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‘No, I just think I’m two steps nearer
to my grave’.
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in rock music history.
Any one having trouble logging in or anything else not like it used to be?
Thanks Ed, you ‘tweaker’. 🙂
Notice that something is tweaked up, so now not getting some sort of error on a page, in going to login.
I seem to be able to easily work around it, for the past week or so, but now it seems much more straight forward. 🙂
All good here logging in. But quite a few things not like they used to be. You want a list?
sagz, does that list include….
dull humourless users?
lack of property market updates?
no threats of curb stomping?
lack of commentors?
since Ed showed us he really dosent want free speech and pulled out the ban hammer, ysb has got pretty dull and i notice not so many users now.
its just an old coots safe space now.
Ed fucked up, downtick if you think so too.
Not ticking. He was becoming quite intolerable which is a great shame because he had a lot of good things to share. Bit like yourself really, quite astute but sometimes tends to regurgitate same old same old.
It does seem a bit dull around here now. I don’t post as much, if anything anymore. Sure, me and the bird went over the top sometimes, but it was all in fun and humour.. one-upmanship. I’d like to see him back so long as he keeps his derogatory women comments to himself. Come on Ed. 😊🙏
It was his desire to go.
“keeps his derogatory women comments to himself”
Can you imagine that happening?
One way to find out.. if he does ..goneburger, buried.
But ya right. His call. He may be quite happy perched up in his 1984 Honda City automatic high-top shit box in the Rai Valley in between climbing mountains and stomping around in his bata bullets. 🤷♂️
Hey bird if yr reading this, can you tell your drug-addled sister to stop texting me. I’m not interested.🤪
I just love it when people say “I am right”
Never happens at home
….Maybe a vote?
IAASB ,I’d pay money to get a report about the toothless crack whore and spruikers,curb stomping, bimbo banging and funny as fuck exchanges between the parrot and various YSB property experts,😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
SB, I was thinking more along the lines of:
– how my ankles don’t work when I get up in the morning
– my back aches when required to do normal activity
– there’s less pepper and more salt in my hair (tho this does make me look like George Clooney)
– my feet have unusual growths out the sides that make hill work in boots unpleasant
– etc
But yeah, the bird and his generous lashings of abuse did add a bit of colour. Sometimes got a little monotonous, but was always good for a reaction.
so ya growing webbed feet then?
MM, too many jabs perhaps?
Amateur stuff Saggy, I’m installing a new flush system in the heat exchanger on the boat today. Of course this is in the most difficult place known to modern man so my next post will probably come from either the chiropractors room or A & E.
Tarquin,you can usually fit one on the inlet from either the raw water valve or the hose from the sail drive outlet to the raw water pump ,
I’ve always made my own with 2 quality taps and a t junction which I have a hose into a 10 litre container with salt away mixed ,turn the raw water inlet side off and the into the 10 litre container on ,simple as and very effective,you’d need a 20 litre container with a larger engine.
My boat is sail drive with a 50 horse diesel. The raw water feed comes through the hull and a strainer rather than the drive. It has a cut off tap right at the entry. I have put a tee with a tap in the main line about halfway to the water pump which is shaft driven by the engine. I’ve run a 25 mil hose up to the cockpit where I’ve got a 20 liter container hooked up. I turn the container line on at the tee and off at the main feed, seems to work well – will go through a container of water pretty quick.
Feel ya pain, T. I wish I could come and watch.
And laugh!
You sound just like all my friends who are strangely busy washing their hair today.
No problems logging in here in the Hub of the Universe, the Darkest King Country.
No problems logging in (or out) but I can’t edit my profile and can’t establish a new one because clicking on both the ‘edit’ and the ‘signup’ links gives me an instant error message and I can’t progress any further.
answer your email
Many thanks Ed. I found your email which had gone into my spam box. All fixed now! Yay!
No problems at all to report – Cheers 👍
EDIT: However my replies to a comment don’t seem to appear in correct sequence. Often they appear to either be a new thread or appear as a reply to something further down the list. Not a biggie though – Cheers
Android is good.
The MSM in this country can be a bunch of dishonest arseholes and can twist things to suit their own agenda. The Statue of Captain Cook was vandalised in Christchurch last Tuesday night. At least Chris Lynch Media (who is not mainstream) reported the vandalism as this.
https://www.chrislynchmedia.com/news-items/captain-cook-statue-vandalised-in-politically-motivated-attack
But “The Press” well “Stuff” had to report it as this:
“A statue of British coloniser Captain James Cook in Christchurch’s Victoria Square has been twice vandalised.”
https://www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/350182571/captain-cook-statue-defaced-politically-motivated-action-anniversary-his-death
It seems “The Press” do not know the definition of the word “Coloniser” and are are just muttering the Maori Party’s lame mantra about Captain James Cook. Here is the Merriam-Webster Definition of “Coloniser” : “one that colonizes : an individual or entity that establishes a colony or colonies”:
Most Dictionary’s have a similar or the same definition.
James Cook never colonised this country in any way, he never settled here, he passed through on each of his three voyages, he was a Navigator and Explorer, he never established any settlement in this country and he never took control of this country’s inhabitants or land.
It seems The Press and its owner, Stuff, have great difficulty in even the most simple things, like presenting the truth. The sooner they fail and fall into financial oblivion and their Reporters who write this sort of dishonest shit become unemployed the better off this country will be.
I blame the education system. doesn’t teach Cooks English anymore.
The destruction of the truth is evident everyday with our politicians , media and generally poorly educated masses.
Most, I suggest, couldn’t tell us what a dictionary is let alone how to use one, even online.
They never read, never listen and generally have fucked up brains.
Pretty much all politicians at national level in AU, NZ, US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Euro countries are bought and paid for.
They are sellouts, by the biggest majority in any party.
RINO. Republican In Name Only… applies in many parties in the countries today.
There area few holdouts like Italy but these are temporary.
Winston peters will be gone in a few years .
Shame Jones is too lazy to take up the mantel.
He likes to yak but cant strike fear like Rob’s lad, Winston.
Politicians are there at the will of their masters.
They are not there for you.
It is well established in US National politics that local congressmen/women are largely owned and there are massive funds (PAC) behind them each time now, from business, mostly, but also ‘interested parties’ (Think Soros, B Goates and the like) where they will unseat a sitting member and move the funds to a more, ahem, amenable candidate.
I would strongly suspect that since 2010 there has been lot of election ‘tampering’ of counts. In these countries, as ‘required’.
Africa must be laughing hard.
I don’t believe the 2020 count for NZ or US.
2019 in AU was an odd one when all indicators were that Scott Morrison would get rolled. He was not. Within a few years All Australia was suddenly Labor (except Tasi) despite the horrific performance at State level of Labor in QLD and VIC. These don’t make sense.
In NZ 2020 hundreds of thousands of National voters swung over to keep the greens out!! Bullshit. Winston ‘the thorn’ got turfed.
