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Morning folks. Day 2 of Artimus Pyles new job.
Good to be working again after 7 months of
trying to find work. Have to get used to early
mornings again, but it beats being unemployed.
Will swing by later on to see what’s been happening.
Have a great day.
Tough out there on many. Grandson wanting a job. Very bright but also shy. The last one had 30 applicants.
Remember back in the early 90’s when we would get anything up to 100 or more applicants. That’s after Richardsons (mother of mouth and trousers mouth) disaster budget that caused so many to lose their businessess and jobs and leave for Aussie.
(least we forget how bad the Nats, really were.)
I have tenants who are really struggling. Got to go and see one today and see they can get some help. Winz no longer do face to face and for a person who struggles to use a phone ley alone a compouter etc it seems they don’t matter. Have been going down the same track with another. Can’t even get a return call from the social worker so about to piss someone in their comfy chair right off. Not everyone in this world is a PHD which seems to what they expect.
Good morning, thrilled you have a job Artimus P that is great congratulations well done it is not at all easy to find new employment in these uncertain times.
Good on you AP. Hope it goes well.
Congratulations Artimus. Great news and well done persevering in your quest for employment. 👍
Great to hear AP. Hope it’s going well.
I read somewhere the death toll from the Wuflu is approaching 1 million worldwide. The world population is about 3 billion, so about point 3 of 1%. That is pretty mild when you consider the Greens will probably wipe out that many productive jobs due to their crazy ideologically driven theories in no time and still believe they are the pious ones who are saving us all. Say no to the Ho, ditch the bitch and do anything you can to get rid of the toxic Greens.
Hi Mr T
The world’s population is about 7.5 billion.
So the maths is 1,000,000/7,500,000,000 = 0.013%
RUN FOR THE GODDAMN HILLS lol
That’s what happens when you rely on a dial up Commodore 64.
Tarquin ,Commodore 64 in working condition is worth real BIG money these days ,LOL.
Your Commodore 64 is needed by Hendy of Auckland University to update his holocaust predictions.
No need, apparently the science is settled. Just ask anyone down south how the global warming modelling is going.
Wind gusts rattling our house in the Waikato. Hope all those of you who live on the coasts are okay? Fill a thermos with hot water for a cuppa in case your power supply goes out. Good luck! 😫
8 inchs of Snow down these parts (South Otago)
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ron-paul-question-science-go-gulag
https://electroverse.net/the-arctics-ticking-climate-bomb-little-ice-age-imminent/
So in that case would this make sense:
I see the world death toll is now approaching 1 million people.
I see that the world’s population is about 7.5 billion.
So the maths is 1,000,000/7,500,000,000 = 0.013%
I see that the chances of winning lotto/power ball is 1 in 38,383,800
I see it is stated that most people who fall sick with COVID-19 will experience mild to moderate symptoms and recover without special treatment.
What was brushed aside last week was that people had the ‘deadly disease’ in February 2020 and ‘recovered’ without knowing how deadly it is or that they were temporarily ‘dying’ //
So it has been around and many ‘got the bug’ and the body did what its immune system was supposed to do; and has done with many coronavirus strains before and all the other bugs we pick up in the garden; in hotel rooms, on pubic transport.
I hypothesize that Herr Doktor Clark when Minster of Health knew this scaremongering was exactly that so went to the beach and so on, and shifted house.
Basically David Clark knew it was a scam from the get go.
Then one has to ask the question – why was he sent home to Dunedin in the middle of a ‘100 year crisis’ when it was his direct and main portfolio?
Was it because he called it out.
Theory. Derived from running a ruler over the events.
Remember Grunt Robbers son was dead keen to be leader of liebour and therefore PM.
He had three attempts at it and – on the surface -gave up.
He is working in Machiavellian ways.
He is running the show with ditzy as head girl and prepared speech maker.
The Treaty may or may not be a fraud.
Covid 19 certainly is.
Well, the reaction and discussion, for sure .
We are all taking it up the jacksie; like Robbers son does regularly.
It is mystifying why in those early February videos coming out of Wuhan where rampant numbers of Chinese people appeared healthy walking in the streets then literally dropping dead in front of our eyes from the Wuhan flu. Tragically their collapsed bodies so toxic nobody would attend to them.
How odd that is not how people in the West presented when infected with Covid. They likely had a check up for cold symptoms before being diagnosed and treated.
Was there some over-egging to frighten the world population into capitulating?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/09/right-march-provided-evidence-china-coronavirus-much-like-flu-cdcs-recent-numbers-prove-right/
What’s this Country coming to ? someone closes the fucking harbor bridge and disrupts Auckland for the entire day because it’s a bit windy ,FFS some wanker had better lose their fucking job over this nuttiness..
90 kmph isn’t a reason to fuck up an 100s of thousands of peoples day ,MORONS.
These people obviously have not driven on the Takapau plains on a windy day – or the Himitangi Straight for that matter.
Or the Napier/Taupo at the break in the hills just before you start to descend to the river.
This country could be coming to a real good thing based on the “precautionary” principle. 🙂
All cycle ways should be closed when the wind gets up to 10 km.
