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The Denver Post, on February 15th, ran an Associated Press article entitled Homeland Security aims to buy 1.6b rounds of ammo, so far to little notice. It confirmed that the Department of Homeland Security has issued an open purchase order for 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition. As reported elsewhere, some of this purchase order is for hollow-point rounds, forbidden by international law for use in war, along with a frightening amount specialized for snipers. Also reported elsewhere, at the height of the Iraq War the Army was expending less than 6 million rounds a month. Therefore 1.6 billion rounds would be enough to sustain a hot war for 20+ years. In America.
Bloomberg-style nanny-state madness: Come Tuesday city inspectors will be armed with 17-ounce cups to police New York City Mayor Bloomberg’s controversial new law banning large sodas and other sugary drinks.
‘The measuring cups that we will be issuing … will be able to contain 17 fluid ounces,’ Kass said.
Inspectors will issue violations when a cup is found to ‘clearly exceed’ 16 ounces ‘when measured in the inspector’s measuring cup,’ he added.
A despicable totalitarian (and “academic”) speaks:
“Associate Professor Nick Wilson, the study’s lead author, said while the research showed it was possible to have a low-salt diet by making the right choices, it would be easier to achieve if Government restricted the amount of salt in everyday products.
“It could do this by regulating down the maximum level of salt permitted in commercially produced foods, particularly in bread, processed meats and sauces,” he said.
“A tax on junk food would also help as such food is usually high in salt as well as sugar and saturated fat. The money from such a tax could then fund healthy school lunches and help pay for better health services for diseases caused by high salt – especially stroke and heart attacks.”
I think you will discover that hollow point .. Dum dum .. Projectiles are now more accepted. Safer for it to Expand or fragment in your target rather than a through and through and kill someone behind.
Let’s face it they are designed to kill so why not make it quick. I have seen a GSW where a copper jacket projectile has gone through a thigh and missing bone. Small hole either side and the guy had plenty of fight left in him.
David Clark has received plenty of attention lately, including from DPF. Some rate him as a rising Labour star. Craccum are featuring him in a regular debate with Jamie-Lee Ross and asked him:
Do you support the proposed SkyCity convention centre?
Clark chose not to answer this but instead launched into a famiiar sermon against National, straight from the good book of Labour PR:
‘Pokies’ and ‘porkies’. Those two words pretty much sum up the Government’s Sky City convention centre deal.
This issue isn’t about whether a convention centre is a good idea or not. It’s about the actions of the Ministers involved, actions the Auditor-General’s investigations found ‘were not consistent with best practice’ and were neither transparent nor fair.
He went on reciting familiar Labour lines, and ended with:
The Government must call a halt to its negotiations with Sky City and start again with a fair and open tender process. That is what Kiwis expect and deserve.
This is superficial politicking that adds nothing of substance to the convention centre debate, and going back to square one in the process is ludicrous.
Clark has risen quickly up the Labour ladder. If he wants to live up to the star hype he needs to step up, and sound like he can think for himself.
A FMJ round will punch a small neat hole in someone, that wounded person requires lots of care. The plan being not to kill the enemy but wound them as a wounded enemy sucks up lots more resources that a dead enemy.
A soft point (or ballistic tip or hollow point) round will be used for accurate shooting. The round needs to slow down a bit or it wont expand. In hunting if you shoot a deer very close up with a BT the projectile may shatter or punch straight thru whereas you really want the projectile to expend all of its energy within the animal and not exit the chest cavity.
Unless your using a projectile like a Barnes solid that is meant to expand and punch a hole thru for a “free flowing wound channel” easy tracking to your deer.
RF, There are reportedly now 124 firearms companies that are participating in the Firearms Equality Movement. The companies refuse to supply product to any state government which legislates against the right of its citizens to keep and bear arms.
It will be interesting to see if this philosophy is extended to the DHS.
UglyTruth – AFAIK NZ Poice use ammo that is illegal for wartime use. The Police objective is to impose serious trauma that the alleged offender cannot react eg shooting back. The alleged offender is in that position by choice. In war, soldiers are often not there by choice – they are there by compultion or strong patriotism, including enormous peer group pressure.
Seems stange that Homeland Security needs 1.6B rounds, but then parameters such as contract term, number of armed people, rounds required for practice, etc was not mentioned. NZ Police would probably require 10,000 – 100,000 rounds for each one used ‘in ernest’.
This what happens when the lunatics get in charge….
(Drax is a large generator in Yorkshire)
…”As from next month, Drax will embark on a £700 million switch away from burning coal for which it was designed, in order to convert its six colossal boilers to burn millions of tons a year of wood chips instead.
Most of these chips will come from trees felled in forests covering a staggering 4,600 square miles in the USA, from where they will be shipped 3,000 miles across the Atlantic to Britain.”…..
Also the mad scientists want even mre money to prove that its man who is the problem. If this keeps up theonly solution is to remove mankind from the planet…..
Infographics on the distribution of wealth in America, highlighting both the inequality and the difference between our perception of inequality and the actual numbers. The reality is often not what we think it is.
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If there is one shining light in all this it’s this: When the financial markets finally hit the wall, the people who will be hurt the most will not be the poor or even middle class. It will be the people who are holding all the paper promises (the 1%)
So far, all the government-induced distortions of the markets have been engineered to help the 1% (at the cost of everyone else.) But that game can only go on for so long and when it finally breaks the rapid descent and evaporation of paper wealth is going to be breathtaking.
Nature will take care of this. The curve will even out.
On Radio Left wing this morning hosted by Tweedledum and Tweedledee I listened – who couldn’t, without turning off, to Clayton Cosgrove – a “Clayton” being a Labour list MP when not a real MP, shouting the odds on how he was going to get ex Solid Energy boss on Thursday at the Commerce Select Committee.
I am sure that he was badly constipated as neither of the two Tweedle’s could get a word in edgeways. His rant was most interesting – he has said and done sweet fa since he got booted out at the last election so here was his “joure de gloire” so we cannot forget who he is. I doubt whether any Chairman is going to control him. He will need a good enema to slow him down.
He says he is going to take Dr Elder’s down along with the Government at the Committee.
Unfortunately in listening to him, it is going to be all about Clayton. He will be rude and arrogant as expected. in the hope that anybody will care.
He should pause to recognise that Elder is a very an experienced operator, who has actually worked for his living, and is not going to let the “Clayton” man upset him.
“Clayton” should realise that much of the planning for Solid Energy was approved under the Klark regime, and may come back to smack him.
Urban sprawl is the way we would like to live.
Councils are there to provide to us they are not there to dictate what we want.
Zoning creates artificial value capture at the cost of others access to the resource.
To say the cost of new infrastructure is prohibitive ignores the cost of expanding services in existing suburbs.
It is far more expensive to rip up and disrupt existing services to expand capacity.
I am staying in the zone targeted for urban renewal All that is happening is they are bulldozing 3 brm homes to build two Mc mansions. The working class can not afford to live in the city fringe ellerslie avondale and similar suburbs are just to valuable to build new low rent houses on.
Relax the zoning that creates thousands of ten acre millstones to allow more of us the choice of suburban country living.
. But the greatest long-term threat to the peace of East Asia and Pacific Ocean — the part of the world at the heart of the Obama administration’s aspirational defense strategy — is climate change, according to the admiral in charge of U.S. military operations there.
“We already knew that on a global scale, Earth is warmer today than it was over much of the past 2,000 years,” said Shaun Marcott of Oregon State University, the paper’s lead author. “Now we know that it is warmer than most of the past 11,300 years.”
The planet’s gradual warming and cooling phases are largely caused by the Earth’s tilt as it orbits around the sun. During the period the OSU and Harvard University research team reconstructed, temperatures increased gradually until about 7,000 years ago, then began decreasing again. If not for human influence, Earth would be in a very cold period today. But soon after the industrial revolution happened, the planet began to warm.
It looks like ammo for the AR-15 rifle is very hard to come by in America at the moment, even at gun shows.
“You have any .22?,” I asked a dealer pricing boxes of ammunition at his table. “Nope,” he answered. “There’s none in here.”
He was right. Nothing. Not at any table.
I grabbed a few boxes of overpriced 9mm for the Glock and knew that was all I was taking home.
I get the feeling the run on “scary-looking assault weapons,” aka AR-15′s, aka semi-automatic rifles, has subsided, at least, for now. There were plenty of dealers selling, but I didn’t see many buyers.
Why? Well, for starters, there’s no ammo! Without ammo, it’s useless. The rifles have also increased significantly in price since the last time I visited the Expo Center in Fredericksburg, Va. back in December.
An hour before the doors opened, I stood in line with a vet and a young man in the Army. We noticed the lines weren’t nearly as long as those seen in Richmond just a month earlier. But, that was at 8:00am.
When I left at 10:45, there wasn’t an open parking spot, and the Wegman’s lot and surrounding strip malls looked suspiciously full. There was still a line to get inside the show, but it was moving.
“This administration is doing the exact opposite of what it wants to accomplish,” the vet said to me. “He’s the best gun salesman in the world,” I replied.
The younger man chimed in, mocking Sheriff Joe Biden’s lack of knowledge on the subject, and his constant gaffes on, well, almost everything.
I thanked them for their service before we parted ways. “Good luck, I hope you find what you came for,” one of them said.
Unfortunately, I didn’t.
When I got home an hour later I checked the usual online ammo dealers (as I do every time I sit down at my computer). There was nothing. No .22. No 9mm.
This is how it’s been for weeks. And I fear this is how it will be until the “gun-control” debate and attack on the 2nd Amendment subsides — if it ever does.
Until then, I’ll continue to buy a box here and there – that is, if DHS doesn’t buy it first.
Meanwhile the husband of Gabby Giffords (you remember her – the politician who was shot by a Leftist and which the media tried to pin on Sarah Palin) has just been caught buying an AR-15 rifle: the type Obama is trying to ban. And this after his anti-gun speeches.
Mark E. Kelly, gun-control proponent and husband to former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, recently purchased an AR-15 (an “assault weapon,” he called it)—which he now says he intended as an illustration of the need for more stringent gun laws.
Kelly reportedly bought the AR-15 and a 1911-style semi-automatic pistol at Diamondback Police Supply in Tucson, Arizona.
Various sources contacted Breitbart News once Kelly made the purchase, and after we began investigating the details surrounding the purchase, Kelly announced on his Facebook that he was not going to keep the AR-15, which he has yet to pick up from the store.
India May Cease Iranian Oil Imports As Insurers Back Out
Indian refiners may halt imports of Iranian crude oil after insurance firms said refineries processing Iranian oil will no longer be covered
Indian refiners may be forced to halt imports of Iranian crude oil after insurance firms said refineries processing oil from Iran will no longer be covered, a report said Saturday, according to the AFP news agency.
Yeah Fletch, he walked into a gun shop trying to get an AR-15 on the quiet, Mark Kelly, an astronaut, who’s well known by most Americans and especially gun owners but they’d never know who he was would they.
And while he was trying to secretly buy an AR-15 he had someone take a picture of him and then they let him have the picture…
“We already knew that on a global scale, Earth is warmer today than it was over much of the past 2,000 years,” said Shaun Marcott of Oregon State University, the paper’s lead author. “Now we know that it is warmer than most of the past 11,300 years.”
So “much of the pass 2,000 years” and “most of the past 11,300 years.”
He could have just said ‘we looked back over 11,300 years and found there is nothing new about current temperatures.’
