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Now that could start a trend.
Repeat Over And Over
Morning, turned out nice again.
Grabbed some rain from Tarquin just to keep him happy.
Left the breeze there so he can go sailing.
Looks like the rest of you’se are going to have a fireside weekend.
Gales, hail and snow on the way before widespread Sunday rain
rain, rain, bit more rain, wind, hail, snow, wind, rain…. ive can count on one hand the nice days of weather ive had since being back in this sodden shithole.
im gunna be pissy if super godzilla mega el nino dosent delivered the promised drought and doom this summer
Opened the door this morning to let the dog out for the first call of nature – windy as heck, started hailing – dog turned around said no! and wants the heater and his blankie so looks like we’re staying in today.
Morning V, lovely up here at the moment. Supposed to pack up later on and then come right tomorrow. You can see Coromandel which is a pretty good sign.
Christopher Luxon hints India FTA might come into force next monthPrime Minister Christopher Luxon has hinted that the India Free Trade Agreement could enter into force as soon as next month.
He made the remarks in a stand-up in Koror, Palau, where he is attending the Pacific Islands Forum leaders’ retreat.
Luxon was asked to confirm remarks in Indian media that the deal’s entry into force was imminent.
The Press Trust of India, a wire service, spoke to an official about the deal entering into force. The official confirmed the deal might enter into force next month, immediately reducing costs for exporters.
Asked to confirm the reports, Luxon said, “If if that is the case, how exciting is that for New Zealand. Exciting, isn’t it?
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/christopher-luxon-hints-india-fta-might-come-into-force-next-month/premium/FI5HAHGWAVG27DGNQC6KYYZTK4/
He’ll be hoping for an extra vote bump from his first love – the Indian community in New Zealand.
Luxon screwed NZ by not doing what he promised New Zealanders at the last election, instead he screwed NZ. NOW he’s got a bug up his arse and can’t wait to screw us with his Indian FTA.
May a pox of deli-belly and a thousand fleas infest his armpit. Awful little globalist.
Viking
Vote catching and party funding much, methinks.
“We are constrained in that we can’t over-reach from that role in that we need to implement what is set in front of us and then advise Immigration NZ where we see improvements that can get made,” Wall says.
Immigration NZ, for its part, is happy to boomerang questions about the Plimmerton loan back to Invest NZ. “Any specific queries for the growth category are best directed to Invest NZ – I understand they’ve responded to you directly,” Ruth Larsen, principal communications adviser at the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, wrote in response to the Herald’s questions.
Welcome to Wellington. Part of Wall’s Auckland-based job is to help international investors cut through New Zealand’s bureaucracy. But he is also a part of it.
The risk for the golden visa scheme is that while Government ministers talk up the link to economic growth – Luxon points to funding for venture capital, Immigration Minister Erica Stanford points, more typically, to tech firms and their highly skilled jobs – growth visa money is flowing, perhaps most frequently, to more conservative and otherwise well served parts of the economy.
Invest NZ head Robert Wall on data centres, growth visas and incentives for foreign investment
In Invest NZ terms Robert Wall is repatriated human capital.
A University of Canterbury engineer, he returned home after two decades in Toronto and London to take up the reins at the new government agency established to promote foreign investment.
The autonomous Crown entity is a year old after being carved out of New Zealand Trade and Enterprise. It was designed to feed funds to domestic enterprises and establish more foreign firms here, to fuel stronger growth, lift the country’s lagging productivity, and strengthen the Government’s claim it is “going for growth” and successfully making the country better off.
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has said the agency was modelled on the success of Singapore and Ireland: small, wealthy countries where machines, computing power, and advanced research and development mean workers generate over US$70 ($120) and US$150 in GDP per hour worked respectively (Ireland’s figure skews particularly high because of multinational company profits shifted into the low tax regime).
It’s difficult to find anyone who thinks New Zealand will match those successes in the South Pacific.
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Just bought a school exercise book for my grandkids. On the back page it talks about NZ flags. Guess what, the Maori flag is considerably bigger than the others!!!! Also, I love that everyday of the week in Maori begins with ‘R’ !!!
