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Off to Tauranga. May need to be careful in bars. I hear there is a rogue NZF politician doing the rounds.
Nah, his wife slapped him with her handbag and told him to behave him self!
Frightening news this morning. Saw a report the Prime Minister is working to make a Climate Change announcement at APEC in Chile on 14 November.
This country does not need a rushed, half baked, grovelling to the international scam around climate change or wealth redistribution. My reality as a taxpayer is I have no wealth to redistribute. I do not think farmers, or anyone working the land can accommodate the political sham around the Paris agreement and the wealth distribution inherent on that.
This taxpayer does not wish to lower living standards to meet some cunning plan devised by some master manipulators with alternative agendas.
Working to handle any real issues, as they arise in this country, after careful considerations of technology and economic impact is the best approach. Using ingenuity and resourcefulness, careful application of resources is essential. The global approach is not going to solve anything. Our leadership is not required by the world. I have no confidence the PM going to APEC to make an announcement will achieve anything useful whatsoever.
Neve hasn’t been to APEC before – must get her up on the podium.
Neither has Jethro!
He will make a fool of himself in front of all the wifes and girlfriends!
Another trip on the company plane coning up!
Id imagine they are into coning!
You reckon they are past doing lines?
It is nothing less than an evil scheme to convince rich countries to bleed money to the 3rd world. It’s so damn obvious and has been for decades. There is no climate emergency whatsoever. It is history repeating itself, but this time the enemy lives WITH us. As I’ve always said and always will, the only good commie is a dead commie.
Lets tell her not to do this!
(email her now!)
I just did
Simon Bridges says Auckland Transport’s proposed speed limit reduction is ‘stupid’
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2019/10/simon-bridges-says-auckland-transport-s-proposed-speed-limit-reduction-is-stupid.html
“A blanket speed reduction is stupid. Aucklanders already know they are suffering from congestion and an inability to get around, whether that’s dropping the kids at sports or school, or getting to work on time,” he told Newshub.”
Well said Simon
And of the 50 or so fatalities in Auckland how many were due to fleeing from police, or really high speed? Quite a lot i bet.
They have many submissions saying no to the proposal. I read in our newspaper there are many submittors not happy with the Zero Carbon Bill but Shaw seems to be taking more notice of Forest and Bird and Green peace than he is of farmers, their representatives or the general public just over the climate scam.
No wonder there is small voter turn outs. The elected supposed representatives are seemingly pressing on regardless of what those who are paying desire.
‘Drip-feed’ retirement scheme proposed to stop Kiwis outliving their savings
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/money/2019/10/drip-feed-retirement-scheme-proposed-to-stop-kiwis-outliving-their-savings.html
“”Many people we’ve spoken to in our research for the review say they’re worried they’ll run out of money in retirement,” said Interim Retirement Commissioner Peter Cordzt.
“An annuity scheme like the KiwiSpend product suggested… may provide members with the peace of mind of a guaranteed income stream”.
So some retirees will spend the lot because they can’t manage their own money. Amazing they have managed to get through life on their own.
That’s what’s happened to my grandparents in the States. They are in their 90’s now, and have spent a small fortune on a full time live-in nurse the past few years. The life expectancy in the 1920’s was not 90-something!
A good idea, as long as its voluntary!
“KiwiSaver members would automatically become part of the scheme with the chance to opt out after seeking advice.”
Interesting fact I heard the other day, that the majority of KS accounts only have a balance of approx $20,000 with most saving the minimum 4% contribution. Retirement might not be as sweet as some envisage.
But the amounts will get bigger and bigger each year.
EG my g/f had 14K a few years ago now she has $18K.
What will she have in 15 years time when she gets to 65 or 67?
Eight people injured in Christchurch after fleeing driver crashes into another motorist
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2019/10/eight-people-injured-in-christchurch-after-fleeing-driver-crashes-into-another-motorist.html
Just say your’e poor and a meth addict. “Dismissed! It’s those people’s fault for being in his way.” That is seriously the way things are going under this Col.
