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The NZ First donation investigation had to happen and ignorance is no excuse.
Whilst Andrew Geddis calls ignorance I would use most other people interpretation, that being deliberate fraud as Wi ston Peter’s makes out it is legal,but knows he won’t be charged as the way the Foundation was set up it was always the Treasurer or Secretary of the Party job to report there donations.
Peter’s is as cunning as a shit house rat and has history of offending over Party donations but again will say the responsibility was for others so he can walk free.
https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/10-02-2020/the-nz-first-donations-were-clearly-a-problem-the-police-had-to-act/
Winston Peter’s is a leech and deny being involved but ask yourself this why would you go to these lengths to set up a Foundation the way it has been set up if you didn’t want to vame the system for a political advantage.
https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/10-02-2020/as-sfo-probes-nz-first-donations-ardern-is-visited-by-the-ghost-of-scandals-past/
Notice how often the MSM try to conflate NZFirst’s SFO investigation with National’s issue .
They don’t appear to be the same at all.
They are not the same , the EC did not even investigate Nats , Bridges was not even spoken to , and neither was Nats Peters has been found to have broken the law by the EC , and I have been told the charges are for lying to the SFO
“Filthy allegations” 🤣
A filthy Winston probe?
The denials and the we had advice sounds like his criminal corruption with his benefit fraud
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern frustrated by RNZ Concert proposals timing.
The Prime Minister has made it clear she will fight to keep RNZ Concert on FM Frequency, so is Jacinda telling lies again as she is the Prime Minister of NZ and should have known, no if, buts or why’s and if she didn’t know what is she doing letting her Ministers run amok.
But no it is always someone else’s fault and this explanation is more to appease Helen Clark as she leads a rebellion against getting rid of the Concert Station that the Minister had already approved.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/409210/prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-frustrated-by-rnz-concert-proposal-timing
Helen Claark only has to say jump and Jacinda asks how high.
She’s had her orders from Uncle Helen and she will deliver!
Does matter if there are only three other people plus Uncle Helen, that listern to it.
Concert FM is the only radio station I ever listen to. In the UK Radio 3, the equivalent of Concert FM, is the only station that is growing its audience with thousands upon thousands of listeners abandoning the relentless leftist propaganda of Radio 4 which used to be the flagship radio station but has been ruined by the “progressive” agenda of the BBC.
Snowflake Cindy?
The RNZ story is fake news constructed to make Ardern look powerful and decisive.
This explains, at length, how Climate Activists get rid of scientists that question their religion.
Any way you can repost that without it getting blocked by my ad-blockers?
It’s from Forbes. Apart from copy/pasting the text; which feels a bit dishonest no. If using Brave, it removes the ads and leaves the article contents only. Unfortunately Professor Pielke’s article is not on his own website either.
Excerpt:
A climate advocacy group called Skeptical Science hosts a list of academics that it has labeled “climate misinformers.” The list includes 17 academics and is intended as a blacklist. We know of this intent because one of the principals of Skeptical Science, a blogger named Dana Nuccitelli, said so last Friday, writing of one academic on their list, “if you look at the statements we cataloged and debunked on her [Skeptical Science] page, it should make her unhirable in academia.”
That so-called “unhirable” academic is Professor Judy Curry, formerly the chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Tech, and a Fellow of both the American Geophysical Union and American Meteorological Society. By any conventional academic metric, Curry has compiled an impressive record over many decades. The idea that she would be unhirable would seem laughable.
But there is nothing funny about Skeptical Science. Today, Curry should be a senior statesperson in the atmospheric sciences community. Instead, she is out of academia. She attributes that, at least in part, to being placed on the Skeptical Science blacklist and its use, as expressed by Nuccitelli, to make her “unhirable.”
I asked Professor Curry about this situation. She explained, “In 2012 I was informed by my Dean that the administration wanted me to step down as Chair. While there were several reasons for this, one obvious reason was extreme displeasure by several activist climate scientists who had a very direct pipeline to the Dean.”
So Curry stepped down and started looking for administrative positions at other universities, “At the time, I was getting numerous inquiries from academic headhunters encouraging me to apply for major administration positions, ranging from Dean to Vice Chancellor for Research. I applied for several of these, and actually interviewed for two of them. I did not make it to the final short list.”
The headhunter gave Curry the following feedback from the universities: “They thought I was an outstanding candidate, looked excellent on paper, articulated a strong vision, and interviewed very well in person. The show stopper was my public profile in the climate debate, as evidenced by a simple Google search.”
Coromandel bach owners be warned – a rates increase is on the cards after the local council’s operating budget is expected to blow out by $12 million in two years.