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10175472644505343&set=pcb.10163993992749685
Have to laugh, the Drongos who put this together obviously don’t know their Flags.
The top one is the House Flag of the old British Shipping Line, Shaw Savill and Albion Line.
https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/rmgc-object-359
According to verbal records which have been handed down over the generations and can never be wrong, that flag was designed on one of their many trips back from Antarctica.To even think of questioning this would obviously be supremely racist.
I therefore Chappie, am a “Questioner” and as such, are pleased to confirm that I would be considered “supremely racist”.
We will pray for you at the man bun appreciation AGM this afternoon. Even if that doesn’t work I’ll still feel incredibly pious for trying to help yet another wayward soul. Marvelous.
Thank you, both thoughtful and kind.
It’ a gift, one of the many I’m blessed with. Thankfully, I’m not at all pompous.
Nor, do I need a new hat!
yo do to be allowed in. Its to hide your bun brother.
they didnt have the concept of a recurring 7day week let alone names for those days. so its just made up mumbo jumbo…. im suprised its not manglish and named munarei, tuarei, wenarei etc.
im certain tho when i was a kid one of our very staunch maori teachers at primary school used wenarei???
ah, well this explains it. all the R weekdays are “modern maori” old school translations are somewhat typical manglish.
Monday: Mane
Tuesday: Tūrei / Turei
Wednesday: Wenerei
Thursday: Tāite / Taite
Friday: Paraire
Saturday: Hātarei / Hatarei
looks like the language is a phoney and changes made on the fly… much like their history.
I think you missed the most important one;- Benefit Day.
Edit;– I see Ed has put the critical vowel at the end. 🤣
That for many supecedes;- Pay Day.
SB, didn’t, in 1966, the Rolling Stones write their great song “Ruby Turei”?
fucked if i know, i aint no old coot listening to shitty music.
Got a hearing problem then????
i do actually, but in this instance i was referring to an aversion to listening to ancient and shit music.
to be fair tho modern music is pretty fucking shit too.
You forgot the most important day in their kulture, beneday
you win the internet today Ed, perfect.
Nambassa Music Festival, I believe 1981: The final major Nambassa festival staged in the Waitawheta Valley near Waikino. I’m the young man with the beard and wearing the Samoan lavalava.
(Not me; I ain’t Samoan, ok.)
Had no idea in those days these people existed, although we did food for the organisers. They were greenies them days: lentil pies and stuff like that. They all had the munchies.
Who is not flying this week.
Emmerson – another annoying lefty hack and a poor cartoonist.
The Real New Zealand News
This Devil Doomfield “Sir” Ashley Bloomfield is now a “professor” at the University of Auckland’s School of Population Health (Abortion promotion services – dude is a baby killer now) and the Chief Executive at the Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR) / New Zealand Institute for Public Health and Forensic “$cience”. The fact he retains power after injuring tens of thousands of New Zealanders shows how close Christopher Luxon is in policy to Jacinda Ardern and Chris Hipkins MP.
worth reading on covid vax and cancer
https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-study-finds-mrna-vaccines?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1119676&post_id=214020572&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=127oyu&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
ah yes, the covid vax… the single source of cancer. no other factors or causes exist. no cancer or heart issues ever happened prior to 2020//////
i know youre a dumb peice of shit but surely you realize that fucking near anything can be attributed to causing cancer in one way or another?
not dumb enough to spell correctly. Yes of course cancer existed before the vaccine. However, if you could point out in errors in their methodology, or understanding of carcinogenesis (or oncogenesis) and subsequent metastasis, please do enlighten us. A rebuttal of their statistical methods would also be good, just so we know that we are in fact dumb fucks and butt head losers. We would hate to read a publication and be so badly misinformed.
TURBO CANCER IS REAL, and your a real Dick
derrangement, butthurt and cookerism is real 🤣
no such thing as turbo cancer, its just a made up cooker term to appease their butthurt feels.
and yes, my dick is real.
Wait till that cookerism hits your dick, then you will know about butt hurt.
??? vikey, rol, curious, starving and rikogay are gunna hit my dick and rape my arse?
not my thing, maybe just keep the cooker orgies to yourself.
queer cunts
Thanks for the invitation, but I will have to decline.
