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Captain Mainwaring

So the prick Kempson has finally had his name suppression lifted. Big deal. I’ve known his name for almost two years but obviously couldn’t say anything because of our stone-age suppression laws.
OK, now he’s appealing the sentences for the various horrible crimes he’s been convicted of. All I can say is that I really hope that the judge who decides this has some gonads and not only throws his appeal out but adds at least six years to the non-parole period for wasting the court’s time.
But Angry Andy will probably come to his rescue.
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December 23, 2020 8:00am
- pdm
  
  Golriz might get herself on his defence team – ah la Rwanda.
  
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  December 23, 2020 8:09am
- Andrei
  
  There was a famous 19th century American invention, promoted by Thomas Edison, though not invented by him, for cases like this.
  
  Known colloqually as “old Sparky” in Florida but more properly as the Electric Chair.
  
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  December 23, 2020 8:12am
  - Engelbert Humperdink
    
    The French invention by Dr Guillotin is also approved for removing this specimen from the population.
    
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    December 23, 2020 3:16pm
- muppeth8r
  
  The dudes clearly shown a disturbing pattern of behaviour.
  Question i have is i read yesterday that he was convicted of rape only a month or 2 prior to killing Grace milaine, is that correct or a typo? If so then the judge and minister in charge should be up for murder charges aswell for letting the scum remain in public to do as he pleased.
  
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  December 23, 2020 8:12am
  - backster
    
    Hey That’s called accountability something our legal system avoids at all costs.
    
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    December 23, 2020 10:01am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    No, he has had 2 further Judge-only trials after he was convicted of Grace Millane’s murder.
    
    He’s been in prison since he was arrested for murder.
    
    The conviction for Rape was in November 2020 (although the offence had occurred in April 2018)
    
    The Convictions for sexual assaults on a former partner were in October 2020 , although the period of offending was Nov 2016-April 2017.
    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-essex-55346213
    
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    December 23, 2020 10:07am
  - muppeth8r
    
    I tried to find ot again but typical stuffed content theyve changed it, obviously the didnt let truth get on the way of their story. Yesterday it clearly read thet he was “convicted” of rape just prior to graces murder whereas now it states the act took place then but convicted later.
    
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    December 23, 2020 10:54am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      All summarised here in Yesterday’s Supreme Court judgement
      https://www.courtsofnz.govt.nz/assets/cases/SC-111-2020-Kempson-v-R.pdf
      
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      December 23, 2020 11:21am
- kowtow
  
  Last night on one of the “news” they had a clip of him abusing a judge in one of the other cases …..
  
  …..once upon a very distant and unwoke time said judge would have addressed the prisoner in the dock , not by the honorific “Mister” Kempson , given him a dressing down and then added a few months to the sentnce for contempt .
  
  But no doubt the young man’s disconnect from his cultural something or other is a cause of concern and to be taken into consideration…….
  
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  December 23, 2020 8:13am
- info@cruzpro.com
  
  So are the taxpayer footing his legal bills? If so, the attorney firm representing him likely suggested appealing, even if unlikely to suceed.
  
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  December 23, 2020 8:16am
  - IC5000
    
    > So are the taxpayer footing his legal bills? If so, the attorney firm representing him likely suggested appealing, even if unlikely to suceed.
    
    It’s his right to appeal and anyone can apply for legal aid. NZ does not have ‘attorney firms’ we have law firms and barristers sole.
    
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    December 23, 2020 1:05pm
    - Engelbert Humperdink
      
      They way they bill they make out like bandits off the public fisc. It’s not Legal Aid it’s Lawyer’s Treasure.
      
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      December 23, 2020 3:17pm
      - IC5000
        
        > They way they bill they make out like bandits off the public fisc. It’s not Legal Aid it’s Lawyer’s Treasure.
        
        A quick glance at the shoes of any legal aid lawyer should disabuse you of that notion.
        
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        December 23, 2020 5:11pm
  - MCos
    
    I’d rather the taxpayer spend half a million dollars defending this bloke or anyone else found guilty of murder than not spending half a million dollars on the occasional innocent person who is found guilty because they couldn’t afford legal representation.
    
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    December 23, 2020 2:44pm
    - Engelbert Humperdink
      
      Straw man argument. These are not binary options.
      
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      December 23, 2020 3:17pm
- Scott
  
  Agree Capt – I feel upset about this whole case. The chap Kempson appears to have been affected by his parents divorce at age 3 and this meant that he’s been angry with women ever since. This highlights to me the importance of marriage and having strong marriages to raise the next generation of hopefully responsible young men.
  
  Secondly this tinder business doesn’t seem to lead to any good thing. It reminds me of the Australian guy who met a girl on a tinder date, they fought, she ended up on the balcony of his apartment and fell off to her death. The guy didn’t even look but calmly had a walk and a few drinks and I think some takeaway’s. Is there no other way that girls can meet guys than through these phone applications where women go off with complete strangers to their apartment? It just doesn’t seem to lead to any good thing.
  
  And lastly, and I know most people don’t agree with me, I think this is a good case for capital punishment. If the criminal mind understood that if you strangle a woman to death you will lose your own life, that is a pretty good deterrent.
  
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  December 23, 2020 8:28am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    oh FGS…
    
    Numerous chaps come from divorced families and do not abuse women.
    
    My hubby for instance.
    
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    December 23, 2020 10:09am
    - Adroit
      
      True, Maggy, but the statistics are clear: children from single parent homes are demonstrably worse off. The sadness is that children from broken homes are more likely to experience and perpetuate relationship violence as the grow up. As you have identified, this doesn’t apply to all, but it is definitely worth discussing.
      
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      December 23, 2020 10:16am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Violence can take place within 2-parent homes.
        
        https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/300189308/oranga-tamariki-was-tipped-off-that-nevaeh-ager-was-living-in-a-drug-house-but-failed-to-act-before-her-murder
        
        Violence is the factor… not divorce/not single-parenting….
        
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        December 23, 2020 11:25am
    - SB2
      
      And Sir John Key grew up with a solo Mum.
      
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      December 23, 2020 10:48am
    - Greg Ettridge
      
      The really sad aspect is that when a woman falls in love and she finds a so called keeper, cut and run is on many occasions so hard to achieve.
      This can happen in reverse.
      About half are lucky in love long term in the world if divorce figures are anything to go by.
      The legal system has lost its way many years ago.
      This animal doesn’t appear to know what “love” means, he has been an animal in the true sense.
      
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      December 23, 2020 12:02pm
  - kloyd0306
    
    Even if capital punishment was not to be revived, at a minimum, serving sentences concurrently for separate crimes needs to be dropped.
    
    Petition anyone?
    
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    December 23, 2020 10:23am
    - kloyd0306
      
      Down tickers are clearly Labour sycophants.
      
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      December 23, 2020 11:45am
      - IC5000
        
        I down ticked and I’m a NZF sycophant so there.
        
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        December 23, 2020 12:05pm
      - Greg Ettridge
        
        Downtickers are obviously comfortable with the status quo, most probably change their minds if some animal gives their relatives a end of life experience.
        They are seriously compromised in any thought process for seeing this as it is.
        I feel very sorry for them to be afflicted with this.
        
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        December 23, 2020 12:07pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    Scott:
    
    The chap Kempson appears to have been affected by his parents divorce at age 3 and this meant that he’s been angry with women ever since.
    
    How did you come to that conclusion? It’s possible that he could have been angry with people, and with the world in general since, although his criminal offending (being of a sexual nature) has involved women.
    
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    December 23, 2020 12:51pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      How did you come to that conclusion?
      
      That was some of the psychobabble presented in his pre-sentence cultural report:
      A pre-sentence cultural report submitted to the High Court, cited by Justice Venning in November as he jailed Kempson for three-and-a-half years for rape, said Kempson’s parents split when he was three.
      
      “Your father was at times violent towards you … your mother rejected you. That may go some way towards explaining your attitude towards women,” Justice Venning said.
      
      https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/433404/liar-grace-millane-killer-jesse-kempson
      
      and just in case anyone thinks that is my view…. it’s not.
      The guy was an adult… you can’t blame mummy & daddy for everything that goes tits up in your life.
      
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      December 23, 2020 1:03pm
      - Maggie Pie
        
        100% right there Maggs – couldn’t agree more!
        
        As a matter of interest, I’ve watched nearly every episode of CSI New York, and consider myself to be a bit of a Criminal Profiler. Let me just say that Jesse Kempson fitted 9 out of the 10 criteria pointing to him being the culprit. The only one that skewed the data was his name.
        
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        December 23, 2020 1:41pm
    - giltee
      
      Or could it just be an excuse used to get a lighter sentence. All my brothers and sisters should be criminals based on what our mother put us through as children but we all rose above it.
      
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      December 23, 2020 3:00pm
  - MFD
    
    ” I think this is a good case for capital punishment.”
    
    Is that the christian solution, Scott? I appreciate the fondness of christians for capital punishment (the absence of which would have been a real spanner in the works for the whole religion) but just seems a tad hypocritical somehow.
    
