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🏦 A Native American Chief needed to borrow $1,000, so he went to the local bank to speak with the loan officer.
Banker: “What are you going to do with the money?”
Chief: “Buy silver, make jewelry, then sell it.”
Banker: “And what do you have for collateral?”
Chief: “I don’t know what collateral is.”
The banker explained, “Collateral is something valuable we hold in case you can’t pay back the loan. Do you have any livestock?”
Chief: “I have a horse.”
Banker: “How old is the horse?”
Chief: “Don’t know… it has no teeth.”
After a few more questions, the banker finally found something he could use as collateral and approved the loan.
A few weeks later, the Chief returned, pulled out a roll of $100 bills, and handed the banker $1,000.
Banker: “Business must be good! What are you going to do with the rest of the money?”
Chief: “Keep it close to me.”
Banker: “Why don’t you deposit it in the bank?”
Chief: “I don’t know what a deposit is.”
The banker explained, “You put the money in our bank, we take care of it, and you can take it out whenever you need it.”
The Chief leaned across the desk, looked the banker in the eye, and asked:
“What do you have for collateral?” 🤭💰
I like that.
Fuk around and find out, Iran.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/360944966/iran-war
Iranians must be going “FFS just get on with it”
TACO…
for a man who claimed he could easily reopen the straight he sure is being a fucking pussy.
hes like a weak parent…. 1…. 2…. 2½…. 2¾….. 2⅚…. RIGHT, next time im not gunna fuck around and im gunna beat your arse.
its gunna take boots on the ground or civil uprising/ overthrow to get any progress, negotiating with the powerless president is futile as the irgc dont give a fuck what he says or does.
looks like trumps gunna have to roll with war crimes and punish iranian civilians for it.
It’s not a war crime to hit civilian infrastructure if it’s also used by military. Just as it’s not a war crime to inadvertently hit civilians in a war. Context of the attacking matters, but retarded legacy media and leftist activists won’t say shit about that. They just keep repeating it to make President Trump look bad, despite the fact it’s the US armed forces doing the attacking.
Putting military equipment in civilian infrastructure is the actual war crime.
They are just keeping the gear safe!
And the left ignore the fact that Obama kept giving money to Iran for missiles and drones, build up their military and proxy armies like Hamas, Ansar Allah, and Hezbollah.
Obama gave Iran $150 Billion is order to destabilise the Middle East.
We already knew this, but now Saudi Prince Mohammad bin Salman, leader of Saudi Arabia, has opened up about it.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/saudi-prince-reveals-obama-gave-iranian-regime-150/
“This was a direct threat against Israel and American allies in the region. Obama always brought chaos with him and left a trail of destruction. He took actions to spread this chaos and evil across the Middle East.”
And now Trump is cleaning up the outcome of Barry’s corruption and treason.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/05/jared-obama-gave-iranian-regime-secret-pallet-400-million-dead-night/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/10/now-iranian-lawmaker-says-obama-biden-gifted-regime-1-7-billion-400-million-suitcase-video/
hundreds of thousands of dead civilians has never really worried american military.
clearly iran dont give a fuck what trump.says, demands or does, theyll just keep giving him the middle finger until theyre all dead.
how long until TACO starts threatening nukes?
hundreds of thousands of dead civilians has never really worried
american militarythe IRGC. There fixed that for you.My vote for airline of the year is not going to be airnz. Yesterday the midday flight to Qtown went like this.
12.20……still refueling. Fuel truck ran out of fuel.
12.30…second truck arrived to complete.
12.45…some vapor or gas was smelled midplane.
1 pm…..engineers arrived along with firemen to assess issue.
1.30….some dude decided he wanted to get off. After much discussion he did. Chickenshit. Now they had to locate his bags.
1.45…all crew had meeting in air Bridge to see if they were okay mentally or needed counselling
1.50..all set for takeoff…but wait some debris in front of plant. Maintenance called to pick it up.
2pm…..off to Qtown. Arrived 3.40 instead of 2.00 pm.
Then as an added bonus they replayed the safety briefing with takahe bird going back to his farno.
My last ten flights…perhaps two have gone smoothly. Wunch of bankers.
.
Well, it was going to Queenstown.
Sounds like Luxtard is still running the airline.
theres good reason theyve made a loss while most other airlines made record profit.
Makes you want to go shoot Takahe doesn’t it
Not the brightest bird in the bush. Takahe would vote Green. 🤤
howd your trip go sagz, were those many hours on hold worth it?
