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I hope Seymour is dropping the school lunch value down to $3 so it can eventually be done away with . All the noise about kids learning better on a full stomach is rubbish when it comes to these lunches. Most schools have shifted their lunch eating times to 1:30 pm , and usually only do rubbish subjects after 2pm anyway .
Te reo after two?
That would put you to sleep.
re Patches.
That depends who dies.
What if it was an innocent bystander?
What constitutes a patch?
Is it something on a printed T shirt that many companies use?
Is there much of a difference between a “patch” and a similarly earned uniform?
Not averse to removing the patches but if we are going to have a country with freedom for people that goes against the very ethos of the freedom of expression, much like winny Tineiti whinged about Erica standford,(who was quite correct) then what other “badges” will be vilified.
Will the clergy, , lawyers, barristers, political parties (many of them criminals) and so on be subject to the same supression when push come to shove?
When one day their narrative and signage doesn’t suit someone in power?
What about the Maori flag? Will someone outlaw that when it suits?
What about any business that is competition with any Govt. Dept. or doing something some screwed up politician or policeman doesn’t like?
Or if another Johnkey decides that we need a new flag?
Better to know who they are and target their behaviour. pushing their identity underground is not the answer.
Just as removing guns etc has increased the use of other means to kill and injure others. Think strangling people.
Be careful what you wish for.
What are the going to do about the big blue gang path, the one that says police? They need a solid definition on what a patch is as if you put a few people in shirts with the same logo on them, could that be concidered gang patches
Trueful labelling is important.
A gang patch tells me that the contents are toxic and should be avoided.
i think the patch ban is a dumb idea, patches are a good way to identify scum to steer clear of esp at a distance.
then theres the issue of freedom of expression etc, its essentially censorship and the ban inside houses for repeat offenders is very very OTT and intrusive.
i dont like gang scum but this isnt the way to deal with them and i rekon theyre just gunna find loopholes and work arounds anyways. hopefully a cop or 2 dies in a scrap to give the dumb nats a wake up call.
Yup, agree. Must be snowing in hell, agreed with you twice in a row… Bugger.
Snow in hell is caused by climate change.
The news item about Stanford should read “Parliament in shock as a minister tells the truth “.
Yep Dougal, it is hard to argue with facts or the truth.
so McConnell’s boys have won.
Matt Gaetz, who was nominated by President-elect Donald Trump to be US attorney general, this morning pulled out of the selection process after widespread opposition including from within his Republican Party.
”While the momentum was strong, it is clear that my confirmation was unfairly becoming a distraction to the critical work of the Trump/Vance Transition,” Gaetz said on X.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/us-election-matt-gaetz-withdraws-as-donald-trumps-attorney-general-pick/5NPMK5TA7VD3LBR5AQVJDMBF2Y/
That will rile up Trump and his crew.
Perhaps Trump will appoint Matt as executive assistant and consultant to the new AG, different route same destination!!
Don’t look until after breakfast
https://x.com/fr33rang3/status/1850295696639074735?s=46&t=FuvE5e-uq9dUbHPLKMbm2Q
DISGUSTING 🤮
Thanks Ed. Good to keep reminding us.
Ain’t fishbouy lucky!
That is dangerous, turning us viewers into bulimia sufferers, 🤮 on the pathway of anorexia;- breakfast or no breakfast.
Needs a more strident warning….
AI generated or it really happened?
Yuk!
i dont eat breakfast but wish i had of waited until at least 2050.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amJcHqNymPE
BREAKING: Gaetz withdraws his name from AG consideration
‘Outnumbered’ co-hosts react to the breaking news as the Trump team navigates the transition to the White House.
One for micky
https://x.com/saltyreigns/status/1859540800440500261?s=12
Hikoi to Parliament: Police officers identified supporting hīkoi protest ‘to be spoken to’
Uniformed police officers seen supporting the Hīkoi mō te Tiriti will be spoken to by their managers.
About 42,000 people attended the protest in Wellington against the Government’s Treaty Principles Bill.
