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Whoever did the pic of Andrew is a moron. That’s a Sikh turban, not a mussy chador.
Beat me to it. It was like during the Muslim Cartoon issue in 2007 when muslims were getting upset but some of the cartoons were drawn Sikh Headdress. Bit like drawing Calvin wearing a Bishops Mitre….
And without seeing the ears and hairline it could almost be Charles – they look very much alike.
Tropical this morning. 4.4 degrees, apparently.
in other exciting news.
Petrol prices expected to fall as road user charges set to replace fuel tax, officials sayPrices at the pump are expected to fall eventually – but not necessarily for the reason you might think.
Auckland set for coldest morning of winter, MetService says
Opportunity will get into Parliament, latest Poll of Polls forecasts – here’s the full prediction
Super bill for older migrants tops $1 billion a year, doubles in a decadeThe annual superannuation bill for older migrants has hit a billion dollars – five years after Parliament tightened eligibility.
However, the Finance Minister isn’t worried about the rise, pointing to recent changes she says will ensure taxpayers aren’t footing the bill for newly arrived residents.
If you’re Gen X, congratulations: you were the most revolting teenager in recorded history
Pay with your face? New eftpos terminals to reshape checkout experience
Lefty scum media desperately trying to get Opportunity marxists into Parliament. Should be called Opportunist party.
Opportunist Parasite party.
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How are they going to change every car to digital RUC?
I see they are already shifting some acc fuel levys to petrol vehicle registrations getting ready for the change.
the media is desperate for their top party now that luxon has ruled them out, alot of their support currently and past elections has been from soft nat voters.
i dont see how averaging a bunch of polls showing theyre under 5% equals theyre now above 5%???? what mental gymnastics are the performing to do that!
if we want to play their retard game then winnie must be over 20% and act on 15%.//////
i think theyve double counted the top leaders points twice or something…. and everyone knows two wongs dont make a right 🤣🤣🤣
2 + 2 = 12
Sorry WG you fail 2 + 2 is clearly 22.
Lefty math has a wide margin. It’s not the result it’s the trying that’s important. //
It’s how you feel about the numbers.
I like no 69.
Nah, look its easy to show that any number equals any other number
Start with two numbers that are the same: (a = b)
Multiply both sides by (a): (a^2 = ab)
Subtract (b^2) from both sides: (a^2 – b^2 = ab – b^2)
Split both sides into parts: ((a – b)(a + b) = b(a – b))
Cross out ((a – b)\) on both sides: (a + b = b\)
Replace (a) with (b) because they are equal: (b + b = b)
Add them up: (2b = b)
QED
ROL
So 2b or not 2b – is that the question? (I know, hat, coat, door).
And with examples like that is it any wonder or teachers are failing to instil a liking of maths in their students?
And do you know what the error is in the logic?
yep. the teacher
Imagine the standard of teachers finishing training.
Are they as thick as when they left school?
The effect on the cost of living.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DbSfEiZOw7Y/
Seems to be pissing off the free-loaders, the ones who seem not to pay any taxes.
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Just realized who’s account this is based on. 😀 😁 😂 🤣 😃 😄 😅 😆
I enjoyed the comments too
Morning all, very cold hereup sky just starting to get light. I see Bill Oddie of the Goodies has died. He was 85. I can remember him years ago but can’t imagine him being old.RIP Bill – Ikky Thump and their holiday in Wales where it never stopped raining until the snow started will live forever. No doll was involved in this one.
He often spoke about overpopulation and advocated British couples having fewer children with which I agree. But I never heard him say a peep about the population growth caused by the immigration of low IQ rat like breeders from the third world so in my book he was a c**t.
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The shock face allocated to your comment was sooo shocked it ran away…😮
I see it’s returned..with a brother
I thought I heard on the radio yesterday that Kenny Rodgers had died, no mention in the rag.
He died a while back, I’m told he tried listening to his own music. The outcome was inevitable.
What a terrible way to die!
Me and the missus, went to the Bowl of Brooklands, in our just married days.
