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‘Y’godda ged up, y; godda ged up, y’godda ged up in the moooooooorning……….’
(How many remember THAT particular call I wonder)
‘Tis Thursday, it’s cold, dark, and ‘might’ even rain ‘Somewhere’ , but no matter where you are, have a great day, keep warm, keep safe and DLTBGYD! ‘They’ are certainly trying to.
Yes well I haven’t noticed the pensioners from the south outta their cots yet.
Might be like your place, a bit too cold for them. I see according to Ed your place is around 2 degrees this morning.
The full list of Kāinga Ora’s large social housing projects, which have 30 or more houses planned in a single development, that are on hold was released to OneRoof last week under the Official Information Act. The 21 projects in Auckland, Wellington, Palmerston North, Hamilton and Napier would have provided an additional 1576 more affordable homes.
They were put on hold in May after a damning review into Kāinga Ora that found the country’s biggest landlord was underperforming, not financially viable and the governance from the board lacking. Housing Minister Chris Bishop then confirmed Kāinga Ora would not be given any more operating funding to grow its social housing portfolio, but allocated $140 million towards funding 1500 new social housing places to be provided by Community Housing Providers (CHPs).
https://www.oneroof.co.nz/news/are-1576-new-homes-on-the-scrap-heap-full-list-of-the-developments-on-hold-at-ko-45971
So when you hear an all black spruiking homes for a Christchurch builder who is also offering 10% return on cash investment, paid weekly, then you know who is going to leave behind some big debts. That company joins another from CHCH that is already selling all their personal assets.
Unfortunately they are building this over speced overpriced stuff all up and down the country. and they are not the only ones.
Landscaping for these is 40k per unit.
Thanks labour.
Willis also published a Workforce Policy Statement which outlined how departments should deal with workforce matters including remuneration, negotiation of employment agreements, pay equity, diversity, data and information.
The statement said employment in departments needed to be “fiscally sustainable and respond to the current fiscal context and any current budget advice”.
Interestingly, given recent controversy, the statement explicitly protects departments’ right to pay additional allowances to staff with Māori language skills.
“The payment of allowances in addition to base salary may be acceptable in limited circumstances, for example, to recognise skills or duties which are occasional, rather than core to the role.
“The payment of allowances can be justified where the agency can demonstrate that payment of that allowance will be an effective way for the Crown to uphold its obligations including under Te Ture mō Te Reo Māori 2016/the Māori Language Act 2016 or any other Act or obligations,” the statement said.
Last year, the Government said it would look at the payments. Willis initially said that National did not support the bonuses, but softened her position.
“I accept there will be many circumstances where receiving a bonus for te reo Māori use could be relevant to the job at hand,” Willis told RNZ last year.
“I think if you’re in a government agency and you’re engaging with iwi Māori, or you are working with Māori communities where te reo Māori is used as a primary language, then it would be really relevant to make your public service accessible for that community,” she said.
National’s Simeon Brown, now a Cabinet minister, was quoted by the Herald in July 2023 saying if National won it would “remove” the payments.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/finance-minister-nicola-willis-to-address-latest-financial-expectations-for-public-sector/VKP6INHFENHSXPAKHCP3CVGYIM/
Another Nat whitewash and backdown.
They really are gutless bastards as they have been since spuds days.
…..”National’s Simeon Brown, now a Cabinet minister, was quoted by the Herald in July 2023 saying if National won it would “remove” the payments.”…….
Procrastination Brown also promised to “swiftly reverse speed reductions and return the limit on SH2 to 100kmh”. We’re still crawling around the Wairarapa at walking speeds & will do so for at least another year.
Wanker!
Notional win Silver at the Olympics for the sport of Kicking the Can Down The Road.
Just pipped at the post by Liebour.
