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I see that they launched some rockets at the US embassy in Baghdad yesterday.
Time to take out 2 or 3 of those 52 targets.
Time to turn the bloody lot to aggregate.
The COL and Ardern are talking about a 12 billion infrastucture package.
Chris Bishop thinks they might start some of the Roads of National Significiance, Wellington and Tauranga
Fat chance
It would be over Genters dead putrid body, she would never agree to more roads it would be against what her and Twyford have stood for for the lst years.
So it wil be rail and more cans of paint.
Roads have to happen because CoL have nothing else that they can get “shovel in ground” before the election. National have done a lot of the work for them. There’ll be a few dead rats swallowed, and the term “ghost roads” will be bandied about endlessly, but roads there will be.
Genter will have to swallow the biggest rat of all. Can’t wait.
Wrong sorry.
I read that of the 12 billion
400 million will be spent this year (which they have probably already annunced)
1 billion next year
2 billion each in the next 2 years
And the rest after 2025
This shows 2 things
That Robertson is keeping the pruse strings tight
And that there is no money, its all gone on welfare and teachers pay rises.
And the fact that most of it is being spent after the election means jack shit if they dont get it.
JAG is planning on adding bus lanes, cycle lanes and walking tracks to existing over busy roads instead of building new expressways that are desperately needed, ie Tauranga to Waihi and extension of expressway from Cambridge to Paire (Tauranga turnoff). There was an article a couple of days ago on ‘Have Your Say’.
Smoke and Mirrors to hide evil
So here’s the plan:
– screw-up the economy
– flat-line productivity
– reinforce mind-control brainwashing of school kids
– throw around $4 billion on vanity projects and free stuff for the indigent (putting a 20 year sea anchor on the next government)
– hope nobody notices when you GIVE $45 million to Tainui in the form of Ihumatao and create a 100 year property rights problem
Although to be fair. You have to give Labour credit. At least when they do pre-election giveaways to buy votes – they actually GIVE shit away. in 2017 Bill English was so useless he couldn’t even lock in tax cuts.
So on the one hand we’re going to see a blatant $4 billion pork barrel of massive fiscal imprudence, yet on the other NZ comes out top of the non-corruption index. I guess it’s the great thing about being a banana republic – if you don’t have corruption detection in your country, then you can claim to be free of corruption.
Are flags considered an incitement?
What was the problem?
Arrested for having Australian Flag on Australia Day. Communist Police
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=BwRLOEtsqbI&feature=emb_logo
Jan 25, 2020 : 4 minutes 56 secs.
Think about what other flags would be allowed?
Would those flags be treated like how the police treated the Aussie flag?
“Invasion Day” marchers were supposed to be walking by,
He was a well known “far right winger” so would cause a “breach of the peace” by offending the protesters, so it would seem he was the one who was supposed to comply with a “move on” order.
This seems to be part of the way how police do their policing, by censoring what they do not like in the name of …… yeah right.
Sound track was terrible but it sounded like the moron cop actually said “I’m just doing my job.” Where have we heard that before? And how ironic that it should be on the same day that the rest of the world is remembering the victims of the Holocaust. Truly I wonder how many more public relations disasters the Australian and New Zealand police are capable of?
I have always enjoyed watching snippets of Skynews on Youtube.
They are always against Cimate Change
Now I know why.
I saw the weekly roundup about the press on Al Jazeera
And they were saying the Rupert Murdoch owns 75% of the press in Australia, and he is dead against Cimate Change.
Which is why Sky news are!
They then proceeded to shows lots of clips where other (correct) journalists were sayng that Newcorps is wrong (and they are all corrrect)
Ha Ha!
It was great to see on Skynews last night that Bettina Arndt received an award on Australia Day.
She has turned in to a strong advocate for men.
Now the lefties have thrown their toys out of the cot over the award.
Go Bettina.
But the campus rape myth still alive and well in NZ – sponsored by National
So Bettina is famous for her tour of Australian Universities debunking the campus rape myth and defending men’s rights. No (sane) person in Australia really tries it on any more with the “male students are rapists” – but in NZ, we have the state (under National – look at the date of this press release) sponsoring the insane NZ students union’s (NZUSA) anti-male campus campaigns.
Whilst DPF failed to point out that the National government has been funding this nonsense for years, he did turn up a hilariously Monty Python situation with the NZUSA failing to deliver on their government funded attack on male students – because of (wait for it, you can’t make this shit up) a sexual abuse scandal involving NZUSA staff.
