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Tony Stuart

Trevor Mallard has some thinking to do over the Christmas recess. At the forefront of his mind should be whether his tenure of the role on Speaker of the House of Representatives is tenable:

MPs are baying for blood on the final day of Parliament, calling for a vote of no confidence in the Speaker after he issued an apology for making rape allegations about a parliamentary staffer.

“No,” Trevor Mallard told Newshub when approached for an interview on Wednesday.

The Speaker is avoiding questions after apologising to a parliamentary staffer following accusations of defamation. Mallard told media last year it was his impression people have been raped at Parliament.

He said at the time Parliamentary Service had removed a threat to the safety of women.

MPs are now calling for the most powerful man in Parliament to lose his job.

“If the Speaker finds himself unable to explain his actions, then I guess the simple answer is he should no longer be the Speaker,” ACT leader David Seymour told reporters.

There’s been nearly $80,000 in court action, but we don’t know how much in total taxpayers have paid for the case.

“We think he should be upfront about how much has been spent on that case – and if a payment has been made, how much that payment was,” National’s Shadow Leader of the House Chris Bishop told media.

Mallard has come to an agreement with the individual and issued a written apology, saying his understanding of rape at the time was incorrect.

This apology was delivered to media on Tuesday afternoon, in the midst of the report into the Christchurch terror attack and the day before Parliament rises for the year.

Opposition MPs are piling on the pressure.

“I do want to ask you were if you were intending to make a statement to Parliament about reports in the media that you have apologised to someone for comments made by you as Speaker last year,” Bishop said in Parliament.

“The answer to that is no,” Mallard responded.

“The House would like an explanation and I urge you to reconsider,” Seymour added, asking Mallard to explain the seemingly cynical timing of his apology.

“I’ve released it as soon as was practical,” Mallard said.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/12/mps-call-for-a-vote-of-no-confidence-in-speaker-trevor-mallard-over-rape-allegations.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Mallard is hiding behind an alleged confidentiality agreement; I say “alleged” as we only have his word for it. And the PM is refusing to get involved, saying it’s Mallard’s business, and it’s up to him to comment.

Given rumours of a settlement of as much as $1.5m to make a defamation trial go away, and given this comes from the taxpayer, Mallard needs to be open and transparent. He holds the most privileged position in the Parliament, but every day this continues diminishes the respect with which that office is viewed.
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December 10, 2018 8:13am
- Swifty
  
  One and a half million dollars?
  
  Bloody hell.
  
  In any other workplace in New Zealand this would be serious misconduct and the false accuser would suffer either a serious sanction or dismissal.
  
  But with Labour? “Nothing to see here, just pay up Kiwis and move along…..”
  
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  December 10, 2020 8:23am
  - Inandout
    
    Swifty, completely ignoring your own behaviour but at the same time screaming at others is the way of the new left. Welcome to the sociaist way.
    
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    December 10, 2020 8:58am
- igm
  
  Maybe he will be like another Labour MP and jump out a parliamentary window sooner than face the inevitable!
  
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  December 10, 2020 8:24am
  - Inandout
    
    [Mod: unnecessary encouragement of self-harm. Don’t continue with it.]
    
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    December 10, 2020 8:59am
- RJ
  
  I believe any agreement should be void by the apology Trevor made.
  
  “Trevor Mallard accepts that his understanding of the definition of rape at that time was incorrect and that the alleged conduct did not amount to rape (as that term is defined in the Crimes Act 1961) and that it was incorrect of him to suggest otherwise,” the statement said.
  
  To me that comment makes me believe that Trevor still thinks it was rape.
  
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  December 10, 2020 8:34am
  - Libertarians are right
    
    More that he wants us to think it was rape/sexual assault and that he was justified. As far as I’m concerned, that “apology” was actually further defamation.
    He’s basically claiming that the guy’s actions were close enough to rape that it wasn’t entirely unreasonable to accuse him of it. A reasonable person would assume that meant the guy was guilty of some kind of sexual assault at the very least. That is a lie of course.
    
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    December 10, 2020 8:45am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      I had taken the implication that the chap was still alleged to have committed a serious sexual assault – just that it was not legally rape.
      
      A bit like Helen Clarke having to apologise for calling John Yelesh a murderer when he had been convicted of manslaughter.
      https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/pm-sued-for-defamation/44PMTCWEU5IKCXEVYPKIDXZFPI/
      
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      December 10, 2020 9:43am
      - Libertarians are right
        
        He hugged a woman after they had found a missing folder after looking for it for a bunch of time. That’s it.
        
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        December 10, 2020 9:57am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        I find it alarming that the PSA (Public Service union) has not been vocal on this case.
        
        Once again Labour and its Union mates are dissing the workers.
        
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        December 10, 2020 12:02pm
  - Tony Stuart
    
    See my 9.28am comment below, with the audio of a radio conversation between Heather de Plessis Allan and Barry Soper. Soper completely dismisses the notion that Mallard was confused as to what rape is.
    
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    December 10, 2020 9:34am
- Simon
  
  Lol – Mallard the speaker.
  
  “The speaker” said people in parliament had been raped. Now “the Speaker” has to shut his cake hole.
  
  50% voted for this garbage.
  
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  December 10, 2020 8:44am
  - chukar
    
    I suspect Mallard got confused between “ rape and pillage “
    Pillage is much closer to normal Government tax activities.
    
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    December 10, 2020 9:51am
- Isobar
  
  A shit as it is – the amount of NZ’ers that actually care about what is essentially a beltway issue – probably about 0.5%.
  
  The amount of votes national will win by raising this issue – probably 0% given it is now the summer break and no one will remember this.
  
  Sorry to put it bluntly, but the opposition have bigger fish to fry and really need to stop playing silly games – such as calling for votes of no confidence they will easily lose.
  
  Let Seymour bark at the passing cars, National need to be better are picking their issues.
  
  I know some will say – the integrity of parliament is to important not to raise it – and I actually agree. But that doesn’t change the fact that National clearly still have not yet worked out how to be a opposition party that wants to win an election.
  
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  December 10, 2020 8:52am
  - Paulus
    
    The Integrity of Parliament was lost when Mallard took over – although Margaret Wilson did a lot to start the loss of Integrity of Parliament.
    
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    December 10, 2020 1:52pm
    - softail 1450
      
      Paulus, Margaret Wilson could fillet a fish with her fingernails and shrill voice [sentence deleted by Mod. Needless abuse]
      
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      December 10, 2020 5:01pm
- Frank the tank
  
  Thinking is beyond that individual. This is the same individual that wanted to shove beer bottles up arses because of the last Labour government’s incompetence as well as having 5th form like fights outside the debating chamber. As a character reference talk to Christine Rankin. Leopards don’t change their spots.
  
  Arrogance and incompetence is always the most dangerous combination.
  
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  December 10, 2020 9:12am
- RF
  
  This is just a sick joke that makes mockery of our parliamentary system.
  
  Has Ardern made any comments or is she being kind to her Speaker.
  
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  December 10, 2020 9:37am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    She was asked for comment by the media yesterday, and replied that it’s not her issue and that it’s up to Mallard to comment. He, of course, is refusing to comment.
    
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    December 10, 2020 9:46am
    - Bobba Fret
      
      Jacinda is a hopeless leader and doesn’t like dealing with incompetent people issues. eg. David Clark bike riding, beach trips and moving house in a lock down, Phil Twyford, everything he touches, Kelvin Davis?, Clare Curran. She only moves them on when she is forced to.
      
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      December 10, 2020 10:41am
- namron
  
  Headline 1 NEWS 28 May 2015.
  MALLARD TOPS PARLAIAMENT’S LIST OF KICKED OUT MPS.
  Stuff 6 Sept 2020.
  “This election (2020) Mallard, 66, is at No 11 on the Labour list and hopes to return as speaker if Labour gets back into power. His caucus colleagues want him in the job. Even if that happens, he’s considering retirement in the next Parliamentary term.”
  With his annual salary at $223,500 – and so
  $670,500 for the 3 year term I’m hoping that won’t
  keep him from chucking it in immediately.
  What a loathsome creature!!
  
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  December 10, 2020 9:43am
- Ron Jeremy
  
  Sad state of affairs if the speaker of the house doesn’t understand what rape is. We certainly have some simpletons in the house .
  
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  December 10, 2020 9:50am
Doctor Sigmund Freud

Aotearoa is an amazeballs country.
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December 10, 2020 8:00am
- hullkiwi
  
  If you say. Me, I preferred NZ pre October 2017.
  
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  December 10, 2020 8:59am
- pdm
  
  Yeah – there was much greater personal responsibility when we were New Zealand.
  
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  December 10, 2020 9:01am
- Frank the tank
  
  Now sing along
  
  “Everything is awesome” in the cult of little Aotearoa
  
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  December 10, 2020 9:14am
mikenmildagain

Happy Human Rights Day!
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December 10, 2020 8:02am
- Simon
  
  No rights in the Covid19 collective.
  
  There was this turd on the radio, didnt get his name / position unfortunately, he said the general population has been compliant to date but if you want to enjoy summer you should continue obey the central authority.
  
  A real turd. Was from gumbermint or may have been an academic.
  
  Reminded me of this:
  
  Peter Hitchens says coronavirus attitudes have “taken on the shape of a semi-religious cult”.
  
  “People no longer see individuals as individuals but on the basis of how readily they conform to the dogma.”
  
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  December 10, 2020 8:40am
  - Batman
    
    Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
    If you don’t want to be part of a society, go and live on the Galapagos or something.
    
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    December 10, 2020 8:59am
    - Nukuleka
      
      If you don’t want to be part of our society we will send you off to a gulag so that you can be indoctrinated and re educated and conform to our great leader’s Marxist vision. There, fixed it for you, Batman.
      
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      December 10, 2020 9:09am
      - Batman
        
        The only problem is that you Covid truthers are the outliers around the world.
        
        You’ve all got so brainwormed from watching too much US conservative nonsense that you now think NZ is some sort of marxist state.
        
        It’s truly pathetic.
        
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        December 10, 2020 12:18pm
    - Engelbert Humperdink
      
      I’ll contribute to your ticket BM.
      
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      December 10, 2020 9:14am
      - kloyd0306
        
        Initials should be reversed…
        MB
        Master Batman
        
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        December 10, 2020 11:45am
      - Batman
        
        Hey a cruise to the Galapagos to view the wildlife, and the very rare Eunuch Trumper, would be a great holiday!
        
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        December 10, 2020 12:19pm
    - softail 1450
      
      Batman ,nah that place has to many of your kind there already, slow lumbering and stupid.
      
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      December 10, 2020 9:16am
      - Batman
        
        Ahhhh very clever, softail.
        
        If only you could muster an actual conversation around why a few fairly inconvenient public health measures are so terrible?
        
        Does it hurt your feelings to scan into places or something?
        
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        December 10, 2020 9:47am
    - Frank the tank
      
      In other words the cult of Aotearoa has no place for dissenters like you and me, Simon.
      
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      December 10, 2020 9:17am
      - Batman
        
        If you want to raise a middle finger to mild public health measures, feel free to buy a ticket to the ‘don’t tread on me’ Covid utopia of the USA, and take your chances with an overflowing hospital system.
        
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        December 10, 2020 9:40am
    - mark15
      
      Good comeback bm.
      If you’re 8.
      
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      December 10, 2020 9:25am
    - fernglas
      
      It’s a pretty poor society when dissent is a sufficient reason to tell someone to fuck off.
      
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      December 10, 2020 9:35am
      - Frank the tank
        
        It’s typical cult behavior. The church of Scientology and Gloriavale have similar views.
        
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        December 10, 2020 10:34am
    - giltee
      
      BM You pay and I’ll go!! Oh I’ve already left for the land of opportunity.
      
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      December 10, 2020 12:47pm
- Frank the tank
  
  Ironic in the current climate
  
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  December 10, 2020 9:44am
Maggie Pie

It’s understood Speaker Trevor Mallard may need to undergo multiple skin grafts after receiving a severe burning in the House yesterday at the hands of ACT leader David Seymour.

Watch here from the 4min mark…..

https://ondemand.parliament.nz/parliament-tv-on-demand/?itemid=215942
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December 10, 2020 8:06am
- Swifty
  
  “The member’s time has expired, in more ways than one….”
  
