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Simpleton1
Simpleton1
Reply to  Editor
11 months ago

Yes Nate Friedman is very good, and I feel the risk he could become another Charlie Kirk.
He does have a security guard, as some have taken him on.

After watching his Utube channel and posted a video or 2 from him.
It then stands out like the proverbial dog’s balls that the same is happening here in New Zealand.

A small team of people, meeting or zooming should be able to put much together & be able to bust many of our protestors & organizers, wide open.
Not that our Communist media would run an expose of that.

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

if China wants a takedown then it has to divest its large US Bond holdings .

so
China held approximately $760 billion in U.S. Treasury securities as of April 2025,

placing it as the third-largest foreign holder of U.S. debt, a position it now holds behind the United Kingdom and Japan.

 China’s holdings have been on a downward trend from a peak of over $1.3 trillion in 2013, as part of a long-term strategy to diversify its foreign exchange reserves.

———–
Mmmm
by sanctions on Russia and freezing assets held in western am ah democracies (Sic) they give Russia little reason to give a fuck about USA and its well being
.
The deep state is a snake with many heads.

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
Reply to  Editor
11 months ago

US Secretary of Treasury Bessent to freeze billionaire’s assets.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AL0Sih72O8E
‘BREAK AMERICA’: GOP targets billionaire activist linked to Chinese radical groups

Fox Business

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., discusses the investigation into far-left groups tied to American billionaire Neville Roy Singham

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howitis
howitis
Reply to  waikatogirl
11 months ago

Neville Roy Singham (born May 13, 1954) is an American businessman and social activist.

He is the founder and former chairman of Thoughtworks, an IT consulting company that provides custom software, software tools, and consulting services, which he sold to a private equity firm for $785 million in 2017.

In 2019, Singham started a consulting business with partners who are active in the propaganda apparatus of the Chinese Communist Party; the partners are co-owners with Tongren City (Guizhou province) of a “media company that promotes anti-poverty policies” according to The New York Times.[2][3]

Singham is a socialist and admirer of Maoism, according to The New York Times; he has provided significant funding for media outlets, organizations, and politicians around the world that promote pro-Chinese government propaganda.[4] According to the George Washington University Program on Extremism he has provided funding for U.S.-based pro-Palestinian protest movements
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Singham’s father Archibald Singham was Sri Lankan. In his youth, Singham was a member of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, a Black nationalist–Maoist group, taking a job at a Chrysler plant in Detroit in 1972 as an activist in the group.[6] He attended Howard University before starting a consulting firm for equipment-leasing companies from his Chicago home

Tarquin
Reply to  Editor
11 months ago

Makes you wonder how we’re paying John Minto and his fellow travelers.

Brian Marshall
Reply to  Tarquin
11 months ago

I do believe that John Minto is a maths teacher. The guys a fuckstick communist wannabe. Maybe he should use his maths skills and count all the successful communist countries since there has been many examples in history to compare to.

Viking
Reply to  Tarquin
11 months ago

In theory, and I say theory, because arsewipes like these hire accountants and layers to hide this stuff, they should be filing tax returns. If they are not, then they should be exported and raise the level of another country’s shit heads.

Simpleton1
Simpleton1
11 months ago

A surprisingly sort of neutral article, 🙃 here for a starter on this topic of “toxic masculinity” in school pupils, in NZ.

Of concern is the tendency for some teachers to impose their own political lens on students.

By framing free speech, critical thinking, or the exploration of different viewpoints as inherently problematic, they risk silencing diversity of thought in the classroom. ….

…… in the report was boys identifying as “Trump boys.”

This was presented as troubling, yet it should be recognised as no different from students who once idealised former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.

Admiring political leaders, whether domestic or international, is a common way young people explore political awareness.

To treat this as dangerous is to make a mountain out of a molehill …..

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO2509/S00125/boys-behaviour-misrepresented-by-ideological-framing-in-schools.htm

At least a ^ conservative writer is being quoted,^ but the power of teachers & unions in education relentlessly marches on.

Some more details on how teachers intend to bring on their own controls on toxic masculinity -teachers report here:—–

“Responding to Extremism in the Classroom: Online Lies and Real World Harm”
Paul Stevens, art teacher and PPTA Auckland regional chairperson,
…… The recommendations in the report call on the [NZ] Ministry of Education to support urgent action due to the rise of misinformation, disinformation, and xenophobia found in a “toxic online culture of masculinity”, posing an “escalating threat” to society, educators and students in Aotearoa. …..
https://www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/360833430/trump-boys-nz-classrooms-teachers-warn-rising-student-extremism

The one that takes the cake of the teachers intentions is in this interview.:—

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2019005811/teen-boys-being-exposed-to-extremism-and-toxic-masculinity
circa 7 mins : 25 September 2025 : rnz : Checkpoint : Lisa Owens :

I would think raising Andrew Tate as the toxic bogey-man
Though things stay on the internet forever, it seems to be a few years ago, when he AT ended up discrediting himself.
So I would be surprized if young people are quoting him today.
But I would not be surprized at this teacher using AT & others as a source, a convenient bogy-man, of this toxicity for his purposes.