Thanks Griff. If I’d said it you would have ignored it.
cha, more an idiot for believing he bought a gun just as an example of how easy it was and that he’s now not going to keep it? Really? B/S
People buy those guns every day and it’s not illegal to buy one yet. So what exactly was he trying to prove (if, like he says, he was trying to prove something).
I don’t see how anyone can believe any figures ever produced by this govt ever again..First there was English who was told to increase EQC rates in 2008/9 and didn’t get around it to it leading to lots of problems in CHCH. Then there was another codger who didn’t get around to increasing the amount to be paid for a marine disaster..hence a big bill for the tax payer over the Rena.. Now we have Solid Energy wallies drawing figures out of a hat..The company was supposed to have increased in value by 600 per cent in one year and no one asked any questions. I know some of these people in SOE’s are former public servants but planting seeds in a place like Omarama and not knowing that they would need water is really a step too far.
Elder hasn’t even got the guts to go on Campbell Live tonight..He is sending some new staff member along.
Many people in CHCH are working so hard..It is an insult to everyone that Elder is here doing his weeding on 5,000 a day.
What is Mighty River power going to get into? Mermaid farming?
Er. Where did the hockeystick go? Oh, it was a complete fabrication caused by incompetence and mishandling of data when they spliced historical proxy data with recent temperature records. Where have we heard that before? Ah yes, as mentioned in the piece, “Mike’s Nature Trick” was applied to a similar worthless effort several years ago, and on that occasion the author simply deleted the recent proxy data from the chart simply because it showed declining temperatures (remember, Griff says that’s okay because several internal whitewashes – sorry,”inquiries” – said so.)
The Marcott ‘hockey stick’ splices the recent instrumental record on the end of a proxy record. The proxy record provides a 300 year smoothing – i.e very low resolution, so doesn’t show any of the peaks and troughs that might have occurred.
If you apply the same 300 year smoothing to the recent instrumental record it would be flat.
I’m not sure if this is fraud or just incompetence.
I’ll believe a decorated Navy aviator who flew 39 combat missions in Operation Desert Storm, went on to become an astronaut, piloting Discovery and Endeavour, and was promoted to Shuttle Commander. And then there’s the Papal Blessing.
Wall Street Exploring Ways To Profit From Global Warming
Investing in climate change used to mean putting money into efforts to stop global warming. Morgan Stanley (MS), Goldman Sachs (GS), and other firms took stakes in wind farms and tidal-energy projects, and set up carbon-trading desks. The appeal of cleantech has dimmed as efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions have faltered: Venture capital and private equity investments fell 34 percent last year, to $5.8 billion, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
Now some investors are taking another approach. Working under the assumption that climate change is inevitable, they’re investing in businesses that will profit as the planet gets hotter. (The World Bank says the earth could warm by 4C by the end of the century.) Their strategies include buying water treatment companies, brokering deals for Australian farmland, and backing a startup that has engineered a mosquito to fight dengue, a disease that’s spreading as the mercury climbs.
Once upon a time the weatherman was a pleasant chap who would appear on telly around 7 pm and make predictions about the weather in the days ahead. These announcements were watched with great interest by the people. Of course he was always wildly inaccurate and only the gullible ever took the predictions seriously. It was good harmless fun, though some would take it literally and cancel events only to find clear sunny days, while others looking forward to sun would find the occasion swept away by rain and winds.
The malcontents and socialists noticed all the attention the humble weatherman was getting and became envious. They devised a plan. They asked some unemployed weathermen if they would like lots of money and have their guess work called “science”. They said that together they could rule the world. Most weathermen laughed at this, but some were tempted. At first they did not feel comfortable telling lies, but the socialists and malcontents explained that is was for the good and would result in a fairer more just world. So the weathermen agreed and broadcast that unless the socialist and malcontents got their way, the world would end.
The study found that a majority of men (32.7 per cent) found medium-sized breasts to be the most attractive, followed by large (24.4 per cent) and very large (19.1 per cent) breasts. Younger men were also more likely to rate busty women as more attractive.
Yes, bet that shocked a lot of you. But wait, there’s more. Supposedly, the more sexist a man is, the more likely he’ll be drawn to women with bigger breasts. And there’s different types of sexist. Turns out, if you’re a ‘nice guy’, you’re really a sexist bastard in disguise …
More significantly, ‘benevolent sexism’ was found to be the strongest predictor for breast size rating – overshadowing factors like sexual objectification and hostility towards women. Study co-author Viren Swami explains: “Benevolently sexist men may perceive larger breasts as ”appropriate” for feminine women; in other words … a feminine and submissive woman is likely to be someone with large breasts.”
Ironically, this means it’s the ‘nice guys’ who pride themselves in holding open car doors, offer to pay for dinners and believe ladies are to be ‘admired’ and ‘put on a pedestal’ who are most likely to buy into traditional beauty ideals – like having a ‘feminine figure’ in this case.
A piece about Mark Lynas, who finally grew up and realised what a bunch of anti-science thugs the Greens are:
“He’d been used to seeing the Green movement as the brave, scrappy underdogs. But the more he looked, the more little David began to resemble Goliath. “Just take the numbers,” he says. “Greenpeace, the whole international group, is a $150m outfit [in fact, figures provided by Greenpeace show global income in 2011 as $313.4m]. Bigger than the World Trade Organisation, and much more influential in terms of determining how people think.” For Lynas, the modern Green movement is one of undeniable force….Lynas has been very critical of Greenpeace’s policy towards a GM crop that’s become totemic among campaigners. Golden rice is a crop that’s been modified, by the insertion of the genes for the chemical beta-carotene, in an attempt to make it provide more vitamin A. “Vitamin-A deficiency is one of the leading causes of death in southeast Asia,” says Lynas. “It’s led to blindness and the death of about a quarter of a million people a year.” Yet campaigners, including Greenpeace, lobbied against it.
Greenpeace insists golden rice is a “waste of money” and an “ineffective tool… [that] is also environmentally irresponsible, poses risks to human health and compromises food security”. For Lynas, its stance is “just superstition. There are tens of thousands of kids who are dead who wouldn’t be dead otherwise. I don’t see how you could put this any other way. Imagine if Monsanto had been culpable in the deaths of tens of thousands of children! It would be all over the Guardian.”
wat, I was just having a read of the suyts space articles you linked to, and I see the Marcott hockey stick is even worse than I thought. It looks like they’ve actually stuck Mann’s hockey stick blade on to the end of their proxy handle.
Don’t know what this means but from John Wanoa on Facebook
ITS ALL OVER THE WORLD NEWS THE QUEENS ARREST WARRANT PUTS NEW ZEALAND MONARCHY RULE OF LAW OUT AND NEW ZELAND PARLIAMENTARY SOVEREIGNTY OUT OF JURISDICTION OF “MOAI CROWN” SOVEREIGNTY AT LAW NOW. I spoke to Charl Hirschfeld this morning and he is impressed by my MOAI CROWN CONFEDERATION CLAIM CASES will win in COURT he is ready for anyone in the “CROWN” to step up to “MOAI CROWN” in any COURT including the LAND REGISTER GENERAL of this MOTEL LAND is SUBJECT now to COURT CASES. Please dont make us FORCE this RULE of LAW otherwise it will COST YOU ALL you have in your POSSESSION and BANK. AFFIDAVIT: I John Wanoa Customary Legal Advocate Assignee and Moai Tahitian Historian of Auckland New Zealand swear this is my Solemn Sovereigns Truth Statements so help me God I speak Moai Earth Gods Truth. This is the latest news puts a BAD CASE against the “CROWN” here in New Courts when we take this case and 61 COOK STREET Auckland City and BAYLEYS REAL ESTATE Company and myself living on the WATERFRONT LAND I AM INVESTIGATOR OF! Please take this as SERIOUS from my SELF and HIRSCHFELD who is an OWNER on these EAST CAPE LAND BLOCKS so no amount of DEFENSE will WIN against MOAI CROWN I was told by him this morning AWHINA and GREG.i have a Letter from my Lawyer coming and a Letter to the LAND TRANSFER OFFICE to STOP the TRANSFER to any NEW LAND OWNERS of 365 LOTTIN POINT ROAD.
Could be interesting tomorrow, Wednesday 13 March 2013, at the Auckland Town Hall, 10am, when the Auckland Council Performance and Accountability Committee meets?
Will ‘anti-corruption whistle-blowers’ Gary Osbourne and Penny Bright be granted ‘speaking rights’ at Public Forum – or not?
Councillor Richard Northey
Chair of the Performance and Accountability Committee,
Auckland Council
RE: Your refusal to grant speaking rights to Gary Osbourne.
“I decline speaking rights for this meeting on the grounds that this issue was addressed by the submitter at the Governing Body on 28 February.
Cr Richard Northey”
From: Judith Moore
To: ‘Gary Osborne’
Cc: Jason Marris ; Warwick McNaughton
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2013 11:24 AM
Subject: RE: Speaking Rights
Good morning Mr Osborne
Further to your request to speak to the Accountability and Performance Committee 13 March 2013, I have forwarded your request to the chair of this committee including the updated information you have given to me. I am in receipt of this response from the chair:
I decline speaking rights for this meeting on the grounds that this issue was addressed by the submitter at the Governing Body on 28 February.
Cr Richard Northey
Regards
Judith Moore | Democracy Advisor
Democracy Services
Supporting: Cr Noelene Raffills and Cr Cameron Brewer.
Involved in the following committees/subcommittees:
Accountability and Performance, CEO Review.
Ph. +64 9 307 7288 DDI| Extn. (40) 7288 | Mob. +64 21 708 401 | Fax +64 9 30 77579
Auckland Council, Level 14, Civic Building, 1 Greys Avenue,
Councillor Richard Northey – may I respectfully suggest that you reconsider your above-mentioned decision?
Gary Osbourne has arguably SIGNIFICANTLY new subject matter to raise on this issue – unless of course you think that a request to the Minister of Local Government for an inquiry into the authorisation by the CEO of Auckland Council, blocking of correspondence between concerned citizens is effectively a ‘non-event’?
Perhaps you could remind me of the last time the Minister of Local Government was formally requested to inquire into a matter concerning Auckland Council?
Please be reminded that this is the PERFORMANCE AND ACCOUNTABILITY COMMITTEE of Auckland Council?
This is a SERIOUS matter of PERFORMANCE and ACCOUNTABILITY – is it not?
I look forward to your confirmation that both Gary Osbourne and myself ,( I have yet to have my request for speaking rights confirmed), have been granted 5 minutes each speaking time, as requested at Public Forum, Performance and Accountability Committee, Auckland Council, Wednesday 13 March 2013, 10 am at the Auckland Town Hall.
This is a formal request for speaking rights at ‘Public Forum’ at the
upcoming meeting next Wednesday morning 13 March 2013, 10am Auckland Town Hall – Accountability and Performance Committee.
The Accountability and Performance Committee will have responsibility for:
• Monitoring the performance of the Council against the Long Term Plan and Annual Plan;
• Monitoring, setting policies and reviewing the performance of the CCOs against
organisational, CCO and SOI’s targets;
• Considering the Councils Annual report and recommending to the Governing Body for
adoption;
• Financial performance of Council functions; and
• Delegation of powers to subcommittee(s).
The Committee will be supported in its work by the following:
• The Council Controlled Organisation Strategy Review Subcommittee;
• The Chief Executive Review Subcommittee; and
• The Tenders and Procurement Subcommittee.
