General Debate 25 April 2019

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krazykiwi

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern told the crowd at the Auckland War Memorial Museum that Kiwis needed to recommit to the principles of freedom, democracy and peace that the country had fought for.

New Zealanders are already committed to these principles, and we remain so. If our PM was interested in more than platitudinous sound bites, then for such a recommitment she need look no further than her own cabinet table, thus:

– Freedom; Reigning in Andrew Little’s draconian plans for limitations to free speech. Stop using censorship as a means to control the population’s understanding of events like the Christchurch massacre.

– Democracy; Abandoning Order in Council processes designed to sidestep democratic due process. Never again using unconstitutional ‘captain’s calls’ to rule by fiat. Publishing the Secret Coalition deal that is that basis of our government’s formation

– Peace; Stop being an apologist for a religious/political system that subjugates women, murders Christian and gays, and gives safe harbour to fanatics who bring terror to the world’s people on a daily basis.
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April 25, 2019 8:01am
- John Warren
  
  You said it for me. Charity starts at home, as my dear old Nan used to say.
  
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  April 25, 2019 9:00am
  - nanaann
    
    did you notice the word RECOMMIT?????
    
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    April 28, 2019 8:22am
- MickMac
  
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  April 25, 2019 9:04am
- The King
  
  It’s funny watching Jacinda talk at her socialist camp calling her fellow Trotskyites “Comrades” then watching her talk “Democracy,peace,freedom”
  
  How easily the masses are fooled.
  
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  April 25, 2019 9:50am
  - nanaann
    
    No the masses are in power -the foolish ones are still barking at cars with fighting in the ranks.
    
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    April 28, 2019 8:26am
- cmm
  
  Damn I could only uptick that once. I am sure I’m not the only one.
  
  Uptick here. All kudos to kk.
  
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  April 25, 2019 9:50am
- backster
  
  A unified commitment to God King and Country saw us through those wars and ever since Labour has increasingly tried to undermine and belittle them.
  
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  April 25, 2019 10:07am
  - dog_eat_dog
    
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    Funny, I could have sworn those things got us into those wars in the first place.
    
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    April 25, 2019 10:38am
    - hullkiwi
      
      Go and read up on the events of 1905 to 1945 and you may understand that the events leading to WWI and WWII were nothing to do with God, King and Country and all to do with greedy commercial industrialists lust for more commercial supremacy.
      
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      April 25, 2019 11:40am
      - cmm
        
        In the case of WW2 it was the socialists.
        
        National socialists, but still socialists.
        
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        April 25, 2019 2:34pm
- the conservative
  
  In respect to free speech this also applies to Israel Folau. The left have got this so wrong. On my YouTube channel (Terry Opines) I posted a commentary by Alan Jones supporting Folau and the results were staggering in favour of Folau:
  57,000 views, 14,000 Likes vs. 145 Dislikes, and 917 comments.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S0ISi4SRJs&t=114s
  This just shows you how wrong the left is on free speech.
  
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  April 25, 2019 1:10pm
  - the conservative
    
    Sorry folks, I got part of my comment about free speech above wrong; it should have been 1,400 Likes Vs 145 Dislikes
    
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    April 26, 2019 7:59am
- hullkiwi
  
  krazykiwi, thank you for posting the key points from Ardern’s address this morning.
  
  Like you, I see the hypocrisy and irony in what she said and as a for instance, below I have reposted a link I posted on GD late last night after I found the story on MSN.
  
  Well Andrew Angry Little, as they always say, be careful what you wish for, because it may come back and bit you.
  In Angry’s case, it seems it has…..
  https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/controversial-uk-columnist-reveals-death-threat-from-kiwi/ar-BBWdGGp?ocid=spartandhp
  
  Well if the article in the link above is to be believed, it appears Hopkins has pricked the thin skin of one or two of of St Jacinda’s local followers to the extent they have sent a foul mouth tweet containing a death threat against Hopkins. Oh the irony, Labour’s twin campaigns of peace, love and togetherness and the tirade against nasty right wing racists, spreaders of hate and extreme violence laid bare as nothing but a hypocritical charade.
  
  You see, for the past month, we’ve been told relentlessly by the left and the organised media campaign, that those of us on the right are:
  – the ones full of hate,
  – the ones with language of hate that needs to be stopped;
  – the ones that are racist; and
  – we are the ones prone to commit extreme anti-society violence.
  
  Well like you, I see it as ironic, that:
  – It is Jacinda who wants to lead a campaign to suppress what is published on the web (a direct assault on the freedom of speech);
  – It is Little who wants to legislate against “hate speech”, whatever that is? (another direct assault on the freedom of speech);
  – that it is Louisa Wall who wants parliament to legislate and put in controlling mechanisms on the media (yet another direct assault on the freedom of speech); and
  -finally, some local supporter of St Jacinda sending a message via the internet threatening violence and death against a person in the media.
  
  These incidences have all been within the past few weeks, and it is hard not to notice a common thread here. That thread being, that three of the calls are from NZ Labour MPs and the fourth is a Jacinda/Labour supporting nutter.
  It is the left who are making anti-democratic calls; it is the left which is against freedom (and the freedom of speech); it is the left making violent calls; and it is the left pitting elements of society against one another.
  
  So, it really is a case of what are they going to do next?
  Hopefully maybe now, they will stop and rethink, their stupid and pointless campaigns.
  
