General Debate 25 January 2019

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tas

The NZ Herald and Newshub have named Jami-Lee Ross’ mistress MP.

It’s been three months since this was breaking news. Why have they chosen to do this now? They steadfastly refused to name her at the time, even bleeping out Ross naming her.

The purported reason is that the infamous “you deserve to die” text message is being investigated by police. That doesn’t make much sense.
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January 25, 2019 8:00am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Everyone with a brain knew it was her from the start.
  This is nothing more than another hit job on National.
  
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  January 25, 2019 8:03am
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    A distraction from the vacuous nonsense being spouted by SLG at her UN job interview?
    
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    January 25, 2019 8:06am
    - RF
      
      Agree. Some adverse comments about Ardern appearing in the media so the word has gone out from the Labour camp –
      
      Diversion tactics please. National MP bad !!!!
      
      Wait for photos of Ardern and squirrel having a bonding session with Jethro looking sheepish in the background – “thinking, have I destroyed all the evidence concerning my guests.”
      
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      January 25, 2019 10:35am
  - tas
    
    Everyone who wanted to know was able to find out, e.g., from twitter. But the voting public mostly didn’t know, because they aren’t political tragics.
    
    It may be a hit job, but why and why now?
    
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    January 25, 2019 8:06am
    - Surely Knott
      
      It’s a squirrel from kiwibuild flop. The I’m sorry for being a kiwi, Andrew little embarrassment. And the upcoming Sroubek and his customers scandal.
      
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      January 25, 2019 8:32am
    - KevOB
      
      A diversion from the COL and Ardern.
      
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      January 25, 2019 8:42am
  - kevn
    
    @CW… You missed the word ‘boring’ with the hit job.
    Lovers tiff gone bad. Non news. Lose/lose. Normal.
    
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    January 25, 2019 8:24am
  - Morrissey
    
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    You mean, it’s another body blow for the Nasties.
    
    Having said that, Miss Dowie is welcome to wreak havoc at Chez Breen, any time.
    
    https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2018/10/possible-replacements-for-mr-seven-per_26.html
    
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    January 25, 2019 9:35am
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      The demented National-hater fires another blank.
      
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      January 25, 2019 9:53am
      - Morrissey
        
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        Nobody hates National more than the people ensnared in it. It’s a nest of vipers, Cap’n, and you know it.
        
        Having said that, the viper Miss Dowie is welcome to slither over here at any time.
        
        https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/two-vipers-mating-picture-id520466400
        
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        January 25, 2019 9:56am
      - Captain Mainwaring
        
        “Having said that, the viper Miss Dowie is welcome to slither over here at any time.”
        
        I’m sure that even she has more class than to want to do that.
        
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        January 25, 2019 11:57am
      - graham
        
        Morrissey Breen:
        
        – compiles a list of so-called “Gropers” and takes great delight in naming and shaming people who have allegedly acted inappropriately in a sexual context
        – regularly invites female Kiwibloggers and other females to “Chez Breen”
        
        Totally lacking in self-awareness, and more than just a little creepy …
        
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        January 25, 2019 12:03pm
      - Keeping Stock
        
        Totally lacking in self-awareness, and more than just a little creepy …
        
        Right on the money Graham.
        
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        January 25, 2019 12:32pm
      - Morrissey
        
        I’m sure that even she has more class than to want to do that.
        
        I’ll report back to you and the boys, Cap’n.
        
        https://tenor.com/view/mr-bean-rowan-atkinson-eyebrows-wiggle-raises-eyebrows-flirt-gif-4731328
        
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        January 25, 2019 3:19pm
- jp_1983
  
  Wait for a squirrel in about seven hours
  
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  January 25, 2019 8:03am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    this was the squirrel to try and distract from whatever turd they intend to deposit this afternoon
    
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    January 25, 2019 8:44am
- peterwn
  
  Because Jami said he had complained to the cops presumably about the death wish.
  Presumably s179(2) of the Crimes Act seems to be in play here:
  “A person commits an offence who incites, counsels, or procures another
  person to commit suicide, even if that other person does not commit or
  attempt to commit suicide in consequence of that conduct.” (maximum penalty three years).
  So the issue is – is ‘wishing someone was dead’ amount to inciting or procuring suicide. It seems a long stretch but the Police will probably gather the facts and pass the file to Crown Law.
  I wonder if any media person bothered to ascertain which law was supposed to apply. Quoting the relevant enactment would have help readers to assess the situation better, but then would spoil a good story. Jami / media indicated a three year jail term and this is the only suicide related one with three years – the other ones have seven or more years jail.
  
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  January 25, 2019 8:03am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    No peterwn – Ross denies having complained to the police, and it is being reported today that there was an anonymous call to Crimestoppers.
    
    I have no doubt whatsoever that some shadowy figure in the background is pulling Ross’ strings, with a bigger agenda at play. I have strong suspicions as to the identity of that person, but will keep those to myself. Whatever, no one seems to have thought of the likely effect this will have on Ms Dowie’s children and family, who have no skin in the game.
    
    PS – I look forward to MP’s such as Marama Davidson, Golriz Ghahraman and Jan Logie coming to Ms Dowie’s defence #MeToo
    
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    January 25, 2019 8:08am
    - Muttonbird
      
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      Perhaps Ms Dowie should have thought of that before becoming involved in the affair, and certainly before she sent the abusive text.
      
      Personal responsibility and all that.
      
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      January 25, 2019 9:25am
      - Lance
        
        Extreme irony alert
        
        A lefty speaking about personal responsibility, what a joke
        
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        January 25, 2019 9:36am
      - Keeping Stock
        
        Perhaps she should have Muttonbird, but as you will know when you’re in a relationship, common sense sometimes goes out the window.
        
        Have you ever said something you later regretted after a relationship bust-up? Personal responsibility and all that…
        
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        January 25, 2019 9:52am
      - GazzaW
        
        I knew that you would turn up like a rat out of a drainpipe at the slighted sniff of a ‘scandal’. Where were you when we debated serious stuff like Kiwifail?
        
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        January 25, 2019 12:41pm
      - Classic Liberal
        
        KS: surely we don’t seriously think anyone would have ever had a relationship with Muttonbird? On the first date they would have fallen asleep at the table…
        
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        January 25, 2019 4:51pm
    - MickMac
      
      Tova on of them?
      
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      January 25, 2019 10:41am
    - Komata
      
      KS
      
      Come to her defence?
      
      Surely Sir you joke? she’s ‘National’ and therefore ‘The Enemy’.
      
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      January 25, 2019 11:38am
      - Keeping Stock
        
        Quite so Komata – #MeToo only applies for lefties. Just look how quick Marama Davidson was to join the pile-on of the Covington boys, and then double down when the truth came out.
        
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        January 25, 2019 12:34pm
  - fernglas
    
    It’s not the Crimes Act offence they are investigating, but one underthe Harmful Digital Communications Act. The Crimes Act one wouldn’t work.
    
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    January 25, 2019 8:12am
    - wiseowl
      
      Is that the one that used to called a Hopoate?
      
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      January 25, 2019 10:06am
    - secondcumming
      
      It’s lunchtime, I’m sitting here in the office finishing off the last Krispy Kreme and thinking to myself, if somebody txt me saying, “You deserve to die”, would I interpret that as incitement to get the G45 out of the safe and splatter my fucking brains on the wall?…….OF COURSE NOT!!
      HOW RIDICULOUS.
      
      TBH, there’s hardly a week goes by where my missus doesn’t say things like, “Die ya bastard!”
      
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      January 25, 2019 12:34pm
  - hullkiwi
    
    Peter, this exercise is still about JLR. Anyone with a passing knowledge of the law would know applying this section of the Crimes Act is a stretch.
    
    Bottom line, JLR:
    1. Keeps the story alive;
    2. Kicks Dowie & National;
    3. Wastes Police & Crown Law’s time;
    4. Has not turned over a new leaf & is still a lying POS.
    
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    January 25, 2019 8:16am
    - Dave Mann
      
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      January 25, 2019 8:25am
- holysheet
  
  If this is all she said then boo bloody ho. I think and say worse things than that about the drunken dwarf and other leftie trolls on here.
  
  I guess no other breakup has ever gone so smoothly?
  
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  January 25, 2019 8:05am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    If anyone here has never lashed out verbally after a relationship breakup (and later regretted it), they’re a better person than me Gunga Din.
    
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    January 25, 2019 8:10am
    - SGA
      
      There’s also going to be a lot of teenagers in trouble for what they have said to their parents 🙂
      
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      January 25, 2019 9:06am
      - Jack5
        
        One good thing to come out of this storm in a teacup is that the arsehole Jami-Lee Ross is finished as a politician. Hoo-bloody-ray!
        
        The smearing of Invercargill’s MP, Sarah Dowie, coincides with the failure of Jacinderella’s tiki-tour of Europe to impress New Zealand voters, and with Judas Peters finally turning up at work again after stabbing the country in the back over the United Nations Global Impact on Migration.
        
        Feminist journos and Barely Sober snap up this tabloid stuff, oblivious that its coverage could be used down the track to justify public highlighting of scribblers’ own peccadilloes.
        
        A final point: if Ross had been gay and the MP he claimed to be involved with had been male or even transgender, would there have been any publicity at all about their alleged affair?
        
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        January 25, 2019 10:57am
      - SGA
        
        The smearing of Invercargill’s MP, Sarah Dowie, coincides with the failure of Jacinderella’s tiki-tour of Europe to impress New Zealand voters, and with Judas Peters finally turning up at work again after stabbing the country in the back over the United Nations Global Impact on Migration.
        
        Perhaps you are right. On the other hand, it probably coincided with something else three weeks ago (say), and something else 6 weeks ago, and so on.
        
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        January 25, 2019 11:32am
- Sofia
  
  Kiwibuild fell over yesterday
  
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  January 25, 2019 8:05am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Yes, admitted they will achieve fewer than 300 homes built in year 1. 100,000 over 10 years is looking very unachievable.
    
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    January 25, 2019 8:10am
    - Keeping Stock
      
      And after Twyford has claimed that 33 Kiwibuild homes have been built, Goff announced yesterday that he is demolishing 61 homes for a transport project. That takes Twyford’s score to -28 😀
      
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      January 25, 2019 8:15am
      - namron
        
        Heard Bruce Russell on ZB last night refer to
        “Phail Twyford”
        when talking about Kiwibuild homes.
        Hope it catches on!!
        
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        January 25, 2019 8:24am
      - Humble Capitalist
        
        Cmon be fair thats 33 less surgeons and young professionals living in cars.
        
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        January 25, 2019 8:29am
      - labrator
        
        Cmon be fair thats 33 less surgeons and young professionals living in cars.
        
        Won’t someone think of the DINKYs? The smashed avo industry will collapse without Phail Twyford’s subsidies.
        
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        January 25, 2019 9:02am
      - Simon
        
        “That takes Twyford’s score to -28”
        
        The score is probably closer to -3000, as Labo had to bring in thousands of extra overseas workers just to work on kiwibuild.
        
        Kiwibuild is creating a housing shortage which will be fixed by the free market,
        
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        January 25, 2019 10:23am
      - Morrissey
        
        “Phail Twyford”.
        
        Like “Double Dipper” or “Paula the Snitch” or “Chester Schumacher”? Maybe…
        
        Actually, no it won’t work. Twyford’s a nice guy. Sure he’s fucked up by over-promising and under-delivering, and he looks a little gun-shy right now, but he’s never rorted any money from the taxpayer, never maliciously leaked names of political enemies to the press, and never gunned a car into a woman.
        
        We can be sure that the witless and unpleasant Bruce Russell, who was one of the most vicious detractors of Kristen Dunne-Powell and an unrepentant supporter of her assailant Tony Veitch, will continue to repeat the uncatchy “Phail Twyford” smear, but no one pays any attention to Russell. Well, I do, but I’m about the only one.
        
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        January 25, 2019 7:27pm
    - Viking2
      
      Well not according to the Deputy PM. He’s going to get Shanes cussies of the couch now and give them a hammer.
      
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      January 25, 2019 8:20am
    - RW Capitalist
      
      He keeps changing the start date.
      Before the election it was to start before Christmas 2017.
      So lets start the clock then.
      Maybe about 600 by June this year so 600 in 18 months.
      Need 99 400 in next 8.5 yrs.
      ie
      11 695 per year from June?I like the nick name
      Phail Twitford
      
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      January 25, 2019 9:34am
      - hullkiwi
        
        Phail Twitford is an even better description of the man. No wonder Oxfam didn’t need him?
        
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        January 25, 2019 10:13am
  - KevOB
    
    KiwiFlop.
    
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    January 25, 2019 8:44am
- Huevon
  
  The PM is a blithering idiot, but look at some of the MPs National is sending to Parliament. The Opposition really needs to up its game to prevent us sliding into socialist “well being”. Seriously, come on.
  
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  January 25, 2019 8:07am
  - dubya
    
    As pointless and vindictive as it was naming Dowie, I hope she is removed from her seat by the selection committee quietly before the next election. I realise people have affairs, but it’s not very classy and puts her in the same boat as lechers like Mallard. If you can commit two years of your life to an extra-marital affair whilst you are a wife, mother and an electorate MP, then I believe you aren’t going to do a very good job of the tasks you should be committed to.
    
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    January 25, 2019 8:35am
    - Keeping Stock
      
      I guess that’s the for the members of the National Party in the Invercargill electorate to decide dubya. She may in fact be a very good electorate MP, and the folk down there may well be more forgiving than Ross and his “advisors”.
      
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      January 25, 2019 9:55am
      - Paulus
        
        After all how many wives/women had Shagbolt had and he is still Mayor of Invercargill ?
        But he is still and always has been firm Labour.
        
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        January 25, 2019 11:13am
- brett68
  
  Bridges fucked up again by ruling out waka-jumping the narcissistic man-child.
  
  This shit is going to go on and on until he steps down.
  
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  January 25, 2019 8:08am
  - niggly
    
    Are you kidding? JLR (and his mentors) will still continue from the sidelines feeding the media “dirt” (doesn’t matter that their “dirt” is crap, MSM will still lap it up to put the boot into National) and it’ll be worse as JLR (and his mentors) go full-retard!
    
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    January 25, 2019 8:32am
    - brett68
      
      While he’s in parliament he’s in direct contact with the media, back home in Botany, not so much.
      The media will keep this alive for as long as they can, because
      
      a) It undermines National
      b) It’s a smokescreen for Ardern and Labour.
      
      Bridges had to waka jump the guy, by ruling that out he’s knee capped himself.
      Bridges will resign at the end of the year.
      
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      January 25, 2019 8:51am
      - Dave Mann
        
        Why wait till the end of the year? What do you think this ineffective man will achieve or contribute in the next 11 months?
        
        This country desperately needs an opposition and it needs someone to lead it. Is this the best National can do? My god.
        
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        January 25, 2019 9:20am
      - Pascal
        
        It would only replace JLR with how unprincipled National is for using legislation they condemned as undemocratic. And you can bet the media will run that story for longer. Every time National takes a stance, “The undemocratic, unprincipled National Party … ” will be inferred.
        
        The way things are now, JLR is harming JLR. National has taken a stance that sticks to their principles and what they said they would do and they’re ignoring the yapping of little dogs. That seems very sensible to me.
        
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        January 25, 2019 9:21am
      - brett68
        
        Fuck the principles bullshit, you do what it takes to win.
        This turn the other cheek, sticks and stones, words will never hurt me shit just makes him look weak.
        
        I doubt Bridges has ever been in a fight in his life and boy does it show with his decision making.
        
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        January 25, 2019 9:25am
    - Jack5
      
      Niggly implies that Ross still has to go “full-retard”.
      