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    December 24, 2020 2:52pm
- peterwn
  
  The Court of Appeal has thrown out his murder appeal – the 17 years minimum still applies.
  Unlike UK, NZ appeal courts cannot increase sentences on their own volition. The Crown has to specifically appeal the sentence and the court will only increase it if the original sentence is manifestly inadequate, and then only increase it to the lower end of the usual sentencing range.
  That guy is going to have to give himself a massive psychological tune-up during the next 17 years if he hopes to get out then. Like Mr Vincent (who has been in prison over 50 years) it is highly doubtful that he would be up to the challenge.
  
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  December 23, 2020 8:39am
- Benedict Yu
  
  Yeah watched all the CCTV clips of him buying the suitcases and shovel etc. Very chilling.
  
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  December 23, 2020 8:40am
- amospicton
  
  What I don’t understand is how the sentence for the multitude of hideous crimes this monster has committed is no greater than for just the one. Commit one, get one free. Effectively those other crimes become punishment free. If anything the punishment should be ramping up surely.
  
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  December 23, 2020 9:04am
  - giltee
    
    Yes amospicton if you know you’re going to jail, especially under this Labour government then why not go out on a bender of a crime spree. Concurrent sentencing doesn’t make sense.
    
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    December 23, 2020 3:03pm
- Im Right
  
  Hi Captain…I agree about the sentence ‘add on’ if appeal fails.
  I read once that appeals of a sentence are welcome but if your appeal fails (no new evidence presented, no tangiable reason for appeal given/proven) then the sentence is increased.
  I think it was Indonesia if memory serves, apologies If I have the wrong country.
  Basically in western countries almost all convictions are followed by an appeal for no other reason, it seems, than to keep lawyers employed and because its standard practice to lodge an appeal after the guilty verdict is given.
  Now, if said appeal comes with a 50% additional jail time if unsuccessful then how many convicted tell their lawyers ‘dont appeal!’…..if its free to appeal, and appeal again and again with no consequenses then why wouldnt you NOT agree to waste the courts time, and mostly tax payers money, in appealing. How much has Lundy cost the NZ taxpayer in his many appeals.
  
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  December 23, 2020 9:15am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Pretty hard to find on the google machine, but Duck duck go it was there for all to see
  
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  December 23, 2020 10:08am
  - IC5000
    
    You’re full of surprises Otto. Good on ya.
    
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    December 23, 2020 12:06pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Thankyou, thankyou very much
      
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      December 23, 2020 2:53pm
  - Greg Ettridge
    
    Google are to busy tracking you every minute of your day, and censoring what you can access.
    Duck Duck searches appear certainly to a more honest attempt at being impartial and anonymous.
    When you sit on a phone and discuss Cadiz and next moment, you are being flooded with accommodation in Cadiz, you really have to wonder.
    They have to be listening to know this?
    
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    December 23, 2020 12:15pm
- MCos
  
  Your comment is full of emotional inaccuracies, Cap’n.
  He had name suppression so as not to influence the other trials he was involved in.
  Unlike some jurisdictions what happened in unconnected crimes has no bear on the case in hand, as I understand.
  Judge can’t add time just because the bloke is exercising his legal right, no matter how repugnant that is to you.
  Andrew Little is no longer Justice Minister & he couldn’t interfere anyway.
  
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  December 23, 2020 2:56pm
kiwikidsnz

https://rule69blog.wordpress.com/2020/12/22/bigger-picture/

Grant Dalton vs MBIE TKO
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December 23, 2020 8:03am
Chuck Bird

I have been wondering about his strike warnings. Surely he got one for the murder. He should have got a second for the crimes against the next victim. If the last victim was raped that would be a third strike and should have meant 20 years without parole.
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December 23, 2020 8:13am
- cmm
  
  I’m not at all sure of the strike rules, but don’t you have to first get the strike warning (ie. be found guilty) becore you can get your second strike?
  
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  December 23, 2020 8:21am
  - fernglas
    
    That’s right. The strike warning is triggered by convictions prior to the offending date, as the theory is that the strike will deter future offending. Plus he has life on the murder charge, so there are no cumulative sentences.
    
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    December 23, 2020 8:46am
- pdm
  
  [mod: we have an independent judiciary. Don’t attempt to undermine it.]
  
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  December 23, 2020 8:25am
  - Engelbert Humperdink
    
    I do not believe they are independent. One only has to look at judiciary rulings with respect to the Treaty, the ammunition theft oops confiscation, foreshore, iwi roadblocks, jailing Vince Siemer for speaking out against judicial overreach, police corruption, etc, et al.
    
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    December 23, 2020 10:58am
    - pdm
      
      Thanks for the support Englebert.
      
      I have no doubt that Angry Andy had a big influence on judicial thinking over the last 3 years – aligned with Kelvin Davis wanting the prisons emptied.
      
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      December 23, 2020 11:49am
- MCos
  
  He’s in prison for 17yrs before he comes up for parole at aged 45.
  One would have to think the parole board will leave him locked up for some time after that.
  I see there was some bloke released in his 80s the other day. It’s a bit pointless keeping the bloke that long. He was just a liability to the prison system.
  
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  December 23, 2020 9:26am
  - Engelbert Humperdink
    
    “Pour discourager les autres”.
    
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    December 23, 2020 10:59am
    - Mike
      
      Prisons only scare honest people.
      
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      December 23, 2020 11:28am
      - kowtow
        
        Prisons keep shit heads away from the rest of us , very effectively , if done for long enough.
        
        In other words; prisons would work if the state allowed them to work the way they’re meant to.
        
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        December 23, 2020 1:11pm
    - Nickc2
      
      A lot can happen in 17 years Engelbert. You never know, a political party may emerge which to will change a life sentence to mean exactly that and that may discourage others.
      
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      December 23, 2020 1:43pm
      - Mike
        
        It has never been shown that harsher sentences have much, if any, deterrent effect. The worth of long prison sentences is removing violent offender from the community, hopefully until such time as the represent a much lower risk to the public.
        
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        December 23, 2020 2:26pm
      - Engelbert Humperdink
        
        This could happen Nick. After all, a political party emerged to give prisoners their votes back. All the same, I’d like to see these types in chain gangs on the Central Plateau sleeping in tents year round and eating ration packs, to start sooner rather than later.
        
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        December 23, 2020 3:21pm
    - giltee
      
      Spekka da eengleesh EH ‘cause not many of the left downtickers can unnerstand eet an not 2 edumacated to goggle it
      
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      December 23, 2020 3:09pm
  - Flossie
    
    I just bet there’s already a couple of years off for “time served”, thus making his first parole application when he’s only 43.
    
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    December 23, 2020 11:28am
    - Nickc2
      
      @mike 2:27PM
      Totally disagree Mike. Capital punishment prevents reoffending.
      
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      December 23, 2020 2:49pm
  - SGA
    
    I see there was some bloke released in his 80s the other day. It’s a bit pointless keeping the bloke that long. He was just a liability to the prison system.
    
    As I understand it, MCos, that individual was probably at a high risk of reoffending well into his winter years.
    
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    December 23, 2020 12:36pm
    - MCos
      
      That particular guy is senile and doesn’t even know his name. Corrections probably don’t want him to look after.
      
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      December 23, 2020 3:00pm
      - SGA
        
        He is now, MCos. But from memory, he always was a fairly low functioning individual, had difficulties with impulse control, and those impulses involved young boys.
        
        I have wondered whether leaving him in prison might have been the humane thing to do, tbh. In his state of dementia, the familiar things and routine in his life might be more comforting and less confusing than a whole new environment. Just a thought.
        
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        December 23, 2020 3:18pm
cmm

Cops really are going wet bus ticket without the bus ticket.

Allegations of armed robbery involving presenting a firearm in stephieland and they send in the social workers

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/teens-left-shaken-after-reportedly-being-robbed-at-gunpoint-near-st-lukes-mall-auckland/PBHLUI32Y447UU44GX5LBRL2AU/

then up North they allow gang members to shoot at them without returning fire.

I bet they’re good at singing this month’s motivational waiata though.
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December 23, 2020 8:15am
- kowtow
  
  Why would they shoot at the folk who they run roadblocks with ?
  
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  December 23, 2020 8:20am
  - sooty
    
    They would run out of people for the choir!
    
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    December 23, 2020 10:00am
- alex Masterley
  
  There is a bit of that stuff going on here. More than reported. Packs of yoof roaming around. Stand over tactics seem to be popular with kids gear getting taken.
  The offenders need their arses kicked rather than a cuddle.
  
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  December 23, 2020 8:24am
  - MCos
    
    They’ve probably had their arses kicked, and a lot worse, their whole lives.
    
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    December 23, 2020 9:14am
    - kowtow
      
      That makes it OK for them to terrorise the rest of us ?
      
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      December 23, 2020 10:37am
      - MCos
        
        Not it doesn’t, but it’s obvious if that sort of punishment hasn’t worked in their past it’s not going to work now.
        
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        December 23, 2020 10:58am
      - SGA
        
        No, kowtow, but what MCos says is probably correct. If you look at the violent offenders in our prisons, the majority have been short on cuddles and long on kicks in the arse and worse. That’s not an excuse, btw, and perhaps the time for cuddles is now past, but it’s probably the reality of the situation.
        
