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Viking
Reply to  Editor
10 months ago

NZ First’s new bill could stop Kiwis being forced into a digital-only future. Will he succeed?
🔥 Don’t miss this.
Stay in the loop on the topic of Digital ID: https://realitycheck.radio/digitalid/

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1130988715763213

Mcduff
Reply to  Editor
10 months ago

I was with you (or Holyheka) right up to the last sentence.
There is not one politician in this county actively working FOR the country. We can only hope that this years incarnation of Guy Fawkes actually succeeds.

Komata
Komata
Reply to  Editor
10 months ago

Editor

A great article (Thank you), with the only ‘problem’ being Winnie’s self-interest and his inclination to run with the hares and hunt with the hounds when he sees such actions to be to HIS (Personal) advantage.

He’s proven this repeatedly in his interactions with both liabour and the nats and with that precedent now well-established, will do what HE wants, and stuff the party.

Until he (finally) retires, nothing will change and the article (by implication sourced from NZ First) is unfortunately just so much hot air.

Shane Jones is certainly trying his best, but with an ‘unstable’ leader, he’s effectively pushing water uphill with a rake – and backwards…

Winston meanwhile, is enjoying all and any accolades he receives…

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howitis
howitis
Reply to  Komata
10 months ago

yes indeed

Push back on this globalist crap – join NZFirst which is the only real political vehicle to help throw this crap into the bin …. where it belongs.

Globalist

Winnie put adern in power in 2017 to start the next stage of rot (after keys)

Winnie allowed UN gal Helen Clark to get a third term in 2005 .
Brash was close then; but I don’t trust him (Donny) at all, a critter with Zero EQ.
2005 when shame Jones was a liebour MP.

Remain on zero trust for all politicians unless there is clear and unequivocal evidence otherwise.

Mike Hunty
Reply to  Editor
10 months ago

You/we should start our own political party.

howitis
howitis
Reply to  Mike Hunty
10 months ago

what ?

The NZ TOP Freedom United Conservative party

Simpleton1
Simpleton1
Reply to  Editor
10 months ago

As in 1 comment “For your safety”, and this government is remaining “stum” about the work being done in setting this up.

https://nitter.net/2eteka/status/1981929028480368753?s=46

In the comments, one can find more of those “Pied Pipers” calling many New Zealanders to the many digital controlling governmental set ups.
Noting in particular Colin Wallis has done a lot of work in setting up the track for this current government to follow, with further links to his work within the current NZ government.

Last edited 10 months ago by Simpleton1
Mike Hunty
Reply to  Editor
10 months ago

Bit blak for me. Wite man’s party is what’s needed. No poofters. Time for change.

Mike Hunty
Reply to  Editor
10 months ago

“Fuck off, you fucking scum”…
Yeah ya go. 😁

Mike Hunty
Reply to  Mike Hunty
10 months ago

‘There’. Old body still on Thai time.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Mike Hunty
10 months ago

Sex time, oh the poor girl!

Mike Hunty
10 months ago

Listening to The Platform. Ad comes on. “Toopoo”. Where’s Toopoo? Toopoo? Oh, I know. TAUPO. It’s fucking T-A-U-P-O you woke cnuts. 🫵

howitis
howitis
Reply to  Mike Hunty
10 months ago

difference pro nun cia tion for you South Islanders.

as you were. (ie. naked, shrivelled and blue on a cold South island beach)

Viking
Reply to  howitis
10 months ago

A blue cod then?

Saggy
Reply to  Mike Hunty
10 months ago

Apparently to say it proper in murry ya gotta say “Toe-paw”. Doesn’t work for me.

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  Mike Hunty
10 months ago

woke folk get upset if its not pronounced toe-paw, i think it translates to inbred clack bunt

Saggy
10 months ago

Any firearms owner who is on the new register (me included) should be feeling their sphincters puckering up when they read this. Only a matter of time troopers. . .

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/former-constable-summer-smith-pleads-guilty-to-charges-of-leaking-police-intelligence-to-killer-beez-gang-boyfriend/NCLOLJEOTVGBHEEYYGKEI7L7AU/

Komata
Komata
Reply to  Saggy
10 months ago

Saggy

The things you do for wuv…

Simpleton1
Simpleton1
Reply to  Saggy
10 months ago

Thanks Alice,
Are we supposed to believe this is just a one off?

