolled out in institutions all across the United States and Europe.

Goy will not be permitted to view anything remotely resembling a counter-narrative.
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January 15, 2019 9:57am
KeaRea

https://old.reddit.com/r/JamesDamore/comments/adpj0h/i_helped_google_screw_over_james_damore/

This is how Google screwed over James Damore and according to an anonymous employee’s opinion may have committed a whole series of bad acts.

Might be of interest for anyone here in the tech sector. Google in Oceania will be absolutely no different.
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January 15, 2019 10:00am
Sofia

When you are trying to sell a Capital Gains Tax which the Tax Working Group has come up with as a taxpayer paid for 2020 Labour Party policy, how much education are you going to put into the difference between medicinal cannabis (sort of passed, but without a system for quality or distribution) and recreational cannabis use, if you are still aiming at stamping out tobacco smoking?

And a euthanization question as well as changing MMP thresh-holds so New Zealand First and perhaps the Greens don’t euthanise themselves.

And then 200 committees all reporting back in time to make up the rest of 2020 New Zealand First / Labour / Green Election policy.

Perhaps the first question to be considered is How much can the voter brain handle at one time?

Because they will also find out Shane Jones is counting normal annual forestry replanting in with his supposedly new tree planting, Twyford only builds a couple of hundred houses at the most more than what was already planned, they find absolutely nothing in the Pike River drift, and Dominion Road can’t handle cars, buses, trams and scooters all at once.
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January 15, 2019 10:04am
Keeping Stock

Interesting post on Whaleoil yesterday, where Christie, who seems to be doing most of the political posts now, rips in to Winston Peters:

https://www.whaleoil.co.nz/2019/01/immigration-policy-may-be-the-end-of-winston/

The comments section makes interesting reading, and they wouldn’t be pleasant reading for the venal Peters. WO’s moderators must still be on holiday, given the blog’s enthusiastic support for Peters in 2017, encouraging people to vote NZF to “keep National honest”. Peters gets an absolute savaging.

All of this simply reinforces my view that National dodged a thermo-nuclear missile when Peters chose to go into government with Labour.
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January 15, 2019 10:10am
- Yvette
  
  Immigration betrayal should certainly see Winston loose voters
  And horse-trading off gas exploration for Green support of his paranoiac waka-jumping bill.
  
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  January 15, 2019 10:29am
- Philview
  
  I have been reading Christie’s posts and tend to agree with a lot of what he/she writes. There have been some good posts on the construction industry recently.
  
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  January 15, 2019 10:29am
Hugh Pavletich

Australia’s high-rise fetish to exacerbate housing bust -Leith van Onselen – MacroBusiness Australia – (behind paywall)

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2019/01/australias-high-rise-fetish-exacerbate-housing-bust/

By Leith van Onselen

David Fickling published a ripping article in Bloomberg over the weekend warning that the increasing share of dwelling construction coming in the form of high-rise apartments risks exacerbating Australia’s housing crash: …

… Unfortunately, much of Australia’s high-rise apartment construction resembles what Hugh Pavletich – co-author of the Annual Demographia Housing Affordability Surveys – describes as “bubble stock” rather than “market stock”.

That is, new ‘market stock’ is housing construction of: (a) the type the market wants; (b) where it wants it; and (c) within sound Development Ratios (e.g. 30% land cost and 70% construction cost). By contrast, new ‘bubble stock’ is: (a) where people don’t want it but the planners force it to be (e.g. high rise poky apartments within the urban boundaries or poorly located homes in satellite cities outside of the urban boundaries); (b) of the type real buyers – not speculators – don’t want; and (c) outside sound and normal Development Ratios (e.g. 60% land cost and 40% construction cost).

The project times for high rise ‘bubble stock’ typically takes many years, which impedes the ability of supply to respond adequately to demand. By contrast, normal ‘market stock’ in the form of single family homes and low-rise apartments are typically much quicker and more responsive, provided there is a ready supply of serviced lots on the fringes and a flexible approval processes in established areas (definitely not the case in Australia). … read more via hyperlink above …
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Definition of an Affordable Housing Market & Affordability Guide – Various Dwelling Types … Performance Urban Planning

http://www.performanceurbanplanning.org/affordability.html
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January 15, 2019 10:14am
- sooty
  
  Promoting yourself there in the post!
  
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  January 15, 2019 12:40pm
- Swifty
  
  Reported for linkwhoring.
  
  And being a dick.
  
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  January 15, 2019 1:30pm
  - Hugh Pavletich
    
    AUSTRALIA: Recent apartment buyers are drowning in negative equity – MacroBusiness Australia
    
    https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2019/01/recent-apartment-buyers-drowning-negative-equity/
    
    By Leith van Onselen
    
    Robert Gottliebsen (“Gotti”) has pushed the panic button today, warning that many recent buyers of rise apartments are drowning in negative equity. From The Australian: … read more via hyperlink above …
    
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    January 15, 2019 4:44pm
    - Hugh Pavletich
      
      The Fickling / Bloomberg article highlighted in van Onselens MacroBusiness Australia article above …
      
      The Australian dream died alone in an apartment … David Fickling … Bloomberg / Sydney Morning Herald
      
      https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/the-australian-dream-died-alone-in-an-apartment-20190112-p50qzh.html
      
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      January 15, 2019 7:07pm
Surely Knott

Scientist on stuff says his tests show water quality is getting worse. So I follow the link to check my local Auckland beach test results (Lawa) and it says, “Most councils monitor the water quality weekly over the summer months to inform the public of any immediate risk from contact with the water.”..but…”In the Auckland region, water quality is predicted using modelled data. The predicted water quality results are regularly updated to give a ‘real-time’ result. ” So while the Auckland Beach says last updated 15 minutes ago. That is predicted data. Worse it doesn’t show when the last time they took real tests were , any of the methodology, or any of the raw data. Why?! Seems completely unacceptable. Especially as we all paid an additional Water quality targeted rate last year generating $452 million-ish The data needs to be made public. https://www.lawa.org.nz/learn/factsheets/coastal-and-freshwater-recreation-monitoring/
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January 15, 2019 10:18am
slightlyrighty

I see a givealittle page has been set up to help pay for the funerals of the young men who killed themselves as a result of fleeing from police.

I would like to see a similar page set up to replace the vehicle that they stole.
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January 15, 2019 11:56am
- starboard
  
  givealittle lol, give nothing to the ferals.
  
