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Komata
Komata
4 months ago

In respect of the bottom cartoon (IMHO, an accurate portrayal of ‘caring’ Western feminist -driven Liberal Socialism), one wonders what the response would have been had the interviewee been asked to take refugees into their home…

I am a stupid boy
4 months ago

looks like someone got driven to breaking point waiting on cancelled ferries and finally snapped once on the water… wtf, no doubt vikey will insist this never wouldve happened if the irex hadnt been cancelled.

but seriously how the fuck does one go overboard if it wasnt deliberate? unless they were boozed and darwin had a spare award

Viking
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
4 months ago

Try it you might like it.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Viking
4 months ago

Doesn’t go to Perth!

FJA
FJA
4 months ago

Ani O’Brien gets into what Hipkins should have known even if he claims he wasn’t told:

https://breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2026/03/ani-obrien-he-knew-paper-trail-chris.html

Edit: what none of the commentaries get into is that those with any power should also have been well aware that the a) the earlier, more virulent strains were on their way out (particularly by late 2021) and b) that the vaccine had not kept up with the strains.

Both facts should have further tipped any risk considerations well towards the “let’s not” end.

Last edited 4 months ago by FJA
DylanHunt
Reply to  FJA
4 months ago

Hipkins, as a member of Parliamnet in a govt, (and PM) is tasked, at the very highest level with protecting the life liberty and property of the public.

That he didn’t know what was expected of him, could be compared to the CEO of an international food chain, McDonald’s/Pizza Hut etc not knowing that you have to wash your hands before exiting the toilet and handling food.

“I didn’t know”, when the very essence of your job is to know, is not an excuse.

“Oh” says Hipkins the short order cook. “Was I supposed to wash my hands before or after I go to the toilet? I thought it must be before, so that I don’t wipe mayonnaise on my arse. And I splattered those #2s as I have diarrhea.

Oh well, those 20 burgers I just made for that children’s party will have extra ‘spice’. It’s not my fault if they get sick or die. No-one told me.”

Saying you don’t know when it is your job to know, is not an excuse.

Last edited 4 months ago by DylanHunt
waikatogirl
waikatogirl
Reply to  DylanHunt
4 months ago

The power went to their heads. In the case of the covid “Podium of Truth” gang, Ardern, Hipkins, Robinson, Verrell, Bloomers, etc it allowed them power over life and death of the peasants, a heady power trip of hubris and they took full advantage.

“it wasn’t my fault they had the mandated jab, it was their choice to take it”

String him up

Last edited 4 months ago by waikatogirl
DylanHunt
Reply to  waikatogirl
4 months ago

“it wasn’t my fault they had the mandated jab, it was their choice to take it”

“It was the rich dude’s choice to donate the gold in his safe to us Sopranos. That we shoved a loaded pistol in the mouth of his three year old daughter and threatened to blow her head off, has nothing to do with it. Correlation is not causation. It was his choice.”

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  waikatogirl
4 months ago

Typical lefties ultimate wet dream, POWER over the peasants!

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  FJA
4 months ago

what cracks me up now is all the vaxxed folk who are upset about it, michael laws has had a few good rants but what i find hilarious is they say there was no information given to them… it fucking well was, they just dismissed it because it came from fellow citizens and not the podium of truth.

ok some of the claims were outrageous but so were some of the claims from the podium and the logic behind many absurd covid rules but there was plenty of data out there from overseas on infection/fatality rates of later variants, the potential heart and clot issues and the vax ineffectiveness.
it was all there, they along with our politicians chose to ignore it.

dont blame chippy, they need to blame themselves and their blind hatred of those who didnt be good sheep.

Last edited 4 months ago by I am a stupid boy
FJA
FJA
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
4 months ago

💯. I said as much to a mate last night. “We didn’t know”. Pretty weak.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  FJA
4 months ago

Yep, a teddy bear or two in the window is going to keep the pox away!

Tarquin
Reply to  Sooty
4 months ago

It works extraordinarily at my place.