Police Minister Mark Mitchell emphasised the importance of maintaining political neutrality for public confidence.
Uniformed police officers snapped appearing to support the Hīkoi mō te Tiriti have been identified and will be spoken to by their managers.
The protest march to Parliament was launched in opposition to the Government’s policies towards Māori, primarily the Treaty Principles Bill.
Police estimated about 42,000 people attended the protest in Wellington, with attendees filling Parliament’s front lawn and surrounding streets.
But photographs have since emerged of uniformed officers helping to paint protest signs, while others held up the Tino Rangatiratanga flag.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/hikoi-to-parliament-police-officers-identified-supporting-hikoi-protest-to-be-spoken-to/PEBGSKGMZVDZ5AQLISJZSTSVKA/
Severly spoken to I should think. Pay docked for not being on duty. derelict of duty surely.
Re assigned to traffic duties in Lumsden.
Should be sacked. They are bringing the police into disrepute by not maintaining political neutrality while in uniform.
Just fire them.
theyll be wearing confiscated gang patches soon to stand in solidarity with the poor oppressed gang bros.
Yep, with a wet train ticket!
The Prime Minister is too arrogant to resign, at least before the election, but those who argued the former corporate bureaucrat lacks the attributes required for successful national leadership have been proven right.
Like Ricky Gervais’ David Brent, Christopher Luxon has an unfounded sense of his own personal charm, while also running down his colleagues behind their backs.
His lack of understanding of the National Party means he fails to appreciate that everything he says about another MP soon gets back to them.
However, Luxon’s lack of understanding of New Zealand, partly but not solely because he lived abroad from 1995 to 2011, is more serious.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/luxon-completely-out-of-his-depth-matthew-hooton/PFV32UVMLZC6TAFOBPDAX7KLRE/
Like his mate Key.
Uninformed.
Luxon appeared to demonstrate little if any curiosity about the country he wanted to lead. The casual observer might conclude that he considered that if he didn’t already know something, it wasn’t worth bothering with.
His record at Air New Zealand was mixed. He failed to forge a strong network even in the Auckland business community, let alone more broadly.
Bereft of a deep understanding of the New Zealand economy and its recent development, Luxon had nothing to offer but some modest yet unaffordable tax cuts and a belief his mere election might motivate an economic boom.
After a year in office, it would be okay to still be blaming the previous Government for most of New Zealand’s economic ills, were Luxon able to articulate a programme to address them.
But, as Professor Robert MacCulloch, the University of Auckland’s right-wing chair of macroeconomics explained in the Herald yesterday, there is none.
Can’t be bothered copying it all but a strident and correct criticism of Luxon.
V2, if Hooton is calling Luxon out then Luxon must be on the mark. After all, this is the same Hooton that said Todd Muller would be the greatest Leader the National Party would have and would make a great PM.
Hootons’ opinions are worth nearly as much as mine and probably influence even less.
AH, I reckon that this time Hooton is about right.
The man is a clown. As hoots said he spent years away, was parachuted back in to do his stint at ANZ which wasn’t exactly and roaring success and then moved up to the next joib. Just like Shonky.
Who is picking these people?
Luxon’s in serious shit if hooton is calling him out.
He did forge a strong network in the LBGT+52 at ANZ.
In serious shit, well when your a useless dumb arse like the bald headded budgie fucker is, one would need to be worried that the deputy prime minister would call for a vote of no confidence based on the retarded things that come out of his face hole
But isn’t the deputy pm in the other party in the coalition?
Yep, Im not sure how he could do it but surely theres a way to say we have have no trust or faith in the primeminister to do his job. We have exchanged a really shit government for a shit government. They all seem to be a giant bunch of over paid retards
Goldsmith is standing up to him which is surprising but good on him.Goldsmith at least knows a lot about our history/
I suspect that otherswill have luxflakes on a watch list, especially those he stabbs in the back.
Not every god Bothering bloody Catholic is well liked.
