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Top meme with the queer boys:
The ZeGnome better not come up with a peace deal in Istanbul.
When he struts his sweet ass into Paris to top up a few more Billion, he drops the best Speedball. Love that guy.
I don’t think you hide a tissue or a stirrer like those two guys hid those things. Then there was pictures of Zelensky having what looked like lines on his desk early in the war. Pictures came out claiming it was all doctored, but they can be faked too. On the balance of things, they’re all coked up.
Macron look SO GUILTY. That was no tissue he quickly hid.
“But (David) Parker believed shifting the discussion was significant.
One of the most far-reaching tax changes Parker managed to legislate in Government was a proposal that barred residential landlords from deducting their interest costs from their tax bills.
By barring these deductions (interest being the largest cost many landlords will face) the Government significantly increased the tax bill for most landlords.
Looking back, Parker said the Government might have gone “a bit far” with the idea, which was being phased in when the coalition took over and is currently being phased out.”
Oh really? Wow. So even the architect-of-taxing-rich-pricks admits this was a fuck-up. Guess the left will stop banging on about tax breaks for landlords now.
That prick is so stupid that actually he collected less tax from many.
Miserable sleazy bit of shit.
He did at a time when interest rates went down.
Only when the rates rose did it collect a lot more.
Now its on the way down again, he collects less again (well, he and now Willieless,).
Stupid is as stupid does.
But will they touch the NGO’s and the charities?
Not if they can get away without doing so. Thats who props them up, as DOGE has highlighted.
Them and Pharma.
Last night Nicola Willis said this:
“Nine more sleeps before you find out what’s in it.”
And previously she said this:
“The Budget will not be a Lolly Scramble.”
Have you ever heard such a childish Minister if Finance on uttering infantile language leading up to any Budget. I know other Finance Ministers over the years have prattled on about the Budget not being a “Lolly Scramble” but I am sick of this Minister of the Crown treating Voters and Taxpayers as if they are a 4 year old child waiting for their Birthday to arrive. Surely the Taxpayers of this country deserve a mature, intelligent Finance Minister who can articulate, even in a non official language of this country, English.
It pisses me off too TAH.
Willis should be an adult & lead the way.
But all go for the lowest common denominator.
Sadly one has to recognize the change of demographics so as to cater for the younger Labour & National voter.
The education system from kindergarten to right through university has en-massed “coddled their minds” simplified scientism, to how they feelz so mass-psychosis turns them into being mustered like sheep.
Social media, emojis has simplified them, just a matter of transitioning to recognizing them. 🍆 etc..
Barbara Edmunds will most likely be the next Minister of Finance, she stated this morning: the deductions of interest against income will be stopped for land-lords.
Next stop that will include for all business’s ? ? ?
Barbara Edmunds has stated the equity catch up for women will be recommenced, so librarians may become paid like NASA engineers.
Seems like the children will like that type of play & pay.
After all Willis believes in the computer that just keeps paying out the money.
No accountability, MMT, the Magic Money Tree, that is the Modern Money Theory which can into being circa 1904.
“But all go for the lowest common denominator.”
S1, if they all go for the lowest common denominator, then people like Willis are missing the mark, totally, as the lowest denominator won’t be listening, take any interest or understand what she is talking about.
Nor will the lowest denominator vote for her or the national Party, they probably won’t vote at all.
Nanny Willis believing in MMT makes it easy for her than having to make tough decisions and cuts that are actually needed. Perhaps Javia Milei could explain economics to her.
I thought Librarians were paid like NASA engineers, been part of the local council empires.
and her voice makes it so much worse.
no budget should be a lolly scramble, no election campaign should be a lolly scramble either.
infact if she was a half decent finance minister she would tell the crowd of the last decade or so of lolly scramble recipients to fuck off and that shes removed their funding
..and her voice makes it so much worse..
The Voice
That Voice
aaark
at Least Australia had the chance to vote NO to the Voice !!
Willis was a stay at home mum until she did a brief stint at Fonterror .
Nothing wrong with being at home raising kids especially when there are 4 of them.
but if you are going to do some formal study other than English Litt then surely there are better choices than post Grad in churnalism
Willis is still stuck in Prefect mode.
You are listening to
Tricky Nicki
the weak wet woke finance fiend of fiscal pudginess.
aficionado of announcements.
She would not do that SB, if it was the Accountant, Robert David Muldoon, he would of, but the child that is the current Finance Minister, has little understanding of a strong backbone, austerity or financial prudence.
her austerity means spending even more but not quite as much as the opposition, bludgers and whingers expect.
theres gunna be a solid week or 2 of “nothing in the budget for xyz group” even tho theyll already be getting millions/billions
…her austerity means spending even more but not quite as much as the opposition…
Spot On
No eye deer
does she even believe her own bullshit.
What an intellectual midget.
Can she even do the job correctly. Looks like we havent had anyone there that can in a long time
Most will disagree but the last one who even got close was Roger Douglas.
