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I went to an event in Auckland, put on by Reality Check Radio. It was about the deaths and injuries caused by the vaccine that people were forced to take during Covid. There were a number of doctors who spoke. The panellists included: Dr Martin Lally, Dr Alison Goodwin, Dr Guy Hatchard, Alia Bland, Katie Ashby-Koppens and Lynda Wharton.
Hipkins should be charged with manslaughter.
And Ardern arrested the next time she sets foot in New Zealand.
To start a forensic investigation.
Murder would be the appropriate charge.
did they have any speakers there opposing/refuting the claims or was a just an extremely biased echo chamber?… no need to answer chuck.
just wondering then chuck, if a butthurt maori attends a tpm or ti tiriti meeting and comes out after claiming they never ceded soveriegnty and that this country should be handed back to maori and given 200billion in reparations do you think we should listen to them?… yea, it carries the same weight as your meeting of nutters and honestly it deminishes the cause and adds to the fatigue.
C’mon SB, you don’t always need to take such an extreme position. There are almost certainly people seriously hurt by the Covid vax. I know someone who ended up in a bad way from a measles vaccination. Not every second person would have been injured by the Covid vax, probably not even 1 in 100000, but each person who was is an individual tragedy.
Remember that a freedom person I know has/had (don’t know how old he is now), a teenage son who after Covid vaccination, went from a keen athlete to someone who would black out and require hospitalisation because his heart was fucked. The kid was so scared he would walk around feeling his pulse. Coincidence? Suuuure.
The odds of such a thing occurring spontaneously in a healthy teenager – not impossible to be fair:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1058981325000074
And before you say, “How do they know it was the vax?”, which is a fair question, particularly when supposedly kids are at more risk from Covid:
https://www.bmj.com/content/391/bmj.r2330.full
So yeah, some may well be “butthurt nutters”, but with no-one endeavouring to determine the likelihood of whether they are or aren’t, it’s unfair to put them all into that category.
FJA,
Excess deaths in NZ since the DNA experiment rollout is approaching 15,000. That’s one death in 350 people, and it all can’t be from witchcraft. That that is official NZ data supplied to OurWorldInData.
Estimates from medical specialists I have spoken to, put serious side effects and injuries at as high as 1 in 30 people. That figures aligns with the number of people I have spoken to.
But thanks to loudmouth bullies like Stupid Boy, most, if not all will never discuss it, and keep it to themselves, even when the subject comes up.
It is a delicate subject and until they know they can trust you, they never speak of it.
Even medical professionals keep silent for fear of being prosecuted or fired.
The medical council was bought off. Have the MSM ever had a look at the hierarchy of it? Any of the bosses retired, bought property, gone on extended overseas trips, looked at money and property going to wife and kids, bought a boat, flash cars, RVs. Can’t be hard, I afraid they have been bought off too!
One way to throw a spanner in the works is to use the young ones graduated since covid. They never got any of the bloody big payout and would love to poke the bear and make their name and go down in history, along with going down in history!
excess deaths can be from a number of things tho, you cant attribute them all or even the bulk of it to the jab. a couple thousand at most i could maybe believe.
just remember we saved plenty of oldies from flu deaths, younger from other deaths by locking down. out death rate/excess deaths dropped for a year or 2 do it needs to balance out somewhere.
then theres the shutting down of the health system, diagnosis and treatments. that will be where are large chunk of those 15k will stem from, plus look how fucked our health system is still.
then theres the rapidly declining shit diets and lifestyles etc.
“…from other deaths by locking down. out death rate/excess deaths dropped for a year or 2 do it needs to balance out somewhere.
then theres the shutting down of the health system…”
I trust the medical professionals I am in touch with, and the world wide stats. Cancers, rare cancers, turbo cancers, heart failures, myocarditis, etc etc and all sorts of new health issues never seen before the vaccines.
You dreaming up reasons to justify and/or explain away the excess deaths, is not the same as doing the heavy lifting of research.
Contacts in the health systems are seeing a 100% increase in people with serious issues.
I find the whole IgG1, …. IgG4 stuff interesting as well as the psuedouridine replacement and that effect on the body’s immune system. I suspect a lot of the upticks in the list you mention are related to this. Thanks Pfizer.
The medical practitioner on the street, I’m picking was shafted by the medical council who was paid a fortune to shaft entitled NZ. Certainly did no harm having a compliant Labor party in charge at the time and an absolutely bunch of weak cunts in the health dept, who probably were so inept they knew no different.
Doctors, including my GP, each submitted hundreds of reports of patient side effects, and got nothing back.
sb:”just remember we saved plenty of oldies from flu deaths, younger from other deaths by locking down”.
Depriving oldies from visits by family and happy interactions with grandchildren was intolerable for most. They would have happily swapped the risk of flu for interaction with family and friends.
As for saving younger people, lock down caused more depression and neuroticism which the country is still paying for today with a bunch of whinging head cases demanding attention and funding.
Stupid Boy, I’ve been involved in science and medical research my entire life. Probably 20+ years before you started painting your nappies Karitane Yellow.
Unlike you, I actually know the science. Pull your head in.
like any scientist you let your bias take control… probs $$$ too.