Relevant legislation includes but is not limited to:
Local Government Act 2002;
Local Government (Auckland Council) Act 2009;
Port Companies Act 1988; and
Companies Act 1987
1) The total amount of money spent to date by Auckland Council on legal fees/ costs relating to all Court proceedings arising from or pertaining to Occupy Auckland prosecutions, and related matters.
2) Why I believe it is totally inappropriate/ unlawful for the CEO of Auckland Council, Doug McKay to investigate himself, regarding the complaints I and others have made about his role in authorising the ‘blocking’ / filtering / effective censorship of emails from some citizens going directly to elected representatives.
3) Progress (if any) on ‘opening the books’ and making publicly-available the following details of ‘contracts issued’ by Auckland Council and Auckland Council CCOs:
a) NAMES of contractors / consultants.
b) SCOPE of contracts issued.
c) TERM of contracts issued.
d) VALUE of contracts issued.
4) Progress (if any) on transparency and accountability of Auckland Council elected representatives and staff responsible in any way in the awarding of Auckland Council or CCO contracts, in the form of a publicly-available ‘Register of Interests’, in order to minimise possible ‘conflicts of interest’.
……
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Looking forward to the lawful democratic rights of citizens, plus commonsense prevailing.
Kind regards,
Penny Bright
‘Anti-corruption campaigner’
Appellant, Occupy Auckland vs Auckland Council Appeal.
Griff, here is one weatherman who did tell the truth.
Augie Auer, an atmospheric scientist and meteorologist, Professor of Atmospheric Science at the University of Wyoming for 22 years, Chief Meteorologist for the Meteorological Service of New Zealand Limited from 1990 to 1998.
“In 2006, he helped found the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition in order to argue claims about man-made global warming.
In a 19 May 2007 interview with The Timaru Herald newspaper, Auer said a combination of misinterpreted and misguided science, media hype, and political spin had created the current hysteria and it was time to put a stop to it, adding “It is time to attack the myth of global warming.”
US Supreme Court: AMERICA IS VEERING TOWARDS DICTATORSHIP
(NaturalNews) When you hear some pundit or historian compare the loss of democratic republican rule currently taking place in the United States with how it happened in ancient Rome, you may be tempted to shrug it off as hyperbole or over dramatization.
When you hear a U.S. Supreme Court Justice and other top government officials use the comparison, it should alarm you tremendously because they are, in essence, firing a warning shot.
In a recent Q & A with students of the University of New Hampshire, former Justice David Souter made the comparison above, along with several other observations that he says all add up to a potential loss of democratic government – and freedom – for Americans at some point in the future.
When a former Supreme Court Justice is worried about our loss of democracy…
That “failed weatherman” is kicking alarmist arse all over the Planet.
Wouldnt Penny and Griff make a fine couple. Just think of all the conspiracy theories they could discuss
Looking forward to the lawful democratic rights of citizens, plus commonsense prevailing.
Lawful, democratic rights? Commonsense? Oh the irony…. Penny Not-So fires out letters in all directions in an effort to be granted time in front of the Auckland Council, but the same Penny Not-So refuses to pay the same Auckland Council her lawfully assessed rates (including back charges and penalties).
On this basis, I wouldn’t mind it one little bit if the Auckland Council told Ms Not-So to get stuffed.
President barack obama State of the union address February 15th 2013 Breaking News Obama approves Live Birth Abortion Induced Labor Abortions for hours babies left to die in medical clinics and hospitals.
Did you know that there is a market for “high quality” aborted fetal parts? It has now come out that abortion clinics sell “high quality” baby parts from abortions to universities and medical researchers. The following is just one shocking quote from an absolutely stunning report about this practice: “We would sell the tissue to private contractors. They in turn would sell to other universities and researchers. There was a high demand every week to buy such fetal tissues. It was shipped by UPS, FedEx, Airborne and sometimes by special couriers.”
How strong can the United States of America be when it has aborted more than 54 million children since 1973? Unless something changes soon, The USA will soon have killed 60 million children. Think about that number. That would be ten times the number of Jews that the Nazis killed during the Holocaust. We know the judgment God brought on Germany. Do we really expect God to do less to us unless we repent? The President spoke of being focused on “saving the world’s children from preventable deaths.” Isn’t abortion preventable? How much longer will Washington ignore this genocide and do nothing to stop it? I am disappointed the President isn’t committed to creating a culture of life and to helping us end this evil scourge of infanticade. I love this country, which is why I must speak out on this great moral issue of our time. I fear for our future if we don’t wake up and reverse course.
BREAKING!! Australian Politician Ann Bressington Exposes Agenda 21 and New World Order
Published on Feb 7, 2013
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This video is the edited version to her speech as I only have 15 minutes upload allowance…original video with full speech is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sES6_O…
Like fuck if you like tarnish so much you pay her rates.
Tin hats are for people that believe the government is out to get them.
Like P Tarnish who hides one under her dead cat and climate denial nutters.
Hows agenda 21 going nutjobs
Sorted out the tv weather men you hate yet?
In Bernard’s view, climate change is nothing but a plot perpetuated by crazy liberals intent on bringing about, as he put it in one tweet, “global wealth redistribution.
A long duration nor’easter continues to pound New England with high winds, coastal flooding, and heavy snow. As expected, the Friday morning high tide brought major coastal flooding to the Massachusetts shoreline, from Cape Ann to Nantucket. High seas driven by four straight days of gale force winds eroded beaches and damaged homes. More coastal flooding is anticipated during Friday evening’s high tide, but it may be less severe than what has occurred so far, due to lower astronomical high tides at that time.
I hope those on the east coast sea front are reevaluating their options.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — This summer the North Carolina Senate passed a bill banning researchers from reporting predicted increases in the rate of sea level rise. But the ocean, unbound by legislation, is rising anyway — and in North Carolina this rise is accelerating,
On the coast of North Carolina and at other so-called “hotspots” along the U.S. East Coast, sea levels are rising about three times more quickly on average than they are globally, researchers reported during a session devoted to sea level rise.
“On the coast of North Carolina and at other so-called “hotspots” along the U.S. East Coast, sea levels are rising about three times more quickly on average than they are globally”
Let’s just keep reading on a bit then.. “globally they’ve risen up to 0.4 inches (1.0 cm) per decade”
Wow, so the global average sea level rise is actually only 1mm/year. Good to know.
A recent research report by Stefan Rahmstorf, Grant Foster and Anny Cazenave using satellite altimetry found that global sea level is rising 60% faster than IPCC forecasts. However, detailed analysis of satellite altimetry maps shows hotspots in the western Pacific, southern Indian ocean and western North Atlantic where sea level rise is taking place at a much higher than average rate. The coastline from Cape Hatteras to Cape Cod, where this fall’s intense storm damage occurred is a sea level rise hot spot. Sea level rise made the damage significantly worse.
A new paper in the Journal of Geophysical Research offers fresh insights into Arctic sea ice. Researchers compared observations of Arctic sea ice with projections from IPCC models. Arctic sea ice thins and drifts faster in the summer months, accelerating sea ice decline. The paper finds that IPCC climate models underestimate observed Arctic sea ice loss, particularly thinning trends. This means that the IPCC projections for ice-free Arctic summer seas by 2100 are likely to be too conservative.
Back to bleating on about the sea ice around the continent of Antarctica are we
Estimates of recent changes in Antarctic land ice (see above) range from losing 100 gigatons/year to over 300 gigatons/year. Because 360 gigatons/year represents an annual sea level rise of 1 mm/year, recent estimates indicate a contribution of between 0.27 mm/year and 0.83 mm/year coming from Antarctica. There is of course uncertainty in the estimations methods but multiple different types of measurement techniques (explained here) all show the same thing, Antarctica is losing land ice as a whole, and these losses are accelerating quickly.
“These data have not yet been verified and published”
From the article on Rahmsdorf and Foster. No doubt it will be proved to be the usual rubbish from these two. You really believe those models eh Griff. Anyway, what happened to 20 meters rise?
“…global sea level is rising 60% faster than IPCC forecasts…”
More fraud.
“If we take Rahmstorf’s 1993 – 2006 period value of 3.3 mm/year, then we see that sea level rise has actually slowed down by 3%, and not risen 60%. The tricks being used by alarmist climate scientists are becoming ever more obvious and desperate.”
The rise in sea level continues well after the time frame usually associated for climate change.
Estimates is the reason why we have error bars nothing is 100 percent certain*.
If you take the suggested maximum rise of 2 degrees as agreed to by the majority of countries and the midpoint of climate sensitivity estimates at 3C
We run out of room to expand co2 emissions in a decade or so.
If you take the science coming out about permafrost and methane seriously we are already locked into “CAGW”
That would be the same Greenpeace which lobbied against DDT
They lobbied unsuccessfully because although the 2001 Stockholm Convention banned most uses of organochlorine pesticides as persistent organic pollutants it specifically limited the use of DDT to malaria control.
“Back to bleating on about the sea ice around the continent of Antarctica are we”
Just stating facts.
“The ice surrounding Antarctica reached its annual winter maximum—and set a record for a new high. Sea ice extended over 19.44 million square kilometers (7.51 million square miles) in 2012, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). The previous record of 19.39 million kilometers (7.49 million square miles) was set in 2006.”
Greenpeace founder Patrick Moore – who has completely rejected its modern murderous incarnation – explains how they are now trying to re-write history:
“I realize there is a major effort at Greenpeace to rewrite the history on this subject as I have been informed by a Greenpeace spokesperson in the UK that “Greenpeace was never opposed to the use of DDT for malaria control.” This has to be one of the most blatant examples of historical revisionism I have encountered.”
Re: ‘Now we know that it is warmer than most of the past 11,300 years.’
“But Marcott says the record shows just how unusual our current warming is. “It’s really the rates of change here that’s amazing and atypical,” he says. Essentially, it’s warming up superfast.”
Marcott neglected to tell [that] his methodology did not recognize ‘fast’ century changes at all–until recent thermometer records were spliced onto the 73 paleosites.’
wat, how do you expect to measure temperature with “thermometers” ?
The consensus is that the worlds thermometers have sold out to BIG OIL and the Carbon Industry [chuckle]. If you want real “climate science” you must use computer models.
You conspirawacky nut job denialist… blah blah blah
Further to my post at 8.34am. The guy who was shot in the thigh with a 38 was a very stroppy individual and had to be handcuffed to the Ambulance stretcher. It was obvious the copper projectile that went straight through his thigh hardly slowed him down. A hollow point would have done the trick but he would have probably lost his leg. Its all history now and he is no longer with us.
Kea
Wasn’t Augie Auer murdered?
Hinamanu
A much younger Helen Clark was the secretary of ”Parliamentarians for World Order.” Lange and most of the other Labour people at that time were members..When they were ”outed” , the organization changed its name , got a bit more secretive and carried on.
His wife screams at him, “I’ve not done my hair, not done my make up, not done any housework, not done the dishes & can’t be bothered with cooking! What the fuck did you invite him round for?”
Rodders
Internet stalking is a crime. I realize that you have serious problems..I would like you to get some help. You can arrange to get counseling through your G.P.
Perhaps most strangely, some have cited the purchase of hollow-point ammunition as evidence of the federal government’s evil motives. Hollow-points are the defensive ammunition of choice for federal, state and local law enforcement officers across the country, just as they are for private citizens. These attacks are eerily similar to statements made by gun prohibitionists, who spent the much of the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s complaining about “dum dum” bullets. (In fact, the Violence Policy Center’s website still exhibits a publication lamenting that federal ammunition law “has no effect on today’s generation of high-tech hollow-point ammunition.”) The attacks also ignore the fact that federal agents, unlike average taxpayers on more limited budgets, normally train and qualify with their duty ammunition.