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  January 15, 2019 12:33pm
- Keeping Stock
  
  Yes, and to cover the Police officers involved who received significant burns to their hands and arms, trying to save the lives of the three teenagers.
  
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  January 15, 2019 12:36pm
- Nermal
  
  More likely for the piss up afterwards, as ACC pays for the funeral expenses
  
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  January 15, 2019 3:27pm
Southern Raider

Note the common element of all these “poor Police victims”

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/109924118/the-faces-of-fatal-police-chases-teens-make-up-half-of-crash-victims

From the photos all gang members, wannabe prospects and general low life scum that are a net cost to NZ
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January 15, 2019 12:08pm
- MCos
  
  They’re not all gang members.
  One of the drivers who was killed was Thai
  
  It’s an interesting thing.
  A lot of people on this forum don’t give a shit about these people, but wail and moan about the apparent demise of charter schools; some of which were set up to help kids such as these, as I understand.
  
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  January 15, 2019 12:30pm
  - Southern Raider
    
    The article makes a point about 27 killed
    
    So one wasn’t a gang banger, that still leaves 26 who were
    
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    January 15, 2019 12:45pm
  - dime
    
    I’m not sure the trash who wipe themselves out avoiding the cops are the ones signing up for charter schools. wanting to get ahead etc
    
    I’m happy with my position – care about people who want to help themselves while detesting pieces of shit who don’t want to be a part of polite society
    
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    January 15, 2019 2:33pm
MCos

Yesterday
‘Will devastate Turkey economically if they hit Kurds’
President Loose Cannon

Today he thought better of it
‘Spoke w/ President Erdogan of Turkey to advise where we stand on all matters including our last two weeks of success in fighting the remnants of ISIS, and 20 mile safe zone. Also spoke about economic development between the U.S. & Turkey – great potential to substantially expand!’
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January 15, 2019 12:11pm
- All_on_Red
  
  Stick then Carrot
  
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  January 15, 2019 12:34pm
  - MCos
    
    Do you really think Erdogan believes America would destroy relations with Turkey over the Kurds?
    
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    January 15, 2019 1:06pm
    - cha
      
      Erdogan’s on his own god-given mission to reclaim the Ottoman empire and if that means falling out with the US, Maşallah.
      
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      January 15, 2019 1:17pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Perhaps Putin had called Trump to remind him to be tough on Russia’s enemy, Turkey, as Trump had neglected to take notes at their last meeting.
        
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        January 15, 2019 1:50pm
      - cha
        
        Frenemies 4eva.
        
        http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/our-solidarity-makes-someone-jealous-erdogan-tells-putin-135070
        
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        January 15, 2019 2:45pm
    - All_on_Red
      
      What relations with Turkey.
      I’d say Erdogan saw how Trump did little on the Saudis killing Khashoggi despite him protesting
      He’s seen how Trump has arranged for the UAE and KSA to provide military back up for the Kurds.
      And of course he’s seen Trump twice launch Cruise Missoles at Assad.
      So he knows Trump has a good relationship with the Saud
      The Saudis of course bring enemies of Turkey.
      So I’d say Erdogan is a bit wary of staying on the good side of the US.
      He’s got economic turmoil to deal with anyway- Anor reason Trumps comments will work.
      
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      January 15, 2019 1:55pm
      - stephieboy
        
        All on Red, swollen fingers on the keyboard today?
        
        Snigger !
        
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        January 15, 2019 2:51pm
      - GazzaW
        
        Steffie, swollen dick at the mall today?
        
        Snigger!
        
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        January 15, 2019 7:49pm
lifesgood

You couldn’t make this up. A journalist on National Radio talking about the dangers of social media and how sm makes it hard for journalists to get the truth out there. Has she even considered how easy it would be for journalists to just tell the truth? What a laugh!
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January 15, 2019 12:17pm
- Morrissey
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  Many journalists tell the truth. Nicky Hager, Jon Stephenson, John Pilger, Julian Assange, Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, Murtaza Hussain, Greg Grandin, Allan Nairn…..
  
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  January 15, 2019 12:38pm
  - Morrissey
    
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    One defiantly ignorant halfwit has downticked this. Go back to Fox News, moron.
    
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    January 15, 2019 12:40pm
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Oh fuck off. You can’t even tell the difference between a journalist and a biased political activist.
    
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    January 15, 2019 12:41pm
    - Morrissey
      
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      You often write extremely stupid things, Cap’n, but that one was foolish even by your standards.
      
      Judge Judy sums you up nicely….
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=871-3XMhtAk
      
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      January 15, 2019 12:47pm
  - Keeping Stock
    
    If Nicky Hager tells the truth, why did he not publish any of the e-mails from Green and Labour Party MP’s and activists to Cameron Slater in his grubby little election smear?
    
    I have seen some of the stories a contender for the Green Party leadership slipped to Slater, yet somehow Hager didn’t deem them worthy of inclusion. That, far more than events described in his book, was dirty politics.
    
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    January 15, 2019 12:45pm
    - Morrissey
      
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      If Nicky Hager tells the truth…
      
      “If the Earth is really round…”
      
      You’re foolish.
      
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      January 15, 2019 12:48pm
      - Captain Mainwaring
        
        More fuckwittery from Breen Enterprises Ltd., purveyors of fuckwittery to the world.
        
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        January 15, 2019 12:57pm
      - starboard
        
        “Morrissey
        Hidden due to low comment rating”
        
        Bwhahahahahaha..
        
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        January 15, 2019 1:33pm
  - stephieboy
    
    Morrissey, Pilger, Chomsky, Assange, Greenwald etc, etc tell the truth????
    
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    January 15, 2019 2:52pm
    - Morrissey
      
      This is the only truth applicable to you, goatfucker….
      
      https://pbs.twimg.com/media/COyv96HWsAAxx5z.jpg
      
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      January 15, 2019 4:06pm
      - sooty
        
        Don’t you love it when the trolls have a falling out. Handbags at dawn!
        
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        January 15, 2019 5:30pm
  - Nermal
    
    Not sure if you are naive, stupid, or just taking the piss
    
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    January 15, 2019 3:29pm
- MCos
  
  I didn’t listen to that person on the radio, but I can understand what they mean.
  There are plenty of examples of rumours being spread on social media as fact and eventually drowning out the truth.
  
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  January 15, 2019 12:40pm
  - Tall Man
    
    There are also plenty of examples of ardern the liar and her supporters using it to promote her brand of basic bullshit so the issue cuts both ways.
    
