start a war to distract from the epstein files and now theyre using the epstein files to distract from the war, hilarious.
but seriously tho, whos about to drop an epstein receipts bomb cuz theres no way melania just felt like randomly coming out denying that shit… theyre clearly trying to get ahead of something, id crack up if iranian hackers have got hold of thr full unredacted files, could be why trump folded like a cheap deckchair.
Yup. Stupid Boy cannot visualise or believe that a woman who is also sexy and attractive, can think and reason and have life principles. From his comments on YSB, he tends more to the mullah viewpoint that women have no brains and exist purely for man’s pleasure.
good watch melanias lil announcement, its weird as fuck and reading between the lines theres new allegations and possible blackmail.
when someone tries to get ahead of something and says dont believe what you see or hear then you just know its true and theyre shitting themselves.
SB, if you paid attention to the covid / vaccine scam, blackmail is rife in controlling nations and their leaders. Epstein and Co weer doggy deep in WEF. That should be no surprise.
“…when someone tries to get ahead of something and says dont believe what you see or hear then you just know its true and theyre shitting themselves.”
You also have to contend with the fact that untrue shit is made up about people who are not guilty. “All good will be attacked.”
And rumours are already flying around about Melania re Epstein. The Deep State is trying every tactic to silence Trump.
What storm?? All I heard yesterday, and the day before, was doom and gloom, a fiery death was coming, batten down the hatches ya all gonna die!! That little midget who does the TV1 weather, who, btw, gives me the farkin shits, was almost orgasmic about it! And what? Here in Nelson, it’s as calm as can be, no wind, no rain… nothing. Just give us the weather like you used to do. No drama, no falling skies, no acting, no mellowdramatics. Rant over.
“When talking recently about TVNZ’s ratings, CEO Jodi O’Donnell said storm or extreme weather warnings always attracted the most views.So now you know why there are so many such stories on TVNZ these days. She’s scaring you just for the clicks & the ad money they generate.”
Bit of energy building down on the beach this morning. Waves breaking well out. Wind starting to pick up now. Just off to fill up the petrol cans for the generator.
Bream Bay isn’t looking too flash at the moment and it’s just started raining in the last 5 minutes or so. Not heavy but but sideways in a 40 knot south easterly. Might as well go to work.
Seven metre waves recorded out by fairway buoy on Northports web site. Might give sailing a miss. There is a race tomorrow, they don’t cancel it’s at skippers discretion. Can’t image anyone showing up. I wouldn’t even be able to get out of my berth without taking out half the neighborhood.
Ireland is uprising
🇮🇪 URGENT: I’m on my way to Ireland to report on their trucker convoy!
Dear friend,
I almost can’t believe it.
Ireland has a trucker convoy.
They’re protesting against their government, just like Canada’s truckers did. Farmers are joining in, too. Bus drivers. Thousands of grassroots Irish people who are fed up with being ignored and mistreated by their government.
Fuel costs are the issue that seems to have sparked this. But it’s been simmering for a while.
Seeing those big trucking rigs and major farm equipment, in peaceful protest really reminds me of what Canada went through in 2022. Those brave Canadian men and women helped save the country by standing up against the government.
Maybe it will be the case in Ireland, too!
But there’s a dark side to it.
Ireland’s police — called the Gardai. And, bizarrely, their deputy commissioner is Canadian.
And, just like Canadian police four years ago, she was threatening peaceful Irish protesters with a brutal response.
In fact, it looks like Ireland is using the Canadian playbook. They’ve even gone further, calling in the military.
Will they invoke martial law? Will they seize bank accounts of peaceful protesters? Will they arrest peaceful truckers and farmers, and put them in solitary confinement?
That all sounds crazy, but that all happened in Canada under Trudeau. And it looks like a Canadian cop is running the show.
Not just that, but Irish politicians are making outrageous threats and denunciations — and engaging in conspiracy theories, blaming foreigners (like Tommy Robinson) for these fuel protests. Anything to avoid their own responsibility.
I’ve got to learn the facts for myself, because I just don’t trust RTE, the Irish state broadcaster. They’re blatantly hostile to the protesters, as they are when Irish people rally against mass immigration. RTE is a propaganda outlet like Al Jazeera. That’s why we need to be there.
Our motto is “telling the other side of the story”. And we’ll do that, talking to the protesters and airing what they say, unedited.
I want Irish people to have another source of news. And I want the world to see the facts, if Ireland continues to lurch towards a Canadian-style martial law.
Wish me luck!
(I’m writing this in the Toronto Airport on Thursday night. We won’t land until Friday morning. But we’ve decided not to publish this email, or the video in it, until we’re safely inside the country. Just like Trudeau’s martial law, we have to be careful that they don’t arrest us.)
If you think this is important journalism, please help us defray the costs of two last-minute tickets to Dublin. Unfortunately, that made it more expensive than normal — because for myself and my videographer Efron, our costs are around $4,000 Canadian, or €2,500 Euros.
Please help us cover those costs — unlike RTE, we don’t receive hundreds of millions of dollars to toe the government’s line!
Thanks!
Yours truly,
Ezra Levant
Rebel News
P.S. I can’t believe the similarities between the Irish truckers and farmers, and the Canadian truckers and farmers. That’s a wonderful feeling. But I’m also terrified to see the similarities between Trudeau’s response and the Irish government’s response. Ireland is actually deploying military vehicles.
We’ll talk to the actual protesters to give you the real story.
P.P.S. If you can help us defray our costs, please do. That’s also the page where we’ll post all of our videos from this trip. Thanks.
Garda warning “You must move”
Replied “We will not be moved”
Garda Warning Issued — Protesters Face Arrest as Ireland Tensions Rise https://youtu.be/PEL0MKMN-Gk
4 mins 25 secs : Apr 11, 2026 : IENEWS
Tensions are rising across Ireland as fuel protests continue to escalate.
In Rosslare, Gardaí have issued a first official warning to protesters, telling them to leave the area or face arrest and up to six months in prison. The situation is intensifying as authorities move from monitoring to enforcement.
At the same time, footage of [PM] Taoiseach Micheal Martin walking past a member of the public without engaging has gone viral, raising questions about leadership during a growing national crisis.
To add further confusion, protest organisers claim a meeting with the government is scheduled — only for that to be denied moments later by Minister of State Timmy Dooley.
Conflicting messages, rising tensions, and the threat of arrests — this situation is moving fast.
Is Ireland heading toward confrontation Or can this still be resolved through talks
Deric is in O’Connell Street in Dublin, where fuel protests have entered day four, as truckers, farmers, and hauliers continue to gather in the city centre demanding government action.
Meanwhile in Britain apathy rules the day. Now would be an ideal time to act to bring down the hated Starmer government in solidarity with the Paddies but will the apathetic UK act? Don’t hold your breath.
Poor Ireland, it’s been done over like a dogs dinner by the 2030 globalist cabal. “You will have less and you will be happy,” while being overrun by millions of economic migrants sponging off the taxpayer and changing their culture.
saw that this was on. The difference here is that the Irish have been at war with their police for 100 years, so no pussies here.
they will be back to the old days.
Starmer and co will be shiitting themsleves this time, as their armed forces are rooted. Barly exist anymore.
All of a sudden some of the MSM have emboldened themselves in many countries.
Pete Credlin is in the warpath, going after a number of the Aussie pollies.
Turnball,
In the states, they are after ilian Omar and her lot in Minnesota.https://
Happening all over.
Might happen here with the new bosses at the Herald as well.
Yahoo.
Would you live in the area around Israel or even in Israel?
And yes, I know you are not a Jew, but try looking at it from their perspective.
They get along with the others very well, except for Hamas and those organisations that hate the Jews and America and were hell-bent on destroying all of them. That’s what the Iranian Mullahs are all about.
Destroying infidels. That’s you.
