About
Contact
Advertise

Facebook
Twitter

January 12, 2024 8:00am by Kokila Patel

General Debate 12 January 2024

Like this:

Like Loading…

Email
Facebook
Twitter
Comment498

Uncategorized
General Debate

Comments (498)

Login to comment or vote

CJames

Know how anyone not extremely left-of-centre is always defined as ultra-right/ fascists/ racists and running on conspiracy theories? Though it has to be acknowledged that there are a number of commenters on this site who justify the description. By anyone sane, this evidence unsupported namecalling is always seen as projection by their accusers who don’t have credible arguments.
For proof of how unhinged the left can be, over on The Daily Blog, there is a snowballing “discussion” on how Mossad has taken down Tory and Golriz because they are strong women of colour! And though the head post was from him, it isn’t the Screaming Beard leading it. Some posters are complaining that The Standard is banning them because of their views – worrying to think that their anti-right ranting was too much for Mr Prentice. The behaviour of the women which brought them to the attention of the public didn’t occur but was “manfactured”.
When one reads the rants, one cannot help but think it is a Monty Python skit. If the “progressive” thinkers honestly hold these type of views, no wonder why they worry about reactionary forces are against them. Their grip on reality must be tenuous at best. Can’t be long until the staff in white coats arrive. But then that will be suppression of the truth by the forces of evil.
I haven’t bothered linking to them as I would be concerned for the blood pressure of readers here, but they are easy enough to find.
74 3
Log in to Reply
Report
January 12, 2024 8:01am
- kiwikidsnz
  
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window#:~:text=The%20Overton%20window%20is%20an,public%20to%20expand%20the%20window.
  
  8 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 8:05am
- slightlyrighty
  
  “Are you the Judean Peoples Front?”
  
  20 3
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 8:10am
  - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
    
    Splitter!
    
    6 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 5:25pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    F**k off! Judean People’s Front!!!😡
    
    2 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 8:51pm
- newview
  
  CJ. I can’t disagree with your analysis of some of the thinking on The Standard and TDB. At least on the Standard if you get censored they tell you why even though the reasoning is often wrong imo, whereas Martyn Bradbury doesn’t publish what he doesn’t like without explanation.
  
  31 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 8:54am
  - imalwaysright
    
    New,
    I was censored here yesterday because I criticised Farrar’s use of the conflict in Gaza to get at the green shoplifter.
    Censored as in not published at all.
    
    5 31
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 9:45am
    - newview
      
      Shit IAR. I didn’t know that happened. I believed you get published and if it was dodgy it was pulled down later when moderated giving you your moment in the sun. However directly poking a stick at Farrar may not have been your brightest move. May have to show some proof of his motives. (:
      
      9 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 2:48pm
    - Loddenthinks
      
      if you start referring to somebody as being guilty of a crime they have yet to be charged with, it is very much in the interests of the blog publisher to refuse to publish the comment.
      
      That isn’t censorship, it’s self-defence and entirely reasonable.
      
      13 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 5:01pm
    - rouppe
      
      I was censored here (as in not published at all) for linking to a nzherald.co.nz article about a bloke who speared a protected fish in a marine reserve in NSW
      
      1 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 8:34pm
    - Ghost
      
      I had a post deleted yesterday, who cares. Grow up, move on. It’s obvious from what is approved that it takes a lot to not get a post approved or deleted. I think sometimes people like to pretend innocence or don’t know they crossed a line.
      
      1 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 8:56pm
- Tom Hunter
  
  To be slightly fair to them it’s only one commentator that’s making that suggestion, “Millsy”, who is nuttier than squirrel shit. He’s also the one banned from The Standard and he also admitted a few weeks ago that he really misses the USSR, which does at least fit his whole…
  … THE RIGHT WILL STRIP MINE THE NATIVE BUSH AND FORCE YOU ONTO SLAVE WAGES WHILE YOU STARVE AND PRIVATISE YOUR SCHOOLS AND HOSPITALS WHILE GENOCIDING TRANS PEOPLE AS VERMIN RHEEEEEE…
  
  He’s so far gone in the head that others at the TDB have wondered if he’s a right-wing plant designed to make the Left look bad.
  
  43 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 9:06am
  - JimBobJoe
    
    Millsy has a habit of saying things like – they will be the first up against the wall when the revolution comes, on the Standard
    
    A true believer in Stalinist COmmunisim and the ends is justified by the means. AKA as a lunatic
    
    29 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 9:15am
    - jedmo
      
      Disagree re lunatic, that’s excusing them. Satan loves chaos and is always seeking those who will do his work, creating chaos, fomenting strife.
      
      12 3
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 9:55am
    - Damocles11
      
      Millsy says out loud what the the others are thinking, and they don’t like that.
      
      13 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 10:54am
  - newview
    
    Tom I have come across Millsy and even tried to rationalise with him on occasion. Once bitten twice shy. What bewildered me was that I felt my comments on TDB were rational, non abusive and generally accepted by the other posters even though many were lefties. Martyn was not prepared to publish some of my views but happy to publish Millsys irrational ranting which made no sense most of the time. Strange indeed.
    
    28 2
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 10:10am
  - Skippytony
    
    Hmmm. Its possible that over dinner and a few nice reds one night three or four people decided to create personas and started talking up the most provocative and insane conspiracy theories on certain notoriously left wing platforms. Childish, but amusing. We took to denouncing each other, piling onto each other in the most outrageous ways we could think of. Two things happened, other idiots joined the fray and no matter how nutty or outlandish we were, someone else would always go one better.
    
    20 2
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 10:57am
    - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
      
      Did you ever meet Alena Composta? I miss her wisdom and experience…. 🙂
      
      1 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 5:27pm
  - Lance
    
    Hmmm
    Exactly the sort of bullshit statements the proponents of the Waitakere Ranges Protection Bill used when it was being put out to public consultation.
    E.G.
    If you don’t support confiscation of property rights without conpensation (although mysterioulsly that part was not in their literature), then you just want every tree cut down in the Waitakere Ranges.. and similar lying statements.
    
    10 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 12:17pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    I remember a “Millsy” in the very old days of blogging in NZ (not KB ot Te Standard). He was young and quite silly far left about 20 or more years ago.
    
    0 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2024 5:41pm
- Damocles11
  
  The Left want to behave badly and for there to be no consequences. Whether it be Kiri, Tory, or Golriz, or any other ‘darling of the Left’, the whole machinery of woke / socialist activism goes into overdrive with a furious backlash against anyone daring to report on or comment on any of the actions that female Leftist notables take that bring discredit and disrepute upon themselves. The upshot being that any reporting at all is framed as being an unjust persecution of ‘strong (Leftist) women’. Race, gender, mental health, addiction, political stance….the Left cycle through all their available talking points in each instance. The goal is to shame and ‘cancel’ any media or commentators willing to discuss these stories, by portraying them as racist / sexist / insensitive to mental health / aiding the Right (‘the real bad people’). And it does seem to be working. I do think the media is treating these matters with kid gloves.
  
  29 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 9:22am
  - Paulus
    
    Waiting for the first man to be caught out and named !
    Can’t just be women can it ?
    
    13 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 10:36am
  - artemisia
    
    With new (alleged) info making its way into the public arena, more likely a great silence will be what goes into overdrive.
    
    9 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 12:28pm
- miltonF
  
  Even on (slightly) more moderate sites like Stuff news, the comments from deranged leftists can reach heights of delusion and hate unseen outside of mental institutions. However it is good entertainment. I will say that.
  
  The constant slander of Nat/Act/NZF cracks me up. Literal doomsday stuff mixed in with racial hatred, sexism and envy. Comments such as “nActs rich white man party gonna put the brown man back in shackles. They will cut your benefits and put ur kids in poverty to give their rich mates a tax cut while selling out our country to foreign corporations who will pillage the environment for their capitalist profits and commit us to a future of climate catastrophe”
  
  These types of comments actually make it past Stuff news’ hate speech and misinformation moderators. In the past I was suspended for commenting that the “vaccine” would not stop you from contracting Covid. A-mah-zing.
  
  32 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 10:39am
  - Clown
    
    stuff is ‘moderate’?! Joking right? I’ve never seen a bigger collection of extremist left wing lunatics gathered all in one place. Was especially bad during peak of Covid when Cindy was worshiped to nauseating levels.
    
    30 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 11:20am
- NothingLeft
  
  UK public servants attending anti-terrorism course being taught that Joe Rogan and Douglas Murray are far right figures that need to be suppressed. Left wing capture of public institutions is at fucking bonkers level:
  
  https://www.zerohedge.com/political/we-need-find-ways-suppress-douglas-murray-joe-rogan-inside-counter-terrorism-course-uk
  
  24 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 10:40am
  - Lance
    
    Do you think the trend is any different in Arty-Rower?
    
    13 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 12:19pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  CJames: “The Daily Blog, there is a snowballing “discussion” on how Mossad has taken down Tory and Golriz because they are strong women of colour!”
  
  “The Joos” in their head. “The Joos” under the bed!
  
  It really is staggering how many “progressives” (yeah right) are caught up in this madness.
  
  28 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 11:15am
  - Ruahine
    
    Ooh!!. That is interesting.
    I thought it must have been Donald Trump. Perhaps it was Trump and Mossad. Poor Tory and Golriz.
    
    18 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 11:47am
    - Sarkozygroupie
      
      Sigh.
      
      Everyone knows it was John Key.
      
      6 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 8:52pm
      - Ghost
        
        In the kitchen with the candlestick?
        
        5 0
        Report
        January 12, 2024 8:58pm
  - sirknz
    
    Thought it was tunneling Jews now or is that only a New York thing?
    
    5 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 3:57pm
- JJ56
  
  Must say that the shoplifting line seems hard to believe. Could there be something else going on?
  
  Given the strength of feelings over Gaza from the Greens could Scotties’ owners have expressed an alternate view pushing back, and Golriz and friends went for some petty revenge. But got caught.
  
  Feels much more in character, and explains what appears Scotties’ apparent hard line.
  
  2 18
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 11:45am
  - artemisia
    
    Still alleged of course, but a lot more info coming out now from ‘sources’.
    
    14 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 12:24pm
  - Damocles11
    
    Stealing is stealing!
    
    13 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 1:23pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    Why is it hard to believe?
    
    10 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 1:44pm
  - CJames
    
    According to the Herald, she did it twice. The second time, it was about $15k of goods. They were anonymously returned later.
    While one could argue that one item may be taken because a distraction occurs (taking a call on way to counter for example) the paper’s description looks a lot more serious situation. And the paper would have had their lawyers go over it with a very beady eye.
    
    25 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 2:01pm
  - JJ56
    
    I fear the point is being missed that fanaticism within a subculture forgives and gives permission to acts that are inconsistent with everyday norms.
    
    Assuming it occurred it will be stealing to the dominant culture, but it could very likely be seen as acceptable to at least some of the Greens if the victim has transgressed the norms of the subculture. See how they behaved over the destruction of Te Papa’s ToW display.
    
    I’ll be waiting for the Greens to denounce shoplifting if it occurred, but even if forced to it I suspect they will mutter ‘all property is theft’.
    
    14 2
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 3:44pm
- Loddenthinks
  
  That’s milky’s mob, isn’t it?
  
  6 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 5:03pm
Yvette

Waitangi Day, last year –
Reframing co-governance: Jackson’s warning to Labour
Māori Development Minister Willie Jackson says the ship’s sailed on explaining co-governance to the public, which is why it needs to be reframed in a way it can be understood.

“David Seymour and Christopher Luxon have successfully transitioned a section of the New Zealand public into thinking that it is all part of a Māori take-over,” he told Newsroom in an interview at Waitangi.

“We have to reframe it, and we’re looking at possibilities… it’s just become so tainted.”

Cabinet’s discussions around how to re-pitch co-governance to the public in an election year will take place over the next few weeks, Jackson said, and the Māori caucus is meeting in the coming week to talk about some of the potential solutions.

Jackson is one of the ministers fronting the debate through the work he has been doing on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which has now been parked until after the election. He says he has done his best to try explain why a co-governance partnership is needed.

“I think I always tried to explain it, and with respect I’ve done my best.
“I always warned and said it’s going to be picked up by the other side who will say, oh look Jackson and them are going to try pull in all this co-governance stuff.”
https://newsroom.co.nz/2023/02/06/jacksons-co-governance-warning-to-labour/

Many recent references refer to National approving UNDRIP, so initiated an agreement that the six years of recent Labour administration says they are only validating, but fail to mention the covenant National had ‘signed’ UNDRIP on –

• 8. In moving to support the Declaration, New Zealand both affirms those rights and reaffirms the legal and constitutional frameworks that underpin New Zealand’s legal system. Those existing frameworks, while they will continue to evolve in accordance with New Zealand’s domestic circumstances, define the bounds of New Zealand’s engagement with the aspirational elements of the Declaration.
https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/supporting-un-declaration-restores-nzs-mana

In this, National drew a line not to be crossed, which – were it not ironic – could be funny considering Morgan has now claim Tainui-Waikato is drawing their own line – because they have crossed National’s line.

