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“On roadblocks:
I am incensed by the police condoning and supporting the unauthorised and illegal roadblocks springing up around the country. By doing so they are failing in their duty to uphold the law without fear or favour. Instead, it appears the police can now pick and choose which citizens must abide by the law, and which can undertake unlawful activities with impunity. This is a sorry state of affairs.”
Susan Short, Meadowbank.
Well said Susan. Where’s bloody Nash on this? Meanwhile Hone has no issues with driving round the country and visiting other peoples’ bubbles.
“On roadblocks:
Man gets arrested in Hastings. Handcuffed from behind and placed in rear seat of Police car.
Man gets hands to front, jumps through console area of front seat and drives off in Police car.
Man drives through road block at Taihape in stolen Police car. Road spikes used.
Man gets arrested . Handcuffed from behind and placed in rear seat of Police car.
Man gets hands to front, jumps through console area of front seat and drives off in second Police car.
Man drives through road block at Taihaoe in stolen Police car. Road spikes used.
Plod has a history of going back to the station with less than they left with!
Toko, yeah ,and just put these high powered rifles in the broom closet out back they’ll be secure there.FFS.
Is there any other kind?
Then there is the street sweeper.
“number of units” to the intersection of Celia and Hamlet streets in Stratford shortly before 2pm on Wednesday after someone reported a person carrying a gun.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/108431676/police-respond-to-reports-of-man-toting-a-firearm-instead-find-broom-with-a-silver-handle
Thats the problem with the” dob in your neighbour” email line. Some arseholes delight in being holier than thou rigorists.
The tools of police state Marxism being applied.
We must get our freedom back.
You couldn’t make this shit up.
Make a good TV skit.
On the other side of the coin….this is what happens when Police embraced PC alf ‘n safety BS.
Before this nonsense, a prisoner would have been cuffed to a rail along the back of the front seat so he couldn’t escape. Can’t have that now…the Police car could catch fire or crash and the prisoner would be trapped inside. I think, even vehicles designed for escorting prisoners have to have escape hatches.
Some young cop working alone out in the back blocks is going to wonder whether he made the right career decision when this gets unloaded on him,
On tv police shows the arrested in the uk and aust are carted away in paddy wagons!
Dr. Oz explains significance of South Dakota’s hydroxychloroquine drug trial
Apr. 14, 2020 – 2:34 – Dr. Mehmet Oz discusses the importance of South Dakota’s plan to conduct statewide clinical hydroxychloroquine drug trials
https://video.foxnews.com/v/6149275790001#sp=show-clips
“UN response to Covid-19 pandemic labelled a ‘terrific failure’ by Helen Clark”
Sour grapes from Aunty. But true.
Did she mention the WHO?
No, but there was talk of the CURE.
The Who and the Cure were great bands in their day.
I’ve seen them both live.
Saw The Who at North Harbour Stadium in 2009- Despite being only Daltrey and Townshend these days they still put on one hell of a rock show! Opening act was the mighty Hello Sailor and very glad I got to see them one last time….
You are only a young thing. I saw the WHO in Wembly stadium in an all day concert in 1979. First and last time I ever got totally pissed on warm cider.
1979? The much maligned Kenny Jones era- Was it still a good show?
Zak Starkey (Son of Ringo) plays drums for them now. He is excellent…
Can’t remember for the obvious reason.
Ed…
If you’re don’t mind Irish Folk..this song by Christie Moore probably sums up that day on the warm cider and maybe Nasska’s day with the Union toady.
https://youtu.be/H0i_TXx7Z-Y?t=15
I also saw the WHO at Wembley – 1981
With Kenny Jones.
It was good enough given the size of the place and in the presence of greatness.
Outshone by seeing Pink Floyd doing the ‘The Wall’ at Earls Court. O for Awesome
Slade at Hammersmith were a standout. Virtually a concert a week – UB40, Dr Feelgood, Split enz, Toyah,
I had wanted to see Led Zeppelin but John Bonham died weeks after I arrived. Not my fault!
None of that internet sold out in 6 minutes carry on. No sir. Had to buy a postal order for the ticket price and mail off with a S.A.E. and wait 3 weeks to see if you got a ticket or Nada.
Doctor i like your medicine.
Coup D’Etat..Harry Lyons ex Hello Sailor, Awesome song!
https://youtu.be/zudQZLbor2U
Yesterday she said President Trump was wrong to stop funding WHO.
We should cut funding as well. But that will never happen with her that wants to go to NY in the seat!
I bet the klarkenfurhers knickers are in a bunch!
Just watched Pres Trump addressing media in the Rose Garden talking about US funding for WHO.
He mentioned as an aside that WTO seems to be ‘friend of China, no friend of US’ as well.
Is he going to dismantle the UN one gravy train at a time?
Can I send him a box of barley sugars so he doesn’t run out of energy before the job is done?
Along with a box of Tui!
Oh wow, I have just turned on tv3, who are advertising that for a donation for just $19 you can help to feed children. What????? On the benefit many millions of NZers have just received, an extra $25 a week added to their benefits, that is $100 a month to feed their families. What the hell is this a black hole?
Honestly, who would ever watch that prick Duncan on TV in the morning? it would tip you into a depression that would be overwhelming. The other Chanel, which is Red tv, by another name, were interviewing the prime minister also known by another name, grinning away it was even worse. Where do they get these people? Last time for me to watch I can do without the indoctrination
Lizziep, Garner and his two billy bunters are amongst the most moronic TV presenters on NZ TV ,even the sports guy has turned into a lefty woke moron. they’ll be gone soon anyway and good job as we don’t need two left leaning channels ,ones enough .
Oh no, with the government’s funding, it will be twice as bright and beautiful and telling us twice as much shit!
On twice as much money as well!
I can’t wait rev tech it can’t come soon enough, the other Chanel as well.
NZME and Stuff still want to join together. Renamed MESTUFFED!
Can you just imagine the luuvies dancing in the street.
Stuffme is better
Buggerme or Buggerus?
A cautionary lock-down fairytale
Once upon a time there was an evil queen called Cindy, not many people knew she was evil because well she lied a lot and had a totally corrupt media covering up for her – no one really knew why they did that – but that’s a story for another day. Not only was the queen evil, she was really, really totally fucking clueless. But that wasn’t a problem for her subjects because they were all so childishly gullible that they felt blessed to have Cindy as their queen because of a mental illness called “Diversity”.
In the beginning of her reign everything was OK, because she was so very lucky to have come to power when the royal coffers were full to overflowing because of the wise previous ruler – in other kingdoms Cindy’s realm used to be called a “Rockstar” – because it was so wealthy. For the first few years of evil (but stupid) Queen Cindy’s reign things were all tickety boo despite the stupid (but evil) queen frittering away all of the royal treasury on idiotic vanity items for herself.