      Nonsense, Ross’s news value has peaked. Whatever the ratbag says is predictable. It loses news value by the day, and comes increasingly to be seen as mere fodder for Leftist media and further-left media.
      
      Ross’s political career is finished. Whether or not he lingers in Parliament, he is on a steep slide to total irrelevance.
      
      Ross’s advisor/advisors will go down with him, their political-advice market shrinking by the hour.
      
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      January 25, 2019 11:09am
  - Liberty
    
    Brett68
    You are wrong.
    Bridgers is doing the right thing by not using the appalling Waka- Jumping bill.
    Ross might be in Parliament . But he might as well be in Coventry.
    He will only allowed about 1 question every blue Moon.
    He may be the golden boy for the Media on the short term. That
    Will disappear when the media realise they are being made to look a fool with
    their support for a non entity.
    
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    January 25, 2019 11:34am
- waikatogirl
  
  Poor woman. The text was sent at 1.30am approx. You can imagine what led up to it, a huge emotional fight between former lovers who now loath each other. Was JLR thinking the same thing about her at the time? For JLR to blame this cry of anguish as a death threat and then months later blame it for his erratic behaviour is FAR fetched. It is more likely his own realisation that his career within the National party was over.
  
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  January 25, 2019 8:11am
  - dime
    
    “Was JLR thinking the same thing about her at the time?”
    
    Not sure a thought crime should be judged the same as an actual one?
    
    Poor woman – sounds like she cheated on her husband for a long time with this snake. maybe even lived with him in wellington?
    
    Sounds like two sociopaths if it’s all true.
    
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    January 25, 2019 8:46am
    - waikatogirl
      
      Yeah but hindsight is a great thing… I’m sure Sarah hates herself for being so stupid and falling for his sleazy charm. I don’t agree with her having an affair, and I feel very sorry for her husband and family. Sarah has paid a very high price and has to live with the fact that she ‘slept’ with that oily shit… memories would be like a nightmare that haunts her.
      
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      January 25, 2019 9:11am
      - dime
        
        what high price? she got exposed for something she carried out over a number of years.
        
        shes in politics. she should be exposed.
        
        she sounds like a terrible terrible person
        
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        January 25, 2019 9:24am
      - Longknives
        
        Let he who is without sin cast the first stone Dime!
        
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        January 25, 2019 9:32am
      - dime
        
        Longknives – heh still allowed to call out a ho though!
        
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        January 25, 2019 9:48am
      - Disillusioned_Voter
        
        To be honest, My sympathies go to the spouses and children. But it’s hard not to empathize with Dowie, when she is being made the scapegoat for JLR’s weapons grade omnishambles of narcissism…
        
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        January 25, 2019 11:29am
  - MickMac
    
    His career in Politics more like.
    Did you read his missive to the press?
    
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    January 25, 2019 10:45am
- Paulus
  
  Ask Tova O’Brien – she obviously is still close to Ross.
  It is suggested that it may have been her who contacted the Police “suggesting”that they review the text and possible prosecution ?
  Only the Police know who contacted them though.
  Could be Labour Party HQ – eh!
  O’Brien will still do anything to go at Simon and the National Party.
  Assume she applying for the vacancies in the Princesses Office.
  
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  January 25, 2019 8:11am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    O’Brien is so invested in trying to have Simon Bridges rolled as National’s leader that she has lost any semblance of objectivity. That makes her great fodder for someone with malicious intent, pulling the strings of an MP who has gone rogue.
    
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    January 25, 2019 8:14am
  - Sofia
    
    The text message raised questions over whether there was a breach of the Harmful Digital Communications Act … making it illegal to urge someone to self-harm.
    The fact of the police investigation was revealed by Ross during a television interview. It was apparently sparked by a call to the Crimestoppers hotline. Ross said he did not lay the complaint.
    
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    January 25, 2019 8:17am
    - peterwn
      
      S179(2) of the Crimes Act makes it illegal to urge someone to suicide. As I earlier indicated it is pushing it to suggest that a wish someone was dead (via a digital communication) infringes S179(2). There would seem to be a similar problem invoking the Harmful Digital Communication Act in this instance.
      
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      January 25, 2019 11:37am
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    Where’s McCreepy these days.
    
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    January 25, 2019 12:26pm
- rockape
  
  I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if the complaint to crimestoppers was initiated by Cameron Slater
  
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  January 25, 2019 8:17am
  - waikatogirl
    
    or his shadowy minions.
    
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    January 25, 2019 8:32am
    - rangitoto
      
      Winnie?
      
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      January 25, 2019 9:53am
  - Jules99
    
    I think he’s had other things on his mind since his stroke in October. I’m no fan, but can’t see it myself.
    
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    January 25, 2019 8:35am
    - Keeping Stock
      
      Behind Slater is someone who thinks he is far more powerful than any MP or blogger; just sayin’…
      
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      January 25, 2019 9:57am
    - Happychappy
      
      Hate consumes you and all you think of is revenge and become very bitter. And I think if you go back to when JLR was first hospitalized you will find out that Slater was saying then it is the person who sent the text with the two Leaders of National will never lead National again or be members of Paliament, he was bitter then and his health suffered now his wife leads the hate against National.
      
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      January 25, 2019 10:14am
      - lifesgood
        
        Slater can talk. He openly admitted to an extra marital affair. His wife is a saint for putting up with him but she has lately urned increasingly bitter. She used to be a voice of reason
        
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        January 25, 2019 12:34pm
- G152
  
  i wonder just how quickly Plod is going to take on the school kids who are bullied by their socalled school mates.
  Will they be as fast as they are with crybaby politicians ?
  
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  January 25, 2019 8:22am
  - Humble Capitalist
    
    Under the wellness budget any school yard or school online bullying will be stamped on within a minute. Its as simple as homes for all
    
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    January 25, 2019 8:32am
  - freethinker
    
    And will they be investigating supplying booze witout an on license at Labour party meetings or further investigate other alleged sexual misconduct or if a Czech criminal has connections with Government members as a friendly supplier of happy powder.
    
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    January 25, 2019 10:51am
- dime
  
  Part of Jamie Lees PR plan. Trying to become the victim again. she was a mean bully!
  
  Bet her husband is stoked.
  
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  January 25, 2019 8:38am
- niggly
  
  Quite disgusting how David Fisher and Barry Soper are using JLR’s bullshit claims to “name and shame” the National woman MP.
  
  Especially how David Fisher and Barry Soper understand the context of the text message (which isn’t “controversial”) and the timelines involved, and they probably expect (like most of us) that the Police investigation won’t find anything too concerning at the end of the day.
  
  So if the Police end up concluding it isn’t worth pursuing any further, how despicable of Fisher and Soper to be denigrating a “victim” of JLR’s narcissism? (Gee, how about waiting until the outcome of the Police investigation first)??
  
  Just so they (and NZME) can be “first” to get the story out there, making it fair game for the rest of the MSM to follow up and do the same?
  
  And for Soper especially, it is another (feeble) opportunity to attack National with, meanwhile his NZF and Labour “mates” can carry on screwing over NZ (with barely any criticism)!
  
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  January 25, 2019 8:59am
  - SGA
    
    Quite disgusting how David Fisher and Barry Soper are using JLR’s bullshit claims to “name and shame” the National woman MP.
    
    meh – if it were two Labour MPs involved, say, many people here would be laughing through their popcorn.
    
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    January 25, 2019 9:10am
    - Salacious Crumb
      
      True. We all look forward to the same level of scrutiny and exposure of the Labour Youth fiddler when his name suppression is lifted.
      
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      January 25, 2019 9:55am
      - SGA
        
        Exactly.
        
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        January 25, 2019 10:09am
      - MickMac
        
        His goose will be cooked.
        
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        January 25, 2019 10:48am
      - freethinker
        
        And the ramifications for his parents and the police in keeping the case out of court for such a long time hoping the public will have forgotten or something more spicy distracts, and that could involve Czech drug dealers or Lawn Mower addicts or even employment disputes in Kiwiflop between its CEO and Minister!!
        
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        January 25, 2019 10:55am
- Sofia
  
  Ross has always denied he leaked the original expenses information.
  
  The “deserve to die” text message was sent to Ross, Saturday, 11 August 1:19am
  13 August 2018, Mr Bridges was interviewed by Newshub about the Expense Documents being leaked to Newshub.
  
  Was the expense information – a silly leak in terms of embarrassing Bridges, because the document was to be released later that week anyway – in fact leaked to set-up and derail Ross?
  
  PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting (New Zealand) LP –
  42 Based upon the procedures undertaken, as detailed in this letter, the summary of our findings is as follows:
  a) we have not identified the leaker of the Expense Documents or the Sender of the Text Message with certainty; and
  b) the evidence we have identified points to Mr Ross. 43.
  Mr Ross may therefore be the text message sender.
  
  Or not.
  
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  January 25, 2019 9:01am
- Longknives
  
  This is old news.
  Why are Soper and Co doing a hitjob now?
  
  Kiwibuild? Sroubek?
  Another bad internal poll for Labour??
  
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  January 25, 2019 9:11am
- redeye
  
  NZ Herald sent me another half price offer yesterday. If they’re reading this and want to know why I immediately trashed their email, then look no further than this thread.
  
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  January 25, 2019 9:50am
- Stars And Stripes
  
  Sarah Dowie should resign and slip quietly into oblivion as she is damaged goods.
  Once you have become involved in something like this there is no coming back from it.
  Far to many MP’s over the years from all parties have refused to see the writing on the wall but hey sucking from the trough is hard to give up I suppose.
  
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  January 25, 2019 9:50am
  - rangitoto
    
    Duck is the counterexample to that.
    
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    January 25, 2019 9:55am
  - Paulus
    
    Shagger Mallard being a famous example.
    Why hasn’t Curren resigned – was she a bad shag Trev.
    
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    January 25, 2019 11:18am
- Chuck Bird
  
  One wonders who made the complaint to Crimestoppers. It could be Slater or Lusk. It could also be Labour. It would be good find out.
  
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  January 25, 2019 10:24am
- Liberty
  
  Selective morality by the Herald.
  The Chap who might have got up to some naughtiness at Labour’s training camp
  must have a friend in high places.
  
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  January 25, 2019 11:50am
- Piniwi
  
  But tas whether we read between the lines or use the more tried and true method of connecting the dots the COL are desperate for a diversion. With both a failed leader and the failing replacement making fools of themselves offshore at the same time their domestic problems continue to grow. We can expect a poll soon as the political year gets up to speed as well as some more bad news when the 4th quarter GDP figures surface. That confusing abbreviation the SLG and the COL are trying to paper over with another slogan. Along side a new term Twyford has found to solve his failure. Re-calibration. A similar process the SLG is applying to child poverty we might suspect all summed up with statements about this being how they “address” all major issues.
  
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  January 25, 2019 12:59pm
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Aaargh – I hear on the box this morning, someone talking about visitors coming down (from EU countries) to visit ‘Our beautiful country’ !
I guess this is the beautiful country where they will not be able to find a beach in the greater Auckland area in which to swim (in our glorious summer weather)
NZ needs to stop lying to visitors, and sort out the fundamental issues, dragging us down to 3rd world status.
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January 25, 2019 8:03am
- dave_c_
  
  Or perhaps it’s the Aotearoa part dragging us down ?
  
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  January 25, 2019 8:04am
- freethinker
  
  And the ramifications for his parents and the police in keeping the case out of court for such a long time hoping the public will have forgotten or something more spicy distracts, and that could involve Czech drug dealers or Lawn Mower addicts or even employment disputes in Kiwiflop between its CEO and Minister!!
  
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  January 25, 2019 10:57am
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Take public transport they say, you need to get out if your evil cars they say, trains are the future they say!

Yesterday lines closed in Wellington.

Today all trains in Auckland are suspended with people just dumped at random stops halfway to work.
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January 25, 2019 8:03am
- dave_c_
  
  Indeed – Pissup and Brewery spring to mind.
  
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  January 25, 2019 8:05am
- softail 1450
  
  S R, Uber to the nearest early opener for the day ??
  
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  January 25, 2019 8:14am
- G152
  
  Turn all those railway tracks into highways
  
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  January 25, 2019 8:23am
- GazzaW
  
  Auckland trains suspended indefinitely due to signal faults.
  
  HOP Card website down this weekend for maintenance. Great timing with schools starting next week and foreign uni students pouring back into the city and needing to top up or buy new HOP Cards. Why wasn’t this done earlier?
  
  Ain’t public transport wonderful?
  
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  January 25, 2019 8:29am
  - MH
    
    now thats a real HOP oate, crutching at straws.
    
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    January 25, 2019 11:11am
  - GazzaW
    
    The Herald has jumped on to Uber regarding the surge pricing that has come into play during the stoppage. Well, that’s the way Uber operates and there are never any complaints when their fares are half the price of s regular cab. It’s not as if it comes as a surprise either as passengers know before the cab arrives that surge pricing is in play.
    
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    January 25, 2019 11:50am
- Humble Capitalist
  
  Within 6 months of wellness budget 90% of the population will be fit enough to run a daily marathon so public transport will be obsolete
  
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  January 25, 2019 8:35am
  - Sacha
    
    Can’t wait to see Aucklanders on the run. Maybe if they are too puffed to grizzle, the rest of the country might get a look in.
    
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    January 25, 2019 9:08am
    - Lance
      
      Seriously, your every thought is how you might be able to put down Aucklanders going about their daily lives?
      You need a better hobby, one that doesn’t make you look small minded and petty.
      
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      January 25, 2019 9:46am
      - GazzaW
        
        ……..a very provincial outlook Sacha and I’m picking that you’re a bit of a whinger. What’s your problem with Auckland? I’m an Aucklander but I’m a Kiwi first and foremost and whether you’re from Remuera or Rangiora is totally irrelevant.
        
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        January 25, 2019 11:13am
      - Disillusioned_Voter
        
        @ Lance, well… you did bite 😉
        
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        January 25, 2019 11:44am
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Posted late last night on a thread.
https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2019/01/general_debate_24_january_2019.html/comment-page-1#comment-2410035

Illegal immigration or trafficking?
Fuel range would make a requirement of a couple of top ups and freshwater and provisions from India.
The “snake heads” could make even more money, as one keeps his money in a swiss bank account.
Jacinda while looking to “welcome refugees” in Davos, check that out.

That bait NZ signed UN migration Pact, could leave a stain of slavery, sexual exploitation, organ harvesting.

There are several labour camps in countries like Thailand, North Korea, and Indonesia. ….
Relevations of Ravi Sanoop Raja point to the possibility of the group being taken to any of these countries. …

The probing team now suspects that the group could have been trafficked for the purpose of forced labour, sexual slavery, or commercial sexual exploitation. …
destination countries of trafficking syndicates …… south east asian countries. …
Trafficking …. for the purpose of organ removal and human organ trade is also suspected. …

…attempts to project the case as illegal immigrants in a bid to dilute the incident despite its gravity also point to human trafficking angle.
Read more at: https://english.manoramaonline.com/news/kerala/2019/01/23/munambam-human-traffcking-angle.html

Sounds a lot worse than Australian Detention Systems on Manus Island or Nauru could ever be. One would not even want to see a Dr. or go to hospital.

Thoughtless ‘virtue signals’ of “kindness” and “well being” is a burly as sharky snake heads swarm in and may well leave your hands dripping with blood!
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January 25, 2019 8:05am
softail 1450

The possum in the headlights Twitford must be grinding his teeth this morning,both breakfast television shows are reporting that his circus kiwi build program has “FAILED COMPLETELY”….LOL it couldn’t happen to a nicer guy……….
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January 25, 2019 8:05am
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  Meanwhile HNZ is chucking dwellings up all over the country.
  