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        December 23, 2020 12:40pm
    - cmm
      
      If people have had their arses kicked their whole lives then they need HARSHER punishments – not time off because they need hugz.
      
      For people who have been raised fairly well and with a respect of the law (eg my sons) just a warning is enough to deter future offending.
      
      But if you’ve been raised in a violent household then you need a firmer interaction to get the message across.
      
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      December 23, 2020 11:22am
      - SGA
        
        Harsher in what way, cmm?
        
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        December 23, 2020 12:42pm
      - cmm
        
        SGA
        
        “Correction” should involve the application of the least amount of force/violence/incarceration to get the message across that the behaviour is not acceptable and they need to change their ways.
        
        For a highly compliant person that might just be a stern look and they will remember that.
        
        For others it might need a massive amount of punishment and retraining etc to get the message across.
        
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        December 23, 2020 1:04pm
      - SGA
        
        I understood what you meant, but I’m no clearer in what you mean by “a massive amount of punishment”. In what way? Are you talking about longer sentences or what? What sort of force or violence?
        
        I’m trying to figure out what devils lurk in your details.
        
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        December 23, 2020 2:17pm
      - Mike
        
        SGA
        Flogging, castration and macrame claases….
        
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        December 23, 2020 2:28pm
      - SGA
        
        And for offenses more serious than parking in handicap spots?
        
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        December 23, 2020 3:22pm
  - GT Build
    
    Wont happen while jacindas wet police boss is in charge the guy is so wet he could solve aucklands water shortage
    
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    December 23, 2020 9:21am
    - kowtow
      
      From today’s ODT , summary of shenanigans.
      
      ‘An upset man in his 50s arrested in Dunedin for allegedly throwing rubbish and harassing taxi drivers has prompted a warning for people not to take end of year festivities too far.
      Acting Sergeant Aaron Burgess, of Dunedin, said the 52-year-old man was arrested on Leith St about 5.45pm last night.
      
      “Upon police attendance he was very intoxicated and agitated and was arrested for disorderly behaviour.”
      
      The man was released with a formal warning, Sgt Burgess said.
      
      Later in the evening, a road cone was thrown through a car window by a drunk 30-year-old man in Corstorphine about 11.30pm.
      
      The man was arrested for wilful damage and later given a formal warning*.*
      
      An alleged drink-driver was stopped at a checkpoint in Green Island and blew double the legal limit, he said.
      
      The 35-year-old will appear in the Dunedin District Court next month for driving with excess breath alcohol.’
      
      Three cases of alleged criminal acts involving alcohol .
      
      Only one results in a charge , the driving one . The other 2 receive warnings.
      
      Surely all should attract a formal charge .
      
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      December 23, 2020 10:40am
      - Sacha
        
        Drunk driving? 3 days in the local lockup on a diet of Maccas.
        7 days for Christmas Week until New Years Day.
        Just keep them off the roads.
        
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        December 23, 2020 11:40am
  - giltee
    
    NZ is becoming a very unpleasant place to live if you’re not a colonial guilt ridden Te Reo speaking individual who doesn’t vote Labour or the greens. I don’t want to live back in NZ any time soon
    
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    December 23, 2020 3:23pm
- artemisia
  
  Then there are the military personnel who are struggling with guarding MIQ facilities. Some needing psychological help. If police, schools and even the military need psych help, there are job opportunities right there.
  
  In practice police and military might just as easily be suffering from cognitive dissonance with what they are being asked to do compared to what they signed up for. Can’t blame them.
  
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  December 23, 2020 8:32am
  - Engelbert Humperdink
    
    Dunno a bout the military, been decades ago now I had an insider view.
    
    For the police – based on the fact the rank’n’file police almost all voted for Cahill as their president and their public spokesfwit, they are getting to do exactly what they signed up for – steer clear of nasty crims as often as feasible, harrass the law-abiding as often as feasible, and do high-$-count stings of rich gangstas to boost the CosterBudget while leaving the neighborhood meth houses pretty much alone.
    
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    December 23, 2020 11:02am
    - cmm
      
      It’s certainly looking like the boys in blue are coming down unevenly on gangs.
      
      Wally’s mates seem to get off easily and the others seem to be treated much more harshly.
      
      Are the cops helping the Mob sort out their competition?
      
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      December 23, 2020 11:25am
      - kowtow
        
        There’s a very definite theme going on in our media around this .
        
        ‘Oz’ or 501 ,gangs very bad , ‘our’ gangs not so bad. .
        
        One wonders where the directive came from ……..
        
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        December 23, 2020 2:34pm
  - cmm
    
    Need psychological help standing guard outside a building?
    
    What is going to happen to them when they see a mate’s foot being blown off by a landmine?
    
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    December 23, 2020 1:06pm
- muppeth8r
  
  TBH nz police are terrible with guns and are more likely to hit a bystander then the crim so im all for them not returning fire on those gang members.
  I wouldnt trust the piggies with a nerf gun let alone a pistol or evil semi auto rifle.
  
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  December 23, 2020 8:32am
  - cmm
    
    I do believe they’re getting much better, but they certainly could do with more.
    
    One cop I know joined a pistol club to shoot more because he felt that cop training on its own was inadequate.
    
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    December 23, 2020 11:27am
    - kowtow
      
      I wonder what he told the firearms wallah were his reasons for seeking a pistol license , I’d bet he told a porkie . That would make him unfit ………
      
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      December 23, 2020 2:37pm
- Benedict Yu
  
  “motivational waiata”
  
  For those who think this is a joke it is not. There are thousands of public servants being coerced into participating in Maori song singing and Maori prayers. And those who refuse are shunned.
  
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  December 23, 2020 8:44am
  - Nickc2
    
    Yes, I was listening to TalkBack ZB just prior to 6:30 this morning and the interviewer was talking to someone in authority about crime rates etc and the interviewee started to speak about Maori youth rate crime statistics and the interviewer talked directly over the top of him.
    It made me start to wonder if this has become a handed down directive from above that media are not to say anything derogatory about Maori and where possible, precede everything with a couple of Te Teo words?
    It certainly gets up my nose, but what’s the option? All NZ TV and Radio stations are doing it to the best of my knowledge. I guess there’s always the OFF switch.
    
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    December 23, 2020 10:54am
    - BAM
      
      It’s a Government/UN/Great reset directive.
      There’s money changing hands, no doubt.
      
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      December 23, 2020 11:09am
- Frank the tank
  
  Sadly unless it directly affects the sheeple they are indifferent to the rise in violent offending.
  
  They are more interested in what Te Awamutu Arden had for breakfast.
  
  Little Aotearoa in full swing
  
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  December 23, 2020 8:52am
  - Flossie
    
    Sorry but I just have to ask…”Te Awamutu Ardern”? I might be a bit slow on the uptake but I don’t get it.
    
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    December 23, 2020 3:26pm
Poppa

A very Merry Xmas to all of you who contribute on this site

I am personally completely over 2020 & cannot wait for the New Year

Just like the Warriors…..next year will be my year!
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December 23, 2020 8:15am
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  Poppa bro – sorry to burst your enthusiastic bubble towards 2021. It won’t be any different to 2020 and Covid will still rule your life like Jacinda.
  
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  December 23, 2020 10:38am
  - Greg Ettridge
    
    Have to agree, I am nearly 70, had a magic life, but I think we lived through the best era in 100 years, sadly the tail end is going to all about no travel and enforcement. The great reset is upon us.
    I have so many flight credits I need to run a spread sheet to sort them.
    On the positive side I have applied for permits to visit other states, will have Christmas without family. Have a great Christmas Poppa but sadly don’t set your standards for change to high for the future, you will will be just dreaming the nightmare will disappear, it won’t under a socialist led governments.
    
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    December 23, 2020 12:25pm
- cmm
  
  Sorry mate. If you thought 2020 was nuts then see what’s coming in 2021.
  
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  December 23, 2020 11:28am
- SGA
  
  Just like the Warriors…..next year will be my year!
  
  I think you mean that to sound optimistic, but the Warriors…
  
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  December 23, 2020 12:44pm
  - Mike
    
    2021 will definitely be their year. Or perhaps 2022…
    
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    December 23, 2020 1:30pm
- giltee
  
  Poppa I think the next 3 years will be like 2020 and we won’t see any improvement until Adern and co are gone
  
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  December 23, 2020 4:26pm
kowtow

Not long ago stuff apologised for being all racist and nasty and promised to do better blah blah.

Is anyone else just a wee bit uncomfortable with the Media’s obsession over one particular murder ie pretty white middle class girl , sex ,foreign travels …..

……while so many many others get the once over lightly .

And what of their promise to treat Maoris better in reportage when they plaster this guy all over ?

Asking in the interests of holding power to account.
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December 23, 2020 8:18am
- Ehlana
  
  Oh kowtow, I think you have fallen into the colonial-oppressor wrong-think of believing that when someone acknowledges that they have done wrong and promises to mend their behaviour, actual changed behaviour should follow.
  What matters is that the right things have been said.
  
