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Bwhahaha! Trumpy. He’s the best. Doesn’t F around. Tells it like it is.
The panty wearers hate him! Good. TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD!!
I would settle for a PM with his attitude.
for any decent effect in our system we would need 61mps with his attitude.
pretty much we’re fucked
Here I am!
Waiting for your ACT acceptance as a challanger for Nelson.
Let us know when it is DONE
meh..too busy doing …nothing
Famous in your own mind then?
You obviously don’t know who I am..I mean, don’t you know who I am ??!!!
Sorry Tori
At the risk of ruining your morning, this somewhat-long piece from Michael Bassett about ‘The Treaty’ (Yes, we all know which one) might be of interest…
I doubt however that, because it is election year, politicians of ANY persuasion will be in the least bit interested in what he has to say…
HE TREATY OR TE TIRITI? IT MATTERS….. – Michael Bassett.
If you are watching the bizarre goings on at Waitangi, keep an eye out for which politicians use the term “The Treaty”, and which refer to what was signed on 6 February 1840 as “Te Tiriti”. The Treaty is the term that was used originally, and it described a three-clause document that ceded sovereignty over New Zealand for ever to Queen Victoria. In return, the Queen guaranteed Maori chiefs control over their lands and “taonga”, and in the third clause guaranteed Maori the same “rights and duties” as were enjoyed at that time by Englishmen. The Treaty of Waitangi is the name by which the document was known for more than 150 years.
It is the name of the legislation that established the Waitangi Tribunal set up in 1975, and it was the name of the document that 150 years of existence was celebrated by the 1990 Commission that I chaired. Two distinguished Maori, the Maori Queen, Dame Te Ata, and the Governor-General, Sir Paul Reeves, served as patrons of the 1990 Commission. Queen Elizabeth II called it “The Treaty” when she spoke at Waitangi on 6 February 1990. All New Zealanders recognise the Treaty by that name. Two decades later, many historical claims about ways in which the Treaty was inadequately recognised had been heard, and many settlements of grievances had been arrived at that were deemed in legislation to be “full and final”.
What followed is the cause of much of today’s angst. In 2008 Helen Clark’s government decreed quite sensibly that the time for lodging historical claims against the Crown was now over. In retrospect we can see there ought to have been a gradual reduction in the funds for the Waitangi Tribunal once a substantial part of its work had been concluded. That didn’t happen. John Key’s incoming government instead sent Minister Peter Sharples to the United Nations where he signed New Zealand up to the Indigenous Rights Tribunal. There was no prior discussion about the fact that Maori, who by their own admission, had come from the Pacific Islands, weren’t indigenous. Before long, a whole load of claptrap about indigenous rights started flowing into New Zealand. No recognition was given internationally to the fact that unlike all other countries, Maori were uniquely blessed with their Treaty arrangements with the New Zealand government. Maori matters were never John Key’s strong point, and there was no significant reduction in the Waitangi Tribunal’s taxpayer-provided funds.
The result was that a full-sized Tribunal was soon awash with resources, and meddlesome Maori and woke Pakeha on the body started looking for ways to spend our money. By 2013-2014 the Tribunal was full steam ahead on a project to redesign the 1840 Treaty itself. They concentrated their attention on whether the chiefs had actually ceded sovereignty to the queen. Inevitably, they arrived at the conclusion that sovereignty was never ceded. This was a significant development. It meant that the Tribunal had concluded that Maori still exercised sovereignty over New Zealand and, by inference therefore, the rest of the Treaty’s clauses were less relevant. Maori were still in charge of their lands, lives and customs no matter how outdated they might be.
The Tribunal was too shrewd to declare outright that the Treaty had lost its most important clause. Instead their creation was referred to by a new name, “Te Tiriti”. Not many onlookers realised the significance of what the over-funded Tribunal had just done. Historians didn’t push back to much extent. Only Ewen McQueen in his One Sun in the Sky: the Untold Story of Sovereignty and the Treaty of Waitangi tackled the issue. He has shown that the Waitangi Tribunal’s report is nonsense. Maori ceded sovereignty alright, and were proud to have done so.
Nonetheless, trouble makers were soon on the scene. A young Waikato lawyer, Roimata Smail, produced a slim booklet “Understanding Te Tiriti” which concentrated on the sovereignty issue. She assiduously pushed it into school libraries so that the next generation could be taught bullshit. Many Maori, most of whom these days contain much more European ancestry, took up the call to rename the Treaty. Before long, some politicians also started talking about “Te Tiriti”. Not David Seymour. His Treaty Principles Bill was designed to enshrine the original under-standings about the Treaty in law. Most politicians, however, were too lazy to study the differences between the Treaty and “Te Tiriti” and just took the easy, politically correct way out, and referred to “Te Tiriti”.
Here is the danger. Carelessness over a long time develops a life of its own. The Waitangi Tribunal is still carrying on with hearings on absurd claims which threaten our future, while the assertion about not ceding sovereignty is in danger of winning widespread acceptance. It is high time that the Tribunal is brought down to earth, its budget severely clipped, and its Maori sovereignty assertions shown the backdoor.
In election year it is time to wake up lazy political aspirants. Quiz them. Do they know what they are signing up to if they talk about “Te Tiriti”? Have they decided that the Crown can exercise no control over Maori? After all, aren’t Maori conspicuously the least law-abiding of all settlers, comprising 52% of our prison inmates while forming only 17% of the total population? What do they think will happen if the Crown no longer exercises any jurisdiction over Maori? How can they guarantee the safety of everyone else? Does “Te Tiriti” contain an Article guaranteeing equal rights for everyone?
^ https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/michael-bassett-the-treaty-or-te-tiriti-it-matters#:~:
As I posted yesterday where Shubz show’s the modern maori elite system to rule.
Last year in November.
https://www.tiktok.com/@shubzlive/video/7575881365497859348?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc
circa 5 minutes : 2025-11-24 USA date?
Did the elite put out a “contract”?
Now the activation to bring on that full maori control.