Leave me out of any orgy around your dick….. I detest maggots.
they eat rotting flesh.
If that’s any help/
When will Republicans finally learn they should campaign on Trump’s excellent record of accomplishments?
Wait for it…….!
Actually, Trump has done a lot for the average man in the USA. Many will disagree but hitting the Iranians hard was the right thing to do. He has restored relations with Russia to a better level than Biden, He is trying to tone down the rhetoric between North and South Korea, he is standing up to the anti white violence in South Africa.
Look, he has his faults, he is arrogant, bombastic, impulsive. If he was standing in New Zealand in our election, would you vote for him vis a vis Luxon? I know who I would prefer.
Remember when Trump was going to end the Ukraine war?
not far away. Ukraine is collapsing. They are infighting so keep up.
its been collapsing for 4 years according to the ysb experts.
russia supposedly has/is aswell but neither eventuate.
it just depends on your bias and the propaganda you swallow to what you want to believe.
neither side is winning, even when it ends the side that comes out on top wont have really “won” either. losing all those young men, gear and infrastructure is just dumb as fuck.
in 24hrs i believe.
remember when the iran war was gunna be over in 4 days aswell.
his first 100 days was solid win after win, since then its been mostly downhill and many more fails then wins.
In your limited worldview. You need to get out, off your phone and do a bit of wandering around. There’s a lot to learn.
says the guy who lives on facebook and thinks he knows everything. the curtain business must be booming////, you spend more time on here then me.
you lot use confirmation bias for pretty much everything, on the issue of trump youre dumb fuck cultists and he can do no wrong. you have zero ability to actually say hes done wrong and fucked up.
you lot are so fucking thick and blinded by the cult you would help stir the cyanide into the koolade before he told you to drink up to maga.
At least we are not deranged like you certainly are.
I will start, you are a butt hurt orange man supporting loser///
youre on the ball today Ed.
⬆︎
Sb recognising and surrendering to Ed a much practised stirrer 🤣
just a thought about the maori seat bullshit….
we all know nats and all left parties will never scrap the seats, winnie will talk but never act upon it and it would only be Act party that would push to abolish.
could a solution to get the woke nats onboard simply be keeping the seats and maori electorates but remove the seperate roll and open them up to ALL voters to choose what maori represent the maori seats?
there will be screams from the left (probs not much from labour tho tbh) but its the job of mps to represent EVERY kiwi not just 1 race so everyone should have a choice in who fills those seats… same with maori wards for councils.
i know getting rid of them should happen but lets be realisitic, it aint gunna happen unless theres a huge shift in the national party which i dont see happening.
lets work with reality, not fantasy.
You can party vote for them if you are so inclined. The party vote is colourblind, unlike the electorate vote
you miss the point of my comment entirely.
its not about tpm etc its about the seats themselves and the fact that the majority of parliament will never vote to abolish them.
so whats our next best option?
I think if you look around, that process has begun. There is, afaik, anything that requires you to prove that you are a maori other than????
ffs you miss the point aswell.
yes anyone can go on the maori roll but its still a seperate roll and seperate vote for candidates.
what im saying is ditch the maori roll and everyone on the general roll can also vote for the maori seats (so 3 votes total… party, electorate seat, maori seat)
its not ideal, i prefer the seats be abolished but reality is they wont be abolished unless nats change bigtime which i highly doubt it.
so next best way to tackle them is by preventing the fuckery of the maori roll, leave the seats at 7 and ditch the maori roll.
that way… 1. there can no longer be manipulation of maori roll via chop n changing to add extra seats in future.
2. all kiwis can vote on who fills those maori representitive seats, more democratic due to higher vote counts and potentially more candidates participating.
do the same with local govt and maori wards. let everyone vote in them, currently the setup we have a maori ward seats are won with a tiny number of votes vs thousands for normal councillors.
why only let a bunch of easily influenced/self interested radicals vote for those people? why not let all kiwis vote and decide who really is best for those seats.
Never missed a thing at all. Seriously, get a shrink.
The spirit of ‘Turn Ardern’ rides again!