Shame on you for mentioning such a thing Rodders….that site is for gentlemen looking to settle down & live pure lives in a respectable state of marriage.
What harm has salt ever done anyone?, it doesn’t make you fat, it doesn’t make you bash your missus, it doesn’t make you kill people on the road. It doesn’t send you on machete welding rampages. For fuck sake let it go . Lettuce is wet grass without salt, leave me something you pious pricks
Some of those Aussies are fair sus Rodders. For instance you may not realise that prophylactics were an Australian invention, first developed in 1847, utilising sheep intestines.
The Kiwis later improved on the concept by removing the intestines from the sheep first!
COUNCILLOR CATHY CASEY SUPPORTS MY RIGHT TO SPEAK:
Hi Penny
I support your right to speak.. If the Committee Chair does not allow you to address us, I will move that we suspend standing orders and allow you to have your five minutes. I need a seconder.
Happy Tuesday!
……
Dr Cathy Casey
Councillor, Albert-Eden-Roskill Ward
Governing Body, Auckland Council
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Penny Bright MY REPLY TO COUNCILLOR CATHY CASEY: 13 March 2013.
Thank you Cathy.
I am not particularly looking forward to going back to the ‘bad old Auckland City Council days’?
After 22 arrests, it ended up 21 -1 to me, and a number of District Court judgments which ‘fine-tuned’ the LGOIMA process, to defend the basic democratic rights of citizens.
If Councillor Richard Northey were to exercise his ‘judgment’ based upon the LAW and previous legal judgments, in my opinion, we wouldn’t be having this problem.
I am getting SO sick of some elected representatives and senior Council staff – just MAKING IT UP – when it comes to the lawful rights of citizens?
Looking forward to confirmation of a number of Councillors, queuing up to second your motion.
Even better, Councillor Richard Northey, exercising rather more sound judgment based upon the LAW, and reconsidering his (unlawful, in my opinion) denial of 5 minutes speaking rights at the Public Forum of Auckland Council Performance and Accountability Committee.
Kind regards,
Penny Bright
‘Anti-corruption campaigner’.
Occupy Auckland Appellant (in my own name).
2013 Auckland Mayoral candidate.
____________________________________________________________________________________________
Please be advised that I WILL be taking Speaking Rights, having now been declined on what I consider to be an UNLAWFUL basis. NOT a good look for Auckland Council – especially in election year? SPEAKING RIGHTS DENIED: 3:51 PM (10 minutes ago)
(REPLY FROM AUCKLAND COUNCILLOR RICHARD NORTHEY – DENYING ME SPEAKING RIGHTS)
Good afternoon Ms Bright
Further to your request to speak to the Accountability and Performance Committee 13 March 2013, I have forwarded your request to the chair of this committee. I am in receipt of this response from the chair:
These 4 matters have either been recently considered or dealt with by the Governing Body or by an appropriate Council Committee at the Submitter’s request or else are the subject of an LGOIMA Request by the submitter.
Therefore the request to present in public input is declined.
Cr Richard Northey
________________________________________________________________________________________________
WHAT I WILL BE SPEAKING ABOUT:
________________________________________________________________________________________________
‘Open Letter’
10 March 2013
Dear Judith,
This is a formal request for speaking rights at ‘Public Forum’ at the
upcoming meeting next Wednesday morning 13 March 2013, 10am Auckland Town Hall – Accountability and Performance Committee.
The Accountability and Performance Committee will have responsibility for:
• Monitoring the performance of the Council against the Long Term Plan and Annual Plan;
• Monitoring, setting policies and reviewing the performance of the CCOs against
organisational, CCO and SOI’s targets;
• Considering the Councils Annual report and recommending to the Governing Body for
adoption;
• Financial performance of Council functions; and
• Delegation of powers to subcommittee(s).
The Committee will be supported in its work by the following:
• The Council Controlled Organisation Strategy Review Subcommittee;
• The Chief Executive Review Subcommittee; and
• The Tenders and Procurement Subcommittee.
Relevant legislation includes but is not limited to:
Local Government Act 2002;
Local Government (Auckland Council) Act 2009;
Port Companies Act 1988; and
Companies Act 1987
1) The total amount of money spent to date by Auckland Council on legal fees/ costs relating to all Court proceedings arising from or pertaining to Occupy Auckland prosecutions, and related matters.
2) Why I believe it is totally inappropriate/ unlawful for the CEO of Auckland Council, Doug McKay to investigate himself, regarding the complaints I and others have made about his role in authorising the ‘blocking’ / filtering / effective censorship of emails from some citizens going directly to elected representatives.
3) Progress (if any) on ‘opening the books’ and making publicly-available the following details of ‘contracts issued’ by Auckland Council and Auckland Council CCOs:
a) NAMES of contractors / consultants.
b) SCOPE of contracts issued.
c) TERM of contracts issued.
d) VALUE of contracts issued.
4) Progress (if any) on transparency and accountability of Auckland Council elected representatives and staff responsible in any way in the awarding of Auckland Council or CCO contracts, in the form of a publicly-available ‘Register of Interests’, in order to minimise possible ‘conflicts of interest’.
……
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Looking forward to the lawful democratic rights of citizens, plus commonsense prevailing.
Kind regards,
Penny Bright
‘Anti-corruption campaigner’
Appellant, Occupy Auckland vs Auckland Council Appeal.
Penny Not So, just how the fuck can you be a 2013 Auckland Mayoral Candidate
after 22 arrests and refusing to pay your rates ?
This has got me fucked and alot of others on here as well !
Penny Bright These 4 matters have either been recently considered or dealt with by the Governing Body or by an appropriate Council Committee at the Submitter’s request or else are the subject of an LGOIMA Request by the submitter. Therefore the request to present in public input is declined.
Cr Richard Northey
Seems like they believe you would be only repeating yourself, or they themselves.
And you have just done it again here
Penny, the watchdog that cried Wolf several times too often.
Yes, and we know – this has really really made your day
Do not feed the watchdog.
March 12th, 2013 at 8:12 am
Mr Brown has proclaimed to all who would listen that Auckland has 15,000 sections ready for houses to be built on “right now”.
There are just 2000 sections ready for construction to begin.
Auckland runs out of land to build on in May.
Len Brown wants you to live in an apartment so he can have his flash lifestyle section
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10870644
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 8:17 am
The Denver Post, on February 15th, ran an Associated Press article entitled Homeland Security aims to buy 1.6b rounds of ammo, so far to little notice. It confirmed that the Department of Homeland Security has issued an open purchase order for 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition. As reported elsewhere, some of this purchase order is for hollow-point rounds, forbidden by international law for use in war, along with a frightening amount specialized for snipers. Also reported elsewhere, at the height of the Iraq War the Army was expending less than 6 million rounds a month. Therefore 1.6 billion rounds would be enough to sustain a hot war for 20+ years. In America.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ralphbenko/2013/03/11/1-6-billion-rounds-of-ammo-for-homeland-security-its-time-for-a-national-conversation/
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 8:25 am
John Key, there is no harm voting for something you’ve changed your mind on. In fact I think it’s better that you do.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/8412356/Holiday-Mondayisation-bill-expected-to-pass
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 8:30 am
Bloomberg-style nanny-state madness:
Come Tuesday city inspectors will be armed with 17-ounce cups to police New York City Mayor Bloomberg’s controversial new law banning large sodas and other sugary drinks.
‘The measuring cups that we will be issuing … will be able to contain 17 fluid ounces,’ Kass said.
Inspectors will issue violations when a cup is found to ‘clearly exceed’ 16 ounces ‘when measured in the inspector’s measuring cup,’ he added.
http://michellemalkin.com/2013/03/11/new-yorkers-big-gulp-freedom/
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 8:32 am
Crossposted from yesterday’s GD:
A despicable totalitarian (and “academic”) speaks:
“Associate Professor Nick Wilson, the study’s lead author, said while the research showed it was possible to have a low-salt diet by making the right choices, it would be easier to achieve if Government restricted the amount of salt in everyday products.
“It could do this by regulating down the maximum level of salt permitted in commercially produced foods, particularly in bread, processed meats and sauces,” he said.
“A tax on junk food would also help as such food is usually high in salt as well as sugar and saturated fat. The money from such a tax could then fund healthy school lunches and help pay for better health services for diseases caused by high salt – especially stroke and heart attacks.”
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/8409960/Diets-spoilt-by-too-much-salt-study
Deport him to Cuba, I reckon.
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 8:34 am
UglyTruth. 8.17am
I think you will discover that hollow point .. Dum dum .. Projectiles are now more accepted. Safer for it to Expand or fragment in your target rather than a through and through and kill someone behind.
Let’s face it they are designed to kill so why not make it quick. I have seen a GSW where a copper jacket projectile has gone through a thigh and missing bone. Small hole either side and the guy had plenty of fight left in him.
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 8:38 am
UglyTruth.
Vote:Something like 100 billion rounds of small arms ammo was manufactured for use in WW2 so 1.6 bil isnt that much really
March 12th, 2013 at 8:45 am
David Clark has received plenty of attention lately, including from DPF. Some rate him as a rising Labour star. Craccum are featuring him in a regular debate with Jamie-Lee Ross and asked him:
Clark chose not to answer this but instead launched into a famiiar sermon against National, straight from the good book of Labour PR:
He went on reciting familiar Labour lines, and ended with:
This is superficial politicking that adds nothing of substance to the convention centre debate, and going back to square one in the process is ludicrous.
Clark has risen quickly up the Labour ladder. If he wants to live up to the star hype he needs to step up, and sound like he can think for himself.
Preaching pissy party pointscoring platitudes won’t earn reverence as an up and coming MP worth listening to. Rev. David Clark – Labour party preacher
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 8:47 am
RF.
A FMJ round will punch a small neat hole in someone, that wounded person requires lots of care. The plan being not to kill the enemy but wound them as a wounded enemy sucks up lots more resources that a dead enemy.
A soft point (or ballistic tip or hollow point) round will be used for accurate shooting. The round needs to slow down a bit or it wont expand. In hunting if you shoot a deer very close up with a BT the projectile may shatter or punch straight thru whereas you really want the projectile to expend all of its energy within the animal and not exit the chest cavity.
Unless your using a projectile like a Barnes solid that is meant to expand and punch a hole thru for a “free flowing wound channel”
easy tracking to your deer.
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 8:49 am
RF, There are reportedly now 124 firearms companies that are participating in the Firearms Equality Movement. The companies refuse to supply product to any state government which legislates against the right of its citizens to keep and bear arms.
It will be interesting to see if this philosophy is extended to the DHS.
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 8:52 am
UglyTruth – AFAIK NZ Poice use ammo that is illegal for wartime use. The Police objective is to impose serious trauma that the alleged offender cannot react eg shooting back. The alleged offender is in that position by choice. In war, soldiers are often not there by choice – they are there by compultion or strong patriotism, including enormous peer group pressure.
Seems stange that Homeland Security needs 1.6B rounds, but then parameters such as contract term, number of armed people, rounds required for practice, etc was not mentioned. NZ Police would probably require 10,000 – 100,000 rounds for each one used ‘in ernest’.
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 9:04 am
Fire arms equality movement?
Is that like where parliament can be led by a small group of activists to pass a law to say that a pistol is a rifle?
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 9:15 am
kowtow, here’s a link to a little background on the movement.
http://patriotpost.us/editions/17147
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 9:23 am
This what happens when the lunatics get in charge….