Starving Artist
Starving Artist
Reply to  Tarquin
4 months ago

Marvelous.

DylanHunt
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
4 months ago

Anyone in a position if trust, carrying out actions that may affect the lives, length of live, health or quality of life or another, has a duty of care, and a duty to ensure something is safe. To do so is negligent.

Anything that results in injury, death, or accelerated death, that was not an unavoidable accident or ‘Act of God’, is criminal. If death, or accelerated death, it s considered homicide. It is all in our laws.

Ignorance of the law is no excuse. Failing to verify without doubt that something is safe is not an excuse.

And in any case it was not the legal right of the govt to recommend, administer, or mandate the drug. The only legal entity capable of advising a patient is the patient’s doctor, and the only one medically qualified is the patient’s doctor. It is why all doctors have to have malpractice insurance.

And all through the vaccine war period, it was still on the NZ immunisation website that you you have to right to refuse a vaccine for you and your children and that you have the right to informed consent.

All matters related to the fake pandemic and the vaccines,are criminal, not civil.

Sooty
Sooty
4 months ago

Why not just ask the wife, you don’t need to poke her with a stick!

I am a stupid boy
4 months ago

i see some unions and the psa etc are having a cry its too expensive to drive to work and pushing for relief or wfh…. why make the taxpayer and workplaces suffer? these unions etc should halt their tithing until the fuel prices drop, being good bastatds and putting more money in their members pockets.
yeah i know, i just about died laughing typing it.

Last edited 4 months ago by I am a stupid boy
Chuck Bird
Chuck Bird
4 months ago

One advantage of Hipkins not resigning or being rolled is that it will make a Labour-led government more unlikely.

Starving Artist
Starving Artist
Reply to  Chuck Bird
4 months ago

Yet Labour are ahead in the polls. How do you explain that? Biased polls? A large percentage of the population are retards? Both?

rightoverlabour
Reply to  Starving Artist
4 months ago

Yup, retards, but they redefine Retard.

Tarquin
Reply to  Chuck Bird
4 months ago

I’m thinking of starting a new campaign. Bring back Shearer. Sounds like a winner to me. The other two probable contenders are Kieran Mc Anulty who looks remarkably like Vladimir Lenin or Michael Wood aka the brylcream cowboy. Both of them have plenty of baggage and are so unlikable they make Chloe look useful. Any other ideas?

Viking
Reply to  Tarquin
4 months ago

Wood has already started visiting all his neighbours.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Viking
4 months ago

Crawling cunt is chasing votes, do you think he will get any after driving past with his nose in the air. Nah! Neither do I.

nasska
Reply to  Tarquin
4 months ago

Is the resurrection of Helen Clark on or off the table?

Viking
Reply to  Editor
4 months ago

Don’t put stupid ideas in the witch’s head. ffs.

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
Reply to  Editor
4 months ago

FO!

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  waikatogirl
4 months ago

Would she just scream if sh bombed out, bigly!

FJA
FJA
Reply to  nasska
4 months ago

Dr Frankenstein’s table, perhaps.

Sooty
Sooty
4 months ago

Topical lefty, anyone’s money except their own!

Alice
4 months ago

So the whole Net Zero thing was based on a lie. Who’d of thought it? Well me actually and plenty of others.
https://x.com/OwenGregorian/status/2038230323608137832

The climate science world (‘settled’ division) is in shock following the discovery in ancient ice cores that levels of carbon dioxide remained stable as the world plunged into an ice age around 2.7 million years ago. Levels of CO2 at around 250 parts per million (ppm) were said to be lower than often assumed with just a 20 ppm movement recorded for the following near three million-year period. In addition, no changes in methane levels were seen in the entire period. Massive decreases in temperature with occasional interglacial rises appear to have occurred without troubling ‘greenhouse’ gas levels, and this revelation has caused near panic in activist circles.

