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Morning all, nice looking morning up here after yesterday’s monsoon. Finally starting to wind down at work and hoping to escape on the boat Sunday or Monday depending on the weather.
Where’s the good ship Lollypop heading this year Captain? It’s just that we like to follow the relevant marine forecasts to gauge the depths of your suffering. 🙂
Heading down to the big smoke, probably have Christmas at Kawau on the way then cruise around Waiheke etc. Auckland is a good place to go sailing, plenty of safe sheltered bays and islands to hide behind and the good news is most of the Aucklanders are either up in the Bay of Islands or over at the Barrier which is truly awful at this time of the year. Currently watching reruns of the Onedin Line in anticipation for the coming hurricanes. With me in the neighbourhood Aucklanders need not worry about watering their gardens over the holidays.
Australia’s judicial integrity under fire after judge in COVID vaccine case is accused of failing to disclose links to Pfizer
A judge allegedly failed to disclose her links to Pfizer in a case that would have scuttled its COVID vaccines in Australia – raising serious questions about our justice system, writes Rocco Loiacono.
Drug giant Pfizer is facing lawsuits in several countries over allegations of false claims about the effectiveness of its COVID-19 vaccine and concealing its risks.
In a lawsuit filed last week against the company by the Attorney-General for the American state of Kansas, it is alleged that Pfizer concealed evidence that the shot was linked to pregnancy complications, including miscarriage, as well as myocarditis and pericarditis (these last two conditions are now recognised adverse reactions by the US Food and Drug Administration).
The lawsuit also alleges that Pfizer misled the public by stating that the jab would prevent not only illness but transmission.
In fact, Pfizer executive Janine Small admitted to an EU Parliamentary inquiry in October 2022 that Pfizer never tested the COVID jab in relation to preventing transmission.
When the FDA approved the Pfizer vaccine for use in December 2020, it admitted there was no “evidence that the vaccine prevents transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from person to person”.
Sky News.
https://bit.ly/3VHQNPL
There’s a lot on this article including Queensland’s Police win and Judical Bias claims.
If you don’t think this can happen here. Well vote better.
https://www.facebook.com/reel/3987440798151561
Simeon Brown: Local Government Minister addresses changes to Local Government Act
Government reforms designed to get councils ‘back to basics’
The Local Government Act is being scrubbed of requirements to consider social, economic, environmental, and cultural well-being.
The Government says its reforms will refocus councils on basics – like fixing pipes, filling potholes, and delivering core services.
It will also benchmark council performance and modernise rules to drive cost savings.
Local Government Minister Simeon Brown says this’ll stop councils spending lots of money on things they argue fit within the four well-being objectives.
“They won’t be able to use that excuse when they go out to consult on their annual plans or their long-term plans as to why they want to spend money on those activities.”
https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/heather-du-plessis-allan-drive/audio/simeon-brown-local-government-minister-addresses-changes-to-local-government-act/
There is good and bad in that.
Like everything in life.
Everything in moderation.
So some of the really good things council do e.g. parks and reserves will possibly be off the table.
If Simeon Brown improves local govt under Notional then it will be an absolute FIRST for notional.
They wont know themselves. They are so used to fcuking it up
like killing of the ARC- Auckland Regional council in 1992 then saying Auckland had no central control and made a super dooper City …or Shitty…. in 2010
I’ll hold my breath on these god addled incompetents.
Maybe S. Brown could deliver something. No faith in anyone else there.
Moving in the right direction but if legislation is going to be later in 2025 then what damage can these councils do in the meantime?
Takes so long to change anything under National and yet if Labour get in they run rampant with changes.
Just keep them away from culture, arts, the rejuvenation of town centres & promotion of events. That’s where they get really footloose & frivolous with our money!
Oh so true
https://x.com/nzmagamike/status/1868502236613292372?s=46&t=FuvE5e-uq9dUbHPLKMbm2Q
Update:
A human gets more factual information from sniffing a dog’s arse than they get from reading the Herald.
Went to the beach a couple of days ago.
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=122185532264118017&set=a.122144646650118017
Well, this looks promising,
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/waitangi-day-pm-won-t-confirm-if-he-will-attend-commemorations-at-waitangi/ar-AA1vXO8H?ocid=msedgntp&pc=LCTS&cvid=231fbab69d004bf4a1be09ef16c0e8f2&ei=87
“I’m sorry, but I’m washing my hair that day……..”
little cross dressing Chrissy will do what They are told to do !!
