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Tim Burr
11 months ago

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Starving Artist
Starving Artist
Reply to  Tim Burr
11 months ago

No good deed shall go unpunished.

I am a stupid boy
11 months ago

hey Ed, you managed to get out for a bit more gold fossicking?
with the latest gold price rally your slim pickings from the last trip will be worth a bit!
https://goldprice.org/gold-price-new-zealand.html

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  Editor
11 months ago

you need a pickaxe and metal detector to find north island gold… of you could do the native thing and smash n grab a jewelery shop!

howitis
howitis
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
11 months ago

I hear Michael Hill jewelers is nice at this time of the year !!

nasska
Reply to  Editor
11 months ago

Coromandel but you’re supposed to have a permit. Apparently you can’t just turn up & fill your pan like the SI.

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  nasska
11 months ago

unless youre in a public fossicking area youre not supposed to rock up and pan…. but rules are made to be broken 🙂

howitis
howitis
Reply to  nasska
11 months ago

Belongs to the Bros, Bro

Komata
Komata
Reply to  Editor
11 months ago

Ed

FWIW: Experience (No details) indicates that on the Coromandel it’s NOT the Bros one has to be very wary of, it’s the growers of the local (supra-legal) cash crop.

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  Editor
11 months ago

go get yourself some brown facepaint and blend in, be sure to practice your churs and bros

howitis
howitis
Reply to  Editor
11 months ago

the real place they owe reparations to is India.

putting aside any view of Indians , they were a sovereign nation that England invaded.
They were a civilization 2000 years ago while the Britons were running around in animal skins and India was a quarter of world GDP.

England raped and pillaged for hundreds of years and extracted resources
including stolen jewels
The British museum is basically a crime scene

England deliberately caused the death of million of Indian citizens on multiple occasions via starvation, to control the people. They set off moozlem against hindu (whereas in Fiji there is not such a religious divide)

Their fuckup at partition – under the child rapist Lordy Mount Bottom caused another 1 to 3 million deaths while Mount botton was raping pre pubescent little boys (8 to 12) and his slutty wife was fucking Nehru.
a great fuck up all round.

and made East and West Pakistan of opposing Shia and Sunni causing multiple wars and further death and starvation over the next 24 years.

England acted with pure malice at the 1919 Treaty of Versailles and has set up ALL the middle east problems arising since then and been involved with US in most of the coiups and wars .

so yeah, England does owe reparations to many

including South Africa where THEY (not the Germans in the 1940s ) set up the first concentration camps in late 1800s .
First they drove the settlers from the Cape , and when the settlers moved inland and discovered diamonds and gold the English went after that as well ….

we wont even start on their treatment of the Irish people and leaving them today with a physically divided nation.

that the Maori got the greatest deal in all Brit history in 1840 was the work of Busby and not the blood thirsty maggots of the English upper fkg crust.

Brian Marshall
Reply to  howitis
11 months ago

India owes more to the British than the other way around. A series of disparate independent states that were led by complete monarch control, were united into one country (don’t blame the Brits for the Muslims wanting to split later on), under one set of laws and the largest working train system in the world.
The Brit’s didn’t invade India for conquest, they went there to trade, and acquired land and protectorates to keep that trade safe.
They hired the locals at wages that were the going rate at the time. The Maharajas didn’t always pay the locals for their labour, and if the locals didn’t want to work for the Brit’s, they could leave in most instances. (indentured workers excepted). He’ll, even famines reduced under the British Raj, as they actually cared about the peasantry.

Agree about South Africa, but the concentration camps were not meant to lead to the awful death toll that they ended up with, and Ireland has had some historical revisionism. Britain should have done better, but the catholic priests were admonishing their adherents from working for protestants. There was food in the country, but the Irish were very heavily living on potatoes they grew rather than buying food. The Brits did retard the Irish fishing fleet to protect their own fishing fleet, so they’re not blameless though.

Harvey
Reply to  Brian Marshall
11 months ago

I’m not sure many Indian people would agree with you.

Brian Marshall
Reply to  Harvey
11 months ago

Yeah, they’re indoctrinating them in schools. They believe the bullshit because they want to believe it. ( and worship cows 😉). Maybe because it gives an excuse why India is not a super power nation today and makes them feel better.
Truth doesn’t mind being questioned. Feel free to research it all for yourself Harvey. If the British empire never traded and then took over India, I would wager the country would be worse off today. But then I am a student of history and the centuries before the British Raj were worse than most people realise. Muslim conquest of India wasn’t complete, but they sure did kill a lot of Hindus, and back stab Hindu kings when supposedly being allied with them. (battle of Talikota is a big one if you’re interested), The caste system still restricts them today, but if it wasn’t for the British coming in, it’d be worse.

