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Surely I cannot be the first of the day? Hope you all have a great day and the sun shines and this bloody global warming buggers off. This heat is ridiculous. Ah that’s right its all in Australia and that is why we are getting the cold now. You can’t win can you. Climate emergency, its cold, been wet and windy and its supposed to be summer, is that an emmergency ?
You just have to live with it!
It’s called the weather!
Sometimes it’s hot, sometimes it’s cold. Sometimes it’s wet as well. Sometimes it will do all in the same day!
Frst at 6.46.
I don’t think so.
It’s just that Ed have an extra sleepy this morning.
Some of us had to use yesterdays to Have Our Say!
The Climate Emergency could be in the appointments to the Independent Commission advising the government. I do not see some of them as impartial experts. There are names there that have already climbed aboard the wagon leading to economic waste and reallocation of resources on a global scale. Could be a rough and expensive ride without any useful gain coming up.
Yep,
a bunch of “careerists and campaigners”
https://www.climateconversation.org.nz/2019/12/shaw-appoints-climate-lords-ladies/#more-28701
Looks like an OIA request for conflict of interest declarations might be in order. How can someone like Renwick NOT have a conflict of interest?
‘Harm done to all’ in Labour sex assault inquiry, this from a Prime Minister that prides herself on Mental Health and what she is doing to help the situation. Well instead of looking after those in need she has probably increased the number of those fragile people that it affects in different ways with whitewash by Maria Dews QC and herself by shifting the blame to the victims.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=12294999
How many times has this happened over the last few years a glaring example is Darren Hughes, but Labour think it is better swept under the carpet than to tell the truth.
https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/18-12-2019/worst-nightmare-labour-staffer-complainants-respond-to-dew-report/?amp
But look ater the party at all cost, so the members can abuse another day!
She doesn’t mind having her own pervert in her office.
She’s an equal oppertunity employer, just not for females!
Jacinda had no intention of fixing this assault it was all about restricting the damage and silencing the victims to save her image, our Prime Minister is politically corrupt and only thinks of herself. I do not hope or want to see this happen but what if one of these victims takes there own life which can happen in these circumstances will she admit it comes from the whitewash they have done from this enquiry just to stop her career being tarnished or will she cry and hug people and push the blame elsewhere.
This doesn’t pass the sniff test. From what little I’ve heard of the report it talks of the holes in the “main” complainant’s story. If this is really the case then they would have known this before they allowed two prominent resignations. Also what about the other complainants? I think they’ve made a mistake thinking they can kick this down the road and expect it to go away over the holidays. Unless they’ve managed to pay out all concerned, which I would think unlikely.
The Labour Party coerced confidentiality agreements out of them. They can’t talk about what happened to them anymore, I suspect.
The Jacinda Ardern led Labour Party has managed to bury sexual abuse not once, not twice, but a total of seventeen times. The 12 women in this complaint plus the 5 from the youth camp. It looks as if they may have used compliant, Labour friendly judges to get the outcomes they want.
And what bothers me even more is that the “champions” of women and abused people, the likes of Alison Mau and the #wetoo movement, are remaining silent on this and condoning the sexual assault of young men and women as well as those in the Labour Party headquarters.
You’d think that common decency would see them at least comment on it. But no, if it serves the Labour Party they will condone anything.
The signing (under duress???) of a confidentiality agreement (? payment or promises) the release only of the executive summary and the continuing confirmation by the complainants, the resignation of the alleged offender and the president all indicate that ardern wants the report to remain secret probably because there are elements within the report that would throw doubt on the veracity and therefore biased like the judge in the other labour sex scandal. Both issues have a stench that can be smelt in London.
Well done to Spinoff for following up on this and allowing the complainants to say what they thought of the report.
But I cannot understand why the women (or at least some of them) did not refuse to sign the confidentiality agreement. I hope everyone who knows these women gives them all the support they obviously know and above all gets them well away from the Labour Party.
Oooops “obviously know” meant “obvious need”
Credit to the Spinoff on some topics.
(Bit of thread jack here; mea culpa)
Spinoff published an honest assessment (in 2017) of that dribbling wee shit called Martin Matthews who was more than likely compromised at the Ministry of Transport when he was CEO and Joanne Harrison stole taxpayers’ money.
This idiot told the Australian Federal Police to bugger off when they had valid inquiries of fraud.
The AFP don’t exactly chase overdue library books or traffic tickets. They co-operate with authorities esp in Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia. But in NZ they got the brush off from Matthews, the fraudster-protecting goombah.
Another reason for Australia to look at us as the backward hicks.
NZ really has been chasing the 1980s Cook Island Corruption Status in recent years.
Matthews allowed staff to get fired when …they were being honest….and this prick wanted to be Auditor General.
Martin Matthews was just pissing around there not earning his tax paid salary because he was waiting to fill dead men’s shoes as Auditor General – the job he felt he deserved.
https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/21-07-2017/the-ministry-of-transport-fraud-case-why-the-rot-goes-deeper-than-joanne-harrison/
I noticed the scum suckers from Stuff were doing a charm offensive last week on behalf of Martin Matthews.
I wonder what the trade off for that piece was. Favours would have been exchanged in their already crooked back-scratching world. It is no effort for Stuff to tell lies. They do it every day.
I am sick & tired of our prime minister with her “fuck you jack I’m ok” attitude.
She cares little for the needy and is a disgrace to the position of Prime Minister that was not earned but gifted to her by Mr 7%.
She runs a very corrupt Government.
TJF – She runs a very corrupt Government. – She runs a totally corrupt government – there that reads better.
I just got a reply back from Meredith Connell who said there was little interest in the case and they will not appeal. This is outragious as they had not read the doggy judge’s sentencing notes – at least not properly. I asked then a question about the offender being a Muslim. They responded that they had no idea of the offender’s religion. The judge mentioned the fact that the offender was a Muslim so they had not read the sentencing notes. I wonder if I can complain to the law society.