There is no free will for a puppet.
He doesn’t have the balls to stay away!
Visit an iwi who hates the trash up this way on our national day of shame and with any luck they’ll declare war on each other resulting in an outbreak of cannibalism.
Anther school shooting in USA. I don’t really understand why this almost seems to be an exclusively USA phenomenon.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/madison-wisconsin-police-say-multiple-people-injured-shooting-abundant-life-christian-school
And no its not the availability of guns. Switzerland has guns, South Africa has gun violence but not school shootings, Russia has guns, they just shoot Ukranians in Ukraine.
How much of it is centrally planned to try and break/degrade the second amendment ?
The world has gone fucking mad. Read this shit and you will understand why.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20241216-seven-quiet-breakthroughs-for-climate-and-nature-in-2024-you-might-have-missed
“In Brazil, part of the ocean was given legal personhood – with the coastal city of Linhares recognising its waves as living beings, granting them the right to existence, regeneration and restoration. Meanwhile, a new treaty formed by Pacific Indigenous leaders saw whales and dolphins officially recognised as “legal persons”.
ROL, what is this bullshit over the Pacific Jigaboos recognising Whales as legal persons.
This can’t be, as I understood the Early Settler in New Zealand owned all the Whales in the sea. DOC says so and so do the Natives.
Surely when the Natives here realise there is another claim on the Whales there will be an outbreak of warfare. Standby!
Only the whales they can ride 🥺🐬🐬
See old Peter Broughton , generally known with fake name Rawiri Paratene was in the Whale Rider movie.
The father of Marama Davidson
Hasn’t it been p[pleasant not hearing from her and her constant whining, bitching and lies !!
Once again Godzone punches above its weight. We led the idiocy by granted personhood to the Wanganui River in 2017.
Yep yep
I have been sending the Fonganuoi river a Xmas card since 2017
Never get one back
A low grade person,
Must be native elite !!
Starma the incredibly bad PM is still digging to be even worse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mu85q9VGJLw
“Not Gonna Tolerate It” | Richard Tice Warns Keir Starmer Against ‘Closer’ EU Ties
There is no “surrender squad” of civil servants set up to reverse Brexit, Downing Street has insisted.
No 10 so-called surrender squad will row back on the result of the 2016 referendum.
Maybe we could illuminate the baffled scientists….
https://voiceforscienceandsolidarity.substack.com/p/the-real-question-at-handnot-pertinent?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=555295&post_id=153196349&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=127oyu&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Calling out what the socialists parties want for Spain.
An article that summarises this woman speaking out.
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“It’s a lie that they are refugees fleeing from wars,”
“What war in …. …… ….. ”
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[What Climate Changing of boiling seas, supposedly rising?]
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…… explosion of violent crime between 2017 and 2023: …..
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…… Faced with these undeniable numbers, De Meer challenged the socialists directly:
“Are the data from your Ministry of Interior a hoax?” Of course not. The figures speak for themselves, and they are no longer isolated incidents—they are part of a broader trend driven by uncontrolled immigration. ……
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Ram raids, aggravated robberies, home invasions.
How & in what are the kids being educated? if they attend school? Truancies? What criteria of NCEA units & their levels.
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…. — “lock-words” — designed to silence truth-tellers like VOX. [Spanish Party]
The first lock-word? “Hoax” or “disinformation.”
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second lock-word? — “Hate speech.” —
When the facts cannot be refuted, the government resorts to baseless accusations of hate. …..
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….. Fear and Terror: The Socialist Legacy
De Meer exposed the reality of the socialist government’s betrayal.
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….. “Fear is what you have sown in neighborhoods and villages, where people dare not step outside after 8 PM.”
“This is not fear of the different— it is terror of the known : a socialist government willing to destroy everything Spaniards hold dear.” ….
https://rairfoundation.com/is-it-hate-say-that-africa-doesnt-fit/
The video there is 8 mins 19 secs : subtitled.
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So what does not fit in New Zealand?
NZ has its socialist lock words & phrases where few of the politicians speak out, and bring about action to change, to lead.
As they systematically “lockout” rights, decency, logic, reasonableness, honour, or the truth,
So a gradual degradation of our lifestyles, our security, our health, our nutrition, our hopes.
