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Robbers dressed in burkas raid jewellery armed with machetes – Daily Mail
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prIt8dxqvdI&fbclid=IwAR0G8FZe32ULngmopJawPodbzO1g2S_8YXbFFaekhRoLSqrBZUaULZyUXfo&app=desktop
I doubt if the woman who lied will be jailed. This where National should work with Little on the Innocence Project starting with Peter Ellis.
Quashed conviction brings freedom and end to inmate’s nine months of excruciating uncertainty
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/113079322/quashed-conviction-brings-freedom-and-end-to-inmates-nine-months-of-excruciating-uncertainty
Unfortunately Chuck while Collins wears a skirt that will never happen. Its justice a lawyers way not natural and proper justice. They are hitched to the adversarial mindset in a court rather than one of establishing the truth.
Coronial inquiries are the opposite. They are about establishing the truth.
So unless there is a body the truth is in the eyes of the lawyers and the Judge.
Just as police prosecutors should be independent of the Police.
And they shouldn’t be Prime Ministers. Wrong skillset.
Why does it take six months to wring a decision out of the Court of Appeal? Someone needs to put a rocket up those overpaid slugs.
(Figuratively speaking, of course)
The silver lining to that dark cloud is that young man might have learned to value his family more.
Allegations of “hacks” are very serious. Ask Donald Trump. And Deputy Prime Minister, Winston Peters, went a step further, claiming he knew exactly what happened and it was definitely illegal.
He didn’t. And it wasn’t.
Hours later the police contradicted Peters’ by stating Nationals actions were “not unlawful”. The Treasury and Peters’ should be deeply embarrassed and apologetic.
But, they won’t and aren’t.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/113143428/politicians-and-technology-are-a-bad-mix
Today’s fun about your family.
One person in 10 is mistaken about the identity of their father, genetic tests for hereditary illnesses are revealing, according to a UK National Health Service (NHS) chief.
The era of genomic medicine is allowing doctors to screen rising numbers for preventative action against diseases such as cancer and Alzheimer’s. About 220,000 such tests are carried out by the NHS in England and Scotland each year.
But Ian Cumming, head of Health Education England, the NHS training body, said hospitals were being left in an ethical quandary as they were uncovering some awkward family secrets.
It is currently estimated that around 4 per cent of the population are unaware the man they call their father is not their true biological relative. Cumming told the Hay Festival that within a decade everyone who wanted to be genome tested could be.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/well-good/teach-me/113182728/one-person-in-10-is-mistaken-about-identity-of-their-father-reveals-uk-health-chief
25% of you out there apparently had mothers that had a bit on the quiet.
😆 😆
Now what about your kids then?
😆 😆
And should you be reimbursed if you have been duped?
Of course you will. Somehow these lefties will work out how to blame the system and claim compensation from the taxpayer. You breached my privacy, therefore you pay.
What was it that woman said yesterday that 28$ a week over 11 years came to 16k plus. What is a life time of childcare worth?
This much apparently.
https://www.google.com/search?q=how+much+does+it+cost+to+raise+a+child+nz&oq=how+much+does+it+cost+to+raise+a&aqs=chrome.2.69i57j0l5.14567j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Been there, done that…. I wasn’t named on the birth certificate, and payed well more than I should have as a poor struggling apprentice direct to the mother… blah blah long story short 2 years later DNA test stated otherwise. Disputes tribunal ruled in my favor but then she only wanted to pay it back at $5 a week or something stupid.
I’ve heard (but can’t substantiate) that if child support is payed direct to IRD/WINZ its a nightmare to try recoup any monies out of them, quite the opposite of their demands of prompt payment
That’s the government for you. They demand quick payment but will dither when it comes to paying out. IRD dawdled for around two years over the $18k they owed me in taxes. It’s a pity I couldn’t charge them the same punitive interest they charge people who are late paying their taxes.
Ha, well the woman should actually know but doesn’t tell. Its the guy who gets stung. Mind you I’m told it helps fertility if she has sex with 2 fella’s when wanting to get pregnant.
That makes the process a bit luck of the healthiest sneakiest sperm.
Good case for DNA recording of everyone.
