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Can’t believe that trailer didn’t keep going. I’m sure it would’ve if you didn’t want it too.
Seems folk are getting a tad tired of Big Brother overreach
Set them on fire
Buy that good bastard a beer from the rest of us.
Looks like the back of the trailer hit a rock.
Bugger!
those trailers have half a dozen cameras all around them, fuck id laugh if theyre just dummy deterrants and they good bastards dont get caught.
they only have a silly little wheel clamp that will bust off the first 20m,and hitch lock, you can literally just hook on the saftey chain and drag the pos for a sweet ride like they done with zero tools needed.
Considering the animals shown in the shot the roadside fencing doesn’t appear very robust. A tip for the next joyride. Leave the jockey wheel up.
There’smore around.
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#BREAKING Vigilantes Target Traffic Enforcement: Mobile Speed Camera Trailer Abandoned to the Tide at Ruapuke Beac
RUAPUKE — this evening a sophisticated mobile speed camera trailer has almost been written off after being towed to the water’s edge at Ruapuke Beach and left for the tides to claim but fortunately for NZTA they didn’t get close enough to the shoreline for that to happen
The incident, which a nearby local resident called an extreme act of anti enforcement vigilantism, occurred this afternoon. The advanced trailer typically deployed on high risk Waikato roads to monitor vehicle speeds, was reportedly packed down and uplifted by an unauthorized vehicle then towed to the beach and subsequently abandoned after it got stuck on the soft iron sands of the West Coast ruapuke coast line fortunately locals were quick to inform police and a nearby rural police utilty vehicle from raglan responded and was eventually able to pull it out to safety
“This is not just a case of simple prank it could of led to a significant loss of high value road safety equipment “The deliberate placement of the trailer which looked to be in the path of the tide suggests a calculated effort to ensure the unit was totally destroye
This is now the 3rd incident in the wider Waikato region in the span of a few days with other permanent and mobile cameras being targeted in Matakana and around the auckland region last week and over the weekend
Citizens are being urged if they see people acting suspicious near or around any of the 150+ mobile speed cameras to report the incidents to authorities immediately
Thoughts
(Photo credit = Nearby Local Resident)
Look through this FB.
Not sure if there’s not AI involved. If it is, then it’s bloody good whoever did them.
“This is not just a case of simple prank it could of led to a significant loss of high value road safety equipment “The deliberate placement of the trailer…”
blah blah blah blahhh… fark off ya nazi cnut. Don’t you realise we have had a gutsful of you cnuts and we are fighting back. I hope it carries on. Wakey wakey, asshole.
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=835923489470255&set=a.108493622213249
Hawley Exposes Big Tech For Pirating Data To Train AI, Bankrupting U.S. Creative Community
https://youtu.be/HwgwdF3f-DU?si=tAi4IrJZf1Or3fQF
Osen, looks like japan is in the midst of a huge political shift.
do you think theyre brave enough for massive reform or just do the typical same old?
surely she didnt trigger the early election just to keep on the same course.
It isn’t a 10 pinter. By the time it was even remotely attractive to a wolf whistle, you’d be catatonic from alcohol consumption first.
Very sicko storey.
One that whistled?
Just how far will they go?
Some very very sick puppies.
While others push this as the ‘new normal’.
….. local authorities shut down three busy roads in the city center to make way for a funeral procession consisting of horse-drawn glass-walled carriage and mourners.
Taxis, buses, and delivery vehicles were impacted, with those not involved in the cortege being told to vacate the area by 11:20 a.m and steer clear until 1 p.m local time. …..
…… The founder of Drag Queen Story Hour UK is currently fundraising funeral costs for a drag queen who had been convicted of raping a young boy.
“Aida H. Dee” called Darren Moore his “friend” and said he wears Moore’s jewelry to events with children. …..
In their coverage of Moore’s funeral procession, Wales Online failed to mention his criminal history, and instead focused on the traffic considerations, and the flowers being set at his casket’s glass-walled carriage by mourners. …..
https://reduxx.info/wales-pedophile-drag-queen-died-while-raping-a-dog-inquest-reveals/
The walk among us?
Yet still treated as real queens. ….. ok to read things to kids at a library, …. and recognized as being ok by the contaminated perverted establishment. …..
I’m not sure where to go with what you wrote.