A few years ago, MGTOW was another target that women did not like.
And if I recall “Roosh V” and his website “Return of the Kings” blogger which ran from about 2007 to 2022, now closed down.
Obviously a young womanizer, eats, shoots & leaves, that made a name for himself, akin to PUA.(Pick Up Artist)

All of this is the reaction to the ever increasing demands of feminism, demanding more patriarchial controls soley for themselves.
Talking about toxic masculinity and denying that there is anything toxic about where feminism seems to be going, which one can see “eat their own” as the real issue is the revolution must continue.

The problem there is always some social “science” “political” engineering degree to be studied & a paper written for the “humanities that women set up as “special study” degree, to use as their acclaimed ‘meal ticket’ to slot into “institutions” so they can dine out on a high salary for quite a few years & demand even more using those supposed authoritative governmental institutions..

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

What that NZ school teacher above has done is used this British TV series “Adolescence” that came out in March 2025, to extend its ideology into New Zealand deep into the NZ teachers to gain more authority over parents..

Political
…… According to The Guardian, the show highlights the ways in which the manosphere has affected adolescent boys, with characters directly naming Andrew Tate and the “red pill” community as key influences on Jamie and other boys his age. ……

…..  Elon Musk labeled the show as “anti-white propaganda” owing to the casting of a white actor to portray Jamie.
The theory alleged that the show was based on the 2024 Southport stabbings, and that depicting the perpetrator as white was an intentional choice to demonise white people. …. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolescence_(TV_series)

This series is to enhance further controls by & for the systemic educators, the police, and pychechologists.
Also to bring many far & over-reaching controls over social media.
One can often figure this is going to bubble on in the background as the political, techno experts keep on pushing this as an actual consequence.

As NZ reviewer Spinoff pulling all the feelz & fears. :—

….. we could all be Eddie and Manda, brutally awoken one morning to watch your beautiful child taken away for committing a shocking, unforgivable crime.
Adolescence isn’t your typical crime drama, because Jamie comes from a good family – there’s no abuse or trauma here that explains why a young boy ….

……. about male rage and how our young people are becoming radicalised by a digital world their parents don’t understand ……
https://thespinoff.co.nz/pop-culture/21-03-2025/adolescence-is-the-best-show-youll-watch-this-year

…… shines a light on the corrosive impact of social media and misogynist influencers on some teenage boys.
Graham said he was inspired to make the show after seeing two separate reports of boys stabbing girls to death.
“I just thought, what’s going on in society where this kind of thing is becoming a regular occurrence?” ….
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwydwzv4qpgo

So just his thoughts that this is becoming regular over 2 incidents, but then when many other regular occurences, but the people, the culture, the religion can not be named, and it so bad to even have a St,George or Union Jack.

It does not matter whether I use wiki or Guardian or BBC, or Spinoff, or RNZ or Stuff as a source, as they all left wing, like the institutions looking to increase their powers & controls, in pushing their agendas.

howitis
howitis
Reply to  Simpleton1
11 months ago

A Funny story. I think it is.

A good mate of mine; his sister was a teacher.
A Spinster. Are we allowed to say that?

I met her over the years.
She retired on a decent pension about 10 years ago. 2013 if i recall.
Always wanted to go to India.
Inspired by the Beatles going there for their spiritualism stuff in the 1960s

she planned 3 to 6 months as a first trip
Was back after 5 weeks. Hated it
dirty, the men would grope and ogle this 65 year old grey haired women, got crook from the food.
Her comments on return were choice.
A profound attitude change !!!
An ideal held for 40 years that blew up when faced with reality.

Teachers tend to live in a theoretical world
and she was one of those who hated to be challenged.
A classroom was great for that.

I thought it was funny
Dear Abby, am I a Sick Man ?

Viking
Reply to  howitis
11 months ago

Dear howtis,
At regular intervals, mostly monthly.
Abby recommends avoiding older women, especially from the public service.

Strongly suggest you join a younger dating service.

Abby from the 30’s Club.

howitis
howitis
Reply to  Simpleton1
11 months ago

correction

… a young womanizer, eats, shoots & leaves,…

 a young womanizer, eats, roots, shoots & leaves,

just to be clear
no censorship. Putting the shagging back in it.
——————-

The little bit I ever saw of Andrew Tate was he was (is) an obnoxious wanker.
I couldn’t even name his brother
He may have got cut through to a small group of males.

and that is understandable
There is a large section of society – possibly 40% -who get no real male contact before the age of 15 or 16. A bit late.
They are surrounded by the mother and the mother’s friends – sometimes bitter women . The teachers are mainly female .
If they join sports groups any sports instructors need to be very distant and hands off in case accusations are made – fake or otherwise – by nasty women.
Actually very common in the UK; not so much AU/NZ fortunately .