(Drax is a large generator in Yorkshire)
…”As from next month, Drax will embark on a £700 million switch away from burning coal for which it was designed, in order to convert its six colossal boilers to burn millions of tons a year of wood chips instead.
Most of these chips will come from trees felled in forests covering a staggering 4,600 square miles in the USA, from where they will be shipped 3,000 miles across the Atlantic to Britain.”…..
From http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2290444/Madness-How-pay-billions-electricity-bills-Britains-biggest-power-station-switch-coal-wood-chips–wont-help-planet-jot.html
Also the mad scientists want even mre money to prove that its man who is the problem. If this keeps up theonly solution is to remove mankind from the planet…..
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/letters/9920713/The-Government-must-increase-funding-for-science-and-engineering-in-order-to-boost-growth.html
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 9:27 am
It’s much worse than you think
Infographics on the distribution of wealth in America, highlighting both the inequality and the difference between our perception of inequality and the actual numbers. The reality is often not what we think it is.
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If there is one shining light in all this it’s this: When the financial markets finally hit the wall, the people who will be hurt the most will not be the poor or even middle class. It will be the people who are holding all the paper promises (the 1%)
So far, all the government-induced distortions of the markets have been engineered to help the 1% (at the cost of everyone else.) But that game can only go on for so long and when it finally breaks the rapid descent and evaporation of paper wealth is going to be breathtaking.
Nature will take care of this. The curve will even out.
http://www.realecontv.com/videos/us/wealth-inequality-in-america.html
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 9:35 am
But can a pistol only marry a rifle? or can a pistol marry another pistol? (and adopt lil pistols if they want to)
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 9:39 am
On Radio Left wing this morning hosted by Tweedledum and Tweedledee I listened – who couldn’t, without turning off, to Clayton Cosgrove – a “Clayton” being a Labour list MP when not a real MP, shouting the odds on how he was going to get ex Solid Energy boss on Thursday at the Commerce Select Committee.
I am sure that he was badly constipated as neither of the two Tweedle’s could get a word in edgeways. His rant was most interesting – he has said and done sweet fa since he got booted out at the last election so here was his “joure de gloire” so we cannot forget who he is. I doubt whether any Chairman is going to control him. He will need a good enema to slow him down.
He says he is going to take Dr Elder’s down along with the Government at the Committee.
Unfortunately in listening to him, it is going to be all about Clayton. He will be rude and arrogant as expected. in the hope that anybody will care.
He should pause to recognise that Elder is a very an experienced operator, who has actually worked for his living, and is not going to let the “Clayton” man upset him.
“Clayton” should realise that much of the planning for Solid Energy was approved under the Klark regime, and may come back to smack him.
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 9:44 am
Paulus – Labour seem to think that poor governance of Solid Energy is their next big thing after opposition to asset sales.
I’m interested to see how much more hands-on SOEs they think Government should be.
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 10:18 am
Why is the herald moaning that the govt will not listen to a referendum on asset sales?
Surely National were given approval for asset sales when they won the last election on that?
A bit different from Helen Clark who would keep policy secret until after the election.
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 10:41 am
Leo Hickman has a sulk in his column for Auto Trader’s comedy news supplement, the Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2013/mar/01/climate-sceptics-capture-bloggies-science
Seems he thinks sceptics are ‘gaming’ the bloggies.
It seems to be another case of alarmists denying reality:
Alexa Rankings, with #1 being the most visited site in the world.
Wattsupwiththat – 26,407
Realclimate.org – 138,461
Skepticalscience – 141,058
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 11:08 am
@ Griff
Vote:There is a lack of viable economy to provide inftastructure for growing population. Population growth is government policy.
March 12th, 2013 at 11:24 am
Urban sprawl is the way we would like to live.
Vote:Councils are there to provide to us they are not there to dictate what we want.
Zoning creates artificial value capture at the cost of others access to the resource.
To say the cost of new infrastructure is prohibitive ignores the cost of expanding services in existing suburbs.
It is far more expensive to rip up and disrupt existing services to expand capacity.
I am staying in the zone targeted for urban renewal All that is happening is they are bulldozing 3 brm homes to build two Mc mansions. The working class can not afford to live in the city fringe ellerslie avondale and similar suburbs are just to valuable to build new low rent houses on.
Relax the zoning that creates thousands of ten acre millstones to allow more of us the choice of suburban country living.
March 12th, 2013 at 11:35 am
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/03/climate-change/
http://billmoyers.com/2013/03/11/global-warming-has-already-caused-unprecedented-change/
Vote:New longer hockey stick graph
March 12th, 2013 at 11:53 am
It looks like ammo for the AR-15 rifle is very hard to come by in America at the moment, even at gun shows.
http://cnsnews.com/blog/gregory-gwyn-williams-jr/va-gun-show-dealers-out-ammo-nope-theres-none-here
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 11:56 am
Meanwhile the husband of Gabby Giffords (you remember her – the politician who was shot by a Leftist and which the media tried to pin on Sarah Palin) has just been caught buying an AR-15 rifle: the type Obama is trying to ban. And this after his anti-gun speeches.
Yeh, only because he got busted.
Hypocrite.
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 12:01 pm
India May Cease Iranian Oil Imports As Insurers Back Out
Indian refiners may halt imports of Iranian crude oil after insurance firms said refineries processing Iranian oil will no longer be covered
Indian refiners may be forced to halt imports of Iranian crude oil after insurance firms said refineries processing oil from Iran will no longer be covered, a report said Saturday, according to the AFP news agency.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/166043#.UT5hsjH4J8E
I wonder if this has to do with the largest naval fleet in history (US) in the Hormuz Strait outside Iran
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 12:15 pm
Yeah Fletch, he walked into a gun shop trying to get an AR-15 on the quiet, Mark Kelly, an astronaut, who’s well known by most Americans and especially gun owners but they’d never know who he was would they.
And while he was trying to secretly buy an AR-15 he had someone take a picture of him and then they let him have the picture…
Idiot//
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 12:16 pm
BTW Fletch, you missed this lie.
http://www.businessinsider.com/paul-krugman-bankruptcy-story-false-spreads-2013-3
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 12:21 pm
“We already knew that on a global scale, Earth is warmer today than it was over much of the past 2,000 years,” said Shaun Marcott of Oregon State University, the paper’s lead author. “Now we know that it is warmer than most of the past 11,300 years.”
So “much of the pass 2,000 years” and “most of the past 11,300 years.”
He could have just said ‘we looked back over 11,300 years and found there is nothing new about current temperatures.’
Thanks Griff. If I’d said it you would have ignored it.
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 12:35 pm
The ellerslie flower show being held in Christchurch is absurd.
I wonder, could someone start a flower show in ‘Ellerslie’ and call it the Ellerslie flower show?
Surely that would be less fraudulent than the christchurch scam?
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 12:48 pm
cha, more an idiot for believing he bought a gun just as an example of how easy it was and that he’s now not going to keep it? Really? B/S
People buy those guns every day and it’s not illegal to buy one yet. So what exactly was he trying to prove (if, like he says, he was trying to prove something).
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 12:52 pm
Faaaa…this is so funny …and so American
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=600189426675277&set=a.130935610267330.19662.110312852329606&type=1&theater
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 12:53 pm
wreck1080. 12.35pm.
I understood the Christchurch City Council forked out around 3 million for the flower show and that included the Ellerslie name.
Might not be money well spent.
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 1:04 pm
I don’t see how anyone can believe any figures ever produced by this govt ever again..First there was English who was told to increase EQC rates in 2008/9 and didn’t get around it to it leading to lots of problems in CHCH. Then there was another codger who didn’t get around to increasing the amount to be paid for a marine disaster..hence a big bill for the tax payer over the Rena.. Now we have Solid Energy wallies drawing figures out of a hat..The company was supposed to have increased in value by 600 per cent in one year and no one asked any questions. I know some of these people in SOE’s are former public servants but planting seeds in a place like Omarama and not knowing that they would need water is really a step too far.
Vote:Elder hasn’t even got the guts to go on Campbell Live tonight..He is sending some new staff member along.
Many people in CHCH are working so hard..It is an insult to everyone that Elder is here doing his weeding on 5,000 a day.
What is Mighty River power going to get into? Mermaid farming?
March 12th, 2013 at 1:08 pm
‘Shaun Marcott of Oregon State University, the paper’s lead author. “Now we know that it is warmer than most of the past 11,300 years.”‘
Hmm. What happens when the data is properly handled by people who actually have some competence with statistics?
http://suyts.wordpress.com/2013/03/10/the-hockey-stick-resurrected-by-marcott-et-al-2012/
And followed up here:
http://suyts.wordpress.com/2013/03/11/the-dagger-in-the-heart-maybe-a-remedial-explanation-of-marcotts-hs-blade-mikey-whats-that-about-a-dagger/
Er. Where did the hockeystick go? Oh, it was a complete fabrication caused by incompetence and mishandling of data when they spliced historical proxy data with recent temperature records. Where have we heard that before? Ah yes, as mentioned in the piece, “Mike’s Nature Trick” was applied to a similar worthless effort several years ago, and on that occasion the author simply deleted the recent proxy data from the chart simply because it showed declining temperatures (remember, Griff says that’s okay because several internal whitewashes – sorry,”inquiries” – said so.)
Also:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/03/11/validity-of-a-reconstruction-of-regional-and-global-temperature-for-the-past-11300-years/
And examining one of the proxies used in the first instance:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/03/11/a-simple-test-of-marcott-et-al-2012/
Within just a few days this ludicrous new hockeystick has been exposed.
Why do these people still come out with this shit?
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 1:12 pm
The Marcott ‘hockey stick’ splices the recent instrumental record on the end of a proxy record. The proxy record provides a 300 year smoothing – i.e very low resolution, so doesn’t show any of the peaks and troughs that might have occurred.
If you apply the same 300 year smoothing to the recent instrumental record it would be flat.
I’m not sure if this is fraud or just incompetence.
edit: snap wat
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 1:13 pm
One of my best friends and his family being drowned in coins busking in Akld recorded by the Waikato Times
http://www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-times/news/8413778/Busking-familys-unexpected-treat
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 1:15 pm
I’ll believe a decorated Navy aviator who flew 39 combat missions in Operation Desert Storm, went on to become an astronaut, piloting Discovery and Endeavour, and was promoted to Shuttle Commander. And then there’s the Papal Blessing.
But you Fletch, you’ll swallow anything….
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 1:27 pm
Wall Street Exploring Ways To Profit From Global Warming
Investing in climate change used to mean putting money into efforts to stop global warming. Morgan Stanley (MS), Goldman Sachs (GS), and other firms took stakes in wind farms and tidal-energy projects, and set up carbon-trading desks. The appeal of cleantech has dimmed as efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions have faltered: Venture capital and private equity investments fell 34 percent last year, to $5.8 billion, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
Now some investors are taking another approach. Working under the assumption that climate change is inevitable, they’re investing in businesses that will profit as the planet gets hotter. (The World Bank says the earth could warm by 4C by the end of the century.) Their strategies include buying water treatment companies, brokering deals for Australian farmland, and backing a startup that has engineered a mosquito to fight dengue, a disease that’s spreading as the mercury climbs.
http://www.secretsofthefed.com/wall-street-exploring-ways-to-profit-from-global-warming/
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 1:31 pm
wat and RightNow get ready for the abuse from the ALARMISTS’ useful idiot …. ‘fuckin nutters’, ‘conspirowhaky’ etc
He should be sent back to school
http://sphotos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/16399_414194775337891_1690650637_n.jpg
BTW The trend in media coverage for climate change. The ALARMISTS’ scare seems to be getting old!
