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Well, Trendsetters.
2 words.
Mongrel Mob.
Liarbours finished. Liarbours toast. Greens are finished. Greens are toast.
As Garner said. There is no going back from this latest cluster fuck.
Cat’s well out of the bag🐈
LIARBOUR/GREENS LOVE GANGS! 💘 💝 😍
Own goal. 👋
Yep, New Zealand’s Master Bullshitter Extraordinaire, Christopher John Hipkins will be looking for a new job, sometime soon after 7.00pm on 7th November.
I won’t be sad and I wouldn’t employ him.
Mrs Hipkins missed the mark there. More an Adrian or Nigel rather than a John.
John, ya say. Shame. All the Johns I know are astonishing.
Stop referring to cubicle #3 all the time.
How ruuuude…
..and extremely good looking
Unfortunately, here in the Rimutaka electorate Labour is pretty much guaranteed to return. Only way he will leave parliament is if his own party deem him replaceable and follow through with demotion.
In 2023 he (Labour) got 54% of the vote, next was National at 32%
Just to put “the icing on the cake”
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/news/winitana-dellow-and-mongrel-mob-associates-sentenced-for-attacks-on-patrons-at-common-room-bar-hastings/N32VYP3Z3NE6VGKFSCWCQU26HY/
Not all cultures are supportive of strong, assertive mouthy women. Just saying.
Ya, never know. He may have the CV out already!
You would think all pollies would update their cv, before an election!
Would this Giant of 9th Century Intelligence, think that far ahead?
Chippy and the concept of “think” are unrelated. Lie – Now that’s another story.
Someone in the clan in the 9th century would have clubbed him for his obvious lying.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_nobM8kMV8Q
Chippy
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https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UWxDXtrmuAg
So much worse for Labour
Great videos, do watch them.
Morning.
They are all fucking stupid.
See Prebbles note above.
Even your beloved ACT has sold out.
The only one looking half decent currently is NZ First.
RICHARD PREBBLE: Opportunity to opportunistic
Writer: Administrator
Administrator
All parties disappoint. National used to stand for property rights. Labour has abandoned taxing landlords. The Greens have gone from environmentalists to socialists. Sir Roger Douglas campaigned for zero income tax. ACT now says the country cannot afford a tax cut.
But no party has ever abandoned its founding principles faster or more completely than Opportunity.
Garth Morgan spent $3 million of his own money promoting a guaranteed income and land tax. He believes that AI will cause huge unemployment and that land tax will lower house prices.
Before the campaign, before a single vote, let alone negotiations, TOP has abandoned both policies.
On 29 September 2026, TOP leader Qiulae Wong announced five non-negotiable policies.
Neither land tax nor a citizens’ income was among them.
How many TOP members joined because they believed in one or both policies?
On 9 October, Wong said TOP could set aside tax reform for the next parliamentary term.
They have stolen Garth Morgan’s party.
TOP’s only principle is doing any deal with anyone for power.
Politicians have a saying that the most dangerous place to drive is down the middle of the road. But TOP, a party of learner drivers, is willing to drive down any road, with any driver, on any side of the road.
What mystifies me is not that Luxon rules out a deal with TOP.
A four-way coalition with a party of learner MPs is no way to run a country.
It is Luxon’s insistence that he is ruling out a coalition because of TOP’s tax policy. The whole country knows Qiulae Wong would ditch TOP’s tax policy for a seat around the cabinet table.
There is an even more fundamental issue. If a party is willing to abandon its principles and betray its own supporters, why would it hesitate to betray its coalition partners?
An agreement with an opportunist lasts only until a better opportunity comes along.
Richard Prebble is a former minister and ACT Party leader
Opportunity Party = Communist Opportunists.
Sadly, it appears many consider voting on the basis of the pretty packaging and a “fresh face” with no political experience as a strong reason to place their lives in her hands. Do their apparent naive potential voters even understand OP policies?
Hookers apparently have a fresh face….
David Seymour’s economic credentials win CEO backing — but Treaty politics cloud Act’s pitch, writes Fran O’Sullivan
David Seymour has helped deliver some of the Coalition Government’s most consequential deregulatory reforms. But his Treaty crusade threatens to overshadow the economic agenda that gives Act its strongest claim to influence.
The Herald’s Mood of the Boardroom 2026 survey found 59% of business leaders believe Seymour has helped make the Government more business-friendly; 30% disagree and 11% are unsure.
For Seymour, the endorsement reflects a tangible record: establishing the Ministry for Regulation, restoring 90-day trials for all employers, reinstating interest deductibility for residential property and scrapping the ute tax and Auckland Regional Fuel Tax. Act has also helped drive the replacement of the Resource Management Act, with new planning and environmental legislation passed in September.