Feminism is a very toxic thing .
In the 1970s it ruined many lives .
I know 2 sisters one born 1957 the other 1967.
The older one lives now alone in a 2 bedroom attached unit and drives a 20 year old car.
She was into the feminism at Uni and never married. Still preaches crap and
Killary for President.

The younger one missed all that and went to Uni in the 1980s which was different to the 1970s. !980s shoulder pads, soft colours =salmon and gray, and share portfolios. The younger one that missed feminism is married, 3 kids with the bach and boat. Much happier.

Feminism is nasty run by nastys for nasty outcomes . .

Boys should really be 40% physical activity and 60% schoolwork. Even if the physical activity is building, metalwork, electronics, farm work; .rather than sport.
Even team projects like Lego building create teamwork, concept, design, and construction.

Feminazi run schools -lots of them – create a lot of damage.

note Boys schools are MADE to accept girls, but never the other way around.
Of course the Education dept of NZ is a toxic cauldron of feminist witches .

Simpleton1
Simpleton1
Reply to  howitis
11 months ago

A “slip-up” ?
Possibly to consider 2 things, and maybe at the same time.

No fore play.
Premature ejaculation.

Some would consider the deed of gratification is done = “shoots”
Some say it is the next step above Sooty’s comment, 😅

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

Hipkins mother is in there somewhere!
Is that why he has always been a wanker!

Viking
11 months ago

The Foreign Affairs Minister says the world needs to face the “elephant in the room” on global emissions, during a climate change meeting in New York this morning.
Winston Peters was up early for the United Nations leaders’ breakfast, co-chaired by New Zealand’s Pacific neighbour Tuvalu, to discuss the existential threats posed by rising sea levels.
New Zealand has been contributing to UN efforts to clarify the legal position of countries’ exclusive economic zones, as their land masses shrink.
Addressing the room this morning, Peters said, “We have to be honest and realistic here.

Well, well, but the boss of Tuvalu believes in science. ha ha.
Climate change has been a growing issue for the UN to grapple with, as member states like Tuvalu, a low-lying island, sink into the ocean.

As well our erstwhile, but badly misinformed, elder statesman went on
(Is his Mate Jim still alive?)

Peters met with the World Food Programme’s executive director, Cindy Hensley, today for an update on the humanitarian situation in Gaza, and the programme’s efforts to get food supplies into the region.
New Zealand has contributed $37.5 million for humanitarian aid in Gaza over the past two years, and it’s likely the government is considering further funding as it weighs up recognising Palestinian statehood.
Peters also met with United Arab Emirates Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister Sheikh Abdullah to discuss developments in the Middle East today

Simpleton1
Simpleton1
Reply to  Viking
11 months ago

Winston Peters & Luxon were very happy to give $NZ millions to United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), in 1948, which with its staff educates the next generation of Palestinians in the cultural realms of being a true mohammadeans.

The other Middle East countries know it is important to pay ongoing pensions to families for their faith in “shaheeds” martyrs doing their missions according to hadith & koran.

Not a crime. Just doing a devout pious duty.
All balanced out in a ‘pay for slay’ as some peoples are considered “mischief”, lower than a pig, dog, or monkey, on the land, on this planet.

Last edited 11 months ago by Simpleton1
FJA
FJA
Reply to  Viking
11 months ago

Around 45% of Pallies consistently support Hamas or other such orgs, but our govt is sending them supplies?

I thought supporting terrorists is a crime?

Viking
Reply to  FJA
11 months ago

Supporting citizens in Palestine, who may or may not be members of Hamas, is not a crime. They are not necessarily terrorists.

First, you would need to identify the people who are acting as terrorists.
You can feed the citizens after you have done that and without the terrorists getting fed.

FJA
FJA
Reply to  Viking
11 months ago

You missed the point. Nearly half of the “good citizens of Palestine (cough)”consistently support terrorist organisations including Hamas. But you think it’s ok to support them when half of them think murdering jews (and everyone else if they had the chance), is just fine and dandy.

70-80% of Germans initially supported the Nazi party (though at its peak only 11% were members). Would you have advocated supporting the starving Germans because 20% of them didn’t support Nazism?

It beggars belief that people have any sympathy for those buggers. There are plenty of people; Tibetans, Nigerian Christians, Uyghurs for starters, facing genuine persecution through no fault of their own, yet people waste their tears on that lot.

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
Reply to  Viking
11 months ago

Charity begins at home.

Winston missed out on meeting Trump in NY as he was unable to reach the venue due to the clogged NYC traffic woes. Winston said there maybe another opportunity.

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

If he had a scheduled meeting it would have happened.

Trump is using this to keep away from foreign leaders.
He likes to control the interactions.
Marcon on the phone begging to be let through. Nah!

Just Winnies usual If and Maybe chatter .
His stories are more whimsical than not .
The guy put adern into power.
that is what we need to remember.

