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Where are the fact checkers on this one?
Must be out back with Dopey Joe dreaming up their cover story.
https://x.com/UniqueMongolia/status/1810456603922981290?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1810456603922981290%7Ctwgr%5E50c4aaf611eb6c7f9e1119d45f5dc415276bbfbb%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwaikanaewatch.org%2F2024%2F07%2F09%2Fone-more-example-of-why-the-leftist-legacy-cant-be-trusted%2F
Nothing would surprise me about the USA or their allies these days. This includes here at home.
Have a good day and be safe.
Nude nut is there at the moment!
A idiot could be handy for excuses!
Hey look
Another stupid rebranding
Aren’t you glad your taxes aren’t needed for anything important.
https://www.naturalhazards.govt.nz/know-your-cover//?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=yr%20social&utm_content=facebook&utm_campaign=NHC025
Acrually that’s one i think is sensible. They are no longer just for earthquakes/
Never were just for earthquakes yet people managed to find them in the phone book when they needed to.
Education Review Office just changed their logo too.
Not because it was needed, just because they can so they did.
Pay up Sucker.
Did it go all maorifide?
Not happy with bringing down the Marvel Universe with DEI, Taika having a go at destroying Narnia. The multiverse, hordes of gay superheroes, where time and culture can be bent with the whim of a bent director, is pathetic!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeFdmAEYuwY
and luxtard has just frittered away 16mil to support zelenskys coke habbit.
fuck you luxon you bald piece of shit
Just following WEF orders as usual.
What an Utter wanker 💩. Spend your own money on whims NOT taxpayers hard earned taxes.
Meanwhile Putin gets on with smoking Ukrainian fags
A pity he missed the ‘comedian’.
Speaking of fags, is luxon still in Washington?
the ultimate faggot – taking it up the khyber from the WEF/Bilderberg mongrels.
then using OUR money to pay them for the rogering.
Well apparently we are all wrong according to this overpaid fat cow.
Christopher Luxon has a trump card in complex game of international politics – Fran O’Sullivan
Fran O’Sullivan is a business commentator with more than 40 years’ experience covering markets, politics, foreign affairs and trade. She has written a column for the Business Herald since April 1997 and has won numerous awards for her journalism.
OPINION
Christopher Luxon has an influential back channel to incoming Nato chief Mark Rutte which gives him an additional card to play in the increasingly complex game that is international politics.
The Prime Minister will be judicious in just how often and when he uses the “Unilever connection” – at least publicly.
But the fact that both Luxon and Rutte forged their pre-politics careers at the multinational fast-moving consumer goods company gives them a strong bond. He will be one of the politicians Luxon will want on his speed dial.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/christopher-luxon-has-a-trump-card-in-complex-game-of-international-politics-fran-osullivan/WCIQI3MMQZAR3HZ5RGWXER5FT4/
From shampoo man to Luxflalkes man.
FFS we deserve better.
Not doubt both left footed god botherers as well.
Ruitte is probably saying “Luxon, who is he? I don’t remember him from my days with Unilever, besides it’s so long ago”
He wouldn’t recognize him without a head of hair.
Rutte is the woke former prime minister of Holland whop wanted to shut down a third of Dutch farms because of “climate change”. A great buddy for bald Jacinda.
I couldn’t get past “influential back channel”
Jacinda without hair
It pays to get a top job with any Govt, outfit.
The New Zealand Film Commission has paid former boss David Strong well over half a million dollars in leave and severance payments after just nine months in the role.
Strong’s paid leave period and his departure were precipitated by concerns related to the management of conflicts of interest arising from his role as head of the NZ Film Commission and his ongoing personal interest in a proposed television series, The Pilgrim.
A key job of the commission is to distribute public funding to film projects, and in February 2022 commission staff were told that The Pilgrim would be put forward for commission funding (ultimately, it was not).
The Herald understands Strong effectively went on paid leave from the chief executive job from the end of March until August 5, the date of his departure from the organisation in 2022.
His severance payment totalled $438,700, considerably more than his annual salary. A source not authorised to speak publicly on the matter confirmed the details to the Herald.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/former-nz-film-commission-boss-david-strong-paid-over-half-a-million-dollars-leave-and-severance/UHRXJX5M6JGAFLNAI3CU3LTWLU/
It’s only taxpayers money, what did you expect?