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  January 25, 2019 8:10am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    By using the special Borrowing allowance, that the fat controller, didn’t include in his budget?
    
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    January 25, 2019 9:40am
- Paulus
  
  Twitford
  Today in Tauranga there are 333 houses for sale at under $550,000.
  (Trade Me).
  
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  January 25, 2019 11:22am
holysheet

Yesterday at the annual skyfairy resort of Ratana, Simon stated that the Nats only got ONE vote from the polling booth at the place. Why then do they continue to turn up every year, participate in the bullshit from all attending, and at the taxpayers expense, ALL FOR ONE VOTE??
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January 25, 2019 8:06am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  It made sense attending when they were in Partnership with the Maori Party as Tariana Turia had some support from Ratana.
  
  But now that Ratana has returned to its Labour roots, the Nats should give them the flick and treat them no differently than any other grouping of affiliated folks.
  
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  January 25, 2019 8:22am
  - hullkiwi
    
    The best bit this year has been the snake oil salesman and the Red Melons turning themselves inside out in order not to appear hypocrites.
    
    You see, Princess Di Ardern/the SLG(B) is not in attendance this year because she is in Davos. So what you might say?
    
    Well in 2015, John Key went to Davos instead of Ratana. With this both the Toxic Dwarf & the Greens made political capital out of Key’s absence, suggesting Key was showing contempt for Kiwis and that he was happy to swan around with world’s elite in playground of the rich instead. Move on 4 years and now the Toxic Gnome is singing another tune and the Red Melons are being very sheepish. As the media will not call them out, I will. Peters and the Red Melons are hypocrites.
    
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    January 25, 2019 9:18am
- MCos
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  previous to the last election National used to be in coalition with the Māori Party. They didn’t do enough to help prop them up and now they’re out of office.
  If the Nats had stayed away from Ratana their influence with Māori in general would have continued to slip slide away and if they want to return to what they see as their rightful place as leaders of the country they can’t afford to alienate them any further.
  
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  January 25, 2019 8:41am
  - dime
    
    “They didn’t do enough to help prop them up and now they’re out of office.”
    
    worth it.
    
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    January 25, 2019 8:48am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    They didn’t do enough to help prop them up
    Rubbish.
    The Maori Party fell apart all by itself.
    It was always just a 1-woman band and had only a very local influence.
    
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    January 25, 2019 8:52am
    - MCos
      
      They most certainly were not a one woman band when they first went into coalition with National.
      Tariana Turia never dominated the party after the style of Winston.
      Back in 2008 when they first went into coalition with National they had five seats, but their support dwindling away at successive elections.
      Five seats would have made a big difference last election.
      The Māori Party may have fell apart by itself, but not without help from the Labour Party.
      BTW
      ACT has really fallen apart, but they still have a bloke in parliament.
      
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      January 25, 2019 9:30am
- kowtow
  
  It would be nice to see the political elites sucking up to the honkeys some day, afterall we are the majority.
  
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  January 25, 2019 8:48am
  - MCos
    
    America’s Cup
    
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    January 25, 2019 9:41am
- Komata
  
  hs
  
  Because if they didn’t, the MSM would be screaming that the Nats are no friends of ‘maori’ etc. etc. etc.
  
  You know, ‘The ususal’.
  
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  January 25, 2019 11:55am
- Nermal
  
  Virtue Signalling
  
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  January 25, 2019 4:45pm
Than

There is an interesting article at The Spinoff about carbon taxes. (As an aside, it’s written by Jeanette Fitzsimons, which makes me nostalgic for the days when the Greens were a genuine environmental party.)

A key quote;

To be effective in changing behaviour the price needs to be high and steadily rising, but any government which places an effective price on carbon commits political suicide. Citizens don’t see that they get anything for what they have to pay and view it as just another tax grab.

This is because, to be blunt, we don’t get anything for it. The whole point of a carbon tax is to massively reduce the amount of carbon we use, which pretty much automatically means a massive reduction in our lifestyle. That is the harsh reality.

Reducing our carbon use may be an unfortunate necessity, but anybody trying to claim it will be a benefit is effectively lying. You can say it has the “benefit” of preventing climate change, but that just means we get to keep the climate we currently have. We are going to have to accept significant lifestyle reductions just to maintain the status quo. You can hardly expect people to be happy about this.

Trying to compensate for a carbon tax with tax cuts elsewhere (or a “citizens dividend”, which sounds very much like a UBI) is simply not possible, because most things people want to do/buy unavoidably require emissions. Either the tax cut/dividend is enough that people can still do all the same things at the carbon-adjusted prices (in which case it’s just tweaking the book-keeping and won’t alter behaviour), or it isn’t. If it isn’t, then people’s effective carbon-adjusted buying power is reduced and they’re worse off, no matter what the number in their bank account says.
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January 25, 2019 8:06am
- Humble Capitalist
  
  Mrs Humble said we have too many greenies in NZ. I told her not to confuse greens with lovers of the environment
  
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  January 25, 2019 8:38am
- labrator
  
  Nuclear power station would sure help with shutting down Huntly and enabling stupidly cheap heating bills, electric car charging and other immediate environmental wins. Shame it’s off the table because feelz.
  
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  January 25, 2019 9:06am
  - Fred
    
    Indeed. I’m a big fan of nuclear power and would happily have them in NZ. In fact we need one in northland.
    Cheap, plentiful and reliable energy makes it possible to cope with any climate changes that occur.
    
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    January 25, 2019 9:27am
    - Komata
      
      Fred
      
      FWIW: The whole ‘nuclear’ thing was carefully examined by the then-NZED during the mid-1960′ and ultimately found to be potentially too dangerous.
      
      Without going into much detail, the best site was on the Kaipara Harbour, on the spot where the RNZAF live weapons range currently is, as it satisfied the criteria of a ‘relatively’ short distance to the main consumer (Auckland city).
      
      However, seasonal (and prevailing) wind patterns from either the SW (Tasman) or NE (Pacific) would have been problematical if the dreaded meltdown occured, as Auckland, Whangarei and most of Northland would have been badly contaminated by fall-out.
      
      It ws fully investigated but then shelved as being too dangerous (and ‘politically’ untennable for whomever authorised its construction).
      
      Nothing has changed since .
      
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      January 25, 2019 12:07pm
      - labrator
        
        Well its certainly not as dangerous as they thought it was in the 60’s, so that’s changed. Building them right next to the sea doesn’t seem very popular any more though for a valid reason.
        
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        January 25, 2019 1:39pm
      - rangitoto
        
        The tech has changed massively since then.
        
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        January 25, 2019 1:59pm
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    Nukes are currently way too expensive to build – 5-10x price of fossil fuel plants. Takes 10-15 years, armies of lawyers, and a huge group of highly skilled specialised construction workers moved to a typically shitty remote location with their families.
    
    Only way they might become cheap enough is small modular or larger floating units built in factories and transported to site. But there is nothing like that available yet, and probably not for 10-20 years. So it’s not a viable option for planning.
    
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    January 25, 2019 10:01am
- RW Capitalist
  
  Jeannette Fitzsimons, the same Jeannette Fitzsimons, that had shares in Windflow technologies (a maker of wind turbines) all the while advocating strongly for the Govt. to spend money on wind farms?
  
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  January 25, 2019 9:46am
- freethinker
  
  Climate change may or may not be greatly influenced by human activity as huge climate changes to and from ice ages in the past pre date humans so my guess is the Sun is the big driver. So by concentrating efforts to adapting and not arguing about cause humans are more likely to survive the change whilst still reducing carbon use and measuring the results.
  
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  January 25, 2019 11:08am
Southern Raider

What the hell did Sarah Dowie see in JLR?

She’s not an oil painting but she isn’t bad. He’s just a grease ball looking mafia guy
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January 25, 2019 8:08am
- Keeping Stock
  
  What did women see in Rob Muldoon? What did a prominent lawyer see in David Cunliffe? The trappings of power are very seductive.
  
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  January 25, 2019 8:11am
  - Viking2
    
    Well what about your favourite, Winston?
    
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    January 25, 2019 8:24am
    - softail 1450
      
      vikings2, the maggot Peters chose his partner carefully,she has 10 times the coin that he has .
      Its always Winston first with that bastard….
      
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      January 25, 2019 8:33am
  - Durden
    
    Prominent lawyer — a second (white) gravy train for lots of billable work paid for by taxpayers ?
    
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    January 25, 2019 8:26am
  - slightlyrighty
    
    Pope and Lange
    
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    January 25, 2019 9:52am
- secondcumming
  
  Still would.
  
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  January 25, 2019 8:21am
- kevn
  
  @SR… JLR: ‘with a fake smile’
  
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  January 25, 2019 8:31am
- Chuck Bird
  
  I just read in Stuff that Ross is back living with his wife and children. Has the POS threated suicide to get her to take him back?
  
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  January 25, 2019 9:02am
  - SGA
    
    My first guess is that they will see how things go for the sake of the children – that’s the usual scenario, I think. Time will tell whether that’s enough to overcome the loss in trust.
    Second, less likely, guess – maybe she’s always been aware that he’s “a hard dog to keep on the porch”
    
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    January 25, 2019 9:16am
    - lifesgood
      
      My understanding is that Dowie wasn’t his only conquest. How could you trust him?
      
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      January 25, 2019 12:44pm
  - Paulus
    
    In Ross’s political life his wife was well involved via her own political aspirations via Council.
    Feel sorry for the children but not her.
    She got what she deserves.
    
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    January 25, 2019 11:25am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      Nah, political failure maybe, destroyed family no.
      
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      January 25, 2019 5:33pm
- peterwn
  
  JLR seemed very OK until he went off the rails and tried to blackmail his leader. I heard him speak early last year and he seemed very much an up and comer. But looking back on things, he never had a *real* job. That should have set the alarm bells ringing.
  
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  January 25, 2019 12:32pm
- lifesgood
  
  Yes, it’s rather bewildering. It’s not as if he was high ranking. There are always women willing to throw themselves at powerful men, goodness knows why. I concur, “a grease ball looking mafia guy”. What it does show about Dowie is that she has very poor judgement, not a good thing for a politician.
  
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  January 25, 2019 12:42pm
Humble Capitalist

I told the wife last night we are setting up a household wellness budget for 2019. To increase my wellness today Im going to buy 5 buckets of KFC, 3 packs of smokes, a slab of beer and have a whinge about the cost of food and housing
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January 25, 2019 8:08am
- MH
  
  that’s the standard issue to beneficiaries. ??
  
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  January 25, 2019 11:17am
  - Humble Capitalist
    
    Where did I say anything about benes?
    
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    January 25, 2019 1:18pm
    - MH
      
      meant that we hand out money to benes and they spend on unhealthy products that cause probs later in life even after diatricians have been trying to get them to eat better for generations all a waste of time and my money which in good humour you have written. Your ” wellness” that you pay for is the same as most inept benes buy for their kids.
      
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      January 25, 2019 1:33pm
      - Humble Capitalist
        
        Youre right MH. The wellness budget will claim success when those sorts of people have a bit more cash to throw at ciggies and tinnies
        
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        January 25, 2019 2:01pm
      - waikatogirl
        
        Why improve your well-being if there are no personal repercussions, or health concerns are too far in the distance to bother.
        
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        January 25, 2019 4:35pm
gorse

I see Stuff is still electioneering for Labour, Adern’s photo with the UK PM, May, is up again. It was the lead story for a day or so when it first appeared. Thought we had got rid of it.
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January 25, 2019 8:09am
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  Two Prime Ministers prepared to roger their nations for the sake of political ideology.
  
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  January 25, 2019 8:13am
  - sooty
    
    what was she doing Gissy over chrissy. She looks like a pom in the middle of winter.
    
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    January 25, 2019 8:43am
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January 25, 2019 8:10am
holysheet

Reaching the end of a job interview, the Human Resources Officer asks a young engineer fresh out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “And what starting salary are you looking for?”
The engineer replies, “In the region of $125,000 a year, depending on the benefits package.”
The interviewer inquires, “Well, what would you say to a package of five weeks vacation, 14 paid holidays, full medical and dental, company matching retirement fund to 50% of salary, and a company car leased every two years, say, a red Corvette?”
The engineer sits up straight and says, “Wow! Are you kidding?”
The interviewer replies, “Yeah, but you started it.”
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January 25, 2019 8:10am
DigNap15

Yes, I just did my wellness budget and I am $500 a week short.
My gym membership
My personal trainer
Visit the doctor once a month
Two girlfriends one on each side changed every month
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January 25, 2019 8:14am
- holysheet
  
  My lawnmower costs keep rising.
  Reading between the lines here.
  
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  January 25, 2019 8:19am
- fluffykiwi
  
  Changing your girlfriends that often, you might need to visit the doctor more frequently, for your wellbeing so to speak.
  
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  January 25, 2019 8:23am
oldpark

A word of warning for the Peters selected little town twerp and masquerading on the World stage as a NZ VOTERS elected PM.
Instead of committing NZ to pay circa 36 Billion dollars to faceless nations for the myth of Climate change. Especially ignoring the plight of NZs Teachers wage claims.Whose needs are in the here and now.
Maybe the motto might be .”Let the Welfare of the people of NZ be the Supreme Law”. Up to now it almost seems under the track the record of Peters selected gang of no hopers that UN and people of Europe are much more important than NZeders.
Just check out our sicko Mainstream Media on just how they report on the well known Liar Ardern how she gets away with lies and fake facts. What a bloody disgrace.
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January 25, 2019 8:16am
- Viking2
  
  That wouldn’t work. They would make that mean anything they wanted just like the Councils do.
  
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  January 25, 2019 8:26am
- Humble Capitalist
  
  36 is a number that keeps coming up. 36 billion dollars. 36% electoral support for the PM select’s ideologies
  
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  January 25, 2019 8:44am
secondcumming

From the ‘Ministry of Primary Industries’ website….

*BROWN MARMORATED STINK BUG*

MPI needs your help!

RISK TO NZ: These bugs could be a damaging economic pest and a significant threat to business.

WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE: MPI is distributing leaflets with pictures of the bug…..everyone is urged to call our pest hotline if you see anything like it.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dpmx9F_VAAAJXOf.jpg
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January 25, 2019 8:18am
- softail 1450
  
  secondcumming,,,,LOL brilliant.
  
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  January 25, 2019 8:28am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  The extraordinary thing is that they found one in Tauranga but got rid of it.
  They’ve set traps around the District in case more show their face.
  
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  January 25, 2019 8:29am
  - hullkiwi
    
    One showed up briefly in Northland, but they managed to stamp it out for the time being.
    
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    January 25, 2019 9:36am
- mark15
  
  I found one of these stuck to my car headlight.Fortunately it was the less destructive one.
  
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  January 25, 2019 9:22am
- RW Capitalist
  
  Labour party is full of them.
  
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  January 25, 2019 10:26am
  - GazzaW
    
    ……..not to be confused with the Willis House weevil.
    
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    January 25, 2019 11:23am
  - freethinker
    
    Labour are the source.
    
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    January 25, 2019 12:27pm
DigNap15

Can’t wait to see the first COL wellness budget.
Maoris banned from smoking
Maoris banned from drinking alcohol
Maoris banned from taking and selling drugs
Maoris banned from having sex
Maoris banned from eating junk food

That will get all Maori’s weller,
Keep us all safer
And raise NZ in all the worlds stats.
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January 25, 2019 8:18am
kevn

What is it with the JLR painted on, fake smile? Just odd. Genuineness factor of zero.
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January 25, 2019 8:19am
Notsofast

Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
The Lundy case is a classic tail wags dog debacle. Falsely constructed scientific experiments purporting to have discovered pure central nervous system tissue, tail, wags physical evidence that an intruder fueled by P committed the crime, dog.

