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Top of the morning to yee all. Gona be another stunner here in Picton today.
And in the Far North…
Lived in Picton for about a year 1981/82 – loved it as a family and still have good friends living there.
The catch words then were – `Pictons the Place.
Sea temperatures are about 1 degree Celsius below the average on most beaches in NZ so far this month.
It is as cold as charity with nighttime temperatures getting to 7 degrees in the North Island.
It is equivalent to early November weather.
A distinct offset to a year ago when sea temperatures (the baseline) were 1.2 to even 1.5 degrees Celsius warmer this time last year.
Instead of no blankets a year ago it is ‘add a blanket’ time
https://www.surf-forecast.com/breaks/Muriwai-Beach/forecasts/latest/six_day
Average and comparison shown
Next year will be colder still as we enter solar cycle 25. Climate change is real but it’s not you and it’s not me or what we drive, IT’S THE SUN!
Just to piss the lefty alarmist lunatics off a bit more (this guy is from the University of Jerusalem)….
https://www.climatedepot.com/2019/09/25/israeli-astrophysicist-dr-nir-shaviv-how-climate-change-pseudoscience-became-publicly-accepted/
Lots of links worth reading too. Get used to it losers, the IPCC has been having us all on, but the truth will prevail…
Hi Ed
I love your copy writer.
Does good work and cheap as well.
Wife? 👀
Husband ?
As good free labour? none of mine .
Kelvin Davis has got our prison population down by 1,000
He would have let most of them out but he could not find the keys
No great feat. Not hard to give 1000 prisoners the arse card, just open the gate. Mostly his relo’s probably.
A quarter of the prison population are Ngapuhi, Kelvin’s tribe from up north. He said they make up half the Maori prisoners which are 50% of the total population.
Could not let them all out yet, as tere are no firearms owners to take their place!
So they had to to keep the prisons running on minium prisoners, to keep staff employed till gun owners turn up!
Many a true word is spoken in jest!
More likely Kelvin opened the gates expecting more to walk out. However they would not go because life is too cushy inside. Who knows they might have to get a proper job in the outside world and we cannot have that.
Better to stay behind bars.
Love the pic Ed. Except I think we’re going backwards.
Looks like BS is being called on Iran’s claim the passenger plane had technical issues. Wonder where those black boxes are going to end up.
Iran refuses to return black box from Ukrainian plane crash
https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6120720152001
Iran’s aviation authority is refusing to hand over the flight recorders from the Ukranian plane which crashed shortly after takeoff on Wednesday, killing all 176 passengers on board.
With the serious tensions between Iran/Iraq and the US bringing the world potentially to the brink of a war our PTPM didn’t bother to cut her 8 week holiday short and return to take the helm. Why didn’t anyone notice? Where is the outrage from the MSM? Surely The PTPM cannot justify not being in her office at a time like this. Anyone in the media notice her absence during a potential world crisis?? Hello!
Let’s all hope she stays away. If she came back she’d probably dress up as an Iranian general and tearfully declare war on America the capitalist aggressor and its bad bad orange man bad.
Cant leave the pipe..”where’s the bloody lighter Jethro”??
Winston is at the helm, anyone for hugs?
Rachel if you want to hug Winston – feel free.
I for one will give it a miss.
Rachael, the only people who are allowed to hug Winston are people who have (seemingly unethically) supported him and/or his secretive Foundation in exchange for (equally-seemingly-unethical) political largesse in the form of Pretty Horses tax rebates or No Kermadec Santuary fishing-industry-benefitting…
Hogan
The Velas
Et cetera
That’s the thing that pisses me off re the kermadecs and reserves act as nurseries how is that not good for sustainability. As for the no cameras on boats, they can’t want accountability or sustainability
Scomo has already stated that Aus won’t be withdrawing their troops from Iraq. Ardern will form a working group when she’s finished her holiday.
Socialist Cindy will do the opposite of what Trump says.
I hope our NZ troops are safe in Iraq if she leaves them there instead of pulling them out as President Trump has advised.
Three thoughts:
* Jacinda Ardern would make next to no difference here; unlike Scomo in Australia.
