Good morning,
Shake rattle & roll, not not the usual shake to empty for early morning roll.
When Sat Oct 3 2026 2:57 AM Where 25 km east [inland] of New Plymouth Shaking Strong Magnitude 5.3 Depth10 km Quality preliminary https://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/weak
Sooty, Did they give you an EMA “Emergency Mobile Alert” squawk to tell you that you survived an earth quake?
Some I hear even got the ‘EMA’ before the shaking starting, like I hear of some in Ratehi.
Stuff that as that would seem to be even more alarming!
Others that were much closer lost internet for about 20 minutes.
The quake being a sharp jolt and then some rolling shake, that was not too long, so there should have been no tsuami warning piled on top, so Sooty will not have needed to ready his canoe for launching.
For Hunty in Nelson, now you hear why the “earth moved”
you stole vikeys thunder!!!!
usually our vikey reports on even the slightest shake but it is of course always entirely copy pasted so i thought my eyes were decieving me reading your post and seeing actual non ai non copy paste commentary….. vikey, take note 🙂
S1, felt this Shake quite strongly in Taumarunui. The one we had in July which was centered 5 Kms from here at 9 km deep and measured 5.9, was obviously felt a lot stronger, but this mornings one out of New Plymouth was a reasonably good shake, probably the second biggest I have felt for a long time.
I have been looking at purchasing a couple of additional properties here and I am very surprised to see the amount of damage that the July Earthquake has caused to properties around Taumarunui, so hope that there is not a lot of damage caused around New Plymouth from this mornings Shake..
There is a smart phone sensor alert that people can sign up to, where geo net then feeds into the smartphone android system; so not a governmental civil defence alert.
The bitch spotted shopping in Sydney with plastic bags.
The woman who banned them in New Zealand is happily using them over there. Classic hypocrite behaviour.
Jacinda Ardern blends in with the locals as she goes shopping
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Butter was eaten for 8,000 years without a single recorded complaint. Then a committee looked at it for an afternoon and decided it was trying to kill us.
6500 BC: The first farmers are churning. Their pots are still greasy.
1700 BC: The Irish bury butter in bogs by the barrel, as savings. Nobody has ever buried a tub of margarine in the hope of finding it later.
AD 77: Pliny sneers that butter is the food of barbarians. The barbarians are a head taller than Pliny.
1911: Americans eat 18lb of butter each a year. Heart attacks are so rare that doctors write them up as curiosities.
1961: The American Heart Association tells the nation to swap butter for vegetable oil. No trial has tested this. They are quite sure.
1984: Time magazine does a frowning face out of 2 fried eggs and a rasher of bacon. Britain makes the advice official the same year.
1997: Butter eating in America hits 4lb a head. The public has done exactly as it was told.
Obesity has more than doubled. Diabetes is up sevenfold. The fat that took butter’s place came out of a seed, by way of a refinery.
2014: The largest review ever done finds no link between saturated fat and heart disease. Time runs a new cover. It says Eat Butter.
2016: A study of 636,000 people finds butter does nothing to the heart and slightly lowers the risk of diabetes.
So the experts took 53 years, several billion pounds and a generation of other people’s arteries to catch up with a Bronze Age Irishman and a hole in a bog.
Nobody was sacked. The retraction ran in a medical journal. The accusation had run on the front of every tub.
A memory I will never forget as a -say 11 y.o- went to stay with my new sister in law’s parents, on a farm.who had a son just a couple of years younger than me. Both the parents were on the overweight side. At meal time onto the table came a pound of butter and onto the spuds and sausages etc it was applied. I remember watching wide eyed as father and son put very amounts on, this was to me more that a luxury as certainly would never have happened at my home. Everything eaten but still some butter did remain, the father said no point leaving that and father and son both shared the rest just eating it straight off the knive.
Not sure how old the father was when we died, quite overweight by then but would think certainly the wrong side of 80 and the son a lot earlier than that but by his own hand.
Assuming you want the right to win, then give you electorate vote to National and your party vote to ACT or NZF. That will maximise the MPs on the right.
Actually if they tossed Hipkins and McNutty, then Labour.
Edmonds has more knowledge of finance than Willis, so the sooner she has gone, the better.
See my post.
willis is hopefully goneburgers anyways so no need to get as drastic as to wanting labour/edmonds in for the countrys finances…
please go get some meds and tell tje doc to double them just to be sure.
a strong act party could demand the finance portfolio. an absolute smashing at election time should be seen as a failure for the nats and an indication the voters dont want more input from the smaller parties… esp if the finance minister loses their excuse of public mandate.
Petrol prices – travelled back from Christchurch on Thursday which is NPD discount day. At Rolleston (Christchurch) for 91 it was $3.26. At Rakaia (middle of Ashburton and Christchurch, a small country town) it was $3.17. At Timaru it was $3.11.
over here in WA the small rural roadhouses are 10-12c cheaper than perth. pissed me off cuz the last few times it was opposite so i fueled in perth before heading to the farm.
oh well, i dont have to buy fuel here until i come back over next march so meh.
Try Taumarunui mate, the 3 Servos here really bend you over and all charge exactly the same price to the percentage of a cent and have done forever (the Commerce Commission don’t want to know) but currently 91 sits at $3.72 litre. Yep $3.72 a miserable litre.
I had to go to Tokoroa yesterday and filled up at Gull there at $3.31 and even at Whakamaru in Bumfuck nowhere at G.A.S. 91 stood at $3.42 litre.
The Cartel which owns Challenge, Mobil and BP here in Taumarunui, know how to fleece the downtrodden.
Was Cullen, (apart from being nasty individul), a reasonable finance Minister?
Many would say so.
So what about Edmonds and her philosophy?
Edmonds also acknowledged the resilience of business owners in the audience and said over the past decade they had to battle many things out of their control.