FJA
FJA
Reply to  Harvey
11 months ago

So what. You only have to look at here. How a sizeable chunk of the Maori population are ungrateful that the British stopped them killing, eating and enslaving each other, and made every individual Maori the equal of any other AND of British subjects, rather than most being lorded over.

Liberated peoples aren’t always grateful.

Simpleton1
Simpleton1
Reply to  Harvey
11 months ago

For over a century India has learnt a lot from Russia, then even more so after WW2 with the Soviets.

During the 1950s and 1960s, the Soviet Union significantly expanded KGB operations in India.
In 1959 it created an import-export bank to subsidize the Communist Party of India (CPI).
The KGB also exerted influence over Indian media, reportedly maintaining over ten newspapers on its payroll and placing over 3,789 articles in Indian publications in 1973 alone, more than in any other non-communist country.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India%E2%80%93Soviet_Union_relations

It would seem that the English people living in India, seemed to have pretty much left India when it gained independence.

Sort of funny how it seems that many Indians packed their bags & went to the UK., if the English were so bad why?.

Though if British caused the Kashmir problems, surely it was all solved last century.

Soviet Premier, Alexei Kosygin, met with representatives of India and Pakistan and helped them negotiate an end to the military conflict over Kashmir. circa 1965

So keep blaming the British, surely blame the Russians or Putin now?

FJA
FJA
Reply to  howitis
11 months ago

So the British ultimately liberating Hindus from the (Muslim) moghuls was a.bad thing? Who knew.

howitis
howitis
Reply to  FJA
11 months ago

Good for you Benjamin David Levi
peace, out !

bobthebldr
bobthebldr
Reply to  howitis
11 months ago

I’ll take mine in Krugers, thanks

nasska
Reply to  howitis
11 months ago

Agreed; though Germany, France, Portugal, Spain & Italy were scrambling for global influence & wealth at the same time.

It’s just that Britain did plunder & bloodshed better than most.

howitis
howitis
Reply to  nasska
11 months ago

The Portuguese did very well for a flea bite sized country.
they even held a part of India until the 1960s.
most of Brazil.
10 times as many Trans atlantic slaves than the USA ever had, but no-one polite talks about that!!!

Netherlands did well with large reach and held Indonesia (as it is today) until 1949.

France never did achieve much of a foothold with rag-tag low commercial value outposts.
They got duped – like everyone else by the Poms – in the treaty of Versailles 1919 over their Middle east holdings !!

Germany only formed a country in the 1870s so there was bugger all to plunder. They got some African desert, Samoa and PNG.
we should have left them with Samoa.

Private Godfrey
Reply to  howitis
11 months ago

You left out the fk up the Brits made drawing the border in Cashmere which has been a warzone ever since.

Simpleton1
Simpleton1
Reply to  Private Godfrey
11 months ago

The contintent of India was never a peaceful place.! ! !
Hills of skulls were built over their history, and the British were no more cruel in their rule than the worst or best of the previous.

Whichever part of India, full of peaceful religions, could never be partitioned peacefully.

….. about ten million Hindus and Sikhs were thrown out from Pakistan and around seven million Muslims from India to Pakistan and thousands of people were slaughtered in this squabble. …..
https://www.pubtexto.com/journals/global-journal-of-arts-and-social-sciences/fulltext/the-partition-genocide-of-1947-and-the-victimized-masses

Pakistan named as the “Land of the Pure” !
Nor can India be deemed perfect either, and considering how Ghandhi tried to bring more peace to all.

…. Third Hindu-Muslim unity fast for restoration of communal peace. Gandhi was reading the dreadful news of the Kashmir war, while at the same time fasting to death because Muslims could not live safely in Delhi. ….
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fasts_undertaken_by_Mahatma_Gandhi

So now Ghandhi is in permanment fasting in his assassainted death, and to blame the British for Cashmere?
What is wrong with these “peaceful” religions, as surely it is up to the peoples there to sort it out. !!!!

Simpleton1
Simpleton1
Reply to  Editor
11 months ago

Interesting,
So many things we do not know.
Where it could be considered where “good intentions” can lead to a true origin of “hell on earth”.

Last edited 11 months ago by Simpleton1
Odakyu-sen
Reply to  Private Godfrey
11 months ago

Blaming a nation’s problems on the past is typical of a people lacking agency.

Viking
Reply to  Editor
11 months ago

Good luck to them. The poms deserve it.

DylanHunt
Reply to  Editor
11 months ago

Palestine Seeks £2 Trillion in Reparations from UK.

And just like that, the oppressors become the victims, demanding money. A leaf out of the NZ story book.