Bullshit.

Amanda Knox was legally exonerated 7 and a half years after Italy persecuted her with a similar hoax. Their system is an international laughing stock, yet managed to self correct. Now 11 years after the tragedy the ECHR rules she was tried on false information.

Here we are 18 and a half years into a parallel process with no end in sight.

Disgraceful and an abject failure, Helen Clark should be called to account for falsely suggesting we have the legal talent to behave ourselves in a civilised and lawful fashion.
And protege Ardern is proposing one of these people as chief justice.
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January 25, 2019 8:19am
- srylands
  
  Wouldn’t it be better if you set up your own dedicated Lundy blog with links to all your evidence and so on? Coming here achieves nothing. In fact it damages your cause. Annoying the shit out of folk is not usually a winning strategy.
  
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  January 25, 2019 8:35am
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    Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
    There are dedicated blogs all over the place for lost causes. This would be as useful as competing with trademe, monopolies self organise, and kiwiblog occupies a niche of this genre. If I was stating falsehoods I would have been banned long ago. I expect law enforcement to take note when they are getting away with prosecuting with what they know is false material.
    
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    January 25, 2019 8:40am
    - srylands
      
      But nobody reads anything you post.
      
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      January 25, 2019 9:16am
      - lifesgood
        
        So true, see his name, downtick and move on.
        
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        January 25, 2019 12:47pm
    - Nigel Kearney
      
      If I was stating falsehoods I would have been banned long ago.
      
      Nobody gets banned for that here. Even those who get banned for posting utter filth can come back with a very similar username and just continue on. If you get a buzz out of writing all this stuff that nobody else agrees with or cares about, or even reads or sees most of the time, you can keep at it for decades or until you get bored.
      
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      January 25, 2019 9:26am
      - Notsofast
        
        Heh. There is no buzz.
        But there are common citizens being screwed so hard by the so called pillars of society someone should explain it.
        
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        January 25, 2019 9:50am
    - Notsofast
      
      Where do we draw the line with manufactured evidence? Should Arthur Taylor have to do the policing of Roberto Conchie Harris? Should David Tamihere be used to make the parents of the Swedes believe in the New Zealand system?
      Should John Hughes be prosecuted for perjury if he was alive?
      I find your attitude disgraceful.
      
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      January 25, 2019 9:30am
dave_c_

Alas, to these noddies, “UN and people of Europe ARE much more important than NZeders.
NZ pollies (of all pursuasions) are beholden to the NWO agenda – of destroying autonomous nations, and closing down ambitions like : ”Let the Welfare of the people of NZ be the Supreme Law”

Oops – this was meant to be a response to ‘OldParks post’ at 8:16am
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January 25, 2019 8:21am
Humble Capitalist

Have you seen the queues of our people living in cars going for refugee status trying to get into Egypt, Indonesia and Russia.
Reporting back to their masters weve heard Ardern and Little tell the world we have a broken judice system, massive homelessness and suicide rates. They might need to drive another one of their ill equipped ambulances to the bottom of the cliff
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January 25, 2019 8:22am
- holysheet
  
  What the COL can do is import 1000’s of ladas from the home country and give them to the homeless here. That will solve the homeless problem overnight.
  
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  January 25, 2019 8:29am
  - Pateke
    
    That’s right holy, and with eight of its valves being the radio they could listen all night.
    
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    January 25, 2019 9:41am
kevn

Traitors x 2.
Spouting what they ‘think’ (is that possible?) the gathering want to feed on.
An embarrassment to NZ… x 2
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January 25, 2019 8:27am
cmm

Gillette: the preferred instrument for female genital mutilation.

#GirlsNeedBladesToo
#ToxicWhiteMasculinity
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January 25, 2019 8:27am
EAD_THREE

Not sure whos been following events in Hungary over the past week as several Jewish groups have been spending lots of the Hungarian people’s hard earned money in the hope of prove Hungarian involvement in the alleged deaths of 20,000+ Jews they claim were holocausted on the banks of the Danube in collaboration with the evil Nazis.

Despite a huge team and state of the art equipment, not a single body was found:

https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/no-shoah-victims-remains-found-during-initial-sonar-scan-of-danube/

These murders are at the heart of an ongoing and polarising debate in Hungary about how government-led and other commemoration efforts should address the issue of complicity. The Mazsihisz Jewish federation has accused the government of whitewashing this complicity, though EMIH has disputed this.

Those who have been trained to recoil at the mere mention of the word “Jew” can stop reading now, but the intellectually curious amongst KB might want to put these shrill & hysterical accusations and desperation to guilt trip Hungarians into some kind of context…..

Why now?

Well, one needs to remember that the Hungarians, despite accusations of racism by the MSM, are refusing to allow themselves to be invaded by the 3rd world hordes.

Those with a memory longer than Stephieboy, will also remember the Jewish outrage at Prime Minister Orbans attempt stop Soros interference in domestic politics via multimillion $ funding of various NGOs and Antifa:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/10/orban-election-victory-gives-us-mandate-to-pass-stop-soros-laws

Why should the Hungarians feel guilty about an alleged event for which no evidence has ever been found, nor forensic support produced – never mind the huge amount of ammunition (which would produce at least 222 kilograms, or 489 pounds, of inert lead)?

I hope the Hungarian people learn from the Wests mistakes and see through the relentless psychological warfare as the Globalists attempts to guilt trip them into giving up their countr.

Even if a small number of Hungarian people were “complicit” (to use Schlomo Koves exact words) of something 80 years in the past, why should future generations be condemned to living as a despised minority in a Globalist hellhole?
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January 25, 2019 8:36am
- Cobolt24
  
  I just found out that Barbara Lerner Spectre said that the institute Paidea (and others) in Sweden said the central bank of Sweden was dealing with looted Nazi gold and if they didn’t fund Paidea they would call them antisemitic.
  
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  January 25, 2019 8:58am
  - EAD_THREE
    
    A friend of mine living in Australia noticed that someone called Alana Lentin has been in the MSM having article
    
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/11/the-serena-williams-cartoon-exposes-australias-ignorance-on-race
    
    after article
    
    http://theconversation.com/why-racism-is-so-hard-to-define-and-even-harder-to-understand-106236
    
    after article
    
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/oct/27/with-our-narrow-interpretation-of-racism-its-too-easy-to-deny-that-we-are-racist
    
    after article
    
    https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/theminefield/wrong-to-be-‘white’:-is-racism-a-moral-problem/9058938
    
    after article
    
    https://theconversation.com/how-apps-and-other-online-tools-are-challenging-racist-attacks-62105
    
    after article
    
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/09/real-australians-are-a-myth-and-saying-welcome-to-refugees-is-not-enough
    
    after article
    
    https://www.abc.net.au/religion/im-not-racist-but-how-denying-racism-reproduces-its-violence/10095294
    
    telling Austrlaian readers how “racist” “us” Australians are.
    
    It turns out (perhaps unsurprisingly) that Lentin is not actually Australian.
    
    She is a Jewish immigrant from Ireland where her mother, Ronit, spent years lecturing the Irish how “racist” they were in order (along with Alan Shatter) to pry open the borders of homogenous Ireland to the 3rd world:
    
    http://irishsavant.blogspot.com/2015/07/an-open-letter-to-ronit-lentin.html?m=1
    
    Imagine being so ungrateful to your hosts that you want to see them replaced in their homelands their forefathers built with their bare hands.
    
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    January 25, 2019 9:40am
Happychappy

Winston Peter’s is obviously scared of Simon Bridge’s making a impact this year when Peter’s returned to his typical nasty ways with trash talking the National Leader at Ratana by saying he has no cut through, what ever that means and won’t see the year out as National Leader. Simon has obviously given the Coalition a lot to think about after the way he pinned the Labour led Coalition to the wall over the Chec drug smugglers lies and the association of several of our PM’s friends. So Winston’s first speech of the political year and comes out with the shit that they produced last year with the same time limit that Simon pissed on last year.
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January 25, 2019 8:37am
Lee C

Everyone is sooooo concerned about JLR’s breakdown.
Yet appears to ignore the impression that I get about McDowie’s situation which clearly shows a breakdown. Could it be she realised she’d been used for her sex, and was informed by JLR he was going public?
Rather cleverly, JLR leaves no record of the taunts and innuendo he provided (probably that her family would find out) to drive her to this response.

Where are the support group who usually rally to offer assistance to a woman who has been used and obviously cast aside like an old shoe?

Oh yes. Being female, in this case, takes second place to being a National MP.
So we are regaled with the like of Soper gloatingly suggesting that McDowie could face ‘three years in jail’ while JLR is ladled out sympathy for his ‘breakdown’.
Total silence from those self-appointed women’s advocates across the media spectrum, in particular those who described ‘National letting down women everywhere’..

What a bunch of fucking hypocrites.

Message to McDowie. Yes you made a big mistake. You are human. Go on the front foot and expose the blatant sexism being exploited here to sell your career and your family and your reputation down the river.

I dunno, I’m just a bloke – What do our female bloggers think?
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January 25, 2019 8:37am
- fluffykiwi
  
  In fact she might as well go totally feral and reveal all, (regardless of what National Party hierarchy think). There is no prize for her, she will be discarded by the Party.
  I would start with all the texts from her phone those from JLR. Then mention of his sexual prowess or lack thereof not a bad way to go. Anyone else she can drag into the “party” all the better.
  Loyalty seems not to exist any more. Loyalty is not a one sided or one way street. There will be none for Ms McDowie, so is any required from her.
  Did National start her downfall with the hints from Bennett relating to JLR’s infidelities.
  She should cleanse her soul so to speak, Tell all about everyone, cleanse the swamp of parliament and the press gallery. Then in the future maybe people might think twice before they cast a stone – the stone on human frailty, on extra marital affairs that have been going on since time immemorial, rightly or wrongly.
  Imagine the media scrambling for the story to ensure they can leave their names out. Big dollars in that I would think, but only in NZ, because in reality who gives a toss – apart from the stupid media who think they are important.
  
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  January 25, 2019 8:54am
- waikatogirl
  
  I feel very sorry for Sarah Dowie. Not only is she being investigated by the police but her family has now been exposed to her relationship with JLR, and personal life is being splashed across our TV screens. We have all been taken in by narcissists who are charming and feed on the warm response they receive in return. She was wooed into a mutual relationship which then turned sour. A narcissist cannot maintain the charming side of his personality as his needs always come first. She was taken in by an oily sleaze until he showed his true self. I don’t blame her lashing out. Put it behind you Sarah.
  
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  January 25, 2019 8:54am
  - cmm
    
    In this day and age if you don’t want it to be made public then keep your knickers on.
    
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    January 25, 2019 9:01am
    - waikatogirl
      
      True that. ?
      Especially if you are in a high profile position. There are no secrets in NZ, 2 degrees of separation means word goes around quickly.
      
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      January 25, 2019 9:22am
    - Sacha
      
      Yes. I think that this is a lesson that some have yet to learn.
      My Old Mother used to say: Keep yourself to yourself.
      
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      January 25, 2019 9:32am
  - insider
    
    She wasn’t taken in. She was an equal partner.
    
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    January 25, 2019 10:16am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    Ross has chosen to release ONE text, but we do not know how many others preceded or followed the one that is the subject of the Police complaint.
    
    I suspect there are more texts from both parties, but if Ross was to release them, he would be exposed as an even bigger toerag than he already is. A single, solitary text without context is next to useless, especially when it had been received by him more than two months before he was supposedly driven to self-harm.
    
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    January 25, 2019 1:10pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  McDowie was only one amongst many, and he treated them pretty appallingly – trying to use them as honeypots if I recall correctly. But his use as a weapon against national is more important than his shitty behaviour towards a few women to the corrupt left.
  
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  January 25, 2019 8:55am
- KevOB
  
  Best to leave them in peace.
  
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  January 25, 2019 8:57am
- niggly
  
  Well said Lee C, well said indeed.
  
  Despicable MSM (Barry Soper and David Fisher especially) again selectively taking aspects of JLR’s one-sided storylines to keep this in the news to damage National (the leadership and the MP).
  
  Both Soper and Fisher know that JLR was not only conducting numerous affairs, but was rather abusive (in a sick physical sense) and treating the women very poorly, yet here they are sensationalising it all yet again for their thrills.
  
  Let’s hope for their professions sake that JLR didn’t screw around with journalists, because in Soper and Fisher’s eyes they are now “fair game”. Except of course in reality Soper and Fisher will “protect” them – expect to hear nothing bad about the Press Gallery, nor any condemnation from the Press Gallery female reporters on Soper and Fisher’s antics in return.
  
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  January 25, 2019 9:14am
  - insider
    
    He did, and the gallery and plenty of others know who it was. Hint – It wasn’t Soper.
    
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    January 25, 2019 10:14am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I dunno, I’m just a bloke – What do our female bloggers think?
  
  2 things:
  1. Consensual sex between adults is their business, not mine.
  
  2. Our PM, Labour & the Greens are making a big effort to destigmatise Mental illness. If they or any other group of folks (MSM, political influencers) intend capitalising on JLR’s actions whilst mentally unwell (then & now), then expect a large backwash.
  
  Many of us have had dealings with folks exhibiting destructive behaviours in the midst of mania/mental illness. Don’t expect the polls to pick up in your favour if you try making political capital out of other folks’ miseries.
  
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  January 25, 2019 9:19am
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    Lefties don’t think that way Maggy
    
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    January 25, 2019 12:43pm
- SGA
  
  Lee C
  
  Where are the support group who usually rally to offer assistance to a woman who has been used and obviously cast aside like an old shoe?
  
  Says who? I mean you might be right, but we are talking about two people with the self-assurance and drive to become National MPs who were having an affair behind their respective spouses’ backs. These things happen – I’m not being judgmental in that way. But they both must have had some inkling that such relationships don’t end well.
  
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  January 25, 2019 9:23am
- mic
  
  For her to have sent a message like this would have to be retaliation for something JLR either said or did. Having been a ‘wronged one’ myself, I can understand her vitriol, my reaction was far worse than hers. Punishment for her, not even mentioning the ruining of her marriage, is the embarrassment of now having to be continually publicly shamed and harrassed by the media who seem to be supporting the absolute narcissistic sleaze who is JLR. She of course could come forward with her side of this sorry saga, but why give more fodder to the despicable media who are relentlessly trying to sway public opinion to the detriment of National and by destroying Simon Bridges. Barry Soper is as bad as Tova O’Brien et al who have become gutter tabloid ‘journalists’.
  
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  January 25, 2019 10:03am
  - SGA
    
    For her to have sent a message like this would have to be retaliation for something JLR either said or did.
    
    If many people in general, and her husband in particular, were unaware of her extramarital activities, then that was never going to last long after JLR’s meltdown (it took me 10 minutes on google to narrow it three likely people with her as the lead contender). That by itself, and its reprecussions, could be enough to make her very angry.
    
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    January 25, 2019 10:23am
  - KevOB
    
    I am not certain that media click/viewer/readership creators are not directly involved in stirring this pot.
    
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    January 25, 2019 6:32pm
- Paulus
  
  The Metoo Ladies Club would not support a National Party anything – so there.
  
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  January 25, 2019 11:30am
- Lance
  
  Maybe Barry Soper hates women?
  
  Or maybe just non far-left women?
  
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  January 25, 2019 12:53pm
dime

Dime made the mistake of going to blackcaps.co.nz

It redirects to this garbage:

https://www.nzc.nz/cricketnation

I guess they are trying to be Instagram?

Its mainly pics of chicks (who cares if they play cricket), I wanted BLACKCAPS. All I wanted was a goddam schedule.