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    January 15, 2019 2:08pm
- Keeping Stock
  
  I’ve had a couple of tweets, which I publish in my own name, cut and pasted by journalists and inserted into stories. Then the pile-on starts!
  
  I’m sure that there are “journalists” whose sole job is to scour social media for interesting or inflammatory material. We shouldn’t be surprised by that, nor should we be surprised that MBIE staff have been trained to create fake profiles on social media and engage with people.
  
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  January 15, 2019 12:41pm
- The Heat
  
  sm makes it hard for journalists to get the truth out there
  
  Hahahhahahahahahhahahahahahhahahahhahahahahahhahahahahahahhahahahahahhahaha…….hahhahahahhahahahahhahahah….
  
  Oh…
  
  (cough)
  
  Hahhahahahhahahahahahhahahahahhahahhaha
  
  (Please)
  
  (Stop)
  
  hahahahhahahahhahahahahhahahahahahahahhahahahahahhahahahahha
  
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  January 15, 2019 1:19pm
cha

Perhaps we could all put aside the bullshit for a bit and spare a thought for the family and friends of a man who lived his faith.

RIP Ian Elliot.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/109868152/prominent-waikato-farmer-dies-within-days-of-vacation-cancer-diagnoses
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January 15, 2019 1:06pm
- Tall Man
  
  Seemed like a good bloke.
  
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  January 15, 2019 2:04pm
  - nasska
    
    Yes. Unlike most religious nuts he did the yakka rather than the yap.
    
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    January 15, 2019 2:16pm
Batman

So that silly article calling for police chases to be banned was written by none other than Kamala Hayman, who is the Editor of The Press and of Stuff Canterbury.

In case anyone thought it was some young naive journo school grad!
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January 15, 2019 1:17pm
- Tall Man
  
  Some older naive journo school grad with an anti police agenda maybe.
  
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  January 15, 2019 2:02pm
  - Nermal
    
    Nope, just your common run of the mill Main Stream Media
    
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    January 15, 2019 3:32pm
    - Tall Man
      
      That’s what I said…..
      
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      January 15, 2019 8:53pm
Inandout

How long can the CoL keep the lid on this?

https://twitter.com/KermysRevenge/status/1084707817049604096
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January 15, 2019 1:18pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Not much longer we hope………
  
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  January 15, 2019 1:24pm
  - Morrissey
    
    You keep on hopin’ Cap’n. That’s all you’ve got until 2026 at the earliest.
    
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    January 15, 2019 1:46pm
- nasska
  
  This must be “the dangers of social media and how sm makes it hard for journalists to get the truth out there” referred to in in “lifesgood’s” 12.17 comment above.
  
  Except that as we all know what the MSM liar refers to as ‘truth’ would be better described as ‘partisan Labour bullshit’.
  
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  January 15, 2019 2:10pm
- stephieboy
  
  Inandout,
  
  ❌ Kermy ! ❌
  @KermysRevenge
  I’ve been thinking just chewing the fat with me ! Trump supporter, conservative, alergic to socialism and liberal retards #MAGA ?????????? love NZ ?
  
  Captures the flavour r of yet another alt right retard among us !
  
  Related?
  
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  January 15, 2019 3:02pm
  - Keeping Stock
    
    Stephie – Kermy broke the story about the Labour Party summer camp sex assaults long before anyone in the media, and within a day or two of it happening. Ignore him at your peril 😀
    
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    January 15, 2019 5:30pm
- MCos
  
  That must be the tenth ‘real reason for Sroubek residency‘.
  How much more excitement does this story need before it implodes like the Sri Lankan cricket team?
  
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  January 15, 2019 3:31pm
  - Longknives
    
    Any explanation for the Text Message from Hardcore to Ardern MCos?
    Seems a bit weird after she had tried to distance herself from it all…..Doesn’t it?
    
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    January 15, 2019 3:46pm
    - sooty
      
      He was just checking to see if she wanted more supplies.
      
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      January 15, 2019 5:23pm
Jack5

The immigration industry is campaigning to keep NZ’s borders open, as a Radio NZ report today shows.

It says there has been a sharp drop in skilled immigrants.

And who does the reporter quote?

Indian-born Arunima Dhingra, of Aims Global Immigration and Educational Services, which says it has more than 5000 clients on its books.

Dhingra says on her web site that she understands from personal experience what it is like:

“…to go through the process of achieving residency, to settle into a different culture, and to work towards bringing other family members out to New Zealand.”

Our borders are bust open, and our State radio is running to Indian immigration advisers for comment.

Also reported is Michael Woodhouse, on whose watch as National’s Immigration Minister, the Indian student-visa scam arose.

Our politicians have sold the country out.

https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/380134/sharp-drop-in-skilled-immigrants-employers-need-these-people
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January 15, 2019 1:19pm
- Cobolt24
  
  If there’s one thing I’ll criticise National on, it’s their near “open border” migration policy.
  
  But, it’s still much better that than an open border refugee policy as we’re seeing in Sweden and Germany.
  
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  January 15, 2019 1:32pm
  - Jack5
    
    Better than Germany and Sweden? Well that’s saying a lot. ?
    
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    January 15, 2019 1:36pm
    - Tall Man
      
      Actually it is.
      
      We have suffered for quite a while now with a massive shortage of skilled and semi skilled workers. It has always been the labour led governments that have made indolence an occupation which many of our bottom dwellers elect to pursue.
      
      I was involved in a small way with the labour shortage of the early to mid 70’s when NZ was forced to introduce an immigration scheme to encourage Pacific Islanders to come, reside and bring up their families to provide a work force.
      
      When you have the answer to the “education avoidance scheme” practiced so skilfully by our indigenous people we may well join the rest of the world with decent productivity.
      
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      January 15, 2019 1:59pm
      - Jack5
        
        What about training young people, Tall Man? What sort of a country writes off a huge proportion of its young as useless, lazy people fit only to be perpetual drug addicts?
        
        We all but destroyed our apprenticeship system and on-job training and moved so many occupations’ training into tertiary institutions.
        
        I talked to a young NZ woman at a polytechnic who told me she was completing an IT degree that did not require her to learn how to code. She thinks she will get an IT administrative job.
        
        In contrast, look at the famous skill levels of Germany, which bases its vocational education on apprenticeships for several hundred occupations, including some that have come to require the flaky degrees churned out by our many tertiary institutions – polytechnics, wananga, universities, pseudo-universities and foreign-owned colleges.
        
