Good morning everyone. Top quality memes today, Mr Editor.
Simpleton1
3 months ago
Here in New Zealand many are still joining to support NZ’s “Climate Change Commission’s (“CCC”) national risk assessment” of scaremongering.
All to be amplified by the legacy media.
Now as you can with the links below, what a fucken joke based on hypothetical costly putrid shit whilst seeking to enforce this crap..! ! ! !
Absolute narcistic, thieving, lying, conniving, scamming, arseholes that believe in their ignorance & being self-righteous arrogant people that they are.
At the same time the NZ mainstream do not want to raise the points of the recent changes of the IPCC & are actively pushing the highest aspect of the con of Climate Change.
One the can see that NZ’s costly “CCC”; they have not done their homework, when one can see that they seem to know nothing of the IPCC being in full reverse backdown, on its scaremongering implausible scenarios in this past month or so..
From a comment :— “not forget that those people (except for a few “useful idiots”) made trillions from “this outrageous lies”,
bought the mainstream media,
most influential NGOs,
international organizations and
top politicians (sometimes countries as a whole),
and they are not going to surrender.
This is not the end, this may be the end of the beginning at best.“
Like how I thought the pack of climate cards would tumble in 2009 on the exposure of the manipulation of data & suppression of opposing challenges at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UEA).
But they managed to glossy bandage over that faux pas, & double down for even more funding for nigh on another 20 years.
Now we are supposed to accept the “corrective scientific modelling ‘medium’ truth” that will come out but the pressure, at the lower level would be more stringently applied, even more mandated etc.. ….setting us to be guided by the untrustworthy greenie communitst academia, along with media amplification. …. yeah right ….
The IPCC has published a new generation of climate scenarios – and buried in the fine print is a remarkable concession: the extreme warming pathways that dominated climate research, policy, and media coverage for decades were never actually plausible.
It took a while to notice because almost no one in mainstream media bothered to report it. …… For years, the public was bombarded with worst-case scenarios that drove policy, justified massive spending, and steered hundreds of billions in capital — — all under the banner of urgency and fear.
If those dire projections were overstated or outright implausible, then the scale of the misallocation is staggering, and the media should be taking an interest in this story.
Americans [New Zealanders] were told the clock was about to run out, and they were forced to pay accordingly.
Carbon, Emission fees, that are put on so many things, & that cost is kept hidden from us & that money floats off to some overseas international system with barely any accountability.
The political pressure, pushing that some of scenarios are so implausible, so the worst has had to be eased off, even though many polices like in NZ continue, sort of covered over, ommitted, hidden by NZ media.
This article is not on the IPCC back down but just to note some of the political change, the pressure; so some of the implausible scenarios had to be eased off.
Some parts seem a bit technical, but still worth a quick skim through of where, how & why the IPCC back down. :—
a plausibility vacuum — a situation where any combination of climate model inputs could be used without any assessment of the real-world plausibility of the assumptions.
…… The Network for Greening the Financial System framework, used by more than 140 central banks, has utilized a “Hot House World” scenario calibrated to RCP8.5 physical risk into the bank stress tests run by the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand …. [stress test applied to NZ largest 5 banks (– 90% of loans)] https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/rcp85-is-officially-dead
Sadly there will be no perscution or prosecution, as many of these connived & weaved their stories like Russel Norman, James Shaw, David Mann, Canadian David Suzuki. etc..
Unlike founder of Green Peace Patrick Moore who redeemed himself, by writing books exposing how Green Peace deviously gamed the system.
Just how much is this Climate Change scam costing New Zealanders, and probably in so many different ways & forms.?
Remove all those devious emission, carbon fees, levies & those nebulous devious instiutions that push this scam. ! ! !
New Zealand academia relentless ignore the change, as does the devious rotten NZ media.
Science “journalism” amplified them. Each alarming study generated news articles, television segments, radio reports, social media posts, and classroom curricula. …….
….. — is what this scenario did to children. ….,.
….. presented as the future. Teachers showed its projections. Textbooks cited its outcomes. Documentary films dramatized its consequences. And the children listening absorbed a message that no child should be handed as established fact: the world is ending, and there may be nothing anyone can do. ….
….. elementary-school children carrying an existential fear in their backpacks. ….
And in the meantime, the dramatics in New Zealand continues with the Climate Change Commission & the government departments & ministers.
All again proving to be so untrustworthy.
In that silence it seems that systemically want to move the goal posts, & still create fears, alarmism, that a crises is close to hand, and the powers of calling a crises, and “Emergency” allows greater controls, mandates, compulsory to be demanded by authoritian establishment
Nice to be right, ( as usual). Problem is even there lower scenarios are probably crap as well. Fortunately more and more papers are being published showing natural causes for climate oscillations. One silver lining of the Iran war ( actually there are lots, but never mind), is that the whole world, except for the uber crazy, realised that without oil we are fucked. The biggest problem is the silence….
Yes, even pharmaceuticals, those prescriptions keeping you alive or pain free are petroleum based.
When we’re sitting in cold, dark homes and can’t charge the EV due to brown outs will the stupid CC brigade finally admit green energy is not the answer and WE NEED to drill baby, drill?!
green energy is not the answer and WE NEED to drill baby, drill?
Progress, science and innovation render that statement not correct!
There are many options to obtain or create energy. Water in dams, for example.
The basic premise for all this is that you cannot make or destroy matter. You can change its form, thus creating energy.
Our energy supplier is infact the sun. Everything comes from the suns contribution, be it oil, fusion, solar, storms, whatever.
Its how you harness the energy that matters, and there are different solutions for different places. These days, no one would build a dam on the Pacific Islands; they install solar, which works and is local.
Here in NZ, currently dairy farms are installing as fast as installers can add them, there’s queue.
Why, because it makes sense economically and from an energy security point of view. You still need to milk even if the tanker can’t get through or the power lines are down.
So we cannot discount any method. It’s a matter of the investment in science and innovation and the final cost.
It’s also about reducing your energy use.
If you have a decent-sized home energy bill, then that’s the place to start. I hear people saying it’s costing them $800- $1000 a month. $3.00 a day line charges or more.
Well, start with your hot water.
Put in a heat pump hot water system. There are several around. Rinnai, I know, have one, and your plumber possibly has more options.
We have had one at work for about 12 years and a second one for about 5 years. We are about to install a big bugger.
I have a couple of high-use units to sort then onto solar and feed the grid. We have a reasonably sized roof to do that with. Lots of big commercials are doing that.
Lots of work in that industry.
Have you never heard of batteries.
They are fitted with batteries that will do just that.
Tesla’s have them
there are already in NZ battery farms where the majors have added a bank of batteries that they charge with thier excess power and use when needed.
gees mate, what world do you live in?
Battery farms (or Grid-Scale Battery Energy Storage Systems – BESS) are rapidly expanding across New Zealand to support renewable energy, with key projects including Meridian Energy’s 100MW Ruakākā Energy Park and Contact Energy’s 100MW Glenbrook-Ohurua project. These systems store excess renewable power to ensure grid stability and security of supply.
Major Utility-Scale Battery Projects (2025-2026)
Ruakākā Energy Park (Northland): Developed by Meridian Energy, this 100-megawatt (MW) BESS and 130-MW solar farm is one of the largest, designed to strengthen Northland’s electricity resilience.
Glenbrook-Ohurua Battery (South Auckland): A 100-MW/200-MWh Tesla Megapack battery built by Contact Energy at NZ Steel’s site. It is planned to be operational by March 2026, with capacity to expand to 130 MW.
Huntly BESS (Waikato): A 35-MW system developed by WEL Networks and Infratec was New Zealand’s first utility-scale BESS, commissioned to support grid reliability.
Waiinu Energy Park (Whanganui): Meridian is exploring a potential solar and battery project in this area.
Key Benefits & Functions
Peak Shaving: Storing energy during low demand and releasing it during high demand to avoid grid bottlenecks.
Supporting Renewables: Managing the intermittency of solar and wind generation.
Resilience: Providing immediate backup power to the national grid during emergencies.
On-Farm Battery Storage
Smaller-scale, on-farm batteries are also emerging to support agricultural electrification, such as the 120kWh system at Forest Lodge Orchard, which helps power electric machinery and irrigation.
just an hour ago my mate showed me his solar setup for a workers camp theyve build to house workers for a windfarm being built.
90kw battery, was the size of maybe 2 chest freezers stacked ontop of each other.
40kw of panels and 50kva backup generator… 120k all up, the same in nz would be double, probs triple. kiwis get screwed.