I don’t get paid for my research. I let science not bias create the data.
i didnt even call them vax nutters for once, i was simply pointing out to poor chuck that he attended an echo chamber on steroids designed to make him feel and come to the conclusion he did.
of course some died from vax i dont deny that but as you comment aswell its likely a very low rate… not every 3rd or 4th person as the hardcore cookers claim.
as for heart issues and sudden deaths of teens and young adults thats been happening since forever im sorry to say. google it with any year prior to covid and plenty come up as ive linked them here before. is there more now? possibly but i think since the idea is planted in your mind you look out for/notice it more so a bit of backfeeding going on.
then alot has changed in the past decade that can possible attribute aswell… ultra processed diets, chemicals, radiation devices in every pocket and spread through every home and city block etc. no doubt medicines and vaccines play a part too.
iatrogenic death was a leading killer in america prior to covid so it would be no supprise that it would continue or increase once the hysteria took hold and they were overtreating patients.
im not sure of iatrogenic death stats in nz now, i found them during covid times and recall it being far higher then road deaths and suicides combined.
my argument against you vax nutter types was never the vax dosent kill or damage it was that no proof is ever provided with your claims…. esp the anecdotal stuff which in the age of online randos its rife and 99% bullshit.
the absurd claims by the likes of dylan hunt on here that near everyone he knows who got vaxed is damaged or dead etc… hes either very unlucky and should be avoided or just exagerated bullshit. at the rates he and other cookers claim then we should see 70% of the population with serious illness verging on death and 20% dead while us unvaxed stroll around fine and dandy… fact is the unvaxed are getting ill and dying too, some sudenly, some heart issues, some cancer which every cancer nowdays is labelled turbo cancer.
imo shutting down healthcare for months, locking people in their homes to eat bullshit for weeks on end plus the huge mental stress inflicted on the population caused far more death and lasting damage then the vax ever did.
“..the absurd claims by the likes of dylan hunt on here that near everyone he knows who got vaxed is damaged or dead etc…”
What a Stupid Boy. I’ve never said that. You’ve inflated the figures to make it look that way.
When I said I know dozens and dozens of people that I know who are injured you are looking at it through country bumpkin eyes. Rural types who don’t engage with many people. You posted it many times how you keep away from people. So a few dozen injured by the vaccine might actually be more than the number of people you meet in a year.
I, on the other hand, meet a large number of people in business, one to one, or on the phone. And like Chuck have been to meetings and events and talked to people. And unlike you Stupid Boy, I listen.
I don’t drink, I don’t talk about the rugby, or other topics that get blasted across the TV. I have meaningful conversations. I probably have more in depth conversations that the entire number of people you know.
I’m doing work in Southland at the moment, and I am stunned at the number of people that did not get vaccinated, or who have family members or friends who are injured.
If you start talking politics, it leads to subjects such as the climate change change bullshit, the Maori gravy train, the assault on farming, and almost always Covid and the vaccines. I make it easy for them to open up, by declaring I didn’t get vaccinated, and the numbers of people I know who did not get vaccinated, or got sick etc.
You can take the boy out of Waimate, but you can’t take the Waimate out of the boy.
yea i think southland was a bit of a stronghold for the unvaxed, many claimed to be vaxed to keep the peace and never talked about it outve fear i think, was amazing how many never got it once they braved up and started talking. i had several mates who i thought for sure wouldve and it wasnt till just before vax passes they made their stance known. i literally felt like me and mrs sb were alone at the time and couldnt talk to anyone except the folk on ysb about it, was a great relief when i found others like us.
i lived in waimate area… well not really, i lived in morven/glenavy on the sh1 near the chinese milk factory for 11 months mate, dunno why you reference it so often? hooker phil is based in waimo maybe your confused with him, but hes not a native to there either.
im a born n bred gore boy, lived there until i was 16 and moved to waimate then onto nelson area and western australia. now i live not far from my hometown, if youre in southland now you can probs go outside and scream VAAAAAAXXXXXX and ill hear ya lol.
No still based in Christchurch, but doing regular trips.
Plenty in Waimate didn’t get vaccinated as well. However the six older guys I know who ended up in hospital because of kidney problems within a 3 month period of having it were all vaccinated.
I spoke with a farmer’s wife and half of her women’s group lost their hearing for several weeks immediately following vaccination.
have you heard of mass hysteria induced illness/effects and mass hypochondria?
we saw the same shit with covid, because of the covid hysteria people were literally worrying themselves sick.
once again more bullshit, so if we take your claim seriously and extrapolate out then 50% of women nationwide shouldve suffered hearing loss following vaccination… of was it just confined to this one ladies group? if so then you either got fed bullshit or they were under severe mental stress and all developed the same made up illness.
liken it to battlefield stress and solsiers getting hysterical blindness etc.
for a supposed scientist youre very fucking incapable of critical thinking and picking apart something to see if theres another possible explaination.
youre “one of those ones” who has a predetermined answer and sets about gathering biased data to support your conclusion.
for a scientist you rely alot on hearsay and 2nd, 3rd 4th hand information to form your conclusions.
how many mates auntys neighbours dog walkers cousins brother in laws mechanics wife who died from the vax do you know?… probs lots lol.
That’s unusual.
Normally they reckon that its the men that don’t listen.
Research, diagnostics, forensics, auditing and trying to solve mysteries requires use of the scientific method.
Which aside from many other principles, at the core is inductive and deductive logic.
Deductive is relatively easy, including relatively easy to get it wrong. Inductive logic / thinking / research is a lot harder, and when coupled to deductive logic is very powerful.
And yes, it requires listening.
