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Mike Hunty
2 years ago

So, I’m standing at the bar waiting for the barman to notice me and order a drink.
Another guy beside me with his gorgeous wife doing the same.
I mumble a couple of pleasantries and the fella responds with an American accent.
“Here on holiday”?
“No, I live here mate.”
“You from Australia then?”
“No, New Zealand”
“Awwwww I’ve always wanted to visit Noooo Zeeealand have heard so much…..blah blah” you get the drift.
Long story short.
Mark Wahlberg. 👀

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
Reply to  Mike Hunty
2 years ago

One of the good guys but I prefer his brother Donny. 🙂

Mike Hunty
Reply to  waikatogirl
2 years ago

I didn’t recognise him. He had a trimmed beard and glasses. Seemed like a nice bloke.
Not overly tall. I towered over him.

howitis
howitis
Reply to  Mike Hunty
2 years ago

He is 5 ft 8 per records
So, 5’8″ at most.

Was he modelling undies?
Marky mark from Boogie Nights.

Beat a guy into a coma when he was 16.

Mike Hunty
Reply to  howitis
2 years ago

ahh ha. Im 1.89 whatever that is in feet

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
Reply to  Mike Hunty
2 years ago

Mark and Donny Wahlberg are actors. Donny was also in one of those boy bands, Back Street Boys? Opened popular burger joints in their hometown (Boston?) and since several more. Latest to open is on Auckland’s Wharf?
Donny was in Blue Bloods with Tom Selleck.

Hooker Phil
Reply to  Mike Hunty
2 years ago

Being very sophisticated here in Waimate have no idea who you are talking about.

Mcduff
Reply to  Hooker Phil
2 years ago

Nor me, but, did he have his shirt on? Pictures if possible please.

Mike Hunty
Reply to  Mcduff
2 years ago

(🤔 hmmm I thought Mcduff was a bloke. Wants to know if he had his shirt on.🤔 Wants pictures of Whalberg.🤔 Is Mcduff a bum bandit.🤔
So many questions.🤔
Did I write that out loud. 🤔)
I’m going to the beach.

Viking
Reply to  Mike Hunty
2 years ago

Name dropping .
Hunty?
soon he will be your next best friend. cool though.

Saggy
Reply to  Viking
2 years ago

I met Kiefer Sutherland in a bar playing pool. He was pissed as a newt. I wasn’t much better. Told me his name was Kevin Bacon.

Saggy
Reply to  Mike Hunty
2 years ago

Tell him to get down here to Waitangi on Feb 6th. He can film The Perfect Storm II.

revtech120
revtech120
2 years ago

“ Gun crime on the rise despite tougher laws” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~”police believe around 90,000 banned firearms have not been surrendered” is there any connection between these 2 statements? ,Yes you moronic fcukwit NZ police force there is .

Mike Hunty
Reply to  revtech120
2 years ago

I wish it were still a police force. They dropped the word force years ago.

howitis
howitis
Reply to  Mike Hunty
2 years ago

Yeah but they still stitch people up, same as before, coz they cant be arsed investigating.

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  revtech120
2 years ago

and yet i bet most gun crime dosent involve any of those banned firearms so that dosent explain it.

Viking
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
2 years ago

Yep, fear knows no bounds.

Odakyu-sen
2 years ago

Why do New Zealanders want to punish ordinary people for the stupidity of a few?
Some teens roll a car at Muriwai and so we should ban all vehicles from the beach? It makes no sense.

Hooker Phil
Reply to  Odakyu-sen
2 years ago

Seven boys in my family – I am the only one that has not rolled, or been in, a rolled car. No one died in the making of that story.

revtech120
revtech120
Reply to  Odakyu-sen
2 years ago

Odakyu-sen, Don’t kid yourself O ,here’s how it’ll work on the ground, there will be a total ban of any vehicles on the beach but there will also be a necessity for vehicles to enter the beach for security reasons, all 7000 of the ones owned by the 4 local Native IWI, simple really, the other 90% of New Zealanders can just fcuk off,bet your house on it.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  revtech120
2 years ago

Of the 7,000 cars owned by the IWI, 70 will not be rotting out in the gardern. 7 of the 70, will be road legal.

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  revtech120
2 years ago

too right revy, it would be a severe treaty breach if they werent allowed their traditional steel land wakas on the beach!

it wont matter what they do as dumb careless cnuts seem to always find a way to kill themselves or others. id rather they wipe themselves out on a beach doing donuts then destroy an innocent family on the roads.

The Ancient Hooligan
Reply to  revtech120
2 years ago

Revvy, your on to it. I saw on TV3 News last night that the “A Vehicle Rahui” had been placed on Muruwai Beach.

“A Vehicle Rahui”. Fuck Off!

FJA
FJA
Reply to  The Ancient Hooligan
2 years ago

It’s legally a public road. So, what next? A rahui on SH1 when some clown doesn’t take a bend?

FFS 🙄

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  FJA
2 years ago

Only for maori boys and girls.
Wether they are just amazing or not!

Viking
Reply to  Odakyu-sen
2 years ago

Yep and the “authorites have no idea what the root cause is.

Too many young people with too much money.
Leave school and go to work for an adults wage without the same responsibilities nor enforced saving.

Bring back youth rates and see this sort of shit come back to a better level.
It has always happened but to a far lessor extent.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Viking
2 years ago

Remember the shit boxes of first cars, we all had!
Todays first cars are the equivalent of yesterdays race cars!

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Sooty
2 years ago

Even today’s little nana car would out run your first car.