Funny how that QC’s useless report comes out o the day Ardern jets off for 8 weeks.
Has she gone overseas for a holiday, has she taken the plane for chrissy holidays!
18th December 2019
Rt Hon. Jacinda Ardern,
Prime Minister,
Parliament Buildings,
Wellington
Dear Prime Minister,
You are reported (“Newshub”, 18 Dec. 2019) as saying “Using ‘Aotearoa’ and ‘New Zealand’ together is ‘as it should be’”.
1 Are you aware that nowhere in the Treaty of Waitangi does the word “Aotearoa” occur?
2. Are you aware that nowhere in the words of the chiefs who spoke at Waitangi on 5th and 6th February 1840 does the word “Aotearoa” occur?
3. Are you aware that in the Treaty of Waitangi the name of our country is “Nu Tirani”, clearly a transliteration of “New Zealand”?
4. Do you agree that, as “Tomorrow’s Schools Review Taskforce” states, inter alia: “Treaty of Waitangi and the rights of children must be at the heart of the system.” that the name of our country which appears in the Treaty is the only proper one to use in the classroom in lessons about it?
5. Are you aware that in official documents in Maori, certainly as late as the 1940s, the name “Niu Tireni”, a somewhat more accurate transliteration, was used?
6. Are you aware that this is the form of the name generally used by speakers of Maori for most of the 19th and 20th centuries?
7. Are you aware that “Aotearoa” was historically only one of several Maori names for the North Island alone?
8. Are you aware that while it may have been used very occasionally elsewhere, it was in the 1890s that a couple of romantic Englishmen, SP Smith and WP Reeves, presented “Aotearoa” as a name for our country, the latter used it only as a subtitle for his book ”The Long White Cloud”?
9. Are you aware that in the text of the latter “Ao-Tea-Roa” occurs only once and that is in a footnote in page 25? (This is so, as far as I can ascertain.)
In the light of the foregoing, do you agree that promulgating “Aotearoa” as a name for our country is inappropriate? Will you please inform me of the steps which you will take publicly to remedy the current anomalous situation?
I acknowledge the demands of the current season and convey to you my greetings for it.
Yours sincerely,
Bruce Moon
Waste of time. It assumes Ardern has any sort of “awareness”. It should be blatantly obvious that she has none on any matter of substance or meaning outside that of the woke or populist. She’s a disgrace to New Zealand and should resign.
Not really, becuase many people have been sucked in by the untruths and the truth needs to be told.
And that is what Moon is telling.
The more people who read this the better.
So share ot out and perhaps the tide against non Maori Kiwi’s will get rolled back just a little.
Raise the questions in peoples minds.
The silly thing is that hardly anyone was asking for name change.
Its just the sickening news media and woke organizations like Breast cancer that started it.
I will never ever use the word live in the rest of my life.
The media has forced the change of the White island name.
Another example of the CoL’s war on men
Toxic socialism is trying to kill as many men as possible, in another staggering example of how deeply musandryist the government is, just have a look at the road toll in 2019.
Female dead = 230
Male dead = 105
Applying the same level of feminist logic as is applied to the gender pay argument, you can’t argue with the stats, Cindy is killing men.
Maybe my magnetic poles have flipped overnight, but have you got that the wrong way around?
Bugger more proof of COL misandry they hacked my post and reversed the breakdown (I’m an activist so of course I never admit I’m wrong and always blame the guv’mint)
I suspected the gummit all along. Just checking.
Not in my rohe lol.//sarc
https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/118266516/iwi-gaining-back-authority-across-the-country-one-disaster-at-a-time
Medical cannabis is going to be grown on Matakana Island. Announced yesterday. The harvest begins today.
Be good at it. Been growing it there for at least 35 years that I can think of.
Soldier’s arrest raises concerns far-right could infiltrate Defence Force
A soldier has been arrested at Linton Military camp, amid suspicion they are part of a far-right extremist group.
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/soldiers-arrest-raises-concerns-far-right-could-infiltrate-defence-force
“The Defence Force has yet to confirm what, if any charges the soldier is facing.
But the arrest has raised concerns far-right groups could be infiltrating New Zealand’s military.
The extremist, Christian body-building group, Wargus Christi had claimed online that the arrested soldier was part of their organisation.”
Is this individual a threat to the security of NZ? Are individuals being arrested for their belief and thoughts now? Where is the crime in belonging to a group who believe in their god? What is the background of this group or is stating he is White Supremacists enough to finish someone’s career?
Yes I saw that yesterday.
Any comments?
I’m concerned the Far Left could infiltrate our Government!
Oh wait….
It’s a classic tactic of an authoritarian regime (both on the left and on the right) to create an ‘enemy’ where none exists as a tool to control the proletariat. The regime which has siezed control of NZ is now displaying the early stages of a Marxist/Fascist dictatorship where people can be arrested simply because of their opinions.
I doubt if there is any actual ‘far right extremist group’ yet in New Zealand….. but this sort of shit makes the scenario more likely every time it happens. Watch out. it’s not going to be pretty when it comes.
Footnote: In the absence of any real ‘right wing extremist’ threat, the Ardern gang might manufacture one for next year’s election. Maybe a shooting at a synagogue or a bomb in a school around August? Hmm…… maybe too extreme. Just a threat might do the trick. Watch this space.
Hang on there a second Dave. Our great shining light of leadership and empathy – St Jacinda – hasn’t done anything of the kind, oh shit! wait well she hasn’t if you ignore:
– white supremacists
– islamophobes
– landlords
– rich pricks
– stale pale males
– boomers
– gun owners
– transphobes
– TERFs
– farmers
– bankers
– oil producers
– petrol companies
– capitalists
– females in their own party
– Trump
– Australians who don’t want Manus Island crims to be sent over here only to slip into Australia
– Paula Bennet
– business owners and employers
– tourists
– Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneaux
– Don Brash
– anyone who thinks Clark is a lawnmower sniffer
– Men – unless they work in the PM’s office
– french democracy protestors
– Hong Kong democracy protestors
– cartoonists
Apart from those exceptions, your post is baseless hate speech Dave.