Theres a guy in a parking lot looking for a spot. He prays, God, if you find me a spot, I promise I will go to church on Sunday.
Oh wait, forget it, I found one…
A townie is walking along an old country road when he sees a farmer out in the paddock
He calls out to the farmer, “excuse me, but how long until I reach town?”.
The farmer looks up from his crops and just stares at the guy, not saying a word.
After what seemed like an eternity of silence, the stranger decides to resume his journey. He gets a few hundred feet down the road, when suddenly the old farmer in the field yells out “twenty minutes!”.
“Thanks”, says the surprised stranger. “But why didn’t you answer me when I asked you?”.
The farmer responds, “cause I didn’t know how fast you could walk yet!”.
Very good!
one of maramas cis white males was the culprit////….
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/361029157/man-accused-violent-rampage-aucklands-epsom-named-shalty-heta
Another upstanding, virtuous, caring, loving, community spirited, lovely, lovely, Native.//
Another example of why NZ needs to house these meth addled or delusional and violently dangerous individuals in secured mental facilities away from the public.
Te Pati has a theme.
This substack from Coffee and Covid covers quite a bit but at least the first bit on Michael Dell and his wife donating billions to kid’s Trump account is well worth a read.
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/its-all-about-context-thursday-september?
Read that earlier Ross seems they have started something. Has anyone seen anything in the NZ msm? Probably not just in case it reflects positively on the Donald.
National Needs a Spanking—and That Is the Point
Inspired by The Redbaiter
National-aligned blogger David Farrar calls shifting party votes from National to ACT or New Zealand First “stupid, not cunning”.
He warns that reducing National’s party vote could cost list seats held by figures such as Nicola Willis, Chris Bishop and Paul Goldsmith, replacing them with lower-ranked ACT or New Zealand First MPs.
But for increasingly frustrated conservative voters, that is precisely the point.
This is not simply a scheme to increase the centre-right bloc’s total vote. It is about changing the balance of power within that bloc—and forcing National to confront how far it has drifted from its founding principles.
Across the Western world, mainstream conservative parties have repeatedly selected leaders who promise change but manage only a slower version of the Left’s programme. Spending continues, bureaucracies grow, identity politics survives and supposedly temporary ideological reforms become permanent.
Christopher Luxon’s National has too often followed that pattern: cautious, managerial and terrified of a serious confrontation with the political establishment.
National frequently appears to need dragging by ACT and New Zealand First before acting on co-governance, government waste, unelected representation and other policies its own supporters expect it to oppose.
The problem is bigger than Luxon. Too many National MPs seem more comfortable administering the progressive political settlement than overturning it. Some appear so detached from National’s traditional principles that voters reasonably wonder why they are not standing for Labour.
That is why Farrar’s warning may encourage rather than frighten disillusioned voters.
They do not necessarily care which particular ACT or New Zealand First list candidates enter Parliament. They care about reducing the power of a National caucus that takes conservative votes for granted while repeatedly retreating once elected.
If National loses party votes to its coalition partners, it may finally learn that support must be earned. Without electoral consequences, nothing will change.
A tactical vote carries risks. Weakening National too far could also weaken the wider centre-right bloc. Voters should understand that before acting.
But National cannot demand loyalty while refusing to represent the people whose loyalty it expects.
The purpose of shifting votes is not to destroy National. It is to discipline it—to remind the party that it exists to provide an alternative to Labour, not merely to manage Labour’s legacy more slowly.
Sometimes a political party must lose support before it remembers what it stands for.
National may need the spanking. That is not a flaw in the strategy.
That is the whole idea.
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=912803988485343&set=a.100910163008067
PIC there of Farrar and comment.
”reducing National’s party vote could cost list seats held by figures such as Nicola Willis, Chris Bishop and Paul Goldsmith”
Why would anyone think that is a bad thing?
Is this the same Paul Goldsmith who yesterday has just signed off a substantial Treaty Settlement with:
Ngāti Ruapani who never signed the Treaty
Ngāi Tarapāroa who never signed the Treaty
Whānau Pani who never signed the Treaty
Ngāti Hinekura who never signed the Treaty
well if it is, then I hope the Arsehole gets tossed out of Parliament.