The reforms reflect Act’s core argument that excessive regulation, compliance costs and an oversized state are holding New Zealand back. The RMA replacement is particularly significant, promising a more property-rights-based planning system and faster approvals for development and infrastructure. The economic gains, however, will depend on implementation.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/business-reports/mood-of-the-boardroom/david-seymours-treaty-politics-distract-from-acts-economic-agenda-ceos-warn/premium/BTL66NSWTRD2XETLL56WB3WMBU/
The problem with this Mood of the boardroom is like working within a bank.
You become like the 10 people you spend most of your time with.
That’s why banks and others should smash their ivory towers and never have a head office.
Too far from the customers, too much groupthink, no change or entrepreneurship.
Seymour has forgotten what he went there for, and yes, the race issue is important, but it ain’t going to win an election.
He self-sabotages each election.
Agree with you up until the last 2 sentences Viking. Seymour’s stance on the Treaty issue is not new and has not been bought out as an election issue.
As for the CEO’s opinions, it just shows there is a bunch of woke people with poor thinking skills running a lot of NZ business.
Association of Consumers and Taxpayers…. not treaty, free speech, firearms etc so vikey does have a point but seymour has built a sort of brand and that includes the treaty.
like winnie he covers a broad range of issues that appeal to a broad range of voters, if he stuck to acts founding ideology and didnt expand then theyd still be a 0.2% party.
Sonny Bill Williams feared he would die after emergency heart surgery
this prick will do anything for publicity.
The 41-year-old posted a 24-minute video to his YouTube page last night that highlighted his ordeal to treat a heart condition he was born with, which was discovered during a routine follow-up appointment from neck surgery earlier this year.
The video, titled ‘My Heart Stopped ’, had amassed over 10,000 views in two hours of being published, and a social media post from Williams has received numerous messages of support, including All Blacks players Beauden Barrett, Ardie Savea, and Rieko Ioane.
One of the most shocking parts of the video comes during an interaction with his surgeon, Dr Michael O’Keefe, who told Williams that the condition had given him a “handicap” during his sporting career, which highlights how fit he must have been during his peak.
Williams underwent surgery at Melbourne’s Austin Hospital to repair a congenital heart defect that had gone undetected throughout his extraordinary sporting career.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/sonny-bill-williams-feared-he-would-die-after-emergency-heart-surgery/TS7PEYIHRNFW3A3OUPHPGVJK7Q/
Its not unusual. Same for myself.
Open heart isn’t a walk in the park and day 2 is shit but ya get over it.
I feel your comments say more about you rather than Sonny Bill.
And I was walking on day 2.
Took me a looong time before I could walk again. Having ya chest cracked open, not for everyone. At such a young age as well.
Very sad to see the Muslim blowhard pulled through.
Sonny Bill a “Pull Through”. What an apt description of him.
How cruel and heartless. Have an uptick from me.
Even his god didn’t want him.
you mean allah?
Has he got any other?
himself
Probably temporarily run out of goats in Jannah.
Virgin ones!
Why don’t we have any gold reserves?
https://nigelgrayearthpulse.substack.com/p/ask-your-politician-why-nz-is-exporting?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=ys2mf
Because Justinda sold it all and brought Cocaine, just before it quadrupiled in price too the silly bint
Stupid boy pinched it all
Labour Party Voters at a Labour Party Dinner.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/crime/winitana-dellow-and-mongrel-mob-associates-sentenced-for-attacks-on-patrons-at-common-room-bar-hastings/N32VYP3Z3NE6VGKFSCWCQU26HY/
France vs Italy in terms of response to riots. Viva Italia!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RydNSgFyzYQ
Good vid on Hipkins and Leoni
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzlYyVrRqvI
CYBER-PANDEMIC! (DO THIS NOW!)
Received this from a site I follow
This is going to be the most important letter I publish this year.
Don’t skip it.
Because inside I’m going to show you what’s happening to the internet right now. Who’s breaking in. Why a break-in now costs pennies on the dollar.
Then I’ll show you FOUR things you can do about it before dinner. Will they be fun? No. Flossing isn’t fun either. But nobody ever regrets flossing.
“Shut it All Down!”
On Wednesday, the Dutch government’s cybersecurity agency unplugged its own website.
Then the national login system people use for taxes and benefits went dark. Then Parliament. The Port of Rotterdam. Hospitals.
Germany followed. France. Finland. Belgium. The Czech Republic.