A man goes into a restaurant and is seated. All the waitresses are gorgeous. A particularly voluptuous waitress wearing a very short skirt and legs that won’t quit came to his table and asked if he was ready to order, “What would you like, sir?”
He looks at the menu and then scans her beautiful frame top to bottom, then answers, “A quickie.”
The waitress turns and walks away in disgust. After she regains her composure she returns and asks again, “What would you like, sir?”
Again the man thoroughly checks her out and again answers, “A quickie, please.”
This time her anger takes over, she reaches over and slaps him across the face with a resounding “SMACK!” and storms away.
A man sitting at the next table leans over and whispers, “Um, I think it’s pronounced ‘QUICHE.’”
Only in Masterton.
the rest of the country knows how to say that word.
We’re not bloody poofs in Masterton. Here it’s called an overpriced pie.
https://breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2024/11/olivia-pierson-hikoi-vs-country.html
Olivia is a great writer and the comments say it all. One of the best articles I’ve seen for a while.
Shut down the UN. A divisive bunch of haters and wreckers poking their manipulating nose into the lives of sovereign countries.
Thanks for the link wiseowl. A brilliant piece. I especially like this paragraph
” Christopher Luxon’s weak-kneed approach to the Treaty Principles Bill is exactly what NZ does not need. At a time when Kiwis are yearning for strong leadership that stands up for unity and fair-mindedness, Luxon is pandering to the loudest voices, and it’s not just unmanly, cowardly and disgusting, it’s dangerous. “
hooton said as mich this morning as well.
Political chess moves. Was it all planned?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlL56iqumw4
BREAKING NEWS: TRUMP DAILY BRIEFING -Matt Gaetz OUT! Is It A Win For The Deep State?
Barry Cunningham
wg, 2 and a half hours is too long for me. on that play.
Any way there still seems to be a few more spears, / spare to come into play like the pressure on Governor of Florida De Santis to now appoint Matt Gaetz as Senator as replacement for Marco Rubio.
Then how about Ken Paxton, who stood firm and principled, as an attorney general in Texas state.
Ken Paxton ends up being AG (Can the RINOs justify blocking him) and Gaetz ends up in the Senate,
Yeah, sorry about that.
De Santis has said he won’t appoint Gaetz but then it turns out Gaetz resigning from Congress is just for the rest of this term? A new term begins in January 2025. One of the many chess moves currently in play! MAGA!!
don’t poke a bear with a stick… https://meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/more-on-the-russian-response-to-the?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=473679&post_id=151994036&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=127oyu&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Thanks rol,
A measured response, by Putin.
NATO, the USA Department of Defence, and ties in the 5 Eyes, NZ and with the limping ANZUS, reconstituting itself with AUKUS and including NZ as one of the 2nd pillars & NATO spills out into the Pacific, a hemisphere, miles away from the North Atlantic.
The DOD & NATO that some people are finding out that strongly linked into their government procedures on a military basis, on health, the Covid Pandemic responses, including the lockdowns, quarantine to mandatory vaxxes.
Also Putin also subtlety gave a tug on this, in the Baltic Sea, to show how fragile the EU, NATO connections can be so easily ‘unravelled in this thread with links’.
All puns intended.
https://ysb.co.nz/have-your-say-214/#comment-418410
Even NZ could be easily nicked.
and according to telegram
“Russia was completely upfront, sending the US a notification before ballistic missile launch
Russia sent the US a notification automatically via the Nuclear Risk Reduction Center 30 minutes before the launch of the “Oreshnik” strike, Peskov told TASS”.
An unexpected move by Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith gives hope that victims of sex crimes will be given the power to make a call on permanent name suppression rather than a judge. It will not be applied retrospectively but at least the government is acknowledging the ridiculous situation where an estimated 70 permanent name suppression orders were granted in 2023 alone.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/534476/victims-of-sex-offending-welcome-shift-on-name-suppression-laws
Just received from the Free Speech Union is an email informing recipients of their latest efforts against homegrown: would-be-censors attempting to control what fellow Kiwis say. To me the details are less important than the sloppy handling of the case by the District Court.