👍
Actually, the real point is that it was an untested, unverified form of supposed medication for which there was no proven need.
It was used as a war weapon against the population (like so many others), and a way of making a lot of money at the community’s expense.
It was an excuse for a nasty, horrible bunch of politicians to attempt to gain control of NZ’ wealth.
All that can be seen by the things that were done and remain covered up.
It’s all very well for SB to call people butt-hurt nutters sitting there in a tractor on a bit of dirt miles from nowhere. Be different if he worked in a city and in a big company that said jab or no job.
It would be different if he had sent his wife off to town to get jabbed and she had died or had heart problems after the job.
He doesn’t realise how lucky he is.
Viking, I was never going to take the vaccine, but while in hospital for several weeks in early 2021, the nurses I encountered said they would not take it and gave the reasons why. The biggest of which is the time it takes to test and get certified (even dishonestly), which is 10-20 years. And that knowledge is part of their training.
Every time I has at medical appointment / hospital checkup (I had plenty) they tried to pressure me into getting the mRNA.
“You haven’t had your vaccine yet. Can we administer it now?”
“No” was always my response.
They always countered that with “Why not?” (in a demanding tone).
“Because it is 10 years too early”. The discussion always stopped there. I wouldn’t have taken it in 10 years anyway, but they cannot argue against something they know is true from their training. (10-20 years to test and get approval).
Yup, the young guy I discussed – his mum was dead against him getting vaxxed. He wanted to so he could do sports. His dad took him to get it behind mum’s back.
Got really, really close to a separation. I can only imagine the guilt his dad feels.
Sad to hear FJA. I can concur with you about the fallout. I know a number of marriages that broke apart over the vaccines, and and people in permanent suffering over the loss of loved ones from the vaccines or loved ones in permanent care as a result of vaccine injuries. And then there are those, some quite young that can never work again or live a normal life.
Covid jab #2 sent my heart into disarray for some weeks. Missing every 4th beat. Doc said he had half dozen other patients with same thing. Glad i didnt have a dicky ticker to start with.
not as dicky as my bastard. Triple bypass, replacement valves and something else, I forget right now. Died twice getting the farkun things installed..shit must be 12 years ago now. I’m Steve Austin now.
More like you couldn’t handle all my exes.
The man with a cast iron dick!
No. You were thinking of Ron Jeremy.
This is the dick with the cast iron heart parts. 🙂
I will comment after reading about this on stuffed and the hearld.
Stuffed had nothing, but the Herald did behind a paywall.
whoooosh, over your head it went!
rightly so.
dang thats a huuuuuge bitch, sad and disgusting thing is it probs gets alot more sex then youd hope it ever does, probs more than some of you oldies have had in the last 20-30yrs!…
hunty, give us your take on how the hell one takes on something like that? for starters im guessing plenty of booze and pfizers blue pills, cuz if you can get it up for that thing sober and unaided you gotta be seriously messesd up in the head.
plot twist, thats one of huntys exes that ROL has been banging the hell outve!!!
My mate did a huuuuge motorbike-riding chick one New Year’s Eve. God knows how he met her. He was a little traumatised once the weed and alcohol wore off.
First time I’ve seen it. Ed’s a sick bastard. More cushion for the pushin?
that thing would tsunami ripple and upon its return youre gunna get thrown off the back end of that “cushion”.
maybe this is what Ed had in mind the other day with his comment on muff diving?…. pass the mind bleach please!!!
You sure?
How’s the beach today?
Suns out 25 deg
Cold at this time of day!
Morning all, off to the big smoke this morning. Grandsons 5th birthday party. Should be a real rage, I’ll probably need counseling after a few hours of sugar hyped screaming kids. If I survive this we then have the obligatory stop off at several shopping malls on the way home. Is it any wonder I drink?
just find the other dads and retreat to the mancave, if no mancave exists then behind the house with a beer in hand will suffice!
mrs sb went a lil crazy for our daughters 5th bday, she was near feotal position rocking in the corner by the end of it. absolute chaos and overwhelmed by about 20 odd terrors running rampant fuelled by sugar and toys…. i was a heavy stoner at the time so i went for a wander over to the shed with a few of the other dads and we self medicated. we fared alot better then the women once we returned.
Wow you were a responsible dad then weren’t you , sounds like you lucky to still be married .
super responsible, i take it you never drank alcohol, smoked a cigi/joint the entire time youve been married or a father?
I did wait till I was 40 though
lol, fuck youre mad having them that late!
my mates turning 38 and just spudded up his missus, mind you he tragicaly lost his first child 13yrs ago so think its part of healing journey.
i was intent on not being an old man with kids at home bleeding me dry, set a date of getting the snip at no later then 30 no matter what, always wanted 2-3kids so told mrs sb the first one needed to be on its way by time i was 27.
having kids a bit later like now im nearly 40 wouldve been good in the way im more financially secure and i have more time i could spend with them during the early years tho so guess its a trade off.
still dont like the idea of being in my 50s trying to feed bottomless pit teens and have the energy to keep up with them tho, i figure 50 onwards is my time to chill and do the shit i wanna do before im a decrepit old coot like a few on here!
So you are looking forward to grandkids.
Nah it easier you have plenty of money and time at this age , and a missus 10 years younger that wants to go out and earn instead of hanging around an old near 60 feck
Not once i became a father before that of course .