* Jacinda Ardern would prefer to side with Iran, rather than with the US. She has shown she favours repressive regimes to free, Western ones.
* There has been no massive disaster yet, so there is no photo opportunity for her to go out and hug a corpse or cock her head at a scarf. So no value to her image.
It’s a bit early to call Iran out for not handing over the flight data and cockpit voice recorders. In the normal course of events their own aviation enquiry will be underway, and it still needs to be determined who will take the lead in the enquiry.
The plane was Ukrainian, left an Iraqi airfield, with Canadian, Ukrainian, Iranian and Uk pax aboard, and crashed in Iran.
The most likely explanation seems to involve an air defence missile being automatically triggered, but you have to wonder why Ukraine took the very risky step of using that airspace, when everyone else grounded their planes knowing there was potential for military action.
There are relatively few laboratories in the world capable of reading and analysing the data on the so called black boxes. I very much doubt that Iran has the capability so it makes no sense for them to hang on to the black boxes, unless they have something to hide of course.
I have no doubt Iran will hand over the black boxes.
They are currently be held in secure storage by Arkasas Security and Housekeeping Co.
Thieves take booze from burned-down Canterbury pub – again
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/01/thieves-take-booze-from-burned-down-canterbury-pub-again.html
“To the low life scum who risked their life last night and entered the premises to raid and steal the float in the till’s I hope Karma gets you 😡😡”
Who would expect the float to still be in the till? Or booze on the premises for that matter
Dumb arse ferals out of their feeble drugged minds not able to think straight.
That’s who.
Well it paid off
Is this what Socialist Cindy and her “progressive” idiots want for us here in NZ? This is where we are heading if criminals don’t have to face up to the crimes they commit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJcWFkRiKIU&list=PLlTLHnxSVuIzrARlmz9oCfQEF08UV-v-E&index=5&t=0s
American Dystopia, Part 2: San Francisco small business owner struggles with theft
The broken window law needs to be brought in, it was always ‘progressive?
SanFransisco that is. So woke it’s broke
PJW’s take on San Francisco from a year ago. I doubt it has improved.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld6qYJe4pRs
So will we be seeing a statement of condemnation from minor party “list” MP Golriz Ghahraman regarding Iran’s shooting down of a commercial flight?
I doubt it. I mean she will still be wanting to go back there for a holiday and further instructions.
How’s that forecast of our children not knowing snow?
https://electroverse.net/record-breaking-blizzard-buries-newfoundland/
https://electroverse.net/freak-greek-snowstorm-traps-families-in-their-homes-for-10-days/
Also unusually cold in Auckland these last few days, the wind has a real edge to it.
Must be Global Warming again…..
A very useful site for finding out what the weather is really doing.
Who would thought Prince Harry was a closet soyboy, woke wowser. This is the same Harry Pothead of Apache helicopter commander, and nude in Las Vegas fame. He needs to spend some quality time with Ricky Gervais, but I fear it’s too late. What a royal cock-up. That woman sure has him by the nads. Once they’ve had #2 child (only allowed two for environmental reasons) she’ll have them chopped off completely. He better not still be sporting his man card.
It will not last. She will get the taste of freedom. Having thrown off the stifling shackles of the crown, she will find someone else far richer and boot ginger top for six.
Will she still be a Duchess?
All she wanted was the royal wedding and her smugness thought if she caused enough embarrassment to the Royals it would suit her agenda. Notice no matter what the occasion for the family she tops it with her own announcement e.g. Eugene’s wedding the pregnancy Kate’s birthday they are leaving. She is a succubus and has Harry the poor bastard who has issues of his own by the balls.
Seems Sparkles my turn out to be the modern day Lady Idina Sackville who was nicknamed “The Bolter” because of the way she ran out on so many husbands.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29-LniyAJnE&list=PLlTLHnxSVuIzrARlmz9oCfQEF08UV-v-E&index=1
Tulsi Gabbard: ‘Everybody knows’ Hillary Clinton is a ‘war-monger’
In response to President Trump’s handling of Iran Twitter users were tweeting #I voted for Hillary.
Doctor: You have 3 minutes to live.
