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🚨BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN’S SUMMER TOUR JUST GOT CANCELLED FOR LACK OF TICKET SALES — THE WOKE HAS-BEEN IS FINISHED AS FANS ABANDON THE ANTI-AMERICA TRAITOR!
For 22 years, The Boss ran his cozy little 14-date Northeast tour in small towns. This year? Axed two weeks after the dates dropped because nobody showed up.
Rolling Stone’s own survey just confirmed the brutal truth: the #1 reason fans are done with him is his toxic politics. 70% said they wish he’d go back to being the guy who was proud to be an American instead of the bitter, Trump-hating leftist clown he became.
The same guy who made millions singing about the working class and the American dream just got rejected by the very people who made him rich.
Turns out real Americans don’t pay to watch a millionaire lecture them about how much he hates their country.
The Boss is now just a broke, irrelevant has-been.
No, this is not true. It’s a viral hoax/misinformation post (likely satirical or politically motivated) circulating on social media, similar to past fake claims about Springsteen cancellations.
Key facts:
Politics and sales:
This fits a pattern of recurring fake Springsteen cancellation stories tied to his left-leaning views. His core audience remains loyal enough for arena shows, even amid polarization—many separate the music from the messaging, while others don’t. The “working class hero rejects his fans” framing is a partisan spin, but the specific claims (cancellation, survey, tour details) don’t hold up. Check official sources like brucespringsteen.net for real info.
Grok.
Sounded too good to be true
The support in Minneapolis, Portland, LA, etc. being so actively against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will make it work.
After all there should be a surplus of monies from educational Learing Child-Hood Care Centres with the 100% survival factor in so many well funded hospices.
That money will also circulate back as high salaries for the techno-bureaucracy in all aspects of state, city governance etc..
He might be an irrelevant has been, but I doubt very much if he is broke.
Can still buy tickets for all the shows in May – very few available, almost a sell out. The prices are eye watering, $300+ at the bottom end of tickets.
Pity about Springsteen. I really like a lot of his music, but he has to go ruin it with his politics.
I never liked him but the post is not true so you can save your pity 🙂
If only Lorde would hurry up and go the same way.
I thought she started there.
Good Lord, that is unkind.
Rapidly becoming irrelevant like so many others.
You still need to stick a pin in a few other nasty lefties around the place.
I think if it was left to me, I would run out of pins.
Are you allowed to stick the whole box into one person?
She would refude the whole box.
Last time I looked its still a free country, soots. so you can do what you want
Hipkins will be on the lookout for you.
Party time for you Tarquin
Congratulations to Lloyd Budd on being selected as the National Party’s candidate for Whangārei.
Lloyd was born and raised in Whangārei, and brings a strong record of leadership from his time in business. He understands this part of the country, and he’ll be a tireless advocate for the people of Whangārei in Parliament.
I also want to pay tribute to Dr Shane Reti, who has served Whangārei with distinction since 2014. He was the first Māori MP for the electorate, a former Deputy Leader of our Party, and a Minister who has delivered real things for Northland: progress on the four lanes to Whangārei, expanded breast cancer screening, and a third medical school at Waikato.
Shane has been a thoughtful colleague, a good friend, and a steady voice for the North. We will miss him in caucus, and Northland will miss him in Parliament. Thank you, Shane.
Lloyd has big shoes to fill, but he’s the right person for the job. I’m looking forward to campaigning alongside him through to November 7. Lloyd BuddDr Shane Reti MP
Real-estate agent ended up CEO of Bayleys Auckland. Don’t know much about him never seen him round here and don’t deal with Bayleys. Sounds like another Luxon with white shoes. Perfect fit for National and unlikely to commune with the normal people who don’t drink red bull and flash vodka. Still after the Emily Henderson performance we had to put up with for 3 years he should romp in.
Ooh! All them lefty MSM types will be sharping their knives!
To be queer and a national supporter, he ain’t got a chance.
You don’t have to be queer to support the modern day National Party but it helps.
Just what Whangarei needs not. No wonder I’ve never heard of him, we hang out in very different places. Believe it or not I’m fairly well connected up this way and this sounds like a parachute operation. I may be wrong, I’ll go and do some digging.
**No, Lloyd Budd is not gay.**
He is married to a woman named Robbie (they have been married for over 40 years, having met while Lloyd was at Lincoln University/College). They have children together, including a daughter born in 2013.
This information comes from:
– Public statements by Lloyd Budd himself (e.g., in a 2024/2025 podcast interview where he discussed his wife and family, including their time living overseas).
