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First!
First at 8.00 am.
The rest of us must be resting from our daily tasks.
Somethings wrong.
Even naaska is out of the sack, or he has bought an iPad so he can post from his pillow.
hahaha. The phantom with the red eyes has arisen.
I see the two big rainfall areas are where we are – Tasman and the way we would go home, North Canterbury way – so guess will just spend another day here.
Why rush?
The pension will still be in the bank and you can mow the lawns another day.
No rush but need to be back for Friday so 2 days up sleeve,
Let the idiots rush home today.
See we have one dead here today.
Ideological apartheid in Britain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQRqI5b4ZSI
Jim Davidson FURIOUSLY INSULTS and SHAMES Keir Starmer on LIVE TV!
Jim Davidson FURIOUSLY INSULTS and SHAMES Keir Starmer on LIVE TV!
Welcome to modern Britain under the hypocritical rule of Keir Starmer and Sadiq Khan — a country where “justice” is conditional, “equality” is selective, and “human rights” are weaponized in favor of those who fit the political narrative. A two-tier justice system.
……”a country where “justice” is conditional, “equality” is selective, and “human rights” are weaponized in favor of those who fit the political narrative”…..
New Zealand leads. Others follow!
Morning all. Just like yesterday, grey and wet.
Isn’t that like a book?
2 shades of grey
Wet isn’t a shade
Grey is grey when wet, and grey is a different grey when it’s raining. Check it out.
The weather porn continues , 40mm in chch over a couple of days now constitutes over a months worth of rain fell headlines. This may be true if small snapshots of time are used, but in reality it could all come in an hour if certain climatic conditions happen or it could take 4 months to get this much the other way.
The press have found something else to gabble about.
Sports officials fear organised crime risks corrupting New Zealand athletesSport Integrity Commission CEO Rebecca Rolls said organised crime syndicates are eyeing up New Zealand sports for money laundering. Composite image / NZ Herald
Organised crime syndicates have New Zealand sports in their sights for money laundering, according to the country’s sports integrity body.
Rebecca Rolls, chief executive of the Sport Integrity Commission Te Kahu Raunui (SIC) told the Herald our athletes and officials are potentially vulnerable to corruption by organised crime syndicates – with any sport that is streamed or broadcast potentially a target.
The SIC has discussions under way with overseas counterparts and policing experts – including Interpol – to try to protect our sporting landscape from corruption attempts.
This follows the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime voicing concern about global organised crime migrating into sports.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/sports-officials-fear-organised-crime-risks-corrupting-nz-athletes/BEXY4OHRSJGX7O2TB4JBQ455X4/
Does the taxpayer pay for this?
Think the all blacks have been ripped.
China supplies 95% of all pharmaceutical drugs. There is little scrutiny allowed by the Chinese of manufacturing facilities or product quality control.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIo0uN__jsM
China’s Stranglehold on America’s Drug Supply: Rosemary Gibson
American Thought Leaders
They were making covid 19, unhinded.
I have seen similar reports from France. Is this a reaction to the assault by Islam? Or has ROL become a major internet influencer?
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/thousands-of-adults-joining-catholic-church-in-uk-this-easter-especially-young-men/
The Muslin religion was, like the Anglicans, spawned from the catholic religion. The muslins didn’t like preists fucking their boys.
Muslins? Did you have serial for breakfast this morning?
Definitely was not a Catholic nor Christian, nor Jew. “Before receiving his first revelation and founding Islam, Muhammad adhered to the monotheistic beliefs of a “hanif” in pre-Islamic Arabia. This meant he believed in one God but did not follow any established religious institutions or polytheistic practices prevalent in the region. He is also claimed to have been a descendant of Ishmael, son of Abraham, who, according to the Quran, was a Muslim. “
Not every abomination has its roots in Catholicism, but every Christian version ultimately had its roots in Catholicism.
The Muslims didn’t have any priests fucking their boys. It’s the goats that had a problem.
Was there any other “religion” before the catholic?
No, it wasn’t. Mohammed was not a Catholic before he invented Islam.
I think all the johnny come lately religions have no history fighting islam but Catholicism does so it is a natural return home for some.