Thames Coromandel District Council will on Tuesday be asked to approve a new budget forecasting a $6.7m operating deficit this year.
Staff revised the budget after council spent a whopping $6.07m more on running the district than planned in 2018/19.
The review “identified substantial operational increases in budget would be needed to carry out the operations of council”, according to the report being presented to elected members.
Thames Coromandel mayor Sandra Goudie told the Herald the costs – many of which she claimed were unforeseeable – had increased exponentially.
“These things compound and you can’t have years and years and years of 1.6 per cent increase in average rates and not expect to have a bow wave of costs coming at you.”
Solid waste had been the biggest surprise, costing ratepayers an additional $2.6m due to several reasons including KPI adjustments, increase sector costs and China refusing to accept glass, Goudie said.
Depreciation of roading, increased water and water regulatory requirements and the Government’s requirement it put aside $900,000 for its nine landfills as a form of bond had also hit the council hard. Personnel costs were also more.
Under her leadership the council had committed to carrying out the planned capital work – an area which had previously come in under budget due to not being completed.
Goudie would not reveal how big the rate rise would be, saying she wanted it to be released to everyone at the same time.
“I’m not going to recoil from the fact that it’s necessary.”
While the council does bring in additional revenue through development contributions, capital expenditure subsidies and grants and vested assets, it cannot be used to pay for operational expenses.
TCDC group manager of corporate services Donna Holland said, in the report, that a reset of rates was “necessary” in 2020/21 to correct the gap between income and expenditure that was not reflected in the long term or annual plan.
Council management had also been tasked with making savings and identifying costs that could be spread across a number of financial years to ease the burden on the ratepayer, the report said.
In a report presented to council in October last year, elected members were told overspending was generally offset by increased revenue in another activity in the same group – but it had not been possible for all the activities in 2018/19.
The operational blowout in the first year occurred in the areas of solid waste; water, wastewater and storm-water activity; district roading activity and the Thames Community Spaces activity group.
Although 42 of the council’s capital projects went over budget by $1.7m, this was recovered by the 113 projects which fell under budget by $10.1m.
No problem mate, we will just rate the sheeple extra to cover our smshed arvo and latta.
They will never notice. Bloody rich dorklanders!
Different articles, Ed.
Yeah I noticed when I came to this page. I read the comments in the back room of this site. They are orderd by time, so I assumed maggie was talkng about your last post.
PTPM has no idea what she is doing ever and is showing how incompetent she really is. She is only good for hugs if you are a lefty, others would recoil from her hugz. That baby will be busy trying to take the heat off I would think
This time Peters may have painted himself into a corner and finally run out of his spin and bluster getting him out of this own goal. Peters was once intimidating and aggressive enough to meet any challenge head on so nobody dared to question him in case they got verbal backlash and threats of legal action. He had them right where he wanted them, Peters was king of his own hill. Now a whistleblower with evidence has broken ranks within NZ First and the SFO is combing through those financial records. Peters is an old man with a fading ability to parry against his foes. His memory loss and lack of astuteness has been apparent for some time. Time to retire Winston, bow out now. It is your only chance to go with any last scrap of dignity before the sh*t hits the fan.
Your to kind wg to a aresol that would walk all over anyone that gets in the road of what he wants and has proven that repeatedly over the last three or four years. Winston Peter’s is all about Utu and how much money he can win in the Courts and in the process ruin those reputations of those that dare to fight him
I’m a lady happychappy, I couldn’t possibly post what I really wanted to say about the dangerous old curmudgeon. 😊
Whinestones hig lawyer will be working overtime to get him off!
His lawyer is just as bad!
What, that he’s a old lying drunken dwarf narcissistic prick?
That’s my line Ed, you know that..? //
I seem to remember that a few months ago (September?) the figurehead ‘president’ of Peters’ fake party resigned, stating that he could no longer have confidence in the party’s accounts!
I can’t remember the bloke’s name, but I guess I could Google it if I could be bothered. Anyway, I’m sure that this bloke’s name will reappear in the news (if the MSM are allowed to report on the matter in our new totalitarian system).
He was never intimidating , he has always been an absolute blowhard
Poll: Do you care how political parties get their money?
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/shows/2020/02/poll-do-you-care-how-political-parties-get-their-money.html
Yes: 83%
No: 17%
yes, make that 84%
It is 84% now.
Very basic question though, it is the accountability and transparency factor, that interests me.
testing the population to see whether Winston’s creative accounting is on the in or out with the voters?
More likely which way the comrade bends!
