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I must admit Melahi, I worry a lot about the echo-chamber effect. It delivers all the confirmation-bias one could ever hope for. However, the booing of the part-time PM on Saturday seemed to indicate that the great awakening might be happening. The problem is that if the CoL is removed from office, the ones taking over the reins will be indistinguishable from them.
As always the cancer that allows this contemptible situation to continue is MMP, it continues to give the extremists and self-serving the most power. I struggle to envisage an electoral system that could deliver worse outcomes than our current one. Still it looks like democracy the world over is failing under the weight of the deep pockets of the super-corrupt.
I despair.
I’m always bemused by the swivel eyed lefties who want to disestablish the fundamental pillars that underpin most prosperous era in human history. It’s like they have no recollection of the price humanity paid for the implementation of their totalitarian ideology.
https://quillette.com/2019/03/31/historical-amnesia-and-kunderas-resistance/
True
As a keen amateur historian, the average young person today has no idea about World War 2 or the Korean war.
Let alone WW1 which re-drew the borders of Europe and the middle east.
Young people need to be taught our western heritage and be proud of it.
Ha, I just wrote a detailed reply to you here Dignap,
Then hit cancel by mistake – cancel being the first up option.
Will need to have my wits about me on here, eh!
Excellent article.
The woke are heading down a dangerous road. They are being manipulated by dark forces they don’t understand. As the saying goes “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it”.
Yes, the wokester inoculation/indoctrination imposed by and lauded by Media, educators and politicians has softened many of them to powder puff consistency.
The actual truth to them, has no place in their bullshit, nambi pambi, save me , boo hoo, tragic neophyte belief system.
And, these blow soft individuals are supposed to respect and care for us, when we no longer can. Good bloody luck with that!
The societal inversion we are witnessing is apparently,”our fault”, like every other problem, difficulty or challenge they would otherwise naturally face.
New World Order used to mean a supermarket shopping list.FFS
Who would trust the Government with the integrity to cost all policy promises fairly leading up to a Election. I am pleased Simon Simon Bridge’s said National won’t let this bill pass as it needs all Parties support to pass.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12260316
Would any MP in National trust Grant Robertson to do the right thing after his display over the budget leak and with Winston Peter’s looking for a life line to stay in Parliament at the next Election he will side with the devil to remain on the public tit. There has to be even more doubt when Martin Bradbury at the Daily blog says doesn’t trust the political elites in Wellington to do this right.https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2019/08/20/why-would-you-trust-the-neoliberal-wellington-bureaucratic-elites-to-cost-political-promises/
So right. So true.
The public service in Wellington (the people who’d be doing the costings) is 75% chardonnay socialists. And as for the level of competence of those doing the costings – well the reason they’re in the public service is that they’d all get found out in the private sector.
It’s just a way of covering up that political parties on the left have no ability to formulate, cost and stress-test policies when in opposition (we’re seeing right now with the CoL how they cannot implement anything because their ideas are completely divorced from anything other than ideology).
So any party can get it to cost anything and Labour been the party of rapist can peep over there shoulder and then go out and screw the scrum!
HC, you’re so right, who would trust Robertson and Shaw? It seems DPF would though. His 7.00am post is in full support of the idea. I responded with a post suggesting in the current climate it is not a good idea. I stopped short of suggesting DPF has rocks in his head for his stance after all we are all entitled to our opinions.
Like most males, DPF is being led by his missus. She must be a buxom blond, from the wellington yuppie set, to have such a dramatic affect on him and his decisions.
I was coming to a similar conclusion.
General Debate has been up for 40 minutes and there’s only 2 postings up.
But getting through the moderators is the main issue IMO. I visit there and read the articles but never comment now. Waste of time.
Sad but true.
Whats sad? The part were he’s being led by his missus or that she’s a buxom blond?
Why would I care what she looks like? It just seems DPF has considerably changed his view of the world and I suspect he has been heavily influenced by someone very close to him. I know hubby and I bounce ideas off each other and despite both knowing our own minds we are willing to temper our views if the other has a better argument. As the saying goes, ‘behind every successful man is a strong woman.’
I like DPF. I respect his brain. He’s a class guy.
Fucked if I know why Christchurch impacted him so much.
I still cast my eye over his posts, some are really good. Some make me think – what in the fuck???
It must just be the old adage – you are who you hang with. And he hangs in Wellington with beltway wankers.
The sad thing is – the nicer he is to the left, the more they hate him.
I’m glad you raised this Happy.
When I heard it I thought it was an open admission that neither the Greens or Labour had had the resources to cost any of their election promises. Fancy that – whoodathunk!
Further it appears to be a back door way of clawing out some taxpayer funded electioneering.
Labour might promote itself as the party with the most friends (ie Greens and Winston) but they aren’t stocked too well with donors and see themselves back in opposition in the not too distant future.
They also aren’t the party with any talent, so have to hire in advisors on everything that can’t be driven by feelz.
Lest we forget the 3 parties that make up the COL each had their own set of election promises before the Government was picked by Mr 7%. Then came the secret 38 page “agreement” that muddied most policy directions with the now worn out response of their consultation within the COL. Added to this have been Captains Calls as well as some independent Ministerial decisions that seem to even miss this so called consultation process. Not to mention skirting the long established Parliamentary process. All to be costed retrospectively or perhaps not if it all seems too much of a challenge. Now they seek to tilt the playing field in their favour yet again while they have the opportunity. What could go wrong with that? Tui moment.
When Cindy held a press conference to announce Labour/Winston and the Greens had formed a coalition I had three very strong bad reactions:
-Firstly a sinking feeling, but one I fully expected the announcement by Cindy of the coalition from hell. Good on ya Bill for sidestepping that bovine excretement!