Might be, but then you will be dealing with Potaka.
https://ysb.co.nz/have-your-say-863/#comment-488019
Consider this.;
Tama Potaka is an elected Member of Parliament representing the Hamilton West electorate for the National Party. [1]
Lol. You beat me to it!
It looks increasingly unlikely that Notional will get any list seats anyway so they better get used to living without Willis, Bishop and Goldsmith. Personally I think that outcome would be good for all of us. I would take Craig Stobo any day over those three, assuming he is on the NZ1st list.
National consider themselves to be a broad church & DPF represents the warm, fuzzy, feelz driven left of the party.
Luxon and Willis are globalists following the globalist plan run out of London. Have you heard any yelps from the msm that the UK’s economy is on the brink of going over the cliff due to their policy of borrowing billions and spend.
Liz Truss was sacked. How does the new PM stack up after a month in power? You can cut out the first 1.5mins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEftTyL1zUc
Do What You Said You Were Going To DO!” | UK Bond Market Turns on Burnham Ahead of Budget
#AndyBurnham #UKEconomy #UKBudget
Britain is facing a “deeply uncomfortable” fiscal position ahead of next month’s Budget as government borrowing costs hit near 30-year highs.
Rising gilt yields (bonds) could add pressure to households and mortgage costs, while Andy Burnham faces questions over how his spending plans will be fu …
🚨 PUTIN ADDRESSES WESTERN CITIZENS DIRECTLY: “DO NOT SHIFT THE BLAME ON US”
MOSCOW — In a televised address delivered during a high-level meeting on socio-economic support for Russian regions, President Vladimir Putin addressed the public in Western nations directly, placing the blame for global economic hardships on Western leadership rather than Russian actions.
According to official transcript translations released by the Kremlin, Putin urged citizens in Europe and North America to question the narrative presented by their governments:
“I want ordinary citizens of Western countries to hear me too: they are now persistently trying to convince you that all your difficulties are the result of some hostile actions of Russia… The truth is that the current problems faced by millions of people in the West are the result of years of actions by the ruling elites of their states—their mistakes, short-sightedness, and ambition.”
Continuing his critique of Western policymakers, the Russian leader asserted that ruling factions are prioritizing corporate profits over the welfare of their populaces:
“These elites are not thinking about how to improve the lives of their citizens in Western countries. They are obsessed with their own self-serving interests and super-profits.”
The statement came amid mounting global inflation, rising energy costs, and international sanctions imposed against Russia following the escalation of the conflict in Ukraine.
Putin has been doing quite a few interviews and family stuff for a few weeks now.
Won’t see it in the MSM but it is sure on FB on the right pages.
But then, according to all the experts here ?????
There’s no one source of truth, and the MSM are certainly not one at all.
this will makethe grifter whine.
Election 2026: Act to stop road funding going towards public art, protect maintenance money
The Act Party says it will stop public art being funded from transport budgets and ensure money earmarked for road maintenance isn’t raided to pay for new projects.
There is also policy on requiring the “lowest-cost safe option” for new transport projects to be publicised alongside the preferred option.
“New Zealand does not need to accept deteriorating roads, unaffordable projects and congestion as the price of growth,” the party’s infrastructure spokesman Simon Court said.
“The payoff for drivers and the public is more value from their every dollar with standard, proven designs and transparent published projects with their timelines.”
The policies are included in Act’s new transport infrastructure policy, released on Friday, designed to get more “built from every dollar, stop road-user revenue being wasted and ensure New Zealand’s roads keep pace with growth”
The party says “non-functional art, monuments, and decorative amenity features” shouldn’t be eligible for transport funding, such as from the National Land Transport Fund (NLTF). That’s the pot of money used to pay for road maintenance, improvements and new projects.
“Motorists pay fuel taxes and road-user charges and rightly expect that money to be spent maintaining and building roads,” Act’s policy document says.
“Yet core transport budgets are still used for public art, decorative landscaping and cultural monuments that do not make a journey faster, safer or more reliable.”
