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Hugh Pavletich

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National’s boot camp policy a dog-whistle to Winston First voters as English and Joyce seek poll jump; Alex Tarrant says the policy is an insulting acknowledgement of the National Cabinet’s lack of understanding on inter-generational poverty | interest.co.nz

http://www.interest.co.nz/opinion/89290/nationals-boot-camp-policy-%C2%A0dog-whistle-winston-first-voters-english-and-joyce-seek

By Alex Tarrant

National must be getting very, very scared of Winston Peters.

I would hope that the release of such an outrageous Young Serious Offenders policy on Sunday could only be put down to the fact that National is three points below where it wants to be in the polls – as Steven Joyce said Sunday – and that it thinks it can nick this back from New Zealand First’s strong ‘boot camp’ wing. Sadly, that doesn’t seem to be the case – it’s worse than that.

They’re going to need more than a 3% swing. This policy will see more centre voters shift to Labour, following the Ardern-led flow over the past two weeks. It is easily seen for what it is: a let’s-get-some-quick-headlines love affair with dog-whistle politics. … read more via hyperlink above …

New poll puts Peter Dunne’s future in doubt – National has a fight on its hands | Stuff.co.nz

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/95728037/new-poll-puts-peter-dunnes-future-in-doubt–national-has-a-fight-on-its-hands

What drives Nicky Wagner?: After that Tweetstorm, what does MP really think? | Stuff.co.nz
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August 14, 2017 10:01am
- cmm
  
  Boot camp is a really good idea.
  
  Get the kids away from their destructive environment and into some discipline and routine so they have a chance of becoming contributing members of society.
  
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  August 14, 2017 10:05am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    I agree cmm. As well as that, they’ll have the chance to have addiction issues and poor numeracy and literacy addressed. It’s certainly an idea worthy of trying.
    
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    August 14, 2017 11:54am
    - Rachael Membery
      
      Hard to see how it could be worse than a prison education. A good example of the governments investment approach.
      Of course it isn’t going to fix everyone, but any will do.
      
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      August 14, 2017 12:19pm
      - sooty
        
        Hugh, you have branched , now a SJW. Not just into housing.
        
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        August 14, 2017 12:37pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        ‘Boot camps do not work’ – Jacinda Ardern dismisses National’s radical plan for youth offenders | 1 NEWS NOW | TVNZ
        
        https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/boot-camps-do-not-work-jacinda-ardern-dismisses-nationals-radical-plan-youth-offenders
        
        Jacinda Ardern has slashed any chance of youth boot camps in a Labour-led government, saying today that “boot camps do not work”. … view and read more via hyperlink above …
        
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        August 14, 2017 9:17pm
  - cmm
    
    I see the media is now throwing a paddy that the youth would be exposed to guns, but English saying they would not.
    
    While I would not want them to have arms issued to them to keep in their barracks to be “lost” or “borrowed for the week end”, I have no problem with them being taught to use firearms safely on a well controlled firing range with proper instruction.
    
    At least then if they did go back to their gang-banging ways they’d understand how to handle a gun safely and be less inclined to cause collateral damage (eg. leaving loaded guns around where kids play with them).
    
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    August 14, 2017 1:47pm
    - Lance
      
      We had a rifle range at school. Bloody good way to learn to use guns safely.
      Not only would the teachers cane your arse till your nose bleed if you acted outside the safe handling and use procedures but everyone else was doing the same thing, so strong peer pressure as well.
      
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      August 14, 2017 3:25pm
  - KevOB
    
    A good sound bite but at odds with youth development.
    
    The justice experience has been that youth mature and dropout of the penal system at different stages. Some go by 18, 21 and 28. Past that 40 is the next stage, else never. The Police Courts were well aware of those cohorts.
    
    The justice system is directly destructive as it encourages undesirables to control offenders. A spell in incarceration is a recipe for de-humanisation: a retraining for a prison society not the normal one. I have known prisoners commit crimes to get back inside.
    
    Previous experiments brought us Owairaka Boys Home and others where children were brutalised and locked up in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day. Despite protests children are still confined in cells.
    
    Some children are basically criminal and parenting cannot stop that; the hope is that they will grow out of it. An eleven year old can take an 8 year old brother out on a burglary and short of the home being in lock down parents may never know. Children can be plied with liquor by alcoholic adults when away at birthday parties. The adults seeking to justify their own miserable addiction. Juvenile alcoholism is rampant.
    The Court are sympathetic to parents of wayward children but welfare agencies would place them in foster care and pass the problem onto another family. There is virtually no real help available to any such child or their parents. The separation and incarceration is further damaging as it brings drug usage and further criminality for its maintenance. Forget education the schools will have the out by 14.
    
    The boot camp idea is not far removed from the old borstal which came to be known as a training ground for criminals.
    
    There may be cohort of the male population for which a term in a supervised military environment could be beneficial. Some men seem to be loners and prefer male company; they bond best with men. That group probably in their early 20’s may be suitable. They should be given education, trade training and allowed to marry as desired with a 5 year term required. Strict discipline, but paid and required to pay a reasonable board, and allowed to develop a life to fit back into civil society.
    
    The new theories of predictive child behaviour are dangerous. Do computer models have the wisdom to declare a 4 year old as a future danger and plan the life of that child and family? Should the parents be allowed further breeding rights to prevent more monsters? Should they and the whole family be terminated to prevent genetic material being passed on. Rights without morals is a very wild slope.
    
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    August 14, 2017 1:54pm
  - Viking2
    
    Tougher, smarter crims. They will go back to the same environment and continue just as they were.
    
    Have to change their environment.
    
    Have to make sure that they are employed with someone who can mentor them onto the right path. A big ask but its what works.
    
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    August 14, 2017 3:06pm
- Hugh Pavletich
  
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  … missed link above … note the comments on thread …
  
  What drives Nicky Wagner?: After that Tweetstorm, what does MP really think? | Stuff.co.nz
  
  https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/95114354/what-drives-nicky-wagner-after-that-tweetstorm-what-does-mp-really-think
  
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  August 14, 2017 10:07am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    You posted that yesterday Hugh. I cannot say this in any other way; stop your f#@king trolling of DPF’s blog.
    
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    August 14, 2017 10:12am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    More wrapping and glitter Hugh, but it is still a turd!
    
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    August 14, 2017 10:14am
    - Hugh Pavletich
      
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      Paulus … The sad reality is that this Government has treated the public’s real concerns with contempt … and will deservedly pay the price 23 September …
      
      Poverty, gap between rich & poor and housing affordability, housing shortage, and homelessness dominate discussion in lead-up to election, says Roy Morgan poll … Interest Co NZ
      
      http://www.interest.co.nz/news/89038/poverty-gap-between-rich-poor-and-housing-affordability-housing-shortage-and-homelessness
      
      Content sourced from Roy Morgan Research
      
      In mid-2017, and only a few months before the upcoming New Zealand Election which according to Roy Morgan is too close to call*, the key Issues for the New Zealand Election are the inter-related issues of Poverty and the gap between rich & poor, House prices & Housing affordability and Housing shortages & Homelessness.
      
      The overall picture across all issues was covered extensively in our release on broader New Zealand Concerns released a fortnight ago and available to view here. We look in this release at Economic & Housing-related concerns in greater detail.
      
      A significant 50% of New Zealanders believe Economic issues (27%) or Housing-related issues (23%) are the most important problems facing New Zealand. … read more via hyperlink above …
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      NZ economy: more ponzi than real growth – MacroBusiness Australia
      
      https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2017/08/nz-economy-ponzi-real-growth/
      
      By Leith van Onselen
      
      Bernard Doyle, a strategist at JBWere, has penned a ripping new report on the New Zealand economy, arguing that rabid population growth is masking underlying weak productivity and poor per capita GDP growth. From Interest.co.nz: … read more via hyperlink above …
      
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      August 14, 2017 10:56am
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
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        David Hargreaves suggests the real estate industry is singling out the wrong target by urging exemptions from the RBNZ’s LVR rules for first home buyers | interest.co.nz
        
        http://www.interest.co.nz/opinion/89298/david-hargreaves-suggests-real-estate-industry-singling-out-wrong-target-urging
        
        … concluding …
        
        … Whoever is in Government after September 23 needs to take proper responsibility for the housing issue. It is simply not something that can and should be left to the RBNZ to deal with alone.
        
        The Labour Party Housing Policies are a very helpful guide …
        
        http://www.labour.org.nz/housing
        
        … extract …
        
        … Remove barriers that are stopping Auckland growing up and out
        
        Labour will remove the Auckland urban growth boundary and free up density controls. This will give Auckland more options to grow, as well as stopping landbankers profiteering and holding up development. New developments, both in Auckland and the rest of New Zealand, will be funded through innovative infrastructure bonds. … read more via hyperlink above …
        
        … May last year …
        
        beehive.govt.nz – Nick Smith – Labour support on city limits (abolition) welcomed
        
        https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/labour-support-city-limits-welcomed
        
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        August 14, 2017 11:51am
      - wiseowl
        
        dicksmithfairgo.com.au
        
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        August 14, 2017 12:30pm
pdm

Wow – 10am and I could be first.

Edit – beaten by Hugh – what a bummer. Still got rid of my first downtick.
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August 14, 2017 10:01am
Paulus Gnome

Morning tea and nobody playing in the yard! ?

Edit: nope, not fast enough!
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August 14, 2017 10:02am
cmm

https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/95723250/unicyclist-hugged-his-wife-and-son-goodbye-before-being-killed-in-horrific-truck-accident

Sad for the family and he certainly was a skilled unicyclist, but unicycling on a road is a bad idea.

You just don’t have the same level of control and can’t take evasive actions as well as you can on a two-wheeler.
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August 14, 2017 10:03am
- GazzaW
  
  There’s a lunatic unicyclist with a total death wish who cycles to work down Great South Road every working day in peak rush hour. God knows how he has survived. He must have nerves of steel.
  
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  August 14, 2017 10:31am
  - MCos
    
    I’ve never seen this particular person, but there’s plenty of crazy people driving cars on the roads who seem to survive despite themselves.
    