Do you know I predicted most of this crap long ago? It’s why I have XY at the end of my handle. It is a big F U to those who would force this crap down people’s throats, reality versus their fantasy and delusions.
I’ve had this handle before Jordan Peterson came onto the scene via compelled speech. I even made predictions about this shit back in the early 90s when political correctness was being pushed – trannies were the next evolution.
Paedophilia will eventually become normalised unless Marxism (and now Islamism) is reversed.
Speaking of trannies Colin, would the inclusion of male and female foetus cells in vaccines have anything to do with what appears to be a huge increase in gender confusion?
What do you think?
its a social contagion.
also when its perceived that a subset of people can get special privileges then that encourages more to join in… the tranny thing and the rise of woke white maori with 1 or 2 drops of maori blood is a great example of this
Yes, there’s also the element of cult programming going on, too.
How the woke can’t see a great hulking, hairy bloke with a deep voice is not a woman is circus clown level. Just like the parable of the emperor with no clothes
Some appear to live in a parallel universe where they just don’t see the reality of life. Have the left been hypnotised by their leadership calling out repetitive constant propaganda messages including calling Trump Hitler?
They get way too much airtime. They parade themselves as ‘normal’; however, the majority of us know they are far from it. Sure, do what you want, but do it in your own home, behind closed doors and curtains. Each to their own. But… don’t try to tell us it’s normal. It’s not normal.
In a nutshell: yes.
The vast majority of my work at No Minister has been on cults. And the greater proportion of that being on the Marxist cults. And in this case, it is a Marxist cult.
Cults can get people to commit suicide so their souls can hitch a ride on a comet.
So, it is no stretch of the imagination that they can see a blatant male as a female without batting an eye.
I believe I’ve hit the nail on the head on how cults do this: by the phenomenon known as cognitive offloading. That is, they’ve outsourced their thinking to others. Much like a pupil outsources arithmetic to a calculator.
The NPC trope is most relevant.
The oral contraceptive has already proven that it can f things up for other species. To eloquently quote Alex Jones “I don’t like it when they make the frogs gay!”
Given the lead time, I suspect urine from oral contraceptives is the more likely candidate.
But to answer your question on vaccines: I don’t know.
Another possible contender is blood transfusions – where female blood is transfused into male bodies and vice versa. Hormones are also carried in the blood. So, for a time there might be a hormonal imbalance, even if only for a brief time. I am not stating this as a fact.
But sportspeople have been known to cheat via infusing their own blood with a richer oxygen content; this is known as blood doping. So, I couldn’t rule it out as a contender either.
Plus our reliance on plastics with our food and drinks. The chemicals of these can create similar hormones to some female ones (I forget the name off the my head).
The soy bean has been argued back and forth. If nothing else, soy beans temporarily lower testosterone levels. Soy is added to a lot of foods.
There’s probably other things that I know but cannot remember right now. But that should suffice.
I might look into vaccines. The hassle is the amount of obfuscation to sift through. I keep away from the vaccine debate because of this.
Anyway, that’s my two cents.
Estrogen.
Thanks for the reply Colinxy.
Hadn’t thought of the foetus cell angle until yesterday when our pregnant daughter mentioned it.
I’ll add testosterone levels have been dropping around the world, with each successive generation.
It could be due to environmental factors (soy, plastics, maybe as you suggest vaccines). The other possibility is the victim/loser complex.
When researchers have studied boxers for example, taking their testosterone levels before and after the match, the winner has higher testosterone, the loser has less. So winning and losing play a role in testosterone levels, too.
And our current society views men as the enemy “toxic masculinity”, etc.
Again this is me just postulating, not stating facts.
georgism and LVT… why the hell havent more countries adopted this way of tax?
simple as fuck, benefits all except the parasite speculators and the rich who hoarde.
i dont think it can fully replace ALL other taxes but could certainly do away with income taxes and most other taxes/levies and just roll with a much lower gst.
best of all it cant be dodged, loopholed or written off. everything is captured and is actually very fair unless youre a slumlord that lets your rental or commercial building fall into a state of disrepair… i hear tiny violins playing.
https://youtu.be/smi_iIoKybg?si=aLLCv38NbAm-p3Of
and rory southerlands take on it.
https://youtu.be/GoDy8gkrAPg?si=mOUu4kLKkNL03h8B
We sort of have this now SB, in Wellington at least. I have just got my quarterly rates bill. The Council value the land at 80% of the capital value. For a young couple across the road it is 90%, the last time I talked to them about it.
