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Morning all. Final month of what has been
a shit of a year. I really hope next year will
be an improvement.
To quote the ‘Hill street Blues’ station seargent:
“Let’s be careful out there” Have a great day.
Have a good day Arty.
Thanks for your artful sentiment. Good advice.
Oh, and Cindy can go to the glue factory and Robbo to the Pelican Club for all I care 🙂
G”day everyone, nice morning here in Nelson, hope everyone has a great day.
Hell, will i get told off for not greeting everyone properly..?
Oh well, who cares !~
Raining on the North Shore now.
3 hours of Sumerian cuneiform lessons for me today (I am one of an extremely tiny number of folk world-wide who can read this).
When all your books are gone and the final computer has been smashed, my beloved cuneiform tablets of the world’s first civilization will be waiting under the sands for subsequent discovery 🙂 If you have a spare moment Dr Irving Finkel of the British Museum is fascinating on this subject – Youtube.
All power to you, Ghost. But you really should be learning to read Maori.
Speaking of which, I’ve just finished deleting Stuffed off my desktop. Never again will I bother with that one dollar woke joke. The sooner it goes the way of the dodo the better.
Good on you Mr T. I am just as outraged.
You gotta laugh at Stuff’s bitching about the past as if they own it or can change it.
Now we need to get Northland and East Coast to delete their use of POT and P.
Equally dangerous.
I have been told the Waikato Times had three pages of apologies for slights against Maori for the life of the paper in the past. Three pages it took. I don’t belong in New Zealand any more it’s gone too far left for me
Not to mention the Moa. I wonder what those managers of the environment, protectors of the flora and fauna, were thinking as they troughed out on that last drumstick.
I have just spoken a friend, who I have trying to get to stop his subscription to the Dominion for several years. Yesterday’s 4-5 page was the last straw, so he has stopped it after about 40 years of buying it.
He told me Hosking talked this morning about a column in “The Australian” which really ripped into NZ newspapers. ( It was Nick Cater who wrote it, apparently)
To be fair, probably more people could read and write (sic) Sumerian cuneiform than Maori.
Maori had a base of under 400 words 250 years ago that has been extensively added to, especially by the land-grabber Missionaries.
The language was simply not going to grow until there was a written form to capture and develop.
In other words, most ‘Maori’ was ‘made up’ by white folk between 250 and 160 years ago !!
Ancient maori tradition, my nono
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Howitis….
An old Coast lady whose first language was Maori, told me that she liked to listen to the Maori news on the radio in the days before non Maori words were still spoken in English. She said that when the made up words come into being, she gave up on the ‘News In Maori’ as she no longer knew what they were talking about.
You read old journals and writings from British seafarers from the pre 1820 years and Northern Maori had an ‘S’ sound in their language…eg
Shongi Shika = Hongi Hika, Shauraki = Hauraki, Shokianga = Hokianga.
Captain Cook has the odd NZ place name on his charts containing the letter ‘V’, so obviously Maori would have still been using Eastern Polynesian pronunciation in his time.
The hard ‘F’ sound for the ‘wh’ is another that has been hijacked by the Te reo revisionists…Thomas Kendall wrote that the top teeth never touched the bottom lip with the ‘wh’ sound.
Rita Ora, Stigie.
That’s the correct greeting, isn’t it.
[and easier to say than her Albanian/Kosovo name, Rita Sahatçiu; ]
The twitter account, that some say is strongly connected to being an origin of the CCP’s war of words, tariffs, boycotts of Australia.
齐天大圣
@Truth2Upeople
Flag of ChinaIR & Business Student, History Buff, USA Watcher,
@UniversityofGA
@AucklandUni
Tāmaki Makaurau Joined April 2020
1,118 Following 1,989 Followers
https://twitter.com/truth2upeople/status/1330886375667765249
The connection here to Auckland University of the graphic, “cartoon”.
All in the name of free speech, and seems to be closely part of the CCP.
The Auckland Confucius Institute – which has strong ties to the Chinese Communist Party – has been acting as a conduit between the University of Auckland and the Chinese Consulate-General, documents obtained under the Official Information Act reveal.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/115737310/auckland-uni-using-communist-partybacked-staff-to-liaise-with-chinese-consulate
Part of the cultural exchange, masked by Confucius Institutes, one of them in Auckland university.
https://ci.ac.nz/
All took on the news, but no mention of the NZ connections
Maybe a talented journo from Stuffed could look into it // 😅
“Talented diverse journo” //
Please forgive me for plagiarising your comment onto Fruityblog.
Imitation being the highest form of flattery 🙂
Maybe a stuffed reporter who aspires to be a investigative journalist!
Posted late last night.
An interesting article, and how the progressives are trying to shut down any ideas and discussion.
A fight back against the authorities
Mr Knowland’s sin was to question the current radical feminist orthodoxy.
In September, he created an online lecture called The Patriarchy Paradox examining the prevailing idea of ‘toxic masculinity’.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8997273/Etonians-revolt-teacher-sacked-daring-question-feminist-dogma-toxic-masculinity.html
Just good commonsense, plainly put points over this gender issue, and what is what.
So many issues that he shows up, has made their heads explode
That teacher if he can stay and continue those courses, will be the underlying reason, why good parents will send their boys to that school.
I would not have considered such a school, but a teacher like that, if only we still had NZ charter schools.
Hope he wins in spades, and gets some of those progressive toffs, sorted, or some good college makes him a good offer.
For good pushback from an anti-feminist woman over 50 years of age.