Vote:http://sphotos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/182449_512294242155840_2071525050_n.jpg
March 12th, 2013 at 1:41 pm
Seems Larry ‘wide stance’ Craig is in trouble again.
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 1:44 pm
The weatherman.
Once upon a time the weatherman was a pleasant chap who would appear on telly around 7 pm and make predictions about the weather in the days ahead. These announcements were watched with great interest by the people. Of course he was always wildly inaccurate and only the gullible ever took the predictions seriously. It was good harmless fun, though some would take it literally and cancel events only to find clear sunny days, while others looking forward to sun would find the occasion swept away by rain and winds.
The malcontents and socialists noticed all the attention the humble weatherman was getting and became envious. They devised a plan. They asked some unemployed weathermen if they would like lots of money and have their guess work called “science”. They said that together they could rule the world. Most weathermen laughed at this, but some were tempted. At first they did not feel comfortable telling lies, but the socialists and malcontents explained that is was for the good and would result in a fairer more just world. So the weathermen agreed and broadcast that unless the socialist and malcontents got their way, the world would end.
To be continued…
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 1:49 pm
Study reveals men prefer big breasts SHOCKER!
http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/life/8414001/Do-sexist-men-like-big-breasts
Yes, bet that shocked a lot of you. But wait, there’s more. Supposedly, the more sexist a man is, the more likely he’ll be drawn to women with bigger breasts. And there’s different types of sexist. Turns out, if you’re a ‘nice guy’, you’re really a sexist bastard in disguise …
Discuss.
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 1:57 pm
RF (658) Says:
March 12th, 2013 at 12:53 pm
wreck1080. 12.35pm.
I understood the Christchurch City Council forked out around 3 million for the flower show and that included the Ellerslie name.
Might not be money well spent.
It was as far as I’m concerned.
I fucking creamed it during the Flower Show.
Long live Flowershow Bob and all who sail with him.
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 1:58 pm
Nearly 400,000 people signed the Keep Our Assets petition. The Government won’t listen though, because it doesn’t involve Casinos or Hobbits.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=616610558365075&set=a.192328297459972.57555.155656867793782&type=1&theater
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 2:03 pm
They won the election, don’t you understand it?
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 2:06 pm
A piece about Mark Lynas, who finally grew up and realised what a bunch of anti-science thugs the Greens are:
“He’d been used to seeing the Green movement as the brave, scrappy underdogs. But the more he looked, the more little David began to resemble Goliath. “Just take the numbers,” he says. “Greenpeace, the whole international group, is a $150m outfit [in fact, figures provided by Greenpeace show global income in 2011 as $313.4m]. Bigger than the World Trade Organisation, and much more influential in terms of determining how people think.” For Lynas, the modern Green movement is one of undeniable force….Lynas has been very critical of Greenpeace’s policy towards a GM crop that’s become totemic among campaigners. Golden rice is a crop that’s been modified, by the insertion of the genes for the chemical beta-carotene, in an attempt to make it provide more vitamin A. “Vitamin-A deficiency is one of the leading causes of death in southeast Asia,” says Lynas. “It’s led to blindness and the death of about a quarter of a million people a year.” Yet campaigners, including Greenpeace, lobbied against it.
Greenpeace insists golden rice is a “waste of money” and an “ineffective tool… [that] is also environmentally irresponsible, poses risks to human health and compromises food security”. For Lynas, its stance is “just superstition. There are tens of thousands of kids who are dead who wouldn’t be dead otherwise. I don’t see how you could put this any other way. Imagine if Monsanto had been culpable in the deaths of tens of thousands of children! It would be all over the Guardian.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/mar/09/mark-lynas-truth-treachery-gm
That would be the same Greenpeace which lobbied against DDT. Evil murdering bastards.
The same child-killing Greenpeace which advertises on telly begging for cash.
The same child-killing Greenpeace that enjoys a symbiotic relationship with the Green Party.
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 2:15 pm
wat, Have you checked out the Malaria death clock, counting deaths due to the ban on DDT ?
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 2:20 pm
wat, I was just having a read of the suyts space articles you linked to, and I see the Marcott hockey stick is even worse than I thought. It looks like they’ve actually stuck Mann’s hockey stick blade on to the end of their proxy handle.
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 2:22 pm
Kea (2,512) Says:
March 12th, 2013 at 1:44 pm
The weatherman.
Who do you think Wat Wat is linking to?
Watts up with that. http://wattsupwiththat.com/
The blog of a failed TV weather man.
Seems he makes even less of a success at being a climate scientist.
Monckton and a failed TV weather man:smirk:*.
*A smirk is a smile evoking insolence, scorn, or offensive smugness.
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 2:25 pm
Translation of Griff’s little tantrum: “I am completely unable to refute the evidence.”
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 2:32 pm
Don’t know what this means but from John Wanoa on Facebook
ITS ALL OVER THE WORLD NEWS THE QUEENS ARREST WARRANT PUTS NEW ZEALAND MONARCHY RULE OF LAW OUT AND NEW ZELAND PARLIAMENTARY SOVEREIGNTY OUT OF JURISDICTION OF “MOAI CROWN” SOVEREIGNTY AT LAW NOW. I spoke to Charl Hirschfeld this morning and he is impressed by my MOAI CROWN CONFEDERATION CLAIM CASES will win in COURT he is ready for anyone in the “CROWN” to step up to “MOAI CROWN” in any COURT including the LAND REGISTER GENERAL of this MOTEL LAND is SUBJECT now to COURT CASES. Please dont make us FORCE this RULE of LAW otherwise it will COST YOU ALL you have in your POSSESSION and BANK. AFFIDAVIT: I John Wanoa Customary Legal Advocate Assignee and Moai Tahitian Historian of Auckland New Zealand swear this is my Solemn Sovereigns Truth Statements so help me God I speak Moai Earth Gods Truth. This is the latest news puts a BAD CASE against the “CROWN” here in New Courts when we take this case and 61 COOK STREET Auckland City and BAYLEYS REAL ESTATE Company and myself living on the WATERFRONT LAND I AM INVESTIGATOR OF! Please take this as SERIOUS from my SELF and HIRSCHFELD who is an OWNER on these EAST CAPE LAND BLOCKS so no amount of DEFENSE will WIN against MOAI CROWN I was told by him this morning AWHINA and GREG.i have a Letter from my Lawyer coming and a Letter to the LAND TRANSFER OFFICE to STOP the TRANSFER to any NEW LAND OWNERS of 365 LOTTIN POINT ROAD.
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 2:35 pm
Hi Kiwibloggers!
Could be interesting tomorrow, Wednesday 13 March 2013, at the Auckland Town Hall, 10am, when the Auckland Council Performance and Accountability Committee meets?
Will ‘anti-corruption whistle-blowers’ Gary Osbourne and Penny Bright be granted ‘speaking rights’ at Public Forum – or not?
________________________________________________________________________________________________
12 March 2013
‘Open Letter’.
Councillor Richard Northey
Chair of the Performance and Accountability Committee,
Auckland Council
RE: Your refusal to grant speaking rights to Gary Osbourne.
“I decline speaking rights for this meeting on the grounds that this issue was addressed by the submitter at the Governing Body on 28 February.
Cr Richard Northey”
From: Judith Moore
To: ‘Gary Osborne’
Cc: Jason Marris ; Warwick McNaughton
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2013 11:24 AM
Subject: RE: Speaking Rights
Good morning Mr Osborne
Further to your request to speak to the Accountability and Performance Committee 13 March 2013, I have forwarded your request to the chair of this committee including the updated information you have given to me. I am in receipt of this response from the chair:
I decline speaking rights for this meeting on the grounds that this issue was addressed by the submitter at the Governing Body on 28 February.
Cr Richard Northey
Regards
Judith Moore | Democracy Advisor
Democracy Services
Supporting: Cr Noelene Raffills and Cr Cameron Brewer.
Involved in the following committees/subcommittees:
Accountability and Performance, CEO Review.
Ph. +64 9 307 7288 DDI| Extn. (40) 7288 | Mob. +64 21 708 401 | Fax +64 9 30 77579
Auckland Council, Level 14, Civic Building, 1 Greys Avenue,
________________________________________________________________________________
Councillor Richard Northey – may I respectfully suggest that you reconsider your above-mentioned decision?
Gary Osbourne has arguably SIGNIFICANTLY new subject matter to raise on this issue – unless of course you think that a request to the Minister of Local Government for an inquiry into the authorisation by the CEO of Auckland Council, blocking of correspondence between concerned citizens is effectively a ‘non-event’?
Perhaps you could remind me of the last time the Minister of Local Government was formally requested to inquire into a matter concerning Auckland Council?
Please be reminded that this is the PERFORMANCE AND ACCOUNTABILITY COMMITTEE of Auckland Council?
This is a SERIOUS matter of PERFORMANCE and ACCOUNTABILITY – is it not?
I look forward to your confirmation that both Gary Osbourne and myself ,( I have yet to have my request for speaking rights confirmed), have been granted 5 minutes each speaking time, as requested at Public Forum, Performance and Accountability Committee, Auckland Council, Wednesday 13 March 2013, 10 am at the Auckland Town Hall.
____________________________________________________________________________________
‘Open Letter’
10 March 2013
Dear Judith,
This is a formal request for speaking rights at ‘Public Forum’ at the
upcoming meeting next Wednesday morning 13 March 2013, 10am Auckland Town Hall – Accountability and Performance Committee.
http://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/EN/AboutCouncil/meetings_agendas/committees/Pages/accountabilityandperformancecommittee.aspx
TERMS OF REFERENCE
The Accountability and Performance Committee will have responsibility for:
• Monitoring the performance of the Council against the Long Term Plan and Annual Plan;
• Monitoring, setting policies and reviewing the performance of the CCOs against
organisational, CCO and SOI’s targets;
• Considering the Councils Annual report and recommending to the Governing Body for
adoption;
• Financial performance of Council functions; and
• Delegation of powers to subcommittee(s).
The Committee will be supported in its work by the following:
• The Council Controlled Organisation Strategy Review Subcommittee;
• The Chief Executive Review Subcommittee; and
• The Tenders and Procurement Subcommittee.
Relevant legislation includes but is not limited to:
Local Government Act 2002;
Local Government (Auckland Council) Act 2009;
Port Companies Act 1988; and
Companies Act 1987
________________________________________________________________________________
SUBJECT MATTER:
1) The total amount of money spent to date by Auckland Council on legal fees/ costs relating to all Court proceedings arising from or pertaining to Occupy Auckland prosecutions, and related matters.
2) Why I believe it is totally inappropriate/ unlawful for the CEO of Auckland Council, Doug McKay to investigate himself, regarding the complaints I and others have made about his role in authorising the ‘blocking’ / filtering / effective censorship of emails from some citizens going directly to elected representatives.
3) Progress (if any) on ‘opening the books’ and making publicly-available the following details of ‘contracts issued’ by Auckland Council and Auckland Council CCOs:
a) NAMES of contractors / consultants.
b) SCOPE of contracts issued.
c) TERM of contracts issued.
d) VALUE of contracts issued.
4) Progress (if any) on transparency and accountability of Auckland Council elected representatives and staff responsible in any way in the awarding of Auckland Council or CCO contracts, in the form of a publicly-available ‘Register of Interests’, in order to minimise possible ‘conflicts of interest’.