Best thing I ever did..not shot one past the goalie.
meh its not for everyone mate, i dunno what my life would be like without kids but id imagine pretty boring and more lonely tbh… id have a hell of alot more money tho!
watching your kids grow and their minds/personality develop is a fucking cool and rewarding thing. watching them fuckup, be dumbarses or lil shits makes you question life choices sometimes tho.
..sounds riveting.
Where’s that clack bunt Tamihere and his sidekick feral clack bunt mate Jackson?? Verrry quiet.
They are busy working out how to keep the rort going, failing that how to keep what they have rorted already! You need a big rort to fund the lifestyle and mortgage for the both of them
Is this the moment that the PM forces me to eat my words? I hope soWhile our collective focus is on the impending economic collapse driven by a lack of petroleum, my attention has been diverted by a speech given by a relatively obscure, but important, government apparatchik. The Reserve Bank chief economist, Paul Conway.
The problem with government economists is that their language is constrained by the necessities of convention. They would describe an invasion of Orcs pouring over the balustrades, howling with bloodlust as an incoming negative external shock with the potential for adverse economic outcomes in the short to medium term.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/360956965/moment-pm-forces-me-eat-my-words-i-hope-so
Leadership is about telling the electorate what they do not want to hear but need to understand; and that extends well beyond the prospect of a temporary fuel shortage.
Last December, Luxon told an interviewer he is a better Prime Minister now than when he stepped into the role. “Yeah, I think you learn all the time in this job.”
Despite my contrarian nature and temperamental cynicism I remain optimistic that Luxon has the ability to fulfil his own and the countries’ potential; but to do this he will need to take risks. Risks that may cut short the length of his premiership even as it increases its impact.
How will this be managed?
Digital ID
I think it’s pretty accurate
https://youtu.be/_WGanPQRfoc?si=_go5iJncgWMo8hZm
I may not be in sync. in all the parts touched on, but it does bring an interesting perspective.
Still to figure the depth of Islamic belief, dedication, loyality to Mohammad’s abrogation to warlord practices, to bring about global sharia rule, using all of western civilization’s technologies, & “kindly progressiveness”
VERDICT : Trump Tells NATO ‘Never Forget’ — Then Used Iran to Prove It
https://youtu.be/rwjwYW2T7Gw
13 mins 30 secs : 29th March 2026 : Promethean Updates
President Trump’s cabinet remarks and Saudi Investment Forum comments mark a “verdict” on NATO and the broader transatlantic system that has dominated the global economy for 40 years.
She contends the Iran War is fundamentally a financial story: after Europe offered only a post-hostilities role policing the Strait of Hormuz, the U.S. moved to replace Lloyd’s of London by using the U.S. Development Finance Corporation, maritime reinsurance, and Central Command to secure Gulf shipping.
Boyd says this shift amounts to U.S. control over a critical energy chokepoint—captured in Trump’s “Strait of Trump” line—reshaping how oil flows to Asia.
She previews Trump’s May 14–15 Beijing trip, framing U.S.-China relations around shared industrial traditions linked to Sun Yat-sen and rejecting a “cold war” narrative.
Just as NATO believed it owned the USA;–
as we know here in NZ, the pontifications of progressive collectivism of the WEF + UN + the likes of IMF & World Bank financial systems; which many here go along with, so those progressive institutions have come to believe they own us.
Some parts are hopeful, other parts are realistic, & other parts are possible.
But it is still just a month.
Lt. Col. Allen West on Iran War, How to Restore Law and Order
https://youtu.be/YeloljWlAu8
35 minutes : Mar 27, 2026 : The Alex Marlow Show :
Colonel Allen West and they discuss the critical issues surrounding immigration enforcement, border security, and U.S. foreign policy, especially regarding Iran.
He highlights recent tragic cases, legal challenges, and strategic military actions, emphasizing the importance of strong enforcement and national security.
From a paraphrased comment
“”Canidate Trump promised Iran will NEVER have nuclear weapons… as soon as he came down the staircase. (One of his first promises…)
Iran’s ‘problem’ won’t go away by itself, so it must be invited to leave this Earth.
It is not American school children chanting, ‘Death to Israel ! Death to Iran ! ‘ “”
Based on before Trump was elected if one scrolls down a bit.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/releases/2025/06/president-trump-has-always-been-clear-iran-cannot-have-a-nuclear-weapon/#:~
Mike Tyson’s —- “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth”.
So adaptability, the pivot, becomes important, with perservance, now that it has started; to achieve.
Trumps the best. I know many anti-Trumpers, and when I hit them up and ask why, they look at the ground and say, ” I dunno”. Brain-dead dickheads.. They are lucky I don’t knock them clean out for being morons. Grrr.
Baltej Singh is serving a 22-year prison sentence after admitting importing more than 700kg of methamphetamine, the largest amount ever seized by New Zealand authorities.”
I demand to speak to the Head Wobbler about this! Where is he?!
Ed’s next 3D printing project? Young guy builds a MANPAD for under $100:
https://www.zerohedge.com/military/kid-just-3d-printed-manpad-97
you can get manpads for free in some govt department toilets….
but seriously thats a fucking kickarse project, probs gunna get raided by a few 3 letter agencies now tho and go up on terrorism charges or something.
i rekon Eds got a new project for the 3d printer!
Unemployable computer nerds living alone, unwashed & unloved in the spare bedrooms of their mothers’ houses tooling up with printable $97 hi tech depopulators!
What could possibly go wrong?