Canadian, Janice Fiamengo
eg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upBP2UYyRZU&list=PLjMscr0TpRqgTqkYLfiDtIqIMbXDxtiKp&index=180
Anti-Feminist Professor | Janice Fiamengo | WOMEN’S ISSUES | Rubin Report
Also her twitter is
https://twitter.com/JaniceFiamengo?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
She is fairly active there.
Her profile on twitter.
‘Contrarian, pro-liberty, anti-feminist, defender of men’s rights, free speech, the principles of western culture, and the right to dissent.’
Thanks howitis.
Further to blame on any male hormone, and not recognize where the problem is.
fashionable Leftist shibboleths was this:
“Why are men more likely to be perpetrators of violence?”
One speaker suggested that the attack was all about men not being allowed to be weak, self-centered, weepy narcissists:
“Anger, that is really what we think about when we think about emotional men.
They are subject to social sanctions if they deviate from masculinity.
If you are perceived as failing at it, you are subject to being called a fag, a pussy, a wimp, pretty much what women are, right?
So when you have this limited ability to sort of express your emotions and possible feelings of emasculation, of low self-esteem, how do you really [deal with] that?
A lot of times they … engage in violence.
They need to compensate for their loss of masculinity in the most manly way they have access to, and unfortunately, a lot of times that’s violence.”
Of course! It was all about toxic masculinity, don’t you see?
https://pjmedia.com/culture/robert-spencer/2020/11/28/california-isis-jihadi-stabs-four-in-university-classroom-university-blames-toxic-masculinity-n1179840
All those points in the article, to camouflage, mask over the report,
…..“was found to have an image of the ISIS flag, a handwritten manifesto with instructions on how to behead someone, and reminders to pray to Allah.” …..
Strange it is never to be said that the “perfect man” in his sayings, deeds, actions could well be described as “toxic masculinity”, but none of that ilk call that out.
Can this really be true? Whilst White Island was getting ready to blow the government agency tasked with work place safety was out there checking to make sure Maori workers weren’t being mistreated, this was only a couple of weeks before the mountain killed 2 dozen people, FFS what a cocked up ridiculously PC Country I live in.
Woodhouse is waffling shit just like all MPs always do, Ffuuucckk.
Not sure what Michael Wood was waffling but it was predictable he would not have much to say. I was not impressed though to learn Worksafe have had 28 people working for a year on the White Island matter. That seems a massive and disproportionate investment from the state to see if someone, some business, can be caught out.
The understanding I did gain that an arm of the State is laying charges on another arm of the State does not impress me as a taxpayer.
I notice the worksafe talking head wheeled out for the press dribble is a pom.
That’s only going to go one way isn’t it?!
Arse covering!
Going to interesting to see the full list of people and organizations been taken to court and the reason why?
GNS is one. Just because they report the possibility of an eruption doesn’t mean they were liable for the eruption.
Sounds like worksafe are using the shotgun approach to this. Fire enough shit everywhere and hope some sticks.
Anyone looking into the roll of worksafe in this debacle and what they did or not do!
What was worksafes responsibility in Pike River Mine and Angry Andy?
arm of the State is laying charges on another arm of the State
Fits the nice economic theory, money is made to go around, to keep the bureaucrats plus judiciary busy, and importantly setting new precedents to impose on the general public too.
The sticky fingers of World Economic Forum, pushes to the general public.
“You will have nothing and you will be happy”
Other countries have been as woke also, with “precautionary” ideas.
…… uncertainty in a March 31, 2009, meeting in L’Aquila, a medieval city in Abruzzo.
Comparing the situation to a large quake that struck L’Aquila in 1703, Boschi said,
“It is unlikely that an earthquake like the one in 1703 could occur in the short term, but the possibility cannot be totally excluded.” …..
…… they did not do their duty in communicating risk to the citizens of L’Aquila and holds them responsible for manslaughter.
A guilty verdict could carry up to 15 years in jail. …….
….. if Italian scientists are criminally liable for bad predictions, wouldn’t all seismologists be just as criminal for their imperfect predictions?
“There’s sort of a pattern here,” Stein said. “Nobody knows how to do this very well.
Countries have large programs to make hazards maps … these things are often big failures. …….
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna44596501
People should not be allowed to cross a road.
There is a risk that a cyclist could crash into you.
There is even a higher risk that a car could hit you.
Do not cross the road!
Mitigation, look left, right then left.
Is that good enough. Yeah naaaahhhhh;- NO 🙁
Close the road to vehicular traffic to remove the risk.
Simple, Problem solved, for the government bureaucrat
Make everyone take a horse.
But then someone will slip over in the horse shit!
I think it’s safest if we all just stay indoors..
We can all tune in and get daily ‘briefings’ on how dangerous it is out there from our beloved Queen Jacinda…
Well what about the Italian domiciled POPE and his many news ensemnators?
are they liable for the prohsies they spread.
Naaska, become an italaian Lawyer quick. money to be made.
Question of the day,,Does Cameron Bagries nose smell like Robbos arse crack ??
Why would you put Vas on your nose?
Don’t think you put lubricant on ya nose unless you’re close to Robbo’s arse !~
Robbo prefers a vas deference….
He gave them an 8 or 9 out of 10. His nose is obviously very close to Robbo’s arse.
Ah, mind bleach needed urgently.
Well he was the same with English.
Think your mind is in need of a refersh.
There’s no doubt that things are humming along.
We have just had our best two months in about 5 years.
Many iI know are busy as they can be.
although, talking to one of the personel companies staff the other day she made the comment that there is a lot of unemployed people around. People with skills apparently.
