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igm

What in hell is going on here?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/108155476/jailed-drugdealer-escapes-deportation-as-govt-grants-him-nz-residency-behind-bars
This Sleeze-Galloway mongrel must be the worst politician ever elected to parliament by PN.
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October 28, 2018 8:00am
- Paulus
  
  Assume he has signed a paper to say he will vote Labour.
  
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  October 28, 2018 8:13am
  - Harkman
    
    There is absolutely no way this guy would be voting for any one other than Labour. Besides, being an EU citizen means when he is deported, he could live in any other European country if he is worried about the local police. There isn’t a week that goes by when we don’t add a Labour politician to the moron list, now it’s Sleeze-Galloway.
    
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    October 28, 2018 9:31am
    - RightFirstTime
      
      Fair to say that Lees-Galloway should have been on the moron list from the start.
      
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      October 28, 2018 12:18pm
      - Harkman
        
        Yes true but what is with this guy? Just look at him, why would anyone vote for him? It is that obvious.
        
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        October 28, 2018 1:13pm
  - backster
    
    You mean a cheque for a $million.
    
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    October 28, 2018 9:39am
- tas
  
  Didn’t Labour promise to slash immigration too?
  
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  October 28, 2018 8:24am
- artemisia
  
  There will be Questions from the Opposition. Many. Not that they will be answered. Or even addressed. Other than the Minister saying – I know stuff that you guys don’t so fuck off.
  
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  October 28, 2018 8:37am
  - GazzaW
    
    A golden opportunity created for Mark Mitchell to nail Lees-Galloway at QT this week. Lees-Galloway has a very short fuse and is prone to uncontrolled ranting – a prime candidate for the Witless Protection programme once he has lost his rag in the House. A private school boy with a big chip on his shoulder.
    
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    October 28, 2018 10:20am
- AgainstTheFlow
  
  Labour – soft on crime and criminals.
  
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  October 28, 2018 8:49am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    Soft cocks, all of them.
    
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    October 28, 2018 9:28am
  - Harkman
    
    The “Party of crime,” now who did I hear use that line??
    
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    October 28, 2018 9:33am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    A nation who is soft on criminals and which suppresses citizens who defend themselves is acting as if it wants more crime.
    
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    October 28, 2018 9:58am
- Richard
  
  Perhaps Mr Peters would like to explain to his voters and party why he supports a govt that does this kind of thing?
  
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  October 28, 2018 8:53am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    No chance. Explaining is losing and the minute Peter’s has to ‘explain something we will hear phrases like ‘listen sunshine’ and ‘my lawyer’s’
    
    If anyone needed something that has no potential to go bang from a nutcase only slightly more nuttier than than the recipient, it is the member for the Green Parrot, patron Saint to empty whiskey bottles and overall knobjockey.
    
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    October 28, 2018 9:34am
    - igm
      
      Paulus: He even needs security to follow him to the men’s room when he goes on a bender . . . seems he is a bit more worried than he shows.
      
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      October 29, 2018 7:53am
- Inandout
  
  Alias Karel Sroubek, please don’t say he has a Muslim family back in Czech.
  
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  October 28, 2018 8:53am
  - igm
    
    Inandout: Would not be surprised, Lees-Galloway supposedly spends a lot of time at the local mosque, a source of voting support and what else!
    
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    October 28, 2018 9:24am
  - Harkman
    
    “Chain migration” great, don’t be surprised if these clowns bring in a “VISA lottery system” next.
    
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    October 28, 2018 9:37am
- godruelf
  
  Lees-Galloway got it wrong on 2 counts of COL policy here reducing immigration and reducing prison numbers. guy should have already been paroled and on the plane out of the country.
  
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  October 28, 2018 8:57am
- Liberty
  
  Comrade Sleeze-Galloway will find some dubious UN convention
  That stops deporting low life scum.
  Just like labour did is with a terrorist a few years ago.
  Maybe his union comrades need a fixer. After all Col want
  Industrial relations to return to the 1970s winters if discontent .
  
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  October 28, 2018 9:09am
- Liberty
  
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  October 28, 2018 9:35am
- cmm
  
  Why did I waste my time doing it legally, counting my points, paying $2k in fees and various costs?
  
  Just bring drugs and you get the fast lane!
  
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  October 28, 2018 10:32am
- srylands
  
  This crazy stuff has consequences. The Australian embassy here will monitor media and send a report on this to Canberra. That will provide more evidence of the stark difference between Australian and New Zealand tolerance of crime by non citizens.
  
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  October 28, 2018 10:47am
  - starboard
    
    Unbelievable. I cant believe what I just read. They gave him residency ???!!!!
    WTF ?
    
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    October 28, 2018 11:38am
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The European Court of Human Rights has ruled a woman convicted by an Austrian court of calling the Prophet Mohammed a paedophile did not have her freedom of speech rights infringed.
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October 28, 2018 8:01am
- Swifty
  
  So?
  
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  October 28, 2018 8:02am
- JibberJabber
  
  Seriously, we need better trolls, the simpletons that post here just aren`t up to the task.
  
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  October 28, 2018 8:08am
  - Swifty
    
    It’s the subtext that is interesting – that there are things that some people don’t want us to talk about and will not let us talk about.
    
    Fascists.
    
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    October 28, 2018 8:10am
  - Northland Wahine
    
    Stop feeding them.
    
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    October 28, 2018 9:13am
  - GazzaW
    
    The trolling standards have deteriorated since the departure of ztev, his squirrel squad and mikey. They were pretty bad then mind you. Steffie, marquess, sam green and the mad mullah are just not up to the task.
    
    How’s the break going ztev? There’s no time off for good behaviour.
    
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    October 28, 2018 10:33am
- mandk
  
  Clearly, the law in the ECHR is an ass.
  
  Mohammed was most certainly a paedophile.
  
  What else do you call a 56 year old man who marries a six year old girl and has sex with her when she is nine?
  
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  October 28, 2018 8:12am
  - Swifty
    
    To me this reveals one of the major weaknesses of Islam and a main reason why it is such a retrograde and damaging force in the world today.
    
    At the time in the 7th Century, the taking of child brides among Arabian desert tribes may well have been the done thing. The trouble is with setting this Mohammed bloke up as the perfect man – is that Muslims today are commanded to replicate his actions and deeds – and that to even question the appropriateness of his actions then, to current times, attracts the most severe punishments.
    
    Hey presto – you’ve got whole populations living to 7th Century rules and behaviours and with no or very limited ability to adapt or modernise their morals, governance, ethics, behaviours etc etc.
    
    Islam is a disease of the human mind.
    
    It comprises a set of untruths, fallacies, restrictions and punishments (now and in the invented hereafter) made by men, for men.
    
    There is nothing divine about it.
    
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    October 28, 2018 8:25am
    - Simon
      
      “Mohammed was most certainly a paedophile”
      
      Mo was a paedo. That is a fact. The issue today is that his paedo ways are celebrated by Muslims. Mo is the perfect human who shows the true way including fucking children.
      
      https://www.bbc.com/news/world-south-asia-11217772
      
      The sexually abused dancing boys of Afghanistan
      
      In Afghanistan women are not allowed to dance in public, but boys can be made to dance in women’s clothing – and they are often sexually abused.
      
      One of the many examples of Muslim paedos.
      
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      October 28, 2018 8:45am
  - krazykiwi
    
    The ECHR’s definition of pedophile is someone who primarily engages in sex with a child. Apparently Mohammad had plenty of sex with adults, so anyone who claims he was a pedophile acting unlawfully. Utterly disgusting from ECHR judges whose daughters no doubt live in guarded, gated communities.
    
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    October 28, 2018 8:30am
    - sooty
      
      So it’s ok to have the odd child sex romp!
      Are you listerning Phool Goof. You pervert!
      
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      October 28, 2018 8:39am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      We shouldn’t fall into the ECHR trap of trying to prove in court exactly who M slept with: it should be of the EU’s business what people choose to say about long dead people.
      
      In a debate working out the truth is good. But it’s simply not a matter for a court decision unless there is defamation of a living person.
      
      They are just shit scared of violence from islamists the so-called anti-fascist Antifa.
      
      Fascism in Europe is back. Now represented by EU courts, religious nutters and so-called anti-fascists.
      
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      October 28, 2018 10:31am
      - Classic Liberal
        
        Sorry: ‘ it should be *none* of the EU’s business what people choose to say about long dead people.’
        
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        October 28, 2018 11:23am
- simpleton1
  
  It seems that Mohammad liked certain parts of young guys and girls
  
  Hadith Number 16245, Volume Title: “The Sayings of the Syrians,” Chapter Title: “Hadith of Mu’awiya Ibn Abu Sufyan”: “I saw the prophet – pbuh – sucking on the tongue or the lips of Al-Hassan son of Ali, may the prayers of Allah be upon him. For no tongue or lips that the prophet sucked on will be tormented (by hell fire)
  
  He (the Prophet) lift up his (al Hassan’s) shirt and kissed his (little) penis..” روى أنه صلى الله عليه و سلم قبل زبيبة الحسن أو الحسين He (the prophet) kissed the (little) penis of al Hassan or al Husein رأيت النبي صلى الله عليه و سلم فرج ما بين فخذي الحسين و قبل زبيبته He (the prophet) put Husein’s legs apart and kissed his (little) penis
  
  Another Hadith. Majma al-Zawa’id, Ali ibn Abu Bakr al-Haythami, 299/9 مجمع الزوائد لعلي بن أبى بكر الهيثمي رأيت رسول الله صلى الله عليه و سلم فرج ما بين فخذي الحسين و قبل زبيبته رواه الطبراني و إسناده حسن translated into English: “I saw the Messenger of Allah pbuh putting Husein’s legs apart and kissing his (little) penis.”
  
  A good enough reason for some as guided by Mohammad, “no tongue or lips that the prophet sucked on will be tormented (by hell fire)”
  Would that save one in not going to Mecca?
  
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  October 28, 2018 8:46am
  - starboard
    
    Fuck, that is some sick shit.
    
    Shariaboy the lickspittle will be along soon to defend the filthy pedo.
    
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    October 28, 2018 11:42am
- softail 1450
  
  Mecca ,a strong supporter of muslim paedophilia,
  I wonder if he “thighs” his young female friends as its legal in his culture?
  
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  October 28, 2018 9:22am
- Classic Liberal
  
  Thanks for pointing it out again, Meakerchap: Freedom of speech no longer exists in Europe.
  
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  October 28, 2018 10:22am
- igm
  
  https://www.whaleoil.co.nz/2018/10/poll-is-he-a-paedophile/
  
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  October 28, 2018 5:22pm
krazykiwi

So HdPA thinks it’s Hats Off to Ardern and Peters for their performance over the past year because, wait for it, ”making this arrangement work for the past 12 months”. Well, this ‘arrangement’ hasn’t worked for me. Call me old fashioned, but I demand a leadership that doesn’t:

☒ Claim to be the most transparent in our history, but be formed on the basis of a secret coalition agreement

☒ Involve the destruction of an entire industry so our PM can look good to UN environmental chiefs

☒ Stoke inflation and poverty via new taxes when no new taxes were promised

☒ Invite more strikes and industrial disruption in one year than New Zealand has seen in the past decade

☒ Parade a baby to our tabloid trash media

☒ Continuously lie to us

No, this isn’t leadership. It is a Mexican standoff. Peters is a sly snake, and Ardern is a petulant child, one that can hardly be expected to run a country when she can’t run a breast pump. We deserve better.
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October 28, 2018 8:01am
- Paulus
  
  No, No, we no longer have people living in Cars.
  And fewer people sleeping in the streets.
  Well done Peters/Ardern.
  
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  October 28, 2018 8:15am
  - KevOB
    
    We have media which have purposely ceased reporting.
    
    Are the media reporting the Kiwiibuild lolly scramble for the rich? $650K to “get a place on the property ladder” i.e to become a wannabe speculator. How does that synch with a Party that pretends to care more for the lesser well off?
    
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    October 28, 2018 8:28am
    - sooty
      
      Twyford just renamed what National started and sold the first one to a couple with a large taxpayer subsidy.
      
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      October 28, 2018 8:43am
      - Southern Raider
        
        Exactly
        
        The media should be publicising what each KiwiBuild house is actually costing each takepayer. I would think ever “met” taxpayer is forking out at least $200 per house.
        
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        October 28, 2018 9:10am
    - krazykiwi
      
      Ardern presented the owners with a gift. A tree. It was a lemon. How fitting!
      
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      October 28, 2018 8:50am
  - KiWombat
    
    Reason people are no longer living in cars is simply because it’s become too expensive, especially for diesel vehicles. They are now finding that paying rent or buying an affordable home is more economical than running a car !
    
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    October 28, 2018 8:57am
  - Northland Wahine
    
    The media need to come to winz office I work on a Monday, Thursday or Friday especially. We’re hitting a total of 400 appointments a day on these days. Main benefits have increased, family tax credits, accomodation. I’m seeing benefits regularly totalling $1000 a week with single and joint benefits with 3 plus children. Hell, if I went on benefit with my one child, given the rent I pay I’d get $800 in my hand.
    
    Yet with all this extra cash to meet their “expenses” those with strong sense of entitlement, want more food, are in rent arrears, are having their power cut off.
    
    I’d like to say this government doesn’t have a clue…sadly, I think they know exactly what they are doing.
    
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    October 28, 2018 9:25am
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      Why bother working at all?
      
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      October 28, 2018 9:41am
      - krazykiwi
        
        Wizard of Id wisdom
        
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        October 28, 2018 9:50am
      - Northland Wahine
        
        Odskyu-sen… there have been days recently when I thought just that.
        
        Then I look at my 12 year old and remember I have an obligation to him to set a good example. Corny shit I know.
        
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        October 28, 2018 9:55am
    - Paulus Gnome
      
      I suggest you go on the dole immediately
      
      I work 40 hours a week and gets slightly more than the $1,000.00 but that is fiftyfive hours of my week in a car and having lunch instead of fucking in the series breaks on Netflix.
      
      Seriously people, why the fuck do we bother?
      
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      October 28, 2018 9:41am
    - peterwn
      
      “…are having their power cut off.”
      Can’t WINZ tell them they have to go on Globug?
      
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      October 28, 2018 1:38pm
      - Northland Wahine
        
        We can recommend, but tell them? Nope.
        
        And there are those on globug that are in every week, yep… every week, “needing” a top up.
        
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        October 28, 2018 1:56pm
Captain Mainwaring

Lees-Galloway is not fit for purpose.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/108155476/jailed-drugdealer-escapes-deportation-as-govt-grants-him-nz-residency-behind-bars

Worst. Government. Ever
Sorry igm, you beat me to it
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October 28, 2018 8:01am
- DigNap15
  
  It would be nice to know the reasons.
  What is his job or qualifications?
  At least he is not a muslim or an African or a solo mother with 6 children.
  
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  October 28, 2018 8:06am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    When the prick arrived on a false passport why wasn’t he sent straight back to where he came from instead of clogging up our justice system?
    
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    October 28, 2018 8:08am
    - Jules99
      
      Basically encourages others to do the same as NZ will be seen as a soft touch. Especially as it’s harder to get into the US now.
      
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      October 28, 2018 8:50am
      - Tarquin North
        
        I wonder if he is related to Hager the horrible – they come from the same place.
        
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        October 28, 2018 9:03am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Nicky Hager was born in Levin.
        His father was from Vienna, Austria.
        
        Isn’t Hagar the Horrible Norwegian?
        