Summer Moana Pearl Smith, 32, is a former police constable who has pleaded guilty to charges relating to leaking information to her boyfriend who was member of the Killer Beez gang. Photo / Supplied

A rookie constable leaked police intelligence to her gang member boyfriend shortly after starting her new career, the Herald can reveal.
The case raises serious questions about the vetting of police recruits and highlights the growing threat of corruption posed by organised crime in New Zealand.

So the Australian police seems to have voiced concerns about another police constable in NZ.

So that is from an international perspective, but what about from with in our local circumstances?

The question now becomes how deeply embedded is organized crime within all the NZ police?

In the meantime the name of the game has been to remove trust in all our institutions as they buy & go into many other agendas for their “common purposes” etc..

Last edited 10 months ago by Simpleton1
howitis
howitis
Reply to  Saggy
10 months ago

This is not the first time this has happened .

but this is behind a paywall
There does not appear to be any other reference to summer smith on a google search
unless the cops have suppressed this in search algorithm
which is likely

there is a reference to a constable summer Smith in UK who is a recruiting cop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_bUtQpTH5U

Remember after years of abuse of a man in dunnydin coppy
jeremy Buis suffered nothing and was on full paid leave for at least 2 years while he got his surf shop underway.

April 2017
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/timeline-harassment

Jeremy Fraser Buis (39) was sentenced in the Dunedin District Court yesterday to 200 hours’ community work and ordered to pay the victim $15,000 after being found guilty of criminal harassment, threatening to do grievous bodily harm and intentional damage, following a week-long, judge-alone trial last month.

harassment of victim Danny Pryde – who voluntarily gave up his own name suppression

the cops denied for years he was a sworn pig. The pigs lied. Quelle surprise.

Saggy
Reply to  howitis
10 months ago

Sorry about paywall, didn’t notice that, but you get the idea.

howitis
howitis
Reply to  Saggy
10 months ago

more my point

a simple google engine search shows nothing.
I’m not going to try other search engines to test the theory .

You landed on the page because you presumably saw a headline and clicked
but if you searched after clearing cookies, would you find it again?

and THAT is the issue
the cops in ao tear zooland have most likely (85% +) had search engines suppress it
therefore any prospective future employer will not find this
not anyone else dealing with her.

This is typical nz cop bias and corruption.

don’t want all their bad eggs coming to the surface.

Mike Hunty
Reply to  howitis
10 months ago

N*ggers should never be allowed to become Police. Never.

The Ancient Hooligan
Reply to  Saggy
10 months ago

For Summer, I hope it is going to be a long cold Winter, in the Slammer.

Viking
Reply to  The Ancient Hooligan
10 months ago

Ya dreaming.
slap on the wrist
6 months home d at the bees house.

The Ancient Hooligan
10 months ago

Tarquin, I see the Uppity Natives, up your way are an unhappy lot and reverting to the Courts to overturn the NorthPort Port Expansion Consent.

I hope I am not paying for this, but then dreams are free.

I hope the Fuckers loose, biggly or if they don’t, then the Government passes Legislation to revalidate the Consent.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/northland-group-seeks-judicial-review-of-northport-expansion-appeal/4CGOTYBB3VEJ3FM7YECX72WMFM/

howitis
howitis
Reply to  The Ancient Hooligan
10 months ago

How do you know Tarquin is not part of Uppity Natives
and is here to spy on us ?

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  howitis
10 months ago

But he looks like that cunt Campbell.

Saggy
Reply to  Sooty
10 months ago

Yeah, maybe that’s why he always misses with the doll – he’s not really aiming at the targets. I think we’ve been infiltrated.

Saggy
Reply to  The Ancient Hooligan
10 months ago

“. .because of adverse effects on cultural values, public access, and the marine environment. .”

So on this basis you couldn’t build a port, or anything for that matter, anywhere. This country is completely buggered if they don’t tell these bastards to sling their hooks.

The Ancient Hooligan
Reply to  Editor
10 months ago

Absolute Bollocks Ed, Tainui don’t own them all, although they would like too, under Principle 9, Article 18, Subsection 42, Page 7 of Te Triki Triti. Ngati Greedy however, right here in Toe Mara Nui have their own pet one that resides on an Island in the Legal Person called the Fong-A-Nui River, just down from Victory Bridge.

It has extraordinary powers, dontcha know.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Saggy
10 months ago

Do you think the money is coming out of the tribes pocket?
Nah, I don’t either!

Viking
10 months ago

naaska said,”shall we try swapping positions tonight.
Mrs naaska said ; that’s a good idea.
You take over the ironing board and I will sit on the couch and fart.