Subjugating the original population of Iran, a peaceful population, with terror and killings. Using the stolen oil money to create terror in the world.
Same with the Pakis and India, and Afghanistan and their drug supply.
Don’t understand why you don’t understand that.
But in the end, Nostradamus will be right.
Once they are annihilated, peace will reign for many years.
TRUMP’S CIVILIZATIONAL GAMBLE: The Iran Move That Empire and Netanyahu Can’t Stop https://youtu.be/DbiN0RCQPIs
12 mins 36 secs : April 9th, 2026 : Promethean Updates
Susan Kokinda argues that President Trump’s announced two-week, double-sided ceasefire with Iran signals a “civilizational” break from the long-running imperial system that has treated the Middle East as a managed cockpit of conflict. She highlights Trump amplifying Iran’s own statement confirming the ceasefire and reopening the Strait of Hormuz, and contrasts this approach with warnings from Netanyahu and Lindsey Graham, whom she frames as the “war party” pushing a Libya-style outcome. Kokinda says Pakistan, with Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey, mediated the ceasefire and that follow-up talks are set for Friday in Islamabad, likely led by Vice President JD Vance. She connects this to Vance’s Budapest remarks with Viktor Orbán about defending Western civilization against “nihilists,” and to Trump’s call with the Artemis II crew about establishing a permanent presence on the Moon and pushing on to Mars.
00:00 The Midweek Update – TRUMP’S CIVILIZATIONAL GAMBLE: The Iran Move That Empire and Netanyahu Can’t Stop – April 8, 2026 01:31 THE GAMBLE — Trump Bets on Iran’s People 06:10 THE ENEMY — Vance Names the Nihilists 08:55 THE FUTURE — From the Moon to Mars
Very British orientated, but one must also figure that China, not mentioned, also has the ability to push Iran too, as they would not want to become further beholden to Russian oil & gas either.
Hi. I’m devastated. Both Windy.com and the Joint Typhoon Warning Centre have no mention of Vaianu on their current Hurricane tracking tools. But I believe Hipkins is on to it “‘Time to be honest’ about climate change and extreme weather: Chris Hipkins” It’s stuff so I won’t link it. My lovely wife pointed it out to me.
In the same thread they closed all the fuel receiving ports so ships will have to wait ,,,, Uh Why? Ports are safest place in a fucking storm…… Is this country run by morons?
Some people will get hit hard no doubt but lets keep things in perspective.
The costly oppression of the people is well hidden in the Carbon taxes of fuels in New Zealand.
Much of which passes through dubious government hands & financiers to supposedly other projects in unaccountable off shore islands, & 3rd world countries.
In the supposed sharing of Climate Change pain, the Carbon taxes who’s only real purpose is to crush production and lower standards of living.
It will tell you actual live wind speed, gusts and direction as well as a host of other interesting things. At the moment where I am its a terrifying 8km/h with gusts of 14km/h. Should I phone Hipkins for advice. ( even though windy says 23km/h with gusts of 49km/h.)
The sly use of mandating.:—
All as last night’s thread, so good to use the Covid Vaccine call sign of “Emergency Use Approval” to bring “State of Emergency” all into play, before the even the actual issue & what it may mean with NO accountability. https://ysb.co.nz/have-your-say-717/#comment-474692
The low lifes & looters are going to have a great Saturday night. There’s some fairly expensive real estate to be pillaged after the Stazi have evacuated the residents & left the area unprotected, especially under the hill at Ohope.
Not only “The low lifes & looters” but as discussed in yesterday’s thread, the police can enter with out a warrant. All to make you & the community much safer. ….. hmmmmm … yeah right ….
Yep. Pretty much anyone wearing a fluoro jacket can knock your door down & walk in under the pretence of a civil emergency be it valid or the usual arse covering, nannying bullshit.
The situation won’t improve until the idiot local bodies are reined in & their unasked for advice accepted as advice…..not a ruling.
Its what i use , but my rainfall hardly ever gets recorded as bloody spiders are always tying up the measuring spoon and the weather station is on my roof.
Envy and laziness are a bad combination.
Is there a relationship between this and poverty? Is there a relationship between this and certain races and/or cultures?
What can be done about it?
Do government programs help overcome the combination of envy and laziness, or do they tend to make the problem worse?
The problem is enhanced with the Marxist state machine encouraging “victimhood” as is the belief of “helping yourself” to others stuff is justifiable, and lowering your expectations to the same as everyone around you.
Being financially successful is not luck, it’s from a lifetime of hard work
The myriad of benefits & assistance schemes are a stop gap measure until the Holy Grail of a Universal Basic Income (UBI) can be slipped under the door.
This problem & cost will just keep breeding on, despite the supposed “kindness” of the “100% Pure” “Predator Free NZ”
“I am pretty surprised that deer, pigs, and goats [etc.] are going to be passed on to the regional council and their ratepayer(s) because DOC are abdicating their responsibility,” Ewen said. “I will not have a bar of that.”
When so much of this was controlled by efficient semi-automatics, that could take out in seconds, a mob of pigs, or a flock of goats, by approved law complying licenced firearm holders.
In the meantime, riparian plantings, more various forestry plantings give even more cover for those pests to breed up even more, while the consequences of the gun-buy-back are starting to become more noticiable.
With your fucking emergency alert for a fucking non event except in your fucked up tiny ignorant dick head mind. Kere keri now has 40km/h winds with gusts at 48km/h.
Thanks for the warning. I am in Kerikeri. I never would have known to be afraid from looking out the window. The tops of the trees at the front of my property are swaying gently in the breeze.
Complete Covidial over-reach to push their mandates of evacuation.. 💩 💩 💩
Where does it stop in area & in time ? ? ? 💩 💩 💩
A State of Emergency has been declared for the Waikato Region, including the Coromandel Peninsula.Apr 11, 2026 12:56 PM
Then to see this extension of time.
Apr 11, 2026 12:33 PM State of emergency declared in Hawke’s Bay A local state of emergency has been declared in Hawke’s Bay, specifically for the coastal areas of Central Hawke’s Bay, Hastings and Napier, but not the Wairoa District. It will last at least seven days.
So those little authorities can requistion & the government will pay for what ever they write up.
Whilst nothing will be held to account, no liabilities on officialdom for that period of time.
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Now have all the windfarms been shut down so that they are not wildly spinning beyond their red-line, tolerances? and blades flying off.
Have the solar panels been safely covered, shuttered, secured so no damage, or panels fly around like trampolines?
Good news for those retards who get their weather information via the MSM.
Don’t take a chance on your mortal remains stinking up the place after you die in the predicted “weather bomb”. The undertakers are still accepting bookings.
So the tale of Peters and his arrogance gets more complicated.
Judge Ema Aitken judicial conduct finding: Winston Peters ‘disavowed’ comment in Attorney-General’s letter Revelations involving a ‘disavowed’ statement by Winston Peters about a district court judge and allegations of ‘political mischief’ are revealed in an unprecedented Judicial Conduct Panel report. Lane Nichols reports
In December 2024, Attorney-General Judith Collins wrote a letter to Chief Justice Helen Winkelmann about a high-profile incident at Auckland’s Northern Club involving District Court Judge Ema Aitken.
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The previous month, the judge had overheard a speaker discussing tikanga Māori being taught at law schools and disrupted the event by saying words to the effect of “that’s not true”, or “he’s lying”.
That speaker was then Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters and the event was a New Zealand First fundraiser.
Collins’ letter to Winkelmann claimed Peters had said the judge “referred to him as ‘Winston’ when she called him a liar”.
After the incident blew up in the media, Judge Aitken was referred to a Judicial Conduct Panel over her alleged actions that night.
At a hearing this year, she strenuously claimed she did not recognise Peters when she made the comments and did not realise she had stumbled upon a political event.