Imagine the inheritance claims that might come from this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Daughters_of_Eve
Bryan Sykes found more fidelity than he expected, I can’t remember if it was in this or Adam’s Curse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%27s_Curse
Another male myth? Anything that makes sex more available to men, gets legs lol.
I look nothing like my dad’s side of the family….hmmm.
Absolutely no chance of dispute of paternity about my father. Too many similarities.
Genetically children are more like their father:
http://time.com/3729660/science-genetics-mutations-similar-fathers/
Is a giraffe different to a cow in Africa? Are we sentimental about giraffes because they are exotic and we usually only see them in zoos unless we go overseas?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/113179166/hunters-trademe-listing-for-giraffe-rugs-withdrawn-from-site
I am not a fan but would be hypocritical as I eat meat. Is it a moral dilemma?
No, I don’t see it as a moral dilemma. He hasn’t hunted anything endangered and it is his property to dispose of as he chooses. Just as it is somebody else’s right to respond with their view on the matter and his to mock them.
Personally, I’d love a giraffe rug if I had the room for it.
Edit: Growing up in Africa, I don’t remember thinking of a Giraffe as a cow. It was on the other side of the “acceptable to eat” line. But, once you start travelling and see what they do with dogs in Asia, Capibara in South America, etc. you realise that different people see it differently. The only way a person from a Westernised country would look on it funny is because they’ve not seen anything outside the way they’ve been brought up, no?
Did you have the same view of the lions being slaughtered that I posted about the other day?
I don’t recall seeing that – how long ago was it so I can go hunt for the story?
https://allthatsinteresting.com/south-africa-lion-slaughter
Thanks, from that perspective – lions are listed as vulnerable and what they’re doing to those animals is not humane (Cages too small to stand up in, etc.)
If they are using a lion like a farm animal and treating them humanely, not a worry.
Now that is just disgusting. Big difference to a legitimate hunt. I hate to think of the fact there are animals being treated like that.
Agree Pascal. I’ve no desire to shoot a giraffe, but I understand the controlled hunting of them and other big game makes huge money and actually contributes to wildlife parks, fencing, paying rangers’ salaries etc.
Looks like a free auction site needs to be set up to sell things like this. A bit like ysb.
Facebook or neighbourly go for it.
Beware folks, and get in quick, the Amazon tax cometh. Soon!
The perfect tax, it will get you when you buy and it will get you when you pay the administration costs that far exceed the tax collected.
Yes it should only be on a reasonable sum eg $100
Anything under that and it will cost more to collect.
But the COLwould think that was great
It’s perfect now.
The change is to allow rip-off merchants to rip buyers off even more.
I can only conclude that Clothing retailers vote communist.
It will be interesting to see how many of them bother to comply.
When Aus implemented their Amazon tax, Amazon only allowed Australians to buy from the Aussie version; thus killing the wide range of products. I don’t know if that’s changed or not.
I can see many retailers either ignoring the mandate or simply culling the ability for NZers to buy. It might be wise to invest in a suitable VPN.
There has not been much on the ex gang guy who got Home Detention and left off his fines for punching a noise control office many times.
Where is the justice in that. Punishment and Deterrent.
That is just a comedy! Him and his mates will be laughing all the way to the pub.
Was he a seller of lawnmowers to the right people?
“Reading between the lines of course”
I’ve met a noise control officer.
A bit like an old-style traffic cop but without the personality.
Probably why there has been so little made of this incident, if the case had’ve gone before a jury the ex-gang member would most likely have been carried out of court shoulder high.
Ours used to be noise control and dog ranger, he had people shitting on his lawn, keying vehicles, threats, no anonymity in a small town.
Ain’t no noise control bastards round my place lol, but there are meter maids in town, and i HATE meter maids! They buzz around like angry hornets.
All my encounters with noise control have been via some security company that was always unreliable at controlling noise… never seen a specific noise control officer myself
You really have missed out: Think Richard Briers playing the conductor from On the Busses.
Sorry, really can’t think of a modern equivalent.
Re the heading photo
I once saw a great video comparing the women of India and Pakistan, the Indian women were all beautiful, in dresses and saris, the Pakistani women were all dressed up as letter boxes.
