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I hate being to pessimistic but buckle up folks the threatening downturn / recession can’t be avoided now ,8.5% inflation in the US reported today and we here in Gayoteara have done exactly the same as all western countries have done in response to a yearly influenza, bankrupted our countries.
Luckily we have an advantage over other 1st world nations, Jacinda Ardern and The bus drivers wife Robbo running the place, FFUUUCCKK.
Optimism is not about denying reality. It’s about looking adversity in the eye and smiling.
Being upbeat when everything looks good is no test of resilience.
The only way to stop long lasting inflation is a deep recession, the more printed money the bigger the recession needs to be to correct the imbalance.
Usa and nz printed the most money per capita during covid, pretty much every cent got frittered on useless shit and zero productive got done.
Hope the people loved having all that paid time off during lockdown as many are not going to like the unpaid time off when the bussiness they work cant make it through the downturn.
Yep. But you forgot to mention the single biggest source of money printing and the fake economy. The one that dwarfs everything else into insignificance. The root cause.
Guess what it is Stupid?
“Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.” — Frank Zappa
Sarah is pissed of by that sweet young thing in the foreground! She will be triggered by the body on her!
One good thing is, she won’t be running far!
Only 8.5% in the good old US of A? I don’t think so. Same as here in our small country, how could it possibly be at almost 7% when in real terms it is so much higher. Everything costs far more to buy these days, then we have nothing we can do about costs like electricity, council rates, and insurance, or including all health costs like dentists, pharmacy etc all that costs far more, some prices have quadrupled or even more, how do the bastards work it out? Creative accounting as usual. If it were only 6% but inflation is far more than that pretending percentage point. All western countries are fucked over by the virus and the stupid ways the governments carried on locking us down etc etc all the money they wasted for no reason. We were locked up for 1 case and now we have over a million cases of covid and what, we are finally opening up? FFFFFJA the stupid bitch. Oh and it is super cold this morning in the Tron, wow what a shock. FJA, I bet she has her homes all toasty and warm, whereas most people without fires in their homes will be frightened of the heating bills to come.
nothing we can do about costs like
electricity,council rates, …We need to more than talk it up, raise up, wasteful spending, be together about rates and make those Councillors feel challenge, and the breeze for commonsense.
Elections should bring forth Good placards, Bill boards, with sharp succinct points & memes. etc..
Being a Councillor is putting on a straitjacket of technocracy, bureaucracy & often imposed from government above to make one powerless.
The hold, with their doctrines needs to cracked open & exposed.
However those “empire builders” and their hold and costly doctrines needs to be cracked open, to be shown up, mocked and ridiculed, for their very costly lack of commonsense.
https://waikanaewatch.org/2022/05/01/im-making-you-an-offer-you-cant-refuse/
With some good comments, particularly one that raised this question.
“…. why are they [District & Regional Councils] not representing their ratepayers as they are paid to do.
I have found our local council very evasive, do-nothing, can’t-do-anything, …. ”
Negligence? Malfeasance? Paid off? or detest democracy?
Traitors to Democracy.
Renwing our insurnces yesterday.
One of things to consider IMHO is what would be the cost to replace anything at the end of the next 12 months.
Now I know its not a nice thought but there could be nothing worse than having a policy that ran out of cash halfway through a rebuild.
When you are renewing think not about what it would cost today but what it could cost in the last month of your insurance in 12 months time.
Say you have a big tractor which these days can cost anything up to $600k. Inflation in the USA is going to add probably 10% or more to what a new one will cost. That’s 60K plus.
Just saying.
That’s why I always used an insurance broker. The advice given saved me thousands over the years.
Still got a claim pending for up to 10 million but because I followed their advice, have the appropriate insurance cover.
I renewed my home and contents insurance last month. I had a claim last July after the flooding so was surprised and relieved that the premium only went up ten percent for this year.
You have to have a good look at the risk to value? ratio.If you live in the bottom of a valley, yes some insurance is probably advisable as it could flood, the hill slide down, etc.
The law of averages says more people don’t claim on their insurance than do. If you have a fire on a concrete slab house, just rebuild the sticks and gib. Much cheaper than foundation’s. As you get older will a smaller house be sufficient? Another way to cheaper premiums is to pay a higher cost when claiming. A $20 claim limit will be dearer then a $500 or $1,000.
What are we doing right? Turkey has inflation of 70% – I’m sure Grant is congratulating himself for only reaching a tenth of that figure.
I have been waiting for clarkE to give his financial wizardary, he may have been whispering sweet nothings in cindys ear!
If cindy whispered in fishbouys ear. She would have to stick her finger in the opposite ear first, to stop it running away!
Man! There’s some bullshit written about climate.