Government considering new marae and cultural hub in Ruapehu after ‘flawed’ engagement with iwi
The previous Government sent an apology letter to iwi groups representing the Ruapehu District last year, after a “flawed” engagement process with iwi took place around the skifield.
A year later, documents released under the Official Information Act by departmental agency Te Arawhiti, the Office for Māori Crown Relations, reveals not much has materially changed since previous ministers said sorry.
The Herald can reveal the Government is considering a “reconciliation package” to hapū Patutokotoko, after the group raised red flags about the commercialisation of the Tūroa family name on Mount Ruapehu.
Company Pure Tūroa has officially taken over assets on the Tūroa side of the skifield for this year’s season.
Documents from Te Arawhiti state Patutokotoko has “consistently raised concerns” about the commercial use of the name Tūroa. Around the 18th and 19th century, Te Peehi Tūroa was a rangatira of the Whanganui-based hapū and was deemed an influential leader.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/government-considering-new-marae-and-cultural-hub-in-ruapehu-following-flawed-engagement-with-iwi/3MKO5FGRYJBYRKJKRMOB76YMDY/
It really is way past the time the govt/ told these money sucking parasites to fuck off back into the bush.
No doubt this turoa will have been another mad chief like most.
anyway lets just rename the company and the skifield with a good Kiwi name. then they can moan all they like and no one will know what the fuck they ate talking about.
Has that marae committee of some “incorporated trust” “charity” ever passed in a financial account?
That can go through an audit?
Seems like a 2 tier IRD system.
They have not reamed Waipareria /Tamihere Trust yet ?until then, these other crooks are safe.
Due diligence is wacist,
dont ya know.
More grifting to the Natives in Ruapehu District.
The local Ruapehu District Council were given $4 Million Dollars from the Provincial Growth Fund for Social Housing Developments in Ohakune and Taumarunui in 2020. The Labour Government then received an application from a Maori family for financial assistance to build a Marae at Ngapuke on State Highway 41.
The funding for the Social Housing at Ohakune and Taumarunui through the Provincial Growth Fund was taken off the Ruapehu District Council and given to the building of the Marae. Building commenced in 2021. The Marae has been completed and never used. It has a large commercial kitchen, huge carpark, out buildings, an extensive meeting house, fully fenced, solar panels, the absolute works and sits empty. There has not to my knowledge even been an opening ceremony for it. And the cost would have eaten the $4 Million and then some.
All Marae are privately owned, and this remote Marae is just another example of kowtowing to Maori for not benefit to the greater community. It the meantime, the Ruapehu District is still in need of funding for Social Housing.
Public money should not be given to churches or other private institutions such as marae, as these benefit an exclusive minority of the community.
Marea: hate the public but love public money.
Build it and they will come!
Apparently not. They can’t afford the opening ceremony.
Probably all the food an opening requires.
A new $16m Ukraine package
Tomorrow Luxon will chair a meeting of the four Indo-Pacific countries, which is expected to be attended by Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
The Nato Summit will focus on support for Ukraine. Ukraine is the most urgent business at the Summit and a range of measures are expected to be announced over coming days.
New Zealand’s extra $16m consists of $10m in humanitarian aid and $6 million in military help. A further round of sanctions against Russia is also expected to be announced in the near future.
Of the military assistance, $2m will support military healthcare for Ukraine, and $4m will go to a drone capability coalition for Ukraine led by the United Kingdom and Latvia.
New Zealand will have contributed about $130m to Ukraine since Russia’s invasion two and a half years ago. About $80m of that is in the deployment of New Zealand troops to help train Ukrainian forces from other bases in Europe – that deployment of 97 personnel was recently extended to mid-2025.
“New Zealand understands that while we are distant from Ukraine, what happens there affects us all, and we are prepared to stand with Ukraine for the long haul,” Luxon said.
The coalition’s aim is to supply tens of thousands of drones to Ukraine for use in the war.
Ahead of the announcement, Luxon had tweeted about a Russian attack on the children’s hospital in Kyiv, saying “Putin’s gruesome attack on Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital in Kyiv underlines his appalling tactics”. He said in Washington he intended to underline that New Zealand continued to stand with Ukraine.
