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vikey just thought everyone needed sunglasses.
you can take the man outve afghanistan but you cant take afghanistan outve the man…. or the goat apparently
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2026/04/17/afghan-male-arrested-over-suspected-rapes-of-goats-and-sheep/
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Hmmm, the fact that he didn’t untie them after making love makes me suspect it wasn’t consensual.
They cut their throat and sell them.
BDSM gone wrong.
By the looks of some of the children I’ve seen hanging around in the Pack n Save area of Whangarei the problem might be far more common than we thought.
Must be a surplus of diesel coming or just need to clear out the summer stuff .
Yesterday weekly price from local outfit $2.96 then another email came in and said use your card at a z or caltex truck stop and it is $2.85 for the week , so back 40c below 91 where it should be heading for the 70c difference
must be, oil has crept back over $100 per barrel again so youd think they wouldnt let an opportunity to gouge go to waste.
Nowhere to store what’s coming as the usage has gone down.
The inevitable consequence of market forces, I guess.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
Just about empty in my tank, as this was always going to happen.
The truckers can stop whinging now.
Its still a $1 higher than 6 weeks ago so that $30 per 100km more to run my trucks but it is a step in the right direction .
im burning 104 litres per hour at the moment dougal, nice 5.7km long AB lines and chugging along 4.5-8kmhr depending on ground conditions… glad im not paying the bill, got rock rollers, spreader and boom burning through fuel 14-16hrs a day aswell as a b train and c train carting fert and grain.
pump price here was 3.08 a few days ago, no ruc over here so diesel is much the same price as petrol but farmers etc get rebates for non road use fuel.
A couple of coffee stops, then.
It’s good for NZ funds that you stop driving mindlessly around the country.
Plenty of tankers on their way. Have a look on the Northport website it’s all published and continually updated on there.
You do have to laugh at the former peak oil enthusiasts that claimed it would all run out , the asian refineries are in the business of refining crude oil into fuel , they weren’t just going to shut their pipelines until the arab oil available again.
China has just told the Philippines to stop war training with its allies or no fuel.
Got to laugh at people who think oil comes from dead dinosaurs. I’m pretty sure there weren’t that many roaming the planet.
If it came from dinosaurs, which is an obvious lie, at the rate we use oil, we are burning about 600 billion dinosaurs a year. Or based on fuel reserves, the planet had over 200 trillion dinosaurs, or 2 per sq metre, or about 20,000 times the concentration of humans per square meter, and based on body weight, about 150,000 times the concentration. About one ton per sqm.
The science has been out for a long time that oil is created by compression of various minerals and rock under the mantle and is ongoing.
think plankton and algae were the main source to create oil.
Nah, back in the day when Co2 was the chief gas, all that plant growth covered the whole land mass. Over time, all that plant matter was slowly covered with layers of material from all the volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and sea rises and falls. Billions of years later, we are finding it in folds and crevices in the earths crust.
The only thing to fear from fear is fear itself.
Not to say it didn’t affect all of us, but it didn’t take much to stop buying ya lunch or coffees at $10.00 a time to save the cash.
different of course for truckies, but many of them run too big trucks and run empty too often.
No one shares loads these days; it is all about a low price for a backload.
The airlines soon found out how to trim their half-full loadings.
The want to go now attitude soon evaporated. Soon, Av gas will be cheaper than ever.
Driving around by hoons has dropped off as well.
There has to be good in these things. Makes people start to think about their habits.
Talking of habits to break NZ should break the habit of electing politicians and parties that consistently prove they are unable to legisltae anything that benefits NZ – I can think of two parties whose increased memebrship of Parliament would be a start and for the avoidance of doubt they do not include – Labour/TPM/Greens or Top
COVID-19 countermeasures: Evidence for an intent to harm Sasha Latypova – 21st- 22nd January 2023 PANDEMIC STRATEGIES, LESSONS AND CONSEQUENCES
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1650215412688582
The real reason.-women.
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1256211549730561
Cannot open as not a faceshit user but guessing the content I too see a direct connection with women in power and failure not all but succesful ones are a minority.
nope. Its why women are hot.
USAID Layoffs Expose Bloated Foreign Aid Grift
A New York Times story highlights former USAID workers struggling after the agency’s shutdown. The piece tries to tug at heartstrings, but the details tell a different story.
The salaries featured are eye-watering: one USAID-funded NGO employee at $272,000, a DOD advisor at $195,000, contractors pulling $200,000 and $127,000, and a staffer at $175,000. The Times could only find one interviewee earning below $175,000 among the agency’s 16,000 employees. Add in an estimated 280,000 contractors worldwide, and the picture sharpens.