Michael Marshall writes this fairy story for The Guardian where he blames a mini ice age on Christopher Columbus bringing smallpox to the Americas, which killed off Native farmers and allowed regeneration of farmland.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/09/climate-crisis-lessons-to-learn-from-the-little-ice-age-cooling
How does he keep a straight face after inventing that?
https://joannenova.com.au/ discusses this with her usual directness.
I particularly like the teaser at the end:
Coming soon: how the Medieval Warm Period was caused by the Russians.
Can’t wait
You forgot about Maori travelling to Antartica and causing the mini ice age.
Harvey@0628
You read the Guardian?????????
No.
I read Jo Nova
Don’t you?
Is she on Rova?
A good frosty & foggy morning start.
If the weather is fine Saturday May 14, will be a great morning as there sounds like a treat in the lower North Island.
…. The skies over Tararua will reverberate to the sound of New Zealand’s military aviation heritage on Saturday May 14, as the Air Force Heritage Flight (AFHF) conducts flypasts in celebration of 80 years since the formation of the Royal New Zealand Air Force’s (RNZAF) No. 14 Squadron.
The Flight’s Supermarine Spitfire and two modern Beechcraft T-6C Texan II aircraft will take off from Base Ōhakea in time to fly over Masterton’s Queen Elizabeth Park at 11am.
The flight path will also cover as many towns and settlements as is possible during the one-hour flight, including Feilding, Ashhurst, Woodville, Pahiatua, Eketahuna, Carterton, Greytown, Featherston, Upper Hutt, Lower Hutt, Porirua, Paekakariki, Paraparaumu, Otaki and Levin. …
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/news/air-force-heritage-flight-spitfire-flying-over-tararua/WDVYLQJYK3LTCCQ4YMDGYEYUFE/
One referendum won.:-)
Makes a good time to be waving the New Zealand flag
The beginnings of a roll.
Now lets have a few other referendums. 🙂
Referendum on the Co-Governance.
Referendum on the 3 Waters concept.
Referendum the on Parliamentary Maori Seats.
Referendum on the name “aotearoa”.
Simpleton 1, the shame of our armed forces is that 1 fully loaded modern single seat heavy lift fighter jet with backup refueling on hand could take out our entire airforce and navy in 1 busy afternoon, that is a fact ,what would the navy be able to do to defend itself, what would our airforce be able to do to defend itself?? Oh I know send up the 80 year old spitfire to take out the offending jet fighter / bomber.
But then again we have the old witch Clarke advising the clown car Ardern administration, you know the same commie POS that defunded our fighter wing because we lived in a peaceful South Pacific nirvana.
And that is why Solomon Is. choose to shop elsewhere for their security contracts, and Australians hate us for not pulling our weight.
They didn’t so much as shop as sell. I’d bet a dollar to a dozen that the whole leadership have fat bank accounts hidden in Swiss bank accounts.
Lets be honest tho, nz and aussie were not going to aid the solomons should the chinese attack/invade. If china wanted to they could roll nz and aussie in a day or 2, a few lil bangs and explosions in aussie but nz would be a joke. Even the solomon islands could invade and take over our pathetic country
Referendum on how maori do you have to be maori?
Referendum to enable all businesses to be charity and pay no tax!
It is obviously more about attitude than aptitude.
How’s this for a great employer.
I work for a US tech company. We had our quarterly online meeting last night to go over results, (which were good).
In recognition of it being a pretty crap year for everyone, with covid and all, they’ve given every fulltime employee (1,700 of us globally), every Friday off in July and August as additional paid leave. That’s nine long weekends in a row for the Sagster.
Pretty good eh?
They also do a lot of charity work, giving people days off to go out and work in their communities, and they support many charities, which are nominated by workers in their own countries.
If there is a death in the company, they support the family, and help out if needed.
A great company to work for.
Must be running out of work and making it last.
How is the covid, V?
Still in bed?
After hearing that V2 had contracted Covid-19 SunLive were quickly on the scene for an interview.
“I’m feeling a little groggy, but otherwise okay”, said the virus.
24 hours sleep and starting to come right. doubt its covid. Went to a dinner the other day and had the shits and all since.
Leading hotel. Thought the food was very poor.
Needed a rest been working to hard so that’s ok.
I have forgotten who gave the link to 2000 mules yesterday, but thank you. Am most of the way through it and the investigation and evidence is much better than I expected. Anyone who doesn’t think that there was widespread organised voter fraud that changed the result of the US 2020 election is retarded.
The majority of humans are retards
Half of all people are of below-average* intelligence.
* For you pedants, “median” would be the correct term rather than “average,” but people with common sense will know what I mean.
Hat tip waikatogirl.
2000 Mules Movie Review (With Legal Analysis)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lQ9xFlNWt4
26 mins 19 secs :
Seems to have cut through to the real issues, as shown in the doco, and how Trump pointed it out.
Comes up with even a more damming simple exact conclusion of how those votes should have been considered and cut through all that liberal nonsense that “all votes count”!