Then one terrible day a horrendous plague came to Queen Cindy’s kingdom but when she went to the royal vaults to get some money to do some testing to look after her subjects – there was nothing left! She’d wasted it all on things to make herself look good. So evil Queen Cindy summoned her royal physician and asked him what to do. The royal physician said “The best way to deal with a plague is to quarantine all the sick people to keep them away from those who are healthy”. And stupid Queen Cindy said “Let’s do this”.
But the royal physician pulled a sad frowny face (I think he may have even put a rag on his head when he did this) and said “Yes oh wise and beautiful Queen, but there is a problem, we don’t know who to quarantine, because we can’t do enough testing because you wanted that big party on 15 March so that you could look good to your subjects”.
So the evil (but stupid) Queen Cindy thought for a while (she had done this before but it was a long time ago) and she declared “Oh well, we’ll just have to quarantine the whole realm then – that’ll stop the plague spreading – then everyone will adore me and know that I saved them with my kindness”.
The royal physician wanted to explain to the evil (but stupid) Queen that “to a complete fucking idiot that might make sense – but when you think about it, it’s madness, there’ll be no one to take in the harvests or deliver the crops to markets or do anything that will allow them to pay their taxes to refill the royal coffers” – but the royal physician knew that if he wanted to keep his head on his shoulders he couldn’t tell the Queen that. So he kept quiet, hoping that the stupid subjects would believe what the town cryers and the royal heralds told them that, even though their lives were ruined, they were better off because of the evil (but stupid) Queen’s mad plan.
Sadly, nobody lived happily ever after.
The court jester DP!! You forgot the court jester!
You know the one who doubles as a horse whisperer.
You left out the fat fairy. It wouldn’t be a fairy tale without a fat fairy.
🙂 you never know – as censorship tightens and our freedoms are extinguished – we might see more of the evil (but stupid) Queen and her Court of Light (-weights) as open debate and freedom of speech has to be replaced with allegorical tales.
You need new glasses. Cindy with her skeletal frame would be the only one you could call lightweight. The rest of them are poncy lard arses who have got their snouts firmly ensconced in the taxpayer provided trough.
The masturbating NZF loudmouth could be the town cryer.
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies
An impressive start to the day there D.P. The sad part is most fairy tales contain a fair amount of truth, in this case far too much.
British senior police, defending their cause of putting a citizen on a list, that makes assumptions, to see if there is a pattern.
This relates to the “Harry Miller” case where the police “checked his thoughts”
Where the “complainant” is recognized as a “victim” and so a “crime” is deemed to have occurred.
‘You have become the Thought Police.’ UK Police Chief questioned over recording of hate incidents
https://youtu.be/Gu6EPYjEUbQ
9 minutes 24 secs. : Mar 9, 2020
‘You have become the Thought Police.’ Watch a London Assembly member question the Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police on the recording of ‘non-crime hate incidents’ across the UK.
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How do you feel about the police potentially recording ‘hate incidents’ against your name without any evidence required, based on the ‘perception’ of a ‘victim’ that you have offended their personal characteristics? The record could appear on DBS checks.
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The Assistant Commissioner thinks this is ok.
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The “Harry Miller” case
“The policeman told me, “I need to check your thinking”‘
https://youtu.be/iCxQI9U_xHE
5 minute 38 seconds : Nov 19, 2019
Harry Miller, a former police officer, is taking Humberside Police to court over reported ‘hate incidents’.
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Harry, now chief executive of campaign group Fair Cop, was previously told by Humberside Police that he had been reported for hate speech because of some 30 tweets that were anonymously reported as ‘offensive’ and ‘transphobic’.
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Despite being told he had committed no crime, the policeman told Harry he needed “to check your thinking”. Harry’s record now clearly states that he has committed a ‘non-crime’ ‘hate incident’. The trouble is, if something is perceived as hateful, it is recorded as hateful. No evidence is needed. There is nothing you can do to change its status and it remains on your record permanently.
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Harry wants his name cleared. As far as he is concerned, there was no hate and there was no incident. He is now taking Humberside Police to court where a judicial review case will look into whether the police are in breach of human rights.
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He did win his case, but one can see the insidious police guidelines in other ways, still unchanged.
So in other ways how away is this in NZ police guide lines, when from this thread, we can see authoritarian change here in allowing the beginnings of another form of tyranny.
https://ysb.co.nz/have-your-say-365/#comment-67300
Who didn’t see this coming…
A Florida man has been arrested on suspicion of a murder committed just one day after he was freed from jail to help prevent the spread of coronavirus.
Joseph Williams, 26, was initially booked into Orient Road Jail on March 13 for possession of heroin (less than four grams), a third-degree felony, and possession drug paraphernalia, a first-degree misdemeanor.
But on March 19 Williams was one of 164 inmates deemed low-risk who was allowed to leave custody following the issuance of Administrative Order 2020-018 which allows people to go free early to decrease the risk of contracting COVID-19 in crowded facilities.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8221509/Florida-man-26-commits-murder-DAY-released-jail-early-prevent-coronavirus.html
Got my rego renewal reminder in the post……..cheeky fuckers.
You can pay online without leaving home.
Be kind to the govt, the taxpayer needs all the money it can get.
Will they issue the Rego online when your WOF has run out and the lockdown prevents you getting said WOF?
Refund or re-fund? yeah right.
Kelvin and Phil, two labour party MP’s were standing at the base of a flagpole, looking up. A woman walked by and asked what they were doing.
“Cindy wants to know the height of this flagpole”, said Phil, “But we don’t have a ladder.”
The woman said, “Hand me that wrench in your toolbox”
She loosened a few bolts and laid the pole on the ground. She then took a tape measure out of their toolbox, took a measurement and said “ Five metres”, and walked away.
Phil shook his head and laughed. “Well, ain’t that just like a smart arse woman?”
“We need the height and she gives us the width.”
And we wonder why kiwibuild was such a failure.
Am I the only one to notice Jacindas face is getting skinnier at the same time as her arse is getting broader. a terrible dilemma for a middle aged international superstar.
She is averse to carrying weight on her shoulders, all the load of our once great nation is settling in a waste area.
That’s just shit for brains returning to it’s natural habitat.
Nope lol
Supermarkets need to do more product origin labeling on their stuff!
I want to know what my choices are and if it’s chinese I want to know. Then I will make my choice!
Yes Sooty, I agree. The sneaky globalists labels read: “made in NZ from products sourced overseas” or words to that effect. If I read that, it goes back on the shelf. Mark everything produced here “NZ Produce”. Marketers insist on sticking those annoying tiny stickers on fruit with country of origin so why not our other food products?
No wonder Clarkdickular has spoken out.
She is so far behind the play, when it comes to holding people accountable.