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  April 25, 2019 1:27pm
  - nanaann
    
    Why on earth would anyone nickname Andy -angry- he is calm and collected and human,calling folk names will not get anyone back into power as name calling is childish.
    
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    April 28, 2019 8:28am
Happychappy

Isn’t it funny how Stuff bring out those that have major connections to the Labour Party to have their say on the CGT.
https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/112212429/we-lack-the-policy-space-to-properly-debate-the-big-issues#comments.
I wonder how much is Helen’s belief.
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April 25, 2019 8:06am
- Rachael Membery
  
  Unlike Cullen’s ‘vested interests’?
  
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  April 25, 2019 9:28am
- alloytoo
  
  The Labour party tried to shut down the CGT debate at every opportunity.
  
  They refused to engage.
  
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  April 25, 2019 9:34am
  - mark15
    
    Rule by diktats.
    
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    April 25, 2019 11:51am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Rubbish as usual from the ideologues. NZ is the size of a middling city overseas why should we have a ginormous tax system? More rulers.
  
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  April 25, 2019 9:35am
  - Suze Wainwright
    
    Do you think our politicians would stand for being treated as state MPs if we were part of Aussie?
    
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    April 25, 2019 11:39am
Paulus

Krazykiwi

Well said – I agree with what you said – you beat me to it.
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April 25, 2019 8:07am
Maggy Wassilieff

Privileged, educated terrorists
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-25/pregnant-wife-of-sri-lanka-bomber-detonates-suicide-vest/11045306
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April 25, 2019 8:10am
- kowtow
  
  The MSM theme has been “if the Yanks stopped invading their countries the poor uneducated and oppressed wouldn’t be striking back.”
  
  Could someone remind when the Yanks last invaded Sri Lanka and why so many suicide bombers have engineering degrees.
  
  https://slate.com/technology/2009/12/why-do-so-many-terrorists-have-engineering-degrees.html
  
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  April 25, 2019 8:44am
  - slightlyrighty
    
    Perhaps the proposal should be “If Islamic Fundmentalists stopped preaching Hate, there would be less terrorism, and we can all focus on the needy?”
    
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    April 25, 2019 9:51am
- rightoverlabour
  
  The depravity that Islamic Extremists go to has seldom been seen in humanity’s history. Children used as suicide bombers, the case above, and then the atrocities committed by ISIS reinforce the opinion that the only way to solve this problem is to exterminate these terrorists and their supporters, and to push back against the version of their religion that legitimises this type of barbarism. This is a total war, between the norms and customs of the West verse the Barbarism of Islamic Extremism. There can be no appeasement, take note, Jacinda.
  
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  April 25, 2019 8:45am
  - freethinker
    
    Austria has found a totally peaceful way to deal with their Muslim community. Wearing a Burka/Niqab or head scarf in public earns a significant fine so some Muslim Females no longer go outside their homes and some families are leaving Austria. Muslim Females can choose to disobey their husbands or Mohameed can do the grocery shopping.
    
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    April 25, 2019 1:16pm
- Scott
  
  Thanks Maggy for the link. It does remind us of the ideology we are fighting against when we read about a pregnant woman who blows herself up, her unborn child and her two young children.
  
  I’m sorry, Islam is an evil ideology and I’m very pleased that we did not have any Muslim prayers on Anzac day.
  
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  April 25, 2019 8:51am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    The English word “religion” does not do Islam justice. Islam is more than a “religion.”
    I think the English-speaking world would better be able to handle Islam if it used the proper descriptors.
    
    Possible descriptors:
    – Supremacist belief system
    – Political ideology with religious trimmings
    – Cult
    – Totalitarian approach to life
    
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    April 25, 2019 9:53am
    - SGA
      
      No, I think that Islam fits under the broad category of “religion” pretty well. It has its own characteristics, as they all do.
      
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      April 25, 2019 10:39am
      - Odakyu-sen
        
        Parts of it fit, but other significant parts do not. It’s much more than the English word “religion” usually means.
        
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        April 25, 2019 11:07am
      - SGA
        
        Don’t see it. The word religion can be applied to the diverse customs and practices of the ancient Mayans, Aztecs, Incas, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Chinese, Japanese through to modern day Hindu, Buddhists, Catholics, YECs, Jews, Mormons, Satanists, and even , in their mind, Scientology (and that list is just the tip of the iceberg). Singling out Islam as unfitting for the word tells me more about you than anything else 🙂
        
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        April 25, 2019 11:38am
    - The Proper Ghandi
      
      Odakyu-sen
      Correct. Islam is a set of principles guiding not only the adherent’s transcendent spiritual beliefs but also, relatedly, how the world ought to be organised materially and politically, as a direct corollary of those religious tenets. It is Totalitarian through and through.
      Therefore, Islamic societies are established and run on the basis of a literalist interpretation of the Quran.
      
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      April 25, 2019 12:38pm
  - mic
    
    And they were the supposedly educated ones!
    
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    April 25, 2019 12:14pm
- simpleton1
  
  So it is nothing to do with who is wealthy and who is poor.
  “Why we hate you and why we fight you” on page 30-33.
  
  The fact is, even if you were to stop bombing us, imprisoning us, torturing us, vilifying us, and usurping our lands, we would continue to hate you because our primary reason for hating you will not cease to exist until you embrace Islam.
  Even if you were to pay jizyah and live under the authority of Islam in humiliation, we would continue to hate you. No doubt, we would stop fighting you then as we would stop fighting any
  disbelievers who enter into a covenant with us, but we would not stop hating you.
  