But to change things now? ….. hmmmm …… but will make it impossible to cheat that way in the future, if the citizen is aware of these mules.
I’ve always been concerned about voter coercion of those living in care homes, etc. Who chooses/manipulates the vote?
If you think the elites only rigged the American election, you are also retarded. NZ is a soft target.
CIA have organised the murder of the leaders of many many countries, to install their puppets. FDR salivated for the collapse of the British Empire during WW2, so that the Global American Empire could take its place. The Stooges have stuck with the plan for many years, but are coming undone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change
And if you think America is the only entity meddling in the affairs of other nations, think again.
As well as the UN.
IAASB, No wucking fay whut mkaes yuo thunk taht &&, sined willie yakcson.
AFL vs NRL…This will open your eyes…
36 have been accused of spouse abuse
7 have been arrested for fraud
19 have been accused of writing bad cheques
117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses
3 have done time for assault
71, repeat 71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit
14 have been arrested on drug-related charges
8 have been arrested for shoplifting
21 currently are defendants in lawsuits and
84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year
Can you guess which organization this is? AFL? NRL?
Give up yet? . . .. . Scroll down
Neither,
it’s the 535 members of theAUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENT
I was thinking of the worriers
Viking ,that’s nothing compared to what the Maori battalion carried out in WW2, or can’t that he mentioned anymore??
Who’s turn is it to pick Mikey up from the detox cells?
Hic ! 🥃
I would get him but a bit under the weather.
Worry not. The mobster I was celled with dropped me back at my airbnb.
Prick wont leave though.
Mikey, if you really want to get rid of him tell him the kids he walked out on are coming around to meet him, or the labour department have found him a job.
🔥🏠🔥🏠💥
BNZ economists say the chances of a recession increase by the day and they are predicting economic growth to ‘stall’ completely next year; house price falls to get worse
https://www.interest.co.nz/business/115751/bnz-economists-say-chances-recession-increase-day-and-they-are-predicting-economic
💥 Crash 💥
“Worse “ ? So inflation is good?
The housing cult Ponzi must be smashed for everyone’s good.
It will be a new experience to New Zealanders. No-one under the age of 55 in this country would remember the “crash of 1987”. The Chinese have had decades of economic growth, so few of them will know that house and land prices can go down.
In Japan, the good-quality real estate of the major urban centers is holding its value, but the rural towns and villages are suffering ongoing price falls as they de-populate. The Japanese population shrank by around 680,000 people last year, and the rate of this decline will increase as the elderly (in their greater numbers) die off.
The one saving grace for the youth of aging societies such as Japan is this: the old* people need the young people, but the young people do not need the old people.
old*: Having passed one’s “healthy lifespan” and entered the final age of dependency, being too frail (physically or mentally) to be productive. This age will vary widely among individuals.
ANZ tends to disagree with you oh bird of doom.
“Mortgages used to make up a little more than half the balance sheets of the big four New Zealand banks but that has changed dramatically in the last decade, mostly because of ANZ Bank NZ’s huge increase in mortgage lending.
It’s the biggest of the four, with total lending of $146.12 billion at March 31, of which $102.8b was mortgages, as shown in the note on loans and advances to customers in its latest disclosure statement.”
Oh really?
“The reality of a housing market pullback was reflected in new data out today which showed sales tumbled 35.2 per cent annually, monthly prices down and fewer homes sold in every New Zealand region.”
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/house-sale-volumes-tumble-352-per-cent-prices-fall-in-market-turnaround-reinz-data-out/5I3J3LYKTZ5LF5E6ZGSMA46YWY/
We’re only at the beginning of the financial shit storm the inept Labour Government has unleashed on this country.
Rest easy, the fat controller has his hand firmly on the…something.
Birdy boy suggested that the fat controller should just print off some more folding and pay back the debt. Ppfft.
I agree with Kea. Who would he pay all that newly printed money back to?
The only way we are going to get out of this crap is to allow inflation to rise and continue until the debt is gone.
If house prices do not drop by 50% at least, we will live through some form of nasty revolution, like a bloody 1917. It’s a biological imperative that young family can afford a basic home. Either we accept the houseprice collapse, and guard against foreign fake cash invasion, or the whacko’s will harness the rage and turn the country upside down to suit their psycho causes.
FHB can still get on the property ladder, if they really, really want to.
Trouble is, like cellphones, the latest clothing range, a late model car, they want to run before they can walk. Move cities. Move to the regions. Buy a small unit to begin with. Have only one baby..better still, dont have any. Put down a small vege garden. Dont put shit on tick. Dont smoke ciggies ya dirty ferals. Live within your means, take care of the pennies and the pounds will follow. Have a plan. Fail to plan..plan to fail.
Why would a FHB do that now?