Te New Zealand Bloke
The Harawira’s and there henchmen… Such quality leaders for the rangatahi…
https://nitter.net/i/status/2020224533857538383
2 mins : 7th February, 2026
I see more of the Toitū te Tiriti symbols & signs that are taken up by a number of young maori.
That is to make their rights.
They have also pushed the Te Tiriti shit into councils and made each one subservient to the local tribal grifters. The only time you see or hear from our mayor” woke woman in her 40s” is when there is some shit to do with the tribe.
On who rules what.
Interesting piece on who should rule NZ.
Why judicial power should have a use-by date –
by: Lady Deborah Chambers
THE FACTS
Judicial leadership roles in New Zealand could have fixed terms to encourage reform and prevent stagnation.Fixed terms would separate judging from governance, maintaining judicial independence while enhancing accountability.This change would align with practices in England, Wales and Australia, promoting renewal and diversity.In New Zealand, we are comfortable with one idea almost to the point of reflex: that the longer a judge holds power, the safer our democracy must be.
That instinct is only half right.
Judges should be independent. But it does not follow that judicial leadership, the power to govern courts, set culture and shape institutions should be held indefinitely. Treating those two things as inseparable has become a constitutional habit rather than a principled choice. And habits deserve scrutiny.
This is not an argument about how judges decide cases. It is an argument about who runs the courts and for how long.
Over the past few decades, the role of the Chief Justice and the Principal Judges of the various benches – Court of Appeal, High Court and various District Courts – has expanded well beyond adjudication. These roles are powerful. They now involve managing large public institutions, allocating judicial resources, issuing practice directions, shaping court culture, engaging with the executive and representing the judiciary publicly. This is not judging in another form. It is governance.
Yet in New Zealand, these leadership roles are typically open-ended. That might once have seemed natural. However, in a modern constitutional democracy, it looks increasingly anomalous. A judge may hold the role for a decade or more, limited only by retirement or personal choice. Our last Chief Justice was in the role for 20 years. That would be exceptional for an equivalent CEO of a major company or government department. CEOs internationally hold the role for about five years (or less), with the trend towards shorter tenure as boards respond more quickly to performance issues and strategy shifts. In practice, public service department CEOs are appointed to fixed-term contracts, typically around four-five years, which can be renewed.
We live in a world that is changing astonishingly fast. Artificial intelligence (AI) will arguably be the demise of civil litigation. Our court system desperately needs to change. In some parts, it is broken, certainly from the consumer’s perspective. Fixed-term tenures would encourage those appointed to get on and make changes that have an impact while they have their hands on the levers. Term limits for leadership roles would reduce the potential for stagnation and detachment from contemporary values.
Internationally, New Zealand would not be striking out alone if it implemented term limits. In England and Wales, judges retain secure tenure, but senior judicial leadership roles are time-limited. The Lord Chief Justice is appointed for a fixed term (up to seven years), as are heads of division. When those terms end, judges return to ordinary judicial work. The distinction is deliberate: judging is permanent, governing is not.
Australia offers similar examples, particularly at the state level, where Chief Judges and heads of jurisdiction commonly serve fixed leadership terms. Judicial independence has not been weakened. Courts still function. Public confidence has not evaporated.
What fixed terms do achieve is clarity and restraint. They reinforce the idea that leadership is a service role, exercised for a time, rather than a permanent elevation. They reduce the risk (inevitable in any human institution) of entrenchment, stagnation or court administration becoming overly identified with one personality or judicial philosophy. Open-ended terms can lead to consolidation of informal power, resistance to structural reform and dominance of one judicial philosophy for a generation. Even exemplary judges can become overly invested in “their” system and insulated from critique.
Five to seven years is not a token tenure. It is long enough to set direction, implement reform and see major initiatives through. But it is short enough to ensure that no single judge governs a court for a generation.
Renewal becomes part of the design. Some appointments have obvious strengths that are sought at the time. For example, a judge may have real expertise in tikanga-based restorative justice, which is a sought-after skill at the time of appointment. That has much to commend it. The judge contributes that skill base to the job, hopefully makes positive change within their term, and then other proficiencies can be brought to the role with the next appointee.
The good news is we have an enormous amount of talent in our judiciary, with many capable judges who have the experience to do an excellent job in governance roles. Terms would mean the ability to refresh leadership for gender balance, tikanga/cultural competence, criminal versus civil expertise,and management versus jurisprudential strengths.
There is also a legitimacy gain. Senior judges wield significant institutional influence, but they are not democratically accountable, nor should they be. Fixed, non-renewable terms provide a modest form of temporal accountability without elections, popularity contests or reappointment pressure. Power is exercised, then handed on.
Some will worry that any term limit threatens judicial independence. That concern deserves respect, but it misses the mark. Independence protects decision-making, not permanent control over administrative authority. No judge’s tenure, salary or decisional autonomy would be affected. Judges would continue to decide cases free from interference. The proposal separates judging from governance, rather than blurring them.
Others will argue that continuity matters, that courts benefit from long-serving leaders with deep institutional memory that (hopefully) acts as a stabilising force during political or social upheaval. That is true, up to a point. But continuity does not require permanence. Staggered leadership terms, deputy roles and the collective experience of the bench can preserve institutional memory without concentrating authority indefinitely in one office.
Fixed terms encourage leadership development, broaden experience and avoid over-reliance on a small cadre of repeat office-holders.
So what would actually change in New Zealand?
Very little – and that is the point. Judges would still be appointed until retirement. The Chief Justice and Principal Judges would still be chosen through existing appointment processes, although preferably with a codified, transparent appointment process. The only change would be statutory: the administrative powers attached to those leadership roles would be expressly time-limited; for example, to a single non-renewable term of five to seven years, after which the judge would return to ordinary judicial work. Judicial independence would remain untouched; judicial governance would become deliberately temporary.
This is not a radical proposal. It does not politicise the courts or diminish judicial authority. If anything, the current system politicises the Chief Justice role in particular – Dame Jacinda Ardern, as our Prime Minister, had the task of appointing our Chief Justice. The reality is that a Chief Justice would likely be in the role for the long haul.