FJA
FJA
Reply to  howitis
11 months ago

It would be good if Winston talked to him. They’d get along like a house on fire. Good for NZ.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  FJA
11 months ago

Whinny should have changed to one of them electric scooter!

Sabre38
Sabre38
Reply to  Viking
11 months ago

So that’s 37.5 million of our tax dollars to fund terrorists ?

FJA
FJA
Reply to  Sabre38
11 months ago

You beat me to it, lol

Starving Artist
Starving Artist
Reply to  Sabre38
11 months ago

Correct, comrade. You may add an extra donation if you wish.

Dougal10
Reply to  Viking
11 months ago

Don’t pollies just love the baubles of office and handing out other peoples money.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Dougal10
11 months ago

Speaking of the baubles of office!
Did you see that someone had bought an old office desk in Wellington op shop at the dump, to reclaim the wood.
Turns out at use to be the mayor’s office desk. I bet that desk could talk it could tell a few stories. Bet it’s no different from Auckland.
Anyway, it turns out it is loaded with a shitload of secret paperwork!
Bet a few people are worried about ghost stories from their past!
But fancy not cleaning it out and leaving it empty, when leaving.
It’s their own bloody problem, own it!

Viking
11 months ago

Trump cleans out the Military.
US defence chief orders rare, urgent meeting of hundreds of generals, admiralshttps://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/360835935/us-defence-chief-abruptly-summons-top-military-commanders-meeting

Hundreds of billions of savings in not being the world’s policeman.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Viking
11 months ago

Everyone turning up. Here’s you brown envelope. Fuck off!

Viking
11 months ago

Tarquin what have you had that doll doing?

TVNZ chair Alastair Carruthers stepping down early;

The Act party has been publishing a regular social media series titled David vs the Media, featuring party leader David Seymour.
One of the party’s social media staff filmed a sometimes awkward interview between Seymour and TVNZ chief correspondent John Campbell earlier this year. It has so far accumulated 104,000 views on YouTube.
Campbell pondered whether his interview was being “weaponised”; Act said it was holding media to account and giving viewers the full picture. TVNZ also ran the full exchange and interview on TVNZ+.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Viking
11 months ago

It’s not been weaponised, it’s telling the truth, camp-bell is self opinionated dickhead!

Tarquin
Reply to  Sooty
11 months ago

Golly, that hurt ! That was even worse than being misgendered.

Tim Burr
11 months ago

Et tu, Brute?

Mcduff
Reply to  Tim Burr
11 months ago

I love a good non sequitur.

Harvey
Reply to  Mcduff
11 months ago

Then you’ve come to the right place.
Enjoy your day. 🙂

Starving Artist
Starving Artist
Reply to  Tim Burr
11 months ago

 “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.” Groucho Marx

Tarquin
Reply to  Tim Burr
11 months ago

Are you trying to make a deodorant ad?

Simpleton1
Simpleton1
Reply to  Editor
11 months ago

So a part, is too good to be true. 😉

Viking
Reply to  Webwrat
11 months ago

If you look hard she wears the same lipstick as williless. That same lipstick doesn’t cover her lips at the end.
Bit of a worry.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Viking
11 months ago

Does look a bit boyish!

Viking
Reply to  Editor
11 months ago

Sorry, sir, but I have to tell you that you already have that digital ID.
Assuming you paid (past tense) tax, had a birth Certificate, applied for a bank account or applied for a passport, they are just waiting to tell you what your number is so that you can use it.

even naaska has one.

howitis
howitis
Reply to  Editor
11 months ago

The NZ gun removal was 2019. They waited a while .
23 years after AU and UK.
Maybe they figured NZers were so passive and sheeplike – and they mostly are- that there was no hurry
but the tyranny was about to start next year (2020) with lockdowns and attack on free speech and the right to question dodgy medical shit that they acted then.

always interesting to note that

Port Arthur gun event in Australia was 28 April 1996
This massively removed guns in AU.

Dunblane gun event in Stirling, Scotland, UK was 13 March 1996
(close to NZ s 15 March, performed, allegedly, by an Australian)
this removed guns in Uk

That such significant events occurred a mere six weeks apart in two commonwealth countries is one hell of a stretch.
testing credibility here.

and of note
Both Australian born alleged perpetrators Martin Bryant and Brenton Tarrant were age 28 at time of their alleged events.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Editor
11 months ago

The muzzie illegal immigrants are a convenient scrape boat!
Going to be an interesting time for Herr Starmer!

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Sooty
11 months ago

Will the be giving out free smart phones to store your Digital ID number?

howitis
howitis
Reply to  Editor
11 months ago

The 2030 goal is intact.

We know liebour will be in the hot seat in 2030.

just not sure about 2026 to 2029 but on current trend they are likely.

the luxon creature has Prime Minister on its CV
it does not give a flying fuck anymore.
That is all the vile creature was after.
Never a career politician and and never even tried at that.
For a B student all along, the traitorous creep has done well for itself.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  howitis
11 months ago

Going to be interesting to see what is required for tourists!