A decision, released yesterday, found her actions were a “serious breach of comity” but did not reach the threshold of her being removed as a judge. The panel found “as fact” the judge did not recognise Peters or know he was the Deputy PM when she made the comments that night.
The panel decision says the letter only came to the attention of prosecuting special counsel Tim Stephens, KC, and Judge Aitken’s lawyer David Jones, KC, during the panel hearing on January 23 this year – more than a year after it was sent by Collins.
It’s understood that on receiving the letter, Stephens contacted Peters about its contents and that “Peters denied making that statement”.
The letter also came to the attention of the panel, which directed Stephens and Jones to attend an interview with Collins via Microsoft Teams “to identify the source of the statement”.
During that interview, it’s understood Collins maintained that Peters told her Judge Aitken said his name when the judge disrupted the party fundraiser in November 2024.
However, Peters had “disavowed” the statement when he spoke to Stephens a few days earlier.
“The Attorney subsequently spoke to Mr Peters about why he had said he had not given the Attorney the information recorded in the [letter],” the panel decision says.
“Mr Peters told the Attorney the reason was that he could not remember doing so.”
Jones opted not to call Collins or Peters to give evidence before the panel hearing to explain the apparent discrepancy between her letter and the NZ First leader’s disavowal.
Judge Aitken contended there was no need for the “tension between the two positions” to be determined by the panel, saying: “It is the fact of Mr Peters’ comment being in the letter and his subsequent disavowal which is relevant.”
The panel did not agree. It found the situation “very unsatisfactory”.
“It is not possible in such circumstances for the panel to resolve the difference in recollections between the Attorney-General and Mr Peters as has been relayed by counsel.”
Peters’ comment was potentially relevant to a claim of political motivation “if he did in fact say that the judge said that ‘Winston’ was a liar”, the panel wrote.
“Mr Peters is recorded as having denied that he said that or that he does not remember saying that. What was in fact said cannot be resolved without hearing from Mr Peters and the Attorney-General but Mr Jones did not wish for either of them to be called.”
The panel said it did not rely on what Peters was alleged to have said to Stephens or Collins, as it was “untested hearsay” that revealed nothing more than a “difference in recollection as to what was said”.
The panel noted that whatever Collins “may have believed” when she wrote her December 12, 2024, letter, she did not convey this in her complaint to the Judicial Conduct Commissioner six days later on December 18.
By that point, the commissioner had initiated a statutory process and did not refer to the letter in his decision to refer the case to a Judicial Conduct Panel or other material filed as part of that process.
“Consequently, the statement attributed to Mr Peters has had no bearing on the panel’s conclusions.”
In his closing address, Jones referred to Peters’ disavowal, saying that in these circumstances “it was perfectly legitimate to allege political mischief was afoot”.
“It plainly was, particularly given no witness proximate to the judge on the night gave any evidence remotely supporting the content of the letter,” Jones said.
“The Attorney, as the senior law officer, had acted on what Mr Peters had told her and communicated that to the Chief Justice, the highest ranked judicial officer in the country.
“It is difficult with respect to imagine a more direct political involvement with matters to do with the consideration of a judge’s conduct.” Jones told the panel there was no evidence to suggest the contents of Collins’ letter were true, which he said: “supports the political mischief submission”.
“The fact that the head of the judiciary and the Attorney-General have laboured under the misapprehension that this had been said by Judge Aitken has endured for over a year. It is submitted that political mischief can only be a neutral term in these circumstances.”
However, the panel said it was confident any alleged political motivation had “not infected” the panel process.
Its findings were made based on fact and its consideration of evidence and witnesses, “not based on disavowed information”.
The panel also referred to a letter received by New Zealand First chief of staff Darroch Ball responding to allegations against the party of political mischief.
The letter said the party had deliberately decided not to comment publicly on the incident and had been unable to correct media reports or defend the party’s reputation.
“In the result, the whole process had likely come to the detriment of its public image.”
Jones told the panel the response was “disparate and disparaging” and “impossible to responsibly address”.
After weighing the evidence, the panel said Judge Aitken had not satisfied panel members that there had been any “political motivation or mischief” on the part of New Zealand First.
While the panel concluded the judge’s behaviour at the Northern Club was “a serious breach of comity”, it stopped short of removing her from her post as a District Court judge.
Peters declined to comment when approached by the Herald, saying doing so would be a breach of comity, which requires different branches of government to act with mutual respect and avoid publicly criticising one another.
No accountability. Bullshit to her not knowing it was Peters – even his voice would be a giveaway. And regardless – the lack of judgment in disrupting an event – let alone when intoxicated, should preclude the commie bitch from being allowed to even judge the pikelets at an A&P show.
Compare the situation with Andrew Bayly, who they said was drunk and wasn’t, then did a hit job on him.
yep well, Bayly is a good example of a political hit job.
But you skip around the facts and arguments, and ts not my work that I posted but the work of the legals and as per usual, it points out that Peters is a sum bag as he has always been.
So don’t bother yourself with attacking me for others’ work. If you trust Peters, Colllins and co, then more fool you.
You’re losing the plot you silly old fool. The “speaker was then Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters and the event was a New Zealand First fundraiser.”
It wasn’t a public event on a street corner where heckling is to be expected. It was a private event at a private venue & as such should be free of the socialist opinions of a half cut judge with a big mouth & an inability to hold her piss.
She’s a fucking disgrace to the rest of the judiciary who have lowered their standing in the eyes of most Kiwis just to protect a drunk.
Not my rules, not my work. Criticise the people who did the job. fuck you, bastards are apparently unable to read.
If you read the reports all along, she was not drunk. And that was corroborated by others. It was held in a building with open doors where people could pass by, but I guess it’s a hundred years since you went anywhere near a building like that.
He talked bullshit, and she called him out. If you want to suck Peter’s cock go for it. He hasn’t changed in 40 years at the trough, and you are welcome to pay my share of what it has cost the taxpayer for another one of his attempts to stifle criticism.
Where’s your free speech attitude, which you rolled out over the pommey Lady in the park?
You either have a principle, or you don’t. Apparently, you don’t.
Judges are not the best thinkers. We see this every day with their stupid decisions. A good lawyer will never become a judge, they are making too much money.
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VDH explains the chess moves but we don’t know the outcome yet.
Yup, A few more IGRC need sending off. This is not about bombing civilians as such. To a large extent, most civilized countries try and avoid civilian casualties. Even Putin ( not so much Zelensky). If the IRGC need to be nullified by destroying infrastructure that they use to conduct their operations, that stuff becomes legitimate targets. Unfortunately, some civilians will be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Israel did warn Iran to stay away from trains before they bombed them. Many Iranians will see the sacrifices of some so that the regime is destroyed acceptable. tens of thousands have already given their lives fighting for freedom. I hope their sacrifice is not in vain.
Those sacrifices will be very small, although just as heartbreaking as what the regime has done to the Persians since 1971.
Vengeance will come, especially if the Kurds get their way.
Much of the oil and the money belonged to them.
TV1 is FULL weather porn tonight. Breathless repeaters gasping, almost crying. Here in Nelson one of the best days/nights for a long time.I wait, in anticipation of the incoming bomb!!
And I’m over the maorification of the news, TV1 especially. It’s fucking nauseating and embarrassing. Why are we bowing to and acknowledging Maori, so hard!!!? Trying sooooo hard!! We are a white English country. STOP BASTARDISING OUR FUCKING LANGUAGE. I don’t want to step back in time and speak booga booga language. And it’s TAUPO, Saville, as in T-our-po, not Toopoo!! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! Rant over.
Trump Delivers Massive Blow to Bloated Bureaucracy: Federal Workforce Craters to Lowest Level Since 1966
The deep state is getting leaner fast under President Trump.