“”[Police] need to back off these young boys and slow down and catch them down the track, not right here in the middle of a city and residential area. Look what’s happened.”
There was “the odd boy racer” in the area, but police were not chasing them, Francis said.
“The damage [the driver] did – a death and serious injuries – could have been avoided if the police kept off his tail.”
What a load of bullocks – what needs to happen is that these drivers need to be sentenced to jail for a decent term – that might stop the next one.
collateral damage, nothing to see here.
Wild CCTV footage shows car speeding in reverse down Palmerston North street as occupants attempt to get away from police
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/wild-cctv-footage-shows-car-speeding-in-reverse-down-palmerston-north-street-occupants-attempt-get-away-police?auto=6096499039001
Why evade the cops? How much punishment would they get- hmmm, ankle bracelet maybe? C’mon folks it’s not like you’re going to prison or anything! Not under Kelvin’s watch.
`Not under Kelvin’s watch.’
Or Angry Andy’s.
Paula Bennett denies Chloë Swarbrick’s claim NZ ‘locking people up’ for using cannabis
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/paula-bennett-denies-chlo-swarbricks-claim-nz-locking-people-up-using-cannabis?auto=6096401020001
Q+A
Wee Chloe pulling shit out of her arse again!
She must be having trouble sitting now, just as well the BMW have comfy seats!
Paula may be spot on when she cites one instance this year & two the previous year but what of the future if the Catholic mafia return as government? The same party that supports the worship of something that doesn’t exist would happily reintroduce the gallows for a teenager partaking of a joint.
Why are National determined to alienate those who don’t do religious, moralising group-think?
I was a good Catholic boy, AND i smoked a lot of weed!
Look out nasska, I gave you an up vote old buddy, but we are hopelessly out numbered tonight by Middle Eastern desert cultists and boot licking worshipers of authoritarianism.
At least while they are attacking us they are not molesting kids or shooting people 🙂
Chloe who? Lol she’d best be looking for a new job. Yeah, nah those types would never survive in the private world where you actually have to be accountable for what you say and do. Future WINZ recipient.
Giant All Blacks prop Atu Moli jumps into help Japanese man struggling with weights
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/sport/rugby/giant-all-blacks-prop-atu-moli-jumps-into-help-japanese-man-struggling-weights?auto=6096537875001
Nice.
Can Jacinda Ardern’s star dust weather domestic storms?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/books/116697719/michelle-duff-can-jacinda-arderns-star-dust-weather-domestic-storms
“But the difference between then and now is that two years post-election there are footholds for attack. Criticism can gain traction. In many ways, this Government has been both ineffective and hypocritical. The Kiwibuild scheme and demotion of Housing Minister Phil Twyford is one example of a clear and damaging policy failure. The #MeToo scandal within the Labour Party has revealed what many of who work in the area of sexual violence already knew, but is no less crushing – misconduct is rife, and the minimising of it, protection of alleged perpetrators, and diminishing of women continues unabated, no matter the organisation and its stated ethos.”
A Stuff journalist having doubts about our Cindy’s stardust. 😵
Footholds for attack!
Yes- only the staunchest lefties and union lovers will still support JA.
To all YSB bloggers- when JA’s halo finishes choking her and she’s no longer PM, I’ll buy a bottle of Johnnie Walker Blue Label and head south where we could meet up and celebrate. Would never be a better reason for us to meet in person! We’ll be drunk on happiness before we crack open the Scotch 🙂
Excellent! Look forward to sharing a wee dram with you in celebration!!!
Just saw a Newshub poll on whether P addicts should get lighter sentences
13% yes
87% no
According to Jacinda on AM this morning, dealers are the scum of the earth, so why wasn’t Lees-Galloway demoted for granting one residency?
Because the Liarbor talent pool is so shallow there was no one bedder to replace him with.
Not even the Great Twyford? Can’t believe that guy is still employed. Un-f*cking-believable.