We could spend a heap on improving the value of the property, like another neighbour has done in recent years, and percentage of the capital value the land makes up stays the same.
Don’t ask me why they do it this way because I do not know the answer.
do you dumbfuck downtickers even know how it works?
it applies to resources aswell, carbon forestry would get slammed too. you lot are having a whinge about electricity prices do you realise how lvt would benefit us in that sector?
1 single tax paid via lvt to cover everything you currently pay now incl rates etc. the way its implemented it cant be passed on to renters either.
i cant believe theres ysb folk that dont want lower taxes and a workers gains to be fully realised and productivity rewarded.
In the past, for a century or so, there are sporadic calls for total Land Value Rates & even late last century, based on the Georgian system.
NZ actually moved to a part of that, circa 1890’s when they broke up big landed owners back then.
Similar points were made during soldiers rehabilation of farm blocks after WW1 & also WW2.
Even as far as 1980’s one could object to some one buying land, under some “amalgagtion”, becoming too big, and taking the opportunity away from the landless.
The main aim is to set up the “take” rates to the what some one would pay in bank interest, if not much more.
After all the sunshine & the good rain that falls, like locality, amenties,, on the property is taken as a benefit by the property owner, when others, for whatever have not the good fortune of owning such land,property, in whatever locale.
So the general public can gain that share of value of sun & rain for their benefit by what the land owner has gained to pay eventually in full, what a bank would charge on the value in interest & even more, as does it really matter?
Elected Councillors, techno -bureaucrats will know how to spend more money for the kindness, well being of all. ! ! !
It has all been cleared now in New Zealand so that there is no limit of monies, rates that can be collected, taken, demanded & be spent by the Councillors on all things that feel great for the like essential health, well-being, etc., which is embedded in Council mission statements.
In New Zealand one of the flies in the concept has been maori land, which seemed that it may gain a limit or even total exemptions of rates as is currently in play.
After all DOC, national parks etc, of state ownership and other forms have had rate exemptions.
Recently I was surprized where I know of some maoris that are “returning” their land from European title to Maori land title,.
It is been amazing how riparian planting & fencing does a lot to bringing in subdivision of more paddocks.
Beware of how the Land will be Valued, like what is the flavour of the month, kiwifruit, dairy, apricots, cherries, vineyards, particularly after a lot of investment, then the next flavour, for revaluation.
And then the politics in re-zoning sub-division, etc.. all in the name of relentless progress; like setting up major immigration?
So what drives land prices up? Inflation, money taken, borrowed & deviously spent by government?
Demand (natural birth rates) or immigration? & Supply which can be political in land banking, or rezoning & rates.
Or the flavour of the month when years ago the sheep numbers soared to 70 million with government subsidies which pushed up land prices.
Enough I leave it at that, & I see Curious’s Grok comment lines up with some similiarity of effects.
I got Grok to run an analysis of whether LVT could replace all income related and council taxes. Would require an LVT rate of 5-6%. What do you think would happen to land values with a 5% LVT? A complete collapse in land values resulting in a collapse of the tax take. I thought you didn’t beleive random nutters on the internet. Grok’s closing thoughts:
“Key Caveats and Real-World IssuesLand values would fall sharply if a high LVT is introduced (the tax capitalises into lower sale prices), shrinking the tax base and requiring even higher rates or phase-in to maintain revenue. This is a classic dynamic in Georgist/LVT theory.
Transition challenges: Windfall losses for existing owners, especially leveraged property investors; rural/productive land impacts; valuation disputes.
Existing analyses: No major NZ study (Tax Working Group, Treasury papers, etc.) supports full replacement of income tax + rates. Partial LVT (e.g., replacing council rates with pure land-value rating, or supplementing with a low-rate national LVT) is discussed as efficient and progressive. TOP’s proposals (0.75%+ on urban land) aimed at ~$7–15b revenue for tax cuts/UBI, not full income tax replacement.