I sent Nasska over to do some conversions in lieu of debts amassed for services rendered. Looks like he did a sterling job!. ( I suspect people are sick of Islam being forced down their throats and the take over by rag heads in general).
I drew inspiration from accounts of the Inquisitions. Faced with the options of Islam or the relatively benign thumbscrews & ritual sodomy of Catholicism the sign up rate was 100%. 🙂
Brilliant tactic well done.
Why does the need to pee intensify a million times when you are trying to unlock the door to your house?
Its nature telling you to be a bloke and water the garden, and for woman sorry love its going to be a close call
“I caught my twelve-year-old son looking up women’s skirts today,” the bloke told the barman after his second quick whiskey.
“That’s pretty normal for a twelve-year-old”, said the barman.
“Not on fucking Trade Me it isn’t!”
Is if your an alphabet soup supporting lefty
World shipping relies on canals for trade. The USA is kicking China out of controlling the Panama Canal. Is China building a new canal in Nicaragua located closer to the US than Panama?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb7gy74-JJc
Trump SHUTS DOWN China’s Secret Plan: CCP Kicked out of Panama Canal
A New $65 BILLION Panama Canal Rival Is Coming!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdkb7-7lSQM
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has unveiled plans for a 445-kilometre interoceanic waterway that would provide an alternative to the congested Panama Canal, presenting the proposal to Chinese investors at a regional business summit.
The new route would connect the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean, beginning at a planned deep-water port in Bluefields on the Caribbean coast. The canal would traverse northern Nicaragua via Lake Xolotlan (also known as Lake Managua) before reaching the Pacific through Puerto Corinto.
The announcement comes as the Panama Canal, which handles around 5% of global seaborne trade, faces significant challenges with water levels and vessel traffic, leading to lengthy delays. “Every day it becomes more complicated to pass through Panama,” Ortega told delegates at the XVII China-Latin America and the Caribbean Business Summit in Managua, which drew representatives from 29 countries.
The Panama Canal has experienced a 29% decrease in ship transits over the past fiscal year due to severe drought conditions, according to the Panama Canal Authority (ACP). From October 2023 to September 2024, only 9,944 vessels passed through the canal, compared to 14,080 the previous year.
Nicaragua’s ambitious project represents a shift from a previous canal initiative. In May, the government revoked a controversial concession granted to Hong Kong Nicaragua Canal Development (HKND) Group, which had proposed a different route through Lake Cocibolca.
As part of the new proposal, the Chinese company CAMC has signed a contract with Nicaragua’s Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure for the construction of the Bluefields port facility.
The canal project would comprise four segments, with Ortega suggesting it could attract investment from both Chinese and American businesses. He referenced historical precedent for the undertaking, noting that the United States had considered building a Nicaraguan canal as far back as 1854.
Environmental and financial analysts have previously questioned the feasibility of such projects in Nicaragua. However, the government maintains that the infrastructure development would boost regional trade and economic growth.
The initiative emerges as Nicaragua seeks to position itself as a crucial link in global maritime trade, though specific details about funding and environmental impact assessments have yet to be revealed.
Way back in January, I posted about all this.
The new generation ships are too big for the Panama Canal and Panama has run out of water. The canal needs water to operate, and when they have drought like they have had, then it limits the number of boats they can put through.
There is already a railway that runs parallel to the canal where big boats unload their containers on one side and reload on the other side. The time difference is about 14 hours to unload, rail and then reload. The alternative is to spend days waiting for a slot. That’s the bits that Trump has repossessed, but it won’t overcome the need for a bigger canal.
Its also why POT needs to get its shit together as these big ships cannot come into Tga harbour and if they come to NZ the only place they can will be whangarei. If that’s not sorted and soon, then they will go to Australia, where they have ports with deep water and are run by the Chinese.
The other thing these ships need if portside space. They carry 24000 TEU equivalent, whereas at the moment our space is very limited in TGA. It was built for 10000 TEU. The rail is chocker with timber, and so all those empties from Auckland etc, are carried by road and transferred across the port by road, grossly inefficient.