Basically, Douglas had a desire to remove privilege, which he did by dismantling import controls and so on. Until Lange shafted the Pope, and then the ructions started. The task never got completed.
We still have various bodies that have more say over peoples daily lives than a constitution would allow. People like law and pharma teachers and so on.
Muldoon was a fool.
He was bordering on communism with his state control of everything he disagreed with. There were better people in the Nats but he was such a nasty bit of work, he screwed them and us.
out of their depth, not having a clue and blowing hundreds of billions seems to be the finance ministers job description, willis and robo both highly qualified for that
You can add key and Blinglish and Cullen.
The issue is that their DNA is one of communism.
Controlling people’s lives using control of the money.
Just to wind you all up even more, I listened to part of an interview yesterday –Sean Plunket with John Banks. Early in the interview Sean asked John about how the Government was doing overall. In part of his reply John says he thought Willis was doing well, one of the better Ministers !!! I stopped listening at that point.
Sometimes Banks can be worth listening to, especially when he is giving a historical background to an issue but yesterday he must have been off his meds.
How did Banks go from having no money in 1970 but being a multi millionaire by 1980 ?
He had no family money background but lots of contacts in the crime world. He was collecting empties from the after hours (after 6pm ) drinking places when he was 15 or so.
rubbing shoulders with the dark side.
Incl Bassett Road.
Clever… he was not caught in the Mr Asia net !!!
He was a minor partner in a few restaurants and the others did not become multi millionaires.
There were no credit cards in NZ until latter 1979
Cash business.
good place to launder cash.
Mmm
just asking !!!!
But if you do ask, he did not come down the river on a cabbage boat.
If this government had any balls and cared about the citizens of this country they would legislate to stop councils from increasing rates by more than the rate of inflation. It’s about time these empire building bludgers learned to live within their means like the rest of us. I’ve just been informed my rates are going up 14%. How can these cretins justify such a rise in the current economic climate? I don’t think they can see how the real people live from their new very elegant offices in downtown Whangarei. They need to realise we are customers not hostages. Do something Luxcinda.
The goal as taught in universities through the last century, and finally seem to be achieving, is about rating policies for decades is to get the rates to at least equal what a bank would figure & charge in interest if you had a mortgage.
The limit used to be that the max rate was only to be 2 Cents in the Dollar, but that was removed, along with what ever a Council feelz a Community “needs” for their “well-being”
It is a bit difficult for them to do on a “capital value” ‘cv’ rating system, as that causes major problems in development, improvements, upgrades, & even maintenance.
As rates get high on a cv, people then do not paint the house, let it look decrepit so as lower the capital the value. 😉
A few decades ago there was a big push to get Land Value to be the only source of rating.
Then the increase of rating becomes much more pure & closer to what a bank can charge in interest.
The aim is for the council, that is the indoctrinated bureaucracy that leads the ignorant councillors to push that agenda so it is really the bureaucracy that becomes your land-lord of the land.
The ‘improvements’ are yours, to sell, & the market demand & supply will set the price.
But the bureaucracy can control the rest of that with red, yellow stickers, permits, fees, levies, iwi consultation, geo-engineer reports, etc. etc..
A devious way of gaining “you will own nothing, but be happy”
The CV and land value have nothing to do with it now. Well the CV does in a way. All they do is take your CV as a percentage of the total of all CVs and then charge you that percentage of the revenue they need.
Hugh Rennie KC put it simply recently in a post on Scoop. The Councils have two choices –Either take last years rates revenue and add the cost of inflation (or some other relevant data point)
Or make a list of everything they want to do and add basic requirements
(rubbish, roads etc) –cost them out and then divide it up to charge you.
Hugh was making this point explain how Wanganui CC has limited it’s rate rise to 2.4% but Wellington is planning on 12-15% and simply said Wanganui goes by the first option and Wellington uses the second option
Most Councils are taking the second option because they want their vanity projects. Note, if your CVs go down your rates do not go down –Wellington and Auckland, at least have sent out letters notifying rate payers of this.
I believe Nania Mahuta made some change to the Local Govt. legislation that gave the CEO and his/her staff more power and this has exacerbated the problems. Not sure what the change was.
…..”But the bureaucracy can control the rest of that with red, yellow stickers, permits, fees, levies, iwi consultation, geo-engineer reports,”…..
This is where the rot sets in. The CEOs are all powerful. The councillors are generally single issue simpletons, Labour Party hopefuls & mad cat ladies. On election their spines are removed & their brains are placed in the buckets provided. They are each assigned minders who feed them crap, overload them with paperwork & put rings through their noses so they can be lead in the direction the CEO wants them to take.
They then get booted by disgruntled ratepayers & a new selection of compliant halfwits are chosen for sacrifice. Local government is the lowest form of democracy & attracts the lowest forms of life.
Well said.
and auckland under the mighty hide/keys/joyce camel-not-a-horse committee we got councillors who are blind freddies and frederikas, and then another lower layer of Communidy Boards who puff out their fluffy chests and pretend they count.