-Secondly, a very deep negative lurch in the pit of my stomach when Winston casually announced “capitialism is dead, but don’t blame me”. That didn’t bode well for the people of NZ. As I expected the COL proved to have a plan of attack to undermine our rock star economy. They appear to be on track for our economy to be bled dry through taxes and to crash into a recession making life so much harder for the vulnerable and ill prepared.
– Thirdly, Winston announced a 38 page secret addendum that is not for the public to be privy to despite claiming this would be “the most transparent government ever” we, the voters are never to be informed of its content. Kept in the dark and fed bullshit is their modus operandi. F*kn liars.
Let’s do this. Crap!!!
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Would I trust a political party that introduced retrospective legislation to hide their illegal electioneering spend to setup an impartial organisation to cost all other parties?
Would I trust a political party that has, multiple times over their history, pushed victims to avoid the police and tried to hide the alleged sexual abuse occurring in their offices?
Would I trust a political party who has a leader that boldly and blatantly lies while telling us there is no need to lie in politics and that her government is open and transparent?
Would I trust a political party that refuses to respond to OIA requests and who does not release ministerial letters they are obliged to release?
Fuck no.
I am beginning to suspect that New Zealand First will vote against Labour and the Greens on an issue before the next election to try to secure votes as they are polling so badly.
Yes YSB’s Alexa rating is now 499.
But as you say most of here are already the converted.
We are under attack from leftists, socialists, anti christians, climate change fanatics, the social media giants that censor things.
What can we do.
We need to get many more members here and also to publisce the other news sites that are fighting back.
We have plenty of members. Yesterday we had 36 commentors on have your say. That’s only a fraction of registered members. All we need to do is get more members to start commenting.
I know there are many visitors who are not members, but come to read our conversations. The way forward would be to get them to join in and have their say.
Perhaps there is a mechanism you could build into the site where access to certain comment streams is only gained by participation. Starting with – say 1 comment per week to get access to HYS, and 3 comments per week to be able to read other posts?
You mean like the Herald Pay to View crap? No thanks
No – not a pay platform – but one where you only get to see all comments if you participate in them !
Posters could submit articles/comment on their local scandals or upcoming events of interest to you for posting by emailing YSB. There must be lots of local happenings that do not reach the msm that are of interest to many. Include your email address at the top of the home page in easy sight with an invitation to send such articles to you for inclusion.
There goes Ed’s day job
My suggestion for getting more commenters on board is to run a couple more topics through the day…especially ones covering some aspect of NZ news … and perhaps take a different angle from your usual stance (that might wake up some punters).
You mean pretend to be a bleeding heart leftie?
Too right.
I think it’s called click bait.
Yep and no. good time to post an article around the news etc is lunchtime. People sit at their desks and read.
Re the UN
I read somewhere that they are starting to rail against meat!
That is one of mankinds basic foundations.
Inch by inch, they are enforcing the “greenism” of vegetarianism.
An offer so far, and ok if there is a demand, but there is a wish to enforce this with no other choice.
Does not look good when ending up in a rest home, and even by then probably all ‘meals on wheels’ will be regulated to be vegan.
Enforced so you can not even shoot and cook that rabbit hopping around the lawn, though a bow and arrow may still escape regulation 🙂
You could roast the bunny on a spit!
Bunny boiling?
Criticising the PM is not sexist
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/08/it-s-not-sexist-to-criticise-the-prime-minister-simon-bridges.html
“Actually if you take me I do it from time to time because I disagree with her fundamentally, whether it’s on Ihumātao, whether its on petrol taxes. That’s not sexism, that’s calling it as I see it.”
“The PM is the fleecer in chief”
Have we ever seen such incredible and overt bias from our media? How incredibly weak is our PM if she needs to rally the ‘bought and paid for’ MSM to defend her. Bullies are the ones that have no problem handing shit out but burst into tears when they get their own treatment.
The left sat on it’s hands when the MSM and the vile left activists came after Key’s children, his jewishness, his previous career – but oh no! Boo at the SLG and it’s a crime against humanity!
Give me strength!
Piers Morgan explains why the PM is booed and unpopular – right here – Well said Piers
It must suck to support an ideology based on feelings and not logic. No wonder they have to attack attack attack.
How humiliating for our Prime Minister. Constantly needing white knights.. guys who barely pass as male, constantly defending her honour because shes too weak and stupid.
The first puller of eye wool?
PM accused of crying crocodile tears over fuel costs
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/08/road-lobby-calls-on-jacinda-ardern-to-cancel-fuel-taxes-after-commerce-commission-report.html
Just making the wholesale market work better will not suddenly encourage 5 new companies to set up large networks of service stations and trucks etc, just to supply cheaper fuel to New Zealanders.
My family have `shouted’ me Spark Sport for my birthday so that I can watch the world cup. So far I have not bothered to take the next steps to hook up – will do so in a couple of weeks.
Ooops – put this in the wrong place – apologies.
What don’t they like you?
We pay a tax on the tax we’re paying. If that doesn’t tell you enough, nothing will.
Pascal, over on KB, Psycho Milt has argued himself into the corner that people don’t care about being gouged by the govt when they buy petrol. Because they “want” to pay their fair share of tax etc. People are more concerned about being gouged by the oil companies.
What the dumb fool doesn’t realise is that even if the fuel component in a litre of fuel goes to $0.00, a liter of fuel will still cost up to a $1.20 at the pump largely because of tax. They don’t realise that the excise is a per litre value (as is regional fuel tax in Auckland) and GST is charged on the total value of the cost at the pump.
So yes, Cindy and Goofy are ripping off the motoring public.
I actually don’t mind the level of tax as it is now.
Possibly I’m an outlier.
However what I do mind is that it is siphoned off for bollocks projects like cycleways (who do not contribute- and I have 3 different pushbikes) and public transport infrastructure.
