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Not one but two $100k donations to National in court.
The four people charged have been given name suppression after it was found they were about to be named by two media outlets.
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/politics/2020/02/17/1040468/sfo-case-is-over-two-100k-donations-to-national
You have to wonder who is the fourth charged wit misleading the SFO in the course with complying with a requirement ….of the serious fraud office act 1990 supplied information knowing it was false or misleading in material particular.
Well, we do know for sure it not Brian Henry!
He’s too clever by half to do something like that with NZF!
Could be a ex member of National?
To some the heading pic will make perfect sense; self-generating on-site and hydro-based (‘renewable’) electricity; ready to use, from water to the outlet. What is there not to like?
I;m sure they’d get a real ‘charge’ out of using it
Thank you.
Your pretty sharp at this hour of the morning Komata.
You missed the point.
There are for electric boats.
Row up and plug in.
😆 😆
That’s shocking.
What a buzz i tell ya !~
Heatherdu plessis-Allen responds to the obvious response to Peters scandal is…..
The Prime Minister should be embarrassed by the Government she is leading. What is this the Government of everything goes, what does it take to get should down in this Government.
I would argue this business with Winston Peters is taking the micky now.
https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/heather-du-plessis-allan-drive/video/perspective-with-heather-du-plessis-allan-jacinda-arderns-response-to-winston-peters-scandal-is-spineless/
Obviously Heather has very sheltered life if she hasn’t noticed what most people in politics will say he has always been corrupt.
Heather is from South Africa I believe, they don’t have corruption there hence her inability to recognize it when it stares her in the face!
(Oh, that’s sarc. in case you didn’t realize:-)
Yep, they are all lily white over there, I tell ya’s!
It is worth reading this exchange with the Prime Ministers Chief Science Adviser. Then go pour yourself a good shot of whiskey, even at 6:30am and drink a toast to the end of reason and to farewell our country.
Thanks for that, Pascal.
The “high priestess” in NZ of that cult seems to only believe in “computer modeling” with all it over-reaches and assumptions.
Very interesting points, and needs to be much more further spread for general consumption, as the agenda of their beliefs, paints them into a corner.
The fallacies and set up for those beliefs need to be revealed, so that truth can be seen, discussed and debated, to clear the air.
Minister Woods needs to read and absorb this before proceeding with her electricity reforms. I support any action to sensibly manage costs for consumers. I do not support any move to move towards zero carbon in the reforms where pointless costs will be inflicted on all consumers.
I wonder if that has been brought to the attention of Rod Carr as he continues his deliberations? Haven’t heard or seen a peep out of him since he took up the post as chairman of the Climate Change Commission have you?
Can you post this on Kiwiblog?
It has a larger readership than this blog.
Sorry Maggy, I asked DPF to delete my account after his moderation changes following the Christchurch attacks last year. I don’t want to create a new account there.
Feel free to grab the link and cross-post on Kiwiblog.
I have sent the paper to Kiwiblog, and also to The BFD. I included this, which I found this morning:
http://better-management.org/the-great-global-warming-hoax/
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/02/university-of-auckland-student-launches-legal-action-over-enrolment-termination-after-suicide-attempt.html
Really? She has a year to go, surely her degreescan just be put on hld.
“We can confirm that student health and wellbeing is a priority for us, and that we are committed to supporting students who attend the university,” a spokesperson said.
Further erosion of property rights. State housing – coming to your place:
Here’s how the Government could force you to sell your house for state housing
One day Wiley will publish a book about New Zealand called: “Fucking up a country in 3 years for Dummies”.
Has only been 2 !!!
The foreword will be written by Angela Merkel who managed to f**k up an entire continent in that time.
Both are good commie SLG!
In Merkels case she’s built like a T34 tank!
Bit strange . While National was in power they tried to move people in big State houses (esp. when there was only one or two in the house ) to another state house so there could be development of the big section. When the tenant kicked up the Opposition (ie. Labour) always supported the tenant.
Labour in opposition were like a dog chasing cars, they couldn’t resist opposing any law change by the Nats. It is the way Labour make their own policy decisions, it’s all about feelz, nothing about common sense or pragnatism
The idea was good.
Pull down or have removed the big old uninsulated houses built over 60 years go that had old wiring (risk element of fire) and old plumbing that had sustained large use for more than half a century by tenants who generally did not and had no need to care, and replace with 3 modern dwellings on the same size section to fit the modern era.
It was poorly sold.
Bill English was very poor at selling ideas. Utterly hopeless in fact. 2002 and 2017 prove this.
Then of course the lying media scum spun the story the way their unions tell them and the propaganda was rolling.
This is where President Donald J Trump, Commander in Chief, is so much smarter.
By pass the media swamp rats and send all you comms on twitter.