War is never about anything other than money. And the puppeteers pulling the strings collect in every way possible, from both sides.

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The Ancient Hooligan
Reply to  Editor
11 months ago

Well, Ed the Drongo that is Kier Starmer recently gave away one of Britain’s major strategic Military assets, Diego Garcia (that contains the US Military Base) which controls the Suez and Indian Ocean to the great political power house that is Mauritius. On top of that Starmer has agreed to pay Mauritius £101 Million, every year for 99 years to Mauritius for the privilege of giving away such a strategic asset.

The man is a fucking idiot, so yes he will cough up to the Palestinian Authority. He already has set a precedent.

Viking
Reply to  The Ancient Hooligan
11 months ago

The end of the British Empire.
An empire that robbed the world.
An empire that made wars.

Starving Artist
Starving Artist
Reply to  Viking
11 months ago

All empires make wars.

“War is the health of the state.” – Randolph Bourne

Simpleton1
Simpleton1
Reply to  Editor
11 months ago

NZ will be in deep doggy doo, to keep paying for compensation.

New Zealand is well known for continually paying compensation, as already it is accepted practice.

No one was charged for the massacre, but £2060.11.3d (£104,500 in 2023) was paid to authorities in Palestine to rebuild the village.
The British government contributed £686, due to a small number of Scottish soldiers who had participated, and, in 1921, requested that Australia and New Zealand contribute the remaining two-thirds.
Australia did not contest its liability and quickly paid £515.2.9d to Britain.
New Zealand objected, but eventually under British pressure paid £858.11.5d in May 1921.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surafend_massacress

 New Zealand troops had conducted the massacre and the destruction of the village, but with the “hearty support” and “full sympathy” of the Australians.

That is just one part, but then there is the whole Sinai, Palestine overturn of the Ottoman’s control in that region where NZ played some key roles in that.

So NZ will have a century of ongoing payments to make up, so that “justice” can be achieved, with all the acrued interest, bonus payments for the islamics.

Last edited 11 months ago by Simpleton1
I am a stupid boy
Reply to  Editor
11 months ago

they should supply it in the form of airdropped bombs.
cheeky pieces of shit

Komata
Komata
Reply to  Editor
11 months ago

Ed:

… And the stupid and tragic thing is that starmer et all will probably actually pay it ‘To show solidarity’ with the oppressed peoples of Gaza’.

Last edited 11 months ago by Komata
Dougal10
Reply to  Komata
11 months ago

Albanese and Luxon will be saying hold my beer after it happens

Viking
Reply to  Dougal10
11 months ago

Talking of which, I watched an interview last night with a Trump man who talked about Albo.
Why wasn’t he getting to meet Trump, and won’t unless he makes some changes.
Will never get invited as long as Rudd is the ambassador.
Rudd is an arsewipe, and Albo sent to the US where he has slagged off Trump.
Trump likes people who like him.
Not to be forgotten in any negotiations.

Dougal10
Reply to  Viking
11 months ago

Albo survives in australia because the liberals are a disaster , they are woke wet and blue green like our current national party leadership . If national actually stood for something chippy would just be a distant echo .

Private Godfrey
Reply to  Viking
11 months ago

A Trump man?
That narrows it down.

DylanHunt
Reply to  Dougal10
11 months ago

Probably the only thing holding back Luxon is Winston.

“Chris, this is not my first Rodeo. Delay acknowledging Palestine as a state as long as possible. They still have hostages for goodness sake. This is giving in to terrorists.”

howitis
howitis
Reply to  DylanHunt
11 months ago

It is war
has been for 70 years
both sides are at fault

suggesting one side is not as dastardly as the other is daft .
The English caused all this with their constant world wide meddling
so they need to fucking own it .

Unlike many wars, there is extreme evil in each side of the coin .

FJA
FJA
Reply to  howitis
11 months ago

I often see jews around the world stabbing people and blowing then up. The problem lies where, you say?

Private Godfrey
Reply to  FJA
11 months ago

That is not their mo

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
Reply to  Private Godfrey
11 months ago

That was FJA’s point. 🎯

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3avvi_qwdxk
Bret Weinstein on Israel-Palestine, Antisemitism, and Jewish Identity – Part 2

I sat down with evolutionary biologist Bret Weinstein to explore how evolution can help make sense of tribalism, religion, and the ongoing war in Gaza. He shares his experience commenting on the Israel-Palestine conflict and the simultaneous resurgence and weaponization of antisemitism, speaking both as a scientist and as an American Jew who doesn’t see his views reflected by either major camp. Bret warns against embracing our genetic programming for “lineage-against-lineage” displacement, rather than the …

Last edited 11 months ago by waikatogirl
Viking
11 months ago

Last night, my friends and I went to a Ladies Night Club. One of the girls wanted to show off, so she pulled out a $10 bill.
When the dancer came over, she licked the $10 and stuck it to his butt cheek!