Federal civilian employment plunged by another 18,000 jobs in March alone, according to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics report. That marks the 14th straight month of declines, pushing the total federal government workforce down to roughly 2.66 million — the smallest it has been since 1966.
This is ruthless efficiency in action. After years of explosive growth under the previous administration, which padded the rolls with unnecessary positions to inflate job numbers, Trump is finally shrinking the parasitic federal bureaucracy that has drained taxpayer dollars for decades. Overall cuts since he took office have exceeded 300,000 positions through hiring freezes, resignations, retirements, and targeted reductions.
Americans are tired of funding a swollen government that grows bigger no matter who is in charge. These numbers prove Trump is keeping his promise to drain the swamp and make government work for the people again, not the other way around. Real leadership means cutting waste, not expanding it. The deep state is shrinking, and that’s a win for every hardworking taxpayer.
Democrats Lose Their Media Monopoly as Ellison Empire Delivers Real Journalism
Democrats are melting down in full panic mode now that conservative-leaning billionaire Larry Ellison and his son David have seized control of major legacy media outlets.
Under the new Paramount ownership, CBS News and 60 Minutes are finally doing actual reporting—exposing government fraud in deep-blue California instead of shielding it. No more scripted protection for failing leftist policies.
The panic is about to get much worse. The Ellison family just outbid Netflix with a massive $111 billion deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, locking in CNN and a vast empire of other assets. Far-left “journalists” at CNN are in hysterics, terrified they won’t be able to shove their radical agenda down America’s throat anymore.
They had counted on Obama allies at Netflix to keep the propaganda machine humming. Instead, the Ellisons won the bidding war and are poised to reshape the narrative around truth, not activism.
Radical senators like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are screaming “antitrust” and inventing “national security concerns” to block the deal. Spare us the fake outrage. What really terrifies them is losing their iron grip on the information Americans consume. For years, these outlets operated as Democrat super PACs disguised as newsrooms—pushing lies, burying scandals, and gaslighting the public.
David Ellison has pledged editorial independence while focusing on the “truth business.” After years of bias and declining trust, that shift can’t come soon enough. Americans are tired of the manufactured reality from coastal elites. Real reporting that holds government accountable—regardless of party—is a breath of fresh air.
The left built this house of cards on narrative control. Now it’s collapsing, and they’re screaming as the pieces fall. Good riddance. A freer, fairer media landscape benefits everyone who values facts over fiction.
Trump Admin Delivers Major Blow to Deep State Roadblocks – DOGE Back in Business at SSA
The Trump administration just scored a huge victory for government accountability. On Friday, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, sitting en banc, slapped down a ridiculous preliminary injunction from a Maryland district judge that had tied DOGE’s hands and blocked access to sensitive Social Security Administration records.
That activist injunction from April 2025 is now vacated. The court ruled the plaintiffs failed to prove irreparable harm – after all, if privacy gets stepped on, the Privacy Act still offers damages and other fixes. The case heads back to the district court for a full review on the merits, but DOGE can move forward without the leftist delay tactics holding it hostage.
This is what real efficiency looks like: cutting through bureaucratic nonsense, exposing waste like those Social Security checks still flowing to over 800,000 dead “voters,” and draining the swamp one record at a time. Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s DOGE team is built for this fight, and the courts just gave them the green light.
America First means rooting out fraud and protecting taxpayer dollars – not shielding the system that’s been ripping us off for years. Big win for transparency and fiscal sanity. The deep state is on notice
start a war to distract from the epstein files and now theyre using the epstein files to distract from the war, hilarious.
but seriously tho, whos about to drop an epstein receipts bomb cuz theres no way melania just felt like randomly coming out denying that shit… theyre clearly trying to get ahead of something, id crack up if iranian hackers have got hold of thr full unredacted files, could be why trump folded like a cheap deckchair.
The Don lives in your head
Yup. Stupid Boy cannot visualise or believe that a woman who is also sexy and attractive, can think and reason and have life principles. From his comments on YSB, he tends more to the mullah viewpoint that women have no brains and exist purely for man’s pleasure.
nah, hes just good bait.
good watch melanias lil announcement, its weird as fuck and reading between the lines theres new allegations and possible blackmail.
when someone tries to get ahead of something and says dont believe what you see or hear then you just know its true and theyre shitting themselves.
SB, if you paid attention to the covid / vaccine scam, blackmail is rife in controlling nations and their leaders. Epstein and Co weer doggy deep in WEF. That should be no surprise.
“…when someone tries to get ahead of something and says dont believe what you see or hear then you just know its true and theyre shitting themselves.”
You also have to contend with the fact that untrue shit is made up about people who are not guilty. “All good will be attacked.”
And rumours are already flying around about Melania re Epstein. The Deep State is trying every tactic to silence Trump.
Photos wealthy friends and neighbours standing together at a party.
That’s all the ‘proof’ some need.
Im sure I recall Killary in deep conversation with Ayatolah R Sole the third
freethinker; You called Killary?
Voil;—.
A clip from 2008, during Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, ….. ….
https://nitter.poast.org/i/status/2042520464816312575
34 seconds.
In the comments there seems to be a bit more reaffirming the context.
What storm?? All I heard yesterday, and the day before, was doom and gloom, a fiery death was coming, batten down the hatches ya all gonna die!! That little midget who does the TV1 weather, who, btw, gives me the farkin shits, was almost orgasmic about it! And what? Here in Nelson, it’s as calm as can be, no wind, no rain… nothing. Just give us the weather like you used to do. No drama, no falling skies, no acting, no mellowdramatics. Rant over.
I mowed my townhouse lawns (front and back) before the rains arrived. Looks like a very wet weekend!
Beautiful sunshine and a light zephyr here in the Waikato. Should have done as intended and hung out the washing. ☀️
Aha, I did, and now it’s dry. warn as today and cloud moving in, but nothing in the way of a breeze so far.
I don’t know why you bother with TV1 Philip Duncan on Weather Watch TV does the forecasting much better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKSfQy59AII
aww I just keep one eye on the news while Im painting my nails, then the weather pops up
Big night planned?
yeah nah,,gotta do me toenails t’nite
Bet you washed ya hair the other night.
Morning Mike. It’s going to hit tonight. Your rant was premature. 🫠 😂
It was already weakening yesterday so yes, disaster porn by grand standers. Stay off the beaches, big swells.
“When talking recently about TVNZ’s ratings, CEO Jodi O’Donnell said storm or extreme weather warnings always attracted the most views.So now you know why there are so many such stories on TVNZ these days. She’s scaring you just for the clicks & the ad money they generate.”
Surfies all going to Whangarei as 7m swells
Bit of energy building down on the beach this morning. Waves breaking well out. Wind starting to pick up now. Just off to fill up the petrol cans for the generator.
Petrol, your servo has petrol?
Bream Bay isn’t looking too flash at the moment and it’s just started raining in the last 5 minutes or so. Not heavy but but sideways in a 40 knot south easterly. Might as well go to work.
Where’s your boat T? You in a marina or swinging?
Marsden Cove Marina. My days of rowing out to the boat in a hurricane are long gone.
Seven metre waves recorded out by fairway buoy on Northports web site. Might give sailing a miss. There is a race tomorrow, they don’t cancel it’s at skippers discretion. Can’t image anyone showing up. I wouldn’t even be able to get out of my berth without taking out half the neighborhood.
TV 1 weather woman. Jeez where do they find these plain useless people. AI could do her job
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKSfQy59AII
Ireland is uprising
🇮🇪 URGENT: I’m on my way to Ireland to report on their trucker convoy!
Dear friend,
I almost can’t believe it.
Ireland has a trucker convoy.
They’re protesting against their government, just like Canada’s truckers did. Farmers are joining in, too. Bus drivers. Thousands of grassroots Irish people who are fed up with being ignored and mistreated by their government.