Then the media swamp rats have to report on that. On facts everyone else can see.
It is a war with the Marxist scum of media and tertiary institutions and cap guns don’t cut it.
Notional needs to wake the feck up if it wants to communicate ….and 2020 is no different.
The media swamp rats and up interviewing their computer!
I hear you my brother.
100% correct.
‘We all do things we are not proud of ‘ says out going Invercargill MP Sarah Dowie.
A lot of people like to criticize MPs for not standing up for what they believe or hiding away there failures or the dirty washing from there mistakes. But full credit to Sarah dowie for the honest without smearing others in a honest assessment of hers.
https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/119569116/we-all-do-things-we-are-not-proud-of-says-outgoing-invercargill-mp-sarah-dowie
We all make mistakes at some time in our lives and I have made plenty but hats off to Sarah Dowie for admitting her mistakes without criticism of others.
Good on her but rooting a sleazy nutbag like Ross who was already in bed with sleazy Slater and a disciple of Lusk suggests she has very poor judgement.
Although the same could be said for Soimon Bridges who was very close to Ross for years and could not read him at all. What happens if Bridges had to assess world leaders who are often duplicitous – he would fail miserably. He was only a public service lawyer in a provincial city. It is not like he made Partner of major law firm in his thirties. Those are the truly clever minds.
Bridges was very, very close to someone who has been actively trying to destroy the Notional Party (JL Ross) for more than a year. Several SFO cases later…
Should Bridges consider retiring in September?
Credit to Dowie for owning her mistakes.
Bridges, not so much.
It is a tough life after all. A four day week for a bit over half a year.
8-10 week summer break ..bedda than a teacher!
Imagine then, the stress of being a list MP //
Quote:-
…She won’t miss the weekly air travel to Wellington, where she stays from Monday to Thursday for more than half the year…
Sympathy for another beaten child begins a campaign to take our legal right to silence. Already people are willing to give up their right to silence with only 35% (so far) willing to give up this imperative.
Poll: Do you believe we should have the legal right to silence?
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/shows/2020/02/poll-do-you-believe-we-should-have-the-legal-right-to-silence.html
YES 35%
NO 65%
What a disgrace this country is. The majority want to give up rights to the corrupt police state because – think of the children.
Sleazy posturing aside, the demands of these creeps can be simply met by lying. Something those opposing the right to silence do everyday.
Especially as the argument is that removing it would make them lie just to have something to say.
Exactly Rachael. Essentially it opens the door to allowing (as evidence) statements extracted under duress.
Once that door is opened it will be applied to other things. Such as us “alt right” folk. So the regime’s police will not only raid your family home, but be permitted to use torture to extract confessions.
Too extreme? Seems I’ve been told that every time. And every time my predictions have been right.
Couldn’t agree more Kea. This shit makes my blood run cold. If we line that up with the other “initiatives” by Comrade Ardern’s regimes (evolving weapons ban, armed raids on citizens expressing disapproval of Ardern, proposed hate speech legislation) it is a bleak future for this country if the citizenry doesn’t wake up.
So from what I can gather from the situation the family are either too frightened of the person that did this heinous act, in which case they should speak to the police when they are interviewed alone, (surely the police are interviewing them on their own) or they feel confident that he/she won’t actually do this to them? They should be very afraid that the person who did that to the poor child will turn on them and perhaps one day soon. Anyone that does that to a child is not a stable person. I cannot believe that there is nothing we can do. It’s a disgrace, they obviously learned the lesson from the Kahui family.
Or Justice for Moko. how many since then?
Look at the pieces of subhuman bacteria that polluted the short and painful life of Nia Glassie.
That bacterial scum needed to be wiped out and any critters they had parented be removed from the gene pool .
Clean the fecking slate!
*WARNING* on this paragraph. Subhuman behaviour described :
…Nia was subject to extensive physical abuse for weeks, possibly even months, before being admitted to hospital and dying of brain injuries on 3 August 2007. The court concluded that in addition to having had chunks of wood dropped on her and wrestling moves copied from a computer game practised on her, she had been kicked, beaten, slapped, jumped on, held over a burning fire, spit on, placed into a clothes dryer spinning at top heat for up to 30 minutes, folded into a sofa and sat on, shoved into piles of rubbish, dragged through a sandpit half-naked, flung against a wall, dropped from a height onto the floor, and whirled rapidly on an outdoor rotary clothes line until thrown off…
Roll call of subhuman bacteria:
Michael Curtis,
Wiremu Curtis,
Lisa Kuka,
Michael Pearson,
Oriwa Kemp.
should have been wiped off the planet along with all their spawn.
What we got instead was …Oriwa Kemp went on to have multiple children taken into care…
This was in Rotorua where Merepeka Raukawa-Tait is based.
