The MSM said that was an apology but I read that as just an “explanatory note”. Well done Alan Jones.

All those lovely polar bears killed by global warming just to save 18 terrible humans.

I have given up with their despotic moderation. Used to be the best blog in New Zealand, and a place I visited daily. It’s a pity as it was the best place to be informed on local and international events. I am still working through whether I am being silly and packing a sad, or whether its time to say that’s it, not going back, as I did with Whale Oil many years ago. Any advice is welcome….

I used to visit them 3 or 4 times a day (I waste too much time)
But Now its every few days.
He does put up the odd good article
But DPF is too weak and liberal for me.
And of course the moderation (censorship) makes it impossible to follow
The GD gets more comments than HYS now

Yes but our own Happychappy was sticking up for the sane – he points out that it’s all very well pointing out Trump porkies but it’s a bit rich when no one in the media is calling out NZ’s world class liar in chief socialist Cindy.

Stick it to ’em sir!

I’m still frequenting it… but I miss folks like Manolo, who always had an eye on some international papers.
I think Farrar is useless on International events.. and I never read his Trump/USA articles.

I don’t have to suffer moderation on his blog so I’m trying to extract every drop of blood out of my “privileged” position as I can.
I figure I got screwed over royally by the Climate-Change fanatics on his blog.

I can’t see how providing a platform for ordinary citizens to be abused/defamed benefits National or reflects well on their philosophy.
But as I support the right for fanatics and fools to place their views in a public forum, I’ll keep commenting there (until banned).

John Key was Farrar’s touchstone.
He drew life from that well.
He was in the Key/Obama camp.
Therefore he is squarely in the anti Trump camp and displays severe TDS.

Remember Key and Obama- Both born Aug 1961, 5 days apart; grew up without a dad; not even on the political radar in the 1990s; top dog in their country in 2008; ended 2016 etc
Two peas from the same pod.

Farrar was plugged into that network.
anti Trump; Anti Brexit; Pro M Turnbull; pro feminism; Pro T May; Anti BoJo etc
That network went underground in 2017 and then KB blog went downhill in 2017.

Farrar is connected to the UN/globalisation scam that most on YSB disagree with.
He might make some anti Ardern comments but the old National Party has shuffled backwards and caught up with his effeminate, weak-kneed, surrender monkey, globalisation stance (the entrée to totalitarianism).

Farrar’s position in the US would be pure DemocRAT. He would possibly be a RINO.
I wonder why he still bothers with a blog. It is so weak now and with moderation delays and lots of shouty back and forth it is a stuttering mess.
I have given it a miss for months and toned down reading it in 2017 as it clearly took a lurch downhill.
Death with dignity, please!

When the mods have beef with you and they cry to David every time it gets old. If you have to type something out then look back and self moderate yourself then you’re lost.

There’s unironically more free speech on twitter and faceberg.

good point.

Apparently a rumble of discontent and the accidential PM looking uncomfortable. Not her usual crowd of soy boys and virtue signalling shielas. 🙂

yes ??

Any chance we could get Nigel Farage in as a political refugee.
How far would National go in the poll that counts with a strong leader?

Have to agree DP.
I had another look at the New NZ party policies this morning and have to say hey look pretty good.
I would like to know what they are going to do to get their name out there however.

Muslim emulates NFL kneeler- refuses to sing NZ national anthem

This is how it starts, similarities are striking:
– end of career wannabe
– looking to increase profile for future revenue-earning ability
– abuses position of privilege as a sportsperson by shitting on the jersey (again – remember when he refused to wear BNZ logo for the Blues)
I tell you, the ABs are about to be a focus in the culture wars (socialist Cindy is worried that they’re not looking dead certs for the World Cup and losing to France always works badly for the party in power)

What kind of a bunt do you have to be to object to the most progressive national anthem in the world. The sooner SBW goes away the better. Bacon butty anyone?

I wouldn’t call it finally when she points the finger at Jamie Lee-Ross and caveats every single statement about Labour. It’s a whole lot of:

“But other companies do it too”
“On the face of it”

And similar weasel words. My read of that Opinion is Alison Mau responded because she’s been criticized for not responding, and is very careful not to say too much negative about Labour.

About time she, the Me Too bully girl said something. She must be out of favour from the liebor party at the moment

In years where there is a big competition on, the sometimes revert to a two game format. If the two games end in a draw (Either two drawn games, or one game each) the cup is retained by the defending team.