Efficiency benefits: LVT discourages land banking/speculation, encourages development, and is hard to avoid — but it wouldn’t capture all current income/GST revenue needs without other taxes remaining.”
i dont think it could fully replace all other taxes, but we could scrap most and maybe keep gst albiet a tad lower rate.
gst is a good consumption tax, i think its better to tax consumption vs production.
theres too many loopholes to avoid and minimise tax at the moment and our housing is fucked because of speculators and hoarding.
lvt would be a far better option than a cgt… and if nothings done very soon we will most likely have a cgt by 2030 like it or not.
lvt could be collected then x amount to central govt and x amount to councils…. tough shit councils if youre shithouse managing finances, you can no longer bleed ratepayers dry.
hilarious, a parasitic landbanker or slumlord has hurty feels.
the funny thing is theyre usually the first to bene bash or rant on about taxes etc when theyre the ones that pay the least or even none at all. they also pretend to want a fair tax system yet when one smacks them in the face they run away and cry.
The best solution is a transaction tax on all transfers. Including exports
A painter by the name of Starving, while not a brilliant scholar, was a gifted portrait artist.
Over a short number of years, his fame grew and soon people from all over
New Zealand were coming to the city to get him to paint their likenesses.
One day, a beautiful young English woman arrived at his house in a stretch
limo and asked if he would paint her in the nude.
This being the first time anyone had made such a request, he was a bit
perturbed, particularly when the woman told him that money was no object; in fact, she was willing to pay up to £10,000.
Not wanting to get into any marital strife, he asked her to wait while he went into the house to confer with his wife.
In a few minutes, he returned.
“It would be a pleasure to paint your portrait, ma’am,” he said.
“The wife says it’s okay.
I’ll paint you in the nude, no problem, but I have to at least leave me socks on.
I have to have somewhere to wipe my paintbrush.
I don’t own a hat, but I will just leave this here for you anyway.
Is this guy just a fucking idiot. he wants to ramp up peoples power charges even more because his govt and the useless shits in the National Party have no idea about anyhting?
New electricity levy ‘not a tax’, PM saysThe Government has short-listed possible proposals for a liquefied natural gas import facility, which could cost more than $1 billion.
The facility will be paid for by a levy on electricity – although Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Energy Minister Simon Watts would not say how much that will cost households during the announcement at a post-Cabinet press conference on Monday.
Liquefied natural gas – or LNG – is gas that has been cooled and liquefied so it can be transported. Liquefying the gas reduces its volume by about 600 times, but means it has to be stored and transported at -160C.
To receive LNG, New Zealand needs an “LNG import terminal”. This is a piece of infrastructure, sometimes located offshore, which receives the LNG from the ships that deliver it, stores it and turns it back into a gas for use in New Zealand.
The man is a clown if he believes that, but then of course he still thinks global warming, and the govt. still owns our electricity system.
That should toss them out to the minor party status and not soon enough.
Labour leader Chris Hipkins was quick to jump on the proposed new levy, dubbing it a “gas tax”.
“It’s another kick for New Zealand households. Another increase in the cost of living for them,” he said.
But the prime minister was insistent.
“This is not a tax, it’s a levy. It is a levy to fund a key piece of infrastructure.
“There are a series of things that we have to do … to make sure that we have the supply in place, so that we get the low year risk down, so that we can keep stabilised prices for the consumer.”
Um, excuse me, it’s a tax on consumers who don’t use the product for the benefit of other consumers who do.
Who advises these people?
When will a journalist ask Hipkins what Labour would do solve the problem which is largely a result of his former leader’s ‘captains call”.
Luxon may call it a levy, but he is hiding parts of his ideology, as in principle he goes along with Ardern & Winston Peters consquences for his own version of Carbon Net Zero.
“AI Overview
A levy is an official, legal seizure of property or imposition of a tax/fine by a government or authorized entity to satisfy a debt.
While taxes raise general revenue, levies are often specific, targeted, or forced collection actions.
Tax levies include garnishing wages or freezing bank accounts.
Key Tax & Levy Definitions
Levy (Noun): A sum of money, such as a tax, fee, or fine, imposed by a government or organization.
It also refers to the legal seizure of property (e.g., a “bank levy”) to satisfy a debt.
Levy (Verb): The act of officially imposing or collecting a tax, charge, or fine.
Tax: A compulsory financial contribution imposed by a government on income, property, or goods to raise revenue.”