I would rather a targeted tax that reflects the miles one drives ie. tax per litre purchased/consumed than toll roads and straight ‘congestion’ charges and that the money is used to build more and safer roads.
What I do object to is for the second time in the last half century the fuel taxes are being stolen for other matters. The last time was the 1975 National Govt that stopped building and this lasted 30 years.
It was restarted circa 2005 and there has been some catch up but we are well behind the eight ball.
Another thing is that NZTA are massively incompetent (Dodgy steel; Kapiti expressway and so on) that road building needs a better manager than that crap outfit.
The whole idea of taking billions from motorists in order to build a tram from Auckland central out to the Airport to subsidise German and French backpackers who spend SFA in NZ is abhorrent. Because that is who will use it. It is useless to most (90%+) of Auckland citizens and completely useless to the rest of the country.Even a rail spur on the 3ft 6 gauge makes way more sense.
There’s GST on rates – tax on a tax, plus usually paid with Dollars that have been taxed. Expensive business rates, lucrative for the Government though.
Looks like TVNZ is in the same crap as Media works. What is going to happen?
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12260387
Mediaworks is fubar oh dear how sad imagine rocking up for a job interview and your previous experience is with this lot, i think a lot of the ultrawoke are quietly shitting themselves i know what my reaction would be if they knocked on my door, oh well i guess they can all become public servants in Welly they would fit in well there im sure
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/115140788/the-government-wont-help-mediaworks–theres-no-money
That Mediajerks mob is 100% owned from offshore so I fail to see why NZ taxpayers should help this COL- friendly sad sack of rissoles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oaktree_Capital_Management
Oaktree has USD 122 Billion under management.
If it is not making money close it down.
TV3 are useless with money. Even with NZ on Air (Mr. and Mrs. taxpayer) $20 mill a year free money they cant make ends meet.
With the RWC coming up it is timely to remember that they outbid and got rights to air the 2007 RWC and then someone woke up after the fact and realised that lots of the games were Sunday morning when they could not show adverts.
Duh, Homer! That is the dumb diddly dumbness that pervades that joint.
Woke and broke.
AMShow Poll
Poll: Are you set up to stream the Rugby World Cup on Spark Sport?
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/shows/2019/08/poll-are-you-set-up-to-stream-the-rugby-world-cup-on-spark-sport.html
90% say no. Households streaming the Rugby World Cup on Spark Sport is going to be a total success Spark! //
I have Spark Sport only for motor racing events like formula 1. Not interested in paying the extra for the rugby.
And that is a NO from me, I have zero confidence in Spark being able to deliver.
I am on wireless rural broadband, they have emailed me that I am unable to receive the RWC?????? Right now I am getting 49mbps which to be fair is low when normally it averages 75-80.
I heard that Spark is only needed for the pool games anyway, the semis / Final are on Prime and live?
Can anyone confirm that?
Sparks core service has declined rapidly since their obsession with trying to outdo Sky Sport, the fibre cable has been installed to my gate for 6 months now and no sign even being able to book connection in the foreseeable future despite their promise to have the area connected in 2019, just over 3 months to get their act together, tho it is Chorus that needs the rocket.
Had to go to Wireless cos Spark/Chorus could not supply more than 4 days connection without 4 days down on adsl.
And of course, Wireless is 50% dearer and capped and unused data does not roll over, this what we get when it is a virtual monopoly, the rest of the suppliers are worse.
/rant over
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https://www.tvnz.co.nz/shows/rugby-world-cup-2019/tvnz-1-match-schedule
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/content/tvnz/tvnz-sales/news/spark-new-zealand-and-tvnz-to-bring-coverage-of-rugby-world-cup-.html
LoL, so with a head full of steam, I decided to check the Chorus website for Fibre availability and yippee it is on.
Just placed an order with Spark online they reckon 7 days til install, I`ll believe that when I see it.
Did the same for the office over a month ago……….. still waiting ………………………………..
Tree trimmers coned off six carparks two mths ago. After two weeks I moved the cones for parking at the shops. They turn up today!
Here you go, watch this before attempting to connect to Spark Sport
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/rugby-world-cup-2019/2019/08/rugby-world-cup-2019-spark-warns-customers-to-check-hdmi-cables.html
JJ who are you with for your wireless broadband? We are with Stratanet in Rodney. It is ok for Netflix, but I need to find out if it’ll work for Spark Sport.
Spark Rural Wireless, I`m on the Helensville end of Inland Road, at the very edge of the service map for both wireless and fibre.
Im not sure what kind of speed you ll need for the app. I can stream SkyGo sport ok online @ 50+mbps .
There is a bit of a stink about their frame rates also.
About the same time I switched to Wireless I got an email from them saying the Spark sport app was not supported, possibly they were referring to my old adsl plan? Not that I was gonna buy it anyway, I ve been a customer of theirs for 30+ years so they can show me some love for once.
The wireless is brilliant compared to the copper 5 + mbps at best.
Tho they can not help themselves, fibre is advertised at up to 1000mbps, when you go to order its 25-50mbps standard then they add pick a plan 50-100 mbps+ $3, 100 – 500mbps $25, 500-1000 $35 per month extra, FFS just need to be honest, they piss me off. ?
Still its cheaper than the $165 per month for 240 gig wireless that does not roll over unused data.
JJ thanks. We’re in the rural wops of Auckland – Ahuroa. Spark and Vodafone are copper cable – no fibre. So, rural wireless is the only way with the smaller providers.
I have no interest in rugby.
Its a game for thugs and encourages violence.
Who would of thought that after reading what you post.
Call it Thugby Dig they did over at the Standard once upon a time they probably still do that will put your opinion of it right up there with the hard core left and since i played for many years including rep level its well past time i went out & bashed someone as it appears i haven’t been fulfilling my thug life obligations
They do a wonderful bit of maori dancing at the start.
Do woman swing the pois at the start of theirs?