It is the first time DC has hosted the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) Summit in 25 years, and the timing ensures there will be a lot of focus on Biden’s hosting of it – from the dinner at the White House to the main summit event and press conference. The leaders inside will also be focused on Biden and Trump, due to Trump’s less enthusiastic views of Nato.
It will be attended by leaders from the 32 member states, as well as Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Luxon can expect formal bilateral meetings with a number of those leaders, including two who knew former PM Jacinda Ardern well – Canada’s PM Justin Trudeau and French President Emmanuel Macron, who partnered with Ardern on the Christchurch Call. It is uncertain whether new British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will see him.
The Russian war on Ukraine will again be the focus of the summit – the recent bombing of a children’s hospital in Kyiv has been highlighted ahead of the Summit as reinforcing the need for support for Ukraine.
Leaders are expected to sign off on commitments to maintain existing levels of support for Ukraine at a minimum, as well as for Nato to take over handling the co-ordination of that support. New Zealand is expected to make an announcement on further support, on top of its renewal of troop deployments to train Ukrainian forces until mid-2025.
Luxon will also chair the meeting of the Indo-Pacific 4 – Australia, Japan, Korea and New Zealand. Zelenskyy is expected to attend that meeting.
The Indo-Pacific 4 have only been invited to attend the summit for the past three years.
Ahead of the summit, Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Ukraine had showed security was not regional but global, and pointed to actions of Iran, North Korea and China in dealing with Russia.
“The closer that authoritarian actors align, the more important it is that we work closely with our friends in the Indo-Pacific.”
He said the focus would be on flagship projects on Ukraine, cyber, and new technologies.
Claire Trevett is the NZ Herald’s political editor, and is in Washington DC to cover PM Christopher Luxon’s visit and Nato Summit.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/pm-christopher-luxon-arrives-in-dc-heads-to-capitol-hill-ahead-of-nato-summit/2L4FLUFFAVHKNIVP7LFRXKJFAI/
fuck the bald headed arsehole.
This makes me feel really ill. Luxon should ask the people if they want to support Ukraine not just dole out money to whom ever he likes. I am so sick of this woke government thank goodness for NZ first and Act, imagine what it would be like without them????? Bald Jacinda certainly we would never know the difference. I knew from the outset, he and the rest of the national mps were as weak as hen shit.
All I can say is remember all this was said before the election.
But you all chose to vote me down and disparage all we said.
Make a vote in your tiny moinds to take notice of what I tell you next time.
don’t follow SB.
Act are huge Nazi supporters. I emailed them and told them so a while ago. They were not happy and responded. Time I think to fire off another email….
Well thank goodness I voted for NZ First then. I am NOT a supporter of the Nazis
Will bumbling biden be out and about, meeting and greeting all the NATO dignitaries, or be hidden?
It may be grunch time for him!
I would not give them $16.
You have to look at it the other way. That’s $16 million the maoris didn’t get! Thatll rip their grass skirt.
‘Untrue’: Russia slams Ukrainian claim of attack on civilian targets.
Damage in Kiev was due to errant air defense, not a Russian missile strike, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has said
https://www.rt.com/russia/600627-kiev-missile-strike-kinzhal/
In a statement, U.S. President Joe Biden called Monday’s missile strikes “a horrific reminder of Russia’s brutality.”
“It is critical that the world continues to stand with Ukraine at this important moment and that we not ignore Russian aggression,” the statement said.
This posted on X from NZ’s PM (not mine)
Putin’s gruesome attack on Okhmatdyt Children’s hospital in Kyiv underlines his appalling tactics. In Washington this week, I’ll underline that New Zealand continues to stand firmly with Ukraine. Slava Ukraini.
Canada’s “climate change” envoy racked up over $250,000 in luxury travel expenses.
This is just the latest episode of climate hypocrisy from the Canadian government. So while Canada’s climate conscious political apparatchiks live large on your tax dollars, you’ll soon be able to eat bugs and live in a 15 city for the rest of your life.
(This Neo-Feudal system that they are engineering for us- the extreme haves (cult psychopaths) and the extreme have nots (serfs) will apply to us all if we keep complying)
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2024-07-08/canadas-climate-change-envoy-racked-over-250000-luxury-travel-expenses
Fifteen-minute cities are the norm in Japan.