The cat is continually getting out of the bag.
Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit, Esteemed Drs., Win Missouri v. Biden Case Brought Before the U.S. Supreme Court – Government Settles, Agrees to End Biden Censorship Tyranny
After years of litigation in which the Gateway Pundit founder and publisher Jim Hoft was the lead Plaintiff, Missouri v. Biden, the case experts said was “the most important free speech case in recent history,” has settled between the government and Hoft and the other plaintiffs.
The government admits that “Unrelenting pressure from certain government officials likely had the intended result of suppressing millions of protected free speech postings by American citizens.”
The important concession and agreement, secured through years of expensive and time-intensive litigation by the Gateway Pundit, is this hard-won agreement, as stated in the document:
“The Government cannot take actions, formal or informal, directly or indirectly… to threaten Social-Media Companies with some form of punishment… unless they remove, delete, suppress, or reduce… content containing protected free speech.”
Another important line from the dissent decree stated:
“The Parties agree that modern technology does not alter the Government’s obligation to abide by the strictures of the First Amendment.”
For years, legacy mainstream media denied this was happening, and have refused to report on this case.
And no doubt we all have a higher chance of Winning 1st Division Powerball than NZ mainstream media ever publishing the result of this trial.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/03/jim-hoft-gateway-pundit-esteemed-drs-win-missouri/
Things I learned today.
Cash Converters don’t buy ankle monitors.
Belonging to you or the legendary fisherman?
Dept of Corrections I think! 🙂
Normality may be making a comeback:
#. “The International Olympic Committee said on Thursday that only “biological females” will be allowed to compete in women’s events, preventing transgender women from competing.”
#. “The IOC is reintroducing testing for gender to determine eligibility to take part in women’s events from the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics onwards.”
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/olympics/olympic-womens-sport-to-be-limited-to-biological-females/CK52UASX3NBW7OPHD57RJ2LN6I/
Where do you apply for the inspectors job?
Little Johnny by a.i
https://x.com/bredsguarddalen/status/2037962146563420524?s=46
Recent closures of both Heinz & McCain’s growing & processing vegetable operations in NZ haven’t gone unnoticed on the other side of the world. Today’s https://expose-news.com/2026/03/28/buy-kiwi-to-protect-new-zealands-national-interests/ is worth a read:
#. “History shows us that weathering turbulent times requires local Self-Sufficiency writ large with capital letters.”
Yet our sycophantic following of globalism & Rogernomics over the past forty years have left Godzone totally at the mercy of the vagaries of world politics, conflicts & shortages be they oil or vegetables. We make fuck all & have bidden farewell to the talented engineers & entrepreneurs capable of doing so.
#. “Although we farm sheep, we no longer have a woollen industry; we export the fleece and import garments and fabrics. Although our nation is rich in commercial pine forests, we export logs and import furniture and building materials. Although we are one of the world’s biggest producers of dairy, we have just sold the retail arm of this operation to a French multinational food giant. Although we all drive cars, we have closed our local oil refinery.”
The jobs that no longer exist are in my not so humble opinion the cause of our social problems to boot. Manufacturing is a huge soak for unskilled labour.
Few would want to live in a replica of 1950s protectionism & import permits but our masters’ obsessions with world trade & level playing fields is not working as well as we would like to think.
One thing is for certain, those of us who grew up with parents who survived the long lagging shortages after WW2 will be able to survive with less than the young commercially reliant of today. Self-reliance and going without is not a skill some have ever had to consider.
The jobs that no longer exist are, in my not-so-humble opinion, the cause of our social problems to boot. Manufacturing is a huge soak for unskilled labour.
There’s ya problem. Manufacturing is and never has been unskilled, unlike driving a truck in the old days.
Manufacturing has always been a skilled job except to yobs who simply never understand it anyway.
Its the practices forced upon manufacturers by the Law or the Unions that fuck it up.
Nowadays, manufacturing is large-scale, highly automated and will become even more so. The real issue is the lack of real education that is preparing people for this coming era.
That is also affected by the Govt’s lack of intelligence in the tax laws etc and the lack of science being taught.
The AI revolution will make a big change, already starting and is going to ramp up. There are opportunities to be had, not by pick and shovel, old flat head screw drivers and a hammer but by those who think 21st century.
Have a read.
AI revolution is coming for service jobs: How work will change by 2030 – Bruce CotterillThere are plenty of things distracting us at the moment. With an election looming, another war in the Middle East, swollen oil prices and concerns about supply, and the risk of a return to recession as a result.
Amidst the madness we’ve stopped talking about the fact that we are about to experience the biggest change to our way of life, probably in our lifetimes.
War changed our parents’ generation. War and depression changed that of our grandparents. But it has been technology that has changed ours. In my case, that lifetime has included the arrival of the personal computer, the internet and the smartphone. Those technologies paved the way for social media platforms, cloud computing and e-commerce.
Away from the lives of most of us, biotechnology and genomics have enabled personalised and predictive medicine and rapidly accelerated development of pharmaceuticals.
The list goes on, 24-hour news cycles, planes that can fly across the world in a single journey and search engines that mean we no longer have to carry information because we know where we can find it.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/economy/employment/ai-revolution-is-coming-for-service-jobs-how-work-will-change-by-2030-bruce-cotterill/premium/7MESZEPEYJBR7EX7MBHRAUP4MU/
Your next vehicle, if you make it that far, will be made this way, just as the old one was but more automated than ever.