Me: {plays Free Bird}
Doctor: But…
God: 9 minutes it is.
Comment on the Youtube version of Free Bird I wanted to come post here. Love that style of music.
I have just heard that in order to investigate the cause of the Ukranian plane crash in Iran, they have bulldozed all the wreckage into two pits.
They are nearly as open and transparent as our COL government.
I’m surprised they haven’t just gone up to the control tower, ripped a page out of the log book, and said the flight never existed.
Do you mean take a leaf out of the drunken dwarfs way to operate a political party?
Let us remember history from 1988
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655
…Iran Air Flight 655 was a scheduled passenger flight from Tehran to Dubai via Bandar Abbas, that was shot down on 3 July 1988 by an SM-2MR surface-to-air missile fired from USS Vincennes, a guided missile cruiser of the United States Navy. The aircraft, an Airbus A300, was destroyed and all 290 people on board, including 66 children, were killed.[1] The jet was hit while flying over Iran’s territorial waters in the Persian Gulf, along the flight’s usual route, …
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https://www.warhistoryonline.com/history/iran-flight-655-shot-uss-vincennes.html
…In 1988, a US warship shot down an Iranian commercial plane, killing all onboard. The American captain and his crew were hailed as heroes, Scotland suffered, Libyans were punished, and we are still living with the effects today.
It began when Iraq invaded Iran on September 22, 1980. America sided with Iraq, and by the time it ended on August 20, 1988, about a million people were dead. What ended the war, however, was an event that took place in the Strait of Hormuz….
…At 10:17 AM Iranian time (UTC +3:30), 655 finally took off and headed back the way it had come along commercial air corridor Amber 59 – a 20-mile wide lane which stretched directly over the Vincennes.
Down below, Rogers was having the time of his life blasting Boghammers when his men detected Flight 655. They contacted the plane but got no response. Switching to civilian channels, they ordered the “F-14” to change course.
If Rezalan received it, he ignored it. He was not the only commercial plane in the vicinity, nor was he flying an F-14 fighter jet.
Remembering the Stark and the Samuel B. Roberts while in the midst of a skirmish with Boghammars and other armed speed boats, Rogers gave the order to fire. There was a media crew onboard, that day, which recorded the jubilation on the bridge as they confirmed a direct hit on the plane….
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OK Then! 290 dead people on a civilian airliner.
Shot down by a hotshot idiot US warship captain.
…As they were already (illegally) in Iranian waters, the Vincennes was the first to arrive. In the sea were 290 dead bodies – 66 of whom were children. There was no more cheering after that, not even from Rogers.
and then the lies:
America denied having any ships in Iranian waters and blamed Iran for the incident. They also claimed that 655 was descending as if in attack mode. [way to own up to murder]
They gave Rogers the Legion of Merit for his performance and the rest of the crew a hero’s welcome in San Diego. They would change their stories years later, but for others, it would be too late….
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The U.S. government never officially apologized for the incident or accepted responsibility, although in 1996 more than $61 million in compensation was paid to the families of the 248 Iranian citizens who died in the crash. As Reagan administration spokesman Marlin Fitzwater put it regarding the eventual monetary settlement, “[The] offer of ex gratia compensation … is a humanitarian effort to ease the hardship of the families. It is offered on a voluntary basis, not on the basis of any legal liability or obligation.”
Let he without sin cast the first stone.
Oh and while on this, why was KAL 007 in 1983 directly over a soviet spy base; more than 200 miles off course. A long way. Was it carrying spying equipment and taking a huge risk, or was it masking a US spyplane known to be in the same airspace at the time and possibly (deliberately?) done to press the Russians. South Korea had a debt to the USA for their involvement in the civil war. When the godfather asks you for a favour…..
There are casualties on both sides in war.
One casually always is truth.
Being on the ‘winning side’ we don’t need to talk about the massive firebombing of Tokyo civilians or Germans civilians towards the end of WW2.
Feel free to downtick me for posting facts.
Justin Trudeau Said The Ukrainian Plane That Crashed In Iran Was Shot Down By Missile
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/salvadorhernandez/justin-trudeau-ukrainian-plane-crash-iran-missile
“The families of the victims and all Canadians want answers. I want answers,” Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said. Trudeau mentioned that although the plane appeared to have been shot down by a missile, that the incident “may well have been unintentional.”