I am a stupid boy
11 months ago

mrs SBs grandma got admitted to hospital last night… they kicked her out at 6am this morning ffs, a 93yr old woman left stranded and to sort her own way back to the retirement village.

wtf is wrong with the cunts, they want public sympathy to get themselves a pay rise but the fuckwits have zero sympathy and compassion for the most vulnerable. scum cunts dont deserve an extra cent, get fucked with your pay rise demands.

Hooker Phil
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
11 months ago

We have heard of Waimate people being kicked out at 1.00 am and 2.00 am in the morning from the Timaru hospital.

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

That’s despicable. The same arseholes would likely have a fit if that happened to them or their parents.

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

Take that to the local MP
there needs to be a reckoning.

there is a Minister for the South Island. Wind him up too.
I’m sure he gets no real action with that portfolio.
give him something to justify his existence.

Simpleton1
Simpleton1
Reply to  Editor
11 months ago

Educated into Insane Blind Ego where the systemic education daily does lobotomies on their pupils & students.

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
Reply to  Simpleton1
11 months ago

Time to reopen the mental asylums to protect other people from those with insane TDS.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  waikatogirl
11 months ago

First one in should be helun clark, for closing the first ones!

rightoverlabour
Reply to  Editor
11 months ago

When are the cops arresting him for hate speech?

nasska
Reply to  Editor
11 months ago

Ever wanted to see a $450 lamb?

Just go & buy the components from the rip-offs at your local Pak n’Sav butchery.

Simpleton1
Simpleton1
Reply to  nasska
11 months ago

I hear the global price of butter reduced by 15% in the past month or so. So what are the supermarket suppliers doing?

A neighbour just reported he sold some lambs for $260.00 at auction this week.

Local trade beef schedule was said to be @ $9.20.

The $NZ in the last day or 2 has eased by around 2 cents, which could add 20cents on the beef schedule,
All is going to add even more pain.

I am no economist, but the crude demand of just lower interest rates, which to me sounds like a knee-jerk, sugar-fix, will not solve all problems as other issues will rise up.

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

The price paid for primary produce is dictated by global markets so to a large extent we have to suck up & accept the increases. That said, retailing done right is hugely profitable & supermarket operators are well skilled at using 10% cost increases to screw 20% profit gains. It’s an absolute racket & since they operate under the banner of free enterprise it’s their protestations of competition that ring in the ears of the consumer rather than those who point out their skulduggery.

I was once up to date with the ways supermarkets separated the gullible from their money through a long time mate who happened to be the 2IC of New World in Palmerston North. He didn’t have an office. He was the fruit & vege manager because he knew his trade & that was where the most spectacular profits were made. !00%+ markup was the goal spread over the range.

The next big earner faced by the shopper was the butchery. Then in order of profitability fish, delicatessen, bakery then the frozen/chilled department. Last were the dry goods where 4% was grudgingly accepted. Wine/beer is a good little earner but product placement is regulated.

But it didn’t stop there. Suppliers discounted heavily off listed wholesale prices to get their products through the door. They paid upfront for shelf space.

Supermarket moguls know their stuff. You think you’re a customer. They regard you as prey.

Simpleton1
Simpleton1
Reply to  nasska
11 months ago

Yes, I know the supermarkets have many tricks of their trade, & how they present themselves, as sponsors, philanthropists with such kindness.

Vegetables, where many should grow at least silver beet, & cabbage, then in the summer lettuce & tomatoes etc..

The hens eggs, well as you would know, many a hen is highly subsidized, bags of wheat, laying mash, so dies in debt, even after it has gone into the pot.

After all the supposed “youth rates” to stack the shelves, particularly during holiday times, but there do seem to be many making the minimum wage, even if not quite the luvely living wage.

But one does have to consider the seasonal swing, shortage of prime livestock, particularly in the schedule where local trade often exceeds global supply from July through to about October.
That is when you see a lot of Aussie product arriving, taking the peak of price from New Zealand farmers.

In my local big supermarket, a hell of lot of frozen Pork, from Spain, Norway, Poland, Pork bellies from USA, rolls of steak from Aussie.

Some years ago I used to wonder how could the supermarket be selling a whole frozen & cut up lamb hogget? carcass that actually seemed cheaper than a ‘killer’ hogget, 2th out in the paddock.
I know, probably from the back of the freezing works freezer, or more likely an overseas contract stuffed up, but it did happen regularly, while the chilled product cuts were much more expensive.

It is just that after that farmers schedule starts to ease then drop, to the peak flow in January onwards.
Supermarkets are more than a tad slow.

Even on the butter, who carries the stocks during the time when the cows are dried off.
Noticing the change of colour when spring milk really starts to flow, then the price should be beaten down.