Paywalled so those of us who will not pay for our brainwashing & social conditioning via the Herald’s propaganda unit will never know how it ends.
But let me speculate. The author, one Bruce Cotterill, is a master of drivel & platitudes who wouldn’t recognise a tangible fact if it few in through the window & disappeared up his freckle. Did he speculate on what the displaced people in the workforce will actually do or did he waffle on about “arts & charity” in the manner of the idiots of yore?
Because if he of supposedly higher levels of intelligence & insight, such as you ascribe to yourself can’t get down to specifics & state what generations hence will actually do to fill in their workless, lonely existences punctuated by subsistence handouts in the form of a universal benefit what chance have we?
No-one to date has offered a realistic vision of a society run along those lines. What this unskilled, poorly educated, ex truck driver envisages will make the seven rings of hell seem like a benign travel brochure.
Again, you show how ignorant you are.
There’a reason why you are poor and ignorant. Think about it.
Do more reading, including the very cheap Herald. Not everything on these pages is meaningless dribble, such as you write daily.
Is this the beginniing of understanding some of Trump’s concepts, such as “tarriffs”?.
As in many things, “all in moderation”? which can take some skill.
And to figure what are the consequences, to the good citizen.
Certainly shows up the ongoing spiel from the progressive collectivist experts, of no accountability in the academia, techno-bureaucratic etc.
We need tariffs.
Heinz have been importing vegetables for some time. They can import cheap from many countries that don’t have the same regulations and compliance as NZ.
There is also big time dumping going on with the likes of canned fruit.
our minimum wage is too high along with many other costs.
Like our meat, they should be required to state the farm origins etc.
Trump has sufficient nous to realise that the dearth of meaningful employment for the uneducated & discontented is a recipe for social disaster. Like me, you’ll probably recall the social Polyannas of the 60s & 70s raving eloquently about how people freed from the drudgery of menial work would embrace the arts & charities.
In a pig’s eye! They have predictably been drafted into an army of discontented, disruptive & disconnected halfwits doing the bidding of the UN & the WEF.
We now see China & India with contented, working populations while the West is fractured by unemployed arseholes dependant on the State they have grown to despise.
I well recall the day in Muldoon’s time being hit by 66% taxes, & that was doing very physical work which made me take on an accountant, that helped to set up for only 50% tax rate,
Plus I simply eased back, took time off.
Doubtlessly this was going on before Helen Clark’s time of being Prime MInister,
She took the position as a minister in the Ministry of Arts & Culture etc.. then vastly increased their budget at the time.
Where many more of the luvvie duvvies for 9 years + leveraged even more taxpayer funding.
So the funding of many of those socialist activists was fully enabled.
In news you really need to know, tech department:
https://www.zerohedge.com/ai/debbie-dupes-dallas-porn-legends-clone-themselves-ai-keep-raking-it-long-after-retiring
I’ll need to investigate further before replying to questions on the sinful ness of watching AI porn as opposed to the real stuff. I know there are some here that are desperate for answers on these deeply theological questions.
Running out of fuel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzgyFBGe0pA
https://www.foxnews.com/world/ugandan-military-chief-vows-back-israel-against-iran-viral-social-media-barrage
Go Uganda
The vaccine can be as effective as heart attack medication for those infected by influenza, epidemiologist Dr Michael Baker says.
The annual flu vaccine – which becomes available this coming week in NZ – can reduce risk of heart attacks, an epidemiologist says.
Epidemiologist Dr Michael Baker told Sunday Morning the influenza vaccine didn’t just reduce the risk and severity of the flu, it also reduced the risk of heart attacks and strokes by about a third for those infected.
He said increased rates of influenza can increase the amount of heart attacks because it can inflame and injure the heart muscle directly.
“The illness itself… puts stress on the organs as well and also makes the blood more prone to clotting.”
Baker said the vaccine can be as effective as heart attack medication for those infected by influenza.
He also said there were some vaccines – which are not funded – that were better suited for older people.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/590946/epidemiologist-says-influeneza-vaccine-can-reduce-risk-of-heart-attacks
When is the lying prick going to jail?
Doctor Michael Baker, I would do the opposite of what he recommended!
𝗜𝗦𝗥𝗔𝗘𝗟 𝗜𝗦 𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗜𝗥𝗚𝗖 𝗢𝗙𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗘𝗥𝗦 𝗕𝗘𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗘 𝗞𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗠 — 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗢𝗡 𝗪𝗛𝗬 𝗠𝗔𝗧𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗦
Victor Davis Hanson just revealed something that stopped me in my tracks.
Israel is not just targeting Iranian Revolutionary Guard commanders. They are specifically going after the officers who k!lled protesters — the people who ran checkpoints and shot Iranians in the streets during the January uprisings when the regime massacred thousands of its own citizens.
And they’re calling them first.
https://x.com/MichaelARothman/status/2036336281798713811?fbclid=IwY2xjawQ1k7pleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFhUWVCSTRITzdWZkdPYU9wc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHkAAIIOp-eLa8YMUNcnDrJw8brK0TH3LiXV0loAG0bkNm2B0W6OiV54yNIuk_aem_F2ZWTYoAPNqqQkxfH4NgYw
Further information on Ed’s cuddle bunny in PIC 3.