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    August 14, 2017 10:53am
    - PhilBest
      
      The real loony, is a guy who rides a Penny Farthing on public roads on a regular basis.
      
      http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/local-papers/upper-hutt-leader/78822131/pennyfarthing-rider-at-home-in-upper-hutts-valleys
      
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      August 14, 2017 11:46am
  - PhilBest
    
    The guy in this news report was riding a typical modern 26 inch wheel unicycle in the picture with the article. They are actually highly maneuverable, a skilled rider of them can pull some impressive tricks. Two-wheelers are actually less easy to change direction on at a decent speed. There just are dangers regardless. Cycling was my thing when I was younger, I would have clocked up 10,000kms per year for a few years, and regard myself as an expert. I am infuriated by cycling being used as a pretext by activists and watermelon politicians, to “stuff the motorist some more”.
    
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    August 14, 2017 11:43am
  - softail 1450
    
    obviously a greenie, saving on pollution and risking his stupid life to do it….
    
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    August 14, 2017 12:31pm
JasonJohns

Sounds like some paramilitares are getting organised in the US.

‘The man accused of murdering a woman by deliberately driving into her during protests against a far-right rally was photographed earlier in the day standing with the white supremacist, neo-Nazi group Vanguard America.

James Fields, 20, of Maumee, Ohio, allegedly killed Heather Heyer, aged 32, and injured 19 others when he rammed his car into a group peacefully protesting on Saturday in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Photographs from earlier that day appear to show Fields rallying with Vanguard America and carrying a shield bearing the group’s insignia. He wears the white polo shirt and khaki pants that are the group’s uniform.’
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August 14, 2017 10:05am
- EAD_TWO
  
  I’m going to ignore your blatant trolling but one phrase caught my eye:
  
  allegedly killed Heather Heyer
  
  Something is not right here. Remember when that van driver in London crashed into some Muslims in the middle of the road who were attending to an elderly man who had had a heart attack?
  
  The elderly man died but it didn’t stop the MSM broadcasting to the world that “White terrorist” kills Mulsim.
  
  Now to the incident in Charlotte….. despite what the MSM would have you believe the driver actually didn’t plough into any passengers – read the incident report very carefully and you’ll soon see he crashed into stationary cars. Further, many Twitter reports of the incident are saying this guys car was being attacked by Antifa goons (funded by Soros with baseball bats, causing him to accelerate in a panic in order to escape.
  
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  August 14, 2017 10:23am
  - JasonJohns
    
    No doubt it’s a false flag attack EAD. The behaviour of the national socialists and Ku Klux Klan members who gathered at Charlottesville was impeccable. Their pure hoods and striking swastika banners showed the righteousness of their cause. It was necessary for the authorities to fabricate an incident to discredit them.
    
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    August 14, 2017 10:26am
    - EAD_TWO
      
      Haha – now you’re really taking the piss JJ. You’re not even a good troll. Are you actually a Mikenmild account attempting to do satire?
      
      Seriously, all the European people who oppose white displacement are the descendants of those that fought the Nazis supposedly fighting for freedom and liberty.
      
      If you asked every single American soldier back then marching to war to fight dem Nazziis, if they wanted to see their families replaced with foreigners, the few of their own decendents turned into trannies and lunatics, forced to pay out and suffer in silence to the benefit of other foreign peoples they’d have turned their rifles on anyone to blame for such change or advocating it.
      
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      August 14, 2017 10:38am
      - JasonJohns
        
        Quite true EAD. Germany was fighting a war against imperial aggression, and Hitler was a national liberation leader. Today it is almost illegal to be white in the West. The blacks who run America use psychological techniques to mislead white women into fornicating with non-white men. Vital fluids are thus expended.
        
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        August 14, 2017 10:40am
- Huevon
  
  Political violence is a curious thing….it always seems to be the fault of the other side. But once the line is crossed, it’s impossible to pull back. There will be a lot more dead bodies in the US this summer.
  
  For the record, I condemn the senseless car attack at the Charlottesville rally. This idiot was no different to a Muslim jihadi.
  
  I condemn the Mainstream Media for their grossly irresponsible attitude of implicating President Trump in the violence. They will reap that whirlwind 10 fold…
  
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  August 14, 2017 10:31am
  - JasonJohns
    
    Do you support the alt-right Huevon?
    
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    August 14, 2017 10:35am
    - Huevon
      
      I’m sympathetic but change must be achieved through legal means. I have personal links to a South American country that has suffered greatly from violence and disturbances from groups (left and right) who think the law doesn’t apply to them. It isn’t pretty.
      
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      August 14, 2017 10:40am
      - JasonJohns
        
        Richard Spencer created the term alt-right, and he wants to see the US divided, peacefully preferably, into several racially based nations. That way he argues the white race can thrive.
        
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        August 14, 2017 10:45am
      - waikatosinger
        
        Richard Spencer is a fool. He believes exactly what the left believe in terms of group identity politics. The only difference is that he wants to apply it to white people. His group is basically “black lives matter” for white people. It looks and in fact IS fascist because left wing identitarian politics is fascist. When you start treating people not as individuals with human rights but only as members of a race or group, then you are standing on the exact same road that lead to the gas chambers.
        
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        August 14, 2017 11:41am
    - DifferentPerspective
      
      Ah the good old straw man gambit!
      
      I’m sure he does, in the same way you support the fascist Antifa domestic terrorists wearing black shirts and face masks or the ‘kill the cops’ BLM thugs.
      
      Answer the question though – are you still beating up women? Yes or no – it’s a simple answer!
      
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      August 14, 2017 10:54am
    - VicParking
      
      JasonJohns do you support ANTIFA
      
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      August 14, 2017 2:07pm
- Paulus
  
  I cannot see the reason that the various White supremacist groups objected – was it that the Council was to take away, unilaterally, a statute of General Ulysses Grant.
  He was the General who led the North in the American Civil War against the Confederate South.
  He was President twice.
  Whoever wanted it removed must have known what trouble it would cause. One must consider it was done deliberately. I note a New Zealander was there and commented on RNZ – I ask why was he there from New York ?
  
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  August 14, 2017 2:11pm
Rodney Randall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxIw9fyIK_c

What Pisses Me Off About The Google “Anti-Diversity” Memo – Stefan Molyneux

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN1vEfqHGroGoogle Memo: Fired Employee Speaks Out! | James Damore and Stefan Molyneux
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August 14, 2017 10:05am
- cmm
  
  Unfortunately stuff like this is so commonplace it is no longer shocking.
  
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  August 14, 2017 10:07am
- PhilBest
  
  The estimable Matt Walsh’s take:
  
  http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/matt-walsh-men-and-women-are-extremely-different-there-is-nothing-controversial-about-this/
  
  “…the author goes out of his way many times to say he values all forms of diversity and he has nothing but respect for his female coworkers. He never criticized the women who currently hold positions in the company. Rather, he was talking about the positions not currently occupied by women, proposing that men may be in these jobs because men are more likely to pursue these jobs, and often, on average, have skill sets that lend themselves towards them. This is all factually true, utterly self-evident, and completely inoffensive…
  
  “…the irony that Google fired Damore for saying Google stifles opposing viewpoints, or the irony that women at Google stayed home from work sobbing because Damore said they have low stress tolerance…
  
  “…The issue isn’t just that Google is punishing “a viewpoint,” but that it is punishing the correct viewpoint. The problem isn’t just that “opposing views” are stifled, but that the opposing views being stifled also happen to be completely accurate. As conservatives, we sometimes get too caught up in defending our positions on the basis that they are “different ideas,” when we should be defending them on the basis that they are true…
  
  “…It is not a value judgment for me to say, “Women are generally more suited for A than B.” I have not said which one is better, and I do not believe that one is better. The feminists are the ones who’ve decided A is inferior to B. They have looked at whatever men are doing and decided that they must also do the same thing, and they must be told that they are doing it just as well. If men tend to play sports, women must be pushed into sports. If men tend to join the military, women must be pushed (even drafted) into the military. If men tend to be vulgar and competitive, women must be vulgar and competitive. Feminists are following men around, taking notes, doing what they do, even aping their mannerisms and patterns of speech. It’s sad, really.
  
  I guess they don’t hate men after all. This is jealousy at work, not hatred. ..”
  
  The whole thing is a “must read”
  
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  August 14, 2017 11:54am
JasonJohns

Vanguard America were a highly visible presence at the Unite the Right rally on Saturday, where they marched in military-style formation, and the torchlight rally the previous night on the University of Virginia campus. On the group’s Twitter account, and on social media accounts belonging to regional chapters, there was extensive promotion of the Unite the Right rally in the weeks leading up to the event.

The group’s motto, “blood and soil” was a popular chant at both events. It is derived from the Nazi slogan “blut und boden”, which links conceptions of racial purity with a particular national territory.
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August 14, 2017 10:06am
- Rodney Randall
  
  Diversity = White Genocide
  
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  August 14, 2017 10:08am
  - JasonJohns
    
    Thankyou for raising that important slogan Rodney. It was created by Derek Black who wanted to bring awareness of the way Jewish interests were using multiculturalism to wipe out the white race. Sadly Derek has since left the national socialist movement after falling under the influence of the Jews
    https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/26/opinion/sunday/why-i-left-white-nationalism.html
    
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    August 14, 2017 10:10am
    - JasonJohns
      
      Some more information on the background to Rodney’s inspirational quote.
      
      In his White Genocide Manifesto, white supremacist David Lane made the claim that the government policies of many western countries had the intent of destroying white European culture and making White people an “extinct species”. Lane, a founding member of the organization The Order, criticized race-mixing, abortion, homosexuality, the legal repercussions against those who “resist genocide” and also the “Zionist Occupation Government” that he said controls the U.S. and the other majority-white countries and encourages “white genocide”. It is rooted in “doctrines of universalism both secular and religious” according to Lane, and it may have been a factor that led to the murder of anti-Nazi Jewish talk-show commentator Alan Berg in 1984. Prior to his murder, Berg regularly taunted racists on his show.
      
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      August 14, 2017 10:24am
      - Rodney Randall
        
        Diversity = White Genocide
        
        All part of the Kalergi Plan;)
        
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        August 14, 2017 10:31am
  - itstricky
    
    Golly. Same style name alliteration. Same style names. Finish each other’s sentences. Within two minutes of each other. Same person; why do you bother pretending ?
    