One even resigned her seat about 6 years ago out of principle -if you could believe that- but was back at the trough in the next election .
The land value bit is what is hitting me. My house is basically an old bach on a large section and it’s waterfront. My rates are higher than a brand new 4 bedroom house in One Tree Point.
Can u land a chopper there? If yes, pay more rates.
Your enemy, the enemy at the gate, C. M. Luxon basically removed Simeon Brown from making any difference to Local Govt
…..and replaced Brown with Soimon bloody Watts
How fecking Treasonous is that ?
Your favourite female? PM started all this rot.
Gave the councils the right to do as they please.
So they do.
Howi, Luxon, I believe, saw Simeon Brown as a threat, so shoved him into Health which has always been a disaster Ministry to bury Ministers.
Only thing is, I think Simeon Brown is one of the only luminaries in this current National lead Government and if anyone can make a difference in Health, it will be him. If the National Party survives, Simeon Brown will rise to be a very good PM of this country in the distant future.
yes
Treasonous C M luxon took S Brown away from making a difference and burying him.
The partner in crime Deputy head Prefect, Missy Willyless can control him by starting Health of funds.
This IS the way the world works.
Bugger democracy and any sense of decency.
This is politics.
That would be great to see, we can only hope it happens and soon.
This will add discussion to your day.
Water cremation a New Zealand first
In what is being called a significant change for the funeral industry, New Zealand’s first water cremation service is being offered in Christchurch from next month.
Its arrival follows a long battle to get the process approved.
Water cremation, also called alkaline hydrolysis or aquamation, is used in several countries as an environmentally-friendly alternative to traditional cremation. It is already used for animals in New Zealand.
During the process, the body is dissolved in a heated alkaline solution of potassium hydroxide and water, inside a stainless steel machine called a resonator.
https://www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/360685636/water-cremation-new-zealand-first?cx_testId=8&cx_testVariant=cx_1&cx_artPos=2&utm_source=the_press_stuff_home&utm_medium=referral#cxrecs_s
What if you could use water cremation with just water (no nasty chemicals). And what if once boiled you produced a byproduct of protein that could be eaten?
The ultimate would be sodium hydroxide dissolved in a bath of water. Immerse the body in to the water, wait until its totally dissolved, then pull the plug. it flows into the waste water system. That way no permission is sought from local iwi. In Auckland it would just flow out to sea with all the other water.
How long does it take to completely dissolve a body in NaOH? And does heating and agitating the mixture speed up the process?. Asking for a mates wife.
Just leave it be. Might take a few hours, but there will be nothing left.
End up on umtine beaches too, we all know that their pipes leak!
So go swimming with ya Granny, takes a new meaning.
This was covered in Breaking Bad when Jesse used hydrofluoric acid to dissolve bodies.
Only the pH has changed!
Bugger that, I’m going up the chimney and increasing my carbon footprint on the way out.
Take a couple of tyres with you.
“Water cremation” Disgusting!
I’m with Tarquin, with the music chosen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNVU61jlP5o
Something’s Burning
Me too T, I want to increase the black soot buildup in the chimney stack, then be spread along Onetangi Beach at low water without asking the permission of IWI.
Is water cremation like going into the Rotorua hot pools?
No. In Rotorua it’s the taniwha that finishes you off after the motel dwellers give you the bash.
Wrong, they take you out to Mokoia Island and sit in the hot pools until you are ready to eat. Thats what Hone Hika did to the Te Aawa. Never to be forgiven.
Urgent Waitangi Tribunal hearing: Concerns David Seymour’s new legislation is akin to Treaty Principles Bill
The Waitangi Tribunal will hold an urgent hearing today on a piece of legislation fierce critics have described as “dangerous” and akin to the recently defeated Treaty Principles Bill.
The Regulatory Standards Bill (RSB) will be introduced to Parliament next week.
The tribunal needed to bring forward its hearing on the proposal to this week as it is required to submit its report before the bill is introduced.
The minister behind the legislation, David Seymour, says the RSB will make it easier for New Zealanders to go about their business with less red tape “so we can all live longer, happier and healthier lives”.
But, in submissions to the tribunal, a group of high-profile Māori and academic leaders have shared their criticisms of the legislation.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/urgent-waitangi-tribunal-hearing-concerns-david-seymours-new-legislation-is-akin-to-treaty-principles-bill/2JM25NKOBZDUJFFY2LBMPDK6JM/
So here we go again. who the fuck do these people think they are?
Oh I know, the rulers of our nation.
The Regulatory Standards Bill (RSB) will be introduced to Parliament next week.
Will be introduced….
RMA reform might be introduced this year !!
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What the hell did parliament DO last year ???
looks like less than 2020 when there were lots of lockdowns.
Quiet please
the SLOW kids are in the House.
theyre shitting bricks that the RSB dosent offer any opportunity for rent seeking and extortion… my heart bleeds for them////
How are “Māori rights” different to the rights of non-Maori?