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        October 28, 2018 9:46am
      - starboard
        
        Hagars an alien.
        
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        October 28, 2018 12:03pm
  - kowtow
    
    ‘At least he is not a muslim or an African or a solo mother with 6 children.’
    
    Doesn’t matter what he is , he’s a lowlife criminal who is a drag on the tax payer .
    
    Deport.
    
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    October 28, 2018 8:18am
  - waikatogirl
    
    The Minister of Immigration has “absolute discretion” to prevent deportation and grant residence – legally, such decisions cannot be applied for, the minister doesn’t have to consider any requests, and doesn’t need to explain their reasons.
    
    In 2011, Sroubek was arrested in Operation Ark, a covert investigation into Ecstasy-like pills, less than a week after his trial for entering New Zealand on a false passport.
    
    He later had a conviction for manufacturing Class-C drugs overturned; Sroubek was to stand trial again on an alternative charge of possession for supply, but the prosecution was abandoned.
    
    Sroubek also had gang associations, and was acquitted of an aggravated robbery with two Hells Angels.
    Karel Sroubek fled to New Zealand with a friend’s passport in 2003. He claimed he was on the run from corrupt cops after witnessing a murder. Under the name Jan Antolik he built a new life as a businessman, a representative-level kickboxer, and a Hells Angels associate.
    
    We don’t want or need the likes of this drug importing/gangster so WHY has this criminal been granted residency???????????????????????????????
    
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    October 28, 2018 8:36am
    - sooty
      
      Would he be the Labour drug supplier and was paid off to keep him quite?
      
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      October 28, 2018 8:45am
      - waikatogirl
        
        Quite quiet sooty. ?
        
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        October 28, 2018 9:15am
      - igm
        
        Wood he be taking over running Labour sex camps in the future?
        
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        October 28, 2018 9:29am
      - sooty
        
        I wonder who will be running the interns, next election? Somehow I don’t think it will be Maaattt!
        
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        October 28, 2018 10:02am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Perhaps he knows who has been buying his illegal drugs.
      Perhaps some important folks need a reliable supplier.
      
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      October 28, 2018 9:01am
    - Northland Wahine
      
      Does absolute discretion translate to “I can do what I like and the rest of you can go fuck yourself?” Because it sure sounds like it.
      
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      October 28, 2018 9:27am
    - Komata
      
      Waikatogirl
      
      Sadly, an obvious question: How much did he donate to NZLP funds…?
      
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      October 28, 2018 11:14am
      - starboard
        
        Resign Galloway, RESIGN !!!
        
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        October 28, 2018 12:07pm
    - Herodotus
      
      Why was he able to stay here long enough to build up such a criminal history ? Been here for 15 years, this is the 3rd govt that had the opportunity to deport and didn’t.
      Where were Collins, Adams,Guy or Woodhouse and now Lees Galloway. Fix a problem when it 1st comes up, don’t allow it to fester. And now with a 6 year term this is costing us over $500k
      
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      October 28, 2018 11:51am
    - madamezucchininz
      
      ….perhaps he is a really good police informant….look how many times he has got off criminal charges….shame on this government….another appalling decision
      
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      October 28, 2018 11:54am
  - Tall Man
    
    I don’t really care. Illegally entered, part of a gang, committed serious crimes and shows no remorse.
    
    Perhaps they want him on the labour list for 2020.
    
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    October 28, 2018 10:02am
- JibberJabber
  
  It is blatantly obvious that there is corruption at play here, how else can the govt explain how a recidivist criminal can get residency?
  While possibly the guy has squealed on his compadres in crime, more than likely cash has changed hands.
  Vote Labour to turn New Zealand into a haven for the flotsam and jetsam of the worlds criminal scum.
  
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  October 28, 2018 8:27am
  - Piniwi
    
    @ JibberJabber it’s a mind boggling radical move to grant residency while this recidivist offender is currently locked up for serious crime. A sort of ultimate protection for him as well condoning such things as a visitor in the country. It does however sit well with Angry Andy who wants to go soft on drugs and criminals getting a sort of two for one. It also seems the old dragon Clark is all for a much more liberal attitude to drugs judging from a recent puff piece. Few still appreciate how much damage the COL can inflict on the country and the people of NZ or ever imagined it would be almost across the board.
    
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    October 28, 2018 2:34pm
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Salaam Kiwibloggers

May Allah, The Creator, The Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate, bless you with goodness.
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October 28, 2018 8:02am
- Swifty
  
  Egg.
  
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  October 28, 2018 8:03am
  - hmmokrightitis
    
    Hed probably like some bacon with that egg
    
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    October 28, 2018 9:28am
- The Virgin
  
  Unless you are prepared to explain why an old man marrying a young child and then sleeping with her isn’t paedophilia, fuck off.
  
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  October 28, 2018 8:26am
- holysheet
  
  if allah is god, why did he provide us with pork?
  The smell of bacon in the mornings is just to die for.
  
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  October 28, 2018 8:29am
  - Tall Man
    
    With a tad of black pudding.
    
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    October 28, 2018 10:03am
- VicParking
  
  Muhammad had thirteen wives, two stoelen from his servants husbands, bless him with goodness.
  
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  October 28, 2018 8:47am
- Rodney Randall
  
  https://youtu.be/ZIIdrybYoXo
  
  Pedophilia is Ok in Islam
  
  Piss be upon him
  
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  October 28, 2018 8:49am
- Richard
  
  Thank you. May your Bacon always be tasty and your pork belly forever crisp!
  
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  October 28, 2018 8:57am
duggledog

Had to have a bit of a chuckle reading the Herald article about John Campbell, here’s the link –

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=12144022

‘I mean those pricks didn’t want me there – there were only two pricks who didn’t want me there – you can’t force them to want you.’

‘They’ probably didn’t want him there because of the relentless poverty pimping he and his team presented virtually every single night. Way to depress people. And the abysmal ratings that are important when you are a business trying to attract advertisers.

Turns out he didn’t want to interview contestants from the Block. I thought he was a man of the people? It’s a really popular show. Kiwis love it.
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October 28, 2018 8:03am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  Not all Kiwis love the Block, not all of us are into watching self promoting blowhards renovate a house with tradies.
  
  What I can agree with you, is that Campbell is a knob.
  
  Now he has gone from the drive time radio slot, I am going to stay with Larry Williams because I just love spa pool ads but I have become used to, and prefer Williams’s commentary. So there RNZ, a legacy of having Campbell, not everyone believes he can walk on water.
  
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  October 28, 2018 8:13am
- kowtow
  
  “….but I’ve discovered chia seeds and so I’m having granola and chia seeds and honey and yoghurt all mixed together and I just feel way calmer.”
  
  What a wanker.
  
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  October 28, 2018 8:28am
  - Northland Wahine
    
    Yay, so Campbell is no longer constipated because he eats granola for breakfast. Hopefully that will stop the shit coming out of his mouth instead sometime soon.
    
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    October 28, 2018 9:42am
    - david
      
      But Jono (Campbell) is now on a roll so it doesn’t matter what the punters think of him. So he pops up in Yokohama to give us the benefit of his geopolitical sporting-oriented analysis of why the All Blacks were playing the Wallabies in an away match for both. With an ounce of luck, TVNZ gave him a one -way ticket.
      
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      October 28, 2018 10:32am
      - Northland Wahine
        
        Hope springs eternal but I’m not holding my breath.
        
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        October 28, 2018 10:43am
EAD_TWO

The MSM narrative is all too predictable when these mass shootings depending on who the shooter is

The narrative is always one of:

(A)This was a crime “against humanity” or (B) a “hate” crime

(A) Performed by a lone wolf or (B) Part of the “alt-right” movement

(A) Somebody with mental issues with no known motive or (B) A White supremicist

(A) “radicalised” online or (B) radicalised by Trump

(A) a “British”/ “French”/ “Swedish” Man or just a “Youth” or (B) The shooter was a white male

(A) Wanted to be a “Doctor”/”Engineer”/”Astronaut” or (B) lived in his Mums basement.

Anything I’ve missed?
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October 28, 2018 8:07am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  Did not wash much as well i suspect
  
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  October 28, 2018 8:15am
- SGA
  
  Or, in the recent Pittsburgh shooting, how about
  (A) A somewhat more extreme version of (((EAD))).
  
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  October 28, 2018 8:20am
  - EAD_TWO
    
    I’ll take the bait SGA.
    
    This is a heinous act but violence against Jews occupies no special moral category.
    
    Tremendous violence has been inflicted on White America and its culture for a century or more by agitators working for demographic displacement and cultural destruction.
    
    Save your tears – I’m just a commentator on a blog who critiques events primarily from an ethno-centric angle rather than the staid “left vs. right” paradigm
    
    What do you have to say about Harvard Professors like Noel Ignatiev who write:
    
    “The goal of abolishing the white race is on its face so desirable that some may find it hard to believe that it could incur any opposition other than from committed white supremacists…
    
    Keep bashing the dead white males, and the live ones, and the females too, until the social construct known as ‘the white race’ is destroyed – not ‘deconstructed’ but destroyed.
    
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    October 28, 2018 8:55am
    - SGA
      
      Quod Erat Demostrandum.
      
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      October 28, 2018 8:57am
    - Rodney Randall
      
      At least Noel was handed his arse card at Harvard for disturbing the peace.
      
      A truly vile/evil POS
      
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      October 28, 2018 9:35am
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      After they abolish the white race, who are they going to come for? The yellow race?
      
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      October 28, 2018 9:42am
- VicParking
  
  Was a paid employee of the Clinton foundation.
  
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  October 28, 2018 8:49am
DigNap15

I’m amazed that not one of the ten bombs did not go off!
The Soros one especially
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October 28, 2018 8:09am
- EAD_TWO
  
  I’m amazed (well actually I’m not) that the MSM calls them “bombs” when not one contained explosives❗
  
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  October 28, 2018 8:13am
  - sooty
    
    It’s the thought that counts!
    
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    October 28, 2018 8:48am
artemisia

Cameron Bagrie: It’s time to end interest-free student loans

Seems many people want to immigrate to New Zealand. So why not actually encourage the already educated to come and at the same time encourage paying overseas students to enrol and become citizens. That would mean fewer student loans, more fee payers, fewer grads off overseas (assuming most of the new citizens stay and don’t end up flipping burgers). Win win for the taxpayer.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12149524
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October 28, 2018 8:12am
- waikatogirl
  
  Nah artemisia, Ian Lees-Galloway is only issuing NZ residency to drug importing gangsters, but won’t tell us why. ?
  
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  October 28, 2018 8:49am
- Harkman
  
  I told a National advisor to link student loans to inflation as a way of enlisting students as an ally if a leftwing government tried to inflate the economy and at the same time protect the value of an asset the taxpayer holds. He replied Labour is so addicted to inflation, they’d write off all student debt just to avoid any constraints.
  
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  October 28, 2018 9:49am
  - Gravelroad
    
    You talk to National advisors?
    We find it hard to believe there are any – at all.
    
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    October 28, 2018 1:36pm
- Jack5
  
  Artemisia’s post includes “at the same time encourage paying overseas students to enrol and become citizens.”
  
  What do you think NZ is doing now? That’s what the student visa rort is all about.
  
  Young foreigners, overwhelmingly Indians, pour in and take dubious courses in business subjects, which gives them a visa. Then they work in a pizza parlour or pump petrol until they can jobs like door-to-door electricity company sales, or real estate agent or running a dairy. All semi-skilled work.
  
  At this stage they import a wife, and perhaps mum and dad and siblings.
  
  An IT teacher at a private school tells me that virtually none of his Indian “IT students” plan to work in IT in NZ – or anywhere-else. They are here because it’s a way into NZ residency and then citizenship.
  
  The visa-rort students add bugger all to the national skills pool, and they are going to be the end of New Zealanders’ visa-free entry to Australia.
  
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  October 28, 2018 10:33am
  - Swifty
    
    Largely correct.
    
    It purpose is immigration through an education channel.
    
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    October 28, 2018 11:34am
  - artemisia
    
    Yes there is a student visa rort. So fix it. Ok prob not 100% possible but should be doing better than we have been. It’s not like it is not known.
    
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    October 28, 2018 5:28pm
Manolo

Another lone wolf?
https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2018/10/27/heavy-police-presence-near-synagogue-in-squirrel-hill/

Eight people have been killed and a number of others injured after a shooting at The Tree of Life Synagogue in Squirrel Hill on Saturday.

Police sources said the gunman walked into the building and yelled, “All Jews must die.”
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October 28, 2018 8:14am
- SGA
  
  Another lone wolf?
  
  Nearly certainly. You have doubts – pray tell…
  
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  October 28, 2018 8:24am
- Stars And Stripes
  
  Wait for the lunatics on here to start claiming another false flag or maybe a Mossad operation.
  Either way there will be satisfaction in some circles.
  
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  October 28, 2018 8:32am
  - SGA
    
    Funny you should say that, I am half expecting that myself.
    
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    October 28, 2018 8:34am
- Southern Raider
  
  Looks to be some white person but no real background yet on who he was or associated with apart from was severely anti semetic
  
  I see EAD trying to get in early without actually referring to the incident and trying to belittle the growing number of attacks on innocent Jews around the world as just another random incident
  
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  October 28, 2018 9:13am
  - EAD_TWO
    
    When Whites get blown up/beheaded it’s described as an “attack on us all, values etc.”
    
    But just watch how quickly this becomes specifically about Jews, anti-Semitism, and how quickly Jews secure security privileges because of it.
    
    Meanwhile it’s ongoing rape and murder to Whites who unlike the Jews, don’t have their own ethno-state to flee to where the Muslims can be safely locked behind an enormous wall replete with landmines and snipers.
    
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    October 28, 2018 9:31am
    - Southern Raider
      
      It was an attack on Jews. If the shooter have had entered Walmart and randomly shot people including Jews then it is an “attack on all of us”.
      
      He walked into a synagogue specifically targeting Jews during a baby naming ceremony!
      
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      October 28, 2018 9:44am
      - EAD_TWO
        
        I’m not sure if it is deliberate or not but you really are missing the point aren’t you Southern Raider.
        
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        October 28, 2018 9:57am
      - Tauhei Notts
        
        Do they call a baby naming ceremony a “Christening”?
        
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        October 28, 2018 11:33am
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  Probably a Trump supporter.
  He’d have been instructed to do this by Trump.
  It’s all Trumps fault.
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  October 28, 2018 1:47pm
Manolo

A madwoman becomes even crazier:
https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/sinead-o-connor-has-converted-to-islam-changed-her-name-20181027-p50cbg.html

Singer Sinead O’Connor has announced she has converted to Islam and changed her name.

The Irish performer, known for her song Nothing Compares 2U, released the news via Twitter and revealed she is now called Shuhada’ Davitt.
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October 28, 2018 8:16am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  A case of self-inflicted funny-name syndrome.
  
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  October 28, 2018 9:43am
- Harkman
  
  She is completely bonkers.
  
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  October 28, 2018 9:51am
- Biscuit
  
  Manolo, there might be a blessing in disguise here.
  
  Presumably Shuhada will now take to covering up her shaven head – hell, her WHOLE head, bless! – with a burqa?
  