Putting aside the usual hypocrisy and gross incompetence of socialists. The Australian of the Year award shows just how dreadful NZ’s political problem is with in effect 2 left wing parties supporting to lesser or greater extents destructive intersectional political objectives.
So who will be our PM later this year? Will it be the:
– the socialist PTPM globalist LIar in Chief,
or
– the socialist diversity boy who believes in the globalist Climate Apocalypse
It’s like a choice between shit and feces.
“The Police Association says the statistics paint a worrying picture about the sheer volume of firearms now circulating in the criminal underworld.”
“That’s pretty scary,” Association president Chris Cahill told the Herald.
Well no shit Sherlock. You and your muppets have just made this problem exponentially worse. Idiots.
They just don’t get it do they!
Oh they do know. They absolutely do. They are working their way through the Alinsky list of things you need to achieve in order to impose a socialist state on the populace (see no. 4)
1) Healthcare — Control healthcare and you control the people
2) Poverty — Increase the Poverty level as high as possible, poor people are easier to control and will not fight back if you are providing everything for them to live.
3) Debt — Increase the debt to an unsustainable level. That way you are able to increase taxes, and this will produce more poverty.
4) Gun Control — Remove the ability to defend themselves from the Government. That way you are able to create a police state.
5) Welfare — Take control of every aspect of their lives (Food, Housing, and Income).
6) Education — Take control of what people read and listen to — take control of what children learn in school.
7) Religion — Remove the belief in the God from the Government and schools.
8) Class Warfare — Divide the people into the wealthy and the poor. This will cause more discontent and it will be easier to take (Tax) the wealthy with the support of the poor.
Looks like the 2017 to-do list for the CoL – maybe even the actual wording of the “Secret” annex to the Coalition agreement.
They know exactly what they’re doing!
Then there are helpful idiots like Duncan Garner who suggested this morning that public transport be free, paid for by taxpayers, and all school children wear the same school uniform nationwide with just a badge denoting their different school. Communism here we come. 🙊 🙉 🙈
Been talking to Comrade Cindy has he?
You left out “limit freedom of speech” there DP
Ardern said at the Holocaust commemoration in Auckland that her government is advanced on its proposed “hate speech” legislation.
Yes Diggie all of those things are true except maybe the Class Warfare, which I don’t think they have structured as simply ‘rich vs poor’.
It seems to me that NZ society has been utterly fragmented in recent years so that there is no such person as a kiwi any longer. Our country has been subdivided into so many ‘identities’ that it’s now a country almost at war with itself. Maoris, greens, Muslims, gays, transgenders (geez even the transgenders and the lesbians are at each others’ throats), vegans, climate freaks etc etc etc.
This is one of the most important ways that the Marxists are gaining control….. by literally destroying society’s social cohesion.
Divide and Conquer
Jacinda Ardern on why it has taken so long to respond to Whanau Ora complaints. I wasn’t happy with the draft I had in front of me, so I wanted to rework and resolve some other outstanding issues, more like to cover up another lie.
https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/mike-hosking-breakfast/audio/jacinda-ardern-weighs-in-on-whanau-ora-ihumatao-decision/
Meanwhile the Prime Minister is refusing to put a date on possible deal over Ihumatoa, with speculation agreement could be reach this week. Jacinda thinks the Country is stupid and will believe her lies ,but as Winston has her by the short and curlies no deal will be reached until Winston gets what he wants. If he votes for a 48 million dollar payout to Fletchers paid by the Government his Party will certainly not be around after the next Election but if he forces her to gift a seat to NZ First he is up and running again with the likelyhood of a second term in Goverment.
Yes, I just wish the interviewer had asked her what she wanted to see happen with Ihumatao!
Seeing the
lightloot, investing in sunny solar systems, in the name of “Climate Change” and “sustainability”….. billion dollar Ponzi scheme— the biggest criminal fraud scheme in the history of the Eastern District of California. The government’s investigation has resulted in the largest criminal forfeiture in the history of the District ….
….. “This billion dollar Ponzi scheme hurt investors and took money from the United States Treasury. …..
https://www.justice.gov/usao-edca/pr/top-executives-plead-guilty-participating-billion-dollar-ponzi-scheme-biggest-criminal
Solyandra, an earlier “renewable power” system also proved to be another “ponzi scheme”
https://fortune.com/2015/08/27/remember-solyndra-mistake/
So the “man from the government, here to help you” ripped off the taxpayer in the name of “climate change” whilst demanding money with menaces.