To be fair, people watching that sort of shit probably arent too tech-savvy.
I’ve heard of people using IPTV streams. Pay $15 – $20 a month for 3000 channels including all sport. Not that I would ever do such a thing.
Yes good on Simon for speaking up about the media’s sexist claims.
He or anyone should be able to criticism our prime minister.
People were always criticism John Key an John Keys and Bill English.
As long as its not personal abuse.
That’s why she get’s paid the big bucks. If Cindy is not up to the criticism that comes with the job there is another option Cindy.
Another Pacific island?
The Orien is still looking for the perfect hidey-hole private island get-away for her.
Might I suggest Campbell island!
Pitcairn Island & best of all its has some convicted sex pests to make her feel at home.
Who gives a rats what the media think if they want to see the mad queen getting exactly what she deserves wait until we start cranking up for the election then they will definitely have something to whinge about
Yes leave the personal abuse to us here. We are so good at slinging the shit at the COL, which they surely deserve
After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, British scientists found
traces of copper wire dating back 200 years and came to the conclusion that
their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 150 years ago.
Not to be outdone by the British, in the weeks that followed, an American
archaeologist dug to a depth of 20 feet, and shortly after, a story
published in the New York Times: “American archaeologists, finding traces of
250-year-old copper wire, have concluded that their ancestors already had an
advanced high-tech communications network 50 years earlier than the
British”.
One week later, Australia’s Northern Territory Times, reported the
following:
“After digging as deep as 30 feet in his backyard in Tennant Creek, Northern
Territory, aboriginal Bill Bunji, a self-taught archaeologist, reported
that he found absolutely fuck-all.
Bill has therefore concluded that 250 years ago, Australia had already
gone wireless…”
I don’t know why people still use Spark.
Telecom and Spark ripped us off for may years and provided outdated technology.
I just wish everyone would change to another telco and ISP.
The problem is there is no one else, as bad as Spark has become Vodafone are 10 times worse and the rest of the minnows in the industry can’t compete.
The simple fact that they can’t offer unlimited data for a reasonable price is an indication of the level of the scam.
Who is getting a decent sevice out of their telco?
2 Degrees probably the least worst.
Vodafone internet is great. Once its up and running. If you have to deal with them youre better off killing yourself.
I happily bring down 4-5tb a month. Fast AF.
Quite similar to my experiences and i am in the process of moving house it has all been surprisingly simple no long waits and no hassle to get them at my new place at my appointed time to reconnect things & as you say i was dreading the phone call but as with nearly all of my dealings with Vodafone it was simple and straightforward although i did luck out with having the fibre set up already installed
Use Callplus or now Vocus. Always been good.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/115029105/massey-university-accused-of-mishandling-allegations-of-a-violent-sexual-assault
So an article about Massey possibly mishandling sexual allegations by one of Stuffs queens of all things feminist michelle.duff@stuff.co.nz great stuff we all cry but surely they must be getting ready to load the hundreds of articles on the perverts within Labours ranks any time soon eh there’s no way they will just ignore it is there, they arnt all about to go broke and their only lifeline would be the govt but they wouldn’t be that disgraceful would they, dont we all have faith in our fourth estate to do the right thing by allegedly multiple victims and sure as hell they wouldn’t put their political ideology over victims of a sexual nature by a alleged rapist wood they ?
Im rambling but you get the point im sure
Fyi the email was off the article so im sure Michelle wouldn’t mind some constructive criticism of her somewhat wonky feminist radar
Uber coming to six more Kiwi cities in October
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/money/2019/08/uber-coming-to-six-more-kiwi-cities-in-october.html
Can’t complain. They have had how long to prepare!
Can’t wait until they shake up the nimbys in Invers my Mother & her husband bought a taxi each when they retired made some good coin then sold up from what info i gathered it sounded like a massive protection racket with constant fights over parking spots & jealously guarded areas and they will do anything possible to keep competition out, bring it on i say
But WG, Uber as a company worldwide is losing heaps of money, as is Lyft
Need more Uber in the Waikato smaller towns. Please!
Woke nutter
Duncan Garner: Researcher Marewa Glover letting down Māori kids by playing discrimination card on car smoking ban
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2019/08/duncan-garner-researcher-marewa-glover-letting-down-maori-kids-by-playing-discrimination-card-on-car-smoking-ban.html
So she is Garners bitch!
Is she getting visions off grandeur?
There is so much discrimination against maori
Justice system
Police
education
smoking
housing
health
Rubbish, what about other races who get on just fine
What about all the pro maori programmed and initiatives are they discrimination against Europeans.
Low IQ thug in a suit Kelvin Davis says he wants to bring the Maori prison population down to 16%.
Well I want a private racetrack from Kaitaia to Bulls. We can all dream.
Anyway how about another inspirational target of making Maori only 16% of the NZ news.
They are a noisy lot.
This month we have Ihumatao, Criminals on the run in Christchurch; murders; gangs; whining about smoking; Orange tamariki; preferential entry to institutions; Hobsons choice; etc.
Perhaps now that Kelvin is out of witless protection he might look at reducing the number of All Blacks to 16% of the side (Try that in the women’s team 🙂 ) and introduce a 12% Asian quota!
Ah, once you start meddling….
I find it fascinating Davis’ obsession with Maori matters when both his wife and mother are full whiteys. I wonder if he blames them for his problems- which appear to be many!
Good point by Mitchell in the House this afternoon. Cindy after 15 March stating that we must not voice the name “Tarrant”, and then flying off to Paris to virtue signal to the media about large social media companies who must prevent “white supremacist” uploads . At the same time back home Brenton Tarrant was busy writing letters from his high security cell to his supporters without any apparent check. Oops Cindy and Kelvin caught with their pants down round their ankles!