No cycles to be on the road when the wind reaches 5 km as it could be dangerous for their health.
I am sure there will be an expert supporting this, once they understand the scientific facts behind this. 🙂
I am really surprised they did not get funding for that, Shane handy Jones is dishing out the $ still so if they are really quick they could still get funding. Its all bugger the tax payer and get the votes.
“Shane handy Jones”
aka “Hand Shandy”
Auckland Harbour Bridge closed.
The CANCEL Culture that Ed posted a thread on yesterday .
Run disastrously by NZTA who hide under Waka Kotahi
Probably need to rename that to:
Wanka Kotahi
Anything Wanka Kotahi (NZTA) touch turns to poo.
Does Phail Twyford run this thing?
Is Phail Twyford a troll who lives under the bridge and disrupts travellers…. food for thought !!
You just watch, evertime a breeze comes up, they will close the bridge!
Covid Cindy hiding important information on Covid case count
So given that the “experts” at the WHO have told us that asymptomatic cases (ie cases where no one knows the person has Covid until tested to a ridiculous degree of sensitivity that a chair leg or a walrus can be a positive) can not transmit the virus isn’t the single most important piece of information for the “most open and transparent government evah!” to tell us – isn’t the proportion of asymptomatic positives missing?
Don’t we need to know what proportion of Covid +ve tests are asymptomatic? I mean no one is dying of Covid (other than people who had terminal conditions anyway). So if no one is dying… and as we all know all the +ve cases detected are asymptomatic so they’re not infectious…. then what the fuck is this all about? No death, no transmission and it’s only criminal incompetence by the authorities in allowing Covid in at the border that is keeping the scam going.
Even Fauci (further down that thread linked above) tells us that asymptomatic cases are not a cause of pandemic spread!
So it seems our government is actually ignoring the science – which means it can only be for political purposes. No wonder Labour’s vote is imploding. The extra month delay in going to the polls is going to cost them big time! No wonder Cindy tried to stick to her Covid-election plan.
It is really looking more and more like a scam DP. This video that Alice linked the other day is also crucial to the exposure of the scam the media are pushing : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06yja21V7xg&ab_channel=PaulWeston
The article by Dr Mike Yeodon linked below the video explains it in much more detail and it needs to be spread around as much as possible.
Of course it is political and not medical.
The whole thing is a scamdemic.
In the last few weeks sites I have followed have moved from questioning it to outright calling it a hoax.
The Irish sites – Savant and Dave Cullen
Even JP Sears is blasting it.
He is placing his vids in a dropbox location now in case they are removed from YT.
There is a war on.
At present it is cold war with sidebar distractions like BLM.
It will heat up.
Think of the Transformers movie 2007.
There is a war around us and people like Dan Andrews and Ardoom are transforming from mild Volkswagens into …..
This is simply another Coronavirus but it has been weaponized against the people.
It is SARS COV 2.
There was a SARS COV 1
It was not that deadly.
Those who question after more than 6 months if this is an ‘over-reaction’ will not learn.
It is a Great Reset.
There is massive manipulation going on with Boris Johnson.
One can but guess at the full story.
He was a holdout but there is huge pressure being brought to bear and with a new born child currently in Italy… who knows what these evil bastards are really doing ??
Look at little cuck boy and beady-eyed, beta male Fruity Farrar.
As I recall he was writing Anti Johnson shit last year.
Treason May was the puppet who was in place to see this through.
Boris disrupted the force.
Farrar is a globalist foot soldier.
The ref to the Fabian society by some is correct.
You can put $500 on it Ardoom was trained up while in London.
Of course the official material is that she served in soup kitchen in NY on the way over the London.
Classic diversion.
Remove all doubts now.
This SARS COV 2 is weaponized against the people- YOU
Not medically because it is weak, but politically.
Think NOW.
I can’t argue with that!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWYJB0OnbF0
UK police force is ‘woke and only allows protests by the chattering classes’
Spiked Editor Brendan O’Neil says the behaviour of the police in the UK has been “staggering and hypocritical” as they’ve bowed down to Black Lives Matter protestors but used extreme force against those protesting the lockdowns.
“We now have a highly politicised police force,” Mr O’Neil told Sky News host Chris Kenny.
Exactly the same as Melbourne and to a much lesser extent here. See a trend emerging?
A tale to warm the cockles of your heart…
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/28/rehoming-pigeon-kereru-returns-to-hatchery-24-years-after-flying-the-coop
(however, if Duckduck thinks she can waltz back home in 24 years-time…she might be out-a-luck)
The Wassilieff Welfare Home for Wayward Wildfowl practises tough love. 🙂
No, no, no
we’ve got 12 mallards having their afternoon snooze on our croquet lawn and the 5 fledglings are paddling on the pond… awaiting their tiffin.
It’s just that in 24 years time I expect our ashes will be circulating somewhere over by the Chathams.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZbT3CG9anw
Don Jr blasts NYT report on Trump’s taxes
Donald Trump Jr fires back on ‘Hiding Biden’, the debate and the Dem’s ongoing smear campaign against his father.