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  October 28, 2018 10:59am
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Time to revisit a hot topic namely what is the Alt right? Who are they and what do they represent. I don’t think it is that hard with a cursory glance at posts here on KB. A central feature is definitely Pro President Trump and what he represents. Other hallmarks are Islamophobia, White nationalism and identity ( the older and more familiar racism and associated bigotry ), climate denialism and an all-pervading anti-intellectualism and so on. Of course, there are varying extremes e.g the creation of a white ethnostate that excludes all religious and racial undesirables ( e.g Muslim and in some cases Jews )

The article below is helpful ,

Trump’s shock troops: Who are the ‘alt-right’?
A disparate group of provocateurs is challenging conservative orthodoxy from the right. They hate political correctness and love Donald Trump – but their critics say they’re nothing but bigoted white nationalists.

There was a moment when the phrase “alt-right” first started to get real traction in the mainstream media.

It began with a tweet by US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. It showed an image of his opponent, Hillary Clinton, alongside a six-pointed star containing the words: “Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!”

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37021991

Discuss!
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October 28, 2018 8:25am
- Manolo
  
  Nothing to worry about, stephieboy. Your candidate, the angelical Hillary Clinton, will have another go in 2020. She could even win, couldn’t she?
  
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  October 28, 2018 8:30am
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    Manolo, in terms, if the popular vote she did win!
    
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    October 28, 2018 8:48am
    - Jules99
      
      So did Bill English.
      
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      October 28, 2018 8:53am
- Swifty
  
  I’ll start.
  
  You are a very stupid man and you come here and reprove it day after day.
  
  What you think you achieve by your continuing your tiresome name calling and attempts to label people I don’t know.
  
  But one thing you have succeeded in is achieving the unanimously supported award of Kiwiblog’s dumbest poster, Oh, and your grammar and spelling is appalling and just adds to your reputation as a slow, dimwitted oaf.
  
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  October 28, 2018 8:32am
- holysheet
  
  Snooker is like a WINZ waiting list. If you’re black, you get more points than any other colour, especially whites who do all the work and are worth nothing.
  
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  October 28, 2018 8:34am
  - Piniwi
    
    Partly right holysheet but the white is not worth “nothing” but unfortunately only advantage to your opponent as they gain from your negative points. In fact a penalty against white.
    
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    October 28, 2018 2:46pm
- EAD_TWO
  
  I think “alt right” is a good phrase to describe our philosophy because we are an alternative to the mainstream right that has so badly let our nation’s down rather than acting as a bulwark to the Globalists.
  
  When all the legacy right wing parties offer is a slightly lower tax rates whilst signing up for most of the radical social engineering of the looney left, an alternative is definitley required.
  
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  October 28, 2018 8:37am
  - stephieboy
    
    EAD TWO, oh I forgot to add anti Globalism and latent antisemitism that you exemplify!
    
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    October 28, 2018 8:47am
- Than
  
  If you were writing for an academic paper or something, that definition would be workable.
  
  In everyday political discussions however, “alt-” is now basically just being used as a prefix (applied to both sides) equivalent to “extreme-” or “radical-“. People will quite happily label positions they disagree with as alt-left or alt-right as a way of de-legitimising them.
  
  Call it a misuse of the term if you like, but it is now far more common than the original meaning.
  
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  October 28, 2018 8:38am
  - SGA
    
    Thinking out loud – doesn’t the “alt-” prefix arise from the early internet Discussion Board forums where alternative or extreme views on topics were usually labelled “alt-whatever”. Perhaps I am misremembering or it is just a coincidence…
    
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    October 28, 2018 8:44am
  - stephieboy
    
    Than, examples of your moderate views on say race and Islam?
    
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    October 28, 2018 8:45am
    - VicParking
      
      My views on Islam are a moderate as Islams view on Gays.
      
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      October 28, 2018 8:53am
    - Than
      
      Not sure what you’re asking stephieboy? I’m opposed to a Muslim ban and have no problem with Muslim immigration if that’s what you mean.
      
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      October 28, 2018 9:08am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      Race has nothing to do with islam.
      
      ‘Islamophobia’ Well, as a liberal atheist I don’t want to live under islamist influence for some reason.
      
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      October 28, 2018 11:01am
  - tf78
    
    I thought “alt” was something on your keyboard.
    
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    October 28, 2018 9:42am
- JibberJabber
  
  Discuss!
  
  Heh, start your own blog, Shit for Brains!
  
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  October 28, 2018 8:51am
  - Vory v zakone
    
    Ralphieboy has no idea how to do that JibberJabber. He would be completely lost, unless the MAGS educated Taylor kids were around to show their old man the basics. And to help him with his general illiteracy (SIGH)
    So expect only the usual retarded shit trolling to carry on in the future (LOLOLOL)
    
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    October 28, 2018 10:03am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  Does an ethnically homogeneous* nation have the sovereign right to maintain its ethnic identity?
  
  (* for all intents and purposes)
  
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  October 28, 2018 9:47am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    If it’s still possible, as many Pacific Island nations and Japan demonstrate. Not to the extent of throwing citizens of different origin out though.
    
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    October 28, 2018 11:03am
- Tall Man
  
  Off you go steffy girl, not many ticks needed now.
  
  Is Ardern a liar?
  
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  October 28, 2018 10:11am
Happychappy

Has blubber shed some crocodile tears for his lying vindictive mate JLR this morning or is he still jerking off reading his lovers texts.
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October 28, 2018 8:26am
Chuck Bird

Are the Trump hating Democrats going to accept responsibility for this atrocity or somehow try to blame President Trump?

All Jews must die’: Eight killed, six injured in US synagogue shooting

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12150093
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October 28, 2018 8:28am
- stephieboy
  
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  Chuck Bird, you have information that we don’t?
  
  Carry on …?
  
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  October 28, 2018 8:43am
  - Tall Man
    
    Is Ardern a liar?
    
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    October 28, 2018 10:16am
- Inandout
  
  Letter bombs that don’t explode are far more appealing to Democrat brains. The only positive side I can see here is that the strange lefty Jews in the Democrat Party will finally wake up and cease their anti Trump outpourings.
  
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  October 28, 2018 9:04am
- DJ Ward
  
  The Dems will blame it on the NRA and Trump.
  His love of gun owning Republicans caused this.
  
  It’s one thing to not like Jews and their behavours but shooting random Jews is going a bit too far.
  
  Even the Jews when conducting an extrajudicial killing of a Palestinian at least pretend to justify the targeting of the individual, his wife, and children, and the accidental killing of neighbors, or anybody else within the blast radius of the giant bomb used.
  
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  October 28, 2018 9:23am
  - SGA
    
    shooting random Jews is going a bit too far.
    
    Just a bit, mind 🙂
    
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    October 28, 2018 9:25am
  - Southern Raider
    
    So why don’t you like Jews specifically?
    
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    October 28, 2018 9:46am
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      Minorities who are exclusive and who place great value on their “identity” and in working for “their people” can become scapegoats, especially when they are perceived to be more successful than average.
      
      They are targeted by the kinds of people who won’t take responsibility and who like to blame their problems on others.
      
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      October 28, 2018 9:52am
    - DJ Ward
      
      I think stealing people’s land, home, resources based on “God said it is ours” is going a bit to far.
      
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      October 28, 2018 10:07am
      - Southern Raider
        
        Yes the arabs and Persians did steal the Jews lands
        
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        October 28, 2018 11:27am
      - Komata
        
        DJW
        
        Out of interest, because I’m always ready to learn, and since you obviously know an awful lot about the Palestinians and their country / history (especially as they have evidently been its owners for millenia), could you please tell me what their Capital city was before the Turks (Ottomans, from memory) arrived, or what battles they fought against those (The Romans, Turks et al), who invaded their territory, and who the Commanding General/s of the Palestinian Forces at these ‘events’ was/were? No doubt there were also rulers of some sort (Perhaps a ‘King’ or two), so any of THEIR names would also be appreciated.
        
        (Serious questions BTW, so your answers would be appreciated.).
        
        Thanks.
        
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        October 28, 2018 11:34am
      - Southern Raider
        
        And of course what their currency was
        
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        October 28, 2018 11:39am
  - Tall Man
    
    You really are a poor excuse for an intern. Labour obviously got to the bottom of the barrel when you signed on.
    
    There must be a blog somewhere else that you can post your rabid rubbish.
    
    Is Ardern a liar?
    
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    October 28, 2018 10:14am
- Cobolt24
  
  I’m surprised by the Herald, they’re actually calling out the guy who committed the atrocity for being a Trump-hater.
  
  “who regularly complained on social media about the president and the ‘infestation’ of Jews”
  
  The shooter always had a hatred for Jews, it’s unfortunate people had to die in such a way.
  
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  October 28, 2018 10:59am
DJ Ward

I’ve just read the investigation on the leak.

Some interesting points.

Is reporter A the aggrieved journalist JLR slept with? JLR was communicating with a different journalist, reporter B. Reporter A is the person with the information in the beginning. JLR is never contacting reporter A.

Paula has the number of the leaker but it is not JLR’s number that’s examined by the report. His number does show contact with the speaker as phone calls. That is not however the relevant contact with the speaker as that was from a different number, and texts.

JLR definately looks guilty but the report makes an important point. They did not identify the leaker.

Who is the leaker?
If JLR is the leaker then sacking had justification. Why then did they resort to the character assasination?

Why the secrecy by Mallard?
Once this got nasty the issue should have been clarified. The other suspects such as the female MP should not have suspicion pointed at them if Mallard knows it was JLR.
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October 28, 2018 8:39am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Could you just put it in diagram form of who called whom and who knows what?
  
  https://blog.passivetotal.org/content/images/2015/07/user-dots.jpg
  
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  October 28, 2018 9:16am
  - DJ Ward
    
    Yes, Mallard could connect all those dots with a single media release.
    
    He however is probably quite amused at Nationals troubles. He could also be saving up a bombshell to drop when the saga dies down. Just before the next election maybe.
    
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    October 28, 2018 9:37am
krazykiwi

Mrs kk and I have had some friends visiting from Spain. They were explaining, in non-legal terms, about the squatters laws over there.

Apparently if you go on holiday leaving your house vacant, anyone who breaks in can begin living there legally, and remain after your return. It can take months in the legal system to get the squatters out.

The law was introduced when the socialist government started building and virtually gifting homes to citizens in the 1990s. I guess the idea is that your home really belongs to the state (they paid for it), so if you’re not using it, someone else is entitled to it.

Lie down with socialism, wake up with squatters!
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October 28, 2018 8:40am
- VicParking
  
  Ditto. I had a friend come over from Spain. It cost him more than he paid for the air fares to employ a house sitter to stop squatters moving in.
  
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  October 28, 2018 8:56am
- artemisia
  
  Couple of UK programmes on the telly about bad renters, bad landlords, bad debtors. And squatters.
  
  Bad Renters.
  Can’t Pay, we’ll take it away.
  
  For the last few years squatting in residential properties has been a crime, and sounds like the incidence has dropped sharply. Doesn’t apply to non residential property. Couple of recent cases in the series of egregious vandalism and totally entitled toerags.
  
  Interesting thing is how difficult it is to evict in the UK, if these programmes are typical. Thousands of dollars in court fees and enforcement, and no show of recovering the other thousands of dollars for unpaid rent and damage.
  
  Note the number of landlords, tenants and debtors who are clearly immigrants and/or solo parents.
  
  The Tenancy Tribunal here is by no means perfect but it is at least cheap to get a decision. Collecting the debts, not so cheap if even possible.
  
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  October 28, 2018 9:10am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Why would you have rentals now?
    
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/108157557/Tenants-two-dogs-rack-up-46-000-in-damage-to-property
    
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    October 28, 2018 9:19am
    - sooty
      
      Sold mine now. With this Labour goverment, why would? Sold before they could change the rules, after hearing what they intend to do!
      
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      October 28, 2018 11:02am
      - Classic Liberal
        
        Rock and hard place though: the stockmarket is down, NZ $ down, inflation up…
        
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        October 28, 2018 11:09am
    - KevOB
      
      I know of a tenancy where the tenant decided to leave for Aus. A party was held and the place was stripped even of some wall linings and electrical fittings. One of the perps was found by the Police asleep in the ceiling in the header tank.
      
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      October 28, 2018 12:03pm
    - artemisia
      
      Sold one, one converted to non residential last month, one rented to family, one in the process of being sold. This last also to family at well below market value. Still have a few and I will meet all the government requirements. Will be super super picky choosing new tenants.
      
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      October 28, 2018 5:32pm
secondcumming

*RANDOM IMPERTINENT QUESTION*

What *cartoon character* does Meghan Markle have tattooed on the upper portion of her left butt-cheek? It is partly visable when wearing a bikini………
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October 28, 2018 8:40am
- VicParking
  
  Its a head shot of James Hewitt…..
  
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  October 28, 2018 9:00am
- JibberJabber
  
  Pics or GTFO
  
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  October 28, 2018 9:09am
- SGA
  
  I don’t know, but I’m fascinated by how you spend your spare time 🙂 🙂 🙂
  
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  October 28, 2018 9:13am
  - Biscuit
    
    Heh heh SGA.
    
    Imagine the Google search entry secondcumming must have had to enter to source such a pic!
    
    Me, I remain shocked when, randomly entering search titles I somehow – and mistakingly, of course – input P-O-R-N.
    
    7435275723752375263456342656262546746354623656252635462367562356765263756726526526576576656256265665625626562656256 pages!
    
    I still have 934 to browse through.
    
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    October 28, 2018 10:55am
- sooty
  
  She would have Mickey on her ass!
  
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  October 28, 2018 11:03am
  - secondcumming
    
    close! 😛
    
    [will be revealed at 3pm]
    
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    October 28, 2018 12:20pm
    - secondcumming
      
      The pic I have been emailed is dated ‘July-04’ and is purported to be of…. ‘the cast & crew of *General Hospital*, relaxing by hotel pool’.
      
      Because it’s impossible to verify that the young woman laying face down on a sun-lounger wearing a white bikini, is in fact Harry’s new missus, (despite my impeccable source), I think out of courtesy to HRH, I shouldn’t link it.
      
      Suffice to say it certainly does look like Megs, and it shows a tattoo of *Hot Stuff*, (the lil’ Red Devil), just above the panty-line.
      
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      October 28, 2018 3:29pm
Rodney Randall

“We must move away from the Western model of dominion over the land and animals” Sacha Mcmeeking

“I want to see a world where noone owns any land and WE become the guardians” Sacha McMeeking

“We still haven’t got OUR mountain back yet” (Mt Cook Aoraki) Sir Mark Solomon

Dress it up anyway they want (Wai242.)

The activists/separatists driving this will never be happy.
The industry carved up around grievance is too entrenched in their psyches.

“With the stroke of a pen the Treaty can be erased” Mark Solomon

Ergo

“The Treaty is a Living Document.”
Fixed for eternity?

PERFECTION
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October 28, 2018 8:41am
- Inandout
  
  The treaty is like an organism that slowly consumes the taxpayer.
  
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  October 28, 2018 8:56am
- VicParking
  
  Rodney can I suggest if you want that way of life Fly to China and ask for asylum and you will get all you asked for.
  ps. Venezuela as second choice.
  
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  October 28, 2018 9:02am
- Jazzby
  
  A treaty is generally defined as “a formally concluded and ratified agreement between States.” [OED]
  1.Well, whilst Britain was certainly a State in 1840, New Zealand was not: there was no sovereign government, no agreed Head of State, and no mechanism of statehood. Instead, there were many tribes, constantly at each others’ throats, none ceding authority to any another. That’s why the chiefs all had to sign the document.
  2. An agreement is defined as “a mutual understanding, and harmony of opinion.” [OED] There are at least two versions of the Treaty of Waitangi, Maori and English, and they say different things; there is still no agreement as to which version is correct.
  3. The Treaty of Waitangi has never been ratified by any government.
  4. Similarly, it has never formed part of New Zealand’s domestic law. The closest it gets is through reference in other legislation, to “the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi”, even though those are undefined.
  It follows that the Treaty of Waitangi is, at best, a legal nullity and, at worst, a nonsense. It is the greatest confidence trick ever perpetrated against the people of this country. Maori, and their non-Maori sympathetic fellow-travellers, naturally ignore these uncomfortable truths. After all, there wouldn’t be any money in it for them, would there?
  And don’t get me started on the myth that Maori ‘owned’ this land before the Europeans (and civilisation) arrived …..
  