A guy was driving over a bridge and gets pulled over by a cop. The cop walked up to his car and asks him “do you know how fast you were going” he says “no sir the speedometer doesn’t work”.
Cop takes a quick look at the guy and the shitbox pickup he’s driving and says “this truck is a pile of shit and you look awful scruffy do you even have a job?”
The guy replies “yes I got a job, a really good job”.
Cop says “oh really what do you do?”
Guy replies “I’m a professional rectum stretcher”.
Cop says “what the hell is a rectum stretcher”.
Guy says “well people come to me once a week and I slowly stretch their rectum till it’s about this wide (as he holds his arms out).
Cop says “what the fuck is someone supposed to do with a 6 foot wide asshole”.
Guy replies “I have no idea, but I think they give him a radar gun and stick him at the end of a bridge!” 🤣🤣🤣
Yep they do exist
They were on the local bridge above the motorway the other Friday.
I saw somewhere that there was a courtcase here in NZ, that said the tradies loyalty scheme was taxable. So the loyalty scheme for doctors purchasing certain pharmaceuticals would be the same, covid jabbing maybe too and so on as it flows thru the industries, where does it stop? Koha for maoris, included, I wonder? Just not for the tribal elite?
Sooty, you forgot to recognise maori are charity cases so no tax for them.
Only the elite, lower ranks can be taxed!
Canada is fucked
https://x.com/warclandestine/status/1868757406853054741?s=46&t=FuvE5e-uq9dUbHPLKMbm2Q
Just quietly, I think NZ is fucked as well. Labour’s borrowing, our welfare state and pandering to early settlers is killing this country.
It will all roll along sags.
what are they so afraid of? The truth. Lefties can’t stand the truth.
They can’t handle the truth
https://youtu.be/9FnO3igOkOk?feature=shared
If you want to make a conservative angry, tell him a lie.
If you want to make a leftie angry, tell him the truth.
Good job Freeland and Justin. //
I saw reports last night Canadian GDP is now lower than Mississippi.
https://rumble.com/v5zyzxn-trudeau-resigns.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp
IT’S OVER: Justin Trudeau Ready to RESIGN!? Canadian Government in COLLAPSE, Libs Turn on Trudeau
Benny Johnson
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/ontario-would-be-fifth-poorest-quebec-second-poorest-u-s-state/
It may have taken him a bit longer but he seems to have achieved the same as his best friend Ardern —stuffed up Canada as she did with NZ.
I seriously doubt the narcissistic Turdeau has the personal gumption to go without being voted out in a leadership vote. Will he call an election in the hope of winning yet again?
Yes, but hasn’t drained the bank acc yet!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdXaOwgsPhU
The Untold Story of Alex Jones | The Glenn Beck
Nobody is neutral on Alex Jones. He’s either loved or hated. He’s either a villain or a hero. But underneath the labels, who is he really?
this kind of truth is what lefties hate….
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BwS1oJXrwl0
This is why Candace was recently denied entry to our shores until the decision was overturned
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/eqYR3u9jxDU
Beware of the slippery slope. It’s real, and it’s dangerous.
good to know the cops in the USA are fighting real crime….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZRe9CxY38g&ab_channel=InsideEdition
They don’t have time to pursue real criminals after chasing up the complaints of fat, ugly, quasi religious, moralistic women who can’t stand being compared with chicky babes.
The USA is the most screwed up nation on the planet!
Treasury releases Half Year Economic and Fiscal Update, showing a tough financial pictureTreasury releases Half Year Economic and Fiscal Update, showing a tough financial picture
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Finance Minister Nicola Willis will make further cuts to government spending and more public servants may lose their jobs as she warns ministries not to expect any extra funding in next Budget, of which a substantial amount has already been pledged to health.
It comes as Treasury paints a tougher financial picture, with core Crown expenses forecast to grow from $139b in the year ending June to $162.9b in the year to June 2025, and less tax revenue.
This was down to increased spending on the jobseeker benefit as a result of higher short-term unemployment, as well as superannuation, higher debt servicing costs and new spending.
Treasury in 2023 expected the books to hit surplus in 2028 at the earliest, but Tuesday’s update shows the books will stay in deficit until 2029, even with a new, more favourable method by which the Government will measure its operating balance.
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So
Govt expenditure rises by 16% to $162 Billion
Wow !
