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No good on our hill country
https://x.com/rainmaker1973/status/1916794289129955785?s=46
With all the rain, the hills will all become flats soon enough.
The guy obviously wasn’t a fencer before he got his hands on this invention. The posts are all out of line.
a rangi fencer for sure, ya wouldnt be paying the chap if the fence was more crooked and bent then our govt!
Saggy, he must be a Labour voter, the poles are leaning to the left.
I might be wrong, but shouldn’t there be 1/3 of the pole underground for stability? It doesn’t look very sturdy.
Kangaroos jump it, silly moo’s use the barbed wire to scratch there heads.
Cheer up everyone Tory has chucked in the towel in Wellywood because she is scared of the perennial loser angry Andy. Hopefully Ray Cheung will help Angry maintain his perfect record as a professional hasbeen.
The trough salary may be reduced for Tory, but will still be there as a “shoo-in” with no one contesting.
Whanau said she would instead run for the council’s Māori Ward, and support other Green candidates to be elected to the council.
“I want to continue making Pōneke a city that embraces Te Tiriti, work closely with mana whenua and deliver on affordable housing, nature and water.”
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/559312/atory-whanau-quits-wellington-mayoral-race
I did wonder if your dolls had a beard as at least JD, did good work this month.
It may be more challenging to get them to meet up?
Some live in “hope” but have no “faith”
Will he have time to visit all of them?
Just look at the love in obumas eyes. The queer cunt can’t wait!
Read about Soros last night. Probably the worst psychopath the world has seen. Stalin and Hitler were amateurs alongside him.
Born in 1930, he was 14 when he started his life learning to be an opportunity. A jew who masqueraded as a Christian to survive.
survived to wreak havoc around the world and on humanity.
There’s no reason that his chosen successor will be any different.
Certainly have been well exposed for what that organisation is about.
have a read.
https://nominister.wordpress.com/2025/04/27/peering-into-a-soul-that-is-an-abyss/
Yes, have a read of the link I posted yesterday.
Remember when he broke the Bank of England? I consider he had US government help and support to be able to do that. The guy is 100 shades of dodgy and probably evil to boot.
Read his story. He is an opportunist with an evil mind.
The latest in the USA and china tarrif deals.
‘END-OF-REGIME CONDUCT’: China expert warns something is ‘very, very wrong in Beijing’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LpOKlMWfjk
Maybe they will need a state funeral as well?
Enough blue sky to mend a patch on a sailors trousers.
Rain well no not yet but apparently its lurking with snow possible in the south.
Well OK.
Just another day in paradise!
China Targets: Global investigation reveals Beijing’s targeting of people in NZFor years, a small but vocal group of people has tried to warn that the Chinese Government has reached across borders, all the way to New Zealand, in an attempt to suppress those who speak out against it. Now, an investigation by more than 100 journalists worldwide, including Stuff, lays bare the extent and tactics of China’s global repression campaign. Paula Penfold and Justin Wong report on the New Zealand cases that have left dissidents here saying they do not feel safe.
In January, when Ali* spoke to Stuff for a story on Heinz Wattie’s being one of 70 global brands at risk of being tainted by forced labour in China, he requested anonymity, fearing consequences for his family.
We gave him a pseudonym and silhouetted his image in photographs and video.
The feared consequences seem to have come anyway.
“Police are requesting all my information from my family in Xinjiang,” he messaged, three weeks after the story was published.
“They are requesting all my friends’ info since I was little in China. Looks like there are rats for sure,” he wrote.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360667816/china-targets-global-investigation-reveals-beijings-targeting-people-nz
If he spoke under the impression that Stuff would hide his identity, he’s the bigger fool.
The Chinese people are resisting in the streets and protesting Xi on line.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRaOud_ydaA
Riots in China: Chinese Citizens TURN Against CCP in a Deadly Attack
How were school lunches for the starving kids yesterday? Or did the starving kids die in the school holidays cause no one gave them lunch? Surely TVNZ had a story
John Campbell is running a 5 part documentary next week on this sordid and squalid mess, I hear. It will shake the Government and Country to it’s core, but no dead, dying or maimed children will be named to protect the innocent.
But rest assured John is on to it.
If it’s anywhere near as successful as the Destiny Church hit job the government will have nothing to fear.
Benjamin Doyle fed them all. I won’t say what.
Power cut across Spain and Portugal leaves millions without electricity
Power went out across Spain and Portugal yesterday, cutting train, cell phone and internet networks, clogging roads and trapping people in elevators before electricity started to return to some areas hours later.