More misery for those that chose to break the law in Australia and Annette King doesn’t think it’s fair.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/aug/19/visa-character-test-change-likely-to-make-bad-situation-worse-new-zealand-says
I wonder whether this will reign in our Prime Ministers big mouth and let Australia run there own Countrywithout her unwanted help.
Nope a mouth & ego that large will never shut up, i hope her & King continued to loudly stamp their feet and they use up the last of Aussies good will towards us and i sincerely hope the Aussies go through with it another short term loss for NZ and another nail in this gawd awful COL&L
Visa’s are coming for all kiwis, when they indroduce Angrys and Kelvins get out of jail free card!
It’s as plain as the nose on your face! I wonder what happens to kiwis in aus when it happens. The had better start planning now!
In case you missed this yesterday
‘You hide away’: PM Jacinda Ardern challenged during visit to Māori King
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12260353
Is the msm finally questioning the effectiveness of the PTPM?
The funny part is they won’t dare call out one of the special people for saying it but they all rounded on Bridges for saying exactly the same thing even though he is also part Maori, i guess being a filthy capitalist detracts points from your special people status putting him as low on the victim pyramid as us alt right deplorables
They may be and there are bigger tests to come. From the article you linked, “The time has come for change and a solution that is for Māori, by Māori, with Māori given the escalating disquiet in this country by our people,” Commissioning Agency chair Merepeka Raukawa-Tait said.
“The State is signalling through that choice that it can do better and values its own answers over ours – well that is not the truth.”
That discussion is about the attack on Orange Tamariki. It is also reiterating a view on supposed escalating disquiet by those described by the speaker as “our people” suggesting they are separate from the rest of the population.
Merepeka Raukawa – Tait is not suggesting how Maori will fund this solution that will be worked by Maori for Maori. It would be wrong for her to assume the general taxpayer, which includes Maori, will also be keen to pay tax to fund a separate agency.
I don’t think Maori want separate agencies, they just want to either run the shows their way and get the taxpayer to fund all their
brightracist ideas.The important part is virtue signalling courtesy of access to taxpayer money. We will never have paid enough to appease the Maori gravy train – it’s a bottomless pit.
How much did it cost the taxpayers in “koha” for SLG to meet with Tūheitia?
Word is he doesn’t give you the time of day unless you put ‘the Queen’s head’ in the palm of his hand.
No respect from the old truck driver, just the koha please.
ka pai!
maori king..lol..*chortle*
Cindy missed her chance really. Been me my answer would have been.”when you stop beating and killing your kids and your own kind, then you can lecture me and the rest of the world. Till then see ya.”
Submissions to the Royal Inquiry into the events at Christchurch close on Friday. I don’t have much confidence that the process will be anything other than an endorsement of “you are us” and “isn’t Cindy bin Lying wonderful” but I have put in some remarks anyway. You can do so as well if you feel inclined:
https://christchurchattack.royalcommission.nz/submissions
I’m sure Ed wouldn’t mind if you posted your comment here if you were to be so inclined, other people’s submissions would be quite a fascinating read
This is most of what I wrote:
I find it hard to have any confidence in this Royal Commission of Inquiry when it seems you will be forbidden to address two very significant questions:
1/. Who in the police force was responsible for issuing Brendan Tarrant his firearms licence without following correct vetting procedures which have worked so well for many years?
2/. Who in government is responsible for the centralization of police firearms licencing thereby destroying the huge reservoir of local knowledge and experience built up over decades by local Arms Officers who, until recently, have been held in high regard by the law abiding shooting community?
Since you will not be allowed to even comment on the abject failure of “multi-culturalism” in Europe which Cameron, Macron and Merkel all described as “a failure” before Merkel went insane in 2015 and opened the floodgates to violent third world followers of a totalitarian regime utterly incompatible with western civilization which New Zealand seems, under this despicable Prime Minister, to be keen to follow I will not waste my time on further comment.
I did not mention that in my opinion the police are no longer the right organization to administer the Arms Act.
email it to him, I’m sure Ed would put it up as a thread.
Thanks for that
I’m going to put in a submission
They ask what can the govt do to keep us safe?
I will be telling them the best way to keep us safe is to not allow any muslims and black Africans into New Zealand.
They are the main groups that cause violence and affect our safety.
If there were no muslims in NZ Tarrant would not have done what he did.
And we would save a huge amount in police and special service security.
100% correct……you right wing extremist you 🙂
The safety of NZ’er will not be enhanced by the removal of firearms from licensed gun owners.
Because of my professional background and being privy to information not known to the general public, I think through Security and Escape plans every time I take my kids somewhere public (Shopping Malls, Sports events, Kids Shows etc etc)
Funnily enough it isn’t ‘White Supremacists’ I am worried about…
Its Greenpeace chuggers isn’t it ?
Nah. It’s the mormons!
There is now a new thread on YSB for the royal commission.
I see another Labour Supporter is under investigation for sexual assault
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/115029105/massey-university-accused-of-mishandling-allegations-of-a-violent-sexual-assault
How do I know its a Labour Supporter? Who else goes to that institution?
Laid a complaint with the Police and seemingly ….nothing?
US President Donald Trump says he had to ‘take on China’ despite impact on US economy
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2019/08/us-president-donald-trump-says-he-had-to-take-on-china-despite-impact-on-us-economy.html
“US President Donald Trump says his administration is looking to cut US taxes but he isn’t talking about doing anything at this moment.”
Comment of the day from the UK:
Bollinger Bolshevik.
Last throw of the dice; the climate is cooling. Billions have been wasted on total bollocks for the last 40 years, indulging cranks and crackpots with their end of world scenarios; Brexit has put a bit of spine into people – we are not tolerating this shite any more.
If only it were true for New Zealand too!