Was liebour really that bad ?
This is without any virus BS
There will be no income tax cuts under Gnats just like the last 9 years of neglect
all they did was a 15 years delayed underwhelming adjustment to tax brackets and have never even locked this in.
they have not really cut the public service
This old bird Nicky whose only commercial ‘experience was a cpl years at Fonterror while it was an economic disaster under Spierings is out of her depth.
The higher superannuation should be well known down to the nearest $100,000
it is not a surprise.
It has been mapped out for 30 years.
Higher debt servicing costs ???
Interest rates have gone down and only down since Gnats came in; how can servicing costs be higher
FOS notional
Shit, I thought they were lieblour light with just better management skills !! ?
Maybe not.
When you have greenies at the top -luxon, willis, bishop and a bunch of Vatican acolytes this is what you get.
Just a caretaker goo-mint until liebour come back in.
Even then they cant control costs.
I love a busy day in town with lots of mobility scooters around so I can play my favourite guessing-game, the title of which is self-explanatory:
Genuinely Disabled Or Fat Lazy Waste Of Fucking Space Arsehole.
The bun fights over energy continue in the EU. Looks like the Norwegians have had gutsful of effectively subsidising the Danes.
“It’s an absolutely sh*t situation,” said Norway’s energy minister Terje Aasland cited by FT, reacting to electricity prices in the country that are six times that of the EU average these days.
The two ruling parties in Norway are pledging to campaign to cut the two power interconnectors that link the country with Denmark, when they come up for renewal in 2026, reports the FT. The smaller coalition party, the Center Party is eyeing revisiting similar energy links with the UK and Europe.”
The Swedes are pissed off with the Germans etc.
” In southern Sweden the electricity used for a 10 minute shower cost €2.65 compared to €0.01 in central Sweden.”
https://joannenova.com.au/2024/12/europe-wind-power-sht-situation-norway-vows-to-cut-cables-sweden-furious-blames-germany/#comments
Norwegians are completely nuts so you will never get any sense out of them.
I’m fine with Danes.
The Norwegians are into self flagellation.
40 years ago the oil flowed and they could have had zero taxes.
Instead they had VAT, High income tax around 70%, capital gains tax and annual tax on your house of AFAIR 1 to 2 % of capital value. Death duties I think as well.
they were fucking commies pretending to be socialists.
And they had dry areas such that the locals were trying to break into our Contiki Bus to steal our booze.
At a nightclub in Oslo, Norway a pint of 2% weasel piss was GBP2.0 compared to a real beer in England for 60 to 70 pence.
This is all self inflicted.
The women in Norway and Sweden may look OK but they are loopy.
My cousin dated a swede for about 4 years., She drove him mad while we all tried to tell him
As a good commie she took half his assets after that .
Cock tax.
Norwegians. All that money from oil and they treated their own people like shit.
Colonel Gaddafi of Libya looked after his people with the oil revenue and then the scummy, war crazy yanks wrecked that.
Merry Christmas darling
https://x.com/enezator/status/1868667397462450337?s=46&t=FuvE5e-uq9dUbHPLKMbm2Q
Watch out Mrs Holy! 🎄
Something more sporty, maybe.
Not a nana car!
“Sooty” is up for a bit of “back fire” 💣
Just consider the left over of the name. 🙂
I was referring to her watching out for her pressie from Ed with a 💣. 😆
Kirsten Murfitt
@MurfittTauranga
I think I may pass on this offer. “1 Jab = 50 Living Rewards points”.
As a side note, I find the Life Pharmacy campaign ironic
https://x.com/MurfittTauranga/status/1868355728458842520
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The Swamp are sure pushing the fecking virus horseshit.
Just spoke to a friend yesterday to ask how his grandmother is .
She is new to a rest home. Apparently the scare is out that CONvid is flowing in the facility.
So may be locked down for Xmas.
Cruelty
I remember my Aunty had just moved to a rest home, paying over $1300 a week and was prisoner in her room, no visitors, no shared meals.
Basically expensive solitary confinement for doing no crime and still forking out$$
It was disgraceful.
These cunts need to be in front of a firing squad
About 3 million of them from 2020 2021 .
Dig a a mass grave in each country then bulldoze the carcasses in.
Declare it a health hazard no-one can visit for 200 years.
AU, US, Canada, NZ, UK Europe
the usual offenders.
