The War in Ukraine (called the Special Military Operation or SMO by the Russians) began in February 2022 and is now nearing its fourth year. The Western narrative seen in outlets like the New York Times, the Economist and the Financial Times, is that the war is a stalemate or a war of attrition with the two sides slugging it out on a fixed front and no one making any steady progress toward their goals. Don’t believe it. It’s true that there have not been major advances along the line of contact, but that’s because the Russians have a unique way of war – slow, methodical, but in the end, lethal. The Russians might spend an entire year capturing every village around a major city before finally going in for the kill. At that point, the Ukrainians are surrounded with no way to escape, no way to resupply, and no way to receive reinforcements. Their choice is to surrender or die. Due to the corrupt incompetence of the Ukrainian leadership and the indifference to life of the warmongering classes in Washington and London, the Ukrainians usually fight to the death. That’s real attrition. Using these means, the Russians have gradually taken Mariupol, Bakhmut, Avdiivka, and are now on the verge of taking Pokrovsk. That is not a particularly large city, but it’s a critical logistics hub. It’s the place where highways, railroads and rivers converge and then fan out to the entire Donbas. When you control Pokrovsk, you control six other major cities still occupied by the Armed Forces of Ukraine because their supplies come via Pokrovsk. We’re witnessing the beginning of the end of Ukrainian resistance in the entire Donbas. After that, the Russians will move to occupy all of the territory east of the Dnipro River. This will likely lead to the fall of the corrupt military dictator Zelensky. For Ukraine, the end is near.
“For Ukraine, the end is near.” – The Sooner the Better,
Ukraine will survive, it is Zelensky and his corrupt clique I want to see the end of and as you say the sooner the better.
Yes Alice – I see it as such a waste of young life.
I would say that young life is probably dead by now.
Middle age life is depleting fast!
Don’t you just love conscription!
yea but both russia and ukraine have been “on the verge of winning” for a long time now with little advance. both sides spruikers are full of fucking shit.
With respect Sir, you have just shown you know little of the situation.
The Europeans want to weaken Russia by making them fight a protracted war.
They are fighting a territorial war on the ground, and an economic war of sanctions. They have declared they will fight to the last Ukrainian to defend Ukraine’s right to join NATO.
The Russians want to keep challengers from their borders and to protect ethnic Russians from persecution in Ukraine. They are fighting a war of attrition. They don’t want territory, they have plenty of their own. Neither do they want to conquer all of Ukraine. They are only interested in the eastern bits that are populated by ethnic Russians.
Economic sanctions imposed on Russia have hiked power prices across Europe. BRICS nations have implemented a financial payments system vastly superior to SWIFT. Russias economy is growing at a rate the west can only wish for. Russia is making steady progress to advance the contact line that minimises civilian casualties and gives them a personnel kill-rate of around 1:35
Putin has political challengers, but enjoys solid support. The great defenders of democracy – Starmer, Merz, & Macron are unlikely to survive another election, and Ukraine won’t hold another election until the war is over – when the last Ukrainian is too dead to vote.
Frustrated that their proxy war with Russia has been a dud, US is now getting NATO to pay for the weapons it is sending to Ukraine, further denuding Europe of its funds and has turned its attention to Venezuela.
Meanwhile European countries are sleepwalking the transfer of their sovereignty (and treasury) to the unelected EU. Those citizens will wake up when they realise their countries are in deep financial trouble, and their standard of living plummets.
What do you think winning a war looks like?
And the power price hike in Europe was aided by the Biden Auto-pen/EU torpedoing of the Russia/Germany pipeline.
War, including the war in the Ukraine only serves one purpose = money.
(1) It is a clearing house (or laundromat) for sequestering and diverting govt funds into private hands. Either through the sales of arms, or the funding, a big portion of which gets funneled into private hands. Which is why the Ukraine is often referred to as “The Laundromat”
In previous wars the US has been involved in, money (greenbacks) were shipped in by plane by the pallet load, and pallets would go missing. In the Iraq invasion, $20 Billion of cash went missing.
(2) The much bigger prize is the precious minerals (both in the Ukraine and Russia) that Blackrock and co want. Same as in Venezuela and in South Africa.