This scuzzy old gézeer walks into a bar. He’s blind, and he has his see and eye dog with him . He sits down and the bar tender asks him what he’d like. He takes off his hat and asks for a favour.
“If you’d allow me to play a song ,on your piano, for a drink, I’d be most grateful”.
The bar tender asks if he’s any good?
He says he’s written many songs but never became famous .
The bar tender gets him a drink, and says, go ahead and play us one of your songs .
He goes to the piano, sits down and starts playing. He’s very good and people in the bar are really enjoying his song. Unknowingly to him, his dog is licking his crotch this whole time.
A lady in the crowd sees this, and she has to tell him. She whispered in the old man’s ear.
“Sir do you know your dogs licking your balls? ”
The old guy enthusiastically says . “Know it.? Lady I wrote it.”
“Daaaad, do you know the piano’s on my fooot”?
“You hum it son, I’ll play it”.
National vows to double Serious Fraud Office’s budget in bid to stamp out corruption
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/national-vows-double-serious-fraud-offices-budget-in-bid-stamp-corruption
“New Zealand’s most successful crime fighting agency will get the resources it needs to deliver on its stated role as the ‘lead law enforcement agency for investigating and prosecuting serious financial crime, including bribery and corruption,” National leader Judith Collins said.
“The SFO has statutory powers that other New Zealand crime fighting agencies do not, including powers to compel the production of information and to require witnesses and suspects to answer any questions put to them without the right to silence. But these powers aren’t being given enough opportunity to be used.”
“Corruption rankings are based largely on perceptions. In New Zealand’s case this is in-part because of the relatively small number of proven cases of serious fraud, bribery and corruption we uncover. In a way it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; if you aren’t searching for something you’re unlikely to find it.”
When are the SFO reporting back on the NZ First Trust investigation??? Why are we being denied this when the result of the investigation was promised before the election?
Would Notinal doubling the SFO budget have meant that they would report back, twice as quick?
Note to SFO, you are late, mate!
You promised your report into NZ1, would be out already.
What’s your excuse?
Given the attack Notional party people did on Adam Feeley as head of the SFO near ten years ago that is pretty fecking hypocritical
Eternal slug C Slater was involved in the $ hitjob.
Collins flew close to the sun on that one.
https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/queenstown-lakes/former-head-sfo-felt-let-down-collins
The greatest corruption right now is in Government departments
MOH being front runner.
Cindy won’t put a stake in the ground whether she supports cannabis so they’ve rolled out old Hulun. (She’s finally had her teeth fixed).
Duncan Garner: Helen Clark has become a face of the ‘vote yes’ to legalising cannabis campaign – and it’s odd
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/09/duncan-garner-helen-clark-has-become-a-face-of-the-vote-yes-to-legalising-cannabis-campaign-and-it-s-odd.html
Enter former Prime Minister Helen Clark, who in many ways has become the most significant face of the ‘yes’ movement – because Jacinda Ardern is too worried being truthful will hurt her.
But Clark’s position is odd, given: one, she was sensible enough to avoid this issue while Prime Minister because she liked her job; and two, given the evidence in favour of cannabis is inconclusive on the upside, but clear on the down side, I can’t for the life of me work out why she’s staking her reputation on this.
If you were so keen on it, why not pass it into law alongside civil unions, anti-smacking and legalised prostitution?
What reputation? She didn’t do anything about it because it was in the two hard basket. Kick it down the road for future Govts to deal with.
Yes I also noticed the front fang upgrade WG. Waste of time..she still has a face like a cats arse.
Filed down the fangs, has she?
Was’nt her airbrushed image on the right to die as well?
Don’t you just wish retired pollies, would just waddle off and die!
Maybe Peter smacked her in the gob?
Especially from that long ago, another person speaking for Jacinda.
Hey Rach..I sent you a friend R yesterday on FB about HS. MJ.
I note that Judith Collins is promising a goal of zero suicides.
Can someone please explain to me the difference between National Party bollox and Labour Party bollox?
I think thats being misinterpreted. They are adopting a scheme called “Zero Suicides”, not promising zero suicides. The idiots in the MSM are misintepreting this. https://zerosuicide.edc.org/ HDPA et al were discussing this last night.
No AtG.
That is N.O.
Over!
Neither can I on Zero Carbon crap or the Great Gun Goulash
Law is either bad law or good law.
Notional supported the Zero Carbon crap but said they disagreed with it and would change it.
Wankers.
Why not
a) oppose it
or
b) negotiate with Liebour to get your amendments in so it is locked and loaded.
either way, …ah… doesnt matter; not voting for those dickeheads
go ahead Nats lovers, downtick away.
Has anyone here ever tried cannabis? What is it like?
Doesn’t appear to have done Paddy Gower a lot of good. He looks like he’s been chasing parked cars and has hallucinations about everyone apart from him being a white supremacist.
I thought Gower was born like that.
Sort of both creepy and cool!
He really does need to make the move to talkback radio. I’m constantly knocking my bottle of chardy over ( I drink outta the bottle, or bladder if on special)) whenever he appears on screen..a frightening site indeed.
Sad.