So how much of that money went back as campaign contributions?
CoL is doshing money around.
Parties here in NZ are looking for major contributions. 🙁
Last night watched 7 Sharp’s programme on the unintended consequences of removing plastic bags from the supermarkets. Scroll down to the 2nd clip. It appears the shopping public do not find the new system convenient and the recyclable bags are becoming a problem.
Are reusable supermarket bags better for the environment?
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/shows/seven-sharp
So it wasn’t as simple as the school kiddies writing letters to the PTPM asking Socialist Cindy to remove plastic bags. More unintended consequences eh Socialist Cindy! 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
The big problem is that this woke Marxist government is now likely to respond by making plastic bags illegal and totally banning the sale of ALL plastic bags across all stores, including TradeMe and online.
This is not beyond the bounds of possibility. It can easily happen almost overnight without any discussion – just like destroying the Oil & Gas industry.
The even freakier thought is that when these despotic cunts do this there will be absolutely ZERO push back from the pathetic dribble Bridges or his so-called ‘opposition’.
There was a very detailed study done in 2018 in Denmark on the use of the various options. (That’s a meaty PDF)
Tim Costley, National candidate for Otaki, former airforce. Clearly the woke are going to find lots of material to attack this young man over. Video clips included. LOL!
Tim Costley goes from Air Force rocker to National candidate for Ōtaki
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/01/tim-costley-goes-from-air-force-rocker-to-national-candidate-for-taki.html
The turn to politics comes after a 20-year career in the Air Force and follows an announcement last year that current National MP for Ōtaki, former Minister of Primary Industries Nathan Guy, would not be seeking reelection.
Costley admits that he didn’t quite know the effect the video – which can be found on YouTube under the title “Jet Pilot music video” – would have.
“We didn’t really understand social media back then – it wasn’t really a thing in 2007,” Costley told The AM Show on Tuesday.
The spoof video was originally made to be seen by just a handful of mates, but after being posted online “it just took on this life of its own”.
Scroll down for the full parody music video.
The flower of NZ womanhood
Swifty on KB spotted this absolute shitshow. Labour voters.
NSFW – just excessive swearing – nothing urgh.
Definitely Labour Voters.
I’d imagine at least 7 kids each…
Some women are all class
What sort of guy would ever want to go near one like that?
I think steffyboy would give it a shot, so long as it had a tea towel wrapped around its fat toothless head.
Diggy, you would not have to spend a fortune on that to be certain of a good time.
Maybe a bucket of KFC and you would be in like flynn!
So it seems that the supposed guardian investigators have been looking busy playing a “shell game” that seems to continue on in the education system.
“an apparent pattern of conspiracy to cover up” grade-fixing, cheating and other wrongdoing might warrant an investigation under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), which covers criminal enterprises.
In Atlanta, eight educators were convicted under a RICO statute of manipulating student test scores and sentenced to prison in 2015. ….
…. teachers say administrators encouraged cheating on exams, enforced a “no-fail policy,” and retaliated against staffers who didn’t play ball. ….
https://nypost.com/2020/01/25/fbi-probes-deep-rooted-academic-fraud-in-nyc-public-schools/
In NZ are we also doing the “in-house” investigations that only cover up?
All of these problems is a way of breaking up the education system, and with it losing its trust and credibility to then bring in its brain washing systems, like “climate change”, “social justice”, “virtue signaling” with all the “feelz”,
Something many us know or suspect.
The power can be subtle and very influential with far reaching affects.
Robert Epstein is a Harvard trained psychologist who has exposed how Google is manipulating public opinion through their search engine so they can change the results of elections and many other important areas
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~ His research shows how Google is using new techniques of manipulation that have never existed before in human history. If this weren’t bad enough, these tools are ephemeral and leave no paper trail of their devious behavior
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~ According to Epstein’s calculations, Google can shift 15 million votes leading up to the upcoming U.S. presidential 2020 election
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~ Because Google has become and everyday tool that’s used for more than 90% of searches worldwide, the company has likely determined the outcomes of 25% of the national elections in the world
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~ Search suggestions — shown in a drop-down menu when you begin to type a search term — is another powerful manipulation tool capable of turning a 50/50 split among undecided voters into a 90/10 split, with no one having the slightest idea that they’ve been manipulated
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….. We found a pro-Clinton bias in all 10 search positions on the first page of Google search results, but not on Bing or Yahoo. ….