Solar has some use, but it is no silver bullet. Ask the Australians who have to occasionally pay to feed their electricity into the grid. And unless you got huge storage batteries often the sun is shining when peak demand is on… JoNova has lots on this.
its no silver bullet but it all helps, as long as its not taxpayer funded or scam generation subsidies then go for it i rekon as every bit helps and nz has a grim energy outlook as they argue for the next 20yrs paying consultants billions to plan hydro or nuclear that nimbys will never allow just to have the inevitable brownouts.
solar is fastest to install and least bullshit hoops to jump through, imo all new builds should be required to have solar installed as a way of negating future grid capacity issues.
The payback on our solar system was 6-1/2 years and now making a profit. This is a no-brainer. Some banks are offering zero interest or low interest loans for solar installations if you can’t afford to pay outright.
the fineprint for the low/zero interest loan requires you to have a mortage with said bank.
my mate is mortage free and they wouldnt do it, my mortage isnt with a bank either so i gotta pull the money out my arse to pay for it upfront… last month of work here in aus will pretty much pay for a 10kw system tho if i dont spend it elsewhere 🙂
i see can now export 10kw aswell, best roi is to use it yourself but once batteries are full its good to know i can export the full amount on a good day if needed
Komata
3 months ago
A title for the top meme could perhaps be be ‘When liberal demands are met’.
I would suggest that it’s an accurate representation…
Seems to be a new formula of governance, & will this also be done in other Districts & Regions on other issues?
Mayor Moko Te Pania of the Far North District Council & the liason Te Kuaka committee seem to be able to pass what ever they like, with out going through the District Council.?
9th May ….. No governing body debate No full council vote No district wide scrutiny …..
Now what for Local Government Minister Simon Watts & those supporters of CoGovernance.? Do they support this as the path of “tikanga” to follow for many other councils?
With the Government giving all Councils 3 months to come up with an amalgamation plan or face a compulsory make (same as we do at our weekly euchre nights) it will be interesting to see just how many Council the Far North District Council will wish to take over and expand its apparent iwi takeover of democracy. Perhaps they will even want to come right down and include Auckland City in its future domain, did they once hold a all you could eat limbs competition somewhere around there after a ship came in?
Not only there they raided down the coast to Paeroa and try Tauranga, but they also gave them the shove, so they went to the Kaituna and up the river to Rotorua. Killed plenty, went out to Mokoia Island, sat by the hot pools soaking while they cooked the limbs etc.
so Nga Puhi and Te Arawa are never going to be friendly,
Recent High Court decision in Hart v Marlborough District Council [2025] NZHC 47, which reaffirmed that local authorities are not Treaty of Waitangi partners and do not hold direct obligations under the Treaty unless expressly provided for in legislation. Why then are Councils ignoring the Court’s ruling? Too many local authorities are placing burdens on ratepayers by claiming to provide specific items for Maori under the provisions of the Treaty, which is totally wrong!
Due to Too many local authorities placing burdens on ratepayers by claiming to provide specific items for Maori under the provisions of the Treaty, your farrrkin rent is going to go sky high at warp factor 9. Sorry ’bout that,
I wonder if Kemi Badenough regrets refusing to form a coalition with reform and allow a Labour clown show to govern or be forceed by his MP to form a coalition with Reform and Restore and take their rightful position on the back benches.
Why should I have to pay for this shit. 12 children in the house, no Father or Fathers and I betcha, no contribution from any of the Fathers, but I am expected to pay and I haven’t even shagged her. Not that it would be my shag of choice, of course.
Maybe some bleeding heart lefty can sponsor the kids instead of an African.
To be fair – may be one dad and he might have died and left her in that situation. Also big-hearted IMO to take on three more. Better that than those kids end up in a home or foster care.
But agree with SB -$200 p.w. car repayments? That’s bloody ridiculous.
Also a few that should be out working and paying board.
Average board these days is $200+
So if the 3 or 4 oldest got a job at 40 hours at $25,00 an hour, that adds another $4000.00 per week, less their taxes.
If the ain’t working or ain’t paying board, then someone needs to read the riot act tothem not listen to whinging.
So what a bullshit lot, but you expect that from the labour and stuff.
yup, that should be another one for the “not our fucking problem” files.
what farks me off is the after rent is left with only $669…
our country is fucked, we shouldnt be supporting irresponsible pieces of fucking shit.
bet we paid for her to go to tonga for funeral, why the fuck does she drive a car with $200 finance payments when the fat fucks should be walking or in a $1000 shitbox.
My mate is a golfer and he tells me that even the lads at the course now buy the exact same thing from TEMU without the overhead and label. Kat will go bust Its in the way. cloudn’t raise new capital the other day.
A quick Google search reveals that the “MV Hondius is owned by Oceanwide Expeditions, a Dutch polar cruise company based in Vlissingen, Netherlands. The vessel is part of their private fleet and serves as a,specialized polar expedition ship.”
Methinks Oceanwide Expeditions should get in touch with their pest controllers more often & the rest of us should put the scaremongering ‘news’ in the bag labelled ‘Covid, Monkey Virus, Bird Flu & other crap’.
According to Dr John, Hanta has a few weeks incubation time for symptoms to show so reckons the virus was caught in Argentina before embarking on board.
Careful cleaning out mice and rat nests. The virus is caught from the dried urine and faeces that rises in dust and enters airways.
Spray nests with water or disinfectant then clean them out. Some, not all rodents carry this particular virus.
It was great to see Michael Baker doing his best chicken little impersonation on the news the other night. Have to say, he’s not aging well. Hopefully a bout of karma.
Will any journalist ask Baker, if he is keeping up to date, & is currently up to date with the Pfizer mRNA covid, tetanus, diptheria perstusis combo, shingles & flue vaxxes?
The people in the North of England have a great way of putting things, on many occasions. This from a shop keeper :
Owen said: “We get a lot of ex-miners, factory workers and bus drivers in here, and the phrase they all use is: ‘I’m never going to vote Labour again as long as I’ve got a hole in my arse.’”
Australia’s far-right One Nation Party won its first Lower House election battle by a wide margin on Saturday, snatching a seat held by traditional conservative parties since 1949.
Led by Pauline Hanson, who advocates for big immigration cuts and campaigns against “radical Islam”, One Nation secured the seat of Farrer, a large inland agricultural and mining electorate in New South Wales.
Represented by the conservative Liberal or rural-based National parties since its creation nearly 80 years ago, the seat slipped from the Coalition’s hands at a time of rising prices, unaffordable housing and concern over divisive issues such as immigration.
With nearly half of the byelection votes counted, One Nation candidate David Farley had 42%, far ahead of independent Michelle Milthorpe, his nearest rival, who conceded the race.
“We’re like a mason with a chisel and a hammer and we’re carving the letters into the Australian democracy,” Farley told cheering supporters.
ALBERTA’S PATH TO FREEDOM CLEARED: COMMONS CONFIRMS 50% PLUS ONE IS ENOUGH
The House of Commons just delivered a major boost to Alberta independence efforts. In heated exchanges this week, Bloc Quebecois MP Mario Simard pressed the Liberal government on the rules for any future referendum. Ottawa cannot rig the game with higher thresholds or endless delays. A simple majority wins.
Simard stood firm: “Democracy means 50 percent votes plus one. That is the rule wherever democracy exists.” He slammed any federal interference as an attack on self-determination. “The difference between a democracy and an anti-republic is precisely when government interferes with the democratic choice of its citizens.” He warned that changing the rules assaults Quebec’s own Bill 99, which upholds the 50 percent plus one standard and has survived court challenges.
Liberal Parliamentary Secretary Patricia Lattanzio responded directly, confirming the standard. “There needs a majority 50 percent plus one. There’s laws around it that need respect.” Later she doubled down: “Clarity Act, 50 percent plus one. We do not have the intention to go against that law which is very, very clear. We believe in democracy.”
This is a direct hit against Ottawa’s usual tricks. The Clarity Act gives the Commons a say on clarity, but lawmakers just admitted the baseline is a simple majority, not some super-majority dreamed up to keep Alberta chained. Alberta patriots gathered over 300,000 signatures to force the question. With Premier Danielle Smith ready to act, a vote could come as soon as October 2026.
Federally imposed roadblocks are crumbling. Albertans built this province with hard work, oil, gas, and grit. They send far more to Ottawa than they get back while watching their wealth fund endless waste, carbon taxes, and policies that punish energy producers. Enough is enough.