When asked about the Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 Thursday morning, Donald Trump said “somebody could have made a mistake.”
“It was flying in a pretty rough neighborhood,” the president said.
Asked whether the crash could have been caused by mechanical failure, Trump told reporters, “I personally don’t even think that’s even a question.”
I heard that choppers and the sleeze are over in Sydney being wined and dined.
They are lapping up the publicity after the good folks back here have finally woken up to her lies.
With a bit of luck they will stay over there.
I’ve lived in Auckland now since mid-2001.
And in 18 years the furthest I’ve gone onto the Awhiru Penninsula was Glenbrook, for the historical railway. This weekend a group of us are meeting at the Bombay BP to take a ride out to the Manukau Heads Lighthouse. It’s the first time in a couple of years that I’m going on a group ride and I am so excited to be going. Last one was Paws for Justice in 2018, which was a squizillion motorcycles. (You can see me on my Indian at about 11 – 14 seconds into the video)
Let’s hope the weather holds!
Enjoy the ride Pascal.
If you are ever down Feilding way go into the Coach House Museum , they have 3 or 4 really well restored old Harley Davidson’s and an old Indian on display.
I’m down there a few times a year; my parents live in Ashurst – so thanks for the tip. I’ll go have a look next time I’m down (may be next weekend!)
There’s a few $$$$ tied up in that those bikes riding for Paws for Justice. What an awesome sight.
Yeah, being there is another level with the way the air around you seems to rumble. 1st of March this year if you want to come watch 🙂
Tell the truth. You are only going to show off your new machine, and why not.😁😁
The thought did cross my mind; but honestly – I am just keen to go out for a decent ride on it 🙂 I find myself sitting on it before dinner and just pretending.
But a friend I haven’t seen for about 2 years saw my photos and suggested it, another couple piled in when they saw us chatting about it – so we now have a group of people that haven’t seen each-other for a while reconnecting.
Where are the photos?
They are watermarked by mama bear with her real name. I’ll see if she’ll give me a clean set that I can post here, but I don’t want to expose her to any lefties who may be reading this and then latch onto the wife of a classical liberal voter for doing her harm.
Judgment is the key issue in the Martin Matthews case
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/118625205/judgment-is-the-key-issue-in-the-martin-matthews-case
OPINION: The late detection of Joanne Harrison’s fraud at the Ministry of Transport uncovered in 2016 is a wake-up call to New Zealand’s top public servants about the responsibility they have to safeguard our money.
By the time the then Secretary of Transport, Martin Matthews, acted to report the fraud, concerns from within the ministry about Harrison’s non-compliance with policies designed to prevent fraud had been repeatedly reported for more than two years.
Credit where credit is due.
Sue Moroney did a bloody good job there exposing the idiot Matthews.
Matthews was a fool that was probably seduced by Harrison (all under wraps now) so he participated in the destruction of honest peoples careers to protect a fraudster; he ignored the Australian Federal Police (the serious outfit that go after drug dealers in Asia, not giving out traffic tickets or investigating assaults) when they came knocking.
Matthews is barely fit to be a night cleaner and yet he thought he was a legend in his own lunchroom (possibly enhanced by ‘favours’ from Joanne Harrison) that he was good enough to be Auditor General.
He was not.
There is no lower scum that Martin Matthews- pretentious, lazy, cruising wannabe that thought he was good enough to oversee the annual expenditure of more than $80 billion dollars a year by the govt. Our taxes.
He was not.
The spinoff investigated well
https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/21-07-2017/the-ministry-of-transport-fraud-case-why-the-rot-goes-deeper-than-joanne-harrison/
Late last year the media filth called Stuff were running a charm offensive for dodgy Matthews.
Did money or ‘favours’ change hands for this?
Matthews does nothing to clear the stain from his name.
What sort of stain that is after spending time with Joanne Harrison we dont need details on!!