  What’s equally if not more important to understand
  is that we fight you, not simply to punish and deter
  you, but to bring you true freedom in this life and salvation in the Hereafter, freedom from being enslaved to your whims and desires as well as those of your clergy and legislatures, and salvation by worshiping your Creator alone and following His messenger.
  We fight you in order to bring you out from the darkness of disbelief and into the light of Islam, and to liberate you from the constraints of living for the sake of the worldly life alone so that you may enjoy both the blessings of the worldly life and the bliss of the Hereafter.
  The gist of the matter is that there is indeed a rhyme to our terrorism, warfare, ruthlessness, and brutality.
  
  As much as some liberal journalist would like you to believe that we do what we do because we’re simply monsters with no logic behind our course of action, the fact is that we continue to wage – and escalate – a calculated war that the West thought it had ended several years ago.
  We continue dragging you further and further into a swamp you thought you’d already escaped only to realize that you’re stuck even deeper within its murky waters… And we do so while offering you a way out on our terms. So you can continue to believe that those “despicable terrorists” hate
  you because of your lattes and your Timberlands, and continue spending ridiculous amounts of money to try to prevail in an unwinnable war, or you can accept reality and recognize that we will never stop hating you until you embrace Islam, and will never stop fighting you until you’re ready to leave the swamp of warfare and terrorism through the exits we provide, the very exits put forth by our Lord for the People of the Scripture: Islam, jizyah, or – as a last means of fleeting respite – a temporary truce. http://clarionproject.org/factsheets-files/islamic-state-magazine-dabiq-fifteen-breaking-the-cross.pdf
  
  Also many other interesting articles in this link.
  The guidance seems to be that the wealthy have to lead by example as they have the ability and resources “to bring salvation and people to the light”.
  
  We also must understand why they fight, and understand what we are, and what we support in our lives.
  Thanks to Anzac’s and our forebears.
  
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  April 25, 2019 10:05am
Maggie Pie

One of my VBFs on twitter resides in Lebanon and tweets about the dreadful happenings in Saudi Arabica –

https://twitter.com/sahouraxo/status/1120795983653347328
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April 25, 2019 8:15am
- krazykiwi
  
  The tweet says:
  
  Saudi Arabia beheaded 37 people in a mass execution today. It also publicly pinned the executed body of a man to a pole.
  
  Yes, Saudi Arabia is a member of the UN’s Human Rights Council
  
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  April 25, 2019 10:34am
  - wreck1080
    
    It would be a pleasure to see these gems handled by the Saudi Arabian justice system, a role call of evil people….(Lundy is the only one of the list where the conviction has generated controversy but his wifes brain matter on his shirt was rather damning)….
    
    Clayton Weatherston, Antony Dixon, Olinale Ah You, Jason Somerville, George Baker, Peter Waihape, Taffy Hotene, Michael Wallace, Cui Xiangxin, Shane Randle, Wen Hui Cui, Anthony Doyle, Mark Lundy, David Konia, Michael Curran, Jason Reihana, Graeme Burton, Bruce Howse, William Bell.
    
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    April 25, 2019 11:17am
krazykiwi

The Cult of Greta Thunberg

Anyone who doubts that the green movement is morphing into a millenarian cult should take a close look at Greta Thunberg. This poor young woman increasingly looks and sounds like a cult member. The monotone voice. The look of apocalyptic dread in her eyes. The explicit talk of the coming great ‘fire’ that will punish us for our eco-sins. There is something chilling and positively pre-modern about Ms Thunberg. One can imagine her in a sparse wooden church in the Plymouth Colony in the 1600s warning parishioners of the hellfire that will rain upon them if they fail to give up their witches.

It actually makes sense that Ms Thunberg – a wildly celebrated 16-year-old Swede who founded the climate-strike movement for schoolkids – should sound cultish. Because climate-change alarmism is becoming ever stranger, borderline religious, obsessed with doomsday prophecies. Consider Extinction Rebellion, the latest manifestation of the upper-middle classes’ contempt for industrialisation and progress. It is at times indistinguishable from old fundamentalist movements that warned mankind of the coming End of Days.
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April 25, 2019 8:36am
- Psycho Milt
  
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  Wow, Brendan O’Neill is a real arsehole. The reason Greta Thunberg doesn’t seem “normal” is that she isn’t “normal” – she has Asperger’s Syndrome. Which explains her lack of emotion, fixation on a single subject and the complete lack of diplomacy in expressing it. Arsehole O’Neill would know that if he’d done even any cursory reading on the subject before committing his bitterness to the keyboard.
  
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  April 25, 2019 9:11am
  - Andrei
    
    Perhaps it is the people exploiting this obviously mentally unwell child whose a entirely family seems to be struggling with mental illness to who you should be directing your ire PM.
    
    This is not going to end well for the child and her family
    
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    April 25, 2019 9:44am
    - Psycho Milt
      
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      This is not going to end well for the child and her family
      
      I expect so. The corporations profiting from environmental destruction will see to it, with propaganda support from arseholes like Brendan O’Neill.
      
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      April 25, 2019 10:58am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        I think you need to take a very close look at the vested interests who are using Greta Thunberg as an international spokesperson.
        
        http://www.wrongkindofgreen.org/2019/01/28/the-manufacturing-of-greta-thunberg-for-consent-the-most-inconvenient-truth-capitalism-is-in-danger-of-falling-apart/
        
        I can’t see this episode as anything other than the cynical manipulation of a vulnerable person.
        