Move aside Ringling brothers side show, and let the adults take the reins.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/president-donald-j-trump-demanding-accountability-world-health-organization/
Cutting MPs’ pay appropriate way for House of Representatives to reflect Kiwis’ struggle – David Seymour
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/04/coronavirus-cutting-mps-pay-appropriate-way-for-house-of-representatives-to-reflect-kiwis-struggle-david-seymour.html
Seymour, who has been advocating for the pay cut for weeks, says he’s received advice that a law change would be required for it to happen. He’s subsequently had a Bill drafted that he will table when Parliament resumes after the lockdown is lifted. That’s currently meant to be on April 28.
“If in the meantime, we come up with an easier way to do it, then, of course, we will just do that. The point is I have it ready to go if needed,” he said.
Seymour has also organised a petition calling on Parliament to support the Bill.
Retired University of Auckland law school professor Bill Hodge said the move by the Prime Minister on Wednesday was “tremendous” and said it would also help improve her image with Kiwis ahead of the election in September.
“Everyone else in New Zealand is sacrificing, including people in the media, casual workers, productive workers, so I think it’s a very good public relations move, but in substance, I think it’s brilliant. If it inspires others to volunteer, like university lecturers, I think that would be even better,” he told Newshub.
There is a thing doing the rounds on FB congratulating Jacinda on yet another ‘Amazing’ idea…She is TOTALLY taking credit for this,
Yet I swear we all signed a petition re this a week ago? Or did I dream it??
The sad part is Golly, Chloe and all the other list lemons are still on full whack.
And it is only the cabinet ministers, so the MPs out of cabinet trough on as usual. No mention of that anywhere
Here’s what you need to know about the Government’s SME announcement
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/money/2020/04/here-s-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-government-s-sme-announcement.html
The Government this week announced a tax relief scheme that will enable some small to medium businesses to claw back much-needed cash to help stem the losses.
I don’t want help from a government that has no idea how business operates, anything they offer will contain more fish hooks than Cindy’s toy boy. I just want to get my business running again as best I can in the upcoming socialist paradise we have been cast into.
New Zealanders with Covid-19 are treated very differently in this country compared with the situation in Japan.
In New Zealand (1,386 cases), there are 13 people currently in hospital. In Japan, (8,700 cases) the number is a couple of orders of magnitude higher.
Why the huge difference?
In New Zealand, hospitals are for people who MUST be in hospital (i.e., their condition is serious).
In Japan, hospitals are for people who have been diagnosed as coronavirus positive. That’s it!
In reponse, officials in Japan are looking to shift mildly ill patients to the many vacant hotels, to take pressure off the hospitals. This move is running into a lot of resistance. Middle-aged people the world over (but especially in Japan) can be extremely stubborn and surprisingly childish. The idea of being sent to a hotel to isolate and recover is appaling to them.
“My relatives won’t accept that I am ill!” (being in hospital confers the social status of “being sick”)
“I can’t go home! What if I pass the virus to my elderly parents!?” (3-generation households are common)
“I won’t get proper medical care!” (hyperchondria is common among middle-aged and older Japanese women)
“I don’t want to be a burden on my family!” (sometimes Japanese are just too responsible for their own good)
I admire the functional practicality of New Zealanders when disaster strikes. You seem to be able to handle sudden changes in ways of doing things a bit better than people in many other countries. This trait will serve you well when your companies start to collapse, government funding runs out and unemployment goes into double digits.
When our ancestors travelled to the arse end of the world from the 1860’s they quickly became a resilient and resourceful bunch as there was nobody here to assist us when things went wrong. We just get on with what needs doing. Fix it yourself or starve was a great incentive!
Look on the bright side.
This once-in-3-generations disruption to New Zealand society is really going to provide opportunties for innovation (in much the same way that war stimulates technological development).
There will be casualties. It won’t be pretty.
The transistor radio – ie minaturisation was when Japan went from junkie products to being noticed by the world for their clever innovation.
There is only two countries we should look at with regards to how to handle a situation like this. Singapore and Taiwan.
Taiwan in particular —it came in their winter, they have a lot of public transport and they have very high density living. All the things everyone seems to agree on that exacerbate the spread of the virus .
President Trump should fund a group, from the savings of funding the WHO, to look closely at what they did and widely publicise the results. All written in layman’s language so we can all understand it –not just the bureaucrats. It should a be a relatively quick and cheap exercise.
Who is looking forward to getting micro-chipped like a dog or a cat?
Evil Bill Gates has been making a lot of noise about digital tracking of people who’ve been vaccinated for Corona virus. And guess who is ‘all in’ on vaccines these days – that’s right Mr Bill Gates (fresh from his fun time investing in disease laboratories in Wuhan China.
How made does the world have to be to start proving David Icke right?
How do we know that this is in our future? Well if you search for this on Google – the first things that come up are the corrupt fact checker sites and George Soros-funded Media Matters (that’s the outfit that tries to organise Twatter attacks on the advertisers of conservative TV show hosts).
When the bad guys are telling you everything is OK – you know this is when you have to be very scared.
Removal of all paper currency next – replacement with a single digital currency so that everything we do can be tracked!
It’s so weird to be living in times when ‘conspiracy theories’ are being turned into ‘conspiracy facts’.
Yes. It is nigh impossible to wake the peeps. All you you can say to them is ‘the choice to know, is yours”.
There is however a massive underground awakening.
There’s a place where ideas are freely chucked around and being discussed.
It is completely divorced from mainstream censorship.
It is the resistance.
I think Waikato girl asked a while back about Pepe the frog and it’s significance.
This might help to explain.
https://pepethefrogfaith.wordpress.com/
Thanks Bb, yes I’m aware of the meme Pepe the frog after the controversy the woke tried to create over Jordan Peterson having his photo taken with someone wearing a Pepe T.shirt. 🙄
So I’ve posted before about a Schoolteacher Facebook friend of mine who is a card-carrying ‘Jacindamaniac’.
She posts about Jacinda on an almost daily basis- Memes, Cutesy photos etc etc
When Ardern had her baby she posted on FB that she was “Crying tears of joy”… (So you get my drift..)
Anyway- I finally called her out yesterday when she was gushing about how we are the “Luckiest Country in the World right now”.
I bluntly told her that “the people who are losing their jobs, homes and committing suicide don’t feel that lucky”
Her response? – Well I wouldn’t know as she seems to have blocked me on FB….
Your reality check was too much for her brain to absorb. 🤦♀️
The most disturbing thing is she is a Primary Teacher! What kind of putrid garbage is she brainwashing the kids with??
Well she’s pretty lucky.
Sent home on full pay.
If her wages were cut by 20% she’d sing a different story, believe me.
Our posts from school are full of pictures of the teacher’s cute baby and animals on the lifestyle block. I won’t be enquiring, but something makes me suspect a Jacinda-voter.