Brian Marshall
Reply to  Sooty
2 years ago

Not my first car Sooty. 1973 valiant charger. That thing could motor. By the time I brought it, it was almost more rust than car in the doors. Something they were well known for unfortunately. Sold it to my good mate who was much better at dealing with that sort of problems.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Brian Marshall
2 years ago

My first car, Standard 8.
Ruined it doing shit at local country rail station, when I plugged it into railway wagon!

Nunnas
Reply to  Sooty
2 years ago

It may be able to out run cars of yesteryear but at least back then we could drive places at 100k not the 80k that it is everywhere now. Nostalgia at is best, being burnt by metal seat belt buckles, no rear seat belts and riding on the back of utes and in the boot of station waggons when all the seats where full

Saggy
Reply to  Odakyu-sen
2 years ago

Yeah and after another guy at Muriwai killed himself on a mountain bike – we going to ban those as well?
What about all the clowns who kill themselves being idiots on the roads – lot more than beaches – going to ban cars on roads?

Tarquin
Reply to  Saggy
2 years ago

He might have been one of those thrill seekers who mixes lycra and riding. It never ends well.

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  Odakyu-sen
2 years ago

more people drown at beaches then they do from crashing on them yet they dont ban swimming etc.

Dougal10
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
2 years ago

They are banning swimming on beaches . They just put out a turd alert first.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Dougal10
2 years ago

Council controled turds?

Hooker Phil
Reply to  Sooty
2 years ago

Most of them are shits anyway.

Saggy
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
2 years ago

Don’t give them ideas, SB.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Saggy
2 years ago

Should drill holes in the side of your bath so the water leaks out at 100mm. Yes I know that some people would drown in a puddle too! (Council will come around with a ruler and clipboard to check!)

Viking
2 years ago

Misuse of public money on Productivity Commission

ROB MacCULLOCH: Misuse of public money on Productivity Commission

Ardern’s Government misused public money by instructing the Productivity Commission to pursue its own Social Agenda irrelevant to Productivity

The Head of the Productivity Commission, Ganesh Nana writes, “As the year ends, I reflect on the work of the Commission and am proud of what we have achieved. The completion of the A Fair Chance for All inquiry was significant. We … made insightful recommendations recognizing the strengths of communities already addressing & successfully alleviating persistent disadvantage” and then he finishes with this: “I am proud of the way the team have responded to the news of our disestablishment – with dignity & professionalism”.

Therein lies the reason why the Commission was wound up by the new coalition. It wasted taxpayer money. Its mission (& own name) was never about increasing fairness & alleviating disadvantage – it was meant to be about increasing productivity. The Ministry of Social Development writes reports about fairness & disadvantage – it was not the Commission’s business. Its mission was to find ways of getting more output – more GDP – for given amounts of inputs, like hours spent working. The Commission’s report has a huge focus on well-being, but NZ is ranked in the world’s top ten in terms of surveyed measures of well-being, like “life satisfaction”, and Māori levels are similar to non-Māori. The Commission’s report confuses well-being with income.

https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/rob-macculloch-misuse-of-public-money-on-productivity-commission?postId=1fcaee28-f086-4b81-8573-30b0eda7fa91&utm_campaign=5035f5a1-0b43-4bb2-9b8c-bf61ea912ae4&utm_source=so&utm_medium=mail&utm_content=21ec809b-86a6-45e8-b4c7-3982de144ddf&cid=0e30c3c6-5fa5-4aad-8fbb-f511907bcec4
The Head of the Productivity Commission, Ganesh Nana writes, “As the year ends, I reflect on the work of the Commission and am proud of what we have achieved.

fucking wanker.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Viking
2 years ago

Now there’s one at the trough, donkey deep, wth no intention of leaving it!

The Ancient Hooligan
2 years ago

An “Independent Electoral Panel” has recommended that Maori Seats in Parliament, be entrenched into Law.

https://waateanews.com/2024/01/22/maori-seat-entrenchment-needed/

Fortunately the new Government has already rejected some of the Panels recommendations, hopefully they will reject entrenching Maori Seats into Law as well. When the Panel define what a Maori is, then at that stage, the Panel may have a valid argument but without knowing what constitutes a Maori, then there is no reason to have a Race Based Seat in Parliament.

But who makes up this panel appointed by the last Labour Government. Oh that’s right, people who are sympathetic to the question. No wonder they came up with this recommendation.

https://electoralreview.govt.nz/about-us/independent-review-panel/

Nunnas
Reply to  The Ancient Hooligan
2 years ago

Maori = early arriver, if they can claim to be native, so can most of us, being born here with ancestors that arrived at some point in time therefore by their logic = anyone born in a country is a native of said country, now where do I file my claim as now being a native I have a grievance against other natives for having their had out longer than mine

TonyB
TonyB
Reply to  The Ancient Hooligan
2 years ago

A Maori is anyone with a Maori ancestor. That has been the law since 1975. So you are (if you want to be) a Maori even if the only real native ancestor is from the 1840s – or even earlier. Most Maori will be 80% non-Maori (a guess not a scientific assessment!)

Odakyu-sen
Reply to  TonyB
2 years ago

There are no Maori
There are only people of Maori descent.

When you get special privileges because of your birth, it is an aristocracy. Is this the New Zealand you want?

Lizziep
Lizziep
Reply to  The Ancient Hooligan
2 years ago

That makes me very cross why have Maori seats? I have no idea. What is the purpose of them at all? Only to give Maori more opportunities for moaning and handouts.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Lizziep
2 years ago

But if we didn’t have maori seats, maori would have none!

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Viking
2 years ago

But which one?

Viking
Reply to  Sooty
2 years ago

Always clockwise for you rednecks.
backwards for Labour.

The Ancient Hooligan
2 years ago

A serial trougher, John Tamihere claims Saturday’s Moan festival at Turangawaewae was a rebuke to “A Rogue Government”.