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  October 28, 2018 9:14am
  - DJ Ward
    
    The English knew exactly what was written in the English version. The Moari version is subject to translation errors, errors due to words having different meanings for different tribes, and the language having no official meaning to words.
    Today’s defined meaning to words and phrases may not be the same as the interpretation of those in 1840.
    
    We can be assured however that the treaty was discussed in depth by those who signed it at the time. Interpreters from both sides would have noticed any differences if they existed. They did not notice any.
    
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    October 28, 2018 9:46am
    - Jazzby
      
      My point exactly: the various interpretations of words, particularly relating to sovereignty, have been adjusted, post hoc, to suit the Maori separatists.
      What also needs to be remembered is that in 1840, the Enlightenment was still fresh in Victorian minds; indeed John Stuart Mill was still active in the field. A key part of this was the notional ‘social contract’, whereby the idea of ‘ownership’ was closely defined and, always, subject to the overriding authority of the State. So the claim by present-day (part-) Maori that they never ceded sovereignty to the Crown, is pure sophistry.
      
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      October 28, 2018 10:26am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    “Owned” is not the same as “occupied.”
    
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    October 28, 2018 10:05am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I cannot locate a Wai 242 on the Waitangi Tribunal site.
  Do you mean Wai 262?
  
  https://www.waitangitribunal.govt.nz/news/ko-aotearoa-tenei-report-on-the-wai-262-claim-released/
  
  Volume 1:
  https://forms.justice.govt.nz/search/Documents/WT/wt_DOC_68356416/KoAotearoaTeneiTT2Vol1W.pdf
  
  Volume 2
  https://forms.justice.govt.nz/search/Documents/WT/wt_DOC_68356606/KoAotearoaTeneiTT2Vol2W.pdf
  
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  October 28, 2018 9:26am
  - Rodney Randall
    
    Typo.
    
    Thankyou for correction
    
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    October 28, 2018 9:32am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      I imagine very few NZers have read both volumes (assuming they were aware of Wai 262)
      
      It was formerly more commonly known as the Flora and Fauna taonga claim.
      
      I doubt that few folks recognize “This is New Zealand” is the same thing.
      
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      October 28, 2018 9:56am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  “We must move away from the Western model of dominion over the land and animals” Sacha Mcmeeking
  
  How is that different from the East Asian and Indian model of dominion over the land and animals?
  
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  October 28, 2018 10:03am
flipper

Lordy, they piss me off……
Who, you ask ??
The uninformed and flowery scribes who purport to report on Rugby Tests and other top kevel games, in particular.
From my enquiries, not one of them has any back ground in the game, and their commentary, pre and post-match , comprises idiotic buzz words and phrases. Ex international players writing under their own names, excluded.
The idiotic run of the mill writers are notable, for example (but not limited to), the frequent use of the following:
“The chalk or the whitewash”, when they should simply refer to the side-line or the goal line.
“The second stanza” when they mean second half or 40.
“Reserves” when they mean substitutes
“The pine” when substitutes sit on a padded metal bench or chairs set beneath curved Perspex weather protection
“Relegated to the bench”, when rugby in the 2000s has become a 23-man game.
Then there are other issues, like commentators who use nick names time after time. Personally, I don’t know a rugby player (ex or current) named “sumo”, or “marshie”, or JK, TJ (not Perenara), and so on. When the 2011 Rugby World Cup was held in NZ the commentators were told to use names not idiotic nicknames.
And then there is the tendency to over-react and jump to either bias or a pre-ejaculated conclusion,
Australians are worst for commentator bias and being blind; the New Zealand folk are the over re-acting mob. Add to that their crazy hind-sight criticism of referees.
But will they change? Unlikely.
Oh for a return to the days of T P McLean et al. Come back TP. 🙂
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October 28, 2018 9:06am
- Biscuit
  
  Oh, agreed, flipper.
  
  I have all of TP’s books.
  
  Heaven knows what he would make of modern terms like ‘the pill’ – Stu Wilson, when commentating, seemed to call the ball nothing else – and, my pet hate, ‘closer’ for a player who comes on as a second half sub.
  
  And don’t get me started on the Aussie commentators, ha.
  
  I imagine ‘Kearnsie’ is STILL moaning about last night’s yellow card.
  
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  October 28, 2018 10:48am
- Morrissey
  
  The worst, by far, is Ian “Smithy” Smith.
  
  Your point about whining about referees is correct to a point. It’s worth noting that New Zealand commentators stayed silent about the performance, or more accurately, the non-performance of Craig Joubert in that farcical 2011 RWC final.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XBqetaCfgo&t=14s
  
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  October 28, 2018 11:47am
  - Salacious Crumb
    
    I assume you’re referring to the eye gouging of Richie McCaw by Aurelien Rougerie? That was a disgrace.
    
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    October 28, 2018 5:50pm
    - Morrissey
      
      Nonsense. That was a diversion cooked up after the final to deflect from the very real and undeniable scandal of that final, viz., the All Black forwards’ cynical, systematic, illegal killing of the ball in every ruck, which they knew would go unpunished by the non-referee. You know it as well as every other rugby follower knows it.
      
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      October 28, 2018 7:35pm
cmm

Anyone else seen this? The UN Global Compact for Migration

https://refugeesmigrants.un.org/sites/default/files/180713_agreed_outcome_global_compact_for_migration.pdf

Some of the ideas almost sound reasonable: Helping countries so that they don’t become basket cases from which people want to migrate. Sorry that is not going to ever happen due to not facing the big issues: low IQ and communism.

They want to facilitate safe migration. So now you can expect migrants to just hop on UN flights (taxpayer funded) taking them wherever they want to go.

Scary stuff.
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October 28, 2018 9:07am
- DigNap15
  
  Yes I’d like to go to Bermuda or Corfu, they say the weather is really nice there all year round.
  
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  October 28, 2018 9:09am
- krazykiwi
  
  The UN’s long game is global socialism, with them running the show. Strong democracies with strong borders are a tedious impediment to their ambitions.
  
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  October 28, 2018 9:15am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Recent article in The Australian on the corrupt UN.
  Article is paywalled… but can be read here:
  
  https://www.climateconversation.org.nz/2018/10/un-soaked-in-corruption/
  
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  October 28, 2018 10:01am
  - wiseowl
    
    Thanks for that link Maggie.
    Once again it reminds us about Agenda 21 which has now been updated to 2030.
    Why our politicians get sucked in by this agenda and cannot see where western countries are being led, is puzzling to say the least.
    
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    October 28, 2018 11:13am
    - krazykiwi
      
      Our polititians are not alone, and they don’t get sucked in – they willingly subscribe. My thesis is this:
      
      By the time you and I get to ‘see’ any politician on the national stage, they have already demonstrated, however well disguised, a lust for power. Having attained national office does not satiate that lust. For those who’ve never had successful private-sector careers that means the only way for self-promotion is upwards to the UN or some other pan-national body. This is why (mainly) Labour leaders flaunt their ‘credentials’ to the UN, using our money as their platform.
      
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      October 28, 2018 11:56am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  How will the UN prevent “brain drain” from making poor countries worse?
  
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  October 28, 2018 10:06am
  - cmm
    
    Easy-peasy: two-pronged strategy:
    1) Make the whole world a shithole so there’s less reason to move.
    2) Get rid of intelligent people.
    
    They are making the world less appealing to intelligent people. Less and less of us are breeding and in a few generations our genes will be wiped out.
    
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    October 28, 2018 10:47am
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      A state can invite in as many men of fighting age from anti-Western cultures, but can it force the native women to have children by them?
      Why would a woman from a civilized culture want to marry into a foreign religion and submit to a male-dominant culture?
      
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      October 28, 2018 10:54am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Why would a woman from a civilized culture want to marry into a foreign religion and submit to a male-dominant culture?
        
        money, protection, status.
        
        Just remember, a lot of women in “civilized” cultures are treated like shit.
        
        Anything may look good if you are viewing life from an abusive cess pool.
        
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        October 28, 2018 10:58am
      - Classic Liberal
        
        Look at how quickly women in Iran and Afghanistan hunkered down and submitted when they turned into islamic theocracies: they submitted because they had no choice. Before that they had been modern women in western clothes studying and working on careers.
        
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        October 28, 2018 11:19am
      - DJ Ward
        
        That’s what freedom is about.
        The freedom to fall in love with anybody.
        The freedom to leave safely and equitably from the relationship.
        The freedom to make mistakes.
        
        There are some women who can not be in a relationship without being dominate.
        There are some women who are quite happy to be looked after with the male being dominate.
        
        As long as abuse isn’t used to impose that dominance then the person still has freedom. The Christian doctrine of marriage to death is not strictly freedom either.
        
        The woman may fall in love with the person not the religion.
        
        The danger however of religion is its followers seek to impose its doctrine on everybody. That’s not freedom.
        Once a critical mass is reached the people who do use religion to dominate, and abuse, becomes more commen and freedom is lost.
        
        Polygamist marriage cultures always result in large numbers of reject men. Hence single male refugees. Large groups of sexless males is always dangerous.
        
        The good thing for NZ is most young females are raised without religion and understand it’s stupidity. They won’t be easily fooled by it. The result will be these young men forming into self isolating communities that are near lawless. As has occured in Europe.
        
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        October 28, 2018 11:42am
    - krazykiwi
      
      Exactly.
      
      Local socialists (like Labour) gain more control by removing wealth from the wealthy via taxation.
      
      Global socialists (like the EU/UN) gain more control by removing freedom and safety from the wealthy nations via forced immigration.
      
      If you have wealth and safety you must yield to the global socialist agenda.
      
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      October 28, 2018 12:01pm
RF

Count down to Zero hour when our royal family – trout mouth, first fish and squirrel meet the pretend royal family from the UK.

I’m sure the expectant royal is excited that Ardern will give her advice concerning bringing up royal bubs…..
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October 28, 2018 9:26am
- DJ Ward
  
  Jethro can give them relationship advice.
  Apparently he has had literally hundreds of successful relationships. That’s code for one night stands and endless broken hearts, STD’s, abortions, and children without a father on the birth certificate.
  
  The fact he cliams that is amazing. How can you have hundreds of successful relationships if they all ended? Presumably immediately after ejaculation. Maybe the women were happy not to go back for seconds.
  
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  October 28, 2018 10:20am
  - cmm
    
    Success means different people.
    
    Getting a root without copping a paternity judgement against you probably counts as success for some.
    
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    October 28, 2018 10:51am
    - sooty
      
      I hope they get more than a cuppa tea and scones! Maybe they need Angry to do the catering!
      
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      October 28, 2018 10:57am
Surely Knott

Is this Stuff article a political advertisement, and should the Greens be declaring this as election spending? A feature lengthn video of Gohlriz and Guy talking about kiwi “values” and what’ important to NZ. If you check the intro to the video, the Title Intro is done in the split two tone green block with white reversed out letters in line with Green Party branding. And then all the titling throughout the video is done in Green block with white reversed block writing. If it was journalism they should be doing a series of NZ figures and it shouldn’t be used in conjunction with their party branding. https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/108155557/im-proud-of-how-chill-we-are-golriz-ghahraman-and-guy-williams-on-what-makes-them-kiwi-as
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October 28, 2018 9:26am
JibberJabber

Heh, if you have to make a video and get a piece done on you about how “Kiwi” you are, you`re not.

And Guy … you`re not a “comedian” either.
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October 28, 2018 9:38am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  I don’t think anyone (least of all, Aucklanders) can agree on what makes a person a “Kiwi.”
  
  That is, unless you equate a being a Kiwi with having an affinity for the pop culture of New Zealand.
  
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  October 28, 2018 10:08am
- Morrissey
  
  Errr, yes he is. He’s probably our sharpest and funniest. You know that, too, of course, which makes you even angrier.
  
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  October 28, 2018 11:52am
  - Tall Man
    
    Idiot. You aren’t just happy being an idiot, you want to reinforce that knowledge on a daily basis.
    
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    October 28, 2018 1:51pm
  - JibberJabber
    
    Pro tip, laughing at ur own “jokes” doesn`t make you a “comedian”.
    
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    October 28, 2018 2:21pm
    - Morrissey
      
      Trouble is, everyone laughs at his jokes. He’s a funny guy. Your problem with him is that he’s confronted, and made fools of, a whole lot of shitheads, including Paul “Kill Them ALL” Henry, Judith Collins, and this POS….
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLTyNOxXWCM&t=4s
      
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      October 28, 2018 5:19pm
- Swifty
  
  Well said.
  
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  October 28, 2018 12:03pm
Hugh Pavletich

Millennials ditching the Big Smoke for the regions … Brittany Keogh … Sunday Star Times / Stuff NZ

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/108033743/millennials-ditching-the-big-smoke-for-the-regions?cid=app-iPad

Brittany Keogh

It’s traditionally been perceived as an attractive place for young Kiwis seeking career opportunities and a vibrant lifestyle to settle. But as the cost of living in Auckland soars, an increasing number of young adults are ditching the super city for the regions.

In fact, despite Auckland’s millennial population growing due to high levels of international migration, it’s been losing thousands of young people to smaller cities and towns across New Zealand annually since 2015.

Last year, 20,964 movements out of Auckland to the regions were recorded for people aged 15 to 39, compared to 17,949 movements into the city from other parts of the country, new Statistics NZ data revealed.

For Auckland-born Natalie Murr, 29, a job offer and the prospect of buying her own home – a feat she wouldn’t have been able to achieve in her hometown – prompted her and her husband Lee to leave the big smoke for Timaru in January 2017. …

… How times have changed

When Jennie Mirbach was growing up, Auckland was the place to be for a young Kiwi. So she left her hometown like thousands of other Kiwis and moved there in 1974: …

… concluding …

… It was a lot easier to buy a house. My husband and I purchased a house when I was 18 for $30,000. The deposit was $3000 which my brother lent to me. You didn’t earn a lot of money but it was much easier in those days.

We all were buying houses.
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Why are New Zealand homes so pricey? It has nothing to do with avocados | Stuff.co.nz

https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/property/106789344/why-are-nz-homes-so-pricey-it-has-nothing-to-do-with-avocados
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… IPSOS polling … the major issue for Kiwis is excessively priced housing …

New Zealand Issues Monitor – Concerns about housing grow

https://www.ipsos.com/en-nz/new-zealand-issues-monitor-concerns-about-housing-grow
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Govt criticised for moving slowly on Auckland growth boundary | Michael Daly | Stuff.co.nz

https://i.stuff.co.nz/auckland/105295016/govt-criticised-for-moving-slowly-on-auckland-growth-boundary
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October 28, 2018 9:47am
- Harkman
  
  Shared equity is the dopiest thing I have ever heard. Letting people over leverage and when interest rates jump, it’ll wipe them all out.
  
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  October 28, 2018 9:56am
  - artemisia
    
    Shared equity means actual dosh has to come from somewhere for the bit not supplied by the homeowners. Because the developers expect to be paid and in respect of Kiwibuild have some sort of undertaking from Mr Twyford.
    