What percentage of Maori blood do you need to have to qualify for special treatment?
Do “Maori” have no self-awareness of how this makes them look in the eyes of non-Maori?
Self awareness is an evil colonialist concept which degrades the mana of the noble warrior race.
All you need is a plastic tiki hanging around the neck now days.
Bigger is better these days and hanging horizontal is the preferred!
and Made In China stamped on it
Not far off if the Maori came from Taiwan !!
World Famous in New Zealand and now the world. Looks like the porn was a side show.
“Jevon McSkimming was the subject of inquiries by the police and the Independent Police Conduct Authority (IPCA), believed to centre on his conduct toward a former non-sworn female police employee. He was placed on paid leave late last year while the investigation ran its course.”
https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/nz-deputy-police-commissioner-resigns-after-porn-found-on-work-computer-5856735?utm_medium=Aoemail&utm_source=Aomorningbriefnoe&utm_campaign=Aomb-2025-05-14&src_src=Aomorningbriefnoe&src_cmp=Aomb-2025-05-14&est=HnYTISU3dieMhuLs3wtjNiC2rN0aYlzE0PxObdgiBY%2FbNpP%2F8es81R7APcu4DEIPew%3D%3D
What is important is was this a bit of a conventual cuddle after work, or sexual harassment as defined in law. The porn, unless illegal, is irrelevant.
They are ao tear rowian cops
The Truth will not be told.
cops don’t tell the truth in court or anywhere, it seems.
look at the disgusting lies over Dunnydid cop Jeremy Buis
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/timeline-harassment
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The public servant who subjected a Dunedin businessman to ‘‘a living hell’’ for two and a-half years has finally been named.
Jeremy Fraser Buis (39) was sentenced in the Dunedin District Court yesterday to 200 hours’ community work and ordered to pay the victim $15,000 after being found guilty of criminal harassment, threatening to do grievous bodily harm and intentional damage, following a week-long, judge-alone trial last month.
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On full pay for over 2 years.The cops denied he was a Cop when asked .
or
their treatment of Peter Ellis and not backing down on the lies when the guy was dying of cancer.
Just pieces of lying shit.
You can bet Police HQ has a conference table in the partly Maori room like the Auckland council, which would need frequent polishing!
The saga of Len prematurely spilling his seed in the Ngati Whatua Room caused much mirth amongst the blogatariat.
It is my understanding that the cleaning the furniture& fittings was found to be beyond even the most advanced industrial cleansers of the time & they were burnt. 🙂
I’m amazed Len banging Bev in such a noble place [remember everything native is sacred] didn’t cause some kind of commotion requiring endless koha to put right. Then I realised he’s a lefty so all is forgiven. And they probably got the koha anyway.
This has been published. So it can’t be ignored by the medical fraternity or deemed “fake news”.
“NEW STUDY — Spike Protein Detected in 92% of Vaccine-Injured Patients Up to 245 Days After Injection92% of symptomatic individuals with post-vaccine syndrome had spike protein in their immune cells up to 8 months after injection—raising serious concerns about post-vaccination chronic disease burden.
Published in “ Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics:” https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21645515.2025.2494934
https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/new-study-spike-protein-detected?utm_campaign=email-half-post&r=127oyu&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
All figured out //. Sounds dystopian.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6kvZnXSuDI
Elon Musk Makes Huge Announcements in Saudi
He’s just making an announcement. Had too give up part way though. Waffle, boring.
https://www.skynews.com.au/insights-and-analysis/kel-richards-the-shared-flaw-that-makes-welcome-to-country-ceremonies-black-lives-matter-movement-racist-to-the-core/news-story/87056f69fea2f607c1546d3b6e97487b
https://breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2025/05/tony-vaughn-token-ward-fallacy-race.html
Really good.
Great article WO and this gem amongst it.
“The country that once sent soldiers to Gallipoli now sends bureaucrats to Treaty workshops.”
How true and what a sad indictment on our once great country.
The article below the one wiseowl links from Breaking Views is great as well. Looks like maorification of NZ is just about complete.
https://breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2025/05/john-robertson-maori-folklore-and.html
FFS. It seems Maori are so spiritual and upstanding I wonder if they utter a Karakia when they purchase their Viagra from the Pharmacy.
https://breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2025/05/john-robertson-maori-folklore-and.html
Bunnings treat suppliers like crap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rummSQJiMUI
NZ University Graduation ceremonies… I was at Auckland yesterday. I can cope with the stoneage introduction as once that’s over normal decorum from the organisers takes over. What I find irritating is the screaming and shouting from the invited guests, in many cases drowning out the next name being called out, even though a request not to continue once the next name being called, was made. It was only when Feral or Brown graduates crossed the stage. Fortunately, we only had to endure one spontaneous Haka for a PHd graduand. When I graduated at WITS in Johannesburg, there was only applause, no screaming and no war dances. It was a solemn, respectful ceremony.