The Slease was only follwing Cindy bin Lyings orders!
Shec an’t sack him for that!
Time to increase sentences for fleeing from the police.
Add five years to the minimum sentence every year until the offences stop.
Also add ten years if the car was stolen.
And add five years if there is any damage caused.
Advertise the sentences widely, and publise each sentence handed down and the offenders name and photo.
Don’t stop there!
Why not amputate one arm & a foot if they don’t have a valid WoF.
That’s a better idea than mine, it would stop fleeing from the police completely.
Not practical with the current level of hospital waiting lists.
Stihl
I have a spare garage they could use.
We need to think outside the box to stop these crimes. Surgical removal of an eye for the first offence and the other one for any repeat. That would work very quickly. Yes it is a horrible punishment but then families losing loved ones to maniac drivers is also pretty horrible and deserves serious retribution.
Get an attach helicopter with anti-tank rounds. Flee from the police and call in the helicopter. You would only have to do this once….
I see Speaker Bercow has stopped another vote on Boris’ “deal”. Bercow is worse than Mallard as a Speaker.
If and when there is a GE in the UK and IF Boris wins he is going to be very busy cleaning up the legal and procedural mess that now controls their Parliament.
The next UK General Election will see revenge closer to Enoch Powells rivers of blood speech but it will be MP’s Civil servants and judicial Blood spilled and few tears from a majority of voters.
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Re todays pic.
I’m not sure of your reason for posting it.
But my theory is that
30% of people these days are obese
30% are over weight (and on the way to being obese)
30% are normal
And the rest are either underweight or morbidly obese.
Hard hats but no hi-viz
Where’s the health and safety plan, the cones, the signs, the warning that peanut butter can be deadly, that jam causes obesity and dental caries, the staff training in the correct and safe use of sharp implements (called knives in sensible times), the non-slip matting for the kitchen and the food-handling certificates, the working at height certification if the jam is kept on a shelf requiring more that two steps on a ladder, the first aid cabinet, the non-smoking policy, the recycling containers for waste management and the Civil Defence evacuation plan?
And that folks is why your knuckle-dragging tradie charges an extortionate $150 an hour while his varsity educated accountant and lawyer only charges him/her an entirely reasonable $300 an hour.
I have a problem with the lack of gender and ethnic diversity. And none are in a wheelchair or openly Support Labour. Disgusting.
Do you know for certain none of them are transgender, or identify as unicorns? One has impaired vision, and another could be blind.
Some or all could be Hispanic, Cherokee or Kurdish.
Only socialists would form a committee to make a sandwich. No capitalist would do that through choice.
You are making gender, orientation, political and ethnic assumptions based on your white male bias so your opinion is not only worthless, but illegal.
Speaking of your arguments, they are the same that Shaun Plunkett shot down the white-guilt “pakeha” he was interviewing early this afternoon about her book “on how colonial NZ was and still is racist on the back of racist pakeha systems”. He gave her a real backhander on only including views of those she sought out to reinforce her thesis. Turns out she had $140k of taxpayer funding to write this book on her made up NZ history. Another white guilt university graduate with a psychology degree.
I deny that any of those posts constitute an argument.
They are piss-takes ( … except the defence of tradies. They are under paid and under valued in my view.)
Took me a moment to figure the debate, but I am sure that wg had already added in the critical NOT in her own mind. 🙂
“You are making gender, orientation, political and ethnic assumptions based on your white male bias so your opinion is not only worthless, but illegal, NOT
The two fat ones on the left are sans safety glasses.
Fat? I think the photo has been squashed. However “Girth Enhanced” is a better term …..
A commissioner wants to disenfranchise the thousands of voters who cast their vote for a legitimate candidate that did not hide his views.
He wants the representative to resign.
What principles of democracy has Moon got?
The mayor is another authoritarian for supporting this.
https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/116745099/race-relations-commissioner-calls-for-tauranga-councillor-to-resign
A city divided and they want to etch that in with giving certain people a status over and above, to maintain the divide. 🙁
The Commissar, has spoken!