Yes, and it must not be a compulsory cost on taxpayers. Political Parties should continue to raise the funds they require but never expect or receive any taxpayer funds. Provincial Growth Funds and the equivalent need to remain clear of any assertion seat buying or vote wooing may be alleged.
Coronavirus outbreak: At least 65 new cases on cruise ship off Japan, deaths pass 900 after deadliest day
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/02/coronavirus-outbreak-at-least-65-new-cases-on-cruise-ship-off-japan-deaths-pass-900-after-deadliest-day.html
Coronavirus has killed 908 people, chiefly in mainland China, and infected more than 40,000. There were 97 deaths over the last 24 hours – making it the deadliest day yet.
There are 3,000 people on that ship!
I woudl jump off!
You would if you were confined to an inside cabin (without windows) with bunks and three others crammed in with you.
You would definitely want your money back, but is it the cruise lines fault?
The ship would have insurance to cover this so they will be fine.
I believe they are getting a full refund.
With a free trip, thrown in?
If they survive eh?! It seems almost inevitable that everyone on the ship will succumb to the virus how can they not when the air conditioning system will be spreading it to every cabin? What will be interesting is how many people recover. If I was on board I would claim to have symptoms just so as to be taken off the ship to be tested in hospital.
Like lab rats really then in their isolation.
Reports from People in Taiwan with relatives in Wuhan stating Wuhan Crematorium burning 100 bodies a day which casts doubts on accuracy of “Official” numbers??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Wow, that sounds a bit like Chernobyl, where there buried some of the people in concrete!
Sustainable?
Don’t you just love government? They’ve run out of money and their answer is not “what are we doing wrong“, it is “we’ll take more money from you, dear ratepayers“
How about their clusterfuck that is the new Dunedin Hospital. They bought the old Cadbury factory site and have only discovered that due to seismic compliance they have to put foundations deep into the ground. And this is reclaimed land. Other sites close by have had to go 60m or more with foundation pillars. Cost estimates for just the foundations for this new Hospital? 1.5 billion…
Wonder why Cadbury left now?
Too much self interest (Otago University the main one) in this massive taxpayer funded project.
I have an ex-wife that treated the money I brought into the household the same. It’s easy to waste if it’s somebody elses, aye?
Didn’t Labour switch the location of the Hospital to this place as they didn’t agree with where National had proposed. I could be wrong but I remember most of the drivel that the lying son of bitch David Clark releases.
https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/hospital-redevelopment-projects/dunedin-hospital-redevelopment-project
Bill English wanted to build the Hospital up the hill on the abundance of land at the Waikari hospital grounds , the government already owns that land , and its vast amounts , for an ambulance its 5 mins from the town maybe less Labour remember barked at every passing car
Attorney general William Barr has verified what everybody already knew,the filthy Chinese government cannot be trusted at all ,they have been thieving from the rest of the world for decades and only a determined Trump administration has put the hammer down on the disgusting dictator leadership that have enslaved 1300 million uninformed people.
You want to see Mike Pompeo’s speech to all the US state governors.
And how China is infiltrating the west with its money.
I posted the link over the weekend. Mike Pompeo is impressive. He was 1st in his graduating class at West Point and was later the Director of the CIA before becoming Secretary of State. He knows what he is talking about with the Chinese.
And he speaks very well, as well.
Cool calm and looks like a very nice man.
Woman died after ‘sub-optimal’ care by Auckland DHB – Health commissioner
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/02/woman-died-after-sub-optimal-care-by-auckland-dhb-health-commissioner.html
Two months after an operation for a heart issue, in which she received a pacemaker, the woman returned to the hospital for post-operative tests. It remained in overnight. The woman’s clinical notes don’t show any of the nursing staff checked the catheter at any point following its insertion to the point when she was discharged the following afternoon, when she was allowed to leave overnight with the catheter still in place. She is referred to as Ms A in the report.
“Auckland DHB said that it is unclear who made the decision to allow Ms A to go on leave from the ward with a PIVC in place. It said that the vascular surgeon was unaware that the IV line had been left in situ during Ms A overnight leave,” the report said.
She returned to hospital the following day unable to bend her arm and in pain. The intravenous line was removed and there were pus spots near the insertion, which she pointed out to the nurse who said it was “fine”.
Another nurse and doctor checked the site but did not raise any concerns about the possibility of an infection.
The DHB’s response is basically: “Whoops, sorry that shit happened. We’ll do better next time”.
Election 2020: Donation allegations likely to sink New Zealand First – political scientist
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/02/election-2020-donation-allegations-likely-to-sink-new-zealand-first-political-scientist.html
Political scientist Bryce Edwards told The AM Show Ardern is correct to conduct some sort of inquiry.