Many weird results where we know the state apparatus has been corruptly leaning to liebour !!!
Hence the ‘Uniparty’ terminology.
flip one for another. little changes.
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so yes….with our politicians , media and generally poorly educated masses….
The poor education system taken over by the Feminazis at Primary and Secondary (not enough for Science and maths anymore) and universities are stacked with soy boys and rabid psycho anarcho-feminists who would have been committed 70 years ago.
Yes, all those three elements -politicians, media and education have been corrupted since the march through the institutions that began in earnest 60 years ago.
How much of that was the price L B Johnson had to pay to get the Presidency???
MSM Media is so bad now that facts are only really exchanged in formats like this blog. Pretty much as society was 300 years ago where few could read, there was no radio or teevee (a blessing) so people passed on relevant information from one to another via people they could trust.
How we have regressed.
THEY are winning.
‘THEY are winning.’
Incorrect. THEY have won.
There is no going back.
That will not happen any time soon. Our present govt is full of WEF toadies and they have been told to keep using taxpayers money to keep the media compliant in preparedness for the next plandemic.
Correct, you only have to look at the Statement demanding a ceasefire by Israel in Gaza put out by Luxon, Albanese and Trudeau this week, all WEF Toadies. Luxon and this Government can’t think or speak for themselves, he needs the support of his WEF mates to do so.
The duplicitous stupidity of these three so-called ‘leaders’ comments on Gaza leaves me speechless.
The animals who run Gaza (together with around 80% of the population who support them) have been rocket attacking Israel for 20 years on a regular basis before they committed their evil terror assault on October 7th. Southern Israel has been literally depopulated with tens of thousands of Israelis fleeing their homes, towns and kibbutzes – and these grovelling weasels want Israel to stop destroying Hamas!
Luxon you spineless halfwit. You don’t represent me and you don’t represent any decent New Zealander who has any morality or conscience.
At least Chris Kenny on sky called out the trio.
He gets some things right.
Sky have also been reporting on new wind farm proposals using huge areas of farmland.
Hadn’t noticed until recently that the turbines on the hills by the Napier Taupo road have red lights that flash on and off through the night to warn aircraft .I can see them from my room.
As far as I am aware Captain Cook left no seaman behind. So were do the natives get the colonialism from. They are bullshitting, like everything else. Trixit
Well they did of course.
When Cook hauled up in the sounds the local iwi chief bartered his women to the seamen for depositing their semen.
Can’t remember the objects that were given, probably needles and axes.
It’s all recorded in Cooks Diaries which are actually quite a good read.
Readers digest did a short version of them years ago as well. Might still find that at a book fair.
“Putin critic Alexei Navalny, 47, dies in Arctic Circle prison”
I’m thinking Covid
I may be wrong on the Navalny principles.
Some seem to put the “I am thinking to MI6”, as there seems to be some colour in this link up in the thread below by Ross12.
https://ysb.co.nz/have-your-say-1761/#comment-383955
Another loss of discussion, debate, to figure where the truth maybe.
….. before he was jailed Navalny “was the only person in Russia who could say ‘I’m organizing a protest” and thousands of people would show up.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2024/02/16/alexei-navalny-putin-critic-dies-in-prison/72625624007/
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Gonzalo Lira born in the Burbank California. Died in Kharkov Ukraine 12th Jan 2024.
“Lira had attempted to flee [while on bail] to Hungary to request political asylum but was stopped at the Ukrainian border”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzalo_Lira
… “I have had double pneumonia (both lungs) as well as pneumothorax and a very severe case of edema (swelling of the body).
All this started in mid-October, but was ignored by the prison. …
https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/world-int/24744-the-tragic-end-of-gonzalo-lira-a-voice-silenced-in-ukraine.html
Both very brave men, of principles, not to cave in or take any concession.
So their nemesis was not going to give any quarter.
Not as bizarre as the USA where hanging and shooting yourself with a gun many yards away is , oh yeah, that was suicide.
Saggy, I thought somewhere I heard he stepped out in front of the Number 69 bus to Yakutsk, but you maybe right, it may have been COVID.
Sounds like the Russian equivalent to Arkanaside.
Have to ask Billary about how that works.
nah sagz youre on ysb so it was the vax for sure, looks like vax induced myocarditis. the vax nutters will be along soon to have a cry and some muppet will want the russians death added to the royal commission.
IAASB ,I suspect long term damage from polonium poisoning a favourite for the Russian death squads ,I’m pretty sure he got a cup of tea laced with that poison on an internal flight a few years ago,there’s no long life expectancy once you’ve swallowed that shit.
good, let it rip and lets have a decent cleanup of scum gang bros and muppet party losers…
https://youtu.be/msxC-XyEV1I?si=sBheC85HYlpesUxO
theres a stupid hippy drug rave going on this weekend not far from here, doof doof music all day and all night with drug fucked folk everywhere. couple of bags of fentanyl there will quickly solve the problem… permanently
just think how much better off nz would be if a bag of the shit were dropped of to every mongrel mob party or funeral!
Dropping fentanyl off to the gangs.
That is taking the el Salvador solution (mass prisons) to the next level !!
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I chuckle at MSM wankers with
….Thousands of innocent people jailed in El Salvador’s gang crackdown
But the same MSM never mentioned
…Hundreds of Millions of innocent people Home D’d in CONVID crackdown
Why not. The Mexicans have a trogan horse in our parliament. Our very own mexicam jumping bean will be all for an invasion of mexican gangs here.
The native gangs have had it far to easy here for too long
Talking about flashing lights and the mm.
One was extinguished recently down the road from me.
Overtook a car hit a traffic island spun out and hit a lamppost.
There has been regular renewals of red cloth and flowers on the post but I see now there are flashing lights wrapped around the post!
FFS.
Go and put up a sign “Gone too soon”
Wind em up.
dunno howie, i rekon a rainbow flag and a sign saying “RIP stuning and brave gay tranny” would wind them up abit more. even just a blue rag tied to the pole will get them pissy
Or
He wuz a GOOD Boy
He never bashed his Moms
and he never stole from his Grandmother
I prefer “Shouda gone sooner”
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2024/02/government-plans-immigration-changes-as-population-grows-at-fastest-rate-since-1946.html
New Zealand’s population over the second half of last year grew at its fastest rate since 1946, putting our total population now at just over 5.3 million people.
The Government is planning changes to immigration settings with Finance Minister Nicola Willis saying the door is currently open to too many low-skilled workers.
By design “Replacement Migration” to cover up the crimes of the safe and effective bio-weapon. All Western Nations doing same thing.
Oh Willis repeating the mantra. Many of the ones I encounter are better educated that Willis with her worthless degree that we the taxpayers funded for her.
Thats why they succeed here.
she better ask the dairy farmers where there help is coming from.
The truckers where their drivers are coming from.
The courier companies where their drivers are coming from
The kiwifruit industry and indeed all the fruit growers where their help is coming from.
The construction industry where their workers and specialists come from.