These were taxpayer-funded positions, often double or triple the average American’s annual wage of $65,000 to $70,000. Many recipients lived in the wealthy DC metro area while overseeing billions in overseas spending.
USAID performed useful work decades ago, particularly in the Cold War. Some employees were dedicated and well-intentioned. Job losses are never fun, and no one should celebrate personal hardship.
That said, the agency ballooned into an unaccountable machine. Tens of billions flowed each year, with much of the $35 billion managed in 2024 going to Washington-based contractors instead of direct help abroad. Project results were often vague or unmeasurable. The New York Times itself noted the bloat, waste, and need for reform.
American taxpayers footed the bill for this setup. They have every right to expect results that serve U.S. interests, not to sustain high-paying roles in the NGO-industrial complex. When accountability finally arrived, the system proved unsustainable.
The laid-off workers may land on their feet in the private sector. If not, it raises questions about the real-world value of the skills involved. Foreign aid deserves scrutiny: does it deliver clear benefits to America, or has it become a self-serving enterprise? The closure forces a needed reset toward efficiency and focus on what actually works.
An excellent example that should be appliced liberally to the pubic sector as Civil Serpents are an added portion of Political failure.
Won’t anyone think of the Somalian children?
Their learing might be negatively impacted.
Warning – boring and long but super important post about infrastructure investment.
We have significant infrastructure challenges. .
Firstly, we have an aging infrastructure stock as assets built in the post-war investment boom of the 1950s to the 1990s wear out.
Secondly, we have a significant backlog of maintenance and renewals.
Thirdly, our demographics are changing, and we have an aging population.
Fourthly, the risks and exposure we face from natural hazard events and global shocks will continue to increase.
We also have an underperforming infrastructure investment system.
New Zealand is in the top 10% of the OECD for infrastructure spending, but we are in the bottom 10% for what we get for our spend.
We rank fourth to last in the OECD for asset management.
Half of all capital-intensive central government agencies have reported that they do not have robust asset registers or adequate plans for looking after existing infrastructure.
And around half of all proposals for investment in the last five Budgets did not have complete business cases.
Since coming into Government, I have also been concerned about the quality and completeness of information Ministers receive to make billion-dollar decisions.
Everyone experiences the flow on effects of our underperforming system including bad value for taxpayer money; funding gaps; over-scoped, gold-plated, palace projects; delays; cost overruns, and – often – worn-down and failing assets that don’t do their job.
Since coming into Government, the Minister of Finance and I have been concerned by the quality of information provided on infrastructure including what we own and its condition, the forward investment pipeline, assurance on individual projects and programmes, and agency performance.
When it comes to assurance, there are multiple project review tools across the investment system that serve slightly different purposes and have different assessors, information requirements, reporting formats, and outputs.
However, none of these tools provides Ministers with unapologetically strong, clear, and actionable assurance that is focused on substance (as opposed to bureaucracy), so that we can make well-informed investment decisions.
We want experts to give us their free and frank; is it a ‘yes’ or a ‘no’.
Instead, it seems the modus operandi is to let investments move through the system and let bad projects gain momentum – until it’s too late – wasting tens or hundreds of millions of taxpayer money on Business Cases and early design and feasibility work for phantom projects.
Multiple assurance products like the Infrastructure Priorities Programme and Gateway Reviews are also causing duplication and overcomplication for both Ministers and agencies.
Put simply, there are too many assurance tools, but none of them do what is needed – support ministers to make good decisions.
This is alarming considering it’s the Ministers who ultimately make these significant investment decisions. Its clear a change is needed.
So, today I have announced that the Cabinet has agreed to strengthen assurance for central-government funded projects, with a focus on infrastructure.
This is being progressed through five changes:
Firstly, on 1 November 2026, we will transfer responsibility for providing external investment assurance on central-government-funded infrastructure proposals from the Treasury to the Infrastructure Commission. This will allow the Government to leverage the Commission’s expertise and independence.
This means the Commission will analyse all major infrastructure investments funded by central government including hospitals, schools, prisons, courthouses, and more.
I know people will ask if this independent assurance applies to NZ Transport Agency projects.
The answer to that is yes, under certain circumstances. Independent assurance will apply to NZTA where funding for a project is sought from central government, outside of the National Land Transport Fund (NLTF). This goes for other entities too.
Secondly, Government has agreed to establish a formal assurance function for asset management and long-term investment plans, which will apply to capital-intensive central government agencies and other entities. The Commission will be responsible for running the ruler over these plans when it comes to infrastructure, and the Treasury will be responsible for policy.
Thirdly, going forward, External investment assurance will be focused on what Ministers need to make good decisions on behalf of New Zealanders.
This means simplifying the external assurance space by consolidating existing products like the Commission’s Infrastructure Priorities Programme (IPP) and Treasury’s Gateway Review – taking the best elements of both.