    PS a white person just mowed down a white person. Time to rethink your slogan.
    
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    August 14, 2017 1:03pm
- BananaLlama
  
  This is what happens when the only qualifying factor of membership is that you are white. Objectively it is a system that promotes weakness and inferiority. Minority organisations that have higher bars to pass are objectively superior by comparison. This is why so many on the right disavow WN movements. Too many Untermensch that plow cars into the opposition.
  
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  August 14, 2017 11:49am
  - JasonJohns
    
    Nonsense. Anyone who observes the young men who gathered at Charlottesville with their pristine robes and striking battle flags can see that they are fine specimens of the Aryan race. They are muscular, they scorn the decadence of long hair, and their colourful arms and torsos show their delight in creativity and the arts.
    
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    August 14, 2017 11:53am
    - Lance
      
      JJ’s Spartan excitement is disturbing.
      
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      August 14, 2017 12:04pm
      - cha
        
        A paid up member of the Sacred Band of Thebes?.
        
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        August 14, 2017 1:40pm
    - BananaLlama
      
      And they are going to end up with RICO charges like what happened in the 70′-80’s. Observe the Nationalists and Identitarians who merge towards the center and have policy to show for it. They have set the bar higher and will change our culture for the better.
      
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      August 14, 2017 1:20pm
Rodney Randall

“If a company represented the structure of a house then Human Resources would be the toilet because that is where all the shit goes”
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August 14, 2017 10:07am
- JasonJohns
  
  Thank you for drawing attention to Kalergi’s sinister words Rodney:
  
  ‘The man of the future will be of mixed race. Today’s races and classes will gradually disappear owing to the vanishing of space, time, and prejudice.’
  
  This was practically an invitation to miscegenation, and we know where the inappropriate use of vital fluids leads.
  
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  August 14, 2017 10:33am
  - PhilBest
    
    For the record, I don’t care at all about race, I care about preserving what is worthwhile in the way of culture. I don’t care if our descendants are multi or mixed racial, as long as western civilisation is still western civilisation. Western civilisation in its truest form is inclusive and universal, because Christianity is inclusive and universal.
    
    In fact if we believe in ourselves as our classical liberal forefathers did, not only will western civilisation remain as western civilisation, but the rest of the world will continue to learn from us and sort their local cultural and political shite out using our good example. The western cringe and cultural death-wish is a tragedy for all humanity.
    
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    August 14, 2017 12:01pm
    - JasonJohns
      
      Sadly though Phil the early West had a pagan element. The Greeks did not the way of Christ, and venerated various idols. They also routinely practiced homosexuality and other abominations. And they drew ideas from Asia and Egypt. The Romans continued these pagan and cosmopolitan ways for some time. Thus my view is that we must take as the model for Western civilisation of the empire established by Christian warrior-king Constantine and the empire of Barbarossa. They purified the Western tradition by expelling pagan and exotic influences. We have to as you say extol Christ’s way and therefore reject the anti-Christian ideas of Plato Socrates etc
      
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      August 14, 2017 12:11pm
Captain Mainwaring

So the shooter is still on the loose in Morrinsville.
Wonder Woman was in Morrinsville on Friday. Why couldn’t she sort the place out then instead of doing photo ops at her old fish’n chip shop.
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August 14, 2017 10:07am
- Gabby
  
  Things were fine ’til she left. Then it was crusty gruts time.
  
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  August 14, 2017 6:34pm
starboard

Spare me

https://i.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/95740079/lorde-blasts-us-system-that-allowed-the-violence-to-erupt-in-charlottesville
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August 14, 2017 10:12am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  ‘I am sorry for being white’ moment
  
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  August 14, 2017 10:17am
- Peter
  
  all white people are responsible for this system’s thrive and fall
  
  Wot?
  
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  August 14, 2017 10:41am
- Huevon
  
  This kind of self-loathing churns my stomach.
  
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  August 14, 2017 10:47am
  - PhilBest
    
    And they think they are being edgy and independent, when they are actually brainwashed little droids.
    
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    August 14, 2017 12:04pm
- howitis
  
  Lorde is a 45 year old cross-dressing, white, male geologists from Colorado!
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M3rIoAz7xg
  Lorde South Park Spoof Was Weird Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
  
  #idontstandwithrandymarsh
  Wait, was it Randy Marsh or Lorde or Autotune or Ella O’Connor’s Hollywood masters?
  This is so confusing right now. It must be my small white male brain that cant process it.
  Help, help, me Ella!
  
  Na, just give me Gin Wigmore for a decent, recent North Shore singing gal.
  A decent songwriter too.
  
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  August 14, 2017 12:04pm
starboard

Times up for the political whore of Ohariu

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/95728037/new-poll-puts-peter-dunnes-future-in-doubt–national-has-a-fight-on-its-hands
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August 14, 2017 10:15am
- RF
  
  The labour guy is the flip flopper who tells you what you want to hear.
  
  He pissed off rank & file cops with the arm or not to arm them support. He quickly toed the labour line of not to arm when he changed sides.
  
  Not to be trusted.
  
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  August 14, 2017 10:24am
- holysheet
  
  Good riddance to the prick. We would have had reforms to the RMA but for him. National cannot trust him. The one good thing about O’conner is that he will finally get rid of the liabour whore.
  
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  August 14, 2017 10:44am
  - PhilBest
    
    The one guy even more responsible than Dunny, for the RMA debacle, is Winnie.
    
    Come to think of it, a lotta Nats are responsible for not doing it in term one or even two.
    
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    August 14, 2017 12:05pm
- softail 1450
  
  dunne has been a sell out political whore his entire career,he’s the only one of 120 politicians that I actually despise (and that’s saying something).
  
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  August 14, 2017 12:43pm
  - holysheet
    
    What, not Me Tu as well?
    
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    August 14, 2017 12:57pm
RF

Try to think of a positive if comrade Jacinda’s mob gets in.

It’s hard but I guess when she attends heads of state conferences she can use her management skills and work out how many biscuits she needs to order for morning tea.

I really struggle to see her as New Zealand’s representative as she is just an air head.
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August 14, 2017 10:17am
kowtow

More Lying Media bullshit.

“Hundreds of Irish travellers had been camping in the Rhine meadows in Düsseldorf before police arrived and ordered them to remove their caravans from the site, the Neue Ruhr Zeitung reported on Wednesday. The term travellers here refers to a traditionally nomadic ethnic group with roots in Ireland.”

Nomadic ethnic group? Bullshit . They’re bums who took to the road .

Funny though how EU citizens aren’t welkommen but Muslim migrants with no genuine legal claim to be in Europe are.

https://www.thelocal.de/20170811/irish-travellers-struggle-to-find-campsite-in-rhine-region
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August 14, 2017 10:27am
- Gabby
  
  The muslims will take them in.
  
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  August 14, 2017 6:33pm
Happychappy

It hasn’t taken long for the media to return to hounding Bill English over his texts to his former staff member. Winston asks and they obey and again it shows all they want is to change the Government.
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August 14, 2017 10:30am
- Paulus
  
  Of course Winston is feeding the media over the Gore electorate.
  It may appear that the aggrieved old lady, who didn’t like the new MP, and said so to everybody, who was in the electoral office at the time now works for the Peter’s Party in the electorate and perhaps possibly the price for the job is to reveal the emails to Winston.
  
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  August 14, 2017 10:49am
  - Gabby
    
    That’ why Bingles keeps saying ‘Go on then, show us what you’ve got. No? ok then here they are, knock yourself out. Nothing to hide, nothing to fear.’ The fulla’s a rock alright.
    
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    August 14, 2017 6:32pm
kowtow

How fucked up is this?

“A couple are raising Britain’s first gender-fluid family, bringing up their four-year-old son as a ‘person’ and not a ‘boy’.
Nikki and Louise Draven from Middlesborough do not believe in imposing a gender on Star Cloud, especially as neither of his parents gets ‘hung up’ on the gender they were born with.
Louise, was born a man but is transitioning to be a woman while Nikki was born a woman but identifies as both male and female and dresses as a man on some days and wears high heels, lipstick and padded bras on others.”

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4786350/Britain-s-gender-fluid-family.html#comments

And they want us to consider this normal ?
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August 14, 2017 10:34am
- Rodney Randall
  
  Kowtow:
  
  https://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Toni-Tampon-Period-Coloring/dp/0692795359
  
  “cause men have periods too!”
  
  book for kids with gender neutral Toni!
  
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  August 14, 2017 10:47am
- holysheet
  
  Why not? you have the greens leader James Shaw as an example of what will happen under these conditions. By his inactions, he doesn’t know what his gender is. Blame it on his two mummies.
  
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  August 14, 2017 10:48am
  - howitis
    
    Now there is someone who could well apologise for being a man,
    or apologise for not really being up to it as a man !
    
    His only competition inside the coven is Wee Gareth who is more gnome than man.
    It’s woeful.
    
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    August 14, 2017 12:20pm
    - holysheet
      
      Paulus, he’s calling you a wee Gareth. I would have something to say if it was me.
      
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      August 14, 2017 12:34pm
    - RF
      
      Do you mean Rodent features… throw him some cheese and see if he holds it in both hands as he gnaws it.
      
      Poor wee fella just cannot understand why his party did not want him as their co leader. He even promised to have potty training.
      
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      August 14, 2017 12:49pm
  - Rachael Membery
    
    No necessary correlation, perhaps he was just bedazzled by Metiria, I wonder what his wife thinks?
    
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    August 14, 2017 12:34pm
    - holysheet
      
      Who James or Gareth? Both of them should do a Silent T and apologize for pretending to be men.
      
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      August 14, 2017 1:00pm
- Andrei
  
  I don’t know if you have caught up with this scandal
  
  After pandering a grovelling apology is required
  
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  August 14, 2017 10:50am
  - Don the Kiwi
    
    Yes, we are gradually being caught up in the lunacy.
    
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    August 14, 2017 11:06am
- stigie
  
  “And they want us to consider this normal ?”
  