That –
Maori Affairs Minister Pita Sharples has flown secretly to New York for a speech to the United Nations signing New Zealand up to a declaration on indigenous rights.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/3599153/NZ-does-U-turn-on-rights-charter
– indicates how popular UNDRIP was, after Helen Clark’s Labour Government opposed signing as it would compromise the Treaty.

And the Jackson quote, above, shows the difficulty the Maori Caucus anticipated in parceling their crossing of Sharples’ and Nationals line, to venture where they have with He Paupau and the problems in ‘selling’ that to the nation.

Is Waikato-Tainui’s current claims to the High Court, and Morgan’s threats over crossing any line, to set in concrete their own ‘crossing of a line’ that surrounded the Treaty.

Their claim therefore goes beyond the Treaty which they will now say defines their right to something aspirational outside the Treaty (are you following this) and which Labour, in their signature-trait of non-delivery, put on a shelf for the duration of the recent Election, and will stay there unless National-ACT-New Zealand First put New Zealand first and take it off the shelf and reveal to the nation what Waikato-Tainui are hoping the High Court will grant them – outside the Treaty!

Ask for a copy of the response Jackson was preparing for the the Labour Cabinet and the 20 percent that he was unhappy with and new he could not “sell” to Cabinet, to then “sell” to the nation

Jackson said he would take the work back to Cabinet in the next week; all but confirming it would be shelved due to it needing more work and a better level of public understanding.
“We still haven’t consulted with New Zealand. We’ve consulted with some Māori but other people haven’t had an opportunity; Pākehā people, ethnic people. That’s a lot of work to do.
“We’re also getting questions about it and so in terms of time I was hoping for us to have it signed off by Christmas but we’re way off in terms of timelines and so there’s a lot of work still to be done.”
That work would continue over the next 12 months, he said.

Work Waikato-Tainui will now treat as having been done?
26 3
Log in to Reply
Report
January 12, 2024 8:01am
- Damocles11
  
  UNDRIP is non-binding.
  
  26 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 9:25am
  - Yvette
    
    Damocles11, you would be correct
    which means not only has Labour addressed what they interpret was a logical duty from UNDRIP to go beyond the Treaty with the He Paupau exercise,
    but have arroused Maori aspirations to respond in 72 hui of “targeted” ēlite held after He Puapua and then shelved that for the Election, but Tainui-Waikato don’t want to go back to pre-He Paupau, now that the taniwha is out of the box.
    
    And as UNDRIP is non-binding their aspirations, turned to inspiration, may all hang on a thread like “non-binding”.
    
    And first they may have to define what they think they are in danger of losing.
    
    20 2
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 10:12am
  - rouppe
    
    Until any government decides otherwise
    
    1 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 8:40pm
- miltonF
  
  All of this treaty talk needs to be put to bed. Simply.
  
  Let’s get to the crux of the matter. We have a national document that guarantees equal rights for all. Some people don’t like that concept and want to be able to treat people differently depending on their ethnicity. AKA institutional racism. These racists are trying to reinterpret and abolish the original intention of the treaty. They are even going as far as vandalising the treaty in our national museum in an attempt to physically remove or censor the words of the document.
  
  It. Really. Is. That. Simple. When they show you who they are…believe them.
  
  28 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 10:54am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    The Waitangi Tribunal has the James Freeman version of the Treaty. It is different from the true version in Maori, that was translated from the Littlewood Draft.
    See http://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi
    
    8 2
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 11:19am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Add, of course Maori want it put to bed. If NZ reverts to the true Treaty in Maori, the Gravy Train will stop.
    Many reasons, but the main one is “Forestry and Fisheries” were not in the original. “Forestry and Fisheries” were added by James Freeman.
    Read here in pages 13 to 18:
    
    https://issuu.com/esisite/docs/3481_jb_-_go-governance_-_a5_booklet_-_online
    
    9 2
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 1:38pm
- Right of way is Way of Right
  
  This is why my wife and I are choosing the week of Waitangi Day to take a well earned holiday overseas.
  
  8 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 3:44pm
Ra Henare

Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
Why do “”we”” stick to the mantra of “the world need to embrace Democracy” (as defined by western countries).
Billions of People will vote this year in 65 Countries.
Most voters will not have a clue about those they are voting for. Many idiots will be elected.

It seems mainly the vote will be given to the person with best publicity/PR TV presentation.

There are many examples of “”dictatorship”” democracies.
Singapore
Cambodia
Russia
NZ under PM Ardren.
etc etc

Vietnam is a non democratic country going great guns economically and socially.
USA is a democracy which is falling of a cliff economically and socially

So why do we stick with the myth that the world needs democracy
6 38
Log in to Reply
Report
January 12, 2024 8:05am
- JimBobJoe
  
  Because everything else is much, much worse….
  
  50 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 9:16am
  - Che Guava
    
    The idea that popular sovereignty (which we have only in theory, definitely not in practice) is superior to aristocracy (in its true sense of “rule by the best”) or autocracy etc. is one of the great unexamined first-principles that we accept without question.
    
    If we are talking pure theory, it stands to reasonable scrutiny that “rule by the best” would always be better than “rule by the many.” Would you rather the many flew you aircraft when you went overseas, or the best did it (i.e. the pilot). So too in any other context, including politics.
    
    Maybe democracy is the best, but we need reasons for assuming that it is so, not just “democracy is best because everyone gets a vote.” That’s obviously circular, so is a useless argument. That assumption is, in effect, “democracy is best because democracy” which tells us nothing about its merits.
    
    It’s not how decisions are made and policies formulated and implemented that counts, it’s the quality and effect of the same.
    
    I’d rather the best decisions were made by one guy than terrible decisions were made by the many. That is the rational position to take.
    
    4 22
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 11:07am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      But Che Guava would also prefer the worst decisions were made by one guy (females need not apply) rather than good decisions by the many.
      
      12 11
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 11:19am
      - Che Guava
        
        “But Che Guava would also prefer the worst decisions were made by one guy (females need not apply) rather than good decisions by the many.”
        
        That’s just dumb. Why would I want the worst decisions to be made, given that I would have to live under the consequences of those decisions?
        
        And this raises the central question of politics: what are the “best” and the “worst” decisions?
        
        But you’re right about the women: women are one of God’s greatest gifts, but they shouldn’t be in positions of power. Because men and women are inherently different, they will govern differently. Women are (generally) less assertive, more emotional and less logical and rational than men tend to be. In practice, this means that different inputs will give different outputs.
        
        This isn’t even ideological, but is based on empiricism, the gold standard of “liberal democracy” – is society better or worse (there’s that question, again!) since women were “granted equality” (by men)? I’d say it’s much worse.
        
        2 15
        Report
        January 12, 2024 11:43am
    - alphabeatrium
      
      Clearly representative democracy is an attempt to identify the best (among the willing).
      
      12 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 11:33am
      - Che Guava
        
        “Clearly representative democracy is an attempt to identify the best (among the willing).”
        
        Is it clear? What if “the best” has views that run counter to the interests of the established order? What if “the best” is a “far-right” “white supremacist” reactionary?
        
        What will happen, unless democracy is allowed to function, is they will never get elected, because they will be denounced (using the labels I have given our hypothetical aristocrat) by those who are most at threat by this person, those who manufacture consent and determine the “acceptable” and the “unacceptable” solely on the grounds of what benefits them and maintains their power. Moreover, “the people” will generally believe whatever they are told.
        
        2 16
        Report
        January 12, 2024 11:49am
    - Che Guava
      
      Consider this: we are supposedly all “democracies” in the Western world, wherein (the theory goes) the popular will determines the political settings. If this were the case, it would be fair to expect a reasonable amount of political heterogeneity between say, France, Germany, Sweden or Canada. Different places in the “liberal democratic” world would end up with different decisions being reached by the people.
      
      Yet isn’t it an interesting point that there is almost complete uniformity in the political consensus, aka the liberal orthodoxy and all entails. How does such uniformity occur when we are supposedly free to make up our own minds and have our representatives act accordingly.
      
      Whether it’s Europe, North and parts of South America, Australia and so on, these societies are almost all identical in terms of the basic political settings and underlying ideology?
      
      How is this possible? It’s possible because, in each of these places, “public sentiment” and “popular will” aren’t formed organically, they are instead predetermined in accordance with Money Power, prepackaged and sent forth into the soft minds of the public.
      
      As empirical confirmation of my thesis, just observe what happens when this set-up fails and an accidental outbreak of true democracy occurs, as it did when Trump was elected. Absolute desperation and panic set in. All pretense of “our democracy” was dropped, because it was considered much more important to delegitimise and, if possible, remove the “contagion” that was Trump. The entire so-called “democratic” apparatus swung into action and was employed in a coordinated fashion to label and repudiate what was an actual expression of democracy an anomalous and dangerous aberration.
      
      1 17
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 11:33am
      - julesnzuk
        
        Not sure why I can’t reply to your nonsense comment about women, so I’ll do it here. I’ve been open minded about you and – in the interest of getting a balanced perspective – had actually semi enjoyed reading your contributions. But you’ve just destroyed any credibility you may have had. “Women should’t be in positions of power” – really? Plonkers such as Ardern, Allen and the Green one are empirical evidence for you? Are you aware of the myriad douchebag men who have been in positions of power”? Ever heard of Margaret Thatcher? She may not have got everything right but she’s only one of the greatest leaders the West has ever seen. You dickhead.
        
        21 1
        Report
        January 12, 2024 1:01pm
      - Che Guava
        
        Jules, are you a woman? If you are, then the tone your comment illustrates exactly what I mean. If you aren’t a woman, you’re still wrong.
        
        Sure, disagree by all means, but let’s act like (most) men and disagree rationally and in a good spirit. In your favour, there are plenty of irrational men on KB, but nobody is making any universal statements here, just general inductive conclusions taken from observation and experience.
        
        “Plonkers such as Ardern, Allen and the Green one are empirical evidence for you? Are you aware of the myriad douchebag men who have been in positions of power”? Ever heard of Margaret Thatcher? She may not have got everything right but she’s only one of the greatest leaders the West has ever seen. You dickhead.”
        
        My sample is all women at all places and at all times. Are there exceptions? Sure. Are plenty of men useless? Of course. But as they say, the exception doesn’t disprove the rule.
        
        My general proposition is that men are more suited to lead on account of the attributes we typically possess.
        
        If I may quote myself, I said that “Women are (generally) less assertive, more emotional and less logical and rational than men tend to be.”
        
        I stand by that. But you know what? I don’t think women are or should be “men with ovaries.” Women are women because they aren’t like men. And that’s why we love them.
        
        Ironically, Feminism tells us, when all is stripped away, that women are just like men – how is this pro-women? On the contrary, it basically denies the distinct female category. But, like all progressive Trojan horse’s feminism, is about knee-capping men, not helping women.
        
        I’ve made the point before, but, if men were so inclined and motivated, they’d rescind all “womens’ rights” tomorrow – what would women do about it? If we step outside socio-politics into the realm of biology, men are almost always physically stronger than women. Thus, women have “equality” with men solely at the pleasure of men. It is an artificial construct that therefore must be enforced and imposed by the law and by bureaucracy.
        
        Nobody is saying that women should be “oppressed” by men (whatever that means) or somehow ill-treated. All I’m saying is that they shouldn’t be near the levers of political power. We’d all be better off, including women. Males and Females aren’t the same, we are complimentary. Women aren’t of lesser intrinsic value, but they certainly have different attributes to men. This used to be self-evident.
        
        (PS glad you “semi-enjoy” my contributions – which really means you love them).
        
        1 13
        Report
        January 12, 2024 1:46pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        julesnzuk: “You dickhead.”
        
        Would it be OK to call you a silly bitch?
        
        0 0
        Report
        January 13, 2024 2:33pm
    - miltonF
      
      I think the truth is that we discovered this risk of democracy a long looong time ago. The USA founding fathers famously said “democracy is nothing but a sheep and two wolves deciding on what’s for dinner”. Ultimately, all democracies devolve into authoritarian socialism and eventually economic and social collapse.
      
      This is why the USA is not a democracy but is a constitutional republic. The easiest way to think of this system is “democracy with limits”. Those limits being the human rights ordained by God/nature. This is the only way that democracy can survive long term. Somehow people still do not understand the value and importance of human rights and keep voting for more and more abuse of their fellow citizens. Something is wrong with the morality of today’s society.
      
      11 2
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 11:45am
    - imalwaysright
      
      Politicians run governments to keep themselves in a job.
      