Idiots still getting the jab deserve everything coming their way…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7vywyOqVp4
Jesse Watters Primetime
Trump says at least 100 counties leaders have congratulated him. You know he will have noticed who hasn’t.
Debbie Packer wants security gaurd!
Yer, big black ugly, motherfucker!
Reckon her cousin at twice the going rate!
Least won’t be wearing a gang patch!
Debs is whiter than Casper the Friendly Ghost
But Caspar is friendly so any comparison ends there .
Germany is rooted.
A bloke was falsely imprisoned for 13 years, was released, and now owes 100,000 euros for board and lodgings.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ge8UyjxWwAAe-qz?format=jpg&name=medium
https://www.msn.com/de-de/verbrechen/allgemein/manfred-genditzki-er-sa%C3%9F-13-jahre-lang-unschuldig-im-knast-und-soll-daf%C3%BCr-100-000-euro-bezahlen/ar-AA1vNtfB
That is abuse of process on steroids.
7.4 magnitude earthquake in Vanuatu.
https://x.com/chrislynchmedia/status/1868872553588310467
Though these buildings in the vid clip there are still standing, seems to be substantial structural damage.
…. damage to a building containing embassies for the US, UK, France and New Zealand. ….
….. no tsunami threats reported in New Zealand and Australia. …..
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/536953/vanuatu-7-point-3-magnitude-earthquake-first-reports-of-damage
Thanks wg, so that is what happened,
A bottom floor pancake & then a bit of warping, like on the window frames in that video.
A pants shitting experience.
https://x.com/Breaking911/status/1868872303070920895
Bottom floor of the US embassy building has collapsed while full of staff. Same building contains NZ and French embassy personnel.
Winston Peters @winstonpeters
It seems the Maori Party have sent this letter to all companies who have applied for fast track consideration.
If true, they have shown what extremist economic morons they are and how little they value the future of our country.
https://x.com/winstonpeters/status/1868860313577169274
Seems time to plant bananas, so that we are truly recognized.
Jonesy counter punch. Lets see if they get uppity.
https://x.com/mangonui08/status/1868880548913201203
You booze, you lose. From https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-17/what-we-know-fiji-alcohol-poisonings-warwick-resort/104734542:
……”Six people — four Australians — becoming critically ill and hospitalised over the weekend after drinking a cocktail in tropical Fiji — bringing back memories of the tragedy in Laos that killed Melbourne teenagers Bianca Jones and Holly Bowles.”…….
Meanwhile in other news to hand cannabis overdoses have reached an all-time high equalling the number of deaths attributed to people being gored by unicorns.
Although this is Australian it seems to be dragging it way through the Courts.
….. In 2020 I wrote that their advocacy of 🏳️🌈 gender fluidity & 🏳️🌈 sexual expressionism to little children makes them dangerous role models.
This is manifestly true.
They should not be conducting drag queen story time in public libraries for little children. ….
https://x.com/LyleShelton/status/1868626586624315782/photo/1
Very costly, time consuming and energy draining; still in Court litigation in fighting for the truth, while the state looks to make a you a “Last of the “Bohemica’ns”” that is “Bend Over, Here It Comes Again.”
So no extra money for public servants and departments.
So presume no additional money for maori?
So that would make them cry!
Soots, there is always extra cash for them fella’s.
Light-fingered cabbage growers and pig hunters of others pigs.
The clean up crew is going great guns!!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ge5lHHEbYAAF29e?format=jpg&name=large
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ge5lHHCaIAA47pT?format=jpg&name=large
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ge5lHHBa4AAs5Xz?format=jpg&name=large
They should not say he is dangerous and should not be approached. Put a $10,000 bounty on his head dead or alive and watch his mother turn him in….
Like the posters of old.
WANTED DEAD or ALIVE
call 0800 dead scum
Merry Christmas!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHgR2EemWv8
Government books paint tough economic picture
1news on TVNZ+
Finance Minister Nicola Willis said “the downturn started earlier, was deeper and persisted for longer than previously expected”
“Bleak, gloomy, grim”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32bBWJr7LqQ
David vs the Media: “Things are grim, you can’t sugarcoat it”
ACT New Zealand
As if most of us didn’t know that.
They live in some bubble the rest of us don’t.