Yep, they need him on later in the night, after all the kids are in bed!
A friend tells me it makes him sleepy and his eyes go chinese and red as a beetroot. You always get the munchys though so he tells me. He prefers chardonnay now..I’m, I mean he’s just a pisshead.
I thought that you meant it made Paddy go sleepy and chinese, here I was thinking that’s Paddy on a good day!
My grandparents grew and smoked, they also made pot brownies that worked real good, they used to make cannabis poultices and ointment for arthritic knees and hips outta the roots
Dan Andrews caught in lie over the private security in quarantine hotels.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sm0a_kNbk0Y
The ‘dictatorial edicts continues’ in Victoria despite no justification
Sky News host Alan Jones said each chapter of the Victorian fiasco was worse than the previous one
I heard Winston Peters talking to Mike Hosking earlier and he mentioned he is going drop something about the media in a couple of days. Is this an October surprise?
Oh goody, goody! Go on Whinny, you can do it!!!
A parting shot. A Battleship broadside, 3 or 4 turrents of 16″ guns worth!
You might as well go out with a bang!
Nah, Winnie telling Peter Williams he only squashed Cindy’s Ihumatao plans around the Cabinet table. There was no deal. He folded. Winnie still has hopes he will rise like phoenix to remain as “my little pony’s” running mate.
Chlöe Swarbrick blasts ACT deputy leader Brooke van Velden’s comments on COVID-19 recovery as ‘disgusting’
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/09/chloe-swarbrick-blasts-act-deputy-leader-brooke-van-velden-s-comments-on-covid-19-recovery-as-disgusting.html
Van Velden had a crack at Labour’s Covid-19 recovery plan and its debt levels, likening the impact its borrowing would have on future generations to “fiscal child abuse”.
That earned her a sharp, angry rebuke from Swarbrick, who called the remark “disgusting”, before launching into the subject of child – and family – poverty.
Brooke is too clever for Chloe, WG.
I agree, Brook was clever enough to see the flaw in left doctrine. Chloe has that dogma where she believes what she believes is the only way.
Spent about an hour in her company on Sunday at an informal gathering, was very impressed with her and the other ACT candidates present. Interestingly with all the airbrushing of candidates photos that we see, in my old male eyes her candidates photo does not do her personality justice, a very pleasant good looking lady. Will follow her progress with interest.
Pay your suppliers! He won’t be the last one to try this.
Construction company folds with debts near $200k after boss starts afresh
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/122894722/construction-company-folds-with-debts-near-200k-after-boss-starts-afresh
Tradespeople left thousands of dollars out of pocket by a construction company collapse are angry its owner remains in business under another name.
Christchurch builder Jonny Collett put his company, JE Collett Builders Ltd, into liquidation this month owing close to $200,000. Known creditors include Inland Revenue and about 30 businesses – many of which are subcontractors and suppliers.
Collett is now running Collett Construction Ltd, which he formed in May, about the same time he stopped paying his other company’s bills.
The Companies Act says a director cannot run what is known as a phoenix company – one trading in the same business using the same or a similar name as their failed one – before or within five years after the liquidation.
That is just so wrong WG
The term is “cowboy”. Did he take the wage subsidy as well?
Years ago my father managed a timber supply business. This sort of thing happened all the time. He and his competitors tried to solve the issue by jointly refusing to supply guys that tried this trick.
I thought they bought in laws specifically for the construction industry (as well as the Companies Act provisions) to stop this, some years ago.
I dont care too uch about the IRD, but I think the suppliers and contractors should take out a contract on this guy. Supply him some lead.
What is the big surprise?
This has been going on for decades.
Often in the last 20 years to get out of leaky homes debt.
It has never really been addressed.
Anyhow the great and mighty TV3/Media jerks did exactly this in 2013 to get out of debt.
They went into receivership to avoid debt
This included $22 million owed to the IRD
…to you and me Mr/s Taxpayer.
You might like to remind the holier than thou cretin Paddy Gower if he takes a break from his relentless hunt for white supremacists
TV3 was deliberately collapsed to avoid debt incl. to IRD
They continued to operate out to the same premises with the same equipment as they have done for their 4 or so collapses in the last 30 years
There was a building company in South Auckland, I think they were called Patel and Singh. Their by line was “You’ve tried the cowboys now try the Indians” apparently they were quite good.
The Maori Party wants to set up it’s own Maori parliament under the TOW.
🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
Separatism but on who’s dime?
Could you imagine the shambles?
And the fucking cost to the taxpayer?? Oh my Lord…
Tamahairy wants $20 billion++..BILLION annually to fund it.!! Totally fucked in the head, he’s lost the plot… NURSE!!
On top of the billions we give maori already,
If they took it out of what they already get, that might be different!
How about the maori were given a lump sum for the entire year for the entire country and they all had to live on that. Names and addresses supplied of the elite for the man in the street to see were their money went!
Apartheid. Alive and well in New Zealand. An idea first spawnerd in Germany….. Now the Special Stone Age Fucks want to perfect it. And they give South Africans a hard time. Fok Julle, Moer Naaiers.
😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲
NZ Election 2020: Deputy Prime Minister James Shaw ‘not out of the realm of possibility’, says James Shaw
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/09/nz-election-2020-deputy-prime-minister-james-shaw-not-out-of-the-realm-of-possibility-says-james-shaw.html
That is scary.
H1 & H2 will jump on that idea, to stop it. It is also a sign of the Greens getting desperate. The media seem to be giving them a bit more help in recent days.
If you needed confirmation that he’s a complete tosser it just crash landed. I really hope Shane and Winston come up with something that sinks them. I never thought you could use luddite and narcissist in the same sentence but Jimmy Twomums has proven me wrong.
Surely not, Kelvin Davies is all primed ready to represent us, he has been doing a Biden basement resting up for the past month or so.
You can’t demote the Kelvinator you know; he’s a murry. That’d be Waaaaaaacist.
I see horse face is indulging in pork barrel politics.
What a sad sack POS.
I do wish she would stop smiling as it scares the other horses.
For someone with a Covid election and no policy to announce, she’s seems to be pulling a lot our of her arse.
I just hate, the rolling in her fingers before flinging it at us!
Example of real sustainable organic farming. Note the lack of woke white leftists:
https://youtu.be/A3N6BG9owwk
If you haven’t see this it is perhaps the best video Mark Dice has ever done, absolutely brilliant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQZJliU5CuU&ab_channel=MarkDice
And nasska thought he was pretty clever rounding up half a dozen wool blind sheep from the back paddock, with 3 dogs.
https://youtu.be/i60SlIoW6FA
They’re all heading to Maggy’s duck sanctuary. 😉
Farmers don’t worry overly about what breed a dog is as it’s what it can do that counts. That said all heading dogs have a lot of border collie in their genes. As puppies the instinct is there & you can sometimes get an idea of what they’ll turn out like by letting them round up & hold the chooks.
A good eye dog will round up anything including ducks & kids.
When my (city slicker) Border Collie was a pup, she rounded up a dozen golf balls which were spread over the lawn. Using her nose, she pushed them until they were a single group touching each other.
If I go to throw a stick for her she’ll cast off in a circle approx 50m radius, before coming back and crouching/eying me. Pure instinct.
A great song about growing up in the GDR under communism and the importance of radio:
https://youtu.be/z0NfI2NeDHI
Luddites rejoice. Jimmy two mums and his potty mouth co leader want us to go back to the days of horse and carts.
Are they friggen mad. No petrol vehicles after 2030. That’s really going to piss off their down & out supporters who will not be in a position to buy a battery powered vehicle for many years.
What a cluster fuk.
Cunt of an idea. Must’ve been Marama’s.
Jimmy and Marama are not worried about the down and out not having the ability to buy an expensive EV as they will have trains to ride when the communist trains are actually running. Tax is love, so all the workers need to remember is how to pay their taxes to the Greens communist state.
That’s going to put a premium on a good 2nd hand one then!
reckon those two might be doing some extra curicular stuff?
What Judith thinks about Jimmy shaw as deputy PM
NZ Election 2020: Judith Collins ‘not ruling out’ David Seymour as Deputy PM, laughs off James Shaw suggesting he could be Jacinda Ardern’s
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/09/nz-election-2020-judith-collins-not-ruling-out-david-seymour-as-deputy-pm-laughs-off-james-shaw-suggesting-he-could-be-jacinda-ardern-s.html
Collins said in September the prospect of a Labour-Greens Government should “scare the bejesus” out of New Zealanders.
Only 37%of Acts support is coming from National. Where is the other 63% comng from? I assume NZ1st, but they re too small for all of it, so it must be, Drum Roll, Labour! Now thats going to upset a few luvvies…..
How do they work that out rightoverlabour –internal polls ? NZF have gone from 7 to 1-2% but not all of them would go to ACT. I think quite a few would go to NC.
I dont know.I picked it from this quote.
“National is currently bleeding votes to ACT. Analysis from the latest Newshub-Reid Research poll showed 37 percent of ACT’s voters this year have come over from National.”
from the link above
Thanks. That figure makes sense. A number of intelligent National voters have worked out that many of the National party votes are wasted –all they had to do is look at how many list seats National got vs how many Labour got, even though Labour had significantly less votes.
Make no mistake under the Greens NZ won’t be getting any new expressways or new roads built. It’s back to the 1950’s when people didn’t have vehicles, it was bikes, buses, trains or shank’s pony.
NZ Election 2020: Inter-city rail, reducing reliance on cars at centre of Greens’ ‘climate-focused transport package’
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/09/nz-election-2020-inter-city-rail-reducing-reliance-on-cars-at-centre-of-greens-climate-focused-transport-package.html
“Decades of under-investment in rail and public transport has led to an over-reliance on cars to get around. It’s worsening the climate crisis, and it has made getting around our cities, and between them, expensive and difficult,” Shaw said.
Fucking arsholes the lot of them I wish they would get some kind of Green, The one prefaced by Gang. ( and spelt a little differently….)
The problem for Jimmy Shaw is if Labour and the Greens get back in they will have little to no say and they would be too gutless to bring the Government by walking away, so no leverage.