Lots of the bigger guys have “restructured” were her words. As they have. No longer in an office downtown. Work from home and hire community space when they need it for interviews. etc.
That’s happening a lot. Our bank guys work from home some days every week now.
Even lawyers etc.
Serial Kiwi inventor banking on corn starch and wool combination to save the wool industry
Logan Williams calls himself a serial inventor and entrepreneur, and he has earned that description at the tender age of 25.
Hailing from Timaru originally, Williams has already sold four of his inventions, three to overseas companies, and is embarking on a much bigger mission, to save the strong wool industry in New Zealand with his new invention.
It is a biodegradeable material made of a combination of strong wool and corn starch to make all sorts of products as a replacement for plastic. It is called Keravos.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/123515717/serial-kiwi-inventor-banking-on-corn-starch-and-wool-combination-to-save-the-wool-industry
Maori legends wont save us from the world but people like this young man will.
We need a lot more science and a lot less lawyers, land agents, social busy bodies, woke press, politicians, oh you know all the useless money wasters that we have.
I see that Qantas are shedd ing another 2000 in Aussie.
Still not fun there then.
Yer, only straight people!
Marae makeover project gets $80k boost to kick-start work.
An $80,000 grant will help kick-start plans to upgrade one of the most important marae in Taranaki, with the first phase prioritising the place which provides hospitality to visitors.
Owae Marae, in Waitara, is one of the region’s most prominent places and hosts important events on the Māori calendar, including Te Rā o Tā Māui Pōmare/Sir Māui Pōmare Day.
However, buildings on the three-hectare site are between 80-130 years old, and in its application to the New Plymouth District Council (NPDC) marae development fund, the Manukorihi Pā Trust said its members had seen a steady decline in the state of facilities.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/123533461/marae-makeover-project-gets-80k-boost-to-kickstart-work
So,if my buildings get run down can I apply to the council for restoration or new building funds?
Hell, It’s a nightmare even getting consent for something let alone get a grant.
A good reason why Maori Wards should not be entertained at all.
Its not the ratepayers job to fund your buildings.
That’s your responsibility.
But, but, diversidy wins every time.
But which diversidy trumps?
White males at the bottom then blacks, browns, female, gay, lesbian, LGBQ…, disabled, bald, big noses?
Stay true to yourself, a sovereign being who can make your own decisions. They are trying to take your individuality from you.
So the marae is not so popular theese days?
Treaty handouts spent on new BMWs and expense accounts?
Hang on a minute. $65,000 feasibility study, $80,000 rebuild, $29,870 new roof. $174,870 total?
Who’s not telling the truth in that story?
Stuffed again!
and that, children, is why they are stuffed !
Similar to Samoa after the Tsunami in Sept 2009.
The payouts went to the village chiefs.
New Toyota 4Runners in vogue.
The choice of champions (and ISIS)
Treaty settlement by tribe.
$87 million cash, $107 million property.
Carter Page was set up, sues for $75,000,000
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbtMdesFAUM
Carter Page sues DOJ and FBI, calls lawsuit an ‘important next step’
Carter Page, a former Trump aide surveilled by the FBI during the Russia probe, alleges the DOJ and FBI used him to ‘infiltrate the first Trump campaign four years ago.’
Another volcano blows in Indonesia.
Do you remember the extreme cold year for NZ when Pinotabo in Indonesia blew in the 90s?
Global warming is now totally stuffed ( like Stuff itself)
It’s like the middle of winter in the Waikato today.
You deserve it.
we need more blueberries.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/11/29/indonesian-volcano-erupts-forcing-residents-to-flee
Do you think the Volcano will behave itself if Princess Amazeballs flies over there, threatens to lock it down and wags her bony finger at it??
Do ash clouds affect broomsticks?
😆 😆
wasn’t the Hul;un who had the broomstick. amazeballs has a Unicorn for spreading her fairy dust.
And don’t you forget that at Xams. The horse needs watering.
Prefers whisky.
I defer to your wisdom, Viking. You are, of course, quite correct.
Do ash clouds affect Unicorns?
A poor family from India move to London in search of a better life.
On their first evening in their new home, the man of the house goes out to buy what he can with the little money he has.
He finds a small store where he buys some food for his family. Paying for the food he remembers he should buy some toilet paper.
The shopkeeper recommends Double Quilty Softy Soft, £5 for a 4 pack.
“No no no sir, too expensive” says the Indian gentleman.
The shopkeeper then recommends Quilty Soft, £3 for a 4 pack.
“No no no sir, too expensive” again explains the Indian gentleman.
The shopkeeper THEN recommends Soft toilet paper, £1 for a 4 pack.
“No no no sir, too expensive” yet again says the Indian gentleman.
Running out of patience, the shopkeeper offers the Indian gent a pack of unlabeled toilet paper, “look mate, this stuff isn’t great, it ain’t even got a name, but it’s only 30pence for a 4 pack”
“Yes yes yes, I will take” says the Indian.
The following day, the Indian man returns to the shop.
“Excuse me sir” he says to the shopkeeper, “I have come up with a name for that no name toilet paper you sold me the last night. It should be called John Wayne Toilet Paper”
“Yeah? Why’s that then?” Asks the shopkeeper.
The Indian explains “well sir, it’s ROUGH, it’s TOUGH, and it don’t take no shit from Indians”
He found a corner dairy not owned by a fellow Indian, that’s just amazing!
Ed@2004
To which the only reply that can possibly be, is Mr Sellers’ immortal ‘Well goodness, gracious, me…’
( I thought you might like to know…).
Brenton Tarrant.
Eat shit, Sindy.