“I’ve spent my career working with businesses, the tax system and governments of both colours. I know what responsible economic management looks like and I know the pressures that businesses face because my own family having run a small business has felt them too. That experience is why I am ambitious about what New Zealand can achieve,” Edmonds said.
“Being able to invest in the economy means for Labour we want to start with small businesses. We want to invest in the skills and infrastructure, support job creation and get more capital flowing into productive New Zealand businesses. I’m bringing the experience to the job, Labour has the ambition to get this economy moving again.”
As to whether her predecessor Grant Robertson was to blame for the state of the economy, Edmonds said it was easy to blame others but the decisions were in the government-of-the-day’s hands.
“If you compare the pre-election fiscal update of 2023 to the pre-election fiscal update that was released earlier this week, on every economic indicator things are worse.
“Right now households have less money to spend. Prices are rising twice as fast as pay, at 4.1% compared to 2%, and businesses are closing at the fastest rate in 15 years.”
As for the plausibility of NZ First’s policy to cut the company tax rate for small and medium businesses from 28% to 20%, Willis agreed on the sentiment but said the Government needed to be in surplus before making changes.
Edmonds challenged Willis on the Government’s decision to deliver personal tax cuts, pointing to the previous Government’s pre-election fiscal update, which said the Government would be in a $2 billion surplus.
Now I’m not saying vote Labour, but frankly, I never thought Willis was anything more than Ruth All-Mouth and trousers in ability and that baggage destroyed thousands of businesses for little gain, and Willis has done the same.
Perhaps Act and Labour might just be the right coalition?
I think Edmonds has the right idea. Cutting taxes is a winner for everyone to grow the pie.
Lower tax rates and index them
Exempt the first 15k of income
Up the GST registration amount to 100K
Up the GST to 20 %
Remove lots of deductions such as for expensive cars and utes.Depreciate nothing in the car line over 40k
Stop subsidising every man and his dog.
Stop sending money overseas to every whinging dicpot..
Stop propping up Ukraine and the EU.
Tariff those that tariff us and support our own industries.
Allow companies to completely depreciate fixed plant over 3 or 5 years We need good, up-to-date plant.
That’s just a few.
Oh and stop subsidising ex farmers in their retirement village. 😆
you really have lost the plot you derranged old fool, to think labour would ever work with act is one of the dumbest things youve suggested, to think labour in control of finances would be more responsible/better is even more fucking retarded.
have you not worked out yet that most political parties and politicians have a huge contrast between what they say and what they actually do?
while a few of those tax/gst suggestions are good theyll never happen under labour and if they did then the borrowing or extra taxation elsewhere while negate any benefit plus sum for all except the bludging feral welfare scum.
90% of your list of tax changes most certainly wouldnt fit with a labour party either…. please, either stop taking illegal drugs or go get some prescription drugs. this is one of the dumbest posts youll make today, im sure youll try to outdo it but no, its dumb as fuck. maybe dont rort the tax system and you wont have so much pent up guilt on claiming all those deductions and depreciations 🙂
Actually, 25 all around would be better, so long as they raise the threshold and theamount where people start to pay tax.. But being a broken-down artist, cashies are the extent of your maths.
The increased GST way is to become fucked up,, as the consequences will lead to even more pressure; demand for exemptions, like on food, a raw apple , but if one buys an apple strudel it will then be full GST.
The real issue is just, what & why & where is the government spending the money, and to what effect.
What is the real job of government? an insurance company, like for health?
The difficulty in how to pay for access for roads,, public transport. trains, cycle-ways? etc., to what standards?
Governments do not seem to know the value of money, or the consequences of how they scam, skim, levy, fees, permits etc., & find ways of how they can control people through these costly devices.
The way of how governments value their services to the public? like in having a police force, judiciary, correction prisons ?
The money, well it is just other people’s money that is demanded with menaces, and odious compelling costly regulations & measures for the “good of the community”.
That has become redistribution, deemed an essential, as in important glossy “caring-kindness” of the collective community..
A government is always the biggest beneficiary of inflation, as it is the largest borrower.
The government, the people are looking how to do over the “non spenders” with wealth, asset taxes
The non spenders would be considered a poor contributor to society as the belief is that money is made to be spent.
The Modern Money Theory, the Magic Money Tree, ideology is coming into play.
There’s no difficulty in paying for anything so long as we don’t pay for things people should pay for themselves. It’s a bloody simple equation that always escapes simpletons and politicians.
People will pay for what they value. Provided they are not lured into the trap of being a beneficiary of everything, which is our current mentality.
Couldn’t agree more, so long as at the same time they adjusted the GST threshold.
I did say this way back in the year, but you went all feral, so something must have got through.
Stop PAYE, the hidden unknown tax.
Then demand the money directly from each wage earner, will sharpen the pencil, on just what is the government needing this $ for.
All this tax free threshold becomes complicated whether single, or married, partnered to what ever & how many children, of what age.
It is just elitist academic talk by smart arse economists, that curries voting favour angles for politicians.
Now if you put it that the ones not paying tax, do not get to vote, then that will be a different story. 😁
Nope. We did that way back, and it was a problem then, just as it is now.
We could advance the same argument about rates, which is currently only paid by the landowner.
Glory be that tenants had to pay their rates, like they do their power bill.
Roll it in today.
Becuase thats the same argument as the paye one you just advanced.
Exactly nasska, and how can the left resist that concept when it is all tied back into one of their main controlling policies.
That is only the government should fund political parties, just for starters.
It may be an over reach, but for the ones that pay a net tax, be given a proportionate extra vote showing the governments & communities appreciation of that taxation.?
One can see the economic energy in this as increased voluntary tax donations to the government can increase ones vote proportionately.
Not a good idea. GST as a percentage keeps funding government waste from now to infinity. The tax threshold gets eroded by inflation. This is having a serious effect on household budgets right now as wage rises to counter inflation tip more people onto tax rates once reserved for the seriously rich.