Propaganda in war
Ukraine Version
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4ng72v7d52o
Russian version
https://www.rt.com/russia/600771-russia-un-kiev-hospital-missile/
I suspect the Russian version is more plausible.
An old French lady had a small shop in her village for years until one day a huge corporate supermarket set up across the road from her little shop.
They put up signs advertising their prices, including one that said:
Butter – 10 francs.
In response, the old lady added a sign to her own window:
Butter – 9 francs.
The next day, the big supermarket had a new sign:
Butter – 8 francs.
Sure enough, the day after the lady’s sign now read:
Butter – 7 francs.
This went on for a while until eventually one of the lady’s customers pointed to the sign and said,
“Madame, you cannot keep your prices so low for long. These big companies can use their buying power to sell products cheaper, but a little store like yours can never compete.”
In response, the old lady bent forward conspiratorially and muttered,
“Monsieur, I don’t even sell butter.”
Brilliant, that should fix the bastards.
More taxpayer wastage by our clever overlords.
Taxpayer bill for abandoned mega ferries project climbs to $484m
https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/07/09/taxpayer-bill-for-abandoned-mega-ferries-project-climbs-to-484m/
The taxpayer bill for the abandoned iRex project is almost half a billion dollars — with $94 million of that for mega ferries that were never built.
No one from the Government could be interviewed today but a spokesperson said ministers were committed to a resilient service across the Cook Strait. “Costs of winding down iReX were taken into account when Cabinet made its decision to decline further funding.”
Labor allowed kiwe rail to have grandiose plans, which have crashed on both their heads and sunk their ships!
Not true. There were plenty of options investigated as I reported a week or so ago.
We are back to the Bolger days of doing fuck all but we can spend inordinate amounts on climate change, social welfare, fighting others wars. pissing in the CIA’s pocket and overpaying people like the news services and protecting their balance sheets and yet not bother with the infrastructure we need to operate as a successful country.
Typical Nats and the useless English major who took fright when she saw the horses.
Wet her pants no doubt. we do know from years of their snivelling that the Nats do not like the rail. sooner we get rid of Airna and the same people from the house have to use a train from Wellington to home the better. Useless pack of arsewipes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDFfu5gzue4
Trump Drops Electric, Uplifting New Ad Narrated by A SHOCKING Voice | This Will Give You CHILLS ⚡️
Benny Johnson
There’s no accounting for political preferences. From https://www.foxnews.com/media/whoopi-goldberg-stays-loyal-biden-amid-calls-him-step-down-i-dont-care-hes-pooped-his-pants she shares her views & endorses Biden.
“I don’t care if he’s pooped his pants. I don’t care if he can’t put a sentence together……”
What does she mean “if” ?
Stupid is as stupid does/says. Whoever thought she was intelligent enough to talk about this FFS???? Typical democrat stupidity.
I am sure Lizzie, if anyone was to check Caryn Elaine Johnsons’ knuckles, they would find multiple carpet burns to all knuckles, from too much knuckle dragging.
It is hard to believe that this person walks upright.
Agree. All cut from the same commie cloth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oA6V3FsCn6U
Wait, What The F*ck Just Happened In France?
Russell Brand
On Sunday night French voters once again kept the far right out of power. But how democratic was it
If they weren’t such a pack of sanctimonious arseholes one could be forgiven for sympathising with the dilemma the Green Party now find themselves in. They’ll be shredded by the media, the public & even their own membership if they invoke the waka jumping legislation yet should they let Tana carry on as an independent or join the Maori Party they’ll endure the ridicule her presence will bring for the rest of the parliamentary term.
As I’m not a vindictive man & I would hate to kick a dog when he’s down I’ve devoted a bit of time to researching their options for the future.
In the October General Election the Greens won fourteen seats later increased to fifteen once all votes were counted. Since then they have lost Collins through death (replaced by Xu Nan), Shaw through resignation (replaced by Hernandez), Ghahraman through theft (replaced by Wade-Brown) & they may get lucky enough to be in a position to replace Tana.
So four in eight months or an MP every two months with twenty eight months to go. If they keep losing MPs at this rate they’ll need another fourteen list candidates yet they’ve only appointed thirty one which only gives them thirteen spares in hand.
Oh the humanity! 🙂
Cant kick a dog when its down, but as green party members are less that… Kick away with joyous abandon.
Ain’t it lovely.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of arseholes!