Arguably any Prime Minister would have someone of a similar worldview to theirs in the role. That would be perfectly understandable. American jurists would laugh at any suggestion that appointments are not political. Shorter fixed terms lower the political temperature and reduce the incentives to game succession. It recognises a modern reality: courts are large, complex public institutions and institutional power should be exercised carefully, transparently and for defined periods.
Judicial independence is not threatened by reform. It is threatened by the unexamined belief that longevity and legitimacy are the same thing.
Judging should remain independent for life. Governing should not.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/why-judicial-power-should-have-a-use-by-date-deborah-chambers/premium/RXU5JAJ5BBELJJT37FMIRFKSUE/
couldn’t agree more. That would fire the Waitangi lot out the door.
so here is todays example of a plonker judge trying to make the rules.
The Government’s move to scale back a controversial plan to allow for two million homes in Auckland’s new planning rules could force the protracted process to start again from scratch, Mayor Wayne Brown has warned.
Council chief executive Phil Wilson said this could mean reworking planning maps, reopening submissions, delaying the process by six months and adding several million dollars in costs.
Pressure is also coming on the Government from outside the council, with the Herald revealing that a retired Chief Environment Court Judge has urged the Government to halt its suburban plans and limit intensification to the five City Rail Link (CRL) stations.
Then of course, the weak-kneed, limp-wristed Nats roll in.
Last month, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Housing Minister Chris Bishop announced the Government would water down the densification rules, with Bishop saying the Government is weighing a range of options for the targets.
At the time, Herald political columnist Matthew Hooton said National strategists had realised the two million figure had become a lightning rod for criticism and could spook potential blue voters who don’t want apartment blocks built alongside their homes.
Bishop’s solution is expected to focus intensification in the city centre, around CRL stations and along major transport corridors, while pulling back from the suburbs and reducing the overall housing capacity.
Brown and Wilson said the Government had to be careful in making changes to the planning rules, known as Plan Change 120.
“The ball is in the central Government’s court in how they handle any change to the process, including the theoretical housing yield [that allows capacity for two million houses over the coming decades],“ Wilson said.
“Our request of the Government is to move quickly, create certainty as soon as possible in terms of the process and what they expect of the council.”
Brown said he doesn’t want to restart the process, saying people had submitted on Plan Change 120 and want intensification around public transport services.
In response, Bishop said any changes to Plan Change 120 would have implications for the existing process and the Government is carefully working through all of this, but no Cabinet decisions have been made.
“I don’t intend to comment in advance of those decisions, other than to say it is legally complicated,” the minister said, adding that a decision was a few weeks away.
Laurie Newhook, who sat on the Environment Court for 25 years, nine of which as Chief Judge, told the Herald PC120 was one of the worst plans he had seen.
It goes on.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland/mayor-wayne-brown-hopes-new-auckland-planning-rules-wont-mean-going-back-to-square-one/premium/HHFZE42U4ZEZLIC7QUEV3AFE6I/
Great to increase the migrants into Auckland. Just build houses apartments, …. Yeah right ….
Well it is better than Calcutta, Delhi, Bombay, or Manilla or Shanghai for the time being.
Water supply?
Sewerage systems?
Electricity supply & Grid?
All the time expecting the rest of New Zealand to pay up on Carbon Net Zero, as the ones that arrive here can increase their carbon foot print.
So long as new stadiums, cycle-ways, hospitals, schools, universities, all to keep people focused on the “kindness” & “well being” which will be well subsidized from the rest of NZ, to set up a top line public transport systems are the way to go as it is a money-hole to bleed out of the rest of NZ.
The the rest of the country is then expected to help renew the overloaded problematic infrastructure, to save the affected personified “whales” & to save the “personified” beaches to have rights too.
Then with all that subsidization, public money expenditure, and all the migrants finding ways to also collect from government like “work for family benefits, free medical, free
educationindoctrination expect to keep inflation down? … Yeah right …..The global kindly socialists are set to win.
For once I am grateful for the Nats spineless ways. Anything that winds back the ridiculous plan change 120 works for me.
Hay cunt, shut the fuck up! You were sucking the tit for twenty five long years!
Well paid for twenty five years at that. Twice as much as the man in the street!
Now piss off! You had more than your fair turn.
Shut up it’s someone else’s turn.
How would you have felt if your predecessor, whinged about you!
Old coots should be seen and not heard!
sooty, he is allowed his views, and you are right, he was there to long which related to the article from Chambers above.
One wonders if it mattered to him why he didn’t have a say when the rules were being made. He could have. he could have published his views then. But no
Tor-poo, where’s that? Tor-poo..Ohh… TAUPO!! Well fucking say Towerpo then, you PC maggot, Jody Gill !!
It was explained to me that it was “Toe Paw”. But I’m really struggling to care.
Right back at the pedantic vowel instructors:
“Yous”, used by Maori, as in more than one individual, is not correct English.
It’s different when the specials do it.
Mate, whenever I go to Towerpo, which is quite regularly, I have to say any Plonker who is an Announcer or whatever they call themselves on a Radio Station there, definitely does not know from whence they are Broadcasting from. It always seems to be some shithole called Toor Poo.
I am glad it is not the same place I am destined for, that day.
Anyone have a listener access?
Interesting article.
Fran Collett shook up the “old boys’ club” that was the parliamentary Press Gallery, pictured in 1966 with Speaker of the House, Ronald Algie. Her own papers provide an incendiary record of her relationships. Photo / Supplied
Annus Mirabilis
Sexual intercourse began
In nineteen sixty-three
(which was rather late for me) –
Between the end of the “Chatterley” ban
And the Beatles’ first LP.
– Philip Larkin
Be interesting to read it all if we could.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/the-listener/new-zealand/sex-politics-and-spies-did-a-female-reporters-liaisons-with-powerful-nz-figures-risk-national-security-at-the-height-of-the-cold-war/premium/EDH7AZUDCNBKRGSQQ5QR5B55OQ/
is rawiri and tamatha paul going to be at tarrants side to advocate his sentence be repealed and the poor chap be released from that evil prison… an ankle bracelet and a circle of trust convo at a marae will suffice, im sure of it//////
Dunno. But I also don’t know why we have to house him. Why can’t he be sent home to do his time at Aus’s expense?