……
_________________________________________________________________________________________
Looking forward to the lawful democratic rights of citizens, plus commonsense prevailing.
Kind regards,
Penny Bright
‘Anti-corruption campaigner’
Appellant, Occupy Auckland vs Auckland Council Appeal.
2013 Auckland Mayoral Candidate
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 2:38 pm
Griff, here is one weatherman who did tell the truth.
Augie Auer, an atmospheric scientist and meteorologist, Professor of Atmospheric Science at the University of Wyoming for 22 years, Chief Meteorologist for the Meteorological Service of New Zealand Limited from 1990 to 1998.
“In 2006, he helped found the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition in order to argue claims about man-made global warming.
In a 19 May 2007 interview with The Timaru Herald newspaper, Auer said a combination of misinterpreted and misguided science, media hype, and political spin had created the current hysteria and it was time to put a stop to it, adding “It is time to attack the myth of global warming.”
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 2:39 pm
Ok who is the wag who gave Penny a Thumbs up ?
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 2:43 pm
US Supreme Court: AMERICA IS VEERING TOWARDS DICTATORSHIP
(NaturalNews) When you hear some pundit or historian compare the loss of democratic republican rule currently taking place in the United States with how it happened in ancient Rome, you may be tempted to shrug it off as hyperbole or over dramatization.
When you hear a U.S. Supreme Court Justice and other top government officials use the comparison, it should alarm you tremendously because they are, in essence, firing a warning shot.
In a recent Q & A with students of the University of New Hampshire, former Justice David Souter made the comparison above, along with several other observations that he says all add up to a potential loss of democratic government – and freedom – for Americans at some point in the future.
When a former Supreme Court Justice is worried about our loss of democracy…
http://www.secretsofthefed.com/us-supreme-court-america-is-veering-towards-dictatorship/
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 2:48 pm
everyone should do just for one day…it will fuck with her head
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 2:50 pm
I see kea all failed tv weather men are bad except Augy Auer RIP and A Watts
You linked to WUWT Wat Wat a failed TV weather man according to kea they are all Hopeless.
I think its funny the nutcases you get your denial recharged from.
Lawyers journalists tv weather men :smirk:
And the reason why aristocracy interbreeding is not a good idea.
http://www.parliament.uk/business/news/2011/july/letter-to-viscount-monckton/
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 2:55 pm
That “failed weatherman” is kicking alarmist arse all over the Planet.
Vote:Wouldnt Penny and Griff make a fine couple. Just think of all the conspiracy theories they could discuss
March 12th, 2013 at 2:57 pm
From the blog blight:
Lawful, democratic rights? Commonsense? Oh the irony…. Penny Not-So fires out letters in all directions in an effort to be granted time in front of the Auckland Council, but the same Penny Not-So refuses to pay the same Auckland Council her lawfully assessed rates (including back charges and penalties).
On this basis, I wouldn’t mind it one little bit if the Auckland Council told Ms Not-So to get stuffed.
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 2:59 pm
C’mon, forget about Penny, there are FAR more important issues at hand (in my ‘considered’ opinion).
Are you a sexist bastard if you prefer women with big breasts?
http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2013/03/general_debate_12_march_2013.html/comment-page-1#comment-1110359
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 2:59 pm
Perhaps we should be getting our science instruction from evangelical christian John Cook, eh griff?
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 2:59 pm
Elaycee,
Vote:they should ask Penny if shes a Rate Payer. No representation without taxation.
March 12th, 2013 at 3:01 pm
On the other hand, consider the potential off-spring. Horrible idea!
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 3:01 pm
Griff might pay her Rates
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 3:02 pm
Griff, I linked to wiki actually. A source hijacked by warmists.
Please step into the light and tell the truth.
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 3:03 pm
Published on Feb 13, 2013
10 March 2013 Breaking News Obamacare approves Live Birth Abortion Induced Labor Abortions – end times news update 3-10-13
watch earthquake from nuclear blast http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCdVXo…
President barack obama State of the union address February 15th 2013 Breaking News Obama approves Live Birth Abortion Induced Labor Abortions for hours babies left to die in medical clinics and hospitals.
Did you know that there is a market for “high quality” aborted fetal parts? It has now come out that abortion clinics sell “high quality” baby parts from abortions to universities and medical researchers. The following is just one shocking quote from an absolutely stunning report about this practice: “We would sell the tissue to private contractors. They in turn would sell to other universities and researchers. There was a high demand every week to buy such fetal tissues. It was shipped by UPS, FedEx, Airborne and sometimes by special couriers.”
How strong can the United States of America be when it has aborted more than 54 million children since 1973? Unless something changes soon, The USA will soon have killed 60 million children. Think about that number. That would be ten times the number of Jews that the Nazis killed during the Holocaust. We know the judgment God brought on Germany. Do we really expect God to do less to us unless we repent? The President spoke of being focused on “saving the world’s children from preventable deaths.” Isn’t abortion preventable? How much longer will Washington ignore this genocide and do nothing to stop it? I am disappointed the President isn’t committed to creating a culture of life and to helping us end this evil scourge of infanticade. I love this country, which is why I must speak out on this great moral issue of our time. I fear for our future if we don’t wake up and reverse course.
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March 12th, 2013 at 3:07 pm
BREAKING!! Australian Politician Ann Bressington Exposes Agenda 21 and New World Order
Published on Feb 7, 2013
PLEASE MIRROR AND SHARE THIS VIDEO…
This video is the edited version to her speech as I only have 15 minutes upload allowance…original video with full speech is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sES6_O…
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March 12th, 2013 at 3:10 pm
Like fuck if you like tarnish so much you pay her rates.
Tin hats are for people that believe the government is out to get them.
Like P Tarnish who hides one under her dead cat and climate denial nutters.
Hows agenda 21 going nutjobs
Sorted out the tv weather men you hate yet?
In Bernard’s view, climate change is nothing but a plot perpetuated by crazy liberals intent on bringing about, as he put it in one tweet, “global wealth redistribution.
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/forecasting-denial-why-are-tv-weathercasters-ignoring-climate-change-20121205#ixzz2NHso1ig5
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 3:11 pm
Colville (622) Says:
March 12th, 2013 at 2:48 pm
I don’t think her head needs any more action.
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 3:12 pm
Kea is Wat Wat ?
Vote:Are you really a sock puppet of Wat Wat squawk?
March 12th, 2013 at 3:15 pm
Griff, after that senseless rant….have another joint, you loafer.
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 3:21 pm
Hell, I’m going to give Griff a thumbs up for that 3:10 rant – it’s great!
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 3:25 pm
Dont add a smiley its a secret code for liberal and you dont want to be labeled pwogressive do you graham
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 3:38 pm
2013…Kiwi Blog’s 10 years old
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 3:51 pm
Haven’t we heard before there is no increase in extreme weather.
http://www.climatecentral.org/news/storm-that-would-not-end-takes-its-toll-on-New-England-with-coastal-flooding-15711
I hope those on the east coast sea front are reevaluating their options.
Wingnuts
Vote:http://www.ouramazingplanet.com/3747-east-coast-sea-level-rise-accelerating.html
March 12th, 2013 at 4:00 pm
“On the coast of North Carolina and at other so-called “hotspots” along the U.S. East Coast, sea levels are rising about three times more quickly on average than they are globally”
Let’s just keep reading on a bit then.. “globally they’ve risen up to 0.4 inches (1.0 cm) per decade”
Wow, so the global average sea level rise is actually only 1mm/year. Good to know.
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 4:03 pm
yep, they are going up because of all that ice which is melting. Oh wait…
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 4:03 pm
IPCC get it wrong again
http://theenergycollective.com/asiegel/150361/us-east-coast-hit-sea-level-rise-jump
Just to remind you the first massive error
http://www.carbonbrief.org/blog/2011/10/ipcc-models-underestimate-future-sea-ice-loss-new-scientific-paper
IPCC climate models do not capture Arctic sea ice drift acceleration: Consequences in terms of projected sea ice thinning and decline
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 4:11 pm
Back to bleating on about the sea ice around the continent of Antarctica are we
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 4:14 pm
“These data have not yet been verified and published”
From the article on Rahmsdorf and Foster. No doubt it will be proved to be the usual rubbish from these two. You really believe those models eh Griff. Anyway, what happened to 20 meters rise?
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 4:15 pm
“Estimates of …”
Vote:And so it goes.
March 12th, 2013 at 4:16 pm
Wait, is griff arguing amongst himself now? His name is legion…
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 4:20 pm
“…global sea level is rising 60% faster than IPCC forecasts…”
More fraud.
“If we take Rahmstorf’s 1993 – 2006 period value of 3.3 mm/year, then we see that sea level rise has actually slowed down by 3%, and not risen 60%. The tricks being used by alarmist climate scientists are becoming ever more obvious and desperate.”
http://notrickszone.com/2012/11/29/stefan-rahmstorfs-sea-level-amnesia-using-his-own-numbers-sea-level-rise-actually-dropped-3/
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 4:26 pm
The rise in sea level continues well after the time frame usually associated for climate change.
Estimates is the reason why we have error bars nothing is 100 percent certain*.
If you take the suggested maximum rise of 2 degrees as agreed to by the majority of countries and the midpoint of climate sensitivity estimates at 3C
We run out of room to expand co2 emissions in a decade or so.
If you take the science coming out about permafrost and methane seriously we are already locked into “CAGW”
*except taxes!
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 4:26 pm
They lobbied unsuccessfully because although the 2001 Stockholm Convention banned most uses of organochlorine pesticides as persistent organic pollutants it specifically limited the use of DDT to malaria control.
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 4:29 pm
“Back to bleating on about the sea ice around the continent of Antarctica are we”
Just stating facts.
“The ice surrounding Antarctica reached its annual winter maximum—and set a record for a new high. Sea ice extended over 19.44 million square kilometers (7.51 million square miles) in 2012, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). The previous record of 19.39 million kilometers (7.49 million square miles) was set in 2006.”
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=79369
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 4:35 pm
Greenpeace founder Patrick Moore – who has completely rejected its modern murderous incarnation – explains how they are now trying to re-write history:
“I realize there is a major effort at Greenpeace to rewrite the history on this subject as I have been informed by a Greenpeace spokesperson in the UK that “Greenpeace was never opposed to the use of DDT for malaria control.” This has to be one of the most blatant examples of historical revisionism I have encountered.”
http://www.biofortified.org/2011/03/denialism-at-its-best-%E2%80%9Cgreenpeace-was-never-opposed-to-the-use-of-ddt-for-malaria-control-%E2%80%9D/
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 4:38 pm
A brave new world: http://news.msn.co.nz/worldnews/8624936/mcdonalds-customer-confronts-sluts
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 4:48 pm
Re: ‘Now we know that it is warmer than most of the past 11,300 years.’
“But Marcott says the record shows just how unusual our current warming is. “It’s really the rates of change here that’s amazing and atypical,” he says. Essentially, it’s warming up superfast.”
Marcott neglected to tell [that] his methodology did not recognize ‘fast’ century changes at all–until recent thermometer records were spliced onto the 73 paleosites.’
http://judithcurry.com/2013/03/11/lets-play-hockey-again/
Excuse me but fucking hell. How is that not blatent fraud?
In any other context these people would be in prison.
A new hockeystick plastered all over the media and it is a complete fabrication from start to finish.
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 4:49 pm
Griff, if you were to learn that mans activities are not causing the problems predicted by your fellow warmists, would you be pleased or not pleased ?
Do you want AGW to be real ?