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        April 25, 2019 11:21am
      - srylands
        
        “Corporations” sell what people damand. Stop buying stuff made of palm oil. Stop using petroleum. Stop using lithium batteries. Then the corporations will shut up shop.
        
        More locally, how many of the kids who went on strike last month have switched to walking and cycling to school as a result of their climate strike awakening? None. The ones that were previously being driven around in SUVS still are.
        
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        April 25, 2019 11:25am
      - Doctor Who
        
        Greta Thunberg will win a Nobel prize. She deserves it. An ancestor, Svante Arrhenius, was a Nobel laureate too.
        
        She knows she is not the warm chatty type, but she has shown an outstanding ability to communicate, and has considerable awareness and insight.
        
        Unlike the climate deniers who congregate here, who are as thick as toffee pudding.
        
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        April 25, 2019 12:22pm
      - Psycho Milt
        
        Maggy: my tolerance for reading loads of old cobblers isn’t what it used to be. Can you just point to the Act in which he reveals that the plotters of the evil conspiracy are Soros and various other Jews?
        
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        April 25, 2019 1:45pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @Psycho Milt
        
        So you have no problem with adults making public the neuro-psychiatric status of a minor?
        
        http://www.lefigaro.fr/vox/societe/2019/03/18/31003-20190318ARTFIG00121-laurent-alexandre-greta-thunberg-est-instrumentalisee-par-des-militants-extremistes.php?fbclid=IwAR0VMdcdlK_apCKeIY4Y7XKVqKpUvtwqrG-NF8jhpmSVEPhHB2WczqaBp1s
        
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        April 25, 2019 2:38pm
      - Psycho Milt
        
        Not as much of a problem as I do with fuckwits who try and make out everything they don’t like to be some kind of Bolshevik plot – fuckwits like Laurent Alexandre, for example.
        
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        April 25, 2019 4:11pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Oh… how about the view of an International Marxist then?
        https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6953929/Greta-Thunberg-ignorant-brainwashed-child-says-Jeremy-Corbyns-brother.html
        
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        April 25, 2019 5:24pm
      - Doctor Who
        
        Piers Corbyn is a climate denier.
        
        Lies and liars — that’s all climate deniers have to offer.
        
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        April 25, 2019 7:47pm
      - Psycho Milt
        
        At last the Daily Mail finds a Corbyn it can work with!
        
        I’d call what you’re doing “argument from authority,” if the people involved had any claim to authority on the subject. It’s more like “argument from look-these-other-people-share-my-opinion.”
        
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        April 25, 2019 7:51pm
  - krazykiwi
    
    No, the real arseholes are the activist adults who manipulate young people like Thunberg , using them as stagemanaged pawns in their eco-religious pursuits.
    
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    April 25, 2019 10:00am
  - kowtow
    
    The arseholes are the media ,politicians , etc falling for the bullshit .
    
    ‘She told a meeting in the House of Commons that “we probably don’t even have a future any more. That future has been sold so that a small number of people can make unimaginable amounts of money.”‘
    
    “No future ” ? Sorry but the youngsters and activists of Europe and other western countries demonstrating against the weather and the very high standard of living that capitalism and democracy has given them will always have a future . Unlike the billions who live in kleptocratic “shitholes” and have real problems to worry about that the well healed and priveliged of the west who seem to have so much spare time on their hands they can seek to cripple London or don’t have to work on farms to create food or in factories to make things people actually need.
    
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    April 25, 2019 10:21am
    - Psycho Milt
      
      No doubt she’ll take your thoughts on the matter under advisement.
      
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      April 25, 2019 10:59am
- harvey wilson
  
  I don’t see this ending well for that young woman
  https://quillette.com/2019/04/23/self-harm-versus-the-greater-good-greta-thunberg-and-child-activism/
  
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  April 25, 2019 9:12am
  - Paulus
    
    Who is Greta Thunberg please ?
    
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    April 25, 2019 9:43am
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      With a surname as rare as “Thunberg,” you should be able to Google it for yourself.
      If she was named “Mayumi Tanaka” or some other common name, then Google would be less helpful.
      
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      April 25, 2019 10:33am
- All_on_Red
  
  http://horrorfreaknews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/963524villageofthedamned11.jpg
  
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  April 25, 2019 9:12am
  - Lizziep
    
    So now we are supposed to be listening to a very mentally challenged child as an expert? Ah well the PM is not all that much different and we have to listen to her.
    Thanks All on Red that link is very interesting considering its written by her family, who are not too good mentally either.
    
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    April 25, 2019 12:15pm
    - Tony Stuart
      
      Young people with Asperger Syndrome or low-level autistic spectrum disorders are not “mentally challenged”. Many are as intelligent if not moreso than their peers, but lack some social awareness or skills.
      
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      April 25, 2019 12:24pm
      - SGA
        
        Indeed, Tony. I’m reasonably sure that you would find a few of these “mentally challenged” people with Aspergers working in Silicon Valley, for the NSA, and in various Mathematics and Physics departments throughout the world 🙂
        
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        April 25, 2019 12:36pm
      - Tony Stuart
        
        I have a son with mild Aspergers, and had the diagnosis been available when I was a child, I would almost certainly be an Aspie as well. Both of us have managed fine 😀
        
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        April 25, 2019 2:55pm
    - srylands
      
      She may be a twit but having aspergers does not make her mentally challenged. My son has severe aspergers. He also has a Science degree majoring in genetics. Hardly a soft study option.
      