…It is a clearing house (or laundromat) for sequestering and diverting govt funds into private hands..
yep yep
that is what it is
and the same with the money ( including OUR tax money )
in the Paris climate accord slush fund scam .
which banker johnny keys (well rhymes with banker, anyway), with many bolt holes, signed NZ taxpayers up to .
an accord that only suits the suicidal Europeans
that NZ stupidly coat tailed onto .
but good if one is a recipient of these slushy funds 💰 💰 💰
and fecking keys brought in money laundering laws that make modern banking painful.
oh the irony .
Good summation.
Ain’t karma a bitch. Now where’s Ardern’s.
“McSkimming fallout: Andrew Coster’s future in public service in doubt – Audrey Young“
wasnt he chippys mate/ pick for the top role aswell?
Yup
Yer! Labor fuck up again!
Hipkins will be whistling Dixie, hoping nobody noticed!
I can remember back in the good old days when the New South Wales police were known as the best police force money could buy. Isn’t it wonderful to see we’ve managed to beat the Aussies by a fair margin yet again. What an absolute joke and why does Mitchell still have a job?
I thought that was Joe Be
oke Paterson in Qld.
Why does Chippy when he appointed the disgusting pricks? Yet Chippy has the gaul to pop up and blame the Nats.
Yer! The Nats should have picked up Hopkins fuck up and embarrassed him with facts!
wg sooty, the tar is on everything.”—-
That will be like ‘calling by the kettle, the pot is black!’
Mark Mitchell calling Coster on his new appointment to the social investment agency,
“He has served with integrity …….”
Luxon about Coster, “He has done an exceptional good job as Commissioner …..’
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/top/528852/police-commissioner-andrew-coster-resigns-to-head-new-social-investment-agency
The uniparty, just the other cheek on the opposite side of the anus, as they
speakexcete on who is or not the most “woke”.Promises from the Ministers and top cops that this McSkimmings/Costa debacle will be cleaned up and it won’t happen again. YEAH/NAH
The mess from those arrested from 1980’s sexual assault still lingers:
In 1993, Nicholas gave details regarding her claim of rape to Detective Inspector John Dewar who was in charge of the CIB at Rotorua. Nicholas stated that in 1984 the crime took place in a flat she rented in Rotorua, and she pressed charges against a single officer (who has never been publicly identified). During the investigation, Nicholas named three further men as co-assailants, Assistant Police Commissioner Clint Rickards and former policemen Brad Shipton and Bob Schollum. Three trials resulted. The first in December 1993 and a second in June 1994 were both ruled mistrials because of the introduction of inadmissible hearsay by Dewar. The unnamed officer was tried and acquitted in 1994.[1]
After a couple of days on the tractor , Its plainly obvious that hosking and hdpa dont listen to the news on their own station , quite often the headlines and quotes are so different to what you have heard in the interview and a staff member must have hipkins on speed dial or he listens and calls into the news room with his opinion which gets inserted as being news .
I pleasantly don’t listen to radio and all that rambling
and wouldn’t know hosking if he served me a burger at Wendys
but
it sounds to me like hosking is a left wing multi millionaire celebridy
like the hollyweird types
For a frame of reference and since I am in the same boat (no radio or teevee)
was Paul Holmes also a lefty ?
Whichever way the wind blew. Grubby little bastard as well.
indeed he was
and Millie turned out to be quite a mess .
Why?
while the son, whatever his name, seemed to stay out of the limelight.
Daddys girl. Mmmm.
Adoptive daughter.
drugs etc .
speaking of celebridies
I finally watched Diamonds are Forever;
James Bond 1971, with Sean Connery
where he was paid at the time $1.25 Million to appear
and as such they had little money left for props and special effects.
in it is a brief, vey brief, appearance by Lana Wood
who then claims for the rest of her days she was a Bond Girl
Chucked out a window into a pool and later found dead in another pool.
Big deal.
to show how mad these celebrdies are
she was born Svetlana Nikolaevna Gurdin and is the sister of Natalie Wood (deceased, possibly by Robert Wagner)
this is her marriage history
talk about looney
Spouses
Allan Balter(October 20, 1979 – December 16, 1980) (divorced)
Richard Smedley(March 12, 1972 – July 1976) (divorced, 1 child)
Dr. Stanley William Vogel(April 19, 1968 – October 14, 1968) (divorced)
Steve Oliver(February 26, 1966 – May 1966) (annulled)
Karl Brent(April 17, 1964 – February 16, 1965) (divorced)
Jack Wrather Jr.(December 16, 1962 – August 27, 1963) (annulled)
6 marriages (sic) and only one lasting more than 15 months as the 15 months was merely the time to get the divorce .