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/01/26/google-and-your-privacy.aspx
In many ways we are affected, like listening to “red radio”, as the insidious influence, quietly builds up, in one’s thinking.
Ok we may rant and rail against it, but the thought, seed has been placed, so that we see and eventually accept a “new normal”.
We do accept as we have many other points in life to be lived, and it is no good being a thin skinned in a sand paper world.
The funny thing is the “snowflakes” “woke” are very thin skinned. 🙂 and need to be rubbed up a lot more. 🙂 So get “truth” boots on, and point it out. 🙂
Just a small challenge to face book, yet Ardern signs in on it. 🙂
… Facebook for failing to comply with recommendations filed by the authority on November 29, 2018 over deceptive information on data use. ….
The antitrust’s procedure against Facebook could lead to a fine of up to five million euros. ….
http://www.ansa.it/english/news/2020/01/24/antitrust-files-noncompliance-procedure-against-facebook_fd9f35b1-cf26-4879-8a51-f8bd7286a5a4.html
Just chump change for face book as the continue with their unbridled power.
Soros funded fascism – this is what it looks like
Put these “minders” in brown shirts and Voila – you have the world that George Soros grew up in and wants to get back to.
The real mainstream media – small, non-corporate investigative journalists – shows us the real Greta Thunberg.
There’s some seriously deranged psychopaths around that girl – the dead eyes, the flat faces. Scary.
I get the feeling that a lot of money is flowing to that “golden goose”.
There is some connection to some super rich people behind the scenes, seeking a lot of power and control, and some more money, always comes in handy, to buy people, elections etc..
Be interesting to see what Comrade Cindy, comes out with at the end of her term!
Just look at what Clintons and Obama had in there purses after been president!
Soros is such a kindly old gentleman, 🙁 that wants many more university to imbibe on his money, and his curriculum.
Just what academia can resist, in receiving sinecure and tenure?
“In Soros’s view, it is high time [for] Open Society Foundation, the vehicle through which he funds myriad endeavours to advance an ideologically-driven political agenda, to build on his previous efforts and develop ‘a new and innovative educational network that the world really needs’,”
Yeah right. 🙁
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/01/26/hungary-sounds-alarm-over-soros-plan-billion-dollar-university-network/
Just look at the connections our own academia have, like Spoonley advising and trumpeting “immigration, racism and race relations, white supremacists and hate speech as well as employment, education, regional development and Auckland diversity” and heading off to Max Planck Institute of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Goettingen, Germany.
https://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/about-massey/news/article.cfm?mnarticle_uuid=86063A6D-F78D-4387-AA2D-F271C5B2B2ED
Like rust they never sleep, and try to make it a “virtuous circle” for “collectivism”.
Simpleton1
A few years ago Soros said he was giving all his fortune (reported to be 2 billion) at the time to his NGOs
( Open Society etc.) . Now he is saying he has found another billion to give to lap dog universities. I wonder if the “giving all his fortune” was BS or he has effectively taken back a billion to give to the universities or he has directed the Open Society people where to send his “original” money.
I believe what he does is seed money.
That is start something, and is able to keep it following his agenda.
Also one of systems is to raise money for the cause, even if it seems not directly related.
Just look at the Red Cross, and they plan on sitting on 65 million dollars for a few years.
They even came out and had to admit that 10 million was for administration, but omitted the 55 million dollars.
Not saying they are directly connected to Soros, but one would think that some of the upper echelon are influenced by the agenda, like “open borders”.
Same as “Médecins Sans Frontières” which seems to be a good cause but sometimes snippets of other ideas come through, 🙁
Which country is that from?
As commented on a few days ago about the Red Cross and their shenanigans.
https://ysb.co.nz/have-your-say-281/#comment-50394
“Médecins Sans Frontières” (MSF), in English as “Doctors Without Borders”, is an international humanitarian medical non-governmental organisation (NGO) of French origin
This propaganda they are feeding our kids is getting way beyond a joke-
“It would be ideal for every child to have memorised the demands of the School Strike 4 Climate movement…”
https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/119061461/how-to-talk-to-a-child-about-climate-change
You can bet your boots they will be tested on it in an exam, when the get back to school!