Well it wouldn’t if there were proper thresholds and a tax-free amount, along with removing lots of the subsidies and the handouts to companies, etc as I outlined above. It’s just what Trump has done. Look at the building scandal, and it has been going on both here and in Australia for a long time.
An even better way is a transaction tax. gets everything and everyone including all the offshore transactions.
especially the bond market the stuffs our markets and keeps our OCR up.
nope not a big enough saving and whats more it stays there for the next lot to tinker with all over again.
If you look at what Douglas did, none of those things has been changed because they worked, but that was 43 years ago, since then the world and everything has changed and pollies have reverted to their previous bad habits of bribing everyone.
Requires a rethink. Especially as to what the govt. should or has the right to do.
We do need a constitution, which I might add was something the NZ party of Bob Jones wanted to achieve.
Govt department heads spend every cent of the budget allocated to their department knowing if they don’t their next financial allocation will be cut accordingly.
Department spending needs to be properly audited to cut any unnecessary waste – ON NEED NOT WANT.
Make it interesting and they will listen.
A high school physics teacher in Oklahoma showed a live SpaceX launch during class because it aligned with the unit on Newtonian mechanics. The students expected to be bored. A rocket launch is a rocket launch. Most of them had seen clips before.
The booster separated. It flipped around. It fired its engines in reverse. And it landed upright on a drone ship in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
The room went silent. Then one student said “wait, that actually just happened? that’s not CGI?” The teacher rewound the landing footage and played it again. Then again. He played it 4 times because the students kept asking to see it.
A student in the back of the room who had been failing physics all semester asked how the rocket knew where to land. The teacher explained thrust vector control, grid fins, and computational guidance. The failing student took notes for the first time all year. Actual handwritten notes.
The teacher said afterward that nothing he had taught in 15 years of teaching produced that reaction. Not demonstrations. Not lab experiments. Not guest speakers. A live rocket landing on a barge in the ocean did in 30 seconds what his lesson plans hadn’t done in a semester: it made a 16 year old who didn’t care about physics ask how something worked.
The student finished the semester with a C. Not remarkable on paper. But the student had been on track for an F and the inflection point was a 30 second video of a rocket landing that made the theoretical suddenly real.
SpaceX doesn’t have an education department. It doesn’t fund classroom programs. It doesn’t design curriculum. But every live launch that a teacher shows during class is the most effective physics lesson available to the American education system. The curriculum can’t compete with a booster landing upright on a barge while 30 teenagers watch with their mouths open.
The best physics lesson in history wasn’t designed by an educator. It was designed by an engineer who wanted to reuse a rocket.
From my own experiences with college physics over six decades past, nothing but nothing could have awakened me from the coma induced by the science master’s voice. Not even if the rocket had taken off again, done two circuits of the classroom & vanished up his arse.
Medlab in Tauranga you can now book your own blood tests. More to come, hopefully, instead of relying on the hospital and all its processes.
All they need to do now is learn to use ivermectin and fenbendazole, etc.
I get all my results from my uncle in Nigeria. It’s so much quicker and easier than manage my health and it doesn’t take you an eternity to organise new emails and passwords every time you have the audacity to ask for your latest update.
Well, I did say something about this a few weeks ago but you were so busy thinking up abuse that you didn’t even check out what it was about.
You can read this stuff for yourself if you weren’t so fucking lazy and busy trying to show the rest of u what a grand fucking genius you really aren’t.
Why it costs so much to build? Not what you think.
New Zealand’s construction industry may face a reckoning after police uncovered a money-laundering system moving hundreds of millions of dollars in organised crime profits through building businesses. Gangs are exploiting cash-paid labour to launder drug money while unscrupulous subcontractors dodge tax and undercut legitimate operators. Police say the true scale is likely greater, warning construction leaders their systems are simply not robust enough.
Hundreds of millions of dollars are being laundered through the construction industry each year by organised crime groups, according to a new police report to the Government.
A recent investigation into the commercial drug dealing of the Comancheros led to more convictions for the gang’s hierarchy – and a disgraced accountant – but also uncovered a new methodology of disguising the profits of their drug dealing.
Known as cash wages money-laundering, organised crime groups hand their dirty cash to a subcontractor who provides casual labourers to work on construction projects.
The subcontractor uses the gang’s cash to pay the labourers, often exploited migrants, under the table.
The subcontractor then invoices the construction project for the labour services provided, with the subsequent payment made into their bank accounts.
Those funds are then transferred into shell companies – masquerading as construction businesses – which are ultimately controlled by the gang that provided the cash.
The practice has been described in court documents as a “marriage of convenience” between organised crime and unscrupulous figures in the construction industry.
While it enables gangs to convert illicit cash into seemingly legitimate income to fund their lifestyle, cash wages money-laundering also benefits the subcontractors providing labour.
By paying workers in cash, the subcontractor pays lower wages but also avoids paying tax and other employer obligations such as ACC levies.
This allows them to undercut rival businesses by significant margins when tendering for work.
It’s not a joke though, sadly. The idiots want to bend a Western discipline to include mumbo-jumbo, because… racism.
Always gotta blame someone else. Even the fact that the percentage of Maori psychologists doesn’t match the general population percentage. Can’t Maori get the grades? Too lazy? Too stupid? The course too hard? Not interested?
Pathetic. Want a “Maori way”? Go see your tohunga.
Shipping costs are a major factor in pump price increases.
While commentators focus on crude oil prices, the rapid rise in freight costs gets little attention.
The cost to move crude oil is now four times higher than the rolling five-year historical average. This increases the costs the refining companies have to pay. Before the Iran conflict, crude oil was trading around US$75 a barrel, and ocean freight was about US$2 per barrel. During the crisis, crude went to around US$105 a barrel and freight to around US$25 per barrel.
In other words, the cost at the refining company gate went from $77 to $130.
waikatogirl
6 days ago
Follow the money. Far left links up with violent Islam. 3000 rioting “French” students arrested for violence and arson.