Starving Artist
Starving Artist
Reply to  Viking
10 months ago

Viking tries to save the planet by recycling old jokes,

Viking
Reply to  Starving Artist
10 months ago

You managed to read it then.
Why don’t you post some of font of all knowledge?
Probably because you have no sense of humour.
A humourless prick.

FJA
FJA
Reply to  Viking
10 months ago

Mate, the response was pretty funny, you gotta admit. I did like your joke too, btw. Hadn’t heard it 🙂

howitis
howitis
Reply to  Viking
10 months ago

Well he is Starving
it is in the name.

hard to have a sense of humour on an empty stomach

maybe we recommend him for skewl lunches !!

Saggy
Reply to  Starving Artist
10 months ago

Well to be fair, it was quite a good one.

nasska
Reply to  Saggy
10 months ago

By his standards it was incredible! 🙂

Viking
Reply to  nasska
10 months ago

Settle down, you will have a heart attack getting so excited.

Now go and do the ironing.
Lower your Ironing board so you can reach it from your walker.

Careful of that hot steam. Turns you into hangi food if you are not careful.

Mrs Naaska could then sell you to the local cannibals.
They like eyeballs and testicles.

howitis
howitis
10 months ago

fucking luxtard

Code Sports has reported Queensland and New South Wales will play at Eden Park
after the New Zealand government agreed to pay A$5 million
to secure Game Two of the three-match Origin series in 2027.

so the Aussues would have played this anyway.
sometimes they have played in Melbourne.

But the NZ taxpayer will pay for the game to be played in NZ
Bet it will cost a lot more than $5 million.

and if we have a climate crisis for which the taxpayer pays Billions a year to a political slush fund then why fly people all the way here, both teams and their support, when it could be played in Australia anyway .

I have now surrendered
luxtard and his mob have no bottoming out level for their stupidity.

The Ancient Hooligan
Reply to  howitis
10 months ago

Howi, you are correct, it will cost a lot more.

Wait ’til the Uppity Darkies bring out their traditional Conch Shell and give a “Welcome To Country” equivalent prior to the game commencement, then you will see the costs skyrocket.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  The Ancient Hooligan
10 months ago

Don’t forget the dancing troupe as many hangers on.

howitis
howitis
10 months ago

fucking johnny keys

so, there was no economic value to the Shitty/city rail link in Auckland

keys kicked this off years early from any justification

just as he dumped and left his PM role

what was meant to be $3 billion ( still never justified) has become a $8 BILLION noose around the neck of auckland and NZ taxpayer, and AKL ratepayers

Wayne Brown has stated last week that there would be no rates rises next year in AKL
IF
it was not for the CRL
and therefore, because of the hemorrhaging there will be a 7% rates rise.

to cover the johnny keys fuckup (and steven fkg joyce)

I trust they will name the Urinal at the K Road station the John fecking keys memorial dunny
where all the weirdos congregate.
Will he join them?

wiseowl
10 months ago

Anyone ever wonder about our voting systems?
I have always had a question about STV.
Have a read of Lees post on STV. https://leevandervis.com/
Also about the mysterious Mr Ong

howitis
howitis
Reply to  wiseowl
10 months ago

in golf, no matter how good your drive off the Tee, the second shot is an important; as is the third.

In STV the 2nd and third prefs can kick in

It is interesting in AU that albanese has got in as PM with 34% first preference

see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Australian_federal_election

Liebor got 34.56% first preference
Lib-Nat got 31.82% first pref

and yet liebor had a landslide of 94 seats from 150
and Lib-Nat (coalition) got 31.82% first pref and 43 seats
so 28.6% of seats

liebor got 34.56% first pref but 62.6% of seats
virtually double the first preference percentage

it is preferential voting but not straight STV

STV had seemed a good idea to me years .
AU uses STV in a few elections

the lower house in AU technically uses the Instant-runoff voting
ir the results above

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting
————–
 is a single-winner ranked voting election system where one or more eliminations are used to simulate multiple runoff elections.
In each round, the candidate with the fewest first-preference votes (among the remaining candidates) is eliminated.
This continues until only one candidate is left.