Cleaning house of some ideology? 🙂
A senior Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander was killed overnight Sunday, …..
https://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2020/11/30/Iran-s-IRGC-commander-targeted-by-a-drone-near-Iraqi-Syrian-border
“Muslim Shahdan”
https://twitter.com/hxhassan/status/1333447556295168002?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
“Wolves don’t lose sleep over the opinion of sheep.” — unknown
“Politeness has never defeated an existential threat.” — Chateau Heartiste
Got ya sandbags and day glow vest ready, for the climate emergency tomorrow?
Off with the masks.
Presciptions for Hydroxychloroquine. prophylaxis
Onwards with the “yellow vests”. 🙂
Such good plumage. 🙂
I would have thought a hemp hair shirt would be more appropriate attire. I do hope Jimmy and Cindy have theirs ready to wear.
You will also need your wallet ready as various outfits climb aboard using the fabricated “emergency” to suck in some cash.
Keep your ID handy and carry a picture of Dear Leader in your wallet. //
We’re going to need a new word for “emergency”. You know, the old-fashioned type emergency, where you dialled 111, got out the fire extinguisher, ran for your life, or kissed your arse goodbye.
Just when you thought it was safe to go into a Petrol Station or Supermarket again- There is a new Woman’s Weekly out!
“Jacinda’s Message of Hope for Christmas”
(Accompanied by the usual ridiculously airbrushed picture to make her look 25 years old)
I quickly paid for my Petrol and got the heck out of there before I projectile vomited over the magazine rack…
You fool! You have failed the turn the magazine over exam! No NZQA points for you!
Game on! Turn Ardern!
Just back from Countdown..turned ardern at the checkout.
HaHa.
Love your work, Mike.
While picking up the latest copy of OUT ?
Is that really you in the centerfold?
Yesterday I turned them over in three different places; Whitcoulls, Countdown and New World.
Felt real good. Turn Arden guys!
It will be interesting to see just how much Labours proposed hate speech legislation will affect us.
Reading through numerous blogs there are many that are very very critical of Ardern and her useless rag tag bunch.
If we do not give the knee to them are we liable to be punished and shipped off to the neighbourhood gulag ?
They will pick off, individuals where they may seem to have a case.
Any resistance then examples will be made “Pour encourager les autres”.
Legal costs alone will be back breaking, and even if found innocent, the process itself is the punishment.
Then how the fines can be collected, like police seizure or court bailiffs, if you have any assets and/or transfer of monies from bank accounts.
Fines seem to be on the increase, noted in the $4000 dollar fine
An overhaul of the border regime will see Kiwis held for up to 28 days if they refuse a test and punished with a $4000 fine or jail if they break isolation rules.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-19-coronavirus-crackdown-of-border-regime-could-mean-4000-fines-for-rule-breakers/76FDHWCKFAOTR6JJJJKLQBYTDU/
The ones of the right ethnic & considered near poverty lines would be exempted.
But they will not be made to suffer through a court case, as they have been oppressed, colonized, and battling against poverty.
Amazing how after so long with the quarantine gulags in operation Diggy Webb does a quick walk through and finds shitloads to do!
Aren’t cindy and robbo white middle class karens which means they can’t be protected by hate speech rules.
They will come for ysb.
I love these old guys who have the balls to stand up to the promised oppression of socialism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Jz15Ej5S6g
Jon Voight warns America is ‘in great danger’ when Biden takes office
Hollywood actor Jon Voight has released a video on Twitter that offers a dire warning of what’s to come when Joe Biden and his administration take office in January.
From Twitter this morning.
David Farrar has extended a public invitation on 21 January at Parliament grounds to celebrate the removal from office of Donald Trump with non alcoholic ( woke ) champagne breakfast.
The guy should pull his head in, and Ardern Mallard and company should pull theirs in.as well for allowing this use of parliamentary grounds.
An action that is insulting to the US and 75 million plus Trump voters.
I wonder if the US military have a spare drone in the area with a loose trigger. //
Imagine what would be said if someone in the US held a party to celebrate when Dear Leader is finally unseated. There would be woke dismay expressed at their crassness. Hypocrites.
I just hope Farrar ends up with scrambled egg all over his arrogant face.
Ross 12….. Have you seen the video clips of Lt Gen.Michael Flynn heading in or out of his previous Court hearings, and there is always this shot of a Farrar doppleganger at his side.
https://s.abcnews.com/images/Politics/flynn-arrival-02-ap-jrl-171201_16x9_1600.jpg
Like it Toko !!!
Which one is he out of the two hangers on?
I suspect Ardern has given Farrar first pick at the next child rape camp.
He looks the type who likes them reeeeeeal young.
Stopping the Steal: Are things getting interesting now?
Very interesting thing I came across. Source.
I guess this explains why Trump had to rush the pardon for General Flynn. It’s like a Hollywood movie script (before they all turned into child-abusing producers of shit films in the name of “Diversity”)
Nice for Flynn though, he can exact some payback!
Remember Sidney Powell’s “releasing the Kraken”.
Well colour me surprised. Why did none of the mainstream media mention the DoD/US Army 111th Military Intelligence Unit (the one that used to be commanded by Lt General Flynn. Have a guess what their emblem is?
That’s right – it’s a Kraken!
So releasing the Kraken – means Michael Flynn is being let loose on the CIA/FBI motherfuckers who set up the whole trap to keep him out of the way and unable to access top secret info because he was under investigation. And he’s got crack Delta force special forces at his disposal and the full range of military intelligence aparatus at his disposal.
How interesting. That bit about the oath officers take to “defend against enemies foreign and DOMESTIC” is about to get exercised.