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      April 25, 2019 2:08pm
- ducklin71
  
  They are all full of shit. That 16-year old should look into buying a Playstation FFS like normal kids.
  
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  April 25, 2019 9:42am
- krazykiwi
  
  One is a brainwashed child in pig-tails pushing a hard-left, anti-capitalist agenda which will drive up energy prices, hamper industry with taxes and regulations, destroy jobs, cause the poor and elderly to die in fuel poverty, enrich crony capitalists, and spread lies and fear and fake news about a non-existent problem.
  
  The other is leader of the free world, a longstanding friend and admirer of Britain, an outspoken defender of Western civilisation, who has transformed the US economy, made his people safer and freer, and brought a degree of stability to a dangerous, unpredictable world both as a peacemaker (North Korea) and a scourge of terrorism (Iraq/Syria).
  
  So guess which one is invited to address Britain’s parliament. And which one isn’t.
  
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  April 25, 2019 10:43am
  - Psycho Milt
    
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    To be fair, Thunberg speaks fluent English, whereas the orange-faced grifter doesn’t. Him speaking to the British Parliament would just be embarrassing for all concerned.
    
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    April 25, 2019 11:02am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Maybe he could have a tour of the building and then rage-tweet from the toilet for a few hours.
      
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      April 25, 2019 11:42am
    - Ed Snack
      
      He speaks rather better than you Psycho- at least more cogently.
      
      Deluded yourself that he’s an idiot just because he is different, at least he’s not a traitorous fascist arsehole like Obama.
      
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      April 25, 2019 5:35pm
      - Doctor Who
        
        I don’t think I’ve ever read such nonsense.
        
        Trump has the vocabulary of a five-year-old. And the ethics of a rat.
        
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        April 25, 2019 7:52pm
Tall Man

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/larry-williams-drive/opinion/heather-du-plessis-allan-jacinda-ardern-should-go-after-trump-not-facebook/

So Heather’s great plan would be for an immature girly who happily called Donald Trump a “professional arsehole”, to pay him a visit and ask him to make facebook behave…….

Can anyone else see the problem with that?

Apart from the stupidity of calling the most powerful leader in the western world an “arsehole” I just don’t think “what’s in it for wynston”‘s pr girl would get the “limelight” that she craves…..
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April 25, 2019 8:46am
- Prince
  
  Remind me, did we get the steel tariff exemption from the US, as Australia did ?
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12148761
  No.
  Perhaps insulting the US President wasn’t so clever after all.
  International stardom comes at a price – for the workers and business people anyway.
  
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  April 25, 2019 12:15pm
Tom Barker

“Something, some psychological vitamin, is lacking in modern civilization, and as a result, we are all more or less subject to this lunacy of believing that whole races or nations are mysteriously good or mysteriously evil.”
George Orwell, 1945
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April 25, 2019 8:52am
Scott

WEEKLY JOBLESS CLAIMS ARE LOWEST SINCE 1969

You won’t hear about it from the mainstream media but here it is. The president of the USA is presiding over an excellent economy. The unemployment rate is less than 4%. Let’s face it, although president Trump may not be popular with NZers we have to admit he knows about how to get an economy moving.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/04/weekly-jobless-claims-are-lowest-since-1969.php
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April 25, 2019 9:02am
- howitis
  
  NZers are largely anti Trump because it is fed through every news outlet, relentlessly.
  
  If I bothered to count a year ago there was probably 6+ anti Trump stories in Stuff in one day.
  I seem to recall that someone on KB mentioned this in recent times.
  It is wall to wall so a passive observer of news – from any source- TV, radio, newspapers, or whatever- will slowly absorb this. An opinion is rendered home by building a wall of words with no other light getting through.
  The same was done with Nobel Peace prize winner Mr B Hussein Obama, the other way.
  Either way a false narrative.
  
  One has to be an active observer to get the truth.
  Mothers with 3 kids under 12 don’t necessarily have time to do alternate research (except Monique I guess)
  Dads working a 55 hour week plus travel time and attending to aging parents don’t have the time, for the most part.
  Terfs with blue hair- well who cares.
  
  Those who are active in doing their homework and are still facing the wrong way – so sad!
  The media is actually worse in Australia where it has that Australian direct attack method as opposed to the NZ passive/aggressive approach.
  
  This is a good history lesson of how Joseph Goebbels operated with propaganda.
  Remember it was National Socialism they were pushing – in name.
  Now it is Global Socialism as the pathway to Totalitarianism.
  President Donald J. Trump is a handbrake on this crusade.
  Can I say Crusade?
  
  We know media are lying in unison about this so what else are they lying about?
  Ok, a rhetorical question there.
  
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  April 25, 2019 9:45am
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    If Scott Morrison can retain Australia’s Prime Minister-ship, things will really be looking up for the world. There does still seem to be some hope so fingers crossed.
    
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    April 25, 2019 11:01am
- KevO'Brien
  
  If anyone believes the USA economy is a success they need to explain Uber, profitless, being “valued” at about $1B. The Pres. thinks he can magic the stock market up. Govt spending is out of control as is govt borrowing. This credit expansion on war and assets must eventually have to be reduced. Statistics depend on honesty: published numbers depend on massaging.
  
  The US is hoist by QE–they have gone too far. The costs of slowing are unfaceable while the costs of not slowing are catastrophic. When the US sneezes NZ catches a cold. Standby. Our COL are going to be delighted when the economy tilts.
  