Yeah beaut. Managed to attend the only day of Warbirds when it’s ever rained, but they just rejigged the programme so when where was low cloud they did helicopter stuff etc. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Highlight for me probably the Kahu Blackhawk. And the Yak-3 – far out that plane can move and climb for a single-engine piston fighter. I love the mountains and lakes down there – different country. Almost sad to come home. Even enjoyed a night in Queenstown, which I can find a bit much. We were up early to stunning morning and flew out before too many people were on the scene,
We were down there a while back. Faaaaaarkin expensive. That’s ALL I remember about the place.
Full of wankers, too!
One for the bald geezers:
https://waikanaewatch.org/2026/04/07/amusement-a-tattoo-thats-actually-appropriate/
Luxon should have half a dozen of them on his bald head!
Public sector graduate jobs down 66% as Greens warn of exodus to Australia
The Green Party is warning that a significant reduction in public sector graduate jobs will worsen an “exodus” of young people moving to Australia.
Responses to Written Parliamentary Questions (WPQs) from Green MP Francisco Hernandez show that graduate positions have dropped by 66% in the past two years.
In the year to November 2025 year there were just 192.5 roles, down from 485.5 graduate roles in the year to November 2023.
Hernandez, the Green Party’s public service and tertiary education spokesman, told Newstalk ZB the drop was “hugely concerning”.
He feared it would degrade the long-term workforce capacity of the public sector as the graduate pipeline was a “key way” to build, attract, and retain talent.
Victoria University students’ association president Aidan Donoghue said many students were worried about finding work and the job market had become “dire”.
He said the graduate-specific roles that were being cut were usually taken up by law and humanities students and “students are competing with people that have three, or five, or 10 years’ experience”.
oh dear how sad.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/public-sector-graduate-jobs-down-66-as-greens-warns-of-exodus-to-australia/JRBIH6GFF5D6FMXOPJD5DA6WE4/
Greenies are worried that there isn’t enough jobs for the sloven graduates produced by our shit unni. They want DEI jobs for everyone.
There will be a much bigger exodus if the Greens ever get their hands on the levers of power.
Be interesting to see the Maori elite scuttling off!
Anthropic director Chris Liddell’s warning for New Zealand – don’t miss the AI tsunami
Seize the moment
There is a Greek proverb I have carried with me for much of my life, “we should plant trees in whose shade we shall never sit”. Every serious act of nation-building is an act of intergenerational generosity, done not for the people in the room, but for the New Zealanders who will inherit what we choose to do or fail to do now.
We largely missed the Knowledge Wave. The conference and what came afterwards catalysed real outcomes and a brief but genuine sense of national shared purpose. However, measured against the scale of the generational challenge it set out to meet, the honest verdict is that we did not do anywhere enough, fast enough, or with enough sustained commitment. We planted some trees when we needed a forest.
The next wave will be dramatically more significant. The question for New Zealand is not whether the AI tsunami is coming. It is whether, this time, we choose to meet it with the full force of everything we have.
Anthropic director Chris Liddell’s warning for New Zealand – don’t miss the AI tsunami
Opinion by
Chris Liddell
NZ Herald·
7 Apr, 2026 05:00 AM11 mins to read
Chris Liddell is chairman of NEXT Foundation and a director of Anthropic.
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Chris Liddell says the AI tsunami will dwarf the 2001 Knowledge Wave. Photo / NZME
Chris Liddell says the AI tsunami will dwarf the 2001 Knowledge Wave. Photo / NZME
Twenty-five years ago, I was one of the co-sponsors of a gathering intended to help transform New Zealand. The Catching the Knowledge Wave conference, held in August 2001, was co-chaired by Prime Minister Helen Clark and the University of Auckland vice-chancellor, John Hood. It brought together 450 academics, business leaders, politicians and economists with a single urgent purpose: to chart a course into the knowledge economy of the 21st century.
The ambition was genuine. The international guests from Singapore, Israel, Ireland, Canada and the United States were generous with their advice. Small nations, they told us, could outperform, but only if they set clear goals, backed them with real resources, and had the discipline to follow through.
I was part of the work that ran alongside and beyond the conference. In the lead-up to the Knowledge Wave, a group of us had agreed with Cabinet to reset the relationship between government and business, organised around what we called “Three Wars”: for talent, investment and ideas. The conference gave that work energy, legitimacy and momentum.