To all the Greta Apostles… https://climatechangedispatch.com/greta-thunberg-officially-a-joke/
Quotable quotes: “The most sophisticated adults in the world have signed up to the bonkers idea that children can somehow intuit the answers to humanity’s existential problems, though Lord knows what the grown-ups expect the kids to do — build a better world on Minecraft?”
I feel sorry for her. She’s a teenager with all the shit that goes on in the head of a teenager.My teenage daughter scares the living fuck out of me with the way her head re-arranges thoughts on occasion. Imagine the added pressure of having the adults in your life push you onto the world stage as a puppet to try and support the narrative of a rich old billionaire who wants to make money off the scared masses? She’ll be believing in her own fame by now and reality is going to come around and bite her really, really fucking hard.
Beneficiaries need more money not budgeting help – Ardern.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home.html
What about some hugs – that would be nice
We’d all like more money.
What is child poverdee
Show us some!
Then tell us what caused it.
Beneficiaries need to make better choices, get a job and work like the rest of us.
Where do they think the money comes from?
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/01/poverty-advocates-message-to-jacinda-ardern-beneficiaries-need-money-not-budgeting-help.html
That’s the link you were looking for.
“The Welfare Expert Advisory Group in May last year made 42 recommendations on improving the lives of New Zealand’s poorest – such as boosting benefits by up to 47 percent. Only three were adopted, including indexing increases to wages rather than inflation. Social Development Minister Carmel Sepuloni defended the Government’s reluctance to go further, asking, “Will it ever be enough?”
Diggy’s point of “Where do they think the money comes from?” is valid but at least the COL didn’t impose the Welfare Expert Advisory Groups 42 recommendations on the taxpayers.
Yet. I suspect they will keep on trying though. I suspect 2020 will see a Wealth Tax being introduced or campaigned for, to provide equality for all. Labour has hooked sufficient people onto the state to have a captive voter base who will only vote for self-interest now.
40% of households receive more benefits than they pay in tax. 3% of us pay a quarter of all tax.
I know what you mean Pascal about your figure sin red.
But it needs to be shown in clear figures that are un-refuatble.
Eg the left will say you are wrong and the rich don’t pay their share.
They will say they pay GST and petrol tax.
Those figures in red are a hyperlink that will take you to an article with the figures 🙂
Do you think that a wealth tax would be an election killer for the princess?
No. 40% of households are dependent on her; she has a 40% captive voter base. Add in “liberal guilt” voters, Green hair shirts and the rest of the lunatics and she could romp home without the influence of the media party.
Let’s see how many articles we have on wealth inequality in New Zealand. For starters, look at TVNZ’s living with the boss where they specifically and multiple times highlight wealth and inequality in New Zealand.
They’ve bypassed the Capital Gains tax and will bring in a Wealth tax, I believe.
Trudeau says they very rag heads that he loved may have bought the plane down carrying ragheads on holiday to a country they love so much that they left it to bludge on a once beautiful western country.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-51055219
Refugees from Iran to Canada that went home for Christmas?
Oxymoron? Of course there are Iranian christians.
If you have 20 minutes spare here is a great new doco on Eastern Germany after the war on Al Jazeera, it seems to be very fair balanced
https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/peopleandpower/
It shows what the East German regime was like – the Stasi etc
East Germany’s decline after the merger with West Germany
And the rise of East German Nationalism
AFD and the moves against muslim immigration
Long live the AFD!
Someone even shot a pro muslim immigration promoter in the head!
I am waiting for part 2.
All Jizz – the criminals of Qatar
Why do you watch their crap?
Do you want to be misinformed?
If so, Why?
All Jizz is a propaganda channel run by the Qatar Govt.
It is not news.
It is misinformation.
All Jizzy-error interfered in the Australian Federal Election 2019 and poured large funds in to discredit the ‘One Nation Party’
because it is anti immigration – its policy in a democracy; people do not have to vote for them.
The filth they dont want coming into their country are the type of moozlem filth we see tearing up the streets of Melbourne and running drugs and prostitution in Sydney.
They had agents in One Nation for years (big money) in order to run a smear campaign against them at election time.
All Jizz-error, the Qatar Criminals, should be banned in western countries.
It is a hate station full of anti western rhetoric.