– Recent posts from National Party figures, such as Dr Shane Reti MP, who congratulated him on his selection as the National Party candidate for Whangārei and explicitly referred to “Lloyd and wife Robbie” and their long marriage.
Lloyd Budd (a former Bayleys Auckland CEO, born and raised in Whangārei) was recently selected as the National Party’s candidate for the Whangārei electorate. No credible public information, statements, or reporting suggests otherwise regarding his sexual orientation. He presents publicly as a married man with a family.
Ask grok.
I know a couple of blokes called Robbie, not any woman though.
SB will be pissed.
Iran Caves to Trump: Drops Key Demands, Begs for Nuclear Deal and Sanctions Relief
Iran just blinked hard. Facing Trump’s naval blockade choking off its oil exports, the regime has dropped its precondition that the US lift the Strait of Hormuz restrictions before any ceasefire talks. Tehran is now offering to negotiate limits on its nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief and says it’s ready for Pakistan-mediated discussions next week.
This comes after Trump formally notified Congress that US-Iran hostilities, sparked by American strikes on February 28, have ended—just before the 60-day War Powers clock ran out. For months, Iran’s mullahs stonewalled and played games. Now, squeezed by real pressure, they’re signaling flexibility for the first time.
The blockade stays in place. Good. Maximum leverage works. Weakness invites war; strength delivers deals. Trump’s approach is already forcing the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism back to the table on American terms.
What’s your source for this, AI is telling me it’s not true.
You need to learn about AI.
It tells you the answers to the questions you ask. Nothing more, nothing less.
I’d hazard a guess and say it would say the same about this than.
Trump’s Maximum Pressure Crushes Iran’s Oil Lifeline as China Panics.
President Trump’s administration is choking off the cash flow that funds Iran’s terror regime, and Beijing is scrambling to stop it.
In a bold escalation, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent slapped sanctions on five Chinese refineries — including giant Hengli Petrochemical and several “teapot” outfits — for buying billions in Iranian oil. These deals bankroll the mullahs’ missiles, proxies, and chaos across the Middle East.
China just filed a desperate injunction to block the U.S. from enforcing those sanctions. Their commerce ministry claims America can’t “recognize, implement, or comply” with them, calling the moves illegal. Translation: Trump is hitting them where it hurts, and they’re feeling the heat.
This is what real leverage looks like. No more weak-kneed Obama-Biden deals that let Iran and China skirt the rules while American interests suffer. Trump’s naval pressure and targeted sanctions are disrupting shadow fleets and cutting revenue — without endless wars.
China knows the game is up. Their refineries are losing access to cheap Iranian crude, and the regime in Tehran is sweating. America First means enforcing red lines
I know the theory which will probably bear out but you still didn’t say where you got the information. FYI the question I asked AI was has Iran compromised and offered concessions to restart negotiations with the US. No lead on what the answer should be.
Depends which ai you ask. I am using Grok 4.3 beta and got this response
**Yes, Iran has offered concessions and revised proposals in recent weeks (late April to early May 2026) to de-escalate the conflict, lift economic pressures, and revive stalled negotiations with the US—though these have not satisfied the Trump administration, particularly on the nuclear issue.**
### Background Context
After initial nuclear talks in 2025 broke down, the US and Israel launched strikes on Iran starting February 28, 2026, sparking the “2026 Iran war.” A fragile ceasefire began around April 8, 2026 (mediated by Pakistan and others), but the US imposed a naval blockade on Iranian ports, while Iran restricted shipping through the Strait of Hormuz (a critical chokepoint for ~20% of global oil/LNG trade). Multiple rounds of indirect talks (via Pakistan, Oman, etc.) have occurred, but they stalled over Iran’s nuclear program, sanctions relief, and related issues.
### Iran’s Key Concessions and Latest Proposals
Iran has shown flexibility through mediators (primarily Pakistan) in proposals aimed at restarting momentum:
– **Decoupling issues for quicker wins**: Iran offered to **reopen the Strait of Hormuz** and end its restrictions in exchange for the US lifting its blockade on Iranian ports and agreeing to a permanent end to the war (with guarantees against further attacks). Nuclear program talks would be **postponed to a later phase** (after de-escalation on the strait/war).
– **Removed preconditions and added sequencing flexibility**: Earlier Iranian positions required the US to lift the blockade *before* face-to-face talks. The latest version (submitted ~April 30/May 1 via Pakistan) drops this and proposes Iran could open the strait *first*, followed by the US announcing the blockade’s end. Iranian officials described this as demonstrating “flexibility” and a trust-building step.