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  April 25, 2019 9:53am
  - Simon
    
    “If anyone believes the USA economy is a success they need to explain Uber, profitless, being “valued” at about $1B”
    
    Companies are valued based on expected future free cash flow.
    
    There you go comrade. Come to KB for the truth stop reading MSM.
    
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    April 25, 2019 11:03am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      True, a company might never, ever turn a profit but could still be highly valued because the value depends upon shared beliefs among a sufficient number of investors.
      
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      April 25, 2019 11:49am
      - KevO'Brien
        
        No wonder GR has the Min of Finance portfolio.
        Has basic economics ceased to be taught?
        
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        April 25, 2019 10:39pm
    - KevO'Brien
      
      Cashflow without profits results in loss of cash. Value has to be based on gain not ability to manipulate cashflow before your banker comes.
      
      Try capitalising a negative profit flow.
      
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      April 25, 2019 1:08pm
- RiP NZ
  
  He’s popular with me. More so in rebellion to the disgusting behaviours from the American left and the repeaters in the global media than anything else. But as a demonstration of resolve…just incredible
  
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  April 25, 2019 10:14am
All_on_Red

And here we go…

“Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson accuses United Kingdom Intelligence of helping Obama Administration Spy on the 2016 Trump Presidential Campaign.” WOW! It is now just a question of time before the truth comes out, and when it does, it will be a beauty!’
@realDonaldTrump
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April 25, 2019 9:11am
- Jules99
  
  I wonder whether anyone in NZ is starting to sweat.
  
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  April 25, 2019 9:43am
- Simon
  
  Trump buried 16 GOP candidates, MSM, hollywood, huge social media platforms, Clinton crime family, Bush family, rigged polling, Obama Admin spying via FBI, DOJ & GOP establishment.
  
  Remarkable election result.
  
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  April 25, 2019 11:10am
The King

Suspected Islamic State member arrested over alleged plan to attack Gallipoli. The suspect, a 26-year-old Syrian national, was detained in Tekirdag, a north-western province close to the Gallipoli peninsula, a local police spokesman told Reuters.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-24/turkey-arrests-islamic-state-member-planning-gallipoli-attack/11045126
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April 25, 2019 9:19am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Another report gives it as might be planning such an attack.
  
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  April 25, 2019 9:58am
Yvette

conversations and captain’s calls

Ardern – “My role now is consensus on the back of the Working Group Report to determine what all the parties will support and then presenting that to the public in April.” [1]

Newshub: So, you’re not going to reveal your position until you’ve reached consensus with your partners.
Ardern: Yes.
Newshub: That’s two months away. Are you concerned that this is creating uncertainty?
Ardern: No. It’s a debate. [2]

A debate of what she was yet to present to the public.
So one of her bloody “conversations” without any definite points to discuss because she was yet to name any.

Then – Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says there will be no CGT, “not because I don’t believe in it, but because I don’t believe New Zealanders do”. [3]

Perhaps because what was debated, was the uncertainty? – while Ardern attempted what Little had already exhibited didn’t work with Winston over the last minute Three Strikes debacle.

Also remember the gas exploration issue and the lack of conversation there, but that was an outside-of-Cabinet jack-up to pass Winston’s paranoid waka-jumping bill.

Now – The 21-member working group set up to advise the government’s response to the Mental Health Inquiry has been replaced with several more [nine] working groups. [4]

Then a debate or conversation?
And perhaps an intuitive “captain’s call” on mental health, to maybe add to people’s disillusion and depression?

Deja poo: the feeling that you’ve heard all this crap before
Except we didn’t even get as far as really hearing anything …
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[1] https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/110863540/capital-gains-tax-jacinda-ardern-will-need-to-compromise [2] first Newshub Nation of the year [3] https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/opinion-analysis/112122449/selfishness-and-greed-are-not-the-kiwi-way [4] https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/382083/mental-health-working-group-replacement-criticised
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April 25, 2019 9:20am
- burt
  
  Be careful, Nanny will shut your internet access down if you don’t stop saying nasty things about her. What you need to do is join with her on social media every Sunday @ 3:00pm when we all log on and say something nice about somebody else.
  
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  April 25, 2019 9:36am
- artemisia
  
  The Prime Minister erred seriously in calling the CGT issue a debate. A lot of the talk in MSM and social media was based on … nothing at all except a black hole.
  
  The debate could have happened had at least a draft been published on which to base the promised legislation. But despite a very long time frame from initiation of the CGT proposal in 2017, not even counting all the work done since 2011, agreement could not be reached.
  
  That is inept and misleading.
  
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  April 25, 2019 9:59am
- Prince
  
  Imagine what a Finance/Tax debate with Ardern would look like.
  It would be a very short discussion.
  She has no idea of finance, numbers, detail, and no desire to do the ‘hard mahi’.
  
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  April 25, 2019 12:19pm
Happychappy

Well I wonder whether Robertson will put his neck out on a plate like he did when calling her a idiot.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/04/british-media-personality-katie-hopkins-hits-back-at-grant-robertson.html
All mouth with no substance is our lad Grant.
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April 25, 2019 9:37am
- calendar girl
  
  Grant Robertson appears to have plenty of substance. At least physically.
  
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  April 25, 2019 2:45pm
cmm

Lime says this is as easy as changing a ringtone.

I call bullshit. If they have not secured the scooters then that is a sign of very sloppy software design.