The assumed level three million years ago of CO2 was around 400 ppm, a convenient mark that has been used to explain the subsequent ice age and a drop to 250 ppm. Due to the recently published paper, this explanation has become more problematic and natural climate variation is correctly noted to have occurred with the temperature changes. Alas, similar explanations are mostly ignored in discussing today’s climate changes in the interests of promoting the Net Zero fantasy. Some cling desperately to a dominant CO2 role, including one of the authors of the findings published in Nature. The co-author states that the results suggest even greater climate sensitivity to the warming effect of CO2. In short, there is a great deal of applying the laws of physics and chemistry to one era, but failing to extend the same courtesy to another.

The title of the paper, produced by 17 America-based scientists, was enough to set alarm bells ringing in the ‘settled’ science, Net Zero-obsessed community: ‘Broadly stable atmospheric CO2 and CH4 levels over the past three million years.’ A related paper examining ocean heat content derived from the ice core record was also published. Carrie Lear, Professor of Past Climates and Earth System Changes at Cardiff University, claimed that the papers “don’t rewrite the role of CO2, they underline how sensitive the climate system is… that is why today’s rapid CO2 rise is so alarming”.

Ah, yes. Even if CO2 movements are minimal, probably within a margin of potential error, they are still responsible for large variations in temperature. The laws of climate science are ‘settled’ – if the trace atmospheric gas CO2 is rising, falling or generally stable, it is almost wholly responsible for large movements in global temperature. Under this rather shaky assumption, humans must stop burning hydrocarbons and return to a neo-Malthusian pre-industrial age.

Study lead author Julia Marks-Peterson noted: “We definitely were a bit surprised. If correct, the findings may suggest that even small changes in greenhouse gas levels could trigger major shifts in climate.” That’s a little bit of a scary thought, she added, possibly with an eye on future grant funding. “May suggest” is doing a lot of the work here, and it may also be suggested that more plausible opinions are available.

Quoted in New Scientist magazine, Tim Naish, Professor of Earth Science at Victoria University in New Zealand, said it was “way too early to thrown the baby out with the bathwater”. Perish the thought that baby should be given its marching orders, ending a science-lite 40-year demonisation of CO2 and related promotion of a hard-Left Net Zero dream.

The latest Nature-published research gives a snapshot from ancient Antarctica ‘blue’ ice drilled in the Allan Hills area. It looks back further in time past the usual 800,000 ice core records. The key finding is that over the last three million years, when sea levels fell and ice periods intensified, the level of the main ‘greenhouse’ gases remained remarkably stable. For the first time, the work has pushed the direct gas measurements back into the late Pliocene era. Over the last three million years moving into the Pleistocene, global temperatures showed a long-term cooling trend of several degrees Celsius, interrupted by increasingly large interglacial oscillations. Interglacial temperature swings, as in the current Holocene, often see temperatures rise by 5°C and more.

Critics seeking to downplay ice core evidence often suggest it is too imprecise to provide a wholly accurate record of gas levels and temperature. But it is accurate enough to give a broad cyclical insight. It remains the source of some of the best data we have on the past climate. It is undoubtedly more accurate than most proxy evidence from millions of years ago. But whatever the evidence used, it is hard to detect any obvious and continuous link between CO2 and temperature across the entire geological record going back 600 million years to the start of abundant life on Earth. Certainly none to justify the political notion that humans control the climate thermostat by burning hydrocarbons.

In fact the evidence is so slim that Les Hatton, Emeritus Professor in Computer Science at Kingston University, was recently able to determine from ice core records that 100-year rises of 1.1°C in the current interglacial, which started 20,000 years ago, have occurred in one in six centuries. Going back 150,000 years, the frequency was around one in six to one in 20 centuries. None of these findings suggest that current warming is either unusual or primarily caused by human activity. Needless to say, none of these findings trouble the headline writers in narrative-addicted mainstream media.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/03/28/shock-new-evidence-showing-no-link-between-co2-and-temperature-over-last-three-million-years-stumps-net-zero-activists/

DylanHunt
Reply to  Alice
4 months ago

Well said. Wattsupwiththat is a good website.