That NZFirst hand-brake did absolutely nothing !
If anything went along with Ardern’s dodgy “Captain’s Call”, as they could have voted against it, and gone on the cross-benches.
But, but ….. the baubles came First.
Taxes levies are fines imposed on the people for the incompetence and dodgy decisions made by the politicians.
The politicians that connive, conceal as a mafiaso unit, to bring on “protection rackets” and “extortion”.
Did anyone think to ask ” If the cost is $1billion, how long will the levy/tax have remain in place to cover the cost ?”
Forever even after paying for it!
how about fund it by removing any funding/subsidies of wind and solar?
then how about get serious about building new baseload generation. hydro, geothermal or coal… southland has enormous deposits suitable for coal, grant say a temporary 30yr consent and get it done asap as a stop gap while hydro etc are planned and built.
cheap energy is the key to a booming economy ffs.
verity johnson may be a fucking retard but her rant about the electricty generation was spot on, the govt and gentailers are incentivised to keep supply tight.
ffs the clyde dam has extra penstocks there for future expansion but it cant get consent to do so…. yet its spilling fucktons of water. that water could be flowing through extra turbines and not wasted.
there needs to be very hefty fines and criminal charges for the gentailers that deliberately spill water under the most pathetic excuses that just so happen to cause shortages in winter etc.
my uncle used to run one of the gas ones up north, he said they used to time maintanence shutdowns for peak times so their other generators owned by the outfit could cash in on the high prices.
theyre fucking criminals, treat them as such. if they cant manage the resource or build decent new generation then maybe its time the state seizes control of it?(control not ownership) if its in the nations best interest then it should be done.
Agree with most of what you said except New Zealand does not have subsidies for wind and solar.
sorry, i ment handouts and “incentives”
You forgot grants, Oh and MASSIVE koha for the “fractional descendants”
I saw figures that suggested the cost on the average Power Bill was about $144 pa but then on the other hand I heard the Dimwit Simon Watts yesterday say that the average household would save somewhere between $50 to $70 pa.
Really? If that is the case what is the benefit.
The Bill for this should be sent to Cindy and Hipkins, not the people of New Zealand.
i tried helping an ignorant old pos like this a few years ago in a similar situation (house had to sell and he went into a rest home)
https://www.stuff.co.nz/home-property/360935717/bank-sells-pensioners-home-demands-he-leave
fuck them, theyll do anything to get their way or manipulate everyone involved. just get the pigs there, drag all his junk out onto the street, put a security guard there and let the fucking pos suffer the consequences of his ignorant and entitled actions. its a long process so its not like hes just got given a 48hr notice outve the blue, i feel sorry for anyone who ends up with him in a housebus on their land too.
Outdoor Recreation Voices MatterFirearms Amendment Bill
https://coranz.org.nz/firearms-amendment-bill/
Submissions close next Monday. Please take this opportunity to have your say.
no point, the decisions have all been made and this is simply a box ticking exercise to make you think its a democratic process.
im happy to be proven wrong, in a few months show me all the stuff the submissions have changed. real change too not just some token meaningless thing they always do to say “look we listened, democracy works”
This applies to any issue where calls are made for public submissions.
It never stops, does it? Bleeding the taxpayers with everyone’s wants.
An independent inquiry into Wellington’s sewage plant fiasco will need to establish “who knew what, when” and whether anyone had raised red flags about the now-failed plant.
Wellington Mayor Andrew Little said an inquiry sponsored by central Government would help get to the bottom of what caused the Moa Point Wastewater Treatment Plant to suffer a mechanical failure and become flooded with raw sewage.
Locals have been warned they won’t be able to swim on south coast beaches for months as the issue is fixed, as hazardous waste is pumped into the ocean.
Last week, raw, untreated sewage was pumped directly into a beach near Moa Pt, but workers have since been able to switch to a longer outfall pipe, pumping waste about 1.8km out to sea. The waste is now partially treated.
I get they want to know but why should taxpayers pay the price? It is up to WCC and the Wellington Regional Council to find out whay there shit pipes didn’t work. It’s not the taxpayers respeonsibility. Especially given the waste and lack of planning inthat area.
Pay your ownbills.
As a Wellington Rate Payer, I agree Viking. Central Government should have nothing to do with it. we pay these Councilors to do a job –get on and do it.