– **”Hints of compromise”**: Reports (e.g., *Wall Street Journal*) note the proposal signals willingness to prioritize immediate Gulf de-escalation and economic relief (easing global oil price spikes) over linking everything to a full nuclear deal upfront. This addresses Iran’s internal divisions on hard nuclear concessions (e.g., long-term enrichment suspension or stockpile removal).
These moves aim to revive diplomacy, end the active war phase, and create space for broader talks (including potential sanctions relief later in exchange for nuclear limits). Iran has indicated readiness for further talks in Pakistan if the US engages positively.
### US Response and Current Status
President Trump has repeatedly said he is **”not satisfied”** with Iran’s offers and that “they want to make a deal, but I’m not satisfied with it.” The US wants nuclear issues (e.g., suspending enrichment for years/decades, removing highly enriched uranium stockpiles) addressed *now* as a core condition—not delayed—viewing the Hormuz-focused proposal as weakening US leverage.
– Talks continue **indirectly by phone** via mediators, but face-to-face rounds remain frozen/stalled.
– Trump has reviewed proposals with advisers, prefers a non-military path if possible, but has signaled openness to further pressure (including military options) and noted Iran “has not paid a high enough price.”
– The ceasefire appears to be holding as of early May 2026, but no breakthrough agreement has been reached.
### Bottom Line
Iran **has compromised** by offering practical, sequenced concessions on the immediate Hormuz/blockade crisis to facilitate de-escalation and restart fuller negotiations—marking a shift from harder stances earlier in the process. However, the US sees this as **insufficient** without stronger, immediate nuclear commitments, leaving talks in a tense, ongoing but unresolved state. Developments are fluid; watch for further Iranian adjustments or US counter-proposals in the coming days/weeks.
This site seems to be on the money…
https://www.iranintl.com/en/liveblog/202604294038
My guess is a few more missiles will be exchanged and then negotiations will resume. The Israelis are itching to have another crack.
Al Bundy was his source.
oh and on that oil thing.
UAE DUMPS OPEC CARTEL AND INKS MAJOR TRADE DEAL WITH SOUTH KOREA
The United Arab Emirates is breaking free. On May 1 2026 the UAE exited OPEC after nearly 60 years ditching production quotas that capped its oil power. Hours later its new Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement with South Korea took effect.
This is South Korea’s first trade pact with any Middle East country. Tariffs get cut or wiped out on 91.2 percent of goods. Non-oil trade already at 6.9 billion dollars is set to double. The deal fires up energy security industry ties supply chains and tech investment.
UAE leaders are done with cartel limits. They want to crank up production and deliver real energy to the world. South Korea locks in reliable supply from a strong Gulf partner. Both win with straight bilateral business instead of globalist red tape.
This is smart national interest at work. Nations cutting deals that serve their people not outdated clubs. The old cartel model is fading. Pragmatic free trade partnerships are rising fast.
Sources: Reuters The National Gulf News Arabian Business Enerdata Korea Times official government statements.
Act will campaign on barring new residence class visa migrants from accessing social welfare during their first five years here and for Immigration New Zealand to have a specialised enforcement unit targeting people who overstay their visas.
The party released its immigration policies for the election this morning, unveiling a six-point plan it says will “welcome people” with shared values and who “play by the rules”.
Act leader and Deputy Prime Minister David Seymour said New Zealand was a “settler society” that had been “built by people willing to make a journey to try and build something better”.
“Successive governments have let a skilled-migration system become a general-purpose labour tap. They have failed to enforce the rules they set,” he said.
“We need an immigration system that recognises New Zealand’s heritage as a nation of settlers. We need new migrants to grow and develop, but that migration must work for New Zealand.”
1. Serious offenders deported no matter how long they have been in New Zealand
The coalition is extending the time a resident visa holder who has been convicted of a serious offence (carrying sentences of 10 years or more) can be liable for deportation from 10 to up to 20 years.
Act wants this to be changed again to allow these resident visa holders to be deported no matter how long they have been here.
2. Skill categories expire every year
Act wants the skill categories for which employers can hire immigrants on work visas to expire every year and require those employers to show “up-to-date evidence of demand” for the category to stay open.
3. Five-year welfare stand down
The party will campaign on introducing a five-year stand-down period for all residence class visa holders to access social welfare. This would bar these people from accessing payments such as Jobseeker support or accommodation supplements for their first five years in New Zealand.