      It is hard to believe that we civilised humans do not yet have a minimal set of essential laws and regulations, that have been tried and tested, and have implemented them in every country on the planet. (Note to self: that would negate the need for borders…).
      Why do politicians constantly make legislation, most of which makes the country worse off ?
      I would vote for any party who promised to spend their entire term repealing legislation.
      
      We have had plenty of time and opportunity to sort out what works but we elect low intellect narcissists on a regular basis and allow them to play with the country’s controls.
      
      9 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 12:25pm
    - Michael Sommerville
      
      I agree with you in principle. The difficulty is in finding and agreeing on the right person.
      
      How do you find that person.
      
      5 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 12:58pm
      - Che Guava
        
        “How do you find that person.”
        
        That’s the problem. But if we had a much more moral society, we’d be much more likely to find that person. The problem for the current power elite is that, if we had a moral society, we’d reject their influence and reform the political order. Their control and influence is based on demoralisation.
        
        It benefits the man behind the curtain for most of us to be as immoral, addicted, degenerate, distracted, hedonistic, materialistic and nihilistic as possible. That’s why they hate Christianity so much, because it runs counter to all of this. Sure, you get a shit society, but they don’t care, as long as they are ruling over the rubble.
        
        They also hate Islam if truth be told, but it has short-term utility in that Muslims tend to be non-White, which is why they are so useful as immigrants due to the demographic changes they (and others) cause.
        
        2 8
        Report
        January 12, 2024 1:11pm
- Grunter
  
  RH – good line of questioning.
  
  IMO, democracy is important, but it’s less important than a free and open market (zero Government interference). We all get to ‘vote’ many times every day when we buy stuff. Any Government rule/law that interferes with individual choices will ultimately lead to a suboptimal outcome.
  
  Democracy has the obvious flaw in that it has lead to govts overspending using debt and money printing – basically buying votes. Over many years/decades the vote buying spirals out of control, creating the situation we now have in USA, Japan, UK, Europe etc. NZ is not immune from this. We have our ‘most right-wing Govt ever’ running debts through until 2027 (better than the Leftards we did have – but still vote buying with taxpayers money).
  
  The problem isn’t democracy. The problem is collectivism/socialism in its many forms and the power-hungry Statists that we elect.
  
  17 3
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 9:43am
  - miltonF
    
    Excellent comment. My parents used to always say, if you want to make real change, you have to “vote with your money”.
    
    My question is – if the govt takes half of your money in taxation…how much “voting” power do you actually have, and hence how much control do you have over your own life?
    
    I don’t think it is accurate to say socialism is non democratic. Democracy is simply mob rule. If people vote to take away other’s voting power through taxation – that is still democracy, as crazy as that sounds. I think it is more accurate to say that both socialism and democracy are incompatible with liberalism/libertarianism and the concept of human rights and individual empowerment/free will.
    
    9 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 11:22am
  - I remember when
    
    Grunter:
    Can there be a free and open market (zero Government interference)?
    Such a market obviously means total international market freedom, with no ability for countries to influence the outcome.
    This then leads to corporations being able to usurp the will of the government and being able to gain control of world finance (WEF).
    Unelected government!
    
    5 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 12:25pm
- Ra Henare
  
  Gosh I see the team of 26 has increased to 30 ?
  
  Many thanks to those who used their intellect to give a reasoned response
  
  Jim Bob Jo, I see you have responded with a meme slightly misquoting Winston Churchill.
  
  “”It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried””
  
  This of course before Free market Socialism as practiced by China and Vietnam.
  
  You may have included another quote from Churchill which I think more apt.
  
  “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter””
  
  Obviously there are leaders in, shall I say, non democratic countries who have done well for their people.
  
  I am reminded of Deng Xiaoping whose leadership in China brought hundreds of millions out of poverty.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deng_Xiaoping
  
  And Gaddafi of Libya
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muammar_Gaddafi
  
  Who significantly transformed their 3rd world Countries in to healthy economies.
  
  Of course comments will be quick to point out Russia and the Stalin years as bad Dictatorship.
  Along with many others.
  
  My point being that modern versions of democracy may not be the be all and end all of modern society government.
  
  Of course those in Tauranga will be divided on the lack of democracy in Tauranga over the last few years under the boot of the appointed commissars.
  
  2 4
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 4:40pm
- greybeard
  
  What on earth prompted you to raise this issue?
  
  1 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 6:30pm
  - Ra Henare
    
    Why not?
    This is a political blog and billions of people will be participating in elections this year.
    
    or do you think that only inane comments about frivolous things ( Celebrity weddings, trans being misgendered etc etc are allowed)
    
    I prefer serious discussion rather than emotive rants
    🙂
    
    2 2
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 9:43pm
Gravelroad

For those who yesterday speculated on what distraction might make the big headline on $tuff this morning-
Here it is (at 7am):
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/133542913/briscoes-apologises-after-trans-woman-was-misgendered

Seems a shame that a “global diversity inclusion executive” couldn’t extend their expertise to dealing in a professional manner with the employee at the store.
But no.
“Pronoun communication for me (me, me, me) is crucial.”
69 5
Log in to Reply
Report
January 12, 2024 8:06am
- Rich Prick
  
  A tranny throwing a tantrum is still news? That’s so 2023.
  
  80 3
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 8:12am
  - Stellaboxer
    
    The trans fad is over. Stop talking about it and we may avoid the usual couple of years suffering the cringe of New Zealand’s zealots catching up.
    
    31 2
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 9:09am
- David Garrett
  
  Gravel: I have just read that…regular readers will know of my deep interest in WW II, and in particular the men of Bomber Command, whose war went on from the commencement of hostilies until the last day.
  
  If one of the 1800 New Zealanders who served in BC but never came back could somehow come back now, HE would think he had been reincarnated onto a quite different planet.
  
  58 4
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 8:18am
  - David Garrett
    
    …and don’t get me started on the absurd phrase “safe spaces”….
    
    Rear Gunner: Skipper, I’m afraid I can’t fly tonight…I have realised that my rear turret is not a safe space.
    
    58 4
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 8:26am
    - rockape
      
      I started my RAF flying training in 1965. Many of the instructors had chests full of medals. Same at school before that. My memorable teachers were Physics ex Lt Submariner, chemistry ex mosquito pilot, woodwork RAF cpl who rebuilt Mosquitos, Biology ex infantry Lt and Japanese POW. They motivated me for life. My Father ex Special Ops and didn’t even know he had a daughter till she was 4 years old he had a major influence too.
      
      34 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 8:44am
      - David Garrett
        
        ..rockape: I remember at primary school many of the men worse RSA badges on their suit jackets. Much later I learned that Mr Mohi was a decorated member of the Maori Battalion, and Mr Chadwick had distinguished himself in North Africa and Italy.
        
        21 3
        Report
        January 12, 2024 8:51am
      - alex Masterley
        
        The father in law served in the medical corps both in the desert and Italy. Being the man he was he made it to Japan for VJ day. Didnt say much about what he saw or the damage that he had to try to repair.
        
        12 0
        Report
        January 12, 2024 10:07am
    - Opie
      
      Hard times make hard men.
      
      Hard men make easy times.
      
      Easy times make soft men.
      
      Soft men make hard times.
      
      43 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 8:49am
      - miltonF
        
        The fourth turning.
        
        3 0
        Report
        January 12, 2024 11:56am
    - zulumonster
      
      “I have realised that my rear turret is not a safe space.” – sounds like a euphemism for something a tranny might say?
      
      17 3
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 9:46am
    - Master Mariner
      
      I think the book and phrase Catch 22 sums it up brilliantly.
      
      8 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 11:49am
    - Che Guava
      
      It always amuses me how superficial the thinking is that, on the one hand, valourises the young men who went to fight in WW2 (and those who sent them) aka “the Good War” then on the other hand goes on to repudiate the “safe spaces” trannies and general social degeneracy that was ushered in by the victorious Allies. Don’t you see the connection?
      
      While it has become a well-worn meme an at this point, the idea that “if the young men who stormed the German machine guns at Normandy could see he world that they were fighting for today, they wouldn’t have gone 40 feet up the beach.”
      
      Since then, there has been constructed a popular mythology that assures us that we were justified in doing what we did. “They” were completely in the wrong, while “we” were completely in the right. No need for nuance and gray areas to distract us and to introduce doubt and questions.
      
      The two world wars were really one protracted civil war fought between Europeans that ended up” killing” us all. But at least we’ve got our safe spaces, our trannies and our all-too-common self-hatred to ease the pain.
      
      2 20
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 12:07pm
    - Chris R
      
      I work part time at a university in Australia and noted that the “safe space” rooms have been re-badged “reset rooms” which while not sounding as pathetic is equally pointless.
      
      7 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 1:17pm
  - cmm
    
    Yup, sometimes I think people need an occasional war just to reset societal values.
    
    And you don’t even need to be a soldier or airman to appreciate it.
    
    Seeing returned soldiers missing body parts or wearing blazers on a summers day to cover up their colostomy bag can make you appreciate what you have. Not just then, but for the next 40 years as they make their way though their lives.
    
    Even civilians had to endure some hardship through worrying about their men away, doing manual work that men were not there to do and coping with rationing.
    
    These days hardship is driving a car without airconditioning or having to wait a week for something you ordered online.
    
    No wonder people start complaining about trivial nonsense.
    
    49 2
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 8:37am
    - David Garrett
      
      cmm: Well said…I have also – very reluctantly – concluded that perhaps war from time to time is a necessary part of human existence. War, or at least some similar calamity, like a major depression.
      
      My late father had always wanted to be a vet. He was the son of a modest farmer in the BOP – the farm was lost in the depression, which meant – no student loans back then – my father was unable to go and study, and instead became a fisherman and later a carpenter.
      
      (Many people today don’t realise that secondary school in NZ was not free until about 1942.) Unless one’s parents were reasonably well off, university was out of the question.
      
      My father became a very good carpenter – but his best relationships were probably with the family dogs and cats!
      
      24 3
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 8:46am
      - Don Beckett
        
        Yes, know what you mean. I was born in 1942 and grew up in Te Puke. In the next 10 – 15 years, even though most people were deprived by today’s standards, to us it was normal. No butter for your sandwiches so use dripping. Kids shoes too expensive, so sandals. Clothing – I was the 2nd born, so all my clothes were hand me downs from my older brother.
        My dad, who suffered a back injury while serving in Italy, came home at the end of 1944 & spent the next 15 months in Auckand hospital getting his back rearranged. He was on pain medication for the rest of his life.
        Seeing and living a degree of deprivation & hardship is character building and a learning curve for helping others & sharing, and working to feed yourself & others..
        
        11 1
        Report
        January 12, 2024 12:26pm
      - Che Guava
        
        Read Metaphysics of War by Julius Evola.
        
        In the Modernist worldview, where all is matter and nothing is of inherent value and transcendent, where the highest priority is protecting one’s ass, staying as comfortable as possible, and avoiding sacrifice at all costs, the Traditional idea of war as a natural aspect of human existence and giving it a spiritual quality is completely foreign.
        
        “The fundamental principle underlying all justifications of war, from the point of view of human personality, is ‘heroism’. War, it is said, offers man the opportunity to awaken the hero who sleeps within him. War breaks the routine of comfortable life; by means of its severe ordeals, it offers a transfiguring knowledge of life, life according to death. The moment the individual succeeds in living as a hero, even if it is the final moment of his earthly life, weighs infinitely more on the scale of values than a protracted existence spent consuming monotonously among the trivialities of cities. From a spiritual point of view, these possibilities make up for the negative and destructive tendencies of war, which are one-sidedly and tendentiously highlighted by pacifist materialism. War makes one realize the relativity of human life and therefore also the law of a ‘more-than-life’, and thus war has always an anti-materialist value, a spiritual value”
        
        It’s certainly an interesting idea. This notion was developed in times when warriors would face each other eyeball to eyeball with swords and other hand-held weapons, rather than in our age of impersonal and highly mechanised and barbaric mass killing. Dropping bombs from 10,000 feet was never considered.
        
        If nothing else, understanding the Traditionalist mindset shows us that there are other possible ways of thought and approaches to life than those seen as self-evident by us late-stage Westerners.
        
        It should be remembered that our secular materialism is a historical anomaly, not that “less enlightened” worldview it displaced. What is and isn’t the more valid worldview is largely a matter of perspective and habit of thought.
        
        2 6
        Report
        January 12, 2024 12:56pm
  - Biscuit
    
    David, one of my favourite poems:
    
    It’s Epitaph for the Unknown Soldier by W. H. Auden, the man also responsible for that memorable ‘Stop All The Clocks’ poem in ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral):
    
    ‘To save your world, you asked this man to die:
    Would this man, could he see you now, ask why?’
    