501 return to sender – ➤🇦🇺
He shouldn’t even be breathing. He is guilty. Cut its throat. I’ll do it. For free even.
For killing muzzrats he deserves a medal – unless the whole thing was a false flag as some believe.
He wasn’t even enough, and conspiracy says that he wasn’t the one who pulled the trigger.
But as we can’t see any videos, we will never know the truth.
Be if he was 501’ed, he would be walking the streets a freeman!
The joy of communism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pICDKxbx8Js
EPIC meltdown says what we all think
Rotten Politics
sometimes meltdowns can be refreshing
This was one of those moments
Jeepers. That escalated quickly.
Britain is a tip. The illegals use the streets as a rubbish dump and the fly tipping in the countryside is distressing and an eyesore. They treat the women of Britain in much the same way, as trash.
Latest murder, guy there for 11 weeks before stabbing a woman with a baby 23 times then dances over her body.
A 79 y.o ex fencing contractor trying to dispose of old explosives, Mossburn, Southland , just by S.B. went to the Police who told him to return it to the manufacturer. Finally we took it out the back country and it blew up and killed him with a spontaneous explosion before he could do it.
Again we have the same old – lets change things now that someone has been killed.
“Police said work was already underway to improve how such situations were handled, including guidance “accessible to all staff via an application on police-issued devices” that sets out the required actions when members of the public report possessing disused explosives.
“In addition, the standard operating procedures used by police communications staff for managing such reports have been reviewed to ensure they remain current and fit for purpose,” police replied to the coroner.”
I said this the other day – lessons will be learnt etc etc. Why didn’t he just take it and strap it onto some speed camera poles around the area.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/coroner-calls-for-clearer-guidance-after-southland-man-dies-detonating-old-explosives/JQ7XIQQV7ZFLRGI7RLBXDUPEPA/
Or put it under one of the new ugly camera trailers!
They stand out like dogs balls.
He won’t do that again.
Was he left or right handed?
Today’s birthdays
Christopher Roberts
74 years old
Happy Birthday, Christopher!
Happy Birthday, Christopher.
Hush hush
Whisper who dares
Christopher Roberts…
Sorry wrong dude. Happy Birthday.
Same to you for two days ago. You will always be older than me
True that is. We get wiser as we get older, you and I.
There are a few with a lot of catching up to do.
Happy birthday Viking.
Many happy returns.
Happy Birthday Ed! A few of us got together and. . .oh hang on
Yes but you may pass him if he turns his toes up first. Happy Birthday Ed.
Happy birthday Ed. 🤠 🎈 🎂 🍷
Viking, bum link to wordpress
which link.
All Vikings links are bum links. “whoop whoop incoming”…🪖🔫💥
I have a good one to ACT and am waiting for your news.
Phoar..74 eh. 👴Happy B’Day, you old bastard. 👏🎂
I’m 60 in March if anyone’s interested. *deathly silence* Thought not.😊
I’ll carry on then unrewarded. As you were. 👋
Might have to find ya at one of the sprig and ferns for a pint then, as I should be back in Nelson around then
mrs sb turns 36 march aswell… i turn 39, our bdays are a week apart so least i cant really forget but not like i need to remember cuz i dont get her anything.
looks like a few cold winters and bit of snuggling goin on to be having march babies lol.
60 and already over the hill.
Get something to do before you suffer like poor old naaska and your dementia sets in.
Shag the new wife, Hunty knows what a female is for!
LOL, Mike, your day will be filled with anticipation waiting for Viking to ask you why you’re not still working like he is? Work is everything for some.
Sadly, the trope that “womens’ work is never done” is due to cleaning up around our older husbands. Do younger men such as yourself still use blinkers like the older models? 🧐
PS Viking, Chill. I’m not having a go at your work ethic that you often insist is the only right lifestyle for everyone.
One needs a hobby because old folks without one die.
I have at least 20 years left according to my family’s genes.
..but I do like the older model WG..😏😉
I couldn’t or wouldn’t keep up with a young stud like you Mike 😘
im sure you could handle 30-40 seconds of him flailing around and panting wg 🤣
Well why did you marry a young’un?
Lol. I’m young and hip. Still wear jean shorts, thongs (feet), act like I’m 12 years old. They tell me I look late 40’s. I put that down to my mum’s genes. She always looked young, as does my sister, who’s a drunk btw but won’t go there.. “ya farkin hear me ya DRUNK!!…ya NEVER LISTENED hiccc burrrrpp!! sorry I digress. Anyway, where was I….
yea if that photo you sent me of you and mrs hunty a while ago is legit then you could pass as late 40s, early 50s if you having a bad hair day. they younger thing hanging off your arm helps too!
You forgot the faaarrrttt!
Happy birthday!
looks like luxon is begging trump to 100% tariff nz goods…. all so he can virtue signal on behalf of his obama mates.
shut the fark up you bald cnut, worry about your own farking country and its devisive and racist shit before you go critising the leader of a superpower that with the stroke of a pen can absolutely destroy the economy you pin your election hopes on. fucking muppet
https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360935702/luxon-trump-should-apologise-racist-obama-primate-post
This clown really is his own worst enemy. His problem is that he is not a politician. He just opens his gob and dribbles ammo to those who would not wish him well. Muppet.
“I lived in the US for eight years, in North America, and I am well aware of what that trope is about, and it was racist,” he said.
Oh FFS
FFS is right he should know better than to believe msm in matters regarding Trump but there you go. Shouldn’t be surprised he still thinks CO2 is a threat to the planet!!
What a putz Luxon is.
You’re listening to Plunket eh
nope, did he touch on it?
tbh i havent listened live to the platform at all so far this year, only a few of michael laws via youtube.
havent had time and constantly outve reception, i dont really miss it either and my blood pressures probs better off cuz of it too.
We’re getting to them!
Looking at most MSM news you would be forgiven for thinking the UK has abandoned all their Nuclear Power Stations. Not so.
https://www.sizewellc.com/
Time they built one here. By the way, happy birthday Ed.