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  December 23, 2020 10:55am
- Nickc2
  
  ……holding power to account….
  Go for it and good luck.
  
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  December 23, 2020 11:03am
- Engelbert Humperdink
  
  I also think it’s very sad the media keep showing her picture, the one they choose shows a pretty girl, but a slightly sad and wistful look on her face. It must be hell for the family. I turn the page quickly. It’s not respectful for them to do that.
  
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  December 23, 2020 3:24pm
Jack5

As free-speech restrictions come nearer, it’s timely to read the decisions of the Broadcasting Standards Authority. Not the media reports of them, nor the BSA summaries, but the full decisions.

For example, some recent cases:

– Sean Plunket smacked on the knuckles over broadcast about tribal checkpoints on roads.

Details at:
https://www.bsa.govt.nz/decisions/all-decisions/tualamalii-and-whittaker/

– Complaint about Maiki Sherman being aggressive in interview with Nick Smith, MP, rejected:

https://www.bsa.govt.nz/decisions/all-decisions/cable-and/

Complaint upheld about use of term “Gypsy Day” to describe the date on which sharemilkers move herds between farms.

https://www.bsa.govt.nz/decisions/all-decisions/cant-and/

For a taste, this is an extract from details of the rejected Smith-Sherman complaint:

On 1 News, Maiki Sherman interviewed Nick Smith about the National Party blocking a proposal to enable Maori voters to switch more easily between the general and Maori electoral rolls. It included:

Smith: In our view, it would be open to manipulation.

Sherman: It’s also raised questions of political hypocrisy over National and Act’s deal in Epsom.

Smith: National is making a choice in the Epsom election…

Sherman: A manipulating choice. It’s a ‘nod, nod, wink, wink’ situation, isn’t it?

Smith: The law provides voters with a choice as to which candidates that they would vote for, in my view…

Sherman: But you do give National Party members a strong hint as to who they should vote for.

Smith: Look, that’s an issue for the leader.

Sherman: Do you think Maori voters are stupid?

Smith: Not at all. Quite the opposite.
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December 23, 2020 8:19am
Deagle

https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/300190976/mediaworks-fined-for-offensive-and-harmful-sean-plunket-interview-with-iwi-about-level-4-lockdown-roadblock
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December 23, 2020 8:21am
Paulus

One of Ardern’s many Albatrosses is going to hang heavily in the New Years after the return from her disappearance – Gizzy I would expect as usual.
Secret mobile connection only.
Number one Albatross is of course Mallard who deserves to be roasted out of the job, despite having the blessing of Ardern – foolish decision as expected.
Don’t worry Trevor we will not forget you early in the New Year.
Ardern’s neck will be continually stretched the longer she leaves his resignation out.
It will show in her polls soon and that is something she cannot take – even her women voters will not let that happen – after all it is believed that Trevor is only a disposable man after all.
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December 23, 2020 8:25am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Trevor is an encumbrance, but housing and the price of rentals will be this Government’s major challenge.
  
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  December 23, 2020 10:15am
- BAM
  
  No, it won’t, this thing with Mallard barely registers in the eyes of the average voter.
  
  The only thing that may sway it towards National is if they can come up with a plan to get the cost of living down, housing, rates, food.
  
  Otherwise, they’re wasting their time
  
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  December 23, 2020 11:15am
  - Paulus
    
    Sadly it is impossible or National to have a cohesive plan without access to the required information which is withheld from them by the Government and the media.
    If any good idea came up Labour would steal it and call it their own that National copied.
    The next 2 election cycles Labour must hold on the the middle voters, principally women, who did well for them this time. Cindy will be gone soon enough when she realises the damage that has been done. Child violence and Poverty and housing are her bête noir – the damage she has done is already showing – started well before the Virus.
    They will not be able to do it as the country continues to collapse socially and economically.
    Sadly National can only sit and watch and continue to nibble meaningfully as the corruption continues.
    
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    December 23, 2020 2:39pm
Maggie Pie

We watched ‘Crimes that Shook Australia’ on Sky the other night. The Anita Cobby murder.
I reckon there are similarities to the Grace Millane tragedy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Anita_Cobby

The low scum that raped and killed Anita were eventually caught and sentenced to ‘Life Imprisonment…..Without The Possibility of Parole’.

Why do we never hear this hear?
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December 23, 2020 8:34am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Ozzie is not in the habit of reforming naughty boys…
  
  just sends them back from whence they came.
  https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/433454/australia-to-deport-two-new-zealand-bikies-posing-significant-risk
  
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  December 23, 2020 10:40am
Bobba Fret

Back when National were the government, around this time of the year, there were numerous stories in both NZ Herald and on Stuff of families in dire straits and not able to afford food etc. for Christmas including the Salvation Army and other organisations saying it has never been so bad, and the demand for help is higher than ever.
This year there doesn’t seem to be any / many of these stories. Are all the problems now fixed?
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December 23, 2020 8:40am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  No they’re a bloody sight worse but because Saviour Cindy’s in charge the media gives the Govt. a free pass.
  
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  December 23, 2020 10:37am
  - Sacha
    
    At least we don’t have to listen to it, day in, and day out.
    Speaking as an impoverished OAP.
    
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    December 23, 2020 11:47am
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  Yup Cindy has solved poverdy. Sheeple are living happily in the land of milk and honey.
  
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  December 23, 2020 10:40am
- cmm
  
  There was one yesterday, but blaming everything on CV19.
  
  Subplot: it would have been worse without St Awesome.
  
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  December 23, 2020 11:31am
Happychappy

I wonder what sort of medication eating poo will come in after scientists say it is going to be good in treating Heart attacks and diabetes.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/lifestyle/2020/12/study-finds-eating-healthy-people-s-poo-can-reduce-symptoms-leading-to-heart-attacks-and-type-2-diabetes.html
I’m am glad I’m in my 70’s as hopefully it won’t be part of my diet in the near future.
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December 23, 2020 8:40am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  There’s 2 different ways of delivering the fecal microbugs:
  
  * via a tube up the bum or down a nostril and into the colon,
  or
  * orally, via a capsule of fecal microbugs.
  
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  December 23, 2020 11:01am
  - oldfella
    
    [Unacceptable & deleted – try the Gutter blog. Mod.]
    
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    December 23, 2020 2:27pm
  - Jack5
    
    Fecal transplants have been done in China for at least 1700 years.
    
    The link below says also that German soldiers similarly used camel poo to treat bacterial dysentery during World War 2.
    
    https://www.news-medical.net/health/History-of-Fecal-Transplant.aspx
    
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    December 23, 2020 3:38pm
Swifty

It’s funny how ideas suddenly spring out of nowhere and immediately take hold, are quickly mentioned and discussed by numbers of folk – often though without the slightest hint of substantiation, but even worse not even challenged.

(The classic example of this in recent years is ‘Diversity is our strength’. Have you ever read or heard a convincing substantiation as to why this is a valid statement? Or did we all just accept it at face-value? I was talking about this, and the claim that more diverse companies are more profitable, with my younger bro in Palmerston North a couple of months ago. The phone went quiet briefly and he replied “Go and tell that to the Brethren who own half of Palmy.”

Heh. Good point.)

The latest is that increasing the minimum wage improves firm productivity and that therefore this should be pursued relentlessly.

I may have seen it first on KB actually fairly recently. I’ve seen it repeated in other places as well, then we have Sam Stubbs chanting it in yesterday’s Stuff and now today here is Peter Davis referencing it in his Stuff column – in the form of the Helen Clark Foundation/NZIER Inclusive Growth Report.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/123786457/think-tanks-are-leading-the-way-as-political-parties-play-it-safe

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MpNlPFoxNNK1yS5OsGO4JryKOuWw-qkF/view

(Note to Nostradamus – in Davis’ piece there’s that bloody ‘funding’ word again:

“For example, IPANZ asks whether we need more think tanks, how that might be achieved, how they might be funded, and how to deal with the quality of their research and the impact of their bias.”

Call me cynical but why do I get a sinking feeling that this is the initial salvo of a movement towards the public funding of Think Tanks. More taxpayer money for the luvvies.)

Anyway, back to the minimum wage/firm productivity issue. While I’ve never seen the link adequately explained nor substantiated, it seems to me that advocates are saying that if we make unskilled labour eye-wateringly expensive it will force firms to look for alternatives, innovate or change their product or service offerings into areas potentially more lucrative.

(Note to0 how airily the Helen Clark/IER piece dismissed the people locked out of the labour market by such a move:

“…placing less emphasis on short-term
disemployment effects and more on a medium
to long-term view of significantly raising the
minimum wage to encourage investment in
upskilling and gains to productivity when
reviewing the minimum wage….”

Well, here’s what I reckon. For forty years now I’ve seen successive political parties promise the world in opposition and then, when in government, spectacularly fail to address the exact issues they moaned loudest about. Not one government, including Helen Clark’s over NINE LONG YEARS, has ever fixed the chronic hard rump of unemployment, the increasing state dependency of an increasing proportion of our citizens, the failing scholastic achievement of our young, the booming numbers of our young people neither in work or study etc etc etc.