Anyway, I click – go to full site.

Once again, all I see is pics of chicks. Seriously, what the fuck??? in clothes no less.

I gave up. looked at the tribe app on my phone instead.

I guess I’m too old and cranky for the blackcaps. And amazing female cricketers. The real stars.

I note they mainly have pics of the long blonde haired chick cricketers. racist fucks. do they think people of colour aren’t good looking? why blonde? no rangas???
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January 25, 2019 8:41am
- Sideoiler
  
  ……Its mainly pics of chicks (who cares if they play cricket), I wanted BLACKCAPS. All I wanted was a goddam schedule…….
  
  Try the link below, best cricket resource on the interwebs in my humble opinion.
  http://www.espncricinfo.com/
  
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  January 25, 2019 9:13am
  - dime
    
    cheers. I visit there all the time.
    
    still have to dig around for a list of games the blackcaps have coming up. its always done by series etc. painful.
    
    not to promote TRIBE too heavily but fuck its a good, simple app for game info and scores.
    
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    January 25, 2019 9:26am
    - Zapper
      
      On the full site there’s a schedules link with Black Caps under it in the top left. It’s one click, dime.
      
      That Cricket Nation site will just be showing the latest matches, I’m guessing you went there during the chicks matches.
      
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      January 25, 2019 12:40pm
- Longknives
  
  Emily Drumm on The Footy Show (The Stu Wilson version) was one of the great moments in New Zealand Sporting History…
  
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  January 25, 2019 9:14am
- Scott
  
  Dime – I feel your pain. I’ve noticed for some time now that the sports news is all about equality and giving prominence to women’s sport that is out of all proportion to crowd numbers and actual public interest. Seriously how many people watch women’s cricket?
  
  But that is where we are now. In the name of the ideological goal of “equality” women’s sport will lead on newspaper and TV sport sections. The women will be paid the same as the men even though men sport has 10 times the interest from the public.
  
  Unfortunately that’s the sign of the times. Everybody is suddenly a left-wing social justice warrior.
  
  We could go back to merit as a principle? So women’s cricket would get coverage if the crowd numbers and interest merited it. Let the public decide what they want to watch.
  
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  January 25, 2019 9:42am
  - dime
    
    Yeah its bullshit.
    
    The problem is, they have fucked themselves.
    
    Imagine if they pay female rugby players the same as ABs… here come the men in dresses haha
    
    What do they do then? can’t say a thing or they will be hateful bigots!
    
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    January 25, 2019 9:50am
    - Longknives
      
      “Imagine if they pay female rugby players the same as ABs… here come the men in dresses haha”
      
      I might make my comeback Dime! Your average Golden Oldies club side would smash a woman’s rep team…
      
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      January 25, 2019 9:59am
      - dime
        
        Dime propping up our next world cup HAHAHA
        
        Ill get me a nice summer dress for media interviews
        
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        January 25, 2019 11:38am
    - Paulus
      
      They do not do a proper Haka.
      
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      January 25, 2019 11:31am
  - SGA
    
    We could go back to merit as a principle? So women’s cricket would get coverage if the crowd numbers and interest merited it. Let the public decide what they want to watch.
    
    In terms of $$$, I think that you can make a reasonable argument that athletes’ pay should reflect the income that they generate for the sport. (That said, there are a few odd things that go on – I think the US national women’s football team are better earners than the men’s, but get paid less to play for their country – that probably needs to be fact checked though, tbh).
    There is another aspect to this, of course. Women’s and girls’ participation and interest in rugby, football and cricket is growing while men’s/boys’ is declining. From the perspective of the sports’ governing bodies, it might be in their long-term interest to foster the women’s games. Just a thought.
    
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    January 25, 2019 10:06am
- noskire
  
  dime, just type blackcaps into Google. The first result returns their schedule and even the current score if a game is in progress.
  
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  January 25, 2019 11:09am
  - dime
    
    thanks. problem is i fucking hate google haha there is no pleasing me!
    
    i will start doing that though!
    
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    January 25, 2019 11:39am
    - Zapper
      
      https://scoring.nzc.nz/
      
      If you want the latest scores and video when available you should be going here
      
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      January 25, 2019 12:43pm
srylands

“Beggars” in Lambton Quay in Wellington are now common place. I occasionally buy a coffee for them but rarely give them money.

Anyway, a couple of days ago, I stopped in my tracks. A young Maori woman had a box containing a wide variety of solvents, glues, and gibstop cartridges. Like she had gone on a glue binge at Mitre 10. She was pouring this into a plastic bag (not single use) and madly inhaling.

Now she was at obvious risk of sudden death but everyone just walked by. So I called 111. But they said they were already on to it. Next thing 2 cops turn up and persuade her to accompany them.

Sad.
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January 25, 2019 8:43am
- Inandout
  
  Probably will get spudded to supplement her habit, then we the taxpayers will pay millions to cope with the damaged child. She is undoubtedly beyond help and in many countries she would simply disappear.
  
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  January 25, 2019 10:30am
- GoVege
  
  Very sad srylands.
  A lot of Maori kids, especially the girls, have terrible lives.
  Illiterate and unemployable from being forced to stay home and babysit mum’s latest little cash earner while shes blowing their benny money in the pokies, molested by mum’s boyfriends, pimped out by mum’s gang friends.
  Often don’t know who their dad is…probably a client of mum’s part-time job supplementing her benny.
  And our authorities just let these kids be criminally abused because to do something would mean being accused of Maori bashing.
  
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  January 25, 2019 4:16pm
Fletch

Taking the piss out of that Gillette ad –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj8VpuLSkHY
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January 25, 2019 8:44am
sooty

I know that Labours car park puddle is shallow, but why would you elevate Phail Twitford to cabinet ranks. Th man has exceeded his natural ability. He’s proved he has no ability. Backbenchers for you son! But who do you replace him with? Then there is Gallopaway, he needs a by election. Corruption there in bucket loads. Maybe the could get some new blood and some party hack!
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January 25, 2019 8:52am
- Inandout
  
  sooty, I wonder what the collective CoL intelligence is compared say with this lineup?
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_National_Government_of_New_Zealand#/media/File:Second_National_Government.jpg
  
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  January 25, 2019 10:39am
MrTips

Random question: do we know what JLR texted to Dowie a priori to this currently investigated text? I mean, that could be very revealing…….kinda like fly fishing ….
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January 25, 2019 8:54am
secondcumming

I’ve just been thinking what I’d do, if some chick I’d been screwing on the side sent me a txt saying……

“you are a fucking ugly MF pig, shave that fucking tuft of hair off your fucking front of skull head and own your baldness, you sweaty, fat, toe inturned mutant”

I’d probably just respond “Are you sure this wasn’t meant for Jamie Lee Ross?”

[source: YourNZ]
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January 25, 2019 8:54am
- Biscuit
  
  secondcumming, I’m not saying that JLR is a narcissist, ha, but I doubt any lover he had actually got to SEE his face.
  
  Jami would have had a mirror between him and his partner!
  
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  January 25, 2019 9:32am
  - secondcumming
    
    Probably right there bikkie……personally, if I was JLR and got a SXT like that from a good looking chick like Dowie, no way would it have upset me!
    I find it a total turn on 😎
    
    https://i.imgflip.com/c4kb2.jpg
    
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    January 25, 2019 10:17am
    - Garbageman
      
      looks like someones been peeking through Morrisseys window
      
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      January 25, 2019 1:46pm
- MH
  
  or from/to a Fireman ?
  where there’s smoke….sorry fireperson
  
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  January 25, 2019 11:32am
Hugh Pavletich

AUSTRALIA: CoreLogic weekly Australian house price update: crashing – MacroBusiness

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2019/01/corelogic-weekly-australian-house-price-update-crashing/
… behind paywall …

Credit Suisse: Sydney house prices to fall 9% in 2019 – MacroBusiness

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2019/01/credit-suisse-sydney-house-prices-fall-9-2019/

Shane Oliver goes all in for property bust – MacroBusiness

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2019/01/shane-oliver-goes-property-bust/
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January 25, 2019 8:55am
- Hugh Pavletich
  
  Foreign buyers flee Australian housing – MacroBusiness
  
  https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2019/01/foreign-buyers-flee-australian-housing/
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  Demographia In The News
  
  https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=demographia&source=lnms&tbm=nws&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi39u-jm4fgAhURWX0KHXuaAGYQ_AUIDigB&biw=462&bih=410
  
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  January 25, 2019 11:19am
  - Toko
    
    This is great for us, as want to to buy a place in Noosa, thanks Hugh!
    
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    January 25, 2019 12:52pm
    - Hugh Pavletich
      
      Very interesting reading today at MacroBusiness Australia guys … http://www.macrobusiness.com.au .
      
      Its shaping up to be wild days ahead.
      
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      January 25, 2019 2:42pm
Lee C

Mind you, she was only saying what many of were thinking…
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January 25, 2019 8:57am
Manolo

Which one will the NZ Labour government support?
https://www.apnews.com/52bb7f774bc94f439df0606eb96bab4e

Much of the international community is rallying behind Guaido, with the U.S., Canada and numerous Latin American and European countries announcing that they recognized his claim to the presidency.

Meanwhile, Russia, China, Iran, Syria, Cuba and Turkey have voiced their backing for Maduro’s government.
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January 25, 2019 9:08am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  No doubt we will join the second list.
  
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  January 25, 2019 3:20pm
Longknives

After the jaw dropping news about Emergency Benefits (Free money/No Sanctions etc) this week- Stuff have clearly been told to start ‘Pimping the Poor’ again

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/110153672/tenants-problem-benefit-is-384-rent-is-360

A Solo Mum with two kids only getting $384 a week?
Hmmmm
Twisting things again Stuff?
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January 25, 2019 9:08am
- srylands
  
  It’s crap. They left out the accommodation supplement of at least $120. Plus if she got a part time job doing anything she would get free childcare plus tax credits. And as usual no mention of the father.
  
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  January 25, 2019 9:46am
  - fluffykiwi
    
    immaculate conception, so “baby jesus”, surely that is worth frankincense, myrrh and gold. It’s what she thought when she gave so freely of herself to an unknown who let on he was god.
    
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    January 25, 2019 10:07am
DigNap15

Was there much news about lowering the sanctions resulting in 10,000 more on the dole?

10 thousand is a lot of people for NZ.
For my city it means about 250 people.
That is 250 people doing nothing, roaming the streets and sucking up our taxes.
Yet everywhere I go there are immigrants from one sub continent working away happily.
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January 25, 2019 9:25am
- Manolo
  
  That is what our political masters (Labour, NZF and the Greens) want. To increase the numbers of people living off the state to secure their vote.
  
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  January 25, 2019 9:46am
- srylands
  
  No there was no coverage at all but it was a significant piece of news.
  
  Btw it seems that every fuel station in New Zealand is staffed by Indians. Surely to god we can get unemployed New Zealanders to do the job. Even those with a bad attitude. There is not much to stuff up. It is way easier than working at McDonald’s.
  
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  January 25, 2019 9:49am
  - Disillusioned_Voter
    
    That’l be a thing of the past soon. There are a number of non-staffed NPD locations handy to me and the price of fuel at these locations is generally a couple of cents lower than the best coupon price elsewhere. I’ll be avoiding manned locations where possible in future.
    
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    January 25, 2019 9:55am
    - Inandout
      
      DV, most New World pumps are DIY, piss easy to do with your voucher and credit card.
      
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      January 25, 2019 10:54am
  - insider
    
    I suspect most of the unemployed are transitioning from education to work or other life stages, or are unsuited to most work due to health, drugs and criminal attitudes
    
    I don’t want drugged up types responsible for hundreds of thousands of litres of flammable liquids thanks. That probably rules most out
    
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    January 25, 2019 10:07am
  - GoVege
    
    Indians have:
    1) a work ethic
    2) dreams of bettering themselves
    3) gratitude for living in a free country unhindered by stupid harmful customs like where they come from.
    Sort of the opposite of tangata whenua.
    
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    January 25, 2019 12:33pm
  - Jules99
    
    The franchises are bought by well off Indians/Fiji Indians. Ditto franchises like The Coffee Club, with many immigrant owners. Kiwis are free to stump up the large amounts of cash to buy these if they want to. They will be providing jobs for people in their own communities or families. Perhaps with a work visa pathway to citizenship.
    
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    January 25, 2019 12:58pm
- waikatogirl
  
  “Was there much news about lowering the sanctions resulting in 10,000 more on the dole?”
  
  Well, that’s why the useless duck I know voted for Labour. He was promised no sanctions and that’s what he is enjoying on the taxpayer. Nearly 40 years old and never had fulltime employment. For past few years, it’s been lying about all day like an elderly retiree with no intention of ever getting another job.
  
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  January 25, 2019 10:33am
  - MH
    
    role model : turiana Turia, benefit thief and electoral fraudster. ” Hey, I’ll admit to these things and no body will touch me”
    
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    January 25, 2019 11:37am
    - Keeping Stock
      
      I think you owe Dame Tariana Turia and apology MH. It was Metiria Turei who admitted to benefit fraud, and who was also shown to have committed electoral fraud.
      
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      January 25, 2019 1:13pm
      - MH
        
        yes, I certainly do. My face is covered…Cost of eggs has gone up.
        
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        January 25, 2019 1:36pm
      - MH
        
        I blame it on Tu-rettes
        
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        January 25, 2019 1:39pm
      - GoVege
        
        MH sure does owe Dame Tariana an apology!
        She probably considers Metiria a disgrace to Maoridom.
        Imagine….only having one child…and getting started as late as her 20s!
        If she had started breeding at puberty as aunty Tariana advocates, she could have had at least a dozen kids on the benny.
        Sigh….all that fertility gone to waste! 🙂 🙂
        
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        January 25, 2019 1:54pm
      - freethinker
        
        Labour are the source.
        
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        January 25, 2019 1:57pm
  - Classic Liberal
    
    But Waikatogirl, would he ever have voted National?
    
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    January 25, 2019 6:09pm
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Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
If jlr and dowie represent the nats interpretation of “keep your friends close and your enemies closer”, I shudder to think what soimon and judy colly are doing between the sheets ???
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January 25, 2019 9:48am
- mic
  
  You are testament to the gutter thinking of your leftist tribe.
  
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  January 25, 2019 10:06am
- Stars And Stripes
  
  Maybe you could help Sarah Dowie Marquess and put everyone out of their misery?.
  Give us the name and number of that travel agent who provides one way tickets to London at short notice for the Labour Party when problems like this happen.
  
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  January 25, 2019 10:07am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  More anti-National desperation from marquess.
  Christ you’re one sick unit.
  
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  January 25, 2019 10:10am
  - marquess
    
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    I’d rather be a sick unit than a dick unit. I don’t envy dowie right now ?
    
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    January 25, 2019 10:34am
    - pentwig
      
      marment
      i am just happy i am not you
      
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      January 25, 2019 10:46am
    - Inandout
      
      marquess, supply us with the names of the Ponsonby cocaine users. That should be the next scandal to hit the hallowed halls of our houses of parliament.
      
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      January 25, 2019 10:58am
      - marquess
        
        How is todd doing these days?
        
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        January 25, 2019 11:32am
kowtow

Germany is really reaping that diversity dividend.