More…
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/…/XL6V6C2BG5EFPLDG4BVRBWVHAA/
The Real New Zealand News
You would sit around relaxed like this too if the tax payer paid you $250k a year each to pretend to work at the Ministry for Ethnic Communities. Christopher Luxon why is this scam still draining our pockets? #SCAMMER #crime #CrimeNew
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1407741798123392&set=a.431195612444687
Looks like a haven for those who couldn’t manage to get into any other ministry.
Looks like actual New Zealanders are an endangered species there.
yep even the tanaga whenua.
D TelevisionFox News Media announced Thursday that Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo will be departing the network, effective immediately.
https://www.ntd.com/maria-bartiromo-leaves-fox-company-announces_1170479.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawUHIXVwZG9mBWV4dG4DYWVtAjEwAGJyaWQRMUhJWVdScWpJVVFKNjVqSU5zcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeBshrXYKA1oVTmyHZqHJ999qFsvQSp_yr6sQwTgEqpXY2ZM9RUK4xqkOdkMg_aem_UhlHgu6PgS6dqc-OPUuVCA
Someone I’ve never heard of, is leaving a channel I don’t watch, for reasons they won’t say… gee, how am I going to cope?
Now, if it was everyone leaving TVNZ I would have reasons to celebrate – might even dust off the TV for the leaving party.
She has been around and is quite a good anchor and commentator.
Just for you though
High stakes at 7pm: Crunch time for Seven Sharp; Inside the RNZ CEO race as Govt says trust target too lowCrunch time for TVNZ’s Seven Sharp; The hunt for a new RNZ CEO; RNZ trust targets not ambitious enough – Media Minister; Marketer of the Year Sean Wiggans and the secrets of Tina from Turners; Leaked: Stuff job descriptions reveal heavy AI requirements.
TVNZ is just several weeks away from losing its long-time and lucrative Seven Sharp sponsor, ASB, after 10 years.
With no announcement yet of a replacement naming-rights sponsor, speculation is mounting within TVNZ about possible content and format changes for the state broadcaster’s “standout performer” 7pm flagship show.
TVNZ chief executive Jodi O’Donnell told Media Insider that the TVNZ commercial team was working with a couple of potential “really keen partners” and yesterday her PR team backed that up with a statement outlining the “incredible” response from the market.
ASB officially departs in late September.
As Media Insider previously reported, Seven Sharp boasts two of New Zealand’s most popular and bankable broadcasters, Hilary Barry and Jeremy Wells, as its hosts.
Much of its commercial and ratings success can be placed at the doorstep of two of New Zealand’s biggest broadcasting names. But the pair and their talents also command top dollar – they are understood to be among the highest earners at TVNZ.
Really, they are fucking awful.
I for one haven’t watched bitchy Barry since she stated on NZ taxpayer funded TVNZ that “the unvaccinated should be put on The Auckand Islands” in the Southern Ocean (or similar wording). Who does she think she is and where was her medical licence?
Sad to see Maria Bartiromo leaving Fox. She is one of the good ones.
monkey see monkey do… but this chap stole more than an air rifle and unfortunately ppl that werent the piece of shit are dead.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/361029185/serious-incident-causes-police-cordon-nelson-streets
I read it differently. From IAASB’s link:
Fact 1. # “Two people have died following the theft of a shot gun in Nelson, in what police have described as a “serious incident”.”
Fact 2. # “A short time later, police were alerted to a firearms incident on Parkers Rd, and on arrival a man and a woman were both located deceased.”
Fact 3. # “I can reassure the public that this was an isolated incident and there is no ongoing risk to public safety.”
Fact 4. # “No one else is being sought in relation to the incident.”
Nothing needs protected & no-one will be charged. So why the secret squirrel bullshit?
One probably is. 2 dead and police not looking for anyone.
yea true, murder suicided maybe.
how many times in the past have we heard of run offs with guns from a shop in broad daylight? theres been 2 in the past few weeks ffs.
ONLY AROUND 150 PEOPLE AT TODAY’S CLIMATE PROTEST IN WELLINGTON — WHAT AN EMBARRASSMENT.
For all the noise about the climate crisis, only around 150 people reportedly turned up to today’s protest.