From a comment on “The Good Oil”
……. the Council in 2021 made a decision to put cycle whas ahead of water and sewerage infrastucture renewal… and now Little wants the govt to help them out!
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Lets see how Luxon reacts on Tuesday when they meet…
I say, sink and learn to swim on their own.
I do not know if there are better links to this, and if they can be found, but this needs to be trumpeted loud & clear, particularly to the all the members of Parliament in the Coalition.
It must be pointed out that that all Wellington property owners were neglectful & abjectly reckless in allowing the Wellington Council to make this decision.
It is not good enough to say they do not, more like did not care.
So let Wellington rates double and more as soons as.
Most small rural villages & towns pay astrononimical rates, compared to to the big cities.
Any other property owner would be penalized and be paying on-going fines for the breaches of the discharge for their negligence, ignorance, which is no excuse in law.
Bit more context here:
https://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=177681
Green councillors don’t respect underground services. There is no visual virtue signalling to be gained for their own benefit. Cycle lanes and unicorn projects are the personal and political baubles for Greenies bathing in the warmth of virtuous glow.
Thanks Saggy, for that verification.
Good to see that others are exposing what went on in Wellington City Council.
Any of those Councillors, techno-bureaucrats resigning?
Even an abject apology?
If Luxon, National, tri-coalition support taxpayer funding to Wellington’s fiasco, then they do not deserve to win the coming election.
The consequences to the rate payers need to be seen.
It will also serve as message to other local governments too, in just what are the real priorities.
”they do not deserve to win the coming election.”
Agreed. Then there is the alternative…..
Nothing happens in isolation. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Services_Reform_Programme#History
# “In 2019, the Sixth Labour Government announced plans for regulatory changes in response to the Three Waters Review, including:
The socialist Local Bodies read the writing on the wall. Central government was going to absolve them of all costs for water reticulation, sewage & stormwater that they’d been mismanaging & underfunding since when.
They had reached Nirvana. No more dull reality. The future was theirs. Their rightful place where they handed out cycle lanes, town halls, convention centres, moonbeams & micromanaged citizens’ lives was at hand.
Then Simeon Brown torched paradise in 2024 when the Nats passed urgent legislation repealing the previous Labour Government’s Three Waters legislation.
Councils don’t do reality well.
One for Mikey:
I bet some of you on here would just love to play with a ladyboy, just for the “hmm I wonder” 🤔 Don’t lie now. You can hop out of the closet. Secrets safe with me 😏😉
Obviously you have!
my old workmate went to thailand specifically to bang a ladyboy… hes not bi or gay and dosent like men apparently, dunno how the fuck that works if hes banging a dude pretending to be a chick?
Your mate’s “not gay”. LOL.
i know, hilarious ay. he bragged about banging 8 ladyboys too while on his 2 week fuck fest holiday.
didnt even try for a chick just ladyboys only.
hes now married to a nice filipino woman, think the ladyboy was a bucket list thing before he got married. but yea i really scratch my head on the not gay/bi thing, that takes a bit of mental gymnastics to make sense of.
About bloody time too!
Two of the most powerful medical institutions in the United States just blew up one of the Left’s most protected sacred cows.
https://x.com/ScottJenningsKY/status/2020566297981878322
A US court just recently awarded $2m settlement to a gender transitioned child who sued for damages. Hopefully it will stop the mutilation of children.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/4443285/detransitioners-2-million-dollar-judgment-breakthrough-gender-transition-lawsuits/
Cinderella has been hospitalised with a severe fungal foot infection.
$tolen from GO. Too good not to $hare:
Quick, round up the haka and ready the delegation to claim lost taonga //
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJuDCyzPTD0
Owner Stunned By Valuation Of Rare Māori Jade Hei-Tiki Found In A Garden | Antiques Roadshow
our youtube feeds must be similar wg, quite often you post links to stuff ive had pop up within the past 24hrs.
Yeah..”IWI”…I WANT IT. Well, have we got farkin’ news for you, brooooooooo and it’s all farkin’ bad. Keep pushin..keep pushin and you will see. Believe me
Just had interesting chat with a geologist friend. His prediction (based on past experience) is that the LNG terminal will be built, gas prices will go up and then all of a sudden they will find more gas in the existing fields. That is, the industry guys are playing the ministers, to some extent.