And all the while our minimum wage has been inexorably rising, more and more regulation and cost heaped on business, waves of unskilled and semi-skilled immigrants coming in every year.

And now we are supposed to believe Helen Clark and her hubbie when they say the solution is to ramp up the minimum wage much higher and even faster? You have go to be bloody kidding me!

You know it wasn’t that long ago when going to the pictures you have numbers of young folk guiding you to your seat with a torch. That when you went to the petrol station there were two or three young people standing at the pumps ready to fill your car, check under the bonnet and fill your tyres. I can think of numerous other examples. Great jobs that paid a bit, but far more importantly gave young people their start – their start to learn good skills and behaviours, learn to deal with the public, learn how to get on with their team and manager etc etc – and within a short period these young folk were off with their newfound skills to bigger and brighter prospects, earning higher wages etc.

Where have those jobs gone now? They no longer exist. They have been destroyed by our minimum wage policies.

Just imagine how many of our youth, have left school and currently sit in their bedrooms all day playing on their devices, or roaming the streets – could in fact be out working, in their first jobs (just as many of us did back in the day) if only our government hadn’t made it an illegal act for some local employer to give them that start at, say, $10 an hour.

The older I get the more distinctly unimpressed I am about anything coming out of the government, or anywhere else, which talks about grand plans to upskill the workforce, train our youngsters, improve business performance, transform this, transform that etc etc – as far as I am concerned these days, when it comes to young people, if they’re not inclined to study, is get them working, get them working, get them working.

At any cost. At any price. 95-98% of them will be onward and upward from there.

And as for sharp raises in the NZ minimum wage, I cannot think of a more destructive wrecking-ball of a government action to the hopes and aspirations of our young and unskilled, and especially right now with the large shock to our earnings through Covid.

Getting back to my original statement – I urge NZers not to fall for this latest idea sweeping the media. Challenge it. Demand answers. And if you don’t believe me, just ask yourself a simple question: generally speaking, if the price of something rises do you buy less of it or more of it?
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December 23, 2020 8:53am
- backster
  
  Swifty……Its been tried in Venezuela and it works!
  
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  December 23, 2020 10:17am
- Engelbert Humperdink
  
  I have worked in many diverse countries.
  
  I understand one of the most diverse countries in the world is Papua New Guinea. Real safe, real rich, a total role model for diversity and tribal ‘outreach’. By spears. /sarc.
  
  The top 5 most diverse countries are
  Chad
  Cameroon
  Nigeria
  Togo
  Democratic Republic of the Congo
  
  Have worked in # 2, 3, 5 over the years.
  
  Models of social cohesion, economic powerhouses, racial harmony, and personal safety they are not.
  
  A blathering Massey U Prof is a frequently-cited lover of diversity and wants moah of it for usn’s in NZ. I once asked him politely why would we want to be more like these s******s above. (Using another word so as not to offend his delicate sensibilities). His reply boiled down to moah ethnic cuisine and helping us to understand colonialism was all bad.
  
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  December 23, 2020 11:09am
  - cmm
    
    I wonder why that prof hasn’t packed his bags and buggered off to work at the University of Yaounde
    
    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Campus_University_of_Yaound%C3%A9_I_(2014)_frontal.jpg#/media/File:Campus_University_of_Yaoundé_I_(2014)_frontal.jpg
    
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    December 23, 2020 11:38am
    - Pharmachick
      
      I had a PhD student that did his PhD half between U Hawaii and half at U Yaoundé. At the latter some days they couldn’t even keep the electricity/lights on. Mind you, at the former, we often couldn’t keep students in class as they were off surfing (not /s).
      
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      December 23, 2020 1:40pm
- muppeth8r
  
  Wasnt that long ago there were paper boys, 20ish years ago i was an eager young chap that loved to get up early and deliver the morning paper in the lovely southland rain and snow. I really enjoyed it but health and safety and minimum wages ruined it, the 20+ young paper runners were replaced by several fat middle age women on mopeds that hated the job.
  We were all happy with our work conditions and our 70-100 bux a week (pretty good for a 12-15yr old back then) but govt thought otherwise.
  
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  December 23, 2020 11:10am
  - Pharmachick
    
    I’m sorry but when I hear South Island and paper boy in the same sentence, only one thing comes to mind… ?
    
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    December 23, 2020 1:43pm
    - Mike
      
      There’s used to be one up every street…
      
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      December 23, 2020 2:29pm
- IC5000
  
  > And all the while our minimum wage has been inexorably rising, more and more regulation and cost heaped on business, waves of unskilled and semi-skilled immigrants coming in every year.
  
  If the Govnt stopped immigration except in cases with actual hard to get skills like neurosurgeons then wages could naturally rise without the aid of legislated increases. Not rocket science really.
  
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  December 23, 2020 12:16pm
  - Mike
    
    One thing that puzzles me about NZ First’s final term in government was that they did nothing about immigration, despite having considerable leverage to do so.
    
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    December 23, 2020 2:32pm
    - Engelbert Humperdink
      
      NZ First was purely a Winston ego vehicle and Jones expenses’ bank. Nothing more.
      
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      December 23, 2020 3:27pm
Maggie Pie

“Id far rather catch an early bus each morning to the Pukekohe Packing Sheds, than just lay around home collecting $371 a week from the government”

– said no one ever.
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December 23, 2020 8:53am
- muppeth8r
  
  Is that what they get paid from govt?
  350 a week covers our expenses so me and wifey could probably save on the bene.
  Kinda annoyed now to find out ive been waiting untill after work to indulge in a big fat joint when cindy could be paying me to do so.
  
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  December 23, 2020 8:59am
- mandk
  
  another ‘said no one ever’:
  
  “Even allowing for special terms and conditions, that’s really competitive.”
  
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  December 23, 2020 9:43am
- Bob
  
  Too much effort required to walk to the bus stop.
  
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  December 23, 2020 9:44am
  - kowtow
    
    Too much effort required to roll off the couch.
    
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    December 23, 2020 10:44am
- MCos
  
  My son used to rent a house in Oranga, next to Onehunga. It’s predominantly a state housing area.
  He would head off to the gym about 6am before work and he told me he was surprised at the number of people going to work in hi-viz jackets that time of morning.
  
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  December 23, 2020 9:45am
- giltee
  
  Maggie Pie. Why work when you may only get a few $’s more for doing so.
  
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  December 23, 2020 4:43pm
Jack5

Michael Reddell, at his Croaking Cassandra blog, has a good piece on the Productivity Commission and its new chairman, the Leftish economist Ganesh Nana.

A taste :

This [Nana] is someone who has spent 20 years in the public economics debate in New Zealand, from his perch at BERL, and yet as far as I can tell his main two views of potential relevance are that (a) inflation targeting (of the sort adopted in most advanced economies) is a significant source of New Zealand’s economic underperformance, and (b) that a much larger population might make a big difference (notwithstanding use of that strategy for, just on this wave, the last 25 years or so.

So the new head of the Productivity Commission believes in the population-growth Ponzi strategy that has seen New Zealand’s GDP per capita slide out of the top 40 in the world. Heaven help New Zealand.

The Reddell assessment:

https://croakingcassandra.com/2020/12/21/productivity-productivity-commission-and-all-that
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December 23, 2020 8:54am
- kowtow
  
  There’s a reason why lefty pollies / economists believe in the population ponzi and it has nothing to do with ‘productivity” or making the middle class natives richer through home ownrship.
  
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  December 23, 2020 10:47am
lastmanstanding

I feel sorry for the good front line cops. They want to do their job the one they were trained for and up hold the law and protect the honest citizens against the baddies.

Instead the Cop Bosses are on a mission of wokeness ToW bull shit refusal to confront and deal with crimes in case the results upset the hand wringing liberals.

Time the Cop Bosses got the message they are servants of the honest citizens NOT a bunch of self appointed political advocates.

If you want to get into politics Cop Bosses stand for election. If not Do Your Job.
Merry Christmas.
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December 23, 2020 8:56am
- muppeth8r
  
  I dont feel sorry for them at all, they knew before they took up the job theyd be dealing with the most scummiest morally corrupt people in our country… they just didnt realise those folk were their puppet masters.
  
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  December 23, 2020 9:02am
  - IC5000
    
    > … they just didnt realise those folk were their puppet masters
    
    Harsh call on Judith Collins.
    
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    December 23, 2020 4:04pm
- Engelbert Humperdink
  
  Chris Cahill is doing his job and has near-complete support from the front-line to criminalize the law-abiding and catch-and-release most others. I suggest, respectfully, your view of frontline cops is wishful.
  
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  December 23, 2020 11:12am
Maggy Wassilieff

NZ spreading bugs to Taiwan

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/300191206/covid19-taiwan-tightens-restrictions-after-nz-pilot-infects-resident-ending-worlds-longest-coronavirusfree-streak
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December 23, 2020 9:05am
- Stu2
  
  Nope, it wasn’t NZ, it was a New Zealander
  
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  December 23, 2020 11:42am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    True…
    Looks like he picked up the virus in the US
    https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4083018
    
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    December 23, 2020 12:15pm
    - SB2
      
      Picked up in the US ? Thanks to Trump and his local supporters has made Covid almost unmanageable.
      