What followed directly or indirectly was more significant than it is sometimes remembered. KiwiSaver was conceived. New Zealand Trade and Enterprise was created. A more strategic approach to free trade agreements took hold, most consequentially leading to a China FTA. Producer board reform brought Fonterra and Zespri into being. KEA, the diaspora network, was established. The New Zealand Initiative and the Springboard Trust were born. Additional performance-based funding for universities was introduced. Auckland University’s global stature and ranking increased.
There was something less tangible, too. For a few days in that Auckland conference centre, decision-makers from every sector of New Zealand sat together and tried, collectively, to make the country better. There was a sense of energy and shared purpose – a genuine national mojo that I have not seen replicated since. John Hood won New Zealander of the Year. It mattered.
And yet, the honest verdict, 25 years on, is that the overall impact on New Zealand has been, at best, modest. Not because the ideas were wrong. But because turning ideas into structural economic transformation requires something we find genuinely difficult: sustained, grinding, whole-of-economy follow-through. We are good at conversation. We are less good at the hard work of implementation that must follow. New Zealand can be small and nimble. We are not always able to be.
High stakes
I believe we are about to face a far larger transition with incomparably higher stakes. The artificial intelligence revolution is not a knowledge wave. It is a tsunami, coming with exceptional opportunities and challenges.
Chris Liddell (front right) with his former Microsoft colleagues.
Chris Liddell (front right) with his former Microsoft colleagues.
My old boss, Bill Gates, has long observed that we overestimate the short-term impact of technology but underestimate its long-term impact. With AI, progress is not linear; it is exponential, and the long term is arriving far sooner than we expect. The future that many experts imagine arriving in 20 years may be five years away.
Dario Amodei is the CEO of Anthropic and one of the most credible voices on the future of this technology. He is a grounded scientist leading one of the world’s most important organisations at a time of momentous change. He has written two essays that every New Zealand policymaker, business leader and citizen should read.
In Machines of Loving Grace, he sketches the massive upside of powerful AI, the prospect of compressing a century of medical and scientific progress into a single decade, of eliminating diseases that have plagued humanity for millennia, of dramatically expanding access to education and economic opportunity across the globe.
In his second essay, The Adolescence of Technology, Amodei is more sobering. He argues that humanity is about to be handed almost unimaginable power and that it is unclear whether our social, political and technological institutions possess the maturity to wield it wisely. This is a passage, he writes, that will test who we are as a species.
Extraordinary opportunity
What does this mean for New Zealand?
It means the opportunity is extraordinary. It also means that the cost of our often-characteristic inertia has never been higher.
The United States and China will dominate the global AI race. New Zealand cannot and should not try to compete on their terms. But scale is not the only path to significance. Switzerland became a global centre for finance and pharmaceuticals, not through size, but through trust, quality and strategic positioning. Singapore, a city-state of six million, has attracted more than 60 global AI centres of excellence from Google, Microsoft and others, not because it has the biggest market, but because it offers speed, stability and the rule of law.
Bjorn Stigson, former chairman of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, gives a keynote address at the Knowledge Wave leadership Conference in 2021.
Bjorn Stigson, former chairman of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, gives a keynote address at the Knowledge Wave leadership Conference in 2021.
New Zealand holds some baseline advantages for the AI age. A global reputation for integrity and trustworthy governance. A transparent regulatory environment. Abundant renewable energy, a critical and increasingly scarce resource for the data centres that power AI. A government with the structural capacity to move fast. And a unique indigenous worldview, Te Ao Māori, that offers a genuinely different perspective on data sovereignty, collective benefit and the ethics of technology.
Evolutionary biology teaches us that change comes from the edge of the species. New Zealand has always been a place at the edge geographically, culturally and institutionally. That is not a disadvantage in a world being remade by AI. Being a laboratory for ideas, a place nimble enough to experiment and iterate at speed, is a genuine strategic asset. The countries that will lead are not necessarily just the biggest. They are the boldest.
Total commitment
This time the boldness must be backed by something the Knowledge Wave ultimately lacked: a genuine, sustained, whole-of-economy commitment.
On the government side, what is needed is a substantive, ongoing set of enabling policies. A menu of ideas worth considering includes the introduction of programmes such as Singapore is using to facilitate adoption among SMEs, an AI Talent Visa to attract the world’s best minds, a Sovereign AI Infrastructure Fund that leverages our renewable energy advantage, sector-specific AI missions facilitated by government leadership in agritech, biosecurity and climate, where New Zealand has genuine competitive credibility.