Fourthly, for all Business Cases seeking Cabinet endorsement, Treasury will provide Ministers with a standardised “Fitness Assessment” that has holistic, high-quality information on proposals. The assessment will also provide the Minister with strategic advice by putting the project in the context of the entity’s past performance and the fiscal landscape.
Lastly, to test the quality and credibility of investments, the Infrastructure Investment Minister Group will review High-Profile-High-Risk investments and Long-Term Capital Plans before they go to Cabinet.
These changes directly respond to and accept recommendations 7, 8, and 9 in the Plan under the theme of prioritising the right projects.
For Ministers, these changes mean they can confidently say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to projects and long-term capital plans – early – knowing that their decisions are informed by strong evidence and independent, expert advice.
For taxpayers, these changes mean more projects that meet their needs and represent good value for money. Stronger assurance can also be a tool for the public to hold Ministers to account.
If a government funds a project that did not receive a favourable assessment, then that’s a good basis for questions and scrutiny.
For the sector, these changes will mean less stopping and starting of projects as good projects rise to the top, and unrealistic, unfunded projects quickly sink to the bottom.
Of course, central government agencies will need to up their game on asset management plans, asset registers, data collection and reporting, and monitoring the condition of assets, long-term investment plans, which likely means getting more capacity and capability in these areas.
Chris Bishop
Does all that mean they’ve finally discovered AI can assess, plan and provide solutions for future infrastructure?
No, Wayne brown was on Ryan yesterday, and he made the point that had he been Mayor, the central rail would not have been like it is. Hugely expensive buildings crafted by ticket-clipping architects that are just rail stations. No need for all the expense.
He’s an engineer who understands these things.
It’s a disease that councils and the government have.
The govt has used a lot of design and build lately, which cuts out the trivia, especially around bridges.
HEB are good at that.
Still can’t get our most chocked up one fixed properly though.
HEB. Blackrock owned that gives us $1M dollar speed bumps.
Spped bumps designed by ACC.say no more.
HEB Construction is owned by the French concessions and construction company VINCI SA (VINCI Group). VINCI acquired the New Zealand-based infrastructure company in 2015 for approximately €43 million. HEB operates as a subsidiary of VINCI Construction, providing civil engineering, roading, and infrastructure services in New Zealand.
Key details regarding ownership include:
As of 2025, HEB Construction is part of a larger portfolio of companies under the French parent, which is investing heavily in New Zealand infrastructure.
Vinci SA
Construction company
Vinci is a French concessions and construction company founded in 1899 as Société Générale d’Entreprises. Its head office is in Nanterre, in the western suburbs of Paris. Vinci is listed on Euronext’s Paris stock exchange and is a member of the Euro Stoxx 50 index.
These are results for who are the major shareholders in VINCI SA
VINCI SA’s largest shareholders are its own employees through an employee stock ownership plan, holding approximately 11.25% to 11.78% of shares. Major institutional investors include BlackRock, Inc. (~4.27%–6.59%), The Vanguard Group, Inc. (~4%–4.09%), and Qatar Holding LLC (~2.5%). Over 50% of the company is held by individuals and 36-50% by institutions.
Key ownership details, based on available data:
The shareholding structure includes nearly 1,000 institutional investors and over 176,000 employees and former employees, according to 1, 3, and 4.
So minor shareholders in the scheme of things.
Speed bumps. Awful things!
Imagine having one outside your home, do home owners constantly hear braking and engine revving, or heavy vehicles thumping as they drive over them?
I amused in Remuera at the speed bumps where all the Ford Ranger, Porche Cayenne, and Land Rover drivers slow down to barely 25 km/h, to mince their way over the humps.
I just throw the Forester through at 45 km/h. On my motorcycle I take the bumps at 55 (I stand up on the footpegs, though).
You remind me when in Ensenada Mexico, when the large “yank tank” cars just barrelled over those judder cars, and almost no movement of the car body.
A sight to behold, though do not ask how long that soft suspension held out.
The beginnings of the “General Lee” 1969 Dodge Charger driven in the television series “The Dukes of Hazzard” in the early 1980’s that could jump non-existent bridges.
The little Japanese Datsuns, Toyotas of those times did the creeping over then, & one can see the car body movement.
Long live the Subaru Forester, as sort of to be in an off-road forest. 😉
Chris Amon, NZ international race car driver, did seem to make the Toyotas more adaptable to NZ roads for ride & handling with his settings of the suspension & tyre systems.
Despite high road clearance, most of the Ford Rangers would have a hard tail suspension so as to carry a one tonne load, so would have a fair buck in the tail on a judder bar.
Porche drivers will be listening to see if air dam is scraping, or even becoming detached.