Because theyre FOMO morons. I have a muppet mate i mentioned on here a couple weeks ago who had got scammed and lost a large sum of money…
Well the bank recovered his money and now hes looking to buy a house. Ive tried warning him and told him to wait but he insists on getting scammed by the bank instead of nigerians.
Anytime is a good time to buy property…so long as you have a loooong term view. Sure, I wouldnt purchase anything today if I had a view to selling again in a few years. That could well end in financial suicide.
FHB get in, borrow the max, fix for the best 5 year rate. Work like a chinaman..and I mean w-o-r-k.
After 5 years and the fixed rate is up for renewal, find another property. Update the valuation on your first property, borrow again. You now have 2 properties. Rent the new purchase out or move into the new purchase and rent out your first purchase. Rinse and repeat. Make a plan. Stick to the plan. I did , and it worked. My only semi regret is that I didnt buy a dozen.
Yes 50% at least
You’re not wrong:
…..”From 1957 to the late 1980s the average New Zealand house price was between two-to-three times the average annual household income.”….. BUT THEN
…..”The average house price had risen to four times the average household income by the late 1990s.”….. AND IT GOT WORSE
…..”Prices peaked at around six and a half times the average household income in 2008…….Prices then eased, but are trending up again, and the average New Zealand house price has risen back above six times the annual household income.”….
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/money/2016/08/housing-through-the-decades-what-is-affordable.html
The article was written in 2016 but not much has changed & little to the good. The cost of timber & cement depends on competition, the lack of which under NZ’s system of crony capitalism is endemic. Plenty can be done however, on land supply & consenting.
Government/local body interference in the form of land consents & bullshit building standards are the major driver of unaffordability.
Kea, What a surprise ,close the world’s economy’s down for two years borrow and print 10s of billions of dollars give workers and businesses even more billions and then expect to have no long lasting impacts on every NZR for decades to come.
The only thing that will return to normal in our Country very quickly is the emaciated stick insect Arderns overseas travel itinerary.
Robbo says this inflation has got nothing to do with his ability as finance minister. He’s perfect. Like Biden Robbo blames Russia. 🤡💩
FJA
Exactly Revy
So what will a recession do to interest rates? Lets assume they start falling
https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/102015/do-interest-rates-increase-during-recession.asp
Then what? People get more money more easily and put pressure on the housing market. or am I missing something here?
I am not an economist, but do understand supply and demand curves. ( unlike our finance minister…..)
My next door neighbour is applying to be the next Doctor Who.
She can’t act, but she is a disabled black obese lesbian.
I wish her all the best, but if she misses out there’s always a Dalek. They got wheels.
Get woke, go broke…
Or perhaps Dr. Who should be re-branded as “Dr. Whoke?”
Only missing the hijab
https://pics.me.me/doctor-illh0-disabled-obese-transgender-lesbian-woman-ofcolor-in-the-25506425.png
She’s going to need an assistant to open the door and put the ramp down!
The previous thread on bears reminds me of an old joke.
A hunter is out in the woods where he spies a very large bear. He carefully takes aim and fires.
Looking around he can’t see the bear anywhere when suddenly he’s tapped on the shoulder. Looking around there’s the bear.
The bear says to him you have two choices either I can rip you to shreds and have you for dinner or bend over and let me take you up the arse and I will let you go. The hunter limps back into town vowing that next time he is going to kill that bear. So he buys a much bigger gun and returns to the woods where after a time he spots the bear takes aim and fires. Again no sign of the bear until he taps him him on the shoulder and says you know the routine. The hunter crawls back into town still determined to get even with the bear. This time he buys an elephant gun and after a recovery period heads back out into the woods. He eventually spots the bear takes even more careful aim and fires. Once again no sign of the bear until it taps him on the shoulder and the bear says to him.
You don’t come here for the hunting do you?
Gee, how much can this hunter bear?
O-sen@0849
Perhaps you should ask his laptop?
He’s Biden his time!
Robbo goes hunting?
Look what they are trying on in Canada while everyone is distracted by the war in Ukraine:
https://twitter.com/soundwave_boss/status/1524475885285433344?s=21&t=hx8SaA5T7U4mUtBmb5L9cg
The price of houses is dropping, but the cost of building them is increasing. So how long until construction comes to a grinding halt?
The cost of older houses always reflects the cost of their replacement.
Basic laws of sullpy and demand.
Kelvin Davis, a failed man, claiming that only Opposition MP’s are privileged.
Says this failed man who has had his snout in the trough for years.
Says, this Labour MP who is on a miserly salary of only $296,007 pa plus expenses plus perks while everyone else is well below that salary level.
What a hypocritical arsehole.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/labours-kelvin-davis-accuses-opposition-of-privilege-based-on-misery-of-his-own-family/3HH6NU6OMPDE4QLF6KUREBGLCU/
TAH, now you can understand why the board at the international MENSA organization are having such problems choosing which one to admit, Kelvin Davis, Willie Jackson or the equally intelligent Crunchy the clown.