It was quite funny back then, but now its really serious.
The Indian women were of course just asking to be raped, but I saw a school uniform picture where the skirts were what we called midis in the day. I hope that is just for winter uniforms.
A laugh for the morning. What not to wear on your wedding day. Hold your applause for dress #1!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a-FVa31NFk
Why? I exclaimed lol.
The English girl is hilarious! I’ve never seen anything so hideous- what is seen cannot be unseen
While sitting with all those who had come to celebrate the marriage, imagine how proud her grandparents were of her on her wedding day!
So an Indian bloke would at least know what his wife to be looks like! The Pakistani men just hope for the best lol. “I’ll take number three- I can’t tell the f*ckin difference!”
They will have been watching their future bride from a child, before they were cloaked, I imagine.
One day I got hired to be a warehouse greeter. I was doing a fine job until a women with her two kids came in.
This women was very ugly, fat, and disgusting. She kept yelling at her two kids, swearing all over the place.
I walked up to her and said, “excuse me mam, what lovely kids you have, are they twins?”
She swore at me and said, “what are you fucking retarded, anyone with eyes can tell that they aren’t twins, one’s 7 and the other is 9!”
I though about this for some seconds and responded, “I didn’t think they looked like twins but I just couldn’t believe someone would want to sleep with you twice.
“That was my first and last day being a Warehouse greeter.
President Trump says he didn’t know Meghan was nasty
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/05/trump-calls-meghan-markle-nasty-for-criticizing-him-then-expresses-disappointment-she-wont-meet-with-him/
It was certainly a rude and silly thing to say about a democratically elected leader. Meghan will not be meeting Trump during his visit to the UK next week.
Ah but her majesty would approve. Put the newcomer in her place. Cannot have these darkies getting above themselves. The Duke cannot wait to meet Trump, minds think alike etc
Would she if she wasn’t on maternity leave though, it is hardly politic to haul her out for that and not for some other state head?
To be fair she was just an actress and not a politician like Cindy who referred to President Trump as a professional asrehole. That comment could cost NZ dearly.
And would she still say it now, even if it was her opinion.
By now Meghan will have been schooled in royal protocol and won’t say a word. I wouldn’t be surprised to hear one of her American friends make a statement in her defense. There is more than one way to skin a cat.
Didn’t Cindy also refer to Trump as “orange”?
Cindy is so wrapped up in her warm socialist ideologue blanky it gives her carte blanche to act impolitely to those on the right side of politics. Wasting kindness on leaders of the world she disapproves of is hilarious in her tiny mind. More unintended consequences Cindy?
This article ended up being a lot different than what I expected.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/lifestyle/2019/06/have-new-zealand-s-criminals-triggered-a-worldwide-fashion-trend.html
Oh I love it when future crims tattoo the face. Perfect ID, can’t hide now sunshine!
Now that is how to be an aspirational PM.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12234954
“Taylor planned to study law and economics, with hopes of returning to New Zealand after study to serve in Parliament.
He dreamed of one day taking up the role as New Zealand Prime Minister.”
Excellent results and I wish him well in his future pursuits. I do, however, cringe at this new trend of ‘professional’ politicians going straight from university into parliament without any real world experience. With Cindy and Robbo we see the pitfalls of this employment path. John Key was a highly successful leader and PM after years working in a tough business/banking environment, giving him a better world perspective and taught him life skills he could bring to his leadership.
Hopefully by the time he is of age, NZ (like Canada and France) will have moved on from electing low IQ MPs like those in the CoL, otherwise he has no chance.
Petrol Tax Passed Under Urgency:
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12236232
The CoL give with one hand and take more with a new tax. Sorry, levy. Or has Cindy given up pretending she is not raising taxes?
I wonder when she’ll pretend that she doesn’t lie constantly.
Should a bride’s father tell his future son-in-law he is marrying a diagnosed sociopath?
https://www.nzherald.co.nz//lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=12236524&ref=clavis
The marriage is likely doomed and be hideous for the poor guy. Better to warn him now than marry a woman who cannot feel love?
Destiny church members linked to migrant employment scam.