Upmarket to traffic “calming” measures, speed, road humps, judder bars, as the system works to “calm” and bring about a compliance. 🤢
My father had a Toyota corona Amon. It was a good car, drove and handled well and went forever.
Many moons ago boss had a Holden ute, with Radial Tuned Suspension. Who took the speed bumps at thirty mph. Smooth!
Sounds to me that we need a shitload of clipboard fitting Indians to be imported!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdAEN9JQpQk
“They couldn’t keep their word”: Why Winston Peters is finished with the Left | 4BC Brisbane
New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters joins 4BC to discuss the “urgent necessity” of the Australia-NZ relationship in 2026.
From scathing critiques of “communist elements” in NZ politics to the “stepping stone” immigration crisis and his recent talks …
but he wants a deal with the even worse mob in Australia.
Really
Chris Hipkins squints too, just because.
I have noticed that when speaking Chippy does not look the interviewer in the eye.
In my opinion, Chippie is a pathological liar.
Probably woman!
Reptilian eyes, they look dead. If they’re the window to the soul he’s got more than a few problems – most of which we have already seen.
Here you are SB – quite long so you might get to fill in two rounds.
Seven Myths About the Iran War
Why so many, on both the left and the right, keep getting Trump wrong
By Michael Doran
Read Article: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/seven-myths-iran-war-michael-doran
PS – Talking to the only attactive adult in your family last night –
“”He is actually in Australia for work he’s probably got a lot of time to stir $hit lol “”
My thinking is on the outside edge of paddock, is one hour on each long side =two hours.
Short side of end paddock, guess half hour = one hour.
Total three hours per lap of paddock.
So you can see why he spends his time here.
Once you start next lap of paddock, you have to complete it.
How many laps of paddock to seed the entire paddock?
From memory the width of hie seeder was twenty metre, how do you get to line up the seeder to the previous lap without over lapping too much or missing a gap?
we’re running parallel AB lines sooty, only need to do 2 headland laps at the end.
this paddock is over 700ha, lots of bush ins and outs and 2 dry creek lines/washouts… im guessing 4-5hrs per lap.
i done a square shaped 650ha paddock with a bush strip and it took just over 6hrs to do those 2 laps.
i most certainly do have plenty of time for that 🙂
its one of my favourite past times if you havent figured that out yet!
sounds like our daughter has stepped up and taken on the role of stirring up mrs sb in my absence.
did you end up getting your annual feed of oysters or fuel prices put an end to that idea?
Going down last week of May, will it still be open then -if so yes, if not no.
cool, im hoping they be open too… i might be back in nz by then all going well.
“Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man” — Nietzsche
I personally believe that Hope should always have teeth.
Jethro was hoping that Cindy had her teeth filed to smooth the edges!
I know where it can get a good set. FJA.
hope makes us weak and vulnerable its probably the worst human emotion.
only time its of use to us is when we have nothing else to lose and exhausted all other options.
most times hope turns into negative and damaging emotions, tornent would be at the extreme end of it i guess.
i find it easier to not get my hopes up on much and then i cant really be disappointed.
In my day our parent’s didn’t collect us from primary school, unless it was hosing down, and even that was in the first few years. You had waterproof parkas, with hoods.
You either walked or biked on your bicycle, or three wheel trike in the first year of two.
5 minutes walking from the walking entrance or 2 minutes by bike from the bike entrance. On the odd occasion I can recall walking home from kindergarten at age 4.
We walked alongside a busy state highway. I can still vividly remember when my five year old little brother nearly walked under a cattle truck. An old man in a black car stopped to offer us sweeties. We still walked to school by ourselves. Parenting was more hands off in those days. Guess it made us resilient, more aware of our surroundings. We survived.
Internet, new portal, finally fixed this week, even if limping along on a slow speed,
I recall the run to a power pole, then walk to the next, then run again formula, on a country road.
The school bags were a pain for running.
The school bus would take us, standing only, as the country road with quarry trucks was considered dangerous when we were young.
But had to wait for the bus to complete another run & return, really noticiable at “home-time”.
The bicyle fixed that with its carrier and spring loaded clip; of the era before handy bungee cords.
Just make sure the straps did not dangle to the chain or spokes.
No gears on the bike either.
Could just stay ahead of a tractor, or slowly catch up with it, but not able to pass. 😐 Modern tractors with road gears have changed that issue.
Missed you. Welcome back.
Thanks wg.
It has been a circuitous glug of ‘ping pong’ with Corporate Phone centre’s, off loading to other Corporate technical staff, while getting acknowledging e-mails on an internet system that does not catch up with you in the meantime.
Well some messages to the cell phone that owns you, as the techie says he is there 3 hours earlier.