The plaintiff bleated to the court because discussion “in a chat forum had caused him “serious emotional distress”. He requested the Court defend his honour, citing the Harmful Digital Communications Act (HDCA). The decision barred (the defendant) under the HDCA from engaging in criticism of the complainant. This ban also extends to (the defendant) encouraging anyone else to criticise the man. Violation of the order will result in a fine of anything between $5,000 and $20,000.”
But here’s the kicker:
She “was never notified by the Court about the case in the first place!
The first thing she knew of the legal action against her was when a friend told her the complainant was gloating on a chat forum about his win. He’d even posted the Court summary online for everyone to see.
When (she) spoke to the District Court clerk, she discovered that only one attempt had been made to notify her by email of the legal proceedings, an email which had bounced back. Turns out, the court didn’t even have her correct email address!”
We deserve better from the Court bureaucracy. Much better.
So it would seem that many of the systems that Australia, Keir Starmer, Britain; Trudeau, Canada; Macron, France; & Germany use are already in place in New Zealand, just waiting to be further used in New Zealand.
The process, the arrest, the defence system with costs, are the punishment, even if charges are dropped at any stage of the process.
There is simply no accountability in the bureaucracy.
Tick boxers supposedly doing their job, of following orders. !
They’re not even proficient at ticking boxes when a defendant is not given the chance of presenting a defence to a charge they are not made aware of.
The kerfuffle with Mossad, soccer hooligans and Arabs in Holland last week is explained. The ICC just issued an arrest warrant for genocide Bibi and genocide Gallant, from the Hague in Holland. The old Holocaust cloak isn’t working like it used to.
https://princessbride.fandom.com/wiki/Holocaust_Cloak
Love the Irish lilt
https://x.com/davidcoverdale/status/1859355520370606346?s=46&t=FuvE5e-uq9dUbHPLKMbm2Q
The T is for Trump
https://x.com/its_the_dr/status/1859758176092209571?s=46&t=FuvE5e-uq9dUbHPLKMbm2Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P5Nmw-7A7I
David Seymour Shares His Thoughts On The Treaty Principles Bill Protest
Michael Laws
Trump Names Another Attorney General After Matt Gaetz’s Withdrawal
President-elect Donald Trump wasted little time in naming another attorney general Thursday after former Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida withdrew his nomination earlier in the day. Trump nominated Pam Bondi, a former Florida attorney general and prosecutor for nearly 20 years.
“I am proud to announce former Attorney General of the Great State of Florida, Pam Bondi, as our next Attorney General of the United States,” Trump posted Thursday night on his social media platform Truth Social. “Pam was a prosecutor for nearly 20 years, where she was very tough on Violent Criminals, and made the streets safe for Florida Families.”
“Then, as Florida’s first female Attorney General, she worked to stop the trafficking of deadly drugs, and reduce the tragedy of Fentanyl Overdose Deaths, which have destroyed many families across our Country,” Trump added. “She did such an incredible job, that I asked her to serve on our Opioid and Drug Abuse Commission during my first Term—We saved many lives!”
The president-elect specifically hailed Bondi as a force against the weaponization of the federal government against conservatives.
“For too long, the partisan Department of Justice has been weaponized against me and other Republicans — Not anymore,” Trump wrote. “Pam will refocus the DOJ to its intended purpose of fighting Crime, and Making America Safe Again. I have known Pam for many years — She is smart and tough, and is an AMERICA FIRST Fighter, who will do a terrific job as Attorney General!”
Gaetz, Trump’s first pick for attorney general, withdrew his nomination in a surprise move Thursday amid sexual assault claims.
The Justice Department previously investigated the claims against Gaetz and declined to press charges. Gaetz resigned from Congress after Trump nominated him, so his resignation brought an end to a congressional ethics investigation.
Bondi, a prosecutor in Hillsborough County, Florida, served as Florida’s 37th attorney general from 2011 to 2019. She was the first woman to serve in that role.