  What the hell is that supposed to mean? Was that a threat by Trevor? Ol’ Trevor doesn’t like being challenged does he?
  
  His response to Seymour’s words reminded me of bullying teachers I had back in school. Can dish it out but can’t take it.
  
  What a nasty bastard.
  
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  December 10, 2020 8:17am
  - Random T Person
    
    Absolutely awesome face on Bully Mallard after David Seymour dropped that bomb. Hit pause at the end to get the full picture.
    
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    December 10, 2020 9:37am
    - sooty
      
      He is an ex teacher!
      
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      December 10, 2020 1:36pm
  - Paulus
    
    He was considered a lousy so called Teacher at Onslow College in Wellington.
    
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    December 10, 2020 2:14pm
- Greg Ettridge
  
  David Seymour is such a fantastic orator, this term of parliament will be his to call out, and he will.
  Maybe the speakers comment should actually be applied to himself.
  “The members time has expired in more ways than one”
  Mr Mallard has a record, if this is the best the Labour party can thrust forward as the leading person to respect and look up to, they certainly have a very shallow short list to pick a speaker from.
  If he wants to be a grub and falsely accuse individuals, he should pay personally for his indiscretions, if he doesn’t actually know what constitutes a rape, what the hell is he doing in the speakers position, rather sums up this populist government really.
  No accountability, telling porkies is the normal.
  
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  December 10, 2020 8:24am
  - softail 1450
    
    Greg, has anybody forgotten that Quack Quack was thrown out of his safe spot on the labour list in 2017 because he was so unliked amongst his own caucus and then at the election he scraped back in and Cindy elevated the useless POS to parliaments most powerful position, that right there was an indication of how mouse like Ardern is when it comes to people management and it hasn’t gotten any better since..
    
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    December 10, 2020 8:38am
- Tony Stuart
  
  Even then, Mallard couldn’t resist a little dig at the end, which could easily be construed as a threat:
  
  The Member’s time has expired, in more ways than one.
  
  What did Mallard mean by that? Is he going to restrict Seymour’s speaking opportunities next year? Is he going to take some other disciplinary action against the Act leader for daring to criticise him?
  
  In this, Mallard is his own worst enemy. He cannot resist making smart-alec remarks or interjections, almost always against Opposition MP’s. That detracts from the dignity of the role of Speaker.
  
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  December 10, 2020 8:32am
  - Engelbert Humperdink
    
    While he occupies it, the role has zero dignity.
    
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    December 10, 2020 9:15am
    - lifesgood
      
      Bring back Lockwood Smith…if only.
      
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      December 10, 2020 9:55am
- hmmokrightitis
  
  [email protected]
  
  I’ve just suggested to the scumbag that he needs to resign. The more the merrier.
  
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  December 10, 2020 8:39am
  - Engelbert Humperdink
    
    Done.
    
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    December 10, 2020 9:16am
- Isobar
  
  This is clearly a beltway issue – the amount of people that will actually see this, let alone change their future voting intentions i would imagine are zero.
  
  That being said, I have said this previously, but Seymour is showing how to be a proper opposition, he is constantly out-performing Collins almost to the point where he is getting her right of reply on political issues in the media.
  
  As far as i can see the only person that needs to be concerned about Seymours performance in the house is Judith Collins.
  
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  December 10, 2020 8:56am
- Yabster
  
  so good- but National need to attack on it and the press (fat chance) Cindy was at least asked but got away with it not for her to comment as the speaker is not a political role! pathetic!!!
  
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  December 10, 2020 9:00am
Frank Hematuria

“……the most open and transparent Government ever……”, J. Ardern, 2017. Yeah, right. Thanks a lot all you ignorant twits who voted for this shower of arrogant SOBs who make an art form out of doing the opposite of what they say. And more than 50 percent of the voting population too stupid to see it.
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December 10, 2020 8:11am
- Swifty
  
  I’m so angry I could piss blood Frank!
  
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  December 10, 2020 8:25am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    I see what you did there 😀
    
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    December 10, 2020 8:40am
  - Frank Hematuria
    
    Please don’t. Not recommended at all.
    
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    December 10, 2020 8:53am
- Doctor Sigmund Freud
  
  It’s called the ‘Bell Curve’ dear chap.
  
  Stop and think how stupid is is the average person. Well, half the population is even dumber.
  
  Perhaps having a high IQ is a curse!
  
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  December 10, 2020 8:28am
  - Frank the tank
    
    Sadly the real issue is how easily so many can be manipulated and led down the garden path. I don’t believe it is a question of intelligence more a question of gullibility.
    
    Thankfully over the years I had some great teachers and life experience to never take anything on face value or trust alone. Cynicism is a long lost virtue.
    
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    December 10, 2020 9:25am
    - Bobba Fret
      
      To see the intelligence of many average voters, just look at the crowd in Aotea square in the weekend for the “cash drop”. I don’t think there were many Act or National voters in the crowd.
      
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      December 10, 2020 10:51am
  - Random T Person
    
    Yeah and we all like to pat ourselves on the back and assume we are on the right side of that bell curve. Worth bearing in mind that sometimes, maybe you aren’t…
    
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    December 10, 2020 9:34am
- kowtow
  
  ‘And more than 50 percent of the voting population too stupid to see it.’
  
  That’s the really scary bit. I don’t mind politicians lying , it’s part of the job . What I do mind is the Media not doing its job and voters buying the politicians and media’s lies.
  
  Paddy Gower on their breakfast show ( yeah I know) spreading the Covid Porn / New Zealand Great / USA terrible theme .
  
  Talking of Media the comments on Bob Jones blog 4 Dec ,very good especially the one where stuffed turn advertising that doesn’t match their activist goals .
  
  Very dangerous state of affairs.
  
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  December 10, 2020 8:45am
  - lifesgood
    
    I heard some idiot woman on Newstalk who thought Mallard was a National mp. Those are the type of morons allowed to vote.
    
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    December 10, 2020 9:06am
  - Flossie
    
    Paddy Gower also prattling on about cannabis. It’s going to be legalised he says, and we should have voted yes in this referendum according to him. I thought his TV programmes on that issue, and on end of life, were supposed to have been neutral, putting both sides of the argument. Got no time for him.
    
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    December 10, 2020 9:17am
I remember when

Tv1 Late News:
Flooding in Venice shown.
The suggestion was that the flooding was because of heavy rainfall.
Is this another piece of rubbish reporting?
Previous serious flooding in Venice has been found to be because of tidal build-up caused by strong prevailing winds.
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December 10, 2020 8:16am
- hullkiwi
  
  If you build on land that’s below sea level what do you expect?
  
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  December 10, 2020 9:02am
  - krazykiwi
    
    Below, and sinking!
    
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    December 10, 2020 9:43am
- Nickc2
  
  …. and their inability to close the flood barrier on time and the fact that Venice is sinking slowly into the mud.
  
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  December 10, 2020 9:09am
- kowtow
  
  “rubbish reporting?’
  
  Fake news.
  
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  December 10, 2020 9:24am
Scott

YouTube is not allowing any new video to be posted alleging widespread voter fraud that changed the outcome of the 2020 election.

https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2020-12-09/weeks-after-election-youtube-cracks-down-on-misinformation

This is amazing because YouTube is a platform that specialises in conspiracy theories and indeed uses conspiracy theories to make people watch more YouTube. The rabbit hole conspiracy theory is a great way to engage their viewers more.

But our Big Tech overlords have decided this particular conspiracy theory is done with. That’s because they are in the tank for Biden.

In 2016 there were no problems with a conspiracy theory that said Trump was a Russian agent.

Whatever you might think of the election we should all consider the question – has Big Tech become too powerful? Should it be regulated?
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December 10, 2020 8:18am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  In Wayne County, Michigan, 174,384 absentee ballots (which makes up roughly 1 in 3 TOTAL absentee ballots) cannot actually be tied to any voter. As far as anyone knows, there is nobody who can be held responsible for the votes cast. They could be the result of vast fraud, rescanning ballots multiple times, fake or harvested or switched ballots etc. It is certain that some proportion of these ballots are illegal, but impossible to know exactly how many. It could be the majority.
  
  The system has failed to record the essential data that it is supposed to to ensure that there is no large scale fraud.
  
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  December 10, 2020 9:14am
  - Andrei
    
    You will never convince me that Biden being unable to match the woeful Hilary Clinton’s vote in Toledo while in the same Election getting over 90% in Pittsburg a mere 200 miles distant and with similar demographics makes any sense whatsoever
    
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    December 10, 2020 9:21am
- Andrei
  
  Its panic setting in – with the fraud being so obvious and the Supreme Court about to weigh in the Californian techocrats manchurian candidate Kamala Harris might be on the road to being a footnote in history rather than the planned first “woman of color™ to led the free world™ “
  
  I see Missouri has now joined the Texas lawsuit and that other States lawmakers are being pressured by their constituencies to do the same.
  
  But according to our elites if is not being reported it isn’t happening and to suggest it is makes you a conspiracy theorist
  
  But YouTube suppressing discusion and the non reporting by the establishment media is panic pure and simple
  
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  December 10, 2020 9:17am
  - Batman
    
    The Supreme Court has weighed in and said ‘no, we don’t overturn States’ rights to certify elections without credible legal arguments.’
    
    They actually used fewer words than I have here. Clever bunch.
    
    How are your handlers back in Moscow? I see they’re repeating Trump’s lies, along with the Chinese. Turns out the Western hero is actually a useful idiot for Russia and China to degrade democracy and western values.
    
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    December 10, 2020 9:44am
    - Andrei
      
      The supreme court has said nothing – they declined to offer injuctive relief in the Kelly lawsuit.
      
      And as for “degrad(ing) democracy and western values” nothing does more to acheive that than violating election rules in order to get your prefered candidate elected nd underming the one citizen one vote principle in the process
      
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      December 10, 2020 9:50am
    - Frank the tank
      
      Yawn. I get it Trump lost. Most people have moved on. I suggest you do too.
      
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      December 10, 2020 10:37am
    - Fletch
      
      SCOTUS are cowards. It’s a black letter case – cut and dry. And they used one sentence. Didn’t even offer an explanation to the American public as to the reason for their decision. Because they can’t. There is no reasonable explanation. They probably know that to reverse the decision now will cause widespread riots around the U.S. But that’s the price of liberty.
      
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      December 10, 2020 11:37am
      - Okahu
        
        Surely not! Trump and McConnell and the Federalist Society hand picked three cowards! In one term! All with impeccable right wing credentials!?!? Tell me it ain’t so!
        
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        December 10, 2020 12:46pm
      - SGA
        
        Is there a remote possibility, Fletch, that the nine Supreme Court Justices (including the three appointed during Trump’s term) know more about US laws and precedents than you? Any slim chance at all that you might be the one who is wrong?
        
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        December 10, 2020 1:09pm
      - Nickc2
        
        I hope this goes down in US history as the day the SCOTUS unanimously decided that whoever’s Political Party presents the greatest threat to the US shall become the Political Party to appoint a POTUS.
        
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        December 10, 2020 2:06pm
  - virtualmark
    
    Andrei,
    
    Here’s 3 simple reasons why the Texas case won’t get far in the Supreme Court:
    
    1. While states can take some forms of case direct to the Supreme Court this is not one of those cases. There are other lower courts in the hierarchy that should hear this case first, in order to make a record (ie lock in all the evidence). Then plaintiffs can appeal points of law to Appeal Courts and ultimately the Supreme Court. **The Supreme Court is not where you take your evidence**.
    
    2. It’s really hard to see how Texas has standing. It’s hard to see how Texas has been credibly harmed.
    
    3. If this Texas case were successful in arguing that states can take other states to SCOTUS over voting rights then it would only be a matter of days before NY and California took all the Republican states to SCOTUS over gerrymandering and other voter suppression measures. That would kill the GOP. Be careful what you wish for.
    
    For all of those reasons I expect SCOTUS will try to find a diplomatic way to decline to hear this case.
    
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    December 10, 2020 12:49pm
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    Andrei: Yeah, they’re behaving like the Global Times.
    