I was not here during cyclone BOLA. Did they close the bridge then? I arrived in 1996, I can’t remember any other closures because of wind. I may be mistaken. But if there have not been many other closures, why now? Or is the temp fix so fucking fragile that the bridge will just collapse if a puff of wind comes along? Looks like the people running this show are fucking idiots.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12368759
Glad I never ‘Have ‘ to cross it. National should be asking lots of curly questions, every day, around this.
As far as I know the Auckland Harbour bridge has never been closed due to weather since it opened? It was not closed by Cyclone Bola which blew in from the north-east, and I don’t remember it being closed by Cyclone Giselle when the Cook Strait ferry, the Wahine floundered on Barrett’s reef at the entrance to Wellington Harbour.
https://my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/cyclone-giselle/
Cyclone Giselle was the worst storm recorded in New Zealand’s history. It hit Cape Reinga early in the morning of 9 April 1968 and reached Wellington on the morning of 10 April. There it met another storm which had driven up the West Coast of the South Island from Antarctica. The storm caused the sinking of the Wahine before blowing out somewhere in the Southern Ocean.
Thanks, so why are they so keen to close it now? It does not make sense as its been open during higher winds before. I suspect somebody is on a power trip.
It’s because the bridge got damaged last week when a truck took out a structural support.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12366303#:~:text=New%20images%20of%20damage%20to,impact%20of%20a%20truck%20crash.&text=The%20bridge%20was%20damaged%20yesterday,the%20bridge's%20weight%2C%20Walker%20said.
Yes that’s right Maggy, but NZTA stopped the bridge traffic completely this morning due to winds of 90km/hr. A summer breeze compared to Cyclone winds. Did the truck damage the bridge structurally so badly we are being mis-led?
Don’t panic, don’t panic!
And the clipboard warriors are running scared!
Did anyone have a look at the truck driver, seems strange that 50 yrs later, we have a truck hit it! Why not before?
Do we have a asian/indian driver sho got his license in a weetbix box!
Correct WG
I remember that blow so well.
270 m/hr winds/ 150 mph
10 April 1968
Never been that high again – y’know, despite climate warming or some such bollocks
It was solid.
https://www.weatherwatch.co.nz/content/has-nz-ever-experienced-cat5-winds
Blew off roofs in Wellington.
In a later year at Uni I was renting one of those up on the Northland hill.
It was 2 level.
It was repaired.
On windy nights we slept downstairs in the lounge as the house shook so much.
Of course windy nights are about 150 a year in Wgtn.
Oddly the biggest wind I have experienced in Auckland was 10 April 2018 – exactly 50 years later and 2 years ago.
Like Wahine storm it came up quick.
I don’t think the harbour bridge was closed but it sure blew.
I was out and coming home at 9pm there was crap blowing in the street.
Winds were 120 to 130 km hr – 70 knots in real currency.
I looked up media all around and all were reporting 40 km/hr – until the next day and the damage was apparent
Oh FS, I’m going to puke.
‘It takes a village’: Jacinda Ardern reveals Clarke’s been packing Neve’s lunchboxes during her campaign
I want the story “Nanny cuts Jacinda’s lunch with Village Idiot”
Co id Cindy trying to say that all is kisses and giggles in her household!
➡️➡️➡️ A statement is to be issued at 5pm today by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) over its investigation into the New Zealand First Foundation.
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/serious-fraud-office-provide-update-investigation-into-nz-first-foundation-5pm
“I’m not part of the foundation, full stop,” he said.
Whinestone dancing on the head of a pin!
Eight people have been arrested on drug-related charges following a two-month investigation into a drug dealing and importation ring operating in the Bay of Plenty and Waikato regions.
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/eight-arrests-over-drug-dealing-ring-operating-across-waikato-and-bay-plenty
A number of search warrants were issued in Rotorua, Tauranga and Paeroa today which is when the arrests were made.
During the searches methamphetamine and MDMA, as well as LSD, cannabis, cash, Bitcoin, a ute and a number of electronic items were also seized.
Those arrested were aged from 28-55 years, and included six women and two men.
They face a total of 42 charges including importing methamphetamine, GBL and MDMA, and possession and distribution of these drugs.
FYI
Findings of Serious Fraud Office probe into NZ First Foundation at 5pm today
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12368919
This was MSMs take on the Brad Parscales (ex Trump campaign manager) incident.
Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale hospitalized after barricading himself in home while armed, threatening self-harm: report.
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1310385000899117057
This is the arresting cops bodycam footage.
Bodycam footage of Brad Parscale has been leaked & it counters every “allegation” made by the fake news.
He had no weapons. He got into an argument with his wife.
Then they had him involuntary committed claiming “he was suicidal”.
https://twitter.com/MichaelCoudrey/status/1310666119313674240
Californias’ politicians have some pretty dumb ideas.
Much like our Green Party of wonks.
Alexei Koseff@akoseff
In a letter, the U.S. EPA administrator tells Newsom that his executive order mandating only new electric car sales in California by 2035 may be illegal and questions the feasibility of the increase demand in electricity “when you can’t even keep the lights on today.”
https://twitter.com/akoseff/status/1310695493031272448
Two NZ First Foundation people have been charged for obtaining by deception. They have been given name suppression. Peters says it exonerates the NZF party. No MP or party member has been implicated.