What
no ancient Roman toga party to celebrate your ancestors ?
no clicking sounds from the First Nations people ?
Toga party afterwards at a suitable female residence…. The First Nations people respected Whitey’s traditions…. and we had many of them graduating at WITS.
if we had a trump like trolling govt they could easily stop the pay equity shrieking…. stupid boy trump would instead of harvesting billions more in taxes to pay those staff i would cut our the middle men and beuracracy and introduce tipping 🙂 that way those screaming lefties can really show how much they appreciate those workers they care so much about.
those screaming the loudest would likely tip the least cuz its other ppls money they want to be spending.
Typical lying politicians of Labour persuasion….
“Deception and lies — the only way the government can get more renewablesThe Labor Party was supposed to tell the whole world their 2035 renewables target in February, but they knew the voters would hate it, so they hid it until after the election. If Chris Bowen thought the voters wanted more renewables spending, obviously, he would have said so to win more votes.”
https://www.joannenova.com.au/2025/05/now-they-tell-us-labor-says-new-aggressive-net-zero-policy-they-hid-from-voters-is-popular/
I’m so over this pay equity bullshit. The left get so caught up in their own echo chamber that they completely lose sight of what the issue is (or rather isn’t). Case in point, this unhinged rant from Bradbury about the “war on working women”.
https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2025/05/14/appreciate-how-much-of-an-abuse-of-power-the-governments-war-on-women-is/
What they don’t get, is that as an employer, if I can hire a woman to do the same job as a man, but pay her less, I will do. EVERY TIME. I would not employ men to do that job.
Other employers would do likewise. Men, in order gain employment would need to accept lesser pay, until it was attractive to hire them again, and the market has just sorted out the problem (which didn’t exist in the first place).
Problem is Saggy, the Left like Martin Martyn and Hipkins is, that they are too dumb to understand the issue and wish to twist the truth for their own political ends.
The other problem is this Government have no mongrel in them to counter the Left’s spurious rantings and put the Left in their place.
Jordan Peterson says lefties see issues as ‘B’ follows ‘A’.
If they imagine a problem (A) there is no need to look further than the obvious solution (B) even if ‘C’ and ‘D’ would disqualify ‘A’
You can argue with a lefty because they won’t look beyond how they see the world.
Oops, meant to read:
You can’t argue with a lefty because they won’t look beyond how they see the world.
The concentration of THC in the Weed that Chloe was smoking must have been off the Rectum Scale when the Greens came up with this plan to bankrupt New Zealand.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/greens-promise-88b-taxes-including-33-inheritance-tax-for-massive-social-safety-net-expansion/W23VKAKZ5VBJLCIQTNIYAB2JDU/
Chloe: “We believe in fairness and common sense.” Those things don’t mean what she thinks they mean.
Must have been a big night round the bong, their tax the living daylights out of anyone still working and then giving everything away to those that don’t want to work is way off the scale even by their standards. I can’t for the life of me work out why anybody would vote for these financially illiterate freaks.
British weather organisations were some of the best in the world at one stage. Now, they just part of the alarmist claptrap. Same thing in Australia, USA, and many other countries. This whole trick of filling in missing data is scientifically unsound. There was one puclished paper that had about 5 or 6 actual stations in West Antarctica, and then interpolated the rest of the continent based on these 5 coastal stations. And it got published… I’ll see if I ca track it down… Morons https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/05/13/the-met-office-is-unable-to-name-the-sites-providing-estimated-temperature-data-for-its-103-non-existent-stations/
Here is a critique of that spurious endeavor… https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/11/15/new-map-of-antarctic-geothermal-heat-suggests-steig-mann-2009-werent-measuring-global-warming/
Great article by Prebble. Esp this bit re the two versions of the treaty:
“In international law, for a treaty to be binding there must be consensus ad idem, both parties must have mutual agreement on the essential terms.
If the tribunal is right that the chiefs and Governor Hobson fundamentally misunderstood each other, then legally there is no Treaty.”
Glad that we’ve cleared that up. Now do we get rid of the tribual, or the treaty altogether?
Why the Waitangi Tribunal ‘should be disestablished’ – Richard Prebble
“The Waitangi Tribunal is holding an urgent hearing to possibly summon David Seymour and declare the Regulatory Standards Bill a breach of the Treaty.
The coalition Government has decided it has had enough. An advisory committee is being tasked with determining how the tribunal can be returned to its original role.
The problem is in the instructions Parliament gave to the tribunal in its founding legislation.
Parliament set up the tribunal with the laudable aim of ensuring the Crown was meeting the pledges given to Maori in 1840.
he intention was that the tribunal would rule on any breach of the Crown’s undertakings, recommend remedies and so end grievances.
Instead, the legislation set the tribunal up as a commission of inquiry to declare Treaty principles and any breach of the principles.
This was an invitation to lawyers, revisionist historians, linguists, radicals and Maori Land Court judges to discover Treaty principles.