        It is obvious that much of the pressure to bring in large numbers of immigrants from low-wage countries is to hold down wages.
        
        As for skilled workers, what has the student-visa scheme been but an immense scam? I heard first hand from a teacher in a private college that, when he questioned his ethnic-Indian IT pupils, fewer than 10 per cent of them planned to work in IT in New Zealand. Real estate sales and property development were the main ambition, and most were already working in fast-food joints.
        
        The idea that you can grow an economy by migration is a mirage. In the last reported quarter, GDP per capita fell ever so slightly. That likely means it is on the way down, and that we will be going backwards in wealth.
        
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        January 15, 2019 2:14pm
      - Tall Man
        
        Well, instead of asking me, why don’t you go and ask a few employers and teachers and you may well find that we have a whole culture opposed to education and self improvement.
        
        I mean why make an effort when you’ll get it given to you by the tax payer.
        
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        January 15, 2019 8:48pm
  - DigNap15
    
    Like you that was one of the things I did not like about National.
    Their open ended Indian and third world students policy
    And their lack of quick action on the housing prices. They got completely out of hand.
    
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    January 15, 2019 2:55pm
- stephieboy
  
  Jack5, a take it that any Joe and Jane ( including tourists, backpackers etc, etc ) can arrive at our International airports and obtain automatic citizenship and residence?
  
  Or is more the colour of their skin, religious affiliation and ethnicity of would be migrants that really bothers you?
  
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  January 15, 2019 2:39pm
  - Jack5
    
    The only race I almost hate are Stephiestanis.
    
    I wish them no lasting harm, but it would be hard to raise a tear if the other peoples of the Sub-Continent, Afghanistan and Persia decided to kick their arses.
    
    I mean a joint pest operation by India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, mini states like Bhutan, and Sri Lanka. All uniting to subdue and re-educate the pesky people of Stephiestan.
    
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    January 15, 2019 2:44pm
  - Tall Man
    
    1459 refugees still on permanent benefits.
    
    Work it out for yourself dickhead.
    
    ardern is a liar
    
    steffy..well, she’s a bit slow.
    
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    January 15, 2019 8:45pm
- MickMac
  
  Jack5
  
  National sold the country out.
  Woodhouse particularly.
  
  It’s what we expect from Labour and the Watermelons.
  
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  January 15, 2019 6:37pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Bollocks, list the sale price and evidence.
    
    Until then. you’re just another steffy.
    
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    January 15, 2019 8:42pm
Jack5

The electric scooter phenomenon or craze has been surprisingly sudden, but problems are emerging internationally.

The MIT Technology Review reports Lime scooters have stopped operations in Switzerland because of a fault that caused some scooters to brake suddenly.

It also reports the Disability Rights California has filed a suit alleging scooters are violating the Americans with Disabilities Act by blocking access to San Diego’s streets and sidewalks.

This raises the question of ACC contributions in NZ. Cyclists, as road users, escape their share of contributions to ACC in New Zealand. Are scooter users also to freeload on motorists, motorcyclists, and the commercial transport industry?
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January 15, 2019 1:50pm
- secondcumming
  
  There’s an entire Instagram Account devoted to destroying Lime Scooters……jump on! 😎
  
  https://www.instagram.com/p/BqGUczvlMxY/
  
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  January 15, 2019 2:35pm
- stephieboy
  
  Jack5, a great many of lime scooter users would also by car owners and contribute via car registration fees, taxes and the such like.
  
  Secondcumming , include them as collateral damage like cyclists?
  
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  January 15, 2019 2:43pm
  - Jack5
    
    Stephie, for you the future is not Western transport. Do the multicultural thing and bring in some Stephiestani camels and run rides around the shopping mall car park.
    
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    January 15, 2019 2:50pm
  - secondcumming
    
    I certainly wouldn’t want you to think I was some sort of arsehole, stephieboy…….. I want you to be 100% sure.
    
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    January 15, 2019 3:03pm
    - stephieboy
      
      secondcumming, with you I’m 100% positive plus certain!
      
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      January 15, 2019 3:05pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Why does it take the best part of a year to get some action about biffing squatters out of your property?

It’s a nightmare’ – Black Power gang members refuse to leave Auckland home for eight months
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12188893
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January 15, 2019 2:20pm
- Longknives
  
  Surely if she is the owner/lawful occupier she can just serve Trespass notices on them?
  Then after they refuse to leave the Police can come along and escort them from the premises?
  Or am I missing something?
  
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  January 15, 2019 2:54pm
  - Keeping Stock
    
    She has Longknives. But it’s been taken to Court, and the Police won’t act until the court hands down a decision.
    
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    January 15, 2019 5:37pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Where are the police? We give them a monopoly on violence and in return they must uphold the law, including property rights. There is obviously no legal basis for the continued occupancy – If there were any real claim it could be bought through civil legal channels, so all that is left is criminal intimidation by Black Power and a failure of the police to defend innocent people’s property rights from these thugs. They need to pull finger and get the thugs out now, however inconvenient they might find it, because sitting on their hands as they are just gives license to more of the same.
  
  Not fucking good enough.
  
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  January 15, 2019 2:58pm
kowtow

Seems fair to me.

“The same with the black faces – they were doing that to try and bring people together. Other people saw it another way. This is why it’s blown all out of proportion,” Chong said.

“Some people just need to be not so offended and worry about their own lives, rather than the history of everything else and reading what they read on the internet.”

https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/councillor-ashamed-sing-maori-version-anthem
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January 15, 2019 2:21pm
MickMac

Free Speech is dead in Canada.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/01/free_speech_is_dead_in_canada_the_persecution_of_christian_activist_bill_whatcott.html
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January 15, 2019 2:38pm
stephieboy

Free Speech is dead in Canada??

According to American Thinker naturally.

Appears to be a Canadian Westboro Baptist wannabe..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrtIlfuoxMc
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January 15, 2019 3:12pm
Manolo

Stating the obvious:
https://www.waynedupree.com/nobel-peace-prize-barack-obama/

The Nobel Secretary has come to a conclusion giving Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize was a mistake.
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January 15, 2019 3:24pm
- cmm
  
  Now they need to do the same for DeKlerk and Mandela.
  
  There is strong evidence to support the position that Mandela dragged the chain on ending apartheid by two years or so in order to give the ANC more time to run their reign of terror in the townships and get the upper hand. This cost tens of thousands of black lives.
  