Mass student protests across France have rapidly escalated into widespread civil unrest, prompting Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu to convene an emergency crisis cabinet meeting as authorities grapple with nearly 2,000 arrests and mounting injuries nationwide.
…
Bono stood on stage. He looked to the audience while making one of his sanctimonious speeches & said, “Every time I clap my hands a child in Africa dies!”
At the time of Band-Aid & Live Aid global concerts etc.. circa 1985, Ethiopia had a population of about 40 million during those famines, war, etc..
Now it has a population of about 139 million.
No wonder they can probably comfortably send out about a million people a year to the rest of the world, & now when they clap, we jump with UN Global Migration Pact, with Human Rights to gain free accomodation, food etc…
But were they Ethiopians or Somalis, and which Somalis?
Its easy to label a group of people.
A quick look would tell you that they are more likely from the western side of Africa, as Ethiopia is a long way across to the east, so unlikely to be the people in Spain, and nothing that I read suggested they were Ethiopian.
Ethiopia is actually developing itself, much like Buso Fatso is. They have been booting the colonialists out, and late last year opened a big new dam to supply electricity across several of their neighbours..
It’s a very fertile country and a bloody big one. Grow avos and bananas and lots of other crops; cows milk ok. Once they get more educated, the place will be like Rhodesia was: a giant garden. It also has lots of minerals, including gold and coal and is a lot closer to Europe than us.
My son spent a big part of last year there, so that is how I got interested in knowing about Ethiopia.
“If we are worthy, we go to Jannah” her father says. “Which is a most beautiful paradise of endless gardens with rivers of milk and honey and wine. There is no pain or suffering. It is a place of perfect happiness, where the worthy will all dwell eternally in the company of Allah and His angels.”
“And how do I become worthy?” the girl asks.
“You must be good and modest and chaste,” her father tells her. “And never bring dishonour to your family or your religion.”
“And if I wasn’t good and modest and chaste?” asks the Muslim girl. “What if I did bring dishonour on my family and religion? Then where would I go when I die?”
“In that case,” says her father. “You would go under the patio with your sister.”
This is so disappointing. CNN reported today that Walt Disney’s new film called Jet Black, the African-American version of Snow White has been cancelled.
All of the seven dwarfs: Dealer, Stealer, Mugger, Forger, Drive-By, Homeboy, and Shank have refused to sing “Hi Ho, Hi Ho” because they say it offends black prostitutes.
They also say there ain’t no way in hell they’re gonna sing, It’s off to work we go…
They are just as much capitalists as anyone; it’s just that they are and don’t want you to be.
It’s not about capitalism; it’s about power to control, and each has their own version. One wants to control, and most real capitalists just want to do their own thing without others confiscating their success.
LindellTV
FOX “DELIBERATELY BURIED” INFORMATION AND SETTLED DOMINION CASE “SO AS NOT TO HELP TRUMP”
Patrick Byrne is making explosive allegations about Fox News’ decision to settle Dominion’s defamation lawsuit for $787.5 million, claiming people working with him briefed Mike Pompeo and Paul Ryan on information they had gathered about voting systems before the settlement.
Byrne claims Fox ultimately chose not to fight the case because doing so could have helped President Trump.
“They deliberately buried this and settled that case so as not to help Trump.”
Byrne says he believes internal communications could eventually reveal more about what happened behind the scenes:
“When those emails get out, that should destroy Fox.”
Good morning,
Shake rattle & roll, not not the usual shake to empty for early morning roll.
When Sat Oct 3 2026 2:57 AM
Where 25 km east [inland] of New Plymouth
Shaking Strong
Magnitude 5.3
Depth10 km
Quality preliminary
https://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/weak
Sooty, Did they give you an EMA “Emergency Mobile Alert” squawk to tell you that you survived an earth quake?
Some I hear even got the ‘EMA’ before the shaking starting, like I hear of some in Ratehi.
Stuff that as that would seem to be even more alarming!
Others that were much closer lost internet for about 20 minutes.
The quake being a sharp jolt and then some rolling shake, that was not too long, so there should have been no tsuami warning piled on top, so Sooty will not have needed to ready his canoe for launching.
For Hunty in Nelson, now you hear why the “earth moved”
you stole vikeys thunder!!!!
usually our vikey reports on even the slightest shake but it is of course always entirely copy pasted so i thought my eyes were decieving me reading your post and seeing actual non ai non copy paste commentary….. vikey, take note 🙂
You remain a dick head.
S1, felt this Shake quite strongly in Taumarunui. The one we had in July which was centered 5 Kms from here at 9 km deep and measured 5.9, was obviously felt a lot stronger, but this mornings one out of New Plymouth was a reasonably good shake, probably the second biggest I have felt for a long time.
I have been looking at purchasing a couple of additional properties here and I am very surprised to see the amount of damage that the July Earthquake has caused to properties around Taumarunui, so hope that there is not a lot of damage caused around New Plymouth from this mornings Shake..
I got an alert. Thought “go away with the wanky alerts”.
Edit the government EMA system did not go off.
There is a smart phone sensor alert that people can sign up to, where geo net then feeds into the smartphone android system; so not a governmental civil defence alert.
Oh dear, how sad, never mind. Carry on
Didn’t think it was that strong,
Got the elert during the quake, think I will turn off,
The bitch spotted shopping in Sydney with plastic bags.
The woman who banned them in New Zealand is happily using them over there. Classic hypocrite behaviour.
Jacinda Ardern blends in with the locals as she goes shopping
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To be expected. Just like her never taking the real vaccine. Took a saline shot.
proof???
yeah, thought not…. cookers gunna cook
With a side of ugly pills!
Why don’t you go and infest Bradbury’s blog? It’s about your level.
117 comments so far and only one is positive – and even that could be sarcasm.
You mean she never took her reusable, recyclable bag.
In her case she was using it wrong, should have placed it on her head!