Fuel costs are the issue that seems to have sparked this. But it’s been simmering for a while.
Seeing those big trucking rigs and major farm equipment, in peaceful protest really reminds me of what Canada went through in 2022. Those brave Canadian men and women helped save the country by standing up against the government.
Maybe it will be the case in Ireland, too!
But there’s a dark side to it.
Ireland’s police — called the Gardai. And, bizarrely, their deputy commissioner is Canadian.
And, just like Canadian police four years ago, she was threatening peaceful Irish protesters with a brutal response.
In fact, it looks like Ireland is using the Canadian playbook. They’ve even gone further, calling in the military.
Will they invoke martial law? Will they seize bank accounts of peaceful protesters? Will they arrest peaceful truckers and farmers, and put them in solitary confinement?
That all sounds crazy, but that all happened in Canada under Trudeau. And it looks like a Canadian cop is running the show.
Not just that, but Irish politicians are making outrageous threats and denunciations — and engaging in conspiracy theories, blaming foreigners (like Tommy Robinson) for these fuel protests. Anything to avoid their own responsibility.
I’ve got to learn the facts for myself, because I just don’t trust RTE, the Irish state broadcaster. They’re blatantly hostile to the protesters, as they are when Irish people rally against mass immigration. RTE is a propaganda outlet like Al Jazeera. That’s why we need to be there.
Our motto is “telling the other side of the story”. And we’ll do that, talking to the protesters and airing what they say, unedited.
I want Irish people to have another source of news. And I want the world to see the facts, if Ireland continues to lurch towards a Canadian-style martial law.
Wish me luck!
(I’m writing this in the Toronto Airport on Thursday night. We won’t land until Friday morning. But we’ve decided not to publish this email, or the video in it, until we’re safely inside the country. Just like Trudeau’s martial law, we have to be careful that they don’t arrest us.)
If you think this is important journalism, please help us defray the costs of two last-minute tickets to Dublin. Unfortunately, that made it more expensive than normal — because for myself and my videographer Efron, our costs are around $4,000 Canadian, or €2,500 Euros.
Please help us cover those costs — unlike RTE, we don’t receive hundreds of millions of dollars to toe the government’s line!
Thanks!
Yours truly,
Ezra Levant
Rebel News
P.S. I can’t believe the similarities between the Irish truckers and farmers, and the Canadian truckers and farmers. That’s a wonderful feeling. But I’m also terrified to see the similarities between Trudeau’s response and the Irish government’s response. Ireland is actually deploying military vehicles.
We’ll talk to the actual protesters to give you the real story.
P.P.S. If you can help us defray our costs, please do. That’s also the page where we’ll post all of our videos from this trip. Thanks.
Just saying, the numbers right or wrong are interesting;
Sometimes we do not know our strength & power.
“When the people fear the government, that’s tyranny; when the government fears the people, that’s freedom.”
https://www.monticello.org/encyclopedia/when-government-fears-people-there-liberty-spurious-quotation#:~
with variations there of.
Garda warning “You must move”
Replied “We will not be moved”
Garda Warning Issued — Protesters Face Arrest as Ireland Tensions Rise
https://youtu.be/PEL0MKMN-Gk
4 mins 25 secs : Apr 11, 2026 : IENEWS
Tensions are rising across Ireland as fuel protests continue to escalate.
In Rosslare, Gardaí have issued a first official warning to protesters, telling them to leave the area or face arrest and up to six months in prison.
The situation is intensifying as authorities move from monitoring to enforcement.
At the same time, footage of [PM] Taoiseach Micheal Martin walking past a member of the public without engaging has gone viral, raising questions about leadership during a growing national crisis.
To add further confusion, protest organisers claim a meeting with the government is scheduled — only for that to be denied moments later by Minister of State Timmy Dooley.
Conflicting messages, rising tensions, and the threat of arrests — this situation is moving fast.
Is Ireland heading toward confrontation
Or can this still be resolved through talks
Looks like Irish politicians don’t want to meet protesters. “Mixed messages” about who they will meet causing concern
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmMooP3pFFI
Day 4 of Fuel Protests in Dublin | Fuel Protesters Warn “This Is Not Going Away”
Ireland
Deric is in O’Connell Street in Dublin, where fuel protests have entered day four, as truckers, farmers, and hauliers continue to gather in the city centre demanding government action.
Meanwhile in Britain apathy rules the day. Now would be an ideal time to act to bring down the hated Starmer government in solidarity with the Paddies but will the apathetic UK act? Don’t hold your breath.
Somewhere there is the last straw that bought this all on in Ireland.
” ENOUGH! when they get in the way of his pints at the pub.” 😀
…… entire Country to a halt for a second successive day, …..
…. sent in tanks this morning to stop the protests ….
…… sent in the military to remove tractors and heavy goods vehicles protesting about the cost of fuel. ….
https://joehoft.com/ireland-is-rising-up-about-explode-government-brings/
A montage of many X links & then comments in that brief article.
The Irish government blame Tommy Robinson, who said it best – It’s high treason to not protect your borders and arrest those who want that stopped.
Spring has sprung, and whatever there is a summer to further build on these protests.
Poor Ireland, it’s been done over like a dogs dinner by the 2030 globalist cabal. “You will have less and you will be happy,” while being overrun by millions of economic migrants sponging off the taxpayer and changing their culture.
Lock up their marxist govt.
Well done Ezra Levant
https://x.com/patrickbyrne/status/2042363933495824425?s=46
saw that this was on. The difference here is that the Irish have been at war with their police for 100 years, so no pussies here.
they will be back to the old days.
Starmer and co will be shiitting themsleves this time, as their armed forces are rooted. Barly exist anymore.
Starmer has a secret weapon though and that is the apathy of the majority of the lumpen proletariat.
He will call up and arm the muzzies to fight the Irish.
I heard a rumour that the British police are now recruiting Muslim police officers…….IN PAKISTAN!!!
https://x.com/ezralevant/status/2042584442728829183?s=46
https://x.com/theliberal_ie/status/2041578152879599857?s=46
Not a peep about this on MSM
You cannot hate them enough
All of a sudden some of the MSM have emboldened themselves in many countries.
Pete Credlin is in the warpath, going after a number of the Aussie pollies.
Turnball,
In the states, they are after ilian Omar and her lot in Minnesota.https://
Happening all over.
Might happen here with the new bosses at the Herald as well.
Yahoo.
Most women have faked it sometime.
oldie but!
https://www.facebook.com/reel/975932215093089
3 down ticks???? That scene is gold!
Ya just can’t amuse some. ROL.
Do you own an LVG vehicle?
rust buckets even in Aussie.
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1418691886696670
This lady has hunty tabbed.
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1668691234163370
gotta laugh.:lol:
Iran can claim at least one significant win: Iran has captured and taken control of the Democrat Party.
and israel has captured and taken control of the presidency.
Would you live in the area around Israel or even in Israel?
And yes, I know you are not a Jew, but try looking at it from their perspective.
They get along with the others very well, except for Hamas and those organisations that hate the Jews and America and were hell-bent on destroying all of them.
That’s what the Iranian Mullahs are all about.
Destroying infidels. That’s you.
Subjugating the original population of Iran, a peaceful population, with terror and killings. Using the stolen oil money to create terror in the world.
Same with the Pakis and India, and Afghanistan and their drug supply.
Don’t understand why you don’t understand that.
But in the end, Nostradamus will be right.
Once they are annihilated, peace will reign for many years.
This actually makes a lot of sense to me after following so many other commentators. To some it will be unbelievable.
https://youtu.be/n4CgShPa4Fg?si=Fhgl1ceUGe_NVWan
Sort of in the same vein?