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      December 23, 2020 1:05pm
      - NoFax
        
        SB2 – you know that the US is a federal country right. So health is a State matter. Look at the states that are doing the best and worse and see which state are run by Trump supporters. Might shock you if you were to do some research.
        
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        December 23, 2020 3:58pm
  - giltee
    
    Probably sabotage from Cindy so they couldn’t get recognition for doing better than NZ ???
    
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    December 23, 2020 4:47pm
RJ

Seems like just yesterday the government told us that Antartica was a lot risk and people from it won’t need to going into isolation

Dozens of people have tested positive at a Chilean base in Antarctica, the first time the virus has been found on the world’s southernmost continent.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/12/coronavirus-latest-on-covid-19-from-around-the-world-wednesday-december-23.html
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December 23, 2020 9:07am
- RJ
  
  Low risk.
  
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  December 23, 2020 10:48am
- burt
  
  So rona in Antarctica, did it get there by slipping past (or through) their isolation facilities or did it arrive on frozen food packaging?
  
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  December 23, 2020 2:40pm
MCos

Fuck you, New Zealand! https://musebycl.io/advertising/agencys-end-2020-psa-wins-prize-most-f-bombs-ever
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December 23, 2020 9:09am
Raphael

This makes for somewhat depressing reading.
Satirist Andrew Doyle just posted a thread on his parody Twitter account TitaniaMcGrath about all the “predictions” he made coming true.
Both the Babylon Bee and TitaniaMcGrath regularly run into the problem that when they try go as absurd as possible, the Left rush to out do them.

https://twitter.com/TitaniaMcGrath/status/1339977959508226048
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December 23, 2020 9:09am
Maggie Pie

Was chatting to the Samoan lady earlier this morning that works in the Bakery department at Countdown. She was saying they’re expecting to have HOT X BUNS available second week of Jan.

YAY!!
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December 23, 2020 9:12am
- Raphael
  
  As my youngest loves Hot Cross buns she thinks they should be available all year round.
  
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  December 23, 2020 9:16am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    I KNOW RAPH! We’re still eating ours from last Easter 😀
    Silly as it may sound, Countdown make the best tasting ones. I have noooo idea how they do it for a measly 7 bucks a dozen. You can pay that for one from a specialist bakery, and honestly, they’re crap by comparison.
    According to something i read, Countdown sell about 30 million!!
    
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    December 23, 2020 9:30am
    - Unity
      
      We really miss them.
      
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      December 23, 2020 1:01pm
    - SB2
      
      Raphael is a name of Hebrew origin, from rāp̄ā (רָפָא “he has healed”) and ēl (אֵל “God”). Depending on the language (first popularly used in France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and Portugal) it can be spelled Raphael, Raphaël, Rafael, Raffael, Raffaello, Raffiel, Refoel, Raffaele, or Refael.
      
      Raphael (given name) – Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org › wiki › Raphael_(given_n
      
      Nothing to do with RALPH which is of Northern European origin
      
      Ralph (pronounced /rælf/ RALF; or, more rarely, /reɪf/ RAYF,) is a Germanic, Irish, and Scottish masculine given name, derived from the Old Norse Raðulfr (rað “counsel” and ulfr “wolf”) through Old English Rædwulf and the longer form Radulf. … Ralph, the common variant form in the English language.
      Meaning: “Counsel wolf” or “Famous wolf” …
      Related names: Raul, Raoul, Ralphie, Rudolph
      
      Ralph – Wikipedia
      
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      December 23, 2020 1:22pm
      - Raphael
        
        I fail to understand the point of this post. Are you getting upset about someone shortening someone else’s screen name
        
        Yes, I know the origin of my screen name. I chose it nearly 30 years ago both because I like the apocryphal Book of Tobit, and because God is our Healer.
        It shares nothing in common with my actual name apart from the initial.
        Lot’s of people shorten it to Raph (you ever watch TMNT….it a common thing to shorten it)
        
        I am not sure what you’re waffling on about Ralph as wasn’t shortened to that (also not related to my real name in case you were trying to figure out who I am) and I would have had no problem if it had been and would still have understood that Maggie Pie was talking to me.
        
        Now go off and have some Christmas pud grinchie.
        
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        December 23, 2020 5:01pm
  - Paulus
    
    My New World it appears that Hot Cross Buns are available all year round made on the premises so lovely and fresh.
    
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    December 23, 2020 3:57pm
- RJ
  
  Bakery here that wins awards for them bakes them all year, they just don’t put the cross on them until Easter
  
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  December 23, 2020 9:20am
- fightingtemeraire
  
  Go to Bella Pane in Putaruru and you can get them year wide minus the crosses.
  
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  December 23, 2020 9:31am
- IC5000
  
  You shop at countdown? Where poor people shop?
  
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  December 23, 2020 4:09pm
Chris2

Quite a refreshing commentary from one of Trump’s former insiders about life on the inside, love the colourful language – sadly missing from anything NZ writers would have the courage to report.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/12/michael-cohen-predicts-trumps-post-presidency-legal-drama
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December 23, 2020 9:15am
- IC5000
  
  At least he’s redeemed himself by flipping on Trump. Shows you can have a conscious despite being corrupted by this clown
  
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  December 23, 2020 4:12pm
  - lilman
    
    Lol, hey did mum breastfeed you, is that why you are such a sad,nervous type.
    Trump won’t be here forever, unlike all those career politicians that fuck usa before he arrived.
    Joke.
    
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    December 23, 2020 7:03pm
    - RichardX
      
      Good thing you put that last word in, otherwise no one would have known.
      
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      December 23, 2020 7:23pm
burt

I’m considering converting to Islam. Being a product of my time it will be strange discarding values of gender equality and subjugating the female(s) in my life. I don’t really feel comfortable with the thought of a 9 year old bride but apparently that is perfect behaviour. Throwing away my upbringing of being tolerant and indifferent to homosexuality will be an adjustment and I’m wondering if refusing to murder people for being gay will cause any ripples in the new religion of peace community I will join.

Can anyone advise on how best to manage discarding 21st century values as I roll my social and family values back approximately 1,600 years.

Surely there are many females reading this blog that can assure me they will treat me with the respect my gender demands once I start treating them as second class citizens.
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December 23, 2020 9:18am
- Swifty
  
  I think your life will become much easier burt.
  
  No longer will you have to think things through yourself, or wrestle your way through ethical or social dilemmas – now all you’ll need to do is reach for the book, or more likely go and talk with a cleric and he (they’re always he) will tell you “Islam teaches us……xyz”
  
  So, if you will only just surrender (remember Islam means submission) your thought processes, your independence, your self-determination and self-reliance and the responsibility of thinking for yourself – you’ll have a great and easy time of it.
  
  Remember, 1.5 Billion Muslims can’t be wrong.
  
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  December 23, 2020 9:37am
  - burt
    
    My partner has signaled that she’s not impressed at the thought of being made to cover herself head to toe when she leaves the house – is it compulsory to stone her to death or is there some wiggle room to let her have some control of how she presents herself in public?
    
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    December 23, 2020 10:29am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      If she disobeys you, after you have gently admonished her, you are to remove her from your bed.
      https://quran.com/4/34
      
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      December 23, 2020 10:52am
    - IC5000
      
      Get three more and it will be Jenna. That is until the credit card bills arrive.
      
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      December 23, 2020 4:13pm
- RiP NZ
  
  Dont forget throwing people of buildings…..wouldn’t want you to pull a hammy
  
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  December 23, 2020 9:59am
  - burt
    
    Although it might get me labeled an infidel I’d like to avoid killing anyone for being gay. There is surely a support group I can join to help me accept that gay people must be put to death to please Allah.
    
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    December 23, 2020 10:41am
- SB2
  
  burt, there are some surprises there. I never thought you would be for gender equality and other progessive liberal 21st values that in the past you’ve generallly despised.
  
  Whats changed ?
  
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  December 23, 2020 1:17pm
  - marcw
    
    And here folks we have the factual definition of “being unaware”.
    
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    December 23, 2020 1:28pm
  - burt
    
    I can tell from your comment here you are definitely not a progressive liberal yourself or you wouldn’t dare judge me. As I regress back to 4th century values I’ll try and forget that you criticized me and if I manage to do that you’ll not be beheaded.
    
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    December 23, 2020 1:52pm
    - Mike
      
      4th century values? I thought you were going for Islamic values rather than Byzantine.
      
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      December 23, 2020 2:02pm
      - burt
        
        You are right, I have much to learn. Allah willing I will not make that mistake again.
        
        Jazak Allahu Khair
        
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        December 23, 2020 2:48pm
Maggie Pie

I’m always forced to do shit I’m not qualified for.

Like being nice to fucking idiots.
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December 23, 2020 9:37am
- Biscuit
  
  If that’s your Christmas Card to me, Maggie, je suis … HURT!
  
  Sniff!
  
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  December 23, 2020 10:19am
- muppeth8r
  
  Married eh?
  