Need to put that prediction in the “come back and look at it in a couple of years” file.
Plenty of holes in Taranaki.
would make sense, if the import price jumps then marginally viable deposits become highly profitable.
Though the letter was written a year ago, the season of Ramadan starts 17th
February, 2026 will soon start.
So lucky it is only a month long.Basil the Great
@BasilTheGreat
…. In the UK, a child at a primary school was branded a racist for refusing to take part in Ramadan
The child said – “Why do we have to do that? I’m not doing that. Do I have to? If I don’t will you make me?”
The school responded – “This will be added to your child’s behaviour record and the schools log of racist incidents”
Children are indoctrinated
If you refuse you will be punished
The Islamisation of the UK continues
https://nitter.net/BasilTheGreat/status/2020778537800630416
Read the letter from the school.
So the teachers kept him there. No other alternatives allowed for, and complain that he thought it was a joke by laughing & pointing at the compliant.
And in New Zealand? all year round religion imposed in so many various ways.
Which seems to be fully accepted by all pupils & families.
Thankfully the Maori desire for instant gratification means that the primitive ignorance & rigours of Ramadan are unlikely to be imposed onto our grandkids.
Just an extra dose of Kapa haka & Treaty indoctrination instead.
lil miss sb at her 2nd year of primary school was supposed to go on some stupid marae visit thing. anyways mrs sb hates all of that cultural crap being forced upon kiwis (even tho shes part maori) and at home ranted that kids shouldnt have to go do that sortve ni**er stuff…. well lil miss didnt know any better and repeated those exact words to the teacher. yup, mrs sb had an awkward phone call from the teacher that day!!!
but yea declining to partake in te reo or kapa haka will no doubt become a hate/racism incident in the near future if not already.
Culture is one bullet that Clan Nasska successfully dodged. No-one in living memory, in my family or the CEO’s, identifies strongly with the UK, Croatia, Aotearoa or any other contributors to our DNA. The possible exception being my long deceased MIL who got herself shitfaced on good Scotch every Hogmanay in honour of her Gaelic genes.
When I baulk about having Maoritanga rammed down our throats it’s less a matter of ignoring anyone’s ancestry & more a matter of not giving a flying fuck about it.
As a young kid it mystified me why my NZ born grandmother, a 4th generation NZ who had never been to Britain, referred to England as “home”?
A few years ago hubby and I visited the Devon village of my grandfather’s ancestors who’d left for NZ in 1841. There was plenty of visual history of his family name in the village and it was significantly emotional.
Thankfully I’ve never travelled away from these shores. I’m not a particularly sentimental person & I’d hate to waste what little stocks of emotion I possess in a Cornish graveyard. 🙂
Pity.
You will never know what you have missed.
You don’t know what you don’t know.
i honestly dont get why people are so “proud” of their culture. like wtf is the point?
recent (1 or 2 generation recent) uk and saffa arrivals are cringe at it, who fucking cares you wanna be kiwi so let it go. i dont go around super stoked and celebrating where my ancestors cane from or who they fucked, im just a kiwi, my culture is kiwi and i feel no need to celebrate it, rub it in others faces or ram it down their throats.
maori esp are super cringe but worst of all is they ignore the bulk of their ancestory to focus on just the part that gets them special priviliges.
mrs sb mother gave her lots of paperwork and stuff, theres lots of ngai tahu handouts she could claim, kids can get alsorts and scholarships etc too. mrs sb and the kids are even eligible to go rape and pillage muttonbird islands aswell…. but mrs sb rejects it all, as far as shes concerned she had zero maori blood in her and she dosent fucking care.
she was gunna toss it all and the ancestory/tribe records but ive made her keep it. i made the point that the way things are going in 20yrs if she needs a new hip or heart surgery etc that could be the difference between living or dying on a waiting list.
its bullshit to even have to contemplate that but its a sad reality and labour tried that shit last term and it likely still goes on.
…..”my culture is kiwi and i feel no need to celebrate it, rub it in others faces or ram it down their throats.”……
Bingo. Culture is something that you get in yoghurt & ancestry sucks.