The opportunity arises from the translation of the Treaty.
There were no words in te reo for concepts like sovereignty. There were many at Waitangi who spoke English and te reo. No one at the time disputed the accuracy of Henry Williams’ translation.
While some chiefs may have regretted signing the Treaty, no signatory is recorded as later saying sovereignty was not ceded.
Any translation provides scope for endless debate. Consider the disputes by linguists over the interpretation of biblical words.
For the first 30 years, the tribunal determined that sovereignty had been ceded and did assist the Crown to settle long-standing grievances.
Then the tribunal decided that it was not bound by its previous rulings, the courts or Parliament.
The tribunal is claiming to be the sole authority of what is a Treaty principle, a sort of constitutional court. It is now holding hearings on what is New Zealand’s constitution.
In addition to declaring there are two treaties that contradict each other, the tribunal claims to have the authority to pick and choose principles from the treaties and declare new ones.
The principles of partnership and co-governance are not in either version. They are 21st-century inventions.
It is destabilising. When the tribunal can change its determinations and declare new principles, no one can predict what the Treaty principles will be tomorrow. The tribunal could determine that Governor Hobson and the chiefs opposed having regulatory standards.
What Parliament should have done was have the tribunal ensure that the Crown meets the Treaty commitments that the Crown did make.
We have Governor Hobson’s instructions and his own written words. There is no dispute about what the Crown intended.
The Crown offered its protection. Defence of the country and keeping the peace are the first duty of the state. This was significant in 1840. The Musket Wars had raged for 30 years killing, enslaving or making refugees of a third of the Maori population.
Second, the Crown promised to protect property rights. Freedom is compromised if the state can take our property without compensation.
Third, the Crown offered British citizenship. All the rights of the Magna Carta. Equality before the law and access to the courts for justice.
These promises by the Crown are just as valuable in 2025.
Perhaps Governor Hobson should have included Treaty principles, but he did not.
The principles are a later invention leading to never-ending grievances and a runaway tribunal.
Parliament needs to return to its original purpose of ensuring that the Crown is honouring promises that Governor Hobson made.
In international law, for a treaty to be binding there must be consensus ad idem, both parties must have mutual agreement on the essential terms.
If the tribunal is right that the chiefs and Governor Hobson fundamentally misunderstood each other, then legally there is no Treaty.
This rewrite of history is nonsense and is not a reason for the Crown not to honour the undertakings it intended to make and did make.
We do not need Treaty principles, not the tribunal’s nor David Seymour’s, worthy as they may be.
The Crown honouring its Treaty obligations does not prevent the Crown from doing more but anything extra is not a Treaty obligation.
We have never needed a commission of inquiry, which is what the tribunal is, to declare Treaty principles. We have known since 1840 what the Crown pledged. The tribunal should be disestablished.”
Ah. Someone who agrees with me.
“We do not need Treaty principles, not the tribunals nor Seymours’.
The new greenie budget of 33 percent inheritance tax etc and tax on private jets, ho hum.
Where’s the tax on helicopters for pretentious bastards?
CANCEL THE GREENS would be a great saving and the bonus is we would no longer have to listen to the dumb f’ks.
Where is the requirement for all attendees at Climate Change conferences to walk, paddle, sail or swim to the venues rather than using air transport & limousines?
The most sincere statements are backed up by practical demonstrations.
Live in five star accommodation and grub, while doing it!
They think we don’t notice their hypocrisy. Mahatma Gandhi who was doubtlessly the most humble though respected leader of the 20th Century lived a simple life & walked everywhere. His humility won him support from friend & foe alike.
It’s a lesson that could be well emulated by the arrogant, green arseholes who preach climate change from an airline’s VIP lounge. Walking the walk gets the message out far better than talking the talk.
Paul Brennan speaks with Prof MacCulloch after he has been cancelled. I’m only part way through it but so far it is great listening.
https://rcr.media/episodes/prof-rob-macculloch-economics-professor-former-reserve-bank-advisor-silenced-for-speaking-out-politics-power-and-the-price-of-truth
SH1 today on my way south from Hamilton. Cruised up behind a mint condition Zephyr6 complete with Venetian blind in the back window. There’s something you don’t see everyday.
She was loping along at a respectable 100km showing the whole world how much her owner loves her.
Reminded me of the very smart black one my granddad had.
My old man had a Zodiac in the early sixties. Nice car.
More info, please. Mk 1,2,3,or 4.
4 speed gearbox and non Lucas electrics, would have helped.
As I was only 9-11 at the time, those pesky details have eluded me.
Why do beneficiaries part on dashed yellow no-stopping lines (with wheels up on the pavement) when they could park on the other side of the street that has plenty of parking?
My thoughts
They are too lazy to do so.They hate walking any distance.They know they don’t have the money to pay any fine.It’s a statement of their power in society (rules are for the plebs, not the aristocrats)They are unaware of the road rulesThey simply don’t careAny other theories why they do this? (It’s similar to the way they throw their fast-food containers out of their car windows.)
