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Morning all, was watching Pravda one news last night. They were interviewing people around Nelson who had flooded before and seem likely to flood again. They all said pretty much the same thing, get diggers in and dig the gravel out of the rivers so the water can escape. They then moved on to the local head of civil defense who seemed more interested in making sand bags and getting the army in. How handy. This sounds remarkably similar to what happened before Wairoa last flooded and it sounds very likely the end result will be the same. What is wrong with these people and why do they have these jobs?
T, they will never get the shingle out of the river beds again. In the Darkest King Country, there are shit loads of rivers with gravel bases which were regularly mined.
Various local IWI and in conjunction the Regional Council, they stopped the removal of gravel, due to the sensitivities of the early Settler being disturbed. While we do not have that much flooding here build up of gravel is starting to become an issue as it is right throughout the country because of Regional Councils and IWI refusing or objecting to Mining Licenses being issued for the removal of gravel from river beds.
Time IWI and the Regional Councils were told to Fuck Off or be sued for being the cause of flooding and property damage.
In other news, it is starting to piss down again and we are about to endure another bout of Frog Strangling Weather.
Lots of shingle getting removed from riverbeds on state highway one down here , it seems ltsa can make it happen but local councils cant.
Part of the RMA reform is talking about going back to catchment boards.
Same problems with pest Control. Together with idiots like Mobie and others,
the idiots have now got more uncontrolled deer, rabbits and possums than they ever had and take more of our money than ever.
More invasive weeds in rivers than ever, and some in the harbours.
The Feilding flooding was all because of the trees in the rivers.
In a natural bush, the trees shade the streams and stop them from being filled with garbage. In open rivers with willows, they finish up washing out. That’s what caused so much trouble during Bola and the last cyclone. Esk was full of willows that caught up along with mud slides from the hills. I was in that camp the year before. It was a nice camp with a tiny stream and miles of willow. Willows of course, are an English tree brought here by the conquerors.
Been hosing down all night up here. I’m waterfront but my boundary is tidal so I’m not worried. I do feel sorry for the people of Nelson and Motueka even if they are Green voting old hippies. Nobody should have to go through this when the answer is so simple and don’t get me started on that clipboard driving clog wearer who is supposedly in charge.
My sister lives on the motueka river they talk about how high the river is by how many paddocks are under water , it was very very high this time over 3 paddocks almost off the deck fishing level but it went down quite quickly.
common problem then… bros etc seem to veto common sense.
hmmmm heres an idea for central govt. new legislation, any party that opposes consents to alleviate effects of natural disasters shall bare the cost of resulting damages.
There are many issues around damage following flooding.
Regional Councils in particular have rid themselves of all the oldies who had the knowledge about the rivers and the flood control schemes .
We now have an arrogant Aussie who doesn’t want to listen to anyone following Gabrielle. He has all the answers.
They didn’t open the river channels and yes they are reluctant to extract gravel .Iwi have far too much say in the system.
A huge problem with our flood was the massive buildup of debris behind bridges that then formed dams.
The loss of institutional knowledge in many areas is a tragedy. I mean us old fellas don’t know anything. .
We do.
As history will surely prove.
same down here, massive gravel build up and after the 2020? floods the council said they would get onto it and get contractors to extract gravel from the rivers… the bros and fish and game wont allow it, cant touch he live part of the river.
so yeah this shit will continue, floodbanks have stopped the natural flow and movements of rivers so the beaches just build up now but no new channels, the willows they planted to slow erosion also slow the waterflow so the floodwater backs up but also cant go fast enough to blow out the gravel beaches etc.
human intervention with nature has consequences
History tell us that these problems go back forever since the white fella came here. Never happened before the Portuguese came around the place.
Then one day more of them white fellas came with bigger canoes and stole the land from the early conquerors.
These fellas removed the forests and down come the rain, filling rivers with water and moving the shingle.
The collective wisdom of the early settlers created Catchment Boards whose sole role in life was to look after our rivers and making sure they worked.
Then, along came a new breed of settlers called politicians, with university degrees.
Wow, what a change and those charged with keeping rivers working were removed from their crysalis and emerged as full-blown, rate-bludging, government-directed, local controllers of anything and everything that wasn’t a bit of tarmac. but looked like a money pot.
