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🚩Fascinating, history is repeating itself.
This week ex Labour Minister, Act leader, and longtime WP nemesis, Richard Prebble recounted how, The 1989 Treaty Principles were undemocratically snuck into law, and that the Politician who alerted Prebble to it being in the bill, was opposition National MP Winston Raymond Peters.
The first part of the clip is WP and Laws discussing how the infamous principles were inserted, and the gravity of Prebbles’ claims. That insertion has, quite literally cost this country Billions, in claims, settlements and litigation fees – in essence they have created the Treaty Gravy train. Just how National signed the Indian FTA with its UNDRIP clause, which Seymour supported – without even reading the bloody thing.
In the 80’s Prebble was then SOE minister, under Labour and had long fallen out with WP over Prebble selling off a swag our assets. He later with other neoliberals from Labour went on to found and eventually lead Act.
Prebble was appointed to and quit the Waitangi tribunal last year, because it is in his words “secretly controlled by Māori radicals who are making things up”.
He recounts to Laws what happened in 1989 “ I walk into the house and Winston Peters is attacking Labour for inserting these so called principles, which led me to ask Palmer what the hell is going on!, this wasn’t even put before Cabinet”
Prebble tells Laws “ I don’t think Luxon wants to or do anything about this – this will just continue to grow like boils.. history of NZ is a cock up theory mate”
And it’s happening again.
Nice to have a good long memory.
Better now we can find it all in print and in archives.
Retiring from the British Army can be complicated…
Lt. Colonel Robert Maclaren retired from the British Army in 2001 after a long fulfilling career. On the day that he retired he received a letter from the Personnel Department of the Ministry of Defence setting out details of his pension and, in particular, the tax-free ‘lump sum’ award, (based upon completed years of service), that he would receive in addition to his monthly pension.
The letter read:
“Dear Lt. Colonel Maclaren,
We write to confirm that you retired from the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards on 1st March 2001 at the rank of Lt Colonel, having been commissioned into the British Army at Edinburgh Castle as a 2nd Lieutenant on 1st February 1366.
Accordingly your lump sum payment, based on years served, has been calculated as £68,500. You will receive a cheque for this amount in due course.
Yours sincerely,
Army Paymaster”
Col Maclaren replied:
“Dear Paymaster,
Thank you for your recent letter confirming that I served as an officer in the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards between 1st February 1366 and 1st March 2001 – a total period of 635 years and 1 month.
I note however that you have calculated my lump sum to be £68, 500, which seems to be considerably less than it should be bearing in mind my length of service since I received my commission from King Edward III.
By my calculation, allowing for interest payments and currency fluctuations, my lump sum should actually be £6,427,586,619.47p.
I look forward to receiving a cheque for this amount in due course.
Yours sincerely,
Robert Maclaren (Lt Col Retd)”
A month passed by and then in early April, a stout manilla envelope from the Ministry of Defence in Edinburgh dropped through Col Maclaren’s letter box, it read:
“Dear Lt Colonel Maclaren,
We have reviewed the circumstances of your case as outlined in your recent letter to us dated 8th March inst.
We do indeed confirm that you were commissioned into the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards by King Edward III at Edinburgh Castle on 1st February 1366, and that you served continuously for the following 635 years and 1 month.
We have re-calculated your pension and have pleasure in confirming that the lump sum payment due to you is indeed £6,427,586,619.47p.
However,
We also note that according to our records you are the only surviving officer who had command responsibility during the following campaigns and battles:
*The Wars of the Roses 1455 -1485 (Including the battles of Bosworth Field, Barnet and Towton)
*The Civil War 1642 -1651 (Including the battles Edge Hill, Naseby and the conquest of Ireland)
*The Napoleonic War 1803 – 1815 (including the battle of Waterloo and the Peninsular War)
*The Crimean War (1853 – 1856) (including the battle of Sevastopol and the Charge of the Light Brigade)
*The Boer War (1899 -1902).
We would therefore wish to know what happened to the following, which do not appear to have been returned to Stores by you on completion of operations:
*9765 Cannon
*26,785 Swords
*12,889 Pikes
*127,345 Rifles (with bayonets)
*28,987 horses (fully kitted)
Plus three complete marching bands with instruments and banners.
We have calculated the total cost of these items and they amount to £6,427,518.119.47p.
WE have therefore subtracted this sum from your lump sum, leaving a residual amount of £68,500, for which you will receive a cheque in due course.
Yours sincerely . . . .”
gotta have fun.
At least they’ve got a sense of humour.
no 3 is true for most of the couriers.
NZ post by email over the fence.