Instant runoff falls under the plurality-with-elimination family of voting methods,[1] and is thus closely related to methods like the two-round runoff system.[2][3]

 instant-runoff voting has been criticized for other mathematical pathologies (discussed below), including its ability to eliminate candidates for having too much support or too many votes.[8] Like first-past-the-post voting (FPTP), instant-runoff is vulnerable to a kind of spoiler effect called a center squeeze,[9][10] which causes it to favor uncompromising alternatives over more-moderate ones,[11][12][13][14] encouraging polarization.[15]

————–
the AU upper house uses a more classic form of STV

The single transferable vote (STV) or proportional-ranked choice voting (P-RCV)[a], also known as PR-STV and “proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote”,
is a multi-winner electoral system in which each voter casts a single vote in the form of a ranked ballot.
Voters have the option to rank candidates,

and their vote may be transferred according to alternative preferences if their preferred candidate is eliminated or elected with surplus votes,

so that their vote is used to elect someone they prefer over others in the running.

STV aims to approach proportional representation based on votes cast in the district where it is used, so that each vote is worth about the same as another.

STV is a family of multi-winner proportional representation electoral systems.

The proportionality of its results and the proportion of votes actually used to elect someone are equivalent to those produced by proportional representation election systems based on lists.

STV systems can be thought of as a variation on the largest remainders method that uses candidate-based solid coalitions, rather than party lists.[clarification needed][1]

Surplus votes belonging to winning candidates (those in excess of an electoral quota) may be thought of as remainder votes. Surplus votes may be transferred from a successful candidate to another candidate and then possibly used to elect that candidate.

source

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

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Simpleton1
Simpleton1
Reply to  wiseowl
10 months ago

Thanks wiseowl

There does seem to be something whiffy as the numbers changed so much on a small District Council with the late voting papers having to be sent down to Christchurch to be recounted which changed the voting numbers so much.

4 – The computer programmers who modified the STV system setting thresholds and other parameters have moved on decades ago and nobody now can interrogate these parameters.

That now seems to be to allow the computer algorithums to do their thing.
The local councillor I knew questioned why the count numbers changed much, but already decided if it was not to be, will just move onto other points of interest in his life.

As mentioned above;–
https://ysb.co.nz/have-your-say-552/#comment-457426
like that Colin Wallis, has been part of programing the ‘collective’ digital set-ups

Starving Artist
Starving Artist
10 months ago

The long march through the institutions explained – higher education version:

https://nominister.wordpress.com/2025/10/26/idea-laundering-the-epistemic-infrastructure-of-ideological-infiltration/

Colinxy
Colinxy
Reply to  Starving Artist
10 months ago

Thanks! I try not to ‘spam’ sites, so I’m never sure whether to post my articles carte blanche. I generally try to limit them to the topic, so it is much appreciated.

Of course, it is only one avenue of the long march through the institutions, but I thought it might reveal how universities and similar institutions were overtaken at the academic level.

Starving Artist
Starving Artist
Reply to  Colinxy
10 months ago

You’re welcome – it was a good explanation of how corrupt the academic world has become.

Simpleton1
Simpleton1
Reply to  Starving Artist
10 months ago

Thanks SA.

The quiet flow into & through our institutions has use an assortment of levers and one of “higher education” well leveraged by another unassailable & unaccountable ‘take’ from feminism.

Helen Andrews | Overcoming the Feminization of Culture | NatCon 5
https://youtu.be/EWLbq7PlrIA
18 mins : Sep 14, 2025 : National Conservation

How this change has built into the essential feelz of feminism, to out of control wokism.
Wokism does not mind if it goes broke, as it as achieved one of its aims, to a win/win status, of either total control, or total ruinination.

Yet many of us continue to sail along, sucked in by the false meme that far too many have self righteously bought into of “go woke, go broke”.
In the mean time, the academia, the feminist, soy-boys, etc., systemically keep on gaining more power & much deeper controls.

” Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies that give way to tyranny. ” —– Aristotle

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Simpleton1
Simpleton1
Reply to  Simpleton1
10 months ago

That last quote is a misnomer, Aristotle never said it.
Though one can figure the lead of “wokism” is becoming a collective tyranny.

Though Aristotle did study a lot about governance and how they worked.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Aristotle/Political-theory

Last edited 10 months ago by Simpleton1
nasska
Reply to  Simpleton1
10 months ago

It’s true that Aristotle did not make that quote but in circa 380BC he said “does not tyranny spring from democracy.” By this he was referring to the Achilles heel of democratic governance where power can be attained by obtaining the collective will of citizens by appealing to their emotions rather than winning their approval through facts & logic.