  Well yes, the same as MeTu ripping off the taxpayer and giving her big arse blessing that it’s all ok for all beneficiaries to rip off the taxpayer !~
  
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  August 14, 2017 11:14am
- PhilBest
  
  Matt Walsh says it:
  
  http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/matt-walsh-dear-progressive-parents-your-children-are-not-social-experiments/
  
  Dear ‘progressive’ parents, your children are not social experiments.
  
  “…here’s what I wish these hopelessly “progressive” parents could grasp: your children are not social experiments. They are not lab rats. They are not fashion statements. They are not mere anecdotes to be used in advancing your anti-science agenda. They are human beings and they have needs. A lot of needs. They need love. They need direction. They need guidance. They need clarity. If you will not give them these things, you are a danger to them. They’d be better off raised by monkeys in the jungle than by virtue-signaling narcissists who will use them as pawns in this perverse crusade against God and reality.
  
  Stop hurting your children. Stop using and abusing them. Start being a parent, or give them to someone who will do the job.”
  
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  August 14, 2017 12:09pm
  - Kimbo
    
    They are not mere anecdotes to be used in advancing your anti-science agenda.
    
    So he’s not talking about parents who pull their kids out of the “secular” education system that champions “evolution” and instead home school them to ensure they are taught ~~creation science~~ intelligent design? 😉
    
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    August 14, 2017 12:12pm
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  KT: I am generally annoyed at the unnecessary expletives used here, but in this case I totally agree with your opening sentence and cannot think of a better one.
  There are a few in that household that could use a good psychiatrist, and I can only see the list growing as the children age.
  
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  August 14, 2017 2:16pm
starboard

Does Nikki leave the shithouse seat up or down, that’s the question.
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August 14, 2017 10:41am
DifferentPerspective

Thank you Jacinda – Ohariu done with Dunne

Well, Jacinda looks to maybe have done something useful for the nation after all! If the Q+A poll numbers hold up the extraordinarily put-upon and long-suffering voters of Ohariu could finally get rid of their pathetically self-serving idiot of an MP at long last!

This achievement alone should mean Jacinda is well in line for the New Zealander of the Year award and possibly something in the New Year’s honours!

What else will this mean for National having given the bouffant buffoon a profile far in excess of his diminutive and rapidly diminishing capabilities? It’s slightly confounding for one of the most well-to-do of electorates having to stomach a loony lefty for so long just to provide a deeply unreliably and regularly embarrassing overhang seat! With friends like Dunne, National doesn’t need enemies.

To be honest, I don’t care if Satan himself wins Ohariu, so long as Dunne is put down and another one of MMP’s retarded gifts to the electorate is dispatched.
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August 14, 2017 10:48am
- Manolo
  
  Hear, hear!
  
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  August 14, 2017 10:50am
- Dafixeruppa
  
  Well vote for a Greens/Labour government and you could well get Satan.
  At least with Satan we know exactly what we are getting, “Hell on earth”.
  
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  August 14, 2017 11:01am
  - DifferentPerspective
    
    Two ticks blue in Ohariu then?
    
    For the candidate who implores voters NOT to vote for him?
    
    Bonkers much?
    
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    August 14, 2017 11:05am
- Prince
  
  Pre-election polls have predicted Dunne’s demise for several elections now.
  Ohariu voters always prove they have more brains than any other electorate in NZ. They understand consequences.
  
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  August 14, 2017 11:27am
  - holysheet
    
    Yes, that might have been the case when United future had more than one possible MP.
    With dunnny about to go down the crapper, why the nats persist with him and not promote their own candidate is beyond me.
    
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    August 14, 2017 12:23pm
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      It’s called overhang.
      And don’t forget that the poll reflects the fact that there’s no Green candidate.
      
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      August 14, 2017 12:32pm
  - KevOB
    
    Peter Dunne has been a valuable member as Minister of Revenue. A desk job dealing with Departmental matters.
    Sometime an independent voice is useful in an MMP parliament.
    
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    August 14, 2017 2:13pm
Manolo

Stating the obvious:
http://freebeacon.com/politics/scaramucci-elements-washington-white-house-eject-trump/
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August 14, 2017 10:49am
Manolo

The enemy within:
http://aa.com.tr/en/europe/merkel-backs-un-proposal-to-take-more-refugees/882595

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday urged EU member states to do more to resettle refugees.

Speaking at a news conference in Berlin, Merkel backed a recent proposal by the UN to increase the number of refugees to be resettled in the EU from the earlier pledged figure of 20,000 to 40,000.
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August 14, 2017 10:52am
Adolf Fiinkensein

I’m surprised any sane people would waste their time commenting here!
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August 14, 2017 11:14am
- Don the Kiwi
  
  Are you calling yourself insane Adolf?
  We heartily agree.
  
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  August 14, 2017 11:16am
  - Adolf Fiinkensein
    
    You and whose army?
    
    Can’t you simply speak for yourself?
    
    Only cowards and weaklings hide behind ‘we.’
    
    It so happens I rarely visit this thread and now I can tell you the next visit will not be for a very long time.
    
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    August 14, 2017 12:12pm
    - Don the Kiwi
      
      Bloody good show – WE’ll miss you, like a headache.
      
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      August 14, 2017 12:13pm
      - Paulus Gnome
        
        Like the Angry one, oh wait, he really was quite entertaining . . .
        
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        August 14, 2017 12:30pm
- VicParking
  
  You are right. The moon must be full, they must have”Blood coming out of their wherever”, they have lost their medication and the synthetic dope must be kicking in. Time to go back to bed.
  
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  August 14, 2017 2:24pm
  - Gabby
    
    They must be Barking Vic.
    
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    August 14, 2017 6:26pm
stigie

Why did you then Adolf..?
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August 14, 2017 11:17am
oldgolfer

I have worn the hair shirt for you all today and listened to Morning Report.
I’m glad I did because the Dipton farmer gave Mr Espiner a fair serve on National’s new policy on the worst young offenders.
It was abundantly clear Espiner didn’t agree with the policy – that’s fine, but his bias was obvious.
BE raised his voice, spoke over him at times – it’s normally Espiner speaking over the guest – and told him twice he (Espiner) didn’t know what he was talking about.
Go on, take one for the team and have a wee listen.
I think the debates are going to be very interesting.
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August 14, 2017 11:20am
- Keeping Stock
  
  Here’s the link, for anyone who is interested. Kudos to BE for not putting up with Espiner’s hectoring.
  
  http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/337115/military-camp-scheme-has-never-been-tried-before-pm
  
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  August 14, 2017 12:00pm
  - Rachael Membery
    
    I would have thought that a hierarchical institution like the army would be perfect for young gang members, they already understand the pecking order.
    Guyon Espiner, I am not sure why you think that the PM has to answer to you.
    
    If you have all of the answers, which it would seem that you think that you do, why don’t you run for parliament?
    
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    August 14, 2017 12:47pm
    - waikatogirl
      
      The added benefit of the army being in charge is that the boot camp at Waiouru is miles from anywhere. The isolation away from their usual ‘patch’ will be unsettling and make it more difficult to make a bolt for freedom.
      
      Guyon couldn’t quite grasp what Bill was saying that this type of boot camp for the worst offenders hadn’t been tried before. Talk about Bill being a rock, he held his ground, and got his message across.
      
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      August 14, 2017 1:11pm
      - VicParking
        
        Guyon could not grasp the Tooth Fairies balls if she handed them to him
        
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        August 14, 2017 2:32pm
      - Gabby
        
        Bingles was careful to say ‘in New Zealand’, so it has been tried before. And unsuccessfully I’m guessing, or we’d hear all about it.
        
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        August 14, 2017 6:24pm
    - Shaun the Sheep
      
      RM: Re your question for Espiner -why don’t you run for parliament?
      Why would he want to immerse himself in the cut and thrust? Or be held accountable for anything?
      He already has tenure at the Propaganda Ministry.
      
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      August 14, 2017 2:20pm
  - GazzaW
    
    Just listened to it KS. It was good to see Espiner taken down by the PM. What an arrogant know-all dickhead.
    
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    August 14, 2017 4:10pm
    - Gabby
      
      The arrogant know-all dickhead needs another name for his boot camps now guzzla.
      
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      August 14, 2017 6:21pm
  - Rachael Membery
    
    A meme for BE the Rock?
    
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    August 14, 2017 9:02pm
    - Gabby
      
      He needs a saga. What’s the saga?
      
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      August 14, 2017 10:20pm
cubit

Now that Comrade Kim has clearly threatened Nuclear Strikes, could all of the organisers of the Anti War and Anti Nuclear movement tell me where the protests are to be held directly telling Mr Kim we are very upset and wish to have him take notice of us or else we ex communicate him from the world.

How silly of me. He is the “legal” leader of the DPRK and is entitled to go to war and we cant excommunicate him.
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August 14, 2017 11:22am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  ‘D’PRK is actually still officially at war with South Korea, both sides claiming whole Korean peninsula belongs to them, just not much shooting going on.
  
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  August 14, 2017 12:30pm
- kowtow
  
  Those “anti war/anti nuke” pricks were only ever anti west. Soviet agents of change/useful idiots/ agent provocateur. Fuck ’em.
  The funny thing is had they marched in Moscow back in the day it would have been off to the gulag.
  
  Bit like the trades unions obeying Moscows’ instructions against the “imperialist” war effort when Stalin was supplying Hitler with war material and Britain and its Dominions stood alone against Nazism.
  
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  August 14, 2017 12:44pm
big bruv

Notice how the sporting media are desperately trying to build interest in the female rugby world cup?
The suggestion is that we must all be damn proud of the team and that they are now automatically at the level of the mens team simply because they wear a black uniform.
The simple truth is that very few have ever heard of them, most would not bother watching them and most did not even know there was a female RWC.
As for the rest of the world, they don’t know its on either.
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August 14, 2017 11:31am
- MT_Tinman
  
  Not quite true. While looking (unsuccessfully) for independent comment on one of the best test centuries I’ve watched I notice the Guardian are currently championing Women’s (i.e. second rate) sport including the rugby travesty.
  
  Maybe it’s a left-wing thing.
  
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  August 14, 2017 11:57am
  - big bruv
    
    The Guardian?…did you feel dirty after looking at it?
    