Not to be outdone, another friend pulls out a $20, calls him back, licks it, and sticks it to his other butt cheek.
Then my third friend whips out a $50. By now, I’m getting nervous… but thankfully she just stuck it to the same cheek again.

My relief was short-lived. The dancer suddenly races over to me, and now all eyes are on ME. He’s egging me on to top the $50.

My brain was spinning… what could I do?! Then the woman in me took over… I pulled out my ATM card, swiped it down the crack, grabbed the $80, and left!

Private Godfrey
Reply to  Viking
11 months ago

The woman in you took over?
At a ladies night club?
Are you a fairy?
You didn’t read that before you posted it, did you.

Viking
Reply to  Private Godfrey
11 months ago

I did.
But thought of you.

Harvey
Reply to  Private Godfrey
11 months ago

Just another FB goof from Viking and his imaginary friends

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Viking
Reply to  Harvey
11 months ago

Fortunately, you are never likely to be my friend. I simply dislike arseholes who have nothing nice in their life and nothing nice to say and behave in their faux status as though they know something.
Guess you spent your life being a school teacher or a university bludger.

Harvey
Reply to  Viking
11 months ago

Mate you reposted a fb gag while claiming to be a woman in a nightclub and now you’re blathering about faux status. Having a pirate ship stuck up your arse does not make you a Norse God.
No one needs to be a school teacher or a university bludger to see thats idiotic but you have a real hang up about education. You might not have been bullied at school if you hadn’t led with your chin. Have you learned nothing?
If you won’t be my friend I’ll have to pull my blankey over my head a cry myself to sleep. ////

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howitis
howitis
11 months ago

Why is Charles the king of England today ?

he was the first bastard to slide out of Lizzies vajayjay ahead of the other male weirdos .

For NO other reason. Not skills , intellect, sense of fairness, ability to read a room or any other talent.

Viking
Reply to  howitis
11 months ago

Harry will take his place.

Private Godfrey
Reply to  Viking
11 months ago

You’ve made that claim several times.
Harry is 5th in line for succession.
What makes you think Harry will replace Charles?

Viking
Reply to  Private Godfrey
11 months ago

It’s been foretold.
Willy’s missus is ailing.
Succession means nothing and he will run away when it happens.
The rest are all too young.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Viking
11 months ago

Should have been Anne, she has bigger balls.

Viking
11 months ago

Morning.

piss-off-people
Private Godfrey
Reply to  Viking
11 months ago

That’s why you were bullied at school

Viking
Reply to  Private Godfrey
11 months ago

I was never bullied at school and in fact, despised the school teachers who did the bullying, much like I despise a couple of you nasty arseholes who behave that way on here.

Curious
Reply to  Viking
11 months ago

Too bad it’s the same people everyday the other long suffering contributors to ysb.

Viking
Reply to  Curious
11 months ago

I only react to the bullies.
I have no problem having a different opinion from others rather than swallowing the political bullshit that they swallow.
That’s what this place has become, a bully pit.
It will ruin the blog.

Harvey
Reply to  Viking
11 months ago

Plagiarising crap from fb will ruin the blog.

nasska
Reply to  Viking
11 months ago
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waikatogirl
waikatogirl
11 months ago

Scott Adams, “Dilbert” cartoonist and podcaster explains to Tucker how the left have been hypnotised

https://tuckercarlson.com/america-after-charlie-kirk-highlights-4
The Violent Result of the Left’s Campaign Demonizing Christian Conservatives

Scott Adams discusses the media’s demonization of conservatives and the radicalization that has ensued.

Last edited 11 months ago by waikatogirl
nasska
Reply to  waikatogirl
11 months ago

As one who grew up in the ‘Christian Conservative’ 1950s & was a teenager in the equally stifling 1960s I find it very hard to mourn the meddling, self important, know-all, stuffed shirt, holier than thou, sanctimonious arseholes.

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
Reply to  nasska
11 months ago

My MIL carried that conservative sentiment until just a few years ago that there was only one approved path in life (her way). 😖

Starving Artist
Starving Artist
Reply to  nasska
11 months ago

Your description now applies to the left.

nasska
Reply to  Starving Artist
11 months ago

You’ll get no argument from me on that score. It’s just that those who pine for the halcyon days of yore tend to overlook the realities of the era.