Rotorua courthouse black mould forces judges out, sentencings delayed
What crock of shit.
Mould is everywhere. We deal with it all day, every day.
It’s been in the building forever. Starts the day you build it.
However its never black.
It’s often orange or closer to yellow than orange. while it is a thriving colony.
It goes black when?
When it gets cold, it goes into the spore form. and it stains the surfaces and releases the spores.
It’s really too easy to fix, but not on a Govt building. They want a new courthouse.
You watch them spend more of your money.
Either don’t keep your house too warm or never turn the heaters off.
Use dehumidifiers as mould doesn’t like warm and humid conditions.
Mould doesn’t live in the cold. Seldom found in a properly operating fridge. Too dry and too cold.
That’s despite what the wankers, yankers and greenies tell ya.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/rotorua-courthouse-black-mould-forces-judges-out-sentencings-delayed/MGH5BO77AZECRFE6AV7WMIGNUQ/
Arse about face?
The phrase “mould doesn’t like warm and humid conditions” is backwards. Mould does like those conditions — that’s why bathrooms, basements, and damp houses get mouldy in warm, humid weather.
Correct version of the statement:
That’s been bugging since you wrote that. Finally I had to resort to grok to explain what the correct statement was.
Nope, been at work and did that in a hurry.
Apart from that, the editing time is short, so I might have picked it up,had I not left home immediately after that.
Buy a few dehumidifiers for the building. Suck out the moisture. Solve the problem.
That would be way to cheap, you get sent to the re education camp for ideas like that.
Minister seeking tougher accommodation supplement criteria claims $1000 a week housing allowance
Louise Upston wouldn’t answer questions about whether she would meet the eligibility threshold she is seeking to enforce for New Zealanders claiming accommodation supplements from the Government.
MPs who live outside of Wellington are entitled to an accommodation allowance to pay for housing in the capital.
Ministerial expense claims show the social development minister claims $1000 per week, while the pecuniary interests register shows she jointly owns an apartment in Wellington. It does not show any mortgage debts owed.
The amount Upston claimed last year was $52,000, on top of her $320,600 ministerial salary.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360982141/minister-seeking-tougher-accommodation-supplement-criteria-claims-1000-week-housing-allowance
For other New Zealanders receiving accommodation support from the Government, Upston introduced a bill last week that would amend the eligibility criteria for homeowners.
At the moment, households can claim an accommodation supplement if their total cash assets are worth no more than $8100 (or $16,200 for a couple).
The maximum a household can claim, if they meet certain income tests, is $305 a week. But they have to contribute at least 30% of their income to housing costs before they are eligible.
If Upston’s bill passes, that threshold will increase to 40% for households that own their home.
Yet she gets 100% no qualifications.
I reckon we could find her some digs for way less than that.
Oh dear, the entitlement in this one. Not that good at her job either.
Just shot herself in the foot, if she had any integrity she would pay the full amount back
Integrity? In a politician?
Now I gotta go to work, but I want to leave you with a real funny funny.
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1345512950738714
Proving we all have very different ideas of what is funny.
fuck there’s some sad sacks out there.
C- minus. NEXT!!
It wasn’t he mouse in your case, it was you.
Poor bitch.
Nah man, that’s well lame. Soz.
1 AM. Arkansas. A dog won’t stop barking.
A father walks down the hallway. Opens his 14-year-old daughter’s bedroom door.
The bed is empty. The window is open.
He already knows the name of the man who took her.
He’s known it for three months.
Aaron Spencer is 37 years old. Army veteran, 82nd Airborne, deployed to Iraq. Farmer. Husband. Father of a little girl who used to sleep with the light on.
The man who took her is named Michael Fosler. 67 years old.
Three months earlier, when she was still 13, Arkansas had arrested Fosler and charged him with 43 separate crimes against her.
Sexual assault of a minor.
Internet stalking of a child.
Sexual indecency with a child.
Possession of child pornography.
43 counts. Against a 13-year-old girl.
43.
The judge looked at all of it. And set the bond at $50,000.
Fifty. Thousand. Dollars.
Then she wrote “no contact order” on a piece of paper and called it justice.
Fosler walked out the same day.
And on the night of October 8, 2024, he came back for her.
That’s when Aaron Spencer grabbed his Glock 19.
That’s when Aaron Spencer climbed into his Ford truck.
That’s when Aaron Spencer stopped waiting for the system to save his daughter.
He found Fosler’s truck on Highway 31. His little girl was inside it.
He chased him six miles. High beams flashing. Horn screaming. Begging him to pull over.
Fosler did not pull over.
So Aaron rammed the truck into a ditch.
Drew his pistol.
And fired sixteen rounds.