Hi please supply the link, keen on having a look
https://going-postal.com/
I was reading some hilarious comments on FB re Booing of Jacinda at the Rugby (*I follow some Left Wing sites out of pure fascination)-
“Police should have ejected those rednecks from the Stadium”
“How dare they?”
“They were probably National Party plants..”
Lol in other words the same shit they have always spouted when one of their own get a serve from the public yet the very same groups will tie themselves into knots trying to explain why a song about raping JKs daughter is perfectly fine & with the current & past sexual allegations against Labour we can now see why defending rapists is an acceptable pastime for lefties
Government launches Urban scheme to help cities fix housing crisis. Twyford and Parker want Councils to build up not out to accommodate housing.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12260399
It looks like Labour and the Coalition have given Hugh Pavlovich plan to councils to fix the housing problem.
Alan Jones threatening legal action over airing of Jacinda Ardern ‘backhand’ comment – report
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/08/alan-jones-threatening-legal-action-over-airing-of-jacinda-ardern-backhand-comment-report.html
“Alan Jones is reportedly considering legal action after a show on Australia’s ABC aired a comment he made about Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern six days after he made it.
Media Watch aired audio of the 2GB host suggesting Ardern get “a few backhanders” from Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Monday night, nearly a week after the comments were made.”
Alan Jones has been targeted by social media trolls suggesting he “is old and should hurry up and die”, “have a stroke and die”, etc after he said Jacinda Ardern should put a sock in it.
It would be bedda to look at why our buidling costs per sqm are so muh higher than in Australia and the USA.
Building supplier monolopies.
Cost of Branz accreditation for new products
Building supplier under the table rebates.
Far too many council standards
And far too many inspections (with no council accountability)
Your right and they have to fix the RMA and to do that they have to have Maori approval.
Winston Peter’s vsNational: Paula Bennett not giving up her scalp. National MP’s embroiled in the legal case with Winston’s Pension leak are staying tight lipped over a reported offer to settle for the scalp of Paula Bennett.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12260505
Bennett speaking on a different mater last week said she had no intention of going anywhere and planned to be Deputy Prime Minister after the 2020 General Election.
This just proves that a vote for NZ1st is a vote for Labour. Say it again and again and as often as possible. That despicable piece of shit is only in it for himself.
And if thats doesnt work then a vote for labour is a vote for the Green Taliban that might actually get them thinking beyond the mad queen & her cohorts
Loved PBs tweet that there was rich irony in WP leaking the details of his claim to Barely Sober.
Winston is going to lose this one bigly.
It screams that Peters sees Bennett as a huge threat to him being able to continuing his career as a politician. Paula is a popular and experienced politician with real warmth that attracts voters attention, she is also Maori and much younger than the ancient Peters, hence him threatening to take the scalp of Paula Bennett before the election. It’s all bravado.
I love Bennett’s other comment –
” oh the irony that the details of a private meeting got leaked” to none other than Barry Soper & I read on KB that the child bride went full nuclear against Simon and Paula earlier.
….it seems next year’s election is starting early, and both Robertson and Shaw accused Bridges of playing dirty American attack politics.
Me thinks the CoL members doth protest too much!
I do worry about legal proceedings in the world. I would not want to be working with children anywhere in Australia. One kid gets miffed and says ” he touched me” and you go to jail. No need for witnesses, DNA, or anything else objective to be found guilty. Just the accusation. Whether Pell did it or not is not the issue. It’s the process that resulted in the guilty verdict, and the fact that important evidence was deemed inadmissible as it “would confuse the jurors”. Be afraid, men, be very afraid. #metoo
I don’t know much about the case.
But if I was going to fiddle with choir boys I would not be trying it on a busy day with lots of people around.
Mark Mitchell asking about the Czech drug importer Karel Sroubek in the House today
Q3.
https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/order-paper-questions/list-of-oral-questions/oral-questions-21-august-2019/
Very interesting that this is being bought up again after so long Maggy hopefully there won’t be a pillar big enough for Gallopaway to hide behind this time
Interesting that National have clearly been sitting on this….More information come to light?
It wasn’t too informative:
https://www.parliament.nz/en/watch-parliament/ondemand?itemId=208345
I’m not sure you’ve included the right link there Maggy, but Mark Mitchell made excellent points about Tarrant:
The House supported SLG in refusing to give Tarrant recognition by mentioning his name.
SLG then flew to Paris to get Tarrant and his ilk de plat formed by social media.
The one thing SLG and her government (Corrections) could control at home wasn’t controlled at all.
Fools.
I have one other question about the link you posted:
Why on earth is Mallard sitting in the Speakers Chair in the House of Parliament during General Debate bottle-feeding a baby?
Whose kid is it?
Do these woke morons in Wellington not get enough parliamentary salary to employ a child sitter while they’re at work – or are they too tight to pay the wages?
New Zealanders deserve to be represented by people with their minds on the job.
Tamati Coffey adopted kid. There is an article but can’t be bothered to link it.
Where’s the bloody nanny?
These overpaid bludgers are taking the piss.
Keeping their powder dry as they say. I’ll bet next year will be hell for the coalition as National dumps on them on a regular basis with increasing frequency until the election.
https://thebfd.co.nz/2019/08/winston-names-his-price/
This from the bfd.co .nz and the usual hate rant from the better half of the Slaters which ever one it is.
This reply might upset a few of the dont question the blog narrative locals
“Lawsuit it is then, the day a vile bitter liar like Peters gets his way with what almost borders on blackmail is the day we are truly stuffed as a democracy (yes even more so than what we have under this col) unless there is concrete evidence Bennet was up to no good then Bridges should tell Peters where to shove his bribery”
Took them 1 hour and removed, BFD = Blindly Following Dickheads
I keep hearing about a rape enthusiast who works in chompers office? surely he has been put on leave?
Shhhh!
We must protect ‘Jacindamania’ at all costs Comrade! So keep this one quiet- It’s for the Greater Good….