    25 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 9:03am
  - fightingtemeraire
    
    David
    
    The MN’s war started on the first day and ended on the last day of the war in the Far East. They had the 2nd highest casualty rate after BC and when you were sunk your pay stopped!!!
    
    12 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 9:24am
  - MCōs
    
    My uncle was shot down over northern France in 1944 and died
    My father spent the entire war, except for a few months at the end of 1939, away with the NZ Army
    His missed his brother terribly and became quite emotional when he visited his grave with my sister (as did the Austrian family on the farm where he was a POW when he visited them)
    Nobody, least of all you, can speak for my uncle
    I talked to my father over the years and he’d seen a bit of the world. He was more tolerant of changes than another older brother who’d stayed at home . . . .
    
    11 7
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 9:30am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      People who claim to know what war veterans would think of today’s country are simply projecting their own preferences.
      
      4 28
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 10:46am
      - Che Guava
        
        I think it’s fair to say that most of them thought they were fighting for something broadly the same as what they knew (i.e. society in the 1930s and 40s). Weren’t they told they were “defending” something, rather than fighting to establish something that didn’t yet exist?
        
        Of course, like in almost any war, they were lied to and they were in fact fighting for something that didn’t yet exist – open and “tolerant” societies where anyone from anywhere was considered to have the same claim as anyone else, loss of national sovereignty and expanded global governance justified by the “rules-based international order” and “freedom” to identify as anything that pops into your mind.
        
        2 9
        Report
        January 12, 2024 12:26pm
    - David Garrett
      
      Why add the nasty “…least of all you”…[banned noun] ?
      
      Do you really believe your Uncle would have any sympathy with a freak of nature who got dreadfully upset because someone supposedly used the “wrong” pronoun when speaking to it?
      
      10 3
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 12:34pm
  - Che Guava
    
    What books have you read to feed your deep interest in WW II?
    
    1 7
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 12:33pm
    - Che Guava
      
      So you haven’t ready any then? I assume you’ve watched the Battle of Britain several times, which explains your understanding of WW2.
      
      In the interests of sharing information in the pursuit of knowledge, here’s my top 10 books on WW2 itself, and its surrounding circumstances.
      
      In no particular order:
      
      The Origins of the Second World War, by AJP Taylor
      
      Adolf Hitler – Collection of Speeches – 1922-1945, by A. Hitler
      
      Nuremberg or the Promised Land, by M. Bardèche
      
      Inside the Third Reich_Memoirs by Albert Speer
      
      The High Cost of Vengeance (1949), by Freda Utley
      
      Hitler’s Revolution_Expanded Edition – Ideology, Social Programs, Foreign Affairs, by Richard Tedor
      
      Germany Must Perish! (1941), by Theodore N. Kaufman
      
      Churchill’s War (in 4 volumes), by D. Irving
      
      Apocalypse 1945_The Destruction of Dresden, by D. Irving
      
      The Transfer Agreement_The Dramatic Story of the Secret Pact Between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine, by E. Black
      
      1 10
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 5:01pm
      - greybeard
        
        Congratulations.
        You win the initial 2024 Arseholes Award for the number of Googled documents as a reply to someone else’s opinion.
        
        7 3
        Report
        January 12, 2024 6:33pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        Greybeard the above list can be found in the above order on a search? Got a link?
        
        0 0
        Report
        January 13, 2024 7:33pm
- Burtland
  
  the alphabet people are at it again
  
  DEI is now DEIB
  – diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging
  
  18 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 8:31am
  - Sarkozygroupie
    
    If they just found a random W it could be DWEIB.
    
    2 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 9:05pm
- dubya
  
  Haddock has form for attention seeking behaviour
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/simon-dallow-focus-of-email-campaign/O32VKOHCYTQQ6RXTHPVJTRBEYY/
  
  12 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 8:32am
  - Jethrod
    
    Formerly Robert Haddock, back in the early 2000’s, he called himself Mary Lambie, because he was infatuated by her.
    A very strange person. She/it.
    
    14 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 9:46am
    - imalwaysright
      
      Jeth,
      
      Haddock,
      Lambie,
      What’s next?
      Captain Custard?
      
      6 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 12:36pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    I do wonder what will happen to our crazy assed society if global war breaks out. What will happen to all these um, “vulnerable” people??
    
    0 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2024 5:45pm
- Taieri
  
  I stand in solidarity with this poor, much abused and humiliated lady. She’s trying so hard. Shame on you Briscoes! Won’t be buying anything at your stores.
  
  Not that I ever did.
  
  16 6
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 8:34am
  - imalwaysright
    
    Taieri
    
    He’s not a lady.
    Don’t insult women.
    
    12 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 12:38pm
  - Srikaya
    
    You should drop Briscoes some feedback. Might prevent their stuff getting shamed into diversity training.
    
    4 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 5:51pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Grab it by the pussy and tell it to act normally.
  
  17 12
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 8:35am
  - David Garrett
    
    Steve O: You are a very naughty boy…
    
    14 3
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 8:58am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Crocodile Dundee style!
      “Just checking”
      
      11 3
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 10:17am
      - imalwaysright
        
        “That’s not a cock…”
        
        8 0
        Report
        January 12, 2024 12:39pm
  - Rich Prick
    
    That could turn out to be quite a handful.
    
    22 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 9:01am
  - imalwaysright
    
    You have to wonder with all the death, destruction, and misery in the world this joker has nothing more important to worry about than getting his chicken fillets in a tangle because someone won’t play along with his dressups fantasy.
    He/him can fuck right off.
    
    33 5
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 9:55am
    - Rich Prick
      
      Chicken fillets? I’m pretty sure this specimen wanders the coop with a whole drumstick.
      
      0 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 9:15pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  An attention seeking narcissist with form.
  
  Apparently they stalked Simon Dallow for a while…..
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/simon-dallow-focus-of-email-campaign/O32VKOHCYTQQ6RXTHPVJTRBEYY/
  
  9 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 10:12am
  - John Loveridge
    
    Ah well, much is explained. Ms Haddock seems to have a bit of a problem with honesty. The career path from drag queen to receptionist to fashion reporter to “global diversity inclusion executive” must follow some interesting twists and turns.
    
    21 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 10:30am
  - David Garrett
    
    Clan: Why use the pronoun “they” when this person is clearly a MAN who, as someone put it brilliantly above, “likes playing dress ups”?
    
    11 2
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 12:39pm
    - ClanMcleod
      
      DG – it’s just another one of those perplexing questions that seem to have popped up in the last few years. I think they’re trying to mess with us oldies!!
      
      6 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 1:43pm
- John Loveridge
  
  Far out, is that actually a job these days?
  
  You can be sure that Ms Haddock-Staniland immediately called the Stuff hotline herself, probably while still standing in front of the battered employee, to ensure everybody gets to hear of her appalling, degrading treatment.
  
  20 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 10:25am
- leoj
  
  Please help me with this:
  
  If the deranged pro trans numpties consider that trans-women are women, why use the adjective “trans” at all?
  
  13 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 12:57pm
  - plc
    
    To elevate them above real women in the “woke” totem
    
    7 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 2:37pm
Local Miller

Thanks for taking one for the team, but I’ll not be clicking on the link to read the article. No oxygen for $tuff from me.

Another “reply” that didn’t connect to the OP. This was a response to GR’s 8:06AM post.
38 3
Log in to Reply
Report
January 12, 2024 8:12am
- pdm
  
  LM – I use their relatively new `how does this make you feel’ to tick Angry and then spit out their bias etc etc etc.
  
  11 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 8:59am
  - David Garrett
    
    pdm: Why bother? You are tilting at an immovable windmill.
    
    12 3
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 9:06am
  - Matt Long
    
    PDM, you are making the leftist trolls at Stuff feel exceedingly self righteous and self satisfied.
    
    8 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 9:22am
- sungsamning
  
  I adhere to that policy too.
  
  5 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 9:20am
Matt Long

In The Case of the Disappearing Door, it appears Boeing has chosen to reward their executives on how well they implement DEI, rather than the value they return to shareholders.
I would have thought this would be an actionable offense for shareholders, however shareholder power is concentrated in the hands of multinational funds who can currently dictate policy to even small suppliers of companies like Fonterra or Boeing.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/business-leaders/elon-musk-dings-boeing-after-alaska-airlines-scare-prioritized-dei-hiring
21 3
Log in to Reply
Report
January 12, 2024 8:12am
- Local Miller
  
  I fly to SA this evening via Dubai. On a Boeing, but not a 737-9 MAX. With all the air disasters over the past few weeks one wonders whether it’s worth the risk 🙂
  
  26 3
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 8:27am
  - cmm
    
    If you’re travelling to South Africa then clearly the risk is not in the flight.
    
    The dangers to civilians in South Africa is higher than to those in Ukraine.
    
    42 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 8:43am
    - cmm
      
      Downticking aint gonna change the facts.
      
      23 2
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 9:36am
      - imalwaysright
        
        Cmm,
        People who want to downtick should instead post their point. Far more interesting than having us wonder if they are stupid or triggered.
        
        9 8
        Report
        January 12, 2024 10:02am
      - imalwaysright
        
        Too easy!
        
        5 0
        Report
        January 12, 2024 11:23am
      - Che Guava
        
        “Downticking aint gonna change the facts”
        
        Tell me about it. They’ll downtick you, and even call you names when they do bother respond, but they’ll never demonstrate how and why you’re wrong.
        
        Ironically, most of the so-far 18 upticks you’ve received will be from exactly the commenters to whom I refer.
        
        0 6
        Report
        January 12, 2024 4:40pm
  - thirteenstars
    
    It’s not Plummet Airlines, is it?
    
    News reports say Boeing shares “fell 8%”. That’s just not funny.
    
    All the best.
    
    11 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 8:51am
  - David Garrett
    
    Local: Back in1989 my then wife and I flew United 811 the night after the cargo hold door blew out on the very same flight, sucking a number of people to their deaths.
    
    We looked at switching to Air NZ, but the cost was prohibitive. We vowed that any suggestion of anything being wrong – even including a gate change – would cause us to change airlines and suck up the extra costs.
    
    I have never been more relieved to reach the shores of dear old NZ than at the end of that flight.
    
    18 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 9:04am
    - Blog-aholic
      
      RIP Lee Campbell.
      
      9 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 9:27am
  - Drone
    
    The risk isn’t huge but the carbon footprint will kill the planet. Use the internet.
    
    7 3
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 9:15am
  - mawm
    
    Local – You are probably wise to not fly SAA if they still have enough functioning planes to do the Perth – JHB route.
    
    8 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 10:02am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    I’m planning a trip to Ireland later in the year, I’ll be making sure the flight from London to Dublin is NOT with any airline that uses these things.
    
    8 2
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 10:14am
  - marleybob
    
    Hope your not wearing your I D F shirt LM
    
    1 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 5:00pm
  - rouppe
    
    I’ve got 20 hours flying coming up in about a week. Airbus though…
    
    0 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 8:49pm
- James Stephenson
  
  It’s certainly a long way from “if it’s no Boeing, I’m not going.”
  
  13 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 8:56am
Chuck Bird

FYI

Net Zero Watch: France drops renewable energy targets in new energy bill

https://breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2024/01/net-zero-watch-france-drops-renewable.html
39 3
Log in to Reply
Report
January 12, 2024 8:18am
- Local Miller
  
  This is really going to cause some green activist heads to explode. The crazy thing is that France is still moving away from fossil fuels by building more nuclear power. By the activist mantra, it’s only net zero if it’s renewable.
  
  23 3
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 8:36am
  - Chuck Bird
    
    The Greens in the UK and Europe generally support nuclear power.
    
    13 3
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 8:43am
- Damocles11
  
  These other nations do whatever is in their national interest, whereas in NZ the Leftist activist / media cabal brays “we must do our part!!” and trains its guns on our farming sector…all in an absurdly quixotic effort to curb our infinitesimal 0.17% share of global emissions.
  
  12 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 10:59am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Oh…
    The greens have done far more than train their guns on the farming sector. With the help of the last govt, they have proverbially screwed New Zealand’s electricity sector for most of the next decade.
    
    Just go to the Ministry of the Environment website and read the damage done up to 31 July 2023, in the name of meeting the Paris Climate accord.
    
    The damage is not irreparable, but the damage will take a determined govt who are prepared to stand up to the Greens, the media and all the hangers on (including Parker & the Labour party).
    
    In essence, the Environment policy positions, and Parker’s RMA replacements, means NZ is meant to rely on solar & wind power for future generation. This is in the face of much energy is generated in Europe & the UK from new thermal power stations. All of which have better green house gas footprints per MW of electricity generated than paddocks of solar arrays or wind turbines standing on hills.
    