I wont watch this crap you link to.
You can watch what you like Dignap.
I wont censor you but if Al jazzera is the source for any ‘information’ your sources are severely compromised.
Do I despise the Qataris?
Yes.
As do most of their neighbours who are onto them.
Qatar funded the first $2 billoin of insurency to start the Syrian ‘civil’ war.
Why?
Because they want to put a gas pipeline through Syria to sell their copious gas to europe.
Syria said no.
Do I find it horrific that they bribed FIFA to get the 2022 Toe-jammers world cup.
Yes.
Do I find it worse that more people have died in building the stadia than will actually play the footy games?
Definitely.
These ‘guest workers’ are their fellow Moozlems and Qatar treat them like shit. Worse than camels. Dangerous working conditions and ‘living quarters’ of metal containers in the desert.
Qatar. A nasty evil regime.
I wont bother with part 1 and certainly wont get excited about a part 2.
I suppose it does provide employment for Dhimmis and misinformation for those who think they are informed!
Don’t hold back
I wont 🙂
I agree with your sentiments.
But you coud apply that to many remimes.
Russia
China
Iran
the UAE
Even the USA back in the day
They all practice such methods.
Its the way of the world, always has been always will be.
Money talks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KLb2GKhpNk
How the Greens are LYING to the world about the bushfires
The bush fires are an annual occurance. Sure they are bad but why all these lies and hype to make it sound worse than the bush fires in Australia actually are? Climate Change LIARS!!!!!!!! 🤥 🤥 🤥 🤥 🤥
you say
‘Greens are LYING’
That is the norm.
Scum are using the green brand (discredited if you are sensible) and are destructive critters that have taken over generally docile organisations such as Greenpeace, Salvation Army, green parties around the world, charities like Oxfam [where Twit Twyford spend years as did Green Pardy Barry Coates] and turned them into vehicles for misinformation and destruction.
Ever older white guys can be Marxist fools -some of them.
According to an article on stuff birds are known to spread fires by picking up sticksthat are still burning for a feed.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/118631533/australian-bushfires-how-climate-change-and-other-factors-worsen-fires
Last year in Australia was the hottest and driest on record, with the average annual temperature 1.5 degrees Celsius above the 1960 to 1990 average, according to Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology. Temperatures in Australia last month hit 49.9C.
1960 to 1990, because you know – the planet had no climate before 1960.
THE AU BOM is full of shit.
Lies lies lies
The current situation is bad enough for a lot of people without media filth and paid public servants (who are they serving) telling lies.
The warmest temperature is still officially from 2 January 1960 so basically more than 60 years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_weather_records#Oceania
50.7 °C (123.3 °F) Oodnadatta, South Australia
the period 1958 to 1970 was a very warm period in Australia and there were many occasions the smoke came across NZ- as happened last week and in Auckland on Sunday.
This smoke across NZ from Australian bush fires has happened twice in the 20 years this century.
In the decade of the 1960s it was far more frequent.
They were the ones fudging the historical temperature numbers to cool them down.
Talk about the bush fires in Oz, check out this gem from JPW.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_tn8f0uaB4
It’s on http://www.maga.net.nz
Does anyone remember this?
PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 28, 2018
Strange waves rippled around the world, and nobody knows why
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/11/strange-earthquake-waves-rippled-around-world-earth-geology/
That was me, I farted after an indian meal. Apologies.
We must have all farted at the same time.
Nevertheless there are consequences.
First published on April 26, 2018
The data in the latest Chinese study was collected following the most powerful of North Korea’s six nuclear device tests on Sept. 3, which is believed to have triggered four earthquakes over the following weeks. The yield of the bomb was estimated at more than 100 kilotons of TNT, at least 10 times stronger than anything the North had tested previously. (The bomb the United States dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 had a yield of about 15 kilotons.)
On Saturday, North Korea announced it will close its nuclear testing facility and suspend nuclear and intercontinental ballistic missile tests – a move welcomed by Trump as “big progress” – and which comes ahead of the planned summit between him and Kim.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/north-korea-nuclear-test-site-mantapsan-mountain-collapse-unusable-kim-jong-un/
Has Golly G ever been back to Iran for a holiday?