Viking
10 months ago

Critic of EU and NATO wins Irish presidency
Independent candidate Catherine Connolly has long condemned Brussels’ push for military buildup
Independent candidate Catherine Connolly, a long-time advocate of Irish military neutrality and a critic of NATO’s expansion and EU militarization, has won Ireland’s presidential election in a landslide.
The ballot count was still underway when Connolly’s main rival, Heather Humphreys, conceded defeat after early tallies showed her trailing by a wide margin. Preliminary results put Connolly ahead by 63% to 29%.
“Catherine will be a president for all of us and she will be my president,” Humphreys told journalists.
Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin also formally congratulated Connolly on what he said “will be a very comprehensive election victory.”
Although an independent, the 68-year-old former Galway mayor was supported by major left-wing parties, including Sinn Fein and Labour.
Connolly’s success was largely been attributed to capturing the youth vote, effective outreach, and social-media presence, amid growing anger over Ireland’s housing and cost-of-living crises.
During the campaign, she emphasized Irish neutrality and criticized the EU’s push to expand militarization at the expense of social welfare. While critical of Russia in the Ukraine conflict, she has argued that NATO “warmongering” played a role in the crisis.
Last month, Connolly compared Germany’s push to boost its economy by “championing the cause of the military industrial complex” to its rearmament in the 1930s under the Nazis. “Seems to me, there are some parallels with the ‘30s,” she said at a discussion at University College Dublin.
Moscow has long criticized Brussels’ accelerating military buildup, arguing the EU was essentially transforming into an aggressive, military and political extension of NATO.
While the president is the formal head of state in Ireland, a parliamentary democracy, the role is seen as largely symbolic. However, the presidency does hold a few key powers, including the ability to refer bills to the nation’s top court to determine constitutionality, as well as the power to dissolve the lower chamber of parliament and call for new elections in the event a prime minister loses majority support.

Private Godfrey
Reply to  Viking
10 months ago

Where have you copied that from?

FJA
FJA
Reply to  Private Godfrey
10 months ago

Facebook

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Viking
Reply to  Private Godfrey
10 months ago

Me to know and you to find out. I’m not your mother.

Private Godfrey
Reply to  Viking
10 months ago

You’re very determined to make an asshat of yourself.
Even when you post a decent article you make yourself look stupid with that dumb attitude.

Viking
Reply to  Private Godfrey
10 months ago

You complain when I do and complain when I don’t.
No pleasing some of you old codgers.

Harvey
Reply to  Viking
10 months ago

My mother was smart enough to be aware that knowing the source of news is key to recognising any bias contained in an article.
RT news could well have a certain slant.

Viking
Reply to  Harvey
10 months ago

All ya do is complain no matter what I do, so get stuffed.

Private Godfrey
Reply to  Harvey
10 months ago

Everybody’s mother was smarter that the Greerton Goblin.

Viking
Reply to  Private Godfrey
10 months ago

Did you read what you wrote?

nasska
10 months ago

In the Wairarapa the spring equinoctials are with us:

Nor-Wester-in-Wairarapa
waikatogirl
waikatogirl
10 months ago

Catastrophic Failure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyOOK9pOUII
EXPOSED: 9,000 potential London grooming gang cases reopened as SHOCK report puts Khan under fire

GBNews

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nasska
Reply to  Editor
10 months ago

She’s on the card at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_United_Nations_Secretary-General_selection so who knows?

She fucked NZ in less than six years. Imagine what she could do to the world in ten!

Viking
Reply to  Editor
10 months ago

Which bitch. We have a couple.

Trump will likely boot the lot out to Geneva, where they belong.

Starving Artist
Starving Artist
Reply to  Editor
10 months ago

Since the UN is a worthless globalist grift, she would fit right in.

The Ancient Hooligan
Reply to  Editor
10 months ago

The toothed bint, known as the Morrinsville Mattress certainly fucked this country and now hopes to fuck the UN and then the World.

God help us, but no doubt if Hipkins gets into power he will throw lots of coin at it, as did John Key when Helun Clark wanted to do the same.

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
Reply to  Editor
10 months ago

Just FO. Go away. Silly, glory hunting bitch.

She has NO self-awareness.

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howitis
howitis
Reply to  Editor
10 months ago

They take turns based on region.

So it is never the best person for the job; just the greatest available azzhole from that region, at that time.

however, if toothy is there, adds more fuel to the reason Trump withdraws USA from the UN and kicks them out of New York
ha ha
make the HQ the Maldives or Chad
Support a 3 world nation, do-gooders !!

Make it Columbia since many like to powder the nose.
buy wholesale at source !

No NY shopping for the faux representatives.