“Oh Gaaawd, we’ve got Waitangi Day coming up….. and we’ll get Ayotearower shoved at us everywhere,” one boomer said.
Quoted from the Herald. It seems that our media is now using the Green Party slurs to describe political opponents. Watch as we are divided further as a nation by the media and the socialists.
It’s not just guns that gangs refuse to hand over.
Tourist viciously attacked by two dogs, search warrant needed to find the animals
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12303548&ref=clavis
Two dogs attacked a tourist as he strolled through a Takanini park, dragging him to the ground and lunging for his throat.
“One came at full speed, leaped up, grabbed my thigh and toppled me to the ground and then took a bite.”
He complained to the council about the attack the next day and was told the council knew about the dogs and had previous issues with them.
The council said it had visited the address where the van was, but “could not gain access to the property” and it didn’t sound like the dogs were there.
Dog ranger too scared of the gang. Sounds just like the police.
He will rember his trip to ArtyRower for a bloody long time and tell everyone not to come!
The corona virus and the hysteria being whipped up around the world has the potential to destroy our tourism industry. It could almost be a plan by Saint Greta’s followers to destroy the commercial aviation industry. I mean at the best of times planes are a hothouse incubator for bugs and if this new one turns out to be a really nasty one then who in their right mind will fly anywhere unless it is absolutely necessary?
Has Cindy closed our borders to flights from China yet? No, thought not, so the virus will be here any day if it’s not already.
This is going to be fun to watch from the sidelines as two old blokes enrage young woke femanists telling Pania Newton she must accept a backhanded compliment from them while they also ‘put her in her place’. LOL!
‘A lot of young Māori women’ would love to be called putiputi – Winston Peters
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/01/a-lot-of-young-m-ori-women-would-love-to-be-called-putiputi-winston-peters.html
“Pania Newton should have taken being called a ‘putiputi’ by Shane Jones as a compliment, says NZ First leader Winston Peters.
Jones, the Regional Development Minister, has faced calls to apologise to the Ihumātao protest leader after making the comment during his visit to Rātana last week.
“I am in no way swayed by this constant social media grandstanding by our young putiputi, Pania,” Jones said, using the word meaning a young flower.
“Pania must not pretend that she is something in the Māori world that she is not … you derive your mana in te ao Māori, not from pleasing Pākehā.”
Could Jones please name those Pakeha (with macrons) Pania has pleased?
Haven’t heard anyone speak well of her.
“Putiputi” Pania is as arrogant but even more annoying than Jones!! 🤨
Lots of maori girls can’t be called Putiputi out there!
Too many airline seat arses!
Those wahine mōmona been giving you a hard time Sooty. 🙂
No, but they will be now!
Sooty, did you see the rough as guts sheila Different Perspective put a link to at 9.05am above? She’s a real honey! Have a look but remember your delicate ears. 😵
No, I don’t go to many other links. I’m sorry, I’m just a poor country boy not use to the ways of the big smoke and all of it’s perversions!
I’ll get Brother Kea to give you a guided tour of Wellington’s sex dungeons with a special emphasis on fat, foul mouthed dominatrixes. 🙂
Better still, take him to see one of the bishops down the road at the catholic church where he can repent with satisfaction !~
Sorry, I’m buzy this weekend!
Yesterday I asked if the Democrats could make their case any worse –well it wasn’t them but Pam Bondi on the defence team just made their case very bad and probably helped President Trump win 2020
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/01/boom-pam-bondi-drops-a-moab-on-democrats-biden-corruption-bondi-blows-up-burisma-scandal-for-all-america-to-see-this-was-brutal/
And she is hot….
Must be a slow Monday, but it is always a thin edge of the wedge for greater controls.
Firms urged to crack down on office football chat …..
…. video assistant refereeing (VAR) can disproportionately exclude women and divide offices……
….. “It’s a gateway to more laddish behaviour and – if it just goes unchecked – it’s a signal of a more laddish culture,” …..
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51261999
Feminists, Lesbians, Trans, all eating at society.
Laddies used to look at the girls, make small talk, and being hopeful for a date.
That probably can be called a sexual harassment at work.
So a safe topic is sports.
And all the woman talk about? recipes, soap opera, diets, finger nail varnish, etc… ?
A slow long day. 🙁
Not long before Charlie gets quizzed I suspect.