Really, “Rogue” (definition – a dishonest or worthless person). Aaahh, no Johnno, a duly elected Government by the people of New Zealand. Rogue it is not.

It seems Mr Tamihere does not either understand the English Language nor what a Constitutionally Elected Government can and can’t do and that it is elected not only on it’s policies but to carry out the will of the people. It is not there to feather the nest of entitled Troughers whose considerable source of personal income may be under question.

https://waateanews.com/2024/01/22/maori-seat-entrenchment-needed/

Viking
Reply to  The Ancient Hooligan
2 years ago
Viking
2 years ago

Stuff’s daily news podcast, Newsable, can reveal Luxon sat down with Ardern before the summer break to talk over her position as New Zealand’s senior representative to the global initiative tackling violent extremist content online.

A spokesperson for the prime minister confirmed: “Christopher Luxon met with special envoy Dame Jacinda Ardern just before Christmas to discuss her work.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350154021/chris-luxon-meets-jacinda-ardern-over-special-envoy-job

Luxon must be bloody braindead. FFS.

rightoverlabour
Reply to  Viking
2 years ago

The Bitch should be in jail.

Beorn
Beorn
Reply to  Viking
2 years ago

Global Extremist content? Christchurch was extremely dodgy. They may as well don WEF stormtrooper uniforms, a confiscated gun, and start marching up and down Wellingtons wet streets. They will be working for super villain, mumbling Son of Soros, and MegaCorp.

https://x.com/Cancelcloco/status/1749171038657847398?s=20

Nunnas
Reply to  Viking
2 years ago

She should be a black site checker, someone might just shut the door behind her, they might have to reinforce the bars tho so she cant chew her way out

bobthebldr
bobthebldr
Reply to  Nunnas
2 years ago

Brilliant.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  bobthebldr
2 years ago

Preferably somewhere overseas!

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Sooty
2 years ago

Maybe we should all join the national party and tell them its a crazy idea, but you can bet your boots all parties visit here!

Saggy
Reply to  Viking
2 years ago

Well another way of looking at it is he’s making sure she’s got something to keep her busy and out of his hair (😄). I don’t know why it is that all these ex-PM’s think they can continue to sniff around and stick their oars in.

Lizziep
Lizziep
Reply to  Viking
2 years ago

FUCK, FUCK, FUCK. He is absolutely pathetic and the woke who voted him in should be pilloried.

Odakyu-sen
Reply to  Lizziep
2 years ago

Lizziep,
Is there any politician who would meet your standards?

Lizziep
Lizziep
Reply to  Odakyu-sen
2 years ago

Are you feeling ok about him meeting with her and maybe giving her a high paying job? She absolutely wrecked our country and now people expecting luxflakes to do the decent thing and stop anything to do with liarbor and now he is meeting with her????? And to answer your question not many politicians in the last few years to be honest.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Lizziep
2 years ago

But she is a Dame and she has expenses,
( Jehthro, baby, nanny, lawnmower )
Be kind, kick her to the curb.

Komata
Komata
Reply to  Viking
2 years ago

Viking@0758

luxflakes ‘Brain Dead’? No, just cementing his future by showing his total support for both the WEF and NWO while also confirming to those who care to look, that he too has absolutely NO interest in this country, but EVERY interest in delivering NZ into Klaus’s hands.

With the exception of winnie (Who is BTW, conspicuously quiet) , nothing has changed.

Mcduff
Reply to  Viking
2 years ago

I think he should gift her the job of overseeing online content in NZ.
All she needs is a computer, some white out solution, a small brush, a desk to work on, and a quiet, safe, small room to work in.
Once ensconced in the job, lock the door – problem solved.

The Ancient Hooligan
Reply to  Viking
2 years ago

So V2, Ardern claims she does not want to get paid for this Charade, but her expense are between $450,000 to $500,000 per annum.

Well I guess that takes care of the Salary in a roundabout way. Not a bad Gig.

If Luxon continues on with this or reappoints her, he may well be disappointed in the publics reaction which he may not like.

Simpleton1
Simpleton1
2 years ago

🐑 This very “twee” ad, all created by the Australian Meat Levy paid by the farmer, to generationally lever & enhance Diversity, Eauity & Diversity. 🐑 💩
The devious way to unify for “Invasion Day” 🙂

The Generation Gap | 2024 Lamb ad
https://youtu.be/V1e0apyGASc
3 mins : Jan 7th 2024 :

Hey Aussie, put another shrimp on the PR barbie.
Do not let the government pull the wool over your eyes.
Leave the fence & just open the gate for 💩 to flow

Officially can not wish another “Happy Australia Day” so enjoy the lamb, steak & prawn. 🙂

Mcduff
Reply to  Simpleton1
2 years ago

Well done ad – hits nearly every generalisation possible. The grumpy old, the ignorant young, the self absorbed middle – trouble is, in an ad promoting lamb, a fair proportion of the young/middle would be vegan/vegetarian.
Oops, missed one in their search for diversity.

Viking
Reply to  Mcduff
2 years ago

Lambs/sheep are vegetarian.
Ask SB if you are not sure.

Nunnas
Reply to  Viking
2 years ago

Sheep are vegan so then if we eat the sheep we are also vegan

bobthebldr
bobthebldr
Reply to  Nunnas
2 years ago

You are what you eat.

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
Reply to  bobthebldr
2 years ago

In that case we will enjoy our vegan roast hogget for dinner tonight. 😆 YUM!