4. $6 daily fee for temporary work visas
Act would introduce a $6 per day infrastructure surcharge on temporary work visas, on top of existing charges, which would be considered a migrant’s contribution to New Zealand’s infrastructure. The fee would be imposed from day one.
5. Stronger English language requirements
Basic English language requirements would be extended to all accredited employer work visas but still permit lower standards for seasonal workers.
6. Enforce the rules
Act wants to establish a dedicated overstayer enforcement unit under Immigration New Zealand. Platform employers such as Uber and DoorDash would be required to verify and report work rights. Employers who facilitated overstaying would lose their accreditation.
Fucken hypocrites. They supported the FTA that will allow even more butter chickens in to rort our system
More subtlety to that when you read the conditions of the FTA. Limited to 5000 professionals, such as doctors, dentists, medics, and highly skilled. No change to the run of the mill, which this would be a counter to. ( as I read it elsewhere.)
There’s a lot to like with this, including kicking out the badies. could be tougher, but that wouldn’t win favour with the fence sitting.
The 4700 number is bullshit – at least according to this:
https://x.com/ryanhendersonnz/status/2049957248806568142?s=61
Thanks FJA.
Figured that something was untoward when others only quoted the strong limited visa; when the academia system, for students etc., seemed to be very open & ‘follow the money’
5 The FTA bans NZ from capping Indian student admissions, and locks in extended post-study work visas with full family rights*.
NZ polytechnics, universities, particularly with the thinking of Global Migration, open border concepts as so well trained by NZ’s own academia of Massey University, Professor Spoonley’s ilk can do really well out of that, like the language schools set up before Covid & unfortunately the current maa-pidgeoned-English.
1 …..Kiwis can’t work or set up shop in Indian health, education, transport or other public services.
So if for example, nasska invented a ‘better locomotion system’ in transport, even as a service, like ‘universal pay ticketing’, but he could not open a business or invest in that to be used in India or send his sons daughters to help in setting it up.
Why do feelz that it is a way so ultimately one would always have to have an Indian additive in any business, or investment set up.
Yet here in NZ it is noticable as some shops, only other young Indians are employed, and there does seem to be a rotation of fresh green sprouts from the home country.
Countdown and Main Freight.
Immigration is supposed to improve our GDP. Ok, all good for the economy if they turn out to be productive workers.
What happens if instead they climb aboard the NZ welfare bus to ride that system, won’t assimilate and hate our cultural values?
I dont think the deals too bad except it needed dairy.
It does include some dairy, but only for further processing.
We have to remember the poor old cow in India is the sacred cow, and it’s their life sustenance and has been for centuries.
It’s their mother.
Time and travel will change that.
Meanwhile, it can be a counter to China, which is our biggest export customer.
We know that we cannot rely on Europe, England, or the USA, so we have few other alternatives other than some in Asia and then Russia, which, sadly, our politicians have demonised.
Africa will be the next growing continent as they toss out the Europeans and Chinese and gets to grips with their own in terms of education and building better countries.
Viking
SO ‘Africa will be the next growing continent as they toss out the Europeans and Chinese and gets to grips with their own in terms of education and building better countries’.
Yeah, right!! Have you seen Joburg or Harari recently?
Sorry to disappoint you but in Africa, to ‘ Get[s] to grips with their own in terms of education and building better countries’ means robbing and eliminating (If necessary) all and anyone who isn’t of their tribe or the ruler’s inner circle, and making very sure that they are the only ones who will ever gain whatever financial advantage may be on offer. It’s the ‘African’ way – going for the easiest option, being quite happy with whatever comes along, but being equally willing to take full advantage of whatever disadvantage may befall your neighbour.
Its been like that for centuries and I doubt that it will change in any way during our lifetime, with Zim and SA being excellent examples of how modern ‘civilised’ nations can be destroyed by a culture that looks completely inwards and is only interested in itself.
….”means robbing and eliminating (If necessary) all and anyone who isn’t of their tribe……. only ones who will ever gain whatever financial advantage may be on offer. It’s the ‘African’ way – going for the easiest option”……
Not a bad description of tribal practises worldwide. NZ will not prove to be an exception.
Where are the low skilled Butter Chickens Gunna work?
They are going unmanned in the servo, Mobil to change 16.
Lawn mowing. Lots of them. One buys a franchised area then employs them at Indian rates. work 55 pay 35.
Looking at electric car batteries.
https://www.facebook.com/reel/936410249383575
Ya never learn anything if ya mind is shut.
Relying on the MSM to inform you of what’s happening in the world is ignorance.