FBI files allege Lord Mountbatten, murdered by the IRA, was a pedophile
The 75-year-old intelligence files describe Louis Mountbatten, the 1st Earl of Burma, and his wife Edwina as “persons of extremely low morals” and contain information suggesting that Lord Mountbatten was a pedophile with “a perversion for young boys.”
Throughout Lord Mountbatten’s life, and in the years after he died in an IRA bombing on August 27, 1979, rumors swirled about his extramarital affairs. An FBI dossier on Mountbatten, released in 2019, thanks to a Freedom of Information request, reveals shocking information about the royal who was a mentor to his grand-nephew Prince Charles.
https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/lord-mountbatten-pedophile-allegations
Prince Wingnut and him were so close!
Jacinda Ardern wants positivity to rule this years Election and she talks about why she deserves a second term , low unemployment, the Economy, more jobs and less children in poverty an this was
not true and the Prime Minister has lied again, unemployment is on the rise again she won’t release the true figures on Poverty in which the Salvation Army has said doubled since they took power and we are definitely not the envoy of the world in our economy.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/01/prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-confirms-2020-general-election-date.html
When will public wake up to the bullshit and stop her selling out to Maori as this has and will open the floodgates to more settlements after being.earned not to.We have problems with activists now and this will just increase with time and a Prime Minister that is out of her depth.
Tauranga Home riddled with bullets as two suspected gang shootings occur in Bay of Plenty
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/tauranga-home-riddled-bullets-two-suspected-gang-shootings-occur-in-bay-plenty?auto=6127068502001
damage to the Hairini property – and a car parked in the driveway – from a shooting which occurred in the early hours of this morning.
Another incident this afternoon saw a shooting reported at a property on No.2 Road, Te Puke. Members of the Armed Offenders Squad have set up a cordon in the area.
Another man who didn’t want to be named says he’s complained to police a number of times about the behaviour from the group.
But he says police were slow to act every time he complained. He says he wasn’t the only one to call police about the group.
He says it was only a matter of time before someone’s killed.
1 NEWS understands this is related to gang conflict, and stems from a serious assault that occurred on The Strand early Sunday morning.
Remember that time Labour spent over 100k of tax payer money to pay an American far left talk show host to come here and fawn over Ardern?
I do.
https://i.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/117231513/stephen-colberts-new-zealand-visit-cost-kiwi-taxpayers-100k
Parliamentary Speaker Trevor Mallard is being sued following his claim last year that a rapist was working in Parliament. It is understood Mallard has been given until mid February to respond to the papers served on him for definition in which damages of $400,000 in general damages and $50,000 Punitive damages and Court costs.
https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/heather-du-plessis-allan-drive/audio/barry-soper-trevor-mallard-sued-after-claiming-a-rapist-was-working-at-parliament/
Mallard has also been given the chance to settle out of court but rejected the offer. He was prepared to ruin a politcal staffer’s reputation and now there is every chance he will lose the Speakers job if the decision ends up going against him.
“A” rapist !!!!
He should lose his job for telling that whopper. The place is full of rapists and pervs.
New speaker in the wind, I wonder!
Can he keep his job if convicted?
Who is paying for the legal cost. Him or us!
Just what Labour need going in to an election!
Will the duvky be shuffled sideways and out the door?
The duck is fuked !!!
He can kiss the speakers job goodbye.
I can’t believe that the Labour Party hasn’t bought this chap off yet.
He’ll fold, I’m sure.
Impeach him!
New fault system north of Gisborne sheds light on East Coast tsunami risk
Scientists have shed more light on a newly identified fault system north of Gisborne – with implications for the region’s risk from earthquakes and tsunami.
A new study, led by Dr Nicola Litchfield of GNS Science, suggests that distinctive marine terraces were caused by earthquakes on multiple offshore upper-plate faults.