About 35% of Spain’s capacity has been restored this morning, the country’s electricity operator said.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/power-cut-across-spain-and-portugal-leaves-millions-without-electricity/K7A6TOSUKJER5C4AALUEQTKCU4/
One now wonders if dim-wit Bill Gates along with Keir Starmer’s seeding planes were a bit of course. 🙃
A lot seems still seems to be conjecture, saying please do not 2nd guess…
https://www.joannenova.com.au/2025/04/days-after-spain-reaches-100-renewable-mass-blackouts-hit-due-to-mysterious-rare-atmospheric-phenomenon/
Yet could be more serious, as not so easy to stitch the Humptsy Dumpty systems back together again.
So why did EU & some countries have a “72 hour Emergency Kit with bottled water, canned food, and batteries/power bank to run a radio and mobile phone” alert to wise up their citizens.
A bit of common-sense from all the chatter & nonsense from the EU.
Probably right for all the wrong reasons.
At least in part the individual will be a little more resilient despite the un-sustainability of the elitist controlled systems.
The crazy asylum inmates have taken control.
Looks like it could be a big hit on a District Council if it goes beyond just coding errors.
Money gone West?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/559331/ruapehu-mayor-launches-independent-investigation-into-700-000-council-overspend
Is this as it always has been in New Zealand?
…. New Zealand’s biggest problem with integrity is our complacency – the notion that “there is no corruption in New Zealand” ends up being translated into a lack of safeguards or scrutiny of politicians and their relationships with vested interests.
After all, if it is assumed that New Zealand business people [+ sports celebrities] and politicians are trustworthy and beyond reproach, then there isn’t any need to have rules to prevent integrity violations. ….
https://democracyproject.substack.com/p/integrity-briefing-can-new-zealand
Yet this left wing journalist is trying to balance on the fence, trying to gain wider credibility, re-inventing, name changing, while with no mention of John Tamihere’s money flow & controlling Trust & then into Te Parti.
Nor mention of Ardern & Robertson using their status to keep in the money flows.
But obvious Trump TDS and putting down Musk, who has lifted the lid on money flows in the USA.
S1, (Disclosure, the RDC Mayor is a close personal friend so I may be biased.) The over expenditure comes down to some Council Staff and failure by the CEO to Monitor such expenditure. If it was left to be, I would not bother with an Independent Consultant (as this is just another expense for the Ratepayer, for a Consultant which will come up with a limp Bus Ticket, on which the finding will be written on the back of), it would be the door this afternoon for the Council Employee and the CEO. No if’s, no but’s, just be gone.
These Council CEO’s in my opinion are grossly over paid for their incompetence and seldom claim any responsibility for their incompetence. In the RDC, CEO case, I believe this over paid fool has about 18 months left on his Contract to run and wants a 2 year extension to that, which he is currently seeking, no doubt until his retirement to Mount Maunganui where he has a house.
Thanks TAH, as I figured it was a small connective world too.
Almost sounds like the money went East.
Mount Maunganui where he has a house.
Surely just a good auditor would get to the bottom of it, and any discrepancy, loss of money, unable to be retrieved, can be recovered by the sale of the house in Mount Maunganui.
The cost of the independent consultant /auditor? should also be placed on the :—-
A caveat placed on the title of the Mount Maunganui house may stir things along to get some answers.
Even to just check out the title, in whose name? and mortgages?
Some of these consultants, & professionals have insurance for such “lapses” liabilities too.
So it is not as if the CEO or will be out of pocket, though he may feel uncomfortable answering their Insurance company, but that will be their business, all done in discrete confidence, as Insurance will double check too, before paying out.
S1, the money was spent in the Parks and Reserves (non Budget) area.
I have to admit that the RDC appointed a new Parks and Reserves Contractor after Downers did a less than ordinary job and they have don’t a superb job even before this current debacle came to light.
” have don’t a superb job “ ????
So no ‘nepotism’, back-handers.
The costs of Parks & Reserves maintenance sure is climbing up for the rate payers.
Seems like an open-ended contract, with an attached credit card? 😔 and a “trust me”.
With apologies to Hanlon, ‘never attribute to corruption that which can be adequately explained by neglect, ignorance or incompetence’.
and “how convenient” to place temptation openly & nearby.
Of course the tax payer, and rate payer, paying money into the system are at fault. 🙃
It is no more than they deserve, in how, what was once deemed their monies, then goes missing, unaccountable, to what can be deemed as more deserving causes.