AI can also make the government itself both more efficient in delivering existing services and more effective in adopting new delivery models. This will require a serious programme to drive AI adoption through every part of the government. The government can use it to significantly increase its policy cadence, speed up regulatory clearances and do a regulatory “clean-up” that eliminates conflicting or low-value regulations. AI will open major opportunities in personalised medicine and education, two of the country’s largest sectors in need of re-imagining. New Zealand could be at the forefront of their experimentation and application.
Last, but critically, we need a national AI Literacy programme. The good news here is that the AI tools are significantly easier to use than in previous technology developments. The anxiety many workers feel about AI displacement is real, and the answer is a genuine investment in every person’s ability to adapt and to benefit from AI.
The government cannot do this alone. The private sector must step up by investing in AI capabilities and building the new companies and platforms that a modern economy requires. This will require “top down” driving from business leaders willing to invest in AI applications, and “bottom up” ideas from all levels of the organisation, empowered by the general deployment of frontier models to every employee.
There are opportunities for significant advances in making existing companies more productive, an area New Zealand has consistently lagged in, but also new growth. There has never been a better moment in New Zealand history to start or scale a technology company or reimagine existing industries. The ability to create something that I wrote about 20 years ago, “mini multinationals”, has never been greater. Designed, conceived and owned in New Zealand but produced and distributed internationally, eliminating the tyranny of distance that has plagued New Zealand in the past.
I am a director of Commonwealth Fusion Systems, the leading US company developing fusion energy, the most promising source of future, unlimited, clean energy for the planet. Openstar in New Zealand is taking an innovative, less capital-intensive approach to the same challenge. AI will facilitate many more of these types of companies. Perhaps using AI-integrated robotics for high-value, low-volume manufacturing in New Zealand to offset high shipping costs. Or empowering the digital effects industry with proprietary AI tools to produce more world-class films and gaming content. Or personalised eco-tourism with AI concierges that create hyper-customised travel itineraries, managing tourist flows to protect our environment while maximising spend.
For Māori entrepreneurs and iwi, in particular, the AI moment offers something the Knowledge Wave only gestured toward: real structural opportunity to build wealth, own platforms and participate in the highest-value parts of the global economy on their own terms.
Chris Liddell (at rear) with Neal and Annette Plowman of the NEXT Foundation.
Chris Liddell (at rear) with Neal and Annette Plowman of the NEXT Foundation.
In the philanthropic sector, AI also opens new worlds. NEXT Foundation, which I chair, is already experimenting with AI in the drive towards a “Nature Positive” country, where we reverse historically negative trends in biodiversity, carbon emissions and ocean health. We hope to attract significant international investment to New Zealand to help with our efforts. Some of these ideas are world-leading and can be applied not only in New Zealand but also be exported globally. More broadly, we believe AI can help create platforms for smaller charitable efforts, for example, by using AI to analyse social data and identify hidden poverty or education gaps, enabling targeted charitable interventions. Or establishing a “shared services” AI lab that provides small charities with the tools and training to automate their fundraising and volunteer management.
These are just a small sample of ideas across the public, private and philanthropic sectors. The opportunities are only limited by our imagination. However, none of them will come easily. There will be no silver bullet, just a broad adoption in every sector and the willingness to embrace new business models and approaches. There will be successes but also failures. It will require relentless commitment.
I have lived outside New Zealand for much of the time since the Knowledge Wave. I continue to care deeply about the country and contribute where I can, mostly through philanthropy, trying to build a legacy in the environment and education.
Working alongside some of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs, investors and leaders, I’ve come to admire what I would describe as relentless pragmatic optimism – the ability to hold multiple conflicting realities simultaneously, with a clear bias towards the positive. Not naive optimism. Not a denial of the challenges. But the understanding that in times of great dislocation, the bigger the disruption, the bigger the opportunity for those bold enough to compete.
Chris Liddell (right) with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos at a White House tech conference.
Chris Liddell (right) with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos at a White House tech conference.
I have seen and competed against the best in the world. I believe that New Zealand has the DNA, but we need the attitude. My enduring concern, seen from the distance I have gained, is our tendency towards complacency and incrementalism and more recently, a degree of fatalism. We must fight those attitudes. In the world we are now entering, every country and every citizen has agency. What’s coming will require a fundamentally different level of response and a higher level of aspiration across government, business and the wider public.