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/png-workers-connected-with-destiny-church-worked-for-free-on-te-mata-winery/ar-AAC3zhM?li=BBSVtLJ
Brought workers over from PNG
Vineyard pays but money not passed on to workers
Your link did not work. It brings up the above brides father.
Is that like Matt McCarten and the labour imports trying to screw the scrum at the last election?
Interns, now you are just being mean.
The COL is holding back our roads.
Eg The Tauranga City council want to 4 lane 15th avenue.
But as its also a major road, they want to et a government subsidy.
But they can only get that if they put in bus lanes.
So the road will still only be 2 lanes!
In the meantime their huge new yellow buses drive round with tinted windows with no one in them.
Its a state highway and NZTA took that over a couple of years ago with the promise to rebuild it into 4 lanes.
Promises or perhaps contracts that now mean nothing.
Yes, but why did a girl from the TCC tell me they were trying to get govt funding for the 4 laning?
If its a State Highway shouldn’t NZTA be solely responsible
Is the duck pushbiking around taranaki today as he wished?
500 guns seized on top of the 500 odd that have been handed in, so I wonder how all of those seizures went? There were only a few seizures reported.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12236656
I see the first image in the article where the acting Superintendent displays to media etc the type of “guns” that are being targeted. That weapon displayed is a long way away from a bolt action .22 with a tube magazine. This matter was not handled in an open and transparent manner.
“Nash said that 500 firearms had been seized during law enforcement incidents, including police responding to family harm callouts and finding firearms in the home.
Weapons have also been confiscated during vehicle stops during high-profile or significant offending and during raids on organised crime and gang figures.”
I wonder if this figure includes the guns seized during the controversial ‘police chats’ mentioned in some of the blog sites/youtube a few weeks back…?
Will those guns seized from previously legal law abiding licensed owners be reimbursed through the buy back scheme or will there be a sneaky clause for any firearms “seized” during police operations…?
Probably includes the ones they bought back.
They say that developers have cut down one of the world’s oldest Norfolk Pine specimens, but surely it was introduced to NZ?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/112898870/the-aotearoa-chainsaw-massacre
Yeah but some murri buried her placenta under it so now it becomes a taonga and cannot be touched. Opps too late.
New minimum rate for Australia.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2280507628882160
That is really madness,paying checkout workers more than productive factory workers in China or Singapore, or the USA or Canada
Yes Verity, I do
https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/life/113117403/why-does-the-right-keep-questioning-my-virtue
At least she admits she’s a “Leftie”.
Johnson is delusional in her column. For example, using Julie Ann Genter’s cycling myth to hospital. This was nothing but virtual signalling since a.) it was stage managed and b.) she was using an e-bike yet people like Johnson keep making it out to be something it wasn’t.
In a comment on her post, Genter said that her bike was an e-bike, meaning it was an electric-powered bicycle. She also noted that the trip to the hospital was “mostly downhill,” and that she “should have cycled more” in prior weeks to get the labor[sic] going.
More of the left trying to reframe the debate.
Miniature donkey makes and ass of itself in huge stink
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/113165215/donkey-makes-ass-of-itself-after-falling-in-septic-tank-in-australia
Oooh yuck!
Reminded me of this, which of course is just a tale as the SPCA wouldn’t be too keen on animals being buried alive, but a good story never the less.
One day a farmer’s donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do.
Finally, he decided the animal was old, and the well needed to be covered up anyway; it just wasn’t worth it to retrieve the donkey.
He invited all his neighbors to come over and help him. They all grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well. At first, the donkey realized what was happening and cried horribly. Then, to everyone’s amazement he quieted down.
A few shovel loads later, the farmer finally looked down the well. He was astonished at what he saw. With each shovel of dirt that hit his back, the donkey was doing something amazing. He would shake it off and take a step up.
As the farmer’s neighbors continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal, he would shake it off and take a step up.
Pretty soon, everyone was amazed as the donkey stepped up over the edge of the well and happily trotted off!
Life is going to shovel dirt on you, all kinds of dirt.
The trick to getting out of the well is to shake it off and take a step up.
Each of our troubles is a steppingstone.
We can get out of the deepest wells just by not stopping, never giving up!
Shake it off and take a step up.