    So does Mr Robertson borrow more, pay interest on it and add that interest to the principal amount to be repaid one day by the homeowners? That will be a shock to them. Or is it a taxpayer subsidy. Enquiring minds ….
    
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    October 28, 2018 10:04am
    - david
      
      Don’t forget that these first houses come fully landscaped and with an “appliance package”. You ca. N’t convince me that there is not a subsidy component.
      
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      October 28, 2018 10:35am
  - KevOB
    
    Socialist ideologues override common sense again. Is Kiwibuild for the speculators? It doesn’t look like social housing.
    
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    October 28, 2018 12:16pm
- Swifty
  
  Whipping it out early today Hugh, and so soon after the thrashing you gave it yesterday?
  
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  October 28, 2018 11:38am
  - stigie
    
    Red, purple and bruised, what an athlete !~
    
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    October 28, 2018 11:56am
    - Swifty
      
      Indeed and think of the callouses on his hands!
      
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      October 28, 2018 11:59am
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        Falling Australian house prices a warning for NZ: commentator | Stuff.co.nz
        
        https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/property/108168646/falling-australian-house-prices-a-warning-for-nz-commentator
        
        Tightening bank lending is leading to a property crunch in Australia and it could also happen here, a housing commentator says.
        
        Christchurch-based Hugh Pavletich of the housing thinktank Demographia says reports of Sydney and Melbourne houses losing $1000 a week are a result of rising interest rates and the Australian banking inquiry, making banks ultra-cautious.
        
        Pavletich said that in Australia, the housing bubble was bursting. “The days of high multiple-lending are over”. … read more via hyperlink above …
        
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        October 28, 2018 1:36pm
      - Swifty
        
        You are Dali!
        
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        October 28, 2018 2:21pm
Huevon

Jair Bolsonaro will become President of Brazil tonight

When I was living in Chile, I remember a long term expat American telling me that in Latin America it’s either workers’ revolution or right wing death squads. With Bolsonaro in power in Brazil, expect the latter. The socialists have sown the wind, so here comes the whirlwind.

Some good, thoughtful commentary here:

https://www.americasquarterly.org/content/what-expect-jair-bolsonaro

https://www.americasquarterly.org/content/system-failure-behind-rise-jair-bolsonaro
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October 28, 2018 10:16am
- Manolo
  
  Brazil is a cesspit of corruption. Maybe Bolsonaro can bring some hope and move the country forward.
  
  The thief Lula and his left-wing gang embezzled millions of dollars.
  
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  October 28, 2018 10:41am
  - Morrissey
    
    Eighty-four years ago fools like you wrote: “Germany is a cesspit of corruption. Maybe Herr Hitler can bring some hope and move the country forward.”
    
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    October 28, 2018 11:57am
cmm

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/108155476/jailed-drugdealer-escapes-deportation-as-govt-grants-him-nz-residency-behind-bars

Maybe I should have saved all the hassles of doing it legally, getting forms, medical tests and paying something like $2000 in fees and Fedex chages.

This sends a message: NZ is a soft touch.
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October 28, 2018 10:25am
- cmm
  
  I see this was already covered above. I tried to delete, but could not.
  
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  October 28, 2018 10:42am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    It’s worth repeating.
    
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    October 28, 2018 10:50am
sooty

I see that Peter Dunne could not wait to go on holiday after getting the arse card from the taxpayer. Him and his partner clocked up $18 thou on air travel? One wonders what his accom expenses were if the taxpayer was paying for it? Do you think it was 5 star, or a B&B on the back streets?
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October 28, 2018 10:54am
EAD_TWO

https://mobile.twitter.com/rooshv/status/1056217334120177664

It’s okay if you happen to miss the details of today’s synagogue shooting: you’ll be reminded of it daily for the next 70 years.

Brilliant – the replies are pure gold❗
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October 28, 2018 10:58am
- stephieboy
  
  EAD TWO , you must be related to this nugget surely,
  
  ?Brandon??
  Brandon
  @Brandon_Bman_
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  5h
  Replying to
  @rooshv
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  @AightWhiteBoy
  Can’t believe 6 million people died in this shooting
  
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  October 28, 2018 1:02pm
- Salacious Crumb
  
  Geezus are you actually happy that innocent people were gunned down in a synagogue?
  
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  October 28, 2018 5:53pm
sooty

Marathons are bad for your health by 10 oclock 6 people sent to hospitable in auckland with one critical this morning. Road opens at 1pm, so more could be carted away.
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October 28, 2018 11:29am
cmm

Can someone explain to me why my ACC invoice has GST on it?

Tax on tax… Bad, bad, bad!
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October 28, 2018 11:36am
- KevOB
  
  If you’re registered for GST no big deal. The admin of of a system with GST levied individually is a legal, commercial and govt nightmare. Our present system is as good as it gets worldwide. Taxes need to be certain and economical to collect.
  
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  October 28, 2018 12:22pm
  - Jules99
    
    Easy to administer if there is no GST added to ACC for anyone. If you are not registered for GST, as in the case of many small businesses, you can’t get it back. Most other countries do not add sales taxes to their taxes, but we seem to believe it’s too hard for us not too. Note there are other items where not GST is charged – gift vouchers and gold/silver. It’s not hard.
    
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    October 28, 2018 5:39pm
- Jules99
  
  Agree – it’s a tax on a tax, like rates with GST on. NZ is pretty unique in adding sales tax to a tax. And no, it’s not a good or a service, it’s a tax – try deciding to get your ‘service’ elsewhere and you’ll find yourself owing the authorities a big fine.
  
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  October 28, 2018 5:37pm
Morrissey

GROPERS
No. 52: Bill Cosby

“That was Bill Cosby. Goo-o-o-o-ood, eh!” —Mike Hosking, NewstalkZB, 2015

Of the many other allegations against Cosby, the earliest date claimed was December 1965; Kristina Ruehli accused Cosby of drugging and assaulting her in his Beverly Hills home during that time. Ruehli alleged that at the time, she told her boyfriend about the incident, and also claimed that she later told her daughter about the alleged encounter in the 1980s. However, she did not speak about it in public until 2005, when she came forward in the Andrea Constand case as Jane Doe #12.

In the early 1980s, Joan Tarshis told freelance reporter John Milward about alleged sexual assault by Cosby. Milward did not write about the allegations. In 1996, Playboy Playmate Victoria Valentino gave a videotaped interview in which she made sexual assault allegations against Cosby. The interview was conducted for an exposé on the lives of Playboy models, which was never published.

After the allegations resurfaced in 2014, Wendy Williams recalled that during her radio show in 1990, she made a reference to sexual assault allegations against Cosby that had been published in the National Enquirer. Williams said Cosby called her boss in the middle of the radio broadcast demanding that Williams be fired.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Cosby_sexual_assault_cases

She claimed in court documents that in 2004, she went to Cosby’s house for a visit at his request. He reportedly told her that he wanted to help her pursue a new career. When Constand talked about being stressed, he allegedly gave her three blue pills that he said were an “herbal medication” to help her relax.

Constand said she then began to feel shaky, weak, and dizzy. She said she told Cosby she wasn’t feeling well, and he led her to a sofa where he laid her down. Constand was allegedly so impaired that she couldn’t walk on her own. She said Cosby then positioned himself behind her on the sofa and began touching her inappropriately. He then allegedly sexually assaulted her. Constand claimed she was barely conscious throughout the attack.
Constand woke up at about 4 a.m. with her clothes and underwear in disarray, according to the lawsuit. Cosby allegedly greeted her in his bathrobe before she left his house.
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/the-women-who-have-accused-bill-cosby-of-rape-2014-11?r=US&IR=T

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2018/10/02/bill-cosby-1st-week-prison-good-spirits-takes-daily-calls-wife/1497016002/

“GROPERS” is presented by GroperWatch®, a division of Daisycutter Sports Inc.

1 George Herbert Walker Bush; 2 Bill O’Reilly; 3 Al Franken; 4 Robin Brooke; 5 Lester Beck; No. 6 Arnold Schwarzenegger; 7 Joe Biden; 8 Rolf Harris; 9 Harold Bloom; 10 Sir Jimmy Savile; 11 Dr Morgan Fahey; 12 Prince Harry; 13 Bill Clinton; 14 Judge Roy Moore; 15 Matt Lauer; 16 Richard Branson; 17 Warren Moon; 18 Donald John Trump; 19 Damian Green; 20 Gene Simmons; 21 Sylvester Stallone; 22 Louise’s husband Charlie; 23 Father O’Hagan (AKA “Father Gropius”); 24 David Lloyd George; 25 James Franco; 26 Joel Kramer; 27 Rene Naufahu; 28 Steve Wynn; 29 Vince McMahon; 30 Rob Porter; 31 The old buffers at Russell McVeagh; 32 Otago law students; 33 Tom Brokaw; 34 David Scott; 35 Justin Trudeau; 36 Morgan Freeman; 37 Hugh Hefner’s guests; 38 Brock Turner; 39 Les Moonves; 40 Asia Argento; 41 [name withheld]; 42 NY subway groper; 43 His Dishonor Brett Kavanaugh; 44 Corey Lewandowski; 45 Brooke Howard-Smith; 46 Dr. Filth McGraw; 47 Dominique Strauss-Kahn; 48 Roger Ailes; 49 Louis C.K.; 50 Geoffrey Rush; 51 Michael Douglas
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October 28, 2018 11:45am
- stigie
  
  Is number 41 (name withheld) Darren Hughes by any chance Morris..?
  Silly me, why would he be on that suspect list !~ //
  
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  October 28, 2018 11:59am
  - Morrissey
    
    http://i.imgur.com/wT4XtDj.gif
    
    The Hughes entry is coming up soon. Keep your eyes peeled, Stiggers!
    
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    October 28, 2018 12:02pm
  - Swifty
    
    How many people do you think Morrissey Breen has groped in his life?
    
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    October 28, 2018 12:09pm
    - sooty
      
      Did Morrissey graduate from the Labour School of Perversion. Yes, he did!
      
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      October 28, 2018 1:20pm
      - stigie
        
        He seems to be fascinated by Perversion ?
        
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        October 28, 2018 1:38pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Oh dear…

The Guardian is laying off it Climate Change bloggers

“Note: this will be our final entry on Climate Consensus – the 97%. The Guardian has decided to discontinue its Science and Environment blogging networks. We would like to thank this great paper for hosting us over the past five years, and to our readers for making it a worthwhile and rewarding endeavor.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/oct/26/canada-passed-a-carbon-tax-that-will-give-most-canadians-more-money

How are the left going to cope?
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October 28, 2018 11:56am
- Kabull
  
  Makes the link I put up in GD last evening more relevant! Perhaps common sense does get through to parts of the MS M – although I doubt it!
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmqqRF9lkfw&feature=youtu.be
  
  (Mark Levin interviewing Patrick Michaels, a senior fellow in environmental studies at the Cato Institute. Michaels is a well respected climate change skeptic and gives a fascinating insight into the ‘fake’ models used by governments for climate modelling. )
  
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  October 28, 2018 12:26pm
Morrissey

Science: don’tcha HATE it!
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October 28, 2018 12:00pm
dcrown

Since the Pittsburgh Synagogue shooter despised Trump will CNN demand that the Democrat Party take responsibility for his actions?
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October 28, 2018 12:00pm
- Morrissey
  
  Trump is the direct instigator of this violence. You know that, just as everyone else here knows it.
  
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  October 28, 2018 12:03pm
  - stigie
    
    “Twat nonsense”
    
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    October 28, 2018 12:07pm
  - dcrown
    
    As expected the left is exploiting this tradegy for political gain while simultaneously attacking the 1st & 2nd amendments.
    
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    October 28, 2018 12:11pm
  - DJ Ward
    
    Trump is responsible for a lone wolf that he never had a conversation with.
    Trump who is so pro Israel that he is often the only world leader supporting Isreal, but hates Jews so much he wants to mass murder them, just with the powers of his mind control, over the Internet.
    
    Really Morrissey your comment misses the misinformed category, the brainwashed catagory, and exceeded the lunatic threshold, into the intentionaly dishonest.
    
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    October 28, 2018 12:22pm
    - Tall Man
      
      Feel a bit of camaraderie with him are you? Kindred spirits being on the same meds?
      
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      October 28, 2018 1:45pm
    - Morrissey
      
      He’s not pro-Jewish, he just supports Israel’s crimes. If he was pro-Israel, he’d demand it withdraw its illegal settlers from the West Bank, and lift its internationally condemned siege on Gaza.
      
      He’s not pro-Jewish, he’s pro-Occupation.
      
      Question No. 10: Who are the main enemies of Israel?
      
      GIDEON LEVY: Those who support the occupation, who keep it strong, and who pay for it. Of course I’m talking about the United States here. The U.S. could stop this masquerade in a matter of months. The U.S. routinely condemns the illegal settlements and scolds Israel, but it does nothing. The European Union: nothing but lip service. India, Saudi Arabia, the U.A.E.—they all buy Israeli weapons.
      
      https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2017/12/soon-even-notion-that-israel-is.html
      
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      October 28, 2018 5:37pm
- krazykiwi
  
  “Pig101, RNAV to WLG, Runway 13L, Cleared for Takeoff”
  
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  October 28, 2018 12:08pm
- Komata
  
  Dcrown
  
  You seem to be in the market for a bridge. I’ve got a couple for sale and I’ll even give you a flying pig to help transport one if you decide to purchase…
  
  (NO chance of the Dems taking ANY responsibility; it doesn’t fit the pre-ordained narrative).
  
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  October 28, 2018 12:17pm
Pete George

Slater had ‘good and lucid discussion’ with Ross just before ‘suicide’ text:

Saturday 20th October – Jami-Lee Ross is back in Auckland, but he is homeless. He has slept in his car and hasn’t slept much over the past week. He phones me at approximately 8:30 pm and he is distraught. We had a good and lucid discussion. However, as he sat there in his car he began scrolling through his past messages and he came across the nasty text from the female MP. It set him off. At 8:51 pm he texts her and then turns his cell phone off. She frantically tries to respond via text and makes 4 phone calls to him. He turns his phone on and off over the next three hours.

https://yournz.org/2018/10/28/slater-had-good-and-lucid-discussion-withross-just-before-suicide-text/

It had seemed odd that a two month old text would ‘set Ross off’, at least not on it’s own.
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October 28, 2018 12:24pm
- DJ Ward
  
  Because he may have felt betrayed by her involvement in the medias attack on him, but also its her allegations of behavour towards him that is the cornerstone of Paula and Simons justification for sacking him. They didn’t prove he was the leaker so willing female accusers involving sex are the next best thing.
  
  JLR is justifiably upset at the hypocrisy of the female MP and Simons defending her considering that texts content. That text also marks the beginning of all the events that followed.
  
  JLR was just letting her know.
  I know it was you.
  
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  October 28, 2018 12:48pm
  - Tall Man
    
    For someone who claims they are not a labour stooge you certainly push the bullshit barrow don’t you.
    
    Lie number 1, Paula and Simon didn’t sack him he resigned.
    
    Lie number 2, Hypocrisy of the female MP is bullshit as she was dealing with him privately whereas he went postal in public. A weird fucker like you may think that it’s OK to prattle about your private doings in public but I don’t so I call your comment bullshit.
    
    Lie number 3, jlr was just letting her know, crap, he was throwing down a very public challenge to both Simon Bridges and the National party in his misguided belief that normal people would give a shit.
    