Tait is saying kids should not be removed and therefore supports this child abuse.
Tait (various names over the years) was convicted in 1993 for tax fraud and not paying over PAYE deducted from employees.
Tait was a candidate for the Christian Heritage Party and personally recruited by convicted rapist Graham Capill. She was his deputy for a while. Capill himself was a police prosecutor before he went to trial for rape.
What a dreadful web of warped critters there are out there.
They love to lord it over others despite not having the moral nor intellectual fortitude to do so.
……”They love to lord it over others”……
Taihoa! You can’t speak of our pontificating, know-all, religious leaders like that. Brother Capill, Sister Tait & their ilk are better equipped to run our lives than we are.
They’ve told us that God said so!
Well Komrade Brother Nasska I shall say 15 Hail Mary’s and self flagellate.
Will that appease the gods (that walk this earth and appear on TV1) ?
There are folks who have spent their lives lying and got away with it.
I doubt if someone is gonna spill in this case… or even if someone does, the evidence will go in circles and we will never know the truth of the matter.
People brought up in these violent dysfunctional families learn to keep schtum from a very early age.
Justice Minister Andrew Little rules out revoking right to silence, lawyer concerned change could lead to wrongful convictions
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/02/justice-minister-andrew-little-rules-out-revoking-right-to-silence-lawyer-concerned-change-could-lead-to-wrongful-convictions.html
Only really decent decision he’s made.
I don’t like removing the right to silence, but like everyone else I’m well over kids being bashed to death (or worse) and no one being held to account. Perhaps we could treat these cases the same way we do traffic infringements: it’s your car so tell us who was driving or we will charge you.
Same with kids. Was the child in your care? Then tell us who bashed the child senseless or you will be charged with inflicting the harm by failing in your duty to protect the child in your care.
Tell them
If you dont talk now on video for half an hour
Then we wil take away any benefits you are on and stop them for ever.
Nah, I’d like to tell them if their fingerprints or DNA are in that house, they’re doing time for assaulting the child – whether they’re friend, relative, dealer, casual shag, …
DN you know that will never happen.
Liebour are crim huggers.
They want to clear the prisons of criminals, gangsters, and thugs to clear the way for political prisoners and bad thought people.
They won’t even touch the benefit for liars and cheats – it is policy.
The Minister heading this – Carmel Sepuloni – had her own mother convicted of benefit fraud. Who bedda to head this?
Like the Minister of finance had his father convicted of financial fraud.
You see what you are dealing with…bugger logical solutions.
Always in the background behind the fence , like a yappy dog , is a thug in a suit called Kelvin Davis.
Sepuloni is detested by many MPs including some from her own team.
One of the more kind names she has picked up is “the Sewer”.
To have ones parent banged up for dishonesty must be a requirement to be a Labour MP.
Dear old Grant and Sepuloni are two current ones that I know about. There were others but no longer MPs.
Any updates about Karel Sroubek ?
Newshub polls never open for me even when I click the “difficulty” button. Maybe it’s my ad blockers or perhaps they just know I will vote against their favoured option 🙂
They can smell the uranium on your breath and the lead doors come down.
How would ‘they’ make you surrender that right?
Holden fans devastated over brand axing
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/02/holden-fans-devastated-over-brand-axing.html
There is Holden museum in Taranki, I’m told!
Probably got there name on the last one already!
When travelling through Tasmania a few years ago the rental we got was a Holden Cruze. And that’s all I have to say about that.
Was that the one where they didn’t manage to align the steering wheel with the middle of the driver’s seat?
Converted LHD and there was no enough room behind the dash to put everything!
What a Arsehole Baary Soper is , with Statements like this , Jacinda Ardern can’t forever remain blind to what going on around her.
Then in his smarmy bitter way he starts to smear Paula Bennett for saying that sort of behavior is not acceptable in the National Leaders book, with Soper again smearing Bridges for his remarks on Maureen Pugh and Jamie Lee Ross.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12309329
It looks and seems like Barry Soper is a part of Winstons dirty Politics team and doing anythink Winston Peters requests.
Soper, can see his career waving him goodbye as he remains stuck in the past when Whinestone was relevant!
Read that too Happychappy, the headline was going to be an interesting article i thought, but Barely Sober rants on to smear Paula Bennett and the National Party, what a tosser.
I guess he would hate to pay for his own drinks !~
Maybe he’s suffering from BFD virus? That’s the one where you hate everything about National, particularly Bridges and Bennett. Some ordinary bloke over that way claims he’s rarely wrong but I think he means really wrong.
Is Soper leaking to the BFD?
Been Whinnys media hack and all!
Winston:
“I must not piss off the media”
“I must not piss off the media”
“I must not piss off the media”
. .
“Shit..”