In the meantime the e-mail accounts to me are not available, & off course to use digital banking now means a trip, with multiple traffic management unlimited cones, traffic lights for road works & fibre optic laying teams.
At least the staff at the local bank are friendly, even allowing me to stay on after close up times to get things sorted.
Then managed to get a local techie, though busy & had put me off to next weekend, in passing by, popped in to find out more, that some of the corporate advice was wrong, and then got everything to reset, to now going along in slow mode, particularly noticable when some websites have far too much controlling shit, cookies etc., attached with in it the annoying buffering of videos etc..
Already the corporate is trying to point a finger at me, and why did not that techie of mine check things in another way.
We will see what the next steps will be, if any? & at what price.?
Brother was chucked on a horse at five. School had a horse paddock. Reins unclipped saddle off, bank to hop back on. Me on the back eighteen months later, then eighteen months later the eldest sister joined us. Then we got a push bike.
i grew up backing onto our primary school, took a few fence pails off an
d just climbed through with our backpacks. home for a cooked lunch most days too unless mum was away.
it was the bus or walk/bike back then, i dont really remember any kids getting dropped off unless they were late or missed the bus.
Girl got picked up by a pedo from up the back. Years later jumped off a cliff.
In Japan, children still walk to kindergarten (or school).
“Why Japanese Kids Walk to School Alone—The Secret System”#JapanLife #SchoolCulture #ChildSafety#us
It’s when you import a culture/religion that looks at 8YO females as marriageable that things turn to custard.
That is a significant reason why children especially girls no longer walk to school.
Chalk up another win for the Great Man. As reported at https://www.foxnews.com/world/iran-agrees-execute-eight-women-anti-regime-protests-trumps-public-appeal
#. “Very good news! I have just been informed that the eight women protestors who were going to be executed tonight in Iran will no longer be killed,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. ”
Not a fat munter amongst the lot of them. Truly a man of impeccable taste.
Still worry about all those arrested by those murderous bastards. Iranian protestors are truly brave people.
Hate to be them woman!
In today’s episode of The Adventures of the Swedish Doom Goblin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2BsLD0B5gs
Who the fuck could be that desperate to get their rocks off? 🙂
well there was that weirdo in the states that got a sex doll made of her, that was when she was underage and didnt look like a dude/ lord farquad from shrek movie
Not whiles there’s dogs on the street!
Oh, I don’t know. . .
Tell us!
I said I don’t know
I’m not one for gossip but I have heard the name Hunty whispered around the traps.
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=kwkLYLOe4U0&si=9erUZMAyh10fQtVi
ppfftt
A woman lived with her daughter and son-in-law.
One day, she arrived home to find her son-in-law in a fierce mood, packing his suitcase.
What are you doing, she asked.
I’m leaving. It’s the end of our marriage, he explained. I emailed my wife to say I’d be home early, and when I got here, I found her in bed with another man.
Oh, oh. The mother replied, oh no, my daughter would never do that. There must be a simple explanation. Please, let me go and talk to her.
After a while, she came back and said, there, I told you there was a simple explanation. She never got your email.
Is this what we can expect to hear when things don’t always go the way of the butter chicken eaters?
https://x.com/CatShoshanna/status/2046989415440941410?s=20
Editor
Obviously educated in the UK…
It is nobody’s fault other than those who won’t take responsibility for their own health.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcUZcBlbpV4
NZ’s Māori MPs Betray and KILL Their Own People
WhangareiTim
Average Māori life expectancy has improved from around the late 20s early 30s in the 1840s to around 76 years of age today, in 2026. Thank you immensely British colonisers.
The late, great Sir Bob Jones put it well in 2018:
#. ” it’s long overdue for some appreciation. I have in mind a public holiday where Māori bring us breakfast in bed or weed our gardens, wash and polish our cars and so on, out of gratitude for existing.” .
I’ll run that past Rawiri and Scottish Debs.
I’m sure they’ll have the bacon on before you can say ”Colonisation was undoubtedly the best thing that ever happened to Maori you ungrateful bastards”
Must have been all them pale white doctors and nurses back in the day fixing them up when sick!
About the time I was at school kids us who aspired to go to Otago Medical School were given an aptitude test. We were asked to re-arrange the letters:
P N E I S
to form the name of an important human body part which is most useful when erect..
Those who answered SPINE became doctors while V2 went on to spend his days commenting on Facebook.