Butter was eaten for 8,000 years without a single recorded complaint. Then a committee looked at it for an afternoon and decided it was trying to kill us.
6500 BC: The first farmers are churning. Their pots are still greasy.
1700 BC: The Irish bury butter in bogs by the barrel, as savings. Nobody has ever buried a tub of margarine in the hope of finding it later.
AD 77: Pliny sneers that butter is the food of barbarians. The barbarians are a head taller than Pliny.
1911: Americans eat 18lb of butter each a year. Heart attacks are so rare that doctors write them up as curiosities.
1961: The American Heart Association tells the nation to swap butter for vegetable oil. No trial has tested this. They are quite sure.
1984: Time magazine does a frowning face out of 2 fried eggs and a rasher of bacon. Britain makes the advice official the same year.
1997: Butter eating in America hits 4lb a head. The public has done exactly as it was told.
Obesity has more than doubled. Diabetes is up sevenfold. The fat that took butter’s place came out of a seed, by way of a refinery.
2014: The largest review ever done finds no link between saturated fat and heart disease. Time runs a new cover. It says Eat Butter.
2016: A study of 636,000 people finds butter does nothing to the heart and slightly lowers the risk of diabetes.
So the experts took 53 years, several billion pounds and a generation of other people’s arteries to catch up with a Bronze Age Irishman and a hole in a bog.
Nobody was sacked. The retraction ran in a medical journal. The accusation had run on the front of every tub.
A memory I will never forget as a -say 11 y.o- went to stay with my new sister in law’s parents, on a farm.who had a son just a couple of years younger than me. Both the parents were on the overweight side. At meal time onto the table came a pound of butter and onto the spuds and sausages etc it was applied. I remember watching wide eyed as father and son put very amounts on, this was to me more that a luxury as certainly would never have happened at my home. Everything eaten but still some butter did remain, the father said no point leaving that and father and son both shared the rest just eating it straight off the knive.
Not sure how old the father was when we died, quite overweight by then but would think certainly the wrong side of 80 and the son a lot earlier than that but by his own hand.
For those who have not seen this.
Split Your Vote!
What party is worth voting for?
Assuming you want the right to win, then give you electorate vote to National and your party vote to ACT or NZF. That will maximise the MPs on the right.
Actually if they tossed Hipkins and McNutty, then Labour.
Edmonds has more knowledge of finance than Willis, so the sooner she has gone, the better.
See my post.
willis is hopefully goneburgers anyways so no need to get as drastic as to wanting labour/edmonds in for the countrys finances…
please go get some meds and tell tje doc to double them just to be sure.
a strong act party could demand the finance portfolio. an absolute smashing at election time should be seen as a failure for the nats and an indication the voters dont want more input from the smaller parties… esp if the finance minister loses their excuse of public mandate.
fuck the nats
Well, you tell me what’s wrong with what Edmonds has said. But you have no idea. Your brain is under your tractor seat and about as worldly wise.
Edmonds hasnt said much because she is an economic illiterate.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 vikey believes a politician
Especially if you are in the Mt Albert electorate
Petrol prices – travelled back from Christchurch on Thursday which is NPD discount day. At Rolleston (Christchurch) for 91 it was $3.26. At Rakaia (middle of Ashburton and Christchurch, a small country town) it was $3.17. At Timaru it was $3.11.
over here in WA the small rural roadhouses are 10-12c cheaper than perth. pissed me off cuz the last few times it was opposite so i fueled in perth before heading to the farm.
oh well, i dont have to buy fuel here until i come back over next march so meh.
Where are you in WA Stoopid?
HP, $3.11 for 91 in Timaru – Luxury.
Try Taumarunui mate, the 3 Servos here really bend you over and all charge exactly the same price to the percentage of a cent and have done forever (the Commerce Commission don’t want to know) but currently 91 sits at $3.72 litre. Yep $3.72 a miserable litre.
I had to go to Tokoroa yesterday and filled up at Gull there at $3.31 and even at Whakamaru in Bumfuck nowhere at G.A.S. 91 stood at $3.42 litre.
The Cartel which owns Challenge, Mobil and BP here in Taumarunui, know how to fleece the downtrodden.
Challenge is or was owned by Z who also own Caltex. Happened back in or around 2017.
Challenge is now owned by a co-op of independent outlets.
91..$3.32 in Nelson
Was Cullen, (apart from being nasty individul), a reasonable finance Minister?
Many would say so.
So what about Edmonds and her philosophy?
Edmonds also acknowledged the resilience of business owners in the audience and said over the past decade they had to battle many things out of their control.
“I’ve spent my career working with businesses, the tax system and governments of both colours. I know what responsible economic management looks like and I know the pressures that businesses face because my own family having run a small business has felt them too. That experience is why I am ambitious about what New Zealand can achieve,” Edmonds said.
“Being able to invest in the economy means for Labour we want to start with small businesses. We want to invest in the skills and infrastructure, support job creation and get more capital flowing into productive New Zealand businesses. I’m bringing the experience to the job, Labour has the ambition to get this economy moving again.”
As to whether her predecessor Grant Robertson was to blame for the state of the economy, Edmonds said it was easy to blame others but the decisions were in the government-of-the-day’s hands.
“If you compare the pre-election fiscal update of 2023 to the pre-election fiscal update that was released earlier this week, on every economic indicator things are worse.
“Right now households have less money to spend. Prices are rising twice as fast as pay, at 4.1% compared to 2%, and businesses are closing at the fastest rate in 15 years.”
As for the plausibility of NZ First’s policy to cut the company tax rate for small and medium businesses from 28% to 20%, Willis agreed on the sentiment but said the Government needed to be in surplus before making changes.