Awesome – my comment is awaiting moderation! I miss the good ole KB days – I got all reminiscent there for a second 🙂
I was out mowing the lawn, no need to get tetchy
Now I’m really tetchy if you have weather that allows for mowing.
The reporter seeking comment from Valerie Morse gives the piece little credibility from my perspective. In response to her reported view; I see the driver of any antipathy against a group or ideology generally follows behaviour and actions by associates and participants in the group or followers of the ideology.
Valerie Morse commenting on the story. Why spread her hysterical personal theories over our media?
“”The whole mindset of the military has effectively been about criminalising muslims for at least the last 20 years. And so we shouldn’t be surprised then that this is the kind of ideology, this is acceptable ideology within the New Zealand Defence Force,”
Bollocks.
The NZ Army is not some sort of Aryan Brotherhood.
Many of the NCOs are Maori. Not a place for a neo-Nazi to flock too in my mind.
The NZ Army spent more time and effort building schools and bridges (Afghanistan), or training Muslims (Iraq), than it ever did shooting at Muslims.
Valarie is a fucking fantasist who deserves no media-oxygen.
Prof. Spoonley is a peddler of bullshit who has found his niche is recent times due to the amount of times the topic of white supremacy comes up.
We don’t know what the police came and nabbed the solider for anyway. What he materially might have done is probably more of import than his social media history. we don’t even know if he was charged or will be charged with anything.
Qoute fro the artillce
“Activist group Auckland Peace Action said infiltration through defence and police forces was a common and proven tactic for right wing groups.
A spokesperson, Valerie Morse, said the military could be a breeding ground for anti-muslim behaviour.”
We need their email address!
Valerie Morse- Enough said!
No doubt the police and armed forces would welcome muslims into their ranks, after all “they are us” aren’t they?
The police won’t actively welcome Muslims into the force. The police have been taken over by tattooed Maoris who look like gang members and girls fresh out of school who couldn’t get a job in an office. Muslims wouldn’t fit into their tribe.
I so wish you were right. I predict next year we’ll have the PM riding around in a police car with arabic writing on the side – just in time for election virtue-signalling.
Muslim hijabs seem to be ok to be worn like in the police force, particularly when holding a gun.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/christchurch-shooting/111491996/hijab-wearing-police-officers-photo-makes-powerful-statement-in-wake-of-christchurch-mosque-shootings
Sikh turbans seem to be respected, even if it is a Samoan wearing it. 🙂
https://www.samoaobserver.ws/category/world/15712
Muslim prayer times would be respected?
Special wash rooms for “wudu” plus prayer rooms to be built or commandeered.
Haram food would not be served. Only halal food served.
Already approved for all New Zealand prisons.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10602130
Muslim festivals, like Ramadan would be slotted in allowed for, like fasting during day light, so pre-sunrise breakfasts, & after sunset meals.
Haji pilgrimage will soon be on a paid leave.
The muslim Shia festival of Ashura, which is gives about a day of bloody flagellating.
So what if a fundamentalist Christian is into self flagellating?
I am sure many other things are being slotted in, and accepted as a cultural norm, and being diverse, with great vibrancy with colour in this ‘drab’ so called white weary world. All of this being pushed for through many of our institutions, pushed by academia, judiciary, media, politicians,
As the laws are adjusted for a bit of culture like ‘honor killing’ and supposedly to stop female genital mutilation fgm, A lot of noise, and a special Act put in place, but how will the judges apply the law? sentence?
On this basis of association Mu slimes belonging to a Mu slime association could be considered terrorists.
“Should” There, fixed it for you.
Cheaper than a motel or air bnb
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2019/12/police-have-suspect-after-burglars-break-into-rotorua-house-have-sex.html
It would make a good CSI scene.
I doubt it was a couple having sex- Burglars more often operate alone.
It is also very common for Burglars to Masturbate and/or Defecate at the scene.
And use toothbrushes
for what?!
Don’t go there WG. Just heed this advice: If you’re ever burgled, NEVER use your toothbrush again.
😝
Probably a bent cop. Very common.
Interesting figures. A cut and paste of a post on the The Gateway Pundit
“Think about this:
FISA has only been in existence since 1978.
About 44,000 FISA warrants have been requested over 40 years.
The Ocriminal admin requested 10,700 of them! ”
Meanwhile President Trump has raised US$25+ million from 600,000 new donors since the Democrats got the latest impeachment effort underway.
Devan Nunes team gave the FISA judge a heads-up two and a half years ago that she was being mislead, and only now she decides to say anything…Covering her ass in response to the Horowitz Report. Who knows, she might even have been complicit in the coup attempt.
With the Demo Rats best to always think the worst and hope for the best but be prepared to be disappointed.
Everyone is saying the Horowitz report is “tame” because he could not indict anyone and was limited to the DC bubble of the FBI and DOJ , but Durham had a much wider purview (hence his trips to Italy etc) and he can recommend criminal charges. So given Durham and Barr’s quick response to the conclusions of the IG report there is some hope that people will be held to account.
Quite a few of the main “actors” are quite clearly very worried now, given what they are saying on the lefty TV networks and Twitter.
Good on Greg Murphy speaking up for drivers.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/405807/road-to-zero-strategy-leak-improved-roads-more-cameras-lower-speeds
Getting iwi invloved
WTF ?
Just tell Maoris to get a licence or melt their car if they drive without one.
That’s a blatantly racist comment you made, Dignap!
Don’t you know that automobiles and roads are nothing but a filthy white colonialist construct which serve as yet another way of subjugating the Maoris (English plural for ‘Maori’)?