He ? have you seen the size of some of those heifers in Govt offices whatcha gonna do when someone like Meka fightery comes at you full tilt (as some female employees have already discovered) and you are some sad little socialist white knight wimp scared of his own shadow well you are going to take it however and wherever you are damn well told
That aside it probably is a bloke i just enjoy creating mental images for the good folks here
You need to get your terminology right. No one in their right mind would call any of those females in the govt offices heifers. A heifer is a virgin bovine. With all the goings on in these offices I doubt if any of them are virgins any more..
Letter from Tommy Robinson August 2019
https://going-postal.com/2019/08/letter-from-tommy-august-2019/
Thanks waikatogirl
An interesting letter, though a bit long, is because there are many different points to bring up.
Pleased to hear Tommy is being looked after a lot better, physically, but it is still a lot of time to be in solitary.
The Ross Kemp’s documentary will give the authorities a bit of grief, as others will reflect on the sentence again. 🙂
Also it looks like an appeal will be launched.
Yes, I was pleased to see he is being cared for properly this time. Hope he will be released early.
Alas, that is the obvious outcome.
Why would you employ a female if she is going to take 1-4 days leave each month/
Somehow our old mothers and grandmothers managed to work long days in clothing sweatshops; or hot kitchens; or cold hospital wards; or the freezing outdoors, gutting herrings without needing days off because they were leaking menstrual fluids.
I ask the same question Maggy, how did we mature women manage to work full time with the vagaries of our periods 12 times a year?
I love that word vagaries..
Since we all seem to be intimately acquainted…
My late 40s were a bloody time..
On one occasion, just as I was about to start a lesson to a class of 30 boys, my period arrived with a gush…I raced next door to my male colleague and asked if he could keep an eye on my class for 5 minutes (I noticed his was starting to riot); he seemed a bit reluctant.. so I went back to my boys and told them to be good while I went to the loo, otherwise they would be cleaning up a pool of blood.
Maggy, you made me laugh. Bet your students eyes were out on stalks!
I worked with a woman who did some work in prisons. She realised after crawling around on the floor working with a bunch of male prisoners on a project that her light blue skirt was covered in blood. The prisoners made no comment as period mishaps seem to be tapu no matter the circumstances or race.
I see they are going to ask a question in Parliament today to the Prime Minister.
Is Ardern in New Zealand?
Irrelevant really. If there, she won’t answer but will “address” the question. If not there then some sycophantic bludger will do the same.
Now let me make this plain, they are not answering because they are devious but simply because they haven’t got a fucking clue.
Ed can you remove this line from TMs post “haven’t got a fucking clue” not because it is factually incorrect but because TM won’t feel at home unless a mod is screwing with his posts next thing we know he will be calling out Ardern as a liar a slippery slope indeed
No I will not interfere with a posters right to say what he/she likes here. Next thing you will be asking me to delete posts you don’t like.?
I think G’s comment was tongue in cheek. Small dig at KB and their moderating army.
Yes I realised that, my comment was also TIC.
I have the occasional tilt at trying to be funny its a good thing i have a day job
Cindy is a liar. Simply a fact!
Cindy was downright unpleasant in the House this afternoon in response to Paula Bennetts questions. She oozed contempt at being questioned and refused to answer whether there would be any increase in taxes on fuel on top of the expected $24c increase over the 3 year term.
Paula Bennett on fire today during the General Debate! Worth a look.
Here she is Q1 to PM
https://www.parliament.nz/en/watch-parliament/ondemand?itemId=208343
Here she is Q 9 to PM… who is very squirmy when asked about allegations of abuse within Labour
https://www.parliament.nz/en/watch-parliament/ondemand?itemId=208337
The “Avoid government”. Brilliant!!
People who knock Bennett and Bridges should watch them absolutely dismantle the Coalition of Lunatics in the House…
They are quite formidable in that environment.
I made the mistake of wandering on to the useless Herald Website. Ina clickbait article it says “Police sniper’s unexpected move when man held 37 bus passengers hostage”. So you click to see what the “unexpected move was… and there is nothing. The sniper just shot the fucker. Dead. As good snipers do. Nothing unexpected. Twats
The unexpected part might be that he didn’t offer hugs & condolences or get some likes from social media first the new fashionable Kiwi way of doing things apparently
Brazilian Police DO NOT fuck around.
If that had been New Zealand Police the sniper would be getting crucified by our Crim -Hugging Government and Media right now….And sadly would likely face criminal charges
yes their new President said he was going to get tough on crime!
We had one – fairydust? Not very good though. Mind you none of them are, they struggle to make decent argument.
You could invite stupid boy over so we could tell him what we really think!
Would save a trip to ak St Albans church!
One day and he would be off with his arse in a sling!
SB has been told he’s an idiot so many times, but just can’t get the message. How many times has MW handed him his credentials in her calm and factual way and still he bounces all over her posts like an over-enthusiastic puppy.
Exposing his personal details was reprehensible in my view, but I still don’t want him (or anyone else as witless) on here, thanks all the same.
I have no wish to fight fires on more than one front.
Griff stalked me over to Pete George’s blog and as PG is a Climate-Change advocate, I had to make a number of phone calls & emails before PG realised that his platform for “Free speech for those who don’t threaten free speech” was just a platform for abuse.
I imagine stephieboy wouldn’t last too long over here, but honestly, what does he ever add to a debate?
One called Greenlea? he was good for a while till we called his bluff.
Unashamedly copied from KB this will be a must-have for the metrosexuals amongst us:
https://www.facebook.com/imnotrightinthehead/photos/a.10150174273375377/10162982684960377/?type=3&theater
Hat tip: JibberJabber
They’re still at it. 🙂
https://www.scoopwhoop.com/humor/anti-masturbation-products
Simon’s Mum & Dad were Godnutters so they probably left a copy of this story on his bedside table:
https://dangerousminds.net/comments/dead_at_17_the_fatal_consequences_of_masturbation–a_handy_guide_from_1830
I bought some for Xmas tree decorations, presents and weapons.