And if you rely on social media 75% (estimate only) of what you think you have learned is fake.
If you say so. It totally depends on what you watch. FB is the biggest on-time on-the-spot news service in the world.
There are more people capturing information than the news services who actually pick and choose for primetime and ratings, which is why you never see much from them and why podcaster and posters are becoming more relevant.
And yes, there’s lots of rubbish.
You can hide your head in the sand, or you can learn to use it as an information source. Take it or leave it.
Your personal choices will determine what you see.
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China today.
https://www.facebook.com/reel/2054660672093965
Look for the food section.
There you can see Fonteera’s opportunities.
Naaska will never visit and won’t like what’s coming. All the spying stuff.
Following on from the article about the madness that are Greens yesterday:
Now in Brixton, South London, where there are supposed to be no guns, but a drive by shooting has wounded 4.
The shooting comes just days after the U.S. Embassy in London urged Americans in Britain to “exercise increased caution” in the wake of recent attacks targeting Jewish and American targets.
So far police have yet to identify any suspects
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2026/05/02/gun-free-britain-four-hospitalised-after-drive-by-shooting-in-brixton/
So maybe a gang shooting?
Or a bit of terrorism, to live & then shoot another day?
Though there is a small debate, discussion on gun control laws & the availability of guns & other things that can be used as weapons.
The pile on to the Greens squeezed out an apology
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/zack-polanski-apologises-golders-green-5HjdYbP_2/
As mentioned there, the knap sack on the back would also be another cause for major caution & alarm; to ruthlessly deal to perpertrator.
Is the man on the ground being arrested for saying something?
Hard to know what to make of this cartoon if you hate both the Greens and the cops.
It’s representation of the latest Somalian stabby guy in the UK. The one that stabbed two Jews and the cops kicked him
In the head a few times when he didn’t release the knife. I say a few times, but i really mean too few times. They should have just kept going.
Hate is a sad thing.
Dislike is fair, but hate is a terminal disease that affects your mind.
“Saying something” like “My God is Greater” might do it, though nothing has been mentioned about that, while just jogging around with a knife.
Nor did the “saintly” ‘man on the ground’ release the knife like that.
Possibly because he was tazered causing cardiac issues.
Resucitation & Cardiac First Aid, done by police, then paramedics then to a hospital..
So one of the police kicked him in the head, so he could be more properly & safely arrested with both hands in hand cuffs, but no, when seeming to comatosed went to first aid.
Posted on that Golder Green stabbing a couple of days.
A link uncensored; plus BBC link, reports of the action on the take-down.
https://ysb.co.nz/have-your-say-737/#comment-476572
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Funny that here in NZ a home intruder that bashed a sleeping man in his bed, breaking the full bottle, was eventually overcome, by the home owner.
The attacker retained a knife from the kitchen & would not give it up.
Having said he would kill the home owner, & even to the police afterward.
Was it wrong for the home owner, while waiting for the police to eventually arrive, to force the attacker to relinquish a knife, then proceeded to cut the finger off on the other free hand.
Acquitted at trial, but the legal costs then stacked onto the mortgages became too much for the banks, so the banks quietly demanded the property to be sold up, though it was not a mortgagee sale.
The process was the punishment.
…..”The process was the punishment.”…..
It’s the Kiwi way & the state always wins.
The bloke on the ground had just stabbed two Jewish people in Golders Green, London and the police were condemned for kicking him in the head whilst trying to disarm him. Was this story not reported on TVNZ? It went all round the world within minutes and I suppose only those who rely solely on the main stream media remained ignorant of it.
I don’t rely on mainstream media, but I was unaware of this particular incident. Not enough hours in the day to keep up with all the Religion of Peace stabbings.
Yes, that’s understandable!
Nutter Somalian “British” citizen out for a walk with his knife. Punctured one Jew’s lung before stabbing a 76 year old waiting for a bus who didn’t see him coming.
Leader of greens party. Zack, Dave Polanski deserves his own kicking for being a total, nasty pillock leftard. A jew himself, even his own family are horrified by his politics and say they will leave the UK if he is elected.
The stabber was a Somali immigrant who had been given a British Passport….of course he had.
Live stream!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5gHePpVSQA
Didn’t go quite as planned.
Ryan Bridge talking to the owner of Steelworx.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHbJ5ayug7U
Why the jobs data suggests New Zealand’s recovery is already underway – Cecilia RobinsonA few months ago, the mood was cautiously optimistic. Inflation was easing, interest rates were coming down, and after a long stretch of grinding through, there were signs that businesses and households were starting to lift their heads. Then the conflict in Iran escalated, and just like that, the narrative shifted, cost of living pressures returning, business confidence softening, the question of whether we’d fully turned the corner still open.