Were gonna… gonna ….gonna do it
Just not right now
No change in attitude from their “tax cuts” they announced as an announcement for April 2018 when they were not actually the Goo-mint.
perhaps it’s time for the Green Party to undertake a strategic review, one that would usher in a new brand that more accurately reflects their areas of focus and their values. The New Zealand Socialist Party sounds like a more appropriate label and a brand position that they would more likely live up to.
But, of course, they won’t do that, as doing so would remove the “Green positioning”, the one authentic platform that has put them on the stage they now occupy.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/green-partys-identity-crisis-should-be-cause-for-a-rebrand-bruce-cotterill/QDCNORANTBD2PHNM5UBOHXVV2I/
Question of the day, is Duncan Webb the biggest wanker in the world or does Hipkins still hold that title? However you look at it nobody does nasty like Labour.
Webb is also treacherous check out his history.
Duncan is the biggest wanker in the world.
How many times has duncan webb licked arderns arse?
Doesn’t need to with hipkins.
He does it himself.
poor duncan thinks luxon is also the leader of israel or has huge power over them. not even usa or other israeli allies can change their minds so i dont know what webb thinks luxtard can do?
if i was luxon id thank webb for having so much confidence in me and i was such a great and powerful leader for thinking i could influence israel to ceasefire.
do you think luxon could rock a tea towel like cindy did her headscarf?
Nude nut would give them both a good run at that title
Just shows how deluded I am, of the three both you and T quoted, I would have put behind Rawiri Waititi. But there you go, to be deluded is one thing but to be truly deluded, well that is another.
The left are nothing if not competitive.
Good morning all. Road maintenance explained:
https://waikanaewatch.org/2024/08/07/satire-nzta-roadworks-planning-meeting/
Imagine that when she gets to the meth age!
What she should also learn is what happen to someones head when shot. line her up with a real water mellon and so how that explodes.
Not so sure about the throwing-your-gun-on-the-ground bit.
When does that phool goff’s turn as the minister of whine and cheese end in London?
The title is actually Whine & Cheat.
Wonder if he used len’s favorite table too?
They don’t like it up ’em Captain
Go Elon!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88mCspV9A8U
‘Certainly not intimidated’: Elon Musk speaks out on UK riots
Two-Tier Keir sending in his own thug army
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFKcnUV8j5Y
UK Riots: Elon Musk claims ‘civil war’ in the UK is inevitable
Compare the benefits of each – Elon – massive Space X/Tesla/Twitter now X – Starmer – if you know of anything of actual benefit to the UK please tell – you have 10 years to research.
ALPHA move by Vance
https://rumble.com/v5a3kvh-jd-vance.html
BOOM! Trump’s VP Walks Up to Kamala’s Plane On LIVE-TV, HUMILIATES Her | ‘Is Kamala in the Basement?
Benny Johnson
If the masses won’t come to be educated then take the education to them. This country’s academics show that at least a few of them live on the same planet as their inferiors:
…..”Getting lectured to by someone in a pub is usually boring, right? Maybe not if that someone is a world-leading expert. In 2014 a group of professors from Columbia and New York universities hosted talks in the city’s best bars. It was a hit with more than 5000 people turning up to hear the informal lectures while enjoying a drink.
The New York experiment has spread to cities around the world, including Auckland.
Raising the Bar as it is known will take place on August 27. Twenty top academics from the University of Auckland will give talks in 10 bars.”……
https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/08/08/local-bars-become-pop-up-learning-labs/
Haven’t they heard of the internet? //
Will the lady with the pink hair be sprouting her propaganda ?
Does the University of Auckland have 20 letcherers who are not left wing shills ?
Remember it is easy to get turned to Woke
Michael Connelly who wrote many good books mainly in the Harry Bosch series from early 1990s by 2017 went fully woke
Main character became > Person of Colour, woman. cop who got hard done by from white male colleagues.
The Unis will have turned many a decent person or ostracised them if they did not turn .
If would have asked, Does the university of auckland have twenty lectures amongst it’s activists?