Fifteen of them found the man who raped his daughter.
Then he picked up the phone, called 911, and said the only words a father can say in that moment:
“Michael Fosler is dead on the side of the road for trying to kidnap my daughter. I had no choice.”
The state charged him with second-degree murder.
The prosecutor went on TV and said, quote: “We don’t live in the Wild West.”
The judge slapped him in a jail cell.
And every father in this country went silent for a long, long minute.
Then something happened that nobody predicted.
Aaron Spencer, awaiting trial for killing the man who raped his little girl, announced he was running for Sheriff of Lonoke County.
A murder defendant. Running for the badge.
The whole country laughed. The pundits called it a stunt. The papers called it impossible.
March 3, 2026. The voters of Lonoke County walked into the polls.
They did not laugh.
They gave Aaron Spencer 53.5% of the vote.
They threw out the incumbent sheriff who had locked him in a cell. They gave him a 27-point landslide.
The father who killed his daughter’s rapist is now the Republican nominee for sheriff in a county where Trump pulled 76%.
His murder trial begins June 22, 2026.
Five weeks from today.
If he wins the trial, his name stays on the November ballot.
If he wins November, he becomes the sheriff who answers 911 calls in Lonoke County, Arkansas.
The father. With the badge. Of the same county that arrested him.
This is what happens when a system lets a 43-count predator walk free for $50,000.
This is what happens when a judge writes a paper order instead of doing her job.
This is what happens when a father decides he is done waiting.
There is something left in this country.
Something the courts cannot kill.
Something the judges cannot bond out.
Something the prosecutors cannot silence.
It is called a father.
And in Lonoke County, Arkansas, 53.5% of the voters just looked Aaron Spencer in the eye and said:
“Sir. You did the right thing. Now come run the whole damn sheriff’s office.”
His trial starts in five weeks.
God bless Aaron Spencer.
And God bless every American standing behind him.
He’s in the wrong state:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-18522383
Probably coming in principle to a small island national in the S Pacific ocean.
The petition for Aaron Spencer shows that numbers in support.
Sep 5, 2025
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/04/us/aaron-spencer-michael-fosler-arkansas-cec
A longish article detailing more or the judicical legalese & before becoming a candidate for sherriff,
That could only happen in Merica 🇺🇸
I’d vote for him.
Should have killed the judge, too.
Slowly & painfully
Let us hope this true story has a happy ending and that Aaron Spencer is acquitted and becomes Sherrif.
I notice Natives in the Whakatane area who describe themselves as “tangata whenua” are complaining about the use of an English Language term to describe part of the Whakatane area and as Natives or Early Settlers are most unhappy and want the name of the area changed to one from a made up language.
But here is the rub. The Natives and Early Settlers complaining have names like “Pearly Sullivan, Margie Biddle and Billy”.
Strikes me that the complaining Natives with English names are somewhat hypocrites or just ditching their European heritage, because it suits the cause, or am I wrong in so far as Pearly Sullivan and Margie Biddle along with Billy are traditional Native names that I was not aware of. If so, I am right off track with my thinking.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/595936/we-are-not-coastlands-why-this-name-cuts-deep-for-tangata-whenua
From the article:
“Piripai, a Māori translation of the Biblical Macedonian town of Philippi”
So they culturally appropriated a Greek name.
You would think they would have better things to worry about. Just another tiresome bunch of grifters trying to turn back the clock. Red radio appear to be getting more political by the minute as the election approaches, definitely time to cut the cord.
The one in pyjamas on the far right looks hot, definitely not starving.
The photo was taken just after dinning in the Executive Suite at KFC in Whakatane, hence the formal attire of PJ’s.
It’s heart warming in this day and age to see a young girl putting so much effort into dressing up to go out. A real inspiration to those of us lounging around over here at pravda one.
She does love that booger sugar
https://x.com/dagsyfm/status/2057332816413659153?s=46
That needs to be played 24/7 for a week on every service possible so people don’t forget she and her root are coke heads.
Freezing my ass off in Nelson. Autumn’s just about done. Winters knockin. Not long to go Hunty, be patient my man. 😎🏖️🏄🌴
Pretty quiet ’round ‘ere. What’s goin down
quiet everywhere. Luxflakes and Seyour have everyone running scared.
The Nats still think agriculture is NZ.
sook
live smarter not harder, you cant really say much cuz you live in one of the warmer areas of the country. youd be a whinging old sooky coot if you had to spend any amount of time down south mid winter.
been there, done that. Lived in Stephens Bay. Way back in 72-73. luvely place to live but them days was at the end of the earth. Before that Lower Hutt and Wairarapa before global warming.