Most of POT traffic is from outside of this area.
The sooner POT get of their arse the better.
POT are also useless with shipping schedules, of all the ports we drop the containers at, they are the one that gives the most issues.
All the ports have a lack of unloaders and crane drivers even though they get decent pay
They all used to have 40-hour contracts, and now most don’t. Its like come when we call and go find something else to do as well. Wharfies built themselves orchards back in the day. Much like the old wharfie thing.
Taurnaga is stuffed for hard stand space. wants more but not going to get it. Even the dumb Willis was here spouting about it a few weeks back. Going to try to fast-track it.
POT need to start thinking about their future, if they want one. They have managed to fill the other wharf with all the tanks and more from the Auckland waterfront, so now no one trusts them. We have become a chemical port, along with logs and feedstock. and tourists who only;y cost the ratepayers a shit load for bugger all return.
Balance are closing their manufacturing of fertiliser here shortly. Bloody good job. Stuffed the Harbour.
Something for you all to do today while it raining. A bit of a refresher course.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/quizzes/360653993/stuff-quiz-how-well-do-you-know-road-code-part-4
Ehh, road rules, ya learn em then quickly forget 80% of em and just drive
True that until you have to sit your licence again.
And seeing how many drive you have to wonder if once they had done the clip board stuff, if they ever learned to do practical and remembered anything.
Its on stuff. Thanks, but no thanks. Not even if its raining as I tremble, hunkered down waiting for the apocalypse, that the phone has repeatedly warned me of…
It won’t hurt you, and you might learn something your latent deity doesn’t know. Might save your life so that you don’t find out too late that it’s all a rort to collect your funds.
Just got a text from One NZ (ex Vodofone) about their new system via Musk’s starlink. All the advertising I’ve seen about it in the last year has been saying it will just transfer over to it , implying all OneNZ users will go onto it. There has been nothing, that I’ve seen or heard, saying that you will need a compatible phone and extra charges , after a free trial period, will apply. Who will have them up for false advertising?
It doesn’t surprise me that particular phones will be needed but they should be transparent about it as well as telling other customers who do not have one or want to buy a new phone if they will have to change to a new provider.
It may interest you to know that NZ One with 38% of market share managed to get second place in the Commerce Commission’s most complained about businesses in New Zealand. When Pak n Sav only scraped in to 19th placing with 46 complaints you get an idea about how abysmally bad NZ One are.
https://comcom.govt.nz/__data/assets/pdf_file/0022/345307/OIA-23.169-Top-20-complained-about-businesses-26-February-2024.pdf
Well nasska you know the drill
The company started circa 1995 as Bell South an American run outfit. at the time then concerned about law suits they were decent enough
Then they sold to Vodafone 5 or so years later
who are a Brit outfit
global headquarters are in Newbury, Berkshire, England.
….with Brit attitudes
Brits don’t do customer service
fuck youse
and the rest is history
20 years of pommy attitudes has baked in a shit culture
only 4 years since uncoupling from the mothership is not enough time it become decent .
Back in 2005 to 2008 they trued to write/built a comprehensive billing and combined customer service system
If successful it would be rolled out the rest of the world
it was a major cockup with billing errors for years to come;
complete stink attitude.
it was never expanded but NZ had the problem for years.
My sister used to work for them.
I have never used it and cannot see I ever would .
The number of people in this country on work visas has almost returned to its pre-Covid high, while the number on residence visas has hit a new high.
The latest figures from the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment show that 15,354 work visas were approved in March this year.
That’s a relatively low number for the time of year and was down 14.6% compared to March last year and down 45.3% compared to March 2023.
The latest approvals were also well below the prevailing levels pre-Covid – see the first graph below for the monthly trend going back to 2015.
However while the number of work visas being approved is relatively low compared to previous years, the total number of people in this country on work visas has climbed back up to near its pre-Covid peak, and that is despite the more than 200,000 people who transferred from work visas to residence visas under the 2021 Residence Visa Scheme (now closed).