Do they even have a driver’s licence?
…..”They know they don’t have the money to pay any fine”…..
You’ve answered your own question. Fines only work if a) you have money to pay them & b) you give a fuck about anything anyway.
Those who write the rules live in a different world & ignore those basic precepts.
Someone once said, “Rules are guidance for the wise but must be followed rigidly by the stupid.”
so youre saying the poorly parked bene folk are wise???
hilarious, the muppet greens want more doctors etc but think taxing them alot more will incentivise them to work in nz.
they also insist renters pay landlords more (again ffs).
what a fucking clown show, bet their wealth/trust taxes have an exemption for iwi elites too!
Do our prison officers look like this?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14706767/Female-prison-officer-proper-love-jailed-illicit-relationship.html
“Besotted female prison officer who appeared on TV is now behind bars herself – after she was caught sneaking into a cupboard with an inmate and swapping love letters”
ROL, were those letters, French Letters by any chance?
Don’t know but if she comes here to be a prison guard, I’m getting myself a shotgun and and a mask.
Cannot imagine nudenut doing this
https://x.com/theexecutloner_/status/1922293173709111741?s=46
Turn up the sound
And then he does this
https://x.com/nowpammsy/status/1922369056834716078?s=46
Green Party taxation proposals
“The reform hinges on raising $72.5 billion over four years through a 2.5% tax on net wealth above $2 million.”
A 2.5% tax on net wealth above $2 million?
Let’s see if I understand that. So, if you are a home owner in Auckland with a freehold house worth $1.5 million, a rental property worth $500,000 and $500,000 in a term deposit, your “net worth” will be $2.5 million? Am I right
The rental property might bring in $18,000 a year after rates and insurance, but before income tax.
The term deposit on 3.5% will bring in $17,500 before income tax.
Your National Super will be bringing in $22,000 year before taxes.
So, you’ll have a total income of $57,500 and have to pay around 28% of that to the IRD.
Would the Greens’ policy then levy you 2.5% tax on your net worth of $2,500,000 which would be $62,500 (more than all your income put together)? (I might have got this part wrong.) Or would the 2.5% tax be on the $500,000? (This would still come to $12,500).
I thought the Greens were against poverty? (Their policy seems to want to create more poor people.)
You wouldn’t pay 28% tax on 57,500 O’sen, but in principle you are right with your calcs.
Would the 2m be individual assets? If so my wife and I could have 2m each and potentially another 2m in a family trust so they would be likely to raise a lot less than they estimate. Let’s not get too concerned highly improbable that they will be implementing this load of bs.
The general idea is for the poor & the wealthy to swap positions but it would only be temporary. Dr. Robert Anthony once said, “If we divided all the money in the world equally, in a short time the rich would be rich again and the poor would be poor.”
Thirty years ago workers in the fellmongery department at Borthwicks freezing works in Feilding were taking home north of $1000 each week. Note this was after tax & would be about $2000 in today’s money.
The works closed. Dollars to corn kernels that 90% of those employees would have been on the bones of their arse within a year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B6fvJvXRQQ
Sowell EXPOSES the CRAZY Political SCAM THEY DON’T Want You to Know
Thomas Sowell Today
“Good intentions are not productive”
most poor people are poor for a reason… usually through their own doing.
most rich people are rich for a reason… usually through their own doing.
i have a mate several years younger then me, 8 years ago he was on the bones of his arse, ankle bracelet and debt collectors hounding him… hes just purchased his first farm, not small either 600 cow dairy farm!
my old boss managed to do the same by age 26, came from nothing grew up in a state home etc, when he left school he wrote a on a poster and hung it on his wall “millionaire by 30” he looked at it every day and didnt stop till he got there, by 30 he was worth over 10mil.
mindset is the biggest thing imo, then making wise choices with your money.
the mid 20s ticking up every new toy, kfc/maccas 5 nights a week plus booze cigis drugs festivals etc type folk are almost never gunna have any sort of wealth in their lives.
Money can only be spent once & what you spend it on certainly makes a difference. No success story though can ignore the importance of picking the right partner.
A woman who has to have everything her mates have, who spends a fortune on fashion clothing & insists on having every new appliance can put the skids under the most ambitious man.
I was lucky. Very lucky.
horses are the most common thing ive seen completely ruin numerous mates finances and marriages.
ive also seen many i grew up with saddle themselves in massive and stupid debts early on and never recovered. boy racer cars etc then the $10k plasma tvs when they first come out, just massive debt spirals completely fucked them for life.
There was a theory floating around a while back that instead of treaty settlements the government should give every maori $1million. In short time we would be back where we started but without the treaty.
What a stupid idea. Even I could find a trace of native blood if it would give me a million dollars.
some enterprising iwi would probs happily vouche for your maori heritage for a 500k fee aswell. nz would soon have a 100% maori population.
no need for the treaty then i guess////
I didn’t say it was a good idea just that it was floating around about 15 years ago if I recall correctly.
bullshit, maori have had 3 or 4 goes over the past 180yrs. we would indeed be back where we started and the treaty claims would roll on in again before the money was even half gone.