You have to pay an annual membership fee to join Mensa – can you honestly see either Davis or Jackson paying out of their own pocket?
Extra tax for their subs, no doubt the rest of the brains ruining this country would want membership too.
They would claim it was authorised under the TOW, and get us to pay.
Nothing these fuckers do comes out of their own funds
RevT, I see Crunchy got into MENSA. Apparently Kelvin, the Maori with the English name was too under privileged to be considered and the Scotsman, William Jackson was plainly too thick, hence Crunchy won the nomination by a landslide in the MENSA Committee vote.
Labour woul pay wille and kelvins MENSA subs, till they lose their list seats! Kelvin was the big hope of the labour renewal!
Is the misery of his family due to having Kelvin in it?
A man was savagely attacked at The Teddy Bear’s Picnic….
His condition is said to be improving but he’s not out of the woods yet.
Was he hunting?
Mike?
Ron?
Good Will Hunting?
🎶If you go down to the Woods today
You’d better take all the pies…..🎶
That was the problem, waylaid!
Keep people from discussing ideas – don’t talk to your neighbours!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQKIcKxoJuU
Elon Musk & Trump – It’s Happening!!
Russell Brand
Elon Musk has said he’d let Donald Trump back on Twitter
I’m outta here someone’s gotta donate some tax monies to Robbo for him to squander on bullshit.
You were right Lizzie, it was cold in the Hamilton this morning.
Many around the country woke up to the coldest morning of the year so far.
https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/05/12/parts-of-nz-wake-up-to-coldest-morning-of-the-year-so-far/
Definitly Global Warming/////
Autumn actually and a stunningly beautiful day! 🙂
Budget 2022 will lay the groundwork for “getting the foundations right” in New Zealand’s health system, the Finance Minister said on Thursday morning.
https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/05/12/budget-2022-will-be-about-health-grant-robertson/
“I have heard a great deal recently about the impact of Government spending on inflation. We do need to be careful with what we spend, make sure it is value for money and targeted where it can make a difference.
“The short term challenge of inflation is significant,” Robertson said.
Who writes his speeches?
Not him!
Heard that crap before. can’t they think f something else to use?
💥🔥🏠💥🔥🍺💥🤣🏠💩💩💩
Housing market could be in for a long cold winter with sales volumes and prices taking a hammering in April
The national median selling price was $875,000 in April, down by $15,000 (-1.7%) compared to March, which means it has now declined by $45,145 (4.9%) since it peaked at $920,145 in November last year.
In Auckland the median selling price was $1,170,000 in April, down $30,000 (-2.5%) compared to March and down by $130,000 (-10%) from its November peak of $1,300,000.
https://www.interest.co.nz/property/115773/housing-market-could-be-long-cold-winter-sales-volumes-and-prices-took-hammering
Ponzi players are losing $1,000.00 a day and paying upitty up up up interest for the privilege 😂
Quick go faster Mikey 🏃🏻!!!
“Nationally, home values fell by an average of 2.2% this quarter, with Palmerston North, Wellington, and Hastings recording the largest drops.
Whangārei, Marlborough, Christchurch, Queenstown, and Invercargill were the lone exceptions to a trend that appears to be escalating elsewhere.”
Christchurch dropped 0.9% . O M G.🐦🗣🗣 the average for chch is $801 000. My very first ChCh home ( next to Lancaster Park ) cost me $42000 back in 1986. Long term view children.
Look! Its birds favourite 80’s fag band !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvQTTA9raJU
Never heard of them Mikey. Is it a subscription only service through your Grindr account?
My first house, a brand new transportable. $21,500, with septic and water tank.
Not paìnted inside and out, no carpet and lino? 1/4 acre sect $3,000.
Where do I sign up?
That’s far to much for a section and house in Uruti.
Uruti? OK, cancel my contract.
We agree Mikey. A 32% drop is only taking us back to the time when Ardern drowned the country in debt to artificially prop up house prices . 2 years ago.
It needs to drop 75% minimum
The remaining 25% is the free market price.
Free market price would be determined by cost to build, if its still expensive to build then existing stock will be priced accordingly.
Heaps of gib and sticks available. I can see enough to build thousands of homes from where I’m sitting.
You’ve been conned bro 😎
Bird nests?
Ffs https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300585783/housing-ministers-commission-half-of-the-1000-homes-promised-for-mori
Id love to add up every cent alocated to maori in the last decade, divide it by the maori population then ask everyday maori if theyve got anywhere near that amount of support.
LOL 😂 ^
At 15% of the population, they are getting a blood good deal!
Sootz, a mate done it with money alocated through and just after covid, it worked out in 18mnths to be around 70k per maori person.
Where the fuck has it gone, mustbe some very fat wallets hidden somewhere.
I bet Tuku Morgan has some nice new underpants. That troughing brown bastard turns up everywhere there’s money to be siphoned from the taxpayer.