EU IMMIGRATION SHOCK: URSULA’S TOTAL DEFEAT! The EU just changed FOREVER! In a vote that has left Brussels in total CHAOS, the Parliament just passed the most brutal immigration crackdown in history. Ursula von der Leyen was seen visibly SHAKEN as her “open border” dream collapsed in real-time… But the real shocker? A secret clause about “immediate removal” has sent a shiver through the UK! If this hidden detail is true, the crisis is about to hit our shores harder than ever… and what happens next will leave you SPEECHLESS…
https://top.newsonline.biz/eu-immigration-shock-ursulas-total-defeat-the-eu-just-changed-forever-in-a-vote-that-has-left-brussels-in-total-chaos-the-parliament-just-passed-the-most-brutal-immigration-crackdown-in-h-76671.html?utm_source=checkview&utm_medium=mk&fbclid=IwY2xjawQ1lnNleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFhUWVCSTRITzdWZkdPYU9wc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHj5KNVGOxprN0DS_bG5TwD_Xw_paabRqWTVFqN3V5GLCK-lp1_OM3ag9C5O5_aem_gNSVIxEJQErEmNCBgVv-TA
The World Wide Headlines as announced by Viking !
Ursula von der Leyen was seen visibly SHAKEN as her “open border” dream collapsed in real-time…
It must all be so true as it repeated through out face book, according to google.
So why is this not paywalled in the Herald????
10th Dec, 2025 ….. The EU plans to strengthen law enforcement through increased Europol funding, expanding Frontex to 30,000 officers and introducing a new sanctions regime to freeze smugglers’ assets and restrict their movements. …..
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/europe-decides-who-crosses-borders-not-smugglers-eu-commission-chief/3767542
13th March, 2026 …… In December 2024, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen made returns a top priority for her new mandate, vowing to “draw lessons from Italy-Albania” — a controversial deal routing arrivals straight to Albanian detention centers. …..
https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/70346/eu-migrant-return-hubs–explained
26 March, 2026 …… Announced by President Ursula von der Leyen, the EU argues that this text is essential to complement the Pact on Migration Asylum which will enter into application in mid-2026, by complementing the framework in processing asylum applications “more quickly and more efficiently”. …..
….. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has pointed to the low number of enforced returns as a key driver behind the reform.
“Today only around 20% of those who have a return decision leave Europe. This number is by far too low”, she said, adding that “those with no right to stay must be swiftly removed, and there must be clear consequences for those who do not cooperate”. ……..
https://www.newarab.com/news/eu-greenlights-controversial-mandate-deport-refugees
So far one can see the numbers to have her sacked or resign do not stack up.
…… On 18 July 2024, she was re-elected for a further five-year term after a secret ballot among MEPs at the European Parliament, winning 401 votes in favour compared to 284 …..
….. von der Leyen survived a vote of no confidence, with 360 MEPs against and 175 in favour. ……
Ok I expect another doubling down by Viking but why bring nothing to debate or consider on this issue, as it seems to be ignorant in your actual arrogance.
Funnily enough I am not a fan of Ursula either.
Can you Viking say that Ursula von der Leyen did not deliver on her priority as stated in 2024????????? which is totally opposite of what is claimed
But look at the supporting numbers. !
Sure at some stage the stopped clock will be right, with her resignation if & when the numbers really do change, but in the meantime she has up to July 2029 to run the clock out.
Like as I said, maybe if after Orban is re-elected or AfD actually gets beyond being a majority of a minority.
That may slowly have some effect on the EU Parliament in the future.
The equivalent of applying a bandaid to arterial bleeding. Of the UK’s Islamic invaders over half are 2nd & 3rd generation & cannot be removed.
It might get rid of a few of the recent arrived garbage but that’s all
Rubio Drops Truth Bomb on G7: America First, Not Europe Last
Secretary of State Marco Rubio just reminded the world who he really works for ahead of the G7 foreign ministers’ meeting in France.
“I don’t work for France or Germany or Japan,” Rubio said bluntly. “I get along with all of them on a personal level and we work with those governments very carefully. But the people I’m interested in making happy are the people of the United States. I work for them.”
No more endless blank checks for endless foreign wars. No more putting allied feelings ahead of American taxpayers. No more “America Last” diplomacy that drains our resources while allies freeload.
This is the Trump administration’s clear message: U.S. foreign policy serves U.S. interests first. Period. Allies can cooperate where it benefits us, but Washington won’t bow to multilateral pressure or subsidize their security forever.
As Rubio heads to France to discuss Ukraine, the Middle East, and global threats, he’s making it plain the era of U.S. weakness and virtue-signaling is over. Americans are tired of footing the bill while others lecture us.
It’s refreshing. It’s overdue. And it’s exactly what voters demanded. America First is back, and it’s delivering straight talk instead of globalist nonsense.
You didn’t attribute the article which a quick Google shows as originating from https://www.facebook.com/DonaldTrump4President/posts/rubio-drops-truth-bomb-on-g7-america-first-not-europe-lastsecretary-of-state-mar/1386016780221014/
That’s plagiarism. Not only that, YSB readers might be deceived into thinking that you could actually string a few words together coherently!