Danny Sullivan, the mayor, of New Plymouth was giving passes to sit on stage, to clean cut, well presented people.
I’ve never heard him say anything political.Unusual for a comedian to be abused for not having an opinion.
One prominent example is from a 2014 appearance on BBC One’s Sunday Morning Live, during a debate titled “Is the UK too hostile to immigration?”
Bill Oddie argued that overpopulation was the core issue, not immigration, and suggested restricting the number of children British families could have (comparing it to aspects of China’s former one-child policy). Key quotes include:
He also expressed strong views on British identity and attitudes toward immigration:
Grok.
Well qualified to stick her legs in the air with ten kids,
It’s amazing how she finds the time.
Not fit and proper!
“The Minocqua Brewing Company…which has offered free beer all day when Trump dies, and has called for ‘brothers and sisters in the anti Trump alliance’ to hone their marksmanship skills have lost their license.
The Wisconsin Department of Revenue claims unauthorized retail operations, shipping law breaches, and untaxed beer held in an unpermitted warehouse. These stem from contract-brewing beer in Illinois then selling and storing it in Wisconsin without the required permits and taxes.
Owner Kirk Bangstad says this is politically motivated….well yeah…lol”
A COMMENTARY provided to the New Zealand Freedom Vanners social media site has outlined the chilling totalitarian controls about to be imposed on motoring and movement in general by their fake conservative National Party coalition government headed by Prime Minister Christopher Luxon.
The article focuses on new “speed cameras” being rolled out across the country. These are likely the same as new cameras being rolled out by Australian states.
University of Auckland professor Gehan Gunasekara has also spoken to Reality Check Radio on new legislation being used by Statistics New Zealand to establish a “Persistent Unique Identifier” which will allow governments to track individuals in real time every time they interact with a government department.
The Freedom Vanners group has been told that the new “speed cameras” have almost nothing to do with road safety or speed, according to contributor “Ryan Carnation”.
“There is at least seven of these going up locally. None will be activated until the net is fully setup,” he says.
Referring to a Transit NZ press release he said there was no reason for people to be deceived as to the real reason for the cameras.
“By now many of you are aware that 12 private mega-data centers, and at least one secretly built at Whenuapai military base by government, are to gather information and collate every shred of information on every single individual in real time.
“Yes every transaction has to be consented to, and you have heard that warning before. It’s been in text for over 2000 years. This is why the recent compulsory Digital ID bill was bought in.”
The NZ government has released an online digital ID system called Realme, described as “a secure login service that lets people access online services from government departments using a single username and password.
“Realme was the intro, now it’s being enacted by Internal Affairs. If you apply for a driver licence, renewal, or pension then you must get your new number at that time, some are just allocated anyway if they already hold enough info,” says Ryan Carnation.
“That includes every purchase, (facial recognition catches those using cash in supermarkets and is already shared with police) travel, banking, council interactions, property, health records including what toxins you allowed to be injected.”
He said individuals’ fuel, electricity and gas energy use was also to be monitored and allocated per household.
“MBI (Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment) have already done this phase, with just limits to be agreed to.
“Social media, carbon points – you should all know what that’s about. If not then do a bit of research away from local media.”
“Most know that EVs changed to a Road User tax system (RUC). Most celebrated that as the old freebie system wasn’t fair – exactly what you were wanted to think.
“But already quietly announced is that excise tax is to stop at the pump and every car, every vehicle changes to the RUC system.”
Also relevant to this are “congestion charges”, which link to the 15-minute cities concept. The new suburbs of Millwater and Milldale north of Auckland are “blatant examples” of this.
Congestion charges already in law require real time surveillance.
“Then we have lots of toll roads planned. Yes we are being played. They are to be owned by corporations on the excuse we cant afford them, however you are paying for them plus the corporation’s profits on top of that,” he says.
Also related is the matter of warrant of fitness and registration stickers no longer being required.
The new system will be monitored and enforced with digital driver licences that will be needed to start any vehicle, in addition to 24×7 real-time surveillance of number plates, thermal image scanning for numbers if people in car, seat belts, vehicle make etc.