When you take the housing problem apart it’s easier to see how social engineering has far more to do with unaffordability than the price of 4 x 2s & roofing iron. It’s been the desire of our governments of the past decades to make the desirable mandatory that has driven housing of any type out of reach of the average family. Let’s look at one small part:
People driven by ideology & warm feelings in their tummies like insulation. So it becomes mandatory. Every requirement for an improvement costing $100 ends up raising the end price by $1000. Note that compulsion didn’t magically make it free & someone, aka the end user, will pay then, now and/or in the future.
The socialist politician sees the statute book as a way to level outcomes but it doesn’t. In this example all that happens is that fewer houses are built but they are all insulated.
Myself and many others were happy to rent cold uninsulated shitehole houses… providing the rent reflected it.
2008 we were paying 80bux per week rent. Warm dry wee house too just run down.
2012 150bux per week, warmish house in living area but bedrooms freezing.
Just prior to xmas i seen the same house we rented in 2012, fully insulated, removed the good fireplace and installed 2 heatpumps… $470 per week! Its still a fucking shitter and now its surrounded by mongrel mob.
Glad most of my working life my job has come with a house on the farm! Even more stoked we bought our property before prices went stupid, the folk we bought it off were greedy and tried to sell via deadline treaty… they turned down offers that were 150k more then what we picked it up for 4 months later 🙂
Property goes up n down, no need to get all excited on the roller coaster like our birdy friend does.
Just before xmas
Property goes up n down, no need to get all excited on the roller coaster like our Stupid friend does.
He’s really gonna be tested when it drops 40% in the coming months 😀
Well observed nasska.
Current house prices are the result of government intervention. Not market demand or lack of supply.
Its going up again. You know those double glazed window we all had to fit?
Turns out they are not that good because the gap was filled with air. The new regs will require them to be filled with argon. (which is what they should been in the first place.)
Going to add up to 10k to the price.
It’s only other people’s money so the idealists & standard setters won’t give a fuck. Interesting charts in this link: https://www.centralheating.co.nz/assets/General-Resources/Windows-Information-Sheet.pdf
Seymour is claiming that the Labour caucus is backing away fast from Three Waters. Can it be true?
Even dumb arse Liarbour can read the electorate.
Their polling must show a huge drop, I reckon they are below 30%
No one wants this shit shoved on us. If only Nude Nut and co would do the same.
Seymour in Parliament reckoned it’s very nervous backbenchers fearing for their trough tickets.
Course they are. The end of the gravy train, scares the shit of them!
They hope for a nice sweet job in a NGO or gov dept. But I wouldn’t give most of them a job on a Mr Wippy truck!
One referendum won.:-) a few years ago,, but now:—
Now is the time! “Drive the oak stake through them”.
Make the most of this back fire on the Labour Party’s and Maori Party’s malfeasance.
Make this a condition(—
Push, push, push.
Referendum on the Minister’s Kris Faafoi Co-Governance.
Referendum on the Minister Mahuta’s 3 Waters concept.
Referendum the on Jackson’s Parliamentary Maori Seats.
Referendum on the name “aotearoa” so the New Zealand name stands!
Makes a good time to be waving the surviving New Zealand flag
That mark’s the beginnings of a roll for New Zealand.
Now lets have it; get those other referendums. 🙂 🙂 🙂
To take your mind off property issues and the clown show, have a look at this cool technology and the proposed use. (yes, I know jet packs are not new but this is obviously a refined use of the tech.)
https://joannenova.com.au/2022/05/wow-wow-wow-watch-jetsuit-mountaineering-2200-foot-climb-in-3-minutes/
Cool concept but some major flaws with the design. imagine getting itchy balls mid flight… oh the torture
One stuffup with that and youre toast
Ross 12 ,Hate to burst the bubble but that pilot crashed about a week ago and broke both of his legs ,I think he collided with a small pine tree and hit the ground quite hard.
ouch !!!
He would need a first aid guy on a jet thingee to fly up to him.
FJA
Fun stuff in Ukraine… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClocWTBIEp8&ab_channel=iEarlGrey
Migration falls further into the negatives as New Zealand loses 7300 people
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/05/migration-falls-further-into-the-negatives-as-new-zealand-loses-7300-people.html
New Zealand’s annual net migration has fallen further into the negatives, new data from Statistics New Zealand show.
“Migrant arrivals have dropped to levels seen in the mid-1980s and migrant departures have dropped to levels seen in the mid-1990s,” Islam said.
The permanent bennies and refugees will still be heading here as the better migrant heads else wear,
Along with our go getters!
What ungrateful people after Jacinda saved us from a gate apparently worse than death.
Fate
Rachael, Cindy saved 80,000 people in 2020 alone from a certain death.