Bondi was one of Trump’s lawyers during his first impeachment trial in early 2020. Earlier this year she led the legal arm of the America First Policy Institute, the think tank started by veterans of the first Trump administration.
Pam is definitely prettier than Gaetz. 🤩
Pam has a beach named after her and a whole line of supermarket products too. She’s neato.
Hunty prefers Gaetz. 🙂
Gaetz looks like Eddie Munster.
https://www.alamy.com/the-munsters-yvonne-de-carlo-al-lewis-beverley-owen-fred-gwynne-butch-patrick-1964-image236792340.html?imageid=56A44AB2-BAA8-446A-934D-80C77AD7396B&p=1894192&pn=1&searchId=67f0b4e4f894514f4209dcaed0f77ef4&searchtype=0
I do not think she will immune to attack , from what I have read she has a bit of “baggage” that could be used against her nomination.
Ah Friday😄
Girlfriend is coming over and the boy is going out eeling with his friends and leaving us alone for a couple of hours 👍
A new restaurant opened up in town, staffed exclusively by gay men, what the hell I thought, I’m no bigot and poofs do know their way around the kitchen, I’ll give it a try.
Very professional, got seated, guy comes over, hi I’m Brian, I’m the drinks waiter and will be giving you your drinks.
Another comes over, hi I’m Michael, I’m the food waiter and will be giving you your food.
Then another comes over, hi I’m Saul, I’m the head waiter, then I punched him out and bolted for the door.
son finds an eel while dad finds a nice warm moist spot to hide his eel… win win mate.
Shellenberger visiting Aussie for Albo’s STFU censorship bill.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZyqCExxBpQ
Michael Shellenberger blasts Labor’s ‘sinister’ misinformation bill
Author Michael Shellenberger has hit out at the Labor Party’s “sinister” misinformation bill which he claimed would be an excuse for the government to “exercise control” over Australians.
Bunnings are taking bad customer behaviour head on. They have put out video from their CCTV coverage showing what the ferals get up to.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/360492944/bunnings-cctv-footage-reveals-violent-attacks-nudity-and-dogs
i note all the agro violent ones are all a certain skin colour while the lone nudy tweaker and his dog is pretty much the only whitey.
what % of those incidents do you lot think involved meth or other drugs?… my guess is 95-100%.
most of those folk are taking one of bunnings motos a bit too literally… “we’ll beat it by 10%”… yea bros are good at beatings.
Bunnings’ profit margins are their problem & do not justify recording the facial data of customers without their consent.
It’s the thin end of the wedge & a precursor to the total abandonment of civil liberties.
Agree. Loss of freedoms are always justified by “protecting the safety of the many from the few” and “if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear”
Once the freedoms are gone you will have plenty to fear.
How quaint. DARPA want to have a go at reversing gene edits.
https://x.com/DARPA/status/1859311278554055008
Soz if posted.
Chart your fart app.
Researchers in Australia are urging the public to “let one rip.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/chart-your-fart-new-mobile-app-crowd-sources-flatulence-data-to-study-gut-health/ar-AA1u9XKQ
https://tuckercarlson.com/tucker-show-glenn-greenwald-2
Glenn Greenwald: Dangerous New Escalation in Russia, & Our Blackmailed Politicians
The Tucker Carlson Show
Permanent Washington decides nuclear war is preferable to Donald Trump. Glenn Greenwald on the nihilism of our ruling class.
Asset salesman say’s what?
Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer
I’m determined to deliver growth, create wealth and put more money in people’s pockets.
This can only be achieved by working in partnership with leading businesses, like @BlackRock, to capitalise on the UK’s position as a world leading hub for investment.
https://x.com/Keir_Starmer/status/1859682871876911310
The likes of Keir Hardie & Clement Attlee must be spinning in their graves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQVg_lcYiyo
Katie Hopkins take on Starmer
This looks like fun. Might even be useful too.
https://x.com/BrianRoemmele/status/1859706675399360525
Tweet to Putin. I’m not sure he’s joking.
https://t.me/robinmg/39319