My child’s classroom last year had a framed picture of Jacinda Ardern on the wall!
When I firmly but politely enquired as to why- I was given some bullcrap about ‘Oh we want positive role models for the girls’….
(*There were NO other ‘role models’ or in fact pictures of bloody anyone on that wall- Just Jacinda beaming down at the kids with a big toothy grin)
For many it was the Queen, and though no monarchist, a far better role model to aim for.
“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.” –Churchill (the real Winston)
OMG – you challenged the narrative.
Fragile lunatic lefties just don’t want their delusion shattered – they don’t like anything which makes them think for themselves. It’s far better to self-isolate your brain than feel the physical pain that accompanies the dawning realisation that one has been utterly hoodwinked.
Well done, well done I say!
The fact that you did not block this person first should be a lesson for you, Capri
Somebody needs to provide a factual claim to the shit they espouse. Most of them simply stick their hands over their ears, but if you can reach one …
Hang on, you have a Jacinda maniac as a friend? You realise that’s treason? How Dare You!
She was an old girlfriend from University days rightoverlabour!
Dumb as a sack of hammers but rather easy on the eye…
All is forgiven.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkYNiKXf4ZI
The Hot Crazy Matrix
6 mins
Can you show us on the graph where she in located ?
Peters seems to be all over msm since his fishing photo shoot hit Twitter…
Coronavirus: A ‘whole lot’ of businesses could reopen at alert level 3 – Winston Peters
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/04/coronavirus-a-whole-lot-of-businesses-could-reopen-at-alert-level-3-winston-peters.html
If companies can meet safety requirements and follow best practice guidelines, Winston Peters told Newstalk ZB unless there is an “adverse finding” the “evidence looks compelling” for several businesses to reopen at alert level 3.
Who decides if they are safe?
Someone from the government / council, with a clipboard?
Do you have to get a permit to reopen at your expense?
All the folks who lost their jobs as Union heavies when compulsory unionism disappeared turned themselves into Health & Safety Experts.
And carried on as normal.
An important (and good) post from Peter Dunne.
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2020/04/15/1129673/end-this-orwellian-version-of-nz
Not only has the willingness with which we seem to have embraced the restrictions imposed upon us become increasingly concerning, but also the corresponding extent to which tolerance for dissenting views has diminished. Our national television news was never a paragon of stimulating reporting and commentary, but now it has descended into little more than a nightly banal morality lecture about how we should all be behaving, and how well we are all doing.
That is one of the very few times I have agreed with him.
It reminds me of the time when he controlled the worm on TV.
In other things he switches back very quickly to his “bob each way” fence sitting act.
Winston Peters is also looking to ride the worm too, as being a relevant sensible in control balance.
Looking to saddle up and ride that lawn mower, in that photo?
Now that Ardern has gamed the salary reduction, with limits, and David Seymour with his draft legislation ready to go through Parliament;- who now wants Parliament to open? Winston? Ardern?
Where’s Bridges and his caucus support for this.
Thanks for posting Maggy. Dunn makes excellent points:
The restoration of Parliament and with it, effective scrutiny of the decisions being made, and the practices being adopted by government agencies in support of those decisions is an important step towards the restoration of normal and proper accountability in our country.
Parliament is the platform where competing plans for dealing with Covid-19 and the future of our country should be aired and tested, and decisions reached. It is the place for getting to the bottom of ongoing issues like, for example, the availability of testing kits, or personal protection equipment which, despite all the soothing assurances to the contrary, are still of significance within the healthcare sector.
Sadly the effectiveness of Parliament has been massively hobbled by the biased, low quality Speaker, Mallard.
With Mallard running interference the Silly Little Gurl is able to avoid taking responsibility – for anything.
She is massively protected on all fronts by the cops (quid pro quo); the media filth; and people in Parliament(Twitford, Sepuloni, Dr Clark et al) whose tenuous position is only possible because Ardernovich is Top female Dog.
We rural types refer to a Top female Dog as a bitch.
Not sure how much confidence I’ve got in plod to carry out the rules when they don’t seem to get their own team sorted.
Watching TV news last night on Wellington weather. Looking at Local cop became obvious chief Plod’s memo re beards didn’t make it from Molesworth St to Seatoun.
Thanks Maggy.
While I think what Peter has said is great, this line suggests he has drunk too much of the cool aid.
” After all, the world is currently in the grip of extraordinary events not known in most of our lifetimes. ”
While he maybe right about the response to the stupid models from the academics, we have had much worse pandemics.
This idea will never see the light of day or even given a second thought, but if I was able to wave a magic wand I would set up a proper working group of skilled people to guide the rebuild the economy –people like John Key, Bill English , even Helen Clark, Margaret Bazley, ex head of Air NZ ( cannot remember his name) , several successful small medium business people and farmers. Maximum of say 12 people. Give them some real clout –even able to over ride Parliament if necessary in some cases. Something to get some real action going without partisan politics getting in the way.
Our CoL has no idea how to manage an emergency…
Social/Economic issues have to be balanced with Health matters.
The Ministers and PM should have been sorting this out all through February.
Correct Maggy. I did not see the article but apparently even Andrea Vance thinks they are using “soft” propaganda to manage the situation. If Vance thinks that maybe they have a few issues.
Exactly. Everything this government has done has been reactionary and with poor foresight of outcomes. This is what happens to nations who vote in politicians with no world experience outside of their ideological bubbles.
Ex Air NZ -Ralph Norris?
Keep such a committee to 7.
Small and move fast.
Have an uneven number to avoid deadlocks.
Make it happen.
and no pandering to Maori.
I was thinking of Rob Fyfe –only because there would be a need for someone with recent knowledge of the tourism industry, which will probably be one of the harder ones to tackle.
Like the uneven number idea.
But it is all fantasy –it will never happen because there are too many egos and too much politics to overcome.
And here’s Peters Again… Must be election season!
New Zealand thanked in phone call between US Secretary of State and Winston Peters
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/04/coronavirus-new-zealand-thanked-in-phone-call-between-us-secretary-of-state-and-winston-peters.html
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeted on Thursday morning that he had a “productive” call with Peters, thanking New Zealand “for helping US citizens return home during this challenging time”.
“US-New Zealand cooperation will continue to be critically important as we respond to COVID-19 in the Indo-Pacific and beyond,” Pompeo said.
He rises like Lazarus!
Viagra.
German police arrest four suspected of plotting to attack U.S. military targets
Authorities believe Tajik nationals belong to the Islamic State
“Targets for the attacks were supposed to be institutions of U.S. forces in Germany or even individual people,” prosecutors said in a statement.