I’ve finally found a woman who has a prick. Luxon’s wife.
good Catholic woman who will never leave her man.
Apparently there are choirs from aound the world in NZ at the moment having a competition.
Will the NZ choir trundle out in grass skirts, swinging the poi and waving sticks!
Yep that choral concert is on.
From all around the world.
Don’t forget sticking their tongues out. It’s cultural!
V2 has now completely given up all hope.
His Asian mail-order bride arrived, took one look at him & then asked to go back in the crate.
nasska, true story but when i lived in takaka my then arsehole boss was looking at mail order brides. anyways his mate who was similar age (early 60s) had one coming so boss man decided to wait and see how his turned out and if she was actually the same as the photos…. the old creep went to the airport and waited in anticipation, the wee indonesian woman took one look, squawked a bunch of words in her native tongue then booked tickets on the next flight back home.
needlees to say my arsehole boss just stuck with his weekly thursday trip to the hookers in nelson…. and stalking a local chick…. and stealing my coworkers daughters panties off the clothesline… and stalking the neighbours wife…. and being a creepy pos to the woofers.
After we retired we spent a bit over a year just cruising around the North island with our caravan mostly staying in motorcamps. There are quite a few older people who sell up & spend their lives on the road & a small subset of these are ancient buggers with male order brides.
They had some of the flashest, most well looked after caravans & motorhomes around. Most of them, husbands & wives though, are the most miserable unhappy bastards you could meet. The women are stuck with some old coot & the men have plenty of time to reflect that sex isn’t everything. Living together 24/7 when you don’t share interests, culture or language would be hell.
Not to say that some don’t make it work out but the odds are against it.
true that nasska, its hard enough being couped up in a small space for long periods with someone you love let alone the situation you describe.
my old neighbours, 2 brothers took turns about going to ukraine many years ago via a dating agency.
they now both have beautiful wives and several kids each and seem a very genuine relationship, been together 20 odd years. it does work but i guess a few old creeps just think itll be like having a full time hooker, those are the ones thatll never end well.
White on white.
Plenty of old buggers around here with asian wives. Philipinos seem to be ok but chings, indo’s, viets, are seldom good company. looking for cash.
A section from Mark Wauck’s latest email :
“Alexander Mercouris (in a video)had been providing a sitrep, discussing the rapid Russian advances in obscure towns and villages. But then he moved on to the last topic above: NATO Denialism even as the prospect of a complete Ukrainian collapse is appearing on the horizon:
None of [these villages] are bigname places but, if we look at these villages as pieces on the board, they are important pieces in themselves and the Russians are scooping them up at an ever faster pace. Increasingly, Ukrainian defenses are starting to look like they’re losing strategic depth.
I discussed the NATO Summit meeting before and I said that the Western Powers seem to be determined to lock in support for Ukraine, disregarding whatever Donald Trump might say or think or do when he is elected president–if he is elected president of the United States in November. What the West is doing is, it is depriving itself of maneuver room—of freedom of action—immediately prior to the collapse that is now starting to appear over the horizon. I’ve said in previous programs that I don’t think many people in the West fully understand how brittle the situation for Ukraine has started to become, how the situation in Ukraine is now increasingly acquiring the the quality of a prospective collapse by the Ukrainian military–perhaps even sooner than anyone expects. It’s not impossible that, even as the West strategizes on how to continue the war, they will find that they’re facing a sudden collapse on their hands and that they have done nothing at all to prepare for it.
But there we are. As Yves Smith once correctly said, the West spends so much time discussing things with itself that it loses sight of the thinking and actions of the other side. She was talking about negotiation strategies. The West negotiates with itself about what proposal to put to the other side but it doesn’t consider whether or not the other side is going to be interested in accepting this proposal. The West is making the same mistake in terms of its military strategies and political strategies. It is a year behind actual developments in the war.
We will see how the West does react to a sudden collapse in Ukraine–a collapse which, in my opinion, all the signs are that it is coming, and coming faster than I think pretty much anyone in government in the West expects. ”
This is the situation Luxon is shelling out tax payer dollars to.