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    August 14, 2017 12:45pm
- mikenmild
  
  Hi big bruv. I’m not sure what upsets you the most: attention being given to women’s sport, rugby or a New Zealand sports team generally.
  
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  August 14, 2017 1:00pm
  - big bruv
    
    Hi Mike.
    I don’t care about the attention given to far inferior female sport. What I do object to is the way that we are being fed the bullshit line about it being world class sport and that our female rugby players are anything other than rubbish.
    And, of course I dislike the endless lies about NZ rugby in general, but that’s another story.
    
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    August 14, 2017 2:46pm
  - Gabby
    
    It’s the bigblub trifecta.
    
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    August 14, 2017 6:17pm
Dafixeruppa

Can anyone tell me why my posts now show “Awaiting Moderation”
Have I done something wrong that I am unaware of?
Could someone point me at the rules of engagement so I can refresh myself?
Thanks

Edit: this one didn’t for some reason, but my post on the “water tax” did
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August 14, 2017 11:40am
- Swifty
  
  Software bug, I am told. Happens to us all.
  
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  August 14, 2017 11:53am
  - Dafixeruppa
    
    Ah thanks, I thought maybe I had run foul of something 🙂
    
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    August 14, 2017 12:36pm
    - Rachael Membery
      
      Water? 😉
      
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      August 14, 2017 12:49pm
  - Colville
    
    I seem to have had a comment on the garrett thread vanish along with the reply to it. is that a bug too?
    
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    August 14, 2017 1:15pm
    - VicParking
      
      You have to press the Post Comment button.
      
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      August 14, 2017 2:35pm
      - stigie
        
        I to noticed that a comment from starboard and myself had been removed from the DG post.
        Must say we weren’t favouring the ginger Hughes at all and got slightly out of hand !~
        
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        August 14, 2017 4:09pm
      - Colville
        
        stigie.
        I think it was you that replied to my comment about waking up to unwelcome sodomy 🙂
        
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        August 14, 2017 4:23pm
      - stigie
        
        Well, i would hate to think what it would be like waking up to welcomed sodomy Colville..?
        
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        August 14, 2017 6:05pm
Happychappy

Jacinta is definately going after the young voter with the 2015 policy revival of free driving lesson and budgeting classes in high schools at a cost or should I say Labours guess of Thirty million dollar. So the cost of having a Labour Government is rising and the promise of no additional taxes is fading. Get ready to get less in your pay packets folks or Two Ticks Blue could help to stop it.
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August 14, 2017 12:18pm
- realityczech
  
  The Labour party need budgeting classes.
  
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  August 14, 2017 12:36pm
- kowtow
  
  Great strategy!
  
  Young voters don’t vote , much.
  
  And she thinks she has what it takes to run the country?
  
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  August 14, 2017 12:46pm
  - Rachael Membery
    
    They are good ideas. Going for the parent of the youth vote lol.
    
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    August 14, 2017 1:17pm
- waikatogirl
  
  Not only free driving lessons and budgeting classes in schools, Cindy reminded us all of night classes that were cancelled. She signalled night classes would once again bloom at our schools for anyone with a free evening.
  
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  August 14, 2017 1:20pm
  - Rachael Membery
    
    Not free for the government.
    
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    August 14, 2017 9:10pm
- MCos
  
  As a comparison vote health for the current year is $45mil/day.
  By the way how much did that flag referendum fiasco cost again?
  Having said that it’s still not an insignificant amount of money that would need to be justified. If the effect is to make the roads safer places sounds like it could be worthwhile idea.
  
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  August 14, 2017 1:33pm
  - starboard
    
    26 million is nothing..Klarkula chucked 80 million at ” The Arts ” before she was given the arse, what a complete waste of money. Liarbor are weapons when it comes to wasting taxpayers dosh.
    
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    August 14, 2017 3:03pm
- Paulus
  
  I thought at present you have to be 18 to vote or will Jacinta drop the age to 14 to cover her new voting bribes ?
  
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  August 14, 2017 2:19pm
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    Jacinda please.
    
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    August 14, 2017 2:23pm
    - Colville
      
      Cindy.
      
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      August 14, 2017 4:26pm
- VicParking
  
  Maybe she has’nt clicked that you have to be 18 to vote.
  
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  August 14, 2017 2:40pm
  - Rachael Membery
    
    I like the comment that Jacinda is old enough to be a grandmother, shall I admit that I was technically a grandmother at 34, the father of that grandchild also paid child support all of the way through despite finding out that he was the father after the birth and not being aware of the pregnancy.
    
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    August 14, 2017 3:11pm
realityczech

Hugh Pavletich has forgotten that under the last Labour govt the gap between rich and poor rose to the highest level in our nations history, and Clark managed to do that during a time of economic prosperity across the Western world.

By the time National came to power the prosperity was gone and so was the money, wasted on unaffordable election bribes.
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August 14, 2017 12:43pm
- starboard
  
  Correct. Taxed the snot out of us for 9 years then left the cupboard bare for when National took over.
  Cullen should have been hung for treason, instead, he got a knighthood and a cruisy job.
  
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  August 14, 2017 1:07pm
  - Manolo
    
    Because in NZ Labour and Labour lite are two sides of the same devalued socialist coin.
    
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    August 14, 2017 2:00pm
- Harriet
  
  “………By the time National came to power the prosperity was gone and so was the money, wasted on unaffordable election bribes……”
  
  And she increased the public service by 52% — and therefor increased the wage bill by 52%, year on year, and maintaining unionism and left leaning thinking. The biggest unarmed robbery in NZ’s history — as Rob Muldoon would have put it. 😎
  
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  August 14, 2017 1:37pm
sooty

Jacinda, going after the youth vote. Seen as she is one her self.
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August 14, 2017 12:51pm
- MCos
  
  Years ago our neighbours bought their lad some new clothes.
  His response
  I can’t wear them. Old people of twenty wear clothes like that!
  
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  August 14, 2017 1:08pm
Rachael Membery

It seems that ‘we’ are everywhere 😉
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11903860
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August 14, 2017 12:55pm
Fletch

Well, well, well.. It’s the 14th year in a row that all the finalists in Google’s coding competition have been male.

http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/13/google-code-jam-finalists-are-all-men-for-14th-year-in-a-row/

Maybe James Damore was making some valid points after all.
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August 14, 2017 12:57pm
- Lucia Maria
  
  Or maybe you and the Daily Caller didn’t read & understand his entire point of view correctly and thus are attributing a different conclusion to the Google Jam results than is warranted.
  
  Maybe women aren’t as obsessed with coding in competitions the way men are.
  
  Many years ago I used to play Magic the Gathering (back when V3 came out). I used to play for fun and to socialise. One time only I went to one of those competitive evenings where the obsessives (mostly guys) would play. It was not fun, so I never did it again.
  
  I just had a look at the Google Code Jam puzzles, because that’s what they are, puzzles. Again, not really fun or real world, something that is necessary to solve someone’s problem for them. So, for someone like me, I’d look at it and decide to spend my time elsewhere.
  
  Point being, the results don’t mean what you think they mean, ie that women are less capable of programming than men.
  
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  August 14, 2017 4:41pm
- Gabby
  
  And how were they selected?
  
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  August 14, 2017 6:08pm
starboard

Doesn’t pay to throw ya wharno around the place…

“Following Jermain’s death, Cooper denied she had hurt the toddler, and shifted the blame to another grandchild, claiming they hit him over the head with an iPad.
Cooper later acknowledged she threw Jermain down her hallway, killing him.”

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/95750205/jury-begins-deliberations-in-case-of-grandmother-accused-of-murdering-grandson
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August 14, 2017 1:00pm
itstricky

Someone killed in the US for stuffed up ideals and all KB can do is let JJ, RR and EAD run riot, uptick genocide statements and complain about Lorde.

The monkeys have finally taken over the zoo. Sad.
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August 14, 2017 1:09pm
- Inandout
  
  Lorde is not a monkey.
  
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  August 14, 2017 1:29pm
  - Shawn Herles
    
    “Lorde is not a monkey.”
    
    Absolutely right. That comparison is an insult to monkeys. They are capable of far more intellectual grunt than virtue signaling celebrities.
    
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    August 14, 2017 3:44pm
- Peter
  
  It’s interesting that when Islamic terrorism occurs, the left blogs rush to blame poverty, mental health, alienation, benefit levels, and so on.
  
  I wonder if they are doing likewise here? The “lone wolf” may have mental health issues and be frustrated about his lack of a job.
  
  Not saying that’s the case, but how did it feel when I said that? Like I was diverting?
  
  ’cause it should….
  
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  August 14, 2017 2:44pm
  - itstricky
    
    the left blogs rush to blame poverty, mental health, alienation, benefit levels
    
    Do they?
    
    The “lone wolf” may have mental health issues
    
    Maybe he does. Well, he’d have to, really.
    
    What grates, what is my point, is that even after an event like that, the monkeys are still here, unchallenged (except for one), spurting crap about hate groups, false flag and white genocide as if the actions were legit and welcome.
    
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    August 14, 2017 3:13pm
    - Shawn Herles
      
      “unchallenged (except for one)”
      
      So challenge them yourself. Whining that not enough other people are doing so is lazy.
      
      EAD gets challenged a lot here. Some of the others are just parody trolls we ignore.
      
      And I remember you whining about people criticizing Islamic Jihadists and Muslim immigration, which has killed far more people recently.
      
      And where were you when a Leftist tried to assassinate several Republican Congressmen, or when Black Lives Matter thugs were beating people up and destroying property?
      
      Your bias is showing.
      
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      August 14, 2017 3:49pm
      - itstricky
        
        So challenge them yourself.
        
        I had already. Perhaps you didn’t read it. I don’t blame you, what with 14 upticks for “white genocide” getting everyone so excited. It may have been a troll comment but clearly there’s a sad & bad element to KB who think it’s the truth.
        
        Your only contribution seems to have been to bag Lorde for daring to mention an evil doing. How daring and intellectual.
        
        And I remember you whining about people criticizing Islamic Jihadists
        
        That’s a load of crap. Well, no, I imagine what’s happened there is that you’ve been unable to distinguish between disagreeing with you and agreeing with terrorists – so many seem to think only in black & white.
        
        and Muslim immigration, which has killed
        
        Because all Muslims are not Muslim terrorists, most likely. Again a misunderstanding on your behalf. Black & white thinking, again.
        