Or lefties with their vanity projects.
A man and his wife had an argument. After the fight, the wife went into the bedroom. A few minutes later, the husband also came back into the room only to find the wife busy packing her suitcase! So he asked, “Packing your suitcase?
Where are you going?”
She replied, “To my mother’s house.”
The man paused for a while and also went to get his large pure leather suitcase and began packing his clothes. The angry woman looked at him and asked, “Packing your bags! Where are you going?”
He replied, “Oh yes! I’m going to my mother’s!”
The woman, completely shocked, replied: “To your mother’s house???!!” And what about the 6 children?! Who will take care of them?
“The man replied: “You’re going to your mother’s house! I’m going to my mother’s house. The 6 children should also go to their mother’s house!!”
Balanced equation. 😄😀😂
Paddy goes to his work one Monday morning and says to his workmate, “my best friend Mick dropped dead on Saturday. He was only 37, in perfect health, never smoked or drank, worked out every day, he just dropped dead.”
His workmate said… “Jesus Paddy, what happened?”
Paddy said…. “His parachute didn’t open!”
Glad to see you back. Hope good reports after yesterday’s pipe cleaning investigation. 🙂
Four small polyps removed along with my dignity but other than that all good thanks WG.
Better out than in. 🙂
How’s ya bussy?
Tender; done by professional “roast busters”!
I had that done free of charge when I was an altar boy. I was very popular with Father Benjamin Menendez March.
🎶
There’s a hole in the alb dear Father, dear Father
There’s hole in the alb dear Father, there’s a hole.
Well, look in the hole dear choirboy, dear choirboy
Put your lips round the snake that pokes through the hole……..
🎶
Kim Da Crime has bought a house in dunners for 3.3 million.
Maybe money is short
Clearly not expecting a non voluntary trip to the US any time soon.
“Whanau rates her performance as mayor a 9/10”
Eh, errr which performance was that? So many to chose from. But my pick would be the one where she did a runner from a restaurant? That was a real doozy – defo 9/10 there.
The under table suction incident must rate pretty high.
Shows just how delusional these lefties are. Runner from the resaturant was up there but a public bj for some poor unsuspecting bastard would just trump it imo.
I just can’t believe she could rate herself so highly when her outright incompetence has been so blatantly obvious. She must have been using the Hipkins / Hendy scale, well known in Wellington as a tool for grossly exagerating outcomes.
Stock up on chocolate while you still can:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/leftism-killing-chocolate
It is the Marxist controlling uncaring elitist Greens & greedy governmental bureaucracy, as the original source points out.
…..Big Government creates a crisis and then beats us over the head with it, to demand more money and power.
Greenies pretend to care about the poor, but they are happy to exploit the poor farmers of Ghana as fodder for press releases for their industrial “renewable” schemes, and banker friends. …..
…… If the government had offered a service but not forced it upon the farmers, the Cocobod bureaucrats would have had to stay competitive, or the farmers would have abandoned it to make their own deals.
But there were no brakes or accountability on the government. ……
https://www.joannenova.com.au/2025/04/the-cocoa-price-crisis-is-a-big-government-price-fixing-disaster-not-a-climate-change-one/
Some good well informed comments there too.!
Showing experience of such “players” in other industries, but as we know, the greed & envy of socialism is always creeping on for full unaccountable government controls.
This guy, talking to Clayton Morris on Redacted is supposedly blowing the whistle on what the US is doing in Antarctica with a HARRP like system buried in the ice. Early in the discussion he talks about how the Christchurch earthquakes were not natural occurrences.
Definitely seems to fit into the “believe it or not” category. I’m skeptical simply because I cannot see how they could construct an array, that size, in the ice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSg-6P7Y3BU (40 mins)
buuuuuuullshiiiiiiit.
plus wouldnt a haarp type thing melt the ice if it were under it or the ice block/shield it making it ineffective?
clayton is after all an alien believer and got soooo excited at the aliens in peru and the villagers chasing them… in a world where everyone has good cameras on their phones there was only ever crappy low quality footage, hmmmm funny that but clayton was sold on it and theres levatating aliens floating around the jungle in peru…. what a fucktard
The US MSM have desperately tried to hide illegal criminal behaviour from their viewers. Trump isn’t taking that so has planted 100 illegal criminal mugshots across the WH lawn at the press post so they are in full display from any angle of the news cameras. Go Trump 🤣
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83xtJZKMN54
Jesse Watters Primetime
There are several large solar electric generation sites have been/are being built in Northland..