‘After years of cooperating to earn fame and millions, German rapper Bushido went separate ways from clan boss Arafat Abou-Chaker. The mafia head and his brother are accused of planning to kidnap Bushido’s four children.’

https://www.dw.com/en/mafia-brothers-arrested-over-alleged-plot-to-kidnap-bushidos-kids/a-47214720
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January 25, 2019 10:04am
- Inandout
  
  kowtow, interesting how Berlin was in the 1920s’, book by Philip Kerr:
  
  ‘Berlin in the 1920s was the most liberal city in Europe — I mean anything went,” Kerr says with the raise of an eyebrow. “Sex, drugs, cabaret, open nudity — you name it. Whatever you wanted you could get here. And for gay men, I imagine, you must have thought you’d died and gone to heaven. There were flamboyantly gay clubs across the city.
  We arrive at an address that used to be home to the Blue Stocking, a notorious Weimar haunt where some of Berlin’s estimated 100,000 prostitutes would accommodate just about any kink, perversion, or taste. The Blue Stocking was known for hookers called “gravel.”
  
  “Gravel were prostitutes who were disabled,” Kerr explains. “They either had one leg, or they were disfigured in some way or had one arm or possibly no legs at all.
  
  The buoyant market for gravel in the 1920s was a result of high numbers of men who had returned from the war without limbs, and felt more comfortable with prostitutes with similar disabilities. Today the infamous club address houses a physiotherapy studio.
  
  In Kerr’s novels, detective Gunther watches as the city he loves for its edgy openness slowly becomes oppressive and is taken over by jack-booted thugs. Gunther believes in democracy and the Weimar republic, yet he’s not passionately political — he just a professional who wants to do his job. But when dead communists and Jews begin turning up on Berlin’s streets, it becomes impossible for Gunther to ignore that it’s the fascist Brown Shirts who are doing most of the throat cutting, shooting and strangling’.
  
  The Brown Shirts have been replace by migrants, and we all know what normally follows in Germany when the plebs get aroused.
  
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  January 25, 2019 11:09am
  - Paulus
    
    Enjoy Gunther – have read all this series.
    Very insightful and thought provoking.
    
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    January 25, 2019 11:35am
  - MH
    
    boys and girls pick up brass instruments,ump pah pah
    
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    January 25, 2019 11:39am
  - SGA
    
    I enjoyed “Babylon Berlin” on Netflix which was set in 1929.
    
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    January 25, 2019 12:04pm
  - stephieboy
    
    “The Brown Shirts have been replaced by migrants..”
    
    Garbage!
    
    These,
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW-1Bmopzmk
    
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    January 25, 2019 12:12pm
    - secondcumming
      
      I have a business contact in Germany who believes Bjorn Hocke and the AFD make a lot of sense.
      
      He thinks someone like Hocke is exactly what the country needs to clean up the mess that Merkel has made.
      
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      January 25, 2019 1:07pm
      - Classic Liberal
        
        The AfD is barely ‘right-wing’. They are just sensible centrists. That counts as ‘far right’ these day – go figure.
        
        One of the AfD leaders is a lesbian, Alice Weidel, an extremely smart lawyer. And they have other very strong, very smart women in important roles. Suddenly that means nothing to the lefties though, when such female politicians take a centrist view instead of toeing the leftie line.
        
        Stuffy is either too stupid to read what the AfD policies actually are, or he’s deliberately lying.
        
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        January 25, 2019 6:26pm
  - freethinker
    
    Regretfully the Mu Slimes will discover they are the new Jooos, a one way ticket to some where really safe & civilized like Syria/Somalia or Yemen will ensure they don’t share a similar fate.
    
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    January 25, 2019 2:02pm
  - Morrissey
    
    Careful, Inners—Cap’n Mainwaring is probably reading this. He might explode.
    
    Horrid thought.
    
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    January 25, 2019 8:18pm
MrLovebucket

So, of the houses that actually get credited as Kiwibuild houses, are these genuinely over and above what would have actually been built anyway if National had stayed in power?
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January 25, 2019 10:12am
- alloytoo
  
  In a word no.
  
  IE: none.
  
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  January 25, 2019 3:12pm
The Heat

My wellness is not increased by taking more money off me in tax.

Just sayin’……
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January 25, 2019 10:19am
- MrLovebucket
  
  Especially when they spend $3 billion on an election campaign for NZF
  
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  January 25, 2019 10:46am
Cobolt24

Where’s stephie today?
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January 25, 2019 10:33am
- stephieboy
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  Here! Today the usual bland and nonsensical. Of no conceivable interest to the real world beyond the KB alt right bubble chamber.
  
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  January 25, 2019 10:42am
  - pentwig
    
    stoopidthing
    so you are going to refrain from giving us your petty, trivial and stupid comments then
    
    cool
    
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    January 25, 2019 10:51am
  - Inandout
    
    Go back to the Standard then.
    
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    January 25, 2019 11:12am
  - MH
    
    that’s set the tone for the rest of the day.
    Would you like a blindfold or face the firing squad behind a white flag with a crescent moon? One last wish? I’m not inciting a death wish here, but there are over 40 armed bloggers itching to have a pot at you.
    
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    January 25, 2019 11:44am
MrLovebucket

I thought secretly recording people without their consent was a bit of a no-no. Are the police going to be investigating JLR for that?
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January 25, 2019 10:49am
- Disillusioned_Voter
  
  I thought that was true, only if the person who made the recording was not party to the conversation.
  
  happy to be corrected!
  
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  January 25, 2019 11:47am
  - fernglas
    
    You’re right.
    
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    January 25, 2019 12:03pm
Than

The two senate votes this afternoon (US time) are not a good sign for Trump getting a bill that funds his border wall. Six Republican senators crossed the floor to vote for the Democrats version of the bill. The Republican version of the bill only had a single Democrat vote for it, plus two Republicans voting against. That echos the trend in house votes on various funding bills, where far more Republicans than Democrats have crossed the floor.

And importantly, all of the bills put up to vote so far have been essentially political posturing, containing no genuine attempts at compromise. The latest Democrat funding bill reportedly contains $5.7 billion extra for border security (but explicitly not for the wall). That’s going to cause a dilemma for Republicans. Democrats have clearly decided that negotiating with Trump is pointless, so they’re going around him instead.
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January 25, 2019 10:51am
- Inandout
  
  Nancy and Chuck are the US future..lol.
  
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  January 25, 2019 11:14am
  - kowtow
    
    The US future is Spanish , amigo.
    
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    January 25, 2019 11:15am
    - Paulus
      
      Latino population considerably higher than “Afro Americans” at the same % as Maori in New Zealand – about 14%.
      Yes, a Latino will be President shortly – there will probably never be another “Afro American” President again.
      The last one was very poor.
      
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      January 25, 2019 11:38am
      - GoVege
        
        Obama was raised by his Caucasian grandparents and mother.
        His African father had no input except as a sperm donor.
        Like a lot of African males.
        And Maori males.
        Very sad.
        Michelle is different.
        She had an amazing Afro-American father.
        Maybe she is what is needed to lead Afro-Americans out of the wilderness….
        
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        January 25, 2019 12:15pm
      - stephieboy
        
        The last one was VG compared to the present one.
        
        The polls speak volumes of his ineptness!
        
        http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/current_events/politics/prez_track_jan24
        
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        January 25, 2019 12:19pm
kowtow

Had a read of the stuff story on plastic bags , came across this howler . bought for brought. Shit reporteresses, no wonder they’re going down the shitter.

‘The new rules have been bought in under the Waste Minimisation Act ‘

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/110007784/harsh-penalties-for-bag-ban-rulebreakers
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January 25, 2019 11:15am
- Inandout
  
  As with any ‘contraband’ there are ways around it. Mitre 10 sell plastic bags on a roll which are perfect for either bin liners or shopping. As for Nick Morrison, well let me say ‘we all have a history’.
  
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  January 25, 2019 11:39am
- stephieboy
  
  kowtow and Inandout, include this on your travel itineraries.,
  
  https://www.businessinsider.com.au/photos-of-henderson-island-plastic-trash-2017-5?r=US&IR=T
  
  A real must!
  
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  January 25, 2019 12:17pm
- Toko
  
  Even radio and tv news presenters are saying ‘bought’ when they mean ‘brought’ now. I cringe every time. It’s not that hard.
  
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  January 25, 2019 12:55pm
  - kowtow
    
    Boardband for broadband is another .
    
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    January 25, 2019 3:12pm
rangitoto

Fox reporting that Tonga has been cut off from the internet. Strange I didn’t see anything about it in local news sources.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/tonga-sent-back-to-dark-ages-after-underwater-internet-cable-severed
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January 25, 2019 11:15am
- kowtow
  
  Been in the local news 2 days.(stuff anyway)
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12195149&ref=rss
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/south-pacific/110123678/no-screen-time-tonga-faces-weeks-of-internet-disruption
  
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  January 25, 2019 11:55am
GoVege

Got my McDonald’s cappuccino this morning.
Young Maori woman was rattling a cup at drive thru, while young fellas stood around smoking nearby.
Girl calls out to “cuz”, obviously raising cash for more ciggies.
Suppose their parents are all in the pub somewhere spending the benny money doled out by the working mugs.
Why do we never see PI kids doing this?
Or Indian or Chinese ….?
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January 25, 2019 12:23pm
- Lance
  
  Because their parents would die of shame. Not the mention the good swift kick up the bum.
  
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  January 25, 2019 1:00pm
  - GoVege
    
    Just saw a cute sight in South Auckland.
    A PI dad walking with his three sons to the taro shop.
    The oldest boy was holding the youngest one’s hand.
    That’s how a family should (and used to) be.
    Usually you just see groups of teenage boys looking lost.
    Probably don’t even know who their dads are, poor kids.
    The unintended consequences of an overly generous social welfare system.
    
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    January 25, 2019 1:30pm
    - alloytoo
      
      During my recent illness my 14 year (for all his teenage untidiness and monotone grunting) has stepped up to the plate when it came to looking after his baby brother (4).
      
      Hoisting him on his shoulders, chasing after him etc.
      
      I have hopes for him.
      
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      January 25, 2019 3:28pm
    - Classic Liberal
      
      “unintended”
      
      Come on now, you don’t believe that breeding more Labour voters is ‘unintended’?
      
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      January 25, 2019 6:33pm
  - GoVege
    
    Not all P I parents physically discipline their kids.
    I knew one yonks ago who said her father refused to speak to her while she was unemployed..
    
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    January 25, 2019 4:03pm
- DigNap15
  
  Yes Maori these days have no class.
  Its all about being cool on the street.
  
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  January 25, 2019 3:37pm
UrbanNeocolonialist

So turns out there have been MASSIVE errors in official net immigration numbers that have likely been going on for years – eg updated figure is just 45000 for year vs 60000 I saw reported a few weeks back.

How on earth they have managed to screw up counting passports at airports so badly I don’t know, but someone needs to front up and explain in detail what the error is, how far back it goes and what impacts it has on our economic picture. Eg maybe our population figure is way off and our ‘housing crisis’ isn’t.
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January 25, 2019 12:31pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  updated stats: net 7800 kiwis left last year, 51000 foreigns arrived
  
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  January 25, 2019 12:35pm
The Heat

Loathe as I am to point to the Guardian (stay with me), much of this analysis is good (for the centre right):

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/24/women-far-right-gender-roles-radical-right-migrant-muslim

Why are women moving to the right?

“This platform is used to draw a contrast with a perceived Islamic threat from increased migration to gay and lesbian rights, tolerance for sexual difference, and secular modernity. The strategy has attracted female voters to radical-right platforms.”

This is the trick here, too, I feel.

Many women will see immigration from cultures that devalue women as a threat. Yet, the radical left must defend these cultures against white privilege, obviously. Radical left feminists (ironically) stand up for these oppressive cultures. A lefty cannot possibly deal with being called a racist.

Not that a belief system has anything to do with race, but the left are a pretty confused lot.

Anyway, many women and those of various sexual and identity persuasions can be got onside if the right assert a libertarian frame on these social issues (be who you like so long as you’re not hurting anyone else) and position against totalitarianism in all its forms, including religious, and against tolerating violent behaviour from anyone, especially the imported variety.

It won’t be lost on the women of Sweden what might happen if ongoing attacks on women are tolerated by the political left in the name of diversity.

I suspect many of these women are “shy tories” and growing in number.
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January 25, 2019 12:58pm
- Viking2
  
  That’s the Catholics stuffed along with lots of other sky fairy proponents.
  
  Vikings Rule. 😆 Real men.
  
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  January 25, 2019 3:48pm
- Classic Liberal
  
  “a perceived Islamic threat from increased migration to gay and lesbian rights, tolerance for sexual difference, and secular modernity. The strategy has attracted female voters to radical-right platforms.”
  
  But the idiotic MSM are calling it ‘radical-right’ to defend gay and lesbian rights, tolerance for sexual difference, and secular modernity.
  
  “and against tolerating violent behaviour from anyone ” As Geert Wilders has been saying for years. He is a social libertarian who has had the guts to point out the dangers of islam. Has received death threats and murder attempts for it.
  
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  January 25, 2019 4:47pm
KeaRea

A good point about the state of the union. There is no union.
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January 25, 2019 1:07pm
KeaRea

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/03/bryan-singers-accusers-speak-out/580462/

Bohemian Rhapsody is a good movie. But Bryan Singer should be in prison. This story was held up for years. It’s absolutely shocking. The metoo controlled burn and limited hangout is nothing. We want Spielberg and we want Scorcese, Coppolla, Silverman and especially Tarantino. Just to start. There is a reason ‘aquaman’ gropes kids on camera.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bvpdRyBNHYw

Imagine what these ‘feminists’ do off camera? Momoa shouldn’t be allowed in NZ.
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January 25, 2019 1:20pm
- EAD_THREE
  
  I will be watching this short film on Saturday morning:
  
  https://mobile.twitter.com/StefanMolyneux/status/1088624706511458304
  
  ”Hoaxed” has been released, go watch it right now – the ending will blow your mind!
  
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  January 25, 2019 6:12pm
srylands

This guy has just applied for parole. Fortunately rejected. However he will be out eventually.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/hawkes-bay/7832506/13-years-for-girlfriend-eye-gouge

If the government wants to significantly reduce prison numbers, I hope it is not via granting a guy like this parole.
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January 25, 2019 1:34pm
KeaRea

Why does KeaRea get a bit irritable on occasion? It’s all ironic by the way. I’d never advocate for actual violence.

Here’s one reason.

https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/corbella-some-alarming-revelations-about-gsas-at-alberta-court-of-appeal

Every heard of a Gay-Straight-Alliance? They’re clubs being rolled out across the state school system in Canada and Australia.

http://albertagsanetwork.ca/index.php/what-is-a-gsaqsa/

This is what a GSA is. It is against the law for parents to be informed their child has been made to join a GSA. It is illegal to tell a parent any of their kids GSA activities.

A kid was taken by a ‘facilitator’ off school grounds. The facilitator wasn’t a parent, or staff. Just a gay individual. They took the kid to their private residence, and to other GSA kids.

A 13 year old was given a 50 page book with homosexual sex instructions. 153 condoms. He was made to put condoms on banana. He was given materials with a giant spaceship shaped like a dick and told to ‘explore his anus’.

The lawyers for the child were appealing a ruling by a purple haired judge against an interim injunction allowing principals to tell parents their kids were being taken away from school to homes to be sexually groomed. They also wanted an injunction against the homosexual minister of education defunding or de-accrediting schools who told parents their kids weren’t in school or were forced into GSAs.

The GSA’s are also coming to New York, where they just ruled that abortions can be conducted on a baby at 9 months, 1 minute before it’s breached the canal.

This is why I actually like Polynesians. Polys have a clear sense of right and wrong as it pertains to these issues. The promise of their extremely violent opposition to this being done to their kids is the only thing preventing the roll out of the GSA framework here. And I haven’t even go to the Transgender part of this – where the Trannies within the GSA can administer to your kids hormone drugs and puberty blockers and it’s illegal for you to know. And it’s especially illegal for parents to intervene.