Bloody great story! Thanks for that.
Strange how the new gun laws aren’t protecting us from criminals or that these criminals don’t care about keeping to the legal firearm laws.
Good ol’ virtue signalling government (& opposition).
Women forced to ground at gunpoint in Hamilton bar robbery
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/113188612/women-forced-to-ground-at-gunpoint-in-hamilton-bar-robbery
But 5he gangs have still got their guns!
And will stock up some more for a rainy day, worth more now that they are a limited supply?
I wonder if these are the areas that voted for Billary?
Stupidity reigns supreme at the All Hallows, Stuartholme, Loreto College and Stuartholme Catholic schools.
Top schools including All Hallows, Stuartholme, Loreto College and Stuartholme School are leading a push towards a feminist interpretation of the Christian Bible.
(They’re pushing for “gender-neutral” terms).
I guess if you’re to torture the language enough, it will yield to the stupid.
Apart from the fact that English grammar doesn’t allow for it, the original languages don’t either. El was the King or Father of the Canaanite Gods. YHWH eventually became synonymous with El. The non-Israelite Canaanites eventually did the same with Baal.
(The Israelites were Canaanites).
Apparently these schools can charge $40k per year. There must be a lot of rich gullible parents around that swallow that bile. But then, feminism was always the pursuit of the rich and idle.
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/world/catholic-schoolgirls-are-being-taught-that-god-is-gender-neutral-and-are-banned-from-using-the-words-lord-father-and-son-in-prayers/ar-AACfIYg?ocid=spartandhp
find some time to look at this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igbEee4swdc&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR2Bqf0FTjuI1nyBwwIPdaogGQpntxF-g23CKNMj7MgxlivPss1v7jzzOpU&app=desktop
Quality policing.
That poor guy. And he’ll do almost all of his sentence because he refuses to accept responsibility for the murders (rightly so if he’s innocent, which I believe he is) much like David Tamihere (another quality police investigation/prosecution….)
It’s always instructional to check out https://malesurvivor.nz/category/news/ from time to time & find out what the Catholic boy botherers have been caught out on recently. Today’s offerings were largely historical……a paedophile priest defrocked, savage beatings from a nun & news that the Catholic Church in Japan is preparing to investigate allegations of sexual abuse against minors by its priests.
A quiet May for the ecclesiastical sickos.
Watching a movie on Netflix called “The Circle”. The troubling agenda and hazards that the new generational insistence everyone post their every thought and life on the internet. Collection and storage of personal information and improving everyone. Full of leftie speak “society and the individual are the same”. Very group think. Tom Hanks and Emma Watson.
Reminds me of the religion Scientology.
I’ve long wondered where the compunction people have for sharing their lives, thoughts & toilet habits openly on social media will end up. Already there are instances of job applicants being forced by interviewers to give access to their Facebook & Twitter pages.
If you forced the average person to reveal their inner thoughts & actions they would be horrified & rebel in the streets. Give the same idiots a smartphone & they’ll do it willingly.
On the good side I read this morning where the US immigration are insisting on all applicants give their social media history and log in details, their cell phone numbers and history. All this to be given when they apply to enter the US.
All true but are Immigration or prospective employers getting the info they want or the (fake) info you want them to have?
http://findmyfbid.in/blog/make-fake-facebook-account-1-minute-without-email-mobile/
Now, I’m fairly sure this coot has oversimplified the process & the method has probably been blocked by Facebook. Point is that as fast as they invent new rules people will find ways around them. Only the honest citizen will pay the price in time, lost privacy & inconvenience
I enjoyed that in a “oh that is eerily similar to what is already happening” way.
How bloody ridiculous, they are opening a new campus in Tauranga, where there is already housing crisis and nowhere for students to live.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2019/06/desperate-times-desperate-tenants-in-tauranga-housing-shortfall.html
But they have lots of new empty buses, so I’m told!
And they built it in the middle of down town where there are narrow streets and no parking.
The Irish are not as thick as you think. Did you know the toilet seat was an Irish invention?
The English put the hole in it but the seat was invented by the Irish!
Did the irish invent it to sit on while applying the makeup?
…and one more makes 100 ?