Odakyu-sen
Reply to  waikatogirl
11 months ago

Straight out of the totalitarian playbook.
First you dehumanize them, then you exterminate them while all the time maintaining your “virtue” and “moral superiority.”

Alice
11 months ago

Lead contender in the European Mister Angry finals:

https://x.com/MrsRoyKeaneo/status/1969880554293326024?

Curious
Reply to  Alice
11 months ago

He’d give Angry Andy a run for his money.

Viking
11 months ago

BENEFITS OF A GOOD VOCABULARY!

I recently called an old pilot buddy of mine and asked what he was working on these days.

He replied that he was working on “aqua-thermal treatment of ceramics, aluminium, and steel under a constrained environment.”

I was impressed – until I learned that my buddy was actually just washing dishes with hot water under his wife’s supervision.

He had also cooked her tea. Under her supervision.

And that on His Birthday.

Yikes.
They have been married for 55 years.
Sound familiar?

Private Godfrey
Reply to  Viking
11 months ago

FB again

Viking
Reply to  Private Godfrey
11 months ago

No, true story.
even if that other shit for brain, found something the same, which actually gave me the idea.

Private Godfrey
Reply to  Viking
11 months ago

You even gave your story a title. Funnily enough the same title as fb. What are the odds? Are you sure you haven’t been hacked and Big Zuck is stealing your original stories? Gee.

Harvey
Reply to  Private Godfrey
11 months ago

Yup. More imaginary friends

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Webwrat
Reply to  Viking
11 months ago

For a while my brother had a job as “Solid Fuel Injection Specialist” …. shovelling coal into the boiler of the Earnslaw.

Odakyu-sen
Reply to  Webwrat
11 months ago

A shovel is not an injector.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Odakyu-sen
11 months ago

No it’s an ejector!

howitis
howitis
11 months ago

They used to call Wallace (Bill) Rowling The Mouse

he can stand aside for Christopher M luxon
the ultimate mouse
squeaks , gets all nervous and scarpers away at the sign of any threat or question.

and accompanied by

The weasel = bishop
and rat -Willyless

the gerbil – doocey
the hamster – goldensmith
the chipmunk – collins
the prairie dog – pootucker

but all in the rodent family.

Last edited 11 months ago by howitis
DylanHunt
Reply to  howitis
11 months ago

So which rodent(s) from what party is your king rat who should run the country. Or are you standing for election in 2026?

Last edited 11 months ago by DylanHunt
Simpleton1
Simpleton1
Reply to  Editor
11 months ago

An art-form from millenia ago, and reconstituted to be the “State”

Our Father who art in heaven, …..
…… Give us our daily bread ….

also known as “nanny state”, a husband to many a mother these days, for a meal ticket.
That makes many others to be compliant & enforced to pay for that bread, & accomdation as they demand their rights.

Last edited 11 months ago by Simpleton1
howitis
howitis
Reply to  Editor
11 months ago

and yes
your joke belongs in the 1970s !!

Harvey
Reply to  howitis
11 months ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7atS2QVCJ2M

Tucker Carlson brought most of us up to date.

Alice
11 months ago

This bloke is doing good work and deserves a lot more subscribers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fPYhfSOnT0

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
11 months ago

Trump swerving Albo at the UN.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ_aDEb94Xg
‘Hardcore socialist’ Albanese threatened by top US Republicans over Palestinian statehood move

Sky News host James Morrow has discussed his piece in The Daily Telegraph where top US Republicans have threatened punitive measures against Australia for its decision to recognise Palestine as a state.

Last edited 11 months ago by waikatogirl
Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  waikatogirl
11 months ago

NN was too scared to turn up, so sent whinny instead.

Saggy
Reply to  Sooty
11 months ago

Hopefully Winnie is taking notes.

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  Saggy
11 months ago

only thing winnie will be taking notes on is what decision will get him the most votes.

Odakyu-sen
11 months ago

I thought that the homeland for the Arabs of the old Palestinian region was Jordan? Palestine was to be given to the Jews.
Ref: Why Jordan IS Palestine

Simpleton1
Simpleton1
11 months ago

Not quite a raid as Hamas did into Israel; but does seem to be almost a war in Italy for not recognizing a Palestinian state.

“The Palestinian people continue to give us yet another lesson in dignity and resistance,” said Ricky, a protester in Genoa from a grassroots labour group called the Autonomous Port Workers’ Collective.
“We learn from them and try to do our part,” he added.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/genoa-dockers-walk-out-italian-unions-protest-against-israel-2025-09-22/

Only a window-pane or 2 broken and a few kindly bruised police. …. yeah right ….

Always was “dignity & resistance” which was practised in full by Hamas, Hezbollah, ISIS etc..
All as guided by the ‘Religion of Peace’ as found in the hadith & koran.