Maybe it’s time the activists started listening to ordinary New Zealanders.
People want common sense, affordable power, affordable petrol and affordable food — not policies that keep adding costs to everyday life.
The ETS and climate policies have real costs, and families are already struggling with the cost of living.
And after watching Wellington struggle with massive water costs and years of questionable spending, can we really be surprised that people are becoming tired of ideology, woke politics and endless spending?
Maybe New Zealanders are simply saying:
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
Less ideology.
Less virtue signalling.
More common sense.
More focus on what actually matters to ordinary Kiwis.
It’s time politicians started listening.
ONLY AROUND 150 PEOPLE AT TODAY’S CLIMATE PROTEST IN WELLINGTON — WHAT AN EMBARRASSMENT.
According to Scoop it was a student march and claim about 500 attended. Looking at the photo I’d say somewhere in between the 2 figures. There’s still brainwashed people out there especially in the school system. It seems rol hasn’t been correcting them any where near fast enough.
Tarquins doll again
One of New Zealand’s most celebrated cartoonists, Peter Bromhead, has died aged 93.
“Peter ‘carked it’ (as he liked to call it) peacefully at home in Rotorua, surrounded by his wife and family,” Bromhead’s family said in a statement to the Herald on Friday afternoon.
Bromhead’s work – wry, often minimalist cartoons of politicians and other wobbly characters – featured in New Zealand’s major newspapers and publications across many decades, including the NZ Herald, Herald on Sunday, Sunday Star-Times, Dominion, Truth and Listener.
He was the daily editorial cartoonist for Auckland’s former evening newspaper, the Auckland Star, for some 15 years from the early 1970s.
ACT
Imagine being out the back gardening while a career criminal sneaks into your home and steals your children’s iPads, your purse, and your Xbox.
That is what Miles Simon did. He has 25 burglary convictions.
The month before, he stole a postie’s phone, took the bank cards inside it, and went on a shopping spree.
And after all that, and his history of offending, he was sentenced to just 19 months in prison. He will likely be back out well before serving the full sentence.
This is what happens when the justice system gives endless chances to people who have already shown, over and over again, that they have no respect for other people, their property, or their homes.
Every burglary is more than stolen stuff. It is the sick feeling of knowing a stranger has been inside your home and your children wondering whether someone will come back. It often means replacing locks, checking windows, and no longer feeling completely safe in the one place you should.
ACT says enough.
Under ACT’s Three Strikes for Burglary policy, anyone commits burglary three times would receive a minimum three years in prison, with no parole, no home detention, and no early release.
Three burglaries is not a mistake or lapse in judgement, it is a pattern of choosing to victimise innocent people. And once someone has demonstrated that pattern, the priority of the justice system should be protecting the public from them.
You cannot burgle another family’s home from a prison cell. Three strikes, three years minimum, no parole, that’s ACT’s policy. ACT will put victims before career criminals
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Getting harder not to vote for Seymour.
Its all at the whim of the useless judges. What we need is minimum sentencing for all crimes against people and their property. Something that the judges cannot interfere with.
Objection! While it is true that NZ leads the world in the appointment of wetter than water judges they are constrained & guided by Parliament. One of the most odious directions, issued by our ideologically driven fruitcakes we regularly vote for, was the Sentencing Act 2002.
This ill considered legislation introduced by then Justice Minister Phil Goff under the support of Dear Leader Mk 1 determined the way by which judges impose sentences for crime. It was touted as a “tough on crime” bill but actually had the opposite effect. Granny Herald once ran an article on how it influenced sentencing:
#. “…..there is – at least to the general public – a little-known provision in section 8 dealing with the principles of sentencing. It says the court must impose the least restrictive outcome that is appropriate in the circumstances, in accordance with the hierarchy of sentences and orders set out in the act. In other words, impose the softest option.”
Without the repeal of that section of the act nothing will change. Motermouth & newly minted ‘tough on crime’ Seymour has, to the best of my knowledge, never referred to the statute yet he has for three years been part of a government that could have given it the flick!