I wonder if the divorce lawyer attended her many fruitless weddings !!
How cray cray was she really ?
Hope the quotes don’t make you steer to the left.
Watch out for that tree!
That one left in the middle of the paddock for the poor lambie shade
Where the blowflies circle waiting to lay their eggs in the next piece of shit laden wool.
Anyone who has spent a few days digging maggots out of live flesh would happily knock down every tree on every farm in NZ!
So the Russia/Ukraine war is the equivalent of the trenches of France in WW1.
Not even
From the figures that are bandied around must be getting near that – although on the first day of the Battle of The Somme there were 50,000 casualties. I read that in a book when I was about 13 and have never forgotten it.
“Police Commissioner Richard Chambers scathing of predecessor Andrew Coster’s McSkimming secrecy”
Video:
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/police-commissioner-richard-chambers-scathing-of-predecessor-andrew-costers-mcskimming-secrecy/O6QTCGN4HJF6RPD44P4KRF7IWQ/
From what I’ve read so far the casual observer could be forgiven for wondering if McSkimming had photos of Coster backing out of a goat.
🐐
Bet while underlings they were bowing as low as they go to suck up!
During covid te gimp agreed with everything the bitch and her evil henchman did to ruin NZ (mind you so did every other political party, they just rolled over for tummy tickles). She saw the writing on the wall and run away, leaving her henchman in charge of the NZ Labor party.
I’m about to trim the hedges before more rain sets in .
Do we call that McSkimming the trees nowdays?
what is the chance a porn star, a sexually violated animal or a pervert jumps out from behind a tree
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.wearing a NZ poolice uniform ?
I would not have bet on it 5 years ago .
they are magically releasing crap about Tom Philips to try and deflect from their own massive failings , but IMO making it worse.
Well i got 80% done before the rain set in.
electric hedge trimmer, metal ladder . Not doing that in the rain.
but hey 80% in NCEA is like, you know, A+++++ , supreme master pf the universe, plus knower of all things worth knowing .
Is it like 204 in four subjects in School Cert? 🙂
was one of those religious studies?
coz
you seem very competent on that subject ⛪⛪✝️✝️
Blessings my son.*
Umm, where is my authorization? Can’t have people willy nilly making money on my turf.
You should have set the phone up on a stand and set it filming,
We could have laughed our arses off.
Do they check for silly first name syndrome when recruiting into the cops ?
-Jevon
-Summer
Would they also recruit a Poppy ?
Summer Smith. Interesting mix of names. Sounds like a porn star from Norfolk, UK.
oh, and none of this corruption and/or coverups is new
I mean Tom Lewis a former cop published Coverups & Copouts in 1998 in NZ .
McSkimming doesn’t exactly scream honesty.
If he was Maori, he would be appropriately named!
It gets worse and worse. Coster for the high jump.
They should seize his assets and those of others, as proceeds of Crime.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/revealed-mitchell-says-emails-about-mcskimming-werent-shared-with-him-at-costers-order/premium/7ERBUDPBGJHSJOVOCM7ONBN4MI/
Worries me that corrupt cops will sell a certain shopping list to the gangs!!
Retirement fund!
For those who want access to the same information without signing up to the Herald’s “premium” service & encouraging their partisan Left leaning rubbish the info was posted at RNZ.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/578592/mark-mitchell-says-36-emails-about-jevon-mcskimming-were-kept-from-him-by-police
At least at Red Radio you know it will be REAL lefty drivel written by commo, Cindy loving hacks!
the moron from karori has to spout out and prove her ignorance again, as if we did not know.
Social Investment Minister Nicola Willis told Morning Report privacy checks on Coster before he was appointed would not have picked up the allegations of his role in the handling of the complaints as the IPCA report had not concluded.
Martin Martyn seems to have forgotten to make a post about this altogether.
I just checked his site & you’re right. Poor petal is probably worn out from dancing on pin heads while shielding Te Parti Tamihere from attack.
Spot the difference?
https://x.com/enezator/status/1988203988920267142?s=46
Editor
Is it the melanin…?
(Asking for a friend).
I don’t think she’s a real red-head – she didn’t punch the tall dude out.
I don’t think she’s a real red-head
As they were exposing what was under wraps;—
Did you check the carpet too?
Na that’s deffo a job for someone else.