I guess some figure with the Italian ventures into the Middle East during the 1930’s-40’s needs atonement plus full ongoing compensation too.

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Odakyu-sen
11 months ago

Beware of your leaders. Do not misunderstand their actions.

“Impulsiveness is mistaken for decisiveness; narcissism for confidence; and recklessness for fearlessness.”

nasska
Reply to  Editor
11 months ago

The readership of this blog would represent the largest known NZ concentration of those who refuse to act as sheep. We neither stand up when beeped nor do we roll up our sleeves to be poisoned.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Editor
11 months ago

Yer, Greta said so!

Simpleton1
Simpleton1
Reply to  Editor
11 months ago

At the start of the Hamas raid, Gaza fired many rockets into Israel as I recall some of the videos with the rockets constantly going over head, which would have caused some confusion & then to only in their own silo of awareness, and so also a lack of awareness, the big picture.

06:30: Air raid sirens were activated in southern and central Israel in response to Hamas missiles.

07:40: The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed Hamas militants had entered southern Israel and asked residents of Sderot and other cities to remain indoors.

08:15: Sirens were activated in Jerusalem following a rocket barrage that landed on the city’s western edge.

08:23: Israel declared a state of alert for war, activating its reservists, in response to continued rocket attacks.

08:34: Israel announced that it had begun counteroffensive operations against Hamas.

10:47: The Israeli Air Force (IAF) began attacking Gaza.
Well the rockets still being fired from Gaza
.
11:35: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made his first statement, declaring that Israel was at war.

12:21: The IDF began operations to relieve cities in southern Israel as the number of rockets launched from Gaza increased to over 1,200.

So of course one of the early responses was to figure just what to target & respond as soon as onto to Gaza, by one section of IDF.

At that stage, Israel was picking up & warming a snake to its bosum in the belief of kindness in pursuit of Peace & Prosperiety.
Gaza was not occupied by Israel for nigh on 20 years.
Sure there were warnings from Egypt, & the USA, but was there enough facts & evidence?
Enough to go & search for tunnels under the schools & hospitals, etc..

An additional 1,500 permits are to be added, Israel’s military liaison office to the Palestinians, …..
…… The move came following an assessment by Defense Minister Benny Gantz.
The move is set to begin next week, after Rosh Hashanah, COGAT said in a statement. ….

….. Israel will raise the quota of work permits for Gazan Palestinians to 17,000 next week, expanding a policy that defense officials view as a means of maintaining quiet on the country’s southern front. …..

…… The Defense Ministry has signed off on a tentative plan to raise the number of Gaza permits to 20,000, an unprecedented increase. …..
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-okays-1500-more-entry-permits-for-gaza-workers-bringing-total-to-17000/

What an Israeli inquiry will bring out, can always be called debateable.
Then also how others bring forth other concepts, that forget some parts, & creates ideas to fit other purposes, like creating a Palestinian state.

In the meantime from the “river to the sea” is to be only 1 state, whether it is Jewish or Palestinian, and the religiousity of either, seems to allows for neither.

Some forget, that nigh on million Jews, the same number from Europe, were also forced to flee from Middle Eastern countries since 1948 to Israel & others to the USA.
The goal also to drive fear into a Jewish adherents to find a safer place than Russia, Europe, Canada, Australia, etc.. … hmmm ….

Last edited 11 months ago by Simpleton1
Curious
Reply to  Simpleton1
11 months ago

Where did you get that timeline S1?

Simpleton1
Simpleton1
Reply to  Curious
11 months ago

Curious:—- wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_government_response_to_the_October_7_attacks#:

On the 10:47 ; I did add that “rockets were still being fired”, so would have consumed the IDF planning how to stop that, whether Iron Dome or direct bombing, & then on what targets.

In regard to warnings, just how much facts evidence, then just how bad could it get?

Then to weigh it up, as it to be proven with hundreds of continous rockets being fired, and going further than ever, like Jerusalem.

What would the reaction have been if Israel, entered Gaza, claiming a right to search for tunnels, fireing points etc., then Gaza reacted?

It would then be claimed that Gaza was always going to be peaceful & the State of Israel was always going to be a heinous oppressor, so should be stripped of its state hood, and turned over to Hamas & Fatah to rule from the river to the sea.

There was much more to consider than to move on to Gaza.
The possible synchronisity of attacks. :—
Hezbollah could have opened up a new front on the North of Israel in a brazen attack?
Syria, with some rebel troops launch an attack with some arsenal.?
Was there anything coming from Yemen, the Houthis?
Would Iran fire anything? and what would that be.