Off with his head!
The Councillor, Andrew Hollis as an elected members must swear an oath to abide by the Local Government Act, which includes Treaty obligations.
Must or why are others allowed to use other forms for swearing in.
Why not the “Magna Carta” or some such constitution.
A muslim would use the koran, and many know the abrogation & taqiyya in that.
The original English copy of the Treaty, the Littlewood translation, should more than do the job.
Sometimes I have had to sign something with government overture and conditions, and simply notate just before my signature, “with stress and so under duress”.
It add some long times in the bureaucracy, but they do seem to accept.
If you can try and get them to sign first, if they have to, and get a copy pronto; 🙂
Another great video from Tony Heller. Anyone who wants a good review of the basics of the real climate science it is a must watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-zaQWAaPAg
Yes, saw that yesterday. I’ve been following him for a couple of months now, and he’s helped me convert from a skeptic to an outright denier.
Climate Change/Global Warming hysteria is all bullshit.
Climate Change on its own is true – the climate has been changing since the beginning of time.
Live updates: Huge fire at Sky City convention centre
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2019/10/huge-fire-at-sky-city-convention-centre.html
Andrew Little feels ‘dicked around’ by National Party on proposed anti-terror law
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/10/andrew-little-feels-dicked-around-by-national-party-on-proposed-anti-terror-law.html
“Bridges said he’s “not going to let New Zealanders be half-safe when it comes to terrorism”.
He said Little seems to be focusing only on a small number of threats raised by intelligence agencies, and Bridges believes the scope of the Bill needs to be wider.
“There are many unknowns here that we need to safeguard.”
Wow, is it just me or does Andrew Little’s eyes look rather ‘crazed’ in this interview while Simon Bridges in comparison looks in control and fully informed on the topic of NZ’ers safety by ensuring the COL introduce anti-terror laws are up to standard.
Thanks
if you watch Simon’s interview (above) he is clearly saying that we need to be aware of terrorism attacks that have happened in England, France, Canada the USA.
He is clearly referring to islamic terrorists.
Well said Simon.
Keep us all safe.
Little looks like a spoiled kid who is to used to getting his own way all the time. Either that or he’s just realised he has short mans syndrome.
Another short arse lefty…. he and The dwarf should compare notes….
Wee little Angry is feeling as he should “dick”!
Whether his own or someone elses is the question?
It is the sex party, so will be some elses!
Labour were well known for their cooperation with National when they were the opposition?
Time to increase the minimum sentence for fleeing from the police.
Make it murder if someone dies.
And make them pay for any damage caused by hard labour.
There was a judge up this way – going back a few years, who said anyone who doesn’t stop for the cops and end up in his court will be going straight to jail. I think they may have got rid of him for showing independent intelligent thinking.
So driving away is murder – but gunning down an innocent courier driver is no charge at all, if you are a gutless pig with a gun?
Fck off you disgusting maggot.
Oink oink.
Tell me little piggy:
1. What approach do the pigs take if a guy accidentally shoots his best mate when out hunting?
2. Why the double standard.
Tweet from 2012 shows Jacinda Ardern’s thoughts on shock-jock Alan Jones
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/10/tweet-from-2012-shows-jacinda-ardern-s-thoughts-on-shock-jock-alan-jones.html
“The 2012 tweet by Ardern, unearthed by Sky News Australia’s Jackson Williams, says: “I know an Alan Jones. Unlike the Aussie version, he isn’t a git or intensely disliked by the general population.”
Ha ha!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaDzkyplitE
Just the paper work to end the Clinton slush fund.
Government Finally Pulls Pin On Controversial Clinton Foundation Funding
Official Information Act response from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
https://www.taxpayers.org.nz/clinton_funding_pulled
https://www.mfat.govt.nz/assets/OIA/R-OIA-response-26543-website-CHAI.PDF
What the hell is going on in the world?