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  December 23, 2020 11:42am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    😀
    
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    December 23, 2020 12:28pm
- RJ
  
  Well stop walking around the hospital wearing a doctors uniform
  
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  December 23, 2020 1:23pm
- giltee
  
  You could always go on Mortein Bull-bury’s Daily Blog Maggie. Plenty of left fucking idiots on there including the editor. Though to be fair, sometimes he makes a good point or 2
  
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  December 23, 2020 4:58pm
Batman

A group of Trump loyalists try to take over the Oregon State House to prove the communists are up to something.

“There’s a Chinese dude in the fucking window right there!!”

“This is the beginning of a persistent rumor that the Chinese communists are inside the Oregon State Capital building doing communist shit and destroying America. Yes, really. It comes up repeatedly for hours”

https://t.co/pLa8hIe5wy

This is who the election conspiracy theorists are winding up and will end up being responsible for violence and probably deaths. All because they are cynically trying to overturn a result with bogus maths and heresay claims.
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December 23, 2020 9:39am
- RiP NZ
  
  As opposed to the Democrat machine, who fed rhetoric and BS into the violent Antifa, BLM anarchists and to which you said Fk All.
  
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  December 23, 2020 10:01am
- Mike
  
  Really, these idiots should move to the South, which could secede and form its own country – Dumbfuckistan.
  
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  December 23, 2020 10:07am
  - marcw
    
    Sorry, California has already taken that name. And New York has applied for registration of Democratic Republic of Stupidity.
    
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    December 23, 2020 11:24am
  - RJ
    
    Sounds like where you and Stephie already live, batshit crazy
    
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    December 23, 2020 1:21pm
- Fletch
  
  The CCP has this saying, “strangle you with your own systems. Observing how different countries operate. What is controversial with their systems? How does their system function? How can we use those systems to twist things around […] If you say you have faith in free speech, we will set up crippling protests in your own backyard to call you out. If you claim you believe in free press, we shall set up a state-run media in your country and use your services to lie to your population to spread our propaganda. This is what they do. You tell them you believe in free markets and they will bring state-owned companies that will sell products at low cost and drive your companies out of business. “
  
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  December 23, 2020 10:29am
  - Batman
    
    That sounds like made up shit rather than a CCP saying. Sayings aren’t usually that long ??
    
    The Chinese aren’t responsible for this stuff, it’s home grown disinformation spread by conservative media, after a decade of soaking their audience in grievance and heated rhetoric, the 20% of any population which seeks a strongman leader and order over democracy, are reacting after being baited into action by cynical clowns.
    
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    December 23, 2020 10:32am
    - Engelbert Humperdink
      
      You’re certainly qualified to define made up shit BM.
      
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      December 23, 2020 11:14am
- RJ
  
  Finally caught up on this story, more lies from Batman, they were anti lock down protestors, but hey, do we expect anything but lies from this person. Actually organised by a far right prayer group.
  
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  December 23, 2020 5:08pm
The Housekeeper

Yep, as soon as I’ve recovered from my clitoris being chopped out and the stitches in my vulva have disintegrated, it will be my greatest privilege to milk your goat burt. Fortunately for you, my sister wives will be able to accommodate any needs you may have in the meantime.
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December 23, 2020 9:49am
Swifty

Onion research, 1959:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVO_e5AFLws
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December 23, 2020 9:51am
- curry4me
  
  Swifty: for the first few seconds, I thought this was one of those ‘Mr Cholmondley-Walker’ sketches. Very interesting.
  
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  December 23, 2020 6:15pm
Maggie Pie

Just heard them saying on ZB something about those 2 roast dinner guys have appeared in court this morning and been granted interim name suppression.

Could have sworn the MSM even published their photos last week. So what’s the go there then?
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December 23, 2020 10:06am
- burt
  
  They quickly joined the Labour Party and will soon be discharged without conviction so they can take up their new jobs as Labour Party youth camp leaders.
  
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  December 23, 2020 10:10am
  - RJ
    
    Well hell if you want to go down that path they got away with it under the national government, wasn’t until now they’ve been charged
    
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    December 23, 2020 10:50am
    - burt
      
      Charged – that must have been because they weren’t Labour Party members.
      
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      December 23, 2020 1:54pm
      - RJ
        
        And what about the comedian who under the key government got let off with name suppression for coming home drunk, sexually assaulting his tolder. Time you just admit no matter who is in government our justice system is fucken pathetic and that people are getting away with crimes under all governments
        
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        December 23, 2020 2:18pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        He wasn’t “let off”…
        
        He got 8 months home detention, but was allowed to go to work!
        https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/7361731/Child-sex-abuse-comedian-gets-home-detention
        
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        December 23, 2020 4:57pm
- muppeth8r
  
  Im waiting for willie to jump to their defence or apologize…
  
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  December 23, 2020 12:44pm
Ruahine

I am looking forward to the Queens Christmas message to the British Commonwealth of Nations.
I wonder if Princess Cindy will be addressing the Nation with a Happy Holidays message. That would be kind.
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December 23, 2020 10:19am
I remember when

Are we missing the bigger picture with our educational performance?
Is too much time having to be devoted to ‘problems’ since the introduction of ‘To-morrow’s Schools.’
Has the ‘rights’ of the student/pupil meant a system that is scared to take action, and when it does the action is ‘watered down’.
An example I have discussed with a kindergarten teacher is a pupil who accused a teacher of hitting them. Fortunately, there were several witnesses of the incident but the handling was complicated by OT association. Extra time spent handling what was a relatively common occurrence.
One on one actions are no longer possible with some pupils, witnesses are necessary and it means time, recording and costs.
Does all this mean much least teaching time because of administration add-ons.
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December 23, 2020 10:22am
Maggie Pie

And I’ll tell you something else my data frequency App has picked up on…..there’s been a slight increase in ‘automatic downticks’ my comments have received, ever since Sir Bob himself directly acknowledged my existence here on KB with his response missive.

Jealousy perhaps?
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December 23, 2020 11:36am
- IC5000
  
  Is this how you validate your existence, by the number of upticks? Since the catcalls disappeared decades ago I guess you need something.
  
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  December 23, 2020 4:18pm
Maggy Wassilieff

https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2020/dec/23/photos-of-new-zealand-politicians-and-their-bookcases-are-creepily-revealing
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December 23, 2020 12:06pm
- SB2
  
  I see former politician Shane Jones holding The Idiots guide to philosphy is most revealing.
  
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  December 23, 2020 1:13pm
  - Nickc2
    
    Politics for Dummies would be more appropriate.
    
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    December 23, 2020 1:38pm
    - Paulus Gnome
      
      Politics By Dummies more the like . . .
      
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      December 23, 2020 11:12pm
Maggie Pie

My partner’s mum let slip earlier that she want’s some Silver Loop Earrings and any body spray with glitter in it.

Honestly, it’s like Christmas shopping for a hooker.
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December 23, 2020 12:45pm
- IC5000
  
  > Honestly, it’s like Christmas shopping for a hooker
  
  If that’s the case just regift something from your own wardrobe.
  
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  December 23, 2020 4:53pm
Fletch

Biden calls a reporter a “one horse pony” for asking about his son Hunter. (The actual term is “one trick pony”)
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December 23, 2020 1:06pm
- fernglas
  
  If you name your son after a type of horse, you can allow yourself a moment of confusion over equine things.
  
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  December 23, 2020 2:14pm
- Raphael
  
  well he’s improving. Atleast this time he didn’t call the reporter a “lying dog-faced pony soldier” or simply “fats”
  
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  December 23, 2020 5:18pm
Fletch

Unbelievably, the Covid relief spending bill in the U.S includes millions of dollars to fund “gender programs” in Pakistan, fund new cars for federal HIV/AIDS workers, establish a Climate Security Advisory Council, fund an investigation of the “1908 Springfield Race Riot” and enforce horse-racing integrity. (“The Covid relief bill includes a lengthy subsection titled “the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act of 2020”). It even Includes detailed plans on recognizing the Dalai Lama

https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1341121021257129985

The Dems are just throwing money around….
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December 23, 2020 1:12pm
- Mike
  
  And, only too believably, the GOP had its own set of demands to be satisfied, whether it had anything to do with Covid or not.
  
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  December 23, 2020 1:53pm
- RJ
  
  Also including I think it was $1800 for illegals, $600 for Americans.
  
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  December 23, 2020 2:16pm
  - Mike
    
    How do ‘illegals’ qualify for income assistance?
    
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    December 23, 2020 2:35pm
- RJ
  
  Sent back to Congress
  
  https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1341546468436553728
  
  Adding Donald’s speech on it
  
  https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1341537886315950080
  
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  December 23, 2020 2:30pm
- RJ
  
  Looks like they are scared fletch, tried to get in under the cover a profession that would nullify the presidents right to use the insurrection act.
  
  https://www.congress.gov/amendment/116th-congress/house-amendment/833?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22H.r.+6395%22%5D%7D&s=a&r=16
  
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  December 23, 2020 3:03pm
  - Mike
    
    Yes, even the GOP wouldn’t go for that level of presidential crazy.
    