Edmonds challenged Willis on the Government’s decision to deliver personal tax cuts, pointing to the previous Government’s pre-election fiscal update, which said the Government would be in a $2 billion surplus.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/small-business/barbara-edmonds-and-nicola-willis-clash-on-small-business-policies-in-debate/premium/6H7E35A5EBFBJENEXOKYGATQMI/
Now I’m not saying vote Labour, but frankly, I never thought Willis was anything more than Ruth All-Mouth and trousers in ability and that baggage destroyed thousands of businesses for little gain, and Willis has done the same.
Perhaps Act and Labour might just be the right coalition?
I think Edmonds has the right idea. Cutting taxes is a winner for everyone to grow the pie.
Lower tax rates and index them
Exempt the first 15k of income
Up the GST registration amount to 100K
Up the GST to 20 %
Remove lots of deductions such as for expensive cars and utes.Depreciate nothing in the car line over 40k
Stop subsidising every man and his dog.
Stop sending money overseas to every whinging dicpot..
Stop propping up Ukraine and the EU.
Tariff those that tariff us and support our own industries.
Allow companies to completely depreciate fixed plant over 3 or 5 years We need good, up-to-date plant.
That’s just a few.
Oh and stop subsidising ex farmers in their retirement village. 😆
you really have lost the plot you derranged old fool, to think labour would ever work with act is one of the dumbest things youve suggested, to think labour in control of finances would be more responsible/better is even more fucking retarded.
have you not worked out yet that most political parties and politicians have a huge contrast between what they say and what they actually do?
while a few of those tax/gst suggestions are good theyll never happen under labour and if they did then the borrowing or extra taxation elsewhere while negate any benefit plus sum for all except the bludging feral welfare scum.
90% of your list of tax changes most certainly wouldnt fit with a labour party either…. please, either stop taking illegal drugs or go get some prescription drugs. this is one of the dumbest posts youll make today, im sure youll try to outdo it but no, its dumb as fuck. maybe dont rort the tax system and you wont have so much pent up guilt on claiming all those deductions and depreciations 🙂
GST at 20%? Fuck off.
It’s an ok idea so long as paye is shelved.
Actually, 25 all around would be better, so long as they raise the threshold and theamount where people start to pay tax.. But being a broken-down artist, cashies are the extent of your maths.
The increased GST way is to become fucked up,, as the consequences will lead to even more pressure; demand for exemptions, like on food, a raw apple , but if one buys an apple strudel it will then be full GST.
The real issue is just, what & why & where is the government spending the money, and to what effect.
What is the real job of government? an insurance company, like for health?
The difficulty in how to pay for access for roads,, public transport. trains, cycle-ways? etc., to what standards?
Governments do not seem to know the value of money, or the consequences of how they scam, skim, levy, fees, permits etc., & find ways of how they can control people through these costly devices.
The way of how governments value their services to the public? like in having a police force, judiciary, correction prisons ?
The money, well it is just other people’s money that is demanded with menaces, and odious compelling costly regulations & measures for the “good of the community”.
That has become redistribution, deemed an essential, as in important glossy “caring-kindness” of the collective community..
A government is always the biggest beneficiary of inflation, as it is the largest borrower.
The government, the people are looking how to do over the “non spenders” with wealth, asset taxes
The non spenders would be considered a poor contributor to society as the belief is that money is made to be spent.
The Modern Money Theory, the Magic Money Tree, ideology is coming into play.
There’s no difficulty in paying for anything so long as we don’t pay for things people should pay for themselves. It’s a bloody simple equation that always escapes simpletons and politicians.
People will pay for what they value. Provided they are not lured into the trap of being a beneficiary of everything, which is our current mentality.
Why not?
Reduce income tax to zero and watch the economy grow.
You only pay gst on what you spend. Don’t spend, don’t pay gst.
maybe not zero inc tax but could easily up gst then have a hefty tax free threshold of 40-50k.
Couldn’t agree more, so long as at the same time they adjusted the GST threshold.
I did say this way back in the year, but you went all feral, so something must have got through.
Stop PAYE, the hidden unknown tax.
Then demand the money directly from each wage earner, will sharpen the pencil, on just what is the government needing this $ for.
All this tax free threshold becomes complicated whether single, or married, partnered to what ever & how many children, of what age.
It is just elitist academic talk by smart arse economists, that curries voting favour angles for politicians.
Now if you put it that the ones not paying tax, do not get to vote, then that will be a different story. 😁
Nope. We did that way back, and it was a problem then, just as it is now.
We could advance the same argument about rates, which is currently only paid by the landowner.
Glory be that tenants had to pay their rates, like they do their power bill.
Roll it in today.
Becuase thats the same argument as the paye one you just advanced.
The slogan “no taxation without representation” originated in the American Revolution. We could adapt it to “no representation without taxation”.
Exactly nasska, and how can the left resist that concept when it is all tied back into one of their main controlling policies.
That is only the government should fund political parties, just for starters.
It may be an over reach, but for the ones that pay a net tax, be given a proportionate extra vote showing the governments & communities appreciation of that taxation.?
One can see the economic energy in this as increased voluntary tax donations to the government can increase ones vote proportionately.
Not a good idea. GST as a percentage keeps funding government waste from now to infinity. The tax threshold gets eroded by inflation. This is having a serious effect on household budgets right now as wage rises to counter inflation tip more people onto tax rates once reserved for the seriously rich.
Well it wouldn’t if there were proper thresholds and a tax-free amount, along with removing lots of the subsidies and the handouts to companies, etc as I outlined above. It’s just what Trump has done. Look at the building scandal, and it has been going on both here and in Australia for a long time.
index it to inflation
consumption should be taxed more, income taxed less.
cant really do away with income tax because it applies to so much more then just wages and gst would have to go far higher than 20% to compensate.
An even better way is a transaction tax. gets everything and everyone including all the offshore transactions.
especially the bond market the stuffs our markets and keeps our OCR up.
Add in a couple of tarrifs and we can call you donald
I think we are looking at this the wrong way.
REDUCE GOVT SPENDING, and we will not need to tinker with any tax settings.
yeah but we all know thats now a utopian type dream now.
nope not a big enough saving and whats more it stays there for the next lot to tinker with all over again.