Learn the risk.
https://x.com/ABridgen/status/2020572568185442466?
What do you expect when importing coal from the Phillipines, when you can dig it up at the backdoor to Huntly power station!
Some slightly deranged coot who runs an ‘electric cherry orchard’ in Cromwell has written an article https://newsroom.co.nz/2026/02/04/power-prices-spark-up-an-electric-election/
Needless to say, with the fervour & dedication of a born again Godnutter, he is spruiking the advantages of agriculture that is free from nasty diesel, instead relying on solar power from the rooftops.
As a read it should be kept for boring moments on the toilet as a prelude to wiping but he does inadvertently suggest where all the hundreds of thousands of electric vehicles, produced by insane manufacturers who didn’t bother checking for markets first, ended up. Apparently:
“……EVs are not just booming in rich countries, they’re booming in Ethiopia, Vietnam and Nepal.”
Neat trick. Dump the unsellable rubbish onto third world countries & let them worry about the recycling/dumping problems.
Hes full of shit just like that wanker and his wife from wanaka pretending to farm , its just bs marketing non of it is real.
From https://metro.co.uk/2026/02/08/israeli-athletes-robbed-passports-stolen-winter-olympics-26776309/ we learn that “Among the missing items were passports”.
Déjà vu. A few Kiwis will recall when in 2004 two Israelis were arrested for stealing the identity of an Aucklander with cerebral palsy to fraudulently obtain a passport. There was a repeat about the time of the Christchurch earthquakes in 2011.
What goes around comes around.
A disillusioned mate is leaving for Aus after twenty plus years in NZ, so I wrote him a song.
I’ve lived in nu zilind for nigh thirty years
And I saved all my money while others spent theirs
And now I am leaving with wealth in great store
And I’ll never return to this sh*thole no more.
And its naaaay nooooo never
Nay no never no more
Will I live in this sh*thole
No never no more.
He may find that Aus is fast becoming an even bigger shithole than here.
nah itll never be worse than here but its certainly in decline to what it was.
This shit has to be stopped
https://x.com/mrsward007v2/status/2020610883219796183?s=46
dat shit gotta stop alright 😠 but nothing surprises me in aptearrroa
Verity Johnson:
“So now we have, what John Harbord, chairman of the Major Electricity Users Group said in 2021, a situation where the power companies are incentivised to keep the industry on the edge of a shortage – because that’s where they make the most money.
And you’d think the Government would solve that by, say, investing in a new hydro dam, right? They can do that – they’re the major shareholders in the big gentailors and can make that happen. So in 5-10 years, you’d have a new dam, lots of cheap energy and no winter crisis.”
Good luck building a new dam, Verity. Between native frogs and Taniwha it’s just too hard.
i read that this morn, if you ignore her brief climate crap shes spot on for once… still a pos stupid bint tho.
Any one that reads Verity’s dribbles needs their heads checked.
Another Hunty castoff. I’m told they never recover.
She could be slightly smarter than that, im sure shes either an ex stripper or prozzy as well as a leftie feminist nut job, either way not un-pretty, just as nutty as squirrel shit
she runs a burlesque joint.
Thats the one, she started as one of the girls tho, so at the end of the day thats just fancy stripper
Didn’t she vote for the Greens? Or Labour’s dreams of pushing water uphill instead of the proven physics of a river dam. Wait until the ‘brown outs’ in the middle of winter Verity.
Those systems work in other places, why not here?
Can you explain why, or are you just complaining?
Expensive and not as efficient. Physics matters. We have suitable rivers to dam, ask the Greens why they won’t allow progress? While you’re at it ask them to explain why they wouldn’t allow Pike River Mine to be open cast. //
Will the Brown Out, be called in future the “Maori Out”
Put the blame were it lays!
Corporate bullshit
DIGITAL EXCUSION
For years, Pat Arrend did everything right.
The 84-year-old grandmother from Brighton, England paid her energy bills the same way she always had — in person, at the Post Office, on time, every time. No missed payments. No problems. Just a woman who understood her responsibilities and met them quietly, the way she’d done for decades.
Then British Gas went paperless.
Overnight, the system Pat had relied on disappeared. No more paper bills arriving through the letterbox. No more payment slips to take to the Post Office counter. Everything moved online — to a world Pat couldn’t access, because she doesn’t have the internet.
She told them. She called British Gas and explained that she had no way to pay online. She asked — repeatedly — for paper bills to be sent to her home. She was promised, again and again, that it would be sorted.
It never was.
Without bills she could physically hold and carry to the Post Office, Pat couldn’t pay. And without payment, the debt began to climb. Week after week. Month after month. Until an 84-year-old woman who had never missed a payment in her life found herself £1,400 in debt — not because she refused to pay, but because no one gave her a way to.
And then the letters came. Not the paper bills she had been begging for. Solicitors’ letters. Warnings about penalties. Threatening language delivered to the door of a grandmother whose only offence was not having Wi-Fi.
Pat described the experience in two words: sleepless nights.
Think about that. A woman in her eighties, lying awake in the dark, terrified by legal threats from one of the largest energy companies in the country — all because a corporation decided that the way she had always done things was no longer convenient for them.
This is what digital exclusion looks like. It doesn’t announce itself with drama. It creeps in quietly — a system update here, a policy change there — and suddenly millions of elderly people, people with disabilities, people in rural areas without reliable broadband, find themselves locked out of basic services they’ve used their entire lives. The Office for National Statistics estimates that over two million adults in the UK have never used the internet. They didn’t choose to be left behind. The system chose to leave them.
Pat’s story only changed because it reached the media. ITV News Meridian covered her case, and suddenly British Gas found the solution that had apparently been impossible for months: they apologized, promised to provide her with paper bills going forward, and offered a goodwill gesture to resolve the issue.
The company stated that most of its millions of customers prefer paperless billing because it’s “safer, faster and more environmentally friendly” — and that customers can still choose to receive paper bills. But Pat had been asking for exactly that, and no one listened until a camera showed up.