A clear 50 percent plus one vote will send an unmistakable message: Alberta decides its own future. The rest of Canada can watch as a free and prosperous Alberta rises. No more subsidizing failure. No more begging for fair treatment. Time to take control.
Sources:
House of Commons debate footage featuring MP Mario Simard and Parliamentary Secretary Patricia Lattanzio (May 2026)
Alberta independence petition updates and referendum timeline reports
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If the Government is now rightly winding back “Fees-Free” because it costs roughly $350 million a year and fails to deliver meaningful outcomes, then the same discipline should apply elsewhere. The Māori Language Act 1987 is associated with roughly $100 million a year in government spending on te reo Māori initiatives, which over time likely adds up to something in the order of a billion dollars or more in taxpayer funds—enough that it’s reasonable to question whether this, too, remains a justified long-term use of public money, or whether it should be reconsidered, even repealed, in the broader effort to rein in persistent state spending.
The End of the Fees-Free Mistake. The so-called ‘Fees-Free’ policy was one of the most wasteful and ineffective ways of helping people that the then Labour-New Zealand First Government put in place. It cost taxpayers nearly $350 million per year, but did nothing to help disadvantaged students access an education.
Because the Government has been running a deficit for as long as it existed, the money to fund it was borrowed -a debt for future taxpayers. It reduced some students’ loans, but the same students graduated into a country with more Government debt, including extra debt from tire-kickers who took the free year and never finished their course. ACT opposed Fees Free from the beginning. We were right then and we’re proud it’s going now. Tertiary education is still subsidised at around 70 per cent, when you include subsidies to institutions and interest write-offs on loans. If someone doesn’t want to carry the other 30 per cent, perhaps taxpayers shouldn’t carry the other 70, we said.
Our country has a problem with incomes and the cost of living. That needs to be addressed with innovation and investment to create higher paying jobs. There is no other way. Those who say they can just borrow a bit more, or tax someone else, are not telling the whole story. They’re telling you just enough to (they hope) get elected for another three years of managed decline.
We came into Government to cut wasteful spending so the country has a sustainable future. Today’s announcement by the Finance Minister confirms we are headed in the right direction.
Tertiary education is an investment in their (hoped for) ability to earn a higher income. If attending uni doesn’t cost them personally it attracts those with less ability to achieve success.
Personal cost motivates the struggle and perseverance to succeed.
….”it attracts those with less ability to achieve success.”……
I’m certain that holding an opinion such as that would be considered elitist in some circles WG. Not to rank achievements in the music of the nose flute, Women’s studies & colour therapy alongside the humble doctorate in nuclear physics smacks of patronage & cultural snobbery!
I don’t understand the beneficiary woman who lives next door. She has never heard of clothes pegs.
Year after year, she only ever throws the laundry over the wires of the ancient rotary clothes line. In the wind, three quarters of the clothes fall on the grass below.
She never learns.
This is the same family who never wear seatbelts and who park over the dashed yellow lines on one side of my street.
I believe any poor outcomes in their lives are the result of the choices they make; not from an “oppression” that the idealougues would have us believe.
𝐀𝐓 𝟑𝟒, 𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐌𝐏 𝐃𝐈𝐀𝐆𝐍𝐎𝐒𝐄𝐃 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐖𝐑𝐎𝐍𝐆 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐍 𝐏𝐎𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐒. 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐍 𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐀𝐈𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝟑𝟓 𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐒 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐒𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐅𝐈𝐗 𝐈𝐓.
In 1980, a 𝟑𝟒-year-old Donald Trump sat down with Rona Barrett. She asked if he’d ever want to be President.
His answer was no — and 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐫.
“𝘔𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘮𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺,” he said. “𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘴𝘢𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘺. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘮𝘢𝘫𝘰𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘦.”
Barrett pushed back. Why wouldn’t someone like Trump — wealthy, accomplished, only 34 — dedicate himself to public service?
“𝘉𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘪𝘵’𝘴 𝘢 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦. 𝘐 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘥𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘮𝘺 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘺, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘐 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦.”
Then he diagnosed the disease that would define American politics for the next four decades:
“𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘺𝘣𝘦 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘣𝘪𝘵 𝘶𝘯𝘱𝘰𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳, 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘮𝘢𝘺 𝘣𝘦 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘺 𝘣𝘦 𝘶𝘯𝘱𝘰𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳, 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥𝘯’𝘵 𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘯𝘰 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘢 𝘣𝘪𝘨 𝘴𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘦.”
A 34-year-old developer with no political resume had just described the next four decades of American politics in one sentence. 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐬. 𝐓𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐬.
Then he named the culprit by name.
“𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘩𝘢𝘮 𝘓𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥… 𝘈𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘩𝘢𝘮 𝘓𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘯 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘺 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯. 𝘏𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘢 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘴𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘭. 𝘏𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘢 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘺, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘢 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘮𝘦.”
Stop and think about what just happened on that 1980 set.
A real estate developer with zero political background had just told you that 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫, 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 would be considered unelectable by his own country, because he didn’t smile pretty for a camera.
That isn’t a hot take. That’s a 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐜𝐲. Every primary debate moderator since has confirmed it.
But the part that hits hardest is what came next.
Barrett asked him: 𝘞𝘩𝘺 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘳𝘶𝘯?
Trump said no. He said he’d rather help find someone. “𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘐 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘳𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱 𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘰𝘳 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘱 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘱𝘶𝘵 𝘶𝘱 𝘢 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘦 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵.”
He believed someone was out there. “𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥… 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥. 𝘐 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘮𝘭𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵.”
Then he spent the next 𝟑𝟓 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 watching.
Reagan came and went. Bush. Clinton. Bush. Obama. Five presidents between his diagnosis and his decision. He waited for the man with strong views and a working brain to walk forward and take the job he had been describing in 1980.
Nobody walked forward.
So in 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟓, the businessman who in 1980 said he’d rather help pick someone — became the someone.
He didn’t lose to the candidate with no great brain and the big smile. He beat sixteen of them in a row in the primary. Then he beat Hillary Clinton. Then he beat the 𝐝𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞, the 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬, the 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬, the 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬, the ass∗ssins, and Kamala Harris.
He was right in 1980 about everything except one thing: the proper president who could turn this country around wasn’t somebody else.
It was him.
Trump, like Lincoln, isn’t the most intelligent man to enter American politics & he doesn’t possess the greatest smile. He presents as supercilious but it’s an acceptance that he can never be all things to all people.
What he does have is charisma. He has guts. In spades. He presents as a pragmatist & a visionary at the same time.
His defining moment was standing up, blood pissing out of his head from a would be assassin’s bullet, fist clenched & shouting “Fight”.
Iran Turns Internet Cables into Hostage Takers in the Strait of Hormuz
Iran is moving to seize control of seven critical undersea internet cables running through the Strait of Hormuz, forcing foreign operators to beg for permits, cough up transit fees, and submit to Iranian law while handing all maintenance over to local regime-tied firms.
These cables carry 15 to 20 percent of global internet and financial traffic linking Europe, the Gulf, and Asia. Gulf states depend on them for over 90 percent of their connectivity, banking, and cloud services. Iran, by contrast, routes less than 40 percent through them and leans on overland backups through Turkey.
This latest power play follows repeated threats from the IRGC to simply cut the cables amid rising tensions. Tehran has long treated the strait as its personal toll booth for oil shipments. Now it is extending that pirate mentality to the digital world, weaponizing data flows the same way it has menaced energy routes.
The regime knows exactly what it is doing: creating a new digital chokepoint to blackmail the region and the West. While Gulf economies hang in the balance, Iran holds the leverage with minimal risk to itself. This is not governance. It is economic terrorism dressed up as sovereignty.
Free nations should treat it as such and prepare alternatives before the mullahs flip the switch.
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yet another iranian trump card to use against trumptard!
even trumps ppl told him a blockade is useless and iran can go many months, dumbfuck trump is still too much of an arrogant pos to realise his poorly thought out actions have consequences.
im gunna piss myself laughing if its putin/russia that do the deal to take irans nuclear material. if that happens then trumps iran campaign only really achieved setting off a bunch of expensive fireworks, probable global recession and slaughtering a school full of kids…. fucking loser
well deserved day off!
anyways went and caught up with a mate an hour or so from here in dongara, beers and a feeding some fish our bait last night, was a bloody cracker evening.
aussie sunsets and sunrises are awsome, the sky here far outdoes nz but the land is dull and boring and theres also not that much to do unless you like bbq and pissing up…. pity, if the outdoors here was more appealing id relocate my family here in a heartbeat.
the money and opportunities here just completely shit over nz, you dont realise how fucked and behind nz really is. sad thing is we had the chance to be a wealthy lil country but blew it by letting nz be strangled by the treaty, greentards and nimbys.