    10 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 11:49am
    - Chuck Bird
      
      Problem is Luxon believes there is a climate emergency.
      
      6 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 3:47pm
      - hullkiwi
        
        Chuck Luxon is not the issue. The question is, do the govt have the balls to fix up the mess in the Ministry of the Environment created by Parker, in light of the fights they have coming over Maori and ToW status. This given they would need to taken on the Greens, the bureaucracy (infected by the cancer that is the Green Party influencing govt policy), and the Media Party).
        
        4 0
        Report
        January 12, 2024 4:25pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        It kind of appears he believes he has to play along with the completely unsubstantiated “climate emergency” or NZ will be penalised (trade sanctions presumably). Then again it’s conceivable he’s a complete true believer as the hysteria is coming from people in well recognised institutions.
        
        0 0
        Report
        January 13, 2024 7:42pm
slightlyrighty

A lot of the discussion about Israel is that the Palestinians claim it as theirs and that the Jewish Homeland was only established in 1948.

However, Ancient Rome documented the geographical area as a Jewsih Homeland in 48BC, When Julius Ceasar Confirmed Hyrcanus II as ethnarch of the Jews.
26 4
Log in to Reply
Report
January 12, 2024 8:20am
- Matt Long
  
  Damn, those Jews got to the Roman Empire as well as the GAE and France.
  The power of those people. //
  
  17 3
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 9:34am
- newview
  
  That’s how I see it as well. Pre 1948 the area had no formal boundaries and was administered the Ottoman Empire. The People living there were offered what would have been a formal Palestinian State at the time but the surrounding Muslim countries didn’t want a bar of because they didn’t want to legitimatise Israel’s newly formed State. The Palestinians played catch up and formed a State in 1988. The rest is History albeit a shocker. Everyone has their own take on the situation but this is mine. The rights and wrongs can be argued over the last two thousand years and will always be right or wrong depending what side you’re on.
  
  12 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 10:47am
  - Damocles11
    
    After the fall of the Ottoman Empire in WWI the British came to administer that part of the Middle East and it was called ‘Mandatory Palestine’. The area in question has had numerous names over the course of its history, and there was even a Crusader ‘Kingdom of Jerusalem’ established there. (It lasted for almost two hundred years, from the accession of Godfrey of Bouillon in 1099 until the siege of Acre in 1291.)
    
    13 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 11:05am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      The present Spanish monarch, Felipe VI, is also titular King of Jerusalem among many other putative titles.
      
      10 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 11:27am
- miltonF
  
  I watched an interesting video about this a while back. I can’t remember if it was posted on this site or another. Anyway, the jist of the video is that this area of the middle east has been conquered back and forth by so many different groups that it is difficult for any one group to claim legitimate historical right of possession of this land. As far as I can tell, the area has been practicing Islam for nearly the same amount of time that it has been practicing Judaism. I’m not a fan of religion, particularly Islam, however I believe the only solution is a secular state where all peoples are respected and given a voice at the table. Unfortunately this is at odds with the desires of the Islamic fundamentalists and Jewish Zionists. I don’t have happy predictions for the future I’m sad to say.
  
  6 3
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 12:22pm
  - Lance
    
    Jews have been living in that area for 4,000 years
    From 1900 BC onwards. This chap called Abraham had something to do with it 🙂
    BTW
    Jerusalem has been destroyed 17 times and rebuilt 18 times.
    
    11 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 12:57pm
    - miltonF
      
      I’m not sure if it’s quite so cut-and-dry. Yes, the hebrews have been living in this area since around 1800BCE, but they did not practice Judaism. They practiced Yahwism. Judasim will not be formalised into a version we recognise until around 70CE.
      
      That would give Judaism as we recognise, 6 centuries as the dominant religion in the area. 24 centuries if you include Yahwism. The Arabs conquered Palestine in the 7th century and Islam was dominant for the next 12 centuries.
      
      Whichever way you look at, no one race or religion can claim historical right to this area. I think it is probably best that we forget about such profiling anyway and treat people the same regardless of race or religion. It is 2023 after all.
      
      3 3
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 2:38pm
      - Sarkozygroupie
        
        Today’s Judaism lesson:
        
        “Yahweh” is the transliteration of YHWH, the name for “G-d”. But Jews don’t ever speak G-d’s proper name out loud as it is sacred. We use Yahweh instead.
        
        Yahwism is a very early pre-cursor to Judaism. It’s not rated as important by Jews, not discussed and it is not Judaism. It is a historical footnote. You could think of it as being like Neanderthals before Homo Sapiens.
        
        0 0
        Report
        January 13, 2024 7:15am
  - Matt Long
    
    Israel is a secular state with freedom of religion, which is why some of the ultra orthodox Jewish sects oppose Israel and will not serve in the IDF.
    People argue it cannot be a pure secular state because it was set up as a refuge and homeland for the Jews; meh.
    
    3 2
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 2:17pm
    - Che Guava
      
      Jews are more of an ethnic group than they are a religion. Judaism’s fundamental utility is that it keeps Jews Jewish by blood. There are so few Jews in the world because it is not a universalist religion, but is particularist and tribal.
      
      Even if I converted to Judaism tomorrow, Jerry Seinfeld would always be considered a Jew by other Jews far more than I would, simply because I don’t have the right blood. Secular or religious, atheist or devout, it doesn’t matter, they are all part of the same group.
      
      Israel is fundamentally based on blood and soil, ethnicity and land. Just listen to them if you don’t believe me. Nobody says “the Catholic people” when they refer to Catholics, because Catholics aren’t a people (i.e. a race or ethnicity) connected by blood, they are connected by a doctrine. By contrast, “the Jewish people” is consistently used to refer to the Jews, by themselves and by others.
      
      2 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 2:23pm
      - Sarkozygroupie
        
        Why do you make up shit all the time? If you are going to talk about someone else’s ethnicity and religion at least get it right.
        
        If you convert to Judaism you are Jewish. You are not seen as anything different or “other” by any other Jew. And Judaism is one the three great monotheistic faiths.
        
        Can you please stop trying to turn us into some kind of scary group out to monster the rest of the world. You are unhinged.
        
        You are truly boring with your continuous slurs and tropes and have a tiny mind the way you go on and on. You are the worst kind of person continuously trying to cause friction between Jews and non-Jews.
        
        0 0
        Report
        January 13, 2024 7:24am
      - NZer In Exile
        
        India is predominantly and strongly Hindu. Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Sri Lanka and Cambodia are predominantly and strongly Buddhist. Then there are all the countries staunchly dominated by Islam. Yet none of this seems to bother the anti-Israel obsessives to any great degree.
        
        0 0
        Report
        January 13, 2024 5:56pm
    - miltonF
      
      “People argue it cannot be a pure secular state because it was set up as a refuge and homeland for the Jews”
      
      This is called Zionism and exactly why it cannot be a secular state. You cannot create a new country as a homeland for one particular religion while at the same time claiming it is secular. If it was truely secular it would be a homeland for ALL races and religions and would not have changed it’s name to Israel.
      
      A hypothetical thought experiment: imagine if the Arabian peninsula had been under Christian rule for the last 1300yrs. WW3 breaks out and a holocaust happens against the Arabs. If they end up stateless and nobody will accept them, would it be OK if we carve off a piece of land in Arabia to create a refuge and homeland for Islam? If we were to do so, would this be considered a secular state?
      
      2 2
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 3:11pm
      - miltonF
        
        Actually, I think I have a better analogy. Christianity developed in this area also. If there was a holocaust against Christians, would it be OK to chop Israel in half to create a homeland for the Christians?
        
        1 1
        Report
        January 12, 2024 3:19pm
      - Matt Long
        
        You might ask yourself what is the state religion of Israel? Who is the leader of that religion and what role does he have in government?
        A State for Poles, Slovaks, Albanians; Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Macedonia. All states set up for ethnic groups that lack genetic purity but identify together as a racial group.
        England by contrast, has a state religion, and the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury has an official but now ceremonial role in Government.
        In apparently secular Germany there is a Church tax according to Wikipedia of 8-9%. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_tax#:~:text=Taxpayers%2C%20whether%20Catholic%2C%20Protestant%20or,community%20to%20which%20they%20belong.
        
        1 0
        Report
        January 12, 2024 3:57pm
      - julesnzuk
        
        Zionism = Jewish nationalism. As in, people who are ethnically Jewish (not necessarily adherents of Judaism). Jews are an ethnicity (unlike Muslims or Christians), so you can be a Jewish atheist. So yes, not sure if Israel is a secular state but it could be, in principle.
        
        2 0
        Report
        January 12, 2024 8:35pm
- Che Guava
  
  The argument against a claim by Palestinian Arabs is often that there was no Palestinian State before Jews began immigrating there en masse.
  
  Obviously then, if “having no pre-existing state” is an argument against Palestinian claims, then it is also an argument against the Jewish, given that there was also no pre-existing Jewish state, until as late as 1948.
  
  If we move away from statehood and turn to occupation of the region as our criterion, then both sides have very similar claims in terms of longevity.
  
  So they’ve both lived there for centuries so both have roughly the same claim. However, the historical numbers go against the Jews, with non-Jews having been the vast majority in Palestine until very recently, with the Jews only at 2-5%.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliyah
  
  “In the late 19th century, 99.7% of the world’s Jews lived outside the region, with Jews representing 2–5% of the population of the Palestine region.”
  
  So, in a very generous interpretation in favour of the Jews (given their historically low percentage in the region), both sides have an equal claim to the area.
  
  Due to the weakness of their terrestrial claims, the Jews are really only left with “God wanted us to have it.”
  
  2 4
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 2:18pm
  - miltonF
    
    At the end of the day, might is right.
    
    2 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 3:13pm
    - Che Guava
      
      Spot on. Although in this case, the “might” is directly or indirectly American, hence the need for an American public “consensus” to back Israel.
      
      I’d at least respect the Israelis if they just dropped the facade about morality (however necessary it is to get the credulous onside) and came out and admitted what they see as their God-given ethnic supremacy which they believe justifies their actions. What they are doing in Gaza isn’t moral no matter how they try to spin it, it’s an exercise in the use of brute force.
      
      It’s not their extreme chauvinism and sense of entitlement that puts me off the most, it’s that they are completely dishonest about it.
      
      2 7
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 4:13pm
Tomtoddy

The media have become transfixed on weather. Hot days are touted as “scorching”, “record-breaking”, “stifling”. What idiots. Anything over 30 degrees sends them into overdrive.

I recall being in Culverdon in Canterbury as a kid, 60 years ago, when it was over 40. Long before “global warming”. That is starting to get warm.
64 2
Log in to Reply
Report
January 12, 2024 8:23am
- Martonman
  
  And being in Condobolin Central NSW in Jan 2006 When. It was regularly in the 40 ‘s and 49 in late Jan
  
  18 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 8:28am
- Scott
  
  And it is not as if hot weather is new. Those who have lived in Masterton all their lives recount the summers were hotter. They also say that last summer was the poorest and coldest in living memory. Which is the opposite to what the global warming pundits would predict.
  
  But if you want heat then look at the heat wave in Australia of 1896. Apparently people were falling down dead in the streets as the temperature approached 50°C. The birds fell out of the trees it was so hot. Can the Australian heatwave of 1896 be blamed on climate change?
  
  25 3
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 8:29am
- Gravelroad
  
  Whaaaa- it’s hot.
  Someone should do something.
  
  28 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 8:35am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    I know – a Tax will fix it.
    
    37 3
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 8:45am
    - nathie
      
      And roll out NIWA on both TV news channels (talk about coordinated)!
      
      13 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 9:04am
- thirteenstars
  
  Sustained periods of low activity, air conditioning and vegan-based diets tend to keep the pseudo-intellectual elites in a state of febrility, delicate as lace curtains and angst-ridden.
  
  Only the aimless thrill of shoplifting designer clothing seems to motivate them.
  
  30 3
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 8:43am
- a3kidlady
  
  Oh no – its summer, with sunshine, and hot days, everybody panic!! Well at least those of us who aren’t still at the beach, please panic on behalf of everybody else.
  
  21 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 8:43am
- Burtland
  
  the idiots are actually in the Metservice and NIWA
  
  17 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 8:52am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I think you will discover that it is NIWA that is pushing Climate Armageddon on our Media.
    
    Remember there is a Government review (Treasury and MBIE) currently being undertaken about the weather forecasting duality taxpayers are funding.
    
    It is due out next month.
    
    NIWA is fighting for continuing control and weather forecasting revenue.
    
    https://www.mbie.govt.nz/about/news/review-for-the-future-of-weather-forecasting/
    
    https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/the-detail/story/2018900795/the-feud-between-our-two-big-weather-forecasters
    
    24 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 9:59am
    - Master Mariner
      
      Yes indeed Maggy.
      The biggest losers are NZ public who rely on accurate and timely onformation.
      The biggest crime as far as i can see is not too open source the information.
      We pay for it , So should be open too everyone.
      By not doing so , It costs NZ public in potentially lives lost.
      