Seize the moment
There is a Greek proverb I have carried with me for much of my life, “we should plant trees in whose shade we shall never sit”. Every serious act of nation-building is an act of intergenerational generosity, done not for the people in the room, but for the New Zealanders who will inherit what we choose to do or fail to do now.
We largely missed the Knowledge Wave. The conference and what came afterwards catalysed real outcomes and a brief but genuine sense of national shared purpose. However, measured against the scale of the generational challenge it set out to meet, the honest verdict is that we did not do anywhere enough, fast enough, or with enough sustained commitment. We planted some trees when we needed a forest.
The next wave will be dramatically more significant. The question for New Zealand is not whether the AI tsunami is coming. It is whether, this time, we choose to meet it with the full force of everything we have.
Chris Liddell has been the CFO of Microsoft and General Motors, deputy chief of staff and director of the American Technology Council at the White House, and chairman of Xero. He is currently a resident fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, the chairman of NEXT Foundation, and a director of the Council on Foreign Relations, Commonwealth Fusion Systems, and Anthropic. He grew up in the Waikato and Auckland, and was educated at Mt Albert Grammar School, the University of Auckland and the University of Oxford.
We don’t need all of them but we do need engineers and the like.
Did I say something wrong?
I posted the complete article to stop the whiners complaining, and they still complain.
No pleasing some whiners.
Don’t let it worry you. Most on here cannot read a long article like that.😱
This is what happens when you have idiots in charge of your energy policy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf7AqAoEfiU
WP on X February 20 worth repeating.
On Friday last week the Court of Appeal made a significant ruling that upheld a previous High Court judgement that the New Zealand Defence Force’s workplace Covid-19 vaccination mandate is unlawful.
Since then, just one online media outlet has reported this ruling. This solitary report was also behind a paywall – so not accessible to the vast majority of the public.
No other mainstream media outlet has made any mention of this ruling which clearly identifies that people’s rights and freedoms were significantly eroded by an unlawful direction from the previous government.
It is unbelievable that nothing was mentioned on the television main news channels, radio, or other online platforms.
The significant finding of the Court of Appeal included upholding a previous ruling in High Court of the affect these forced mandates had on the New Zealand Bill of Rights.
New Zealand First has always believed that in any robust and enduring democracy an accountable and balanced fourth estate is essential.
However, instead of the public being informed of the facts and truth of a significant ruling from one of our highest courts, they have been exposed to a prime example of the unrelenting bias of much of our mainstream media.
There is no other logical reason or excuse as to why New Zealanders have not been properly informed.
This ruling has significant ramifications for the current Covid Inquiry, not only highlighting the inadequate terms of reference that were previously created under the last government, but also the significant ramifications for the justification of all previous and remaining mandates in all workplaces.
It is deeply concerning that New Zealand’s mainstream media has neglected to inform New Zealanders of this important and significant finding that directly affects New Zealander’s rights and freedoms in our democracy.
Hipkins you little fucker, that was you they are talking about!
poor trump, hes having a tantrum again at nato allies for not joining in his dumb war…. muppet cant understand nato is a DEFENSIVE alliance.
then he gets all huffy at south korea, japan and the pacific… yea nah theyre all getting smashed with oil prices so they aint gunna join in and help push them higher! and its not their job to clean up.the mess hes made and reopen the straight that the mighty american war machine cant even tackle.
lol if they lost a couple of planes trying to get a single man back then theyll probs lose some very expensive floating/sinking kit if they try take the straight.
It’s not specifically about NATO allies – it’s about all those nations (including ours), who expect the U.S. to provide safe vessel passage for free, and disabusing them of that notion.
Did you read (I think) webrat’s post the other day, too? The suggestion is that there’s no incentive for the U.S. to finish the job, even though they can. See the first point.
the straight was open and the ships were moving prior to trump and the jews fucking it all up.
incentive or not its trumps fuckup and hes failing bigly to own it… plus it makes their navy look cowardly as not even they go near even tho the bullshit artist says its super easy and theyve won 39times already.
as ive mentioned before if another country done something of equal impact to the usa how do you think trump would react?… there would most certainly be consequences likely sanctions etc, so why not consequences for the usa and israel?
Because Israel and the U.S. aren’t the biggest state sponsor of terrorism for starters.