Australia has opened the Southern Hemisphere’s first commercial green steel plant — the Whyalla Green Steel facility in South Australia — using hydrogen plasma direct reduction to convert iron ore into steel without any coking coal combustion, producing zero-carbon steel at commercial scale.
The Whyalla facility operates a 700-degree Celsius hydrogen plasma shaft furnace where pure green hydrogen — produced from South Australian wind and solar electricity at the site — reacts with iron ore pellets to reduce iron oxide to metallic iron without any carbon involvement. The resulting direct reduced iron feeds into an electric arc furnace powered by renewable electricity to produce finished steel, eliminating all process CO2 emissions that account for 7 to 9 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.
Steel production cost at Whyalla reaches 620 Australian dollars per tonne — within 18 percent of conventional blast furnace steel costs at current energy prices, making green steel commercially competitive without any carbon price. Whyalla has contracted green steel supply to Toyota, Komatsu, and the Australian federal government’s infrastructure programme for the first three years of production.
Source: GFG Alliance Whyalla, South Australia Department for Energy and Mining, Australian Renewable Energy Agency ARENA, 2025
BREAKING: Anthony Albanese attacks Peta Credlin — and gets a FIERY response he won’t forget
Anthony Albanese thought he could score cheap political points by calling Peta Credlin an “insult to Australian values” because the outspoken journalist is fiercely conservative and believes that government should prioritize everyday families over woke agendas. Unfortunately for “Each-Way Albo,” he picked the wrong person. Speaking directly to her Sky News audience, Peta Credlin didn’t just clap back — she delivered a fierce political reckoning.
“The Prime Minister of Australia just said that I insult Australian values,” Peta Credlin began. “You want to know what insults Australian values? Crushing working families with a cost-of-living crisis while breaking promises on tax cuts.”
And that was only just the start.
“You know what insults Australian values?” she continued. “Spending hundreds of millions on a divisive Voice referendum while ignoring the very real crime crises in our regional communities.”
Then she went even further — taking aim at energy policies, union corruption, and hypocrisy.
“You know what insults our values? Destroying our reliable energy grid and sending our manufacturing industry off to die in the name of a reckless net-zero agenda… Turning a blind eye to union thuggery and dragging their feet on holding the CFMEU bosses accountable.”
This wasn’t just another evening broadcast. This was a full-on political indictment. Peta Credlin — who has been criticized by the Canberra bubble for speaking hard truths and challenging mainstream narratives — flipped the script entirely. Instead of backing down, she grounded her message in the very “fair dinkum” values Albanese tried to weaponize.
“I am not perfect,” she said. “But I know what real leadership and fundamental fairness look like in this country.”
And then came the line that hit hardest:
“Labor tells us they govern for the working class… Can we imagine a strong nation with no manufacturing? Can we imagine a prosperous society where families can’t afford to turn on their heaters? Can we imagine a united country divided by race? Then why do we tolerate these things under this government?”
That’s how you respond. Not with cheap shots. Not with spin. But with clarity — and conviction. Albanese tried to smear her. Instead, Peta Credlin delivered words that are now echoing far beyond Canberra.
Committee recommends disestablishing Environment Ministry despite public oppositionThe Environment Select Committee has recommended disestablishing the Ministry for the Environment, despite overwhelming public opposition.
In its report, the committee said the creation of a new Cities, Environment, Regions and Transport mega ministry under a bill currently before Parliament would not significantly change the functions of the current ministry.
The committee received 588 written submissions. All but five submissions were overtly opposed to the bill.
It has recommended by majority that the bill be passed, despite strong opposition from Labour and Green Party members.
The Green Party members slammed the bill as ”yet another action by the most anti-environment government that Aotearoa New Zealand has ever had.”
The Labour Party members said they were ”appalled by the constant attacks on the environment by this government.”
Greens environment spokesperson Lan Pham said the government’s plan to get rid of the Ministry is ”an absolute travesty for New Zealand.”
”The Ministry for the Environment was established because years ago New Zealanders decided that a voice for the environment at the heart of government was actually essential. It was established at the same time as the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, reflecting how important New Zealanders believed environmental oversight should be,” she said.
Where it is proven that the NZ Climate Change Commission did not do its homework in realizing that the IPCC pulled its implausible outlier modelling scenarios, which made their report, not only “implausible” but also “redundant”; a total waste of money.
And so next move is to get the NZ voter numbers to pull out of the Paris Accords.
Then get every other trade treaty to sign out of that part of an agreement too.! !
The time is right to do it.
It does not mean that solar power, wind power will be stopped, as every one will work out for themselves.
Still hydro dams to build, geothermal plants, even coal, which will all have their own base economics to be considered.
Agreed ! black/brown No problems when so easily found in NZ.
Importing it is only a chicken & egg process for Indonesia in setting up coal mnes, as it rapidly setting up its own coal burning thermal power stations for its own industries, that will basically take all of what it mines.
I am so surprized that as in Viking’s link that they seem to be shutting down the Environment Ministry.
Though there are many other parts that will continue on, so still a concern that some may receive some of those monies, powers,& controls.
So soon we will see…
Simpleton1
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To create a new constitution to be based on the Te-Titties on Q & A by a Green candidate.
….. Tania Waikato’s softball interview ….. ……. transform New Zealand’s legal framework by making Te Tiriti the supreme constitutional law. She claimed “more and more New Zealanders” support this radical shift, citing her own Treaty education petition work with schools ….. https://nitter.net/Suitandtie9999/status/2053371375738650839#m
2 mins 41 secs : May 10, 2026
Note the new tattoos on the hands & the explanation.
FIRST!
Good morning everyone. Top quality memes today, Mr Editor.
Here in New Zealand many are still joining to support NZ’s “Climate Change Commission’s (“CCC”) national risk assessment” of scaremongering.
All to be amplified by the legacy media.
……. share the costs of adaptation.
“We’ve seen it occasionally at times of great crisis,” she said.
“In World War II, we actually had ministers that were appointed from the opposition as well as from government.
During Covid, we had a select committee that was led by the opposition.” …..
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/environment_climate/594563/stark-climate-warnings-the-hypothetical-is-now-our-reality-experts-say
Now as you can with the links below, what a fucken joke based on hypothetical costly putrid shit whilst seeking to enforce this crap..! ! ! !
Absolute narcistic, thieving, lying, conniving, scamming, arseholes that believe in their ignorance & being self-righteous arrogant people that they are.
At the same time the NZ mainstream do not want to raise the points of the recent changes of the IPCC & are actively pushing the highest aspect of the con of Climate Change.
One the can see that NZ’s costly “CCC”; they have not done their homework, when one can see that they seem to know nothing of the IPCC being in full reverse backdown, on its scaremongering implausible scenarios in this past month or so..
…… media headlines have “amplified their [IPCC] findings”, while governments and international organisations have built these implausible scenarios into policy and regulation. …….
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/05/05/ipcc-admits-apocalyptic-climate-scenarios-are-implausible-meaning-most-media-scare-stories-over-last-15-years-are-officially-junk/
From a comment :—
“not forget that those people (except for a few “useful idiots”) made trillions from “this outrageous lies”,
bought the mainstream media,
most influential NGOs,
international organizations and
top politicians (sometimes countries as a whole),
and they are not going to surrender.
This is not the end, this may be the end of the beginning at best.“
Like how I thought the pack of climate cards would tumble in 2009 on the exposure of the manipulation of data & suppression of opposing challenges at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UEA).
But they managed to glossy bandage over that faux pas, & double down for even more funding for nigh on another 20 years.
Now we are supposed to accept the “corrective scientific modelling ‘medium’ truth” that will come out but the pressure, at the lower level would be more stringently applied, even more mandated etc.. ….setting us to be guided by the untrustworthy greenie communitst academia, along with media amplification. …. yeah right ….
The IPCC has published a new generation of climate scenarios – and buried in the fine print is a remarkable concession:
the extreme warming pathways that dominated climate research, policy, and media coverage for decades were never actually plausible.
It took a while to notice because almost no one in mainstream media bothered to report it. ……
For years, the public was bombarded with worst-case scenarios that drove policy, justified massive spending, and steered hundreds of billions in capital —
— all under the banner of urgency and fear.
If those dire projections were overstated or outright implausible, then the scale of the misallocation is staggering, and the media should be taking an interest in this story.
Americans [New Zealanders] were told the clock was about to run out,
and they were forced to pay accordingly.