How much better could he have spent 16mil, put it on the countries debt that robbers-son put us in, invest it into infrastructure, broken ferrys and pothole repairs could be a place to start, use it to re open marsden point, hell give us all a little tax break just dont give it to a bunch of corrupt idiots in Ukraine. Could someone draw a line down the middle of luxflakes head at least then he really will look like the cock head that he is
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rCDIXKd_528
Alex Jones responds to questions🤣
short
This was said on the Project one of the wokest programs on primetime Australian TV.
https://x.com/TheMilkBarTV/status/1810871227093053871
Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott’s privately-educated son, 28, is charged with 11 offences including exposing himself and attacks on police and NHS staff
Diane Abbott’s son was in court yesterday after being charged with a string of violent offences including allegedly beating up police, emergency workers and doctors as well as exposing himself in a hospital.
James Abbott-Thompson appeared before a judge at Thames Magistrates Court where he was accused of 11 crimes – most of them on NHS property.
He is alleged to have gone on the rampage attacking nine people including five emergency workers, two of whom were assaulted on the same day.
The 28-year-old faces nine charges of assault, a charge of of racially aggravated criminal damage and one of exposure over the past five months.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7842415/Diane-Abbotts-privately-educated-son-28-charged-11-new-offences.html
I suspect he was drunk. With a mother like her I would drink to forget too.
Nah! A nutter! Mother seperated when he was young,
You can take the boy out of Africa but you can’t take Africa out of the boy.
Racism made him do it.
Trump challenges Biden to a debate next week “man to man” without moderators
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2aeANhi-Ak
Barron Trump met with huge cheers as he joins his father at Florida rally
Challenge to golf too. 10 stroke advantage for bumbler. Ten mill to his charity!
Looks like Chris Lynch is being targeted by the new censorship goobers.
Chris Lynch
@chrislynchmedia
Facebook has again removed an investigation I’ve been working on for several days now. With no answers other than it thinks its “spam” But it’s happy to let spammers target genuine competition winners.
Chris Lynch
@chrislynchmedia
Here’s a story that Facebook tried to censor.
Aramex under scrutiny: customers and staff report widespread delivery issues
https://www.chrislynchmedia.com/news-items/angry-customers-voice-concerns-over-aramex-canterburys-delivery-service/
Aramex has terrible service all over NZ, they are possibly the worst of the bunch, toss up between them and post haste on that one.
Aramex only exists to make NZ Couriers seem semi competent.
Fair enough, in the experiences ive had with couriers, id rate em best to worst
Nz post
Nz couriers
Post haste
Aramex
Im sure there may be others in between and thats not including the likes of mainfreight as thats a whole new discussion
Yeah. I grudgingly have to admit that NZ Post would be a hard act to follow.
Will admit they can still do better, shall we say the least worst then
hilarious, chippy owes winnie an apology after chippy slammed him for making up bullshit about the ferry being on autopilot.
all the media and viking waffle using the grounding as an example why we need new ferries asap and it was human error for once and not neglect or maintanence issues.
Sadly for you you got that wrong as you normally do.
Maritime NZ has lifted its detention notice on Interislander’s Aratere ferry, allowing it to return to service after it ran aground.
The regulator has also addressed suggestions by NZ First about what went wrong with the ferry, saying the grounding was not caused by “a crew member leaving the bridge to make a coffee”.
Meanwhile, a lawyer engaged by a maritime union has dubbed the situation “Nescafé-gate”.
The Aratere left Picton at 9.45pm on June 21 before suffering a reported steering failure and running aground shortly after. It is berthed at Waimahara Wharf in Picton and was put under a detention order.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/interislanders-aratere-ferry-cleared-to-sail-again-after-grounding/5WE4DADORZA5PMJ7DIK2EONEME/
Why just why would anyone listen to what you have to say?
vikey ole chap, autopiloted into the shore like winnie said. probs is a coffee or 2 involved somewhere aswell.
i guess human error wouldnt be a factor on oversized ships you so badly want?
Stop lying.
Thats not what he said and not what you posted.
and that’s not what they have said.
go have lie down and rest your brain its suffering from conspiracy theories. The very thing you have spent 2 years yelling at someone else.
and it seems there is a rational explanation.
Aratere: Leaked Interislander documents show staff member ‘inadvertently’ changed ferry’s course
Leaked documents about the Cook Strait ferry grounding show a crew member accidentally triggered the autopilot into the wrong course before it crashed into the shore.