The jump in residence visa holders has taken the total number of people in this country who have received a residence visa within the last five years* to a record 345,345 – see second graph below.
the latest figures suggest that after periods of considerable disruptions in both directions, work and residence visa flows are settling at more normal levels.
https://www.interest.co.nz/economy/132920/number-overseas-workers-country-almost-back-pre-covid-peak-residence-visa-numbers
Would our political parties get past the Fair Trading Act?
What if they, like the nation’s businesses, were prohibited from misleading their consumers – i.e. the voters – about the nature, characteristics, suitability, or quantity of the products – i.e. the policies – on offer?
Would they pass muster? Or would MBIE be sending them a letter?
Let’s begin with the smaller parties.
The unlikelihood of ever finding themselves in a position to implement their entire policy agenda significantly reduces the political incentives for small parties to obfuscate and mislead the voters.
Such honesty is both refreshing and alarming. Small parties like Te Pati Māori, NZ First, Act, and the Greens are not, as a rule, reticent about their plans for the country. They rightly intuit that ideological candour attracts more serious interest than political evasiveness. Their preference is for the narrow temple over the broad church.
https://www.interest.co.nz/public-policy/132950/would-our-political-parties-get-past-fair-trading-act-chris-trotter-assesses
Interesting summary of our political parties.
Future proofed road
https://x.com/infideliter2022/status/1913836189486117358?s=46
Piss poor roadmen. fuck you would have cleaned that off with a shovel in naaska s day.
With no road cones either.
Since it took about a tear to cut back the hillside residents probably thought they were set to go but the unstable red Northland clay has beaten them again.
But the overreaction displayed by the nannies closing the road for a couple of wheelbarrows full of crap & water beggars belief.
correct. We used to drive over shit like that but apparently that’s for the drama queens to make a fuss.FFS
After reading V2’s litany of woes over the state of Tauranga, the POT, its incompetent Mayor & Council along with the weather & cloud cover I was going to get my religious advisor to suggest that Huey use its co-ordinates for smiting practise.
But good news in yesterday’s Herald about a family who used the Covid incarceration to restore an icon of the road to its former glory. Story at https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/three-generations-revive-classic-1972-mini-in-tauranga/TKLVKXIJ6RC4XA3EBDBPD3T6PM/
It brought back some memories. When I first met SWMBO she’d not long bought a 1960 Mini. It was one of the first produced & had been imported into NZ as personal goods by its original owners. Complete with the rubber cone suspension, sliding windows, transverse engine, the ‘Mini whine’ & amazing road holding it was the first & maybe the only UK designed car to combine looks with practicality while retaining the English tradition of total unreliability.
Regrettably it had to be sold to buy furniture when the wife to be announced that she was with child but it was a fun little wagon.
“the wife to be announced that she was with child”
Ya dirty bugger, you are supposed to wait until you are married. Didn’t your sky fairy teach you anything?
I bet it wasn’t conceived in the said mini.
My first car was a mini. 1964 model, I think. It was prone to crapping out when it rained. Something about the distributer being on the front of the engine and got covered with water from the road through the grill. (It had a transverse engine placement)
Ever tried changing the fan belt on one of those?
Or the rubber water hose between block and head.
Yep. Everything was tried to protect the electrics from water. An aluminium shield in front of the distributor, spray on sealant & buckets of CRC but nothing really worked. Some of the problem was that the fan pulled moisture laden air over the engine through the radiator & exhausted it under the left mudguard.
When the Poms design a fuck up they succeed like no others. They have centuries of expertise to draw on.
Brit engineering
like the Brit kings of the last 200 years
pathetic weaklings
they should leave it to the gals
like the only strong PM in the last 100 years was a woman
the Brit tradition of getting pissed at lunchtime has served no-one any good
They pretended they solved the problem by closing pubs for 3 to 4 hours in the afternoon
all they did was move the problem.
To top it off they installed Lucas electrics.
If you ever think you have made a spectacularly poor decision in life, just take comfort in knowing that in 1978, a professional burglary crew thought that burgling a mob boss’s house was “worth a try”!
TONY ACCARDO DELIVERS BLOODY VENGEANCE AFTER HOME IS BURGLED – CHICAGO OUTFIT BOSS HAS 10 MURDERED! – YouTube
It won’t be too much of a spoiler to say that it did NOT end well!