The fact that this reckoning hasn’t triggered a broader backlash says as much as the original alarmism ever did.
https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/un-climate-panel-quietly-admits-its-doomsday-climate-scenarios-were-implausible
Carbon, Emission fees, that are put on so many things, & that cost is kept hidden from us & that money floats off to some overseas international system with barely any accountability.
The political pressure, pushing that some of scenarios are so implausible, so the worst has had to be eased off, even though many polices like in NZ continue, sort of covered over, ommitted, hidden by NZ media.
This article is not on the IPCC back down but just to note some of the political change, the pressure; so some of the implausible scenarios had to be eased off.
They cling to the fantasy that the average voter (they call them the “hard-right”) will wake up from the non-existent condition they call “climate denial”:
https://joannenova.com.au/2026/04/whats-more-scary-than-a-boiling-ocean-to-a-climate-activist-answer-a-right-wing-government/
Some parts seem a bit technical, but still worth a quick skim through of where, how & why the IPCC back down. :—
a plausibility vacuum — a situation where any combination of climate model inputs could be used without any assessment of the real-world plausibility of the assumptions.
…… The Network for Greening the Financial System framework, used by more than 140 central banks, has utilized a “Hot House World” scenario calibrated to RCP8.5 physical risk into the bank stress tests run by the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand …. [stress test applied to NZ largest 5 banks (– 90% of loans)]
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/rcp85-is-officially-dead
Sadly there will be no perscution or prosecution, as many of these connived & weaved their stories like Russel Norman, James Shaw, David Mann, Canadian David Suzuki. etc..
Unlike founder of Green Peace Patrick Moore who redeemed himself, by writing books exposing how Green Peace deviously gamed the system.
Just how much is this Climate Change scam costing New Zealanders, and probably in so many different ways & forms.?
Remove all those devious emission, carbon fees, levies & those nebulous devious instiutions that push this scam. ! ! !
New Zealand academia relentless ignore the change, as does the devious rotten NZ media.
Science “journalism” amplified them. Each alarming study generated news articles, television segments, radio reports, social media posts, and classroom curricula. …….
….. — is what this scenario did to children. ….,.
….. presented as the future.
Teachers showed its projections.
Textbooks cited its outcomes.
Documentary films dramatized its consequences.
And the children listening absorbed a message that no child should be handed as established fact:
the world is ending, and there may be nothing anyone can do. ….
….. elementary-school children carrying an existential fear in their backpacks. ….
…… But self-correction this slow, this reluctant, and this consequential demands more than a quiet update to a scenario framework. It demands a reckoning. …..
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/05/09/a-generation-of-kids-thinks-they-have-no-future-science-just-admitted-why/
And in the meantime, the dramatics in New Zealand continues with the Climate Change Commission & the government departments & ministers.
All again proving to be so untrustworthy.
In that silence it seems that systemically want to move the goal posts, & still create fears, alarmism, that a crises is close to hand, and the powers of calling a crises, and “Emergency” allows greater controls, mandates, compulsory to be demanded by authoritian establishment
Nice to be right, ( as usual). Problem is even there lower scenarios are probably crap as well. Fortunately more and more papers are being published showing natural causes for climate oscillations. One silver lining of the Iran war ( actually there are lots, but never mind), is that the whole world, except for the uber crazy, realised that without oil we are fucked. The biggest problem is the silence….
Ain’t we lucky to have EV chargers at the servo to charge the cars on diesel.
green energy is not the answer and WE NEED to drill baby, drill?
Progress, science and innovation render that statement not correct!
There are many options to obtain or create energy. Water in dams, for example.
The basic premise for all this is that you cannot make or destroy matter. You can change its form, thus creating energy.
Our energy supplier is infact the sun. Everything comes from the suns contribution, be it oil, fusion, solar, storms, whatever.
Its how you harness the energy that matters, and there are different solutions for different places. These days, no one would build a dam on the Pacific Islands; they install solar, which works and is local.
Here in NZ, currently dairy farms are installing as fast as installers can add them, there’s queue.
Why, because it makes sense economically and from an energy security point of view. You still need to milk even if the tanker can’t get through or the power lines are down.
So we cannot discount any method. It’s a matter of the investment in science and innovation and the final cost.
It’s also about reducing your energy use.
If you have a decent-sized home energy bill, then that’s the place to start. I hear people saying it’s costing them $800- $1000 a month. $3.00 a day line charges or more.
Well, start with your hot water.
Put in a heat pump hot water system. There are several around. Rinnai, I know, have one, and your plumber possibly has more options.
We have had one at work for about 12 years and a second one for about 5 years. We are about to install a big bugger.
I have a couple of high-use units to sort then onto solar and feed the grid. We have a reasonably sized roof to do that with. Lots of big commercials are doing that.
Lots of work in that industry.
They aren’t milking on solar at 4 in the morning but it is a good way to help keep the milk cold during the day for the night pickup.
Have you never heard of batteries.
They are fitted with batteries that will do just that.
Tesla’s have them
there are already in NZ battery farms where the majors have added a bank of batteries that they charge with thier excess power and use when needed.
gees mate, what world do you live in?
Battery farms (or Grid-Scale Battery Energy Storage Systems – BESS) are rapidly expanding across New Zealand to support renewable energy, with key projects including Meridian Energy’s 100MW Ruakākā Energy Park and Contact Energy’s 100MW Glenbrook-Ohurua project. These systems store excess renewable power to ensure grid stability and security of supply.
Major Utility-Scale Battery Projects (2025-2026)
Key Benefits & Functions
On-Farm Battery Storage
just an hour ago my mate showed me his solar setup for a workers camp theyve build to house workers for a windfarm being built.
90kw battery, was the size of maybe 2 chest freezers stacked ontop of each other.
40kw of panels and 50kva backup generator… 120k all up, the same in nz would be double, probs triple. kiwis get screwed.
Solar has some use, but it is no silver bullet. Ask the Australians who have to occasionally pay to feed their electricity into the grid. And unless you got huge storage batteries often the sun is shining when peak demand is on… JoNova has lots on this.
its no silver bullet but it all helps, as long as its not taxpayer funded or scam generation subsidies then go for it i rekon as every bit helps and nz has a grim energy outlook as they argue for the next 20yrs paying consultants billions to plan hydro or nuclear that nimbys will never allow just to have the inevitable brownouts.
solar is fastest to install and least bullshit hoops to jump through, imo all new builds should be required to have solar installed as a way of negating future grid capacity issues.
The payback on our solar system was 6-1/2 years and now making a profit. This is a no-brainer. Some banks are offering zero interest or low interest loans for solar installations if you can’t afford to pay outright.
the fineprint for the low/zero interest loan requires you to have a mortage with said bank.
my mate is mortage free and they wouldnt do it, my mortage isnt with a bank either so i gotta pull the money out my arse to pay for it upfront… last month of work here in aus will pretty much pay for a 10kw system tho if i dont spend it elsewhere 🙂
i see can now export 10kw aswell, best roi is to use it yourself but once batteries are full its good to know i can export the full amount on a good day if needed
A title for the top meme could perhaps be be ‘When liberal demands are met’.
I would suggest that it’s an accurate representation…
I do feel sorry for the cat and the gnome though.
Seems to be a new formula of governance, & will this also be done in other Districts & Regions on other issues?
Mayor Moko Te Pania of the Far North District Council & the liason Te Kuaka committee seem to be able to pass what ever they like, with out going through the District Council.?
9th May ….. No governing body debate
No full council vote
No district wide scrutiny …..
……. shared governance ……

Back grounder to the Far North District Council, the mayor & the liason committte & their voting rights on 15th April 2026.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/592390/far-north-mayor-moko-tepania-says-council-unfairly-targeted
So the Council bought the Moringaehe Reserve Ahipara from the local doctor that worked & then wished to retire there but
Kaitāia GP Cecil Williams is thinking about leaving the town after 35 years, after being “forced” to sell his property, which had been occupied by a local iwi, for about $130,000 less than its Quotable Value.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/kaitaia-gp-130k-out-of-pocket-after-having-to-sell-occupied-land-to-council/F7RFB4VVDJFLNGZZYELBH2QXTE/#:~
paywalled
So it seems the hapu have gained a very good camping site, or to put up a convenient civil defense / marae?
https://www.fndc.govt.nz/Whats-New/Latest-news/news-items/2026/May/kaitiaki-agreement-to-guide-future-of-moringaehe-reserve
Now what for Local Government Minister Simon Watts & those supporters of CoGovernance.?
Do they support this as the path of “tikanga” to follow for many other councils?