I’ll be honest: I’m a glass-half-full person by nature. We’ve built businesses through downturns, and I’ve learned that the story we tell ourselves about the economy matters almost as much as the economy itself. So I pay attention when I think my optimism might be getting ahead of the facts. And I pay equal attention when I think the pessimism around me is doing the same.
Right now, I think the pessimism is getting ahead of the facts.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/why-the-jobs-data-suggests-new-zealands-recovery-is-already-underway-cecilia-robinson/premium/CUSUB743JVBSTF5GZDYNBZNZVU/
Tend to agree. there a change in what is happening. We have stopped selling houses to one another, and for Naaska’s info its not the price. The market will decide that as always.
I went to the local home show yesterday. Have always gone to keep an eye on what’s happening around our own trade. talked to quite a few and the observations are this. This was the busiest show I have been to in probably 4 years, when looking at the visitors. That was confirmed by one of the people I know.
The businesses there are different from even the last show. More builders and the general comment was that people were back to renovations. That is consistent with low house sales. People are not moving up. Why, because many of the oldies have died via the jab, those left in the upper NI are not able to sell so they are staying put, and others are just staying put and upgrading. Plenty of swimmiung pools there.FWIW.
Last year Jonathon Ayling, former CEO of the Free Speech Union, had himself elected to the board of Internet NZ (that administers the 750,000 or so websites with a .nz domain.). He became involved because he saw “a constitutional review opening the door to co-governance and setting up InternetNZ as a “judge and jury” in free speech controversies”.
Ayling has my support because of his track record in opposing anything that threatens Free Speech & without free speech we’re finished as a democratic nation. I never realised though how far Internet NZ & its company DNC had progressed in their intent to ban anything & everything that didn’t reflect their woke ideals.
There is (or was) a little known website https://ahnz.anarkiwi.co.nz/ which claims to offer “the History of New Zealand through a Libertarian Anarchist lens.” To my way of thinking it is innocuous & operates at much the level of university capping magazines but my view is obviously not shared by Internet NZ.
From https://ahnz.anarkiwi.co.nz/ahnz-vs-inz-and-dnc/
#. “It has now been 6 months since the Domain Name Commission (DNC) closed down this website. They gave just 2 days notice for me to enter into a Digital ID process which I didn’t think was lawful or necessary or even for real. When Anarkiwi.co.nz and all the email addresses, websites, and scripts relying upon it crashed on 19/8/2025 it became real enough!”
#. “The “Keeping .nz fair for everyone” people were evidently drunk with power. More interested in steralising the .nz internet no matter who it hurt just to keep their books tidy. Or, worse, positively motivated to force everyone with a .nz in their domain name to submit to their Digital ID program. I was invited to procure a smartphone, hand over my passport or drivers license, residential address. I was required to make a GPS-tagged video of my face and film myself walking so they could conduct a gate analysis. It was only the beginning of an open-ended process of data mining which ended when they said it ended. Or, I would have my websites taken away and on-sold for not participating in a “data validation audit!”
#. “Apparently they were working me though some textbook on organised control called VADE (Voluntary, Assist, Direct, Enforce.) Most people, not being radical Libertarians, would have jumped through her hoops for fear of having their business destroyed by the sharp end of VADE. In fact, the November 2025 newsletter for DNC states 494 “audits” were conducted which led to 42 having their domain names suspended.
This is what it has come to. This organisation operating under the umbrella of the MBIE has nothing to fear from government change or Official Information Act requests or media scrutiny.
Perhaps our Editor has an opinion on what must surely await him.
I didn’t do any of that shit when I got my .nz website url. and that was in February this year
and there are plenty of options other than .nz
Winston on the Free Trade Deal
https://www.facebook.com/reel/3373303482842621
From the horses mouth as the Minister of Minister of Agriculture, Minister of Forestry, Minister for Trade and Investment and Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs, tells it.
Holyhekatuiteka @2ETEKA Apr 29
Todd McClay just fell apart on Sean’s show, and Luxon’s dodgy Indian deal has descended into farce.
He does not know how UNDRIP & Paris clauses got into the agreement
He cannot say who put it In
He says not to worry about it
He then says we cannot amend or remove the clauses
He says he couldn’t release the deal details before it was signed – as was too busy
He says while it’s going to parliament with Labours and Acts support it’s basically a done deal
What a mess. Listen to this Turkey talking himself into knots.