A home killed beast still goes through some considerable costs, cutting up, certification for hygiene, chilling & freezing by the home kill guys
Then one does have to consider that it is good to get the wife & kids to eat the mountainous lot of sausages & mince, gravy beef etc.., .so as not to encroach on your valuable steak,

As they very quickly eat up all that nice steak, & nor do they really appreciate it. 🤭 ssshhh…

Turn over is a big part of the secret, as the wool board found out to its great cost.
That is so as not lose on the “use by dates” etc.. & wastage, like from brown bananas which is much more critical than the colour of wool.

The Wool Board by buying wool bales, storing them actually by the 2nd to 3rd year had consumed the value of that wool bale.
That is with no refrigaterion, electricity costs, monitoring, health standards cost etc.,– just storage, and finance costs.

From a farmers point of view, one only wants to load the truck & send to a profitable works, which will not go bust until you are paid in full !

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

…..”From a farmers point of view, one only wants to load the truck & send to a profitable works, which will not go bust until you are paid in full”…..

Amen!

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

Do not forget to butter your bread in NZ. 🤔

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
Reply to  Editor
11 months ago

You only did it once though! 🤕 😹

howitis
howitis
Reply to  Editor
11 months ago

oh dear lord

Simpleton1
Simpleton1
Reply to  Editor
11 months ago

Access to comments here:—https://nitter.net/tpvsean/status/1970906903300481248?s=46

rightoverlabour
Reply to  Editor
11 months ago

Absolute crap. Read the scathing comments.

Curious
Reply to  rightoverlabour
11 months ago

Agree

Simpleton1
Simpleton1
Reply to  Editor
11 months ago

The place of bum-guns. assisted by :—-

as well figured, Robinson Crusoe did not linger,
He used his finger.

Would be a problem for some here, as they have claimed they are not amidextrous.

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

Which is why they cut off you eating hand, so you eat and wipe your arse with the same hand. It would pay to carry a spork!

rightoverlabour
Reply to  Editor
11 months ago

Hopefully with the current mob in control some scientifically robust data will emerge. At the moment is a fucking nightmare with strong political bias. As for the fuckers in New Zealand Health and the Prime Idiot, I don’t believe a word they say.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Editor
11 months ago

Did you see ris bloomfield has been at the Scottish covid inquire, giving evidence!
Question is who was he representing?
Himself, the bitch, fizzer,who
And who was paying for him to be there?

Ross12
11 months ago

Time for NN to sack his whole advisory team.

https://t.me/thewhiterosenz/197700/327278

Do you believe NN or the company that makes the product ?

https://t.me/thewhiterosenz/197703/327273

Last edited 11 months ago by Ross12
howitis
howitis
11 months ago

Its tariff time…

———-
President Donald Trump has announced sweeping tariffs on trucks, pharmaceuticals and even kitchen sinks as he tries to reinvigorate America’s manufacturing industries.

In a series of Truth Social posts on Thursday night, Trump announced tariffs ranging from 25 percent to 100 percent, citing ‘unfair practices’ from foreign nations harming local industries.

The first of his announcements related to protecting ‘our Great Heavy Truck Manufacturers from unfair outside competition’, imposing a 25 percent tariff ‘on all ‘Heavy (Big!) Trucks’ made in other parts of the World.’

The trucking announcement was followed up almost immediately with a 50 percent tariff ‘on all Kitchen Cabinets, Bathroom Vanities, and associated products.’

—————————
Announces tariffs on truth social
Now there is a move
so much for gazetting things

AU gets 100% tariff on Pharma exported to USA

From next week, 1 October.

But seriously .US vehicle technology is 40 years behind
They have not, nor after the 2008 bailouts, have any incentive to improve.
This just makes it worse.

Airbus Albo gets to meet Trump in 3 weeks
if it happens!!

I don’t think making better products at a better price is Unfair Practices.

Sabre38
Sabre38
Reply to  howitis
11 months ago

Trumps a legend, meanwhile we have Watties struggling from what the commerce commission proved as dumped Chinese peaches destroying their market, will our week kneed government do anything or just sit by watch another company crash and burn

FJA
FJA
Reply to  Sabre38
11 months ago

Other countries are on to the Chicom’s game:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dm_-bkKrr64

Simpleton1
Simpleton1
Reply to  FJA
11 months ago

Thanks FJA. very interesting, to be aware of just what may flow on, as we may recognize it more in full when things start to more directly happen.
A major issue for NZ trade, to weigh up just how it would effect us.
So what areas in our economy may become “stranded assets” ?

Although I do not understand economies so much, I knew the most of the current Chinese generation had indoctrinated out of them the bad effects of famines, the effects of Maoism, Cultural Revolution, the crass Great Leap forwards, that went no where.
Yes the capitalism glosst effect seemed to work.

I recall for all the so called investment, that the Chinese were not aware of what can go wrong, like for the Western world, the Great Depression of the 1930’s.
Even to have the 1987 global crash, and what went on in NZ.
It is there in some of our family history, and can be easily pulled up, researched if one wants to find it & then think for themselves..