With the Government giving all Councils 3 months to come up with an amalgamation plan or face a compulsory make (same as we do at our weekly euchre nights) it will be interesting to see just how many Council the Far North District Council will wish to take over and expand its apparent iwi takeover of democracy. Perhaps they will even want to come right down and include Auckland City in its future domain, did they once hold a all you could eat limbs competition somewhere around there after a ship came in?
Not only there they raided down the coast to Paeroa and try Tauranga, but they also gave them the shove, so they went to the Kaituna and up the river to Rotorua. Killed plenty, went out to Mokoia Island, sat by the hot pools soaking while they cooked the limbs etc.
so Nga Puhi and Te Arawa are never going to be friendly,
Bush pigs are their description.
They do say “History repeats its self”
The hungry opportunists have moved on to ‘help themselves discounts’ in supermarkets
Golly!
Recent High Court decision in Hart v Marlborough District Council [2025] NZHC 47, which reaffirmed that local authorities are not Treaty of Waitangi partners and do not hold direct obligations under the Treaty unless expressly provided for in legislation. Why then are Councils ignoring the Court’s ruling? Too many local authorities are placing burdens on ratepayers by claiming to provide specific items for Maori under the provisions of the Treaty, which is totally wrong!
Why then are councils ignoring…? Because nobody does fuck all about it. If this was Trump Land, the lawyers would be having a field day.
Because see our piss weak govt will not change a simple clause in the local govt act that specifically targets this very problem
Dear Tenants
Due to Too many local authorities placing burdens on ratepayers by claiming to provide specific items for Maori under the provisions of the Treaty, your farrrkin rent is going to go sky high at warp factor 9. Sorry ’bout that,
Regards
C Hunty
And on the picture of the floating Turd, it may get flushed sooner than later. Here’s hoping…
https://www.joannenova.com.au/2026/05/starmergeddon-its-a-bloodbath-for-the-uniparty-blob-in-the-uk-elections/
I wonder if Kemi Badenough regrets refusing to form a coalition with reform and allow a Labour clown show to govern or be forceed by his MP to form a coalition with Reform and Restore and take their rightful position on the back benches.
Why should I have to pay for this shit. 12 children in the house, no Father or Fathers and I betcha, no contribution from any of the Fathers, but I am expected to pay and I haven’t even shagged her. Not that it would be my shag of choice, of course.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360974641/weve-got-nothing-inside-home-where-12-children-share-beds-and-meals-are-stretched
Maybe some bleeding heart lefty can sponsor the kids instead of an African.
To be fair – may be one dad and he might have died and left her in that situation. Also big-hearted IMO to take on three more. Better that than those kids end up in a home or foster care.
But agree with SB -$200 p.w. car repayments? That’s bloody ridiculous.
Also a few that should be out working and paying board.
Average board these days is $200+
So if the 3 or 4 oldest got a job at 40 hours at $25,00 an hour, that adds another $4000.00 per week, less their taxes.
If the ain’t working or ain’t paying board, then someone needs to read the riot act tothem not listen to whinging.
So what a bullshit lot, but you expect that from the labour and stuff.
yup, that should be another one for the “not our fucking problem” files.
what farks me off is the after rent is left with only $669…
our country is fucked, we shouldnt be supporting irresponsible pieces of fucking shit.
bet we paid for her to go to tonga for funeral, why the fuck does she drive a car with $200 finance payments when the fat fucks should be walking or in a $1000 shitbox.
No thin starving people in that photo!
Yeah good to see she can afford a Katmandhu puffer jacket, something pricey i couldn’t justify buying.
My mate is a golfer and he tells me that even the lads at the course now buy the exact same thing from TEMU without the overhead and label. Kat will go bust Its in the way. cloudn’t raise new capital the other day.
Stop noticing things, bigot.
In Thailand, where on the woman’s body is the clitoris?
Depends on the surgeon.
‘Don’t panic’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUGCswwHmls
Hantavirus risk
Dr. John Campbell
Dr Sam Bailey on the virus
https://t.me/thewhiterosenz/197703/347857
Interesting to start, & falls into place when “the Doctor” arrives after 1 minute.
Look Who’s Back With Another One
https://youtu.be/Cgoh18Xsp1k
4 mins 25 secs : 9th May 2026 : Puppetgate
Flatten the curve???
😃 🤣 🤣 😂 😂 😁 😁 😀 😀
A quick Google search reveals that the “MV Hondius is owned by Oceanwide Expeditions, a Dutch polar cruise company based in Vlissingen, Netherlands. The vessel is part of their private fleet and serves as a,specialized polar expedition ship.”
Methinks Oceanwide Expeditions should get in touch with their pest controllers more often & the rest of us should put the scaremongering ‘news’ in the bag labelled ‘Covid, Monkey Virus, Bird Flu & other crap’.
According to Dr John, Hanta has a few weeks incubation time for symptoms to show so reckons the virus was caught in Argentina before embarking on board.
Careful cleaning out mice and rat nests. The virus is caught from the dried urine and faeces that rises in dust and enters airways.
Spray nests with water or disinfectant then clean them out. Some, not all rodents carry this particular virus.
It was great to see Michael Baker doing his best chicken little impersonation on the news the other night. Have to say, he’s not aging well. Hopefully a bout of karma.
Will any journalist ask Baker, if he is keeping up to date, & is currently up to date with the Pfizer mRNA covid, tetanus, diptheria perstusis combo, shingles & flue vaxxes?
Just what is his current vaxx status?
Or HIV. I confess to being ambivalent on this one.
I’m comfortable with that.
The people in the North of England have a great way of putting things, on many occasions. This from a shop keeper :
Owen said: “We get a lot of ex-miners, factory workers and bus drivers in here, and the phrase they all use is: ‘I’m never going to vote Labour again as long as I’ve got a hole in my arse.’”
Australia’s far-right One Nation Party won its first Lower House election battle by a wide margin on Saturday, snatching a seat held by traditional conservative parties since 1949.
Led by Pauline Hanson, who advocates for big immigration cuts and campaigns against “radical Islam”, One Nation secured the seat of Farrer, a large inland agricultural and mining electorate in New South Wales.
Represented by the conservative Liberal or rural-based National parties since its creation nearly 80 years ago, the seat slipped from the Coalition’s hands at a time of rising prices, unaffordable housing and concern over divisive issues such as immigration.
With nearly half of the byelection votes counted, One Nation candidate David Farley had 42%, far ahead of independent Michelle Milthorpe, his nearest rival, who conceded the race.
“We’re like a mason with a chisel and a hammer and we’re carving the letters into the Australian democracy,” Farley told cheering supporters.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/far-right-australian-party-snatches-seat-in-election-first/FWCE42YXJFBMHHUQI4BJ2FJ6QI/
Ed,
You might be interested in this.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/soil-fertility-expert-brett-petersen-trials-banana-varieties-near-edgecumbe/CCBPTPCAKNFPRBHJDBVGNB2MRQ/
He is right about lots of it.
Bananas, of course, grow really well in Northland and just love the aged cowshed washings.
I reckon there is a bloody lot of MPs who need planting head first in the ground!
fuck off, you want the bastards to reproduce in our fertile land.
The legacy of National Destruction .
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/rolleston-growth-from-town-of-the-future-to-city-size/premium/K4YFFPIBBZGHNFRBLNGUSJPDEU/
ALBERTA’S PATH TO FREEDOM CLEARED: COMMONS CONFIRMS 50% PLUS ONE IS ENOUGH
The House of Commons just delivered a major boost to Alberta independence efforts. In heated exchanges this week, Bloc Quebecois MP Mario Simard pressed the Liberal government on the rules for any future referendum. Ottawa cannot rig the game with higher thresholds or endless delays. A simple majority wins.
Simard stood firm: “Democracy means 50 percent votes plus one. That is the rule wherever democracy exists.” He slammed any federal interference as an attack on self-determination. “The difference between a democracy and an anti-republic is precisely when government interferes with the democratic choice of its citizens.” He warned that changing the rules assaults Quebec’s own Bill 99, which upholds the 50 percent plus one standard and has survived court challenges.
Liberal Parliamentary Secretary Patricia Lattanzio responded directly, confirming the standard. “There needs a majority 50 percent plus one. There’s laws around it that need respect.” Later she doubled down: “Clarity Act, 50 percent plus one. We do not have the intention to go against that law which is very, very clear. We believe in democracy.”