ROL & Hunty are fully certified for tasks of that nature. 🙂
You called?
This relatively short read is extremely good.. A comment on the useless bureaucrats in Wellington.
https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/david-round-thoughts-for-our-time?
Thanks Ross12 & howitis.
The government, its overpaid bureaucracy :—
….. ‘The pimp’ …. …. ‘adds no value to the exchanges from which he profits. He doesn’t produce any goods or services himself.
He inserts himself into the transaction…… and takes a cut of the price in exchange for allowing the transaction to happen.’ …..
To rush the whore on, with no time to douche between “johns”
All well said.
On money laundering fuck-ups,
When cheques could be written for what credit you had, but now it all has to be verified by some office-waller, all according to their very complex, complicated rules, that takes odious amounts of time by phone or travelling to the nearest branch…
extract
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I do not believe, incidentally, that the real purpose of the anti-money-laundering laws is to prevent money laundering.
Any self-respecting money launderer knows plenty of ways to evade the law.
That law’s real purpose is just to watch us, to let us know we are being watched and should do as we are told,
and probably to prepare us for an eventual digital currency.
Ditto much of airport ‘security’ ~ it is not so much to prevent security incidents in the air as it is to get us used to being pushed around.
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Damn; this lads onto it.
Yep, yep, to the money laundering rules .
has made bankers insufferable cunts again like before the 1980s.
this time added in with woke fuckers in charge to promote the namby pamby feminised version of the world .
Especially good when “this lad” is an ex law professor.
From Christchurch Uni
to be clear
would have been fired at
in order
-Waikato uni
-Wellington uni (sometimes called Vic)
-Otago uni
-Auckland uni
For those with an open mind on the carcinogenic properties of the Covid vaccine this article at https://expose-news.com/2025/11/10/do-covid-injections-cause-cancer/ handles the subject even handedly.
The author is one Charlotte Kuperwasser, a professor at Tufts University of medicine. In her own words she attempts to “unpack the science”.
…..”While none of these patterns would prove causation, such a pattern should not be dismissed as a coincidence either. Other environmental exposures, such as tobacco, asbestos and endocrine disruptors, have been linked to cancer. The initial warnings were met with scepticism, yet in each of these examples, rigorous study, observation and experimental research demonstrated their causal relationship. The same principle should apply here. Researchers must be empowered to replicate and expand upon these analyses, free from censorship, personal or professional retaliation.”……
IOW more research. Research unrestrained by politics & vested interests.
An Oz video for the Tradies amongst us
‘Tradie vs Social Activist’
Enjoy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7xFSC7S8Oo
The rift between the “Left” & the workers has become a chasm.
It’s Waitakere Man vs Homos for Climate Change on steroids!
The urgency, some would say paranoia, with which Luxon & his motley pack of control freaks approach digital ID for all is somewhat explained in this article at https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360883683/how-did-police-stop-ministers-hearing-about-their-disgraced-deputy
#. “The Independent Police Conduct Authority (IPCA) first heard concerns about McSkimming in May, 2023, after the complainant posted allegations on on LinkedIn.”
So we now know that the entire farce would have remained out of sight & out of mind had not that comment(s) been posted at Linkedin. McSkimming would have been appointed commissioner & the rats nest of corruption that Police HQ has become would have carried on as ever.
A servile social media where no-one could post anything mildly controversial without expecting a knock on the door is a
control freak’spolitician’s wet dream. It’s not about schoolgirl bullying or playground feelz.It’s about control on scale not seen since Germany 1930-1945!
The rats nest of HQ corruption would not have stopped of it’s own accord.
It would only have got worse, much, much worse!
It’s just as well it was nipped in the bud.
What else is hiding in that Denison of deviates in bullshit castle!
You can only imagine what they would have planned to infect on NZ after what we have experienced during the protest at Parliament.They had alot of time to scratch their collective arses to come up with more deviates ideas!
a country in crisis
where you cant trust
-politicians
-the media
-the poolice
What really happened
https://www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/360843205/changing-face-police-top-brass
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It all began when former top cop Andrew Coster announced he was stepping down as police commissioner, five months earlier than expected.
From there, the dominoes fell fast.
First to go was deputy commissioner Chris de Wattignar, who left amid a restructure of the policing upper echelons.
Next came second-in-command, deputy commissioner Jevon McSkimming, who resigned after child exploitation and bestiality imagery was allegedly found on his work computer.