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    December 23, 2020 4:08pm
    - Don Beckett
      
      There ya go again Mike – pumping for the Dems, along with a huge dose of TDS.
      
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      December 23, 2020 5:14pm
Maggie Pie

TRENDING…..

Nearly half of ‘Italian rape victims’ are raped by migrants!

‘Data from Italy’s Interior Ministry, shows 42 out of every 100 rapes are committed by Migrants, and the numbers continue to rise’ 🙁

Just saying.
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December 23, 2020 1:20pm
- giltee
  
  Maggie. Perhaps I shouldn’t ask but could they be of a certain religious persuasion. Some horrific reading for you and it shows the fear police had of being labelled as racist or islamiphobic goes way back:
  
  https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/uk-england-45918845
  
  https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/grooming-gangs-uk-britain-newcastle-serious-case-review-operation-sanctuary-shelter-muslim-asian-a8225106.html?amp
  
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  December 23, 2020 5:26pm
Sir Cullen's Sidekick

My 2021 wish – “God let me have just 1% of the luck you gave to St Cindy”.
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December 23, 2020 1:23pm
kowtow

Further to jack5’s post on the “racist” finding re Gypsy Day , the BSA and stuff’s apology for being racist , Got me thinking about our Media’s treatment of the so called Unruly Tourists two summers ago.

Remember them . They were called British by our dumbf#ck media but with names like Ward Donoghue Quinn Nolan and Cash and the accent of the swearing child there can be no doubt that they were Irish “gypsies” ,aka Travellers , with a capital T as some recognise them , erroneously as a distinct , separate something or other.

But our Media went after them like a lynch mob and with all the glee of a tar and feather bunch of pitch fork weilding Cromwellians.

Unruly,ratbags,scammers,rowdy,threatening,infamous,anti social,theft ,assault,reckless are all words used to describe their antics.

Any apologies ……and the “frenzy” was entirely Media driven.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/118686045/unruly-tourists-brit-ratbags-remembered-unfondly-a-year-after-sparking-frenzy
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December 23, 2020 1:23pm
Fletch

Rudy Giuliani takes a deep look at the Dominion voting system, its history, and the results of testing the machines.

(After the forensic examination of 16 Dominion Voting machines in Antrim, Co. MI, Allied Security Operations Group concluded that the Dominion Voting machines were assigned a 68.05% error rate. DePerno explained that when ballots are put through the machine, a whopping 68.05% error rate means that 68.05% of the ballots are sent for bulk adjudication, which means they collect the ballots in a folder and ship them somewhere else where they can be manipulated).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUtmBrgIC9w
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December 23, 2020 1:26pm
- SB2
  
  Just 29 more sleeps to the inevitable!
  
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  December 23, 2020 4:43pm
- MCos
  
  I had a cursory deep look at Allied Security Operations Group, which Rudy is hanging is hat on.
  https://www.record-eagle.com/news/local_news/state-officials-texas-firms-report-relies-on-false-claims-in-antrim-county-election-lawsuit/article_28b45918-3e2c-11eb-a281-8faf2b0daa1d.html
  https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/16/technology/a-website-funded-by-right-wing-groups-gains-followers-with-debunked-voting-fraud-claims.html
  
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  December 23, 2020 5:04pm
  - Fletch
    
    What a crock. Of course they are going to lie and say that. What’s true is that in Michigan the security records for the software, year 2020 are missing, as are the adjudication files, and the internet connection records. And the software was changed within the 90 day Safe Harbor law. All of this is illegal under Michigan State law. The Secretary of State of Michigan directed the county clerks on December 1st 2020, throughout Michigan, to delete all electronic voting records – again, totally against the law. They have the records for the 2018 election, and the 2016 election, but 2020 has been deleted.
    
    Now why do you think that is? You’d have to be totally stupid to believe all the records are gone and they everything was on the up-and up…
    
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    December 23, 2020 8:54pm
Mike

Up next Rudi takes a ‘deep look’ into tucking in his pants…
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December 23, 2020 1:57pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Don’t do it Steve. Remember what you said the other day? Don’t respond to the TDS trolls
  
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  December 23, 2020 2:55pm
- IC5000
  
  Tucking in? Is he still going with the story?
  
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  December 23, 2020 4:20pm
Maggie Pie

BREAKING…..

‘ZZ TOP’ expected to tour New Zealand next year.

https://twitter.com/nzherald/status/1341537626629804035
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December 23, 2020 2:02pm
godruelf

As an Oceana Gold shareholder was good to see Delahunty and her Green mates squealing at getting ordered to pay 79 grand in costs after their high court action failed. If they don’t pay should see a bond required before any court action is started.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/300189808/coromandel-antimining-group-to-pay-79000-after-high-court-dismiss-case-against-oceangold
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December 23, 2020 2:56pm
JibberJabber

LoL, Cactus Kate keeps ’em coming…
https://asianinvasion2019.blogspot.com/2020/12/cheer-up-shane-helen-clark-hated-you-too.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AsianInvasion2019+%28Asian+Invasion+2019%29 ?
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December 23, 2020 2:59pm
- SB2
  
  Phew one comment per post. She’s on the way out I would say.
  
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  December 23, 2020 4:40pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Yeah, Labour probably wants to dissociate itself from Shane Te Pou’s actions in getting citizenship for a Chinese national.
  
  http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/6957979/Jones-followed-due-process-on-immigration-case
  
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  December 23, 2020 5:07pm
Maggie Pie

I know everyone’s been talking about Jupiter and Saturn this week, but I want everyone to take a look at Uranus.

Does it look bleached to you?
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December 23, 2020 3:27pm
- rangitoto
  
  It was green.
  
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  December 23, 2020 3:40pm
Fletch

They tried to sneak it in –

BREAKING REPORT: HIDDEN in the 5,893 page bill that
@realDonaldTrump
is anticipated to VETO is a provision that says:

“Nullifies the President’s use of the Insurrection Act.”

https://twitter.com/ChuckCallesto/status/1341519068596199425

UPDATE: Trump vetos pork-filled stimulus bill. Advocates for the money to be given to hard-working Americans instead, at $2000 each.

“I am asking Congress to amend this bill and increase the ridiculously low $600 to $2000 or $4000 for a couple,” he said. “I am also asking Congress to immediately get rid of the wasteful and unnecessary items from this legislation and to send me a suitable bill, or else the next administration will have to deliver a COVID relief package, and maybe that administration will be me, and we will get it done.”
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December 23, 2020 3:41pm
- Mike
  
  If the GOP congress critters really thought Trumpy would be president in another month, they wouldn’t have agreed to this bill.
  
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  December 23, 2020 4:05pm
- RJ
  
  News to break, Sidney Powell has been made Special counsel, but watch for his live address to the nation soon.
  
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  December 23, 2020 4:09pm
  - SB2
    
    RJ,
    
    ” Sidney Powell has been made Special counsel”?
    
    After being fired. Whats new with the Trump revolving door of hire /fire, .hire/fire
    
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    December 23, 2020 4:37pm
Maggie Pie

About six of the girls from Tennis came round earlier and we’re all just about to head out for a drink…..watch out Parnell we’re coming 😀 😀

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!
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December 23, 2020 4:13pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  4.13, bit late for Pimm’s number one cup
  
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  December 23, 2020 5:56pm
BAM

Government to nationalise all water infrastructure.

https://www.newsroom.co.nz/govt-agencies-to-take-control-of-water
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December 23, 2020 5:07pm
- RJ
  
  I know our council has said they will not be part of this and will fight it
  
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  December 23, 2020 7:23pm
  - burt
    
    Comrade, they will be re-educaded.
    
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    December 23, 2020 8:25pm
kowtow

The Wuflu outbreak in the Chilean Antarctic base could be a very important scientific experiment.

My guess is you’ve got to be pretty fit to be there , relatively young etc

Leave ’em all there and see what’s the outcome .

Will the Media continue to report ?
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December 23, 2020 5:35pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  They’ve been sent back to Chile.
  https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-55410065
  
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  December 23, 2020 7:52pm
- Master Mariner
  
  Kowtow, 24 hrs steam to Antartica from Ushuaia, Argentina, However Probably 2 days From Punta Arenas (Chile).
  Pretty rampant there at present so No surprises to be honest.
  
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  December 23, 2020 10:40pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Now this. Liz wheeler. I am not a man of faith, but this is good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EEl62mnl9w
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December 23, 2020 5:57pm
Monique Watson

If this has already been commented on then I am sorry for the rehash. But is it the case that a cruddy piece of land near Auckland airport has been purchased from Fletchers by the taxpayers when Fletchers was going to turn it into housing and the Government is now going to turn it into housing only not very quickly as their track record in Kiwi-Build would show? Some green Labour MP says it’s a good idea because her Daddy told her fairytales about it when she was Little. Egads.

https://i.stuff.co.nz/auckland/300188206/peaceful-resolution-at-ihumtao-was-always-the-aim
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December 23, 2020 6:32pm
RJ

An explosive interview with Patrick, including the murder of Epstein

https://www.pscp.tv/annvandersteel1/1eaKbnyaovZKX
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