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    December 10, 2020 5:45pm
- Nickc2
  
  I am vehemently against it being regulated because once regulated, it can also be manipulated by those who appoint the regulators. However, I agree there needs to be change. Perhaps more competition is the answer.
  
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  December 10, 2020 9:19am
- SGA
  
  As a general principle, I agree with you Scott – I do not see myself as an enemy of free speech. I have one reservation in this case, and that’s when conspiracy theorists target specific members of the public who don’t have the security and protection of more public figures. For example, as I understand it (and I realise there are a hardcore group here who hold a different opinion) officials in the Republican-dominated state of Georgia have reviewed the videotape that some allege shows fraud. Seen in its entirety, they say no fraud was committed. They say that the allegations tape has been selectively edited to create that impression. I imagine that it would be relatively easy for someone in that Georgia county to work out who those people were. That worries me for those people if they are innocent of any crime.
  
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  December 10, 2020 9:19am
- softail 1450
  
  Scott,Thats what happens to an organization when a strong Feminazi Woman scrambles to the top of a septic pile of leftie trash..
  
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  December 10, 2020 9:23am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  17 states have now joined in the suit with Texas taken to Scotus against the battlegound states that have potentially been fraudulently delivered to Biden.
  
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  December 10, 2020 9:29am
I remember when

Also so this piece of golden advice from an Australian police officer:
“We don’t target ideologies. We target crimes.”
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December 10, 2020 8:19am
- hullkiwi
  
  So that is why they targeted an 18 year old who worshipped Tarrant? Just asking.
  
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  December 10, 2020 9:03am
  - Couchpotatoe
    
    Because to Tarrent beliefs and actions are a shit stain on humanity
    
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    December 10, 2020 12:27pm
    - softail 1450
      
      Couch ,how could we ever know as Cindy banned anyone from seeing the nutters manifesto didn’t she, FFS she didn’t even want his name uttered ,how infantile is that in a 1st world Country?
      
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      December 10, 2020 5:13pm
      - Couchpotatoe
        
        Tarrants actions in Christchurch are the logical conclusion to a shit stain set of values.
        
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        December 11, 2020 12:01am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  What happens when adherence to a certain ideology is a crime?
  
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  December 10, 2020 9:26am
  - Couchpotatoe
    
    Tarrent.
    
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    December 11, 2020 12:02am
- Surely Knott
  
  Melissa Lee was excellent on BFM today talking about this very issue.
  
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  December 10, 2020 3:44pm
UkiWop

Apologies if this is an old one, but I could not resist “Trevor Mallard, ducking for cover yet again”
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December 10, 2020 8:21am
Steve Todd

An interesting article setting out the decline of the religious Right in the US – a group referred to as “evil-jellicals” by one commenter – and how that decline contributed to Trump’s defeat: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/daylightatheism/2020/12/americas-post-christian-future-part-1/?.
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December 10, 2020 8:25am
- Scott
  
  “Christians are evil”. Thanks Steve Todd for the uplifting post. Very tolerant I’m sure.
  
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  December 10, 2020 9:11am
  - Steve Todd
    
    Did you read the article, Scott? It never said, or implied, that “Christians are evil”.
    
    Of course, as we all know, many right-wing evangelicals can very reasonably be described as evil, but that’s not the point. The point is, in the US, they are fast losing their electoral power, which is to be warmly welcomed.
    
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    December 10, 2020 10:59am
    - Scott
      
      I love right wing evangelicals. Heck, I am one!
      
      But one small point, the existence of “evil” requires moral reasoning and a fixed set of standards eg child abuse is evil, cannibalism is evil.
      Without religion and belief in God you don’t really have the luxury of good and evil, my dear chap. In a Darwinist world they don’t exist.
      You need God. God is good. Evil is taking away from the good. The goodness of God.
      
      Just a little philosophy for you to ruminate on there ?
      
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      December 10, 2020 5:29pm
Tom Barker

What ever happened to the Kraken?
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December 10, 2020 8:26am
- softail 1450
  
  Tom ,It poked its head out of both of Rudi’s temples and bled to death ,LOL.
  
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  December 10, 2020 9:25am
- virtualmark
  
  2 of its 4 tentacles have been amputated.
  
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  December 10, 2020 4:19pm
SB2

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As we move forward to the Inauguration and beyond what should be Joe Biden’s top priorities ?

The first is obviously combating covid 19 and he has to look no further than Team Jacinda for inspiration, Also restore Dr Anthony Fauci’s to his (and science’s )’ righttul place twards combatting the virus.

Covid 19
coronavirus: Dr Anthony Fauci’s high praise for New Zealand’s response – Dick Brass

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12387960

Once covid is contained Joe’s attention at the same time should be ensuring US economic recovery takes place( almost destroyed by his predecessors inept handling of the pandemic )

The next priority is to work towards restoring the vision of Obamacare and affordable healthcare for everyone.

Finally the restoration of workers rights to the kind of decent protections they receive here

Meanwhile the virus spirals out of control!

Thanks Donnie.

Farewell inept and rash fool!
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December 10, 2020 8:26am
- Inandout
  
  SB2, Joe is immune from C19 so why would he care?
  
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  December 10, 2020 9:04am
- pentwig
  
  farewell to you SB2
  
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  December 10, 2020 9:13am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Could we say farewell likewise to you, too?
  
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  December 10, 2020 9:27am
- Greg Ettridge
  
  and hello a tumbling DOW and world, but that’s fine we can just print money forever to “reset the world”.
  It will all end very badly.
  
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  December 10, 2020 10:00am
- Couchpotatoe
  
  Certainly NZ will prosper more with the Donny out of office.
  
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  December 10, 2020 12:29pm
Ruahine

We have a very contemptible gov’t. The way the politicians use taxpayers money for their personal whims and fancies is contemptible. Not only Mallard but the blatant ‘stealing’ of taxpayer funds to the tune of $12 million to fund a private ‘Green School’ I say is theft by the use of political bullying.
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December 10, 2020 8:26am
- Isobar
  
  They all do it when they’re in power, however just just only happen to be aggrieved by it when it is done by the people we dont want to be in power.
  
  The longer we choose to not call out all pork barrel politics done by everyone including our own party, the longer it will happen.
  
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  December 10, 2020 8:59am
SB2

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11th Hour

@11thHour

Find out why
@neal_katyal
says the Trump legal team’s ability to lose is unmatched.

Learn more: https://on.msnbc.com/2VUV1nI

https://twitter.com/11thHour/status/1336531811560775681
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December 10, 2020 8:27am
- Inandout
  
  SB2, CNN is your go to as it appears you ‘learn more’ from them. Poor CNN, they relied on Trump to keep their followers viewing but that company is now headed for the rocks. So sad.
  
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  December 10, 2020 9:07am
- softail 1450
  
  Sb2 ,Are you Bryan Stelter in drag and of course far more idiotic and suffering even greater TDS than that fool ?
  Why post something that nobody is gonna read ?
  
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  December 10, 2020 9:30am
- Fletch
  
  They only need to win one. But you don’t stop fighting if your case is just. Even if you lose in the end. The 2020 election was stolen.
  
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  December 10, 2020 11:39am
- Couchpotatoe
  
  They are the Bestest as Losing (with deference to KB)
  
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  December 10, 2020 12:31pm
Maggie Pie

TRENDING….

“PM calls on those behind the $100k fake money cash drop to apologise” (NZH)

We took my partners mum out for an Indian last night.
She made the point that if the ‘Commerce Commission’ had put in as much effort into prosecuting those responsible for the Hanover Finance collapse, she and many others would have been a lot better off.

Just saying.
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December 10, 2020 8:28am
- Tony Stuart
  
  How about the PM call on those responsible for the fake Kiwibuild promise of 100,000 homes, the fake Auckland light rail to Roskill by next year, and the fake reduction in child poverty to also apologise.
  
  Oh, wait…
  
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  December 10, 2020 8:34am
  - Nickc2
    
    Don’t you just get sick of apologies from people in authority in this country including the PM, her Speaker of the House and of course her woke Police Commissioner?
    Bring back the guillotine FFS.
    
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    December 10, 2020 9:36am
- RJ
  
  Perhaps the prime minister should apologise for the immense damage she has done to New Zealand
  
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  December 10, 2020 8:35am
  - Nickc2
    
    What will an apology achieve? Restitution and resignation would be more appropriate.
    
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    December 10, 2020 9:38am
    - Paulus
      
      Are you saying its all about Money ?
      Follow it and you will see, eh Trevor and you too !
      
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      December 10, 2020 2:19pm
- Simon
  
  “PM calls on those behind the $100k fake money cash drop to apologise” (NZH)
  
  Yep its neck tattoo time for Ardern.
  
  Head line grabbing, 30 second sound bite spurious shit totally removed from her actual role of governance.
  
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  December 10, 2020 8:49am
  - Nickc2
    
    Childish behaviour!
    
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    December 10, 2020 9:41am
- Inandout
  
  Is Safety Warehouse NZ owned?
  
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  December 10, 2020 9:15am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Couldn’t someone find Cindy a nice Kindy to manage? A State payoff would free the nation to get on with its business. (Probably have to pay off a whole lot of others too but that would be cheap for the prospects of recovery and sound government.)
  
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  December 10, 2020 9:32am
  - ldypen
    
    I believe that could amount to child abuse!
    
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    December 10, 2020 10:22am
    - KevO'Brien
      
      What else do we do with Cindy–there are limits here.
      
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      December 10, 2020 11:46am
  - giltee
    
    With her business management skills and experience perhaps she could get a job running a fish and chip shop
    
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    December 10, 2020 1:20pm
    - Paulus
      
      At least Pauline Hansen owned her Fish & Chip Shop.
      
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      December 10, 2020 2:21pm
JibberJabber

https://asianinvasion2019.blogspot.com/2020/12/stuff-finally-allows-debate-on-climate.html

I’m thankful someone reads Stuffed so I don’t have to.
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December 10, 2020 8:29am
Paulus

I did not vote for this Rabble
– what is interesting I cannot find anybody who will admit to having done so !
Strange like Biden win ?
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December 10, 2020 8:30am
- Simon
  
  “I did not vote for this Rabble”
  
  Comrade they got 50% of votes casted. When it all starts to fall apart i will be laughing my arse off.
  
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  December 10, 2020 8:50am
  - MCos
    
    No they didn’t.
    They got 25%.
    
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    December 10, 2020 9:53am
  - Frank the tank
    
    Just get a t-shirt for the barbeque season with “well you voted for her” when the obligatory moan comes out that some of their christmas presents weren’t delivered in time.
    
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    December 10, 2020 10:40am
- Frank the tank
  
  Oh there is plenty – just visit your local school, university or local government.
  
  Oh, but leave your brain at the door unless you like listening to devotees of the cult of little Aotearoa.
  
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  December 10, 2020 9:27am
Greg Ettridge

Be interesting to see if they can go a full term without a sexual abuse claim.
But I guess it will be like eliminating poverdy, just a pipe dream, will be impossible for one and all to keep their Roman hands and Russian fingers to themselves.
And when they stray, they have the perfect person to look up and respect, and seek advice from.
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December 10, 2020 8:32am
RiP NZ

I despair at the seemingly unwavering support that Labour enjoys and wonder if there will ever be a path back for competent management of the country.
Despair not – just pull out thousands of votes from under the table – seems legit elsewhere!
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December 10, 2020 8:37am
- hullkiwi
  
  No. The test results of NZ school children reveal an under educated population who one day will stand in line to run the govt, the bureaucracies, the councils and many businesses. The thought is truly frightening.
  
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  December 10, 2020 9:09am
  - Nickc2
    
    Agree, today’s students will be tomorrow’s teachers. A very very sad state of affairs. The contamination of two or more generations.
    
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    December 10, 2020 11:38am
    - giltee
      
      Sad state of affairs because today’s children are being indoctrinated to be tomorrow’s Green or Labour supporters. They’re being indoctrinated in a government directive of white guilt with a distorted one sided view to nz history.
      
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      December 10, 2020 1:34pm
- Nickc2
  
  Perhaps the Democrats copied NZ?
  