When talking about this old prick, Your last comment must not be taken literally. At his age and state of bodily functions, he might not have the control he once had over the matter.
Mind you he always used his mouth for that function.
Soper:
I must not piss Winston off
I must not piss Winston off
I must not piss Winston off
Hate paying for my own drinks !~
Or piss on them?
So, they weren’t expecting to catch a giant squid but they had an expert on board anyway? I hope they had other duties.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12309230
What’s the big deal with Giant squid anyway?
Are they good eating?
Squid rings?
Ask Cindy, she will know, she did work in a chippy!
Up until really recently we knew nothing about them Not even how they reproduced. Not even the common ones nor did we know how to capture them and keep them alive.
Went to a talk by Steve the Squid man a few years back. bloody interesting.
These big fella travel along on the currents way down deep in the dark. They meet, have a sexual encounter which is rather unique in its manner and the female produces a egg sack which when released floats around. The found that many of these egg sacks get smashed by trawl lines so the new squid never arrive. Hence the trawling restrictions off the West Coast.
From memory there are 80 types of squid in the world and most of them are found in NZ. Creeks in Auckland have squid in them.
When he started no one ever caught a full giant squid. Usually it was chopped in half by trawl lines.
There is some relationship between these monsters and whales. as whales feed on squid and shrimps etc. Both have a pathway to the Antarctic and back. Over the Chatham Rise where all the fish used to be.
Whales turn up on our beeches empty of food since the rise was heavily fished.
Unfortunately Steve was not favoured by the Auckland Uni and for some reason (sex maybe or someone else wanted his job.) they parted company and he moved to Aussie. Still a really fascinating talk.
Until he began researching squid no one had ever done so.
One of Cameron Slater’s rules of engagement: “Never hug a corpse”.
How’s that working out, Cam?
Somewhere out there is a tree tirelessly producing oxygen to breath.
I think Cindy owes it an apology.
Not one of the many who end up as toilet paer I hope, what was it on AM this morning 120 million?
https://www.mic.com/articles/127961/what-toilet-paper-is-doing-to-the-planet
Fun toilet paper facts? Only 25% of ‘us’ use toilet paper.
http://www.toiletpaperhistory.net/toilet-paper-facts/toilet-paper-fun-facts/
FFS,
Would we all cope with being toilet paperless, would it be good for the environment?
Here in Asia we use the bum gun. Its fantastic. High pressure water.
Took me a while to get used to it but now Im converted.
Calls to sack Boris Johnson’s adviser over racist comments
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/02/calls-to-sack-boris-johnson-s-adviser-over-racist-comments.html
He has resigned.
https://twitter.com/AndrewSabisky/status/1229490716847460352
It is a crime for a member of an “opressor” class to advocate eugenics for an “opressed” class.
It is virtue for a member of an “opressed” class to advocate eugenics for an “opressor” class.
I would argue that the perspective of looking at people in terms of their membership in a particular class or group is fundamentally messed-up.
Since a person could be (theoretically) classified an infinite number of ways, who is to say which way is the correct one? Better to treat them as a individual right from the beginning, and judge them on their individual merits.
A meritocracy?
NZ First Trustee lobbied for donar
A lobbying firm run by a a NZ First Foundation Trustee pushed for a law change on behalf of a property developer development company which donated tens of thousands of dollars to the Foundation.
Doug Woolerton one of two Trusteesrunning the secretive Foundation which has been bankrolling NZ First took on apartment developers Conrad Properties as a client for his firm. In Febuary 2018 Woolerton emailed National MP David Carter saying Conrad Properties directors Jamie Huchens and Ben Dearlove were being ” adversely affected” by changes to the oversea s Investment Act, “they are seeking a amendment to the bill and would like a meeting to discuss this with Mr Carter.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12309351
It looks like they have found the link to the allegations of ” Corruption ” .
Nothing to see here.
Is Doug Woolerton on a sudden unexpected overseas trip?
Did he leave on the first plane to anywhere?
I assume that as a trustee, the foundation pays him donated money?
“Children’s Commissioner Andrew Becroft has called for the right to silence to be abolished, saying that “the fact you might incriminate yourself isn’t a reason for not talking”. (Ref: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12309161)
If all the people who are “silent” are of an identifiable minority, is fair to take away the rights of the majority?
Yes, Odakyu, that’s exactly what he’s saying. It’s the same principle as ‘one man goes mad with a gun as so hundreds of thousands of innocent gun owners are persecuted’ or ‘three people left litter on a beach so virtually all plastic bags are made illegal’ etc etc etc
This is the way our society works now. Unlike in Japan where cohesion and a common view of the world holds sway, New Zealand is becoming even more fractured by identitarian sub groups until we will become literally at war with ourselves.
Bear in mind that this Becroft character used to be a fucking judge ….. and yet he sees fit to attack one of the most basic tenets of our Western legal system.