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
2 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX5m_Xg0cDk
‘Running The War From His Laptop In A Hospital Bed’: Trump Takes A Swing At Sec. Lloyd Austin

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
2 years ago

Over half of bypass budget spent without a kilometre finished
https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/01/23/over-half-of-bypass-budget-spent-without-a-kilometre-finished/

A little over a year after beginning construction, New Zealand Transport Agency has burnt through more than 60% of its budget for the Mt Messenger bypass Te Ara o Te Ata project in Taranaki without completing a single kilometre of road.

Waka Kotahi has revealed it has spent $172 million so far on the 6-kilometre route on State Highway 3, which has a price tag of $280m.

It includes two bridges of about 125m and 30m in length, and a 235m tunnel.

It is estimated it will save motorists between four and six minutes of drive time.

“To date we have carried out enabling works, drainage, temporary and permanent earthworks, procurement, land acquisition, environmental and ecological work and regulatory compliance that has contributed to the spend to date.”

Waka Kotahi has spent $7.5m on a detailed business case, $52m on pre-implementation costs and $5.6m on land acquisitions.

As of December, it had spent more than $106m on actual construction.

More than $2m had been paid for site security.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  waikatogirl
2 years ago

Wait till they start buying the road metal, may have to take the top off the mountain for it!

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
2 years ago

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2024/01/auckland-police-officer-charged-with-perjury.html
A police officer has been charged with perjury in Auckland.

Police confirmed the officer is before the court in relation to alleged offending while they were giving evidence for traffic matters in January 2023.

A police spokesperson said the officer is currently suspended from duty.

Starving Artist
Starving Artist
Reply to  waikatogirl
2 years ago

Cops lie all the time. It’s a miracle he (she? it? they?) were even charged.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  waikatogirl
2 years ago

Jan 2023, Jesus took them long enough, the slow arm of the law!

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
2 years ago

2024 The Year of the Common Sense Revolution!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk9Z3Nuh_5c
Mother Just Gave The Best Rant You’ll Hear Today Against Woke Culture in Classrooms at H.S Board

Braybots nemesis
Braybots nemesis
2 years ago

Now they’re coming for your coffee.

Swiss banker and World Economic Forum “agenda contributor”, Hubert Keller: “The coffee that we all drink emits between 15 and 20 tonnes of CO2 per tonne of coffee… Every time we drink coffee, we are basically putting CO2 into the atmosphere.”

https://twitter.com/wideawake_media/status/1749436533185118614

Curious
Reply to  Braybots nemesis
2 years ago

Love the time to ban fossil fools meme further down the thread.

Braybots nemesis
Braybots nemesis
Reply to  Curious
2 years ago

I remember a time when Mum did her na-na and complained about feeling treated like a navvy. She asked us to take her with us the next time when we went out on one of our jaunts. We put our heads together and were able to build contraptions that would hopefully help her feel more connected to the family. She only ever came with us once.

https://twitter.com/historyinmemes/status/1749340874088366431

Starving Artist
Starving Artist
Reply to  Braybots nemesis
2 years ago

Knowing I am adding to carbon dioxide will make my next cup of coffee more enjoyable.

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
Reply to  Starving Artist
2 years ago

Yesterday we visited my 92 year old mum in her care unit. Instead of stopping to pay $15 for three cups of takeaway coffee we unplugged our small espresso maker and with coffee pods headed off. Mum loved the coffee and enjoyed the ‘theatre’ of hubby performing barista duties.

Sharing a coffee is more than CO2 emissions! 🤬

rightoverlabour
Reply to  Starving Artist
2 years ago

Just going to make another cup…

Ross12
Reply to  Braybots nemesis
2 years ago

Was there a competition at Davos for who could make the most idiotic statement ?

Braybots nemesis
Braybots nemesis
2 years ago

Climate chiefs admitted net zero plan based on insufficient data, leading physicist says
Key committee only looked at ‘a single year of data’ when making controversial green energy claims

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/20/climate-change-wind-farms-royal-society-green-energy/

Ross12
Reply to  Braybots nemesis
2 years ago

More reading for Luxon.
Did the NZ group look at any data ?

Braybots nemesis
Braybots nemesis
2 years ago

Jesse Watters on how Davos elites want to read your brain…

https://twitter.com/newstart_2024/status/1749093282443850021

Braybots nemesis
Braybots nemesis
2 years ago

Karl du Fresne calls for a “brutal, decisive and very public sacking” of John Campbell on the basis that he “…has betrayed the fundamental duty of impartiality that the public is entitled to expect of journalists in a state-owned media organisation.”

https://karldufresne.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-john-campbell-question.html?m=1

Beorn
Beorn
Reply to  Braybots nemesis
2 years ago

Campbell gives off massive Jimmy Saville vibes. Run and hide.

The Ancient Hooligan
Reply to  Braybots nemesis
2 years ago

“Campbell presents himself as the conscience of the nation.”

That little weasely Dwarf is not my conscience or the conscience of anyone I know who help to make up this Nation. He is a self serving, spiteful very little man who needs to really re-evaluate his outlook on life and the employer he serves.

howitis
howitis
Reply to  The Ancient Hooligan
2 years ago

He is no dwarf.
Don’t get all revtech on us.

Not even a trained churnalist.
Was in the hyped up work as a junior stock broker in the 1980s.
Did stock reports on the radio and went on from there when the market collapsed.
Started in avarice, then went on to a world of bleating and moaning like a pommy union leader.

Aunty Hulun had his measure.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  The Ancient Hooligan
2 years ago

Give him a slap around the ears aswell! Pretentious twit!

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
2 years ago

Exposing propaganda and the fight back against it has begun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6L8O-BdakNU
Joe Rogan in Shock Over How Much the Crowd Hates This Leader

The Rubin Report

Braybots nemesis
Braybots nemesis
2 years ago

One World Army taking shape.

Germany weighs allowing foreign citizens into the army, even from countries outside of the EU.