Never mind the rivers, they cost us money said bludgers decided and any way what nature built should be as nature intended.
And so building dams, fixing bridges, allowing structures on flood plains and stopping the removal of gravel become their holy grail.
Planting pine trees in and milling them in steep places after removing the natural water soak.
Meanwhile, their offspring did exactly what they told them to do.
They built in stupid places, decided that they like all the shingle in the rivers instead of on roads, stopped shingle mining, built on the flood plains and over swamps, never mind the predicted rise in sea levels even though they believed that it was going to happen, and forgot about earthquakes and our place on the crust.
Stupid did as stupid told them.
Viking, that is an excellent summary. If you wrote that yourself, Congratulations. If not, thanks for finding it.
All my work.
My usual high standard. :LOL:
Marvelous.
His dementia is in temporary remission!
Tarquin
What is wrong with these people? Absolutely nothing, BUT two things have happened; the environment has now come to be MORE IMPORTANT than people, and, because ‘important’ Nelsonians are so hip and cool and ‘aware’, local native interests are being pandered to and must be referred-to in everything.
That the latter couldn’t give a stuff about what is actually happening is irrelevant; It’s a good rort and is being exercised to it’s full extent.
How exciting the drought has broken again.
Sad news everyone. Hillary Barry is taking leave from the mum and son show for a medical procedure. Never heard the pension called that before. Maybe she’s transitioning?
Is she getting an op to put in a heart and a brain?
“Maybe she’s transitioning?”
Guess she’ll just want be called Barry from now on.
More of a bloke than that suit wearing cretin sitting next to her.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/tvnzs-hilary-barry-takes-leave-for-medical-procedure-back-next-month/YIYWNVJCJBDHFKZARWVQAGPUOY/
Well won’t be a tummy tuck. More likely, more serious.
We can expect the usual survivor story I guess.
Remember that we should be kind and caring.
And I mean that just not in a Jacinda way.
She better not be having another face lift. How would she explain the new beard?
DILLIGAF
Is she having her mouth Sewen shut?
great idea
Breaking 🚨: In a stunning about-face, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been forced to issue a warning that Covid mRNA “vaccines” come with a real, measurable, and potentially long-term risk of heart damage, especially in young men and teenage males.
The FDA is only now acknowledging what critics have warned about for years.
Newly appointed FDA Commissioner Dr. Vinay Prasad issued a class-wide safety label updatefor all Covid mRNA injections.
The federal agency is finally admitting to the elevated risk of myocarditis and related cardiac injury among those who received the shots.
However, while the warning may be new, the data isn’t.
Has anybody told our health lot that yet?
Its been around a few days now and was well signalled a couple of weeks ago. But we are still paying to jab people and paying the ad agency and the TV.
Think of the money that could be saved and used immediately for more operations.
fixing the hearts of damaged people.
Hillary Barry is absent from tv because she’s getting a big tits and a chin scribe done at the same time. Probably the chin first, so he can rest his arm on her tits,
Wouldn’t be able if he did the tits first!
I’m completely baffled by the number of comments on here about HBs absence. Other than the awful promos that appear during The Chase, I would have no idea the woman appears at all.
You had better check back in when she’s back.
You’ll get an eye full!
Which one is you ??
https://x.com/boldyboy1975/status/1940344213327212859?s=46
Is that Mr & Mrs Nasska?
Most volcanoes cough up ash and sulphur dioxide, but the submarine show-off Hunga Tonga-Hunga blasted 150 million metric tons of water vapour—think 58,000 Olympic swimming pools—straight into the stratosphere! The stratosphere is above the troposphere; it is above the clouds. The eruption occurred on 15th January 2022.
This was the biggest splash into the stratosphere since satellites started measuring.
About half of this water has hung around up there. It has had a cooling effect on the stratosphere.
This cooling might have given a boost to the polar vortex, a swirling mass of cold air over the poles. In 2022–2023, Antarctica saw extra snowfall, with some reports suggesting billions of tons of new ice piled up. Down under, the Australian Alps got dump on. It is late June 2025, Mt. Hotham is boasting its best ski season start in over 20 years, thanks to a powerful low-pressure system over the Tasman Sea pulling in cold, wet air from the south.
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1065886218852123&set=a.120328746741213
Snow piled high.