Further, every vehicle will be fitted with an ETRack device initially on pretence of paying the RUC (who can argue with paying a fair tax right? ).
So, the driver gets into his car, and logs into eTrack with his digital ID to get consent to start it.
Etrack is wired for remote engine cut-off (hence the push for new cars as its easier to enforce). But drivers will have to be real-time approved.
At this point it checks if you are socially compliant. Do you have enough carbon points, energy, points, social points, insurance, WOF, COF, Rego, tax paid, no outstanding fines and are you allowed to travel in that area?
Are the vaccines you and your children required under term “social responsibility” up to date? “Yes that term and restriction attached to it already been stated by Luxon,” says Ryan Carnation.
“Then it must check if your passengers are also compliant, not deemed fugitives.
“Its all there to be seen if you look. Start by looking up items on EVs, paying RUC then dig.
“Look up congestion charges. It’s already in law without saying the real reason it’s being bought in.”
Well who ever wrote that is years behind.
RealMe was launched in New Zealand in July 2013 by the Department of Internal Affairs and New Zealand Post to replace the old igovt login service.
Key Details
Want to work with any govt entity, and it makes it easy.
data centres are for ai chatbots and drop box/////////////
WTF. People who insist on tracking and spying on everyone else must have tiny penis’. Controlling others is an obsession best avoided.
The ultimate clipboard warrior!
Rules for thee, not for me!!!!
WG, I’ve never controlled, tracked, spied on or dominated anyone else. Wanna hook up sometime?
Hey big boy! 🤩
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If only..at eighty years old all that arises are memories…
There’s stuff you can take for that. Apparently works in 45 seconds.
That’s even faster than Len Brown
In Tauranga they call V2, ‘the wee man’. Not because he’s small….
He’s incontinent.
Who’s this V2 you are talking about?
Oi, behave yourself.
‘…So, the driver gets into his car, and logs into eTrack with his digital ID to get consent to start it…’
Going to make being a getaway driver a bit risky. What if you’re sitting outside a bank while your mates rob it and have no cell service or your phone runs out of battery.
This has obviously not been thought through properly.
Do you think there could be a market for something real old that required a crank handle, and no battery at all to drive the Ereader.
Do you think my new mobility scooter will have Ereader on it.
Ask naaska , he has a collection of scooters.
Hunty, had a collection of rooters!
Ask Kiri and Golly Grab n Run.
The rules will have to be different for “special people”. They can’t even get their heads around present restrictions on theft, meth & child killing.
How is Net Zero working out for Britain?.
….. This is BRILLIANT and beyond hilarious
The fight for Net Zero in the UK. ….
https://nitter.net/MorEdge_Insight/status/2081771044201717796#m
3 mins 32 secs : 27 July, 2026 : Artificial Idiots.
Sometimes needs to click “reload” to get it through.
Some ‘parts’ are hilariously stretched to outdo our Mike Hunty in his cod-piece.
Warning, in spilling the beans; one Mike Hunty’s x’s wants to get back with him, but only for about 2 minutes.
Note the street address too, for where that suspicious character hangs out.
😂 😂 😁 😀 😀
HHHAAAAA, only for about two minutes!!!
Ani O’Brien, commonsense commentator and substack writer is holding “Good Yarns” around the country to encourage kiwis from the full political spectrum to communicate. They have been very popular. Michael Woods hating wife and Auckland councillor decided to ban Ani from Auckland council premises as the same group did when Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux were booked to speak.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw9t9op516o
Auckland Council Urged To Axe People who’s Opinions They Don’t Like
Jordan Williams is hopping mad as the Auckland Council is urged to axe people who’s opinions they don’t like
All pushing to ban in various ways, “free speech”.
A continuation of Ardern’s decree on banning, total censure-ship of a manifesto, to making it a “Christchurch Call”.
Then all the strings they systemically pulled in shutting down access to data, information, because they deemed themselves as the “only source of truth”.