Lime scooters should be designed to high software safety levels. Clearly they are not.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/112251746/hacked-lime-scooters-wail-unleash-profanity-and-racism-in-australia
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April 25, 2019 9:37am
- jcuk
  
  I was disturbed to hear about scooters causing blind folk problems as they litter the footpaths.
  My solution would be to require them to be parked parrallel with and within 300mm of the curb.
  
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  April 25, 2019 9:52am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Even more disturbing – who picks up a Guide Dog’s shit?
    
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    April 25, 2019 11:13am
    - jcuk
      
      I thought that was part of their training, the animals I mean.
      
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      April 29, 2019 9:48am
- RiP NZ
  
  Nothing quite as sad as a suit and tie wearing middle aged hip wannabe awkwardly negotiating Queen St on a Lime Scooter – just walk for heavens sake…..have some self respect man
  
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  April 25, 2019 10:18am
  - John Warren
    
    They all look like jackasses, don’t they?
    
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    April 25, 2019 10:43am
  - infused
    
    Hey I do that. Get fucked. Walking is for plebs ?
    
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    April 25, 2019 11:52am
- jcuk
  
  I had a South African freind who was an engineer in the States who told me the American problem was engineers who designed for the intended use with no safety over design to handle problems .
  
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  April 25, 2019 10:22am
jcuk

Did you hear about the worthy [policewomam ? ] organising welfare for under priveleged on the east coast of the North Island.
Amongst goods supplied to help mothers with young bobies to change them more often were nappies provided by a helpful firm. No doubt good for business long term but hardly the best for the mothers concerned.
From experience of changing our son in his early days I suggest how to get, use and wash cloths would be be more helpful. In those days I had changed from a bachelor on less than $30 a fortnight to keeping a wife and child … so my wife and I had to watch our cents.
My wife remembers before that her mother dealing with menstral flows in a similar manner for the four girls in the family…. before Tampax came on the market it was need not choice.
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April 25, 2019 10:16am
Maggie Pie

Ever since i came across KB earlier this year ive found it to be one of the most enjoyable and informative places to spend a little spare time during the day – and i thank DPF for all the effort he must put into this. I do however lament the loss of a lot of the ‘old crowd’ that inhabited here prior to the new moderation policices. While it hasnt affected me in any way, i do notice there are a lot more people around these days that appear to have had a Personality-Bypass at birth.

Just saying 🙂
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April 25, 2019 10:37am
- Happychappy
  
  They don’t like the truth when you point it out either Maggie Pie you will end up with a lot of down ticks, keep your sense of humor its gold times.
  
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  April 25, 2019 11:10am
- MrTips
  
  Time dear Maggie. Time. I suspect many lefties will come back after the CGT arse kicking and they recover from their coccyx- shock syndrome.
  
  And that’s no way to talk about Hugh and Milt. They are perfectly capable of rocking the rest home and bingo halls of Otira.
  
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  April 25, 2019 11:14am
Lee C

Like an arrow to my heart Maggie…

an arrow to my heart.
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April 25, 2019 10:59am
secondcumming

Feel any safer seeing *Police Marksmen* with their Bushmasters locked & loaded surrounding Auckland Domain this morning?
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April 25, 2019 11:23am
- RW Capitalist
  
  What justification for the shutting down of 3/4 of the commemoration marches then.
  Can they show us the threat assessment?
  
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  April 25, 2019 11:39am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Great opportunity for Police practice.
  
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  April 25, 2019 1:15pm
RW Capitalist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_To-cV94Bo
A reminder of the relative importance of the Crusades and to compare to Jihad.
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April 25, 2019 11:38am
greybeard

Is it not hypocritical of Goff to participate in any ANZAC service, given his history ? Prick.
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April 25, 2019 12:05pm
- Prince
  
  Groucho Marx:
  “If you don’t like my principles, well, I have others.”
  
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  April 25, 2019 12:23pm
- secondcumming
  
  Dead right there greybeard. A bloody disgrace to the country.
  
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  April 25, 2019 12:52pm
  - srylands
    
    What did he do?
    
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    April 25, 2019 2:11pm
    - greybeard
      
      Try this as a starter.
      
      https://www.whaleoil.co.nz/2015/08/the-hypocrisy-of-phil-goff/
      
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      April 25, 2019 3:02pm
      - softail 1450
        
        Helen Clarke was [mod]
        
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        April 25, 2019 4:34pm
- Straight arrow
  
  Anzac Day is for commemoration of those who served and died fighting wars. It is not a day for anything else, eg whether the wars were righteous or not. My point is that someone can be against war, but still remember and honour those who did fight.
  Goff is the mayor, and it would be insulting if he did not attend, regardless of his politics.
  
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  April 25, 2019 1:52pm
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    Good.
    The first step in preserving the NZ tradition that is Anzac Day is to have an understanding of its function; namely “for commemoration of those who served and died fighting wars.”
    
    This will help prevent the corruption of this national day, through such things as the inclusion of Islamic prayer.
    
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    April 25, 2019 6:19pm
Fletch

The latest Mark Levin podcast. It’s almost two hours long, but the first half hour or so is the most interesting as he delves into the Mueller report, obstruction, impeachment and the like, showing how ridiculous and lawless the Left is becoming in their effort to get Trump at any cost.

http://www.westwoodonepodcasts.com/pods/the-mark-levin-audio-rewind/
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April 25, 2019 12:06pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  Another view on those who sponsored Mueller:
  https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-24/joe-digenova-explains-where-russia-hoax-headed
  
  How can a Congress lawfully require the President’s executives to answer to them without breaking the separation of Congress and Executive?
  