In Japan we have cohesion, identity, a common worldview*, homogenous ethnicity, a common languge, and yet our birth rate has crashed and our society is aging/dying. (Note: these same problems are far, far worse in South Korea.)
*The “common worldview” of middle-aged Japanese may be significantly different to that of Japanese youth (20s). If we delve into the mindset of the Millenial Japanese (who has only ever known recession since the early 1990s) then we may begin to gain a better understanding of the problems in Japanese society today.
Why do New Zealanders put up with people like Becroft? Isn’t it obvious that he is a closet totalitarian?
I see Bernard Hickey has ripped the dribble to shreds this morning in Newsroom:
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2020/02/18/1040364/8-things-worth-knowing-from-bridges-economic-speech
Entitled ‘6 Things worth knowing from Bridges’ big speech’, Hickey goes on to cold bloodedly analyse the dribble’s opening salvo yesterday in what will be a long drawn out election campaign.
Simon Bridges says a National government would cut taxes for average earners and invest much more than Labour in infrastructure, and with less waste. But he’s holding back the detail, and got a key figure wrong, Bernard Hickey reports.
I despair. Yesterday I predicted that the dribble party’s non-leader would be a pathetic flop…. but I didn’t think he would actually do this badly. He can’t even get his facts straight and he totally ignored all the big issues that are freaking out right thinking New Zealand at this watershed time in our history.
The article is reasonable. A few changes I’d make:
* OECD comparisons are meaningless to us. We’re better off comparing ourselves to the Asia/Pacific region.
* Looking at the ease of starting a business versus the ease of running a business are very different things.
He’s right that National doesn’t seem to have much of a clue beyond sound bites. I look forward to reading Mr Hickey’s analysis of the Labour Party announcements in the same manner. After all, how does the World Bank measure hugs and feelings and fuck all outcomes?
I am not sure why National would disclose their policies now Pascal, there is still 7 months till the supposed election. I am happy with them playing their cards close to their chest. I just hope they have more substance to the sound bites and think they do, but I could be proven wrong. As far as I am concerned though no matter what they actually do they are one hell of a lot better than this pack of useless ones that form the col we have now.
Better get their ducks in a row, ready for an early election!
Because how can the COL, electioneer when joined at the hip!
Yes Labour will just copy them.
You don’t want to know what the policies are the party you support are likely to implement long enough before the election day to actually digest them? You’d blindly vote without knowing what they’re actually going to do? That sounds like blind fanaticism to me, not an informed vote for a better New Zealand.
Looking even at the basics “Tax cuts for the average wage earner at 33%” when the average wage earner is on 19% and likely to receive a large chunk of various benefits. That type of sound bite is useless. Apart from his facts being wrong, what type of tax cut? Are we talking a substantial and costed one like ACT down to a flat tax rate for everyone? (It’s on their website) Or is he thinking a $50 a week type of number? That type of policy detail matter even this early in the campaign.
And if Labour copies their policies and they’re good ones – I don’t care who implements them.
Socialist Cindy squawked on the AM Show yesterday that “We haven’t written our election policies yet”. After the 2017 election it was unbelievable to find Labour had to set up working parties of their supposed experts to draw up actual policies for their slogans they had run on.
Labour have obviously not learnt that you can’t run a country on slogans, a wing, a prayer and feelz! 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
Yeah, I need policy to decide if I’ll vote for a party. Soundbites don’t cut it.
Here is a thought for you Pascal do you think Winston Has something on her or maybe Jetro as we haven’t heard anything from Jethro which is very unusual when his partner is being taken to the cleaners. Winston is capable of anything when the chips are down and hes not looking like getting back into Parliament after the Election.
Pretty easy to cut waste. Close down 200+ working groups. pike river boondogle, get rid of a bunch of useless commissions. That’s just a small start but already useful savings.
Meanwhile in Pakistan. One more story for the “they are us” files. I hope Cindy and the other morons who will no doubt be donning their hijabs again in a couple of weeks time see this, no doubt they will approve:
https://www.eternitynews.com.au/opinion/pakistan-court-validates-forced-conversion-marriage-of-christian-girl/
Here is your daily dose of dumbfounded! This woman is actually a candidate for leader of the Labour Party in Britain….and you thought we have it bad in this country!
https://twitter.com/PaulEmbery/status/1229479868011864065
Rental reforms: Landlords slam end to 90-day ‘no cause’ eviction notices
https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/real-estate/renting/119593626/rental-reforms-landlords-slam-end-to-90day-no-cause-eviction-notices
The Residential Tenancies Amendment Bill introduces a number of changes, including increasing financial penalties when the law is broken, anonymising details of the successful party in Tenancy Tribunal cases, ensuring tenants can make minor changes to properties and banning rent bidding.