I’m surprised and frankly disgusted by your shameless failure to acknowledge that native tribes (English plural for ‘iwi’) should ALWAYS be consulted on EVERYTHING!
Go and sit in the naughty corner and thank your lucky stars that the authorities aren’t on your doorstep with guns (yet).
Other changes in the document:
Implement mandatory anti-lock braking systems for motorbikes
Support best practice for work-related travel
Strengthen the regulation of commercial transport services
Support motorcycle safety
Strengthen system leadership, support and co-ordination
= more regulation for commercial transport operators and more fines for commercial transport operators.
Here’s the answer – get the few remaining Mawree who drive in the daytime to get to work to join their cuzzies on the couch, smoking pot, drinking beer and watching shit on Mawree TV (paid for by NZ Taxpayers) and only use their cars after 1 pm nightime for their nocturnal work & activities.
Read this. FUCK YOU, JACINDA, RAPE ENABLER.
https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/18-12-2019/worst-nightmare-labour-staffer-complainants-respond-to-dew-report/
So the next time some twat syas how “Nice” Jacinda is, point out she protects rapists.
Fucking Bitch.
How stupid are they to expect any other result from the Labour Party (Famous for covering it’s own backside)??
Simple solution would be to walk into the nearest Police Station and ask to speak to the O/C of the Adult Sexual Assault Team….
That act shouldn’t be covered by any confidentiality agreement. Of course the police could investigate on their own without a complaint, they can prosecute in cases of domestic abuse where there has been no complaint or even if a complaint has been withdrawn. In the public’s interest that is, This is in the public’s interest.
How does shutting these Labour party kids complaints down against being sexually assaulted enhance their “well being” Cindy?
Cindy?
🤥🤥🤥
I agree no confidentiality agreement should be allowed to defeat a criminal activity, but no doubt the bush kommander had his instructions form the beehive and like a good little labour toady he said yes maam just like Maria Drew and the Judge on the labour youth sex case probably did. Jesus the stench of corruption is so strong its challenging the smog in Bejing.
This is the same police force that has:
* Repeatedly not found it in the public interest to pursue illegal election spending from Labour
* Has deliberately hidden the actions of drug users related to the Labour party
* Pushed a Labour Party agenda by marginalizing and targeting white males (post Christchurch attacks)
* Refused to investigate multiple allegations of sexual assault under the Labour Party’s watch
The police will not investigate this on their own. They know that Jacinda pays their wages and they will not do anything to harm her. They are politicized to that degree.
The NZ Police are not your friends.
They are ‘Friends of Labour’ and therefore, with your alternative position, not your friend.
Simple logic.
So refreshing to read that guys.
CinD4UN Just fuck off now, the most corrupt and lying government ever !~
They women are pissed off and I hope this not the end of the story for the Labour Party. If this is what the women are still saying how could the QC conclude what she did? As Kea said yesterday , maybe a complaint to the Law Society is in order, at the very least.
Ardern can no longer expect voters to believe she stands up for women and is concerned about mental health.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/118311710/labour-sexual-harassment-complainants-told-pm-of-suicide-risk-from-reports-release
BTW. I wrote to Spinoff to thank them for giving the women the opportunity to have their say on the report and that I hoped they do not let the story die.
Cindy’s government of kindness has surely shit on these poor victims. To be called liars in front of the country after going through sexual assault is a recipe for bad outcomes. Cindy should be ashamed; under that faux empathy facade she’s a cruel bint.
Hopefully this is going to come round and bite the CoL in election year. I hope National have just been keeping their powder dry, and have been saving up the loose ends that they apparently dropped. I’m sure there’s more of the Shroubek episode to see sunlight. And the NZ First fisasco.
What happened about the allegations by a male complainant who was punched when he challenged the alleged offender over his treatment of others?
I don’t see the assault mentioned in there, and surely this was witnessed?
The guy who was punched came and spoke in detail about it on RNZ with his voice and identity disguised.
Hard to believe there can be so many complainants, and in the end they announced even the worst was “Not Bullying’ but was “rude and aggressive” behaviour and the alleged offender recongnises this.
The report notes he is vewwy vewwy sowwy.
Even the summary reads rather bizarrely, even if I did concede the worse assault wasn’t substantiated.
There has to be something there, and I would think that in the private sector the person wouldn’t be given any second chances even on his attitudinal shortcomings affecting so many.
At the very least a toxic human being, who is being protected?
Mike Williams on Mike Yardley this morning (NewstalkZB) slagged off one of the complainants in the PM’s Office sex assault inquiry, virtually saying she was lying according to QC Dew’s report.
what a c**t of a man, still covering up for the Liarbour Pardy.
He finished the interview by saying that Paula Bennett is the one that has egg all over her face now and watch for this to be reported.
I find it disgusting that Williams can demonize the complainant like this on national radio. Where is the empathy etc? Typical Liarbour Pardy, all talkey and no doey.
I guess Williams will be off to the compliant media now to push the Paula Bennett “egg on face” line!
What was the quid pro quo that led to a confidentiality agreement being signed?
I read somewhere earlier, Toko that they had the agreements at the start and the end of the process so the victims would not have their names spread around the media. It maybe so, but more likely the key reason would have to keep the guy’s name out of the media and so protect the party.
Given their is no prosection of any kind anyone who knows can put the name out there. Being careful of course becuase the nasties would come down with all manner of law.
Green MP Chlöe Swarbrick shares bizarre letter from angry Baby Boomer
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/12/green-mp-chloe-swarbrick-shares-bizarre-letter-from-angry-baby-boomer.html
I’m struggling to work out what is ‘bizarre’ in the contents of the letter.
What an absolutely bizarre piece of journalistic fluff. It adds nothing of real substance to anything.