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  December 10, 2020 9:46am
harvey wilson

Far left weirdos are still convinced Tarrant was part of some wider far right conspiracy and not a pathetic loser who acted alone .
Muttonbird who used to post here until he claimed Tarrant was one of us and we needed to own our role in the atrocity is still smearing to his hearts content .

https://forum.planetrugby.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=47826&sid=4e48fdf4d71a3f06869ef4341ce5f744&start=33520

“It’s reasonable to expect spy agencies to know more than the public. But in this case they knew less than the public about the risk of white supremacist attack. The Muslim community certainly knew about it, and any reading of right wing blogs like Kiwiblog and Whaleoil confirmed racism and particularly Islamaphobia was well entrenched in white New Zealand society.“
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December 10, 2020 8:39am
- Swifty
  
  “Islamophobia – a word created by fascists, used by cowards, to manipulate morons.”
  
  Yep.
  
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  December 10, 2020 9:01am
  - Swifty
    
    “It can be that word—we’ve certainly seen the word used as a conversation-stopper in any and all discussions about Islamic theology, and we’ve seen it used as a protective linguistic shield wielded by those who view honest criticism as inflammatory and religion as something untouchable or by various leftist intelligentsia in defense of a community who they implicitly believe are unable to defend themselves. We’ve also seen it used by Muslim communities who desperately want to protect their faith from the piercing gaze of rationalism. The fascists are those religious and political leaders who wish to impose a kind of intellectual tyranny where certain ideas are immune from criticism; those cowards are the privileged few who would restrain free speech and withhold inquiry for fear of backlash or causing offense; and those morons—well, I’ll leave that one alone, for now.”
    
    https://thehumanist.com/commentary/fascists-cowards-and-morons-combating-anti-muslim-bigotry-while-maintaining-free-speech/
    
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    December 10, 2020 9:05am
  - softail 1450
    
    Swifty ,yes and to describe a group of people who are radically Homophobic, they are so homophobic that the only reason they build tall buildings in their shithole countries is to discourage gays from moving into their neighborhoods .
    What is so puzzling to me is that it’s the Woke Western Gay community that seems to support Muslim immigration the most ????
    
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    December 10, 2020 9:38am
- hullkiwi
  
  Given the Royal Commission Report reads like a Labour Party policy document, with the rolled out solution to match, and people like Dalziel still repeating the mantras of there being and under belly of racism and intolerance in Christchurch (a Labour stronghold for Pitt’s sake) what do you expect?
  
  The foot soldiers of the left (like Muttonhead, Stephie and Mikey) will keep on pressing with their BS. The real crime is, is that NZ no longer has a Fourth Estate that is prepared to hold the Labour party and their spin merchants to account.
  
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  December 10, 2020 9:17am
- Inandout
  
  harvey, we will have to wait 30 years and by then this world will be a totally different place. A Mad Max world springs to mind, every dog for ‘theyselves’.
  
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  December 10, 2020 9:36am
  - hookerphil
    
    At 101 I might need someone to read it out to me – can this Ardern decree be overturned by a change of Government?
    
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    December 10, 2020 10:57am
lazza

Reposted to GD.

Hey! that Dave Seymour has the testackillys … ehh?

On yuh Dave.

I stood and applauded/cheered when DS took on The Duck in the House yesterday.

Our Dave’s arrows flew true aimed as they were at the Speakers disgraceful behavior in the first instance and his attempt (abortive) to massage-manage the media with the public announcement of his humbling (though no doubt far from contrite) false rape incident apology.

An affair-incident which by the way seems to have cost a long-serving public servant both his reputation and his career.

Bullies everywhere need to be fronted. Mallard is a renowned unreconstructed bully, just watch him presiding.

He has form as a punchy aggressive opinionated bovver boy.

These are the very WORST credentials for a Speaker of the H of R.

In the face of DS’s kool confrontation, Mallard looked angry/discombobulated/pissed/frowny/uncomfortable and barely able to conceal his rage at the sheer effrontery of it all.

His patently stage managed MO had been called for what it is … manipulation and cynical misuse of his priviliged position in the House.

Mallard could in time prove to be a liability for Labour particularly if Act/Nats coordinated attacks are kept up. They should be.

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December 10, 2020 8:42am
- Okahu
  
  “An affair-incident which by the way seems to have cost a long-serving public servant both his reputation and his career.”
  
  Fir dogs sake people. Can we get the story straight please? Kiwiblog has been running with ‘Labour sex predators in the Beehive’ ‘Labour sweeps allegations of sex pest under the carpet’, ‘Labour, at camp or at the office, home to sex pests’…for years. So how the hell did we get to it’s just an ‘affair incident’? Wouldn’t that mean we have been bullshitting ourselves for years?
  If Lazza is correct, which, if judging by those now piling in on Mallard seems to be the new thinking, doesn’t KB owe an apology for the years of stories impugning the Labour Party and the individuals so viciously smeared? Wasn’t the duck just (wrongly) vocalising a sentiment put about by numerous correspondents here?
  
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  December 10, 2020 9:31am
  - Libertarians are right
    
    Different situation.
    This was a completely innocent guy who hugged a workmate after a high stress situation that Mallard threw under the bus to make himself look decisive.
    The sex camp and Jacinda’s office issue were entirely different things where innocence haven’t actually been proven.
    
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    December 10, 2020 10:04am
    - Flossie
      
      Sorry but I have to take issue with “where innocence haven’t actually been proven.” It’s all pretty nasty I know but surely we still have to prove guilt rather than the other way around?
      
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      December 10, 2020 11:13am
      - Okahu
        
        Libertarians are right obviously isn’t familiar with the findings of the Dew Report. Still peddling hardcore misinformation coz it falls in line with his/her partisan thinking I suppose.
        I thought of making a similar point as yours re innocence but I’m not sure if you can write what they have you would understand the distinction. I’m surprised Garret hasn’t piped up to tell us how right you are and that furthermore, innocence HASN’T been proven. Perhaps what he she it meant was innocents haven’t peen proven? Perhaps?
        
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        December 10, 2020 12:33pm
      - Libertarians are right
        
        Okahu, the Dew report was written under terms of reference written by one of the people accused of the cover up. It also pointed out that they didn’t know it happened but that technically it didn’t count as a Labour Party issue as it was outside official hours/job responsibility or some such. It was an employment lawyer “ruling” on what was effectively a criminal case on a basis of reasonable doubt (which is obviously correct for crime purposes), but working in Jacinda’s office and being a Labour Party member do not need that level of evidence, likelihood and general bad behaviour would be enough. There is also the considerable amount of evidence regarding his bullying behaviour etc which was more than enough to justify his dismissal which was mostly ignored too.
        
        The camp one of course did happen, he just plead out. That doesn’t change the facts.
        
        The cover ups were my biggest issues with both of these.
        
        As for the innocence point. I never said that the person should be thrown in jail, just that we don’t actually know if they’re actually innocent. Many guilty people get off due to lack of evidence. It’s a fundamental part of our legal system. That doesn’t make them innocent. We do however know that the person Mallard accused was innocent of rape based on the accusations laid upon him.
        
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        December 10, 2020 1:41pm
      - Nickc2
        
        Have to prove guilt? That’s a totally alien concept to our Speaker of the House. How long has he been hanging around Parliament? That’s far too long for even a slow learner like Mallard.
        
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        December 10, 2020 1:57pm
    - Okahu
      
      Thanks for that. I just can’t keep up with all the accusations of sexual deviance and misconduct aimed at Labour.
      Since you apparently know about these things…this ‘sex camp’ you speak of. Would it be anything like the senior school music camp in ‘82 when Dougie brought all that cask wine and the teachers and parents who attended all spent the evenings in the camp lounge?
      Probably, as you say, ‘entirely different’. As Burt can’t help but remind us, it’s different when the left do it!
      Anyway, what’s the goss on Jacinda’s office? Surely some of this muck will stick? Surely!
      
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      December 10, 2020 12:05pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    You are confusing the allegations of sexual offending by a Labour Party staffer working in Jacinda Ardern’s office with the defamatory allegation by Mallard against an employee of Parliamentary Services.
    
    His identity cannot be disclosed, but he held positions of influence within the party and then through his job, with the Labour Leader’s Office at Parliament.
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/115719872/labour-party-president-nigel-haworth-has-resigned–but-its-not-over
    
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/12/jacinda-ardern-under-pressure-staffer-accused-sexual-assault-resigns
    
    Two different cases, two different individuals.
    
    But how convenient that the media and Mallard muddled them both together, eh?
    
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    December 10, 2020 11:11am
    - Okahu
      
      Thanks Maggy. I read those links you supplied and I’m none the wiser how they are talking about different people but you sound confident so I will go with that. Great to hear that an independent female QC is going to get to the bottom of this and no doubt bring this despicable mob of perverts to justice once and for all eh? Hold on…
      
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      December 10, 2020 12:18pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Last year Marie Dew carried out an investigation into the allegations against the Labour Party ex-staffer and found that the allegations could not be substantiated.
        
        . Labour Party staffer sexual assault review
        https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/labour-party-sexual-assault-review-maria-dews-findings-cant-substantiate-allegation/GFEY4QMHWAP5QPXPR7GT7K5TKU/
        
        (This man resigned from working in Ardern’s office and accepted ” his conduct had been overbearing and aggressive.”)
        
        The original complainants weren’t happy with Dew’s findings.
        https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/18-12-2019/worst-nightmare-labour-staffer-complainants-respond-to-dew-report/
        
        The ex-Labour staffer is NOT the same person who Mallard accused of being a rapist.
        
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        December 10, 2020 2:05pm
- Frank the tank
  
  Lister is quietly but surely winning over traditional national voters like me. I’m disappointed I didn’t go with my gut and vote Act this year.
  
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  December 10, 2020 9:32am
dave_c_

Covid-19: UK issues allergy warning over new vaccine

Ha !!

I new it, I knew it – Chuck the vaccine out there before completing even the most basic of tests.
Surely these idiot vaccine development companies would have known to put warnings out there, AS PART OF going to market –

Of course ‘Allergies’, and no doubt a miriad of basic conditions could/will cause unforseen outcomes when mixed with any form of vaccine.
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December 10, 2020 8:44am
Brian McDonald

Schizo much. Attorney General Barr says no indications of widespread fraud that could have impacted the election result. But Donald tries to file again declaring “our country needs a victory.” I guess that will be the 20th of January 2021 when he is finally outski.
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/politics/trump-says-he-will-intervene-in-texas-election-lawsuit/ar-BB1bMuQh?ocid=msedgdhp
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December 10, 2020 8:44am
- Simon
  
  To date. Ok But there has been fraud but not enough to over turn the election.
  
  Thats where you are at right now. Its progress from where you were at a few weeks ago.
  
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  December 10, 2020 8:52am
  - burt
    
    Yes, it’s like watching the Muppet’s.
    
    https://youtu.be/NpYEJx7PkWE
    
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    December 10, 2020 9:19am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    The magnitude of the revelations can give no confidence that all the counted votes were of equal value. Neither side will agree and even Court intervention may not be sufficient.
    
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    December 10, 2020 9:36am
    - SB2
      
      “The magnitude of the revelations “??
      
      What revelations?
      
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      December 10, 2020 10:39am
      - KevO'Brien
        
        Have a look at the matching dumps and vote counting while the counting places were supposed to be closed down. That’s enough for this old investigator to find there’s a case to answer. That doesn’t mean proven but the circumstances and outcomes require a very full examination before acceptance or rejection. The old adage “where’s there’s smoke there’s fire” is a useful test to be aware. It’s surprising how much negative fragrance can emanate from illegal activities.
        
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        December 10, 2020 11:58am
      - SGA
        
        The old adage “where’s there’s smoke there’s fire” is a useful test to be aware.
        
        Looks more like an exercise in “smoke and mirrors” (as another old expression goes).
        Or, perhaps “throw enough shit and hope that some of it sticks”.
        
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        December 10, 2020 12:44pm
  - Brian McDonald
    
    An amazingly big “if,” when there has been no credible evidence found of widespread fraud by the Attorney General’s office.
    There would be instances of fraud in every election that is one of the reasons why the scrutineers are present.
    You don’t seem to grasp that the latest nonsense is not based on a finding of widespread fraud but rather by allegations of such made before the election, likely in preparation for Trump losing.
    No credible evidence has been put before the Court.
    Instead, there have poorly written pleadings made public for the desperate which eventually sink from sight. If there was evidence the system itself would be reacting, not Texas pretending it’s looking out for a neighbour state. Crazy, crazy stuff.
    