The team used radiocarbon and other methods to date the ages of marine terraces at two North Island sites, Puatai Beach and the Pakarae River mouth.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12304071&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nzh_fb&fbclid=IwAR2lCcveuS8DMNOMryBHLevJo17UX4nhxEt9MxspQ_Ciq8M2uFCabZIKK3Y
…….”Since the newly identified faults are close to the coastline, this may mean short warning times for a tsunami,”……
Maggy W will be waxing down her surfboard! 🙂
And of course the Herald doesn’t give a link to the paper or even its title…which I located :
“Marine terraces reveal complex nearshore upper-plate faulting in the northern Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand”
https://global.foreignaffairs.co.nz/2020/01/28/mil-osi-new-zealand-newly-identified-fault-system-off-gisborne-sheds-more-light-on-hikurangi-subduction-zone-28-01-2020/
And it’s probably under some $$$$$ restriction…
so here is a related Plebs version (which gives some dates)
https://www.eqc.govt.nz/research/research-papers/3797-Gisborne-seismic-tsunami-hazard-puatai-beach
https://www.stuff.co.nz/science/119106848/research-predicts-short-warning-time-for-tsunamis-from-newly-found-fault-system
Methane Bubbling From Seafloor Near Gisborne, New Zealand Linked to Submarine Landslides and Tsunami.
https://strangesounds.org/2019/09/methane-bubbling-gisborne-new-zealand-underwater-landslide-tsunami-hikurangi-subduction-zone.html
The East Coast is a tsunami risk. Not just from quakes but also underwater landslides. Then you have the Mighty Mongrel Mob Aotearoa to contend with.
Wiggles is a brave woman but at least she not surrounded by smug woke vegan arseholes 😊
I read the plebs version & I note they are referencing earthquakes 400 & 1000 years ago. It’s somewhat surprising that they didn’t mention the 7.1 quake of 1947 which occurred in the same area.
……”At Tatapouri Point, Pouawa and the south side of Turihaua Point, where the tsunami was most pronounced, large breaking waves said to be 10-13m high were observed offshore.
At the northern end of Pouawa Beach, where seaweed was found 12m above sea-level in telegraph wires well inland from the beach, and the decking and superstructure of a 16m span wooden bridge across the Pouawa River was swept about 800m inland, indicate a water height at the maximum inundation limit of about 10m. At the southern end of the beach, where the water height at the maximum inundation limit was possibly 6-8m, three rooms of a 4-roomed cottage were demolished and the building swept from its foundation. Five people in the cottage survived the tsunami, three trapped within the one room that remained intact, and two by running inland when the first wave was observed.”…….
https://www.geonet.org.nz/tsunami/story/1542993
Typing Gisborne Tsunami 1947 into Google Images reveals some photographs of the effects.
They got that covered in an earlier paper;
Geological evidence for past large earthquakes and tsunamis along the Hikurangi subduction margin, New Zealand
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025322718304511
It’s such a lovely stretch of road between Tatapouri and Pouawa that you just putter along looking out to sea…I could think of many worse places to die.
Green light expected for new roads in $12b spend-up
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12303875
Unfortunately the two year pause on starting the roads would likely translate to a much longer delay because the it had meant the loss of construction which would now have to be rebuilt.
The Government said in December time that not all of the $12 billion would necessarily be spent in the proposed five year time frame because of the challenges the increased construction programme could create for the already tight New Zealand labour market and the speed with which infrastructure firms are able to do the work.
“Our execution muscle has been left to go a bit flabby,” Blair said. “But it is chicken and egg. If you give the industry certainty of a multi-year pipeline, and that it will survive political cycles, then business will invest and we will find the firms lining up to deliver it.”
33 with 5 kids. They’re everywhere. Run for the hills!!!
Bartender mum, 33, is accused of killing her husband by setting him ON FIRE as he sat in an armchair inside their family home after a ‘petty argument’ – leaving their five children without a father
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7933531/Geelong-woman-accused-murder-setting-husband-fire.html
Sounds like she is a victim of abuse.
I promise you that is what the filthy slag will say. And the corrupt Courts will support it.
Rolls-Royce plans mini nuclear reactors by 2029
Environmentalists are divided over nuclear power, with some maintaining it is dangerous and expensive, while others say that to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 all technologies are needed.
However, the industry is confident that mini reactors can compete on price with low-cost renewables such as offshore wind.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51233444
Oh dear,
reading some of the latest posts on KB and you’d think you’ve been transported across to The Standard
Looks like the moderator is getting peeved about goodness knows what.
How rude Jacinda. Whose call would you have taken?
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/01/jacinda-ardern-dismisses-phone-call-from-australian-pm-scott-morrison-during-coronavirus-update.html
Did she deign to ring back?
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/01/coronavirus-australia-and-new-zealand-to-work-together-amid-calls-to-repatriate-citizens.html
Wow to the woke, are they the woke?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/119082663/washington-post-journalist-suspended-for-kobe-bryant-tweet-about-allegations