It will also require fixed-term tenancies to become periodic unless both parties agree otherwise, which is designed to stop all the tenancies in an area finishing at the same time in peak demand periods.
It also gets rid of landlords’ ability to remove their tenants without giving a reason, if they give 90 days’ notice.
An Ozzie financial journalist is calling for a Royal Commission into Climate Science
…
http://joannenova.com.au/2020/02/sign-the-petition-alan-kohler-wants-a-royal-commission-into-climate-science-to-convince-the-skeptics/
He thinks it will finally convince the sceptics (like me).
I suspect the Ozzie climate scientists wont want a bar of it.
So a politically motivated inquiry conducted by climate doomers would not convince you? (Note the assumption it will support the doomers. Very telling)
Nor would a consensus of scientists cherry picked for agreeing with the hypothesis. With dissenters removed and professionally and personally destroyed.
Same here.
Oh dear ,a top epidemiologist in the States has come out and said that the Coronavirus is a genetically modified organism “no doubt”. he went on to say it’s nothing to do with eating raw bats or making medicines from the bats shit which the Chinese have been doing for thousands of years.
It has been modified to attach itself to human beings and its probably got out of a lab by some security lapse,the CCP have been lying for months and downplaying the threat which he says is going to be extremely bad.
The CCP are still periodically saying that the infection rate in China is dropping off only to change the story a couple of days later..
I assume that a laboratory would be able to sequence the genome of an isolated Coronavirus to tell if it is a modified organism or not.
(Grabs tinfoil hat and bowl of popcorn…)
Pretty shit bio weapon. Low mortality common cold.
It’s probably a bit early to estimate the mortality rate yet. Especially if the reports of second time around infection being more deadly prove to have any factual basis.
Wasn’t ready yet?
Pure as the driven soot!
The scab is going to be lifted from the oozing sore that is NZF donations:
Serious Fraud Office to investigate New Zealand First Foundation
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/02/serious-fraud-office-to-investigate-new-zealand-first-foundation.html
Newshub can confirm the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is opening a formal investigation into the New Zealand First Foundation donations scandal.
Last Monday, the Electoral Commission referred to police allegations the New Zealand First Party was hiding donations through the foundation. Police referred the case to the Serious Fraud Office.
The Electoral Commission found the Foundation received donations which should have been treated as party donations and they weren’t properly declared.
~~~
Peters can’t state anything factually. He also claimed on Magic Talk this morning that Shaun Plunkett had applied for a job with NZ First. When Shaun later arrived and Peter Williams asked him about it he said Peters offered him a job with NZF but he refused the offer.
Hello Jacinda..anybody home?
Good on ya Rigor
Mark Richardson hits back at people ‘generalising’ Kiwis as ‘racist’
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/02/mark-richardson-hits-back-at-people-generalising-kiwis-as-racist.html
“I refuse to be bullied by the very woke media that we have at the moment. I’m starting to tire – I’ve been told I’m racist all the time. And what’s more, the more you tell me that, I think the more counterproductive it’s becoming. Anyone heard of pushback?
“Alright I get it, I don’t get it, because I don’t get it, do I? I sort of do – Hone Harawira has the right to call me ‘you people’ doesn’t he? So if I don’t get it, what I’m going to tell you is what I actually believe, and I believe the vast majority of New Zealand is good, honest, loving people, and they’re the ones I’m going to focus on, champion and believe as representative of my country New Zealand.
“So now I’m a denier, aren’t I, in your minds? Just like the climate debate, just like Trump. If you don’t condemn everything Trump does, therefore you support Trump don’t you? If you don’t say the world is burning because of climate change, then you’re a climate denier. But isn’t this ‘you’re either with us or against us’ absolute mentality the very thinking that you are campaigning against?
“Racism exists in this country and it can’t be tolerated. Unfortunately, we can hand-wring all we like, but dickheads will still be dickheads. If you can make a difference to one person’s prejudice, please do. If I can, then I will. But please in the meantime, can you stop generalising?
“I don’t think I, and most of us in New Zealand, actually deserve it.”
Everyone is racist for the same reason they love their kids. Controlling speech only makes it worse.
The only issue is how it manifests itself. Most overtly racist people are decent and do not mistreat others.
The most overt racism is towards the white minority who make up a diminishing 8% approximately of the world.
What is Socialist Cindy going to do about these killings of small Maori children??? She is the Minister of Children. Do something! Say something!!
A man has been charged with the murder of a five-year-old child in Rotorua.
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/man-charged-murder-5-year-old-boy-in-rotorua
She will launch a racist tirade against white people. That’s what she will do.
Another baby bred for the taxpayer funded benefits paid to ferals who should NEVER have children.