Chloe Swarbrick thinks those expressed thoughts are bizarre. Demonstrates to me how out of touch with reality on the street Ms Swarbrick is. I am not keen on paying tax to cover the costs of children spawned by the couplings of itinerant no hoppers not prepared to meet their obligations. I come from a generation where it was necessary to prepare for life and children and provide a home and sustenance for them. It was about accepting and meeting personal responsibility.
The hand up, not a handout, was a good plan for the original design for Social Welfare. It has gone way past that now.
Ms Swarbrick can back the non contributors and the spongers if she chooses but cannot expect support from any taxpayer for that. Winston Peters is responsible for Ms Swarbrick having an overpriced seat in the house. He should be hanging his head in shame the way his post election scheming sabotaged the country by imposing the current coalition on the country.
It’s wrong right from the start.
The repeater says it starts with Dear Swarbrick.
It clearly says Dear C Swarbrick.
Fool.
Friday 20th December is the last day for the Firearms buy back.
It will be interesting how the Govt will spin the very poor result.
I don’t trust this Govt and have disposed of my firearms both legal and illegal.
My arms cabinet is now empty and will remain so until National gets back in.
You wont hear a dicky bird out of them! They are on holidays!
Apart from registered E-Cats and firearms purchased in the last five years (dealers required keep records for five years), they had no idea who had what or how many. So their confiscation was completely reliant on the goodwill of LFO’s. They promptly set about destroying any goodwill with threats of fines, loss of licence and jail time. Not to mention attributing some blame for what had happened in Chch on a law-abiding community. Then they proceeded to chop and change what was/wasn’t legal and ended up netting a large amount of family heirloom bunny guns. They even inadvertently banned steel duck shot. Then their buyback register was compromised and personal details of firearms owners made available.
Overall it seems they’ve netted less than 30% of now-illegal firearms. So it’s been a complete clusterfuck.
How will they spin it? It’s been a success and there were way fewer firearms out there than they thought.
Job done. Except now there are 100,000 illegal firearms injected into the murk. These will be stashed unsecured round the place and will eventually gravitate to the gangs as they can’t be traded legally. Wait till the first child finds a rifle and an accident occurs. Nash is to blame for this.
Well this makes my blood pressure rise (and I just had it checked yesterday).
There is a story on stuff about a white UK lady who is having a battle over residency after a relationship breakdown with a kiwi guy.
Without team YSB reading the story, it quotes from NZ Immigration Narinda Singh and further on a client advisor Naseeka Sahi.
As I say , without reading the story do you get my drift or am I going insane.?
Lunatics in charge of the asylum?
Wiseowl
Will this help?
https://tvnz.co.nz/content/252984/2483318/article.html
Thanks a lot Toko.
I know what I would do if I was in charge but it wouldn’t go down well with the PC brigade.
Wow, things are certainly hotting up, politically.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/12/nigel-latta-admits-stupid-twitter-feud-with-simon-bridges-motivated-by-fear.html
He’s not a very bright cookie is he?
Worried about angry nasty folk, so he becomes an angry shouty tweeter…
Jeez, and I don’t even have any psychobabble qualifications.
Well what would expect from someone that earns his money off the taxpayer by making documentarys. I thought these people like Journalists were supposed to be neutral in what or who in politics they support.
When you say “Earns His Money”, that implies you think he has a job and actually does some “Work.
Areseholes like this sit back and tell everyone else what to do.
I always thought latta was a twat and he now proves it. He is welcome to move to a country of his choice or liking – perhaps Zimbabwe or Venezuela? NZ/Aust, Uk & US all out although Canada under lefty Trudeau could be an option, wherever you go latta you will not be missed.
So Mr Latta is not aware of how:
* Poverty, particularly child poverty has increased.
* Infrastructure builds have stalled. (And even the planned borrowing doesn’t have a spending target yet, right?)
* Hospital care has worsened; far fewer elective surgeries.
* Costs on all aspects of society has increased.
Reading his tweets – he looks like a Labour Party shill.
Nancy Pelosi’s “Deplorables” moment. Read the anger in the comments below the article…
“Nancy Pelosi Compares Impeachment to Battle of the Bulge Against Nazi Germany”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/12/18/nancy-pelosi-compares-impeachment-to-battle-of-the-bulge-against-nazi-germany-wwii/
Fuck, the left are Stupid.
Battle of the bulge – surprise attack by 200,000 Nazis (Democcrats) against the Americans (Republicans) 100,000 killed over 2 months of fighting (Impeachemt) and the Americans (Republicans) won – history to repeat itself?
She is disgusting
The comparison is nothing like it.
Those guys in the army did not give their lives for people like her.
Stupid and senile I’m afraid. Mad as a hatter.
Her bastard henceman is even more eveil.
Just came in to catch up with the Dems impeachment circus on Utube and the screen is blank!! Have the Dems disabled it or is the world traffic so high watching the Dems destroying themselves while attempting to impeach President Trump poor old Utube couldn’t cope!?
🤡🤡🤡🤡
Okay, back up, it must have just got boring with all those Dems moaning about nothing and making up lies! 😂
I think the impeachment thing is evil and desperate.
My question is
How sure are we that all the republicans will vote against it?
If Trump lost then Mike Pence becomes president.
Could Trump stand again in 2020
Does a Turkey vote for xmas?
Does Cindy never tell lies?
Do you intend to vote for ACT next time?
If any republican voted for this, they like the 31 Democrats in areas Trump won last election would be committing political suicide. I don’t know of any politician who would NOT put their own intersts ahead of the country and DO THE RIGHT THING.
Genter will be buying glots of cans of paint and number 8 wire at 1.30
(and 8 speed cameras)
I hope she builds no more major roads.
So that people get finally pissed off wit the COL
If you don’t like the gun buy back, you’ll love what they are doing in the USA!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGt_HvTwEWQ
A o te rower -New Zealand
Ardern said things should stay stay as they are.
The problem is our news media (Slack Tame) and many other organizations keep pushing it.
the you have sickly white liberals phoning up on talk back saying they quite like it.