TRUMP’S CIVILIZATIONAL GAMBLE: The Iran Move That Empire and Netanyahu Can’t Stop
https://youtu.be/DbiN0RCQPIs
12 mins 36 secs : April 9th, 2026 : Promethean Updates
Susan Kokinda argues that President Trump’s announced two-week, double-sided ceasefire with Iran signals a “civilizational” break from the long-running imperial system that has treated the Middle East as a managed cockpit of conflict.
She highlights Trump amplifying Iran’s own statement confirming the ceasefire and reopening the Strait of Hormuz, and contrasts this approach with warnings from Netanyahu and Lindsey Graham, whom she frames as the “war party” pushing a Libya-style outcome.
Kokinda says Pakistan, with Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey, mediated the ceasefire and that follow-up talks are set for Friday in Islamabad, likely led by Vice President JD Vance.
She connects this to Vance’s Budapest remarks with Viktor Orbán about defending Western civilization against “nihilists,” and to Trump’s call with the Artemis II crew about establishing a permanent presence on the Moon and pushing on to Mars.
00:00 The Midweek Update – TRUMP’S CIVILIZATIONAL GAMBLE: The Iran Move That Empire and Netanyahu Can’t Stop – April 8, 2026
01:31 THE GAMBLE — Trump Bets on Iran’s People
06:10 THE ENEMY — Vance Names the Nihilists
08:55 THE FUTURE — From the Moon to Mars
Very British orientated, but one must also figure that China, not mentioned, also has the ability to push Iran too, as they would not want to become further beholden to Russian oil & gas either.
Hi. I’m devastated. Both Windy.com and the Joint Typhoon Warning Centre have no mention of Vaianu on their current Hurricane tracking tools. But I believe Hipkins is on to it “‘Time to be honest’ about climate change and extreme weather: Chris Hipkins” It’s stuff so I won’t link it. My lovely wife pointed it out to me.
In the same thread they closed all the fuel receiving ports so ships will have to wait ,,,, Uh Why? Ports are safest place in a fucking storm…… Is this country run by morons?
Some people will get hit hard no doubt but lets keep things in perspective.
Hipkins is a knob.
Cyclones have been happening since like forever. As for flooding, well Noah’s one is well documented and nobody was running diesel engines back then.
Must be hard trying to be relevant when you’re so obviously not. Twat.
In case you missed this contempt of Chippie posted by Ed
Apologies to the Monkeys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdvLIGucjmM 🎶🎶 🤡
Yep, he’s a wanker!
Can someone do one of these for New Zealand?
The costly oppression of the people is well hidden in the Carbon taxes of fuels in New Zealand.
Much of which passes through dubious government hands & financiers to supposedly other projects in unaccountable off shore islands, & 3rd world countries.
In the supposed sharing of Climate Change pain, the Carbon taxes who’s only real purpose is to crush production and lower standards of living.
…… The carbon dioxide fee was raised yet again at the beginning of 2026, driving up fuel prices by €0.06 to €0.08 per litre. The increase was a deliberate policy choice, part of the government’s climate strategy, …….
https://brusselssignal.eu/2026/04/germany-rakes-in-e500-million-extra-from-fuel-prices-in-march-but-still-no-tax-cuts/
Real magicians can not match the tricks & scams the politicians, with the well connected elite, pull over their voters.
Tell how much is filtered to the Maori hands and on to elite iwi.
If you want current weather as it happens go to
https://www.wunderground.com/ and find the nearest weather station to your location.
It will tell you actual live wind speed, gusts and direction as well as a host of other interesting things. At the moment where I am its a terrifying 8km/h with gusts of 14km/h. Should I phone Hipkins for advice. ( even though windy says 23km/h with gusts of 49km/h.)
Another “State of Emergency” declared.
Whakatāne District has now declared a State of Local Emergency April 2026 10:01 AM
Apr 11, 2026 10:03 AM
West End Ōhope residents must evacuate by 5pm today, Whakatāne District Council says.https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/592063/live-weather-rain-and-wind-warnings-watches-in-place-for-much-of-north-island
The sly use of mandating.:—
All as last night’s thread, so good to use the Covid Vaccine call sign of “Emergency Use Approval” to bring “State of Emergency” all into play, before the even the actual issue & what it may mean with NO accountability.
https://ysb.co.nz/have-your-say-717/#comment-474692
One of the weather stations there has this as a forecast
:Becoming windy. Cloudy skies with periods of rain developing overnight. Low 19C. Winds ESE at 30 to 50 km/h. Chance of rain 100%. Rainfall near 6mm. Winds could occasionally gust over 65 km/h.”
And they need to evacuate????? Fuck these arseholes.
This is what they’re using to justify the evacuation. The many must suffer inconvenience because one person died 15 years ago.
https://www.whakatane.govt.nz/files/documents/about-council/council-projects/debris-flow-and-landslide-hazards/Risks%20Summary%20-%20Wha-and-Oho.pdf
Note the risks summary illustrated in the graph on Page 7.
The low lifes & looters are going to have a great Saturday night. There’s some fairly expensive real estate to be pillaged after the Stazi have evacuated the residents & left the area unprotected, especially under the hill at Ohope.
Not only “The low lifes & looters” but as discussed in yesterday’s thread, the police can enter with out a warrant.
All to make you & the community much safer. ….. hmmmmm … yeah right ….
Yep. Pretty much anyone wearing a fluoro jacket can knock your door down & walk in under the pretence of a civil emergency be it valid or the usual arse covering, nannying bullshit.
The situation won’t improve until the idiot local bodies are reined in & their unasked for advice accepted as advice…..not a ruling.
Try that at my place, and they will leave via St John.
Its what i use , but my rainfall hardly ever gets recorded as bloody spiders are always tying up the measuring spoon and the weather station is on my roof.
Spray it all with Ripcord, that’ll kill off the creepy crawlies after they walk over it.
Huey’s up there behind a cloud getting ready to smite you.
When I see him, I’ll pass on your regards. Love the word “smite”.
Polling in the era of AI:
https://waikanaewatch.org/2026/04/11/no-real-people-were-polled-ai-is-now-fabricating-what-the-public-thinks/
Envy and laziness are a bad combination.
Is there a relationship between this and poverty?
Is there a relationship between this and certain races and/or cultures?
What can be done about it?
Do government programs help overcome the combination of envy and laziness, or do they tend to make the problem worse?
Your thoughts?
Welfare works if it is offered on a short term & finite basis.
When it is allowed to underpin a lifestyle on a semi permanent basis it destroys those it pretends to help.
The problem is enhanced with the Marxist state machine encouraging “victimhood” as is the belief of “helping yourself” to others stuff is justifiable, and lowering your expectations to the same as everyone around you.
Being financially successful is not luck, it’s from a lifetime of hard work
I agree.
As someone once said, “The more you do for people, the less they do for themselves.”
(The social security safety net is not to be used as a hammock.)
The myriad of benefits & assistance schemes are a stop gap measure until the Holy Grail of a Universal Basic Income (UBI) can be slipped under the door.
Then everyone will be beholden to the state.
As someone pointed out, a State strong enough to give you everything you need is also strong enough to take it all away.
At least New Zealand does not appear to have signed up to this insanity:
https://x.com/chalavyishmael/status/2042677162096894103
This problem & cost will just keep breeding on, despite the supposed “kindness” of the “100% Pure” “Predator Free NZ”
“I am pretty surprised that deer, pigs, and goats [etc.] are going to be passed on to the regional council and their ratepayer(s) because DOC are abdicating their responsibility,” Ewen said.
“I will not have a bar of that.”
He would vote against any future recommendation for the council’s 21,000 West Coast rating units to bear the extra cost.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/591854/councillor-slams-doc-over-pest-animal-control
When so much of this was controlled by efficient semi-automatics, that could take out in seconds, a mob of pigs, or a flock of goats, by approved law complying licenced firearm holders.
In the meantime, riparian plantings, more various forestry plantings give even more cover for those pests to breed up even more, while the consequences of the gun-buy-back are starting to become more noticiable.