Rotorua father charged with murder over death of five-year-old son
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/02/rotorua-father-charged-with-murder-over-death-of-five-year-old-son.html
His father, 24-year-old William James Sio, was originally charged with assault of a child but now faces murder.
A 28-year-old woman has been charged with ill treatment and neglect of a child.
The pair will appear in Rotorua District Court on February 27.
W G , Ardern is also the minister of child poverty reduction ,Pffffffff .
Sorry, I got Cindy’s ministerial title wrong.
Tracey Martin is the minister of children.
So the COL have two ministers of children who should be doing something!!!
They need to be given some private land. Colonisation has caused this.
Rents soaring. Westpac is calling 10% house price rise this year.
THANKS CINDY.
Sincerely,
Landlord Capitalist Prick
Ford v Holden
Ford Motor will commit NZ$520 million to the Australian market in 2020 and is likely to hire more staff as global automotive giant General Motors prepares to quit by the end of the year.
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/ford-pledges-520-million-australian-car-market-more-jobs-holden-departs
From the New Zealand (i.e., general Western) perspective, you can get the impression that countries in Northeast Asia (South Korea, Japan and Taiwan) “have it sussed.” Don’t be too sure about that.
In the immortal words of the great New Zealand scholar/ poet Frederick C. Dagg, “You don’t know how lucky you are, mate.”
Class homework:
Find out what you can about the following social phenomena affecting youth in the following countries.
a) The Sampo generation of South Korea (“San-po” is only Level 3. It gets much worse…)
b) The Strawberry generation of Taiwan
c) The Satori generation of Japan
And you thought that Western Millennials are a bunch of no-hopers.
Yay!… Pea straw will be back on the market…
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/rural/2020/02/new-zealand-achieves-world-s-first-eradication-of-pea-weevil.html
Did MFAT do something right?
Thanks National.
Anyone hoarding toilet paper yet?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/17/hong-kong-armed-gang-steals-toilet-rolls-as-coronavirus-panic-buying-spreads
I’m starting to stock up on T bags.
When you’ve finished with them as T bags you can empty the contents, dry the bags and use them as toilet paper! 😉
Aunt Daisy had nothing on you! 🙂
To be fair you’d need a few old T bags to do the job! 😰
And the ones with strings on you can..oh forget it
Yea yea Saggy we know..?
We must stop this coming to NZ if we can. I hope our politicians are watching this:
Corona unmasked.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/00CkyMwWWlIM/
Is it weird that some of those ‘officials’ had POLICE and SWAT in English written on their backs?
The UN sending a message.
Zero privacy, zero control, you are no longer free.
Mastercard is pioneering new payment technology that identifies commuters by the way they walk
Ajay Bhalla, president of cyber and intelligence solutions for Mastercard, told MarketWatch in an interview: “We are working with transport organizations where your face or gait will authenticate you.
“The way you hold your phone, which ear you use, and how your fingers touch the buttons are all unique to you. We have been testing heartbeat, vein technology, and the way people walk to authenticate people.”
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/mastercard-is-pioneering-new-payment-technology-that-identifies-commuters-by-the-way-they-walk-2020-02-14
And for something really sweet and sad…
Orphaned koala embraces soft toy in touching video
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/02/orphaned-koala-embraces-soft-toy-in-touching-video.html
All I can say to this Professor is, “you first bitch!!”
UK Professor: Only Way to Save Planet Is to ‘Let Humans Become Extinct’
Giving birth to a child is “the worst thing you can do” to the climate, says philosophy professor Patricia MacCormack of Anglia Ruskin University.
“The manifesto simply asks that humans no longer reproduce – no life is lost, no being is mourned,” she states. “If we no longer reproduce, we can care for all inhabitants already here, human and non-human, as well as care for the Earth itself by mitigating the damage already caused. It’s an activism of care.”
https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2020/02/17/uk-professor-only-way-to-save-planet-is-to-let-humans-become-extinct/
She seems to be living the life.
I doubt “high priestess” has ever had a child, an never will.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8009861/Old-school-goth-philosophy-professor-says-way-save-planet-stop-having-children.html
It would seem nothing would “endanger” her eggs anyway by a quick flick through her studies, etc.
https://aru.ac.uk/people/patricia-maccormack
She is a bit of an oddball. Witch like, in so many ways.
This Professor Patricia MacCormack of Anglia Ruskin University is a queer fish altogether. I would put her age at around 50, which means that she won’t be bringing any children into this work.
https://aru.ac.uk/people/patricia-maccormack
She needs a bloody good feed of greasy mutton, roast spuds and kumara followed by a plate of stodge pudding, thick custard and lashings of whipped cream.
That should start providing her neurones with some protective cholesterol, even if it’s too late to stimulate her endocrine system.