What part of, it isn’t a fuck-up on his part, didn’t you get?
ill do it for a million and give them the same answer… ti tiriti says taniwha need big billions of koha and the greenies and nimbys say no fucking way
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/central-hawkes-bay-water-storage-biggest-nz-dam-since-clyde-gets-18m-government-loan-to-test-its-viability/U2ACPAOQXRHXTFLZ2HMBUV2SEU/
to be fair tho, fuck the irrigation aspect of it just build it for hydro electric. nz needs more energy before it needs a bunch more overpriced fruit and grass.
What they had $20 million already, spent on koha and morning teas, was it.
Now they get another $18 mill.
Lairbour caught doing what they do best, lying.
https://x.com/BenDooley8/status/2041240983309001146?s=20
For anyone interested in Q and A by Rick, the Anglo Saxon. Starts about 1hr.48 in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpWrtwUf3bg
The Anglo Saxon Show | Livestream 06 April 26
about the only thing most kiwis could back tpm.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360960949/luxon-rejects-te-pati-maori-call-mp-pay-freeze
I’m sure all the other public servants who vote for MP’s salaries to be frozen would be crying foul if the same rules were applied to them.
Indeed. Luxon going out of his way to, once again, prove how totally worthless he is.
The remuneration authority should be scrapped. All is does is recommend pay increases for people who are already overpaid. MPs should receive the average wage – nothing more,
An inconsistency of note is with ministers being paid the same no matter their workload, how many portfolios they have, ie Simeon Brown, Goldsmith and others oversee 5 or 6 while (creepy ex-taverstock employee) Matt Doocie has one portfolio, mental health. Has he stopped giving out gender hormones to children?
Jacko’s rules: Whatever suits Willy 🤡
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpKsIZYGIrQ
Willie Jackson On The BSA Dictatorship Of The Platform
The Platform NZ
The price of petrol is so bad right now I put vodka in the lawnmower and now the grass is half cut.
Latest photos of the dark side of the moon from Artemis
https://x.com/TheRicanMemes/status/2041281921590698354?s=20
Bigly 🇺🇸 👏
The Chinese made that while Trump was distracted by shooting up ragheads.
They won’t need the speed cameras shortly when they bring in the digital RUCs. They are GPS, so the second you go over the speed limit, it’s an instant ticket that will be deducted straight out of your bank account. Same again, the profits go straight to the company and the government.
CONCLUSION — The Roadside HALO Camera is not about Safety
It’s about SPYING.. Data Collection — Feeding the AI..
Surrendering our world to AI — An alien envader.
Our elected politicians and the unelected civil servants are at WAR with the FREEDOM of the NEW ZEALAND People.. Working to ensalve us all – enslave us to a Unelected WORLD GOVERNMENT.
Latest Poll
https://x.com/Suitandtie9999/status/2041316132569919632?s=20
Could have had a change in leadership in both parties!
China has announced its intention to re-educate Muslim men.
“First we’ll teach them how to use soap & water, then we’ll set about this shit they believe in,” a government spokesman commented.
So I’m guessing the French aren’t planning to teach them about soap and water
Probably looking up how to say “we surrender” in arabic instead
The US Presidential DOOMSDAY plane, a highly modified 747 airborne communications command centre for the President, JD and Secretary of War, awaiting instructions is already in the air.
https://rumble.com/v785i2s-doomsday.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a
America’s DOOMSDAY Plane Flies To TERRIFYING New Location… Going Nuclear?Benny Johnson
Benny Johnson is a clown. His opinions & predictions rank alongside those of Henny Penny.
Not only are we losing our best & brightest to centres of economic hope but their places are being backfilled by the scum from other countries. As https://newsroom.co.nz/2026/04/02/surge-in-us-students-enrolling-in-nz-universities/ explains some of these are the flotsam & jetsam whose feelings have been hurt by Trump & his sensible nationalistic policies.
Instance:
#.”As soon as the 2024 United States presidential election results became clear, with Donald Trump winning , Chris Ceja and his wife began researching and making plans to exit their home country.
Better health outcomes, sustainability and climate change awareness compared to other countries drew the couple to Aotearoa New Zealand.”
#. “…..another American student, Declan Sperry, 24, chose to study at Victoria University. As a queer, transgender person, he was unsurprised by the uptick in American students. Sperry had a “strong desire to stay away” from the US”
In the race to the bottom NZ will take gold, silver & bronze.