The Aratere ship ran aground shortly after departing Picton at 9.45pm on June 21.
None of the 47 passengers and crew aboard were injured and the ship was refloated just under 24 hours later.
The Interislander documents showed after Aratere left Picton it had been switched from hand steering to autopilot.
A staff member then “inadvertently” pressed a button which caused the autopilot to change direction sooner than it should have.
The vessel started an “alteration of course … almost (1 nautical mile) prior to the planned waypoint”, the document stated.
The ship’s crew noticed the turn to starboard but were initially unable to get back control of the vessel.
About a minute passed before hand steering and reverse propulsion could be engaged and by that time it was too late to prevent the ship from running aground in Titoki Bay, the document said.
The document was shared with staff late last week as a safety briefing intended to provide guidance, raise awareness, or reinforce good practice.
It said it was based on a preliminary finding into the cause of the accident and that, although investigations into what happened were continuing, it was unlikely its explanation of the cause “will change significantly”.
“The accidental and early operation of the execute button on the starboard multipilot commenced a chain of events which led to the grounding,” the briefing stated.
“The reasons why recovery controls (defences) that should have corrected this unplanned deviation were unsuccessful is part of the ongoing investigation and more information about this will be shared at a later date.”
The document leaked to RNZ was sent from the Interislander safety and health executive committee to master and deck officers.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/aratere-leaked-interislander-documents-show-staff-member-inadvertently-changed-course/ONIBK2ZSSVCT7DBQHDLDOJVQKA/
….a crew member accidentally triggered the autopilot into the wrong course…
when that happens on a NZ Govt owned vessel the event is followed by an orchestrated litany of lies
Refer. 28 November 1979
Chippy owes the whole country a apology too for been wanker!
Whingy, whiney, wanker!
‘GLOBALIST SELL-OUT’ LUXON TOLD TO SEND HIS OWN KIDS TO FIGHT IN UKRAINE FOLLOWING PRO-NATO TWEETS
https://dailytelegraph.co.nz/news/globalist-sell-out-luxon-told-to-send-his-own-kids-to-fight-in-ukraine-following-pro-nato-tweets/
“What utter BS Luxon. You take your kids and go fight in Ukraine. Leave our kids alone. Lying coward.”
Well said that man.
Go on luxton put your kids on the line where our money is, then lets see if you want to keep sending tax payers money over there. Oh right if you did that you would send the entirety of our army there to protect them from even getting dirt under a fingernail
Why not send Luxon? Air NZ can parachute him in to front line. All politicians and keyboard warriors can join him. Think of the frequent flier points!
The doctor told his trial that he had been advised by the WHC that Māori common law and principles of tikanga were accepted as “a separate strand of New Zealand law” that had been ratified by the High Court.
“He maintains that he took all reasonable steps to confirm that the WHC was bona fide and a genuine legal alternative to the Medical Council,” Judge Earwaker said.
However, the judge said that for the defence argument to succeed, he would need to accept that the WHC was entitled to register health practitioners under the principle of tikanga as recognised by common law.
“There is no such evidence before me, nor could there be, as the WHC did not hold and has never held such authority,” he said.
The judge said the WHC sought to utilise the principles of tikanga to set itself up as an alternative health authority in response to the Covid 19 pandemic.
“However, tikanga cannot usurp the clear provisions of the HPCA Act.”
Judge Earwaker said that the doctor’s belief he could lawfully practice under the WHC registration was a “mistake of law”.
He was not satisfied that the doctor took all reasonable steps to ensure that the offending did not occur.
He found the doctor guilty of all the charges laid against him.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-19-anti-vax-hawkes-bay-doctor-found-guilty-after-switching-registration-to-unsanctioned-tikanga-council/M5S2LVGDOFERRIW4FVBDSFCNUM/
So over the last wee while the courts decided that tikanga need to be considered in any judgement, but obviously this sludge didn’t get to hear about that.
Proof that the media lies about climate change.
https://x.com/i/status/1810655712088899691
Its a world climate order (wef,who,etc,etc) copy and paste – enter your country of choice here type news article, wonder how many of them where worded the same or very close to each other?
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=2433155580222540&set=gm.1708768353051872&idorvanity=605062986755753
Well that makes me grumpy already. Pride gets a whole month and we only get one f ing day.///
Become a gay grumpy old man!