Aussies won’t be coming here.
Cooling the lower stratosphere is bad news in terms of storm development, as the storms can develop vertically further and thus theoretically be more intense. Essentially air rises through a cooling atmosphere until it reaches the tropopause where temperatures start rising from about -56deg to a balmy 0 deg higher up. If the lower stratosphere cools, theoretically, the air can rise further. Its all that bloody volcano’s fault. A thicker troposphere should also have effects on the upper air jet streams and that can further cause weather anomalies. https://www.rmets.org/metmatters/polar-vortex-sudden-stratospheric-warmings-and-beast-east
You may recall we had a very wet summer and Autumn in 22-23 including the 2 flooding events in Auckland. Likely due to the volcano not so much weather manipulation which was the go to explanation in the conspiracy theory populace.
Howcome there is no out rage. Trumps Tarif policy crashed the Dow a few weeks ago. It was the end of the world. Except it was not. Its at the same level…. but a word from the scum MSM
https://www.google.com/search?q=dow+jones+index&rlz=1C1GCEU_enNZ1160NZ1160&oq=&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqCQgAECMYJxjqAjIJCAAQIxgnGOoCMgkIARAjGCcY6gIyCQgCECMYJxjqAjIJCAMQIxgnGOoCMg8IBBAuGCcYxwEY6gIY0QMyCQgFECMYJxjqAjIJCAYQIxgnGOoCMgkIBxAjGCcY6gLSAQo0MDkxOTRqMGo3qAIIsAIB8QX7lKRb1L8f5_EF-5SkW9S_H-c&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
I see Ian Taylor ( why he is a “Sir” I have no idea) has the pip with Jacinda. How the worm turns. Warning, this is a link to the scum “Stuff ” site that I was sent. https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360743654/ian-taylor-dear-jacinda-most-difficult-letter-i-have-written-you?
Lost me when he decided to bag the only person that really did stand up against the force.
Not everyone likes Brian Tamaki but he is allowed his view of things. Obviously there are many who think the same.
Ian Taylor sounds like a total gobshite.
know bugger all about him and have not previously read his ravings.
but it looks like from this he was a jizzindamania fanboi
then
he got buys remorse
coz she wouldn’t take his calls
this shows what a nasty prick he is
extract from said article
——————
Children are still suffering from poverty,
guns remain in the hands of those who used them to cause the most harm.
The Christchurch Call has failed to limit on-line violence and hate,
and Brian Tamaki and his Destiny Church still feel free to march in Aotearoa spewing their anti-immigrant vitriol.
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so the prick is into banning guns (with crap rushed legislation and no submissions )
and free speech
and jizzinda did not do enuf for child poverdy
still , it is likely that Ian-boy voted 2 from 2 for Kind Jizzinda ;who cannot tell a lie. 🤣😵💫
suck on it bro.
He was responsible for developing all the animation that is used in sports. started with the America cup if I remember right.
He’s a prick. Think he might have got miffed because Jax didn’t want his help when offered. Anyway, even for a fanboi prick he manages to realise what a piece of shit she was.
Let me assure you I have no time for that charlatan. Went with a whole bunch of brown kids to a talk he did and assured them all that Maori were Engineers as they reached New Zealand…. Forgot to mention they didn’t invent the wheel nor a written language, two things that civilization is predicated on….
Survey: Rate Ardern’s leadership during Covid.
Excellent
Good
Awful is ahead on 35%
Partial
Average
I can think of more appropriate category names to vote under 💩💩💩
And Awful now leads at 44%….
Awful still leading, helped by my vote.
Did Ian Taylor get his knighthood for producing drivel? He seems to be good at it.
Where is that survey so I can bump up awful a bit more?
Read that still a ways to go to describe her full evil, but a good start I guess.
I see Macron phoned Putin. 2 hour chat. Zelensky must be shitting himself.
And the Usa has halted weapon shipments to Ukraine ( as USA stocks are running low. ) Zelensky now has diarrhea.
I could do with some advice from you folk further north.
Air NZ have advised my flight to Auckland this afternoon may be disrupted by bad weather and have kindly allowed me to rebook
( No one wants to be in the air if the front falls off!! )
Shall I take the later flight in the hope the worst will be over by then? Or keep status quo and prepare for a bouncy journey?