“I think it’s likely to sink New Zealand First in 2020 and it will dog this Government throughout this year,” he said.
“It goes to the heart of democracy and the way it affects people’s lives.
Investigation into NZ First Foundation donations referred to Serious Fraud Office
“We’re supposed to be the most corrupt-free country on the planet yet what we’re seeing here are just major issues.”
Edwards believes Ardern will be weighing up all her options including an early election.
“Yes, she’s already said September 19 is the date that she wants to go,” he said. “I think she will look at an earlier possibility if the Serious Fraud Office decide to investigate.
“Whatever happens, we really want a quick investigation that gives voters certainty.”
They are going to have to hurry,
There’s an early election, remember!
30th of May. Stick the date in your calender!
When is the budget?
No time for one of them.
Unless Robbo plucks one out of his arse!
May
That would require the Thick One to show leadership and make a decision.
What does he mean correct to conduct some sort of enquiry ? , she has kicked the can down the road and wants nothing to do with it , or corruption hanging over her DPM is fine
I had sepsis last August and I couldn’t have had better care, not that I was grateful at the time lol. There are big be aware of sepsis notices all over the hospitals I was in.
Sepsis kills more people than cancer.
Another timely reminder of how bad people are at evaluating risk.
Elections for the board are held every three years and elects seven members.
There are also three appointed members; Pat Snedden (Chair), Gwen Tepania-Palmer (Deputy Chair) and Sharon Shea.
Member(s) Affiliation (if any)
Jo Agnew City Vision Health*
Peter Davis City Vision Health*
Michelle Atkinson City Vision Health*
Zoe Brownlie Independent
Douglas Armstrong World Class Health Auckland
Fiona Lai C&R
Troy Elliot C&R
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auckland_District_Health_Board
*City Vision is a centre-left coalition of two political parties, the New Zealand Labour Party and the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand,
hmmmm?
Does the fish rot from the head?
Someone at TV3 doesn’t like David Seymour’s views. There was a very good interview on NewsHub much earlier this morning with Seymour talking about Winston Peters and the SFO investigation of NZ First donations. Perhaps TV3 are getting legal advice in case Peters threatens to sue them and Seymour? I’ll watch out for the interview and post it if it surfaces.
David Seymour is the best hope for this country these days. If only the sheeple would wake up to what is being done to them.
We haven’t had a dose of Greta for a while. Lucky the BBC are happy to keep us informed, As we are all aware, the BBC will be nauseatingly left in its portrail of this weird little girl and her manipulation of climate hysteria.
BBC announces documentary on Greta Thunberg’s ‘international crusade’, ‘journey into adulthood’
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/entertainment/2020/02/bbc-announces-documentary-on-greta-thunberg-s-international-crusade-journey-into-adulthood.html
Peters will be on with Peter Williams after the 10 am news.
You mean Peter Aoeteroa Williams.
I no longer listen to him.
No answers from Peters will be forthcoming then. 🤨
Meanwhile the Select Committee on the gun laws has reported in the way the government told it to do in spite of almost overwhelming opposition. I expect the chairwoman, whose conflict of interest and known anti gun bias was called out right at the start of the process, will now be in line for some form of promotion. Such is the way our government operates in this post democratic age.
Opinion piece by Garner
Duncan Garner: NZ First donation debacle threatens to derail Winston Peters in an election year
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/02/duncan-garner-nz-first-donation-debacle-threatens-to-derail-winston-peters-in-an-election-year.html
“Here’s the rub – the commission says the donations were not properly transmitted to the party and not disclosed as required by law.
I find this to be a truly significant statement.
Firstly, the commission hasn’t just sent a benign ruling to the police to look at, it’s sent a powerful directive effectively saying NZ First has broken the rules.
The police have wasted little time and put it into the hands of the Serious Fraud Office.”
Peters has Ardern over a barrel and she can’t cut him loose. So it would seem that if this goes pear-shaped for him, as it should, then he’s going to drag her down with him. In that case her only option would be to call an early election to minimise the damage. But she’s already set the date, so that would involve a back-down. It’s going to be fun to watch this unfold!
Whinestone should change his name to Rodger!
She has not asked the GG for the date yet , that’s important , because it means the date means nothing
Michael Mann spreading his lies and mis-information in Australia right now. The man is a menace at least he would be if anybody was listening to him:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrmW-_7DtNc
The title explains what this is about. A very informed conservative.
HOW DARE YOU: 10 reasons not to believe climate change criers | Liz Wheeler LIVE at the Reagan Ranch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-qBOyrD0-0
Trump speaks to governors at business summit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS1cr4sRiAY
Will the Ducky be on the speakers chair today?