That’s the part of this story that should keep all of us awake at night. Not just that it happened to Pat Arrend. But that it’s happening right now to thousands of people just like her — people too proud or too exhausted or too afraid to call a news station. People who are being quietly crushed by systems that were never designed with them in mind.
Pat Arrend didn’t refuse to pay her bills. She refused to be erased by a system that forgot she existed.
And the fact that it took a news crew to remind a billion-pound corporation that an 84-year-old woman deserved a piece of paper in her letterbox — that’s not a customer service failure.
That’s a moral one.
The system of digital banking is a total joke.
I went into the bank, to the helpful teller, with my dedicated lap-top to be used only for banking.
Which she also asked me to open up so as to confirm that she was getting things right on my account.
On the bank site warning pop-ups of do not down load any iffy or unknown “apts” as they may have Trojan-ware.
Just thankful that my laptop will not take in “apts” any way; so is now deemed obselete for the modern digital way.
Any way got some big payments done, and some “new payees” accredited & “saved” so I could pay them, and confirmed on my lap-top.
Then on the way out, I see a notice warning one not to open up and do banking on public wifi.
For fuck sake, that bank’s wifi is accessible from the street as I have used it often over the years, so it is public wifi.
Then later confirmed at a Vodaphone, now the branded stupid “One” whatever; that their in-house wifi can be deemed as public wifi, and also confirmed that the banks would also be.
Oh well, more fun to put to the bank tellers to hopefully stir against their stupid managers etc…
Sort of expect a doubling down, of errors as the medical systems have done.
I also warn many others, do not expect payment if you believe you have sent it by invoice.
That is pure spam, that goes to “junk mail”, so do not expect me to search for your account with so many various secretaries’ names that I do not recall.
I pay for a stupid “postal box” so send the invoice, statement there. !
And stop complaining about the price of a stamp. ! Just lick it & affix.
Cash is king, despite them trying to jump side-ways.
Explaining to the young what it’s like being old. Not everybody is the same.
It happens with every generation, the old trying to explain getting old and how things worked, the young saying its no longer like that
When you’ve had elderly parents who no longer have any ability to absorb simple tech instructions such as how to operate a TV control you learn that lesson early. It’s sad 🥹
IT simply does not compute with some and the world of such things is picking up speed, too fast for many of us to continue to keep up.
I have that problem, the old man is in his 80’s, old lady is in her 70’s trying to help them with that sort of thing is usual for me, its get back from a fly in fly out job then spend the next day sorting out tvs and phones, then its all the other things that broke/leak/stopped working before I get to my own stuff.
Some times I get lucky and can explain over the phone on how to fix what they have done with the tv, most of everything else has to wait
im almost 39 and im fucking useless with tech. my 11yr old son has to sort shit for me now, i can no longer work the tv ffs fuck all this smart tv bullshit.
and computers… faaaaark dont let me near one, my brother is a full blown nerd so i just get him to sort shit for me.
Frustrating but inevitably it gets worse for them and sad for you. 💔
Na, it was just keep them simple, went from set top box and 2 remotes to free to air built into tv so only one remote per tv, got them simple phones and removed all the junk, went to android laptop with all junk removed so they couldnt bugger it up as easy, seems to work. All log ins and passwords are kept in a note book so I dont have to keep resetting them, sems to work ok, for now
Chris Hipkins has officially lost control of his party.
Just 24 hrs after Hipkins appeared on MATA with Mihingarangi Forbes and failed to commit to working with Te Pāti Māori to change the govt, Willie Jackson and Carmel Sepuloni took matters into their own hands and announced Labour will be working with Te Pāti Māori and “it’s time to put a strategy in place”.
Was he ever in charge?
I think he needed a strong woman to keep him in his place!
What’s a woman? Easy. Chris Hipkins.
Labour are stuck between a slimy green rock & a hard brown place.
https://nitter.net/i/status/2020331769598472403
55 secs : Feb. 6th, 2026 : sometimes have to reload to get it “across the line”
The whole Willy Jackson spiel & intro of his “teami”
https://nitter.net/Suitandtie9999/status/2019617913184088497
1 min 53 secs : Feb 6th 2026
Birds of that “retarded” feather, gather together
Would the proverbial “hand-brake” of bluster even slow down that bus of retards?
Not enough verys on the top two and both are on the same level in my thinking
The ‘Maori caucus’ controlled by Jackson has been running Labour for years.
In news from UK Labour: The Mandelson email stash is about to throw the top leadership under the bus making way for the UK energy minister and economic saboteur, mad ‘Net Zero’ enthusiast Ed Milliband as possible leader. 🤡
….”economic saboteur, mad ‘Net Zero’ enthusiast Ed Milliband”……
I there anything left to sabotage? The UK have been on the skids since WW2.
Net Zero & Muslim immigration were the final steps & their work is near complete.
“A Māori man who underwent surgery to repair a wrist injury received a bone tissue transplant without his consent, which he says went against his cultural and religious beliefs.”
Wanker
Wanker? I could think of much more pertinent words.
remove it, remove colonisers ACC payments too.
fuck the woke ungrateful cunt, let the pos suffer
“Dont fix it, it makes it harder for me to grift off tax payers if you do”
Looking for a payout for hurty feelz
Odd having surgery if you don’t want the injury sorted. //
Guess a few taonga leaves out of the bush wrapped around it will fix it. //
A big stick over the head will do it quicker and sooner!
Why bother with them. If their beliefs prevent them from being organ and blood donors, why should we let them use our donated blood for operations.?
Someone has to use up the covid infected blood!
Look on the bright side. It might be contaminated with Pfizer’s spikes.
Probably how he got the injury Sags.
Yeah that’s my thinking Curious
Repetitive strain injury!
The green and hopeless Nats at work.
Couldn’t pay for new ferries, can’t use our own coal so;
The Government shortlists proposals to import LNG in Taranaki with plans to sign a contract by mid-year, Energy Minister Simon Watts says
The Government says a liquefied natural gas (LNG) import facility could be operating as soon as 2027 or early 2028 to remove the risk associated with dry years.
This comes as Energy Minister Simon Watts, on Monday afternoon, announced the Government would contract to build an LNG import terminal, located in Taranaki. LNG is natural gas that has been cooled and liquified so it can be transported easily.