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 4:53 pm
wat, how do you expect to measure temperature with “thermometers” ?
The consensus is that the worlds thermometers have sold out to BIG OIL and the Carbon Industry [chuckle]. If you want real “climate science” you must use computer models.
You conspirawacky nut job denialist… blah blah blah
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 4:55 pm
Ok, how many of you pricks have given Penny Not So the thumbs up ?
Vote:Come on, lets be honest now ya hear !!
March 12th, 2013 at 4:55 pm
Savages across the Tasman: http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/muslim_conference_in_strife_despite_excuses_for_the_radicals/
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 5:00 pm
Colville. 8.47am
Further to my post at 8.34am. The guy who was shot in the thigh with a 38 was a very stroppy individual and had to be handcuffed to the Ambulance stretcher. It was obvious the copper projectile that went straight through his thigh hardly slowed him down. A hollow point would have done the trick but he would have probably lost his leg. Its all history now and he is no longer with us.
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 5:04 pm
Perhaps wat you could show me where I said Greenpeace never lobbied against DDT.
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 5:06 pm
Perhaps cha you could show me where I said I was replying to you.
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 5:09 pm
Kea
Vote:Wasn’t Augie Auer murdered?
Hinamanu
A much younger Helen Clark was the secretary of ”Parliamentarians for World Order.” Lange and most of the other Labour people at that time were members..When they were ”outed” , the organization changed its name , got a bit more secretive and carried on.
March 12th, 2013 at 5:26 pm
Replying to yourself then…that’s nice.
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 5:28 pm
Not replying to anyone.
Chill.
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March 12th, 2013 at 5:43 pm
Agree.
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March 12th, 2013 at 6:18 pm
Poor Harriet.
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 6:56 pm
Another NZ First conspiracy theory?
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 7:56 pm
Considering the bunfight on the “change” thread this may be topical.
Ref: https://www.dropbox.com/s/5qczbn2u9dwr0gw/Faith%203.gif
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 8:00 pm
A man invites his mate back home for dinner.
His wife screams at him, “I’ve not done my hair, not done my make up, not done any housework, not done the dishes & can’t be bothered with cooking! What the fuck did you invite him round for?”
“’Cos he’s thinking of getting married.”
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 8:12 pm
Rodders
Vote:Internet stalking is a crime. I realize that you have serious problems..I would like you to get some help. You can arrange to get counseling through your G.P.
March 12th, 2013 at 8:20 pm
joana – you are mistaken if you believe that you are someone worth stalking.
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 8:24 pm
I’d stalk her if her tits were bigger!
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 8:25 pm
Evening Johnboy. How are ewe?
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 8:27 pm
Not to baaaahd tonight Rodders!
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 8:41 pm
Top Gear should piss off and film on an Australian beach where there aren’t any greedy natives with their hands out for some ‘Koha’…
http://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/8416398/Protesters-and-tourists-but-no-Top-Gear
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 8:41 pm
“2013…Kiwi Blog’s 10 years old”
Vote:So is hiamanu @ 3.38
March 12th, 2013 at 8:49 pm
I wish you would show proper respect to the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and spell hinamanu correctly Steve (North Shore)!
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 8:51 pm
Johnboy
How’s the love life?
Ref: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ytrslrq7sr4rqsv/Sheep%206.jpg
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 8:52 pm
Oh fuck, now I gotta sit on the naughty mat
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 8:54 pm
Seeking an 18 to 35……. is that weeks or months nasska?
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 8:56 pm
Be a bit grotty if it was years JB!
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 8:56 pm
nasska – I notice that website doesn’t have a link to shearing sheds and other strip clubs
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 8:59 pm
Hush, don’t tell Fletch and hinamanu but it looks like the NRA is in on the Department of Homeland Security plan too.
http://www.nraila.org/news-issues/articles/2012/federal-law-enforcement-agencies-buy-ammunition.aspx
Perhaps most strangely, some have cited the purchase of hollow-point ammunition as evidence of the federal government’s evil motives. Hollow-points are the defensive ammunition of choice for federal, state and local law enforcement officers across the country, just as they are for private citizens. These attacks are eerily similar to statements made by gun prohibitionists, who spent the much of the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s complaining about “dum dum” bullets. (In fact, the Violence Policy Center’s website still exhibits a publication lamenting that federal ammunition law “has no effect on today’s generation of high-tech hollow-point ammunition.”) The attacks also ignore the fact that federal agents, unlike average taxpayers on more limited budgets, normally train and qualify with their duty ammunition.
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 9:00 pm
That’s not very nice nasska….still she isn’t looking so it’s off to the works for her tomorrow.
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 9:01 pm
Shame on you for mentioning such a thing Rodders….that site is for gentlemen looking to settle down & live pure lives in a respectable state of marriage.
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 9:02 pm
nasska – so it is an Australian web hosted site, then?
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 9:02 pm
I used to have Jacuzzi at my place till sheep dips with outboards went out of fashion Rodders.
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 9:10 pm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/mar/12/health-drive-britons-salt-intake
What harm has salt ever done anyone?, it doesn’t make you fat, it doesn’t make you bash your missus, it doesn’t make you kill people on the road. It doesn’t send you on machete welding rampages. For fuck sake let it go . Lettuce is wet grass without salt, leave me something you pious pricks
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 9:13 pm
Some of those Aussies are fair sus Rodders. For instance you may not realise that prophylactics were an Australian invention, first developed in 1847, utilising sheep intestines.
The Kiwis later improved on the concept by removing the intestines from the sheep first!
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 9:13 pm
But look on the bright side of life PEB. They won’t be able to rub salt into your wounds anymore if it gets banned!
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 9:16 pm
Well I never. Amazing what you learn on KB. I never knew that they were meant to be removed before putting them on till now nasska.
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 9:46 pm
COUNCILLOR CATHY CASEY SUPPORTS MY RIGHT TO SPEAK:
Hi Penny
I support your right to speak.. If the Committee Chair does not allow you to address us, I will move that we suspend standing orders and allow you to have your five minutes. I need a seconder.
Happy Tuesday!
……
Dr Cathy Casey
Councillor, Albert-Eden-Roskill Ward
Governing Body, Auckland Council
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Penny Bright MY REPLY TO COUNCILLOR CATHY CASEY: 13 March 2013.
Thank you Cathy.
I am not particularly looking forward to going back to the ‘bad old Auckland City Council days’?
After 22 arrests, it ended up 21 -1 to me, and a number of District Court judgments which ‘fine-tuned’ the LGOIMA process, to defend the basic democratic rights of citizens.
If Councillor Richard Northey were to exercise his ‘judgment’ based upon the LAW and previous legal judgments, in my opinion, we wouldn’t be having this problem.
I am getting SO sick of some elected representatives and senior Council staff – just MAKING IT UP – when it comes to the lawful rights of citizens?
Looking forward to confirmation of a number of Councillors, queuing up to second your motion.
Even better, Councillor Richard Northey, exercising rather more sound judgment based upon the LAW, and reconsidering his (unlawful, in my opinion) denial of 5 minutes speaking rights at the Public Forum of Auckland Council Performance and Accountability Committee.
Kind regards,
Penny Bright
‘Anti-corruption campaigner’.
Occupy Auckland Appellant (in my own name).
2013 Auckland Mayoral candidate.
____________________________________________________________________________________________
Please be advised that I WILL be taking Speaking Rights, having now been declined on what I consider to be an UNLAWFUL basis. NOT a good look for Auckland Council – especially in election year? SPEAKING RIGHTS DENIED: 3:51 PM (10 minutes ago)
(REPLY FROM AUCKLAND COUNCILLOR RICHARD NORTHEY – DENYING ME SPEAKING RIGHTS)
Good afternoon Ms Bright
Further to your request to speak to the Accountability and Performance Committee 13 March 2013, I have forwarded your request to the chair of this committee. I am in receipt of this response from the chair:
These 4 matters have either been recently considered or dealt with by the Governing Body or by an appropriate Council Committee at the Submitter’s request or else are the subject of an LGOIMA Request by the submitter.
Therefore the request to present in public input is declined.
Cr Richard Northey
________________________________________________________________________________________________
WHAT I WILL BE SPEAKING ABOUT:
________________________________________________________________________________________________
‘Open Letter’
10 March 2013
Dear Judith,
This is a formal request for speaking rights at ‘Public Forum’ at the
upcoming meeting next Wednesday morning 13 March 2013, 10am Auckland Town Hall – Accountability and Performance Committee.
http://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/EN/AboutCouncil/meetings_agendas/committees/Pages/accountabilityandperformancecommittee.aspx
TERMS OF REFERENCE
The Accountability and Performance Committee will have responsibility for:
• Monitoring the performance of the Council against the Long Term Plan and Annual Plan;
• Monitoring, setting policies and reviewing the performance of the CCOs against
organisational, CCO and SOI’s targets;
• Considering the Councils Annual report and recommending to the Governing Body for
adoption;
• Financial performance of Council functions; and
• Delegation of powers to subcommittee(s).
The Committee will be supported in its work by the following:
• The Council Controlled Organisation Strategy Review Subcommittee;
• The Chief Executive Review Subcommittee; and
• The Tenders and Procurement Subcommittee.
Relevant legislation includes but is not limited to:
Local Government Act 2002;
Local Government (Auckland Council) Act 2009;
Port Companies Act 1988; and
Companies Act 1987
________________________________________________________________________________
SUBJECT MATTER:
1) The total amount of money spent to date by Auckland Council on legal fees/ costs relating to all Court proceedings arising from or pertaining to Occupy Auckland prosecutions, and related matters.
2) Why I believe it is totally inappropriate/ unlawful for the CEO of Auckland Council, Doug McKay to investigate himself, regarding the complaints I and others have made about his role in authorising the ‘blocking’ / filtering / effective censorship of emails from some citizens going directly to elected representatives.
3) Progress (if any) on ‘opening the books’ and making publicly-available the following details of ‘contracts issued’ by Auckland Council and Auckland Council CCOs:
a) NAMES of contractors / consultants.
b) SCOPE of contracts issued.
c) TERM of contracts issued.
d) VALUE of contracts issued.
4) Progress (if any) on transparency and accountability of Auckland Council elected representatives and staff responsible in any way in the awarding of Auckland Council or CCO contracts, in the form of a publicly-available ‘Register of Interests’, in order to minimise possible ‘conflicts of interest’.
……
_________________________________________________________________________________________
Looking forward to the lawful democratic rights of citizens, plus commonsense prevailing.
Kind regards,
Penny Bright
‘Anti-corruption campaigner’
Appellant, Occupy Auckland vs Auckland Council Appeal.
2013 Auckland Mayoral Candidate
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 10:02 pm
What a waste of bandwidth.
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 10:10 pm
And oxygen
Vote:March 12th, 2013 at 10:17 pm
Penny Not So, just how the fuck can you be a 2013 Auckland Mayoral Candidate
Vote:after 22 arrests and refusing to pay your rates ?
This has got me fucked and alot of others on here as well !
March 12th, 2013 at 11:37 pm
Penny Bright
These 4 matters have either been recently considered or dealt with by the Governing Body or by an appropriate Council Committee at the Submitter’s request or else are the subject of an LGOIMA Request by the submitter. Therefore the request to present in public input is declined.
Cr Richard Northey
Seems like they believe you would be only repeating yourself, or they themselves.
Vote:And you have just done it again here
Penny, the watchdog that cried Wolf several times too often.
Yes, and we know – this has really really made your day
Do not feed the watchdog.