Have fun landing. Hope you don’t get motion sickness. Gusts at Auckland airport now 65km/h.
Not wrong. Went with status quo, but late getting away. Flight was just fine until descent into Ak. Got pretty bouncy but ground was very close when we powered in and away. Second time down safely but soaked getting into terminal and now we’re crawling into the city with everyone else in the North Island. Thank God we’re only visiting!!
Auckland weather status is pretty much always WET
every few years, on average , 7 years, it stops raining for a month or three
and they call it a drought.
Watercare still has cars driving around with signwriting that
Auckland is in a Drought ; please save water.
meanwhile water is lapping at your door ; running down the street or pooling at low points .
For a fine day pick the lotto numbers 4 25 17 21 8 34
Thanks for your responses team.
Looks like the later one will be better, although if that is cancelled we’ll have a problem.
To be on the safe side you could fly to Hamilton, once you’ve been robbed a few times catch the Te Huia train to Auckland. Imagine cruising through the multi cultural paradise of south Auckland, and with N.Z rails well known punctuality and reliability you should be in the big smoke by the time the rain finally stops which is generally about Labour weekend.
It won’t matter if the plane falls apart as after you have flown over the squalor of multi-cultural South Auckland you’ll have lost the will to live.
Go this arvo & get it over & done with quickly.
All I can say PG is that it is very rugged right now. Weather watch are still forecasting rain and wind starting to tail off a bit late afternoon. Wind still at 40km hr at 4pm. Imo weather watch are usually quite accurate.
https://www.weatherwatch.co.nz/forecasts/Whangapar%C4%81oa,%20Auckland
I’m out at Marsden Point at the moment and I definitely wouldn’t recommend going outside. Northport has a real time weather report running on their website, their system uses odas buoys etc for shipping so it tends to be very accurate. Whatever is happening here will probably happen in Auckland in the near future.
Keep the status quo. The weather gets worse later.
https://www.windy.com/-Rain-thunder-rain?rain,-38.207,175.957,7,i:pressure,p:cities
“im going to go travel for 6 months so i can find myself”.
serious question wtf does that actually mean and how does one “find themselves”?
is it just a mid life crisis type thing or something else, couple of folk i know have announced the same thing in that past few months. imo just sounds like an excuse to travel with a hint of attention seeking to hide a bit of quilt.
what do you lot think?
The question is.
When ya leaving?
I ended up travelling for 3 years – but I went because life had changed. In retrospect it was certainly the best thing I have ever done. Part of it at the start was biking through parts of Europe, staying in camping grounds and Youth Hostels – I think just meeting and mixing with a lot of different people was very good for my world view. A seven day mini bus on a Paddy Waggon trip around Ireland was the best 7 days I have ever had…and yes was life changing. An all night discussion with about 4-6 people around the meaning of life came up with an answer for me – True Love is Non Conditional. And I mean totally non conditional. And it worked. That was in 2005 and have had the best ever 20 years since.
HP, one of those i refer to us currently bikepacking his way across turkey.
both have just ended long term relationship/ marriage so i guess theres an element of freedom/no ties.
love your realisation of true love mate,
i still dont get the “find yourself” thing tho or what that even entails. is it one of those things that one can only get/feel after a life changing event?
i guess travelling is a much bettee release then drowning feelings with booze and drugs
Maybe travelling is going to places where “
everybodynobody knows your name”, so no skeletons, rumours, and trading on the good-will of being a New Zealander, Kiwi, No.8 etc..Moving on before everyone in the new place figures you deliver nothing of value, just a mooch.
And that very convenient excuse, that there is more to see & experience, moving on before being asked to move on is the only “kindness” they render.
Becomes a mindlessness, like after a hard days work, physical & thinking, just wanting to blob-out, like watching some stupid situ-comedy.
Maybe some one will kick them in the arse in a novel sense to get a message thru’ in life?
Then there are others who are good, already know who they are & deliver some actual kindness in action & deed during their travels, gaining a lot more valuable insights.
“Cheers”
As Nunnas puts it, “new age” bucket list, and try to use it as an authoritian knowledge stuck on their cv as a “whakapapa” of having done whatever of something.