Never done anything notable, never owned any business of note but know all about employing people. Next question where are the stats that show what level of education these immigrants have and lets compare them to our own population and see how that looks.
Clearly a stupid Woman with out any capacity to explore, engage or to analyse. Indeed a typical Nat lefty.
But, but, but she ‘worked at Fonterra under ‘The Great Leader and Navigator” Theo Spierings ////
She got ‘real world experience ‘
The Danone cock up/non-botulism; and the Beingmate losses being great training.
Paying massive salaries to dickheads like Todd Moo-ller while farmers ran 2 years of losses due to low milk prices.
Or moving HQ progressively away from dairy producing land (Taranaki. Waikato) to the Auckland waterfront . Way to connect… Not.
Great business experience, Nicky /////
Yes, but the anionted ones get to sup in expensive cafes with immigrant chiefs serving their local cuisine.
Aint immigration nice!
Open to too many.
did you not need them in your district last year and in the coming years.
Must have all those local gang member working hard and all their many girl friends as well. No more DPB needed?
There is plenty of labour around.
The only shortages are for the corporates that plant huge areas then demand the government supply the low paid workers to suit them.
vikey wants you to be a slave owner like him.
poor dimented old guy thinks we need more low iq imported scum who can barely speak english.
The advantage I see is most come from poor countries and have no respect for the maoris thinking they are elite , more immigrants will be the only way to collapse the gravy train.
There is no strategy, just funnel more money until Russia stops fighting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRLkTl6Pc_s
JD Vance Slams Ukraine Aid Bill, Delivers Terse Message To NATO Allies After Trump Comment
Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) spoke about NATO allies and providing Ukraine with additional funding to help their war effort against Russia’s invasion
Most of the money just goes to American defense contractors. No wonder they want the war to go on for ages. The west have completely lost the moral high ground here, and yet they lecture Israel. If Putin invaded Europe tomorrow, I know who I would be supporting.
Not to mention 10% for the Big Guy.
Here”s the so called accomplishments according to the chrome dome.
After years of wasteful spending, absurd projects and higher costs for Kiwis under Labour, the country had its say and gave the Coalition Government a mandate to move quickly, and that’s what we’re doing.
The Government’s 100-day plan laid out 49 actions we’ll deliver urgently to get our country back on track and – with the end of our first 100 days approaching in a few weeks – I thought I’d give you all an update.
Among other things, so far we’ve:
Started reducing public sector expenditure
Refocused the Reserve Bank on reducing inflation
Written legislation to repeal the Auckland Regional Fuel Tax on 30 June
Required primary and intermediate schools to teach an hour each of reading, writing and maths every day
Banned phones in classrooms from next term
Stopped work on the Jobs Tax and the costly Auckland Light Rail project
Began work to get our transport agencies building new roads
Repealed the Ute Tax
Stopped blanket speed limit reductions
Reintroduced 90-day trials and cancelled fair pay agreements
Repealed Three Waters
Abolished Labour’s prisoner reduction target
Improved security for health workers by putting security guards in more emergency departments.
These are just some of the actions we’ve taken and there’ll be many more to come as we clean up the mess left by Labour and rebuild our economy, restore law and order and deliver better health and education.
Keep an eye out this Sunday as I deliver my State of the Nation speech where I’ll share more about where the country’s at and how this Government is working relentlessly to get it back on track.
Thank you,
Christopher
Not one resignation of a top Public Service leader, Yes Minister. until next time.
Put a stop to well-thought-out infrastructure spending.
Hasn’t got rid of the carbon bullshit indeed looks like he will make if more profitable.
Hasn’t stopped funding the press but had his cronies listen to them whinge the other day. WHY?
Seems to have forgotten to do anything about introducing tougher benefit qualifications.
Still panders to the early immigrants. Hasn’t learnt that lesson yet.
Hasn’t canned the Waitangi tribunal which should just about been no 1. on the list.
Plenty to do and not much action.
Oh and no money to train more policeman nor build another jail nor have the fixed the Three Strikes.
Still giving our cash to the UN and Ukraine and considers that Russia is our enemy.
Still lot to do in the few days remaining.
don’t hold your breathe.
Listening to someone on the inside, big cuts are coming and they know it. Deck chairs inside mbie and other depts are currently getting removed before the music stops.
…Stopped blanket speed limit reductions…
But, have they reversed any of the stupid ones yet?
Like the Wairarapa nonsense.
A lot of rural roads with low traffic volumes.
Has he got rid of that stupid Disinformation Project (or whatever it is called) ? Should be easy, it is funded from his office, I believe.
That should be number ‘0.1’ on the list.
Before Number 1.0
AnnihilATE the HATE
Shut down Hate Hannah, Now.
Woolworths have installed a medical machine, that for $5 and a urine sample, would diagnose any condition.
When my mate went with a sore elbow, the computer printout read…
“You have tennis elbow. Soak it in warm water and avoid heavy work for 2 weeks”
Impressed, my mate wondered if he could fool the machine. He mixed tapwater with dog shite, urine samples from his wife and daughter, and then pleasured himself into the mixture. When he tipped it into the machine the next day, the printout read:
“1. Your tapwater is too hard. Use softener.
2. Your dog has ringworm. Give it antibiotics.
3. Your daughter is on cocaine. Get her to rehab.
4. Your wife is expecting twins. Not yours. Get a lawyer.
5. If you keep playing with yourself, your fucking elbow won’t get better!”
Thank you for shopping at Woolworths.”
🤣🤣
Good one! 😀😀😀
Love your new avatar Ek 🙂
I see they now have pigeons helping them selves to nuts at the self service bar.
I kid you not.
Somewhere on the Herald today.
That was the highlight of some scrible writers week!
Following my joke last week about the Holy Quran & the large number of private messages from Muslims that followed it, I would like to make the following statement:
“Islam is a religion based on peace, love & respect & this is the central message of the Qur’an. As such I offer a full apology for making the claim that it encourages suicide bombing & violence.”
OK, there – I said it. Now can you please stop sending me death threats?
So some dumb immigrants according to Willis.
“We don’t actually spend all day studying,” Belle said. “It’s more like efficiently studying and I think that’s more important.
“One thing I do I think is very important is always ask a lot of questions,” added Ena. “So even the smallest things, very pedantic questions I would ask them just to be sure.”
Head of senior school Julie Fuge put it down to the girls’ curiosity.
“They come in, they’re eager to learn and are asking quite insightful questions that sometimes make you go away and think, and you have to come back with answers,” Fuge said.
“It’s really lovely to have that, I think they’re challenged to look outside the box.”
St Cuthbert’s College twins Belle and Ena Yin’s record haul.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/st-cuthbert-college-twins-belle-and-ena-yin-achieve-18-nzqa-scholarships-as-part-of-record-hauls/DTSOVDMEZVDW5OMP67EKZ34IIQ/
Just some dumb immigrants in Willis words.
pretty sure they didnt come here to drive ubers or sell vapes and boubon.
nats were hoping an immigration flood would kickstart the housing market… turns out that dosent work if theyre all minimum wage losers.
we need blanket bans on many countries unless theyre of actual high value.