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  April 25, 2019 1:12pm
Andrei

None dare call it Child abuse

Charlize Theron who adopted a little black boy, and who not so long ago was lamenting no man would step up to marry her, has now announced her little boy is actually a girl and is raising him/her as such
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April 25, 2019 12:20pm
- Inandout
  
  Theron is a product of the crazy Democratic hole that is Hollywood. Mind you it was always a bit crazy in the days when actors did the strangest things, but almost always behind the scenes. Weinstein’s behaviour is by no means unusual in that city.
  
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  April 25, 2019 12:44pm
- Scott
  
  Unfortunately many of these celebrities live in a world where they can do whatever they like. Theron is very good looking but she had a very troubled life growing up, she appears to be reacting against that and has got very liberal, LGBT, trans gender, marriage is good for homosexuals but not for me personally etc etc.
  
  But look at this another way. A priveleged white woman buys a young black boy in an adoption process and then raises him as a girl. Will surgery come next?
  
  Theron has no husband and no clue. She is quite literally a law unto herself.
  
  That’s why we need boundaries. The created order of male and female is a boundary. Marriage is a boundary. Observing boundaries helps us to understand life as it really is.
  
  To be honest I feel sorry for the child. He has to suffer under these incredibly mixed up ideas.
  
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  April 25, 2019 1:33pm
  - rightoverlabour
    
    Loved this….
    
    https://youtu.be/GENzaCYTN3g
    
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    April 25, 2019 8:11pm
- Fletch
  
  With a mom named ~~Charlie~~ Charlize, no wonder the kid is confused….
  
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  April 25, 2019 1:43pm
Happychappy

The ChristChurch Summit is all about Jacinda not about the closing off what violence hit the screen over the ChristChurch Mosque shooting it is about notability and the lust for fame after the Tragedy of the 50 killed by the terrorist.
https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/387641/we-all-need-to-act-pm-says-nz-and-france-will-try-to-end-use-of-social-media-for-acts-of-terrorism
Jacinda needed to shift the bad press from the CGTand keep her stardust in the headlines and will stop at nothing to achieve it.
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April 25, 2019 12:39pm
- artemisia
  
  It is rather fetching that Ms Ardern’s initiative is called the Christchurch Call. I wonder what the imams think of that.
  
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  April 25, 2019 2:31pm
Fletch

Ahhh Babylon Bee does it again 😆 –

Some people think Hillary Clinton is robotic and hard to sympathize with, but even our hearts went out to her on this one.

On a special politicians’ episode of Wheel of Fortune, failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton nearly took home the grand prize. She was on the last puzzle of the regular rounds of the game, which read, CHRISTI_N. The audience began to cheer as it appeared Clinton had finally won something.

But, as is usual for Clinton, she snatched defeat from the jaws of victory, and shouted “Easter worshiper!” instead of the obvious answer, which was “Christian.”

Heartbreaker!

Clinton has demanded an appeal, claiming that although she lost fair and square, she feels like she won, as Christians are kinda Easter worshipers, even though no one ever says that.

https://babylonbee.com/news/hillary-clinton-shouts-easter-worshipers-at-wheel-of-fortune-puzzle
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April 25, 2019 1:46pm
srylands

I have no issues with hongi when I am visiting or receiving Maori as guests.

But I would not hongi the Duke of Cambridge.

https://stuff.liveblog.pro/stuff/20190425020432/350cb2bb3750c23f5f2473915138a3684b78588971dd022c04a2ee2bec7a6aa8.jpg
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April 25, 2019 2:25pm
- alien
  
  don’t worry chances are you will never have to, he’s got standards.
  
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  April 25, 2019 2:38pm
  - greybeard
    
    And judging by that photo, his standards are bloody low.
    
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    April 25, 2019 2:59pm
    - alien
      
      yes how dare him for accepting a hongi from the leader of the country. Bad William, doesn’t he know some people do not support the pm welcoming him simply because they didn’t vote for her.
      
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      April 25, 2019 3:42pm
      - cmm
        
        For two whites to do a hongi is surely cultural appropriation.
        
        Is there nothing these damn colonialists won’t steal?
        
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        April 25, 2019 5:06pm
  - Happychappy
    
    alien :I though you posted that you didn’t like the tone or substance of some of the poster on here and that was the reason you never used to comment, before DPF changed the rules on this blog. You seem to be able to throw your smart arse comments and think nothing of it though. Pot calling kettle.
    
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    April 25, 2019 4:47pm
- cmm
  
  I heard he’s also stopping in Sri Lanka (320+ dead) and Kenya (147 dead)…. oh, my bad, they’re Christians…
  
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  April 25, 2019 5:05pm
Ed Snack

I understand that they aren’t sure what started the Notre Dame fire, but Quasimodo has a hunch…
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April 25, 2019 4:50pm
- Rachael Membery
  
  There is apparently a cartoon of the hunchback checking to see if he left his stove on.
  
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  April 26, 2019 1:31am
Happychappy

Why do the left blame white supremacy when things go wrong ,it seems Jacinda’s mate Justin Trudeau has a habit of doing just that.
https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/lilley-trudeau-plays-politics-on-terrorism-again/amp
I wonder whether Jacinda and Justin have been having a conversation.
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