“find yourself” is new age bullshit for I have no idea what im doing or where im going in life aka no purpose. Its just an excuse to borrow lots of money, go blow it on pointless sight seeing and hope not to get kidnapped or killed in some back water shithole.
Best done following completion of an arts degree.
thanks, that makes more sense to me now and sums up what theyre doing.
It means that they have found their dick and just need someone to share it with! Bit like chippie, he has found something better than sausage rolls! A roll in the hay!!!
and no mung beans?
Unless you’re going to live on a mountaintop with a Maharishi & eat curried mung beans to get your shit together you might as well stay home. Boeing is Boeing, McDonalds is McDonalds & queues are queues no matter where you travel.
Got any more info on that mung beans tour, Nass?
Travel does open the mind, but I’d work on the basis that unless they expect me to pay for it, they can travel to their hearts content and find whoever they want.
DMT, 4grams of magic mushrooms or 2-3tabs of LSD can really open the mind too 🙂 be alot cheaper and environmentally freindly then travel too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrpqU_TzAW0
New Zealand Rate Crisis: Why Homeowners Are Losing Their Homes to Council Spending. #rates #tax
New Zealand homeowners are facing the biggest rates increases in over 35 years, with some areas seeing rises of up to 35%. While families struggle to pay these increases, councils are experiencing massive budget overruns and increasing executive salaries.
FIrst move – legislate that a council proposing a rates increase in excess of CPI resigns and may offer itself up for re election on the baisis of its rates proposal. Second identify councilors who voted for any excessive rates increase and oppose them with candidates who will control spending prinarily on basic services.
lets see them wriggle out of these findings….
https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-landmark-peer-reviewed-research?
Should be some public court cases, with no name suppression.
Forward a link to the Royal Commission rol.
Have found their email and done so. Maybe more should as well
InquiryintoCOVID-19lessons@dia.govt.nz
I sent it to the Nats, Act, Labour and NZ1st. I don’t know if the Royal comission are still accepting stuff but I’ll try anyway.
Willis says it’s Trump’s fault
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueCPkXMU7WQ
SLAM DUNC: The Economy Stalls… But Who’s to Blame?
I said way back the stay at home mum hasn’t a fucking clue.
But ya all argued that wasn’t so.
They tossed the only one that did.
Bayly wasn’t one of the Kirk.
Probably chattered more to Seymour than his own lot.
When will she move on?
About as useless as Shipley and Richardson.
Nude Nut, what ya Gunna Do, Spinner!
NN believes HE KNOWS BEST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rdOHNQvf90
NZ’s Bad Housing Loan Disaster is Getting WORSE!
New Zealand the number of non performing loans are increasing and the number of non performing housing loans are also increasing …
Another stupid prick.
Its minuscule.
I read this information every night.
and its his Finance ministers fuck up.
Face: Is it slumped on one side?
Arms: Can they raise both?
Speech: Is it slurred?
Time: To call an ambulance.
Time is of the essence in treating stroke victims. The sooner they get to A & E for a five-hour wait until a doctor becomes available the better.
i have a stroke most days, nothing like thats ever happened and last thing id want to do is call an ambo
You can have a nurse.
naaska has an on-demand supply available.
For the past two months I have taken medical advice to drink a glass of water on waking. Your blood thickens overnight due to dehydration. The water hydrates your brain and helps kick start your bodily functions.
As long as the water is hot and contains coffee.
Preferably half an hour before you eat to let your body quickly absorb the water.
Describing Willis to a T
https://x.com/kthopkins/status/1940474853183967527?s=46
Why do they get promoted far above their ability?
Would a picture of her fanny sell more mags?
Must tell Jacinda.
Another example “Heels up Harris” in the USA.
RFK.jr Sec. HHS talks about corruption in the medical field and tells some great Trump stories at the end.
https://tuckercarlson.com/tucker-show-rfk-jr-2025
RFK Jr. Provides an Update on His Mission to End Skyrocketing Autism and Declassifying Kennedy Files
The Tucker Carlson Show
Twenty years ago, Bobby Kennedy was exiled from polite society for suggesting a link between autism and vaccines. Now he’s a cabinet secretary, and still saying it.
Time does not alter that facts remain facts.