  But Rainbow Nation and all that… A huge scam that was never intended to bring equality to South Africa – just communism and pillaging all the people in the country to fatten a few corrupt bastards.
  
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  January 15, 2019 3:50pm
  - cmm
    
    If you want my rationale behind this, read my post on Operation Vula here:
    https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/09/general_debate_4_september_2018.html
    
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    January 15, 2019 3:59pm
    - stephieboy
      
      cmm,
      
      Operation Vula?
      
      The South African genocide conspiracy is a complex conspiracy theory claiming that the white people in South Africa will be the target of a genocide campaign.
      
      https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/South_African_genocide_conspiracy
      
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      January 15, 2019 5:06pm
      - cmm
        
        Vula had nothing to do with white genocide. (BTW: Nor has it anything to do with Trump!)
        
        Vula was always about black-on-black power struggles.
        
        IMHO: If there is a real civil war in South Africa I think it is going to be black vs black (Zulus + maybe Xhosas vs the B team) rather than black vs white. I would pick that Zulus will side with whites long before they side with Northern tribes.
        
        The Zulus are formidable. 9 million people, well armed, well trained (inc. modern military training).
        
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        January 15, 2019 6:33pm
      - stephieboy
        
        The threat of Intertribal warfare has been one of the main rationales for apartheid and keeping the black majority in their place.
        
        Keep us posted when the bloodshed begins.
        
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        January 15, 2019 7:36pm
  - stephieboy
    
    cmm,” strong evidence” ??
    
    Otherwise known as sour grapes from a belated apologist’ for the old apartheid regime.
    
    https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/article_image/baha-apartheid-signage_0.jpg
    
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    January 15, 2019 4:59pm
  - Inandout
    
    cmm, his house whore was a rubber necklace supporter. Anyway Winnie and Nelson were a dodgy pair.
    
    https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/the-dark-side-of-nelson-mandela/news-story/68f4acdbf2b0b4e6c799e458a55e6cb2
    
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    January 15, 2019 5:02pm
  - MickMac
    
    CMM
    
    Mandela, Mbeki and Sisulu went on so many boards and Thabo too like a rat up a drainpipe.
    All good communista.
    
    Notwithstanding the smuggling, Diamonds and Gold that went on through Natal.
    
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    January 15, 2019 6:31pm
- stephieboy
  
  In the meantime, ( from the same link ) we get this item of conservative idiocy,
  
  Brian Kolfage created a gofundme fundraiser for the border wall, and many conservatives joined in hoping to get the wall built.
  
  https://www.waynedupree.com/border-wall-20m-plus-gofundme-to-refund-donations-only-if-you-want-it-back/
  
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  January 15, 2019 4:55pm
howitis

This is not news
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/109931109/stuff-set-for-quick-sale-by-new-owner-nine
It was only a case of ‘when?’
….The sale of Stuff is expected to get underway before the end of March…

The Nine TV folk were never going to keep this raggedy collection.
The interesting thing is what will happen to the Stuff broadband accounts?
This will tie in with Vodafone again attempting to float on the NZ stock market.

The ComCom blocking the Voda/Sky merger and NZME/Stuff merger will now play out.
Tova and Tracey will have to cross their Ts now and secure ‘actual inside Govt’ roles.

Mediaworks /TV3 will be interesting in 2018 because the TV channels are still losing money notwithstanding massive NZ on Air income/subsidy and Radio Live has been canned (politely called a merger)
this is an interesting read
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2018/11/15/323322/mediaworks-chases-some-radio-magic
Re Radio Live:-
…Over the years, more than one radio consultant advised the company that its line-up was too left leaning or centrist when compared to ZB’s Paul Holmes, Mike Hosking, Leighton Smith and Larry Williams….
You dont say!

Oh well, tough times ahead for media types and it could not happen to a bigger collection of misfits.
The Video store owners understood the tide had turned against them.
The people that are supposed to inform with ‘news’ probably can’t see it through the fog of too much $11.00/bottle Chardonnay last night.
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January 15, 2019 3:28pm
- The Heat
  
  The “video store owners” is indeed a good analogy. That’s how I see MSM, too.
  
  Like a shambling zombie corpse that doesn’t realise it is already dead, but just keep going, oblivious to the world that surrounds.
  
  The aggregation medium that allowed them to prosper a century ago has been surpassed. Sport sat next to business which sat next to travel which sat next to politics. That was the nature of the medium, namely a newspaper. Bundle it all up to appeal to the widest audience.
  
  These days, it’s all balkanised. You get exactly what you want using the internet. You can ignore the rest.
  
  In this context, it’s utterly bizarre that journalism turned into entertainment, an area it can’t possibly compete in. There are a billion more compelling entertainment possibilities but a mouse click away.
  
  The one value proposition for journalism is truth. But how many trust that profession anymore? Trust squandered chasing clicks and running agendas.
  
  A new medium will arise from the ashes because people still want to be informed, and democracy requires it. But it won’t be journalism as we’ve known it for a century.
  
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  January 15, 2019 3:54pm
  - stephieboy
    
    The Heat ,
    
    “Trust squandered chasing clicks and running agendas.”??
    
    But not alt right media Fox, Breitbart, Gateway Pundit etc and heaps of stupidly inane conspiracy theories?
    
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    January 15, 2019 5:11pm
    - The Heat
      
      Don’t rate any of them, personally.
      
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      January 15, 2019 5:28pm
    - Tall Man
      
      And yet they are profitable, probably because they rate ardern the liar as a ………..
      
      just like you steffy girl
      
      nothing.
      
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      January 15, 2019 8:37pm
  - DigNap15
    
    Very well written.
    yes the Mainstream media are now more like Womens Magazines.
    
    But if and when they disappear, who will write the news articles?
    And who will pay for it?
    And where will we get it from?
    
    Someone has to go to the courts.
    Someone has to go to council meetings
    Someone has to go to Parliament
    
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    January 15, 2019 7:12pm
    - stephieboy
      
      DipNap15, can you furnish us with samples what media heaven would look like?
      
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      January 15, 2019 7:27pm
    - The Heat
      
      Yes, they are at the level of Women’s magazines. Trash. One even had the PM is as a guest editor, and boasted about it, and seemingly no one involved thought this was a terrible idea? Erm, MSM – you’re supposed to at least be seen to be independent and holding the government to account, not running PR.
      
      A sorry end to a once noble profession, driven onto the rocks by people who couldn’t see the sands shifting, irrevocably, beneath their feet.
      