While over in India he’s obviously picked up a bad case of verbal diarrhoea
https://nitter.net/2ETEKA/status/2049600669921980867#m
4 minutes 24 secs :
The full video clip here:—-
https://theplatform.kiwi/podcasts/episode/todd-mcclay-on-his-trip-to-sign-the-india-free-trade-agreement
14 minutes 43 secs : 30th April, 2026 : The Platform : Sean Plunkett.
When Viking mentions that dairy is in part included, is it because of the UNDRIP & hidden action of the He Puapua Report to help the scientific “Māori farming practices”? & the upmarket booming maori business sector?
Additionally, India wrote in a clause that protects its vaguer language from being read against NZ’s stricter language.
From a thread earlier this morning by FJA with the twitter link laying out a number of points, on the India NZ free trade immigration deal.
https://ysb.co.nz/have-your-say-740/#comment-476779
https://nitter.net/ryanhendersonnz/status/2049957248806568142?s=61
May need a reload to get it through.
This shows a large number of comments, questions, and that author replies to some of them.
Why is the media relatively quiet on some of these further details?
Why is the media relatively quiet on some of these further details?
Can’t read sufficiently to discover the underlying content.
Just the puff bits from press releases.
….”Can’t read sufficiently to discover the underlying content.”….
Help is at hand!
https://www.ara.ac.nz/study-interest-areas/language-and-education/adult-literacy/
What else is mandated & prioritized in that “Help is at hand”?
First to understand is :—– [No cheating now]
“Pakeke ki Te Reo Tuhi”
To also bear in mind that for New Zealand is not the “Great Replacement” but the kindness of the “Great Irrigation” that refreshes our old culture of just mere economic units, who can simply be replaced with little consequence by cheaper foreign labour.
To also enjoy the refreshing white — or is brown- wash of “vitality, humour, music, art” from a different perspective.
Sure many work hard, but if one listens carefully of Indian academia, intelligentsia, one can also pick up on the old Soviet communist influence on their universities too, being relayed into New Zealand circles too..
He’s left it a bit late for proficiency in English.
Maybe Te Reo?
Puberty blockers ban, judicial review and political decisions – Deborah Chambers
At age 15, Bell was referred to the Tavistock gender clinic and at 16 was prescribed puberty blockers. At 17, the British teenager was given testosterone and, despite experiencing what she says were serious doubts about her transition, Bell underwent a bilateral mastectomy at age 20.
She later described a traumatic childhood marked by gender nonconformity, depression, anxiety, social disconnection and body hatred.
Online research led her to believe she had found the answer to her problems, that she was trapped in the wrong body and was really a male. Later, when she attempted to detransition, she discovered that many of the physical effects were irreversible.
In her early 20s, Bell sought judicial review against the Tavistock clinic, arguing it should never have facilitated such a rash decision by a teenager.
The English High Court in Bell v Tavistock found there was only limited evidence of the efficacy, purpose and long-term effects of puberty blockers for gender dysphoria. It was right to call the treatment experimental.
BUT;
In New Zealand, on November 19, 2025, Health Minister Simeon Brown announced regulations under the Medicines Act 1981 prohibiting new prescriptions of puberty blockers for gender dysphoria or incongruence in those under 18.
The regulations took effect on December 19, 2025. The decision was a classic exercise of executive power delegated by Parliament to the minister.
They followed a Ministry of Health evidence review that echoed the Cass findings and were enacted by a democratically elected coalition Government with a clear policy mandate. Existing patients could continue with consent.
The decision has, predictably, triggered litigation. The Professional Association for Transgender Health Aotearoa (Patha) launched a judicial review alleging inadequate consultation, the wrong decision-maker, improper political purpose and breaches of the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act.
In December 2025, the High Court granted interim relief preventing enforcement pending a full hearing. The Court of Appeal upheld that position in February 2026. The regulations remain on the statute book but are not being applied. The substantive hearing is scheduled for May 6 and 7, 2026.
Judicial review is a vital constitutional safeguard. It enables courts to ensure ministers and officials act within the powers Parliament has delegated, follow proper procedures and avoid unreasonableness or improper purposes.
Courts cannot strike down primary legislation; parliamentary sovereignty remains intact. However, the limits of judicial review of delegated legislation remain a hot potato. Judges are inclined to take power if they can, and lawyers, if it will help their clients, will argue fiercely that they should.