Some would, but most of us know that most here is sourced from other websites. Notable exceptions are SB’s ramblings and Hunty’s bragging. However, I do believe that if you have copied something from another site, link it and attribute it. Anyway, back to praying for the end of the war. Not because of the death and destruction, the suffering and the pain and anguish, but because of the pain I experience every time I pass a petrol station. Could some of you atheists just say a prayer or two, in case God exists and he/she /it may be so shocked he’ll / she’ll / it’ll intervene and end the bloody thing. Just one, and I’ll leave you alone for a while….
what god do the iranian nutters pray to? do we pray to that god, your god, nasskas god, flying spaghetti monster or one of the other hundreds of made up gods?
you need to be more specific… and isnt this whole war really just cuz israel thinks their god is better than irans and vice versa?
god is the problem not the answer
Nasska’s god is a bit iffy. Look, pray to a whole range, you might get lucky. The Israeli God must have some clout. They been causing shit in that area for about 4000 years.
You’re on solid ground there. It was Michel de Montaigne, a 16th Century French philosopher who stated:
……’Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.’……
Poor bugger cannot win with you. If he post it as from Facebook, you give him shit. And then you go and post the link to facebook.
That’s just stupid and I would have expected more from you.
I’ve long regarded YSB as a blog, not a news aggregator site. IOW active participants bring up a subject & maybe link to a site that supports their views. This leads to discussion/debate.
Copy & pasting an entire article without editorial comment, attribution nor explanation is lazy & makes for boring reading.
Most of what you have to say is already fucking boring.
The world is watching.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XohO9MzyWqI
🚨Australia & NZ Announce ENERGY LOCKDOWNS (In As Little As 21 Days…) 🔥
Neil McCoy-Ward
The Crisis Has Started… Energy Lockdowns Could Be Starting In As Little As 21 Days…
Nah, I agree with SB to an extent here. 80% of the worlds oil is still moving and the Saudis are pumping 7million Barrels per day to the Red Sea. Only 21 Million Barrels go through Hormuz per day, so one third has been re routed. Further The Pakistanis have an agreement to let ships through and the Iranians keep changing the rules on a daily basis. I suspect Iran has one level headed government person who is actually negotiating although the IRGC are shouting the loudest. As long as oil gets to the countries that refine it, we will get petrol. It may cost a bit more, but I don’t see a dooms day scenario developing yet. End date for the war is before Trump goes to China, mid May. How long the Israelis want to keep fighting is anyone’s guess, but they are being very effective in assassinating leadership with Iranian protester help. Evidently they phone them before blowing them up. Nice touch, I think.
and the fuel thing, money will always get results. the govt may have to help stump up some coin to secure fuel but money talks just gotta be one of the higher bidders.
sure some businesses will be uneconomic but things will keep ticking at a price.
imo if we are gunna face shortages the govt should whack another $1 per litre and use that money to pay a premium to secure fuel. of course there will be a fine line to walk tho and not over purchase and have lots super expensive fuel still when prices start to fall.
increased cost will naturally decrease fuel use too, the price sux now but it seems the majority of kiwi drivers are carrying on as usual. town was busier than usual today and sunday its usually dead as fuck.
easter traffic will be interesting but my money is on packed roads still, the media hysteria will have the sheep and wg thinking this is the last chance to get away before lockdowns or $5 fuel.
Fuel isn’t my biggest problem what with being retired and no travel plans.
Have Willis and Co got much more than a wait and see and level 1, 2 and 3 restriction of supply plan. Have they approached the US for an emergency delivery?
Definite whiff of covid nudge unit.
i rekon once boots hit the ground its gunna drag out big time esp if it costs a bunch of lives. america dosent have the self control needed to walk away that quickly.
only plus side will be they may get oil shipments flowing while continuing to scrap it out.
what do you rekon the marines are for ROL?
im guessing an epic coastal distraction while the real invasion goes on deep inside iran to seize the nuclear material.
if so the how the fuck do they steal uranium gas? maybe theyll just destroy it in situ underground and leave a hopefully contained radioactive mess…
and surely theres gunna be a hefty loss of life no matter what they do if they land troops on iranian soil.
nutter alert.
clowns like that need strung up even before our scum media.
do you actually watch utter bullshit like that wg? if so it explains alot, your hubby needs to crack the whip and get you a full time job so youre not a deadbeat crackpot.
Fuckin Air NZ. Need to change a flight and been on hold for 75 minutes. When I started I was #7 in the queue. Now #3. There is obviously only one person on the desk. It’s just shit service.
42 minutes since I reported I was #3. I’m still #3. I don’t think the counter is attached to anything. It’s just to make you feel like something’s happening. My patience is wearing very thin. Been 2hrs 5mins now.
ill die of laughter if you get through and they only speak te reo
Funny you should say that. All the music is in maori. Just had an Sheeran song and they changed it into Maori. You’ve got to be fucking kidding. Pricks.
Next you will tell us that Ten Guitars is a Maori song
its probs their clever way to stop potential refunds etc…. make the customer lose the will to live and hang up.
ANZ had an advert on tv, told the missus it was without even looking at tv. At least no Maori and no mention of that mifical place.
I could have flown to Queenstown and back in the time I’ve been on hold. 2 hrs 40 mins now. If I hang up it’s going to cost me $600 for a new airfare. I’m now nodding off and no doubt will fall asleep just before they answer, despite the match sticks I’ve got in my eyelids, and the hot salsa I rubbed on my nuts
heres a quick test… hunty will fail big time
https://youtube.com/shorts/n94_CxLqpGY?si=c_CXW7BL5uqL3706
Me too….
Rioters SEIZE Half of Cuba… Communists TRAPPED, CALL Washington as REGIME COLLAPSES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy68NIlpVGo