Pity you didn’t know what the fuck you are talking about.
says the old coot in a dimentia ward. do you think they could have the brains to resurect your precious DNZ party that the low iq pig wrecked?
if those girls are as intelligent as you think they are then they wouldnt have chosen such a shithole education system to excel in… if theyre as smart as you think then they will flee nz in the next few years and live a better and more high paying life abroad.
95% of the folk that move to nz are shit quality and should never have been allowed in, but i guess a precious bleeding heart loser such as yourself would have a cry and think theyre all great.
you only like cheap low quality immigrants so you can exploit them in your curtain sweat shop.
A lot are also just looking for access to Aussie, too. Quite a percentage of one of my Indian mates’ friends have crossed the ditch.
That’s the thing, too. Immigrants generally don’t have the same connection to here as someone born here. We’re just another stopover. Home is still somewhere else.
alot of my pommy mates over the years done the same, pretty much within months being able to legally enter and work in aussie their families would move there.
i guess nz is just viewed as a mandatory jail sentence to make them elegible for aussie.
On the demise of Fletcher ‘s.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/350181308/insiders-view-what-went-wrong-fletcher
totally spot on.
I can totally understand what he is talking about because I worked for a company that was similar —much smaller but built up around the same structure. A collection of smaller businesses that were given a lot of autonomy. I managed one of those businesses and the result was the people working in each business unit treated that business as almost their own. We often had no idea what some of the other businesses were or were doing.
Then the long standing CEO retired and they bought in a guy who had run a large division of a NZ company overseas. He managed to wreck the company (which was publicly listed) within 2-3 years because he did exactly what that guy did at Fletchers. In Fletcher’s case the Board need to take some responsibility because the cracks must have been appearing when the guy was there or soon after –such as many good, long serving employees leaving the company etc.
Have not read it; but the plonker that wrecked Carter Holt Harvey- CHH- in the early 2000’s was Chris Liddell .
He ‘atomised’ the company into 32 (AFAIR) Business units that then had to compete with each other.
Example . The HR Dept (oh yay) was separated out with the academic view that it could do recruitment for other companies as well as CHH Business Units.
The reality- not the academic claptrap – was that immediately the experienced recruiter agencies – Hays, Robert Half – or whomever offered deals to the other 31 Bus Units.
so the Recruitment Business Unit got bugger all work and the other Business units were paying money outside the Group.
It was a failure but by then Liddell had secured his role at International Paper in the US, then jumped over to Microsoft, finished early there etc etc
He really screwed it and the non-employee , motivated entrepreneur, Graham Hart picked out the bits he wanted.
I think Fletchers never fully recovered from Hugh Fletchers vandalism in the late 1980s/90s. It should have; but Fletcher Building has always stumbled.
Was in Kawerua a few days BEFORE THE OLD MAN RETIRED. HE HAD GONE TO TALK TO THE GUYS IN THE MILL ETC. TOLD SOME THAT I AM AWARE OF THAT HE THOUGHT THAT HUGH WAS WRECKING THE COMPANY.
SORRY ABOUT THE CAPS. CAN’T BE BOTHERED CHANGING IT.
I AM DEEPLY OFFENDED AT YOUR LACK OF DECORUM.
Not much comment here on the NZDF vs Covid mandates court case that was ruled in favor of the NZDF claimants. Same lawyer is handling the NZTSOS case, so they are hoping for a similar ruling. If that does occur, that will be a huge win for Freedom of Choice and human rights.
As I understand it rol the NZDF’s lawyer stuffed it up last time. She(?) had her strategy worked out but when the NZTSOS case was won she refused to change strategies to the one they used. It always seemed really strange to me at the time but when I read about the refusal to change course it made sense and because of it the Judge was able to “find a way out” of ruling the same way he did in the earlier case.
NZTSOS didn’t win their case. It has been appealed and they are waiting the outcome.
I’m confused then rol. Who won their original case ? Or is the NZDF appeal mentioned above a follow on from their initial win.
I cant remember there were so many cases. NZDSOS and NZTSOS had a joint case which they lost. NZTSOS decided to appeal. There was another NZDF or Police case that I think was successful, but all these were ages ago. The NZTSOS case was heard in September 2022, and was supposed to be released in April, 23 then September 23 now February 24. All one hopes is that the time it has taken means they had a good look at the evidence and the arguments.
https://twitter.com/nzdsos/status/1758373741984383031
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0h5UTNShiE
Trump vs Biden: Immigration, Warfare and our Uncertain Future | Victor Davis Hanson
John Anderson
An in-depth discussion with renowned historian and writer Victor Davis Hanson. They discuss a wide range of topics including immigration, the current state of tertiary education, the condition of the Biden administration, and the 2024 presidential election.
Sorry 1hr 8mimn, still washing my hair!
The leftie, lunatic Judge has ordered Trump to pay $350 million for paying off his loan and interest on time !!! How crazy has the US judicial system got ? How stupid are the Democrats, this will just push Trump further up in the polls?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/breaking-far-left-judge-engoron-releases-verdict-trump/
And the mongrel judge ‘smirked’ while doing it.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ny-judge-hits-trump-364-million-penalty-alleged-fraud
The contrast.
This:
Infideliter 🇳🇿✖⚖✖🇳🇿
@Infideliter2022
Heard today from a very reliable source that the remains of up to 120 Spanish/Portuguese sailors were discovered on the Mataka Peninsular in the last two weeks. Apparently its been hushed up by the relevant authorities. Why?
Any Xers in the Bay of Islands heard/confirm anything?
The claim is pre Māori.
https://twitter.com/Infideliter2022/status/1758398288573960252
With this:
https://twitter.com/OrangaTomatoe/status/1758409716483698706
Were the bones cracked to get at the marrow?
…. Shhh. ….
Pre-Maori claim? The Spanish and Portuguese didn’t start sailing around the Pacific until the 16th century, by which time the “natives” were already here.
How did they find 120 remains?
Would have been eaten!
Only bones left!
Where is the Mataka Peninsular?
The only Mataka I can find is in the Marlborough Sounds
Here it is:
https://www.topomap.co.nz/NZTopoMap?v=2&ll=-35.456231,173.868942&z=14
Maybe this.
https://www.mataka.co.nz/history/
matakana?
probs safe to say that anonymous posters post about rumours has a 99.99999% chance of being bullshit esp if they cant get the location right to start with.
University of Canterbury Associate Professor Sacha McMeeking has received $1.3 million from the Health Research Council to look at how kaupapa Māori improves health.
https://twitter.com/NZMAGAMike/status/1758501462601249252
You are doing well even if you skim off a small percentage!