        And where were you when a Leftist tried to assassinate several Republican Congressmen, or when Black Lives Matter thugs were beating people
        
        I don’t know – you tell me, you seem to have all the information to hand and seem to be able to tell me what I have done…
        
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        August 14, 2017 5:35pm
    - Peter
      
      Do they?
      
      Every time.
      
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      August 15, 2017 8:44am
- Lance
  
  The Nazi’s don’t listen, neither do the far left idiots so after 45,391 attempts, I can’t be bothered anymore.
  Shit spouting halfwits gotta be shit spouting halfwits
  
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  August 14, 2017 3:33pm
- EAD_TWO
  
  2 comments this morning on GD thay created some healthy debate and apparently I’m “running riot”.
  
  You need to get a grip mate – the MSM narrative is being shown up for the fraud that it is ??
  
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  August 14, 2017 10:23pm
Fletch

The world kickboxing champ, Andrew Tate, also trolls Twitter like a champ.

1/ It turns out that my appearance has no bearing on my gender either. So I intend to change the way I look absolutely zero. But I’m a girl

2/ I’m a girl because this is how I’ve decided I feel most comfortable and gender isn’t biologically controlled.

3/ After watching athletics this weekend. Thank god those right wing nazis can’t stop me competing in the sport I love under my real gender

4/ I can’t wait to break a chicks jaw in 12 places and be the best female kickboxer in history! I’m a woman now so it’s totally fair.

5/ Also. I’m a lesbian transgender so im going to carry on fucking girls exactly as before.

6/ ANYONE WHO DOESNT SUPPORT ME IS A TRANSPHOBIC NAZI.

7/ I don’t identify as him or her I prefer the title “best female kickboxer ever”

8/ I will hold all the records for hardest female kick and punch and most fights ever won. I can’t wait to receive the praise I deserve.

9/ to all the haters saying I’m not a real girl. Lol. Then how come I’m female kickboxing champion and changed my name to Amy?

10/ I just hope trump does what I’ve done and becomes first ever female president and the left would support him fully.

12/ I expect to win woman of the year like that other dude did. I’ll go buy a dress. EVERYONE SUPPORT ME DONT BE A NAZI.

13/ omg I can’t believe trump doesn’t trust me with grenades he thinks I’m crazy or something? Lol no I’m a normal girl. SUPPORT ME.

14/ DONT ASSUME MY GENDER NAZIS.

http://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2017/08/12/girl-power-kickboxing-world-champ-andrew-tate-trolls-sjws-claims-hes-shes-a-trans-woman/
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August 14, 2017 1:16pm
- itstricky
  
  Don’t you hate trolls though, Fletch?
  
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  August 14, 2017 1:32pm
- UpandComer
  
  Thank-you for referring me to that.
  
  It’s so funny because he’s exactly right.
  
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  August 14, 2017 6:10pm
Shawn Herles

“and all KB can do is let JJ, RR and EAD run riot”

It’s not up to us, it’s up to DPF, and he allows a wide latitude and freedom of speech within the rules. Perhaps you could contact David and insist that he ban people you disapprove of. I’m sure he’ll be receptive.
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August 14, 2017 1:20pm
- itstricky
  
  Who said anything about banning?
  
  Perhaps you could challenge EAD’s posts? I note your apathy. I imagine it will be the same apathy when “The Muzzies” strike next?
  
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  August 14, 2017 1:30pm
  - mikenmild
    
    Shawn doesn’t exactly agree with white supremacists like EAD, but maybe he’s like Trump, who won’t condemn people who share his overall aims.
    
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    August 14, 2017 1:48pm
    - Manolo
      
      You must be in CNN’s payroll, milky.
      
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      August 14, 2017 1:59pm
      - kowtow
        
        Worse than that , he’s on our payroll and he spends his day posting here on our dollar!
        
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        August 14, 2017 3:22pm
    - Shawn Herles
      
      “Shawn doesn’t exactly agree with white supremacists like EAD, but maybe he’s like Trump, who won’t condemn people who share his overall aims.”
      
      Hello mikenwank.
      
      Your lying again. You know you’re lying because you have seen and noted me challenging EAD many times over the years, and condemned him many times, And you know that I don’t share his overall goals. I have no interest in White separatism or Jew hatred.
      
      And I noted your disgusting, sick, gutter level comment a few months back about me having to care for my mother when she was seriously ill.
      
      Once a gutter level lying piece of shit always a gutter level lying piece of shit.
      
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      August 14, 2017 3:59pm
  - Shawn Herles
    
    “Perhaps you could challenge EAD’s posts? I note your apathy.”
    
    I have done, repeatedly over the years, and several times recently.
    
    So the only thing you’re “noting” is your own fact free brain farts.
    
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    August 14, 2017 3:55pm
    - itstricky
      
      Still no condemnation then? Still just a dig @ Lorde for the day?
      
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      August 14, 2017 5:37pm
gump

The front page of Reddit had this fantastic summation of the recent events in Charlottesville:

“Behold the Genetically Superior master race”

https://i.redd.it/4d3ybkra0kfz.jpg
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August 14, 2017 1:44pm
- Fletch
  
  LOL, funny, but I doubt that the louts in Antifa look any better.
  
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  August 14, 2017 1:53pm
big bruv

Nobody really believes that Caster Semenya is a chick do they?
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August 14, 2017 2:40pm
- All_on_Red
  
  Congratulations to Semenya winning the Women’s 800m Gold at the World Champs.
  It took balls to do that.
  
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  August 14, 2017 3:25pm
- Longknives
  
  Caster lives as a man and is married to a woman.
  Yet ‘she’ competes in Athletics as a woman.
  It makes a mockery of International sport- ‘She’ is simply taking the piss…
  
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  August 14, 2017 4:45pm
Ross12

Why would the NZ Labour Party be asking the NZ High Commission in Aussie about Barnaby Joyce’s (ie Australian Deputy PM) citizenship / nationality details ?
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/blogs/andrew-bolt/now-barnaby-joyce-may-be-a-kiwi/news-story/94e8f2873acc6a75fff08603e374f568

Is this what they call a priority during an election campaign ?
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August 14, 2017 3:28pm
- Gabby
  
  They want to be prepared for his deportation.
  
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  August 14, 2017 5:58pm
UpandComer

Ardern has said kids will get 5 free driving lessons and their learner’s and restricted covered https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/95743899/labour-relaunches-toolkit-for-teenagers-leaving-school

AA driving school lessons in Wellington are $70.00 each.$350.00 per student.http://www.aa.co.nz/drivers/learn-to-drive-the-aa-way/driving-lessons/

NZTA has the fees for licenses:
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=NZTA+license+fees&rlz=1C1GGRV_enAU751AU751&oq=NZTA+license+fees&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i65l2j69i60l2j35i39.2031j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

If you add the fees you get $228.70. Add that to free driving lessons you get $578.70

So Labour’s offering $578.70 to “every student” regardless of their parent’s income. Cuthbert’s and Grammar parents didn’t get that way by turning down free shekels, so expect maximum uptake.

The 2013 census found 303,774 15-19 year olds in 2013 in NZ – that’s if you go to StatsNZ and drill down into age brackets.

Population has grown, and subtracting 15 year olds that’s probably about right for now for eligible kids. Shit let’s say it’s only 250,000.

So the policy would cost roughly $144,675,000 per year if every student takes it up, which they will, because it’s free money

Ardern has said this fee will cost $50million per year

Dividing 50million by the cost of 5 lessons plus license fees alone means an assumption only 86,000 students will take nearly $600.00 in free value.

They’re assuming only one fifth of people eligible to a free $600.00 will take the free money for their kids.

Can you get anyone to find the actual number of 16plus year olds at high school and run this?

This is beyond ridiculous. To get to that $50mill per year figure you have to either assume a fraction of eligible kids will take the free money, or every kid will only do one of five free lessons.

What the fuck are they doing. This is a minor policy, and it’s orders of magnitude wrong on it’s costing assumptions.
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August 14, 2017 4:41pm
Longknives

I’ve been offline for a couple of weeks on Holiday
Did anyone mention Guy Williams (who is allegedly a Comedian) shrieking for The Crusaders to change their name?
Apparently it is offensive to Islam…
https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/celebrities/95362569/guy-williams-do-the-crusaders-have-kiwi-sports-worst-name
Rumour has it this lunatic Guy Williams is going to run for The Greens in the future…Figures.
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August 14, 2017 4:49pm
- itstricky
  
  (a) you realise the column wasn’t serious, right?
  (b) he doesn’t just mention Muslims: the ruthless and widespread massacre of Muslims, Jews and other non-Christians
  (c) he doesn’t specifically mention only being offensive to Islam
  
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  August 14, 2017 5:47pm
- Left Right and Centre
  
  Everything offends them – they should just fark off
  
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  August 15, 2017 9:04am
publicwatchdog

Serious question Kiwibloggers.

WHICH PARTS OF THE RADIO NZ CHARTER ARE BEING BREACHED (in your opinion)BY USING PAID PR SHILL$ AS ‘POLITICAL COMMENTATORS’
ON RNZ NEWS & CURRENT AFFAIRS?

http://www.radionz.co.nz/about/charter

The Radio New Zealand CharterThe Radio New Zealand Charter Te Tūtohinga o Te Reo Irirangi o Aotearoa

English

The Radio New Zealand Amendment Act received Royal assent from 1 April 2016.

The legislation makes some amendments to the Radio New Zealand Charter.

The updated Radio New Zealand Charter is below.

The Charter is an important document which sets out our operating principles.

It defines what we do so that everyone – staff, listeners and other stake-holders – can easily understand our objectives and what we are expected to provide for the New Zealand taxpayer.

The Charter is reviewed every five years. Radio New Zealand Amendment Act 2016.

Charter and Principles of Radio New Zealand

Purpose

(1) As an independent public service broadcaster, the public radio company’s purpose is to serve the public interest.

(2) Freedom of thought and expression are foundations of democratic society and the public radio company as a public service broadcaster plays an essential role in exercising these freedoms.