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    December 10, 2020 3:07pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  The states in question are refusing to allow detailed auditing of ballots without court orders (the one instance where it has been allowed in Arizona showed 3% of 100 ballots were switched from Trump to Biden during vote counting), and judges are refusing to grant such orders. How can you prove it beyond a shadow of doubt when you are prevented from examining/auditing the ballots? Everything that can be done with regard to statistical analysis and affidavits from 1000’s of people who witnessed dodgy doings has been done, and now the judicial-political system is conspiring to prevent investigation of suspicious ballots.
  
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  December 10, 2020 9:23am
- Steve Todd
  
  The State of Texas cannot show “clear and convincing” evidence of serious injury [to it, or to its citizens, by Pennsylvania, et al] so as to provide the Court a warrant to “exert its extraordinary power to control the conduct of one State at the suit of another.”
  
  This case is a long way away from being a boundary, or a “disposal of waste down a river”, dispute. It will be thrown out, if only because “the requisite ‘seriousness and dignity of the claim’ [is] lacking.” In that regard, it is clearly politically-motivated.
  
  A quote from the article you link to—
  
  “It’s a publicity stunt masquerading as a lawsuit. AG Paxton should be sanctioned for it,” tweeted Rick Hasen, a law and political science professor at the University of California-Irvine.
  
  I couldn’t agree more.
  
  Kiwibloggers might like to see this article about original jurisdiction, here, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_jurisdiction_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States.
  
  For something a bit meatier, this article, explaining the Supreme Court’s original jurisdiction over disputes between States, is a very informative read: https://lawrepository.ualr.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?.
  
  An earlier paper, “The Supreme Court and Disputes Between States, an address by Charles Warren, February 8, 1940”, is also excellent. (See https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?).
  
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  December 10, 2020 12:21pm
- giltee
  
  If you’re going to cheat anyone with any form of intelligence will be sure to hide it to make sure they’re not caught. The media and the left were out to get rid of Trump any way they could and they will succeed
  
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  December 10, 2020 1:46pm
Maggie Pie

And I’ll tell you something else that’s a wee bit strange – what’s happened to baby ‘Archie’?
Hasn’t ben seen since last May according to my Royal twitter sources 🙁

Even Meghan’s sister refers to him as “The Phantom”

Hmmm….
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December 10, 2020 8:44am
- SB2
  
  Merely keeping Archie away from prying and invasive eyes!
  
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  December 10, 2020 10:40am
lazza

And what about that M’s Collins LL B ehh?

Writing a novel … for crissake!

She is clearly just a dilettante unfit for her role as Leader of the Opposition. Her sincerity and commitment must! be in question given this evidence … surely.

I would have thought for a Leader of a failing political party lost in its own arrogance and shelf life expired sense of entitlement, that she would have had some hard work ahead of her over the hols … like mapping the Pardys future for eg.

But then that takes true resolve and leadership …traits she is incapable of displaying.

Move over Jude … and give a real leader a shot. Then you might just have time to produce a classic work of fiction.
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December 10, 2020 8:55am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Have you joined the Fraser House basement diversion team?
  Cinders, a real leader? Only in a kindy.
  
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  December 10, 2020 9:39am
- softail 1450
  
  Lazza, With a heavy heart I agree with your comment. Collins is a Coward that should have put blame for the CH CH massacre at the feet of those we know failed so badly but instead she butt covered for all the shite that infests that Wellington swamp.
  
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  December 10, 2020 9:44am
- Tony Stuart
  
  Good for Judith. It’s healthy for MP’s, especially party leaders, to have interests that don’t concern politics. The life cycle of a politician would be very short if they were focused on nothing but politics.
  
  I am sure that she and her close colleagues will be doing lots of planning over the holiday recess, but not at the expense of having some semblance of normality in their lives.
  
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  December 10, 2020 10:13am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Disraeli, Winston Churchill and Boris Johnson managed to bang out a novel or two and still become Prime Minister….
  There’s hope for Judith yet.
  
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  December 10, 2020 2:12pm
Maggie Pie

‘COVID-19’

Russia’s President Putin tells citizens… “No drinking for two months after SPUTNIK vaccine”

https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1336549109629661184

(some of the comments = PRICELESS 😛 )
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December 10, 2020 8:59am
Yvette

Muslims in New Zealand seem to be submitted to abuse, of varying degree, as a reflection of attitudes formed from media reports of negative Islamic actions or incidents occurring overseas – from London and Manchester bombings, to beheadings in France, from individuals to organised forces like ISIS.

Although Islam is as diverse as any other religion, it is characterised as being invariable as is the Koran, the eternal unchanging word of Allah, the one Supreme God. Which gives rise to questions of “In what way can Islam in New Zealand vary from Islam in the UK or France?” and “Does Islam’s allowance of ’taqiya’ – deception in the interests of Islam – allow an apparently less extreme version of Islam to exist until it has the numbers to enforce accommodation of basically political demands?”

Misunderstood or not, Islam is seen in New Zealand in terms of international evidence, and as constantly as we told ‘Islam is a religion of peace’ one can ask “Why do we need to be told that … so constantly?”

That is the context which Andrew Little needs to consider in the introduction of any “hate speech” legislation.
The other context is surely Christianity and other religions – and whether any should be treated differently to the other.

Dinghy Pattinson sits behind the desk in what used to be Pike River chief executive Peter Whittall’s office … Scrawled on his window are sayings, including, in capitals: “The standard you walk past is the standard you accept!” [1]

This should apply in the above context unless Little can explain why Islam should be treated differently to the likes of Christianity. And if he doesn’t know, Brian Tamaki may tell him.
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2. In summary, [these submissions] set out how IWCNZ made intense efforts to engage with the New Zealand government in the five years before the Christchurch mosque killings, seeking protection and support for an increasingly vulnerable and exposed Muslim community.
They intensified their efforts three years before the killings, due to the intensification of Islamophobia, which particularly impacted Muslim women who were the public face of Islam due to their head scarfs. The aim of their engagement was to establish supportive across- government policies, funding and systems to enable Muslim social integration, to reduce social disadvantage and to provide protection.

153. … if it was on the news at 7.00 pm the children would face the consequences at 8.30 am the next morning. She said that teachers had been known to ask Muslim children “Are you happy that such and such was attacked by ISIS?” – Islamic Women’s Council of NZ, submission to the Royal Commission of Inquiry

[1] https://www.newsroom.co.nz/the-pike-re-entry-and-the-power-of-hope
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December 10, 2020 9:01am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Islam is determined to take over completely so should not be surprised about any kickback. They give no quarter but we are moderately tolerant. Lawfare is one of their weapons and their Allah is a deception.
  
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  December 10, 2020 9:43am
  - Nickc2
    
    If you wish to see Christchurch (example only) in say twenty years, take a look at London now.
    
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    December 10, 2020 9:57am
  - SB2
    
    KevO’Brien, don’t be so boorish!
    
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    December 10, 2020 10:42am
  - Jack5
    
    Say it while you can, Kevin.
    
    The Woke and multiculturists – particularly Muslims – are about to shut down free speech in New Zealand.
    
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    December 10, 2020 10:50am
    - KevO'Brien
      
      I won’t be shut down easily. We do seem to be living in times of apostasy and it may get worse.
      
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      December 10, 2020 12:04pm
- Swifty
  
  The assertion that “Islam means peace/Islam is the religion of peace” is 1. nothing more than political propaganda and akin to political party electioneering messages i.e. meaningless puffery and 2. unable to withstand even the slightest critique or analysis.
  
  Ask yourself, or any Muslim, how the assertion could be substantiated? If you took the view that it meant that in accepting Islam do people/countries become more peaceful, then you could analyse whether Islamic countries more peaceful than non-Islamic countries. Or, are Muslims more peaceful than non-Muslims?
  
  I argue that in both cases either that they are not or that the results are not clear enough to draw a conclusion.
  
  If on the other hand one argues that they are just talking about the literal interpretation of the word Islam i.e. that Islam derives from the Arabic word ‘Salam’ meaning peace then that’s a poor argument too – in that it only means ‘peace through submission (to God)” and that a the more widely accepted meaning of Islam is “submission or obedience (full stop) and that a Muslim is a “submitter” i.e. peace will come ONLY to those who submit and look out the rest of you.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslims
  
  Cutting to the chase though, one only needs to look at the recent reactions by Islamic leaders, clerics and lecturers to the decapitation of the French teacher who dared to show the Mohammed cartoons in a lesson about freedom of speech. Did we get Dalai Llama-like expressions of forgiveness, of tolerance and understanding? Did we see the clerics and leaders imploring their followers to keep calm, perform extra-special acts of kindness to non-Muslims and to re-double their efforts to remain peaceful and zen-like?
  
  No, we saw the opposite – with baying Islamic leaders all around the world praising the assassin, offering money for those who delivered Macron the same fate and reminding the followers that the assassin was on a one-way ticket to paradise and seating at the right hand of Allah.
  
  One of these days a member of our news media might summon the sufficient courage to sit down with NZ Islamic leaders and grill them hard on their views on this and other matters. I confidently predict we will witness a lesson on dissembly, evasion, soft-soaping and outright deceit.
  
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  December 10, 2020 9:47am
  - SB2
    
    Comments duly noted and ignored !
    
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    December 10, 2020 10:43am
    - Swifty
      
      I expected no less from someone as inadequate as you.
      
      Sticking their fingers in their ears is what children do.
      
      Why don’t you have a go at picking apart what I wrote instead? Go on, or are you incapable? You are one of the very few on here who use the word Islamophobia – here’s your chance to defend your use of it. Come on Noddy, have a go.
      
      BTW, still waiting for you to point out where I called for Ricardo Menendez to be silenced. Oh you can’t?
      
      And you wonder why you are the object of so much derision on here…..
      
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      December 10, 2020 11:07am
    - KevO'Brien
      
      Why do you endorse Islam?
      
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      December 10, 2020 12:05pm
  - Ruahine
    
    Islam means submit in Arabic. Like wear your mask and sign in. Or else!!
    Don’t forget your headscarf either.
    
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    December 10, 2020 12:11pm
    - KevO'Brien
      
      Oh dear–my inner Irish anarchist only allows submission by my assent.
      
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      December 10, 2020 3:17pm
      - Swifty
        
        Good man.
        
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        December 10, 2020 4:42pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    In actual practice, Islam doesn’t mean peace any more than Jesus is ‘the prince of peace’…
    
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    December 10, 2020 3:38pm
    - Swifty
      
      “Year of delivery….”
      
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      December 10, 2020 4:43pm
I remember when

Newshub reports Ashburton farmers are due to experience massive drops in farm profitability if they are to meet new freshwater guidelines.
The Land and Water Management Economic Impact Report, released by Ashburton District Council on Wednesday, ‘conservatively’ estimates a decline of 83% – $57.9 million in farm profitability per year.
Farm expenditure was estimated to decline by 23%, or $139.9 million, as a result of the new rules.
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December 10, 2020 9:14am
- Frank the tank
  
  Good. The fuckers (or at least their wives) decided to vote red this year. They deserve everything they get.
  
  My latent sympathy for rural and provincial issues is dead after the October result.
  
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  December 10, 2020 9:36am
  - Libertarians are right
    
    It wasn’t farmers, it was dope smokers in rural towns. How is that so hard for people to understand?
    
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    December 10, 2020 10:06am
    - Frank the tank
      
      Bullshit – numbers don’t lie. A whole swathe of rural heartland voters went red as did small business owners and suburban housewives as such they deserve all the pointless regulation coming their way. A whole bunch of ‘Boxers’ and ‘Clovers’
      
      Don’t cry for me little Aotearoa.
      
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      December 10, 2020 10:45am
  - MCos
    
    One of the ‘fuckers’ as you so sourly put it, is my nephew.
    Next time I’m talking to him I might get his opinion, but I have a couple of sisters in Ashburton and they tell me the people round there tend to be true blue.
    For that area to send a Labour MP to Wellington reflects on the woeful state of the Nats.
    