So it seems like it is leading up to a catastrophic collapse in China.
So the main priority will be enough food, and heating for all.
Enough power/energy to keep the basics going for all.
Interesting times, which will take some time to settle out of this coming upheaval.

Will it Australia hard? Those iron ore & coal projects?
Besides the small change crayfish & wine industries? 🤔

Last edited 11 months ago by Simpleton1
nasska
Reply to  FJA
11 months ago

The major buyers of NZ’ s exports (2023) were China ($12.3B), United States ($5.42B), Australia ($5.2B), Japan ($2.62B), and South Korea ($1.37B).

We don’t rock the boat. We bow humbly & accept their shit with gratitude.

Last edited 11 months ago by nasska
I am a stupid boy
11 months ago

i see theres more calls (backed by polling) to split the gentailers into retail or generation only.
can someone please explain to me how thats supposed to make electricity cheaper?
sure being gentailers they may have a bit of an advantage/monopoly but surely its still cheaper to have a gentailer making a profit vs splitting them and having multiple companies making a profit?

and then theres the inconvenient fact that there will just be more collusion and price controls.
imo be careful what you wish for, is there any govt intervention thats actually gone as intended and not made shit more expensive?

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

more smoke screens like nikki’s supermarket nonsense

or concerts
Spend 50 to 70 million taxpayer money on promoting concerts so American and brit performers can take millions OUT of our economy.
todally retarded.
for a bald geezer wot only sold soap and shampoo before it might make sense ; the rest of us, NO

this rubbish takes people focus away from looking at an economy that has shit fundamentals; and new Reserve Wank guvnor (She/It) who takes woke to a new level.

Distractions 101

Last edited 11 months ago by howitis
howitis
howitis
11 months ago

ha ha

finding grief where there is none

———————————————-
Serena Williams has spoken of her discomfort after she spotted a cotton plant in a New York City hotel.

The 43-year-old recorded her walk down the hallway of an undisclosed hotel and spotted a table with a vase of cotton plants.

Williams said in the video, which was posted to her Instagram story: ‘How do we feel about cotton as decoration? Personally, for me, it doesn’t feel great.’

————————————
Serena is a slave to her own arrogance and stupid ideas
Cotton picking slapper.

she pumped up with Steroids post 2009
She pissed around from 2003 to 2009 with chasing silly things instead of concentrating on tennis when she was at peak.

She could have had 30 Women’s singles Major tennis titles but with her pissing around she got 23.
This is less than Margaret Court who got 24 in a time an athletes life was less glamorous and $$$

For this, because she was better and more focused, the media filth went after Margaret Court in their usual nasty way in Serenas final playing days.

Being a keen drug user, Serena has used drugs recently to reduce her weight.

She had a US made TUE- Therapeutic Use Exemption -to use drugs while the establishment went after people like Sharapova to take her out of contention and allow Williams to have a cleaner crack at more titles .

They did all they could and still the drug user came up short
of Margaret Court.

For a person who was admirable in 2002 she went down the stupid US celebrity pathway of self destruction.

as Mr T would say. I pity the fool
and foolish she now is .

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

In other news Seamus O’Connor was dining at a decent Restaurant in Ponsonby road when he was served potato with his Veal

O’Connor broke down in tears at the suffering his ancestors endured 170 years ago
and demanded reparations from the English Chef.

makes as much sense!!!

nasska
Reply to  howitis
11 months ago

Imagine my hurty feelings when I was parked outside the shark & shavings shop in Kaeo eating lunch & realised that five pakeha from the Boyd had been eaten nearby by cannibals in 1809.

My approaches to the local iwi for costs associated with the counselling I subsequently needed went ignored.

howitis
howitis
11 months ago

The NZ poo lice are not very good at finding people in NZ

maybe they need to employ some Aboriginal trackers !!!
Mike Bush might know some but they cant even find their guy !!

—————————————-
Police in Auckland were looking for Esarona Lologa in the weeks before he lit the fatal fire at Loafer’s Lodge, killing five people, unaware he was in Wellington.

Lologa absconded from a mental health facility on 21 April, 2023, three weeks before the fires, and there was a warrant out for his arrest.

The then 48-year-old who was once described by a judge as a “recidivist offender” as he was sentenced for attempting to murder a teenager, had alerts in police’s database flagging mental health and that he was known to carry a knife.

——————————–
This actually is Mass murder as defined internationally
Four or more people
5 were killed here.

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
Reply to  howitis
11 months ago

Years ago I knew Liam who was one of the five trapped by that fire before he succumbed to the smoke. Lovely young guy who didn’t deserve to be murdered by that dangerous, murdering moron.

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

Looks nice, but considering Chinese ethics, maybe better to go to Essex.
Ed, do you own a Chinese vehicle? or bought a Chinese bridge?

Will your social credit score stand up pretty good? so as to get the right quality good services?