Northland wants to spend $2 million on a study to determine if Northland can send power to Auckland.
I would think that a couple of engineers working for a month could do a pretty good job of determining the feasibility of that project.
With Northland generating much of their own power the existing power lines could be used to ship juice South to Auckland.
Where is the $2 million coming from?
I’ll take a guess: the long suffering ratepayers.
Another guess: the $2 million will not be enough and additional funds will be “needed”.
the 2 mil would barely cover any iwi representatives or cultural consultants
The ratepayer of course! Unlimited funds.
If that source of free money dries up then there’s always the taxpayer.
As ever, in LaLa Leftyland, others pay.
I thought for a mini second you were going to say the local iwi.
Interesting as will Auckland fall into the Spanish & Portugal trap as mentioned in above in this thread.
https://ysb.co.nz/have-your-say-372/#comment-438852
Many more comments on the Joanna link.
Things are not so easy as flipping a switch off or on, as there is synchronicity, the amount of power required to get over an induction hurdle to restart, which is why it may take a few days or more to get everything back on the go.
And there seems to be an importance of having a “spinning reserve”, maybe that is a “base load”.
Bad enough being in a lift,
The electric trains going nowhere.
How many dead flat ev’s will build up.
Just not sure if the gas petrol stations can go to manual, or perhaps they can do by generators?
The best way would be to advertise only certain suburbs, districts are in a “green belt” of that sustainable solar power, and if there are problems, only they are effected.
That would be there choice. 😄
Bearing in mind how successful Spain was in producing solar power nocturnally.
….. found that between November and January, 4500 megawatt hours (MWh) of solar energy were sold to the electricity grid between midnight and seven in the morning. …..
https://theecologist.org/2010/apr/16/spanish-nighttime-solar-energy-fraud-unlikely-uk
It is sort of how the answers will produce an even greater money flow, a conflict of interests?
Independent??
As mentioned above this morning.
https://ysb.co.nz/have-your-say-372/#comment-438864
It’s safe and effective because we “only” predict a 1.1% vaccine injury rate !!!
https://x.com/aliavff/status/1916939918762512706?s=61&t=emdCOaQntM1hpGvqPa6UpA
Looks like WEF Carney has won the Canadian election by a very small margin, so another minority government for Canada plus a big crackdown on free speech ( Carney’s big announcement at the end of the campaign).
Latest figures
Canada Elections 172 needed for an outright Majority (Not final count).
Liberal
158161Cons
149150Bloc Quebec 25 unchanged
NDP
108Greens
21hilarious, bet the right leaning clowns that celebrated trudeau demise wont be so happy now. the same clowns probs love trump too but hes the sole reason why carney won.
careful what ya wish for!!!
Nothing to do with my wishing, or even faith in Trump.
Trump will not find perfect solutions so it will be sort optimal solutions, as figured at the moment to deliver the best outcome possible.
When asked about the election in Canada President Trump said, “I don’t care. I think it’s easier to deal, actually, with a liberal and maybe they’re going to win, but I don’t really care.”
Now onto the next part of the “Art of the Deal” 😉
A day or 2 later
Trump further said that Pierre Poilievre,
“The Conservative that’s running is, stupidly, no friend of mine. I do not know him, but he said negative things”
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/one-of-the-nastiest-countries-to-deal-with-donald-trump-slams-canada-amid-tariff-war/articleshow/119187486.cms
It does seem that a number of Americans do not like Poileivre, and I have not quite put my finger on to it.
I do enjoy when he seems to more than best the media.
However there seems to be something like Winston Peters?
An inconsistency, not persevering, or maybe not delivering when he could have?
So Canadians want to be totally free of the USA.
To have gained a hate of Trump, harnessed by Carney wrapping it into Canadian flag patriot’icy.
Feelz over reason.
The price will be their loss of “free speech” which will imprison them.
Mark Carney: “There are many serious issues that we’re dealing with.
One of them is the sea of misogyny, antisemitism, hatred, and conspiracy theories —
—- this sort of pollution online that washes over our virtual borders from the United States…
The more serious thing is when it affects how people behave in our society.
When Canadians are threatened going to their community centers or their places of worship or their school or, God forbid, when it affects our children.
My government, if elected will be taking action.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/canadian-election-called-liberal-mark-carney-who-promises/
Sometimes it takes a bit more of the bad, to wake people up, or NOT ??