COPS are investigating a “hate crime” after a transgender woman was turned down for a porn role “because she has a penis”.
In messages exchanged over WhatsApp, the photographer claimed he couldn’t work with her because “she has a c***”.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10162480/police-transgender-woman-investigate-porn/
Another country we need to cut lose. It is time to align ourselves with the civilised world in places like Russia.
Go on then move there, or are you just a blow up your arse prick.
Hi Jack, go on move to the UK, or are you just a blow up your arse prick?
Or simply sit in the corner self harming with a cheese grater.
There’s a brilliant short video on this very theme doing the rounds with the title “most accidents happen in the home” I received it as an MP4 attachment to an e mail and unfortunately I can’t seem to post a link here
The Canadians have voted in Trudeau again. Lost quite a few seats but with the National Democrats and his Liberal party combined they have the needed 170 seats ( not all the counting has finished so they will probably get a few more).
Canadians must be slow learners.
They deserve to rot. Throw open the doors to massive waves of African and Middle East migrants. NZ should send ships to take the refugees there.
Canada is a cesspit.
The Trudern’s will be jumping for joy!!
Too many $’s in the troughs, and borrowing money still keeps the economic bite of the wolf away.
…. Canada has little to show for four years of more federal borrowing. Economic growth has slowed, with real GDP per capita rising by an average of just 0.5 per cent in the past four years….
…… most federal spending was dissipated on transfers to people and higher benefits for the public service, which has mastered latching onto tax dollars crossing its desk for its own benefit. ….
…. One enduring legacy of deficit spending is a higher level of debt,
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/thebigdebate/2019/10/08/should-the-federal-deficit-be-more-of-a-concern.html
Sounds like there was a nice shower of gifts before the election.
In the mean time life is good, for the Anthropocentric, Social, Political, Humanism, Psychology, Gender-ism and then another section of Alarm-ism, Cooling, Warming, Anthropocentric, Climate Change etc. all wrapped into Science, as if all is facts for the empiricism to be based on.
Then again one does not get voted in, unless the government purse is wide open for the pickings. 🙁
Rumour is – The arson attack on the tin shed in Auckland was ordered by Ardern due to John Key’s involvement with the project.
No doubt she will appear at a photo shoot pulling the frowny face of fake concern.
That conference centre is ear marked for the 2021 APEC conference.
The Don and Vlad better bring an extinguisher each.
Dumb-ass developers originally clad it it the same shit as Grenville towers. Removed it, and it still caught fire.
Meanwhile in France, the cops are dealing to the firemen. I kid you not.
It takes a special kind of stupid to make aluminium highly flammable. It is due entirely to the woke greenies demanding insulation, even in a large commercial shed like that.
I just read that the insulation was straw, surely not?
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2019/10/darkness-reveals-intense-flames-continuing-to-burn-skycity-s-convention-centre.html
Yes straw like material between plywood, Protected by flammable rubber that is installed with fire.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in fiery exchange on changes to meth dealer sentencing guidelines
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/10/prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-in-fiery-exchange-on-changes-to-meth-dealer-sentencing-guidelines.html
Has anyone else noticed Newshub/TV3 have taken the gloves off with Cindy, Winston and the COL? Don’t piss off journalists when their jobs are against the wall.
Oh she stands by her dealers. They have dirt on her.
Interesting the slag said she can’t influence Court decisions, but managed to turn the attempted homosexual rape of children into a minor assault and the sexual violation of two young girls into nothing at all. Mind you that was her influencing the filth and not the Court.
The Prime Monster deserves removal.
She looks dreadful.
That’s because meth is dreadful.
Still, she should perk up soon and have a spring in her step.
She is an addict. Her manner, her thinking and her appearance, tell the story.
The head of the corrupt pigs had to come out and try and shut down rumours about her root, as the basis for an attack team of high priced lawyers to proceed against anyone who spoke out.
But Mike Bush is a sterling chap isn’t he?
After all.. he is one of the poison blue.