“New Zealand is experiencing a renewable electricity boom, but a rapidly declining gas supply has left our electricity sector exposed during dry years, when our hydro lakes run low,” Watts says.
“The result is greater reliance on coal and diesel, and ultimately higher electricity prices, putting more financial pressure on families and making businesses less competitive.”
The availability of LNG in a dry year is expected to reduce electricity prices by at least $10 per megawatt (MWh), the Government says. albeit an indicative estimate of a levy on electricity to pay for the LNG facility is between $2 and $4/MWh.
Watts says the decision follows extensive analysis and the first stage of procurement. In October, the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) began a procurement process for an LNG import facility.
https://www.interest.co.nz/public-policy/137121/government-has-shortlisted-proposals-import-lng-taranaki-energy-minister-simon
Market ‘not willing to respond’
Interest.co.nz reported in October that the Government would consider paying for an LNG import terminal after efforts to encourage the private sector to develop one failed.
Sorry for the repeat Viking, you must have posted while I was typing.
I now read Luxon proposes putting a levy on electricity bills to pay for the terminal. The guy clearly wants to lose the election –adding an extra cost during a cost of living crisis, or the top concern for voters, by a large margin, in recent polls. Luxon is an idiot.
So the Government comes out with another announcement –a $1billion LNG terminal to overcome the gas crisis that is biting it’s rear end. Even reckons it will save people money.
I saw a short video from Sue Grey the other day saying Maui Gas will stop much sooner than they are saying (and Govt. knows it) Maui may only have months left in it, not years..
Everyone has known about the Maui slowing down for several years now, but they just make an announcement now. Incompetence from the bureaucrats in Wellington, because you can guarantee the leftie( esp Green voters) bureaucrats have been dragging the chain and the hopeless Ministers have not seen through it.
All goes back to the doom loop caused by the international limelight craving “captain’s call” by the most incompetent and facile PM in NZ’s history. Now we’re paying the price…
Yep, you are right. It all comes back to that bitches captains call, just to gain the medias attention and feed her big head
She fucked the oil industry and it wound back it’s services.
By Tom Robinson*
The recent deaths of eight people in two New Zealand landslides has left the public searching for answers. Some questions will be technical, about what failed and why.
But one should surely sit above the rest: why do we keep accepting the human and financial cost of this risk?
While it might be assumed that earthquakes or volcanic eruptions are Aotearoa’s deadliest natural hazards, landslides have claimed more than twice as many lives – approximately 1,800 – as both combined over the past 200 years.
They remain such an insidious and under-appreciated hazard because they cause deaths relatively frequently, but typically only in small numbers. Being one of the most fatal New Zealand landslides since 1846, last month’s tragedy at Mount Maunganui was a stark exception.
A useful analogy is our tolerance for car crashes versus aeroplane crashes. Road deaths in New Zealand kill hundreds of people each year, one by one, with little national reckoning. The 1979 Mount Erebus air disaster, in which 257 people were killed in one afternoon, forever changed aviation policy and remains part of the country’s collective memory.
In natural hazard terms, landslides are car crashes; earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are aeroplane crashes. Yet, with climate change driving heavier rainfall, it’s worth asking whether this is a danger we should be comfortable to continue living with – and paying for.
Since 2010, central government has incurred about NZ$19 billion in costs associated with natural hazards, but 97% of that has gone on response and recovery, with just 3% on reducing risk and building resilience.
In practice, New Zealand keeps paying for disasters after they happen, rather than spending to stop them happening in the first place.
https://www.interest.co.nz/public-policy/137118/landslides-are-new-zealand%E2%80%99s-deadliest-natural-hazard-tom-robinson-asks-why-we
” with climate change driving heavier rainfall”,
Blaming climate change indicates a brainwashed fool.
Climate Change does not drive heavier rainfall. Clouds drive rainfall. Period. What causes changes in cloudiness is not well understood. However, injecting tons of particles into the atmosphere, like during a massive volcanic eruption, has an influence.
im comfortable living with it, the losses are more than acceptable imo.
we could spend a few trillion dollar yet dumbarses will still find a way to get dead during emergency and weather events.
i mention this at the time of the landslide but its time we stop looking to the state and clipboard warriors to save us or keep us safe.
weve been dumbed down, most ppl have little or no risk assesment ability. its time we start teaching kiwis to assess risk themselves and use some fucking common sense.
a great example is one of the tauranga victims was warning others yet found herself in the most deadly spot and paid with her life.
call it victim blaming, im sure you will vikey but its not my intention im simply just pointing out its not entirely council, iwi, clipboard warriors fault and the victims are partly to blame aswell.
we see shit like this happen quite often, many drownings are due to lack of risk assesment, the dad killed in the sand dune collapse, plenty of workplace accidents etc… all cuz weve been conditioned to not think for ourselves and falsely believe nanny state will protect or warn us.
“New Zealand keeps paying for disasters after they happen, rather than spending to stop them happening in the first place.”
Pretty hard to compete with Mother/Farther Nature. NZ is not called the shakey isles for nothing
had a good day in the hills again today, my goal was an oz of gold for a week but fell short by 4grams… still pretty good for 16hrs of diving tho! another 3 hours of work outve the water went into getting those 27grams too. ill try for an oz this next week and see how i go.
anyways ive just had a bit of a sort out 🙂 look nice, the small vial ill melt into a button next rainy day.
bit of gold porn for ya Ed and others interested in yellow rocks. have a guess at whats there! its not all of it, just my share and ive sold a bit too so shes been a pretty good summer so far.
Nice, good on you. How much does Mrs SB get?
anyways Ed, theres 244grams in that pic, 7.8oz its very decieving cuz its soo heavy/dense. just the 2 melted buttons weigh 2oz.
with any luck ill add another half oz tommorow, hit a good patch the last 20mins i was diving today so fingers crossed it continues.
im looking at purchasing a good metal detector too and do that through the winter when the waters too cold. should be fun but im going to have to develop some patience tho as i lack that severly and its something detecting requires.