I hear that Ukrainian airlines is good.
And taken Guy?
Neah, he would get chucked of a building!
Refugees sending ‘suitcases of welfare cash’ home to Somalia
FBI ‘won’t touch it’ for fear of offending this 1 group
https://www.wnd.com/2016/05/refugees-sending-suitcases-of-welfare-cash-home-to-somalia/
Just shows how actually stupid our leaders are in the west.
The clean up continues. NATO listened to Trump.
#BREAKING: Minutes ago, two F-35Is of #Israel Air Force just bombed #IRGC-QF/#PMU base at #Bukamal/ #Abukamal close to #Iraq-#Syria border line. The target was a batch of recently transferred rockets & ballistic missiles as well as engineering equipment.
https://twitter.com/BabakTaghvaee/status/1215386116376932352
SYRIA: The Iranian militia group the ‘Imam Ali’ brigade report they were struck by 2 aircraft in al-Bukamal on the Syria/Iraq border.
https://twitter.com/Conflicts
Hey Braybot, do you have a direct line to Netanyahu?
Good skills
Good work out for the F35’s
Not a direct line. And not to Netanyahu.
Good people, trying to sort the mess the world is in.
Fuck, Yeah. Hope its true.
TRUMP: Adam Schiff is a “pencil neck” and “buys the smallest shirt collar you can get—and it’s loose.”
Massive crowd in Toledo. Ohio.
Google it.
No black men, no white women, no black women.
Must be that racist bigotry in action.
https://twitter.com/BubetteS/status/1215313215392870401
A girl goes into the doctor’s office for a checkup. As she takes off her blouse, he notices a red ‘V’ on her chest. “How did you get that mark on your chest?” asks the doctor. “Oh, my boyfriend went to Victoria University & he’s so proud of it he never takes off his Victoria sweatshirt, even when we make love,” she replies.
A couple of days later, another girl comes in for a checkup. As she takes off her blouse, he notices a blue ‘A’ on her chest. “How did you get that mark on your chest?” asks the doctor. “Oh, my boyfriend went to Auckland & he’s so proud of it that he never takes off his Auckland sweatshirt, even when we make love,” she replies.
A couple of days later, another girl comes in for a checkup. As she takes off her blouse, he notices a green ‘M’ on her chest. “Do you have a boyfriend at Massey?” asks the doctor. “No, but I have a girlfriend at Waikato, Why do you ask?”
Christ I must be getting old. I had to work this one out !!!
Could you please supply photos to better illustrate this joke….
Who said it was a joke? nasska is a man of the world. A friend told him about this and he dutifully passed it on for us to read. Dr patient confidentiality would preclude any photos.
Hmm when I was at university in 1982, the same story was told, obviusly using South African universities. There was WITS and Maatjies, same M and W…… And no, I don’t have photos of that story either….
We could ask Jethro for photos. I am sure that some of his 1000 conquests would have been photographed in this position.
I was thinking that he should have to spell it out.
“If I’m A Criminal, It’s Open Season”: Atlanta Police To Stop Chasing Criminals
Chief Shields suggests criminals are already getting away w/o punishment, via the court system.
“I don’t want to see us cost someone their life in pursuit of an auto theft person or a burglar, when the courts aren’t even going to hold them accountable,” she said today.
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/its-open-season-criminals-atlanta-police-stop-chasing-criminals
Boomers are more sensitive than millennials – study
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/lifestyle/2020/01/boomers-are-more-sensitive-than-millennials-study.html
Think teenagers are too sensitive? There’s a good chance if you’re a Baby Boomer, you’re even more delicate.
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Mark Quinlivan is a digital producer for Newshub based in Christchurch. He studied journalism at University of Canterbury and began at Newshub in 2019. He’s an avid sports fan and grew up in rugby-mad Canterbury.
Might be because boomers are tired of getting jurnos lieing through their back teeth!
Just telll us the news, not your bloody opinion!
Yes, I looked him up. Mark Quinilvan started work in 2019. Guess his many years of work have given him huge experience with great insight into much older generations than himself. // scarc