(3) The public radio company fosters a sense of national identity by contributing to tolerance and understanding, reflecting and promoting ethnic, cultural, and artistic diversity and expression.

(4) The public radio company provides reliable, independent, and freely accessible news and information.

Delivery

(5) In achieving its purpose, the public radio company must endeavour to provide services of the highest quality, which—

(a) are predominantly and distinctively of New Zealand:

(b) inform, entertain, and enlighten the people of New Zealand:

(c) are challenging, innovative, and engaging:

(d) foster critical thought, and informed and wide-ranging debate:

(e) stimulate, support, and reflect the diversity of cultural expression, including drama, comedy, literature, and the performing arts:

(f) stimulate, support, and reflect a wide range of music, including New Zealand composition and performance:

(g) reflect New Zealand’s cultural identity, including Māori language and culture:

(h) provide awareness of the world and of New Zealand’s place in it:

(i) provide comprehensive, independent, accurate, impartial, and balanced regional, national, and international news and current affairs:

(j) provide programmes which balance special interest with those of wide appeal, recognising the interests of all age groups:

(k) contribute towards intellectual and spiritual development:

(l) include an international service to the South Pacific in both English and Pacific languages:

(m) take account of services provided by other broadcasters:

(n) take advantage of the most effective means of delivery:

(o) preserve and archive broadcasting material of historical interest.

8A Principles of operation

(1) The public radio company must, in fulfilling its Charter, exhibit a sense of social responsibility by—

(a) having regard to the interests of the community in which it operates; and

(b) endeavouring to accommodate or encourage those interests when able to do so.

(2) The public radio company must, in fulfilling its Charter, ensure that it is not influenced by the commercial interests of other parties.

(3) The public radio company must, in fulfilling its Charter, ensure that it operates in a financially responsible manner and, for this purpose, that it—

(a) prudently manages its assets and liabilities; and

(b) endeavours to ensure—

(i) its long-term financial viability; and

(ii) that it acts as a successful going concern.

8B Commercial-free broadcasting

(1) The public radio company must, in fulfilling its Charter, provide its services in a commercial-free manner.

(2) Subsection (1) is subject to subsection (3).

(3) The public radio company may provide 1 or more of the services specified in subsection

(4), if the provision of the service or services—

(a) is consistent with its role as a public broadcaster; and

(b) does not impact adversely on the provision of its services under its Charter; and

(c) is a fair and appropriate use of public funds.

(4) Subsection (3) applies to the following:

(a) providing media services to countries outside New Zealand, other than Radio New Zealand International or any radio services that might replace, in whole or in part, Radio New Zealand International:

(b) authorising other providers of media services (whether by sale or licensing) to broadcast or publish content that has already been broadcast or published in a commercial-free manner by the public radio company:

(c) arranging for providers of delivery platforms to provide access to live broadcasts of the content of the public radio company, but only if—

(i) the content is free to access on the public radio company’s services; and

(ii) the content is commercial-free, whether or not the delivery platforms are free to access; and

(iii) any advertising or sponsorship on the delivery platforms is not expressly or impliedly presented as advertising or sponsorship carried or endorsed by the public radio company (other than announcements of the public radio company’s own services).

(5) In this section,—

commercial-free

(a) means—

(i) free to access; and
(ii) without advertising and sponsorship; but
(b) to avoid doubt, does not include announcements by the public radio company of its own services

delivery platform—

(a) means any method of transmitting audio, visual, or audiovisual content; and
(b) includes (but is not limited to) Internet sites, applications, and software.
……”
#SackThePRHacks

Penny Bright
Independent candidate for Tamaki.

Exposing the $1.6 BILLION Tamaki ‘Regeneration’ – GENTRIFICATION $CAM
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August 14, 2017 4:49pm
- Longknives
  
  Sorry Penny you lost me at “Publicwatchdog”…
  
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  August 14, 2017 4:51pm
  - stigie
    
    Oh fuck off to the Stranded with ya shite Penny…..
    Oops, she already has !~
    
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    August 14, 2017 5:33pm
- Lucia Maria
  
  Penny’s comment is 881 words.
  
  In comparison, it took mikenmild 29 comments yesterday to get just over that number.
  
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  August 14, 2017 5:46pm
  - MT_Tinman
    
    Both probably made equal sense.
    
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    August 14, 2017 7:51pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Good God, have the men in white coats not turned up yet?
  
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  August 14, 2017 8:51pm
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Oh, and by the way Penny, do you have a comment to make (with your anti-corruption hat on of course) about the Metiria scandal?
    Or are you going to continue with your usual shameful practice of not answering any questions which are put to you on this blog?
    
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    August 14, 2017 9:43pm
Lucia Maria

Yesterday’s General Debate Commenting Stats

304 comments made by 70 commenters

Most Popular was VicParking on 168 votes (averaging 19 per comment), with 21 total negative votes.

Least Popular was mikenmild on 389 votes (averaging 13 per comment), with 162 positive votes, so he was 2nd place for most popular comments. So, mike could almost have been most and least popular at the same time!

Most prolific was mikenmild on 29 comments.

And most verbose was mikenmild on 910 words. 2nd place went to Kimbo, whom I’m sure will pleased he’s getting closer.

Sorry, no fancy formatting today. I’m going to have to work on outputting the totals into html (again, later some time as I’ve got a Calculus assignment to work on) so I don’t have type this part out.
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August 14, 2017 5:07pm
Lucia Maria

Funny and apt!

John Oliver to Trump: “Nazis are a lot like cats: if they like you, it’s probably because you’re feeding them”

Link to Tweet
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August 14, 2017 5:26pm
- UpandComer
  
  “Trannies are a lot like cats: if they like you, it’s probably because you’re feeding them”
  
  “Welfare recipient’s are a lot like cats: if they like you, it’s probably because you’re feeding them”
  
  “Antifa are a lot like cats: if they like you, it’s probably because you’re feeding them”
  
  “Communist’s are a lot like cats: if they like you, it’s probably because you’re feeding them”
  
  “X are a lot like cat’s: if they like you, it’s probably because you’re feeding them”
  
  It has zero value as political comedy because it’s semantically inert. You can put any noun into the subject of that sentence, and it’s the same thing.
  
  Oliver regards any group of white people larger then 6 meeting and discussing politics as a Nazi rally. He’s called every Republican candidate for as long as he’s been a talking head a Nazi.
  
  This is John Oliver to every non-democrat, in fact of any race, in the United States.
  
  You’re a Nazi bigot! No, I’m a libertarian.
  You’re a Nazi bigot! No, I’m just Right Wing. You’re a Nazi bigot! No, I’m a populist.
  You’re a Nazi bigot! No, I’m a Nationalist.
  You’re a Nazi bigot! Yes, I am.
  
  https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9b9e69d4f24742899d58a15b044883ff27accc89288a111189ef314125c28644.jpg
  
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  August 14, 2017 6:18pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    BOOM
    
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    August 14, 2017 6:34pm
    - Gabby
      
      BOttOM
      
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      August 14, 2017 6:36pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Gobbling gobby Gabby.
        Wassamatta, hard gay at work?
        
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        August 14, 2017 6:49pm
      - Gabby
        
        Big tough gay eh Allgonorrhead.
        
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        August 14, 2017 7:58pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        They reckon you can suck a golf ball through a garden hose. True?
        
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        August 14, 2017 8:05pm
      - Gabby
        
        You shouldn’t believe everything your mums tell you gonnhy.
        
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        August 14, 2017 8:16pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Your Mum told me that actually. Well I think that’s what she said. Bad manners really, talking with your mouth full.
        Taught you everything you know huh. Good boy.
        Gobble gobble.
        
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        August 14, 2017 8:20pm
      - Gabby
        
        They didn’t grow back did they gonnhy. Never mind, your tights will fit better now.
        
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        August 14, 2017 8:33pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Is that the best you got?
        Lame.
        Gobbling Gabby eh. How long a ban for your next Strike?
        Tick tock, Gonna happen.
        
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        August 14, 2017 8:38pm
      - Gabby
        
        That what you’re angling for is it gonnhy. Try harder. Mum reckoned you lacked stamina.
        
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        August 14, 2017 8:42pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Never say I don’t look after your Mum
        http://www.ebay.com/itm/MEDICAL-INFLATABLE-RUBBER-DONUT-ROUND-CUSHION-RING-pressure-sores-/181203256401
        
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        August 14, 2017 8:45pm
      - stigie
        
        I reckon we should have a competition on who’s best at looking after someone else’s mum and making the best out of the sordid situation..?
        AoR or starboard ?
        
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        August 14, 2017 9:01pm
      - Gabby
        
        Nice of you to donate your ring gonnhy but what will you talk out of now.
        
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        August 14, 2017 9:51pm
  - Lucia Maria
    
    And Trump has called the US intelligence guys Nazis, but not these guys. Go figure.
    
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    August 14, 2017 7:09pm
    - All_on_Red
      
      Forgive him Lucia. You’re a Christian. And a liar.
      Hey, found that evidence of collusion between Trump and Russia yet?
      Lol at the nutter. Sooooo funny with your collusion delusion.
      
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      August 14, 2017 8:03pm
Lucia Maria

Photographer captures moment car slammed into counterprotesters in Charlottesville. It was his last day on the job.

Shows people tossed into the air and shoes left on the road.
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August 14, 2017 5:36pm
- realityczech
  
  Did you get footage of black racists gunning down whites in Dallas ?
  
  Of your fellow Trump haters kidnapping and torturing a disabled kid for being white ?
  
  Even after all that, Obama still spoke out in support of racist black groups. He appointed as race ambassador a man who had openly called for the killing of whites.
  
  No surprise you are okay with that though Lucia.
  
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  August 14, 2017 7:50pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    She’s got Trump Delusion Syndrome reeeal bad. It’s twisting her up.
    She should just forgive him. Pray for him. You know. Like a good Christian does.
    Hey, I see Poland loves Trump. Especially those shipments of gas.
    Heck, Trump getting gas to Poland and wrecking Russia’s influence. Wow, I guess it makes those who think Trump is colluding with Putin look really really really stupid. What nutters. Lol
    
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    August 14, 2017 8:14pm
gorse

Just watched the 5-30 news. On it, I saw jacinda Adern use the word “gotten” instead of got. she has been watching too much American TV. This shows her up as not too bright in. My opinion.