If I ever need a nutritionist Maggy’s got my business! 🙂
Friends with Helen Clark, then!
Yeah, well you can look elsewhere if you become diabetic, gluten-intolerant or dairy-free.
Peaceful protests work. Well done Virginians.
2A Supporters, Gun Control Orgs React to Defeat of Virginia ‘Assault Weapons’ Ban
The vote in the Senate Judiciary committee to push the bill onto the 2021 legislative calendar so that it can be reviewed by a state crime commission drew raucous cheers from hearing room spectators as well from adjacent hallways, which were packed with Second Amendment activists.
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2a-supporters-gun-control-orgs-react-to-defeat-of-virginia-assault-weapons-ban/
Grounds to evict?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/local-democracy-reporting/119570503/lifestyle-choice-or-unsanitary-living-policing-the-unhealthy-hoarders
And a cyber chocolate fish for who can recall which Kiwi presenter said:
……” “Good morning, everyone! Good morning! It’s a lovely day in Wellington and I woke to find the sun shining up my back passage.” “…….
Aunt Daisy!
Often quoted in our house on sunny mornings 😊
Peters still has the front to taunt the msm with his games
Watch as Winston Peters plays Queen’s Radio Ga Ga to journalists while evading questions over SFO probe
Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters forwent answering questions from journalists this afternoon and instead played Queen’s Radio Ga Ga from his cellphone.
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/watch-winston-peters-plays-queens-radio-ga-journalists-while-evading-questions-over-sfo-probe?auto=6133312991001
It isn’t the radio that is ga ga
That’s what David Seymour said. LOL!
It is going to be a fun political year, as he just can’t help himself.
He should play the laughing gnome song by David Bowie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SQdBxVjZx4
That is not an acceptable response from the Deputy Prime Minister. I do not accept it as reasonable and take the view the Prime Minister should not accept such nonsense either.
I wonder who the holdout is? Three of the four SFO accused want name suppression lifted.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12309703
The one that is a labour member! Silly.
One day, a father and his 14 year old son are in the bus.
The son sees a stunning redhead and yells, ‘hey babe, you’ve got some nice tits!’
The father, a religious man, thinks his son needs correction and sends him to a Catholic boarding school.
Six months later the son comes home for the weekend, and again he and his father are on the bus.
A nice blonde with a huge rack is sitting opposite of them. The father wants to know if the school taught him better manners, so he says: ‘Son, have you seen that blonde? What a nice breasts!’
‘Well’, the son says, ‘what would one do with breasts… but have you seen that bus driver’s arse?’
Kiwi cruise ship passengers who reject second quarantine could be banned from entering NZ
New Zealanders who try to return home independently from the Diamond Princess could be prevented by the Government from boarding commercial flights. On eve of coronavirus cruise ship rescue mission, Kiwi passengers aren’t happy
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/kiwi-cruise-ship-passengers-reject-evacuation-could-expose-number-other-people-risk?auto=6133334480001
Probably weren’t Labour voters.
Considering the number of those going down with the virus was still ongoing on the cruise it is pretty short sighted or self-absorbed that some thought they could waltz back in on an evacuation flight and not be quarantined for a further 14 days in NZ.
Plus they were probably going to be away from home still anyway.
Wynston’s?
Is Comrade Cindy sending her private jet to pick them up in Darwin?
I decided to be brave, inspirational and join my daughter in her second Taekwon Do class. I usually run around 8km a day, which isn’t much but I thought I was doing okay. Please, remember me kindly as the guy who loved motorbikes and food and his wife. Because right now I’m about to register as dead.
Taekwon Don’t?
That bad? 🙂
Just thinking, i bet Reddy won’t be too worried about the end of the Holdens Nasska, didn’t he have a Mustang muscle car once that he showed off to us Kiwibloggers to say that he had a big dick and everyone could suck it..?
Yep. He even put a photo of the Mustang up on Crusader Rabbit then got all bitter & twisted when I pointed out that there was an inverse ratio between the size of a man’s dick & the cost of his gay Yank muscle car.
Provoked quite a reaction as I remember. 🙂
You weren’t his no1 fan back then sorry to say ole chap..?
I don’t reckon that the Great Conservative & I were ever fated to get on with each other stigie.
Cyberspace was too small for both of us. 🙂
How eradication is relabelled to fit an agenda. Not so subtle anymore.
Remember Logans Run?
‘OK, Boomer’ mentality: Academics want to label old age a disease, in case you had any respect left for the elderly
In their wisdom, 30 experts – from prestigious universities like Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Cambridge Imperial and UCL – have decided that ageing is no longer a normal feature of life. They want the World Health Organization to classify ageing as a disease. This diseasing of old age represents another blow to the moral status of the elderly.
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/481011-old-age-who-disease/
Unti they too grow old.