Will Whinestone be at work today?
Simon Bridges says he feels vindicated by his decision to rule out working with Winston Peters following the NZ First Leaderd attitude towards him when they crossed paths at Waitangi.
“There was no small talk at all” Bridges told Magic Talk on Monday “I suppose that’s the way it goes I think the reality is it tells me I made the right call”.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/02/simon-bridges-on-why-he-has-no-regrets-ruling-out-winston-peters.html
I think Simon Bridges may have taken a lot of confidence out of Winston Peters ignorance and arrogance at Waitangi.
The Woman’s Weekly readers would think that the lovely Jacinda would show real courage and leadership if she stated that because Winstone is so dishonest she has to call an early election.
Cindy is backing Peters this morning saying she trusts Winston. Will she sink with the NZ First ship!
Who pulled the bung? Well done that person.
There is a persistent rumour up here that Carter Holt will be closing their fortress mill in Whangarei, 160 jobs on the way out. Apparently they haven’t planted enough trees and would rather feed their LVL plant. Mind you, log exports to China appear to be stalling so there may be a short term reprieve. If only Shane had remembered to plant all those trees ….. Not to worry I’m sure he’ll have a backup plan. I suppose he could borrow some from the foundation.
Well his trees wouldn’t have fixed that but what the hell was the industry doing for itself?
Carter Holt aren’t well known for employing competent thinking people who plan ahead. If you’ve had a lobotomy and can use the word “team” five times in every sentence you utter you’re on the fast track to the top.
Walls of logs at Napier port,more at once than I’ve seen in 7 years…
International log buyers have been in and bought up the locally supplied Northland raw logs. Raw logs wanted for processing by the sawmills in Northland are now more expensive after needing to be trucked in from other regions,
Struggling Northland sawmillers call for Government help, fearing ‘complete closure’
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/struggling-northland-sawmillers-call-government-help-fearing-complete-closure
Sawmillers in Northland are calling for Government help as they struggle to source raw logs being snapped up by international buyers.
If Ardern has dragged herself away from the Big Gay Out or whatever other market or festival she is seeking photo-ops at, then perhaps she can ask some serious questions from her ministers around what they can do to support this industry, and maintain employment?
I would rather see Hugzilla visiting flood striken farmers or visiting the local authorities and mill owners, if she really must get her horsey smile in the news.
Selfies with drag queens, or visiting Chinese New Year events – not so critical to the country.
10 people accused of importing over a tonne of drugs into New Zealand
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/02/10-people-accused-over-importing-over-a-tonne-of-drugs-into-new-zealand.html
Police have arrested 10 people accused of importing over a tonne of methamphetamine, MDMA, cocaine and ephedrine into New Zealand over a three-year period.
Up to $5 million worth of drugs and a million in cash has been seized in a major operation targeting the international drug syndicate.
Four men sentenced over 46kg cocaine bust
Two of the men received hefty sentences at Auckland High Court on Thursday.
Four jailed for importing meth from US with links to well-known sportsman
A New Zealand man has allegedly been operating overseas since 2016, sending drugs to associates back here via multiple countries and using a variety of ways to conceal the drugs.
He was arrested at the border in Italy on February 2, police say.
I wonder if Jethro is still on the porch
National MPs Nicky Wagner and David Carter retiring after election, Sarah Dowie will not contest Invercargill
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/02/national-mps-nicky-wagner-and-david-carter-retiring-after-election-sarah-dowie-will-not-contest-invercargill.html
How many of labour will stand down retire at the next election?
Better pull their finger out if we go to an early election!
According to newshub three people is an exodus.
Just renewal, Not life long troughers like Labour.
Advertising Standards Authority rejects National’s appeal over misleading ‘car tax’ advert
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/02/advertising-standards-authority-rejects-national-s-appeal-over-misleading-car-tax-advert.html
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) had said the ads, which accuse the Government of implementing a $6000 “car tax”, were “likely to confuse or deceive consumers” and ordered them taken down.
National appealed the ruling, arguing that the Complaints Board had not given sufficient weight to the Government’s car tax policy in its totality.
It said it was clear that the costs of the policies will be passed on to consumers, in the form of higher vehicle prices.
However the ASA Appeal Board rejected this.
The ASA ruling seems correct to me. But why the hell are they ruling on a bit of political jousting? It’s not like Bridges is selling cars.
Hmmm – Silly Little Girl rolls her eyes at reporters. Someone’s feeling the heat getting turned up.