      12 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 12:47pm
- cmm
  
  You will notice that they play games with words like “average” and “normal”.
  
  They almost never report weather that is cooler than average, but will report weather that is warmer than average. Instead they will say the lower than average temperature is normal (which it is most of the time), but what they won’t say is that the higher than average temperatures are also normal (well most of the time).
  
  The difference is that average is a single value but normal is a range.
  
  We should expect about half the days to be above average and about half to be below average (that is how average works). However the vast majority of measurements (warmer or cooler) are within the normally expected range.
  
  26 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 9:08am
- Stellaboxer
  
  Funny thing is the Herald were telling us just before the heat that the failure of dry hot El Niño weather to eventuate was proof of a climate catastrophe playing out in real time backed up with NIWA , the government funded climate hysterics, saying this isn’t the El Niño of our parents and grandparents no this was the new climate change El Niño. It’s why I don’t take any notice of what they say in much the same way I don’t care how much a man dressed as a woman gets upset if I don’t pretend that they are a woman. It’s all an enormous distraction designed to keep us arguing about unimportant nonsense whilst an unelected bunch of idiots gets on with shafting us unimpeded and largely unnoticed. Oh look there’s a squirrel!
  
  20 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 9:29am
  - Stellaboxer
    
    Apologies to the Herald it was actually a report on NewsHub here is the link and the game for today is count the contradictions all in one place.
    https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2024/01/weather-el-ni-o-weather-pattern-isn-t-delivering-the-expected-hot-dry-summer-due-to-warmer-ocean-temperatures.html?fbclid=IwAR0xGEc8MX6sCHcPbS1Ua-rCe8M61S7C5wV6DNPp9o-TgXlPuYYwv0PkqHQ
    
    10 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 9:54am
    - Master Mariner
      
      NIWA, NOAA, And UN Meteoroly office are all the same.
      Ie Climate scare mongering.
      Do not watch TV3 as this is what you get. Ie Bullshit.
      Unfortunately peoples livleyhoods are on the line with this mis/dis/mal information.
      
      8 2
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 12:56pm
- plc
  
  TV3’s “Climate Reporter” actually said that 2023 was the Earth’s hottest ever year on Wednesday evening.
  
  Not for the last 100 years. Not in historical records. Ever.
  
  This followed up by NIWA mouth who failed to disclose that the vast majority of their “revenue” is government funded climate change “research”.
  
  19 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 9:52am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Yes, and have you seen the average temperature graph that has been used to show the high temperatures last year?
    
    To say that it is a fraud is an understatement.
    
    It is a graph produced by people in the Northern Hemisphere based on temperature readings “averaged” for the past 40 years.
    
    You look at the graph and it shows an extreme bell from January to December. The temperatures are low on the left & right extremes of the graph, and high in the middle of the graph.
    
    That is not possible, unless they are ignoring the Southern Hemisphere from their measurements. Which is the only explanation for their dramatic graph.
    
    9 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 12:01pm
    - Master Mariner
      
      Your onto it.
      There is plenty of evidence cheery picking data from both hemispheres.
      On another note, Arctic sea ice has reached its 2nd highest ever recorded.
      That throws a spanner in the works.
      
      9 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 1:03pm
- John Loveridge
  
  I haven’t exactly been keeping records, but my sense is that in the last decade or more, Canterbury summers have been cooler and less consistent. We don’t seem to get the sustained runs of very high temperatures and tiring nor’westers that I remember from when I first lived here 30 years ago.
  
  17 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 10:39am
  - MCōs
    
    The good old days were marvelous weren’t they
    I don’t think it ever rained back then going by my old photos
    
    9 6
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 10:55am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      And if the weather records say different, it must be due to corruption by Big Meteorology.
      
      5 18
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 11:02am
      - imalwaysright
        
        Mike
        
        Many a true word spoken in sarcasm.
        
        6 2
        Report
        January 12, 2024 12:49pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        More big green/left grifting and grant/salary-whoring Milky. Started with A Gore firing legit climate scientists and spread like cancer from there.
        
        0 0
        Report
        January 13, 2024 7:50pm
    - Stellaboxer
      
      Yes MCos tiring north westerlies we’re such a golden memory and of course there’s no money in climate change is there milky?
      
      2 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 12:53pm
- Lance
  
  The song by Denis Leary “I’m an Asshole” has the following lines:
  “I drive really slow in the ultra-fast lane, while people behind me are going insane”
  “I use public toilets and I piss on the seat… I walk around in the summertime saying how about this heat”
  ” I’m an asshole”
  
  5 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 1:02pm
  - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
    
    was playing the asshole song in the car today for my offspring! 🙂
    
    0 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 6:53pm
Maggie Pie

The only person I can think of who might be excited about this is Simon Dallow 🙁

I see the BBC have a seperate News service to communicate directly with the UK’s African community…..’BBC Pidgin’

https://twitter.com/bbcnewspidgin/status/1745160222170042395

Honestly, you couldn’t make this sh*t up.
32 3
Log in to Reply
Report
January 12, 2024 8:34am
- Positan
  
  I often wonder whether Dallow realises just how much of an utter prat he comes across to viewers.
  
  The utter futility of warbling so confidently in Maori to bored-out-of-their-minds viewers who haven’t the foggiest idea of what he’s on about – and, truth be told, aren’t even remotely interested.
  
  43 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 8:45am
  - Matt Long
    
    Dallow has to follow company policy, a cousin of mine was forced to change her radio pronunciation of Wh to a hard F to correct hundreds of years of mispronunciation 30 years ago.
    
    21 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 9:18am
    - Martonman
      
      Was reading Edward Rutherford’s London recently and noted the term Wherryman was used to describe the people who rowed the boats across the Thames
      
      16 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 9:31am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wherry
        
        1 6
        Report
        January 12, 2024 10:35am
    - Maggie Pie
      
      The other benefit is you can tell someone to “Whuck Off” on FB
      and the censors don’t pick it up.
      
      17 2
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 9:53am
    - lifesgood
      
      Well how do you account for the wonderful Daniel Faitaua now reading the news without a single word of Maori? Then followed by Dan the weather man who also doesn’t use a single word of Maori. The news is a joy to watch at the moment. I wish it could continue to be but I guess we’ll have that obnoxious Dallow foisted on us again with all his “look at me, look at me” Maori nonsense.
      
      20 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 11:10am
      - graham
        
        lifesgood, I’m guessing that Simon Dallow – as the regular newsreader; ie that’s his ONLY job – is under considerable pressure to toe the company line and increase his use of Maori, or face the prospect of being replaced by someone who will do what they’re told. Approaching 60 years old, I’d say he’ll do what has to be done to keep his job.
        
        Whereas Daniel Faitaua and Jenny Suo, both of whom are standing in and both of whom I think have worked as foreign correspondents (certainly Mr Faitaua has) have no such pressure.
        
        And you’re correct, the news is a joy to watch with professional presenters in place at the moment.
        
        14 1
        Report
        January 12, 2024 11:41am
      - imalwaysright
        
        Yes, Daniel is very good. The woman he replaced was extremely hard to understand as her voice is a higher pitch monotone and her command of the English language is weak.
        
        10 1
        Report
        January 12, 2024 12:54pm
    - julesnzuk
      
      Are TVNZ actually telling him to warble in Maori?
      
      2 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 8:40pm
- hullkiwi
  
  Maggie,
  
  That was not Tok Pisin (pidgin English in PNG)
  
  That was piss takin’……..
  
  PS. (I lived in PNG for 2 years).
  
  8 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 12:06pm
Bridgenag

Remember the farmers here who took time off to protest and got 20 seconds of MSM time on the news?

SURVEY: 69% of Germans Support the Farmers’ Protest
Undeterred by the protesters’ popularity, the press continue their smear campaigns, while “Extremism researcher” Matthias Quent demands that the farmers paint rainbows on their placards to repel Nazis

“The daily one-ply toilet paper mill known as the Süddeutsche Zeitung, for its part, has run a long intensely anecdotal piece alleging that various right-wing extremists and others with “revolutionary fantasies” have seized control of the protests – a late contribution to a genre that is now quite bloated and tired. After reading dozens of these pieces, I’ve come to realise that their dishonesty functions at two levels. Most obvious is their disingenuous effort to recast the overwhelmingly centrist middle-class farmers in an extremist light. Somewhat more subtle, is the obfuscation they bring to the meaning of the protests. It is not just farmers who are demonstrating, but a great many truck drivers, tradesmen and ordinary people. Rather than admit that the protests have become a more general statement of dissatisfaction with the direction of German politics and the lunatic traffic light coalition, our journalistic luminaries write instead that they have been hijacked and instrumentalised.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/eugyppius/p/survey-69-of-germans-support-the?r=1aj1bv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
19 3
Log in to Reply
Report
January 12, 2024 8:35am
- Master Mariner
  
  And still little news Globally about this massive demonstration.
  Watching as well. Taking away Diesel subsidies to meet Paris climate accord creative accounting.
  Meantime Germanies economy is crashing.
  Ideology meets reality once again.
  Absolutely no difference to whats happening here.
  Blame the farmers and other productive members of society.
  
  9 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 12:27pm
- jon
  
  Just checkout the latest polls in Germany where the centre right and right parties support is soaring whilst the centre left and left are in rapid decline. Enough said!
  
  6 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 4:37pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    Lefties in Germany are “literally shaking”. They brought it on themselves.
    
    0 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2024 7:53pm
mandk

Giant ape species killed off 250,000 years ago because of climate change: https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/other/researches-uncover-giant-10-foot-tall-apes-living-in-china-around-250-000-years-ago-killed-off-by-climate-change/vi-AA1mOaom?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=U531&cvid=804e7ae8fb3c4e4c84a71567a31641d9&ei=38

It must have been AGW.
19 3
Log in to Reply
Report
January 12, 2024 8:38am
- NothingLeft
  
  Sounds like bollocks. The current Pleistocene ice age has been going on for 2.6 million years. (something like 30 glaciations and interglacials). Fauna are well use to climate change.
  
  What has changed is human ancestors with pointy sticks showing up – they are responsible for most megafauna extinction in last half million years.
  
  5 4
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 10:54am
  - miltonF
    
    99.9% of all species of life that has existed on earth are extinct. Long before our ancestors showed up with pointy sticks. We can and should do more to prevent unnecessary damage, but humans will never be able to compete with Mother Nature when it comes to extinction events.
    
    12 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 12:37pm
    - Lance
      
      The end of the last ice age saw the sea levels rise 120 metres.
      Odd, not all life on earth ended.
      
      7 3
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 1:06pm
      - Ian Boag
        
        not all life on earth ended
        
        No doubt – but a lot of humankind will bite the brine if it happens again …
        
        3 1
        Report
        January 12, 2024 3:46pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        “but a lot of humankind will bite the brine if it happens again”
        
        You know they have legs and can walk?
        
        0 0
        Report
        January 13, 2024 7:55pm
Maggy Wassilieff

I had to locate the M-in-Law’s White & Riddle’s Latin-English dictionary to decipher the meaning of viscidus

It places her in a very viscidus position,” Wilson said.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/133549684/golriz-ghahramans-political-career-in-danger-experts-say-she-should-front-up

Sticky stuff – mixing Languages
29 2
Log in to Reply
Report
January 12, 2024 8:45am
- thirteenstars
  
  Seems apropos regards she with the sticky fingers.
  
  16 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 8:56am
- Chuck Bird
  
  It would be funny if the business owners were Jewish.
  
  12 6
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 9:00am
  - Cassandra
    
    Which they may well be. Batt is derived from Bartholomew.
    
    10 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 10:06am
- Grumpy Silver Top
  
  I see that on Google that Viscidus is a world of warcraft character, looks like a green sea anenome. Maybe that was the intended reference?
  As an editor I regularly edit articles written by people who seem to have recourse to a dictionary but no knowledge of general usage.
  My most recent puzzle was ‘choiceful’, apparently used to mean lots of good options. In its archaic usage (1500s) it meant too many options to be of any use. Seems to have been appropriated by management speak idiots.
  
  16 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 9:00am
  - JackRabbit
    
    Janet Wilson is indeed correct with the use of the word. You could say GG is dying a slow death, trapped in the treacle of her own wrong choices.
    
    22 2
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 9:19am
    - thirteenstars
      
      Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive… and also to violate sec. 219 of the Crimes Act, 1961.
      
      My apologies to Sir Walter Scott.
      
      13 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 10:23am
    - Jack5
      
      Re JackRabbit’s …Janet Wilson is indeed correct with the use of the word …
      
      But words ultimately from the same Latin source have been used in English for centuries.
      