Last edited 10 months ago by howitis
Curious
Reply to  Editor
10 months ago

It won’t be speculative, she will have some one backing her. Let’s hope it isn’t anyone with a lot of clout.

Curious
Reply to  Curious
10 months ago

AI says it’s not true.

nasska
Reply to  Editor
10 months ago

You’re onto it. We’re supposed to believe that GIGO now means Garbage In, Gospel Out.

Simpleton1
Simpleton1
Reply to  Editor
10 months ago

Looking to be the “kindness” & “well-being” leader for the Team of 8.2 billion
world population.
https://1for8billion.org/candidates-and-speculation

Truly aspirational. 🤧 🤢 🤮

Viking
10 months ago

When Giorgia Meloni told the EU to think twice before stealing Russia’s frozen assets, it wasn’t Kremlin propaganda. It was the final voice of sanity in a Brussels asylum. Because what the Eurocrats are doing isn’t just illegal, it’s suicidal piracy. The theft of sovereign reserves will detonate the post-war financial system, and the rest of the world is already taking notes.
“We believe, and we are not the only ones, that it is necessary to respect international rules and the principle of legality,” Meloni said, adding that the EU must protect “the financial and monetary stability of our economies and the euro area.”
There’s a reason even the IMF and ECB are sweating behind closed doors. The European Commission’s plan to use over €210 billion in frozen Russian central bank assets as collateral to fund Kiev in 2026–27 is not just lawless, it’s existentially reckless. The entire post-Bretton Woods financial architecture rests on the idea that sovereign reserves, held in trust, are sacrosanct. Break that trust once, and every single sovereign creditor from Africa to Asia starts asking: “Who’s next?”
The moment a Western financial institution like Belgium’s Euroclear, becomes an instrument of political confiscation, it ceases to be neutral infrastructure. It becomes a battlefield. Sovereign reserve managers from Saudi Arabia, Brazil, India, and China are watching this unfold not with shock, but with clarity. The West has weaponized the monetary system. That means the game is over. De-dollarization, de-euroization, and dedollar-denominated trade routes aren’t just theoretical anymore, they are now mandatory self-defense mechanisms.
This is no longer about Ukraine. That war is already lost. What’s unfolding now is a rearguard scorched-earth policy: the EU, unable to win on the battlefield, is trying to win time from its own collapse through financial vandalism. But here’s a basic truism: you cannot win a financial war if your system depends on global trust. And that trust has just been smashed with a brick.
If Russia is just a “gas station with nukes” as the Atlanticist blob claims, why are they trying to rob it like it’s the last vault on Earth? Why are European pension funds, dollar-exposed banks, and fragile bond markets being leveraged just to bleed a few more billion into a Ukrainian state that increasingly resembles a bankrupt fortress of grift? The answer is clear: The West is broke. And it’s panicking.
Meanwhile, Russia is already two moves ahead. Putin has made it explicit: the real punishment isn’t lawsuits or tit-for-tat seizures, it’s in building the architecture that makes Western theft irrelevant. Gold-backed trade settlements, BRICS+ banking infrastructure, national currency denominated bilateral swaps. Russia doesn’t need to win lawsuits in The Hague. It just needs to demonstrate that if you park your reserves in Brussels, you’re a sucker. Remember, the ponzi only works on trust and credibility.
That’s the grand irony. In trying to punish Russia, the EU is doing exactly what Russia wanted: revealing the Western financial system as predatory, arbitrary, and terminally politicized. That’s the final phase of transitioning to multipolarity. You don’t need tanks to win, you just need to make people realize the “rules-based order” is a con.
So yes, Meloni deserves credit, and not as a rebel, but as a technocrat who remembered what the rulebook says.
The United States can afford to be reckless — their currency is still the global reserve (for now). But Europe? Europe just handed over its economic soul to a collapsing war plan and expected no blowback. That’s not policy, it’s junkie logic.
And now that Russia isn’t breaking but victorious, now that it’s building trade corridors, de-dollarizing, and thriving, the mask drops. The EU doesn’t know what to do… so it steals.
History will remember that it wasn’t Moscow who tore down the global financial order. It was Brussels, so thank you to the EU!

Simpleton1
Simpleton1
Reply to  Viking
10 months ago

Read it the other day;
Just waiting for rol to pine about his PM Italian girl-friend.

@IslanderWORLD : Oct 22
….. So yes, Meloni deserves credit, and not as a rebel, but as a technocrat who remembered what the rulebook says. …..
https://nitter.net/IslanderWORLD/status/1981142216249639370

Islander extends his article much more.