Oh my goodness. This is hard to watch. Luxon has to go. What a cringefest. Tova crucified him.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360961102/watch-pm-stumbles-when-asked-about-maori-national-party-ministers-cabinet
Why did Tova need clarification of race? She obviously knew the answer. Just another ‘gotcha’ trap by the propagandist msm.
Actually, credit where credit’s due – he crucified himself.
That right there is why he is NOT MY PM. What a useless fucker, it was a reasonable question by Tova. Couldn’t even mention Potaka.
The weather gods have it in for our Tauranga correspondent’s window blockers. His drapes are doomed if the dire warnings of the TDC are not heeded.
Red Radio storm porn at https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/591641/weather-tauranga-residents-told-to-evacuate-if-they-feel-unsafe-in-heavy-rain advises:
#. “People in Tauranga feeling unsafe when heavy rain bears down on the city are being urged to evacuate.”
#. “The Bay of Plenty west of Whakatane is now under an orange heavy rain warning, with up to 140mm forecast from midnight.”
Will he be saved or is this indeed his final curtain?
Bollocks. They will get rain, lots of it, but 140mm from midnight? Windy accumulation is 198mm…. by next Monday…. As I have said, maybe just a tad moist for most areas…
Extraordinarily good advice. I’ve self evacuated four times today already, when I finally got out of the toilet I loaded all my favourite teddy bears into the E.V and hit the road to the nearest marae. It’s been wonderful here, we all sit around singing kumbaya in Maori and they’re giving out free moko’s to all the women folk. I’m so glad I live in a monsoon area.
…..”I’ve self evacuated four times today already”…..
Good thinking. I was going to pass on your suggestion to V2 but I fear that after the fourth evacuation he would be transparent. 🙂
Minor bit of rain to us, but so many sookies around much like in Masterton. People are unable to find a raincoat or a pair of gumboots.
In saying that, some of the hills are so wet that they will go with a bout of rain. One already has, so the warning is timely.
Don’t sit in the middle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGfyBXfMffg
Michael Laws breaks down an opinion poll the MSM will hate – the rise and rise of NZ First.
Problem I have though..Peters put ardern into power. Just on that alone, I will never vote for that S O B again.
On this we agree completely. I like his policies, his wit and the way he puts the boot into Labour, but….. 2017 is not easily forgotten.
Winston is meeting with Secretary of State Marco Rubio in WDC.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/591584/foreign-minister-winston-peters-off-to-meet-us-secretary-of-state-marco-rubio
Yes, once burnt, but the same can be said about Seymour for his snake in the grass impression.
Seven months before I have to make a decision.
I missed that. Snake in the grass?
Have we been told the truth about why his depdy dog resigned?
Ed, I have an idea. Set up a page 3 girl each day for the sifters among us to vote for. I reckon your readership would double. I would like to nominate my besty, Waikatogirl, as the first gorgeous girl.🤔
No thanks. I’ve had a better offer 😉
😮 😮 O M G
Lets face it mike, there is always someone better than you.
💔 but but but I thought..but but..😮😭
ohhh the humanity
🍹 😉
I see Auckland Watercare is shitting in the water before it even comes in the house, now.
Not content to just crap in the sea, they want to shit in you drinking water, bath water and what you wash your hands with.
The Podium of Truth is WobblingByNZDSOS Media Team 31 March 2026
The Walls Are Closing In: Media Finally Asking the Questions They Should Have Asked Five Years AgoSince 2021, NZDSOS has been horrified at the liberties being taken with truth, ethics and science in the name of the imperative to mass vaccinate NZ with the modified mRNA covid gene product.
For those same years, the mainstream media – propped up by the Public Interest Journalism Fund (PIJF) – parroted the government’s “safe and effective” line.
But now, commercial media outlets Newstalk ZB and the NZ Herald are starting to uncover the story. The tide is turning but the question is: why did it take so long?
https://nzdsos.com/2026/03/31/the-podium-of-truth-is-wobbling/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=weekly-sos-26-03-2026&utm_medium=email&fbclid=IwY2xjawRBdFdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeLA1B-hziJf0JN41SSBTZLmw9ZaDW5_2AsYZAxpooXVcs6wtfNiE6p134CtI_aem__BpCjlsVgwJHGr5EWiv2Sw
Why would one want to be in one of their vaccine trials???
…… only about 18% of Americans received COVID-19 booster shots during the 2025-2026 season, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
That represents a huge decline from early 2022 when 47.5% — nearly half of America’s adult population — submitted to COVID-19 boosters. ……..