Priceless!

Fabulous response to the IRD.

Just like our protestors here face lol. Should an All Black be making a political statement by wearing a wrist band supporting trespass? Aren’t there rules around ‘endorsements’?

The true social conservative accepts happily the position taken by the true progressive a hundred years earlier.

I’m Liberal and very happy. But I also believe in a meritocracy and that equality of opportunity is all that is required. If I want a better life, I’ll work for it. And make it happen, because I believe it is possible.

But look at this one. She’ll never be in the 1%. Why? Because instead of building a business and working 20 hours a day to make it succeed, she’s squatting in a park, bleating about things not being equal.

That isn’t the fault of anybody except herself.

The second part to this, people have lost the idea that they’re part of something bigger. It’s an old story for me, but when I look back at my family:

• My great-grandfather helped build railways, spade in hand. I never knew him, but the photos I’ve seen is of a sinewy, vest and hat man that always looked happy.
• My grandfather was a train driver; I still remember the smell of tobacco and liquorice and how he loved to draw trains clearly.
• My dad is a mechanical engineer. He could probably build a train, if given the materials. He just never gives up.

Each generation of my family has built on what the previous one had. They’ve grown our family’s wealth, small increment by small increment. I’m hoping that when I pass on, my daughters will be able to add another proud line onto that and walk into their future with a house each to their names.

And that, the view of wealth being something that you build up over time and generations – I think that’s become lost. That person that wants to be in the 1%, she’s not thinking of her kids or her grandkids. She’s thinking of just herself.

This is where our language falls flat. Liberal is used as a pejorative to describe a Leftard; even here. ACT is the most Liberal party we have in New Zealand. And they’re seen as far right. Btw, Sustainable Greens is just about the same as the regular Greens. Go read through their policies; they’re heading the same way with the grand communist dream.

I see they have refused the Coalition party name for registration

It did make me laugh at the media complaining the govt must step in to save them. Private commercial business who don’t have the ear of the media/govt have been ‘done over’ by larger forces imposing their will over their smaller foes forever. Poor diddims media, perhaps if you didn’t take the voters for a bunch of fools to be manipulated with your view of the country and world we might have support for your demise.

How about they apologise to the rest of NZ aswell! Shit network.

And just in case no-one else knows what you are referring to..

Their sickening squeals and secret deals are discussed here:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/2018708908/a-media-cry-for-help

“A democratic government has to protect democracy. A government would need to do what it needs to do to make sure that there’s news diversity,” he said. “The government could never find itself in a situation where [there’s] a monopoly on broadcast news. It doesn’t work for democracy,” Mr Anderson told the Spinoff’s Duncan Grieve.

So, Mr Anderson’s answer is to give the government control over the media in the name of democracy. Does he have shares in Koolaid?

If I was selling computers and my stock was 80286 computers and CRT Video Display Units (Monitors) then I would struggle to be in business.
The world has moved on from these and the world has moved on from localised media who used to control output. I can see Television Stations from around the world, use internet radio, and read virtually any newspaper in the world online.

Local yokels are largely irrelevant and to add a twist- now that we can see stories at source why would we bother with the local interpretation/recolouration. 30 years ago media probably lied less. Now they lie shamelessly so are worth even less.

If I wanted to listen to lies all day I would put Ardern on a loop play.
Cut out the middle filth.
Close the feckers down!

Mediaworks – TV3 gets 20 million of its 130 million turnover already from NZ on Air with sums like One million dollars to fund Seven days; and six million dollars a year to pay for 10 programs of the Westy drama – where many of the lead actors are Australian.

It is a 100% owned by Oaktree Management of the USA. It is not NZ taxpayer’s job to save a US Multi billion dollar company but the dumbschitt Garner would never work that out.

Oaktree was founded by three Jewish blokes. I wonder if they are happy with Mediajerks promoting the likes of Green Gunt Marama Davidson, who so hates Israel she burns fossil fuel to go to the Mediterranean and goes on a diesel powered boat in order to be arrested by Israeli security forces so she has some more crap to whinge about.

If the Govt steps in and saves this bunch of lying scumbag filth with taxpayers money (a straight media Bribe I would think) then it is election meddling of the most extreme.