And so it looks to continue where they can for the moment, while awaiting to bring it all on if there is a change of government.
What does her evil partner say? Pieces of shit both.
A good summary by Redbaiter about National MP Erica Stanford tells Ryan Bridge as well as the interview.
I defy anyone to listen to this conversation, where she sounds so much like Ginny Anderson or worse Chloe Swarbrick, and tell me otherwise
https://nitter.net/i/status/2082027149926727994
1 min 52 secs : July 28, 2026
The Teals will do what ever they have to do to stay in the ascendacy.
Blasphemy laws denied.
Andrea Vance should find another rock to crawl back under.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu-p9YnE17Q
Jilliane Heather On Law Commissions Move In Favour Of Free Speech
Communism (“Municipal socialism”) – Southside and Westside Chicago voted for taxpayer funded grocery stores. How well did that go??
https://rumble.com/v7dcbka-chicagos-socialist-mayor-defunded-the-police-then-this-happened..html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a
Dr Steve Turley
I am starting to have my doubts on Trump. I mean, this is ridiculous.
“an order from Trump that directed federal officials to compile lists of American citizens and compel states to only let people on the lists register to vote and vote in elections.”
What a facist.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/federal-appeals-court-rejects-bid-to-block-trumps-mail-voting-restrictions-6068410?utm_source=goodeveningnoe&src_src=goodeveningnoe&utm_campaign=gv-2026-07-28&src_cmp=gv-2026-07-28&utm_medium=email&est=XgZyRv9EuceU1QWcv6TvwNJ1MepNfstExPN0StooTsOXW76%2BVarn5TuTZs0m8mcb8A%3D%3D
ROL, ROL, you haven’t thought that out, have you?
Does nobody understand sarcasm…….?
Normally, but you seem to have misplaced the sac on the way to casm.
The line between sarcasm and real life is increasingly blurred.
Why? if you are not on an election roll, (usually because you are brain dead, actually dead or an illegal) should you be able to vote? The US Postal service is the only entity that can deliver mail in ballots to actual citizens on the election rolls. To verify this, states have to provide the USPS with completed election rolls. For years the democrats have gotten away with rorting the elections. Usually by States not providing their updated voter rolls. Payback time has arrived.
Important discussion here on AI and destroying books.
https://www.joannenova.com.au/2026/07/the-great-forgetting-an-ai-arms-race-is-consuming-thousands-of-rare-books-which-are-sliced-scanned-and-pulped/
If only it was so easy
https://x.com/DannyNoonanGolf/status/2082129843261747685?s=20
Reminds me of ‘Cheers.’
That didn’t last long… NYers call for Mamdani’s removal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkQepwY_3OU
The Left Has Finally FLIPPED on Mamdani After This…
Classic example of “Be careful of what you wish for.”
Willis stuffing up again. The Reserve Bank requested for it to be able to roll over $10 million it did not spend last year, into this year. Unless Willis can show the RB budget/funding was somehow bloated last year then refusing this request is crazy.
This is exactly what Government Departments should be encouraged to do —if they can be financially prudent one year and the surplus can be carried over they could be able to look at worthwhile ambitious projects for the future. We all do this in our household budgets.
By refusing the rollover the RB ( and other Departments) will just continue the usual spend up on wasteful things at the end of the financial year, so they do not have their budgets cut for the following year. This stupidity has been going on for decades.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/economy/inflation/nicola-willis-rejects-reserve-banks-10m-funding-rollover-request/premium/OWAM4M3PRVH33HK42H7O6XW2FI/
It means they had too much of our money last year. Cut the next budget by 10 mill and see what the affect is. What does the reserve Bank actually to justify this money?
If she had a rider to her refusal along the lines of ” Adrian Orr bloated the RB organisation massively during his tenure so there is plenty of room for cut backs to give you the additional revenue ” then I might give her some slack, but I doubt that rider was added.
Asked Grok
**The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ / Te Pūtea Matua) is New Zealand’s central bank.** It is a statutory corporation owned by the Crown but operates with a high degree of operational independence.