Maybe it was Whinny’s lawyer!
Of course it doesn’t exonerate NZ First Party.. They set up the dodgy Foundation.
Why do you think Winston has made everything subjudice?
Geddis says it’s very hard for NZ First and the foundation to be separated because the foundation was set up by the party, which then benefited from it.
“So I don’t care what technical legalities you may throw at it, if it walks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, it’s probably a duck.”
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/427198/winston-peters-holds-important-media-conference-as-sfo-releases-nz-first-foundation-investigation-statement
(Personal disclosure: I can recognise a duck at a 100 paces)
So right Maggy. All Peters sycophants phoning Ryan Bridge about how wonderful Peters is. Then an ex NZF candidate phoned to say Peters is dodgy and completely untrustworthy.
Me too lol
Wiakato Girl, are all six taking turns to ring Ryan!
We all thought he was being investigated for the scam set up of the trust and it’s dodgy accounting and operation. Turns out they looked at something else. Are we doing the american thing where the authorities look for a scapegoat for the crooks at the top? Did they even examine the trust set up and operation? Or is the law under which slime bags like Winston First operate so loose that there is no charge to answer?
“They have been given name suppression”
I have no inside knowledge but I can guess who one of them is.
Andrews doin his b.s
https://twitter.com/digitalwarfar3/status/1310114056011833345
Evening all. Thanks to each one of you good folks for
your kind words this morning, that means a lot to me.
Job going well and I think I will fit in ok.
It is tough out there for a lot of people and I hope
things will improve, but the economy has taken a beating
no thanks to Cindy.
Did you remain in the same type of endeavor or branch out into something new!
Something different Sooty. It’s not fancy and
the money isn’t great, but I don’t give a shit.
Just happy to be working again.
Good for you. Hope it works!
Good on you AP
And now for something completely different.
What if WWI never happened?
“Imagine a world where Germany’s missed ‘window of opportunity’ in the 1910s leads to a strategic stalemate and Europe remains as jingoistic and clueless about the horrors of industrial war as it was circa 1913 for another fifty years and then when the World War hits in the 1960s they throw around nukes and chemical weapons and bio-weapons like they’re candy and end up burning Europe to the ground and taking half the world with them besides.”
That’s cheerful O-Sen 😏
You miss two points:
1) The Japanese expansion plans in the Pacific would still have lead to a huge conflict in the 1940s.
2) Although WW1 & WW2 may not have occurred as they did there were no shortage of opportunities for war. GB, France, Germany, Italy & the USA were running out of new lands to assert influence over. The war may have been the UK vs Holland over SA or GB vs Russia in the ME. The causes of vast conflict were there from the dawn of the 20th Century.
It was a disaster seeking a time & venue.
Currently reading about the Japanese invasion of the Philippines. Awful time for those fighting against them.
There wasn’t much good news until the Yanks & the Allies took Bougainville. The Battle of the Coral Sea is often touted as the turning point but there was little to boost morale until the Solomon Islands Campaign kicked off.
Thank christ they did! They saved us! Only for it to be all giving away!
My mothers (ma & step-ma) were in their mid 20s in W(h)anganui when WW2 broke out.
Their instructions if the Japs arrived on Castlecliff Beach were to start walking up the Parapara. (SH4)…
(What they were meant to do when they reached Raetihi was never explained ).
Apart from a stint in the Pacific my old man saw out WW2 as a Morse operator on Kaiti Hill, probably not far from Chez Wassilieff. Six weeks on & one off was the schedule.
From memory, after the war, documentation showed that a Jap submarine had entered Gisborne Harbour, found bugger all to interest them & left. I imagine that would have been an impressive bit of seamanship.
They’re not the only ones to find bugger all of interest in that place.
Come and visit…
GDC have cleaned up the top of the hill… and have put in a new track up the ridge the Army men trudged to the lookout posts… But they demolished the Morse Operator bunker last year when they pulled the Astronomical observatory down)
The Nearby Gun emplacement bunker is still there.
My father-in-law was in New Guinea during the Pacific War in the JIA infantry. He never saw action (I doubt he would have survived contact with the Allies). He did have his ship torpedoed under him at one stage, and caught malaria later on.
He told me that the supply lines were stretched to their maximum and that logistics were terrible. His unit just about starved. Imagine the condition of any prisoners!
Maggie have you got relies buried in Aramaho cemetery?
Grief.. Yes… Tribes of them…. Mcnicol/ Macdonald/ McCutcheon/ McLeod
Hence my desire to be scattered to the 4 winds…..
no desire to have the Whanganui River mists dampening my rotting flesh.
Whats the Macdonald link?
I’m a Macdonald…. So Father, Mother, Brother and paternal Grandmother …all Macdonald residents of Aramoho Cemetry.
Maternal Grandparents – McNicol … both in Aramoho Cemetry
Maternal Aunts & Uncles & Cousins ….McLeod & McCutcheon… also in Aramoho Cemetry.