Right – so within that web, what is a man to do, exactly? Nothing – except kill everyone he can and then open his veins at home like the Roman patricians did. And that is what will happen, and the gays will screech about bigotry when they are running an industrial national level scale child grooming operation in Canada using the law to prevent any opposition.

So when Hipkins starts removing parents from the equation – this is where it leads. But I will go on.
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January 25, 2019 1:49pm
KeaRea

https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/school-conference-secretly-hands-out-gay-sex-manual-to-kids…behind-parent

Here are links to the material that kids 13 etc and were being given at ‘Gay Straight Alliance’ clubs in Canada.

And a reminder – it is illegal in Canada and soon Victoria in Australia and probably Australia wide to tell parents who the adults are taking their kids to their private homes and giving them alcohol and gay pornography. It’s illegal to tell them where their kids are. It’s illegal to tell them how much time they spend in GSA activities and not school work.

The NDP government then gas-lights the parents by saying that ‘it is the parents’ who constitute a threat to their children, and that any parental intervention is abuse of the ‘child as individual’ and their ‘freedom’ to be indoctrinated into becoming a fuck toy for some sinister purple hair.

This is serious stuff. I get so very angry because I actually have better uses for my burgeoning intellect then having to spend a single second trying to track the degeneracy of these cunts. But if people like me won’t do it, no one will do it.

This is why the Right have no choice. There is no scope for cucking anymore. I can’t just rattle on about Ricardo and Adam Smith and economics because all of it is downstream of culture and they are now coming extremely hard for the children. I can’t just pursue my legal case-files and do my consulting, because these evil Slaaneshi swine will never stop.

This is why – as I said, there will be statues erected to Brievik in due course. There is nowhere to run away from the culture anymore my guys. But I’ll continue.
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January 25, 2019 1:59pm
KeaRea

It continues.

http://www.governing.com/topics/politics/tns-ny-legislature-lgbtq-anti-discrimination-bill.html

New York State has now passed a law saying that it will be illegal for any medical professional to do absolutely anything to dissuade an individual from having their sex changed – even though the liklihood of suicide for trannies is now 27.54 times more likely then the median average in the state of New York.

In fact – if anyone does so, it will constitute a hate crime.

It will be a hate crime to separate trannies from communal showers for example.

So an evilwhite Republican asked “What protection does this bill have for the parents and children who may not want to shower with someone whose physical anatomy is different than their daughters?’

Richard ((Gottfriend)) shot back “the same thing that happens when white parents who are petrified of their child showering with a black person!’

Because your daughter watching a man’s erection slowly rise in the locker-room is just an extension of the experience of the Martin Luther King Basketball Americans, my Goy.

Okay – so now the gay conversion therapy bit. ‘Pray the gay away’ is bad, right? Bad! Bad! Pray the Gay away is bad!

Here is what the bill does “make it professional midconduct for a mental health professional to engage in an effort to change the sexual orientation of any patient who is 18 years old or younger’.

Right – so the parents aren’t allowed to know. It’s a hate-crime for them to intervene with grooming. It’s also a hate-crime and misconduct for any medical professional who observes grooming to identify and report that grooming and intervene.
The only people who are allowed in the picture are the gay person giving the kid alcohol and porn. The Trannies giving the kid sex hormones and puberty blockers, and the guns of the state trained on any goy who tries to intervene to save their child from being raped and destroyed.

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Love not hate don’t discriminate.

This is now the law in 15 STATES IN THE UNITED STATES MY GOYS.

https://psmag.com/news/with-the-addition-of-new-york-conversion-therapy-is-now-illegal-in-15-states

‘Pray the gay away bad’ means ‘don’t intervene in our grooming operation of your 12 year old sons and daughters’.
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January 25, 2019 2:11pm
KeaRea

http://www.governing.com/topics/politics/gov-rainbow-wave-lgbt-candidate-2018-midterm-election.html

There is now a massive wave of Transgender and homosexual state law makers hitting the United States.

‘And that’s a good thing!’ ‘This is 2019!’

Love not hate!

Except – now that you have a basic understanding of what is being enacted, can you now understand, just maybe a little, why this might not be such a good thing?

Because if you’re a gay parent – knowing what you know about your community, in your heart of hearts, being honest, knowing what you know – do you think that it’s good your kid might be take home by one of your pals, plied with porn and alcohol, kept out of school for long periods, and turned into a Trannie?

http://www.governing.com/topics/politics/gov-vermont-primary-women-midterms-2018-governor-transgender.html

Massive heinous dude in a dress makes history IN A FIRST FOR WOMEN.

Do Women not understand, the degree to which their gender is being destroyed? Not only are you being taught to be men, you literally are men now lol. The Feminists applaud, as men now take governance roles in place of women.

What are the feminists going to do about this? Nothing. Because feminism has nothing to do with helping women and everything to do with ending women.
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January 25, 2019 2:20pm
KeaRea

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46908396

‘Gay Austrian wins fight for justice!’

Austria must compensate an ex cop sacked in 76 for the sexual offences he committed against 2 boys aged 14 and 15.

You see – this cop raped these boys. At the time, he actually only got a 3 month suspended jail term. European Court of Justice didn’t challenge that extremely severe penalty (ROFL). But it said he had to be given back his pension.

That’s because Austria in 2002 made 14 the age of consent for everyone.

So, in grand nuEurope, where Frank Magnitz Chairman of the AFD had his head split open and went into a coma according to the progressive establishment because he fell and tripped

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6572389/Chairman-Germanys-anti-migrant-AfD-party-refuses-blame-left-savage-beating.html

So in grand nuEurope – if a policeman grooms and then ‘seals the deal’ with a 15 year old, it’s fine – because that’s not under the new age of consent lol.

https://www.hrc.org/resources/all-children-all-families-about-the-initiative

‘All children all families’ literally means what it says. All children, all families, will be gay.

Foster children are going to become the political expression of a new overlord class – assigned to families and groomed into homo-normativity.

Because the article neglects to state that, far from there being a massive population of different sexuality/gender foster kids due to ‘discrimination’, which is retarded, they end up that way after they’ve been raped a few times in the system. Ah, those young boys. Pumped full of Ritalin for asking questions and then assigned to Lesbians and gays to experiment on.

It brings a tear to the eye – and if they want counselling about their suffering they can’t get it, because that’s a hate crime.

Then there is a story from Cambridge Massachussets where the gender of a kid, again, will be removed from all birth certificates.
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January 25, 2019 2:38pm
KeaRea

https://christiannews.net/2019/01/15/scottish-nursery-staff-told-not-to-say-boys-and-girls/

Scottish nursery staff aren’t allowed anymore to say ‘boys or girls’ that’s a hate crime. Nursery Rhymes and Fairy Tales have to be re-told in gender neutral terms.

There is no ‘mankind’ there is only ‘kind’ or ‘people kind’.

Lol feminist Shiksas – did you really thing a movement started by gay communist Jewish men was ever going to stop at ‘mankind’? I told you – white women and women generally are next for the white man un-personing treatment.

Just check out the incredible Orwellian guidelines for the staff. I can imagine in the orb of a little fluttering candle an incredibly brave nurse, who spends all day struggling to avoid face-crime as the big gay person with a whip peers intensely into all faces looking for any trace, gently murmurs ‘the match-stick girl’ before she’s taken away to be put against the wall.

I could go on, but I’ll stop there.

Notice anything? All the sites that care about this are Christian ones. Where are the Jews? Where are the muslims? Where are the atheists?

They don’t care – this is Kosher.

https://edition.cnn.com/2017/09/28/health/sweden-gender-neutral-preschool/index.html

Here is one of many schools that has completely ended the concept of Gender?

Notice anything?

The kids are all wearing genderless straightjackets that are plastered with the ‘Star of David’. That’s not the ‘Star of David’. That symbol is something altogether different. How could it be ‘David’. David is a boys name.

The kids are given gender neutral names when they’re at school.

They’re taking away the names parents give kids now.

Broke that comment up as just too long.

See MildewMike and PsychoMilt are going to turn up and say – this is all fine. Is it though? Is this fine?

What are normies going to be able to do?

What are muslim majority countries going to do about this?

Can you see how dangerous this is getting?

There are starting to be very, very few choices now.
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January 25, 2019 2:41pm
KeaRea

So what are the roots of all of this insanity?

As always:

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/1508-androgynos-hermaphrodite

When in doubt about a deeply destructive sociological phenomenon – always go to the Jewish encyclopedia.

It comes from the Haggadah. It comes from the Jewish tradition of dualism within gnosticism.

Adam had both sexes, say they. He was ‘bifrons’ – double-fronted.

It is also in the Hallakah – where ‘the bisexual’ is Sacred.

It is also in the Kaballah – where dualism and the reconciliation of polar opposites is the sacred – that’s what davening is – when they rock back and forth in front of the Wall, it is the impregnation of various deities and union of the male and female.

I won’t draw any more connections before someone tells me to take my pills. But it kind of makes sense doesn’t it?

So tell me.

Does putting people into a position where they can do absolutely nothing like in Alberta and New York good or bad?

What are people supposed to do when intervening in their child being mutilated and groomed is a hate-crime?

You tell me. I’ll just sit quietly. Also, if you’ve knocked one out to Hollywood ‘starlets’ I think you should take a closer look. Greta Garbo was just the first. Learn how to see Gender.
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January 25, 2019 2:49pm
- nasska
  
  Anyone who believes that Jews & gays are responsible for every ill in the world must get their instructions via the snap, crackle & pop of their morning rice bubbles!
  
  You sir, are stark raving fucking mad.
  
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  January 25, 2019 3:01pm
  - rangitoto
    
    Maybe Kea/realityczech found Shroubek’s lawnmower cache and over indulged.
    
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    January 25, 2019 3:40pm
    - KeaRea
      
      Oh hey Rangi
      
      Lol yeah – everyone else needs to take their pills some more you genius specimen.
      
      Well, even pictures aren’t good enough for the crayola brigade.
      
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      January 25, 2019 6:13pm
  - KeaRea
    
    Lol.
    
    Did I say that you unmentionable?
    
    Where did I say they are responsible for every issue in the world?
    
    I was very specific, wasn’t I. With plenty of evidence.
    
    In Alberta, in New York, in Canada – in that particular manner and circumstance, yes.
    
    Lol you really are a prize cock. Why don’t you actually learn what evolution actually is before you sound off, Scientist man.
    
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    January 25, 2019 6:12pm
  - KeaRea
    
    Where did I say that Nasska.
    
    Where did I say that?
    
    Lol got any kids you loser?
    
    I hope you’re an ally.
    
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    January 25, 2019 6:22pm
  - KeaRea
    
    You’re a Gamma midwit booey.
    
    Go wash out the Fedora.
    
    And clean off that couch stain. Don’t you understand that the porno sites are going to need proof of age soon Nasska. But that’s okay, big we patch next to Christopher Hitchens.
    
    Lol, he’d have genocided you without a second thought for making the whole stupid movement look retarded.
    
    Jesus Christ. Well, don’t mind me fuckstains. Just let it all take it’s course.
    
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    January 25, 2019 6:32pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  That’s enough for one day KeaRea.
  
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  January 25, 2019 3:27pm
  - sooty
    
    Kea, are you related to stoopidboy?
    
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    January 25, 2019 5:43pm
  - KeaRea
    
    Well that’s just wonderful.
    
    Given that this level of evidence of a pretty basic proposition isn’t enough, clearly, I’m going to have to actually show the real stuff to the Admiral Mainwaring. That’s fine. Let’s dig into Tribe.
    
    Lol unreal. ‘Take your pills’. You first fuckstick.
    
    It’s illegal to know if the kid is in a GSA
    The GSA’s are having kids taken off school property, plied with porn and alcohol, and told to explore their anuses
    The GSA’s are also open to trannies, because there is no LGBT without the T
    The trannies can give the kids genderising drugs, again without the parent’s knowledge
    The courts in Canada refuse to allow injunctions to allow the parents to know what is occuring
    All counsellors are banned from ‘changing the sexual orientation or gender orientation of anyone under 18’ – you know, not like the GSA’s, which you’re not allowed to know about lol.
    
    Where do you fucking one SD’s think ideas that have this degree of broad application and enforcement actually come from?
    
    Some drooler like you, just pulls it from nowhere yes? Nowhere by no-one and nothing.
    
    But I’m crazy.
    
    Well friend, I certainly hope we cross paths serendipitously at some stage.
    
    I bet not everyone reading thinks I’m crazy.
    
    Maybe I should have just stopped at the first comment.
    
    Oh well, lets see. Lets see what happens over the next 5 – 10 years.
    
    None of it happened, right. All those links are just Russian bots. Clearly, that must be your conclusion to say something so fucking retarded.
    
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    January 25, 2019 6:21pm
  - KeaRea
    
    Lol better get used to it good boy.
    
    This is the future.
    
    The fact your pattern recognition is abortive isn’t my problem.
    
    I know for a fact that not everyone agrees with you.
    
    In fact, I think the upticks are more just a relief that someone is saying something because of all the dissonance.
    
    But that’s fine – this is a long term process.
    
    I’m sure all those parents who packed out the court in Alberta, the Sikhs, the Chinese, and the wonderful diverse who have very sharp implements and quick tempers agree with you.
    
    What an absolute stain.
    
    I’m sure you must be a boomer.
    
    I’m so happy that I now don’t basically comport, at all, with anyone below a certain level of IQ given the work that is being done.
    
    http://incendar.com/baby_boomer_deathclock.php
    
    Are you on the Boomer death clock? 19million down. Only 66 million to go.
    
    I’m going to write your history for you.
    
    Lol ‘that’ll do pig, that’ll do’, don’t pretend you even understood more then about one quarter of what you read.
    
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    January 25, 2019 6:27pm
    - Classic Liberal
      
      KR, can’t you see that people here might indeed be interested in the basic news: kids in Canada taken off school grounds by non-staff and given sexual information without parental consent. And parents can’t be told where or who etc.
      
      Yes, that’s bad.
      
      But the downtickers can’t stand your endless raving against homosexuals and jews. That’s why you get called crazy.
      
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      January 25, 2019 6:43pm
      - EAD_THREE
        
        Kearea is arguably the most sane person on the blog:
        
        The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be foound among those who appear to be most normal.
        
        “Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does.
        
        They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness.
        
        These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted.
        
        Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited
        
        CL – you have become what Pink Floyd describes as “Comfortably Numb“.
        
        Welcome to the Machine.
        
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        January 25, 2019 6:54pm
      - KeaRea
        
        Wait, so just so I’m clear.
        
        Person X does something extremely bad, like, sexually grooms kids with the fiat of the State, before having their gender changed – without the parent’s knowledge in an analog jurisdiction like Canada
        In New Zealand we have like legislation and attitude from government about removing parents from decision making related to schools.
        But it’s okay, because if it involves Jews and Homosexuals anyone talking about it is crazy.
        
        Yeah, um, lol, this is why you are irrelevant, Conservative. This is why you are no longer on the table. Russell Kirks 6 principles, that you aren’t even aware of, in the Conservative mind from 1953, are not a coherent movement.
        
        We found a new one.
        
        I’ll add in a few elements to soften it a little, because I’m kind.
        
        Stop cucking, classical conservative.
        
        If Jews and homosexes are fucking kids, that’s still bad my bro.
        
        Lol “The Visigoths are inside the gates sire, what are we to do”.
        
        “Don’t talk about it – that’s anti-semitical and insults the Rainbow”.
        
        Classical Liberal, I like you. We need each other. I agree that a one note scale is boring. That’s why I try not to be a metronome.
        
        What’s been covered? Austria, Canada, Australia, New York, Los Angeles.
        