    You are just another troll from labour HQ with a room full of issues in your head that you are “so” anxious to get off your chest.
    
    You are full of biased and unfounded bullshit.
    
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    October 28, 2018 1:39pm
    - DJ Ward
      
      You lied.
      No 1. They told him he was being sacked, he then resigned.
      No 2. She went to the media first.
      No 3. At the time he sent the text, he did not inform the public of anything. That text was not sent to Simon.
      
      Messages of suicide intent are common with Borderline Personality Disorder. It’s the main reason why men suicide but females are found attempting or self harming. Females are far more likely than men to have BPD.
      
      Is Simon helping you with your posts? You seem overly defensive.
      
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      October 28, 2018 2:05pm
      - Tall Man
        
        As you can see, your lies are not being supported.
        
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        October 28, 2018 5:21pm
  - GoVege
    
    For once I agree with you, D J.
    JLR was already in a vulnerable state and all these bitches putting the boot in would have been the final straw.
    
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    October 28, 2018 3:44pm
    - DJ Ward
      
      Thanks. It’s lonely on this side of the fence.
      
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      October 28, 2018 4:23pm
      - GoVege
        
        Hehe.
        I know that feeling well! 🙂
        
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        October 28, 2018 4:47pm
    - Tall Man
      
      Bollocks. So National should have allowed a deranged man to continue undermining their position while being egged on by a couple of rabid supporters.
      
      You guys are just as demented as him. Your lies do not stack up and personally I would have been just as supporting of labour had they been put in the same position and acted similarly.
      
      Unfortunately, with the two relatively serious issues that labour did face they hid the existence of one and failed to act decisively on the other.
      
      You, like many others, are just using this as a thinly veiled attack on a man and a party you clearly do not support. Your choice and you are welcome to draw whatever conclusions you choose to but stop posting utter bullshit and pretending they are some silver bullets because they are not.
      
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      October 28, 2018 5:28pm
- Northland Wahine
  
  Jamie -Lee Ross described as “homeless” by Slater because he choose to sleep in his car?
  
  I can understand his long suffering wife not wanting him in the family home. But not a single extended family member he could bunk down with? Not a single mate? Did he burn that many bridges? (No pun intended) nothing on his credit card, that he couldn’t put himself into a motel?
  
  The more I read of the JLR saga, the more I think it’s more a case of cornered rat desperately trying to escape from his own self inflicted situation, rather than someone that is suffering from a mental health crisis.
  
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  October 28, 2018 12:54pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Still collecting his unearned salary so at the least that’s $3,300 gross per week.
    
    I think I’d cope.
    
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    October 28, 2018 1:26pm
    - DJ Ward
      
      Yes. Less child support, tax, student loan he would get about 33% of that in the hand.
      
      So about $1100 a week which isn’t enough for renting a one bedroom shithole in Auckland.
      
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      October 28, 2018 1:50pm
      - Northland Wahine
        
        I doubt his wife immediately jumped on a benefit, or that she’s lodged a child support application that quickly for IRD to action.
        
        Keeping it real.
        
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        October 28, 2018 2:03pm
      - DJ Ward
        
        @Northland Wahine.
        
        Agree we don’t know those details. But it will happen quickly.
        We do know that his finances were stretched with his mortgage, and he may very well have let or had no choice in his wife taking available funds to get bond etc.
        
        Assuming he has money to burn is ignorant.
        
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        October 28, 2018 2:13pm
      - Northland Wahine
        
        @DJ Ward.
        
        Assuming his wife will leave him in financial ruin is also ignorant. These past weeks, she has kept a very low profile, displaying decorum where he hasn’t.
        
        Maybe their marriage is repairable. Who knows? He’s sure gonna need someone with a backbone by his side in the future.
        
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        October 28, 2018 2:38pm
      - DJ Ward
        
        @Northland Wahine.
        
        I never said she would leave him in financial ruin. She has done nothing wrong. But he clearly can’t go home. He may be doing the right thing by ensuring the available finances are hers to support the kids until whatever is happening is finalised. That’s very common behavour by men. If she has gone on the DPB none of his CS money goes to her or the kids anyway, otherwise by consent and covering his mortgage.
        
        Child Support at 24% of pre tax income does leave many men in financial ruin. The day she applies for the DPB, child support automatically starts so yes he could be already paying. Men with commitments that they find they can no longer meet do face ruin. She is also very likely to get a 50% plus ruling with matrimonial assets.
        
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        October 28, 2018 3:24pm
      - Northland Wahine
        
        @DJW.
        
        I currently have my grown son living at home with me due to a separation.
        
        He never begrudges paying his family support as well as helping out with extras when asked and needed, regardless that he’s not been able to have his son over night. I appreciate more than you realise how difficult it can be on a father who does not have an amicable agreement with his ex.
        
        Given the kind of man my son is, he has family and friends he knows he can lean on. And at Christmas, we watch him for bouts of depression.
        
        Point is, JLR does not seem to have anyone he feels close to lean on. And I believe that lies almost solely at his door.
        
        And govege, jokes aside… feel free to practice “aroha” on those women you labelled “bitches”, just a thought.
        
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        October 28, 2018 5:30pm
      - GoVege
        
        NW: the only thing I regretted about calling them bitches, was the insult to female dogs.
        Where was their aroha for Jamie’s wife and kids, especially when they went public?
        Also, do you think it’s ok to tell a person already under extreme pressure that they should “kill themself”?
        
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        October 28, 2018 6:54pm
  - GoVege
    
    Where’s your aroha, NW?
    Maybe none of his friends and rellies feel they could deal with the media onslaught following poor Jamie everywhere he goes?
    
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    October 28, 2018 4:51pm
    - Northland Wahine
      
      You’re right govege. I shall whip myself mercilessly for the over sight, based solely on your opinion.
      
      (Wanders off to check the crackling on the roast pork)
      
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      October 28, 2018 4:57pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Yum…
        I can never get crackling right.
        
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        October 28, 2018 4:58pm
      - Northland Wahine
        
        I’ll have an extra piece in your honour, Maggu. ?
        
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        October 28, 2018 5:01pm
      - GoVege
        
        Ha ha Ha!
        What did a piggy person ever do to you Maggie?
        I can understand NW a bit because her forebears were cannibals more recently than ours…
        
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        October 28, 2018 8:44pm
    - Northland Wahine
      
      Govege…
      
      Good grief, I really grate you, don’t I?
      
      “NW forebears were more recently cannibals”
      Insinuating I think it’s ok to incite someone to commit suicide.
      
      For goodness sake quit obessessing over my posts. It’s starting to creep me out. Get your hubby to give you a lavender massage to take the edge off.
      
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      October 28, 2018 9:15pm
      - GoVege
        
        Don’t know how you managed to jump from cannibalism to inciting suicide.
        I was talking about eating closely related mammals such as pigs!
        
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        October 28, 2018 10:29pm
      - Northland Wahine
        
        Scroll up and read your own posts, govege.
        
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        October 29, 2018 6:08am
      - GoVege
        
        The subject was the eating of piggy people as compared to cannibalism.
        Not suicide.
        You brought up the subject of crackling, not me.
        Re-read your posts.
        Sometimes they’re kind of creepy….
        
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        October 29, 2018 11:26am
      - Northland Wahine
        
        GoVege
        
        Ha ha Ha!
        What did a piggy person ever do to you Maggie?
        I can understand NW a bit because her forebears were cannibals more recently than ours…
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        GoVege
        
        NW: the only thing I regretted about calling them bitches, was the insult to female dogs.
        Where was their aroha for Jamie’s wife and kids, especially when they went public?
        Also, do you think it’s ok to tell a person already under extreme pressure that they should “kill themself”?
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        Your own posts vege.
        
        Now off for the massage, might calm your nerves.
        
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        October 29, 2018 1:36pm
      - GoVege
        
        If you look at the times, you will see that you got my posts in the wrong order.
        I started off urging people to show some compassion for a man who’s life is in tatters.
        Then you brought up the subject of pig eating.
        You may think it’s hilarious to make jokes about cooking intelligent sensitive animals who have spent much of their lives caged.
        I think the way other animals are treated is cruel.
        But on to something more positive.
        What happened to that relative who was bashing his kids at a family gathering?
        
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        October 29, 2018 5:55pm
- Tall Man
  
  He a fuck wit and those around him are of the same ilk.
  
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  October 28, 2018 1:41pm
  - GoVege
    
    No wonder this country has such an astronomical suicide rate!!
    Has nobody any compassion for a fellow human being going through hell?
    Jamie did not exactly have an easy start to life.
    What he has achieved is quite remarkable even despite his human failings.
    
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    October 28, 2018 4:55pm
- MrTips
  
  Fuck Slater and fuck JLR. They are nothing, they’ve got nothing and they can take their school ground tiff elsewhere. Labour have just given residency to a serious criminal for no good reason and that’ll be the tip of a seriously shitty iceberg. Way more important stuff.
  
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  October 28, 2018 2:22pm
Lee C

Yup, time to revamp the narrative. Having failed to destroy the career of the Leader of the Opposition, the hyenas will have to make do by dragging a female MP’s name through the mud, for being upset that JLR outed her on the radio, and only the legal team at said radio stopped her being branded a whore.

But enough of that, righteous chagrin, eh? Because we all know how much the other side favours sexual predators, after all.
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October 28, 2018 12:52pm
- DJ Ward
  
  She outed him well before he returned the favour.
  She went to the media first and named him.
  
  Having those allegations successfully destroying his career.
  
  Is he required to role over like a good lap dog just to protect the feminist narrative? After they destroyed him.
  Has her infidelity with him not contributed, and destroyed his marriage? Yet somehow only he is responsible and named. That’s not feminism, it’s misandry.
  
  Who is the leaker?
  
  All of JLR calls match the actions of the senior whip attempting to find out who the leaker is, just as much as it could be him. It was his job to make those calls. He was never in contact with reporter A, intimately involved in the leak.
  
  Mallard knows who the leaker is.
  If it’s not JLR and Mallard leaks it to the media just prior to the election, Simon and National will get destroyed.
  
  Who is the leaker?
  JLR denies it was him. He has the right to be believed.
  Even a crazy woman who cliams rape must be believed. Her cliam must be investigated with an open, without prejudice mind. Understanding that saying you lied because of your condition allows unjust results.
  
  Finally with hundreds of successful relationships, Cindy has shacked up with one.
  
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  October 28, 2018 1:34pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Have a wee lean and see if the chip on your shoulder drops off.
    
    Is Ardern a liar?
    
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    October 28, 2018 1:43pm
    - DJ Ward
      
      Are you a short woman called Paula?
      
      Argue the point for once.
      
      I’ve already shown you lie. 3 times. Don’t worry about Cindy.
      
      If I have made a mistake at least I can own up to it.
      
      The I don’t like the comment so I’ll make a Personel attack. Must be lonely on your moral high ground.
      
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      October 28, 2018 2:31pm
      - Tall Man
        
        I have tried to argue the point with you but unfortunately it proves the old adage
        
        “never argue with an idiot, lest he pull you down to his level and beat you with experience.”
        
        Your mindset is restricted and you are prone to labour the point so it becomes pointless.
        
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        October 28, 2018 5:40pm
  - Komata
    
    DJW
    
    Due to the ‘certainty’ of your 1334 reply, and to avoid any ‘implication’ that you may be making things up, could you supply us with a source please, otherwise ( and to quote a former lecturer) ‘It didn’t happen’.
    
    I’m sure you will be able to oblige (and be happy to do so).
    
    Thanks.
    
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    October 28, 2018 4:18pm
    - DJ Ward
      
      From this.
      
      Obviously the order of outing each other is well established.
      
      The important points are they found no proof of who the leaker is. JLR however appears to be that person and none of those people called are talking.
      
      The important point is JLR was never contacting reporter A, only reporter B. The leaker was contacting reporter A.
      
      Why would JLR annonamously text the speaker then phone the speaker? Was this an honest call asking who the leaker was.
      Why was the police calls being made? And so many.
      What role as whip was he doing that is being confused as him being the leaker. The calls may be a misinterpretation of what was happening.
      
      We’re calls to reporter B based on a relationship or about events taking place.
      
      While on the balance of probabilities has been met, beyond reasonable doubt has not. There is too many unanswered questions. Circumstantial evidence is dangerous on its own.
      
      The speakers phone calls and texts are not examined. Was there a seperate call made from the leakers phone so Mallard got the identity that way.
      
      https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/PWC-Investigation-Report.pdf
      
      Agian the real danger for National is if JLR is not the leaker. This must be answered 100%. It clears the decks so National can go into the election without baggage. On the very slim chance it’s not JLR it would make this whole event look obscene and evil by Nationals leadership.
      
      I don’t want the left in government, just like most of you. This saga needs to end and proving who the leaker is, is the key to that happening.
      
      JLR says he didn’t do it.
      We need him to man up and confess.
      Or we are told by the police or Mallard that it was him.
      
      Otherwise despite damming evidence he didn’t do it. As the report said. It is not proven.
      
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      October 28, 2018 5:24pm
noskire

I’m a bit thick today – and I need to hire a couple of people next week.
My question is about KiwiSaver – are there any tax benefits for employers?
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October 28, 2018 2:02pm
- Tall Man
  
  No. Work out what package you are prepared to give in total and if they want kiwisaver, which they should, then remove your contribution from the package.
  
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  October 28, 2018 2:06pm
  - noskire
    
    Hmm. I have some rental properties that are in a trust. I was considering transferring them to a company, and putting two dependants as 33% shareholders each.
    
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    October 28, 2018 2:19pm
    - Tall Man
      
      Can’t really see any benefit and removing them from the trust could be expensive.
      
      Talk to your accountant but I can’t see why you would be better off and a trust does give you a little protection for the assets in the medium term….. In my non advisory opinion 😉
      
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      October 28, 2018 2:22pm
    - Tall Man
      
      Remember that two dependents at 33% each now out vote you if push comes to shove…….
      
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      October 28, 2018 2:24pm
    - Swifty
      
      Why?
      
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      October 28, 2018 2:24pm
      - waikatogirl
        
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        October 28, 2018 4:58pm
    - artemisia
      
      Might be worth hopping over to propertytalk.com forums. It’s a NZ site, lots of helpful property accountants and other property experts there.
      
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      October 28, 2018 5:34pm
  - noskire
    
    Sorry Tall Man, that doesn’t quite make sense to me.
    Work out what package you are prepared to give in total and if they want kiwisaver, which they should, then remove your contribution from the package?
    
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    October 28, 2018 2:23pm
    - Tall Man
      
      If you’re happy to pay them 100k and they elect to take kiwisaver, then pay $96K ish plus the 4% employers contribution. Total cost to you approx $100K.
      
      I assume that’s what you are asking.
      
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      October 28, 2018 2:26pm
      - noskire
        
        Yup, that’s about it.
        But it’s better that they are employees of a company, and can claim depreciation of vehicles etc, rather than trust fund recipients.
        
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        October 28, 2018 2:32pm
      - DJ Ward
        
        What about ACC do you deduct that too?
        Holiday pay?
        Sick leave?
        Maternity leave?
        Coffee costs?
        Hand cleaner?
        Rent on the workers parking space?
        
        You offer what the market decides will get the employee you want to hire. If that’s not financially viable then your doing something wrong. Benefits are often more than just salary.
        
        A boss may save 4% as you expressed but result in a 10% less efficient worker accepting the offer. The good one took a $100,000 offer plus KiwiSaver.
        