All falling like dominoes. Boom. Boom. Boom.
In Washington, the NSA told organizations to do the same if they couldn’t fix the problem fast. In Tokyo, the prime minister went on X: “We have an urgent request for everyone to take action tonight.” Tens of millions saw it.
What problem?
Two flaws in software you’ve probably never heard of. It’s called PHP. It runs about 70% of the world’s websites. Including, most likely, some you visited today.
The flaws have a nickname: PHP2Shell. In plain English, a stranger could walk into the computer behind a website and take control. No password needed.
The fix was due Thursday. Then details leaked. One research firm accidentally posted a video showing how the break-in works. The fix went out a day early.
Then the race began.
The Doorknob Test
Cloudflare guards millions of websites. It counted thousands of break-in attempts in the ten hours before the announcement. Tens of thousands in the 45 minutes after. Millions by the next morning.
Amazon says someone was already trying the break-in on October 17. Four days before the public knew.
That’s why governments unplugged.
Here’s what worries me.
About 2.6 million of these website computers are reachable online. More than a million run versions so old PHP no longer sends them fixes. And changing the lock does nothing about a burglar already inside.
Some people are already calling this month Black October. Here’s what else happened this week:
None of these are connected to each other. That’s what’s scary.
AI helped researchers find PHP2Shell. AI also helped criminals hunt those banks. Same technology. Both sides.
One hacker typed an instruction under 100 characters long and let AI do the rest. The AI broke into more than 100 companies, including John Deere. Cost per break-in: about $50.
America’s biggest banks aren’t waiting. JPMorgan, Schwab, Citi and Bank of America now block outside AI programs from logging into customer accounts.
Flaws that used to take months to turn into weapons now take hours.
So here’s what you need to do.
1. ASSUME SOMEONE HAS YOUR INFO. Change your important passwords. Freeze your credit at all three bureaus: Equifax, Experian and TransUnion. It’s free and takes ten minutes. If anyone asks for any account code just sent to your phone, it’s a scam. If someone calls you from Google, your bank, Robinhood, or Coinbase? IT’S A SCAM. Every time.Also, don’t panic. Panic is what scammers count on and it’s the one thing that makes you vulnerable.
2.GET AND USE PASSKEYS, PREFERABLY HARDWARE KEYS. First thing, open your phone company’s app and look for a setting called SIM Protection, Number Lock or Account Lock. Turn it on. Those six-digit codes your bank texts you? A criminal (or even an AI) can trick your phone company into moving your number to his phone. It’s called a SIM swap. Then your codes go to him. Turning on SIM locks will offer a layer of protection.
Second thing: a hardware key, like a YubiKey. This is a small key that plugs into your computer or phone. No physical key, no login. Unlike a password, a hacker in another country can’t steal it. Attackers would have to take it from you physically. And even then, they would still need your password or PIN. Password managers, Google, Apple, Microsoft and the big crypto exchanges allow you to use them. Buy at least two and keep one hidden as a backup. Always buy direct from the manufacturer.
But these keys take a few days to arrive. In the meantime, wherever a site offers a “passkey” or an authenticator app, turn it on.
The ranking:
3. UPDATE EVERYTHING. Your phone. Your computer. Your web browser. Your home Wi-Fi router. When the Settings menu says an update is ready, install it. That’s you changing your own locks. If you bought your router and it’s old, flip it over and find the model number on the sticker. Search that number with the words “end of life.” If the maker says it no longer supports that model, replace it. If your internet company gave you the router, call them. They can tell you if it’s current. It sucks. But do it. One warning: never install an “update” from a pop-up on a website or a link in a text or email. That’s a classic scam.
4. SHUT THE SIDE DOORS. Every account, app and gadget is another way in. Delete apps you don’t use. Unplug smart gadgets you don’t need. If you have an Alexa, go to settings and turn off voice purchasing. (Also, press mute when you want the microphone off.) Use a different password for every account; have your passkey-protected password manager remember them. Never give your bank login to an app or AI agent. And for the next few weeks, don’t type a password or card number into a website you don’t know.
BONUS: IF YOU OWN CRYPTO. The biggest blockchains, Bitcoin and Ethereum, were designed on the assumption that everyone’s a thief. Their ledgers live on thousands of computers at once, so there’s no single one to break into. They’ve stood open to every hacker on Earth for years.
BUT… the weak spots are everything built around them: exchanges, apps, websites. And if someone steals your coins, there’s no bank to call. Choose wisely how you hold your keys—or who holds them. If you hold crypto in a wallet, be careful clicking “connect wallet” on ANY website this month. A hijacked website can swap in a fake button that drains your wallet.