Who would want to be indoctrinated and attached to the pharma nipple for the rest of their days? Any way pines is better. Planted lots of them suckers. Kept your outfit in logs for a few years.
silly question, if winston were to say fuck it and pull the pin on coalition govt would that then prevent nats signing the FTA with india? i know it can still be stopped at the vote in parliament but thats not as symbolic or as much of a grandstanding oppprtunity is it and im pretty sure winnie wont want to share credit with labour greens or tpm for stopping it.
he could still court nat voters by saying he would work along side national again but that its clear luxon is toast and dragging nz down with him.
their lil spat yesterday imo was kind of weird and looked pre emptive on winnies part to setup for either a new nat leader/pm or a snap election… nicola willis comments just add more fuel to the fire like they know whats coming and theyre trying to get ahead of it?
meh or it could just be a minor tiff, who fucking knows, too much time on my hands to overthink things!
Once again a sensible post, proving SB is no fool. As the election gets closer, former allies need to create distance so that people see a point of difference. Its all grand standing and “my pecker is bigger than yours” bull shit. (in that respect Chloe is lucky).
How do you know she has a pecker?
Where is Hunty when you need him
disgusting
Although not perfect as I understand things, the thinking does bring some thought on how NZ’ financial systems & Reserve Bank also works.
I sort of ignore a part of “City of London” & “British Empire” focus & can figure many more will be in the running for the “Follow the Money”, & the ‘mini-me’s’ in NZ.
On the “cost of living” as talked about in so many countries; well before this Iran fuel issue.
REGIME CHANGE: Trump Puts the Fed & British Empire on Notice
https://youtu.be/huFWFZ3Me74
12 mins 33 secs : Apr 23, 2026 : Promethian Update :
— Susan Kokinda argues that Kevin Warsh’s Senate Banking Committee testimony — calling for “regime change” at the Federal Reserve and blaming inflation on excessive money creation — signals a broader shift aligned with the Trump administration against what she describes as an Imperial, British-led free-trade order.
She highlights Warsh’s criticism of post-2008 quantitative easing as benefiting financial asset holders while many Americans own no assets, and contrasts this with Democrats’ focus on divestment issues.
Kokinda ties Warsh’s stance to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s emphasis on raising living standards over bailing out markets and to Trump’s comments on Fed independence.
She then points to Trump’s April 20 Defense Production Act action citing market failures in energy infrastructure, including transformer shortages, as national-security threats, linking this to energy independence and Iran, and contrasts it with Mark Carney’s globalist posture and references to the War of 1812.
From some comments:–
‘Taxing tax money creates money on paper for them to spend.
And debt for you to pay off, this influx of imaginary money drastically increases inflation.’
While NZ has slipped a grade on the Moodie’s scale.
So easy for certain Parliamentary Parties to chase after much more various tax avenues, as demanded by the system.
While many voters will support that & call it equity for all.
What is Federal Reserve independence?
Controls or “narrow the role & scope”?
Independence from who? From us, the people? the voters?
Just to cherry pick :—
“….. ensuring the domestic capability for development, manufacturing, & deployment of large scale energy & energy related infrastructure …..”
I am sure that some of us can see many other & various different “market barriers”, within the self-destruction of New Zealand that is rapidly growing in more virtous signals of increasing power with controls for the hopeful elite, while brain washing every one else to accept being robbed here in NZ, like Canada, Australia,
Interesting look back by Laws at the Nats strategy and how wrong it is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7gdMBWEx5Y
National/NZ First Coalition Spat – The Facts About What Really Happened
Michael Laws
“The usual suspects” https://x.com/newzealandboss/status/2047087665024205114?s=61
I don’t know how any business could risk hiring them to drive their trucks. With what seems like disproportionate amount of accidents, I’d neither hire them, use them or insure them. It doesn’t make business sense.
Edit to correct spelling mistakes.
Don’t see many of them driving logging trucks. I know several of the big log truck owners and none of them will employ an Indian. When they are unloading containers at Northport they come in like flies. The god squad are waiting for them at Uretiti. What works in Auckland doesn’t work up here.
Half the countries’ fleets are driven by them.
Many are owner-drivers.
We were 5000 truck drivers short a couple of years back.
At least they work unlike the forever problem of dole bludgers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvjEaafzwjI
Is Immigration The Problem Or Welfare Benefit New Zealanders?
2010 …. The great Maori leader Sir Apirana Ngata warned of the dangers that social welfare would bring to Maori, and it is a sad indictment of the welfare system that this situation has been allowed to come to pass. …..
….. the glaring reality that New Zealand ’s welfare system has a very weak employment focus. …..
https://www.nzcpr.com/test-post-534/
The focus was shifted, and became the new religion where it was just lip service to Sir Apiriana Ngata
2011 ….. leader and politician Sir Apirana Ngata wrote passionately against the introduction of the benefit fearing that it would undermine the work ethic of a people. …
https://www.beehive.govt.nz/speech/getting-all-your-ducks-row
Turiania Turia took the easy way out, got on the gravy train, & rode it to the new treaty concepts.