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        October 28, 2018 2:45pm
      - Tall Man
        
        DJ you are a complete twat who has obviously never employed staff. I can’t even be bothered trying to walk you though the discussion.
        
        Stick to posting rants about the family court and leave the big boys stuff alone.
        
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        October 28, 2018 3:09pm
      - Piniwi
        
        Right Tall Man that is like the same process being used in Australia. In ignorance that turned out to be the basis of the first real job I got over there. Moved to a better position after an approach from another much better position with a better salary, plus super payments, a bigger percentage company contribution and two increases in the first year. They were for firstly an increase due with the old employer and being an American aligned annual January review. All put together by the new boss who quickly showed me what a raw deal I had that I had thought was pretty good.
        It might be the cynic in me but it looks like Cullen intends Kiwisaver to become the alternative for their dodgy super scheme they had back in the 80’s. Signaled before the election planning to use it to shore up the exchange rate as well as a supplementary funds piggy bank. Now they are talking about increased employer contributions along with some other tampering.
        
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        October 28, 2018 11:04pm
noskire

Thanks for your feedback guys. Just sounding out some opinions.
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October 28, 2018 2:52pm
- Tall Man
  
  If you can be bothered, and I see it’s for dependents so DJ’s comments are pointless, form the company and have the trust owning the company but the company “managing” the rentals for a fee.
  
  That allows you to have some flexibility with the income distribution, if you follow my drift.
  
  Your accountant will be very familiar with your situation and can adapt as required.
  
  Cheers
  
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  October 28, 2018 3:07pm
  - DJ Ward
    
    Yes I’ll just stick to my being self employed while my partner runs a small family business with 3 1/2 workers.
    I clearly don’t know as much as you do on the subject. You are actually being informative.
    
    Keep up the good work.
    
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    October 28, 2018 3:33pm
    - Tall Man
      
      No need for your comment at all.
      
      You clearly misread his issue and carefully misconstrued my suggestion.
      
      If you, not your wife employed staff, you would be less inclined to drop in you silly comments on the path that this country is on which is clearly the pathway to perdition.
      
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      October 28, 2018 5:16pm
    - GoVege
      
      DJ: Me and Mr GV have been self-employed for yonks now.
      Can’t beat it with a stick… 🙂
      
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      October 28, 2018 7:26pm
Inandout

I learned that a brand new motel in a Manawatu town has let two units to ‘the homeless’ because all others in town have refused. I can imagine what bored kids do at night.
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October 28, 2018 3:32pm
- DJ Ward
  
  I thought Cindy was going to solve homelessness. Shows the reality of capitalism in that business can enable opportunity.
  
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  October 28, 2018 3:43pm
  - GoVege
    
    Saw on the news an interview with a homeless guy.
    He said he was a father of 13, some of whom are also homeless (surprise, surprise.)
    And he was kicked out of home at 9 years of age.
    What the hell is going on in this country?
    
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    October 28, 2018 3:47pm
    - DJ Ward
      
      For the women more kids can mean more money. It can also be a motive to have a kid every 5 years so they don’t force them into work.
      
      For the men once you have one kid your paying child support for, things can get difficult. Two kids or more and they can feel completely screwed and give up. There is little or no incentive to work especially in the low to middle income groups. Once in that state of mind you might as well have dozens of kids as it makes no difference to the situation.
      
      It starts a cycle where the kids are created, not by the motive, consent, and ability to be good parents. Outcomes with kids drop considerably and the incentive of free money compared to working for similar money becomes cancerous.
      
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      October 28, 2018 4:07pm
      - GoVege
        
        Every FIVE years?
        For our tangata whenua, I’d say every year.
        Any person who can throw their kid out of home at 9….. or any age under 19 obviously didn’t have them out of love.
        
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        October 28, 2018 4:38pm
      - GoVege
        
        Some good news I have heard about Labour policies that will help homelessness.
        Apparently they no longer automatically evict tenants of a HNZ house when the tenant whose name is on the tenancy agreement dies.
        Previously they not only had to struggle with grief, but also find a private rental, change schools, come up with bonds, etc etc.
        Believe me, all the astronomical costs of this upheaval would have ended up being largely carried by the tax payers.
        
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        October 28, 2018 4:45pm
      - DJ Ward
        
        @GoVege.
        
        Yes. I had to take custody of my younger brother when I was 19. He was conceived by my mother getting pregnant because my father wanted to leave the relationship. One where he was forced by my uncle with a shotgun to marry my mother when he was 16.
        
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        October 28, 2018 5:44pm
      - GoVege
        
        You must have been an exceptionally responsible young man, DJ, unlike your dad.
        
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        October 28, 2018 6:33pm
      - GoVege
        
        BTW DJ, lots of men have been known to try and impregnate their wives/partners when the latter were trying to leave.
        My dad did.
        Unfortunately for our family it didn’t work….
        
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        October 28, 2018 7:23pm
      - DigNap15
        
        The only way to solve homelessness is to give unqualified maori girls the operation. And all Maori guys with no job the snip.
        Do this for 40 years and we may break the cycle.
        
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        October 28, 2018 8:11pm
      - GoVege
        
        Dignap: that was tried 70 years ago in Europe.
        Didn’t work.
        The only way is to pay than more to work than breed, or pay them to have the snip.
        
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        October 28, 2018 8:48pm
    - stigie
      
      “What the hell is going on in this country?”
      
      You can start with oil and gas…..the nuclear free moment that was policy on the hoof !~
      
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      October 28, 2018 4:21pm
    - Manolo
      
      Where is the whanau? 😀
      
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      October 28, 2018 4:56pm
Jack5

Whoops, wrong knob…. and a new meaning for hacked off.

Could this be the solution for rooting politicians?

Shagging a robot won’t count as infidelity!

And guess the name for the technical subject of human-robotics sex? Teledildonics.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/oct/27/kate-devlin-robot-sex-infidelity-teledildonics-relationships
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October 28, 2018 4:25pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Dear me… Oz Labor & Greens having a falling-out?

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/oct/27/labor-mp-says-greens-a-vanity-project-and-opposition-must-steal-votes-back-from-the-left
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October 28, 2018 5:00pm
- Tall Man
  
  How do we import that?
  
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  October 28, 2018 5:36pm
Komata

GoVege

Concerning the change to the eviction rules for state house tenants:

Can you explain please how that is fair?

The idea of low cost government-assisted housing was to give a hand up and to provide a temporary easing of rental costs while the residents got themselves together.

It was NOT to provide a permanent ‘Forever after’ residence for the inhabitants, but if it buys votes (For Labour) why not?

A flow on effect is, of course, a depletion of an already scarce commodity: A State house.

To me, that seems manifestly unfair to those who have abided by the rules, and know that their housing is only temporary, but since you evidntly approve of the decision, could you please explain why you hold that view?

Thanks.
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October 28, 2018 5:25pm
- Tall Man
  
  He’s an idiot.
  
  Have seen an elderly woman with a mature adult child in full time work pass away so Go vege wants the adult and employed child to retain possession of a 3 bedroomed house in an area where there is a shortage of State housing.
  
  Brilliant…..not
  
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  October 28, 2018 5:35pm
  - DJ Ward
    
    At the very least make them pay full market rent.
    
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    October 28, 2018 5:46pm
  - GoVege
    
    No…if they’ve lived there for yonks and been good tenants, taking care of the property, and have a genuine need for state housing, then they should be considered for taking over the tenancy.
    
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    October 28, 2018 5:55pm
  - GoVege
    
    Why all the resentment of state house tenants?
    I’d rather live in my own hovel than rent a mansion for $20 a week!!!
    
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    October 28, 2018 5:57pm
- GoVege
  
  I said they no longer AUTOMATICALLY evict them…
  
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  October 28, 2018 5:53pm
- GoVege
  
  Komata: with the current prices of houses being the priciest in the world, not many people on the average or low wage can afford their own place.
  I don’t see why it matters that the state is providing housing.
  Eventually the houses will be passed on to other families.
  At least the state still owns them, unlike when National was selling them off.
  Obviously most people on Kiwi blog have enough know-how to buy a home of their own home.
  To many people, it really is a mystery..
  
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  October 28, 2018 6:29pm
  - Komata
    
    GV
    
    Thank you for your reply.
    
    I note that you believe that ‘…Eventually the houses will be passed on to other families’. Unfortunately, not from now on. When Grandma dies, the daughter (for example) gets the house and stays there until she in turn dies etc. etc. etc.
    
    By removing the ‘Atomatic termination of tenancy’ clause, a ‘dynistical’ situation has been unintentionally created, and there is now absolutely NO way a family can be removed from a state dweĺling! The residents may still be tenants, but since, as we know, budgets can be arranged to acomodate such costs, the tenant, by making said adjustment and now paying a relative pittance (when compared to the ‘real’ world), are now living the ‘Life of Riley’, in what is essentially their own house, secure in the knowledge that, as long as one descendant of Grandma (the otiginal tenant) is still alive and on site, they can’t be removed!
    
    On that basis, and with rent likely to be considerably less than a mortgage, all and any ‘incentive’ to leave is removed; why should they, they would actually be WORSE off by doing-so.
    
    Certainly the house cannot be sold (although no doubt some will try), but it can be sublet and extra income gained ( and no doubt THAT will also be tried).
    
    As with many of the COL’s decisions, the future consequences do not seem to have been considered…
    
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    October 28, 2018 7:58pm
    - GoVege
      
      You could have a valid point there, Komata.
      It’s a bit like the DPB.
      Brought in for wonderful humanitarian reasons.
      Within a generation every gang member is using it to supplement their lifestyle.
      Don’t think they can sublet though.
      I definitely don’t like to see entitled dorks demanding the right to be cheaply accomodated on the taxpayers.
      We obviously have to teach the general population about such concepts as the work ethic and buying a home etc.
      Coz many have NO idea…
      
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      October 28, 2018 8:55pm
      - softail 1450
        
        govege, I know you dont consume meat but i see that huge amounts of liquor are on your menu on sunday arvo going by some of your shit yesterday ,
        ???????
        
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        October 29, 2018 7:15am
krazykiwi

Tremendous news: According to Guardian Climate Change Columnist Dana Nuccitelli, the Guardian has decided to “discontinue” its science and environment blogging networks, a policy shift which seems to involve a significant cut to their climate change blogging.

I guess there’s only so long one can make shit up, publish it, and expect to create revenue from it. Perhaps the Guardian’s shift to ~~subscriptions~~ begging for money has helped sharpen their focus.
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October 28, 2018 6:10pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Where are the lefties going to get their alarmist “facts” now?
  
  Who else is peddling consensus science these days?
  
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  October 28, 2018 7:08pm
  - nasska
    
    They’ll just keep on pulling them out of their arses in the time honoured manner Maggy. You know how it goes: 🙂
    
    Chicken Little liked wandering about in the woods. She liked looking at the trees and smelling the flowers. She loved listening to the birds singing.
    
    One day while she was walking an acorn fell from a tree, and hit the top of her little head. “Oh my, the sky is falling down! I must run and tell lion about it,” said Chicken Little, and began to run.
    
    She ran and ran until she met the hen. “Where are you going?” the hen asked. “Oh, Henny Penny, the sky is falling down and I am going to see lion and tell him all about it.” “How do you know that the sky’s falling down?” Henny Penny asked. “It hit me on the head!” answered Chicken Little. “Let me come with you,” said Henny Penny.
    
    To be continued…….
    
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    October 28, 2018 7:21pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Then I’ll do The Emperor’s New Clothes…and Krazy Kiwi might swat up on The Boy who Cried Wolf for us.
      
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      October 28, 2018 8:13pm
      - krazykiwi
        
        Just for you Maggie: ♫ ♫ ♫ ♫ Cry Wolf by Ah Ha ♫ ♫ ♫ ♫
        
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        October 28, 2018 8:21pm
  - krazykiwi
    
    Anyone peddling consensus isn’t a scientist. Quite the opposite.
    
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    October 28, 2018 8:11pm
Fletch

There’s a new movement called ‘Blexit’ – the black exit from the Democrat party, with logo designed by Kanye.

https://blexit.com/

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2018/10/27/exclusive-kanye-west-and-candace-owens-how-africa-inspired-the-blexit-artwork/
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October 28, 2018 6:11pm
Gravelroad

Female reporter on 6pm TV1 news was breathless and tripping over her words (maybe a wine too many during a late lunch?) about the arrival of Prince Harry and Mrs Prince.
They are at Governmenr House.
They will be attending a Suffrage celebration reception and will meet Princess Jacinda and Black Prince Simon.
But, alas, no word as to whether baby Neve would be attending.
The media are mad.
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October 28, 2018 6:18pm
- nasska
  
  Poor little Squirrel. The way she gets used to deflect bad news & keep our insane media amused is nothing short of child abuse!
  
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  October 28, 2018 6:57pm
  - RF
    
    Meghan is one classy lady whereas the commie chick might be practiced dipping a sausage into batter but still comes out as lacking in social graces.
    
    To overcome this she has to use Squirrel as a foil…..
    I dread to think what the Bub will turn out to be as there’s no guarantee that first fish will be hanging around once the fairy dust has disappeared and there is fresh fish to fry…..
    
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    October 28, 2018 10:11pm
stephieboy

Trump certainly knows how to use fear and loathing to stir up the voting public telling them that Middle Easterners are onboard the Caravan heading north from Guatemala,

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/22/trump-nationalist-926745?
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October 28, 2018 7:05pm
Nostradamus

Never mind Stephieboy.

On more important things… there’s a survey on Facebook: Do you recommend Church of Saint Alban the Martyr? Have you voted yet?
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October 28, 2018 7:20pm
- nasska
  
  The bloke in the green dress looks like a proper nana! 🙂
  
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  October 28, 2018 7:22pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    You could always provide online feedback, Nasska? I’m sure they need to hear from well-grounded people every once in a while!
    
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    October 28, 2018 7:25pm
    - All_on_Red
      
      The very least we could do is alert them to the perverts which dwell amongst them!
      
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      October 28, 2018 7:49pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        All on Red:
        
        Stephieboy tells us there’s a diligent person who posts a “notice” (his word) on the church door from time to time just to keep him honest.
        
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        October 28, 2018 7:59pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        I’d forgotten about that.
        Oh the generosity of spirit some people possess!
        The way they help out the local community is just inspirational
        God does indeed move in mysterious ways
        
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        October 28, 2018 8:02pm
      - Swifty
        
        Did he ever track down that Martin Luther?
        
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        October 28, 2018 8:03pm
      - Swifty
        
        I still maintain it was a false flag.
        
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        October 28, 2018 8:08pm
- Swifty
  
  I say, there’s an interesting endorsement in Dec 2017!
  
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  October 28, 2018 7:25pm
- Swifty
  
  Bloody hell Nostra, it’s miraculous!
  
  “Alban was led to execution, and he presently came to a fast-flowing river that could not be crossed (believed to be the River Ver). There was a bridge, but a mob of curious townspeople who wished to watch the execution had so clogged the bridge that the execution party could not cross. Filled with an ardent desire to arrive quickly at martyrdom, Alban raised his eyes to heaven, and the river dried up, allowing Alban and his captors to cross over on dry land. The astonished executioner cast down his sword and fell at Alban’s feet, moved by divine inspiration and praying that he might either suffer with Alban or be executed for him.”
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Alban
  
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  October 28, 2018 7:50pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    My goodness
    So what had Alban done wrong to be executed?
    Ran off with another mans goat?
    You just can’t stand in the way of true love
    
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    October 28, 2018 7:53pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I didn’t realise Ecclesiastical Psephology had taken hold on KB…
  
  St Albans has 5/5 based on a survey of 2 people.
  That’s pretty definitive.
  