Wet and boring day here except for watching a neighbour, in 30-40 km winds, taking some highish branches off a pohutakawa tree. Even climbed a ladder perched against said tree. Darwin must be watching in anticipation.
is the neighbor “hot”? If so stop as you are sinning. Ask Nasska.
He’s male and I doubt that any real woman would describe him as hot.
So nothing like this then…. https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/girl-chainsaw-forest-sawing-wood-315719795
ROL, she looks like she’ll end up with a gaping chainsaw wound to go with her axe wound.
if youre into sexy chicks swinging chainsaws go checkout tree being on youtube, she fells alot of wood but she probs make your wood stand up aslong asyoure not as old and stuffed as vikey ed and nasska.
Thanks SB. I’ll be watching attentively for Health and safety reasons.
In case you are interested Stuffed are running a poll under the Ian Taylor comments on the leadership of Jabcinda. Currently the highest number is awful at 43%
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360743654/ian-taylor-dear-jacinda-most-difficult-letter-i-have-written-you
Done it just now circa 7:00 pm.
Rate Jacinda Ardern’s leadership during the Covid pandemic
Great in parts 14%
Average 3%
Awful 43%
Lacking in areas 8%
Excellent 32%
So it has held to 43% but those glued in unthinking supporters with the “Great in Parts” shows there is a lot more to be weaned off the “well being” gloss that covers over the truth.
44% now that I added my bit. God, that felt so good…..
But you need to be subscriber. I can’t vote.
If if you go to stuff a number of times it will ask you to create a free account to be able to continue reading articles, vote etc. As I don’t want to encourage them there is no way I will do that so I use a vpn which gets around the issue.
Thanks Curious :
In 1 hour that has climbed from 35% “awful” being the highest number as reported here :–
https://ysb.co.nz/have-your-say-437/#comment-444797
… to your 43%
Will it get over 50%? and more?
Though at some stage I expect the luvvies will try an orchestrated push back, but it is good to see that many have figured a bit more about that Ardern’ic poison.
A priest dies & his spirit is in the void when a voice calls to him, “Well my old son, you got it wrong, karma is the law of the universe so you need to go back & learn your lesson. ”
“I understand, ” said the priest, “but please, don’t send me back as a priest, the things I did I’m really sorry for & I will need to learn restraint & compassion. ”
“Oh, you don’t get off that easy, ” replied the voice, “you’re going back as a choirboy. “
Without lubrication!
The dildo of consequences always comes without lube.
A rainy weekday, of supposed weather watches & alerts, of yellow, orange & red alerts etc… of “state of ermergency” with warnings of bright flashes & sudden booms, brings up the tally of comments to 100 so far for the day.
Sean reviews Ian Taylor’s letter.
😂 comment attached.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzT6cI5uUSg
Sean Plunket Reacts To Sir Ian Taylor’s ‘Dear Jacinda’ Letter
@crivs72
I tried to buy her book but I wasn’t vaccinated.
RIP Dr. Des Gorman
a voice of sense in the CONvid era
why he was with the hideous NZinitiative I will not know
A mere 68 years old
—-
From Chris Lynch media
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Emeritus Professor Des Gorman, an influential figure in New Zealand medicine and a trusted voice during the COVID-19 pandemic, has passed away at the age of 68.
Professor Gorman died peacefully at home yesterday, surrounded by his family, in a obituary in the NZ Herald death notices.
A renowned academic and medical pioneer, Gorman served as Emeritus Professor of Medicine in the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences at the University of Auckland.
His contributions spanned multiple fields, including occupational and diving medicine, and his influence on public health policy, particularly during New Zealand’s COVID-19 response, earned him deep respect across the country.
He became a trusted and calm presence in the media during the pandemic, often praised for his clarity, honesty and ability to speak to both the public and decision-makers with equal authority.
more …
Is this the best movie music ever written?
https://x.com/hoang_hq/status/1940043966742679845?s=46
Wa wa wawa
That movie I still rate as the best movie ever. First saw it in Italian at the tender age of about 6 or 7. Although I spoke no Italian, I had a good idea of what was going on.
Bear with me as a Testing phase and also edit.