Any of these citizens leaving or contemplating leaving are truly ungrateful and who may have been marked down for the certain death that they were saved from, should be given some sort of grant from Grant to reconsider, along with a food parcel. ////
Thats what will bring prices of houses dow,
Ackland will suffer big time considering the consents that are in place.
Bit of luck the pressure will come of Tauranga as well. We actually don’t need anymore retirement villages so the sooner on crashes the better.
Healthy homes: Big energy upgrades for new build houses from November
Energy upgrades are planned for new homes’ roof, window, wall and underfloor insulation which aim to make them warmer, drier and healthier to live and work in.
The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment got more than 700 submissions and 3000 responses on the changes, to be phased in from November until later next year.
But Master Builders, the Certified Builders Association and National’s Andrew Bayly want that delayed.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/healthy-homes-big-energy-upgrades-for-new-build-houses-from-november/BW62S2V2VFWIYIBZL7I66OGGKI/
Looks like our houses will be worth more next year Hunty.
Oh its the investors fault screems naaska.
Wait until they apply some rules to rentals. The days of replacing a broken window with a plastic rubbish sack held in place with duct tape will be over. 🙂
A downtick for that? Under the veneer of tenant farming, rent grubbing & gross profiteering you slum landlords are sensitive souls. 🙂
I’ve never replaced a broken window like that. Me thinks you protest too much.😉
Really interesting comment and review of the latest “science” push –gene editing of food crops. Calling it gene editing to get around GMO regulations.
https://off-guardian.org/2022/05/11/gene-edited-food-the-next-stage-of-the-great-reset/
“So, we’re seeing a sudden increase in the variety of GM crops available and a simultaneous push for deregulation of the industry in Western nations.
Why would they be doing this now?
Well, there is a food crisis.
Or, more accurately, they have just created a food crisis. And as the cliched Hegelian dialectic inevitably goes, their manufactured “problem” is now in need of their contrived “solution”. ”
Will any NZ journalist have enough backbone to ask Jimmy Shaw and the Greens, in general, what they think? It looks like it will not matter what they think, because it is going to happen in the rest of the world anyway.
If this is all true, and I think it probably is, then I hope Putin ends up kicking the rear ends of these criminals. It is beyond time for the smug elites in the US Democrat Party and all their affiliates to be absolutely smashed.
https://dailytelegraph.co.nz/news/dem-party-leaders-pfizer-moderna-involved-in-us-biological-activities-in-ukraine-russian-mod/
Thanks Ross12 & rol.
Ross12, ties in with “rol fun stuff Ukraine” above “At 1:03 pm”
As rol’s link to Utube clip builds up to show even more active problems put into play.
Russia REVEALS ALL in Bombshell BioLabs Briefing – Inside Russia Report
https://youtu.be/ClocWTBIEp8
16 mins 48 secs : iEarlGrey
There are more sources with in the Utube clip.
Also notice the censoring in the numbers of comments and the lower number of actual comments.
One can figure why certain political parties really push for “social media” controls. to keep things quiet, not only on these nefarious activities, but also the money feed back loops.
Thanks S1. I had not watched the rol linked video, but it is great the information is being spread widely.
Interesting that You Tube has allowed this to stay up.
Ross12….it is touched on in detail in ROL’s link above…
Explains why the Dems are approving $billions for Ukraine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhDfMfV7Zf0
Tucker: There is something really wrong
Fox News host voices his concerns about lawmakers prioritizing solving Ukraine’s problems over America’s on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight
Nationwide lockdown in north korea… kim aspires to be as great of an oppressor as his hero jacinda ardern
I think that now would be an ideal gime to send the ducky!
Good luck with that, Kimbo. You’re out of your league, mate.
From: https://apnews.com/article/covid-health-pandemics-south-korea-north-0e0cb1be7a3878a771124dcdcbdba06c
…..”Experts say Kim Jong Un still hasn’t publicly asked for any aid including COVID-19 vaccines from the United States and South Korea amid the prolonged stalemate in nuclear diplomacy. “……
It appears that the inmates of the Glorious Democratic People’s Republic of Korea are safe from the threat of genocide for the time being.
Hooker phil.
Does anywhere in your neck of the woods still sell wallaby pies? Cruising through tommorow, havent had one of them delicious pies for many years.
Yip -the Barn – that is in town on Queen Street (Main Street) beside the Challenge Service Station. If you come in after after the Yellow Shed turn right. We are at 48 Harris Street -would love to see you.
I dunno if youd love to see me im not pretty… quite feral infact!
As long as im not held up elsewhere ill stop by, been a while since ive been there.
Get ready for financial slavery:
https://off-guardian.org/2022/05/06/report-90-of-nations-planning-central-bank-digital-currency
The legislation is currnetly on its third reading in the parliament in Canada. Be afraid.