      “Viscous” means gluey or sticky. “Viscid” means the same, though its mostly been used by botanists over the last three or four centuries.
      
      I did Latin grind so long ago I can’t make an adjective “viscidus” from “viscum” – the word for mistletoe and the sticky bird lime made from the plant.
      
      Regardless, Janet Wilson writes clearly in readable English. The source of “viscidus” in this case will likely be a computer spell checker. It just ain’t in my great old Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.
      
      10 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 10:42am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Yes, I initially googled the word and arrived at instructions that the Viscidus creature needs to be frozen, then shattered.
    
    12 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 10:06am
    - JackRabbit
      
      From decades of looking up words, best way to google words is: Word def m-w
      
      ‘def’ is short for definition
      ‘m-w’ is an abbreviation for Merriam-Webster
      
      So Viscidus def m-w results in viscid at the top of the top of the search results.
      
      -having an adhesive quality : sticky
      -having a glutinous consistency : viscous
      -covered with a sticky layer
      
      https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/viscid
      
      ‘us’ is a suffux, in this case/context when added to ‘viscid’, unless my English is incorrect, means “having the qualities of”.
      
      Or google viscidus definition
      returning at the top result:
      
      sticky, glutinous And glutinous having the quality of glue.
      
      https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/viscidus
      
      I think Janet Wilson’s message was that GG is like a fly trapped in treacle/honey. The more or her Green cohorts resist the situation or try to interfere on her behalf, the more it will end badly for her.
      
      10 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 10:33am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Oh Grief…
        
        I’ve not yet had to resort to an USA Dictionary to understand English.
        
        (my preferences are: Chambers, then Collins, then Oxford)
        
        12 0
        Report
        January 12, 2024 11:00am
      - JackRabbit
        
        @Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Fine, just insert the dictionary of your choice.
        
        5 1
        Report
        January 12, 2024 11:13am
      - Jack5
        
        Merriam-Webster is good if you want an American-English slant.
        
        However, Wiktionary is an excllent online tool, especially if you are learning a language.
        
        I note from the link below that Maori language is on the list of languages, but with, as you would expect, 6,336 users, compared with nearly 7.9 million users of the English language section.
        
        https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiktionary#List_of_Wiktionaries
        
        I was interested to see MaggyW’s preference of the Scotland-orign dictionary, Chambers. I, too, find it useful. Scrabble players and crossword fanatics apparently like it, too – for some of its rarer dialect words.
        
        5 0
        Report
        January 12, 2024 11:16am
      - JackRabbit
        
        @Jack5
        
        Any reputable dictionary is Ok. But without a dictionary in the search criteria, you will get dished up whatever the Google/Chap GPT/NSA/CIA algorithms throw at you.
        
        4 1
        Report
        January 12, 2024 12:17pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Sticky fingers put GG in a sticky situation
        
        7 1
        Report
        January 12, 2024 12:22pm
  - Cassandra
    
    It translates as “green slime”. Which seems to be appropriate, n’est-ce pas?
    
    9 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 10:09am
- greybeard
  
  I think the word Janet Wilson was intending to use was “invidious”. Either that or the “reporter” had other things on his/her/its mind.
  
  18 3
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 9:04am
  - David Garrett
    
    grey: Janet Wilson is usually pretty sound; I would think it was just a typo – no subbies or proof readers these days to pick them up.
    
    On the wider issue, I not sure I agree with her and others’ advice to Gharaman. In my own case, I took advice from an eminent QC regarding what I could say given the blanket suppression orders regarding my own case – not just covering the young boy’s name I used to obtain the passport, but my own.
    
    The advice was that outside the House I could say absolutely nothing unless or until I could get the District Court to vary the orders made 6 years before. In response to shouted questions from the scum (I still now somewhat regret not decking Gower when he blocked my path into the departure lounge) I repeated the advice I had received, and added that I had instructed my lawyer to make an urgent request to vary the orders so I could say more.
    
    It didn’t make a blind bit of difference – Gower and his mates still shoved their microphones up my nose demanding that I “explain myself to the people of New Zealand”
    
    So while I have no sympathy for Gharaman, I do perhaps understand her reluctance to speak – especially given that she seems to have a tendency to run off at the mouth, and would likely be easily cajoled into saying more than she wisely should.
    
    18 3
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 9:21am
    - In Vino Veritas
      
      Lol David, you should have Bob Jones’d him. And then asked the Judge if you could pay another $1000 and repeat the dose!!!
      
      28 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 9:32am
      - lifesgood
        
        I absolutely loved that Bob Jones response. Best ever!
        
        14 1
        Report
        January 12, 2024 11:13am
    - Chuck Bird
      
      If Gharaman was charged and she was going to plead not guilty she could say so and nothing else.
      
      As it appears she has not been charged it makes sense for her not to say anything in the hope no charges will be laid.
      
      For her or her friends to approach the store could be inappropriate.
      
      12 4
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 9:44am
      - JackRabbit
        
        For her or her friends to approach the store could be inappropriate, but entirely in keeping with a well established Labour/Green strategy of making the criminal(s) the victim(s), and the victim(s) the criminal(s).
        
        26 4
        Report
        January 12, 2024 9:54am
      - imalwaysright
        
        If the lefty eco fascists threaten the shop in any way they should be arrested.
        Don’t tolerate these shit heads and their tantrums .
        
        21 3
        Report
        January 12, 2024 10:15am
      - Ghost
        
        The worst part of this is people making stuff up. No one has threatened the shop
        
        10 0
        Report
        January 12, 2024 10:20am
      - Yvette
        
        JackRabbit
        
        In a statement to Newshub, the Green Party said it is aware of allegations and is in contact with Scotties Boutique to “better understand and address the situation“.
        https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2024/01/green-mp-golriz-ghahraman-stood-down-from-portfolios-after-shoplifting-accusation.html
        
        14 1
        Report
        January 12, 2024 10:32am
      - Paulus
        
        Great PR for the most probably expensive Ladies Shop in Auckland.
        Many Ladies will flock there now and spend.
        
        14 2
        Report
        January 12, 2024 10:50am
      - Jack5
        
        Perhaps Gower would have backed off if David Garrett has just snapped in Gower-speak: “I’ve got nothing to f-n say!”
        
        https://youtu.be/tzZ02BtGmHg?si=Mdy2jKst5UrC-jin
        
        7 2
        Report
        January 12, 2024 10:54am
      - JackRabbit
        
        @Yvette
        
        Coded speak for “we will make them be kind and stop them pursuing it through the court.”
        
        8 2
        Report
        January 12, 2024 11:16am
    - Cassandra
      
      Legally she should keep mum; politically she needs to explain herself; morally she should resign from Parliament.
      
      21 3
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 10:11am
    - John Loveridge
      
      In that situation I would have had an uncontrollable urge to make Paddy Gower swallow his own microphone in a single gulp. I admire your self-control.
      
      16 3
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 10:43am
      - David Garrett
        
        John L: I actually thank God for the Air NZ/security guy who pulled Gower out of my way…I was about 2 seconds away from dropping my bag and then dropping him…which of course wouldn’t have helped my situation any.
        
        10 3
        Report
        January 12, 2024 12:47pm
    - NZer In Exile
      
      Have you seen the video of tiny singer Bjork roughing up a “journalist” who was following her around?
      
      0 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 13, 2024 6:06pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I also wondered at first if she meant invidious, but viscidus seems correct.
    
    I would have used one of the English forms of the adjective, though…. viscous/ viscid
    
    13 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 10:12am
- Chuck Bird
  
  These are all allegations but it appears that had an incident at the store before.
  
  Golriz Ghahraman shoplifting allegations: Green Party knew of claims against MP last month
  
  “The leaders said they were also advised on January 5 of allegations relating to a second incident at Scotties.”
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/golriz-ghahraman-shoplifting-allegations-green-party-knew-of-claims-against-mp-last-month/IPWXRSTVANDSTEOMXILPDWA3EE/
  
  2 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 5:31pm
Bridgenag

Somehow it feels better to know the madness is not just here………. Seems to me NZr’s have a compulsion to be up to date with all the trends. Used to be going to shows in Sydney and following fashion, all harmless, but now our need to be a major /important part of the world is sending us over the same cliffs. How can we change the Champayne socialists who lead the way [it seems to me]?

How the ideological fantasy of a climate change-induced permadrought caused German dam operators to overfill their reservoirs before winter and exacerbated the massive December floods

https://open.substack.com/pub/eugyppius/p/how-the-ideological-fantasy-of-a?r=1aj1bv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
12 3
Log in to Reply
Report
January 12, 2024 8:46am
Maggie Pie

Either a total coincidence…. or it’s a GOLD TROLLY ROLL from Winnie 😀

https://twitter.com/nzfirst/status/1745203052750197229
31 3
Log in to Reply
Report
January 12, 2024 8:53am
- Biscuit
  
  WinstonFirst 1 (Own Goal: Golriz Ghahraman)
  Redder-than-Usual-Greens 0
  
  22 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 9:07am
- sungsamning
  
  I hope that eventuates. No more cuddles, and excuses.
  
  15 3
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 9:28am
  - Matt Long
    
    Except in this case Ms Ghahramen needs to be recognised as indigenous to this country, having flown here with her parents under their own steam, rather than brought here by white colonisers.
    One hopes the police will take this important fact into account when considering charges.
    
    19 5
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 9:42am
- thirteenstars
  
  Some pretty unhinged comments to that tweet:
  
  The timing is political.
  Young people deserve a 2nd chance.
  We are not Singapore.
  Look historically at the amount of D.I.C. Winston’s generation undertook without consequence.
  
  Young people? 42 is young? Some might recall Tory Whanau describing herself as a young, oppressed wahine toa at the age of 40. Narcissism knows no bounds.
  
  Bonus stupidity:
  
  It’s all in the implementation… ultimately it’ll affect Māori most. 7yo Māori boy will be arrested and prosecuted for stealing lollies from the dairy, 7yo pākēha boy will be allowed to take the lollies home. Same ole, same ole.
  
  26 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 10:30am
  - Media hater
    
    Jesus H. Christ, they walk amongst us.
    
    3 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 2:53pm
cmm

Just had this guy fly over us twice at low altitude. Now he’s doing a slow and low around Banks Peninsular.

I wonder whether it is one of those retirement flights or whether they are just doing a 737 MAX check?

Yeah, I know its a McDonnell Douglas KC-10A, but they are now part of Boeing (and Boeing quality went pear shaped after the McDD merger when the accountants took over).

https://www.flightradar24.com/RCH232/339697d4
14 1
Log in to Reply
Report
January 12, 2024 8:55am
- Clyde
  
  Wonder where the USAF is off to? The plane arrived at Chch a couple of days ago along with a big welcome from fire trucks putting up a water arch. Interesting. Could be off to Antarctica?
  
  11 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 9:16am
  - Clyde
    
    Nope, not Antarctica. More than likely he is scoping out refuelling job for Wanaka Air Show. Think there are some USAF air displays this coming Easter. Seems to be heading back to Chch.
    
    14 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 9:33am
  - cmm
    
    Fire truck welcomes are normally for special flights for a **very** well respected pilot (eg. a captain on list last trip of an illustrious career) or the first plane arriving for a new squadron.
    
    The scenic flights are common for the last trip of a retiring high ranking captains too.
    
    That plane is 38 years old.
    
    8 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 10:19am
- Paulus
  
  There are no 737 Max’s in New Zealand !
  
  5 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 10:57am
  - Ghost
    
    Fiji Airways fly theirs to NZ
    
    4 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 11:09am
  - cmm
    
    Who said there were?
    
    3 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 11:15am
- cmm
  
  It looks like a “captain’s pleasure” flight.
  
  After a long low altitude flight around banks peninsular and up the spine of NZ they are now at altitude and off in the direction of Australia.
  
  Hey Merica, your $35 trillion dollar debt at work!
  
  7 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 11:17am
- AitchW
  
  I believe that the USAF is retiring the KC10A. They have been part of the Operation Deep Freeze, so this one is doing a farewell tour of NZ.
  
  2 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 5:27pm
Bridgenag

One of the blokes at bowls has a daughter with a sudden and very rare blood clot at the top of her neck. Going to take months to repair and a disaster if it moves. Remember the Malone post about the undertakers reporting on excess deaths of infants. I think these figure will be factual as well.

Embalmer survey 2023: Over 75% are still seeing novel white fibrous clots
These clots were NEVER seen before COVID and the COVID vaccines. The CDC isn’t interested in investigating. After all, it’s only in around 20% of cases or around 600,000 Americans. No big deal.

https://open.substack.com/pub/stevekirsch/p/embalmer-survey-2023-over-75-are?r=1aj1bv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
14 4
Log in to Reply
Report
January 12, 2024 8:55am
- Lee C
  
  Careful, Bridgenag, Someone might describe you as a ‘moron’.
  