What if we get an AI Judge carefully trained on what sentence to give for each crime. It could listen to arguments rule on points of law but still have to unemotionally follow sentencing guidelines.
How many decades does it take until lefties accept showing concern by limiting criminal punishment doesn’t work. Instead condoning behaviour encourages the same crimes or escalating criminal acts.
Can’t afford to keep people in prison. Change the law so that prisoners have to work for their food. Make them plant gardens to feed themselves. If they don’t work then feed them boring food.
make them pay for their own cell and upkeep… cant pay well bean n rice in a thai style 25 man cell with a bucket for a shitter with zero extras.
fuck the scum, prison is better living for quite a few. mates worker has done a few stints and loves it, its not even a deterrent for ppl like him.
“make them pay for their own cell and upkeep… cant pay?”
Simple take a leaf out of tops book and take a lien on any assets they accumulate over their life. Once they die, take it out of the estate.
Most of them will die free from assets & the taxpayer will probably pay for their funerals. If you want to reduce recidivism the solution is simple.
Offshore the prisons. Being a staunch member of the Mongrel Mob won’t guarantee an easy life in a Shanghai penitentiary run for profit by the CCP division of PrisonsRUS.
It works! How many NZ call centre workers or car assemblers do you see in Godzone now that the jobs have been outsourced.
Found ya problem SB.
Last night’s U Tube marathon included a clip about the views one gets from a truck cab. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ8CzIKX1TA deals mostly with the safety aspects that totally escape your average Kia or Toyota driver. They’re the ones who tend to ignore the laws of physics in favour of those involving rights & feelz.
Yet the teaser of “From eight feet above the road, I can see far more inside your car than you might realize” ignored some of the perks of coaxing underpowered & overweight stocktrucks around NZ’s goat tracks we flatter with the description of roads.
Some of the better looking women were not beyond making sure that the poor old truckie got an eyeful of their bits & pieces along with a smile as their partners engaged in the incredible feat of overtaking a stock truck on a passing lane or at the lights.
To those chicky babes. I salute you! 🙂
Now if you had fb you could fill your heart with trucking. Rock on trucking and many others.
WWDN
Russian President Vladimir Putin says “Let me remind you that we have the largest territory in the world. The largest. There is no country in the world larger than Russia in terms of territory.”
Russia’s size isn’t just a talking point, it really shapes everything about the country, from politics to climate to economics.
First off, the sheer scale: at 17.1 million square kilometers, Russia covers one eighth of the Earth’s inhabited land. To put it in perspective, you could fit the entire European Union inside Russia with room to spare. If you flew from Kaliningrad in the west to Vladivostok in the east without stopping, it would take over 8 hours and you’d cross 11 time zones.
That’s more time zones than any other country. Geography wise, it’s incredibly diverse because of that size. You’ve got the Arctic tundra up north, massive boreal forests called the taiga that make up most of Siberia, steppe grasslands in the south, mountains like the Urals and the Caucasus, and coastlines on the Arctic, Pacific, Baltic, and Black seas.
The Ural Mountains are usually considered the natural dividing line between Europe and Asia, and about three quarters of Russia’s land is in Asia, but most of its population lives in the European part. Resource wise, the size is a huge factor. Russia has the world’s largest reserves of natural gas, huge oil deposits, massive timber in Siberia, and large amounts of coal, iron, nickel, and other minerals. Much of that is in remote areas of Siberia and the Far East, which makes extraction expensive but also means the country is resource rich on a scale almost no one else can match.
Population is the interesting contrast. Despite being the biggest by area, Russia is only 9th in population with around 145 million people. That means it’s very sparsely populated overall, about 8 people per square kilometer compared to 35 in the US or 153 in China. Most people live in the western part near Moscow and St Petersburg, while Siberia is huge but mostly empty. Historically, that vast territory shaped how Russia developed.
Expanding east across Siberia over several centuries, dealing with the challenges of governing such a spread out land, and the strategic importance of having so much border and buffer zone. It’s why leaders like Putin bring it up, it’s tied to national identity and geopolitics.
So yeah, when Putin says it’s the largest, he’s factually right, and that fact underpins a lot about Russia’s environment, resources, and role in the world.