The focus of the new religion is now to totally revile Sir Apirana Ngata & his understanding of the treaty.
So it is reborn as AI :—-
Toitū te Tiriti (often phrased as Toitū te Tiriti or Toitū Te Tiriti) is a prominent Māori-led movement in New Zealand dedicated to upholding and honoring Te Tiriti o Waitangi (The Treaty of Waitangi).
The phrase translates to “Let the Treaty be upheld” or “Treaty forever”. Toitū Te Tiriti
Key aspects of the movement and current context include:
Origins and Purpose: It is a tupuna-inspired (ancestor-inspired), Tiriti-led movement designed to promote the treaty as a foundational, living document that guides living together in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Protest and Advocacy: Toitū te Tiriti emerged as a strong voice against current government policies that are seen as undermining Māori rights, including proposals to redefine Treaty principles.
Hīkoi and Unity: The movement was heavily involved in organizing the massive hīkoi (march/protest) in late 2024 against the ACT Party’s Treaty Principles Bill, which aimed to define treaty principles in law in a way many Māori believe violates the original agreement.
Core Values: The movement focuses on mana motuhake (self-determination) and mokopuna (future generations), advocating for the protection of Māori lands, language, and culture. ….
It has become a Cargo Cult mentality that also aligns with Islamic war-lord concepts of demanding “jizyah” = extra taxes to be paid in submission by us whitie privileged dhimmis,, and of course the Communism identities, of victims, oppression harmonizes with in this collective to achieve the academia’s call for equity for all, except where it is owed, where some are more equal.
I could never understand when young, why maori farm land, whether worked or leased out, and those funds used to buy more adjoining land, & to trade it up in small steps, that is if they truly did take a long term view as they claim.
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Sure I know other maoris would arrive and dig up the spuds that some other family planted, on the excuse of some tangi at the pa.
Or some sheep on a maori farm station, were to be constantly being killed for other maori family purposes.
The worst aspect they became like crayfish, pulling each other back into to the cray-pot, which noticiabley happened when the kids became about 9-12 years old, so education was ditched.
When no welfare, they had to hunt, catch eels, lived with dirt floors, sacks over windows.
Some became shearers, kicked some out of bed to be a rousie, etc.
The best of them moved, not to the city for jobs, but really for freedom, to own something and could shut the door on the moochers, bludgers, though I can see that booze was also an issue.
However as Sir Apirana warned, they have been recaptured by the enticing white man’s social welfare, which was meant to be only a safety net.
Whilst others saw the gap, & used them as a greenstone tiki pakeha public servant, alongside for the power of the vote to a high salary position for chiefs & their families.
Then the total complication of raising standards, to the likes as expounded often enough here about “healthy safe warm homes etc.” to be available for all so there will be no homeless or people sleeping in cars.
I raise a question, why can one often tell what is a maori owned house?
Sure there are exceptions both ways, but still it does stand out.
If you can’t get Maori people to work, then you are not a leader.
Fact.
My last paragraph, is meaning the outside of the house.
Inside they are often scrupulously clean.
Is it because the long term is not really considered or valued?
In many cases the inhabitants of the dwelling are not aware of who actually owns the house. They will pay rent, usually in cash & often well under market rate to “Uncle Joe” or “Auntie Marama” who may or may not be the legal owner. If it sits on tribal land who owns the weatherboards is even more problematic. They don’t disintegrate overnight so nothing gets done.
The hardest job in the country would be that of a paint salesman in the Far North or East Coast.
Yep right on the money. Why hasn’t this government sorted this out. Should be something like max 6 months on the dole over your lifetime, and that’s it. Full stop.
and end intergenerational welfare, eg if parents are on the dole their offspring are inelgible… they can stay home mooching off mum n dads bene or go get a fucking job.
for clack bunts, yep. They are the worst offenders. Bludging feral scum that they are.
Some of it will be the nature of seasonal jobs. Freezing works, vineyards & orchards rely on local labour for limited seasons.
In many areas there’s simply no alternative off season employment.
Work place accident in the last few days of the season solves that. 80% income helps cover most of the income for a few months
“Police now think 18 dead goats, previously believed to have been shot, were attacked and killed by dogs.”
Err so who was it who looked at a dead goat which had been killed by a dog and decided it had been shot? You have got to be kidding.
thats easy to mistake to esp when the cops find out its a mate or protected/well connected peoples or their offspring who done it…. surely that could be the only explanation for the confusion?
See what I did there?
To subtle Saggs.
“Educators say Government changes are being introduced at ‘brake-neck speed'”
Juliet Speedy – Stuff
Pity they didn’t do it a bit sooner, eh Juliet?