The biggest fear porn that is sold, is sea level rise. Sea level rises of up to 15 metres by 2300. Even worse, fear porn of an overnight sea level rise of 60 metres if all the Antarctic ice instantly melted, or simply jumped off the Antarctic land mass into the sea.

The Climate Fraudsters’ theory is simple, but deficient in simple logic, that you can prove with high school science.
[1] A CO2 rise leads to increased temperatures.

(a) Which is bullshit as CO2 follows temperature, not the other way around. As per your link and other links.

Not Withstanding that:
{b) And its also bullshit as increased CO2 stimulates green growth which in turn converts more CO2 to O2.

(c) The optimum point on the CO2 to O2 bell curve is actually 1000 to 1500 ppm. Any less than 100-150ppm leads to death of the planet.

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https://extension.okstate.edu/fact-sheets/greenhouse-carbon-dioxide-supplementation

(d) Whoever created the universe and the planets were smart enough to incorporate massive and complex cybernetic feedback loops to ensure that planet earth remains habitable under a wide range of diverse conditions.

(e) Since 1800, CO2 production has risen 12,000%.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co2-emissions-per-country?country=~OWID_WRL

Yet the static CO2 figure has increased only by 60%. 250 > 400ppm

So CO2 levels increase by a minuscule amount for vast changes of CO2 production. Which confirms that the “creators” feedback loops are working.

(f) On the ratio of CO2 production vs CO2 levels, the CO2 production would have to vastly increase to get us close to 1500ppm. But since conversion efficiency increases at the higher CO2 levels, it could be several times that factor.

[g] Redundancy and feedback loops had to have be built in at design/creation or otherwise events like the Krakatoa eruption would have ended life on the planet
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[h] Right now the minor rise of CO2 static level, is probably due to system ‘buffering and caching’. It is no different to a family increasing from Mum and Dad (2), to Mum and Dad and 8 teenagers (10). They will need a bigger ‘cache’ of toilet paper, but are in no danger of shit piling up on the floor of the toilet.

[2] Not withstanding the evidence as in [1], and assuming that the fake science that CO2 leads to temperature increase was true, then Antarctic land mass ice would be melting. Ice already in the water melting creates no sea level rise, and NASA has confirmed that the Antarctic Land mass ice is increasing.

[3] Not withstanding the evidence as in [1] and [2], if rate of sea level rise was increasing, we would see that in the average tide gauge levels here in NZ. We are not.

If the average sea level changes in one area of the world, it changes elsewhere within 24 hours thanks to the redistribution effect of tides.

No-one needs a degree to understand that the fake climate change is bullshit. They just need common sense.

Last edited 4 months ago by DylanHunt
nasska
Reply to  Alice
4 months ago

…..”demonisation of CO2 and related promotion of a hard-Left Net Zero dream”…….

It never was about climate. The “science” was a way to usher in a communist world government.

nasska
4 months ago

‘A nation without energy security is a nation without economic security.’

Daniel Yergin

H/T RCR Bites

Sooty
Sooty
4 months ago

The only thing chipkins reads is the dunny paper!

nasska
4 months ago

There have been news reports recently about a clever development from a Kiwi innovator. From https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/590988/southland-farmer-takes-edible-bale-netting-invention-to-europe

#. “Orepuki deer farmer, Grant Lightfoot is the creator of Kiwi-Econet, a non-polluting baleage netting that animals can eat, rather than traditional plastic.

Good on him for finding an alternative to the mountains of polluting baleage wrap that becomes airborne or buried under our most productive land. I wish him well in getting his product established worldwide yet I’m going to predict what will happen to it.

Worst case….. It doesn’t fly.

Best case…… It is accepted universally by primary producers & becomes a success. There is no venture capital available in NZ so Mr Lightfoot is forced to sell any rights to an overseas corporation for peanuts. The buyer will likely be a large scale manufacturer of plastic wrap who shitcans the new idea as there is more profit in the status quo.