It’s looking increasingly like a CIA coup (how many thousands of novels and movies have had a rogue CIA doing this kind of shit).
You can add these latest reports from Bill Still to your file, as well. There is obviously something big going on behind the scenes.
https://www.youtube.com/user/bstill3
I got onto Bill’s reports during the last US election. He is an “old time” journalist who tries hard to report accurately. So you will see in his last two reports about “strange” military flights near where he lives on election night, he is carful to state what he knows and what he cannot confirm.
….and flight tracking buffs who are reporting increased military traffic into Guantanamo..
Thank you Ross. I like the Still Report – now added to my regular (and probably wrongthink/seditious) viewing.
D P That Arsewipe Obumma was responsible for what happened to Flynn and Flynn knows where ALL the bodies are buried ,the next 12 months are going to be extremely embarrassing and dangerous for that bisexual crackhead Barry.
So Worksafe visited White island two weeks before the eruption happened!
Was it a team bonding exercise or did they have worries about people visiting!
A pack of Wellington desk jockeys decide to go overboard and prosecute 13 parties to White Island events a year ago.
The ‘transparent Government ‘ goes stum.
It is ‘before the courts’
We go Sergeant Schultz on you.
Cave Creek. 1995.
14 deaths.
Caused by a Govt Dept.
DOC.
The stupidity is that DOC controls one third of the land in the whole country and is another example of a ‘march through the institutions’
The greenies and weirdos have taken over.
DOC- run by school prefects and those who could not even make that, who are stuck at that level forever.
Let us never forget the CTV Building.
115 people dead.
22 February 2011.
People in shorts, T shirts and sandals who went to the building on a Christchurch summers day.
It was safe!
Christchurch Council said so.
There were classrooms, talking head TV people.
It was not a ‘dangerous site’.
It was not an active volcano.
It was not a methane heavy mine with too few vents and one that should have been open cast, except for, wait for it, greenies.
So nothing done about 115 dead in an inner city building that fell down and killed people but extreme reaction and nit-picking where people died on an active volcano that erupted.
My condolences to the people who died; to the families left behind; and the people who were injured and have lower quality lives from here on.
The incongruence is sickening.
The NZ Govt(s) have promoted adventure tourism for more than 20 years.
Then this happens and they get desk jockeys to lay charges in a scattergun approach.
Not my country.
This will also have serious repercussions on rescue helicopters.
Delays and getting clearance from cops, who will have no idea what is happening so will err on the side of conservatism.
The future: More rules and regulations but adventure tourism will continue.
Until the next adverse event.
Then more rules and regulations, some more absurd than we can imagine today.
Abandon the Southern Alps and stop all tourism! An earthquake of biblical proportions is overdue. Who to blame when it happens and everyone, including the government knew it was coming?
NZ’ers know they live on or among volcanoes and fault lines as they criss-cross the country no matter where you live in NZ. Will health and safety regulations have us all abandon the country? Stupid over reaction.
Quite right waikatogirl.
Why the fuck do they think New Zealand was nicknamed the ‘Shaky Isles’???
Geez
“New Zealand was nicknamed the ‘Shakey Isles’”
Japan: “Hold my beer.”
In light of Stuffed’s new stance on an anti-truth bastion, and racism towards non-brown people they have redone Churchill’s famous ‘fight them on the beaches’ speech.
Churchill Original, 1940:-
We shall go on to the end.
We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air,
we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be.
We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds,
we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills;
we shall never surrender,
The 2020 version from Stuffed and the owner/editor of the $1 rag, Sinead Boucher :-
We shall go on to the end.
We shall lie in print, video, html, audio and any medium,
we shall lie on the seas and airwaves,
we shall publish mistruths with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, on pop up video, and the internet;
we shall denigrate our most southern of Islands and the non-brown colonists, whatever the cost may be.
We shall withhold truth on the newsstands,
we shall berate those who think differently to ourselves on the landing grounds,
we shall print porkies in the fields and in the streets,
we shall lie in print, in video, on radio, and any new medium that comes along;
we shall never tell the truth,
howitis
I have been meaning to ask –did you ever get a reply from ACT when wrote in about the anti-Trump bit in their Free Press article?
No, I did not, Ross.
I sent one email from my gmail account to -reply to newsletter address
plus one from my mail email acct direct to Seymour
No reply on either.
At $150+ in donations this year and some last year that was my first and last venture into political donations.
I’ll stick with selected charities – where I get one third back anyway!
I also attended 3 events in the two weeks prior to the election to show support.
Unless I see some results – I am doubting it – then my engagement with ACT is parked up.
That was so stupid to attack the current elected President of the USA.
If you do that at least go after the warmongers, which is what I said.
70,000,000 people voted for Trump.
In 2017. 13,000 people party voted for ACT.
The idiot who wrote the diatribe is very stupid.
Mmmm. I have $60.
Do I purchase a bottle of 12 year old Glenlivet on special or donate to ACT?
Let me see. Econ 101. Limited resources. Only one can get it….
I will write to 2 MPs whom I talked to at these pre election events – candidates then- and express my disappointment .
No rush. They are on paid holiday until Feb. You average list backbencher MP will have been paid (by taxpayers) gross $60,000 for about 7-8 days work.
No wonder it is sought after and beats picking stone fruit for income.
“Breaking news”
Poo skin shot by poo-lice in the North Island.
Oh dear.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/12/man-shot-twice-by-northland-police-after-police-dog-left-with-gun-injury-to-the-head.html
Silly Mikey. Moves to NZ but hates Maori.