And they’d even be happy with a complete name Change
F.. Off
And you too Peter Williams!
As I said last week when Williams asked Bridges about a name change he said he was relaxed about it.
How pathetic is that.
Woke pinko!
Agree Sooty. If Bridge’s cannot take a stand against something like that, it just shows he has absolutely no backbone. He should move aside and let someone with a bit guts do the job.
Minimum wage changes vs unemployment – what the evidence says
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/12/minimum-wage-changes-vs-unemployment-what-the-evidence-says.html
“With our economy doing well, we want to make sure that our lowest-paid workers also benefit,” said Workplace Relations and Safety Minister Iain Lees-Galloway, talking up the move to $18.90 from April 1.
“But David Seymour, leader of the right-wing ACT Party, said people would lose their jobs as a result.
“People miss out on jobs, the costs for businesses go up, consumers shift away from the businesses that are supposed to be employing the people we’re trying to help,” he told Magic Talk on Friday.
That’s also the view many business leader hold.
“It’s a fact people will lose jobs,” Max Whitehead of human resourcing consultancy Whitehead Group. “Some businesses can’t cope and it will cost jobs.”
Our wages are oe of the highest in the world.
I think its much better to reduce our costs so that people have more spare cash in their pockets.
Eg Housing, rents, groceries, electricity,
He forgot to add people will also loose their business as it becomes unviable.
I am concerned, not about the local competition but about the imported competition that competes with $4.00 a day labour. Many others will be in the same boat whereas importers like dime will cream it and exporters will have another barrier to their sales.
Unfortunately people like Gallopaway see govt. spending as a thrivving ecnonmy. Which of course it is not.
Was this Dalziel’s first election or something, she should know the rules by now not asking hubby, has he been consulted previously? Perhaps previous returns should be looked at also.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/118322330/christchurch-mayor-regrets-not-taking-independent-advice-over-election-expenses
We need to impeach her.
Arthur Allan Thomas before the courts after name suppression lifted. Historical sex charges
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12295303
The cops were embarrassed when they were caught outright cheating over Thomas.
They were always going to try and exact revenge.
They planted evidence before….
They are worse now.
-They never backed down over Peter Ellis and never even said Sorry when he was dying of cancer.
-They lied in the most unbelievable way in the first pack of lies to prosecute Lundy. Complete fabrication from end to end. Crossdressing Lundy, Psychics, impossible drive, Christine in bed at 7pm blah blah lie lie lie…
Massively unsafe conviction.
-They picked on a retarded kid to prosecute Teina Pora over the Susan Burdett murder when all the facts pointed elsewhere.
It is not good enough to hide from that and say ‘well he would have been convicted of other things anyway’ as daft cop-huggers like to hide behind. Pathetic.
After last week’s exposure of their shenanigans over White Island you can’t trust these pricks to patrol school crossings.
The credibility gap is too great.
2 days ago they shot a bloke because ‘someone thinks the person might have had a gun’
Oh great, that’s good enough for us, we’ll just shoot the fecker and ask questions later.
‘unnamed person might have seen something’ is pretty strong evidence- typical of what the cops have been presenting in court for decades now in NZ.
They have paid or done trade off off for prison snitches in so many cases now that have proven false- David Tamihere; Scott Watson; Teina Pora; all lies where they get criminals to extend their dirty work
The cops are not your friend.
These are the people they recruit
-Mike Bush- convicted drunk driver and top of the pile.
-Brad Shipton and Bob Schollum
-Ben MacLean – shot his wife dead and tried to murder another- he did actually shoot the person and this shot person was still able to overwhelm the crooked cop
-Jeremy Fraser Buis Dunedin cop who terrorised a local citizen for over 2 years while the cops laughed; then when they had to act they kept (lying) denied that this pig was a sworn pig, when all along he was.
-Vili Mahe Taukolo broke his police oath by selling information n- 2019 – barely there a year and he was an out and out criminal and drunkard as well. Clearly be never had honest intentions.
-Jeremy Malifa, 34 in 2017 convicted -A former police officer who used a police database to snoop on women he found attractive can now be named.
This is a power play by a gang of thugs who have been shown up.
Do your arithmetic. The amount of Meth getting into NZ now (hence vastly lowered prices) means there are cops on the take in the supply chain.
Every NZ farmer should read this, so pass it around. Look at what is happening in the Netherlands and get worried because you can guarantee it will be picked up here and pushed.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/12/18/no-farmers-no-food-dutch-farmers-protest-eu-green-laws/
I think history might show in a decade or so it was the Greens that bought down the EU, because the way it is going it will not survive.
I was in the Warehouse this morning, first time for months, and noticed that the Ardern books had not been turned face inwards so I quickly remedied that deplorable situation before buying the latest Lee Child Jack Reacher book, Blue Moon, for a bit of escapist Christmas reading.
P.S. I was a bit surprised they were not in the remainder bin for 50 cents but expect they will be after Christmas. They are probably expecting to sell a few copies to people who want to give them as gifts to people they really dislike.
After fucking up the Transport portfolio over the last two years with corruption and deciet Phil Twyford and Julie Anne Genter have set the Government aim for 40% reduction in road deaths, serious injuries by 2030. The Government is committing to increase road safety ding by 25% to 1 billion a year over the next decade.
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/government-aims-40-per-cent-reduction-in-road-deaths-serious-injuries-2030
These idiots obviously are count on being re-elected and are promising something the will not be able to guarentee just like they promised zero road fatalities when elected in 2017.
1,000km of median rope barriers, that’s going to make drivers curse Labour and the greens!
I read the other day the emergency services are mad about that –they argue quite correctly that if they are coming from the opposite direction to an accident and they cannot do a quick Uturn at the accident but have go maybe several Kms before they can get to other side and then go back to the accident people’s live could be at risk.
A lot of armers are going to do that as their drivways are blocked off!