      Narrative Science is likely the future. The data will be aggregated and turned into stories. It won’t need spin – as if it ever did. There will always be a need for good story telling, however,
      
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      January 15, 2019 9:23pm
mandk

https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/109912330/five-staff-assaulted-at-auckland-prisons-new-maximum-security-wing

Imagine the outcry there would be if this were a privately run prison!
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January 15, 2019 3:30pm
- Longknives
  
  Easily solved.
  Little and Ardern are simply going to release all those guys back into the Community!
  Hey Presto! No more Prison Assaults…
  
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  January 15, 2019 3:40pm
noskire

It is certainly a tragedy that three young boys lost their lives this past weekend in a fiery crash in Christchurch. Their families, if they had what we might consider a family, might grieve.

The youths stole a car, and attempted to outrun the police. The police called off the pursuit within minutes because of the hazardous driving, and laid spikes in an attempt to deflate the tyres of the car, driven by a 16yo driver who was driving at up to 130kmh in a 60k zone.

There has been no consideration by the media of the potential loss of life if the car he was driving had hit another car, with say some toddlers on-board.

And no consideration to the police, fire, ambulance personnel and even the tow-truck driver who responded and will never forget the scene that confronted them – the car horn that perpetually stayed on, the intense heat and flames, and the sickening smell of burning human flesh. Not to mention literally scraping up burnt body remains with a shovel.

Potentially the careers of at least three police officers are ruined. They will be stood down until at least one enquiry is completed. Mentally, they could struggle to return to work – ever.

Statistically speaking, most of us will never have to endure that scenario, unless we are in the aforementioned services, or the military

Where’s the support coming from? Not our journalists, that’s for sure.
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January 15, 2019 4:26pm
- Longknives
  
  That Stuff Editor (Or whatever she calls herself) got absolutely slammed in the comments.
  So many people supportive of the Police.
  And NOT her Left Wing, Anti-Police/Crim Hugging bullshit.
  I am relieved that sanity seems to have prevailed amongst the General Population.
  *Just like I am relieved these shitbags didn’t kill an innocent family coming the other way…
  
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  January 15, 2019 4:31pm
  - noskire
    
    Longknives, what’s the link mate – I try to avoid Stuff and The Herald online if I can.
    
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    January 15, 2019 4:50pm
    - Longknives
      
      https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/109923972/police-chases-for-traffic-offences-must-end
      
      The pathetic, cowardly Kamala Hayman closed all comments because she was getting rightfully slammed…
      
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      January 15, 2019 4:54pm
      - noskire
        
        “It is hard to accept that a speeding driver flagrantly disregarding police authority should be left to race through city streets, but it is also intolerable that a police response risks increasing the danger to the public.”
        
        Good grief…
        
        This is how it should be done https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGpzuUmVAsk
        
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        January 15, 2019 5:01pm
      - MickMac
        
        Kamala is an MSM toad.
        Can’t take it, weezil liberal.
        
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        January 15, 2019 6:28pm
  - stephieboy
    
    Longknives , I suppose the additional angst that the three deceased weren’t ” Murries”
    
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    January 15, 2019 5:18pm
    - Tall Man
      
      True, but they were useless pieces of human flesh much like yourself steffy girl.
      
      ardern is a liar
      
      steffy..really, no one cares.
      
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      January 15, 2019 8:31pm
  - The Heat
    
    Just like politicians, the MSM appear to occupy an entirely different universe to the rest of us.
    
    Good on the Police for preventing innocent people being killed. My heart goes out to the Police and emergency services who have to clean up after criminals.
    
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    January 15, 2019 5:35pm
  - DigNap15
    
    Well over a thousand ticks for many comments supporting the police.
    That is so great and incredible.
    
    I hope that makes Stuff and the rest of the media re-think their stance.
    
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    January 15, 2019 6:37pm
    - DigNap15
      
      And on Climate Change (sic)
      Plastic Bags
      Maori Language (now its called Te Reo)
      
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      January 15, 2019 7:09pm
- howitis
  
  The little shits broke the law many times over.
  Each time a cop lays road spikes they will remember this:-
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/porirua/105372177/police-remember-slain-porirua-sergeant-derek-wootton-killed-laying-road-spikes
  … A memorial to a police officer mowed down and killed in the line of duty will also feature the re-naming of part of Porirua Police Station in his honour.
  On Wednesday police will mark the 10-year anniversary [11 July 2008] of the death of Sergeant Derek Wootton who was killed on duty in Porirua in July 2008.
  The 52-year-old policeman was killed when he was run down by Mongrel Mob member Andrew Popo while he laid out road spikes in Dimock St, Titahi Bay….
  
  How about we remember the police officer, Bruce Mellor, attacked with a machete near Taihape in Dec 2010. The offenders were a 14 year old and an 18 year old.
  The 14 year old got off with a family group conference.
  Sometimes little shits turn into big shits.
  These little shits will not.
  
  Do the f.wit media go on and on about this like they do the 2000 Waitara shooting of raging mad Stephen Wallace?
  No way.
  I don’t care much for cops but when asked to pull over you need to.
  Add in stolen car, speeding, ignoring orders to stop, running red lights, driving unlicensed etc
  It is a simple offset for the times the weak-kneed, camomile drinking, vegan judges hand out ridiculously light sentences in NZ i.e. far too often.
  Yin and Yan.
  
  The little shits are dead.
  No one else is.
  Their actions caused their own death.
  Actions have consequences.
  
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  January 15, 2019 6:06pm
  - MickMac
    
    The cost to the nation may be a lot less than it might have been.
    Darwin awards material regardless of how insensitive it is.
    
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    January 15, 2019 6:27pm
    - The Heat
      
      “On Sunday night, he and his best mate Craig McAllister, also 13, and Craig’s older brother, Glen McAllister, 16, stole a Mazda Familia from a property in Wigram, Christchurch. It is understood the trio regularly stole cars in the city over the last few months. They were days away from a restorative justice meeting with one car theft victim.
      
      According to one of Taylor’s caregivers, his older brother Damian Diedrichs’ partner Alana Gilchrist, Brooklyn had been involved in several high-speed police chases. They usually ended with police arresting the older people in the car and, because of his age, taking Brooklyn back to his caregiver or to CYF.”
      
      So, had form, then. Yet – somehow – it’s all the fault of the Police?
      
      If that’s the path you choose, it’s going nowhere good, son. Pity that basic fact never sunk in.
      