I went to one a couple of years ago in Auckland on the middle east. Very left wing stance by the presenter whose name I can’t recall.
John Minto?
Good point. Many of the topics will be fronts for indoctrination in woke wanking. eg “Tikanga and the state: two laws for all?” & “Is schooling killing kids’ imagination?” which is a counter to the Government’s intention to introduce ‘structured maths ‘ in order to address the nation’s woeful numeracy.
But “Spying on the secret lives of bees” & “Celestial songs: a cosmic spacetime symphony” should prove to be relatively innocuous.
https://www.rtbevent.com/auckland-24
Unfortunately this seems to be about right.
https://x.com/capitalistexp/status/1820759951859491254
…..”You’re being led folks. You’re the rats and the pied piper is playing his flute. “……
That’s it in a nutshell.
Not sure about the comment, the private sector is the “deep state” but otherwise I see where they are coming from.
test
You passed! 🙂
Young people have finally started to see through the great university con
For the second year in a row, there’s been a fall in the proportion of 18-year-olds applying to university. What excellent news
Evidently, these prudent and perceptive young people have realised that, for all too many students nowadays, doing a degree is a ruinous waste of time. Having noted that the average student now leaves university with an eye-watering debt of £48,470, and that many graduates end up in jobs that don’t actually require a degree, our astute teenagers have arrived at the sensible conclusion that – unless you’re doing a course that will lead directly to a secure and well-paid career, such as medicine – it’s no longer worth bothering.
Tap escape button to open.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/06/young-people-have-realised-university-is-a-con/
Biden admin continues it’s desperation. Search warrant served on Scott Ritter.
https://meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/fbi-executes-search-warrant-on-scott?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email-restack-comment&r=1ochue&triedRedirect=true
But they’re not letting the election distract them from doing the bidding of their deranged followers. ‘The world’s on fire and [Biden’s] worried about plastic forks’:
They’re nearly as fucked in the head as the Mad Queen & her hatred of the humble shopping bag.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-administration-ban-federal-government-using-plastic-cutlery-combat-climate-change
H/T RCR Bites
Globalist functionaries like Starmer seem to be operating under a completely different operating system than the rest of us. The propaganda is so deep, he has no empathy with people. He is cut off from the zeitgeist. He functions on routines, planned scripts and systems. A propaganda wraith. He cannot function in the chaos of normal people upset at murder, a very normal reaction.
The 1300’s English peasant revolt is minimised in historical accounts, but was a similarly upset people whom came at the king. The king put them down ruthlessly, but the gig was up. To this day, the state lives in fear of Peasant revolts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peasants%27_Revolt
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sIp0jmOY22o
@Dailyquotesdoze2024
Denzel Washington Series Part 08 | Life Lessons | Motivation | Inspiration | Mindset | Quotes
Indian call centre
https://x.com/SouSanDiego/status/1821069162652856643
Very good Ed. 🙂
The top fakir in the world, repeats another signature call.
The ultimate intro & “wake up call”
https://youtu.be/BeBGikGapUw
1 min 12 secs. :
Do you like my suit?
https://x.com/runews/status/1821147368047202575
The Fast Show – Suit you Sir ! –
https://youtu.be/LT-b1qXznKI
2 mins 49 secs : of yester year.
History of man
https://x.com/SueTaylor_/status/1820926531524346227
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ke9SOmck3Tc&list=TLPQMDgwODIwMjRpgYEbmgOUMA&index=2
“Nobody Has Been Listening To The Great British Public!” Further Riots Expected Across UK
Talk’s Kevin O’Sullivan is joined by historian Rafe Heydel-Mankoo to discuss all the wider issues surrounding the riots across the UK.
‘The first impulse of left wingers to those who disagree is to lock them up’
……”‘The first impulse of left wingers to those who disagree is to lock them up’”…..
Only at the beginning. Later the choice is between the salt mines & the firing squad.