The group allegedly was in touch with Islamic State commanders in Syria and Afghanistan, and had obtained firearms and bomb-making instructions for an unspecified future attack.
https://justthenews.com/world/german-police-arrest-four-suspected-plotting-attack-us-military-targets#.Xpc3O9np3yI.twitter
CNN publishes Chinese propaganda praising China, degrading the US Navy
CNN this week published a report copying almost word-for-word a Chinese Communist Party press release praising the People’s Liberation Army Navy’s efforts to contain the coronavirus and degrading the U.S. Navy’s failures to do likewise.
Almost as bad as CNN’s promotion of Chinese propaganda is the network’s defense of its decision to run state-sponsored agitprop.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/cnn-publishes-chinese-propaganda-praising-china-degrading-the-u-s-navy
CNN.
I heard of them. The China News Network, right?
Formerly Clinton News Network
They know how to pick winners!
CNN and election year 2020.
They are looking down a barrel.
CNN is doing the dance of the desperate as Trump gains ground despite their efforts and treasonous behaviour (and ABC, NBC, WaPo, NYT, Huffington etc)
POTUS has threatened Congress with a forced adjournment in order to fill vacancies that Congress hasn’t approved.
Can he do it?
https://www.justice.gov/file/20711/download
Yes he can.
High profilers dropping bombs.
https://www.fort-russ.com/2020/04/rodriguez-comes-forward-with-info-on-pedophile-human-trafficking-adrenochrome-and-the-awakening/
Any questions? Just ask.
“There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen.” –Vladimir Ulyanov
You know this guy.
O Sen , send that to the pig farmer Xi Jinping.
Protesters waving MAGA flags defy social distancing and swarm the steps of Michigan’s state capitol to demand Gov. Gretchen Whitmer end her strict stay-at-home orders because ‘they restrict freedom and are against the constitution’
Protesters defied social distancing and gathered outside Michigan’s State Capitol to demand Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer end her strict stay-at-home orders because it restricts their freedom, and they insisted people are smart enough to make their own decisions.
Furious demonstrators waving Make America Great Again flags leaned out of their car windows and chanted ‘lock her up’ in heavy traffic as part of #OperationGridlock – a stunt set up by the Michigan Conservative Coalition and the Besty DeVos family-linked conservative group, Michigan Freedom Fund.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8223017/Thousands-protest-Michigan-state-Capitol-against-states-stay-home-orders.html
I genuinely feel huge sympathy for lard arse Ardern,she has taken a 20% pay cut , so per package is around $475k a year plus ALL F- – – – -G expenses and I mean ALL.
MINUS 20% = $380.000 ,God what an amazing human being , I’m seriously thinking of starting a give a little page for her the lawnmower man and the 1st brat ,and her steely resolve has pulled us through this crisis.. Thank you,Thank you,Thank you Jacinda,,,, Me ,bowing and scraping ,walking backwards out of sight of her magnificence like Blackadder ,LOL.
You aren’t counting how much $$$ she gets paid for all those Woman’s Day/New Idea covers….
Oh and don’t forget Clark Gayford is raking in the ‘NZ on Air’ taxpayer cash for his fishing show that nobody watches…
Now now he’s got dealers to support.
Mate, it becomes even more laughable. How long is her pay-cut for? Two months? If we look at her gross pay she’ll lose $15,833.33 of her annual gross. I can tell you now, her life is going to be so much harder.
Edit: 6 months then, so $47,500 of her gross.
But, but she is taking leadership don’t you know. //
Fucking media whore !~
President Trump Calls Out New York For Padding their Coronavirus Numbers with “Presumed” Deaths and Heart Attacks by Coronavirus (VIDEO)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/president-trump-calls-new-york-padding-coronavirus-numbers-presumed-deaths-heart-attacks-coronavirus-video/
So you think you’re having a bad day!
Horrific video emerges of Aeroflot Superjet bursting into flames at Moscow airport
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/travel/2020/04/horrific-video-emerges-of-aeroflot-superjet-bursting-into-flames-at-moscow-airport.html
Investigators have released a dramatic video showing the moment a packed Aeroflot Sukhoi Superjet 100 burst into flames, killing 41 people, shortly after being struck by lightning.
Video of the 2019 incident was released on Thursday morning by Russian transport investigation authorities, who have now laid charges against the pilot.
Did you notice how many people got their luggage before they evacuated the burning plane?
Could you imagine the horror? The heat and the screams?
And the person in front of you is dithering around getting their carry-on from the overhead locker……..
Punch in the head and walk over them!
Coronavirus: Wrong move banning manufacturing during COVID-19 lockdown, trade expert tells MPs
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/04/coronavirus-wrong-move-banning-manufacturing-during-covid-19-lockdown-trade-expert-tells-mps.html
Australia has allowed manufacturing during the COVID-19 pandemic, and a trade expert has told lawmakers he does not support the Government’s decision to ban it during the lockdown in New Zealand.
Charles Finny, a New Zealand & Enterprise board member with more than 22 years’ experience in diplomatic roles, told the Epidemic Response Committee on Thursday he would have advised against shutting the billion-dollar industry.
Live updates: How Level 3 will work revealed by PM
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/live-updates-level-3-work-revealed-pm
Its a pathetic nothing as usual. The PTPM is jumping about like she is getting electric shocks up her bum waving her arms about and nodding her head like she expects us to be grateful for as usual absolutely nothing. It’s such a debacle it beggars belief. I am totally done with this charade. The liber party have no idea what the hell they’re doing and I am not sure the Doctor does or if he is hiding his thoughts about what’s going on or not. Its a total control of New Zealanders. She is still going on about lock down hard, what absolute bullshit, she could have demanded everyone coming into the country was held in isolation weeks ago and we’d be OK
Did she tilt her head and give the over-exaggerated ‘Frowny Face’?
*I can’t watch as the mere sight of that dreadful woman makes me want to vomit..
I have not watched many to be honest it was the BIG announcement that sucked me in. I only lasted a little while as I came over with a feeling of disbelief at what I was hearing, for a big announcement it wasn’t u to anything at all.
Bring on Steven Joyce, it’s beyond my belief the National caucus chose Simon over Steven. National would be romping ahead I believe if they had.
Yes she was all over the place. Ashley Bloomfield was made to hand over the health figures so she could grandstand with the announcement of the daily numbers of sick, then she pontificated on what was best for elderly and immuno-suppressed patients. Thanks Dr Ardern!!! // 🤡
😡
https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/diseases-and-conditions/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-current-situation/covid-19-current-cases/covid-19-current-cases-details
Just looking at this info from MoH.
There’s a very long list of probable cases for April.
I kinda thought that ‘probable cases’ would be those awaiting confirmation from – I don’t know – maybe, testing?
So, we’re assured there’s plenty of testing capacity and materials, yet the frontline say different.
We’re assured there’s plenty of PPE, but it isn’t making its way to workers at the front line of health service and care delivery.
Who in hell is running this circus?