…… The dollar isn’t backed by gold.
The euro isn’t backed by industry.
The pound isn’t backed by anything except the illusion of rules and property rights.

Break that illusion, and what’s left?

Answer: Fear. Retaliation. Collapse.

This was never about Ukraine.
It’s about control. Narrative control. Financial control. Legal control. ……

Some good comments also there.
After all we do not want to be short-changed.

Last edited 10 months ago by Simpleton1
Private Godfrey
Reply to  Viking
10 months ago

Your spelling is improving ////

nasska
Reply to  Private Godfrey
10 months ago

One of the advantages of copy & pasting without quotation marks nor attribution. 🙂

Viking
Reply to  nasska
10 months ago

You mean like this?
comment image
nasska

Reply to 
Simpleton1
4 hours ago
It’s true that Aristotle did not make that quote but in circa 380BC he said “does not tyranny spring from democracy.” By this he was referring to the Achilles heel of democratic governance where power can be attained by obtaining the collective will of citizens by appealing to their emo

Harvey
Reply to  Viking
10 months ago

WTF?

nasska
Reply to  Viking
10 months ago

Explaining is losing but I’m bored so I’ll play your game. The comment was based on https://theconversation.com/why-tyranny-could-be-the-inevitable-outcome-of-democracy-126158.

Now reread both texts & quote for our fellow readers what I have plagiarised or cut & pasted.

Viking
Reply to  nasska
10 months ago

So you copied it to chat and had chat rewrite it.
At least you have learnt to do something.

Private Godfrey
Reply to  nasska
10 months ago

Dunderhead strikes again

Private Godfrey
10 months ago

Susie Edmonds is a courageous woman.

Viking
Reply to  Private Godfrey
10 months ago

Obsessed.

Private Godfrey
Reply to  Viking
10 months ago

Because she’s calling St Mahe of the Drysdale to account for softballing?
obsessed? Pot meet kettle.

Viking
Reply to  Private Godfrey
10 months ago

Shame you know fuck all about things.
Mahe is one of thirteen councillors, and dozy bastards like you think he makes all the decisions.

It doesn’t work like that.
10B tried running the council like he did the army, and it lasted no time at all.
I guess you are a fan of his, or maybe him anyway.
Demoted to the most useless rank in the services.

howitis
howitis
Reply to  Viking
10 months ago

..Mahe is one of thirteen councillors…

ha ha

so Mahe Mahe has 7.5% voting power

so why do you ramble on how great he is

mayor in this day and age are mere ribbon cutters with chains who have no real power.
That is in the executive.

it is wrong but that is how it is .
Central goo-mint allowed this to happen.

Campaigning to say they will do A or B is pure dishonesty.

Private Godfrey
Reply to  Viking
10 months ago

Attempted deflection and personal abuse.
So no reasoned discussion then.
Fool.

Last edited 10 months ago by Private Godfrey
Viking
Reply to  Private Godfrey
10 months ago

You created the discussion, so support your thesis.

Explain to everyone why you think Suzie is so courageous.

Tell me why my reply of “obsessed” is wrong.

Being obsessed doesn’t mean she is not courageous.
obsessedadjectiveob·​sessed əb-ˈsest 
äb-

Synonyms of obsessed


: preoccupied with or haunted by some idea, interest, etc. : being in a state of obsession

We will wait for your full explanation for your

Private Godfrey
Reply to  Viking
10 months ago

Sod off fool

nasska
Reply to  Editor
10 months ago

$84,150 is a lot of coin for an overweight, culturally safe, wannabe doctor.

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
Reply to  nasska
10 months ago

A union spokesperson on propaganda tv reckons $75k for a newly qualified nurse is a low wage for a starting salary.

Best nurses prove themselves competent on the wards first.

Viking
10 months ago

Just on the UN.

If the UN go bankrupt, would you be sad? Think we would call for drinks

Seems it’s getting short of cash.
Of course we silly Kiwi’s have propped the useless outfit up.
Time to cut it loose.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/2280050875750185

Viking
10 months ago
waikatogirl
waikatogirl
10 months ago

Trumpy is so cool. 😂
Wait for the criticism from his critics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSUE80SAPpk
Trump hilariously dances with traditional performers as he touches down in Malaysia

Last edited 10 months ago by waikatogirl
nasska
Reply to  waikatogirl
10 months ago

Did you read the comments? One wag provided the contrast between Trump & the UK’s apology for a PM.

“You’re lucky. We’re stuck with Kia Starmer – a man who can light up a room just by walking out of it.”