Feel the globalism. Embrace the corporatism of every fucking thing.

Viking
Reply to  nasska
4 months ago

Plenty of venture capital around if you know where to look. More coming as they sell those big houses you can’t afford.
Try and keep up.

Hooker Phil
4 months ago

Came across this comment…….just to stir up S.B.

“2 of my grandsons mates have died in their sleep from myocarditis – one 21 years and one 22 years and the remaining mandated freinds are all terrified of who will be next – they all had chest pains and trouble breathing when they had the jab – I hope the perpetrators of this horror rot in hell – March 2020 NZ listener wrote an article saying 99 percent of people will be ok with the new covid virus overseas .- it is just a bad flu – if NZ listener had that information then so did our govt.”

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Hooker Phil
4 months ago

Or they would have if chipkins reads everything across his desk and not just his dunny roll.

Dougal10
Reply to  Hooker Phil
4 months ago

The trouble is half of that age group vape and well over half dabble in recreational pills while partying .

Starving Artist
Starving Artist
Reply to  Dougal10
4 months ago

Are you trying to say myocarditis is caused by vapimng and party pills? Get real.

DylanHunt
Reply to  Hooker Phil
4 months ago

“…mandated friends are all terrified of who will be next – they all had chest pains and trouble breathing when they had the jab…”

That is becoming quite common.

I know a number of young people that have had trouble with heart issues, and random unexpected pains. Met another one today.

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
4 months ago

I was listening to Michael Yeadon refuting the covid plandemic in early April 2020

https://www.woolstangray.eu/a-massive-fraud-has-been-perpetrated-by-dr-michael-yeadon-phd/
A Massive Fraud Has Been Perpetrated. By Dr. Michael Yeadon PhD.

Michael Yeadon, Ph.D., a life science researcher and former vice-president and chief scientist of allergy and respiratory research at Pfizer, fears the combination of vaccine passports and booster vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 variants may be part of a mass depopulation agenda

Asymptomatic spread is a fallacy capitalised upon to spread fear and induce compliance. Only people who have discernible symptoms of a respiratory infection pose any health risk to others, because to be an efficient source of infection, you need a high viral load. If you have a high viral load, your immune system will fight back, which always induces symptoms

The myth of asymptomatic spread was used to justify lockdowns, which in turn were a tool to get you used to give up your freedoms and go along with the intentional decimation of the global economy and old way of life, thereby justifying the Great Reset…

Basically, everything your government has told you about this virus, everything you need to do to stay safe, is a lie,” Yeadon says. “Every part of it … None of the key themes that you hear talked about — from asymptomatic transmission to top-up vaccines [i.e., booster shots] — not one of those things is supported by the science.



Every piece is cleverly chosen adjacently to something that probably is true, but is itself a lie, and has led people to where we are right now. I don’t normally use phrases like this, but I think we are standing at the very gates of hell … It’s all about control …

Last edited 4 months ago by waikatogirl
DylanHunt
Reply to  waikatogirl
4 months ago

The myth of asymptomatic spread…

Actually its not a myth. The flu spreads symptomatically as well. 75% of all flu is asymptomatic. So in a year 550 die, 1 million+ have symptoms, and the rest of the country are asymptomatic. So if you tested the entire country for the flu, damn near everyone would test positive. That fact (75% asymptomatic) has been known for at least a decade and that fact was even on the MOH website pre and during Covid.

And Covid, aka flu 2019, followed the same trend. MOH knew it, and unless Bloomfield, Verrall, Baker et all got their qualifications out of a lucky dip barrel at a county fair, they would know it as well.

So the pantomime of people driving up to testing centres to get tested and the govt announcing “we have another 10,000 positive cases today” is all horseshit. If you tested en mass for the flu in the middle of flu season you would get similar results.

It is all mass deception and putting people into fear to be corralled to get jabbed or boosted. Deception which results in a gain for one person or group of people, OR a loss for one person or group of people is called fraud in the Crimes Act.