How messed up is that 🤣
Stop upticking yaself birdy. Like yourself with the joooooze..Ive never had much time for the specials. Murder rape and pillage.
Ppfftt..feral scumbags.
At least they belong here. Unlike the fake Jews who invaded the Middle East from Europe.
Read a book retard.
You guys (Mike and Kea) and your ‘friendly banter’ just makes my day!
I’m guessing you crazy kids are probably the best of chums in real life?…
Roomies!
After he shot the poor bloody poolice dog!
Why put the dog in harms way?
Why not just shoot the crime?
Picking it’s the shooter they been looking for!
Police dogs should be regarded the same as police officers when it comes to sentencing.
I regard police dogs much more highly.
I see the poolice shot the man three times!
That worked. Better send them back to the range as I would hate to be his mate and to be in front of him!
I wonder how many mags they emptied to get him three times.
I see the woke wankers are prosecuting volcanologists because a volcano erupted.
But not the gutless pig cunts who tried to stop the rescue and who tried to prosecute the brave civilian rescuers.
Dirty corrupt cowards in costumes.
Just commonsense, as touched on in my link above.
https://ysb.co.nz/have-your-say-595/#comment-109201
…… Six Italian scientists and an ex-government official have been sentenced to six years in prison over the 2009 deadly earthquake in L’Aquila……
….. Prosecutors said the defendants gave a falsely reassuring statement before the quake,
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-20025626
Convicted, but of what? Supposedly for manslaughter, but how?
Run Chicken Little, it is true, earth quakes will happen.
Volcanoes will blow up ….. Run chicken run.
The are all out to get you.
Hey Mikey you seem a bit stressed. Boyfriend troubles?
Here’s a good comedy to cheer you up. Nothing like fiction for an escape from reality:
http://fr.web.img5.acsta.net/c_215_290/medias/nmedia/18/92/48/88/20202848.jpg
Bird can you come and pick up your Dave, Ive finished with her/him and it wont STFU.
Sit him at a bar with a lady drink. You know the rest.
Rumors, Rumors and more Rumors
Yesterday I heard that either FBI DIrector Wrey or CIA director Hapsel were in Frankfurt at the time of the Special Forces raid on the CIA server farm…..later there were rumors that it was Hapsel who had been shot at the CIA facility in Frankfurt….
Have a look at this…Hapsel found dead of ‘natural causes’….
https://voxday.blogspot.com/
“Shock at Langley right now as this just has circulated around DC about an hour ago. Now its going viral in gov circles but there is currently a strict news blackout.”
The dam has to break soon. Twitter bans a guy giving testimony during the Arizona hearing. The guy basically reverse engineered the algorithm used. Apparently just like Gettysburg there was a huge amount of damning evidence produced in AZ.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/no-dissent-allowed-twitter-suspends-arizona-gop-witness-bobby-piton-blistering-testimony-election-fraud/
In Michigan where the next event is going to held the GOP Head of the Oversight Committee says he will not allow Rudi G into the hearing (another bought and paid for RINO !!) But I’m sure Jenna Ellis can do just as well as Rudi
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/gop-chairman-michigan-oversight-committee-will-not-allow-president-trumps-attorney-rudy-giuliani-testify-tuesday-hearing/
On Sep 9 2020 Robbo, being interviewed by HDPA, categorically ruled out changes to the Bright Line Test (amongst others). He needs to be held to this.
Robertson: Labour will not introduce any new taxes beyond this announcement
“What the policy says, there’ll be no other changes to tax beyond what we’ve announced today,” he said, adding the narrow caveat that excise on tobacco and alcohol would continue to be assessed annually as part of the Budget process. “But nothing in terms of those other taxes.”
Du Plessis-Allan needed convincing. What about the bright-line test?
“No,” Robertson responded.
Not the rate, and not the years?
“No,” Robertson said, by point, laughing
…..“But nothing in terms of those other taxes.”……
Just another way of confirming that they’ll inflate their way out of the hole their free spending has created.
Is that his arse dragging on the ground!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fFQ_vGuqhM
Election GAME CHANGER as SHOCKING Reports of VOTER FRAUD Revealed at AZ Hearings!!!
Dr Steve Turley
Asking the questions!
@JennaEllisEsq
to the Arizona state legislature: You are the sole guardian to combat a corrupted election
https://twitter.com/i/status/1333590893409034240
2 mins 45 seconds
The media coverage will not cover the evidence, or consider the issues at hand that was bought up at the State legislature.
Missed one Earlier this morning Dr. Turley released this utube. 🙂
He has been a bit quite since Pennsylvania slipped through its certification.
This was an on again, off again then on again.
HUGE Win for Trump as Judge Orders Dominion Voting Machines in Georgia IMPOUNDED!!!
https://youtu.be/0YH03jBS9NQ
12 mins 18 secs : • Dec 1, 2020 : Dr. Turley.
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Jill Stein, USA Green Party, a case last month. showed the voting system is not transparent, not voter friendly, and also arguing that American’s have the right to inspect the machines though it seems it was 4 years in the making.
when Stein sought access to the software code used in Wisconsin’s voting machines — something state law permits for recount petitioners — the vendors who made the voting machines waged a protracted legal fight that has left Stein’s computer experts still waiting to see the code, four years later.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/02/one-big-flaw-in-how-americans-run-elections-433820
But then look at the shenanigans then, and what followed, to try and stop any more looking at how an election is won.
The history of this is shocking, as it seems to be run as fiefdom, for the ones who gets their snouts in a trough.
And hear I am, sort of supporting a Green, well in checking out election systems.
Then the ones decrying about no evidence is bought forward to the Judge.