Jacinda Ardern’s change of tack on trusting Winston Peters
Socialist Cindy should be in her element ‘communicating’ with the msm. That’s what she trained for with her UofW communications degree! 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
The pandemic of runny noses and sniffles rages on.
Meanwhile thousands are dying in China due to a lack of medical care for real issues, as hospitals are packed full of people with the common cold.
Are you getting worried Kea? Just remember it isn’t bird flu so you should be ok. I haven’t heard of any parrots getting infected with the Kung Flu (official name).
Just don’t drink Corona. Pretty obvious really.
Saggy ,very good LOL. and avoid the steamed bat.
Did Winston Peters have words with the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern yesterday after the Press Conference as it’s not usual to change you opinion whether you do or don’t trust him so okay you fully Trust him, so I have to ask this question has Winston got some alleged dirtywashing on the Prime Minister for her to change her mind so quickly or is it you don’t like being portrayed as weak.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=12307585
Some might think Winston Peters would not do that well look what has done under Parliamentry Privilege or what his reaction was like to his his former President who wouldn’t sign off on donations that he new nothing about and resigned only for Peter to release his private health problems for everyone to see.
Will the first question to the PM be, “Does she have complete trust in her Deputy PM”.
Bwahahahaha !~
If not, why not!
Awww-chucks, Peters is being supportive…
Winston Peters defends Jacinda Ardern amid questions over her trust in him
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/02/winston-peters-defends-jacinda-ardern-amid-questions-over-her-trust-in-him.html
“I couldn’t operate this Government without a trusting relationship with Winston Peters and that is at the core of why we’ve been able to run that strong, stable Government – because of that trusting relationship,” Ardern said.”
Winston Peters is defending Jacinda Ardern after the Prime Minister refused to say she trusted her Deputy Prime Minister during her Monday post-Cabinet press conference.
New Zealand First leader Winston Peters told Magic Talk on Tuesday he took no issues with the Prime Minister refusing to say she trusts him and that he was pleased with her response.
“The Prime Minister said that we have a very sound, stable working relationship leading to the political stability of this country… That’s all I wanted her to say. I didn’t ask her to say it, but I’m pleased she said it.”
BFFs how cute.
Speaking of misleading headlines. Not this election!!!
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/119418119/nz-first-saga-simon-bridges-leaves-door-open-for-future-cooperation-with-winston-peters
It is misleading. However Bridges is quite right not to commit to policies after the 2023 election. As the article points out Key did regarding super and Cindy did regarding CGT.
Has anyone developed coping strategies should the Ardern regime continue for another term?
Or even how to deal with the fawning media coverage as she waves around the little homunculus?
Why do you think they are trying to make cannabis lawful and readily available to the masses.
Otherwise I’ll have to resort to 🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷 😉
I’m thinking I’ll become a refugee.
I’m having trouble recognising this country.
I will consider NZ a failed state under an authoritarian regime.
I will also except the verdict of the voting public and regard kiwis as freedom hating dangerous imbeciles.
My vote goes to the one true leader of the free world.
President Donald Trump.
He delivers.
He continues to deliver.
You don’t mess with this guy……..You’re fired!!
Bigger than Vindman: Trump scrubs 70 Obama holdovers from NSC
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/bigger-than-vindman-trump-scrubs-70-obama-holdovers-from-nsc
David Seymour’s new bill covers it quite well.
I’m planning on crouching in the corner, rocking back and forth, and chewing crayons.
The yellow ones don’t taste like lemon……….the blues ones do though…..see I’m not wascist.
Flying anything but Air New Zealand?
Will they hop over the ditch? Jacinda will find the time.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/entertainment/2020/02/prince-william-and-kate-to-head-down-under-report.html
Why on earth would they do that!
Only a few more months of been PM!
I thought the engine was in the rear of VW Beetles?
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/02/watch-car-fire-blocks-lanes-on-auckland-s-sh1-northern-motorway.html
Before the crash it was
Lol, I thought the same. But apparently not, the new Beatles are front engined and front wheel drive.
Another lefty idiot.
Good on you Ryan
Ryan Bridge slams Joaquin Phoenix’s criticism of dairy industry
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/rural/2020/02/ryan-bridge-slams-joaquin-phoenix-s-criticism-of-dairy-industry-in-oscar-speech.html
Magic Talk host Ryan Bridge has thrown his support behind dairy farmers after actor Joaquin Phoenix used his speech at the Oscar Awards to slam the industry.
Meanwhile, a Whangarei farmer told Bridge that he was tired of actors speaking on subjects they knew nothing about.
“They are just actors, they pretend to be what they are not, then they start lecturing us about what we should be doing?