FUCK FUCK FUCK OFF
With your fucking emergency alert for a fucking non event except in your fucked up tiny ignorant dick head mind. Kere keri now has 40km/h winds with gusts at 48km/h.
Aaagh…
Thanks for the warning. I am in Kerikeri. I never would have known to be afraid from looking out the window. The tops of the trees at the front of my property are swaying gently in the breeze.
Complete Covidial over-reach to push their mandates of evacuation.. 💩 💩 💩
Where does it stop in area & in time ? ? ? 💩 💩 💩
A State of Emergency has been declared for the Waikato Region, including the Coromandel Peninsula.Apr 11, 2026 12:56 PM
Then to see this extension of time.
Apr 11, 2026 12:33 PM
State of emergency declared in Hawke’s Bay
A local state of emergency has been declared in Hawke’s Bay, specifically for the coastal areas of Central Hawke’s Bay, Hastings and Napier, but not the Wairoa District.
It will last at least seven days.
So those little authorities can requistion & the government will pay for what ever they write up.
Whilst nothing will be held to account, no liabilities on officialdom for that period of time.
— ————– —— ———– —–
Now have all the windfarms been shut down so that they are not wildly spinning beyond their red-line, tolerances? and blades flying off.
Have the solar panels been safely covered, shuttered, secured so no damage, or panels fly around like trampolines?
Good news for those retards who get their weather information via the MSM.
Don’t take a chance on your mortal remains stinking up the place after you die in the predicted “weather bomb”. The undertakers are still accepting bookings.
So the tale of Peters and his arrogance gets more complicated.
Judge Ema Aitken judicial conduct finding: Winston Peters ‘disavowed’ comment in Attorney-General’s letter
Revelations involving a ‘disavowed’ statement by Winston Peters about a district court judge and allegations of ‘political mischief’ are revealed in an unprecedented Judicial Conduct Panel report. Lane Nichols reports
In December 2024, Attorney-General Judith Collins wrote a letter to Chief Justice Helen Winkelmann about a high-profile incident at Auckland’s Northern Club involving District Court Judge Ema Aitken.
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The previous month, the judge had overheard a speaker discussing tikanga Māori being taught at law schools and disrupted the event by saying words to the effect of “that’s not true”, or “he’s lying”.
That speaker was then Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters and the event was a New Zealand First fundraiser.
Collins’ letter to Winkelmann claimed Peters had said the judge “referred to him as ‘Winston’ when she called him a liar”.
After the incident blew up in the media, Judge Aitken was referred to a Judicial Conduct Panel over her alleged actions that night.
At a hearing this year, she strenuously claimed she did not recognise Peters when she made the comments and did not realise she had stumbled upon a political event.
A decision, released yesterday, found her actions were a “serious breach of comity” but did not reach the threshold of her being removed as a judge. The panel found “as fact” the judge did not recognise Peters or know he was the Deputy PM when she made the comments that night.
New details about the case are revealed in the decision under the heading, “Was the complaint (and/or its pursuit) politically motivated?”, including revelations about the December 12 letter.
The panel decision says the letter only came to the attention of prosecuting special counsel Tim Stephens, KC, and Judge Aitken’s lawyer David Jones, KC, during the panel hearing on January 23 this year – more than a year after it was sent by Collins.
It’s understood that on receiving the letter, Stephens contacted Peters about its contents and that “Peters denied making that statement”.
The letter also came to the attention of the panel, which directed Stephens and Jones to attend an interview with Collins via Microsoft Teams “to identify the source of the statement”.
During that interview, it’s understood Collins maintained that Peters told her Judge Aitken said his name when the judge disrupted the party fundraiser in November 2024.
However, Peters had “disavowed” the statement when he spoke to Stephens a few days earlier.
“The Attorney subsequently spoke to Mr Peters about why he had said he had not given the Attorney the information recorded in the [letter],” the panel decision says.
“Mr Peters told the Attorney the reason was that he could not remember doing so.”
Jones opted not to call Collins or Peters to give evidence before the panel hearing to explain the apparent discrepancy between her letter and the NZ First leader’s disavowal.
Judge Aitken contended there was no need for the “tension between the two positions” to be determined by the panel, saying: “It is the fact of Mr Peters’ comment being in the letter and his subsequent disavowal which is relevant.”
The panel did not agree. It found the situation “very unsatisfactory”.
“It is not possible in such circumstances for the panel to resolve the difference in recollections between the Attorney-General and Mr Peters as has been relayed by counsel.”
Peters’ comment was potentially relevant to a claim of political motivation “if he did in fact say that the judge said that ‘Winston’ was a liar”, the panel wrote.
“Mr Peters is recorded as having denied that he said that or that he does not remember saying that. What was in fact said cannot be resolved without hearing from Mr Peters and the Attorney-General but Mr Jones did not wish for either of them to be called.”
The panel said it did not rely on what Peters was alleged to have said to Stephens or Collins, as it was “untested hearsay” that revealed nothing more than a “difference in recollection as to what was said”.
The panel noted that whatever Collins “may have believed” when she wrote her December 12, 2024, letter, she did not convey this in her complaint to the Judicial Conduct Commissioner six days later on December 18.
By that point, the commissioner had initiated a statutory process and did not refer to the letter in his decision to refer the case to a Judicial Conduct Panel or other material filed as part of that process.
“Consequently, the statement attributed to Mr Peters has had no bearing on the panel’s conclusions.”
In his closing address, Jones referred to Peters’ disavowal, saying that in these circumstances “it was perfectly legitimate to allege political mischief was afoot”.
“It plainly was, particularly given no witness proximate to the judge on the night gave any evidence remotely supporting the content of the letter,” Jones said.
“The Attorney, as the senior law officer, had acted on what Mr Peters had told her and communicated that to the Chief Justice, the highest ranked judicial officer in the country.
“It is difficult with respect to imagine a more direct political involvement with matters to do with the consideration of a judge’s conduct.”
Jones told the panel there was no evidence to suggest the contents of Collins’ letter were true, which he said: “supports the political mischief submission”.
“The fact that the head of the judiciary and the Attorney-General have laboured under the misapprehension that this had been said by Judge Aitken has endured for over a year. It is submitted that political mischief can only be a neutral term in these circumstances.”
However, the panel said it was confident any alleged political motivation had “not infected” the panel process.
Its findings were made based on fact and its consideration of evidence and witnesses, “not based on disavowed information”.
The panel also referred to a letter received by New Zealand First chief of staff Darroch Ball responding to allegations against the party of political mischief.
The letter said the party had deliberately decided not to comment publicly on the incident and had been unable to correct media reports or defend the party’s reputation.
“In the result, the whole process had likely come to the detriment of its public image.”
Jones told the panel the response was “disparate and disparaging” and “impossible to responsibly address”.
After weighing the evidence, the panel said Judge Aitken had not satisfied panel members that there had been any “political motivation or mischief” on the part of New Zealand First.
While the panel concluded the judge’s behaviour at the Northern Club was “a serious breach of comity”, it stopped short of removing her from her post as a District Court judge.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/judge-ema-aitken-judicial-conduct-finding-winston-peters-disavowed-comment-in-attorney-generals-letter/premium/QKI3YYRAP5A4LCL2NWV7VUI3BU/
Peters declined to comment when approached by the Herald, saying doing so would be a breach of comity, which requires different branches of government to act with mutual respect and avoid publicly criticising one another.
Yeah right.
No accountability. Bullshit to her not knowing it was Peters – even his voice would be a giveaway. And regardless – the lack of judgment in disrupting an event – let alone when intoxicated, should preclude the commie bitch from being allowed to even judge the pikelets at an A&P show.
Compare the situation with Andrew Bayly, who they said was drunk and wasn’t, then did a hit job on him.