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    December 10, 2020 10:23am
    - Frank the tank
      
      I think you’ll find Ashburton went very red on election night. Don’t get me wrong i’m sure there are countless good people down there and some remaining National/Act supporters
      
      HOWEVER:
      
      Unlike past years I will have VERY LITTLE sympathy if the moaning starts regarding viability and increased cost loading on rural operations due to government inaction and/or policy. Outside of Epsom no other seat in NZ had a National majority and few had a combined National/Act majority.
      
      Plenty got sucked into the myth of the Blairite, St Ash, the 2nd coming of the bubonic plague and little Aotearoa the greatest country in the world at ‘absoludly everythink’. This included approx. $400,000 former National voters – not all these resided in the big cities
      
      Therefore you get what you pay for. I fear the provinces and the rural sector are in for a kicking downstream.
      
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      December 10, 2020 1:55pm
  - Jack5
    
    Frank the Tank: farmers are now a small, and shrinking part of the voting system, and no, it wasn’t them who deserted National.
    
    Besides, blaming the voters is never going to get National off the canvas.
    
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    December 10, 2020 10:51am
    - Frank the tank
      
      I wasn’t blaming the voters – I was merely arguing that those that on balance voted a certain way now have to live with the consequences. I have very little sympathy for areas that voted a certain way, not realizing the consequences and now starting to moan (ala the Newshub article).
      
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      December 10, 2020 1:59pm
  - chukar
    
    Frank the tank,
    Curious- what sort of tank do you claim to be — water— beer or even septic?
    Whatever . your ignorant attacks on farmers are not acceptable or factual.
    The contempt shown by some urbanites for farmers is damaging.
    It also encourages hostile politics.
    
    Mods please note
    
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    December 10, 2020 6:22pm
- softail 1450
  
  I remember when ,The very same Councils that give away 100s of millions of liters of pure bore water to the CCP for $2000.00 a year..
  
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  December 10, 2020 9:47am
- Okahu
  
  Looks like a value is finally being put on some farmers use of public resources. Still, price signals are the basis of good economic management. On that basis this information will be welcome news to all free marketeers.
  
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  December 10, 2020 9:50am
Benedict Yu

The Christchurch terrorist said he watched a bunch of videos on YouTube. Jacinda says she is going to be raising this with the head of YouTube.

How is that going to work out?
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December 10, 2020 9:16am
- softail 1450
  
  Benedict Yu she’ll do ok as the boss at YT is a feminist icon just like her, actually they even look similar.
  
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  December 10, 2020 9:50am
- Nickc2
  
  Good luck with that one Cindy. Grow up.
  
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  December 10, 2020 10:01am
  - Jack5
    
    Will she complain about “the individual” watching the videos, or the “an individual”.
    
    C’mon Ardern, leave the world PR and get back on the job.
    
    The economy is creaking, shipping to this island nation and within the nation is beyond creaking, and our biggest foreign exchange earner, tourism, is still comatose. Focus, please!
    
    Meanwhile, have a look at the UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Nelson Mandela Rules) Rule 45, part 1:
    
    Solitary confinement shall be used only in exceptional cases as a last resort, for as short a time as possible and subject to independent review, and only pursuant to the authorisation by a competent authority. It shall not be imposed by virtue of a prisoner’s sentence.
    
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    December 10, 2020 11:03am
    - Nickc2
      
      Agree Jack.
      
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      December 10, 2020 11:31am
- Paulus
  
  Why should she raise it with the boss of YouTube – she is famous on YouTube
  – I have her on You Tube as President of the Association of International Young Socialists extolling with screams and raised arms extolling Che Guevara.
  And we have been stupid enough to vote her as Prime Minister.
  Barmy !
  
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  December 10, 2020 2:34pm
Engelbert Humperdink

“153. … if it was on the news at 7.00 pm the children would face the consequences at 8.30 am the next morning. She said that teachers had been known to ask Muslim children “Are you happy that such and such was attacked by ISIS?” – Islamic Women’s Council of NZ, submission to the Royal Commission of Inquiry”

I call BS on that ever happening. There would’ve been a media firestorm.
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December 10, 2020 9:20am
- Batman
  
  I thought we had already all agreed that some teachers are shit and are protected by the union?
  
  In which case, this is entirely believable, even if in isolation and potentially missing context.
  
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  December 10, 2020 9:38am
- Harlequin
  
  The immediate challenge to that is the same as the challenge we should make to the myth that Maori children were beaten at school for speaking Maori.
  
  Name the school and the teacher.
  
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  December 10, 2020 9:57am
  - MCos
    
    It’s not a myth that kids were beaten at school for speaking Māori.
    
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    December 10, 2020 10:35am
    - hookerphil
      
      Not this century.
      
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      December 10, 2020 11:08am
      - MCos
        
        Any other terms and conditions apply?
        
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        December 10, 2020 12:42pm
Libertarians are right

Weird question:
Can the man that Mallard defamed go after Mallard for defamation again over his “apology”?
The “apology” was for saying it was rape so I would assume covers the requirements of the agreement.
However, it implies heavily that the man had in some way acted inappropriately in a sexual manner (to the implied point that it was almost rape, just not technically) which is untrue and in itself potentially defamatory so can he go after Mallard again for again defaming him?
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December 10, 2020 9:23am
- Tony Stuart
  
  I would imagine that the text of the apology was approved by the plaintiff’s lawyers before Mallard was allowed to deliver it. If Mallard has subsequently made any comment beyond the scope of the agreed statement, I would suggest he would be on shaky legal ground.
  
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  December 10, 2020 9:53am
- Paulus
  
  Not as it is said here that the defamed man has received compensation to shut up of $1.5million.
  
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  December 10, 2020 2:36pm
  - Libertarians are right
    
    That compensation was for the original accusation. My question was whether the “apology” counts as a further act of defamation. That is obviously outside of the defamation that caused the supposed payment of $1.5m. I guess, as Tony Stuart said, it comes down to whether the text of the “apology” was approved by the plaintiff’s lawyers or not.
    
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    December 10, 2020 4:28pm
Tony Stuart

Barry Soper on Mallard:

This is the worst behaviour I’ve seen from a Speaker in my time here, and I’ve been here a long time Heather.

https://youtu.be/-PsbS4eij2M

Barry Soper has indeed been around Parliament for a long time, and he’s seen almost as many Speakers come and go as he’s had late nights with Winston Peters; almost! He’s also completely demolished Mallard’s defence that he was uncertain as to what the definition of rape was.

Mallard’s reputation, such as it is, has been completely trashed by this incident. Even Labour commentators have ceased to defend his actions. He needs to seriously consider resigning from the role before he brings Parliament into further disrepute by his intemperate actions.
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December 10, 2020 9:28am
- fernglas
  
  Everyone knows what rape is. What Mallard has said is that he accused someone of being a rapist when he knew clearly that he was not. Saying he didn’t know the legal definition of rape is the same as a rapist saying he should get off because he didn’t know that what he did was rape. It’s complete bullshit and Ardern’s protection of him is shameful
  
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  December 10, 2020 9:43am
  - lilman
    
    Mallards an old hand at this folks,hes been doing it for years.
    No comment,just shut up shop for a few days and things will move on.
    Nice troughing job he has,hes done this all before.
    
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    December 10, 2020 10:13am
    - sooty
      
      Reputation, Mallards never had other than been an arsehole!
      
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      December 10, 2020 4:42pm
- Inandout
  
  TS, Barry is a sort of Queen Elizabeth of NZ political reporting because of his long career. Of course that is where the similarity ends because Barry is embedded in the sleezy world of Beehive reporting and floats about like a rudderless yacht. The younger Beehive media crowd are for the most part wokees and are as predictable as a sunrise.
  
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  December 10, 2020 10:07am
Maggy Wassilieff

Were the police consulting their Health and Safety Operating Procedures when shot folk bled to death?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/christchurch-shooting/300179435/terror-attack-victims-bled-to-death-inside-police-cordon
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December 10, 2020 9:36am
- sooty
  
  You need to ask the police how many died before the medics were allowed in?
  
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  December 10, 2020 4:40pm
- Paulie_
  
  I hope so, otherwise they would be charged like the helicopter company at White Island
  
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  December 10, 2020 4:52pm
hullkiwi

Next, from the file of “ohhh f***, I didn’t think that would be the consequence”.

Once the containers have cleared customs, over the next week, over 300 trucks will be running a relay between Northport and Auckland companies distributing the 1,200 containers that have been unloaded at Northport this week. It is expected that many trucks will return to Northport for further containers to deliver once their first or second containers are delivered (that stands to reason if there are 1200 containers and only 300 to 400 trucks).

We are told the trucks will run between midnight and 6.00am in order to reduce congestion on the roads and the trucks will be watched over by police and NZTA staff.

The reason for using the roads is that for the past year, the rail line to Northland has been under repair/redevelopment. The only problem is that it is a single track, so cannot cope with multiple return journeys of freight trains and there is still the problem of distribution hubs in the North and Auckland.

People, this is one ship, that is being unloaded and causing concern. Northport with 2 dock cranes can barely cope with this one ship, and the reports are suggesting (because of a lack of transport infrastructure between Whangarei and Auckland) we are going to witness problems on the road. So the questions beg:
1. what would happen if all Ports of Auckland activity really did move to Northport?; and
2. How accurate and reliable have all those reports proposing that Ports of Auckland move its activity to Northport really been?

You could probably fit your answers on the back of a postage stamp.
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December 10, 2020 9:38am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  At least Winston’s no longer in a position to have to come up with the answers.
  
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  December 10, 2020 10:04am
- Jack5
  
  It’s not the rail track that’s the problem for Northport, it’s a tunnel or two that are too tight for containers.
  
  If Ports of Auckland did move to Marsden Point holus bolus, the rail would be upgraded and extended to Marsden Point. You’d probably need a rail base in Western Auckland where trucks could pick up containers for delivery.
  
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  December 10, 2020 12:13pm
  - hullkiwi
    
    Jack5, they’ve been working on the track from West Auckland to Northport since pre-lockdown 1 because of the tunnels. We have a site just south of us where they are have been deepening a tunnel. Even though, a single track Auckland to Northport would not be sufficient if they moved all PoA activity to Northport. As you say, they will need a freight “port” somewhere.
    
    Irrespective, of the ability to cope with freight movements, the added cost on all goods transported this way will be far greater than any benefit to Auckland or NZ.
    
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    December 10, 2020 1:39pm
- GazzaW
  
  I can’t wait for the first container truck to go over the edge or roll in the Brynderwyns and see SH1 closed fo hours in peak traffic whilst the cops hold one of their endless post-mortems and then extract the offending vehicle.
  
  But who cares that there isn’t an expressway available? Certainly not Labour. Remember Twyford and earlier still Goff railing against the construction of the motorway north and calling it the Holiday Highway for the likes of John Key and his wealthy Omaha mates?
  
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  December 10, 2020 12:55pm
  - hullkiwi
    
    Gazza, it is not just the increased chance of accidents on the Brynderwyns, it is also the unnecessary creation of extra road pressure in Warkworth, Wellsford, TeHana and Kaiwaka. Bad enough normally, but why add to it?
    
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    December 10, 2020 1:44pm
    - sooty
      
      It’s comeback to bite labour on the arse, by cacelling the holiday highway!
      
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      December 10, 2020 4:36pm
Maggie Pie

The Pro at the Tennis Club has a brother who works as a financial consultant to the Ak Council.
Apparently, AT reap more from ‘Bus Lane’ fines than the total return they get on their Auckland Port shareholding.

Priorities?
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December 10, 2020 9:44am
- MCos
  
  The council got $19.8mil from bus lane fines last year.
  For the financial years ending 30 June 2020 and 2021 Ports of Auckland has agreed with its owner Auckland Council to pay a dividend of 20% of after-tax profits, reduced from 80%, in order to fund the investment programme. The dividend for the year ended June 2020 was $4.9 million, to be paid on 30 September.
  
  Hardly comparing apples with apples.
  However.
  Double the number of bus lanes I say.
  