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1749528203440558087

Simpleton1
Simpleton1
Reply to  Braybots nemesis
2 years ago

Slowly, the history of rhythm repeats.

Mercenaries
…… Odoacer was a Germanic soldier in the Roman army who in 476 became the first King of Italy.
.
At the time, Rome used many mercenary armies from other nations, called foederati,
who with the rise of Emperor Augustulus became frustrated by their treatment and status.
.
These armies, led by Odoacer, revolted against Emperor Augustulus and deposed him in 476,
and granted Odoacer kingship.
.
Odoacer cooperated with the existing Roman Senate and elevated them to prestige,
thereby stabilizing his power in Italy. ……

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-fmcc-worldhistory/chapter/odoacer-and-the-fall-of-rome/

Janissaries
Sultan Murad I of the fledgling Ottoman Empire founded the units around 1365.
It was initially formed of Dhimmi (non-Muslims, originally exempted from the military service),
especially Christian youth and prisoners of war, reminiscent of Mamelukes. ….
.
….. As Janissaries became aware of their own importance they began to desire a better life.
In 1449 they revolted for the first time, demanding higher wages, which they obtained.
Similar scenarios took place a number of times during the following centuries.
.
As the Janissaries were amassing more power and wealth,
they gradually turned into a corrupt and largely useless caste,
wielding an influence akin to that of the Roman Praetorian Guard.
.
Finally, Mahmud II succeeded in forcibly disbanding them in 1826. …..

https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Janissary#:~:text=Origin%20of%20the%20Janissaries,-Janissary%20Officers&text=Sultan%20Murad%20I%20of%20the,of%20war%2C%20reminiscent%20of%20Mamelukes.

Sold, to the highest bidder, …… but what what was sold. ???

Beorn
Beorn
Reply to  Simpleton1
2 years ago

Alaric representing the hired unpaid Visigoths (Romanians) sacked Rome in 410. The end of the Western Roman Empire.

When you can’t raise an army from locals and resort to mass immigration, you’re screwed.

Braybots nemesis
Braybots nemesis
2 years ago

The age of entitlement
Andrea Vance

January 21, 2024

OPINION: Dear politicians, your personal problems are not ours.

In the best-seller, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F…, Mark Manson coined the term victimhood chic to define the state of social media and pop culture.

Sobbing influencers, armchair diagnoses, therapeutic language, TraumaTok, over-sharing celebrities. The victim is the hero of our entitled age.

This performative victimhood has also seeped into our politics, accompanying any political failure, rule-breaking or wrong doing.

Drink driving smash? Kleptomania? Sending unsolicited sexually explicit images? Bullying staff? Unseating a leader and plunging your party into five years of chaos and instability?

Like Z-list reality TV stars, mental health is the PR management tool of choice for a politician in a sticky situation.

Sharing demons is now the quickest way out of any political crisis: abandoning responsibility for poor behaviour and delegating accountability.

https://www.thepost.co.nz/politics/350151949/age-entitlement

Saggy
Reply to  Braybots nemesis
2 years ago

Heavens, Andrea Vance and I have found common ground.

bobthebldr
bobthebldr
Reply to  Saggy
2 years ago

Must be a different Andrea Vance.

Nunnas
Reply to  Saggy
2 years ago

Is Vance finally growing a brain?

Braybots nemesis
Braybots nemesis
2 years ago

“A Harvard University-affiliated teaching hospital is seeking to retract or correct dozens of papers authored by four of its top researchers — including the hospital’s CEO — following a probe into allegations of data falsification.

The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston has already initiated six retractions to papers and 31 others are in the process of being corrected, the hospital’s research integrity officer, Dr. Barrett Rollins, confirmed to the Harvard Crimson.

The latest accusations come just weeks after Harvard University president Claudine Gay resigned from her top post after she was embroiled in her own plagiarism scandal.”

https://twitter.com/TheChiefNerd/status/1749532664502087906

Braybots nemesis
Braybots nemesis
2 years ago
rightoverlabour
Reply to  Braybots nemesis
2 years ago

Pity he didnt break his neck.

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
2 years ago

https://rumble.com/v48loxr-get-ready-in-24-hours-the-deep-state-mafia-will-go-nuclear-on-trump-redacte.html
Get ready! In 24 hours the DEEP STATE mafia will go nuclear on Trump | Redacted News Live

howitis
howitis
Reply to  waikatogirl
2 years ago

Those clowns promise Armageddon, every day.

Virtually never correct.
Bunch if hysteria merchants; with subdued tones to make themselves sound plausible.

Braybots nemesis
Braybots nemesis
2 years ago

Thomas Cranmer
@CranmerWrites
By now it’s no surprise to learn that Ardern is an opportunist motivated to promote her own brand on other peoples’ dime. Last year, a Labour MP recounted to me a story relating to Ardern’s first wedding planned for 2022.

Labour MPs were in their caucus meeting when the whips said that they wanted to discuss something after Ardern had left. Once the PM had exited the whips advised caucus that as had been widely known in the news JA was engaged and they needed to get gifts for her. There was no opt-out, everyone had to get gifts. The whips had decided that the best way to do this was to ask people to get gifts in groups based on their caucus committees eg one gift from Maori caucus, one from ethnic caucus, one from Pasifika caucus etc.

“I think this was really what caused people to be a bit annoyed that they were forced to buy gifts and expensive ones at that without ever knowing anything about the wedding. I don’t think most people cared about being invited or being at the wedding, but it was more that this was not an opt-in thing. You were TOLD that you must get a gift.”