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  October 28, 2018 8:27pm
  - krazykiwi
    
    ‘Psephology’ … I had to look that one up!
    
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    October 28, 2018 8:36pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Surely not, isn’t our gracious host a practitioner of that esoteric art?
      
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      October 28, 2018 8:45pm
    - krazykiwi
      
      I learned a few things at Rongotai college, including how to make a bolt bomb, but psephology was never mentioned 😉
      
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      October 28, 2018 8:51pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        I confess:.. I only came across the word a few hours ago… how spooky that I could find a use for it.
        
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        October 28, 2018 9:17pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Maggy:
        
        One of the words I learnt when studying constitutional law was “autochthony”. I haven’t found a use for it in my post-university life yet. Hopefully one day I’ll be able to rearrange the letters on my Scrabble board to score an instant win!
        
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        October 28, 2018 10:06pm
Swifty

Labour voter – IN DA HOOD!

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12150258
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October 28, 2018 7:30pm
- stephieboy
  
  Swifty,
  
  ” This country is for white people only’.”
  
  Must strongly resonate with Nostradamus, nasska and yourself!
  
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  October 28, 2018 7:44pm
  - Swifty
    
    Not at all Stiffy – for example, two of my kids have Filipino ancestry.
    
    Doh!
    
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    October 28, 2018 7:46pm
    - stephieboy
      
      Swifty , Honourary Whites?
      
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      October 28, 2018 8:06pm
      - Swifty
        
        WTF?
        
        You’re grasping now Stiffy….
        
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        October 28, 2018 8:09pm
      - Jack5
        
        Roster change at Stephiestani Trolls Ltd.
        
        On duty today, passengers, we have the punctuation poor and spelling-deficient Stephie.
        
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        October 28, 2018 8:09pm
    - Morrissey
      
      So what? Racism is racism, and it’s not at all mitigated by the fact you know or are related to a non-European. Paul Holmes was married to a Maori, Winston Peters is Maori, Don Brash wife was Chinese, and Cameron Slater’s married to a Fijian.
      
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      October 28, 2018 8:25pm
      - Swifty
        
        Please point me to a racist statement I have ever made.
        
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        October 28, 2018 8:29pm
      - Swifty
        
        One. One’ll do. Just one. One.
        
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        October 28, 2018 8:42pm
      - Swifty
        
        Oh and Slater’s missus is Lebanese.
        
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        October 28, 2018 8:42pm
      - Morrissey
        
        I didn’t say you had, swifters. I pointed out that your citing Filipino children as some kind of immunization against racism was invalid. I’m sure you’re not a racist, but the four people I mentioned most definitely are (or in one case, was).
        
        Bob Jones, a notorious racist, says he admires Chinese “girls”. That doesn’t immunize that old fool either.
        
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        October 28, 2018 8:43pm
      - Morrissey
        
        Slater’s missus is Lebanese
        
        Yes she is. He has Fijian blood, I think.
        
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        October 28, 2018 8:44pm
      - Swifty
        
        He has zero I believe, but he was born there.
        
        Gee, not a good night for you and facts Morrissey.
        
        Sloppy, very sloppy.
        
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        October 28, 2018 8:50pm
      - Morrissey
        
        He has zero I believe, but he was born there.
        
        Quite right, my friend, quite right.
        
        Gee, not a good night for you and facts Morrissey.
        
        Yeah, Swifty, ya got me, and ya got me good. I’ll have to wear this one.
        
        Sloppy, very sloppy.
        
        Indeed. This is what happens when one lets the Fact-Checking Unit (i.e. Hector Stoop) go watch a movie.
        
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        October 29, 2018 6:26am
  - Nostradamus
    
    Stephieboy:
    
    Must strongly resonate with Nostradamus
    
    No, I haven’t ever referred to New Zealand as a place for white people only, and my wife isn’t “white” as you’d so racistly put it. The only people we don’t want here are perverts like you who make St Lukes a dangerous place for young girls!
    
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    October 28, 2018 7:52pm
    - stephieboy
      
      St Lukes is in fact a haven of peace with me around!
      
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      October 28, 2018 8:06pm
      - Swifty
        
        Everyone clears out?
        
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        October 28, 2018 8:10pm
  - Swifty
    
    Oh, and I forgot, the other daughter is part Cho and Thai!
    
    Hell, that’s your theory down the gurgler isn’t it?
    
    Wanna try again?
    
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    October 28, 2018 7:56pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      It speaks volumes that someone would even think to classify your kids as “Honourary Whites”.
      
      How fucking offensive!
      
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      October 28, 2018 8:41pm
      - Swifty
        
        To be honest, I don’t even know what “honorary whites” is supposed to mean.
        
        Coming from him though, I suspect it’s not good.
        
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        October 28, 2018 8:46pm
      - Swifty
        
        *and will be without foundation.
        
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        October 28, 2018 8:46pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        ‘Alt-White’ probably
        
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        October 28, 2018 8:50pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        To be honest, I don’t even know what “honorary whites” is supposed to mean.
        
        It was the term the South African Apartheid Governments used to classify Japanese, Koreans, Taiwanese and Chinese… and occasionally Maori & Samoans if they were Rugby players.
        
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        October 28, 2018 9:05pm
      - stephieboy
        
        “How fucking offensive!”
        
        Is that the standard of decorum in your rest home?
        
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        October 28, 2018 9:07pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Decorum…?????
        
        You really don’t have a clue, do you?
        
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        October 28, 2018 9:26pm
    - stephieboy
      
      MW,
      
      decorum | dɪˈkɔːrəm |
      noun [mass noun]
      
      behaviour in keeping with good taste and propriety:
      
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      October 28, 2018 9:48pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Conforming behaviours are for the petite bourgeoisie, stephieboy.
        
        You really need to swat up your class theory.
        
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        October 28, 2018 10:09pm
      - Vory v zakone
        
        Hey Ralphieboy, how was the decorum when you were perving at the honeypots’ ‘small but ample breasts’ while @ Robert Harris?
        
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        October 29, 2018 2:00am
nasska

A momentous & historic day in South Auckland yesterday…..

…..someone ordered a salad in McDonald’s!
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October 28, 2018 7:37pm
- Nostradamus
  
  It was a historical anomaly. They meant to ask for tomato sauce, but in the moment of excitement blurted out “tomatoes”, and got served a salad!
  
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  October 28, 2018 7:39pm
- stephieboy
  
  nasska, you must live a life a severe denial without an occasional Mc Donalds!
  
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  October 28, 2018 7:41pm
  - nasska
    
    It’s mussels & chips from the greasy at Awanui that floats my boat stephieboy.
    
    Cooked to perfection!
    
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    October 28, 2018 7:44pm
    - stephieboy
      
      I have mine down at the Viaduct Basin. Unbeatable!
      
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      October 28, 2018 8:09pm
      - sooty
        
        Can you use your gold card on a weekend stephie? The rest of NZ are luckly to be able to use it for anything useful!
        
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        October 28, 2018 8:26pm
      - Tall Man
        
        Is Ardern a liar?
        
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        October 28, 2018 8:50pm
      - softail 1450
        
        septiboy ,is the perving better at the viaduct septicboy?, I guess there is the added bonus that none of the security people down there know you YET….
        
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        October 29, 2018 7:05am
  - Swifty
    
    Do you deny yourself that which you covet, Stiffy?
    
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    October 28, 2018 7:52pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      Swifty:
      
      Stephieboy doesn’t go to McDonald’s. He’s more of a “coffee” person at Robert Harris.
      
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      October 28, 2018 7:55pm
      - Swifty
        
        Yep, that’s what he tells us Nostra.
        
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        October 28, 2018 7:58pm
      - stephieboy
        
        Nostradamus, spectacularly lame!
        
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        October 28, 2018 9:13pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Stephieboy:
        
        I can back up my assertion that you’ve told us about your “good coffee time” at Robert Harris:
        
        Yesterday I was at the Robert Harris cafe St Lukes Megacentre , Mt Albert enjoying a cappuccino. I noticed next door three Muslim women enjoying their lattes with their children . Two of these honeypots .were wearing their Nijabs with stylish jeans and blouses . The other in more typical kiwi informal attire .
        
        You’re known as a pervert for good reason!
        
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        October 28, 2018 9:42pm
      - Swifty
        
        Ooh, er!
        
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        October 28, 2018 9:46pm
nasska

I NEVER KNEW THIS:

Did you know “listen” & “silent” use the same letters? Do you also know that the words race car spelled backwards still spells “race car?” And that “eat” is the only word that if you take the first letter & move it to the last, it spells its past tense “ate?” And have you noticed that if you rearrange the letters in “Manus refugees” & add just a few more letters, it spells: “Go home you free-loading, benefit-grabbing, resource-sucking, baby-making, non-English-speaking arseholes & take those other hairy-faced, sandal-wearing, bomb-making, camel-riding, goat-shagging bastards with you.”

How weird is that? English really is a strange language, isn’t it?
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October 28, 2018 8:06pm
- stephieboy
  
  A language that floats on a” free market ” so to speak and borrows, borrows and borrows with neologisms aplenty!
  
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  October 28, 2018 8:11pm
- Swifty
  
  Very strange indeed – I never knew that.
  
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  October 28, 2018 8:11pm
Tall Man

https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/369590/little-confident-in-proposed-ngapuhi-treaty-settlement-model

Needs a rewrite…

Little confidence in proposed Ngapuhi treaty settlement.

See, easy fix.
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October 28, 2018 9:06pm
- Nostradamus
  
  The Treaty Negotiations Minister is confident in a new model to move the Ngāpuhi Treaty settlement forward, despite at least eight hapū rejecting it. The model would involve the Crown negotiating cultural redress for Treaty breaches with six regional hapū groupings, while the commercial redress would be negotiated with one group and the settlement held by a single entity.
  
  What could possibly go wrong?
  
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  October 28, 2018 9:12pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    If I was an enterprising wee thing, I’d hitch my wagon to the single entity and invite my new mates from the CCP over for a korero.
    
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    October 28, 2018 9:33pm
    - nasska
      
      You’d probably find yourself under intense scrutiny Maggy. A more fractured tribe than Ngapuhi would be hard to find & inter-hapu relationships are not always happy ones. They watch each other’s actions carefully.
      
      Last year sometime, the Northern Advocate ran an article that instanced a case of three hapu who couldn’t even decide on who would represent them over a substantial payout.
      
      It was to do with JNL’s purchase of the 90 Mile Beach forestry rights 30 odd years ago!
      
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      October 28, 2018 9:48pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Nasska:
        
        a case of three hapu who couldn’t even decide on who would represent them over a substantial payout
        
        Simple mathematics (and logic) would suggest that a substantial payout is better than no payout, and that a 1/3 share of a substantial payout is better than no payout. But I guess when you’ve been colonised by European settlers, and then stiffed by other members of your own Ngapuhi clan, it’s hard to see the way forward!
        
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        October 28, 2018 9:52pm
      - nasska
        
        I’d love to see someone argue colonisation as a factor in inter-hapu rivalries Nostra. Just reading accounts of events such as the Boyd Massacre in 1809 indicates that aroha was in short supply even then.
        
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        October 28, 2018 9:59pm
      - Tauhei Notts
        
        In the old days somebody said the North has too many chiefs and not enough Indians. Now with the liquor stores, service stations, $2 shops and curry houses they have plenty of Indians, and the disagreements continue. That sage from several years ago was wrong.
        
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        October 29, 2018 7:37am
stoptheboats

I see China president for life is telling his troops to prepare for war. Ex US General warning of same. Haven’t they listened to Cindy’s UN hopey changey luvvie speech
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October 28, 2018 10:33pm
Hugh Pavletich

Falling Australian house prices a warning for NZ: commentator | Catherine Harris | Stuff.co.nz
… note comments volume …

https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/property/108168646/falling-australian-house-prices-a-warning-for-nz-commentator

Tightening bank lending is leading to a property crunch in Australia and it could also happen here, a housing commentator says.

Christchurch-based Hugh Pavletich of the housing thinktank Demographia says reports of Sydney and Melbourne houses losing $1000 a week are a result of rising interest rates and the Australian banking inquiry, making banks ultra-cautious.

Pavletich said that in Australia, the housing bubble was bursting. “The days of high multiple-lending are over”. … read more via hyperlink above …
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Millennials ditching the Big Smoke for the regions … Brittany Keogh … Sunday Star Times / Stuff NZ

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/108033743/millennials-ditching-the-big-smoke-for-the-regions?cid=app-iPad
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Why are New Zealand homes so pricey? It has nothing to do with avocados | Charlie Gates | Stuff.co.nz

https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/property/106789344/why-are-nz-homes-so-pricey-it-has-nothing-to-do-with-avocados
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Govt criticised for moving slowly on Auckland growth boundary | Michael Daly | Stuff.co.nz

https://i.stuff.co.nz/auckland/105295016/govt-criticised-for-moving-slowly-on-auckland-growth-boundary
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October 29, 2018 2:12am
- Hugh Pavletich
  
  … The Kiwibuild Housing Hoax … Mike Hosking explains …
  
  Mike Hosking: KiwiBuild has gone off the rails … NewstalkZB
  
  https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/mike-hosking-breakfast/opinion/mike-hosking-kiwibuild-has-gone-off-the-rails/
  
  … Jenna Lynch of Newshub outlines The Treasury report …
  
  KiwiBuild ‘not aimed at low-income families’ – Phil Twyford | Newshub
  
  https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2018/10/kiwibuild-not-aimed-at-low-income-families-phil-twyford.html
  
  … Recently Mike Hosking praised the Government for its future Auckland Urban Development Authority …
  
  Mike Hosking: Housing Minister Phil Twyford right to bulldoze his way through councils … NZ Herald
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12118208
  
  … as did Michael Barnett of the Auckland Business / Chamber of Commerce …
  
  Urban Development Authority a long overdue initiative … Auckland Business Chamber of Commerce | Scoop News
  
  http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1808/S00741/urban-development-authority-a-long-overdue-initiative.htm
  
  … Why osnt the above issue being treated with urgency ?
  
  … Recently … Stephen Sellwood of Infrastructure NZ explained why new Kiwibuild housing should be built for $300k … not $650k …
  
  How to get a (NZ)$650,000 KiwiBuild-style house down to an affordable (NZ)$300,000 – Stephen Sellwood of Infrastructure New Zealand – NZ Herald
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12107783
  
  … back mid 2016 … both National and Labour agreed artificial urban limits must be abolished …
  
  Labour, National both tell council Auckland city growth limits should be abolished | Stuff.co.nz
  
  https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/80113578/labour-auckland-city-growth-limits-should-be-abolished?rm=m
  
  … How much longer do we have to endure political buffoonery with housing issues Prime Minister Ardern and Housing Minister Twyford ?
  
  … Does the Labour – led Coalition Government actually care ?
  
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  October 29, 2018 5:20pm
softail 1450

If you want to see why we will get zero from the Trump presidency you would have just needed to look at that POS Hack Lame on TV1’s breakfast programme this morning ,that beta male feminised fool blamed Trump for everything on the planet that is wrong FFS.
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October 29, 2018 6:55am
softail 1450

I worked all day yesterday so am just reading up on yesterdays posts,It must have been a fantastic day for superliquorman going by posts by SEPTICBOY DJ WARD and GOVEGE. FFS.
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October 29, 2018 7:27am
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