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  December 10, 2020 10:49am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    No need to tell me about Bus Lane fines.
    I’m their biggest contributor.
    
    Onya bike!!
    
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    December 10, 2020 11:27am
    - MCos
      
      You’re a wonderful woman!
      
      Last time I mounted my bike I just about died of exhaustion – before I got out of the garage.
      
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      December 10, 2020 12:41pm
      - sooty
        
        Silly, you are meant to take it of the spinning rollers first. That’s why you were buggered before you got out of the shed!
        
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        December 10, 2020 4:34pm
lastmanstanding

The Australian Government is putting pressure on its Universities to adopt a freedom of speech on campus code.

The New Zealand Government is proposing laws to supress freedom of speech.

One country is a democracy and it aint New Zealand.
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December 10, 2020 9:51am
Juliet2554

16 other states are now backing Texas at the Supreme Court due to Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia & Wisconsin breaking the constitution. Are you still saying there is no fraud? Are you saying all these states are wrong?
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December 10, 2020 9:54am
- Juliet2554
  
  make that 17 states – Missouri just signed up!
  
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  December 10, 2020 10:01am
  - Batman
    
    All 50 states and DC have now certified their results as of this morning.
    
    Biden has won 306-232.
    
    The popular vote gap is 7+ million.
    
    The percentage win is 51.3% to 46.8%.
    
    If that minority of Republican representatives who are seeking to overthrow an election were so sure, they would have been able to convince their colleagues and officials not to certify.
    
    Face it, Trump lost and the ‘fraud’ is creative accounting which you’ve all swallowed.
    
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    December 10, 2020 10:29am
    - MCos
      
      When these clowns say these various states have joined up, what they probably mean is some individual lawmaker from these states, not someone who represents the state, like the Attorney General.
      
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      December 10, 2020 10:54am
      - Batman
        
        Oh yeah, they’ve managed to find the Doug Collins of each state to be the Jenna Ellis of Doug Collins’s
        
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        December 10, 2020 11:37am
    - Fletch
      
      As I’ve said many times – no one looking at the election dispassionately can say that Biden won fairly. And if it were the other way around, the Democrats and the media would be screaming blue murder that Trump cheated. You know it is true.
      
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      December 10, 2020 11:44am
      - Batman
        
        Except they are doing just that, but you snowflakes declare them biased or corrupt when you don’t like the facts. You’re not looking dispassionately at it, you’re deep into the Qult push to overturn a result you don’t like, and you’ve all collectively created fictional statistics which confirm your biases.
        
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        December 10, 2020 12:22pm
      - SGA
        
        no one looking at the election dispassionately can say that Biden won fairly
        
        How could you, of all people, know that? You are kidding yourself if you think that your judgement qualifies.
        
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        December 10, 2020 12:33pm
      - Inandout
        
        Fletch, from day one many Dems said Trump ‘is not their President’ and the NYTimes said impeachment proceedings would begin the day after his inaugration. And can we forget that bespectacled lesbian on her knees giving that primal scream when she heard Trump had won? Luckily the iternet is awash with historical events.
        
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        December 10, 2020 3:32pm
  - Juliet2554
    
    & Arizona.18 & counting
    
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    December 10, 2020 1:59pm
Swifty

Eating Pork ‘n’ Puha with Chopsticks, 2007:

https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/eating-porknpuha-with-chopsticks-2007?collection=chinese-in-nz

A good little doco on the experiences of Maori-Chinese, their histories and lives.
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December 10, 2020 10:00am
Tauhei Notts

Ruahine at 8.26 commented on our contemptible government that has Mallard as one of its most esteemed members.
I looked in my dictionary and found a word that has two meanings;
1. The female genitalia.
2. A most contemptible person.
As a polite person I think Mallard is a most contemptible person. The word referred to has been used twice by my wife in our 42 years of marriage. The first time was, and I hope I don’t bore you with a lengthy anecdote, when I arrived home fly blown drunk with friends, one of whom being a greaser plucked a pretty miniature orchid and presented it to my wife. She used that word to describe my friend as she had been cultivating that orchid out of a rock for 18 months. She was distraught. She kicked them all out so we could not attack the Cointreau, Drambuie, Grand Marnier and Dom Benedictine as drunken middle aged men are wont to do.
The second occasion was when she heard about Mallard’s specious apology.
My wife is not part of the “beltway” so I think this dreadful matter could have long term consequences for this government.
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December 10, 2020 10:04am
- Swifty
  
  No creme de menthe?
  
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  December 10, 2020 10:55am
  - Swifty
    
    Two Scotsmen in Rome:
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKMQKgSnGy8
    
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    December 10, 2020 11:29am
Greg Ettridge

Air Uber had a busy day, a busy week indeed.
But they do have a real problem working out where they are going.
What they publish as a route isn’t the route
Monday 7th December
10.17 am Palmerston North to Wellington
as published
11.33 am Palmerston North to Wellington
Actual flew Wellington to Christchurch.
2.12 pm Christchurch to N/A
Was Christchurch to Wellington but shows status unknown
3.28 PM Palmerston North to Wellington
Actual 3.32 pm Wellington to Palmerston North
4.31 pm Palmerston North to Wellington
Actual 4.32 pm Palmerston North to Auckland

Not sure what advantage there is in not actually giving correct routes. Especially when playback radar shows flight and times.
How many travelled on these flights, might be worth asking NZAF the question?
Also worth the question as to who it carried to and from Sydney the day before, and to the USA a few days before that.
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December 10, 2020 10:05am
lifesgood

They were celebrating on Sky News last night the fact that Australia has risen to 10th place in the Maths and Sciences in schools. Meanwhile NZ continues to slump ever downwards to now be in 40th place. Bloody disgusting if you ask me, we should be much closer on the scale. Does anybody in this country care? Meanwhile, in a year where our teachers have had lengthy periods off, bar cursory, short video messages, they still took teacher only days once lock down was over and are spending the last couple of weeks of the year taking the kids on picnics, tidying their classrooms and having games days. That there is why we are in such a dismal position, they seem to do anything but teach.
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December 10, 2020 10:09am
- surfing
  
  Judging by my son’s high school graduation, we will have plenty of psychologists and physio’s in a few years time. And Lawyers too.
  
  Also, boys were recognisably absent in award presentation. 80% of awards seem to go to the girls.
  
  Very strange, boys are doing pretty badly at school on average…. at least according to what I observed last night.
  
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  December 10, 2020 10:46am
  - Jack5
    
    Boys are doing badly in many parts of the English-speaking world.
    
    Poor, white boys are the underdogs of the British education system, says The Times in the link below.
    
    The second link, from the Irish Times, has all the theories why.
    
    https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/poor-white-boys-are-underdogs-of-the-education-system-ddjb6j2p6
    
    Views on why boys are behind in education:
    
    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/the-gender-gap-why-do-boys-do-worse-than-girls-at-school-1.1591232
    
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    December 10, 2020 11:21am
- rockape
  
  But what you don’t understand is that if we paid teachers more all this would change and we once again would lead in educational standards. Sarc.
  
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  December 10, 2020 12:18pm
Jack5

The Royal Commission of Inquiry into the mosques massacres appears to have dismissed reports of complaints about the Bruce Rifle Club, where the shooter, Brenton Harrison Tarrant , practised.

Allegations about the club may have fanned concerns about NZ firearms regulation.

In a Facebook post on 19 March 2019, Peter Breidahl said that he had met Tarrant at the Bruce Rifle Club on 19 November 2017 and that he was “not fucking right”. In his statement to police on 21 March 2019, six days after the massacres, Breidahl said that he “strongly” believed he had seen Tarrant at the competition. He said Tarrant was involved in a conversation about the Port Arthur (Tasmania) attack.

The Commission in its report says: “ Peter Breidahl also confirmed to us that he believed he had seen the individual [Tarrant] at the Bruce Rifle Club on 19 November 2017 (although he conceded he could not be certain). He recalled that what stood out about the person he thought was the individual was his lack of empathy when discussing the details of the Port Arthur attack.”

Breidahl said in a Facebook post that the Bruce Rifle Club was “the perfect breeding ground” for someone to train for a terrorist attack. He repeated these allegations during the interview with the police on 21 March.

The Bruce Rifle Club range, which is in South Otago, subsequently closed.

Breidahl told police (after the massacre) that the culture of the Bruce Rifle Club, and particularly the discussion about the Port Arthur (Tasmania) attack, disturbed him to such an extent that he left the shooting competition early; and that on 20 or 21 November 2017 he lodged a formal complaint in person at the Dunedin Central Police Station.

The Commission says in its report:

“In his interview with New Zealand Police on 21 March 2019, and again when speaking to us, Peter Breidahl said that he asked New Zealand Police in 2017 to send a plainclothes officer to a range shoot at the Bruce Rifle Club. He expected that, if this happened, it would result in members’ firearms licences being revoked.”

The Commission concluded Tarrant was not at the Bruce Rifle Club on 19 November 2017; it also concluded that Breidahl did not complain to police about the culture of the Bruce Rifle Club on 20 or 21 November 2017.
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December 10, 2020 10:18am
surfing

Who has cancelled stuff as a ‘news’ source?

I mostly cancelled it. I might glance at it every few days for curiosity. But, only to read the headlines to see what woke shit they are spewing . I don’t like contributing to their advertising revenue though.
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December 10, 2020 10:22am
- BAM
  
  Never go there, downvote anyone who links to a stuff article.
  
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  December 10, 2020 10:37am
  - Cobolt24
    
    use archive.org/web to find saved copies of stuff pages if anyone does link, you can access the main page that way without going on the actual site.
    
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    December 10, 2020 1:11pm
- Jack5
  
  One of the tax expert-accountants who lurk on Kiwiblog might be able to tell us whether donations are taxable revenue (should there be a profit).
  
  As revenue, they’re a bit like tips for waiters. Are they assessed as other revenue is?
  
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  December 10, 2020 10:46am
- Weinerpoop
  
  I have, Stuff is a just woke waste of time, hopefully it goes broke soon
  
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  December 10, 2020 10:58am
- Juliet2554
  
  I did months ago
  
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  December 10, 2020 11:22am
- curry4me
  
  surfing: I only follow links from blogs to $tuff.
  
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  December 10, 2020 6:30pm
alloytoo

From Sky OZ.

Academics, politicians ‘hide behind the cultural curtain’ on indigenous education gap

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ANuBfRalBc
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December 10, 2020 10:28am
Maggy Wassilieff

Christchurch finally wakes up to the fact that “Living Earth” composting is cheap, eco-crap.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/432549/council-to-spend-20m-to-enclose-smelly-compost-plant-in-christchurch

Took Wellington years to admit what a scambo they were supporting.
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0712/S00069/careys-gully-composting-operation-to-change.htm
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December 10, 2020 11:16am
Juliet2554

Today’s update
* FBi criminal probe tracks 500,000 counterfeit Biden ballots in swing states
* FBI seizes Arizona voting machines
* Texas & 17 other states are taking 4 swing states to Supreme Court for violating US constitution
* Hunter Biden is being investigated by FBI for his taxes
* 46 States + Guam + DC launch anittrust law suit against Facebook
* Eric Swalwell – California Congressman has been having an affair with a Chinese Spy
* FBI have 20,000 documents regaed to Seth Rich on his personal laptop

Are we still saying that nothing is going on?
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December 10, 2020 11:22am
- RJ
  
  Eric Isn’t the only one, some very high up politicians have had their hand in the fortune cookies
  
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  December 10, 2020 6:58pm
Maggie Pie

I actually didn’t mind David Clarke as Minister of Health.
He did have the title “Dr” and sort of looked the part.

https://twitter.com/StopNWO666/status/1336632596575494144

Just saying.
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December 10, 2020 11:23am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Maggie, Maggie…
  
  We saintly sisters must stick together..
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie_De_Block
  
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  December 10, 2020 12:15pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    O. M. G.
    
    lol!!!
    
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    December 10, 2020 12:21pm
I remember when

Is New Zealand now an “apology” of a country!
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December 10, 2020 11:47am
Fletch

Canada planned to train Chinese troops in cold weather tactics.