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/big-pharma-companies-halt-covid-shot-trial-after-failing-to-recruit-enough-participants
Another angle on how the mRNA, nanolipid vaccines & injectables trials seem to be dying a death of their own.
The doc told a guy that masturbating before sex often helped men last longer during the act. The man decided, “What the hell, I’ll try it,” He spent the rest of the day thinking about where to do it before he got home to his wife. He couldn’t do it in his office. He thought about the restroom, but that was too open. He considered an alley, but figured that was too unsafe. Finally, he realized his solution. On his way home, he pulled his truck over on the side of the highway. He got out and crawled underneath as if he was examining the truck. Satisfied with the privacy, he undid his pants and started to play with his unit. He closed his eyes and thought of his lover. As he grew closer to the big finish, he felt a quick tug at the bottom of his pants. Not wanting to lose his mental fantasy or the orgasm, he kept his eyes shut and replied, “What?” He heard, “This is the police. What’s going on down there?” The man replied, “I’m checking out the rear axle, it’s busted.” The cop replied, “Well, you might as well check your brakes too while you’re down there because your truck rolled down the hill 5 minutes ago.”
TheRedbaiter·
After his appearance on the Herald Now program last Thursday, ex Ardern Broadcasting Minister Willie Jackson could well have opened the newspaper to a defamation lawsuit.
Jackson called NZ blogger and podcaster Cameron Slater a “nutjob” and “the most poisonous person we have ever seen on air”.Ironically, this was during a discussion about the Broadcasting Standards Authority wanting to expand its jurisdiction to online publishers.
Jackson yesterday said he was right behind this move as people like Mr Slater needed to be “controlled”.
As a radio talkback host Willie was himself kicked off air for comments relating to a rape case.(National MP Chris Penk is seen on the show making hand signals that he must have learnt while a submariner in the Australian Navy.)
Presenter Ryan Bridge remarks that Mr Jackson sounds like a “little Kim Jong Un” (Nth Korean Communist leader). Quite a fair comparison. New Zealand voters would have to be crazy to return petty tyrants like Willie Jackson and the rest of Labour to power in the coming November election.
Especially if those voters care about free speech.
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1875911613077125
Worth watching the bald headed Maori make his arguments. He is a fuck wit. but its funny.
If wee Willie is complaining, Cameron must be on target.
Keep doing what you are doing and maybe double down and really, really wind him up!
Nothing like a cry baby lefty, losing it!
Not democracy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ontS2Pf_nWA
Far North Co-Governance: Unelected Members Making BIG Council Decisions
In this episode, Duncan Garner investigates the rapid shift toward unelected governance in the Far North District Council. Councillor Davina Meads joins the show to blow the whistle on a committee structure where six elected members are sitting alongside 15 unelected iwi and hapu representatives—all with full voting rights on multimillion-dollar decisions. …
Sort of interesting, because social welfare pay out to Somalians in many USA states should have dropped by a fair bit as all those “Child-Care-Leeriing Centres would not need any top ups like “Working For Families”.
Then the caring hospices, etc., that many have been dying to get into for a resurrection recovery.
In NZ we seem to have trusts, like Waipareira;, MUMA Manukau Urban Maori Authority;, Te Kaika in Dunedin; along with probably a few more sprouting up.
…….. argued that claims of a “hollowed-out” middle class, often advanced by progressives, overlook a broader trend: millions of families have moved into higher income brackets as overall living standards improved.
Using an “absolute” measure based on purchasing power, the report found the share of families in the upper-middle class nearly tripled, rising from about 10% in 1979 to 31% in 2024.
Meanwhile, the share of families below the middle class fell sharply, from 54% to 35%. …….
https://www.newsmax.com/finance/streettalk/income-middle-class-poll/2026/04/05/id/1251877/
Then so many NZ public service salaries are set by Public Service Commission (Te Kawa Mataaho). Specialized, independent bodies set pay for specific groups: the Remuneration Authority determines pay for MPs, judges, and local government officials, while the Public Service Commissioner sets pay for public service chief executives. which is then stacks more into the department, for self empiracal importance, based on the what just can be skimmed from the taxpayer in a virtous circle. //
Have a listen to this Muslim and how he see’s the world af the Muslims and Jews.
Enlightning.
No sugarcoating, just the hard truths.
About peace in the Middle East, the war in Gaza, and the urgent need to confront hate driven by radical ideologies.
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1330722021717090