Seem to be just as ready to be as corrupt, do not support audits, saying recounts are fair.
Do they really believe in transparency for a government?, when they are prepared to cover, disguise, and hinder people getting to the truth.
I am including NZ media, NZ bloggers, NZ universities, and some commentators on other blogs, who do not seem to believe things should be tested out, to find the truth.
Nor do I want to go down every rabbit hole, a bit of a probe maybe, but some things take time to rise up, and be seen, with confirming evidence.
The risk is others lay false trails, use other incidents to blur, dust over, and sell red-herrings to waste time, energy & money.
For US political junkies…and further to my 2.40pm post….
I worked with a guy who was full of BS…we knew what he said was BS, but he was still good to listen to…a bit like a bed time story….with that in mind I direct you to this site, while hoping that it is the good oil.
Remember it’s 2020…anything outrageous is possible
https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/rumors-scuttlebutt-and-high-octane-speculation/
I finally bought a bottle of 2018 Grant Burge Barossa Ink Shiraz on the advice of a couple of wine connoiseurs on YSB.
50% pricier than the Selaks Shiraz a la Pac n’ Sav that I usually treat myself to on a Friday.
First impressions: the 2018 Grant Burge Barossa Ink Shiraz has very little tannin or oaky flavors, but is very dark (hence the “ink” name). It’s actually noticibly sweeter than most of the budget Shiraz I come across. Almost too sweet. It is like drinking cherry juice.
I need to study it a bit more, but I am not that impressed by the sweetness. Maybe the 2018 needs to be cellared for a couple of years. But then, what do I know.
Has anyone else tried this wine?
“Has anyone else tried this wine?”
Alcohol is evil and soon to be banned.
Pills at Festivals are just ‘Amazeballs’ though- according to Queen Jacinda…
Alcohol has been an integral part of Japanese culutre for millenia.
The non-drinkers should respect diversity. They can have their misery; I shall have my (budget) red wine.
It’s part of my culture also Odakyu- sen!
I’m a mix of Scottish and French- So wine and whiskey…
Cheers and enjoy them while we can! I strongly suspect this freaking lunatic Left-Wing Government will attempt to ban both within a few years…
I hope that they don’t throw the book at you poor old piss heads. There’s no way that the penalties for imbibing alcohol should be more harsh than those faced by marijuana users currently;
“Possession of instruments for the purpose of taking drugs
(eg, a pipe, bong, needles, syringes, spotting knife)
one year imprisonment and/or $500 fine
Cultivation of prohibited plants
(eg, cannabis)
Indictment – seven years imprisonment. Summarily – two years jail and/or $2,000 fine
Having in your possession seed or fruit of a prohibited plant
one year imprisonment and/or $500 fine”
https://www.police.govt.nz/advice/drugs-and-alcohol/illicit-drugs-offences-and-penalties
A few months in medium security will pass quickly. 🙂
Hate to break it to you Nasska but Police stopped charging people for ‘possession’ donkey’s years ago..
You can open the curtains and come out from behind the sofa now!
Crap! This article is dated 1 July 2020.
…..”But the police are, in fact, very much still arresting. In 2019, there were 5,740 charges for cannabis offences, 59% of which were for possession/use, and according to an investigation by Derek Cheng in the New Zealand Herald, the Misuse of Drugs Amendment Bill “has had hardly any impact, leading the Drug Foundation to describe the law changes as “a complete failure”.”…..
https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/31-07-2020/think-were-no-longer-criminalising-people-for-using-cannabis-think-again/
The Spinoff dragging up some druggie who claims he went to jail for ‘two plants’ is hardly creditible evidence mate…
Show me anyone in jail for merely having ‘two Cannabis plants’ and I’ll show you a fucking liar!
I note this character makes no mention of his other criminal charges/ history…Hmmm
A while back David Garrett of Kiwiblog note pushed the same line as you have. ie no-one was in jail for simple possession.
Graham Edgler, whose opinions on most things I respect immensely took him for the $100 bet offered. I don’t have access to the thread presently but the gist of it was that the info revealed under an information request showed that more than a few had received custodial sentences when possession was the only charge.
Of course possession of marijuana is used by the cops as a streetsweeper charge much the same as “drunk & disorderly” was used forty years ago.
The real world is not always on display.
And ” 5,740 charges for cannabis offences” is not the same as a “druggie who claims he went to jail for ‘two plants’”.
We are more evolved to handle alcohol than we are grains.
Our ancestors ate fermented fruits, long before they tried grass seeds.
However – we are better off avoiding both. All carbs are toxic. We have a tolerance, but that does not equate to healthy.
Stick with the herb man! 🙂
Alcohol is responsible for 1 in 20 deaths globally, every year.
While we worry about a 0.0001 chance of dying from covid.
According to a stuff article red wine immunises against heart attacks and arteries clogging!
Only accurate article they have ever published!
Ah the old “moderation” argument.
I was wrong- now I find..
Just one thing makes me forget…
But what about driving? YSB has a few nannies convinced that people driving under the influence of the dreaded plant will cause carnage on the roads. Yet:
……”A research note published by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (PDF) found that, when adjusting for other factors, having a detectable amount of THC (the main psychoactive ingredient in cannabis) in your blood did not increase the risk of being involved in a car crash. Having a blood-alcohol level of at least 0.05%, on the other hand, increased that risk by 575%.”……
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/alcohol-marijuana-which-worse-health-2017-11?r=US&IR=T
Of course responsible drinkers & tokers would take a taxi but let us not deny them their prejudices.