Documents revealed Wednesday by Canada’s Rebel News Network suggest that Canada planned to train China’s military in cold weather tactics at a military base in Ontario — and canceled the program, reluctantly, at the Trump administration’s request.

https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2020/12/09/documents-reveal-canada-planned-winter-training-with-chinese-troops-canceled-after-u-s-request/

China is the big enemy. And we know the Biden’s are in deep with China
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December 10, 2020 11:49am
- Maggie Pie
  
  And I see that Hunter is now under a Federal tax investigation into his ‘business dealings’.
  
  Time to get in the Krispy Kremes 😛
  
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  December 10, 2020 12:26pm
  - RJ
    
    He’s under investigation for much more, that will break soon.
    
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    December 10, 2020 6:56pm
  - Vory v zakone
    
    The DOJ have records of all the wire transfers (from China, Ukraine and other corrupt players) to both Sleepy Joe and Hunter Biden.
    Joe is toast based on this alone and he will CAPITULATE his imaginary status as ‘President Elect’ ?
    
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    December 10, 2020 7:18pm
Tony Stuart

Public service announcement: Sean Plunket is talking to Chris Bishop just after 12.30pm, unsurprisingly, about Trevor Mallard. He’s also going to put up a poll as to whether listeners believe Mallard is fit to hold the role of Speaker.

Listen live here: https://www.magic.co.nz/home.html
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December 10, 2020 12:15pm
- MCos
  
  Good old Trevor Mallard!
  When all else fails he’s always go for some sort of controversy.
  
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  December 10, 2020 12:56pm
I remember when

How farmers voted may be the least of the problems Ashburton is going to have.
They have changed from the grain capital of New Zealand because of dairy. What are their options now?
Their primary industry service firms are going to suffer a serious downturn. What effect is that going to have on the rest of the Ashburton economy.
How much water, and at what cost, will there be for farming activities?
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December 10, 2020 12:16pm
lazza

Holy Bat Shitman!

Cuomo, of CNN reports, that 88%! … Yep 88% of House Republicans believe the election was rigged.

Now that! correctly redefines “TDS” does it not?

And the Emperor has no clothes

Remaning Trumpers oni this blog … just FO OK?
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December 10, 2020 12:48pm
Maggie Pie

When i first heard about this, the first thing I thort
…..Oh FFS!!

https://twitter.com/JoannaKidman/status/1336604642155798528

(Disclosure: I have been a client of Trelise’s for yonks and own dozens of her frocks)
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December 10, 2020 12:56pm
- fernglas
  
  Just as well it wasn’t a veil of tiers. “Life or the world at large regarded as a source of sorrow, strife, or tragedy.”
  
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  December 10, 2020 3:06pm
  - sooty
    
    “Karens” upset!
    
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    December 10, 2020 4:24pm
Bobba Fret

Sean Plunkett on Magic Talk talking about Mallard.
I hope this story grows legs and the mainstream media have to pick it up.
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December 10, 2020 1:11pm
Maggie Pie

And you heard it here first on KB 😀

Exciting to now confirm for the group that my twitter besties Art & Matilda are expecting their second baby.

We all love you guys!!
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December 10, 2020 1:17pm
- graham
  
  Who?
  
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  December 10, 2020 4:37pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Rice, silly.
    
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    December 10, 2020 7:54pm
oldfella

Most Australians will never forget the Port Arthur massacre of 1996, in which Martin Bryant brutally murdered 35 people. Stan, a streaming service, has commissioned a film of killer Martin Bryant’s pre-massacre life, directed by acclaimed filmmaker Justin Kurzel. The news has been greeted with outrage. MPs, particularly in Tasmania, where the crimes happened, victim groups and the media have complained that the victims’ families – and Australians collectively – should not have to revisit these horrific events. Even prime minister Scott Morrison has said he was ‘unnerved’ by the prospect of the film.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/12/09/cancel-culture-comes-for-australian-cinema/

Are we ever likely to see a similar pre-massacre movie about Tarrant?
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December 10, 2020 2:50pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Newsmax – warming up with Gregg Kelly. Leftie, go stand in the corner with your TDS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuxlFzI1384
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December 10, 2020 3:23pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  3 sheep already? Should be more, this blog is infested with commies
  
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  December 10, 2020 4:34pm
Surely Knott

Georgia is the interesting one eh?

First their is the issue with the burst watermain which no one can find any paperwork or evidence for.

Then their is the surveillance video. The “fact checkers” who claim to debunk it seem to focus on the terminology suitcase which is really a ballot box which is irrelevant. The question is why did all the media and observers and other operators leave. According to mainstream media “No one told observers they had to leave, and both an independent monitor and an investigator oversaw the vote count, according to state and county officials. Confusion arose when election workers thought they were done for the night, but then were instructed to continue scanning ballots.” Yeah right. That sounds weird. So everyone packed up all their stations left and it was a mistake? The actual observers say they were told they were done and video footage shows only 5 people in the room . 4 of those have been named. There are a number of other clips that are interesting from the day including what appears to be a secret pass of an item between three of the people who stayed behind for the private counting. https://twitter.com/i/status/1334747404847833088
Second interesting clip is the same guy looking under the desk with the tablecloth opening the ballot boxes that would be counted later by the five that night, and then pumping his fists in the air with excitement.
https://streamable.com/4je5vz

And this is the same guy filmed at a processing what looked like ballots, giving the papers the finger, and then pumping his fist angrily and screwing up the papers. This we were later told he was just reading the instructions? Yeah ok. Pretty weird behaviour. https://youtu.be/GWCkrkZVLIE

Simultaneously there is a weird vote spike at the same time this lot were counting the ballots alone.

Will be interesting to see how this turns out. Lots of mistakes confusion and changed stories on the day.
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December 10, 2020 3:26pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Facts are inconvenient, and fact checkers fuck with facts
  
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  December 10, 2020 4:33pm
  - curry4me
    
    Steve Otto(North Shore) I always assume that ‘Fact Check’ = Dem Check.
    
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    December 10, 2020 6:36pm
Loddenthinks

A couple of Thursday afternoon Fun Facts for those in the mood.

San Francisco recently voted to make it illegal to smoke tobacco products inside your own apartment; however it is still legal to smoke cannabis inside your own apartment.

The reason for the different rules requires a very special type of mental gymnastics. I’ll try and explain it as best I can.

1. They banned smoking inside, to protect other inhabitants from the effects of second-hand smoke.
2. Smokers can still go outside and smoke, so they’re not prevented from partaking in a legal activity.
3. Smoking cannabis in public is still illegal, so to protect the rights of cannabis smokers they allowed it inside apartments.

So what they’re saying is, we’re banning smoking tobacco because the rights of people not to be exposed to second-hand (tobacco) smoke outweighs the right of a citizen to enjoy a legal activity.

But they’re not banning smoking cannabis inside, because the rights of people to enjoy cannabis apparently outweighs the rights of people not to be exposed to second-hand (cannabis) smoke.

Another fun fact is that smoking kills more than 480,000 people year in the US. COVID has “killed” (I use the term very loosely) 286,000 people in the US since February, some 10 months. If the current rate continues that will be around 340,000 people dying from (or with) COVID-19 in a year – still well short of tobacco-related deaths. Fancy that.
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December 10, 2020 4:12pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

We are being played. Not just NZ, but Worldwide.
https://www.facebook.com/natalie.james.7370/videos/10158677506826271/
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December 10, 2020 4:18pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Covid numbers. You are being taken to the cleaners by fearmongers.
https://www.facebook.com/bearskinart/posts/10158520878700199
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December 10, 2020 4:38pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

The description is in the link for all to see. Lefties, go stand in the corner again.
https://rumble.com/vbptz5-insane-leftist-rep-threatens-trump-supporters.html?
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December 10, 2020 4:44pm
Swifty

So what exactly are white people superior at?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYZ2XoaBO2A
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December 10, 2020 5:01pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

“I spent 10 minutes yelling and my Grandma for here and her friends voting for Biden. Then I left the cemetery and had a great steak and a glass of wine. I am ok now”
Author? not me
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December 10, 2020 5:13pm
curry4me

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

Coup Time in Turkey.

Turkey has reportedly ordered the detention of 304 members of the military who are allegedly linked to Fethullah Gulen. Ankara claims that Gulen had orchestrated the 2016 coup attempt, an accusation denied by the US-based cleric. If there’s a successful coup, I hope they’ll be no
worse than Erdogan.
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December 10, 2020 5:29pm
curry4me

https://www.bitchute.com/video/JdEbYkUSpf8/

THE SUPREME COURT WILL DETERMINE THE FATE OF THE 2020 ELECTION!

The Texas suit claims that illegal votes elsewhere materially affected legal
votes. There are 14th amendment issues too. If it is successful, the election will
be determined in the house 22-27. The Republicans have 27 votes. Ted Cruz
has offered to argue the Penn case. The injunction was thrown out. Not the whole case.
A lot of states have joined the Texas suit.
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December 10, 2020 5:29pm
curry4me

https://parler.com/profile/FactsMatterRoman/posts

You Tube Is The New Pravda.

No, no peasants. Don’t query the election results. We are your
one source of ‘authorative reporting’.
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December 10, 2020 5:29pm
- Inandout
  
  curry, I note that Newsmax, The Blaze, Rubin, Ben Shapiro etc. have ads at the beginning and often throughout the YouTube videos. Follow the money folks – don’t put ads on shows people don’t bother watching.
  
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  December 10, 2020 6:34pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

‘authorative reporting’ You mean like play school TV1 network news?
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December 10, 2020 6:04pm
- curry4me
  
  Stevde Orro9North Shore) Oops, sorry for the down tick. Fat fingers. Yep, definitely ‘authoritive’ like Pravda, and Cindy Kindy TV.
  
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  December 10, 2020 6:39pm
Fletch

Missouri House of Representatives declares no confidence in the election results and calls for an investigation.

https://image-cdn.parler.com/K/y/Kyt1XViNRp.jpeg
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December 10, 2020 6:12pm
kowtow

TV3 ‘News” reporting some adverse reactions to the rushed Wuflu vaccine in the UK.

OMG , that makes them anti vaxxers and they should be de platformed ……..
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December 10, 2020 6:15pm
Fletch

Democrat U.S. House Rep Eric Swalwell is removed from House Intel Committee after Chinese spy link is found

https://twitter.com/NewDayForNJ/status/1336775904148811780
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December 10, 2020 6:24pm
- RJ
  
  Yeah, much more to come, the Chinese really have their claws into a number of countries, New Zealand included. Thank god we will never see Biden in or the Chinese would have complete control with this Chinese owned family
  
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  December 10, 2020 7:30pm
- RJ
  
  Awwww, poor idiot woman that makes threats online
  
  https://twitter.com/LeeChatfield/status/1336737371149242372
  
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  December 10, 2020 7:35pm
RJ

Blank ballot, no problem, just pick who you want the vote to go to

https://twitter.com/tracybeanz/status/1336858904823783427
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December 10, 2020 7:24pm
Vory v zakone

WEDNESDAY’S US BIG BOOMS ???
*19 States join Texas in AG LAWSUIT
* Trump joins the fight with Texas
* Hunter Biden still under intense investigation
* Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif) is romantically linked with a Chinese Spy who helped him get elected to office. Calls for his removal from Intel Committee are successful.
* Michigan State rep Cynthia Johnson is stripped of her assignments and under investigation for threats
*After denying that they had ever seen Seth Rich’s laptop the FBI now admit that they have the laptop and are in the middle of extracting files
*The Federal Trade Commission and a coalition of attorneys general from 48 states and territories filed two separate antitrust lawsuits against Facebook
*The 82nd Airborne Division declared, “A Storm is coming,” and the 1st Bridge Combat team proclaimed, “The Storm is Upon us.
??????????
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December 10, 2020 8:00pm
Swifty

Lefties personified; assertions without evidence:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JCtiDx9pX8

Name one, one. One.
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December 10, 2020 8:15pm
Swifty

For Maggy; East Coast forestry:

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

Massive respect for those fullas. Check out the skills at 1:06 mins.
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December 10, 2020 8:17pm
Swifty

What’s My Line, Eleanor Roosevelt, 1953:

https://youtu.be/0Ew82Ae_N9g?t=745
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