I’ve just dialled 999…
Me: “Hello police, I’ve just been attacked”
Police “Erm, Err, we are busy at the moment”
Me “I’m Pakistani”
Police “We’ll be right there”
3 minutes later, ten of them arrive.
Police “You’re not Pakistani”
Me “True and you don’t do two tier-policing”
I missed this when it was first announced but it’s aged well. According to https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/08/06/the-trumps-would-happily-send-harry-and-meghan-back-to-the-u-k-eric-trump-says/ the ginger whinger & his mad publicity seeking harridan resonate with Trump like fingernails on a blackboard.
……”Trump, the former president and current GOP nominee, has made it very clear that he doesn’t like the California-based duo, calling them disloyal to the British royal family and disrespectful to the late Queen Elizabeth II. Trump also has hinted that, if he returns to the White House, he wouldn’t stop immigration authorities from deporting Harry if it somehow was determined that King Charles III’s son failed to disclose his past history of illegal drug use on his visa application.”…….
What an ignominious fate. Rejected, stamped “501” & sent home to Little Karachi. 🙂
ginger and whinger would just go next door to canada instead… aussie if theyre really desperate.
As long as they don’t come here I don’t give a f**k.
we could gift them to iwi 🙂
They are not that bad surely?
Yes they are awful narcissists.
Ideal maori.
“the kaipara councils removal of moari wards was undemocratic because the public never got their say”…..
Really? fucking really? thats how all this bullshit started because maori wards got rammed through undemocratically without the publics input.
funny how its democratic one way but not the other. eat shit ya whinging leftards… now time to rid central govt of maori seats.
Another company shutting its earning down. Power prices are killing everyone and no one in the Nats gives a shit.
Well they will when there is no tax to collect.
Pan Pac mill shuts as power prices spike, Electricity Authority weighs in
The Major Energy Users Group (MEUG) said one of its members – Pan Pacific Forest Products – closed its mill near Napier over the weekend due to high power prices and it would remain shut until they came down.
MEUG chairman John Harbord said it looked likely that more plants would close their doors in response to high wholesale prices, which this week hit $860 per megawatt-hour (MWh) from $194.49 MWh at the start of June.
“What you are going to see is the flow-on impact,” he said.
“Pan Pac, for instance, by themselves, comprise 30% of the business going through the Napier Port, and they supply wood chip to a whole lot of businesses up and down the East Coast of the North Island, and these businesses don’t have more than a month’s supply of wood chips.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/pan-pac-mill-shuts-as-power-prices-spike-electricity-authority-weighs-in/JGMYVEMTPFGC3HQLZEQP2RHJII/
Get rid of the gas they said
Get rid of the coal they said
Save the planet they said
a planet that has been here for over 4 Billion years and actually made the coal and oil
oh la la
Dependant of electricity– we can cut you off when we like !!!
Brown out = maori power. HHHHHHHAAAAAAAAA
meanwhile the tiwai smelter are laughing their arses off, just signed off on the cheapest power deal in nz and only have to shut down a potline or 2 while power is tight but still paying rock bottom prices.
meanwhile the good sheeple of nz got rid of their coal and wood burning fires, replaced by electric heat pumps.
the good woke sheep swapped their ICE cars for electric cars.
woke businesses wanting a sweet esg score swapped out coal boilers for electric ones.
and then for good measure theres never been more gizmos gadgets and other electrical devices that all need plugged into the wall to charge and function.
they never should have abandoned the beaumont dam proposals, even in the later years before it got ditched altogether would mean it would only just be getting commissioned or just start construction.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/13221/contact-energy-plans-new-hydro-dam-for-clutha
still the wrong end of the country but we wouldnt be facing an energy crisis, theres no quick fix and my guess is there will be several periods of rolling brownouts until wr get it sorted. anything decent approved today will be at least a decade before it gets started esp with greedy clack bunts and gweens… and no wind turbines arent going to fix this, we need continuous baseload generation not intermitent woke wind or solar.