### Main things it actually does
– **Monetary policy** — Sets the Official Cash Rate (OCR) through its Monetary Policy Committee to keep inflation low and stable (currently targeting 1–3%).
– **Financial stability** — Supervises and regulates banks, insurers and some non-bank deposit takers to keep the financial system sound.
– **Currency** — Issues and manages New Zealand’s banknotes and coins.
– **Liquidity and payments** — Provides settlement accounts for banks, manages liquidity in the banking system, and operates or oversees key payment systems.
– **Foreign reserves** — Holds and manages New Zealand’s foreign currency reserves and can intervene in the foreign exchange market if needed.
– Other central-bank functions such as acting as lender of last resort in a crisis and producing economic analysis and data.
### How the Reserve Bank is funded
It is **not** funded by ordinary tax appropriations like most government departments.
Its main sources of income are:
– **Seigniorage** — The profit from issuing currency. Banks pay face value for notes and coins; the RBNZ invests those proceeds (mainly in government securities) and earns interest. Because the currency itself costs almost nothing to “fund,” this generates substantial income.
– Interest and investment returns on its large balance sheet (government bonds, foreign reserves, etc.).
– Some fees for regulatory and settlement services.
A five-year **Funding Agreement** between the Minister of Finance and the Reserve Bank sets the maximum amount of this income the Bank is allowed to keep to cover its operating and capital costs. Anything left over after meeting the agreed spending limit and maintaining required capital is paid to the Crown as a dividend.
In the year to 30 June 2025 the Bank reported a large overall surplus (hundreds of millions) driven by investment and seigniorage income, and paid a substantial dividend to the government.
### The $10 million surplus / carry-over
This refers to an **underspend** against the operating-expenditure limit in the previous Funding Agreement. The Bank spent less than the agreed maximum in the last year of the old agreement and asked to roll that unused $10 million into the next year.
Finance Minister Nicola Willis rejected the request. The new 2025–2030 Funding Agreement sets tighter overall limits (average operating spending around $150 million a year), and the government has taken a hard line on public-sector underspends being automatically carried forward.
In short: the Reserve Bank earns its own money mainly from the privilege of issuing currency and from its investments. The government controls how much of that money it is allowed to spend via the Funding Agreement, and any excess is returned to the Crown.
I’d reckon that the Lady in charge, being a Swede, will not get caught with that type of crap again. I guess there will be a lower dividend this next time. I always reckon you need to get it back 3 fold. So 30 mill might get absorbed just like Mobie managed to over spend their lot.
A former British Prime Minister just said the quiet part out loud:
Liz Truss:
“The deep state is real. NGO activists and globalist networks have quietly captured the levers of government and media… reshaping the West from the inside.”
For years, anyone who pointed this out was mocked, smeared, and called a conspiracy theorist.
Head teachers, journalists, ordinary people ,all dragged through the mud for noticing the same pattern.
Now a woman who actually sat in Downing Street is confirming it on camera. No apology. No walk-back.
This isn’t fringe anymore.
This is a former Prime Minister describing how unelected activists, foreign-funded NGOs, and transnational networks have more power over policy than the people we actually elect.
Ideas that get labelled “conspiracy” today have a habit of becoming accepted fact tomorrow.
The people who were paying attention were right the whole time.
Watch the full clip. Share it.
The more they try to bury this conversation, the louder it needs to get.
The capture of our institutions is not a theory.
It’s the reason nothing ever seems to change , no matter who you vote for.
https://x.com/Maxwellpainn/status/2082065479477412207?s=20
Liz Truss has been saying that for months. She blames The Reserve bank of England governor Mark Carney who was in charge at the time of Truss’ sacking. The WEF supporting Carney later became PM of Canada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kELRVlOGrT4&t=12s
Liz Truss: The Deep State, Grooming Gangs, Economic Reform & Free Speech | The Peter McCormack Show
The Peter McCormack Show
Read a lot of what Truss had to say some time back. Good mind, I reckon.
Should install her here instead of the chrome dome.