“I think the issue was that most people felt that they wouldn’t have given a gift of that much amount to their colleague even if they had been invited to the wedding. We were just forced to pay up in a typical Labour style. Just how they put a tithe on our salaries and deducted large amounts before it even got to our bank. Or how they put a tithe on our MP funds taking large amounts from budgets for the Labour Leader’s Office.”

The wedding was obviously cancelled but the gifts were taken all the same (maybe JA donated them to charity, who knows).

The Christchurch Call ambassadorship is just another Labour boondoggle that needs to be ended.

https://twitter.com/CranmerWrites/status/1749585663052357784

Braybots nemesis
Braybots nemesis
2 years ago

In opposition to the open border disaster under the Biden administration, a coalition of Americans from all throughout the country announced the organizing of a major Southern Border Convoy and multi-city rally next month.

“Active and retired law enforcement and military, veterans, elected officials, business owners, ranchers, truckers, bikers, media, and law-abiding, freedom-loving Americans” are invited to participate in three rallies across three states as part of the Take Back Our Border Convoy.

https://twitter.com/LeadingReport/status/1749560578916389033

Braybots nemesis
Braybots nemesis
Reply to  Braybots nemesis
2 years ago

Amy Coney Barrett just voted in favor of allowing Biden’s federal border agents to dismantle razor fencing set up by Texas agents to stop illegals immigrants entering America.

The vote was 5-4. She was the deciding vote. What a nightmare.

https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1749530621779595394

howitis
howitis
Reply to  Braybots nemesis
2 years ago

Never give a catholic an even break.
They WILL turn on you.

Braybots nemesis
Braybots nemesis
2 years ago

Tom Day
@tomdaynz
#BREAKING Golriz Gharahman has been charged for a third time with shoplifting. This is in relation to an alleged incident at a Wellington retailer on October 22nd last year. She will appear on all three charges in the AKL District Court on Feb 1st

https://twitter.com/tomdaynz/status/1749601177547985151

Beorn
Beorn
Reply to  Braybots nemesis
2 years ago

Glorious Gorilla Gate

Braybots nemesis
Braybots nemesis
2 years ago
Simpleton1
Simpleton1
2 years ago

Thanks Alice,
You have gathered together a good run of vids. 🙂
My attention was drawn to the original vid (40 minutes) early this morning, while enjoying the interlude of music. 🙂 but bang it has really gone viral & is escalating like mad in so many wide & various ways. 🙂

Identifying two of the Chinese.
https://twitter.com/Byron_Wan/status/1749349576648380802

Now identify if this is the same friendly guy?
https://twitter.com/Byron_Wan/status/1749350566277554256/photo/1

https://twitter.com/Byron_Wan/status/1749374073984213021/photo/1

Since this morning I have already noticed Youtube have pulled clips, and other information on this, so although tested just now, some of these links may be extinguished.

But then watch this clip, Alice.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1749347782136049692
2 mins 20 secs
Have you got it sorted 🙂

After all Luxon is keeping a very all expenses paid envoy for the Ardern-ic “Christchurch Call” who knows how to pull on those leavers to shadow ban, suppress, & censor.

Braybots nemesis
Braybots nemesis
2 years ago

zerohedge
@zerohedge
FDA says it’s “become aware of the risk of T cell malignancies” following “treatment with BCMA- and CD19-directed genetically modified autologous T cell immunotherapies.”

Nothing like gene therapy to give you cancer.

https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1749546018339705217

Simpleton1
Simpleton1
Reply to  Braybots nemesis
2 years ago

Known about for a year now, but called a glitch, supposedly sorted by tweaks.
The were warned

….. [Doctor Peter] McCullough warned that nine studies so far have also concluded that Covid injections are triggering a spike in positive HIV tests.
McCullough clarified that the shots are not giving people HIV or AIDS, indicating a false positive.
.
However, he explained that the positive tests after receiving the mRNA injections are triggered because people are suffering from immunodeficiency. ….
.
…. vaccine-acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (VAIDS).

https://slaynews.com/news/covid-vaxxed-testing-positive-hiv-multiple-studies-warn/

Poor suffering 52 year old Fox News Megan Kelly, always boosting up, & getting more Covid & now diagnosed with VAIDS

So it sounds they intend to cover by more tweaks to keep every one twerking 🙁

Simpleton1
Simpleton1
2 years ago

This first link may bring back some playful memories of yester-year?
The confusion of so many vids, & photos with social media.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1749361389146185985
36 secs

So the “influencer” web is even spreading back into the Mainland.
https://twitter.com/Truth_n_Respect/status/1749364892144972203/photo/1

Saggy
2 years ago

Oh boy, those Houthi rebels are going to be shitting themselves.

“New Zealand is deploying a Defence Force team of six “highly trained” people to the Middle East to help provide maritime security in the Red Sea.”

howitis
howitis
Reply to  Saggy
2 years ago

What, are they going there to build skewls and hospitals like we were lied to over Afghanistan?
//

Stay out of other peoples fights.

For a start US has been supplying armaments to Saudi for years to attack the Yemen people.
Another US war. In effect.
US illegally occupying Syria as well.

It is about time these warmongers get back to declaring war so it is clear. US has not declared war since 1941 despite being NOT being at war for a mere 17 years of its 250 year existence.

NZ should not be involved. Makes us a legitimate target despite a pathetic engagement.
Should never have been in Vietnam, Iraq (1) Afghanistan et al

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  Saggy
2 years ago

this wanked up rambo loser is ready to go…
https://youtu.be/asHk55yQd3I?si=O-M56V2-z84t3aDa

hilarious and embarassing at the same time, militarily nz is one of the biggest jokes in the world and sending a massive team of 6 just reinforces how much of a joke it really is
stick to what youre good at guys…. handing out water to storm victims and detaining kiwi citizens in hotel rooms to stop sniffles.