Mikey wants to know if booze will smooth out the buzz from the poppers – he snorts all night in the back alleys of Thailand?
From Wikipedia:
…..”Popper use has a relaxation effect on involuntary smooth muscles, such as those in the throat and anus.[1][2] It is used for practical purposes to facilitate anal sex by increasing blood flow and relaxing sphincter muscles”……
I used to carry poppers when we were possuming using cyanide but why would Mikey use them? 🙂
Mikey said he also likes Rohypnol when he goes on a
rapedate with his boyfriend.Crikey, i reckon you two should get a room if you could tolerate each other..?
We are in a moment of global reckoning with the pandemic sweeping across the globe, worldwide protests for racial justice and the climate emergency. Misinformation, hate speech and fake news is fueling and distorting all of these challenges. It acts as a virus. It exploits our weaknesses. Our biases. Our prejudices. Our emotions. Often we share on impulse. Before verifying content. Before letting the endorphins subside. The hope of the UN is to create a global moment that will encourage us all to fight misinformation around COVID-19 by pausing before we share content and stories with our loved ones, friends and colleagues.’
https://irishsavant.blogspot.com/2020/11/interpreting-signs.html?m=1
Ain’t we luck cindy saved all 5mil of us, by going early and hard!
Sooty, not according to this peer reviewed science in a prestigious leading medical journal. But enough from me, over to the experts:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30208-X/fulltext
Anyone watch that tv program on Taranaki town Waitara?
Started myself but soon turned it off. Memories, don’t pass for pure shite!
Thick as a brick, wanna be, try hards, that came across as a bun h of idiots!
To think someone paid for that to be made and thought they had made a good job!
White Island volcano should be charged by
Wanksafe for being a volcano.
Robbo is a fat lying poof.
Jacin-DUH is as real as unicorn piss and
half as intelligent.
Covid is a load of shit.
Helen Clark has a penis.
Fishboy is a disgrace to real NZ men.
I’m tired. Enjoy your evening.
” I have some concerns around the use of emergency language as potentially nurturing an approach to climate action that is built on fear and panic.”
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/analysis-what-does-declaring-a-climate-emergency-actually-do/6U3YQFOLDTZCCBWZ4ETXLHLDOE/
It’s an opportunity to wear the frowny face and point the boney finger!
Other than that bugger all!
Another aspect, the slow ratcheting up, so that we find councils, governments, doing things, charging many people, fees, levies and taxes that under the point of the “emergency” something has to be done.
Global Legal Action Network (GLAN), a non-profit that specializes in representing human rights cases, is supporting the litigation, which now goes to each of the individual nations after the court’s ruling. The 33 countries will have until the end of February to respond to the allegations, unless a settlement between each nation and the plaintiffs is reached before then.
https://disrn.com/news/european-court-of-human-rights-greenlights-portuguese-lawsuit-against-33-nations-for-climate-policy-inaction
So a settlement, seems to be a bit more than banning plastic bags or straws.
Some one will clipping the ticket, on more wasteful projects.
All you anti-wokers will be pleased to know Lewis Hamilton has the lurgy and can not race this weekend.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-9004419/Lewis-Hamilton-tested-positive-coronavirus.html?ito=push-notification&ci=56041&si=21482140
How can that be Hog, he wears a mask !~
He made me puke with his virtue signaling by wearing a mask on the podium and during the speech, then he dives into the assembled pit crew (crowd surfing style) with no mask. Complete hypocrite.
Kahma is good for fixing the woke ones
Your sweet nothings, into the ear of your dearest, could be regarded as “hate speech” in Norway.
legislature adopted (without even a vote) a new criminal law that punishes people for saying anything deemed hate speech toward transgender people in their own home or private conversations.
……. declared victory because speech regulation must be “adapted to the practical situations that arise.”
The “practical situation” includes speaking to your own spouse or family.
….. allowing people to speak out against transgender values or issues “has been an eyesore for trans people for many, many years.” ……………..
…….. ………… ………
….. free speech advocates, …. …… this road leads in places like Norway. ……
Once we cross the Rubicon into speech criminalization and controls, Europe has shown that it is rarely possible to work back to liberties lost.
We are moving into potentially the most anti-free speech period of American [New Zealand’s] history — and possibly the most anti-free speech Administration.
Many politicians are already arguing for citizens to give up their free speech rights in forums like the Internet.
With the media echoing many of these anti-free speech sentiments, it will require a greater effort of those who value the First Amendment and its core place in our Constitutional [waitangalized] system.
https://jonathanturley.org/2020/11/29/norway-criminalizes-hate-people-against-transgender-people-in-private-homes-or-conversations/
Some commentd:-
a Norwegian law professor offering a lame defense: “The bar for prosecution is high, requiring direct incitement against people or language that dehumanizes them, she said.
” No it’s not a “high bar” at all, when the victim group gets to decide what is “dehumanizing language based on their feelings; it’s a limitless warrant.
if you are alone in your house, can you then speak freely?
Just don’t let Alexa hear you.
Think of Parsons – “When he is turned into the Thought Police, he is grateful that he is caught before he causes any damage to the Party society. He is even proud of his daughter for having the intelligence to turn him in.” https://1984literaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2011/03/characterization-parsons.html
Seems to be the next point beyond “1984”
Liberty lost is hard to gain back. ….. Who wants to go down the road of lost liberty?
___ ____ —– —- ____ _______
One gets the feelings that the NZ Labour government is viewing how to put all aspects of this into NZ laws, whether one big step, or a series of steps, and at which differing levels.
It will never go back, but ratchet to total thought control.
“Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.” John Adams, 1775