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      January 15, 2019 8:37pm
      - noskire
        
        I would say the taxpayer has been saved several million dollars by not having to deal with these ferals any longer.
        
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        January 16, 2019 1:18am
Johnboy

Ah! De dampt Oirish. Never been any fecking good for feck all since they stopped digging the canals and building the railways.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/109940444/rude-travelling-family-cause-police-call-out-to-hamilton-burger-king
Still they did try to create a dynasty in America and even though it turned to shit look at all the material it’s given to say the History channel. 🙂
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January 15, 2019 4:34pm
- Southern Raider
  
  They are claiming to be English from Liverpool
  
  Still highly likely they are pikeys
  
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  January 15, 2019 4:40pm
  - oob
    
    Of course they are Pikeys.
    
    It’s bizarre that this fact is subject to debate and any doubt, I guess it shows the general unfamiliarity in NZ with Pikeys.
    
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    January 15, 2019 4:43pm
    - noskire
      
      Yup, pikeys, pure trash.
      
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      January 15, 2019 5:10pm
      - noskire
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySyBMTo-1sc
        
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        January 15, 2019 6:13pm
  - Longknives
    
    The report I read the other day referred to them as ‘Travellers’…
    
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    January 15, 2019 4:51pm
    - Swifty
      
      Pikeys discussing serious community matters….
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO-Adcb8yRQ
      
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      January 15, 2019 6:50pm
  - kowtow
    
    The little fucker with the straw hat spoke with an Irish tinker accent.
    
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    January 15, 2019 5:17pm
    - stephieboy
      
      “Irish tinker accent.”??
      
      Northern or Southern?
      
      Protestant or Catholic?
      
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      January 15, 2019 5:20pm
      - Tall Man
        
        Or just a pathetic arsehole like you steffy girl.
        
        Your mum and dad must be deeply ashamed of you.
        
        ardern is a liar.
        
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        January 15, 2019 8:26pm
mikenmildagain

Oh dear, congressman discovers consequences for racist speech.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rep-steve-king-removed-from-committee-assignments-amid-white-supremacist-controversy
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January 15, 2019 4:43pm
- Longknives
  
  I’m don’t think Western Culture and Civilisation is ‘Evil’ either Mikey..
  Am I a ‘Racist’??
  
  *My personal belief is that everyone should be proud of their culture and heritage- And yes, that includes (*Gasp) White people…
  
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  January 15, 2019 4:58pm
  - Johnboy
    
    Quite so Lk. Proud to be a honky, trailer trash, redneck from the Nui old chap! 🙂
    It’s those smarmy, pinko liberal bastards from over the hill I really can’t stand! 🙂
    
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    January 15, 2019 5:04pm
    - Longknives
      
      I often wonder if those Lefties who so openly detest White people (and their History and Culture) took a walk through the Cenotaph in Auckland and looked at all those thousands and thousands of names on the wall- Would that make them rethink their whole ‘White Privilege’ bullshit?…
      
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      January 15, 2019 5:16pm
      - Johnboy
        
        Particularly if they’re folk like Milkey that owe their whole life and income to the heroes that fought for freedom and a nice comfortable desk for life in some obscure government department! 🙂
        
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        January 15, 2019 5:24pm
    - nasska
      
      ? Wai, wai wai Wainui ?
      
      With (insincere) apologies to Tom Jones. 🙂
      
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      January 15, 2019 5:21pm
      - Johnboy
        
        Some of my sheep have reportedly said I’m hung like him nasska! 🙂
        
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        January 15, 2019 5:26pm
      - stigie
        
        The Kiwiblog community would wish you to put up photos JB…..In your own time of course !~
        
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        January 15, 2019 6:07pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Oh, you’re going with his weasel words and pretending that he was just admiring western civilisation? The man doesn’t even have the balls to repeat his endorsement of white supremacy.
    
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    January 15, 2019 6:13pm
    - Longknives
      
      C’mon Mikey!
      It’s okay to be white- Really… it is!
      
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      January 15, 2019 9:36pm
  - Tall Man
    
    mikey’s not racist, just really really stupid. He’s a second hand pom who just really really hates being white.
    
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    January 15, 2019 8:23pm
- Inandout
  
  They are all flawed.
  
  https://www.wbur.org/news/2018/12/10/rhode-island-representative-laufton-ascencao-resigns-campaign-mailer
  
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  January 15, 2019 5:08pm
Surely Knott

AT increasing inner city car park price by 67%!! Question: Why is Auckland Council still provide carparking for the Councillors (and managers?). Surely they should take public transport and pay for their own car parking just like the rest of Auckland., not be protected from their own decision making. 9 Long Years of Labour at Auckland Council.
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January 15, 2019 5:15pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Oh dear,
NIWA and MetService not making all their tax-payer funded data available .
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/109808405/government-not-stepping-in-to-release-more-taxpayerfunded-weather-data
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January 15, 2019 5:54pm
- Jack5
  
  Should (weather) information financed by taxpayers be given free to private companies so they can sell it? They should pay for it, shouldn’t they? Either cash or royalty basis.
  
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  January 15, 2019 5:59pm
- MickMac
  
  If they are public paid then all data belongs to the nation not them.
  
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  January 15, 2019 6:24pm
  - gump
    
    Do you not understand the concept of “user pays”?
    
    State Owned Enterprises aren’t charities.
    
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    January 15, 2019 6:54pm
    - nasska
      
      How about they release the raw data without charge. Then anyone who wants extras like doctoring, massaging & fitting to climate “models” pays for the fairy tale version.
      
      As a net taxpayer I’d be okay with that.
      
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      January 15, 2019 7:02pm
    - rangitoto
      
      The tax payer already paid.
      
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      January 15, 2019 8:01pm
      - gump
        
        So you actually want State Owned Enterprises to give away their products and services for free?
        
        Are you serious? A State Owned Enterprise is legally required to operate successfully as a business, with profitability which is equivalent to businesses not owned by the Crown.
        
        I’m embarrassed I have to explain this.
        
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        January 15, 2019 8:42pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @Gump
        
        We are told repeatedly that Climate change is the most serious problem the World faces.
        
        Why shouldn’t we share information freely with folks who may be able to use our meteorological data to assist in planning for a better future for mankind.
        Why leave it in the hands of a few?
        
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        January 15, 2019 9:33pm
    - Tall Man
      
      Whereas you would be destitute without our money..
      