The government says it is planning to reduce New Zealand’s record high immigration levels, because we are bringing in too many low skilled people on work permits.
https://twitter.com/TheZeitgeistNZ/status/1758408815492628736
The scam that leads our young to drugs.
https://thebfd.co.nz/2024/02/17/best-of-the-week-mountainsidefm-88-3-8/
Matt Doocey. National.
https://twitter.com/kiwiwayne2/status/1758570765379907674
The solution to vermin infestation is Digital ID, or…
https://twitter.com/persephvoice/status/1758409833575821819
FDA Director Dr. Peter Marks Says They Received an ‘Avalanche’ of Adverse Event Reports After the COVID-19 Vaccines Were Released
“We tried to be prepared for that but the avalanche of reports was tremendous.”
https://twitter.com/TheChiefNerd/status/1758202588888252449
It’s a panoramic extravaganza of everything gone wrong, with slapstick overtones, driving toward an apocalyptic climax — civil war, nuclear war, economic collapse, maybe all three.
And all because the people on-screen just can’t stop lying.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/civil-war-nuclear-war-economic-collapse-maybe-all-three
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HIPKINS TO RESIGN ⁉️ – Unconfirmed
A little birdie told me that Hipkins has been in a top secret meeting with officials today 2 discuss his upcoming resignation.
As you know his popularity has PLUMMETED since the election which is now affecting the party itself.
Hunting down the unvaccinated like he threatened to do?
Nah! He’s going to one of the tribes!
I wouldn’t have thought they had anyone better. They keep talking up McCunty. But really? Does anyone see him as a future PM?
That hipster prick. Nah not a show.
hey Ed, do you remember how every 2nd day there were the same sort of junk posts like that saying how jacinda was gunna resign or we were about to go into lockdown again?
fool me once etc…
no doubt chippie will stand down at some stage in the near future but if a post like the one you quote claims to be right then its a fluke and broken clock right twice a day type thing.
Winston Peters explains that NZ First’s position on the Treaty Principles is to delete all reference to them in legislation rather than redefine them. However, they would consider voting for ACT’s Bill if a commonsense position can be found at Select Committee.
https://twitter.com/TheZeitgeistNZ/status/1758583478915142126
I had often written off Winston as a gravy-training bauble racketeer in the past, but when I read the NZF policies leading up to the election I thought they made a lot of sense and so I voted NZF.
I’m so glad I did. Thank you Winston for seeing the country’s challenges for what they are. And thank you also to ACT; together both of these ‘junior’ coalition parties offer the only hope of reversing the decline of our country by forcing National to at least partially get off the fence in some important areas. Fingers crossed.
Leighton Smith interviewed him on his podcast a couple of weeks ago. I’m only part way through it but it is worth a listen. In places Winston is quite diplomatic but as he explains he is the Foreign Minister, so he takes the job seriously
Beggar groups travel to Rotorua to make up to $400 a day from ‘generous’ locals
Organised begging gangs are believed to be travelling to Rotorua because the city has become known as “generous” to the homeless – with some boasting they can make up to $400 a day.
It has prompted local homeless people to ask them to move from their turf.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/beggar-groups-travel-to-rotorua-to-make-up-to-400-a-day-from-generous-locals/QTRCFGRNPNFEBG3ZKN2NZSS7PQ/
400bux a day cash plus the bene!!!! those fuckers are creaming it.
Sounds like someone is clipping their ticket though!
Transport, bet they aint on the bus, accom, etc.
Feeling it?
https://twitter.com/kiwiwayne2/status/1758559567372587052
Trixet
https://twitter.com/ThebestFigen/status/1758234476126306806
This is how Cindy was able to fool the masses for 6 years
Used to date ‘er..
Get in line…
You into that are ya?
Nice tits…. Definitely not a relation of Arden.
because she followed some chick with decent tits?
if thats cindy them im offended cuz shes wearing blackface
Presence of silicone suspected.
Cindy had apples in her bra?
Alexei Navalny (an opponent of Putin) has died in prison, so the globalists come out blaming Putin and they are going to get him for it (according to Von der Leyen from the EU). Hearing of his death I thought it was a co-incidence so soon after Tucker’s interview and the “conspiracy theorist” in me said I would not be surprised if the CIA or NATO knocked him off.
Then this this video surfaces –https://twitter.com/i/status/1758554299120939222
Who knows what hell is going on ?
More easy to click the link 🙂
https://twitter.com/DC_Draino/status/1758554299120939222
To make the news as the abandoned Ukrainian troops are fleeing Avdiivka & being pummelled in a bloody gauntlet.
Not even an Azov brigade would enter to support the troops in Avdiivka.
So when Alexei Navalny in my earlier above comment, calls for a protest, it was claimed that 1000’s would turn out.
Another agent probably funding other groups too.
Nothing is, at it first appears.
Thanks S1. I did not check my post to see if the link was working.
Cathy Jamieson🐭
@themumbuk
Good morning NZ. What a wake up call. There will be a few people having eggs this morning after they scrape them off their face.
Never mind the sun. NZ, first to see the excess mortality shitstorm.
https://fyi.org.nz/request/25021-number-of-covid19-vax-deaths-by-age-band-location-and-month#comment-6220
https://twitter.com/themumbuk/status/1758590698268615138
Excellent. Thanks Alice. 🙂
2hrs 11 mim just remembered I have to wash my hair.
No new immigrant is to be homeless, or lack a place he can call home.
No one was asked. [about the replacement Immigration]
https://youtu.be/-PE-f_ar30U
4 mins 18 secs : Feb 15th 2024 : Modernity : Paul Joseph Watson.
So the Council sends a requisition notice to the house these people own;- pushing the point that it was not up to compliance whatever, & nobody lives there. …. yeah right ….
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Doctor Zhivago (1965) – Scene 8/16: Returning Home
https://youtu.be/D5ikX1e7TrQ?t=19
4 mins 28 secs :
The point is made in 2 minutes 20 secs on the bureaucracy is looking to subdue us.
A good reminder on how we are to be reformed, in the Great Reset, Build Back Better, agendas, or whatever fancy name bought to mind.
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And so New Zealand is signed up to the UN Global Migration Pact also which at some stage will bite NZ’ers in the arse, as the bureaucracy will find ways to do these things for the “common good” reasons.
The hand brake may be on via Winston Peters? but afterward? ? ?
Now the above PJW vid. is in England, & how NZ works out who is a refugee.
At least one of their own put up with him in the living room on a couch.
Now what do you make of this Sudanese refugee?
How was that family created?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350182212/amputee-loses-home-living-garage-after-housing-mix
“In December 2019, Akich went on holiday to South Sudan to visit family”
When does it become safe for you to not be a refugee?
I would say when you can go home on a holiday.
Fuck off back home to be with your family.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM5pGNS8Jp4
The Five
A whopping $364 million verdict against Trump
More corroborated corruption revealed
https://rumble.com/v4dtt80-february-16-2024.html
She’s EXPOSING the Bidens’ Ukraine corruption and massive COVER-UP
Redacted w Clayton Morris
If you remember Perigo from back in the day and enjoyed listening to him (I did), he has a weekly slot on RCR every Thursday. Here is this week’s take. (15 min)
https://realitycheck.radio/perigos-perspective-political-poll-pontification/
Has he been on a seafood diet? See food and eat it. Jaysus.