Uh, will we get UN observers at the 2020 election- you know- those masters of independent integrity?
Holy Shit, we are surrounded by scum.
Start with letting commercial forces take down the lying media filth of NZ.

I heard an interview that was taking the approach the government radio and television stations were unfair competition against commercial operators who are expected to produce a dividend for shareholders.

That the government does not expect commercial equivalent returns from its operators means subsidy from taxpayers. I would not mind if government television was sold.

I’ll admit to listening to National Radio noting the cost is minimal and I suspect the style may not be to millennial tastes. I also listen to and enjoy Magic Talk so have some balance.

38 is how many of us are leaving claiming to be refugees escaping NZ, buggered if I know where I could go.

I only drink gin with tonic, ice and a slice of lemon in a tall glass on hot summer afternoons. Delicious! ?

You’re not wrong Kea. When our girls were kids I worked two jobs to pay the mortgages & allow us luxuries such as food. The part time one was three nights a week on the door of a pub.

Anyone who says alcohol isn’t a drug is either a liar or has never seen the trouble it causes. Beer drinkers were bad enough at times but usually they’d just spew or piss themselves before passing out. If you saw a group getting into the spirits it was odds on that they would be trying to kill each other before closing time.

Add into the mix some mad bitch who ascribed to the theory that ‘if he hits me he must love me’ & it was like working in an institution for the insane.

They were probably conservatives though because they never smoked dope.

When the US (and whats left of gutless Nato) pulls out the govt will collapse within a few weeks and the Taliban will be back in power.

The only thing those peaceful religionists hate even more than us kaffirs is muslims of the wrong sort.

Give Ardern another term or two and I think the why will become clearer.

Epstein’s autopsy ruled suicide despite huge inconsistencies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N67mlIESkk

I have never liked him.

If every house in NZ had an electric car or two or three, plus heat pumps, and if every bus and truck was electric, where is all the power going to come from? We will need to start using coal again. Using our own instead of importing it from Indonesia, of course.

Well that is not pc. how do you know injuns are honest, did one tell you?

Why would that be I wonder.

There is a video linked earlier if you want to play it on repeat.

…..”Ardern got booed off the park”…..

Be still my beating heart! Without Chompers & her bullshit to woo the unwashed Labour are toast. If Grant or Andy take over the reins they’ll deadheat with the New Conservatives for last place.

I await the front page article on Stuff tomorrow morning…..but I’m not holding my breath.

It has had a number of mentions on KB as well, I suspect it did and the MSM are saying nothing

*cough*..so he says..

My Uncle Dick and Aunty Fanny have just celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary.
I’m not surprised; they were just made for each other.

Do you think you are suffering from repressed invective syndrome?
There seem to be so few folks on YSB to rage against.
Why don’t you creep over to Kiwiblog under a different pseudonym?
I’m sure you could figure out a way to slip under the Moderating laser.

Our fish management system was supposed to be the best in the world & I concede that introducing quotas was probably the best of many bad options. It does however, include a fatal flaw in that it allows harvesting of the quota totally at the discretion of the quota holder.

The fisherman is always going to maximise his catch & minimise his expenses by targeting the species he holds quota for when they congregate & usually this is when they gather to spawn. If farmers ran with the same idea we would send breeding ewes off to the works at the time they were sent to the ram.

A classic example of what can go wrong is in Cray 4 ( the crayfish area that runs around the bottom of the North Island from about Napier to Wanganui). The season opens on 1st April when the females are soft shell & can’t be fished. Result the males are targetted. When they emerge they are ready to mate & once they are berried up they can’t be fished. By the time they’ve dropped their eggs most of the quota has been caught.

Result: A decreasing pool of ever smaller males to fertilise next season’s eggs. This has gone on for 20+ years & now the fishery is nearly fucked & sufficiently so for quotas (worth upwards of a $mill/tonne) to be halved.

Fin fish are in a worse state & no one has the genesis of an idea on how to improve things.

Very well written. Trudeau up to his neck in it.

Does this remind you of someone else:
“I take full responsibility. The buck stops with the prime minister,” Trudeau said. “I, obviously, take the ethics commissioner’s report very seriously. We will make sure that this never happens again under any government in this country.”

My goodness, how many times have you heard that comical, banal pledge made by a rogue’s gallery of presidents and prime ministers?”