Ardern, Hipkins, Bloomfield, Baker, etc are all just common garden variety hustlers and conmen for big Pharma. Prostituting themselves for money.

nasska
4 months ago

I sometimes feel that this blog’s readers & commentators have wandered a little too far from the roots of their more agrarian ancestors. They neglect the lead up to the lamb chops being plastic wrapped on a hygienic plastic tray & their vegetables before they were snap frozen in microwaveable bags.

Likewise they seem to romanticise the day to day life of the hard working yet modestly paid stock truck driver. Their bucolic visions of the trucky’s idyllic life chauffeuring livestock round the country will be shattered by what happens every night back at the yard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi4a6JPuRVw

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  nasska
4 months ago

around here that job is mainly for an afterschool boy, usually one of the truckies sons. i used to pity the poor buggers at the end of the dairy season as theyd spend 10-12hr days during holidays/weekend hosing poo laden trucks until i got yarning and the kid loved it cuz he was 16 and on $35 an hour!!! if he went all out when he had time and washed to cab and bit of a chemwax the drivers would give him a bonus aswell.

nasska
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
4 months ago

Depended where you were on the totem pole in our yard. I was made head driver (foreman status) when I was 26 & from that point on the appearance of my truck became the current yard boy’s problem.

None of them were on $35/hr & I never bothered to ask whether they loved the job. 🙂

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  Editor
4 months ago

yum, i like lamb but hogget has bit more fat n flavour. dont mind the odd mutton roast aswell.
ive done a swapsies with a mate, he needed grass for balage which i had and i want some hoggets in a few months when i get back from aussie which he has…. gotta love the barter system!!!

Saggy
Reply to  nasska
4 months ago

That was me in the bathroom after last week’s vindaloo.

Saggy
4 months ago

What is it about lefties. They make it impossible for employers with high minimum wages, pay equity, additional holidays, worker’s rights, strike action etc.
Then they scream like banshees when a factory has finally had enough and throws in the towel. You reap what you sow.

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  Saggy
4 months ago

they blame the closure on capitalism too which is even more hilarious.
the lefties also wanted fossil fuels gone or taxed to oblivion, they all looooved arderns captain call but its caused high energy prices which along with the issues you raised contributed to the closures of all those large businesses in the past year or 2.

personally id rather a mediocre paying job that has security vs higher paying but its gunna close and leave me jobless in a couple of months.
unions have alot to answer for, they pretty much like iwi and only in it to feather their own nest at their members expense.

Viking
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
4 months ago

Thats what happened to the freezing works. They did themselves out of a job.

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
4 months ago

Barometer of countries shows NZ has reached ‘distrustful’.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzZm25-tawo
Why NZ Media Trust Is So Bad & Why It’s Getting Worse

Michael Laws breaks down why NZ media trust is so bad, and why it’s getting worse.

Seymour’s hypocrisy not including himself when blaming others for those who mislead and controlled us during covid. Seymour told a business meeting: “People accepted suspension of democracy too easily during covid” When will Seymour apologise for dogmatically mandating the jab?

Last edited 4 months ago by waikatogirl
Starving Artist
Starving Artist
Reply to  waikatogirl
4 months ago

Probably never. He seems to have a self awareness problem.

Alice
4 months ago

Why am I not able to access YSB while using a VPN? Is it to prevent bot attacks from overseas?
I use a VPN constantly these days so may not bother coming here in future, will you miss me? Don’t answer that :-))

Last edited 4 months ago by Alice
rightoverlabour
Reply to  Alice
4 months ago

If your blood is as pure as your Icon, then definitely, I’ll miss you… Hopefully it’s not a VPN issue.