Some rellies have been cast to the winds… and one Uncle has had his ashes dumped partially in Whanganui River and partially in the parking area of Aramoho Pub.
And for her latest act of cultural appropriation, Cindy talks to Indians with a dot on her forehead. She’s trying to out-Justin Justin.
I’d love to see her in the Papua New Guinea outback with a bone through her nose.
I wanted to make a difference in the world, says Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern
PNG she would stick it thru the ears!
How come she doesn’t have a grassskirt and a set of poi’s going on the maree!
Should shove a KFC thigh bone through her nose to express solidarity with South Auckland. 🙂
Got to do bedder than Aunty Helun. I bet Cindy will get the arse quicker that Helun did. The UN had no need for a toxic female leader.
What’s happened to the blog time Ed? I bloody near missed dindins tonight. 🙂
I though that ‘dot’ was for married women?
Reminds me of:
Rajeev is a wife beater. He punches his wife in the head every single night at eight o’clock, on the dot.
Unhappy customers
Spark, 2degrees, Vodafone band together online after te reo Māori criticism from Twitter user
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/09/spark-2degrees-vodafone-band-together-online-after-te-reo-m-ori-criticism-from-twitter-user.html
“I don’t want it on my phone. Change it now, or else I’ll switch providers.”
When a Twitter user asked if New Zealand could “get back to normal” now Māori Language Week has finished, Spark said Te Reo is already “a normal part of our country”.
“We see this as a celebration of culture, a chance for education and acceptance of both those in our community and inside our workplace.”
“We will continue to encourage and give tools to those who wish to expand their knowledge and cultural understanding.”
Yep and remove it from people that don’t want it!
Just as well I have a dumb phone and 3ven that is cleverer than those dunmb woke Karen and Ken!
The slimy bastards must be getting short of customers to come up with the woke shit.
This woke shit will eventually backfire. Language is a very sensitive thing. Ask anybody who witnessed ther 1976 Soweto riots. The straw that broke the camels back was language……
How postal voting really works. Must watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV7oDl8yDZk&ab_channel=ProjectVeritas
Aussies at it again.
https://www.rebelnews.com/pastor_arrested_for_exercising_his_rights_in_sydney?utm_campaign=ay_ftfau_aus_9_28_20&utm_medium=email&utm_source=therebel
Cindy tried to throw Judith Collins under the bus while being interviewed about the SFO reporting on NZF. She referred to Judith losing her job after being investigated by the SFO.
TVNZ apologised for showing Cindy’s statement as they had to retract as Cindy got the story wrong. Lol
Has Cindy apologised?
Covid Cindy, Plucking shit out of her arse again!
Heard something, got it wrong and had to retract!
Fucking bitch. I just watched it. Doesn’t matter if she’s caught out; the damage is done, and she knows it. And that smile while she’s stabbing. She makes me ill.
Yes, I said to hubby Cindy got that knife right into Judith’s back. 😈
It’s Labour that is being currently investigated by SFO.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/421114/serious-fraud-office-to-investigate-2017-labour-party-donations
The outcome to that is preordained. If the pristine reputation of Labour is sullied in any way the SFO will cease to exist.
The pathetic half hearted prosecutions over the Karangahake child molestations have set the precedent.
And didn’t horse face back pedal when she was asked what she meant? All of a sudden the grimace she does when she’s knows she’s been outed lying came out. Where’s Clarke?
S C ,Which one ?
Wow, naughty yachties jailed before deportation flight. Sheltering from dangerous seas not a valid defense. What happens to their yacht?
German yachties jailed until flight on Thursday after being refused entry into NZ
Three German yachties who were refused entry to this country after arriving in the Bay of Islands have been jailed until they board a flight home on Thursday.
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/german-yachties-jailed-until-flight-thursday-after-being-refused-entry-into-nz
Fucken stupid. They have been on a yacht miles from everyone so they are least likey in the world to have covid. Fuck the place is run by morons. But deportees from Australia gon on an 8 hour walk about. Why was this guy deported? If was high risk, why wasn’t he locked up? Bt 3 sailers get treated like crimnals. Do we need deaths beforewe see what a bitch Ardrene and her stasi are? Cunts, the lot of them.
You get what I was saying then. 👍
If they had a labour membership card the judge would have been more accommodating! 🤫
NZ Election 2020: ACT announces infrastructure policy
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/09/nz-election-2020-act-announces-infrastructure-policy.html
ACT says it would allow central and regional governments to establish 30-year infrastructure partnerships in order to streamline projects if elected.
Three-decade infrastructure partnerships would “devolve revenue and responsibility to regional governments and the private sector, while strengthening accountability and oversight from central government,” he says.
“In exchange for receiving infrastructure funding, regional governments will be required to meet high standards. Central government would monitor outcomes and future funding would be tied to performance against expectations.”
Seymour says the ACT policy would allow infrastructure decisions to be made based on economic need and getting the “biggest bang for the infrastructure buck”, while preventing infrastructure being used as “vote buying”.
time test
testing 1,2 3…
Thanks Ed.
I was never any good with tests.