FROM LUXFLAKES FB PAGE
(Although I doubt that he will red it or deign to answer the poster).
Dear Mr Luxon:
Let me get this straight. You are calling for Israel to grant a ceasefire in Gaza, and by so doing, giving Hamas time to regroup, re-arm, and then, at some future date, when they deem it expedient, do EXACTLY what they have done several times already, namely resume their attacks on the nation and peoples that they are determined to destroy.
Have you not read the Hamas Charter which explicitly states that their SOLE purpose is to destroy EVERY Jew that they come across in a manner similar to that they demonstrated during their recent attacks? THAT is Hamas’ avowed purpose, and something they quite happily boast about, and which is why all and any ‘Aid’ to Gaza is largely funnelled into armaments and provisions for ONLY Hamas and it’s toadies.
On the basis of this, and while now KNOWING exactly what Hamas’ intentions are and always will be, If YOU can now PERSONALLY live with the deliberate destruction of an entire peoples (Those [Especially Jews], living in Israel) on your conscience, then so be it, but as the PM of a supposedly-civilised nation, I would suggest that your call is at best naive, and at worst antisemitic and not befitting your role as PM of this country.
You have made your position known, I just hope that you can live with whatever consequences may result.
Thank you.
Komata, what shits me is, there was a ceasefire on 6th October. It was not Israel that broke it but this bald headed Git of a PM, along with his new found PM friends in Australia and Canada, is now telling Israel to cease fire on those who originally broke it and be kind to Hamas and those who support Hamas. Why?
Where is this fools logic?
And of course, he is doing this as one of Five Eyes while spying on both Hamas and Israel. Long bow I know but Nude Nut hardly has clean hands himself.
Some of you may recall & wonder about David Henderson & his long battle with IRD NZ.
….. 17th Feb. 2024 ….. [David] Henderson wrote a book about his Inland Revenue fight, titled Be Very Afraid. [published 1999]
The book in turn inspired a 2007 movie, We’re Here to Help, ….
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/christchurch-property-developer-dave-henderson-pushes-for-day-in-court/KTM4BEORXFCRBCS6C74XBAEOZA/
And so another lot of charges from bygone years;– are stayed & not withdrawn, through the years.
And earlier article 15 Oct, 2008
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/henderson-in-trouble-with-the-taxman-again/ZX6ORQWHZOWOSZDOHILYIGGC4M/
so like i hve said that stupid woman so called finance minister is no better than the last bastard, when it comes to not telling the truth or telling all the facts. what a fucking disgrace she and he baldhead prick of a boss is.
‘Perfect storm’: KiwiRail reveals what led to mega ferry cost blowout
KiwiRail has dragged up an old stoush over the location of its Cook Strait mega ferry terminal in Wellington to explain why project costs ballooned to almost $3 billion.
The Government has declined KiwiRail’s request for an extra $1.47 billion, scuppering the Inter-island Resilience Connection (iReX) project.
As KiwiRail bosses fronted a select committee today, they issued a stark warning that new infrastructure will be needed, regardless of the fate of iRex, because the wharf at Port Marlborough is at “a very end-of-life state”.
Finding second-hand ferries to replace KiwiRail’s ageing Interislander fleet won’t be easy either. Shipbrokers estimate just 22 ships in the world would be suitable and none of them is for sale.
Finger pointing over location of Wellington terminal
KiwiRail chief executive Peter Reidy told the transport and infrastructure select committee there was significant time lost deciding on the location of the terminal in Wellington which contributed to cost escalations.
KiwiRail wanted a single-user terminal at King’s Wharf in downtown Wellington to accommodate the new mega ferries.
But other stakeholders, including the regional and city councils, CentrePort, NZTA and Bluebridge, preferred Kaiwharawhara.
There were concerns water sports would be put at risk with a terminal at King’s Wharf, and the size of a parking and traffic management area required to service it would decrease the amenity value of the area.
KiwiRail backed down at the end of 2020 and was left with only a few months to work on the Kaiwharawhara option before a detailed design business case was finalised in June 2021, Reidy said.
“It was a bit of a sprint.”
‘KiwiRail must be s***ing themselves’: Cook Strait ferry cost blowout lands with Nicola Willis
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“The amount of geotechnical work that had been done in Kaiwharawhara, which was quite different from King’s Wharf, was very immature.”
Reidy said natural hazard risk modelling has changed since then and the fallout from the likes of the Kaikōura earthquake is still being filtered into building standards.
The Kaiwharawhara site meant building on an earthquake plate that required 270 piles going 70 metres into the ground, he said.
The seismic risks alone accounted for a $250 million increase in costs.
There was also a flood risk that required the site to be raised by 1 metre, Reidy said.
Board chairman David MacLean stressed the project’s cost blowout was not driven by the size of the ships but rather a “perfect storm of factors” including the change of the terminal location, the seismic code, and inflation.
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KiwiRail has dragged up an old stoush over the location of its Cook Strait mega ferry terminal in Wellington to explain why project costs ballooned to almost $3 billion.
The Government has declined KiwiRail’s request for an extra $1.47 billion, scuppering the Inter-island Resilience Connection (iReX) project.
As KiwiRail bosses fronted a select committee today, they issued a stark warning that new infrastructure will be needed, regardless of the fate of iRex, because the wharf at Port Marlborough is at “a very end-of-life state”.
Finding second-hand ferries to replace KiwiRail’s ageing Interislander fleet won’t be easy either. Shipbrokers estimate just 22 ships in the world would be suitable and none of them is for sale.
Finger pointing over location of Wellington terminal
KiwiRail chief executive Peter Reidy told the transport and infrastructure select committee there was significant time lost deciding on the location of the terminal in Wellington which contributed to cost escalations.
KiwiRail wanted a single-user terminal at King’s Wharf in downtown Wellington to accommodate the new mega ferries.
But other stakeholders, including the regional and city councils, CentrePort, NZTA and Bluebridge, preferred Kaiwharawhara.
There were concerns water sports would be put at risk with a terminal at King’s Wharf, and the size of a parking and traffic management area required to service it would decrease the amenity value of the area.
KiwiRail backed down at the end of 2020 and was left with only a few months to work on the Kaiwharawhara option before a detailed design business case was finalised in June 2021, Reidy said.
“It was a bit of a sprint.”
‘KiwiRail must be s***ing themselves’: Cook Strait ferry cost blowout lands with Nicola Willis
Billion dollar blowout: Govt declines to fund Cook Strait mega-ferry project
KiwiRail visited South Korean shipyard after Government scuppered ferries
“The amount of geotechnical work that had been done in Kaiwharawhara, which was quite different from King’s Wharf, was very immature.”