Comments are here, that some bring some balance.
https://nitter.net/jacksonhinklle/status/1971198009192087663

At least they have Quality Control, QC so they can sell the dud reinforcing steel to New Zealand for our infrastructure.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/305313/bypass-bridge-steel-found-to-fail-tests

So to travel there by train?

40 of the 48 locomotives made for KiwiRail were contaminated
 the trains were currently being used, despite this problem.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/306419/chinese-train-makers-repeatedly-told-no-asbestos

Ok some of those issues are from about 10 years ago, but;—
Ed, did the Chinese building contractors build your nice house?
Or are you like some of us, It is ok, as we the goods product will more than likely see us out.
Then it is some else’s problem.

Seriously, some of it looks very impressive, & one just needs to have the test of time to see how well built it is.
Even just to appreciate the large size & scope of things, will be a lot to take in.
Over time, one would expect the Chinese ?should? improve.

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

Roger that, before the total forever “over & out” or some disablement.

Last edited 11 months ago by Simpleton1
Ross12
11 months ago

This is an interesting interview –Michael Laws and Tim Groser on what could potentially be a major breakthrough with geothermal energy. I’m no Groser fan but I think he is being reasonably level headed about this project and perhaps a bit conservative with the 10 year time frame.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt0Ibrtvz6Y

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
11 months ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYNBFcQkVzk
Watters: This isn’t revenge, it’s accountability

Fox News host Jesse Watters unpacks what led to the grand jury indictment of former FBI director James Comey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCq48xje0BA
‘Lawyer up, buddy’: Mike Davis slams James Comey

Last edited 11 months ago by waikatogirl
nasska
11 months ago

Never underestimate the wrath of an unwanted former employee.

…..”Former Prime Minister and United Nations Development Programme head Helen Clark says the United Nations is no longer fit for purpose, with the global organisation the weakest it has ever been.”,,,,,,

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/united-nations-not-fit-for-purpose-weakest-it-has-ever-been-says-former-pm-helen-clark/4B2ZXJ4SEVHC5GSNXFQT2I4V5M/

howitis
howitis
Reply to  nasska
11 months ago

haven’t read it
Das horrid

but
is old Klarkenfuhrer surprised when in the last 15 to 20 years the place has been stacked with reprobate failed liebour party NZ politicians

Two fish Shearer

Queer Charles Chauvel

and even queerer whiny bitch chris carter
who should have been a great liebour party MP as he was a practiced liar.

I dont thing alleged homosexual rapist Dazzling Hughes was at the UN but he peed in a few wells

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
Reply to  nasska
11 months ago

Sour grapes from an old bat. 🦇

I agree about the UN but for seriously different politics.

Viking
Reply to  nasska
11 months ago

You would have to clean the house top to bottom and start again.
Cut the funding and the staffing back, and stop doing a lot of crap others should do.

But they won’t until Trump, Putin, Xi and Modi have the say.

This is quite long but Jeremy Sachs tell why.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMyzP1HsIjw

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Viking
11 months ago

The old bat travelling again in five star comfort, when she could zoom!

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Sooty
11 months ago

Who was paying? Us taxpayers I expect, cause she wouldn’t reach into her own pocket.

nasska
11 months ago

I just love studies that confirm my bias. This one as reported at https://hbr.org/2025/09/ai-generated-workslop-is-destroying-productivity ticks the boxes:

#. “Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”

#. “A confusing contradiction is unfolding in companies embracing generative AI tools”

#. “95% of organizations see no measurable return on their investment in these technologies.”

IOW the only output is computer generated word soup which means little & informs less. The utter uselessness of the technology will condemn it.

H/T RCR Bites

Simpleton1
Simpleton1
Reply to  nasska
11 months ago

“workslop”
I need to remember to push that one slang out there. 😁
Gigo, Garbage In, Garbage Out.
Echo-Chambers reaffirming & exciting that “Circle Jerk” that leads to Doom.
For a multiplication of ‘fuck-ups’ one can not beat a computerized system.

Like another imposition of those dammed numerous road-cones.

The overuse of scaffolding, which really needs an inquiry as it can be consideres a work place of danger, with many accidents & deaths too.

Last edited 11 months ago by Simpleton1
Viking
11 months ago

Marriage Guidance counselling..

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1859806358244689

nasska
11 months ago

I’m a bit rusty when it comes to the weird & wonderful ways of religious nuts but maybe ROL could bring me up to speed.

For instance is https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_JcILOXtrsg considered normal at initiations into the various sects?

Simpleton1
Simpleton1
Reply to  Viking
11 months ago

Viking,; “Where are you???”
I guess it is still time for this Viking to go to bed, to complete his yesterday.!!!
——— ————– ——
No Bright-Line test, a form of capital gains tax is to be applied on the special people of Aaoteeaarooaaa.

This will become the pattern, that 1st refusal will seem to take from the government wonks within the Dunning-Kruger departments.

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