Have to go down to the next intersection and turn around. Then the wankers are going to havet o widen inters3ctions to allow the trucks and trailers room to do a u turn!
Yes sounds like more cans of paint, and lower speed limits.
Suits me, so National can use their roads plan as a good reason to vote National
What I would like is some easy stats on what causes road deaths
Eg tourists crossing lanes
Very fast drivers
Fleeing drivers
drunk drivers
drugged drivers
Mobile phone use
If you took all those away I think the toll would be much lower.
You left out idiots and callous drivers.
and me
Those of us who have come from overseas probably fear Kiwi drivers more than tourists. There is an aggressiveness to the average Kiwis’ driving that isn’t present in other countries I’ve driven in. The whole idea of keeping left, letting other people pass you, etc.
Here? The left lane is less utilised than the right. It’s not overtaking, it’s undertaking. And passing lanes? It’s when the 80km/h drivers see if they can make it to 200km/h. Regular as clockwork, watch for the “Passing Lane 1km” sign and you’ll notice the slow traffic starting to speed up.
While tourists cause problems, we should be looking at improving the driving courtesy of Kiwis as well.
Apparently 30% of fatalities aren’t wearing seat belts. So Darwin has a lot to do with it.
As should be expected the lowlife Democrats have voted to impeach Trump although there’s not a snowball’s chance in hell of the senate finding him guilty.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/donald-trumps-america/118315738/president-donald-trump-impeachment-watch-on-historic-vote-live
There’ll be a few haters & wreckers spoofing over their keyboards tonight!
@nasska – Yep, spot-on there nasska!
It’ll be the **same result** as the Mueller farce – NOTHING – and the knuckledragging lefties can’t see it coming!
Oh, I’d **love** to have a bet with the PTPM that she resigns if the impeachment fails to remove Trump. ( Rubs hands in glee…… )
Are there no Republicans that would swing that senate vote against him? It’s a scary position to be in, particularly when he is a president that has actually started making America great again. The fucking swamp creatures that are trying to drag down the anti-politician, deal maker. They’re the same scum that infest our political landscape, the career politicians that turn people against each-other, promote racism and gender divisions. We need them all gone and more people like Trump to set examples.
Now Pelosi is holding back passing over the impeachment proceedings to the Senate. I will not pretend to understand the technicalities of this but it looks like the Pelosi and co are playing a very dangerous game, from their point of view. I can only see this blowing up in their faces.
Under the Constitution the Senate can just ahead and acquit the President anyway. Let’s see what McConnell does tomorrow.
The lunatics have officially taken over the asylum.
Trump is attacked for one reason alone: He is a brash outsider who is not part of the political elite. It terrifies them that a bunch of nobodies could elect an outsider and go over their heads like that.
It really is that banal.
Before Trump won the last election members of the Dem’s were calling for impeachment of Trump if he won. Then at Trump’s election speech he warned Washington and promised “he would drain the swamp.” Washington and the associated lefty press who hate the term “fake news” because they know it’s true, have been crapping themselves since. Firstly Washington lovies laughed at Trump for his impertinence and audacity. Then Trump started gaining traction with the economy and the public started backing him. The Democrats and their deep state with the help of the “fake news” have fought like alley cats, so here they are, impeaching a president for their own ends – because they won’t win the next election if Trump is allowed to stand.
It is now appearing that it may not even make it to the Senate and that the House Democrats will just sit on it knowing it is never going to achieve impeachment.
Any evidence?
The short version DN
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/12/breaking-speaker-nancy-pelosi-threatens-to-withhold-articles-of-impeachment-from-senate-unless-they-bow-to-her-demands/
The long version
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/12/18/cunning-lawfare-maneuver-house-will-withhold-submission-of-articles-from-senate/
King hitter taken down.
A great wing-man save.
A guardian angel to others.
https://twitter.com/America1stTiger/status/1206415834454859777
Up to you, whether there is repentance. 🙂
Coward waits till the bloke looks away before he strikes!
Jesus Saves! 😉
What do you lot make of Arthur Alan Thomas getting done for sex crimes?
Must have let his Party membership lapse.
I say rubbish!
How old were the females
They should complain at the time or for ever hold their mouth.
Ref my comment above
https://ysb.co.nz/have-your-say-247/#comment-44495
They just want revenge for being outed as crooks themselves.
You think Winston Peters holds a grudge for a long time- try this lot.
P.S.
Ewen MacDonald is acquitted of killing Scott Guy in Feilding in 2010.
Ewen MacDonald’s brother Blair Macdonald was, at the time, a Detective Police officer in Wellington.
Previously he was based in the dubious Palmerston North/Manawatu district.
If MacDonald was acquitted of murder did the police seek out someone else?
Seems like they did not.
If not, why not?
In related news:-
…Top defence lawyer Greg King had a “massive breakdown” at the end of the Ewen Macdonald murder trial, four months before taking his own life, a coroner’s report has revealed.
It includes excerpts from a suicide note in which Mr King described himself as “exhausted, unwell, disillusioned, depressed and haunted”….
What is ‘seen as justice’ is a massive illusion with many moving parts behind the scenes and positioning by players. Facts are not that important in jury trials.
Howitis is on fire today.
Newsmedia
Learn to read or count
Its not 1billion for road safety a year for the next ten years.
Its building up to 1 billion a year, that is an increase of 25% from now.
Now The Netherlands is becoming like Mexico
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50821542
If you read the article its muslin gangs who have no jobs and see drugs as a career path, and also lenient laws.
I’m looking at you Golriz and Little and Lees-Galloway
We could be classed as similar, condsidering the number of gang killings we have.
House votes to impeach US President Donald Trump
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2019/12/house-votes-to-impeach-us-president-donald-trump.html
Of course the Dems did!
“Trump faced votes on two articles of impeachment: Abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
On both charges, the House passed the necessary 216 votes in favour of impeaching him.