This is a direct hit against Ottawa’s usual tricks. The Clarity Act gives the Commons a say on clarity, but lawmakers just admitted the baseline is a simple majority, not some super-majority dreamed up to keep Alberta chained. Alberta patriots gathered over 300,000 signatures to force the question. With Premier Danielle Smith ready to act, a vote could come as soon as October 2026.
Federally imposed roadblocks are crumbling. Albertans built this province with hard work, oil, gas, and grit. They send far more to Ottawa than they get back while watching their wealth fund endless waste, carbon taxes, and policies that punish energy producers. Enough is enough.
A clear 50 percent plus one vote will send an unmistakable message: Alberta decides its own future. The rest of Canada can watch as a free and prosperous Alberta rises. No more subsidizing failure. No more begging for fair treatment. Time to take control.
Sources:
House of Commons debate footage featuring MP Mario Simard and Parliamentary Secretary Patricia Lattanzio (May 2026)
Alberta independence petition updates and referendum timeline reports
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Can.t wait for it to happen, and then the rest to follow suite. Just because I fucking hate leftards….
If the Government is now rightly winding back “Fees-Free” because it costs roughly $350 million a year and fails to deliver meaningful outcomes, then the same discipline should apply elsewhere. The Māori Language Act 1987 is associated with roughly $100 million a year in government spending on te reo Māori initiatives, which over time likely adds up to something in the order of a billion dollars or more in taxpayer funds—enough that it’s reasonable to question whether this, too, remains a justified long-term use of public money, or whether it should be reconsidered, even repealed, in the broader effort to rein in persistent state spending.
The End of the Fees-Free Mistake. The so-called ‘Fees-Free’ policy was one of the most wasteful and ineffective ways of helping people that the then Labour-New Zealand First Government put in place. It cost taxpayers nearly $350 million per year, but did nothing to help disadvantaged students access an education.
Because the Government has been running a deficit for as long as it existed, the money to fund it was borrowed -a debt for future taxpayers. It reduced some students’ loans, but the same students graduated into a country with more Government debt, including extra debt from tire-kickers who took the free year and never finished their course.
ACT opposed Fees Free from the beginning. We were right then and we’re proud it’s going now. Tertiary education is still subsidised at around 70 per cent, when you include subsidies to institutions and interest write-offs on loans. If someone doesn’t want to carry the other 30 per cent, perhaps taxpayers shouldn’t carry the other 70, we said.
Our country has a problem with incomes and the cost of living. That needs to be addressed with innovation and investment to create higher paying jobs. There is no other way. Those who say they can just borrow a bit more, or tax someone else, are not telling the whole story. They’re telling you just enough to (they hope) get elected for another three years of managed decline.
We came into Government to cut wasteful spending so the country has a sustainable future. Today’s announcement by the Finance Minister confirms we are headed in the right direction.
Tertiary education is an investment in their (hoped for) ability to earn a higher income. If attending uni doesn’t cost them personally it attracts those with less ability to achieve success.
Personal cost motivates the struggle and perseverance to succeed.
….”it attracts those with less ability to achieve success.”……
I’m certain that holding an opinion such as that would be considered elitist in some circles WG. Not to rank achievements in the music of the nose flute, Women’s studies & colour therapy alongside the humble doctorate in nuclear physics smacks of patronage & cultural snobbery!
I don’t understand the beneficiary woman who lives next door. She has never heard of clothes pegs.
Year after year, she only ever throws the laundry over the wires of the ancient rotary clothes line. In the wind, three quarters of the clothes fall on the grass below.
She never learns.
This is the same family who never wear seatbelts and who park over the dashed yellow lines on one side of my street.
I believe any poor outcomes in their lives are the result of the choices they make; not from an “oppression” that the idealougues would have us believe.
Have you determined why they show no ability to learn from their mistakes? 🤤 //
Notable milestones in Maori development:
1300AD Invention of the rock.
1420AD Discovery of the stick.
1450AD Cannibalism
1930AD Use of the race card & perpetual victim status.
2050AD Utilisation of the clothes peg.
Great History Lesson, thank you.
Hapless IDIOTS. They couldn’t run a bath.
Starmer employs already failed ex PM, Gordon Brown as ‘Global Finance Special Envoy’ to smooth over troubled UK financial waters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8JS6jYAyqw
Chancellor in PERIL?! | Keir Starmer appoints Gordon Brown to Treasury to babysit Rachel Reeves?!
GBNews
Condoms don’t always guarantee safe sex.
A buddy of mine was wearing one when he was shot by the woman’s husband.
always bareback that shit then 🙂
𝐇𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐲-𝐟𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐲. 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐧𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐝, 𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐡𝐢𝐦𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟.
𝐀𝐓 𝟑𝟒, 𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐌𝐏 𝐃𝐈𝐀𝐆𝐍𝐎𝐒𝐄𝐃 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐖𝐑𝐎𝐍𝐆 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐍 𝐏𝐎𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐒. 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐍 𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐀𝐈𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝟑𝟓 𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐒 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐒𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐅𝐈𝐗 𝐈𝐓.
In 1980, a 𝟑𝟒-year-old Donald Trump sat down with Rona Barrett. She asked if he’d ever want to be President.
His answer was no — and 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐫.
“𝘔𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘮𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺,” he said. “𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘴𝘢𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘺. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘮𝘢𝘫𝘰𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘦.”
Barrett pushed back. Why wouldn’t someone like Trump — wealthy, accomplished, only 34 — dedicate himself to public service?
“𝘉𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘪𝘵’𝘴 𝘢 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦. 𝘐 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘥𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘮𝘺 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘺, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘐 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦.”
Then he diagnosed the disease that would define American politics for the next four decades:
“𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘺𝘣𝘦 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘣𝘪𝘵 𝘶𝘯𝘱𝘰𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳, 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘮𝘢𝘺 𝘣𝘦 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘺 𝘣𝘦 𝘶𝘯𝘱𝘰𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳, 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥𝘯’𝘵 𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘯𝘰 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘢 𝘣𝘪𝘨 𝘴𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘦.”
A 34-year-old developer with no political resume had just described the next four decades of American politics in one sentence. 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐬. 𝐓𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐬.
Then he named the culprit by name.
“𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘩𝘢𝘮 𝘓𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥… 𝘈𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘩𝘢𝘮 𝘓𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘯 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘺 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯. 𝘏𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘢 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘴𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘭. 𝘏𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘢 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘺, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘢 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘮𝘦.”
Stop and think about what just happened on that 1980 set.
A real estate developer with zero political background had just told you that 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫, 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 would be considered unelectable by his own country, because he didn’t smile pretty for a camera.
That isn’t a hot take. That’s a 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐜𝐲. Every primary debate moderator since has confirmed it.
But the part that hits hardest is what came next.
Barrett asked him: 𝘞𝘩𝘺 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘳𝘶𝘯?
Trump said no. He said he’d rather help find someone. “𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘐 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘳𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱 𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘰𝘳 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘱 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘱𝘶𝘵 𝘶𝘱 𝘢 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘦 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵.”
He believed someone was out there. “𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥… 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥. 𝘐 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘮𝘭𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵.”
Then he spent the next 𝟑𝟓 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 watching.
Reagan came and went. Bush. Clinton. Bush. Obama. Five presidents between his diagnosis and his decision. He waited for the man with strong views and a working brain to walk forward and take the job he had been describing in 1980.
Nobody walked forward.
So in 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟓, the businessman who in 1980 said he’d rather help pick someone — became the someone.
He didn’t lose to the candidate with no great brain and the big smile. He beat sixteen of them in a row in the primary. Then he beat Hillary Clinton. Then he beat the 𝐝𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞, the 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬, the 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬, the 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬, the ass∗ssins, and Kamala Harris.
He was right in 1980 about everything except one thing: the proper president who could turn this country around wasn’t somebody else.
It was him.
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Trump, like Lincoln, isn’t the most intelligent man to enter American politics & he doesn’t possess the greatest smile. He presents as supercilious but it’s an acceptance that he can never be all things to all people.
What he does have is charisma. He has guts. In spades. He presents as a pragmatist & a visionary at the same time.
His defining moment was standing up, blood pissing out of his head from a would be assassin’s bullet, fist clenched & shouting “Fight”.
Iran Turns Internet Cables into Hostage Takers in the Strait of Hormuz
Iran is moving to seize control of seven critical undersea internet cables running through the Strait of Hormuz, forcing foreign operators to beg for permits, cough up transit fees, and submit to Iranian law while handing all maintenance over to local regime-tied firms.
These cables carry 15 to 20 percent of global internet and financial traffic linking Europe, the Gulf, and Asia. Gulf states depend on them for over 90 percent of their connectivity, banking, and cloud services. Iran, by contrast, routes less than 40 percent through them and leans on overland backups through Turkey.