Somewhere right now, a computer that runs your bank, your doctor or your kid’s school is waiting on a fix.
You can’t fix that one. You can fix your own.
I admit I gave up reading that.
Watched a security expert on this last night. Basically there is one problem, MICROSOFT.
Many users, governments and their departments included run on MS. Security updates are lacking.
hows those fuel prices in nz?
i see oil has surged again, 116 -118 per barrel… plus the enournous shipping and insurance costs.
ROL will be along soon to tell us nothing to see here, then he’ll rubbish EVs, renewables etc in a later post a few days from now but an EV is probs a sound investment now esp if you can solar charge it for fuck all.
anyways im suprised theres no election bashing going on about being raped at the pump, i guess labour knows if they done so and won then any fuel rises would be blamed on them? and crazy chloe wouldnt agree to a fuel tax cut either and her hard done mongrel mob mates need to fuel their harleys and shitbox cars so its all just too hard for poor chippy.
nz is fucked, whole worlds fucked
How soon? Look, EVs have their place but they are not the solution to the worlds energy issues. Same with renewables. Solar is great until the panels need replacing or the storage battery dies or catches fire. There are no silver bullets. Nukes can only be made so small at the moment. Anyway, just did not want to keep you waiting in “anticipation”….
yeah theyre not the solution but theyre part of it.
we’ll never have nuke here in nz and it would be retarded to do so and be reliant on other cuntries to supply fuel for them. we’ll probs never get any more large scale hydro storage either so our options are limited
Drill, baby drill.
drill for what? geothermal?… oil is of fuck all use to us without a refiinery
We could probably cut a deal with some outfit that had a refinery but no oil.
It’s funny how drinking 8 glasses of water a day seems impossible yet a mere 30 years ago 5 jugs & a pint for the road in 2 hours went down like a fat kid on a seesaw.
I have been thinking the AI / Data centre game was looking like a “tulip bubble” but I may have to rethink.
https://www.zerohedge.com/sponsored-post/forget-bubble-talk-ai-tenants-are-bidding-data-centers-theyre-even-switched
its a ponzi scheme thats dressed up as a bubble.
look at the figures and nothing stacks up unless everyone gets charged 1k per month (exagerated) to use the internet
Just been catching up with the US mid-term voting numbers to date. As expected the committed democrat voters have rushed out early to vote for their candidate. In past elections republicans have left voting to the final election date but republicans have warned to cast their votes early in the election in case of ‘disruption to voting’ in the final days. Republicans have taken this advice on board.
Is it a coincidence an imminent cyber attack shutting down infrastructure govt departments and computer systems, etc has been predicted within days of 7 November? Mr Goots does love to impose his influence over the hoi poloi
A good leftie voter?
https://x.com/GEP_RAY/status/2113640820964540751?s=20
Here is another one
https://x.com/Oceanbreeze473/status/2113639890403430809?s=20
and another one
https://x.com/GEP_RAY/status/2113712726178664633?s=20
They keep on coming, even the blondes are getting in on the act
https://x.com/doser_i85668/status/2113715453541634479?s=20
This will be Luxon on election night when NZFirst gets more party votes than National
https://x.com/Rexacp/status/2113483756740993486?s=20
Even overseas comics are over this maori shit
https://x.com/WarnocksNZ/status/2113746099907576245?s=20
From the Boss’s link……
“the maori fatigue we have endured last 6 years “…..
Only six years. It seems like it’s been with us forever. By Maori definition I’m, at best, a NZ European though my father’s grandfather was born within sight of Bridge Pa in Hawkes Bay about 450 years after the early settlers arrived.
Despite this I can suppress my desires to break out in a morris dance without difficulty.
Ya can’t get away from the buggers. We were out earlier and some bros had a table at a shopping centre, campaigning for the Maori Party candidate in Hawke’s Bay!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt3_PdmzdAQ
Davina Smolders: “Elected for Governance, Not for Co-Governance” | Good Faith Yarns Whangārei
Free Speech Union New Zealand
The night before her first Far North District Council meeting, Davina Smolders paced her hallway rehearsing a point of order, because the agenda proposed giving a hapū full voting rights on a council committee. In Whangārei, she told Ani O’Brien what came next: the fight over unelected members voting at council, t …
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MSM protecting Chippy and themselves from exposure
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Perpo09jUEo
Ryan Bridge is asking the hard questions
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Tama Potaka photographed with patched gang members. Luxon says that’s okay because Potaka knows one of them. //
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/K7mNtt2XWok
Those who throw stones…
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