Santa even promised me a legitimate feeling cos so many orgasms are fake and, and, most importantly, its all about the feelz, aye.
Fappy the anti masturbation dolphin loves you there is some pure gold on that page
And of course he advocated a diet low in meat…
and he wasn’t too keen on miscegenation.
http://eugenicsarchive.ca/discover/tree/512fa0d334c5399e2c000005
Another visionary that Greens and Vegetarians would rather disinherit?
Very similar ethos to the Kalergi Plan.
In his book Praktischer Idealismus (Practical Idealism), written in 1925, he describes the future of Jews in Europe and of European racial composition with the following words..
“The man of the future will be of mixed race.
Today’s races and classes will gradually disappear owing to the vanishing of space, time, and prejudice. The Eurasian-Negroid race of the future, similar in its appearance to the Ancient Egyptians, will replace the diversity of peoples with a diversity of individuals.
Instead of destroying European Jewry, Europe, against its own will, refined and educated this people into a future leader-nation through this artificial selection process.
No wonder that this people, that escaped Ghetto-Prison, developed into a spiritual nobility of Europe. Therefore a gracious Providence provided Europe with a new race of nobility by the Grace of Spirit. This happened at the moment when Europe’s feudal aristocracy became dilapidated, and thanks to Jewish emancipation”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_von_Coudenhove-Kalergi
Coincidence?
Epstein called himself a “science philanthropist”, and donated handsomely to prestigious organizations such as Harvard, MIT, and the Santa Fe Institute. At one point, he was allegedly giving as much as $20m a year to fund scientists. Some institutions and researchers continued to take Epstein’s money even after his 2008 conviction, like MIT, according to BuzzFeed News.
A partial list of the biggest scientific names in Epstein’s orbit, according to the New York Times includes “the theoretical physicist and best-selling author Stephen Hawking; the paleontologist and evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould; Oliver Sacks, the neurologist and best-selling author; George M Church, a molecular engineer who has worked to identify genes that could be altered to create superior humans; and the MIT theoretical physicist Frank Wilczek, a Nobel laureate”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/18/private-jets-parties-and-eugenics-jeffrey-epsteins-bizarre-world-of-scientists
Jacinda Ardern ‘put in her place’ by Alan Jones – Pauline Hanson
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/08/jacinda-ardern-put-in-her-place-by-alan-jones-pauline-hanson.html
“Alan Jones said nothing wrong, Jacinda Ardern was rightfully put in her place! Only mistake Jones made was apologising to a fake outrage mob!” the One Nation leader tweeted on Tuesday.
Māori King tells people to stop blaming Government over child uplifts
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/08/m-ori-king-tells-people-to-stop-blaming-government-over-child-uplifts.html
“But speaking at the annual Kiingitanga Koroneihana celebrations on Wednesday, King Tūheitia said it’s sometimes necessary for children to be taken for their own protection.
“I have a fundamental belief in the vital place of the whānau in raising and nurturing their tamariki,” he told the crowd.
“I also believe in the absolute right of the child to be protected and where necessary, taken out of harm’s way.
“My challenge is to the whānau, hapū, iwi to take care of our tamariki and where the need arises to place them in a safe home.
“We must avoid blaming the Government. Instead, we need to work on a solution. We have a chance to design the solution on our own.”
Bloody hell, some sense spoken for a change
yes I worked with two older maori ladies, and they were both upset with the younger ones that took too many days off work, or went home early, sick.
Course they will, they get paid don’t they!
Gravy train!
I’m discombobulated by the history of Kellog…
I discover he was one of the inventors/originators of Peanut Butter.
https://www.nationalpeanutboard.org/peanut-info/who-invented-peanut-butter.htm
I’m rather partial to a good crunchy PB (love Pete’s PB), but what is it doing to my unhealthy instincts?
Do you mean Pic’s Peanut Butter? We love his crunchy peanut butter and now buy it in the 1kg jar which is considerably cheaper than by the smaller glass jar. My homemade raspberry jam with it is very moreish. ?
What would Mr Kellog say about mixing food groups?
Oh yes, I do mean Pic’s….
I mix mine with my Grapefruit marmalade… on toast…and sometimes I layer Cream cheese, then PB, then Marmalade….yum,yum,
(I daren’t buy the 1kg Jar..as I’d be eating spoonfuls all day)
Each to their own tastes! I might try it with marmalade? Our kg jar doesn’t take long to work through.
https://www.rivercottage.net/recipes/butternut-nut-butter-soup
A Little… I get it.
Why do these weirdos always want to shove things up peoples butts it seems to have been a common practice like this we toy that spawned the “blowing smoke up your ass” saying
https://imgur.com/gallery/nLmyV
That would finally get the medias attention that’s for sure they would be forced to try and take you down therefore exposing Labour to face their allegations what could possibly go wrong
Anyone else watch Living with Tourettes its on Prime now its quite fascinating seeing how it impacts on their everyday life, there’s one awesome guy on there you have to see to believe his positive nature is quite infectious i think his name is Lashka
New Zealander of the year ad on tv. I think the female is Hillary Barry, but its years since I have seen the news. So I might be wrong. Who’s the male presenter with half a tree around his kneck?
@Ed, have you sent out the emails to confirm we’re real yet?
I hope not.
Haven’t received one either.
Doo eet!
Keystone Cops?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/115185312/three-prisoners-believed-to-have-escaped-from-levin-police-station
I prefer it when Jacinda doesn’t make decisions.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2019/08/former-refugee-pleas-to-abolish-nz-s-quota-restriction-on-african-and-middle-eastern-refugees.html