In quick succession, deputy commissioner Tania Kura
and assistant commissioner Paul Basham
then announced their retirements. (Deputy commissioners sit directly below the police commissioner, with assistant commissioners underneath them.)
In just a handful of months, five of the country’s highest-ranking police officers were gone ‒ and with them, a swathe of institutional knowledge and leadership stability.
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right up to the last phrase
, a swathe of institutional knowledge and leadership stability.
no no
they have merely wiped out a small group of highly corrupt people who went along with falsely prosecuting a victim of sexual harassment by a fellow high ranking pig.
this is an interesting contrast
when they harass and ruin the life of a bloke based on fake accusations by a woman
…When the fake accusations turn out to be fake they never prosecute the lying initiator
who should be punished as an actual offender would be for the original named SA
ie cage time.
These crooked cops are the tip of a shitberg.
Tania Kura
Paul Basham
Jevon McSkimming
Andrew Coster
Chris de Wattignar
these should have been sacked, prosecuted, and loss of pension;
with jail time if appropriate.
SO
they don’t really want to clean out the joint
The NZ cops are corrupt
Mark Mitchell is an insipid WOFT like most poolice ministers .
Still a bunch of crooks who pursue people over painting over gay zebra crossings while giving multi car escorts to gang rides.
All assets seized as proceeds of crime immediately.
Thats what they would do to crim and others.
Nothing like dishing out the same medicine to them
But no one will even consider it.
If Mitchells and his commander were onto it, then that should happen.
There are others in that group as well.
a huge clean out is warranted.
Confirmed: Gang members will be automatically disqualified from holding a firearms licence.
did that ever worry them today or yesterday ?
how many of then have souped-up high end motor vehicles and
no drivers licence .
if they are gangsters they are not participating in the norm anyway .
thank fuck for that, so no more gang related shootings from now on //////
what a waste of fucking time and money mckees changes are. pretty much fuck all changes just a bunch of new offences introduced. i know she wanted to do much more but nats and their corrupt pig mates put a stop to any meaningful change and alas all we get is yet more tinkering around the edges of labour govt laws… typical dud nat bullshit
Be interesting to see how far the coster and the skimming cunt has rtentacles into the Nats.
Don’t forget the Labor party and their own deviates!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ89kHzxJQM
Stephen Franks – NZ Police Abuse Of The Harmful Digital Communications Act
FSU Lawyer, Stephen Franks, on the abuse of the Harmful Digital Communications Act by NZ Police
The state seeks more power, to then use it, to abuse, to further their absolute control.
The actual process even if one is cleared, is the very costly & time consuming punishment.
To be supposed bound when served, to keep ones silence of the charges, of the issues, and it would be considered a serious breach of the State’s Non-Disclosure-Agreement
Franks said (as lawyer), in every case the HDCA has been used to bully and silence freedom of speech.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_EXPiBxZsU
Michael Laws – The NZ Police have an institutional corruption problem – and it started at the top.
Well, he is wrong. It started a long time ago and finally reached the top.
Fair point but who then appointed their cousin and his ideological mates to the top floor.
Anyone with investments in AI company shares might be interested in this.
https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/world-economy/wall-street-panic-as-the-warren-buffett-of-tech-quietly-offloads-all-stock-in-worlds-biggest-company/news-story/cb885841178abc1cc84f9e044d383add
The interesting fact from that article is the current positioning of Michael Burry’s hedge fund Scion Capital. He has short exposure to Palantir which Grok tells me is approx 66% of his portfolio and short exposure to Nvidia equivalent to 13% of the portfolio. It would take balls to hold those positions though he likely had a win today on the Nvidia position.
For those that don’t know Michael Burry is the guy that cleaned up shorting sub prime debt during the GFC. The movie the Big Short was based on it.
burry has made many predictions and bets that were wrong, he only won big on the shorting of crappy loans.
in saying that its pretty obvious the massive ai ponzi circular bubble thats been created and theyre essentially unprofitable considering their enormous paper value for whats essentially a glorified chatbot and meme generator.
but maybe because its so open and obvious tho the bubble wont pop?
I wasn’t suggesting he was right. He has been very wrong previously. For example he has made large losing bets against Tesla and Amazon.