If you look at what Douglas did, none of those things has been changed because they worked, but that was 43 years ago, since then the world and everything has changed and pollies have reverted to their previous bad habits of bribing everyone.
Requires a rethink. Especially as to what the govt. should or has the right to do.
We do need a constitution, which I might add was something the NZ party of Bob Jones wanted to achieve.
Govt department heads spend every cent of the budget allocated to their department knowing if they don’t their next financial allocation will be cut accordingly.
Department spending needs to be properly audited to cut any unnecessary waste – ON NEED NOT WANT.
DOGE All of Them
Make it interesting and they will listen.
A high school physics teacher in Oklahoma showed a live SpaceX launch during class because it aligned with the unit on Newtonian mechanics. The students expected to be bored. A rocket launch is a rocket launch. Most of them had seen clips before.
The booster separated. It flipped around. It fired its engines in reverse. And it landed upright on a drone ship in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
The room went silent. Then one student said “wait, that actually just happened? that’s not CGI?” The teacher rewound the landing footage and played it again. Then again. He played it 4 times because the students kept asking to see it.
A student in the back of the room who had been failing physics all semester asked how the rocket knew where to land. The teacher explained thrust vector control, grid fins, and computational guidance. The failing student took notes for the first time all year. Actual handwritten notes.
The teacher said afterward that nothing he had taught in 15 years of teaching produced that reaction. Not demonstrations. Not lab experiments. Not guest speakers. A live rocket landing on a barge in the ocean did in 30 seconds what his lesson plans hadn’t done in a semester: it made a 16 year old who didn’t care about physics ask how something worked.
The student finished the semester with a C. Not remarkable on paper. But the student had been on track for an F and the inflection point was a 30 second video of a rocket landing that made the theoretical suddenly real.
SpaceX doesn’t have an education department. It doesn’t fund classroom programs. It doesn’t design curriculum. But every live launch that a teacher shows during class is the most effective physics lesson available to the American education system. The curriculum can’t compete with a booster landing upright on a barge while 30 teenagers watch with their mouths open.
The best physics lesson in history wasn’t designed by an educator. It was designed by an engineer who wanted to reuse a rocket.
I still like watching the rocketlab launches and think it’s pretty cool they can be launched from Mahia.
sounds like a bullshit, feels x post.
actually, i know it will 100% be a bullshit x post created to hook the feels of gullable morons.
cool story bro
From my own experiences with college physics over six decades past, nothing but nothing could have awakened me from the coma induced by the science master’s voice. Not even if the rocket had taken off again, done two circuits of the classroom & vanished up his arse.
Yep, but that was you.
Fortunately, there are more enterprising people to be awakened.
Lots of boys like that. Give them something practical,and way they go.
Some girls as well.
Of course some boys study this stuff. Never doers.
Finally someone in medicine gets it.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/new-medical-outpatient-diagnostic-base-in-auckland/CQCRLICCW7P5IKOA56LRTALDHQ/
Way to go. Happening in China and Japan.
Medlab in Tauranga you can now book your own blood tests. More to come, hopefully, instead of relying on the hospital and all its processes.
All they need to do now is learn to use ivermectin and fenbendazole, etc.
Paywalled link!!
Your post on the Medlab booking system is as clear as mud. 💩
As a long time user of Medlab I’m none the wiser and your article is behind their paywall.
I get all my results from my uncle in Nigeria. It’s so much quicker and easier than manage my health and it doesn’t take you an eternity to organise new emails and passwords every time you have the audacity to ask for your latest update.
yup cuz doc vikey knows everything.
Well, I did say something about this a few weeks ago but you were so busy thinking up abuse that you didn’t even check out what it was about.
You can read this stuff for yourself if you weren’t so fucking lazy and busy trying to show the rest of u what a grand fucking genius you really aren’t.
Boys, plueease. Get a room.
Why it costs so much to build? Not what you think.
New Zealand’s construction industry may face a reckoning after police uncovered a money-laundering system moving hundreds of millions of dollars in organised crime profits through building businesses. Gangs are exploiting cash-paid labour to launder drug money while unscrupulous subcontractors dodge tax and undercut legitimate operators. Police say the true scale is likely greater, warning construction leaders their systems are simply not robust enough.
Hundreds of millions of dollars are being laundered through the construction industry each year by organised crime groups, according to a new police report to the Government.
A recent investigation into the commercial drug dealing of the Comancheros led to more convictions for the gang’s hierarchy – and a disgraced accountant – but also uncovered a new methodology of disguising the profits of their drug dealing.
Known as cash wages money-laundering, organised crime groups hand their dirty cash to a subcontractor who provides casual labourers to work on construction projects.
The subcontractor uses the gang’s cash to pay the labourers, often exploited migrants, under the table.
The subcontractor then invoices the construction project for the labour services provided, with the subsequent payment made into their bank accounts.
Those funds are then transferred into shell companies – masquerading as construction businesses – which are ultimately controlled by the gang that provided the cash.
The practice has been described in court documents as a “marriage of convenience” between organised crime and unscrupulous figures in the construction industry.
While it enables gangs to convert illicit cash into seemingly legitimate income to fund their lifestyle, cash wages money-laundering also benefits the subcontractors providing labour.
By paying workers in cash, the subcontractor pays lower wages but also avoids paying tax and other employer obligations such as ACC levies.
This allows them to undercut rival businesses by significant margins when tendering for work.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/police-warn-government-that-hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars-of-drug-profits-laundered-via-construction-jobs/premium/QLP2ZK5DHNGM7CM5V4I7Y5QNNU/
Lot more to read.
Why would we be surprised?
Happens in the Kwiwfruit as well.
and the curtain cleaning slave houses, esp in tauranga 🤣
You have a fan about as ignorant as yourself.
Joke of the Day!