Who in hell is running this circus?
🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
And I want to know exactly how David Clark is filling his day.
What’s on his time sheet?
Am I getting any bang for my $300k bucks?
Will he be volunteering for SLGs 20% pay cut scheme?
I vaguely remember that when under the grill for going cycling and beach walking, he made some snivelling assurances that he would be working hard to redeem himself. Could one of our esteemed journalists please follow up with a progress report.
After all, we wouldn’t want to miss an opportunity to hand out kudos where it’s due, would we?
Sorry “Dr” Clark is not available for interviews. He is too busy with his tail between his legs and hiding under the bed. //
Countdown opens New Zealand’s first purpose-built, permanent e-Store in Auckland
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/money/2020/04/countdown-opens-new-zealand-s-first-purpose-built-permanent-e-store-in-auckland.html
The 8800-sqm e-Store in Penrose features all the regular supermarket elements, including a bakery, butchery and shelves stocked with packaged grocery items and fresh produce. However, it is a customer-free zone.
Instead a team of 200 personal shoppers, 106 being new staff, will run the dedicated e-Store and fulfil online orders for customers from 10 of Countdown’s busiest Auckland supermarkets.
God only knows what ‘journalists are doing, only so much virus news.
Stuff stuffing its workers…
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/121048017/stuff-staff-asked-to-accept-15-pay-cut-for-12-weeks-after-huge-drop-in-advertising
In my fantasy idea above I did not add Steven Joyce to the list. My reason was because National need to get rid of Bridges and parachute Joyce in, in some way ( might be another of my fantasies). Here is why.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12325133
From Leighton Smith’s podcast
Yes I heard that this morning. Joyce will not be returning to politics any time soon. If you can get a chance to listen do so.
For those of you with iPhones download the “Overcast” app. search for “leighton Smith” and download the podcast. Save it to get all new ones as well.
Shame- Now more than ever our economy needs the likes of Key, Joyce, English and co..
I was quietly hoping maybe they might do a Winston Churchill and come ‘Out of the Wilderness’ to save their country from these lunatics!
We need someone now
Why the heck would Mr Joyce come back after the shameful way he was treated by the Labour Party and their economist and media fanboys/girls prior to the last election?
Joyce was pilloried as some sort of incompetent idiot for his “fiscal hole” predictions by people who didn’t know what they were talking about.
But the electorate took notice because they thought economists were politically neutral professionals. What a laugh – but not for Mr Joyce.
Previously I understood that he was happy to be consulted?
I have just listened to the Steven Joyce interview. A major loss to our Parliament / Government. The level of thought and analysis is rarely heard these days. Also his ability to speak “off the cuff” with intelligent thought provoking answers has been sorely lacking from our politicians in this current Parliament.
No hair dye, no make up.
Don.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVrWw6rVcAEQbFd?format=jpg&name=large
There is some very good information from Mr Reddell today. Make sure you read it and the associated links.
Hahaaaaaha LOL!!!
Australian Drakes supermarket boss’ blunt reply to toilet paper hoarder wanting refund
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12324944&&ref=recommended
An Australian supermarket boss has given one of his customers the bird after it was claimed the man tried to return almost 5000 rolls of toilet paper and 150 bottles of hand sanitiser which he couldn’t sell online.
John-Paul Drake, an executive with South Australian supermarket chain Drakes, said he refused to give the man a refund.
Ardern’s aggrandizement slip.
Makes me wonder now, how many of these positive tests being those travellers, placed under isolation, and now quarantine.
Yet nigh on 5 million population being pinged into lockdown for all these travel contacts.
Strangely Ardern had taken the Bloomfields notes on the quarantine numbers,
Interesting point came up about the ones who are in the “travel quarantine” that several cases there came up as positive that she had observed yesterday. as ;-
Ardern said,
Currently in quarantine is 88
Total combined of quarantined and in hotels 1189
Then the all knowing ad-lib;-
I do recall that several of our tests yesterday, they were positive tests of those people in quarantine.
https://youtu.be/2bdTAQH1SYI?t=2759
Should start on the 46 minute for the question and the answer ends on the 46 :29 mark.
I get a feeling she is covering her arse, just in case this opens up a bit more, on this travel malarkey, and positive tests, that she does not want really want known.
Nor has this been reported in RNZ or the TV1 systems.
Really needs an a Royal Commission of Inquiry into this, and some making a start of an Official Information Inquiry as the numbers being touted as connected to overseas travel has been for far too long been glossed over!,
This will then up the pressure on the “go hard go early” meme when in fact it was being so slow to get to quarantine systems set up.
The rest of NZ is being hung out to dry, with no jobs, much reduced pay, to zero, plus costs, and losses on business’s etc., etc..
Doesn’t need a royal bloody Commision
We just need to be let out of jail and back to living.
This is non life – because a couple of very old people on the end-of-life escalator popped off 1 to 2 months early.
Sad, but true.
Let’s get back to work and not create massive debt for future generations.
This is totalitarianism at work.
It does not madder what the brand of totalitarianism is – Fascism, Na zism, Commie, – it is evil and about control over others.
Flick the switch and let people come back to life.
Under this current shit we may not be dead…. but we are not living.
No need for more paid roles for Klingons.
Police warn of huge rise in women committing ‘Cinderella’ abuse as domestic attacks by stepsisters QUADRUPLE in ten years
Domestic abuse by sisters and stepsisters on their siblings has risen sharply
Cases of abuse by sisters more than doubled from 641 in 2010 to 1,325 in 2018
And cases involving stepsisters and half-sisters more than quadrupled
Female perpetrators now responsible for 28 per cent of domestic abuse cases
Abuse by daughters, stepdaughters and daughters-in-law also increased.
The figures come as Home Secretary Priti Patel launches a campaign called #YouAreNotAlone to support abuse victims following a rise in cases during the Covid-19 lockdown.
Research suggests sibling abuse is more common in dysfunctional or neglectful homes where parents fail to control behaviour.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8216713/Police-warn-huge-rise-women-committing-Cinderella-abuse.html
No one should be allowed to get away with this tripe:
……”But if the Government doesn’t help soon, Newsroom co-editor Mark Jennings says New Zealand risks losing its journalists and seeing democracy “go to hell in a handbasket”.”……
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/04/coronavirus-can-the-nz-media-survive-the-pandemic.html
So the Labour Party publicity agency, once known as the NZ MSM, are bleating about the loss of advertising revenue & forecasting the demise of democracy without his useless organisation.
Newsflash arsehole! Democracy has been in its death-throes for the past two years. We’ve heard nothing about anything that wasn’t favourable to Hugzilla & the incompetent idiots in government. No investigative news…….just pap about Neve’s potty training & wall to wall shit about Jacindamania.
Get fucked.