PS Burry also has a long position of approx 7% in Pfizzer so he clearly only looks at the numbers and, has no moral compass, and is happy to invest in criminals.
money is money so who gives a fuck, are you ok with investing in weapon producers etc tho even tho theyre used to slaughter people?
i suppose youre one of those clowns who only invests in low yeild ethical and enviro friendly companies?
if i were an investor seeking good returns i too would only look at the numbers… but theres a reason why im not an investor and not willing to gamble my money like that.
As it happens I am not ok with weapons producers, however I also stay clear of ethical and ESG funds. However I don’t have the where with all to invest solo so no doubt there will be stuff hiding in my portfolio that I would rather not have. That’s life nothing is ever perfect.
another pig figures name not mentioned but i bet had knowledge and involved in the mcskimming thing is chris cahill who also coincidentally has retired/retiring.
he always had his finger on the pulse of all goings on inside the corrupt pig force.
If Coster gets kicked out of his $700k job I will be happy. When he said the proudest day of his Police career was when he set the “attack dogs” onto the protesters ( ie fellow Kiwis) at Parliament to end the protest, it told me he was just a mongrel whose priorities were all wrong and he obviously did not do much good in his career, if that was his highlight.
Giving him that job was a very expensive way to get him out of the Police.
For justice to be seen to be done, these people should have all their assets retrained as would happen to anyone else.
Let them sleep under a hedge for a couple of years.
really coster and others should get jail time for corruption and perverting the course of justice. he needs a half decent sentence to send a fucking message to any current and future corrupt pigs.
unless he got paid backhanders to do what he done then they cant seize money or assets, that law is for ill gotten gains like drug money etc not taking salary earned while doing dodgy shit.
There are other grounds.
Coster was the commissioner who advocated policing by consent which can be defined as “the power of the police to fulfil their functions and duties is dependent on public approval of their existence, actions and behaviour and on their ability to secure and maintain public respect.”
Directing his goons to injure & pulp ordinary citizens protesting a dictatorial government was at total odds to his stated policies.
Not fit to be trusted any time over anything.
Right up there with some of the best practical jokes I’ve seen:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QzFNWRmFq1w
Very astute observation on Ukraine. The quicker that corrupt fuck is tied to a chair the better. I really feel for the average Ukrainian man. The videos of the press gangs are very sad.
Congestion charge bill passes: What does it mean for you?
A Government bill to bring in congestion charging passed its third reading in Parliament yesterday. Why is it happening – and how much could drivers end up paying?
Congestion pricing, or as it’s now often called, time-of-use charging, has been floated and debated for years between multiple governments.
If implemented, the scheme, already used overseas, could charge drivers a toll at busy times for motorists to enter a downtown area, or just target busy roads and corridors.
Momentum has built in the past several years across the current coalition Government and previous Labour government to introduce congestion charging.
https://www.1news.co.nz/2025/11/12/congestion-charge-bill-passes-what-does-it-mean-for-you/?fbclid=IwY2xjawOA-dZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeoRrbVaRC68xAkOnwDLhBTcOkgHROGaEtE4zoM71GPnsMFJ9TSOShpMkvMf8_aem_gctczkaKTK7QFqSD8_8QKA
Kids wrote Scholarship Geography today. I had a quick look at the resource sheet, all climate change propaganda. What a fucking waste of time… Thank God I don’t teach in any meaningful way any longer. It is a fucking disgrace.
Talking about corruption, we have a few cases. David Bain, Peter Ellis, Tena Porora,
and
Joseph StaffordFree Scott Watson – HE IS INNOCENT
Not Guilty!
I wonder often at the prospect that I have looked a killer in the eye……
myself, my brother Dean, my cousin Junior his wife, her sister and husband and my other cousin Johnnie & Paula and his family were all staying at Endeavour Fishing Lodge at the head of Endeavor Inlet (one bay further on from Furneaux) from boxing day departing back to Picton the morning of NYE – the morning of the night Olivia and Ben went missing.
All keen divers, everyday on this holiday consisted of us loading up our chartered fishing boat with our dive and fishing gear early each morning heading out for a morning of diving and back home by mid arvo to chill and hang out and swim off the lodge wharf with my nieces and nephews and have a few coldies.
On the day of the 29th we arrived back from diving around 2pm and 20m > 30m off our wharf was moored a large white boat whose design was uncommon to the Marl Sounds as it was an open sea going vessel like the kind of boat one would live on traveling the world ….you don’t see many of those around Picton.
It was a ketch!