Most of us with our marbles still lining see that as an authoritarians wet dream & is doubtlessly the aim of our conniving, power-mad politicians who misgovern us. But a cursory look at likely outcomes brings up two points worthy of discussion:
1) Maori & Islanders spend more of their income on crispy, fatty, sugary shit than most. How will they react when their order at KFC or Burger King is denied on the basis of their sky high BMIs?
2) Regardless of the wishes of those who know best, people will still use social drugs & want what our dictators will deny us. What will be the new underground currency? Get this right & you’ll be a millionaire.
New underground currency?
Cigarettes.
Trump makes a big sale.
https://t.me/realKarliBonne/92266
Biden’s slur accusing “ultra-MAGA” taken as positive street cred by Republican.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4L7uoo_zo8
Stephen Miller: This is going to backfire
Former White House adviser provides insight on Biden’s policies on ‘Kudlow.’
So the ANZ under the nice Mr Key has slipped in their ratings. Not surprised when you get a letter telling you if you don’t have enough money in the bank they will bounce your payment.
Now I think I have had that happen once way back and on a very small amount..
Not considered customer friendly IMHO. Especially given I have a lot of equity which they chose to tie up and I put a reasonable amount of $ through other accounts.
ANZ going down with Key.
As with Air NZ.
Might have to look around.
Yup. I was a National Bank customer wayy back then ANZ took them over. Been fucked ever since.
Trouble is, there’s really no alternative.
Westpac rescue helicopter ad is more like a travel video than anything! Woke cunts!
Three more arrested in relation to Parliament occupation
Three people have been arrested in Nelson in relation to the final day of the occupation on Parliament grounds in March.
Officers in Nelson executed search warrants in Golden Bay on Thursday morning, arresting a man and a woman.
A 29-year-old man had been charged with intentional damage and doing a dangerous act with intent, while a 29-year-old woman was charged doing a dangerous act with intent and rioting.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300587231/three-more-arrested-in-relation-to-parliament-occupation
Still waiting for then to arrest anyone from Illamato.
From Golden Bay woke lefties then?
Hopefully those arrested are the Antifa members who lit the fires, etc.
This cuntry is run by professional rissoles.
WHERE IS MY CUT???
I heard yesterday of a guy who was arrested on the Thursday, the first time the Police had a go. He was in Court with three others. The case was thrown out of Court fairly quickly. So you would have to think all or most of the others arrested that day will also walk away without any more worries.
Jobs for Labour supporters
Simeon Brown lays into Government as Waka Kotahi gets warning from Transport Minister Michael Wood
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/05/simeon-brown-lays-into-government-as-waka-kotahi-gets-warning-from-transport-minister-michael-wood.html
Since 2019, the transport agency’s spent $145 million on consultants, covering things like the environment and planning, versus just $200 million on actual construction.
“This Government’s addicted to spending,” said National’s transport spokesperson Simeon Brown. “What New Zealanders want is better infrastructure and better roads, not millions and millions getting put to consultants for projects which should’ve already been delivered.”
But Transport Minister Michael Wood said the money’s gone toward “detailed design, planning and consenting”.
“There’s frankly a cheap political shot here that either demonstrates total naivety about how transport projects work or is simply knowingly making these claims when actually we know that that’s how transport projects have to be structured.”
But the Waka Kotahi spend up doesn’t end there. Since 2017, it’s more than doubled its PR team from 32 staff to 88 – 65 of whom are earning $100,000 or more.
Labour sycophants sucking on the tit!
COVID-19 Vaccine Producer Hid Evidence of Problems: Report
Executives at a company that produced millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses attempted to hide evidence that some of the doses were contaminated, according to a congressional report released on May 10.
Emergent BioSolutions “took repeated steps to conceal its quality failures from the federal government and other third parties by limiting access to Bayview, tampering with drug-substance labels to impede FDA oversight, and strategizing to withhold information from HHS following the cross-contamination event in March 2021,” a report from the House Oversight Committee and the Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis concluded.
How long are they going to keep the Chinnese locked down for?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIWxvLP6eV8
Nobody’s allowed to leave’: Inside Shanghai’s brutal COVID lockdown – Bolt
Shanghai resident and Dutch journalist Jaap Grolleman says it is hard to tell when the city’s strict lockdown will end as the authorities are “very set” on achieving a COVID zero target.
A second lined up for elimination
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3HjnG6cZao
Justin Trudeau is sanctioning ‘medical violence’
Critics have argued Canada’s euthanasia’s laws are too broad, after a disabled woman who couldn’t access affordable housing to ease her chronic health condition was allowed to end her life.
We’re okay then. In this shithole of a country thanks to the meddling fuckheads who call themselves Christians you don’t qualify for assisted suicide if you’re screaming in pain from an inoperable carcinoma while lying in the gutter outside a medical facility.
Is the Great Reset failing? A glimmer of hope…
https://canadianpatriot.org/2022/02/27/is-the-great-reset-failing-when-great-narratives-fall-apart/