The Ancient Hooligan
Reply to  Saggy
2 years ago

Saggy, if it the SAS that is being sent, then Te Hooti should be very worried. 6 of them would make a real mess of a great load of Camel Shaggers, before lunch, then there would be the afternoon lot to deal with and the SAS would not break into a sweat.

Yep, Te Hooti should worry.

Saggy
2 years ago

This is getting silly now. Fuck them.

“A popular Far North fishing contest is going ahead despite opposition by some who plan to stop the competition citing it as “disrespectful, ignorant and racist”.

Doubtless Bay Fishing contest and auction to go ahead despite Far North iwi opposition

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  Saggy
2 years ago

wouldnt it be hilarious is this caused a streisand effect and the comp has a massive influx in entries just as a middle finger to these power tripping losers.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
2 years ago

Pity the poor maori, they have to go surfcasting!

howitis
howitis
Reply to  Sooty
2 years ago

spent their hand out money on German cars and Range rovers that break down a LOT.
Nothing left over for the boats!!

Viking
Reply to  howitis
2 years ago

Perhaps the have more coke stached waiting to be picked up?

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  Saggy
2 years ago

let the radical bros dig themselves into a hole, all that would do is
1. gain them a bit of support from a small minority of radical maori.
2. fuck off alot of people
3. legitimize seymours position and prove the need for a referendum and sort this shit once and for all.
4…. RACE WAR!!!!! not really but it certainly seems like these grifting cnuts gravy train is threatened enough that they may see it as a real option and last resort.

Starving Artist
Starving Artist
Reply to  Saggy
2 years ago

If they are worried about disrespect, they can have mine.

The Ancient Hooligan
Reply to  Starving Artist
2 years ago

Yep SA, along with yours, I am happy to heap my disrespect on them too, so as they don’t feel as aggrieved as they do.

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
Reply to  The Ancient Hooligan
2 years ago

They can have my “white privilege”. I’ve never noticed it giving me an edge but they’re welcome to try a little extra than they already have.
//

Saggy
Reply to  waikatogirl
2 years ago

My “white privilege” involves a lot of hard yakka. Not so sure they’d be interested.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  waikatogirl
2 years ago

Why do everybody have to negotiate with maori?
Holding their nands out for koha.
Is that for the elite or the man in the street?

Braybots nemesis
Braybots nemesis
2 years ago

America First Legal
@America1stLegal
/1🚨LITIGATION BOMBSHELL — we sued the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the censorship arm of DHS.

Our lawsuit unearthed new docs showing that the deep state knew the risks of mass mail voting in 2020 but censored these criticisms as “disinformation.”

https://twitter.com/America1stLegal/status/1749509703577530503

Viking
2 years ago

Picture of health as our leaders send our troops pff shore again to someone else’s battle.
Nude nut, Winston looking half dead and a forusy-looking frumpy Collins. FFS

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/peace-needed-now-more-than-ever-winston-peters-speaks-out-at-remarks-by-israeli-prime-minister/CJIDTEJIJFAP3PXL4UJQDVR2UA/

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Viking
2 years ago

Well they have been dragged out of holiday mode for a standup!
The first of the year?

howitis
howitis
Reply to  Sooty
2 years ago

Yeah , I mean it is only the fourth week of January.
It only been 33 days since they started a break.

Which is Why the Adrain critter would not have lockdown in January 2021…prefer to start these in February when there was destruction to do.

Sooty
Sooty
2 years ago

Mrs saw golly gee on tv1 news and said she has side burns as well as stick fingers!

Saggy
Reply to  Sooty
2 years ago

Yeah don’t know what it is about Green chicks. Chloe doesn’t realise it’s no longer Movember. And what’s going on with those pants?

Mike Hunty
Reply to  Saggy
2 years ago

Doesn’t Nasska have a raging hard-on for the mustached one?

Beorn
Beorn
Reply to  Saggy
2 years ago

That’s embarrassing, surely she could find someone to get her a cheap dress.

Braybots nemesis
Braybots nemesis
Reply to  Saggy
2 years ago
Viking
Reply to  Braybots nemesis
2 years ago

Should have quit right then.

Braybots nemesis
Braybots nemesis
2 years ago
Viking
Reply to  Braybots nemesis
2 years ago

Not even thier remit.
Like the Productivity commission its well out of bounds. look at the useless board of lefties it has.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Viking
2 years ago

How can they enforce it if not their remit?

Braybots nemesis
Braybots nemesis
2 years ago

NZ Covid Stats Weekly Update: Fifth Wave – Week Eleven – Case/Hospital & ICU Admissions/Deaths by Vaccination Status: 16 – 22 January 2024

https://spidercatnz.com/nz-covid-stats-weekly-update-fifth-wave-week-eleven-case-hospital-icu-admissions-deaths-by-vaccination-status-16-22-january-2024/

Braybots nemesis
Braybots nemesis
2 years ago

The man who assaulted schoolboy witnesses to a drunken Auckland robbery, committed by two of Mana Party leader Hone Harawira’s nephews, will be re-sentenced after the Court of Appeal today quashed a home detention term.

Wikatana Popata – who once assaulted Prime Minister John Key at Waitangi – was last year found guilty of two charges of assault and sentenced to six month’s home detention for the 2011 incident.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/man-who-assaulted-schoolboy-witnesses-to-be-re-sentenced/ZQABB4WC3PYGXMBK76P57N3ZXU/

Simpleton1
Simpleton1
Reply to  Braybots nemesis
2 years ago

Bn Is that todays article or all from a decade ago?

…… In 2009 he was convicted for assaulting Mr Key …..

…… six month’s home detention for the 2011 incident. …..