She didn’t stop in time for that one. 🛑
National have decided that the part-time, feminists dominated pedagogues will be “teaching the basics brilliantly”. As such education is going to be turned on its ear as feelgood shit is to be binned in favour of pupils leaving school capable of reading, writing & doing simple arithmetic.
Instance the surprise decision to axe school boards’ legal obligation to give effect to the Treaty of Waitangi’ which means that the teachers are going to have spend more time on difficult subjects & less on cultural rubbish.
Quashed data shows people over 50 are experiencing the highest increase in insurance premiums, with auto-renewing raised as a likely reason why
While insurance premiums haven’t, on average, majorly increased in the past year, people aged 50 and over are experiencing the largest premium rises in both dollar and percentage, data from insurance comparison website Quashed shows.
It found people between 51 to 60, were on average paying $5111 for general insurance. Quashed considers this one house, one contents and one comprehensive car insurance policy, which is a 3% year-on-year increase, or $133 extra.
Over a three-year period, this age group has seen a 28% increase with premiums initially sitting at $3854.
And for those over the age of 60, there has been a $1366 average increase – a 35% jump – since 2023. When it came to a year-on-year change, those in the 61 and over age group were paying on average $5106, which is a 2% increase. In dollar terms, that’s about a $100 jump.
Quashed chief executive Justin Lim says it will be tracking these age groups more closely over the next few months to get a better understanding of the difference.
https://www.interest.co.nz/insurance/138219/quashed-data-shows-people-over-50-are-experiencing-highest-increase-insurance
Us oldies are getting ripped off for being loyal.
Only a pretty altar boy would appreciate your pain.
Given that you are, as you claim, poor, then you would never understand.
Have you tried flying yet, or is that getting too close to the heavens for you?
“Under the Social Security Act 2018, a person’s income includes any periodical payments made to the person from any source and used by them for income-related purposes whether or not the payments are capital.
“The withdrawn amount will also be considered a cash asset, which may affect benefits such as accommodation supplement or temporary additional support.
“The amount someone can withdraw before it impacts their payments will depend on any income they are also receiving from other sources and any cash assets they already have.”
Pie Funds chief executive Ana-Marie Lockyer said the rules could catch people out because they were not likely to be top of anyone’s mind when making a withdrawal decision.
“I looked into it and it isn’t a KiwiSaver-specific rule – it’s how the benefit system works. Once money is withdrawn from KiwiSaver, it’s treated like any other income or asset. The issue is that people don’t naturally think of their KiwiSaver that way, which is where the disconnect happens.
“Where it could become an issue is for people making regular or staged withdrawals, particularly if they’re also receiving accommodation support. What feels like a sensible way to manage their savings could unintentionally affect their entitlements.
“It’s a good reminder that decisions around KiwiSaver – especially withdrawals – don’t happen in isolation. Understanding the downstream impacts, including on benefits, is really important.”
Allpress said people should also contact MSD to see whether they could access any other help without needing to tap into their KiwiSaver accounts.
Maori Party leader Rawiri Waititi has drunk the Marxist kool-aid in huge gulps, and he’s full to the brim with it.
He says his party is on the comeback trail and he’s got the policies that should make every non-Maori citizen afraid to go to sleep at night.
Such policies include Maori sovereignty, a wealth tax and the abolition of prisons.
Meaning if he gets his wish, the streets will be full of criminals, every wealth producer will have departed the country, and governance would be a shambles.
If any citizens are indeed staying awake at night, it sounds like they might have good cause. Maori or non-Maori.
Remember folks- this is who the media party and their separatist friends want to see in govt with Labour and the Greens.
Via the gerry mandered system provided by means of the anachronistic “Maori” roll.
Note: Mr Waititi is barely coherent as a speaker. Cutting umms and ahhs and repeated words and corrected phrases reduced the length of this video by half. His thought processes are equally incoherent.
To make it worse, he constantly rocks back and forth like he should be wearing a strait jacket.
Anyone voting for such a poor example of a parliamentary candidate should be ashamed of themselves.
He’s nothing but a thick, uneducated black boy. Nothing to see here.
Who relies on his father in law for a well paying job,
Because he could never do it by him self.
Waititi tends to open his mouth & let the norwester blow his tongue around. Sovereignty & tax may fly but he’ll have problems getting the abolishment of prisons over the line.
No-one in 2020s Godzone gets an invite to ‘the big house’ without being a real bad bastard. Since Maori are majority victims of crime committed by Maori they may not see things in the same light as the tattooed fool.
Where have you been? All maori locked up in the ‘big house’ are victims of oppression and victimisation. //
Happy St George’s Day England.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpKk_IFgA0c
This is by far the largest St George’s Day parade that has been held in England for decades