The only thing that Israel could rely on was to believe that it was not possible that Gaza should be able to give an extremely damaging or fatal wound.
So not to over react, while keeping enough on standby, reserves for any other attack.
Then to find out just what had Hamas done in its ground attack & respond to that.

Most likely Israel had not practised, done manouvres for such an eventuality, but that would have been considered as threatening oppressive behaviour making Israel a pariah of bad thinking about Palestinians.
While it was expanding the work permits for Palestinians?

Simpleton1
Simpleton1
Reply to  Editor
11 months ago

Sometimes use it, and a time-line is relatively simple, a brief summation, as many of the others totally believe it, so less arguement.

So any factor of the time line is wrong?

Which is what many others also saw in Hamas video & Israeli videos too.

The rest of the point, actually relates, a sort of parallel to how Putin started in defence of Ukrainains being very short changed by their government & how about a million or so came into Russia as refugees.
Noting how the Minsk 1 then Minsk 2 achieved nothing, to bring peace, but only further fortifications, and further artillery bombardments by Azov Ukrainian brigades on what became the breakaway oblasts,/ provinces.

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Harvey
Reply to  Editor
11 months ago

Have we convinced you that sources are important?

Odakyu-sen
11 months ago

If your system allows an individual to claim membership of a “special group” that comes with benefits, then you will weaken your nation by encouraging a divided society.

If you are 3/4ths white, are you not a “colonist” in New Zealand? Does that 1/4 remaining excuse you from taking personal responsibility for your life?

Jealousy and the blaming of others for your failings are very attractive to people who lack inner strength and fortitude.

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
Reply to  Editor
11 months ago

♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ It!

nasska
11 months ago

Given that it was the likelihood of his children been returned to the ‘care’ of their methhead, jailbird mother that drove Tom Phillips to take his kids walkabout many of us would welcome an inquiry into the incredible anti male bias of the Family Court.

It seems that the sisterhood are screeching for an enquiry too but unbelievably it is because the Court on rare occasions doesn’t cut the father completely out of his children’s lives.

From the normal suspects at https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/09/22/tom-phillips-case-renews-calls-for-royal-commission-into-family-court/

#. “successive governments have failed to take a bold approach to overhauling a system that’s been repeatedly described as unsafe – especially for women and children.”

The sisterhood demand that there be no scrutiny, no legal questioning & only “experts” be able to decide custodial matters.

#. ““However, once in the Family Court victim-survivors can be trapped in endless and costly proceedings that place them and their children in more danger.”

There is no need for a crystal ball to see where this is heading. Women will continue to lie & be given sole custody “just because” while a cabal of man hating feminists will rubber stamp orders. Men’s role will be confirmed to donating sperm & paying child support.

The partisanship of the article is palpable but worth reading if only to know what the activists are pushing for.

nasska
Reply to  Editor
11 months ago

Makes sense. It’s probably the best chance in life the kids are going to get.

The problem will be the Family Court that is blinded by feminist ideology.

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nasska
11 months ago

It’s amazing how often, when non doctrinal & pragmatic decisions are announced from Bullshit Castle in Wellington the same few people are responsible for them.

Such is this common sense measure enabled by Shane Jones:

…..”Genesis Energy has entered into a two-year agreement with BT Mining to supply 240,000 tonnes of locally sourced coal to the Huntly Power Station, diversifying its fuel supply and reducing reliance on imported coal.”……

https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/return-domestic-coal-back-generation

Reality 1 . . . . Green Lunatics 0

I am a stupid boy
11 months ago

looks like vikeys best mate is building massive capacity to store all the stolen/mined data and memes by way of a 2500 acre data centre.

vikey will be all for it, he’ll happily gift zucks every minute detail of his life if it means more facebook doomscrolling for him and his resthome mates.

https://youtube.com/shorts/7mN1WbxDbnQ?si=B4FPIQKYwc1uJMHD

our planet needs a fucking big emp to wipe this shit out, anyone that thinks these data centres are a good thing and wont be used for nefarious purposes is a fucking retard.

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
11 months ago

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/O-teI4Qr35o
The Most Diverse Hire Ever — when parody becomes prophecy
#short

DEI in the 1980’s 😆

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waikatogirl
waikatogirl
11 months ago

It all comes back to leadership

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsZ7VKLYQCw
Economist Cameron Bagrie Weighs In On Robert MacCulloch vs Nicola Willis

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nasska
11 months ago

The big brother fantasies of the control freaks never go away. They’re just scaled back when the hue & cry gets too loud & are reintroduced later under another guise.