Yup, fuck with Italians….
Can you imagine the planning meeting?
“Uhm, we robbed his friend, he made us give it back, we are now going to rob him?Isn’t he going to know it’s us? Won’t he be pissed?”
“Nah, guys like him respect that kind of shit…..”
Nek minnit…..
FAFO
Thanks Undersecretary Screwtape;
And in the meantime the original reason why the mafia system arose in Sicily when it was invaded, resisted & threw them out.
And continued on the face of things, to remain good Roman Catholics. 😉
A good article & video on what, & when a village or more will be taken.
All planned out in France; prior to 7 October 2023 in Israel that has finally come to trial.
….. France’s political elite—mirroring policies seen across Europe, the U.S., and Canada [New Zealand] —
— insist on treating jihadist insurgency as a law enforcement or intelligence problem, rather than what it truly is: war.
Western governments pour billions into “Countering Violent Extremism” (CVE) programs, whose true purpose is to ideologically paralyze bureaucracies by weaponizing accusations of Islamophobia to avoid confronting the real enemy.
Intelligence agencies are muzzled, migration controls are non-existent, and anyone who dares sound the alarm is smeared as a racist. ….
https://rairfoundation.com/frances-fatal-delusion-inside-islamic-state-cell-that/
The video (9 mins 35 secs)
Well said French, and subtitled boldly to English.
The journalist puts things very well & gives a brief context.
So how many more mosques, masjids are to be built? many below the radar, until too late.
Then how many sharia courts will be up & running?
Supposedly all endorsed as multi-culti…. ‘religion of peace’.
First wheedling into influencing some political parties, with their strategic voting blocs, then becoming powerful enough to form cliques of power in key institutions whilst quoting the earlier parts of the “kindly” koran.
When will our wokey dopey ones understand the code, the abrogation, that can easily be explained in the koran & hadiths?
Analysis of the Live Fire exercise by the Chinese navy…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhJroQnb1BI&ab_channel=HistoryLegends
No one saw the chink sub, following!
So it appears that the government was expecting serious adverse reactions of 1.1% from the vax. 1 in 90. Safe & effective my arse.
https://x.com/voices_nz/status/1914059183433089030
That’s very old news.
Reported on thebfd 18/06/2022
still more accurate predictions then the nutters tho, they predicted 90% dead within 2 years.
id be happy to let the sheeple queue up for a jab if it had 90%+ mortality rate, id even be a good bastard and drive a few to vax clinics for free 🙂 vikey you need a ride next time?
No SB today?
Hope all is well and he’s busy depleting fish stocks.
slaving away, didnt get any of my own jobs done but was a good bastard and sorted some stuff for a couple of mates.
hopefully ill get fishing later in the week if the weather plays ball (99% chance southland weather will fuck me over tho)
OMG
The Pope has died.
Thoughts with Nasska
Q. What’s brown, and half-eaten?
A. The Pope’s Easter egg.
I’m Ok though. Just in case any of you concerned folk were worried.
Be strong & look at the bright side.
You’ve finally got your man on the inside of the racket close to The Boss! 🙂
The only Muslim Pope popping his clogs should be cause for celebration anywhere this side of mecca.
ROLs boss dropped off his perch today.
Pope Francis death: Head of Catholic Church dies aged 88NZ Herald
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/pope-francis-death-head-of-catholic-church-dies-aged-88/NJZT7PYK2NCGRADLTEUCGO2KLA/
Had an interview with Vance a day ago.
He was out and about only yesterday. It was on the telly. Must have out him on speed.
the demonrats will blame Vance
oh well, they will replace him with another dodgy weirdo.
If they don’t like him they will top him like they did circa 1978 🤥💣
Things up bums. Really.
https://www.facebook.com/reel/699003162811593
https://youtube.com/watch?v=hGOHE1zqEmY
Worked at a hospital for a while. It was an old guy with a kumara during that time.
what one was yours vikey, was it the barbie doll or the cucumber? we know youre not bright enough for a light bulb 🙂