I have a Garret detector. Hasn’t had much use. One thing you should get is a Garrett AT Pro Pointer
https://www.jacobsdigital.co.nz/collections/garrett/products/garrett-sea-hunter-mk-ii-underwater-detector
yea i had a pinpointer just before covid, it was a waterproof one and when i was diving id wand the bedrock cracks so i knew which ones to bust open.
silly me left it at the bottom of the creek and stacked rocks on it so it was never to be seen again.
im looking at either a minelab gpx6000 or the gpz7000, $12k tho but thats only 1½oz of gold to make it pay for itself. im pretty confident i can do that plus some over winter.
have you found much gold with your detector Ed, or you coin n relic hunt?
ive only got a gold monster 1000, it dosent go deep enough for the ground im on but still found a few lil bits hung up in the mossy boulders etc…. and looooots of bullets and horse shoes. the lil dude loves detecting, he dosent care about gold he loves diggin any sortve burried treasure so it makes a fun father son day out 🙂
haha none!!!
nah mrs sb is pretty frugal and dosent ask for much so when she wants something she usually gets it.
she dosent like gold either, thats why her engagement and wedding rings are platinum.
my wedding ring is made from gold i mined myself, it has natural gold flakes inlaid in a channel, its pretty cool but i never wear it cuz its quite soft and ill damage it…. and ill bloody deglove my finger cuz im a rough dumbarse.
Never wear a wedding ring if doing welding. Apparently the gear can set up an arc that heats up the ring and burns through your finger. Ouch!
theres a couple of lil indents in the ring from welding spatter.
mrs sb just got it sent away for a clean and valuation for insurance. i had tail paint and grease stuck all in the flake part. mrs sb wasnt happy, its been there for 7 or 8 yrs cuz thats how long i havent worn the thing. i tried to put it on just before when i took the photo and it wont go over my knuckle so guess it can stay in the drawer.
heres the ring, the gold came from about 12km downstream of where i am now so was alot finer. pity really cuz bigger flakes or even lil chunks wouldve looked alot cooler. still awsome tho, only cost me $900 to get made at the time ( plus the supplied the gold), now the chaps won a few awards and got well known hes really expensive, a mate got a quote a couple years ago and to make the same style ring is now well over 5k plus the gold!
There are some accomplisahed artists in the
racketcraft. When we did our SI trip about four years ago we took the well worn tourist trail through Hokitika including three outfits selling greenstone & gold jewellery.The Waewae studio would have been my pick. The credit card took a hiding but we came away with a few really good pieces.
Good on you, you have done well!
i wouldnt mind a nice greenstone piece, not a cultural thing tho but id want it to be unique
ive got a few lil nuggets similar in size and shape, im gunna get them fitted with studs for earings for my daughter.
shes fascinated with the stuff, as soon as i get home she runs out to grab my bottle to inspect the days haul, then she eagerly awaits it drying on the hob and the daily weigh in.
I was doing FIFO a few moons back at Murrin Murrin half way between Leonora and Laverton, (nickel processing) a gold area. I bought some small nuggets and got the made into earrings and necklace but the wife never wore them. Hide them away. I should get them valued. She reckoned they were too expensive then.
There was someone based in Golden Bay who was selling small nuggets on Trade Me a year or so back. Weight quoted was in carats & each sale came in its own tiny clear plastic tube.
The asking price on a weight basis was about the same as those 1g “certified’ bars plastic sealed onto a card. Courier at buyer’s expense.
Could be a way to max profits.
i tried that a few years ago, its tedious and not worth the shagging around. plus i want a good chunk of money not dribs and drabs.
One presumes you pay the IRD the correct tax they are due. Don’t wind up V2 by being a tax dodger.
its all sold through the books now mate, plus gst aswell. the accountant sorts it all out at the eofy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE1K_1eT56E
Shane Jones On TPM In-Fighting At Waitangi & Declined Mining Proposal
Michael Laws talks with Minister Shane Jones on TPM in-fighting at Waitangi, and his response to the fast-track seabed mining proposal being declined, including claims of potential bias.
Submissions on the rewritten Arms Act close in 7 days.
For many New Zealanders, firearms aren’t politics, they’re how you put meat on the table and save on groceries.
The last Government rushed through laws that treated responsible, licensed owners as a problem, and not as people worth listening to.
The rewritten Arms Act fixes most of that, but a few issues remain. Sports shooters need sensible exemptions, and the firearms registry is an expensive, intrusive liability that won’t stop criminals.
If you agree, Parliament needs to hear it. Follow the link in the comments to make a submission.
Cameron Luxton MP
Make your submission on the Arms Bill here: https://www3.parliament.nz/…/54SCJUST_SCF…/arms-bill
Read the Bill here: https://www.legislation.govt.nz/…/0233/21.0/whole.html
Read an explainer of the key changes here: https://www.beehive.govt.nz/…/20251110%20Arms%20Bill%20…
See hunty, this is the good stuff you could do if only???
Nah. I’m lazy. I do nothing all day, but Im content.
https://www3.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/make-a-submission/document/54SCJUST_SCF_E30C016E-D93C-439D-8EFA-08DE360DAD5F/arms-bill?fbclid=IwY2xjawP2S4JleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFBemFrVjRCckhXVXBxajdTc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHvBkV7NL46wm_3NoqyVLZ9OwE76dU_u3i-w36jM0BSrO7JoJJzH9MqbY1Zy2_aem_uH5gZcz1OCclIutwGUGjMg
Ronnie Corbet 2026
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1241376214767901&set=a.270764258495773
the edit button is crap.
Move on…
The poms did have some comedians in the old days.
Not today. The yanks never produced a single comedian!
Yes, they did. Bill Hicks.
Ronald Reagan
The Jetson’s… finally
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JlsEblA169E
First production Jetson flight in the rain
short
Cool ad
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PyI63L2VZSw
Harley-Davidson Evolution 1903–1973
I see Viking at 1937…
ah ha ha ha
“ensure to “TIC” every Trump statement”
it doesn’t matter ‘you’ think he’s a fucken idiot
Its that he fucks off the leftard silly cows..so funny when they lose their shit
trump that