As I said the other day- New Zealand MSM have done NOTHING but gush over Jacinda and publish cutesy baby stories when they should be asking hard questions and holding the Government to account! (Which used to be the Media’s job)
I’m with Nasska- They are totally to blame for their own demise…
Enjoy the unemployment line fuckers!
Like this piece of Pro-Cindy garbage:
Opinion: Trump v Ardern: How our Prime Minister trumped the most powerful man in the world
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/04/opinion-trump-v-ardern-how-our-prime-minister-trumped-the-most-powerful-man-in-the-world.html
“Jacinda Ardern, in comparison to Trump, has been decisive and in control throughout this country’s response to the coronavirus pandemic and has made her American counterpart look seriously out of his depth.”…
…”She has been calm, collected, in control and has made the big calls. She has, like every good leader should do, grown into this crisis. You cannot prepare for it but you can deal with it, and unlike Trump she has owned every aspect of it. ”
🤢🤢🤢
Meanwhile TV3 have buried Cameron Bagrie’s economic outlook interview from this morning on the state of the NZ economy. Wiped, nowhere to be found. Guess it was bad news for the CoL.
Pssst TV3, burying unpalatable news to the CoL is what got you into this financial mess in the first place… but I guess you’re looking for a taxpayer bailout! Don’t take NZ’ers for fools. We’re not. Cowtowing to the CoL hasn’t worked for the past few years, why would it work now? The tax paying public know what you are doing!!!!!!!! FAKE NEWS!!!!!
I just saw that WG. Absolute grovelling to Ardern —“Please give us plenty of Government money so we do not lose our jobs . You know be kind to us, pretty please ” I say –go bury yourself in the massive hole you dug for yourselves.
At least Grant Robertson does not seemed to be convinced
https://thebfd.co.nz/2020/04/15/sledge-of-the-day-2/
Waikato
Uuuuurgh!
Proving Nasska’s point exactly.
What a stupid bastard this Jennings is.
There was no need to smash the capitalist system because a few old people in dementia wards and hospices died a few weeks earlier.
If the economy stayed open then there would be advertising and these media liars could have told all the lies they want using advertising income to fund their fantasy and talk about baybee, and kindness, and head scarfs. That is capitalism. They earn it… they can spend it how they want.
What happened?
The Marxist tart crashed the economy and turned the whole country into a prison.
Prison Nation.
Police State.
…in 48 hours.
The media lying filth never questioned this.
…but want the taxpayer money to allow them to continue to NOT do their job.
What an utter wanker Mark Jennings is.
Remember to email the churnalist and explain it to him. If they do not hear, they can never understand.
Looks like the evidence that the Kung flu escaped from the Wuhan bio lab is stacking up.
If negligence on the part of the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) can be proven, what will the CCP do? Make the director in charge the WIV take early retirement?
Under international law, can the CCP be held responsible for negligence by its citizens or its employees?
Or will condemnation in the international court of opinion be enough?
What do we want from China? A confession by the CCP? An apology? Compensation? Reform?
Hey , hasn’t New Zealand got a sort of Waitangi Treaty version of an agreement with the Communist Chinese Party?
May be some special people in NZ especially the Federation Of Maori Authorities would have something like that signed.
Just a matter of making it a living breathing system. 🙂 and the Chinese will respect that.
After the end of the Level 4, when you can go shopping and go to restaurants, who’s going to “splurge”?(https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12325272)
Who’s going to buy any big-ticket consumer durables?
Or are you going to remain cautions, since we are not “out of the woods” yet by a long way.
None of those. I’m going fishing. 🙂
Only when “she” lets you Nasska, up until then, be kind to one another !~ //
I’ve built up a few brownie points stigie. I thought it might pay dividends because if this “bubble” business continues she’ll be roped in as crew.
The old bird whines & moans a bit but she pulls a good anchor. 🙂
soft baiting is the go nasska, no anchor needed
A euphemism?
O-sen.
I’ve been looking at importing a car from Japan.The prices have come down and if you buy one now they will store it for $2 per month until things move again.
I’m going to buy a new rifle.
I would hope it’s a big one!
I’m going to shoot the one I bought just before the lockdown!!!
Me too. One brand spanking, and one that doesn’t seem to like anything I feed it.
Shops and restaurants aren’t going to be open on Level 3.
I’m going to be naughty and burst my bubble by donating my overabundance of feijoas to a neighbour when we drop to level 3.
PS… I don’t care if you snitch… I’ll plead guilty and if I’m lucky, I might get a holiday and someone else’s cooking for a few weeks .
I am stocking up on tech screws and other DIY stuff and a new pair of shorts. I have no debts and I will trying to build up a pile of cash in my business, as I fear the mad cow is not finished with us yet.
About the shorts. I was reading a post on here and I was laughing so hard I sneezed and farted at the same time and blew a hole in them. True story.
I guess lugging reuseable bags out of the supermarket can put you back in the black Nasska !~
Some of the things we have been taught to fear: communists, Islamists, populists, nationalists, now this:
https://off-guardian.org/2020/04/15/brave-new-normal/
Seems every response, to any of these over hyped threats, is to take away our freedom… to protect us.
The existential threat is a very useful tool to politicians who wish to control their nations.
Here’s the right sort of response to over bearing officialdom:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoZUEPPvffY&feature=emb_title
https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=ku9dV_1586988112&fbclid=IwAR1Ft1mXuI78OfsNpW9MrPVUY6et1JRHI2EIrIz-4knidPAn7pnyKZVpJJg
Cops doing their best to make friends and influence people….
‘You have to destroy a village to save it’ did come to mind…
How ridiculous if the only reason to kill it was conflicting legislation. Should it have been given the benefit of the doubt?
Good man this supermarket employee!
https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/retail/supermarket-bosss-blunt-reply-to-toilet-paper-hoarder-wanting-refund/news-story/985cc7022ce371a71b7d86c3031e2ce5
Speaking of toilet paper, my missus has been buying some shit toilet paper, literally.
Some of it you have to have it six sheets thick or you might as well just use your finger.
Some rolls are that loosely rolled, so you are not getting a decent length on the roll you buy.
Look on the bright side.
It let you get in touch with your ‘inner man’. 🙂
Yeah, a self-Hopoate
Lol Sooty – definitely TMI!
Your cat has spent years watching you, not doubt it has even peeked into the bathroom or toilet. You know all those charts in the butchers shops showing the various cuts of meat on a cow, well, your cat has an identical chart of you burned into it’s brain.
It knows which bits of you need to be eaten straight away. It has watched you scratch your bollocks so it now it knows how to get at your (now his/her) meat and two veg whilst you lie dead on the floor fully dressed. When it licks you it is verifying your salt content. If the cat is sitting on your lap purring and pawing you, it is checking the resilience of your flesh for fat content, it does the same when it leaps off the wardrobe onto your stomach while you sleep. Cats often sleep on your chest at night, they want to be the first to know when you stop breathing. A cat will sniff your nose as you exhale…it’s looking for signs of illness which might render you inedible.