New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union
𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗧𝗨 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗼𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗻 𝗛𝗬𝗘𝗙𝗨
In an unusual move, the Taxpayers’ Union is standing with comrades at the Council of Trade Unions following Finance Minister Nicola Willis’ petty decision to have Treasury officials ensure CTU Economist Craig Rennie could not attend today’s Half Year Fiscal and Economic Update.
Taxpayers’ Union Executive Director Jordan Williams said, “We don’t agree with the CTU on much, but it’s outrageous that the Minister has had Treasury impose a ban on peak bodies, think tanks, unions, universities and large corporates to justify the uninviting of a single left-wing economist the Minister does not like.”
“The worst kept secret in Wellington is that today’s opening of the books will show that Nicola Willis has not done her job in getting Government spending under control. She makes the claim that she does ‘not want to be a slave to surplus’ but as a result will soon have the whole country slave to her debt.”
“Banning the CTU, the Taxpayers’ Union, and groups like Business NZ and the Federated Farmers is not a strategy to get back to surplus. At best, it’s a cheap PR ploy to attempt to control the media narrative. At worst, it’s a petty and vindictive move to exclude a left-wing economist the Minister has taken umbrage at.”
“We think the media should make the point of going to talk to Craig Rennie and the CTU this afternoon after the lock-up to ensure the Minister’s ploy to suppress commentary she does not like does not work.”
Yesterday, the CTU wrote to the Secretary of the Treasury which is available on its website. In a joint letter with The New Zealand Initiative, the Taxpayers’ Union has backed up the CTU, making the same points.
Groups affected by the new guidelines regularly provide their analysis of budget figures to their own readers, who number in the hundreds of thousands, and provide expert analysis to journalists attending the restricted briefings. Both functions assist in transparency and accountability to the public, which are purposes of the restricted briefings.
Mr Williams asks, “How does it promote the interests of ‘transparency and accountability to the public’ or assist public understanding when Bloomberg will be able to tell foreign investors what’s in the Government books, and provide considered analysis, faster than organisations representing New Zealand workers, business, and taxpayers?”
The joint letter points out that substantial errors in previous Budget Economic and Fiscal Updates have been uncovered by the very analysts that will now be prevented from attending future budget lock-ups.
“Make no mistake, the move to ban the likes of Business NZ and the CTU’s expert economists from budget and financial briefings does nothing to enhance public understanding in public finance. It is a cynical and unbecoming move by a Minister who, clearly, needs a summer holiday,” concludes Mr Williams.
So willis can’t stand the analysis of her hopeless work.
Typical university inspired control of public information.
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An Ancient tree discovered in New Zealand contains a 42,000-year-old record of a reversal of Earth’s magnetic field.
The most recent polar reversal, called the Laschamp excursion, happened about 41,000 to 42,000 years ago. During this time, the north magnetic pole moved to the southern hemisphere and then back to the north.
Scientists studied ancient kauri trees found in wetlands in northern New Zealand. These trees were alive during the Laschamp excursion. By analyzing the growth rings, researchers measured a spike in atmospheric radiocarbon levels, which occurred when Earth’s magnetic field weakened. This helped them create a detailed timeline of the changes.
Earlier studies focused on what happened while the magnetic poles were reversed, during which Earth’s magnetic field was only 28% as strong as it is now. However, this new research revealed that the biggest changes happened during a transition period called the Adams Event. During this time, the magnetic field dropped to just 0-6% of its current strength.
Researchers compared their findings with data from other Pacific sites and used climate models to show how the Adams Event caused major environmental changes. These included the growth of ice sheets in North America and shifts in wind patterns and tropical storm systems.
Professor Anthony Dosseto from the University of Wollongong explained that the Adams Event caused dramatic changes to the planet’s climate. In Australia, for example, it became much drier. This event might explain the extinction of megafauna in Australia and the disappearance of Neanderthals in Europe.
The event may also explain the sudden rise in cave art during this time. As cosmic radiation increased, people likely sought shelter in caves, leading to a surge in cave painting.
The study warns that if a similar magnetic field shift happened today, the effects would be devastating. Cosmic radiation could destroy power grids and satellite systems while triggering rapid climate change.
Professor Dosseto stressed the importance of understanding this event: “What happened 42,000 years ago is terrifying and could happen again. The weakening of the magnetic field only lasted a few hundred years, but its effects on the climate, environment, and life lasted thousands of years. It’s a warning for our planet today.”
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