It may be a costly shift, noting some loss of value of the Canadian dollar this year, but still relatively easy for Canadians to pick a USA state to go to??,
The Canadian economy to become a negative net-zero carbon/emissions, so Carney claims.
Though there seems to be many more votes to be counted, so we will see, & set at this stage to be a minority government.
I saw a comment TGP before asking “Will Carney win his own riding?” I assume a riding is what call an electorate.
There was a lot of annoyance at the time how a sitting member was forced to resign, and Carney nominated, put into the running.
It was a died in the wool ‘electorate’ just stick the right colour bow tie on a dog, and it would be voted in.
The results here.
https://ottawacitizen.com/news/carney-wins-nepean-riding
So now that ‘riding’ can really skite, about its MP being PM.
Globalist, WEF Carney was Trudeau’s economic advisor for 10 years. Canada is doomed.
Trump has been setting the scene on trade, rattling some of the unfair bits with his off & on tariffs.
Why have not the pundits, experts just superficially picking up on the trade issues.
….. the 2026 review could turn into a renegotiation, stemming from statements made by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in October 2024 during his campaign.
He mentioned that if he won the November 5, 2024, elections, he would renegotiate the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). …..
https://www.stratego-st.com/newsletters/renegotiation-of-usmca-in-2026-key-aspects/
As in that article some Canadians declaring how Mexico cheated on importing from China, then on into Canada, but obviously not recognizing their slight of hand from China, to Canada then into the USA, for aluminium, steel, etc..
The trade spat with Mexico was sorted so quickly & easily, that one barely notices.
So Canada manufacturing, being hollowed out, kept some factories going, by plugging into import from China & re-jig & export on to USA.
And there seems to be enough connections to China & Canada on some levels
So as Trudeau said if they could not do that, then Canada would go broke; so Trump replied, 51st state?
The media talks of annexation,
Trump would only pick the eyes out, like Ontario, & only if Ontario wants out from the rest of Canada. 😀
So Carney the international banker, the advisor for the first phase of Brexit, basically stalling it at British citizens cost.
So Carney will not seriously agree to negotiate, will pull out of the USMCA trade deal, which Trump would want, and to possibly renegotiate.
Carney then may well sell Canada off to the control of the EU, not that the EU will want too many Chinese tentacles, though some aspects would tie in quite well.
Like social credits for the citizens with ID, as well on Carbon usage, tied in with Digital Banking.
Would the Freedom Truckers Convoy ever get enough gas etc.. to have a reunion in Ottawa?
Another explanation along the same the lines, S1, on what Trump has really been up to.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/04/28/how-the-nafta-usmca-2016-review-underpins-president-trump-remarks-on-canada/#more-271464
No-one will ever know how a woman’s mind works but this bloke is close: 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/g1KpHAMb9nw
VANCOUVER CAR RAMMING ATTACK
Although this occurred two days ago, the NZMSM doesn’t seem to have noticed, so FWIW , and as it might be of interest, herewith a BBC article for your attention.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgnz7n7zj4o
good to know its only a “suspected car ramming attack”.
im sure the police will be working overtime trying to rule out all other possibilities on what couldve caused so much devestation.
Borrowed from a couple of wags over at Good Oil:
Wag 1: “Do we still say ‘man overboard’ or now ‘them, they overboard?”
Wag 2 “If they required pronouns, I wouldn’t be saying anything.”
The latest Te Ara o Te Ata – Mt Messenger Bypass flyover shows how much progress is being made on this major project to improve the safety, resilience and reliability of journeys on State Highway 3 in North Taranaki.
In this edition, project manager Caleb Perry takes us on a trip north from the site headquarters, discussing the ongoing works on bridge and tunnel construction, the innovative cableway that has enabled access to the remote heart of the project area and a large sediment retention pond that’s treating run-off from a 5ha catchment area to protect local waterways.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imPs3tZUTH0
A message from Trump to Carney
https://rumble.com/v6splnz-governor-carney-better-check-in-with-the-boss.html?e9s=src_v1_viral
GOVERNOR CARNEY BETTER CHECK IN WITH THE BOSS!!!😎🇺🇸🥳🥳🥳il Donaldo Trump
Fonterra has announced that it will close its Hamilton “Canpac” facility. The site currently packs up to 4000 metric ton of powders per year, less than one per cent of the Co-op’s total product volume. Around 120 people currently work at the facility.