Reidy said natural hazard risk modelling has changed since then and the fallout from the likes of the Kaikōura earthquake is still being filtered into building standards.
The Kaiwharawhara site meant building on an earthquake plate that required 270 piles going 70 metres into the ground, he said.
The seismic risks alone accounted for a $250 million increase in costs.
There was also a flood risk that required the site to be raised by 1 metre, Reidy said.
Board chairman David MacLean stressed the project’s cost blowout was not driven by the size of the ships but rather a “perfect storm of factors” including the change of the terminal location, the seismic code, and inflation.
KiwiRail board chairman David MacLean stressed the project’s cost blowout was not driven by the size of the ships but rather a “perfect storm of factors. Photo / Mark Mitchell
KiwiRail board chairman David MacLean stressed the project’s cost blowout was not driven by the size of the ships but rather a “perfect storm of factors. Photo / Mark Mitchell
Chief capital planning and asset development officer David Gordon said they were keen on King’s Wharf because it was closer to the CBD and they knew Kaiwharawhara was a seismically active zone.
“GW [Greater Wellington, the regional council] and everybody else said: ‘No we don’t want you there’.
“They weren’t paying for it but there comes a point in time with any project, if every stakeholder is against what you want to do . . . at some point, you’ve got to give up the fight.”
Stark warning over state of port infrastructure
Reidy acknowledged the Government’s decision to move on from the mega ferries.
However, he issued a stark warning about the state of portside infrastructure on either side of Cook Strait.
“The terminals have to be built. New Zealand, that’s all of us, has to find a solution. Port Marlborough wharf has probably got about two to three years left. It is at a very end-of-life state. You talk to CentrePort, there’s work we’ve got to do as well.”
This infrastructure, enabling a safe and resilient Cook Strait crossing, was of national significance, McLean said.
“The question we have always struggled with is: Why was KiwiRail building terminals? We are not a wharf owner.
“We were sort of carrying most of the cost with the Government of that and running the project but that’s not necessarily the only answer.”
In the market for secondhand ships
Before Christmas, Reidy suggested part of the iRex plan could be salvaged and that the mega ferries could still be built and then sold instead.
But Finance Minister Nicola Willis said this was a risky strategy and Reidy announced yesterday that KiwiRail has officially started discussions to terminate the contract with Hyundai Mipo Dockyard (HMD) to build the ferries.
Reidy said they were now in the market for second-hand ships.
But they need to find ships built after 2010 which have redundancy built into their mechanical systems, Reidy said.
“If we don’t find ships that are of that level, we are just replacing our ships with other old ships with no redundancy.”
Having this redundancy would avoid situations like when Kaitaki lost power in Cook Strait last year and issued a mayday call because all four engines shut down when there was a problem with the one cooling system.
McLean said there was a shortage of second-hand ships and there was a huge queue for getting new ones built.
Indications from shipbrokers were that there were only 22 second-hand ships in the world that would meet KiwiRail’s criteria, including the capability to cross Cook Strait’s notorious waters, and none of them was for sale, McLean said.
However, that could change if KiwiRail had an active bid in the market, he said.
The $551m fixed-price contract to build the new ferries has proven to be a good price.
If the same contract were signed today, KiwiRail estimated the cost could increase by as much as 40 per cent.
KiwiRail had spent $424m on the iRex project as of the end of December. Of this, $90m was spent on the ships, $300m on the terminals, and the rest on programme management costs.
This does not include the cost of breaking the ship-building contract which is still being negotiated.
https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/business/kiwirail-reveals-what-led-to-cook-strait-mega-ferry-cost-blowout/
So Willis has some explaining to do. It ain’t the ships its the land costs driven by Govt. intervention. Always stuck out like dog balls. the bitch should quit before she wrecks more of the economy. Perhaps she should do the benefit bit instead. and perhaps they should sort out the shit between councils and their nice to haves etc. Might even be better to build it up at Mana. shorter route and not earthquake prone to the same extent. We did have a passenger Ferry there for a while. Went to Nelson IIRC.
The thing smacks of an arse covering exercise. I read somewhere else, earlier that they said it was not fair for Willis to be saying the costs had blown out by 4(?) fold. They said the original figure put out was pie in the sky, a guess. This seems to be how these guys work. Throw out a figure that is low and seems attractive for a project to get people on board and then do the real figures. They then blame the increase on whatever they can think of.
At the very least these guys need to be fired —- if only for saying that to the committee, it demonstrates their stupidity.
Well you can have your average public servant decide. Thats what ya gunna get and another failure much like Fantera and Fletchers because we can’t let business people make a decent decision. Its a 100 year project FFS. Its gotta be built to the latest earthquake rules which all changed in the planning period
FFS read the bloody article with ya glasses on.
you didn’t read it either did you. fucken stupid people with eyes painted on.
The Corporate Cousins of Adrian Orr, Reserve Bank Governor, figuring there was more money to wrangle from the fools. :—
“It’s a great business to be in, central banking, where you print money and people believe it. Touch wood.”…..
….. “We actually fund ourselves and then decide what dividends to pay,” Orr said. …..
https://www.tradingview.com/news/cointelegraph:f8be8f0af094b:0-printing-money-for-fools-is-a-great-business-to-be-in-nz-central-bank-head/
With the haunting kauri tree carving in the foyer of the Reserve Bank. …. hmmm …
vikey so who would you suggest be finance minister and can do a better job?…. let me guess, matt king?
suppose you think robo was a better finance minister?
fuck off you born idiot. Your even worse than Kea. Talk about those that are but hurt, you are like a broken record stuck in the same groove. If you can’t add something constructive then fuck off outback.
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Why does it have to be in Wellington?
Porirua is just up the coast . Put a jetty out from Plimmerton.
If they planned to put 270 piles 70 m deep why not here?
They’d be dredging for the rest of time. Like all west coast harbours there’s a massive bar runs from under the radio masts to Karehana Bay.
As in everything planned by socialists & the state the terminals were to be gold plated edifices & it was these that broke the camel’s back. All the ferries will ever carry are rolling stock, trucks & a few tourists who are too cheap to fly. Palatial terminal facilities are just wank.
V2, it never has been about the cost to build the ships. A contract to build those ships was signed years ago by KiwiRail with Hyundai on a fixed cost basis and even if the contract went ahead and they were delivered in 2026 it would not cost one more cent over what was set years ago, on signing of the contract.
It is the shore costs and from what I understand, demands by IWI on placement of shore facilities which has put the cost through the roof.
Suggestion that Maori or those identyfying as maori will have their own interislander ferry -a Waka with 32 paddlers and not be allowed on the real ferries.
Iwi and reginoal and wgtn councils. They didn’t want it where it is now nor further into the waterfront as it might upset the luvlies with their swimming and drowning.
For anyone who has the fucking nerve to tell me that we need to pay for water have a read
At first I thought this was funny….Then I realised the awful truth of it. Be sure to read all the way to the end! Think bin charges need to be added in too.