I didn’t see anyone on board for the rest of that afternoon and early evening as the kids jumped off and swam around the wharf.
The next morning Kylie and Johnnies wife, Paula and her kids decided they wanted to come out with us and fish while we dived and it was while we were loading our boat and boarding that this unshaven dude on-board this ketch walks out to the bow of this boat and proceeds to take a piss facing all of us.
I remember vividly as his boat was so close to the wharf and our boat this particular morning his pissing was hitting the bow of our charter boat. We all thought what a friggin cheeky prick particularly as there were several large men on board our boat who were keen to board his boat and give him a hiding…..As we were trying to get our boat next to his to board, Paula swears at him something about being rude in front of kids etc when he races back to his cockpit and returns brandishing a butchers knife I KID YOU NOT!!! We back off pushing our boat away from his and our charter boat skipper calls the lodge from his RT to warn them of this guy and warn the other guests, and so we head off. When we returned later that day this boat had gone. Now, this ketch must have been in the background of 20-30 photos the girls took of the kids playing in the water AND in a couple Paula reckons this guy was captured as he came up from below.
Fast Forward 4-5 days after the kids disappearance. When we heard that the water-taxi driver Guy Wallace dropped the kids off at some white ketch and that Police were wanting info around this white ketch we contacted police, told the policeman who fielded my call that we had seen such a ketch AND HAD PHOTOS. My details were taken and I was told someone would be in touch real soon. We never got a call back from the cops. 3-4 days after my phone call we discovered through the papers that the Police were no longer following the line of inquiry of a ‘ketch’ and instead were wanting info around the movements of their person of interest being Scott Watson. A classic case of “lets fit this bugger up for it”
I played rugby at the time with two Picton coppers who both stated many times socially how uncomfortable they were with how the investigation was being ‘managed’ sharing lots of anecdotal examples of the investigation ignoring certain channels of leads being told to follow specific channels which any bright copper could see were about building a case against a person of interest and not allowing the evidence to speak for itself. One of them left the Police force 6 months later as a direct result of his discomfort surrounding this case.
Now as a declaration, I don’t know nor have never met Scott Watson and by accounts, he has been a little shit in the past but this cat is innocent. Guy Wallace the taxi-driver was the last sober person to see these kids and he is an experienced seaman and knows the difference between a small sloop (Watsons boat) and a large open sea-going ketch. His evidence is compelling so much so the Police had to discredit him personally in order to deflect opinion toward a line of enquiry they wanted to pursue.
I believe I looked these kids killer in the eye and it wasn’t Scott Watson.
Rob Pope was in charge. I remember reading a book (I think – a long time ago) by Ian Wishart (again I think) about the Dunedin Police Force and the the sleaziness in place there. May have been in connection with the Bain murders.
Anyway one of that sleaze group was Rob Pope and I certainly feel his approach was wrong.
Tom Lewis a former cop published Coverups & Copouts in 1998 in Dunnydin, NZ.
Various anecdotes
I bought the book .
CHC and Dunnydin have long been sicko poolice districts and the worse ones from there get sent to Te anau or Central Otago .
Robber Pope was sent from CHC to Picton to manipulate aw shucks, I mean to run the Sounds investigation.
NZ cops are useless AND lazy so they pick a plausible target, set them up, get the media filth to run bad stories and
easy peasy
….conviction on the pathetic injustice system of the shaky Isles.
Yup, I have not followed the story closely as such but I have serious misgivings about the trial and evidence.
https://www.1news.co.nz/2025/11/12/drone-footage-reveals-scorched-landscape-after-tongariro-fire/
FFS its a grass fire. Almost a daily occurrence in South Africa at certain times of the year. As kids we played next to them seeing if we could “protect” bushes by lighting fire breaks in the grass. Annual bush burning prevents catastrophic fires as the fuel is burnt off before it gets out of control.
Martin Martyn now has a post on the McSkimming cluster. And to his credit, he’s come down on the right side of the story.
https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2025/11/12/mcskimmings-and-the-fallacy-of-a-few-bad-apples-in-the-nz-police/
to be fair i expected that of him, 90% of any cop blogs of his are negative.
just think of how many shady/dodgy folk you personally know and wouldnt trust… cops are just ordinary off the street kiwis so the same % of dodgy you know are likely to be replicated in the police as dodgy corrupt pigs. itll be alot higher than average joe public thinks.