So we shouldn’t be surprised that leading anti-crime technological company Auror has revived retail facial ID software though with a tweak. From https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/573639/stage-set-for-much-more-facial-recognition-in-shops :

……”At stores that sign up to use Auror’s new system, everyone who enters will have a temporary biometric template made of them.
The system would check the template against the store’s own list of risky people, via facial recognition software provided by a third undisclosed company. If no match is found, the template is immediately dumped.”……

An improvement on previous systems where profiling, prediction, tracking or targeted marketing purposes promised to build up a dangerous & intrusive data base.

The challenge for the Privacy Commissioner is to ensure that it stays that way without mission creep.

H/T RCR Bites

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
11 months ago

How Wikipedia really works – It affects all our lives.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFrfxjb_Iw0
The Clintons, Charlie Kirk & The Wikipedia SCAM of the Century EXPOSED

andrew gold | heretics.

Wikipedia isn’t just an online encyclopedia—it’s the backbone of the internet. From Google search results to AI training models, it shapes the information billions …

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nasska
11 months ago

Meanwhile over at the Green Party Mud Hut the hinges on the exit door are up for servicing. This time it’s their Chief of Staff Eliza Prestidge-Oldfield who’s resigning “to focus on her health, wellbeing and her whānau”.

They’re dropping like flies! If they weren’t such a warm, fuzzy bunch of tree huggers we might be forgiven for thinking that the Green Caucus was “built on “exclusion and control, on taking, hoarding, and guarding power”.

After all that was the criticism of Parliament trotted out by the shit eater & alleged child abuser, ‘Bussy’ someone, last week.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/green-party-chief-of-staff-resigns-citing-health-wellbeing-and-whanau/WBTG4W4ZW5HW5HYQZRKTAAY6EI/

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  nasska
11 months ago

Why don’t they hold hands and jump together, preferably off high buildings!

Harvey
11 months ago
nasska
11 months ago

The acronym of LGBTIQCAPGNGFNBA has been abridged. With the recent announcement that the LGB grouping have excised themselves from the word soup we can now safely treat the remainder as the confused pack of juvenile head cases they really are.

At https://aniobrien.substack.com/p/a-declaration-of-independence-for we learn of what has lead up to the schism.

#. “LGB is about sexual orientation based on sex. TQ+ is about gender identity based on feelings.”

#. “The TQ+ agenda is to force institutions to elevate self-declared gender above sex, to demand compelled speech, and to treat disagreement as violence.”

She hopes for honesty from the MSM but I don’t think much for her chances.

#. “Ordinary New Zealanders can see the difference between a movement grounded in sex-based reality and one that insists biology is offensive.”

Perhaps TIQCAPGNGFNBA might best be likened to the sticks of fascism which reveal their true weakness when the string breaks.

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
11 months ago

Wily old fox

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7Mr5dxk-qc
Winston Peters speaks after attending UN conference

Foreign Minister Winston Peters speaks to media after attending UN conference regarding recognising Palestine as a state.

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waikatogirl
waikatogirl
11 months ago

He looked as happy meeting Katie as she looked about him. 😅

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QHHGtqp1U-0
Katie Hopkins: Crying laughing 🤣 God help us!
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I am a stupid boy
11 months ago

i bet the unions and other leftards are having a fucking meltdown over brookes changes to holiday pay and sick leave.
its about time the it got sorted out although it still seems more complicated then it needs to be, i dont even know why the need for annual leave, just tack on the 8% to paycheques and let staff take their time off as unpaid leave… not the employers fault if their staff cant budget.

in nz employers are expected to be a budget advisor, tax collector, fines and child support collector, kiwisaver collector, pay staffs acc levies and then still deal with their staffs bullshit and drama

i rekon its about time employers are able to charge employees for undertaking all those tasks. a business has to fork out for their own accountants yet they have to act as one for their employees or pay their accountant to do it aswell.

paye is a fucking retarded system, its a fucking scam really that just screws the wage slaves and bleeds them dry.

I am a stupid boy
11 months ago

YUM!! sweetbreads for tea.
you city or older folk into them or are they not heard of outside of rural areas?

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
11 months ago

Yuk!!!

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
11 months ago

Not their biggest fans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpKkoQMj9Y4
Hodgetwins & Jesse Lee Peterson Meet For FIRST TIME! | Twins Pod – Episode 57 – Jesse Lee Peterson

Hodgetwins Podcast

Jesse Lee Peterson is a legend. Y’all have been waiting for us to have him on for a long time, and here he is! We talking about black culture, what it was like for h …

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waikatogirl
waikatogirl
11 months ago

Double standard of firings by lefty liberals.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vJZumCtO1Iw
Clay Travis Calls Out Left’s Silence on Disney Canceling Roseanne & Gina Carano
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