“That really gets up my nose,” he said.
Good on Ryan for standing up to that farmer hating urban filth.
Pol Pot was right about urban dwellers and took reasonable measures to address the issue. With American support btw. Just as they initially supported the magnificent Nazis.
I though Phoenix and Brad Pitt wodould have learned that people are sick of “celebrities” mouthing off about rascim and climate change.
Just thank your mother and the people that made the film with you.
I see some woke fucktard is calling us racist because we don’t want to catch a cold.
He needs to do some travel. Most of the world is racist and no more so than Chinese. We are racist for the same reason we prefer our own kids. Its about protecting our genetic material.
Japanese, Chinese et cetera would wonder what we are babbling about if we started virtue signaling about racism.
So the Nats are falling to bits.
Dowie, Carter and Wagner all calling time.
Hopefully they will gift a seat or two to ACT. They maust be bloody short of aspiring leaders by now.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/119419661/invercargill-mp-sarah-dowie-unexpectedly-retires-from-parliament
I’m sure the LORD will provide a few replacement apostles from the congregation. It’s not like there is a shortage of smug sanctimonious pricks.
Kea there are 120 smug sanctimonious pricks down there already, thats the reason our politics is so F- – -D most of them couldn’t run a bath forget about running the country.
They are universally useless ,the usual scenario is coming up with a “good idea” Spending 10s or 100s of millions of dollars and then finding out after its been implemented that its “not living up to expectations” and canning it.
Billions of dollars wasted in the last 20 years.
119.
You’re right Pascal, it is a 119 billion dollars wasted.😁
RT120. My gut says more like 1 trillion.
Multiply everything government experts predict costs will be by ten.
A good gauge to use when rates are up for review.
…..”They maust be bloody short of aspiring leaders by now.”…..
The Vatican are on to it. Expect Cardinal Dew to throw his hat into the ring any time soon.
Trump really knows how to draw a crowd and at the right place ( New Hampshire just before the Democrat primaries). Take a note of the stats that Brad Pascale collects.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/02/trump-overflow-crowd-so-huge-it-has-its-own-overflow-crowd-at-new-hampshire-rally-photos-video/
A good article that covers facts and figures.
Goats and Soda
STORIES OF LIFE IN A CHANGING WORLD
China Reports Total Of More Than 1,000 Deaths In The Country From Coronavirus
In one editorial headlined “Is sympathy too much to ask from the Western media?” author Wang Wenwen writes: “Reading through some Western media reports on China’s fight against the outbreak, I could not find many encouraging and inspiring ones. Instead, I discovered discrimination and gloating.”
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/02/10/804387615/china-reports-nearly-100-deaths-in-a-single-day-from-coronavirus
…..””Is sympathy too much to ask from the Western media?””…..
China invented the virus, incubated it, nursed it & spread it. Now they want sympathy?
Is it ethnicity targeted?
Some people have asked the question.
I don’t know.
If it is, China will implode.
…..”Is it ethnicity targeted”……
Possible but unlikely.
Still, it would help explain the unprecedented panic by the CCP which has traditionally put a low value on individual human life.
You know how Obama bragged about having Kenyan citizenship?
The possibility of him scarpering when the blow torch gets a bit more uncomfortable, is quite high.
Hence, the tell tale ructions within his family.
A really smart bugger would try and eliminate that as an option.
FBI, State Department Partner with Kenya to Launch First Overseas Joint Terrorism Task Force
The team will adopt methodologies used by U.S.-based JTTFs and be trained to handle sensitive counterterrorism intelligence shared with the Kenyan government. The investigators will be trained and equipped to investigate all terrorism matters deemed of significant importance to Kenya’s National Security Council. Upon completion of the course, the JTTF-K officers will return to Kenya, where they will be assisted by an FBI special agent mentor.
https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/fbi-state-department-partner-with-kenya-to-launch-first-overseas-joint-terrorism-task-force
The black warlord Obama put troops and operatives in over 36 African countries.
The beast needs to hang for its crimes.
Click on the picture and see the looks on the faces of the Kenyans.
They know they are rooted.
I see what you mean. What a miserable looking bunch.
Best video of seen of the cold hysteria. Also check out his one on Tesla drivers. 🤣
https://youtu.be/OW7dASdQIgU
Hahaha. His vegan one is pretty funny too. Thanks for that share.
Look up Man Script 😊
I want to buy a crayfish for Friday night. Mainly the tauls, I jave a recipe to smoke them and butter them for Mama Bear.
Any suggestions on where in Auckland I should be looking, please? Even an hour or so ride out, no problem.