This latest power play follows repeated threats from the IRGC to simply cut the cables amid rising tensions. Tehran has long treated the strait as its personal toll booth for oil shipments. Now it is extending that pirate mentality to the digital world, weaponizing data flows the same way it has menaced energy routes.
The regime knows exactly what it is doing: creating a new digital chokepoint to blackmail the region and the West. While Gulf economies hang in the balance, Iran holds the leverage with minimal risk to itself. This is not governance. It is economic terrorism dressed up as sovereignty.
Free nations should treat it as such and prepare alternatives before the mullahs flip the switch.
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yet another iranian trump card to use against trumptard!
even trumps ppl told him a blockade is useless and iran can go many months, dumbfuck trump is still too much of an arrogant pos to realise his poorly thought out actions have consequences.
im gunna piss myself laughing if its putin/russia that do the deal to take irans nuclear material. if that happens then trumps iran campaign only really achieved setting off a bunch of expensive fireworks, probable global recession and slaughtering a school full of kids…. fucking loser
Just for the Trumpian ^ flat earthers. 😎
Trump fixes Flat Earth
https://nitter.poast.org/i/status/2053062405983481929
1 min 27 secs :
Part 2 is in the comments.
30 secs
Elon Musk’s Starlink will be in high demand if Iran cuts the internet cables. Hopefully Elon will prevent Iran from using Starlink.
well deserved day off!
anyways went and caught up with a mate an hour or so from here in dongara, beers and a feeding some fish our bait last night, was a bloody cracker evening.
aussie sunsets and sunrises are awsome, the sky here far outdoes nz but the land is dull and boring and theres also not that much to do unless you like bbq and pissing up…. pity, if the outdoors here was more appealing id relocate my family here in a heartbeat.
the money and opportunities here just completely shit over nz, you dont realise how fucked and behind nz really is. sad thing is we had the chance to be a wealthy lil country but blew it by letting nz be strangled by the treaty, greentards and nimbys.
Brilliant photo
Applies to a good few locals here as well/
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Australia has opened the Southern Hemisphere’s first commercial green steel plant — the Whyalla Green Steel facility in South Australia — using hydrogen plasma direct reduction to convert iron ore into steel without any coking coal combustion, producing zero-carbon steel at commercial scale.
The Whyalla facility operates a 700-degree Celsius hydrogen plasma shaft furnace where pure green hydrogen — produced from South Australian wind and solar electricity at the site — reacts with iron ore pellets to reduce iron oxide to metallic iron without any carbon involvement. The resulting direct reduced iron feeds into an electric arc furnace powered by renewable electricity to produce finished steel, eliminating all process CO2 emissions that account for 7 to 9 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.
Steel production cost at Whyalla reaches 620 Australian dollars per tonne — within 18 percent of conventional blast furnace steel costs at current energy prices, making green steel commercially competitive without any carbon price. Whyalla has contracted green steel supply to Toyota, Komatsu, and the Australian federal government’s infrastructure programme for the first three years of production.
Source: GFG Alliance Whyalla, South Australia Department for Energy and Mining, Australian Renewable Energy Agency ARENA, 2025
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Plenty of stupid in this.
BREAKING: Anthony Albanese attacks Peta Credlin — and gets a FIERY response he won’t forget
Anthony Albanese thought he could score cheap political points by calling Peta Credlin an “insult to Australian values” because the outspoken journalist is fiercely conservative and believes that government should prioritize everyday families over woke agendas. Unfortunately for “Each-Way Albo,” he picked the wrong person. Speaking directly to her Sky News audience, Peta Credlin didn’t just clap back — she delivered a fierce political reckoning.
“The Prime Minister of Australia just said that I insult Australian values,” Peta Credlin began. “You want to know what insults Australian values? Crushing working families with a cost-of-living crisis while breaking promises on tax cuts.”
And that was only just the start.
“You know what insults Australian values?” she continued. “Spending hundreds of millions on a divisive Voice referendum while ignoring the very real crime crises in our regional communities.”
Then she went even further — taking aim at energy policies, union corruption, and hypocrisy.
“You know what insults our values? Destroying our reliable energy grid and sending our manufacturing industry off to die in the name of a reckless net-zero agenda… Turning a blind eye to union thuggery and dragging their feet on holding the CFMEU bosses accountable.”
This wasn’t just another evening broadcast. This was a full-on political indictment. Peta Credlin — who has been criticized by the Canberra bubble for speaking hard truths and challenging mainstream narratives — flipped the script entirely. Instead of backing down, she grounded her message in the very “fair dinkum” values Albanese tried to weaponize.
“I am not perfect,” she said. “But I know what real leadership and fundamental fairness look like in this country.”
And then came the line that hit hardest:
“Labor tells us they govern for the working class… Can we imagine a strong nation with no manufacturing? Can we imagine a prosperous society where families can’t afford to turn on their heaters? Can we imagine a united country divided by race? Then why do we tolerate these things under this government?”
That’s how you respond. Not with cheap shots. Not with spin. But with clarity — and conviction. Albanese tried to smear her. Instead, Peta Credlin delivered words that are now echoing far beyond Canberra.
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Committee recommends disestablishing Environment Ministry despite public oppositionThe Environment Select Committee has recommended disestablishing the Ministry for the Environment, despite overwhelming public opposition.
In its report, the committee said the creation of a new Cities, Environment, Regions and Transport mega ministry under a bill currently before Parliament would not significantly change the functions of the current ministry.
The committee received 588 written submissions. All but five submissions were overtly opposed to the bill.
It has recommended by majority that the bill be passed, despite strong opposition from Labour and Green Party members.
The Green Party members slammed the bill as ”yet another action by the most anti-environment government that Aotearoa New Zealand has ever had.”
The Labour Party members said they were ”appalled by the constant attacks on the environment by this government.”
Greens environment spokesperson Lan Pham said the government’s plan to get rid of the Ministry is ”an absolute travesty for New Zealand.”
”The Ministry for the Environment was established because years ago New Zealanders decided that a voice for the environment at the heart of government was actually essential. It was established at the same time as the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, reflecting how important New Zealanders believed environmental oversight should be,” she said.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/594775/committee-recommends-disestablishing-environment-ministry-despite-public-opposition?fbclid=IwY2xjawRtIxVleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFvbjdadlpuT01FOVREdlZtc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHgR7A2Hum5fiW2HXnNu-kcbg-7B1pWCvjVyTrPMec-Br32RUA7TBLpbQIlk6_aem_LcWP5VcfklR7JZ_91INZlQ
good move.
Thanks Viking, as the ignorant cry-bullies in their arrogance are so upset.
The lazy bastards did NO work, no study, no research as I showed.
That ties in very well in the early morning thread I posted above on how IPCC pulled down some of its scenarios.
https://ysb.co.nz/have-your-say-747/#comment-477316
Where it is proven that the NZ Climate Change Commission did not do its homework in realizing that the IPCC pulled its implausible outlier modelling scenarios, which made their report, not only “implausible” but also “redundant”; a total waste of money.
And so next move is to get the NZ voter numbers to pull out of the Paris Accords.
Then get every other trade treaty to sign out of that part of an agreement too.! !
The time is right to do it.
It does not mean that solar power, wind power will be stopped, as every one will work out for themselves.
Still hydro dams to build, geothermal plants, even coal, which will all have their own base economics to be considered.
Forget about all the rest. Coal, dirty black/brown coal will be our salvation. Stop importing that shit from Indonesia.
Agreed !
black/brown No problems when so easily found in NZ.
Importing it is only a chicken & egg process for Indonesia in setting up coal mnes, as it rapidly setting up its own coal burning thermal power stations for its own industries, that will basically take all of what it mines.
I am so surprized that as in Viking’s link that they seem to be shutting down the Environment Ministry.
Though there are many other parts that will continue on, so still a concern that some may receive some of those monies, powers,& controls.
So soon we will see…
To create a new constitution to be based on the Te-Titties on Q & A by a Green candidate.
….. Tania Waikato’s softball interview …..
……. transform New Zealand’s legal framework by making Te Tiriti the supreme constitutional law.
She claimed “more and more New Zealanders” support this radical shift, citing her own Treaty education petition work with schools …..
https://nitter.net/Suitandtie9999/status/2053371375738650839#m
2 mins 41 secs : May 10, 2026
Note the new tattoos on the hands & the explanation.
https://www.1news.co.nz/2026/05/10/why-green-candidate-tania-waikato-believes-she-can-beat-rawiri-waititi/
Dream-time.