        The breadth is to establish the sheer scale of this.
        
        Anyway fair call. But just realise that nobody else is going to cuck anymore.
        
        They will try roll this out in America and people are going to get their heads blown off. It won’t be homophobia – it will be pure self defence. This is the end of the line. It’s not going to get to pedophilia.
        
        I’m going to refrain from posting the theological and philosophical basis of the Rainbow. Because Captain Mainwearing might crest the reef and get his brain stuck on the rocks.
        
        But just understand that it pertains to a big covenant – and mocks it, deliberately.
        
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        January 25, 2019 6:57pm
  - KeaRea
    
    I actually understand why they call us Goyim.
    
    I really do genuinely, understand.
    
    Lol, just be grateful you fucking Heeb pgymy, that there are people in the world looking out for your interests even as you tell them to go take their pills and stop saying all these things you don’t understand.
    
    Fuck off, Captain Mainwaring. I hope to see you soon added to the Boomer Death Clock.
    
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    January 25, 2019 6:40pm
auckwood

Wow, here’s a sign of how/why the justice system is broken… 8 months home detention for attempting to rape an 82yr old woman in a rest home…

Who needs consent when thats the punishment..?

Oh and this upstanding gentleman is also a university professor… I wonder how he’s shaping the young minds of tomorrow…?

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12195650
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January 25, 2019 2:59pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Grief!!!!
  
  The chap gets name suppression until MIDNIGHT
  The man – whose name is suppressed until midnight tonight
  https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/380924/man-who-sexually-assaulted-elderly-woman-avoids-jail-term
  
  What is the bloody point of name suppression once he’s been convicted?
  
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  January 25, 2019 3:51pm
  - auckwood
    
    Stuff article says he was trying for permanent name suppression but was refused (about the only real punishment/repercussion for his offending), but he has until midnight to tell his friends/family (and I’m assuming his workplace) that he is a disgusting vile human.
    
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    January 25, 2019 4:12pm
  - waikatogirl
    
    Probably because he was too arrogant to believe he would be found guilty so had not told his family of his criminal dirty deed. I’m sure he will still believe it was not his fault and everyone is against him.
    
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    January 25, 2019 4:43pm
    - sooty
      
      But, but, but Little Andy said, Ifeelz for you.
      
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      January 25, 2019 5:39pm
    - Gravelroad
      
      Well he did reportedly claim at the trial, Waikatogirl, that the sexual activities were consensual – so blame the victim would be the best way forward.
      Let’s see now – 82 years old, physically weakened by stroke, in a resthome, incontinent – yep, definitely her fault.
      
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      January 25, 2019 5:48pm
      - mic
        
        Let’s not forget, she also has dementia!
        
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        January 25, 2019 6:06pm
    - JibberJabber
      
      Yep, not my fault, his mums` fault.
      
      “I was mentally unwell when I offended. The pressures of overwork and looking after my mother had taken their toll. My actions were totally out of character and shock me.”
      
      And as per usual gullible Dudge bought it hook, line and sinker.
      
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      January 25, 2019 8:19pm
- Happychappy
  
  That’s not broken that is what you call political sabotage from Labours Justice Minister.
  
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  January 25, 2019 5:00pm
- Gravelroad
  
  But he was “mentally unwell” at the time of the offending.
  So that’s all right then.
  Becoming a bit of an excuse for aberrant behaviour perhaps……….?
  
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  January 25, 2019 5:14pm
  - DigNap15
    
    I bet he feels stupid trying to have sex with an 82 year old lady with dementia.
    What a loser.
    We need to know his name so we can laugh at him.
    
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    January 25, 2019 6:06pm
    - sooty
      
      Certainly knows how to pull the chicks. Christ what an embaressment he is. I would hope that he loses his registration or whatever! Deviate! Next he will be saying he had a sexual emergancey.
      
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      January 25, 2019 9:48pm
    - auckwood
      
      Former Associate Professor of Journalism at Massey University Grant David Hannis, 55
      
      ‘During his time at the university he taught generations of Kiwi journalism students their craft, including lecturing them on law and ethics. He is also the editor of textbooks used to teach journalists in New Zealand.’
      
      Maybe his moral guidance explains the state of what counts as journalism in this country…?
      
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      January 26, 2019 12:17am
mikenmildagain

Those comments are all very enchanting Kea. But let’s talk about Venezuela, one of the blog’s favourite subjects.

In Race 6 at Trentham tomorrow, the TAB has this to say about No 4:

MADURO is ultra consistent and doesnt always get the rub of the green. He is a major player

Maduro is a four-year-old bay gelding by Bel Esprit out of Venezuela.
Current favourite at about $3 for the win.
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January 25, 2019 3:05pm
- Humble Capitalist
  
  Dont forget to factor in hyperinflation before placing your bet Mike.
  I cleaned up on Gorbachev in the cup last week. Think I’ll give Maduro a miss at those odds.
  
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  January 25, 2019 7:26pm
Steve (North Shore)

Any bombshells to be dropped at 4/4.30 today. Taxinda and Angry are away – perfect time to release some shit
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January 25, 2019 4:02pm
- stigie
  
  Yep, the bombshell has been dropped. Fhail Twatford is on target to build 300 houses by the 1st of July and Simon Bridges leadership is under question for the 4th time of him becoming leader.
  Seems like the coalition of losers are taking the moral high ground again !~
  
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  January 25, 2019 5:30pm
Ross12

This post on W/O about a recent agreement between France and Germany ( and how it relates to Brexit) is well worth reading.
https://www.whaleoil.co.nz/2019/01/the-brexit-choice-is-clear-part-2/
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January 25, 2019 4:17pm
Morrissey

Freudian Slip of the Day
No. 1: DAVID GARRETT

At 4:50 p.m. on Friday 25 Jan. 2019, the notorious S.S. lawyer and former ACT M.P. (List) extrudes this disturbing message onto the pages of Kiwiblog….

How the fuck do you get home detention for indecent assaults on a frail 84 year old lady? Watch for me of the same as Little’s directives take effect.

https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2019/01/salmond_charged.html#comment-2410773

Ten minutes later he frantically tries to cover up….

Fuck, what is it with me today?? “Watch for MORE of the same…”

TOO LATE. Mr David Garrett, you’re on Freudian Slip of the Day!!

Freudian Slip of the Day is an occasional series, instituted for the purpose of exposing what some of these lowlifes on the Internet are really thinking. It is compiled by the Glimmer Twins, for Daisycutter Sports Inc.
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January 25, 2019 7:18pm
- JibberJabber
  
  Jaysus, is there no end to the link-whoring, LinkSlut?
  
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  January 25, 2019 8:12pm
  - Morrissey
    
    It’s called a hyperlink, Rimjobber.
    
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    January 25, 2019 8:16pm
    - JibberJabber
      
      Ok, hyperlink whoring Linkslut.
      So, be honest now, apart from yourself has your viewership risen to 2 views per month now?
      
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      January 25, 2019 8:26pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Another piece of biased drivel brought to you by Breen Enterprises Ltd., purveyors of fuckwittery to the world.
  Daisycutter Sports Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the same dysfunctional entity.
  
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  January 25, 2019 8:23pm
- Biscuit
  
  Morrissey, how exactly does David Garrett ‘frantically’ try to ‘cover up’ something when it was he himself who drew attention to his error?
  
  And, pray tell me, what is wrong with the sentiment of David’s message – that home detention for indecent assault on a frail 84-year-old lady is something terrible?
  
  PLEASE don’t tell me that you regard a minor typo as more heinous than what most sane folk would regard as a despicable crime?
  
  Footnote:
  
  I had to correct the above text twice. Do I need to buy the rope you’ll hang me with or do you have your own supply?
  
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  January 25, 2019 9:02pm
Viking2

Police have released an online tool to enable the public to report lost property and intentional property damage on Police’s website.

Assistant Commissioner Service Jevon McSkimming says online reporting is part of a drive by police to bring real change to the way we deliver our services to the public.

He says police want people to be able to contact us anywhere, anytime and through a variety of ways.

“Online reporting is being run as a trial and since it went live on November 22 2018, police has received more than 3,700 reports online,” says Jevon.

“We plan to expand the online service this year so people can report general theft, theft from a car and shoplifting.
The new Police Digital Services Centre is up and running in Kapiti with staff answering non-emergency calls and processing online reports.

“Furthermore, a single non-emergency number, on track to be delivered this year, will give people a national number to get in contact with Police about non-emergency matters.

https://www.sunlive.co.nz/news/198366-police-launch-new-online-reporting-system.html?fbclid=IwAR1-oyzcQEaTjwgSqzkQ0CiVaP3HPZzGGUqVXe2GEbrEYVj1RX4addCEdwM
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January 25, 2019 8:11pm
- auckwood
  
  just wait for all the ‘Lost submissions’
  
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  January 25, 2019 8:15pm
- JibberJabber
  
  They keep coming up with new and improved ways of doing nothing about criminal activity, do they just send you the form for your insurance company by email?
  
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  January 25, 2019 8:15pm
- DigNap15
  
  Yes, but will they chase burglars?
  And what sentence will they get if they are caught!
  
  Burglars are the scum of the earth and need to be dealt with.
  
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  January 26, 2019 7:16am
stigie

Fucking gripping Morris Oxford !~
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January 25, 2019 8:11pm
- Morrissey
  
  Great old car, I’m told.
  
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  January 25, 2019 8:22pm
  - nasska
    
    You’ve been terribly misinformed. They were a piece of unmitigated Pommie garbage built & designed by unionised British “tradesmen”. They cracked heads, overheated, first gear life was measured in hours (bearings from memory) & they rusted so badly that after a couple of years you could kick holes in the sills & guards with bare feet. They were underpowered, thirsty & less reliable than a 10 0’clock shit.
    
    In your position, I’d sue! 🙂
    
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    January 25, 2019 8:32pm
    - stigie
      
      Very well said Nasska, they were a disaster of a car with a very suspect motor and rust around the body. Never heard of the first gear problem but that doesn’t surprise me at all.
      The only thing good about the piece of shit was never hearing the diffs packing up (maybe NZs kept piling the banana skin in).
      We can safely say the Russian Lada wasn’t so bad after all ole chap !~
      
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      January 25, 2019 9:13pm
    - kiwiracer
      
      British Leyland got way closer to bringing down the British Government than Hitler ever did.
      
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      January 25, 2019 9:49pm
  - stigie
    
    Piece of English shit that kept breaking down !~
    
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    January 25, 2019 8:34pm
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      That’s enough for Morris Dancer for now, he’s got enough to deal with.
      Heard at the club earlier this evening:
      The Queen and Theresa May were having a debrief about the Brexit negotiations.
      “So you fucked that up, says Mrs. Queen. Would you like me to get Philip to drive you home?”
      
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      January 25, 2019 8:49pm
      - stigie
        
        Prince Philip would have been better in a Morris Oxford Capt’n, he wouldn’t have made it to the corner !~
        
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        January 25, 2019 8:59pm
      - nasska
        
        Pommy crap was about all you could buy when I was a young bugger stigie. I had a 105E Anglia, one Mini & two Cortinas before the boss’s brother wanted to sell his ’63 Chrysler Valiant in a hurry.
        
        Quite a chick magnet. Wide ovals, a Coby muffler but other than that stock standard. Replaced the front suspension joints a few times, fully reconned the motor once, a couple of clutches but I was still towing the kids pony float with it fifteen years later.
        
        Best car I owned……ever!
        
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        January 25, 2019 9:13pm
      - stigie
        
        Shit we are getting back a bit Nasska, my first was a 105E with the 997cc motor and then by putting 1200 crank and rods in made a huge difference then 1340cc rods and crank out of the 315 Classic was even better.
        After that of course was moving to the cross flow motors 1300 0r 1600. Of course you cant pull the chicks like you can with the Valiant !~
        
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        January 25, 2019 9:26pm
      - stigie
        
        Correction:- The first car i owned (dear i say it) a Morris 8. A car that was handed down and couldn’t thrash !~
        
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        January 25, 2019 9:31pm
      - Viking2
        
        Shit will you look at the price of one now.
        Paid $3000.00 for a brand new 73 Chrysler car. Also had a 72 Chrysler station wagon. Put that on Natural gas and could go from Tga to Auckland for about 10.50 up and the fill with the gas from Auckland and cost $12.00 back. Less calorific value in the Auckland stuff.
        
        https://www.trademe.co.nz/browse/searchresults.aspx?searchtype=GENERAL&searchstring=valiant&searchregion=100&sort_order=price_desc
        
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        January 26, 2019 6:37am
    - Viking2
      
      Family had a brand new 62 Plymouth with a V8 Automatic 3 speed box Two tone Yellow and white. twin headlamps. Towed trailers back and forth over the old Rimatuka rd when it was not a highway like it is now. Supplied I think be Mansells Moters. Only thing that wet wrong was the brakes failed one day. Came over the hill going like bat shit crazy as my dad did because he could. Toddelled down through Upper Hutt, went to use the brakes at Silverstream and no one home, so he left turned very quickly and went over the crossing. In those days the cops used to sit on the shingle patch just there. Cop fires off after us but had to wait for the train. Kinda a close call.
      
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      January 26, 2019 6:51am
    - DigNap15
      
      I’m proud of my British heritage.
      But most British cars were crap.
      Always on the road side.
      
      Yet Lotus, Aston Martin are great.
      
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      January 26, 2019 7:13am
    - Inandout
      
      If I remember correctly taxi companies used the Morris Oxford (pre Farina) with great success. Roomy, economical and had offset steering wheel, got 300,000 miles no problem.
      
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      January 26, 2019 9:54am
auckwood

Sexual predator of 82yr old rest home resident – Former Associate Professor of Journalism at Massey University Grant David Hannis, 55

‘During his time at the university he taught generations of Kiwi journalism students their craft, including lecturing them on law and ethics. He is also the editor of textbooks used to teach journalists in New Zealand.’

Maybe his moral compass explains the state of what counts as journalism in this country…?
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January 26, 2019 12:20am
Viking2

Quality staff from a Quality University.

What other qualities do they need to fess up to?
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January 26, 2019 6:52am
Viking2

WASHINGTON (AP) — The director of the FBI says the partial government shutdown is “mind-boggling, it’s short-sighted, and it’s unfair.”

Wray says FBI leadership should not be getting involved in political fights. But he says senior FBI officials have been advocating for employees behind the scenes.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12196568

We can imagine.
so

Shouting “FBI, open the door,” authorities arrested Roger Stone, a confidant of US President Donald Trump, before dawn Friday in a criminal case that revealed that senior members of the Trump campaign sought to benefit from the release of hacked emails damaging to Hillary Clinton.

The seven-count indictment against Stone, a self-proclaimed “dirty trickster” with a long history with Trump, is the first criminal case in months from special counsel Robert Mueller. Stone appeared at court in shackles later in the morning and was released on a US$250,000 bond. He did not enter a plea.

He should read his own news someday.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12196475

When are they going to investigate Hillary then???????????

Greatest Witch Hunt in the History of our Country! NO COLLUSION! Border Coyotes, Drug Dealers and Human Traffickers are treated better. Who alerted CNN to be there?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 25, 2019
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January 26, 2019 8:23am
Viking2

US President Donald Trump has announced a new deal to end the shutdown and reopen the federal government for three weeks.

Trump made the announcement on Friday (Saturday NZ time) at the White House, where he thanked Americans for their patience.

Late Thursday, Trump said he’d consider a “reasonable agreement” worked out by Senate leaders in exchange for a “down payment” on a wall along the US Mexico border.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/donald-trumps-america/110183363/trump-to-make-an-announcement-on-shutdown-amid-talk-of-a-deal
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