Tax his land,
Tax his bed,
Tax the table
At which he’s fed.
Tax his work,
Tax his pay,
He works for peanuts
Anyway!
Tax his cow,
Tax his goat,
Tax his pants,
Tax his coat.
Tax his tobacco,
Tax his drink,
Tax him if he
Tries to think.
Tax his car,
Tax his gas,
Find other ways
To tax his ass.
Tax all he has
Then let him know
That you won’t be done
Till he has no dough.
When he screams and hollers;
Then tax him some more,
Tax him till
He’s good and sore.
Then tax his coffin,
Tax his grave,
Tax the sod in
Which he’s laid.
When he’s gone,
Do not relax,
It’s time to apply
The inheritance tax.
Accounts Receivable Tax
Airline surcharge tax
Airline Fuel Tax
Alcohol Tax
Airport Maintenance Tax
Building Permit Tax
Cigarette Tax
Cooking Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Goods and Services Tax (GST)
Death Tax
Driving Permit Tax
Environmental Tax (Fee)
Excise Taxes
Income Tax
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Petrol Tax (too much per litre)
Gross Receipts Tax
Health Tax
Heating Tax
Inheritance Tax
Interest Tax
Lighting Tax
Liquor Tax
Luxury Taxes
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Mortgage Tax
Pension Tax
Personal Income Tax
Property Tax
Poverty Tax
Prescription Drug Tax
Real Estate Tax
Recreational Vehicle Tax
Retail Sales Tax
Service Charge Tax
School Tax
Telephone Tax
Value Added Tax
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Water Tax
Workers Compensation Tax
Tax (GST) on Tax.
And Now they want a blooming Carbon Tax!
STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?
Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago, & our nation was one of the most prosperous in the world… We had absolutely no national debt, had a large middle class,a huge manufacturing base, and Mum stayed home to raise the kids.
What in the Hell happened? Could it be the lying parasitic politicians wasting our money?
Oh, and don’t forget the relatively new bank charges….
And we all know what we think of Bankers.
From Paul Craig Roberts
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2024/01/18/americans-enslaved-themselves-to-the-state-when-they-accepted-the-income-tax/
long read
some extracts
…..It was not until 1913, 137 years after the Declaration of Independence established a free people who are no longer free, that there was an income tax.
…The threshold for being subject to income tax was high, and the first rate was 1%. The Georgia legislature voted to ratify the amendment because as one legislative leader concluded, “there’s no one in Georgia with an income high enough to be subject to the tax.
…1913 was also the year that the Federal Reserve, with its policy of depression, inflation, recession, and inflation, was established and unleashed on America, and it was also the year that World War I and its inflation was about to be launched by the French, Russian, and British Governments. War and inflation quickly brought income tax home to insouciant Americans who thought they were exempt.
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Goo-mints never give back; they take more and more
Your returns do not increase with that.
About multi sylable words.
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=363790359753562&set=gm.1231325961639591&idorvanity=1036683914437131
Green backlash: ‘Centrist’ Karl Tiefenbacher provisional winner of Wellington City Council byelection
It’s a Green backlash in Wellington this afternoon as locals have voted in self-described centrist Karl Tiefenbacher in the city council byelection – replacing former Green councillor Tamatha Paul.
Wellington was out of step with the National-led Government in last year’s general election when Paul and Julie Anne Genter turned two safe Labour electorates Green.
Paul previously won the Pukehīnau/ Lambton ward for a second term in 2022, with the highest majority of any Wellington City Councillor. She stepped down from her role as councillor last year after securing a seat in Parliament.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/green-backlash-centrist-karl-tiefenbacher-provisional-winner-of-wellington-city-council-byelection/W2W5XT27NJFYDBFER62O3BYJIA/
CBDC? No thanks.
https://www.sgtreport.com/2024/02/the-cbdc-indoctrination-has-begun/
The Australian government is increasing its overreaching social media demands. (Read Fascism)
https://www.sgtreport.com/2024/02/australias-communications-minister-threatens-x-with-big-trouble-if-it-doesnt-censor-misinformation/
New Zealand First
@nzfirst
Freedom of speech is fundamental to any democracy. That is why, as part of our coalition agreement, we are protecting freedom of speech by ruling out the introduction of hate speech legislation and stopping the Law Commission’s work on hate speech legislation. The vague and overreaching proposal by the previous government was careless legislating and we’ve stopped it in its tracks.
https://twitter.com/nzfirst/status/1758690731181654411
Got it.
https://twitter.com/ClownWorld_/status/1758672865174700225
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LFAp6pJPm8M
Tucker Carlson’s Scary Prediction of the Next 12 Months
short
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmQtCUVru50
Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” shares a DM clip of Jordan Peterson and Tucker Carlson brilliantly distilling the worldview of the World Economic Forum.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=au-7mPBwJQI
Joe Rogan ALARMING Warning About the Woke Mob – communism
I AM COACH COLIN
Joe finds satire level headline: “Straight Black Men Are the White Men of Black People”.
Typical Nats. Pick on those that can’t help themselves and leave the basr-tards that can alone.
Benefit changes being legislated under urgency will mean people on the equivalent of a disability benefit and their carers will lose out on more than $2300 a year by 2028 – a change equivalent to about 5 per cent of the recipient’s income.
Social Development Minister Louise Upston has introduced legislation to index benefit rates to CPI inflation rather than wages. Benefits have historically been increased upwards each year by CPI inflation. Benefits will still go up each year, but by thousands of dollars a year less than had the change not been made.
In 2019, the former Government switched the method of indexation to wages, which is similar to how superannuation rates are calculated. Wages tend to rise faster than inflation, meaning benefit rates would rise higher, faster under Labour’s system. The new Government is reverting to the old system, which officials believe will save the Crown $669.52 million over the next four years. Benefits will still go up each year, but by much less.
Figures presented to the House modelled what the changes would do to benefit rates; however, they were based on out-of-date assumptions, including a forecast that the Consumers Price Index (CPI) would be higher than wages this year, meaning the change would be net-positive for beneficiaries this year, before those gains ebbed away.
The Herald has taken the most up-to-date figures from the Beehive to update the figures presented to the House. going to save a paltry 150 million a year.Less than the cost of their chauffeured cars. Arseholes.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/revealed-new-benefit-rates-reduce-forecast-incomes-of-disabled-by-2300-by-2028/XDBRBCHG5JECJATULYNDPDWMQ4/
they really are inept and fucking disgraceful.
Less than the cost of their retirement fund and chauffeured cars and air tickets to other places.
Miserable cunts.
Better than Liarbour though.
Hardly. Like Ruth mouth and Trousers just picking on the weak.
Cowards.
🗣️🗣️WHAT THE FUCK!!???
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350177479/experts-fear-foodstuffs-facial-recognition-trial-could-harm-maori-pasifika
you note they called the experts, which clearly they are not. They are simply racists arseholes justifying why we pay them.
Stop paying the useless racists.