Another upgrade for the commentators on YSB [ 😁 ]
https://x.com/hoang_hq/status/1940043966742679845?s=46
https://nitter.net/hoang_hq/status/1940043966742679845?s=46
To convert an “X” (formerly known as Twitter) URL to Nitter, replace “twitter.com” or “x.com” with “nitter.net” in the URL. For example,
https://twitter.com/usernamewould becomehttps://nitter.net/username, andhttps://x.com/usernamewould also becomehttps://nitter.net/username.Why? to find scroll down & gain the replies.
Yay! it works and even click on the “enable” and then gets to “>” then a click on that, to play the video.
With the replies 😎
Thanks. I think.
From the “whatever could go wrong” bin. We learn at https://www.nst.com.my/world/region/2025/06/1238180/new-singapore-law-allows-police-freeze-bank-access-stop-scams that
#. “Singapore’s new law, which enables the police to better protect individuals targeted by ongoing scams, will come into effect on Tuesday (July 1)”
#. “The Protection from Scams Act 2025, passed by Parliament on Jan 7, empowers police officers and commercial affairs officers appointed under Section 64 of the Police Force Act to issue Restriction Orders (ROs) to banks, restricting banking and credit facilities of an individual under certain circumstances.”
#. “The decision to issue an RO will be made by a police officer based on an assessment of the facts and circumstances of each case.”
Orders can be appealed but:
#. “”The decision of the Commissioner of Police is final,”
Singaporeans can expect to see some new & imaginative interpretations of the meaning of “scam” as the police adapt to their new powers.
Authoritarians & control freaks in Wellington will be watching developments carefully.
H/T RCR Bites
Interesting nasska, but not surprizing.
In the UK also seeking to bring in more future physical controls of the populace.
…. this claimed obvious falsehood is, in fact, an expedient fig leaf to cover the real but politically poisonous purpose for its sudden interest in hardening key strategic and critical infrastructure sites against attack.
He continued: “what they’re concerned about is domestic conflict, and they perfectly understand this, but that’s completely politically toxic for them to say so publicly, hence the convenience of saying ‘we need to develop… a citizen’s militia for the protection of critical infrastructure’. ……
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/07/02/academic-uk-prepares-for-civil-war-but-uses-russia-as-political-cover/
Fig leaves & Mission Creep.
“never let a good crisis go to waste” and build on that sense of Urgency.
That over-rides real “empathy” and with no concern of the consequences.
“Control at all Costs”.
There may be an obvious target from our point of view, but as noting who were so quickly trialled & jailed with in days, & current practice, then we may figure the real target to be totally controlled in the UK., as in line with who gains “free speech”.
I see it as another piece alongside “debanking” & forced vaccinations that make up the jigsaw representing total control of our lives.
Law used to be objective, eg thou shall not steal. Now it is subjective, eg you may not cause offence. Subjective law that is open to interpretation du jour is undermining our rights & freedoms by stealth.
So much for a benign dictatorship.
Lefties falsely wailing their youth reps were censored.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbe_Ww8lFHc
Sean Plunket talks to the Youth MP for Karen Chhour Jerry Wei about the censorship controversy at Youth Parliament.
Never leave a chance to whine go!
Yap, yap, yap, yip, yip! Hopkins chasing cars again!!!
When will Labor put him out of his misery?
Would you’d you fly in a Boeing aircraft, 737 max, Dreamliner or an Indian aircraft?
Will the Interislander lose more custom with the arrival of Bluebridges latest ferry?
interislander are losing a ferry soon anyways so i guess its well timed.
A couple of days ago the Boss posted a video clip of an anorexic woman sinking a boat. See if he can top this:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qajF8AaXtjA
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rz8CN3qn2qo?feature=share
You will have probably heard the corrupt department of USAID has officially been shut down with Marco Rubio administering any funding of aid the Trump team deemed to have enough merit to retain. The good news is the FBI can now make their planned shift out of the Hoover Building and take over very nice premises in the ‘Ronald Reagan Building’ in DC.
https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/new-fbi-headquarters-in-washington-dc
New FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C.The FBI and the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) on July 1 announced the selection of the Ronald Reagan Building complex in Washington, D.C., as the new location for FBI Headquarters.
The FBI deserve to be rewarded been liy white, above reproach!
More co-governance on the QT without public consultation. Taupo district council and Tu Wharetoa. No financial guardrails.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgVnUI4vB-s
Co-governance Agreements Being Made Behind Closed Doors!
Duncan Garner