Upyou2
Upyou2
Reply to  Alice
4 months ago

I use a VPN but I have to use overseas location Alice as NZ VPN location refuses to connect. Maybe you and I are on their list.📋

Viking
4 months ago

LUCKY COUNTRY
War impacts aren’t bad for every government. Consider this Westpac summary about the Australian federal budget impacts. “Higher‑than‑assumed commodity prices are expected to deliver the Federal budget a windfall of almost $60bn over the five years to FY30. Around $20bn of this uplift reflects the impact of the Middle East conflict, particularly via higher coal and LNG export prices. This more than offsets the $2.6bn cost of halving the fuel excise for three months. The run‑up in gold prices since FY24 is estimated to add around $19bn to Treasury revenues over the next five years. This broadly aligns with Department of Industry forecasts showing gold export receipts rising by around $40bn in FY26 relative to FY24. Higher inflation and the cyclical upswing are boosting nominal incomes, consistent with the March monthly statements showing income and indirect tax revenue were around $7.0bn and $2.5bn ahead of MYEFO estimates, respectively. The inflationary impulse from the conflict is expected to provide further near‑term support to revenues.

If only.
Santana has ordered their new Komatsu’s. got their place on the production line.

Viking
4 months ago

Supreme Court quashes David Tamihere’s decades-old convictions for murdering Swedish tourists

David Tamihere’s convictions for murdering the two Swedish tourists have been quashed, 37 years after the couple disappeared in the Coromandel bush.
The upset decision from the Supreme Court today finds that Tamihere’s High Court trial in 1990 was unfair, and based partly on evidence that was “concocted to secure convictions”.
It also says that the Crown’s later theories of what happened to Sven Urban Höglin and Heidi Birgitta Paakkonen when they went missing almost four decades ago have never been tested in front of a jury.
While the Supreme Court has allowed Tamihere’s appeal, overturning his two murder convictions, it has also ordered a retrial.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/supreme-court-quashes-david-tamiheres-decades-old-convictions-for-murdering-swedish-tourists/U5SMHX67FJDYPC3HOZLLRXEJAA/

So more money down the drain.

Komata
Komata
Reply to  Viking
4 months ago

Viking

But April 1 isn’t until tomorrow…

Viking
4 months ago

One of Kaitāia’s biggest employers could be shut down with the loss of hundreds of jobs if a buyer can’t be found.

One of Kaitāia’s biggest employers could be shut down with the loss of hundreds of jobs if a buyer can’t be found by the mills’ Japanese owners.
Juken New Zealand owns two timber mills in the Far North town, one producing sawn timber, the other a Triboard product used in construction.
High costs – power especially – have long cast a shadow over the future of the two mills, but Juken NZ has now signalled its intention to exit the Far North town of about 6000 people.
The news has been greeted with dismay in Kaitāia, a town with few other employment

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/591138/kaitaia-timber-mills-may-close-with-loss-of-hundreds-of-jobs?fbclid=IwY2xjawQ4N-JleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFmM0RsQlZGSG9rNDVkRXNBc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHnIrDqkk7jh30TYSeUhPyfdw-IK981F3q2_u8VDJgGhD3KYTQYdziKJQ-XB5_aem_hntGhLUuENzUCCqgyxBQNA

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nasska
4 months ago

When it comes to Green Party candidate selection it seems that while everyone is equal some are more equal than others. Or maybe it was the applicant’s rampant heterosexuality that disqualified her.

From https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/591140/greens-deny-former-sex-worker-s-background-was-a-factor-in-candidate-decision

#. “Sex worker advocacy group Fired Up Stilettos’ chairperson Bianca Beebe was not selected this year, with the group in a statement claiming the vetting process fixated on her former job, and that she was told it posed a reputational risk to the party.”

Funny that. Bumhole Ben, the kiddy gender selection expert, was considered to be aspirational. The bender from Mexico likewise.

#. “The statement says the committee chair expressed concern about Beebe’s sex work past and activism would distract from the party’s messaging goals, including Beebe having done sex work while on a work visa.”

Perhaps had she rorted the DPB instead it would have been okay.

Starving Artist
Starving Artist
Reply to  nasska
4 months ago

”reputational risk” LOL – but a thief, an exploiter of immigrants, and a pedophile are OK, apparently

Viking
4 months ago
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