You just want an excuse to go for a bike ride!
We are having a YSB meetup here in Tauranga on Thursday.
The thought did cross my mind. But I need lobster tails.
Should be cheap at the moment, no China market!
Contact a local Iwi. They can always supply for a price.
The vile disgusting lefties are pushing to keep children as a money source.
RED ALERT: As Trump Admin takes on human trafficking and addresses the Child Welfare system, the Left is fighting back. AFSCME files a whistleblower complaint against DOJ.
AOC, ACLU, group that includes SPLC all fighting Trump.
https://twitter.com/HowleyReporter/status/1227061610172293126
The left use children as currency for their rich backers, as well as their own “enjoyment”. Its sickening.
Same here in NZ as we’ve seen.
It’s not just the children, the left abuse the women as well!
Deviants the lot of them!
I saw a meme with AOC as the subject:
It has her saying,
“This jigsaw puzzle took me six days to complete and on the side of the box it said it would take 3-6 yrs. Liars!!”
Mysterious signal from deep space is repeating in 16-day cycle
It’s unclear what’s causing the pattern to repeat, but the study’s abstract suggests there is “a mechanism for periodic modulation either of the burst emission itself, or through external amplification or absorption, and disfavor models invoking purely sporadic processes.”
The FRB has been traced to a galaxy known as SDSS J015800.28+654253.0 and despite its great distance from Earth, at 500 million light-years, it is the closest FRB detected so far. A light-year, which measures distance in space, equals 6 trillion miles.
https://www.foxnews.com/science/mysterious-signal-deep-space-repeating-16-day-cycle
It’s just the aliens sending instructions to their species on how to enslave earth, in the run up to the election. You don’t think Ardern did this by herself do you?
Hugzilla is receiving instructions! 🙂
Does her aerials come out of her head like Mork?
Bit far for a visit until we can reach “warp 9 Scotty”
(Startrek)
I dialed the galaxy known as SDSS J015800.28+654253.0 got the usual…….”.all our lines are currently busy”………..your call is important to us, and one of our operators will get to you as soon as possible”……..insert music (Moonlight Sonata)………..
Bloody cheek.
Elton John flies to the Oscar’s from NZ. The woke are pissed all that cow is made!
Who gives a shit, he can afford it. So why not!
They are just pissed they can’t afford it!
Sharks circling?
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/02/revealed-who-kiwis-think-should-be-nz-first-leader-if-winston-peters-stands-down.html
Shane for me.
He’s bound to stuff it up!
Import Nigel Farage and Katie Hopkins.
No mucking around.
A day to learn the Treaty and whammo!! Full steam ahead.
I might be going gaga…
I’m just back from taking “our” Paradise duck down to our pond for his supper treat…..
He won’t go down by himself, preferring to camp out on my back door step and crap all over the back-yard.
He arrived a week ago and stayed for a day… fossicking around the sprinklers when I put them on…..then he disappeared for a couple of days, before installing and imprinting himself on us on Saturday. He follows us about outside… climbing up and down stairs like a little dog … and just waiting if we go inside. He got fed up on Sunday morning when we didn’t get up at 6am to give him breakfast and flew over to the neighbours to investigate their big open aviary…. but I had to call him back, as one of their dogs would eat him if he could.
He’s not showing much interest in grazing my lawns or garden veges (rather dry at the moment.)..much preferring my left-over slops.
he’s also not shown any interest in the Parrys that fly over every now and again.
Wonder what he’ll do when the Mallards turn up here (usually around Easter).
He’ll be going through the moult & quite happy to park up & bludge.
I have 8 Pekins and 5 Cayuga
A pekin escaped from the neighbours and camped out at our Pond for a few weeks and then wandered across the road to another neighbours where it became a pet for their kids… until a wandering dog killed it.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a cayuga (I googled them)… they look fabulous.
He’s a Juvenile…. hasn’t got a completely black head… I think he’s from the clutch that was being raised in a neighbouring paddock and just got discombobulated in the very hot weather.
Naaska
“He’ll be going through the moult & quite happy to park up & bludge.”
Sounds like my neighbours favourite pastime.
Sounds a hoot. Already has you trained supplying him with good grub Maggy.
Have you named the Paradise duck? Donald, Huey?
Donald and Daisy were the first Mallard pair that shacked up with us for a couple of years (absent last Year).
We haven’t got beyond calling this one Duck-duck….. it seems to work.
Remember this coming Friday is special…..it’s called St. Valentine’s Day because St. Blowjob for Jewellery Day just didn’t have the same ring to it.
Ring? I should shout myself
😉