🙂

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
Reply to  nasska
10 months ago

LOL, “Malaysian Traditional performers” – They were playing the theme song to Hawaii 5.0.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASvQ-bNURn4
Hawaii Five O Theme Song (Original)

Starmer is only be able to mimic a darlek from Dr Who. 💩

Last edited 10 months ago by waikatogirl
Viking
10 months ago

Kash Patel

Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups and Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier are among more than 30 people who have been charged in connection with schemes involving illegal sports betting and rigged poker games backed by Mafia, authorities said on Thursday

https://www.facebook.com/reel/2280153162458663

Viking
10 months ago

Here ya go Naas.

The Good Life: A surprising book may be the key for revitalising Masterton
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/the-listener/life/the-good-life-a-surprising-book-may-be-the-key-for-revitalising-masterton/ICPU6YGJSBFV3GF2MZK6RCHGBU/

You will have to splash some cash to read it.

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
10 months ago

Valuable info for stroke victims

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llNuYpNLN_E
Seniors, Do THIS Before Help Arrives — The 3-Minute Trick That Stops a Stroke! | Senior Health Tips

For seniors over 60, what happens in the next three minutes determines everything — whether you walk again, speak again, or even survive.

Last edited 10 months ago by waikatogirl
howitis
howitis
Reply to  waikatogirl
10 months ago

18 minutes to tell you about a 3 minute TRICK

yeah/nah

elevator speech please .

Mike Hunty
Reply to  waikatogirl
10 months ago

How do ya do it if ya flat on ya back half fkuced? Hey ya WG! Hows my fave! 😍

Mike Hunty
Reply to  Mike Hunty
10 months ago

I’m under 60 btw 😉

howitis
howitis
Reply to  Mike Hunty
10 months ago

…I’m under 60 btw …

what

in Dog years ?

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
Reply to  Mike Hunty
10 months ago

Young as you feel Mike 🤩

Looks like Nelson’s in for another drenching.

howitis
howitis
Reply to  waikatogirl
10 months ago

My cousin moved to Nelson 3 and a bit years ago.

After 30 plus year sin Queenstown
Was looking forward to better weather
but all it does is rain now.

Especially since the misery guts trougher Nicky Smith became mayor 3 years ago .
anything would be miserable around that messed up dude
even the sky; that cries continuously.

Mike Hunty
Reply to  waikatogirl
10 months ago

Or the wimmin ya feelin. 😉Yeah blardy rain. Mind you, its only a trickle compared to what falls in T’land. It’s like an ocean dropping from the skys some days.

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
Reply to  Mike Hunty
10 months ago

Was it the Thai Queen Mother who died? Trump was giving his condolences.

Mike Hunty
Reply to  waikatogirl
10 months ago

Yeah, she finally went tits up. The son is the current monarch. Thais hate him because he is such a prik. His father was held in the highest regard. That was a significant day/period when he dropped. The entire country mourned for ages.

Mike Hunty
Reply to  Mike Hunty
10 months ago

Much like what will happen when the Hunster goes tits up. Wimmin everywhere will be blubbering, screaming uncontrollably.

Curious
Reply to  Mike Hunty
10 months ago

They often do that after several glasses of bubbly.

nasska
Reply to  Mike Hunty
10 months ago

Only if they let you run a tab at the local knock shop. 🙂

Mike Hunty
Reply to  nasska
10 months ago

Wouldnt know 🤔😉

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
10 months ago

Greeny time doesn’t cut it.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rwkrUXVKPFU
The Greens Leadership Fail: Marama Davidson’s 20-Second Mistake

Last edited 10 months ago by waikatogirl
Viking
10 months ago

Denmark is making history with a bold proposal to protect human identity in the age of AI. The new copyright law would grant every citizen full ownership of their likeness — including their face, voice, and body data — ensuring that no AI system or company can replicate or use these without consent.
This comes amid the global rise of AI deepfakes, where hyper-realistic digital copies of people are used for scams, fake news, and even political manipulation. Denmark’s proposal treats a person’s appearance and voice as intellectual property, giving individuals legal grounds to demand removal or compensation if their likeness is misused.
If passed, this could become a blueprint for digital human rights worldwide, redefining how nations protect citizens in an era where identity can be cloned by machines. By turning personal traits into property, Denmark is sending a clear message: our humanity deserves copyright protection.
#AIDeepfakes #DigitalRights #DenmarkInnovation #AIEthics #PrivacyMatters

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