Ever noticed how those who essentially worship ancestors, regardless of creed or colour, never succeed in today’s world. It’s as if the burdens of the past condemn them to mediocrity in the present.
labour party unionist in teachers uniform
happy to expose the situation
sick fucken planet
Unintended consequences for greedy UK Labour imposing inheritance tax on farmland. Farmers cut production.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn42uVGLPjk
UK Government SHOCKED as Farmers Abandon Land Before Next Season
Farmers across the UK are abandoning land ahead of the next planting season as soaring costs, collapsing margins, and regulatory pressure make production financially impossible. Large areas are being left fallow or sold off as growers warn they cannot afford seed, fertiliser, fuel, or labour, raising alarms about reduced domestic food output. …
Japan’s rock star leader now has the political backing to push a bold agenda. Will she deliver?
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has delivered her Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) a landslide victory in the parliamentary elections she called shortly after taking office.
Now that she has consolidated her power in Japan’s legislature (called the Diet), the big question is what she will do with it.
Since her assent to the prime ministership in a parliamentary vote in October, the ultra conservative Takaichi has upended the normally staid Japanese political system.
She has connected with younger voters like no other Japanese leader in recent history with her savvy social media presence, iconic fashion sense and diplomatic flair. (In a literal rock-star moment, she showed off her drumming skills in a jam session with South Korea’s leader.)
https://www.interest.co.nz/public-policy/137139/japan%E2%80%99s-rock-star-leader-now-has-political-backing-push-bold-agenda-will-she
she needs to convince the young to start fucking and breeding lots.
then she needs to work out how to get debt under control and stop the country getting raped by carry trade and being under the thumb of useless US treasury bonds.
dollar milkshake theory is gunna hurt them harder than anyone else when the usd crashes again and they print trillions more.
Judging by the number of “love hotels” in Japan it’s only the procreating part that’s the problem.
Anyone eaten Watties peaches lately? They’re crap. Clearly not the beautiful and delicious Golden Queen peaches. China has been dumping in NZ so our orchardists have been sidelined. I won’t be buying any more of the disappointing “Watties” supply. China’s economy is in trouble so China is dumping goods globally below cost.
https://newsroom.co.nz/2026/02/05/investigation-chinese-fruit-dumping-far-from-peachy-for-nz-industry/
Investigation: Chinese fruit dumping far from peachy for NZ industry
We do our best to avoid chinese food products of any kind.
most canned fruit is crap, i find the more expensive brands like watties to be the worst tasting as the fruit is usually super hard and bland.
mrs sb has just preserved about 80 large jars of peaches, apricots and nectarines 🙂 cant best home preserved fruit (and beetroot, yum!!)
so if you believe some Judges, Peters was telling porkies and Costello is bowing to Peter to keep her seat.
Always the areshole. Leopards never change their spots.
Judge Ema Aitken conduct hearing told senior judges may be reluctant to aid special counselA judge with potential information about events at a New Zealand First function at an exclusive Auckland club -which left another judge “fighting for her judicial career” – is refusing to engage with the special counsel, a panel hearing has heard.
And it’s claimed senior members of the legal fraternity may be unwilling to co-operate with him “as they see him as persecuting one of their own”, David Jones KC said today.
Judge David McNaughton was seated at a table at the Northern Club in November 2024 with several other judges and their partners, including District Court Judge Ema Aitken.
Judge Aitken is now facing a Judicial Conduct Panel hearing over her alleged behaviour that night amid claims she shouted at NZ First leader Winston Peters and called him a liar when she overheard comments about tikanga Māori being taught in law schools.
Judge Aitken denies yelling at the then Deputy Prime Minister and says she did not recognise him or realise it was a political event.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland/judge-ema-aitken-conduct-hearing-told-senior-judges-may-be-reluctant-to-aid-special-counsel/4D7RGCOSYVBOVI2K7J7VEODHLM/
Here’s hoping the bitch loses her precious judicial career.
Typical and we should have expected them to “circle the wagons”. One standard for the plebs and no standard for those tossers.
Theyhave a job to do and its not politics. Peters has a job to do and that is not to divide Kiwi’s but that’s what he does.
Crap. Politics exists because of divisions & politicians are paid/elected to represent the factions & advance their causes.
Since about 1945 the two main NZ parties have moved towards the centre until now they’re Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dumber. They became managers rather than visionaries & that is why we now suffer MMP.
Peters & Swarbrick at least offer choices however unpalatable they may be.