Cats do, however make wonderful pets.
These cats eat better than I do!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvaQw77UQcw
Japanese food for cats!?
O….Sen
Here’s a Chinese cat.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/59d19e5156464f815072c74450835b3a9cb63013ee790962299a0c8cc7a60bcb.jpg
I knew it!!
Having picked up the remains of two people eaten by Pit Bulls-
I’ll take my chances with Mr Frisky the cat thanks…
The only thing more evil than a cat is a chicken. And Ardern. Okay two things.
I was out in the garden weeding yesterday….head down, bum up, when Duckduck flew down to help……or so I thought…
but no, she wasn’t interested in the young bulb shoots or exposed worms…… she trotted around past my bent knees and started nibbling my bum.
All your birthdays at once then?
Photograph…or it didn’t happen.
https://live.staticflickr.com/1766/42269496054_af6e07fe7e_b.jpg
How come Clarkes favorite airline can do Corona Virus test in 10 minutes?
Emirates airline rolled out tests for passengers flying today!
Jacinda Air?
That’s all in the head
Air Head
What else do they pick up in that test?
Emirates Hostesses are the best!…
AirNZ has 1000 to lend them.
All widebody internals being laid off. No flying until at least April 2021.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/travel/2020/04/coronavirus-air-new-zealand-plans-to-axe-all-boeing-777-cabin-crew-as-part-of-company-downsizing.html?fbclid=IwAR0c0jF1-8DaCiu4n602uHBN8vIDZwGvXisDxwq-v7Dylwwe8DoINMO2IOA
worried a bit about what may happen in the next wee while.
Here is an interesting chart. compare this with the facts that the DOW has risen way up as jobs are going etc.
http://geoeconomics.ge/en/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/4.jpg
https://www.interest.co.nz/news/104571/review-things-you-need-know-you-go-home-thursday-more-td-rate-cuts-inflation-impulse
Looking at the charts of the NZX and the DJIA, all I can say is this is either the fastest recovery in history or a classic Bear Trap.
My bad.
I meant “Bull Trap” (not Bear Trap).
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6dj6ec/1_day_ago_i_posted_that_we_were_in_the_bull_trap/
Look familiar?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Reh9az762s
Alan Jones says he was subject to ‘extraordinary outburst’ by Chinese newspaper
The company that owns New Zealand’s only oil refinery, at Marsden Point in Northland, is considering getting out of fuel refining altogether and operating solely as a fuel import business.
At the moment Marsden Point produces about 70% of the fuel used for transport in this country.
The refinery’s owner Refining NZ said in a release to the NZX on Wednesday that it was starting a “Strategic Review” to determine the optimal business model and capital structure for its assets that will maximise “through the cycle” returns to shareholders, and deliver secure, competitive fuel supply to New Zealand. External advisers have been appointed to help with the review, though the company did not state who they were in the release.
https://www.interest.co.nz/business/104549/refining-nz-considering-getting-out-refining-and-becoming-solely-fuel-importer
I’m sure the government see no problems with that.We’ll have converted to electric cars by then so we wont need to refine petrol…
Won’t be selling much avgas for a few months either.
More room at Winston’s new port?
revtech120 April 16, 2020 At 8:58 am asks…
“Am I the only one to notice Jacindas face is getting skinnier at the same time as her arse is getting broader….”
Some may remember that TV clip of the Princess at the start of her reign, the Duck at her side, her cabinet of incompetents behind her, walking down the corridor of power in a clingy red dress, while something quite odd was going on in her nether region.
That clip is now doing the re-rounds as a son forwarded it to me today. I opened it without knowing what it was, as like my brother says, “I don’t watch anything of Ardern for the same reason I don’t drink from the toilet bowl.”
Serious question….Was there any satisfactory explanation given as to what the hell was going on?
For those with a strong constitution and not seen the clip…here’s a link.
https://www.facebook.com/leeanne.swinburne/videos/1922935581069127/
Looks a bit sus to me Toko but we need an expert opinion.
Hey, Ed! Got a minute? 🙂
Hang on, I will go and ask Mrs Holy.
Jimmy to Mums
Nevey two Dads.
Kelvin two short planks.
Hmmmmm.
She had the same thing, and clothes at the field days!
Rear end shot thou!
I think ED has it.
Anyone else sick of the term “bubble”? Carefully chosen and has such cutes and benign connotations. A childish term to amuse many of us who now find ourselves confined in one for the foreseeable future and has got right up my nose over the past few weeks!! 🤢
The dictionary refers to as thus:
• used to refer to a good or fortunate situation that is isolated from reality or unlikely to last: we both lived in a bubble, the kind provided by occupying a privileged pied-à-terre in Greenwich Village. and
• a place or position that is protected from danger or unpleasant reality
Like virginity, a bubble vanishes with the first prick.
So long ago can’t remember!
And now we have the “Recovery Room” for the next few weeks.
Is it padded?
Farmers face uncertainty over whether biggest day on sharemilking calendar will go ahead
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/farmers-face-uncertainty-over-whether-biggest-day-sharemilking-calendar-go-ahead?auto=6149882495001
Thousands of farms change ownership and many families move entire households, machinery and farming equipment to new properties on Gypsy Day.
“If no-one’s allowed to move it’ll have huge impact on the industry going forward,” he said.
“Financially, share milkers who’ve signed contracts or brought farms will have lent money from the bank based on that contract and expectation of income to come,” said Richard McIntyre.
Federated Farmers say it’s been fielding dozens of calls from anxious sharemilkers concerned about their livelihoods and stock welfare – so many that they’ve now formed a working group to ensure their voices get heard at the top.
Supreme dickhead Malcolm TurnBULL is about to launch his book in the middle of a period of great frustration and uncertianty.
Peta Credlin slams him.
Rightly so.
https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/peta-credlin-on-former-boss-malcolm-turnbull-he-has-no-moral-compass/news-story/0ad2d9593cd31e268a356ca2b89939fc
…Peta Credlin wants the world to know exactly what she thinks of her former boss, ex-Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull … and it’s not much.
The Sky News presenter gave an extraordinary radio interview on Thursday, telling 2GB’s Ben Fordham that Mr Turnbull “has no moral compass” and declaring: “I’ve never met a more reprehensible human being”.
The comments come four days out from the release of Mr Turnbull’s memoir, A Bigger Picture, which reportedly takes aim at former colleagues including Scott Morrison, Julie Bishop and Peter Dutton.
Ms Credlin said the timing of the book’s release — during a global crisis — was “the measure of a man”….
People will have time to read it if they want, it was planned way before covid why should he delay if he doesn’t want to?