Also the Police described the firearm used in the last shooting incident as a “semi automatic machine rifle”. No such thing, but good to get them closer to machine guns in the public’s mind so banning will become easier in the future.
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August 14, 2017 5:49pm
- itstricky
  
  Just watched the 5-30 news. On it, I saw jacinda Adern use the word “gotten” instead of got. she has been watching too much American TV. This shows her up as not too bright in. My opinion.
  
  If you’re going to take that tack, you should really make sure you get your full stops and capital letters sorted.
  
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  August 14, 2017 5:56pm
  - stigie
    
    ….eh….?
    
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    August 14, 2017 6:12pm
    - Happychappy
      
      stigie : The one positive thing about itstricky he is always happy and never upsets anyone and is so polite. I wonder whether he took lessons from the bright penny.
      
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      August 14, 2017 7:43pm
  - gorse
    
    I’m not trying to be the Prime Minister
    
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    August 14, 2017 6:21pm
    - mikenmild
      
      Isn’t there an internet law that any post criticising grammar will contain its own grammatical errors?
      
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      August 14, 2017 6:31pm
    - itstricky
      
      I’m not trying to be the Prime Ministerial
      
      You said using the wrong word showed her up as (quote) not too bright (unquote). Back peddle faster!
      
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      August 14, 2017 7:51pm
    - Gabby
      
      That’s becoming clear Bill.
      
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      August 14, 2017 9:53pm
  - realityczech
    
    Look like itstricky has a lesbo crush on Jacindarella
    
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    August 14, 2017 7:45pm
- kowtow
  
  The police union will of course use this to attack licensed firearms holders , talking of not too bright ,ignoring the fact that criminals are criminals because they don’t respect the law in the first place and no amount of tweaking the regulations will change that.
  
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  August 14, 2017 6:30pm
- wiseowl
  
  My English teacher was very strong on ‘got’ and ‘gotten’.
  She said there is always an alternative.
  Gotten is an awful word.
  
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  August 14, 2017 7:27pm
  - realityczech
    
    We have gotten the point. Going on about it won’t makes us gottening it more.
    
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    August 14, 2017 7:53pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Gotten…. obsolete for us, current for US.
    
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    August 14, 2017 8:31pm
  - Brigitte
    
    Just don’t tell the Labour party about it. The way they’re going at the moment they’ll announce a new (syn)tax!
    
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    August 14, 2017 8:33pm
    - Brigitte
      
      Mind you it can be acceptable in a song – such as Marc Almond & Gene Pitney – Something`s Gotten Hold Of My Heart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZTX0RBlqnM
      
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      August 14, 2017 8:47pm
- Gabby
  
  In Australia she’d have to stand down for that.
  
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  August 14, 2017 8:18pm
Stars And Stripes

Had a guy at work commit suicide a couple of weeks back and now everyone has to attend a 3 hour group session with some counsellors and other assorted quacks so we can share our feelings and grief.
Given the guy was really odd and hardly ever spoke to anyone what is the damn point as nobody I have spoken too has any feelings about it what so ever besides being ambivalent.
Box ticking from new age management types who want to be seen doing the right thing I suppose.
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August 14, 2017 6:23pm
- realityczech
  
  Do you get sausage rolls during the 3 hours session ?
  
  Those sorts of things are always better when there are sausage rolls, plus it has the added benefit of upsetting joyless vegetarians and the fashionably gluten intolerant.
  
  I think if workplaces gave out more sausage rolls there would be less suicides in the first place.
  
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  August 14, 2017 7:42pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  If you want 3 hours to yourself, you could arrive at the group grope and express such strong judgemental views against suicide that totally offend everyone… and gets you asked to leave…. or you could take the opposite stance and rejoice that your ex-colleague’s soul is now in paradise and how you wish all others in the room would hasten their demise.
  
  Personally, I’d tell your management to butt out of your spiritual /non-spiritual life…. or threaten to sue them for placing you in an “unsafe” emotional state.
  
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  August 14, 2017 8:47pm
- KevOB
  
  That’s probably illegal under some law or other. Its been proven that the outcomes from 200 different pscyh modalities were the same over a 10 year period. The initial diagnosis was irrelevant. That worried the commissioning US medical body at the time.
  Group “counselling” has been used in alcohol abuse programs and has brought about greater disturbance.
  These very dubious practices should be banned. There is no proof of healing but there is of harm.
  
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  August 15, 2017 8:46am
nasska

…..”everyone has to attend a 3 hour group session with some counsellors and other assorted quacks so we can share our feelings and grief”…..

Extra points will be awarded should you rend your garments & use more than one box of tissues. 🙂
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August 14, 2017 6:30pm
- stigie
  
  “Extra points will be awarded should you rend your garments”
  
  Is that before or after the group hug Nasska..?
  
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  August 14, 2017 7:19pm
  - nasska
    
    If you really want to advertise your heart stricken grief for some loser you weren’t related to, didn’t know & hadn’t spoken to then new age protocol would demand tears & rending before & after the group hug stigie.
    
    There’s nothing quite like public shows of emotion to shore up your rep as a caring, feeling human……not to mention that of a gross wanker.
    
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    August 14, 2017 7:28pm
  - Rachael Membery
    
    Rending before and tissues after?
    
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    August 14, 2017 9:40pm
fluffykiwi

Interesting thought on another “waste of money” from labour 5 Free (taxpayer paid) driving lessons. Well according to some driving schools in NZ complete beginners need approx. 20 – 25 lessons to become competent. So 5 free lessons are a waste unless the young person then goes on and pays for the other 15 lessons.
to quote “We tailor every lesson to the student and will let you know how you’re going, but in general, a complete beginner with a little practice can be taught to drive with approximately 20 lessons in an automatic car and 25 lessons in a manual car.” – Waimack driving School courtesy of google.
Long time since I passed my driving test.
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August 14, 2017 6:36pm
starboard

The Morrinsville shooters a ‘special’..druggy, outstanding warrants, general scumbag loser.
Never would have guessed. Wait for the hand-wringers, ” he’s a top bloke “…
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August 14, 2017 6:39pm
- Tauhei Notts
  
  I wonder if there something related to this at Waharoa. There were at least five police cars there when I went through at 8.30 p.m. And they were certainly not targeting speedsters.
  
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  August 14, 2017 9:36pm
Longknives

Lorde has spoken about Racial Tension in Virginia-
“I’m so, so sorry- All White people are responsible…”

Christ on a Bike- I wish this stupid child would get off her High Horse…
*Does this mean ALL Muslims are responsible for Terror attacks?
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August 14, 2017 7:08pm
- MT_Tinman
  
  Children, including very successful children, are supposed to get on their high horses.
  
  That is part of the youth experience.
  
  Blame not the young lady, who has done far more in her few years than you will ever do, but the slime that report her utterances like they have meaning.
  
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  August 14, 2017 8:03pm
  - sooty
    
    What’s she done? Lizzie had better be worryed, might get her to sing songs at rugby.
    
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    August 14, 2017 9:52pm
  - Jack5
    
    Have you seen Lorde dance?
    
    That’s why Lordie’s embarrassed at being white. She saw a video of herself.
    
    She ain’t got no rhythm.
    
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    August 14, 2017 10:09pm
    - Gabby
      
      That’s probably somethingist.
      
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      August 14, 2017 10:11pm
- Gabby
  
  I give her permission to make reparation on my behalf. She can afford it.
  
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  August 14, 2017 9:59pm
- KevOB
  
  Who is Lorde?
  What’s a puppy teenager from NZ opinion worth?
  
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  August 15, 2017 8:48am
EAD_TWO

False flag?

http://www.newnationalist.net/2017/08/13/an-examination-of-the-charlottesville-car-crash-accident-assault-or-staged-event/
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August 14, 2017 7:09pm
Manolo

Primitive Islam in Malaysia:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-malaysia-religion-idUSKBN1AN18T

Malaysia is investigating an international atheist organization, a minister said on Monday, after a picture of the group’s local chapter went viral, sparking claims that Muslim apostates were involved.

Some Malay atheists in Malaysia are worried and fearful – in recent days there was a call by a minister “to track them down” while a Muslim cleric issued a reminder that the penalty for apostasy under Islam is “death”.
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August 14, 2017 8:33pm
- Jack5
  
  If it weren’t for the British, Ghurka, Aussie, NZ, and Fijian soldiers in The Emergency, Malays would now be no.2 citizens to Communist Chinese.
  
  Did we do the right thing?
  
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  August 14, 2017 10:11pm
- simpleton1
  
  That imam sounded a bit mean, mentioning “Death”
  Not to worry, as the good moderate government Minister makes it sounds like a duck hunting sport., and never mentioned death for any body.
  (Whoops, ducks do die.)
  
  https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/391272
  Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Shahidan Kassim urged religious authorities to “hunt” Muslims involved in atheist groups.
  
  Shahidan said he will make the proposal to the relevant authorities including the mufti offices, which he said is in the interest of Islam.
  
  “I would like to propose that we go all out to hunt them… help us to identify these groups.
  
  “Secondly, we need to bring them back and fix their faith if they are Muslims,” he told a press conference in Parliament today..
  
  It seems that only muslims need a “fix” for talking to atheists.
  A Malaysian government Minister, seems to be such a helpful person.
  There is a worry that he could be perceived as being racist, as he has not offered any help to pure atheists.
  
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  August 14, 2017 11:48pm
sooty

Just a thought, do the schools all buy cars for the learner drivers? You would need a dozen for each school!
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August 14, 2017 9:56pm
- Left Right and Centre
  
  Residual value of poor abused vehicle zero – ha.
  
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  August 15, 2017 8:22am
Manolo

Ure & co celebrate:
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2017/aug/13/church-of-cannabis-denver-colorado
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August 14, 2017 10:00pm
- Sublime
  
  … holy smokes. Pretty awesome, … eh
  
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  August 14, 2017 11:10pm
Manolo

Anything is possible, anyone is suspect:
https://www.axios.com/steve-bannons-job-in-jeopardy-trump-suspects-him-of-leaking-2472208484.html
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