The management & staff of Chez Nasska recently had a bit of think on the implications of the rolling brownouts we will doubtlessly face in the next few years.
We’re better off than most in that the cooktop & waterheating are via LPG as is the the central heating. Nevertheless we faced sitting around freezing in the dark in the event of power cuts because the gas boiler requires 240V to operate its controls.
While the electrician was on site doing another job we had him rig half the lights & about a dozen three pin outlets up to an individual circuit that can be switched to a petrol generator.
Haven’t received the bill yet but it will be about $1300 which I consider good insurance against the inevitable power shortages.
nasska, pretty much all gas califonts for hotwater require electricity to run the safety stuff and pilot/ignition, most are 240v but some cheaper units take standard batteries
im amazed at the amount of ppl who think their gas hotwater will still function in an outage.
we done the same with gas cooktop when we reno the kitchen a couple years ago. we also have a good multiburner fireplace thats easy to cook on aswell, mrs sb does lots of soups and stews ontop of the fireplace 🙂 thats one upside about cold arse southland i guess
We miss the huge cooker we had. The house was built in the late 50s when the original homestead was gutted by fire & no expense had been spared. The owner’s wife had refused to get rid of her old twin wetback Shacklock & it had been refurbished along with a conversion to 50/50 diesel/kero. I though my ball & chain would ditch it but she saw the advantages of not being reliant on electricity.
Power cuts were a fact of life out towards the coast & with the stove, logfire, a generator backup to keep the farm water on & the lights working we could be off grid for a week without worries.
Townies are generally hopeless when their services disappear. It doesn’t take much preparation to stay comfortable but it needs planning.
Japan 20 mins ago.
6.9 magnitude earthquake 29 km from Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan
https://earthquaketrack.com/quakes/2024-08-08-07-42-00-utc-6-9-33
Today: 7.1 magnitude earthquake near Miyazaki, Japan
Today: 6.9 magnitude earthquake near Miyazaki, Japan
Yesterday: 5.2 magnitude earthquake near Weedpatch, California, United States
Map data: National Geographic, Esri,… | Powered by Esri
1 hour ago 6.9 magnitude, 33 km depth
Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan
Aftershocks:
1 hour ago 7.1 magnitude, 25 km depth
Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan
https://earthquaketrack.com/quakes/2024-08-08-07-42-55-utc-7-1-25
They could solve all the issues with trans women boxers at the Olympics by allowing women to punch below the belt.
One evening a man was at home watching TV and eating peanuts.
He’d toss them in the air, and then catch them in his mouth In the middle of catching one, his wife asked him a question – and as he turned to answer her, a peanut fell in his ear.
He tried and tried to dig it out but succeeded in only pushing it in deeper. He asked his wife for assistance, and after hours of trying they became worried and decided to go to the hospital.
As they were ready to go out the door, their daughter came home with her date. After being informed of the problem, their daughter’s date said he could get the peanut out..
The young man told the father to sit down, then proceeded to shove two fingers up the father’s nose and told him to blow hard. When the father blew, the peanut flew out of his ear. The mother and daughter jumped and yelled for joy. The young man insisted that it was nothing.
Once he was gone, the mother turned to the father and said, ‘That’s so wonderful! Isn’t he smart? What do you think he’s going to be when he grows up?’
The father replied, ‘From the smell of his fingers, our son-in-law.
Only in Gore.
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=122224062734007241&set=a.122130506924007241
Don’t park next to an EV.
https://x.com/investigatemag/status/1821287516881981732
Fund raising Kiwi style brought to you by Customs aided by Qantas.
https://x.com/JoshWalkos/status/1821027817707983304
thats pretty shithouse, what a bunch of cunts!
Closing thought for the day-
It is your duty to hide your opinion until the Government and its media presstitutes have declared it acceptable.
How hard is it to understand that?
Government-approved free speech is the bedrock of our democracy!///