Should have recall votes here.
yep well, Bayly is a good example of a political hit job.
But you skip around the facts and arguments, and ts not my work that I posted but the work of the legals and as per usual, it points out that Peters is a sum bag as he has always been.
So don’t bother yourself with attacking me for others’ work. If you trust Peters, Colllins and co, then more fool you.
You’re losing the plot you silly old fool. The “speaker was then Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters and the event was a New Zealand First fundraiser.”
It wasn’t a public event on a street corner where heckling is to be expected. It was a private event at a private venue & as such should be free of the socialist opinions of a half cut judge with a big mouth & an inability to hold her piss.
She’s a fucking disgrace to the rest of the judiciary who have lowered their standing in the eyes of most Kiwis just to protect a drunk.
Not my rules, not my work. Criticise the people who did the job. fuck you, bastards are apparently unable to read.
If you read the reports all along, she was not drunk. And that was corroborated by others. It was held in a building with open doors where people could pass by, but I guess it’s a hundred years since you went anywhere near a building like that.
So the drunk judge didn’t recognize one of the most high profile people i the country when she invaded the event and started heckling? Yeah right….
He talked bullshit, and she called him out. If you want to suck Peter’s cock go for it. He hasn’t changed in 40 years at the trough, and you are welcome to pay my share of what it has cost the taxpayer for another one of his attempts to stifle criticism.
Where’s your free speech attitude, which you rolled out over the pommey Lady in the park?
You either have a principle, or you don’t. Apparently, you don’t.
Judges are not the best thinkers. We see this every day with their stupid decisions. A good lawyer will never become a judge, they are making too much money.
VDH explains the chess moves but we don’t know the outcome yet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9x8loyEPc8
Victor Davis Hanson: “Trump Just Proved EVERYONE Wrong – INSTANTLY!
“… Nobody has tried negotiating in the middle of a war before”
Good Cop, Bad Cop…
For all those with TDS
https://www.joannenova.com.au/2026/04/did-trump-win-victor-davis-hanson-if-its-honored-yes-but-china-is-in-dire-straits/
The big losers in this war, apart from some former Iranian leaders, appear to be China, and NATO.
A message from Iran.
Yup, A few more IGRC need sending off. This is not about bombing civilians as such. To a large extent, most civilized countries try and avoid civilian casualties. Even Putin ( not so much Zelensky). If the IRGC need to be nullified by destroying infrastructure that they use to conduct their operations, that stuff becomes legitimate targets. Unfortunately, some civilians will be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Israel did warn Iran to stay away from trains before they bombed them. Many Iranians will see the sacrifices of some so that the regime is destroyed acceptable. tens of thousands have already given their lives fighting for freedom. I hope their sacrifice is not in vain.
Those sacrifices will be very small, although just as heartbreaking as what the regime has done to the Persians since 1971.
Vengeance will come, especially if the Kurds get their way.
Much of the oil and the money belonged to them.
Nice satellite imagery, courtesy of the Japanese
https://www.jma.go.jp/bosai/map.html#5/-34.753/178.453/&elem=strengthen&contents=himawari&lang=en&interval=middle
TV1 is FULL weather porn tonight. Breathless repeaters gasping, almost crying. Here in Nelson one of the best days/nights for a long time.I wait, in anticipation of the incoming bomb!!
Shiny pink lippy on the maori kid reporter. She looked like she was off to a nightclub not reporting from a windy beach.
Do makeup staff not work the weekend?
And I’m over the maorification of the news, TV1 especially. It’s fucking nauseating and embarrassing. Why are we bowing to and acknowledging Maori, so hard!!!? Trying sooooo hard!! We are a white English country. STOP BASTARDISING OUR FUCKING LANGUAGE. I don’t want to step back in time and speak booga booga language. And it’s TAUPO, Saville, as in T-our-po, not Toopoo!! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! Rant over.
Keep ranting. They need to know how fairly normal, moderate Kiwis think.
But they don’t want to know.
No sandbags ready? The neighbourhood Civil Defence controller will not be pleased.
Hope he swings by. I’ll get him in a headlock.
Trump Delivers Massive Blow to Bloated Bureaucracy: Federal Workforce Craters to Lowest Level Since 1966
The deep state is getting leaner fast under President Trump.
Federal civilian employment plunged by another 18,000 jobs in March alone, according to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics report. That marks the 14th straight month of declines, pushing the total federal government workforce down to roughly 2.66 million — the smallest it has been since 1966.
This is ruthless efficiency in action. After years of explosive growth under the previous administration, which padded the rolls with unnecessary positions to inflate job numbers, Trump is finally shrinking the parasitic federal bureaucracy that has drained taxpayer dollars for decades. Overall cuts since he took office have exceeded 300,000 positions through hiring freezes, resignations, retirements, and targeted reductions.
Americans are tired of funding a swollen government that grows bigger no matter who is in charge. These numbers prove Trump is keeping his promise to drain the swamp and make government work for the people again, not the other way around. Real leadership means cutting waste, not expanding it. The deep state is shrinking, and that’s a win for every hardworking taxpayer.
Ireland Day 5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElSXQcWTEX4
The Irish People Rise Up Against The Government and Are Set To Make History …
Everyone to be here
Democrats Lose Their Media Monopoly as Ellison Empire Delivers Real Journalism
Democrats are melting down in full panic mode now that conservative-leaning billionaire Larry Ellison and his son David have seized control of major legacy media outlets.
Under the new Paramount ownership, CBS News and 60 Minutes are finally doing actual reporting—exposing government fraud in deep-blue California instead of shielding it. No more scripted protection for failing leftist policies.
The panic is about to get much worse. The Ellison family just outbid Netflix with a massive $111 billion deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, locking in CNN and a vast empire of other assets. Far-left “journalists” at CNN are in hysterics, terrified they won’t be able to shove their radical agenda down America’s throat anymore.
They had counted on Obama allies at Netflix to keep the propaganda machine humming. Instead, the Ellisons won the bidding war and are poised to reshape the narrative around truth, not activism.
Radical senators like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are screaming “antitrust” and inventing “national security concerns” to block the deal. Spare us the fake outrage. What really terrifies them is losing their iron grip on the information Americans consume. For years, these outlets operated as Democrat super PACs disguised as newsrooms—pushing lies, burying scandals, and gaslighting the public.
David Ellison has pledged editorial independence while focusing on the “truth business.” After years of bias and declining trust, that shift can’t come soon enough. Americans are tired of the manufactured reality from coastal elites. Real reporting that holds government accountable—regardless of party—is a breath of fresh air.
The left built this house of cards on narrative control. Now it’s collapsing, and they’re screaming as the pieces fall. Good riddance. A freer, fairer media landscape benefits everyone who values facts over fiction.
Donald Trump
Donald Trump For President
Trump Admin Delivers Major Blow to Deep State Roadblocks – DOGE Back in Business at SSA
The Trump administration just scored a huge victory for government accountability. On Friday, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, sitting en banc, slapped down a ridiculous preliminary injunction from a Maryland district judge that had tied DOGE’s hands and blocked access to sensitive Social Security Administration records.
That activist injunction from April 2025 is now vacated. The court ruled the plaintiffs failed to prove irreparable harm – after all, if privacy gets stepped on, the Privacy Act still offers damages and other fixes. The case heads back to the district court for a full review on the merits, but DOGE can move forward without the leftist delay tactics holding it hostage.
This is what real efficiency looks like: cutting through bureaucratic nonsense, exposing waste like those Social Security checks still flowing to over 800,000 dead “voters,” and draining the swamp one record at a time. Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s DOGE team is built for this fight, and the courts just gave them the green light.
America First means rooting out fraud and protecting taxpayer dollars – not shielding the system that’s been ripping us off for years. Big win for transparency and fiscal sanity. The deep state is on notice