This case illustrates how the balance has shifted. Judicial review has become an increasingly easy vehicle for well-resourced pressure groups to challenge and stall democratically made political decisions on largely procedural grounds.
More; https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/puberty-blockers-ban-judicial-review-and-political-decisions-deborah-chambers/premium/BWN4EPOTYRENTFUXP7M3KM3HC4/
That march into Sports organisations are relentless, like across the ‘ditch’ in Sydney.
Smith was found guilty by a New South Wales court of “unlawfully vilifying” [trans] Dennis for referring to him with male pronouns and raising public awareness of his inclusion in women’s sports after learning of injuries sustained by female players.
https://reduxx.info/aus-womens-football-teams-banned-from-protesting-against-transgender-competitors-accused-of-injuring-female-players/
But the associations in agreements are demanding compliance in their agreements.
….”Judicial review has become an increasingly easy vehicle for well-resourced pressure groups to challenge and stall democratically made political decisions on largely procedural grounds. “…..
It’s also a much needed way to counter “Captain’s Calls” such as the Mad Queen’s brainfart which wrecked NZ’s gas & oil industry. NZ democracy has deteriorated to the point where major decisions affecting everyone are made by executive fiat sans parliamentary debate or opportunity for submissions.
It is a further manifestation of government arrogance that led to the adoption of MMP.
The hand-brake did not even move even a notch, when that call was made.
Just grimaces, face in hands, but baubles, ministers pay won-out, to be in the tent, made for Ardern’s day & onward to a world trip & UN speech.
Not even a mention by Winston of calling for time out, no surprizes etc..
Like even to say a move to the cross benches, maybe become ministers outside of Cabinet, so NZ First could have voted against; putting the ball in Ardern’s court, so who would call for a snap-election.
So what was in the pages of the Labour Party NZFirst agreement that was waved around.???
Nor has this current government, National or NZFirst pushed to bring in legislation, to clarify things, so that “mission creep” like “tikanga”, treaty obligations, , etc. is being set in precedence for activst Judiciary to enable so locking in their gains, which will be more difficult to overturn..
The muddling muddle of MMP can only get worse for NZ, as trade offs like cordons by players to keep other paries out.
Winston Peters practiced that, in promising to go with the largest party, then jumped to the 2nd largest, pointing out how he kept the Greens out.
So this election, may he NZFirst will fast jump across to Labour, to be the “white knight” saving NZ from the worst; in case labour, te parlly, & greens did have a majority to form a government.
To grab the money & baubles before any real idea, concept of National Labour coalition,
Not that I would say that is possible, but in politics, never say “never”
Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown has suggested Prime Minister Christopher Luxon does not have control over his coalition partners, saying there are “two tails wagging that dog”.
Speaking on TVNZ’s Q+A programme on Sunday morning, Brown said Luxon was “the dog” that had “two tails wagging him” in the form of the ACT and NZ First parties. “That whole system doesn’t work,” he said.
Responding to the coalition’s problems, with an election just six months away, Brown suggested that National and Labour form a grand coalition to avoid the influence of minor parties.
“Someone said the other day, you can’t tell the difference [between] … Labour and National in the dark. They’re probably right,” he told Q+A.
“It is the only way we are going to reverse the long-term decline of our nation. I am sick of the decline,” Brown said of the grand coalition idea.
clearly losing the plot. Those 2 are the cause of all the problems. both need dumping by electors
Brown is an idiot. If he is sick of the decline of our nation, why would a grand coalition of the two parties largely responsible for that decline (as Viking notes) help in any way. Clearly logical thinking is not in his list of abilities.
Actually, it is his strength, so one can assume that he was saying in jest, perhaps because of the audience.
Wow! Fully agree Ross, another one who can’t see the wood for the trees.
Mind you, one minute I agree with Winston and then the slippery hua reminds us why trusting ‘the bauble collector’ isn’t a straight forward idea. 😩
I always preferred the English spelling of “diarrhea” which is
“diarrhoea” because it really looks like you’ve lost control of your vowels.
Blog needs to be renamed…Vikings Blog. Jaysus. 😮
Don’t give him ideas.
Counting down the days, tax dodgers. Qantas to Phuket. Gawd, I miss it. Crazy sanity.
At the stroke of midnight, 24 tonnes of South African apples became the first batch of imports to enter China under a landmark initiative, as China expanded zero-tariff treatment to all 53 African nations with which it maintains diplomatic relations.
This policy took effect from May 1.
Flash Gala.
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1296673386004240&set=pcb.1296673416004237
what else?
To be packaged in tins and exported to us.