In the article relating to abuse of power, there were 230 votes in favour and 197 against.
Included in the ‘no’ votes were three Democrats, Jeff Van Drew, Collin Peterson and Jared Golden.
On the second article, there were 229 ‘yes’ votes compared to 198 ‘no’ votes.”
The news will be unreadable while this charade plays out.
So know we are looking at no humans required to procreate.
“The evolution of man”
Human Cloning A Step Closer After UK Scientists Create Artificial Embryos
https://insiderfinancial.net/human-cloning-a-step-closer-after-uk-scientists-create-artificial-embryos.html
A bigger threat of medical science is how it is keeping genetic failures alive and breeding. That sounds harsh but harsh is what drives natural selection.
NZ endorses international pledge to support refugee programme
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/nz-endorses-international-pledge-support-refugee-programme
Amnesty International is welcoming a move by New Zealand to show its support for a refugee community sponsorship programme, which is a scheme that brings refugees into the country on top of the current quota.
The COL slipping this in under the cover of Christmas. No mention on TV1 news tonight about this, but it is on their website.
That is splendid news. Personally I don’t think we are doing enough.
We need to set up refugee communities in educated white middle class suburbs where they can be among their own. A Somali village in Thorndon Wellington would be an asset to the city.
I had a friend who told me there is a quaint refugee village in Naenae Lower Hutt, affectionately referred to as Somaliville.
I think it has been there almost 20 years.
I have no idea as to the impact on the locals this has had, as my friend who lived in the area, upped his family and moved.
Funny how shit comes out after the pollies shut up shop for the holidays!
It is a well known fact that you can never have too many Somalis……or Nigerians or Sudanese for that matter.
What about black Jews?
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/MAGAZINE-first-ever-photos-of-yemen-s-jews-stunned-the-jewish-world-1.5465693
Vic police given high-powered guns to bolster terrorism response
https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6116838103001
A new arsenal of high-powered rifles will be distributed to hundreds of Victorian Police officers to bolster the state’s response to terrorism.
I hope Kea does not read that!
Kea will read that !~
Diggy does ingesting all that parade polish give you the runs?
Yes it makes me want to join their police force!
I bet the guns are all single shot ones! No semi autos or machine guns for you!
yes I saw some sickly white woman on Al Jzaeera as head of some UN refugee resettlement conference.
She said there are 25 million refugees that need to be resettled.
No there are 25 million refugees that need to be sent back, in small boats, and from the back of Hercules with a free parachute over any desert of their request.
We had the same problem with the Jews. But at least countries like NZ and the USA refused to take them.
Later everyone got all woke and accepted the jew plague that had infested and destroyed Europe. Bringing communism, religious conflict, war and death.
For those concerned for President Donald Trump, don’t be.
He has been draining the swamp relentlessly behind the scenes and has an excellent team of people who are as determined as he is to continue cleaning house.
Just this week, so far, five high level positions were vacated via resignations. They were sleepers and identified by Durham and co.
The impeachment is critical for the next stage of the clean out.
The supreme court gets to decide initially if there is an impeachable offense.
This will flush out the last of the corrupt judges.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/12/an-impeachment-role-for-the-supreme-court/
What is happening tonight is just paper.
He is too clever.
Today William Barr was interviewed.
The Dems are crapping, seriously crapping.
Please watch and listen to these short clips.
https://video.foxnews.com/v/6116884055001#sp=show-clips
https://video.foxnews.com/v/6116883424001#sp=show-clips
I hope the poor bugger has some good bodyguards. Many of the venal slimeballs he’s going to take out & the opposition politicians he’s going to make unelectable will stop at nothing to retain the status quo.
Fun fact:
The house impeached Slick Willie on December 19.
Coincidence?
The start on the downward spiral for NZ industry gains pace next year with this crap from Shaw
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/118348591/government-proposes-capping-emissions-at-2020-levels-with-huge-changes-to-ets-pricing
Can’t find a link but the CC nutters have now focused on reduction of carbon in world shipping. They were talking about using the wind to help efficiency.
Oil tankers under sail in a force 10 storm in the Northern Atlantic. Fantastic idea!! 😵
I have seen many articles and videos on why Co2 is good.
Also they say that Global warming precedes a rise in CO2, not the other way round.
And its also well known that its the sun that causes rises in falls in the earths temperature. It has done for million of years.
This is why we must all vote for the New Conservatives.
They will pull out of the Paris Accord
(And I don’t think they are too hot on refugees from islamic countries)
I’ll ask them about that
November 2019 statistics on airport screening
checks from Department of Homeland Security:
Terrorist Plots Discovered 0
Transvestites 133
Hernias 1,485
Haemorrhoid Cases 3,172
Enlarged Prostates 8,249
Breast Implants 159,350
Natural Blondes 3
Got it. Very few if any natural blondes are terrorists. Nice tits though.
U.K
Boy this diversity shit is such a fucking success.
Police firearms officer among 16 accused of child sex abuse
Mr Ditta, a trained specialist firearms officer who has been celebrated as a success story in the force’s efforts to diversify its workforce, has been charged with one count of sexual touching.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/police-firearms-officer-among-16-accused-of-child-sex-abuse-d36z5bkhl
Unbelievable (not really)
It like our Immigration consultants and staff and our customers officers that are often from India
That is were all the locusts are coming from!
One was a police officer with an Indian sounding name and the other 15 were Pakis. Imagine my shock!
Gee I am getting angrier every day!
(and its not with kea)
I am getting angrier by the day over these climate change nutters.
This shit will cost us billions for no real gain by fucking loonies that CO2 is going to destroy the planet.
This government doesn’t give a fuck about the cost, so long as Cindy can virtue signal to the UN where she should fuck off to !~
Yes Stigie
And its not only the costs its the loss of our industries and exports.
And for what.
Everyone knows we are just a drop in the bucket.