It can not be this long to get to a Court of Appeal.
A slow crime day or recycle the news??

Braybots nemesis
Braybots nemesis
Reply to  Simpleton1
2 years ago
Simpleton1
Simpleton1
2 years ago

This is the reason why the government does not care or want to know why their good citizens are dying off,

United Nations 21st March 2000
Replacement Migration: Is it A Solution to Declining and Ageing Populations? ……

… pg 55 / 177 …. Scenario 5) ……. The total number of migrants needed to keep the potential
support ratio constant until 2050 is extremely large in all countries (see table IV.4).
It is 700 million for the European Union and nearly 1.4 billion for Europe.
It ranges from 60 million in the United Kingdom and 94 million in France to more than half a billion in Japan and in the United States, and 5 billion in the Republic of Korea.
In 2050, the proportion of the population that would be post-1995 migrants or their descendants would range from 59 per cent in the United Kingdom to 99 per cent in the Republic of Korea. ….

https://www.un.org/development/desa/pd/sites/www.un.org.development.desa.pd/files/unpd-egm_200010_un_2001_replacementmigration.pdf

Yet this mentions the “Replacement” and when you see some numbers you can see it is “Great”
It is said to be Conspiracist but this article is drawing info of the 1990’s commissioned by United Nations, who had to abide some time, as they eased in by the sly Tony Blair, Merkel, EU, etc had prepped the community to accept this as the new normal.

So it is not the citizen of the country that decides, but this outside agency of the UN for this massive migration, that uses devious tricks in politics & technocrats bureaucracy that totally over reach.

Note they can barely supply enough water, houses, sewerage, electricity, fuel, etc.. & still want to keep on expanding.
Nothing is done well, and the per capita of GDP will keep reducing.

Braybots nemesis
Braybots nemesis
2 years ago
waikatogirl
waikatogirl
2 years ago

The nephs are off the couch and causing trouble

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2024/01/members-of-ng-ti-kahu-iwi-threaten-to-stop-annual-northland-fishing-competition-block-boat-ramps.html
Some members of Far North iwi Ngāti Kahu say they are putting a stop to Doubtless Bay’s annual fishing competition and plan to block four boat ramps.

“Our plan is to block off all access points to our moana,” Popata told Newshub.

Event organiser Nick Ryan said the event is approved through the Ministry for Primary Industries and adheres to fishing regulations.

Popata, meanwhile, has made a call to action: “I encourage all Māori to intensify our struggle on all fronts, to remind this New Zealand Government and its community members that Māori have ultimate authority over all our lands and seas.”

“We have been lenient this whole time, we have been good to our community members, but they turn around and shit on us and don’t bother to consult us or include us in anything,” Popata told Newshub.

Simpleton1
Simpleton1
Reply to  waikatogirl
2 years ago

Now I get it Bn from above, @6:41pm
Popata has previous grevious form from a decade ago..
https://ysb.co.nz/have-your-say-1736/#comment-380294

Beorn
Beorn
2 years ago

Extinctions by the hungry custodians of ancient New Zealand:

12 species of Moa
A native duck
A goose
A swan
A wood hen (kiwi sized)
Huia bird
Native eagle
Moriori

Impressive.

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
2 years ago

Clown world 🙄

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WWbsm6cSgEg
Sir/Madam?

#short

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  waikatogirl
2 years ago

Must be an it!

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
2 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO–OMnbuDc
He JUST NOW said THIS…….. the reaction is PANIC!!!

Neil Johnson

WEF panelist: The ultimate screw you is an imprisoned Trump being elected president

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
2 years ago

Chinese communists ‘hav’n a laugh’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewBuBeF0n28
Interview pianist Brendan Kavanagh

Mike Graham, Talk TV

Braybots nemesis
Braybots nemesis
2 years ago

Douglas Murray
@DouglasKMurray
Iranian generals inciting UK students to plot to ‘kidnap or kill people on British soil.’ Even ⁦@BBCNews
⁩ is now reporting Iranian Revolutionary Government plots inside Britain.

https://twitter.com/DouglasKMurray/status/1749574547773219299

General Mike Flynn
@GenFlynn
The more we dig into where the Islamic Republic of Iran is operating, the more we learn just how evil their regime is. They are a pariah nation operating on hatred and a sense of vindictiveness with no remorse nor do they care about any nation or person they hurt.

https://twitter.com/GenFlynn/status/1749643620594962552

Viking
2 years ago

Some may remember that I have mentioned the wellington area before the big earthquake in 1855. Today is its anniversary apparently.
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=784766997027235&set=a.560725502764720

Today in 1855 after 8.2 quake, The rimutakas rose 6 meters, a 4m Tsunami entered the harbour and Lambton Quay was never going to be a wharf again.

https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/the-day-the-earth-shifted/

worth a read. Becuase the same will eventually happen again.
The floor of the hutt valley lfted draining the swamp as it was. The waterfront from Petone to wellington. round to Mirimar all lifted. Before the earthquake the sea ran through where the airport is and the basin reserve was under water.
Now they want another tunnel??

Braybots nemesis
Braybots nemesis
2 years ago
Saggy
Reply to  Braybots nemesis
2 years ago

Right, Shane has thrown down the gauntlet. Mark Mitchell better get behind this big time. Popcorn !

Braybots nemesis
Braybots nemesis
2 years ago
Curious
Reply to  Braybots nemesis
2 years ago

She was happy to stay!!!! Amazing what an expense budget of 500K can do.

Cam Slater on ChCh call.
https://twitter.com/kaiviti_cam/status/1749571306679652440

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Curious
2 years ago

What has she done since?

Hooker Phil
Reply to  Braybots nemesis
2 years ago

That pisses me off. Bitch.

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