He is dirty and is in it purely for his own personal craving for power and authority over others.
What he has done is unforgivable.
Music icon Nick Cave, too big to be de-platformed or wacked by “cancel culture”. 🙂
…… “Regardless of the virtuous intentions of many woke issues, it is its lack of humility and the paternalistic and doctrinal sureness of its claims that repel me.” …..
…… Cave also lamented how the left has completely abandoned the once sacred and cherished virtue of free speech. ….
….. “Some of us…are of the generation that believed that free speech was a clear-cut and uncontested virtue,
yet within a generation this concept is seen by many as a dog-whistle to the Far Right,
and is rapidly being consigned to the Left’s ever-expanding ideological junk pile,” he said. ….
https://summit.news/2019/10/21/nick-cave-slams-woke-culture-as-an-assault-on-free-speech/
The march of leftism socialism blindly continues on building their towers of Babel, censoring and shutting down other lines of thought, like Feng Moon. race relations conciliator 🙁
Podgy alert!!
Aged-care sector struggling to keep up with rise in obese elderly, new research finds
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/116752859/agedcare-sector-struggling-to-keep-up-with-rise-in-obese-elderly-new-research-finds
People need to stop eating so many carbs and other sugars, especially as they get older.
Not taking the cash and just carried out one of the Xtinction R. protestors.
Reminds of Freddie Flintstone putting Dino out for the night.
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1185329183209033728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1185329183209033728&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftownhall.com%2Ftipsheet%2Ftimothymeads%2F2019%2F10%2F21%2Fgood-for-these-fast-food-workers-who-manhandled-global-warming-protesters-n2555035
1 min 28 secs.
One cuffed and I figure the 2nd one will be also when the rest come back. 🙂
Sublime.
When the facts trip up a narrative, you must be silenced!!
University ousts professor who defied climate-change narrative on polar bears
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=78043?omhide=true
I wonder if the convention center will collapse into its own footprint?
Firemen have abandoned the rooftop. Can’t support them anymore.
Dozen madda.
We’re loaded.
No poverdy here?
Feeling wealthy? You should be – New Zealand is world’s fifth-richest country, report shows
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/116750610/feeling-wealthy-new-report-shows-you-should-be
What the hell were they building that thing out of?
The firemen are saying its a straw like material sandwiched between plywood. They have given up on it and are now just hoping it won’t spread.
The cops have gotten bored and are wandering around checking warrants and regos of cars trapped in the cordon area and doing drugs.
Yeah I heard straw and bitumen!
Who the hell sets our building standards?
Yes you are right. The roof is coated in flammable rubber, to stop the straw and wood from getting wet. When the rubber burnt off the smoke went from black to white/gray, which I will assume was the straw burning.
And did they remove all those aluminum panels packed with highly combustible material?
You can’t make this shit up.
Oh and lets not forget they install the flammable rubber roof using fire 🙂
The firemen can’t be on the roof due to the risk of collapse. That also means they can’t be under it. So how can they fight it? They can’t effectively. Bye bye convention center.
Its called torch on.
Very common on flat roof’s.
It is an excellent barrier to the elements.
The guy who left his torch blazing had stopped for smoko.
Treated ply is usually the base for the bitumen filled material.
https://www.iko.com/comm/blog/what-is-a-torch-down-roof/
Yeah we know that smart arse. It is also an excellent fire starter. Now go back to rolling joints with pages from the bible.
“The main reason roofing professionals have preferred alternatives to torch down roofing is the danger and difficulty of properly installing these systems. A roofing torch requires the use of a gas torch with an open flame operating at extremely high temperatures and runs the risk of fire and burning the roofing professional. “
Hey I thought that was nasska I was replying to 🙂
Greta rally in Canada disrupted by hundreds of protesters:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ6Rhmw_GSk
She hasn’t seen my avatar I presume.
What a naughty little upstart.
Police charge 57 youths during Melbourne raids
https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6096600207001
They will need a whole bunch of wet bus tickets for that lot.