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/1682251/deeply-sorry-psychology-groups-apologise-for-racism-towards-maori
It’s not a joke though, sadly. The idiots want to bend a Western discipline to include mumbo-jumbo, because… racism.
Always gotta blame someone else. Even the fact that the percentage of Maori psychologists doesn’t match the general population percentage. Can’t Maori get the grades? Too lazy? Too stupid? The course too hard? Not interested?
Pathetic. Want a “Maori way”? Go see your tohunga.
i think they psychologically tortured themselves over that.
I am looking forward to the ACT Campaign Launch tomorrow at Penrose. Anyone else going?
Shipping costs are a major factor in pump price increases.
While commentators focus on crude oil prices, the rapid rise in freight costs gets little attention.
The cost to move crude oil is now four times higher than the rolling five-year historical average. This increases the costs the refining companies have to pay. Before the Iran conflict, crude oil was trading around US$75 a barrel, and ocean freight was about US$2 per barrel. During the crisis, crude went to around US$105 a barrel and freight to around US$25 per barrel.
In other words, the cost at the refining company gate went from $77 to $130.
Follow the money. Far left links up with violent Islam. 3000 rioting “French” students arrested for violence and arson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBDMQzVQ2Ds
It’s Terrifying, It’s Harrowing’ | ‘France Looks Like Iran Or Lebanon’ | FRANCE BURNS
Mass student protests across France have rapidly escalated into widespread civil unrest, prompting Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu to convene an emergency crisis cabinet meeting as authorities grapple with nearly 2,000 arrests and mounting injuries nationwide.
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Chuck them out is the only answer and take away their money.
Bono stood on stage. He looked to the audience while making one of his sanctimonious speeches & said, “Every time I clap my hands a child in Africa dies!”
“Well stop clapping you sick cunt.”
At the time of Band-Aid & Live Aid global concerts etc.. circa 1985, Ethiopia had a population of about 40 million during those famines, war, etc..
Now it has a population of about 139 million.
No wonder they can probably comfortably send out about a million people a year to the rest of the world, & now when they clap, we jump with UN Global Migration Pact, with Human Rights to gain free accomodation, food etc…
And so the shit flows.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2026/10/02/reports-waters-of-ceuta-beach-invaded-by-migrants-show-dangerous-levels-of-fecal-contamination/
But were they Ethiopians or Somalis, and which Somalis?
Its easy to label a group of people.
A quick look would tell you that they are more likely from the western side of Africa, as Ethiopia is a long way across to the east, so unlikely to be the people in Spain, and nothing that I read suggested they were Ethiopian.
Ethiopia is actually developing itself, much like Buso Fatso is. They have been booting the colonialists out, and late last year opened a big new dam to supply electricity across several of their neighbours..
It’s a very fertile country and a bloody big one. Grow avos and bananas and lots of other crops; cows milk ok. Once they get more educated, the place will be like Rhodesia was: a giant garden. It also has lots of minerals, including gold and coal and is a lot closer to Europe than us.
My son spent a big part of last year there, so that is how I got interested in knowing about Ethiopia.
It’s not imaginary gods that we need worry about. It’s their mentally unbalanced followers!
Such loving shitheads
Were the Nazi’s not religious nutters? And many others before them and since.
Even Napoleon and we can’t rule out the English kings and queens.
Indeed, atheists would be the best of them all.
A Muslim girl asks her father:
“Father, where do we go when we die?”
“If we are worthy, we go to Jannah” her father says. “Which is a most beautiful paradise of endless gardens with rivers of milk and honey and wine. There is no pain or suffering. It is a place of perfect happiness, where the worthy will all dwell eternally in the company of Allah and His angels.”
“And how do I become worthy?” the girl asks.
“You must be good and modest and chaste,” her father tells her. “And never bring dishonour to your family or your religion.”
“And if I wasn’t good and modest and chaste?” asks the Muslim girl. “What if I did bring dishonour on my family and religion? Then where would I go when I die?”
“In that case,” says her father. “You would go under the patio with your sister.”
VERY SAD NEWS…
This is so disappointing.
CNN reported today that Walt Disney’s new film called Jet Black, the African-American version of Snow White has been cancelled.
All of the seven dwarfs: Dealer, Stealer, Mugger, Forger, Drive-By, Homeboy, and Shank have refused to sing “Hi Ho, Hi Ho” because they say it offends black prostitutes.
They also say there ain’t no way in hell they’re gonna sing, It’s off to work we go…
Virtue signalling narcissist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbArIQzlVm4
NZ Labour’s Hypocrisy: What A Capitalist !!!
WhangareiTim
Who said Labour people are not capitalists?
They are just as much capitalists as anyone; it’s just that they are and don’t want you to be.
It’s not about capitalism; it’s about power to control, and each has their own version. One wants to control, and most real capitalists just want to do their own thing without others confiscating their success.
Surprised you don’t understand that.
you do realise theres a difference between capitalism and capitalist?
You win the mansplaining award for explaining the obvious!
Patience grasshopper! He’s doing his best while engaged in a futile struggle against the daily erosion of his mind & dignity. 🙂
At least I leave my rocking chair all day. Yours must be due for refurbishment by now.
LindellTV
FOX “DELIBERATELY BURIED” INFORMATION AND SETTLED DOMINION CASE “SO AS NOT TO HELP TRUMP”
Patrick Byrne is making explosive allegations about Fox News’ decision to settle Dominion’s defamation lawsuit for $787.5 million, claiming people working with him briefed Mike Pompeo and Paul Ryan on information they had gathered about voting systems before the settlement.
Byrne claims Fox ultimately chose not to fight the case because doing so could have helped President Trump.
“They deliberately buried this and settled that case so as not to help Trump.”
Byrne says he believes internal communications could eventually reveal more about what happened behind the scenes:
“When those emails get out, that should destroy Fox.”
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1085303064392297
About time this came out.
just for SB.
https://www.facebook.com/reel/3646917808796250