      Bludger…
      
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      January 15, 2019 8:18pm
      - gump
        
        Actually you’d be destitute without Company Directors like me.
        
        Assuming you’re in New Zealand – which is a big assumption given your proclivity for sucking Chinese cocks – I can guarantee that you are regularly consuming products shipped through our distribution systems.
        
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        January 15, 2019 8:38pm
      - Tall Man
        
        And the useless ardern the liar apologist bullshitting again.
        
        Bludger.
        
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        January 15, 2019 9:22pm
    - rangitoto
      
      NIWA is a crown research institute which conducts commercial and non commercial research. The information sought is clearly not the result of any kind of commercial research just recorded data which should be a matter of public record.
      
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      January 15, 2019 10:18pm
- KevOB
  
  It might be too risky with NIWA having manipulated the original data to fit their self-opinionated “adjustments” and thrown away the sources. (Naughty.)
  
  A plus point the present weekly forecasts for Christchurch are proving agreeably accurate.
  
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  January 15, 2019 7:11pm
rangitoto

Utter nonsense on the Horrid.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12190696

“40,555 km/s” etc bahahaha.
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January 15, 2019 5:56pm
- stephieboy
  
  “Three large asteroids prompt Nasa to issue near-Earth object alert”
  
  ???
  
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  January 15, 2019 7:21pm
  - rangitoto
    
    40,000 km/s is more than 13% of the speed of light. They are only out by a factor of a thousand. I guess that is close enough for the Horrid.
    
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    January 15, 2019 8:11pm
    - Tall Man
      
      Explains ardern the liar’s 43%…
      
      ardern is a liar.
      
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      January 15, 2019 8:14pm
      - stephieboy
        
        Oink, oink, wank, wank..!
        
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        January 15, 2019 9:36pm
- Swifty
  
  Heh.
  
  I make that something like 90 million mph.
  
  What a joke.
  
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  January 15, 2019 8:10pm
  - softail 1450
    
    septicboy, “oink oink wank wank”, septic isn’t as stupid as I thought he was , he’s actually taught his nanny goat to speak swine.
    
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    January 16, 2019 5:12am
gump

Trump according to Reddit.

Golden escalators,
Golden toilets,
Golden showers,
Golden arches…
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January 15, 2019 6:51pm
- Tall Man
  
  World according to gump…
  Shit
  Bullshit
  ardern the liar shit
  steffy shit
  
  See the pattern…I guess gump is just….full of shit…
  
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  January 15, 2019 8:12pm
  - gump
    
    The only pattern I can see is Gump Derangement Syndrome.
    
    How does it feel to be my biggest fan? ?
    
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    January 15, 2019 8:32pm
    - Tall Man
      
      Self diagnosing again dipshit…
      
      Yep, you’re full of it.
      
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      January 15, 2019 9:20pm
      - stephieboy
        
        Tall “Brown Showers” Man
        
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        January 15, 2019 9:37pm
    - softail 1450
      
      Dump , Still suffering grandiose delusions, you just aren’t that important dump….
      
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      January 16, 2019 5:16am
- The Virgin
  
  Gump according to The Urban Dictionary .
  
  A weak spineless soft person
  Clumsy, geeky or stupid, but my favourite:
  
  A male prostitute according to the Chicago Police
  
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  January 15, 2019 8:13pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Would have to be free, who the fuck would pay for a piece of useless shit like that?
    
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    January 15, 2019 8:16pm
    - nasska
      
      Yo stephieboy…..stop molesting the goat. I think we’ve found you a real live partner! 🙂
      
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      January 15, 2019 8:20pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Play nicely Nasska.
        
        Stephieboy hasn’t been the same since his Pipedream blow-up billy goat (a novelty item from eBay’s sexual wellness collection) stopped inflating. And because it’s now damaged goods since he’s done goodness knows what with it, there’s no refund!
        
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        January 15, 2019 9:29pm
      - nasska
        
        It probably just needs emptying Nostra.
        
        There’ll be a drainplug somewhere. 🙂
        
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        January 15, 2019 9:43pm
    - The Virgin
      
      Stiffy, when the goat is in season and needs a real buck…
      
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      January 15, 2019 8:21pm
      - softail 1450
        
        nasska, that drain plug will be somewhere just above gumps face..
        
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        January 16, 2019 5:19am
noskire

I see the new Police vehicles have some Maori crap written on their livery.
Questions:
a: Haven’t we be told that Maori had/have no traditional concept of Police or prison?
b: If Maori can’t read English, what is the chance they can read a made-up Maori word?
c: Those of Chinese descent now make up the 2nd-biggest ethnic population in New Zealand (and you wondered why the census results have been delayed), after European. Why do we not have Jǐngchá on our Police cars?
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January 15, 2019 8:27pm
- gump
  
  Perhaps if Chinese was an official language of New Zealand you’d have a point?
  
  But it isn’t, so you don’t.
  
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  January 15, 2019 8:33pm
  - noskire
    
    Have you met a police officer who could do sign language, because it’s also an official language of New Zealand.
    Less than 1% of New Zealanders are deaf.
    Crawl back under your bridge.
    
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    January 15, 2019 8:40pm
    - cha
      
      The New Zealand Sign Language Act 2006 requires Police to provide an interpreter if needed.
      
      http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/10730623/New-cop-up-to-speed-with-signing
      
      http://www.ten-one.police.govt.nz/tenone/March09TheDeaf.htm
      
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      January 15, 2019 10:26pm
- Morrissey
  
  Go away, racist filth.
  
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  January 16, 2019 12:06am
  - softail 1450
    
    morronissey ,tweaking at 12.06 am, you must be the oldest crackhead in the country morronissey ,LOL.
    
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    January 16, 2019 5:05am
Morrissey

Great Moments in Television
No. 1: Kiwiblog’s “starboard” appears on Jeremy Kyle

You utter scumbag, starboard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX7KP_XiCUI
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January 15, 2019 9:03pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  More fuckwittery from Breen Enterprises Ltd., purveyors of utter fuckwittery to the world.
  
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  January 15, 2019 9:18pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Sorry..my bad.. downtick error 101….
    
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    January 15, 2019 9:24pm
    - Morrissey
      
      Ha ha ha ha! Cap’n Mainwaring, a victim of friendly fire.
      
      Ha ha ha ha ha!
      
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      January 15, 2019 9:47pm
Longknives

Wow Gump is certainly rocking the Party tonight!
The Left sure are classy…
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