Potaka & ilk are reforming the Waitangi Tribunal, so now it termed, that is the now modern day adjusted “Crown obligations” that are required to be fulfilled.
Further links go to the source & quotes of Potaka as I have mentioned other times.
https://ysb.co.nz/have-your-say-383/#comment-439890
Tama Potaka about the Waitangi Tribunal:—
….. for implementing the settlement obligations that are outstanding, ….
…. and there are over 10,000 of those outstanding ….
….. and the crown’s obligations do not stop when a Settlement arrangement is concluded.
Actually they continue over time and that is the promise of the Treaty of Waitangi …..
Then again Tama Potaka:—-
Māori Development Minister Tama Potaka says that a new committee led by Adrian Rurawhe is working on formally integrating tikanga Māori into Parliament.
Luxon & co of National have no intentions what ever to stop this agenda.
So on the deceitful down-low the He Puapua time line stays pretty much on target for the iwi elite.
Seems to be a few more squeals from the Waitangi Tribunal about David Seymour
The Waitangi Tribunal is holding an urgent hearing on the controversial Regulatory Standards Bill.Critics, including Māori leaders, argue the bill lacks a Treaty clause and could impact Māori rights.David Seymour says the bill reduces red tape and improves lawmaking transparency, but 88% of submissions oppose it.https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/urgent-waitangi-tribunal-hearing-concerns-david-seymours-new-legislation-is-akin-to-treaty-principles-bill/2JM25NKOBZDUJFFY2LBMPDK6JM/
I do not think Richard Prebble will gain much support, but at least it is said, and in the Herald.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/why-the-waitangi-tribunal-should-be-disestablished-richard-prebble/BK2ZCJFZNREVXOORSM5ZCD3TS4/
And sorry to say Prebble’s article is behind a paywall.
Only 21 days suspension for the tikanga haka in Parliament, bloody too light.
Buy bitcoin
Bitcoin doesn’t generate a revenue stream. I am an investor; not a speculator.
Not Israel’s bitch anymore
https://x.com/jackstr42679640/status/1921491599768293695?s=46
300 million year old Himalayan rock salt, best before 10 August 2025.
I am glad I bought this just in time then.
i know its just a bit of a funny but its mainly due to some american states and a few other countries requiring any food product to have an expiry/best before date.
Big deals from the Saudi prince but Trump wants more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAiZnOT9Vjg
Watters on why Trump is ‘BRINGING HOME THE BACON’
Fox News host Jesse Watters highlights top moments from the first day of President Donald Trump’s Middle East visit on ‘Jesse Watters Primetime.’
the pathetic te pati losers are trying on the cry bullying thing saying its the worst punishment ever to be dished out while ignoring the fact theyve contributed to some of the worst behaviour and shinanigans in parliament… oh and they didnt forget to blame it all on whitey and their colonial powers.
get fucked ya fucking racist clowns, you do more harm for maori then anyone else in govt.
Well it’s not like they got their scribbled heads chopped off and shrunk. Sheesh, short memories.
Well said. Probably a tad polite, but we get the gist.
Why did Gerry have a bug up his arse? He was very irritated and tried to shut it down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_rMtEwLJbU
C-bomb dropped in parliament as tensions flare over pay equity amendments
You heard it here first.. Hungarian tanks are moving to the Ukrainian border.
https://t.me/AussieCossack/36273
Will Hungary, Romania and Poland carve up West Ukraine? Things could get very interesting if this scenario pans out.
aussie cossack is a fucking nutter and 99% of his stuff is utter bullshit and pure rumour.
hungary is tiny compared to russia plus landlocked so rest of europe would just economically slaughter and blockade them in retaliation if it turns out legit and they did try pull something.
More on this from the same channel – https://t.me/AussieCossack/36264
Ukraine & Russia.
Make the effort
https://www.facebook.com/reel/2202879656825416
Trump in saudi.
https://www.facebook.com/reel/623830974024247
Not even the tests were safe, Idiots
“Bacterial & fungal contamination of Covid-19 testing kits and devices, and large scale recalls of contaminated medical devices has been an on-going and serious issue through the Covid-19 attributed pandemic. The FDA has recalled tens of millions of testing kits and medical devices with recalls due to mold and bacterial contamination occurring around the globe. Several large scale FDA Class 1 recalls of medical devices have occurred in 2021 due to mold and bacterial contamination. Pfizer is (again) in the spotlight as ALL lots of Chantix have been pulled from the market nationwide due to cancer risk.”
https://lawyerlisa.substack.com/p/2021-list-of-pcr-tests-recalled-for?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1287362&post_id=162761774&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=127oyu&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Lead photo, look at the eyes! She’s mad, I tell you.
Whoops, that ended up in the wrong place.