In that I go along with you. My experiences with cops have generally been cordial & as in most things a bit of common courtesy goes a long way. Even I as a committed libertarian & liberal in the English sense of the word accept that we have to have basic laws & a police force if society is to prove liveable.
We give our police great power over us to make the system work. When they abuse that power things can turn to custard very quickly.
Check out and I have posted on here many times the story of Jeremy Buis
a dunnydin thug cop
who was on paid leave for over 2 years
circa 2015
was a sicko thug and bully
and the cops officially lied and denied he was a sworn officer
That was the bottom line’
Crooked thugs all the way to the bank
none of this is new .
Like you I worked in bars
for about 5 years
mostly enjoyable
behind the bar
The experience with cops was never pleasant
They were thugs and bullies .
often harassing people quietly socialising .
and would harass staff like one night I was in the bottle store in Willis St Wellywood. There were at least 5 bars in easy walking distance
They picked up some joker with grog who was underage. the person said they bought from me
Didn’t happen
Does not stop cops from being wankers and bullying
no time for them , not now, not then.
There was one cop I saw in Willis St who was a year ahead of me at school. He was a rugby thug and basketball fighter.
so joined the cops where he could be the best he could be
…..a thug.
nasska
Although I may have told this story before, herewith a tale in response to you comment that ‘When they abuse that power things can turn to custard very quickly’.
Some 40 years ago a paramedic and I were in an emergency situation, trying to revive an elderly alcoholic male who had fallen and was unconscious. He had hit his head and there was blood everywhere. It was 0230 in the morning and in an isolated part of a large New Zealand city. Because the ‘incident’ involved injury and possible assault (I learnt later that it hadn’t) I had called the Police and three young coppers in a grey HQ Holden eventually appeared on the scene. The paramedic and was attending to the old chap and I was standing nearby awaiting the cops arrival. The car stops ahead of us and out of the front passenger seat gets this young cop waving a pistol in the air and being ‘Mr Big’ to try to impress his mates!! I was about to talk to his mates and the guy with the gun comes up to me, waves the gun in front of my nose then HOLDS IT AGAINST THE FOREHEAD OF THE PARAMEDIC on the ground attending to the old chap!! There was a rather long pause from everyone while the implications sank in!! Thankfully, the paramedic ignored the cop and continued his work, while the coppers mates EVENTUALLY called him off. He took the gun away from the ‘medic’s forehead VERY reluctantly, before getting back into the car with his mates and driving off into the darkness. The paramedic had brought his ambulance to the scene and, after eventually reviving the old man, loaded him into the ambulance to take him to the local hospital. Oddly, we didn’t discuss what had happened to any extent, but DID agree that it was one of the more unusual situations that we had encountered. Unfortunately the Police Complaints Authority didn’t exist, so the gun-wielding cop was not held accountable, and who knows how often he pulled the self-same stunt to show that he was ‘Powerful’ and ‘Important’ (At least in his own eyes). Hopefully, he eventually learnt ‘The error of his ways’…
In the context of ‘Police abuse of power’, I would submit that the events described above might be one of the more interesting examples of that genre’…
Thank you.
..Police Complaints Authority…
ha ha
It has been a shit outfit
all about copouts and coverups
Yes I can personally confirm
I wonder that a psycho such as you describe ever made it past the selection process. By your own words in a few short minutes he destroyed any faith you & your offsider had in the force.
How many others did he do the same to? It doesn’t take many misfits like him to wreck in moments decades of good work building up community relationships.
oh yeah
did the DEI stuff like appointing/promoting Naila Hassan support your story?
Children who commit serious crimes will be sentenced as adults, under a state government plan to combat youth crime. Victoria will adopt “adult time for violent crime” laws, mirroring Queensland, which implemented the tough approach in 2024.
https://www.facebook.com/reel/741062185661022
NEMA is monitoring the large ejections of energy from the Sun that have happened over the last 36 hours.
We are working with international and domestic experts, who agree this event is unlikely to result in significant impacts for New Zealand.
New Zealand is currently experiencing the second of three Coronal Mass Ejections that occurred over the last 36 hours.
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Space weather is linked to solar activity. This activity rises and falls across an 11 year cycle. The current ‘solar maximum’ (a period of high solar activity) started in October 2024 and increased solar activity is expected over the next few years.
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there was an awsome aurora last weekend, looks like theres one right now but scattered cloud is obscuring most of it.