  Before sharing any facts, you have to ask yourself:
  
  “Can I take criticism from intellectual heavyweights?”
  
  12 9
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 9:12am
- I remember when
  
  ‘CDC isn’t interested in investigating.’
  
  Why produce evidence for the prosecution?
  
  8 3
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 11:14am
- newview
  
  Mmm BN. There are a few ifs buts and maybes here don’t you think. I think you actually have to see proof these clots are connected to COVID or the vaccines, and even with the coincidence of timing there is none. If they do eventually prove a connection it would then have to be proven it was the vaccine or a medication used to treat the COVID because if these clots are caused by COVID it’s nobody’s fault is it. The embalmers seeing more instances in vaccinated corpses is heresay if there are no figures and would still not prove anything. You may even reason that these clots were caused by Covid itself and so to reduce the possibility of such clots in severe cases it would be wise to keep up to date with vaccinations that reduce the chance of severe infections. Just saying.
  
  4 5
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 12:15pm
  - miltonF
    
    Yes yes. Everything is above board. Nothing to see here. You won’t get Covid if you have been vaccinated. The winter of death is coming for the unvaccinated. There is no such thing as natural immunity. It’s just the one little jab, sorry make that two… sorry make that…infinity. The virus is completely natural originating from a pangolin mating with a racoon dog while habituating in a bat cave in the highlands of northern China. We need a vaccine pass to protect the protected from the virus they are supposedly immune to. Masks don’t work. Wait yes they do. No wait, they don’t. “The science is changing” Oh and the “vaccine” is completely definitely absolutely 100% safe.
    
    Or maybe…that last one could be a lie too? Just a thought.
    
    6 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 1:06pm
  - krazykiwi
    
    “it would be wise to keep up to date with vaccinations that reduce the chance of severe infections.”
    
    Anyone still taking these shots is evidence of Darwinism working to improve the gene pool.
    
    Anyone still recommending these shots should be prosecuted. There are plenty of suitable charges.
    
    Just saying.
    
    3 3
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 2:15pm
  - mawm
    
    Newview – Have you heard of the Bradford Hill Criteria for causation? They might just be relevant.
    
    2 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 3:53pm
Opie

I might be late to the party, but I just found out that ardern booked her wedding for the same day kieran McNulty.

Seems like a dick move and confirms that it’s all about her all the time.

Given McNulty is marrying hipkins’ press secretary, which one will hipkins attend?

If you want a laugh, go the comments.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/exclusive/article-12945689/Inside-Jacinda-Arderns-25-000-night-winery-wedding-venue-shell-tie-knot-former-Bloke-Clarke-Gayford-weekend-long-time-friend-ties-knot-leaving-mates-awkward-decision-make.html
17 3
Log in to Reply
Report
January 12, 2024 9:07am
- Ghost
  
  How do you know her wedding wasn’t booked long before his?
  
  7 3
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 9:10am
  - Matt Long
    
    Odd she wouldn’t have told one of her besties if that were the case.
    
    7 3
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 9:14am
    - Ghost
      
      We are in wedding season, her venue would have been booked long ago.
      
      6 2
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 9:19am
      - pdm
        
        Presumably she has booked out Craggy Range so she would have had to do that months ago unless the owners and people who run it are died in the wool Labour luvvies.
        
        1 0
        Report
        January 12, 2024 5:28pm
  - Opie
    
    “According to a source, despite Mr McAnulty securing his wedding months date months in advance, many mutual friends have since accepted invites to Ms Ardern and Mr Clarke’s big day.”
    
    But nice try.
    
    9 3
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 10:16am
    - Ghost
      
      You don’t know when she booked hers as there is no mention where it is or when it was booked. The only nice try here is your attempt to make something out of her having her wedding the same day as his.
      
      5 2
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 10:19am
      - All_on_Red
        
        I’m inclined to agree with you.
        Craggy Range is hugely popular as a venue. There is a mass of luxury accommodation in the area (like this https://www.blackbarn.com/retreats) and the weather is generally fine at that time so is well suited for a wedding
        She would have had to book a long time ago.
        
        7 0
        Report
        January 12, 2024 10:27am
- cmm
  
  Are the comrades too good for a the RSA hall?
  
  It reminds me of what members of South Africa’s ANC have said on occasion: “Nobody joined the revolution to get poor.”
  
  16 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 11:22am
  - mawm
    
    Thabo?
    
    1 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 3:56pm
- MCōs
  
  ‘I might be late to the party’
  I doubt if that’ll be a problem for any of us at either party
  
  0 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 12:40pm
  - Opie
    
    Which would be the better one to attend if you had to?
    
    0 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 1:06pm
sungsamning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Znpx3U4Rm4A
Missouri Officially Bans Brandon From The Ballot
What goes around comes around. Did the Dems see this coming?
4 4
Log in to Reply
Report
January 12, 2024 9:10am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Fake news.
  Unlike Trump, Biden is not constitutionally ineligible to run for president. The Missouri secretary of state is plainly wrong, and any attempt to disqualify Biden would be speedily and successfully challenged.
  
  6 24
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 9:39am
  - Inandout
    
    m&m, Biden is mentally ineligible to run for President and if you watched non MSM clips you will understand why.
    
    14 7
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 9:59am
    - Maggie Pie
      
      https://twitter.com/realPowerTie/status/1744814070220673484
      
      4 3
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 10:07am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Interestingly, there is no age limit, nor mental or physical standard, for presidential candidates to meet. If there were a cognitive test, for example, can anyone imagine Biden or Trump qualifying?
      
      8 14
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 10:40am
      - Inandout
        
        m&m, Trump passed the test, Biden has been shielded. Trump can speak for 60 miniutes, Biden for 60 seconds. Even our elderly drivers have to pass a test post 75 years to retain their license.
        
        16 6
        Report
        January 12, 2024 11:03am
      - mandk
        
        Biden, No.
        Trump, Yes.
        
        11 4
        Report
        January 12, 2024 11:19am
      - virtualmark
        
        And yet just today Trump is on camera telling us that NY AG Letitia James is the reason that Exxon left New York and moved to Texas.
        
        Exxon relocated to Texas in 1989. Letitia James became AG in 2018.
        
        But sure, keep telling me how Trump is in full mental health.
        
        Meanwhile in the real world Trump has, in the last few months, told us that he beat Obama in 2016, and that he’s going to work with Orban of Turkey and Hezbollah to defeat Hamas.
        
        The man has only a fleeting grasp on reality.
        
        11 7
        Report
        January 12, 2024 12:09pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        And yet he ran the Country better than Biden is.
        Shrugs
        
        4 4
        Report
        January 12, 2024 1:57pm
sungsamning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtCrYckmQRk
New Polish PM arrests leading members of his opposition.

Tusk has defied the constitutional court by arresting those two. Is there no consequences for that? Like removal from office for abuse? Would be good if Tusk is banned from political work for life.
4 10
Log in to Reply
Report
January 12, 2024 9:10am
- Taieri
  
  New Polish PM arrests leading members of his opposition.
  ————
  
  A Prime Minister, Polish or otherwise, can’t arrest anyone. Both men were arrested by the police following their conviction in December 2023 for abuse of power some years ago. This was a second conviction after Polish Supreme Court reviewed the original conviction and subsequent presidential pardon decree.
  This information can be easily found on the internet. For example here:
  https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/01/09/poland-government-tusk-duda-kaminski-wasik-arrest/8448c20a-af12-11ee-9a32-5c9e6aa28b3b_story.html
  
  15 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 9:29am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

No tickets for self driving cars.
What a great solution for protester road blocks!

https://crystalclearnews.com/state-decides-self-driving-cars-are-allowed-to-break-the-law/?
10 4
Log in to Reply
Report
January 12, 2024 9:12am
- JackRabbit
  
  “[N]o citation for a moving violation can be issued if the [autonomous vehicle] is being operated in a driverless mode.”
  
  So if we take that absurd proposition further, it would mean that no one can be found guilty of murder by firearm as the firearms owner was not riding the bullet, but merely set the bullet on it’s journey by pulling a trigger. (pushing the start button).
  
  However is in control of the driver-less vehicle is responsible for what happens, unless they can prove the product was faulty.
  
  No different to dog laws. If your dog bites the arm of face of a child, you are responsible. The fact that you were not riding or steering the dog is irrelevant. It’s your dog. And you started the dog on it’s journey by letting it out the gate or off it’s lead at the local park.
  
  11 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 9:31am
  - JackRabbit
    
    Whoever, not However
    
    4 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 9:55am
- cmm
  
  This is a ridiculous abdication of responsibility. The driver has always been responsible for all aspects of a vehicle but if the driver cannot be determined then the vehicle owner is liable.
  
  Someone has to pick up the liability though. Whether that is the owner or the company that built the product is going to change things.
  
  9 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 10:44am
  - JackRabbit
    
    Indeed.
    
    “For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.” Newton’s Third Law.
    
    Cause and effect. Every effect has a cause.
    
    Even though there was no person in the car at the time, the cause of the driving that created the effect, was the person who set it on its journey, and/or the propeller head that programmed it and/or the analysts/project managers who designed the rules it would follow.
    
    In fact “driver-less” car is an oxymoron. As there is always a driver. We just can’t see the driver, and/or the driver is well removed from the situation, but he is still ultimately responsible as a cause.
    
    A driver-less car is like a child with mental handicaps, who has a mental age of 8. His/her parents are perpetually responsible.
    
    4 3
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 11:26am
    - cmm
      
      The thing will be that there is no person that sets it on its journey. The car will “know” the kids finish school at 3pm and will automatically leave at 2.30 to pick them up.
      
      So, when these devices kill people, and they will, and there is no responsible person to put in the dock, then the engineers will be called in and blamed.
      
      The net result will be one of:
      * Engineers (well competent ones that want to preserve their careers) will avoid these jobs or have special clauses in their contracts etc to protect themselves.
      * Algorithms will be extremely risk adverse, meaning the autonomous cars will dawdle along at low speeds fearful of causing a crash. They will be easy to “bully”. eg, if you are waiting for a gap in the traffic and you see an automated car then just turn in front of it knowing that it will chicken out and give other vehicles room.
      
      4 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 2:38pm
Maggie Pie

Thort this was worth sharing 😀

My doubles-partner just retweeted….

https://twitter.com/UltraDane/status/1744551796390162907
12 3
Log in to Reply
Report
January 12, 2024 9:37am
- Maggie Pie
  
  Just realised, it should of course read ‘Blonde’ not….’White’.
  
  10 3
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 10:04am
Hugh Jarse

Apparently there is heat warning going out for Auckland, the temperature is going up to 27 !. Are they going to declare heat emergency’s or lockdowns if it gets to 30 ?. Presumably the gummit will now ban kiwis from travelling to hot countries for holidays because we can’t cope with heat. The continual catastrophising (?) of summer is just ridiculous.
41 2
Log in to Reply
Report
January 12, 2024 10:10am
- alex Masterley
  
  Whatever happens today I will be close to a fridge full of cold beer.
  
  24 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 10:15am
- krazykiwi
  
  Covid has taught our betters that we are suckers for a bit of fear-porn driven relinquishment of personal sovereignty: Be afraid, and hand it over.
  
  7 3
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 2:06pm
- wilderbeast
  
  Metservice are complicit in this nonsense. Now using phrases like “cry for mercy” and “uncomfortably warm” in official forecast statements. Plus prolific Te Reo.
  
  7 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 3:15pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  Cue utterly ridiculous climate fear mongering from the MarxStreamMedia. They can’t help themselves.
  
  0 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 13, 2024 2:43pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Stop Co-Governance. Julian Batchelor.

https://stopcogovernance.kiwi/blog/fact-checking-tuku-morgan-is-very-revealing/
9 3
Log in to Reply
Report
January 12, 2024 10:15am
- John Loveridge
  
  Tuku couldn’t lie straight with his underpants on.
  
  17 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 10:53am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Well done!
    
    2 2
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 1:41pm
  - pdm
    
    Could Tuku get anything straight with his underpants on or off?
    
    2 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 5:32pm
ClanMcleod

Another PR nightmare for the EV ideologues.

https://dailysceptic.org/2024/01/11/electric-double-decker-bus-bursts-into-flames-in-london-rush-hour/
18 3
Log in to Reply
Report
January 12, 2024 10:16am
- cmm
  
  … but but but ICE fires are more common!
  
  Sure, but ICE fires are way easier to put out.
  
  14 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 10:54am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    AND they make up 90% of the fleet, so there would be more. But certainly they do far less damage or create such problems and toxic waste.
    
    11 4
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 10:57am
    - Paulus
      
      Are not one of the worlds major Car Hire Companies dropping up to 50% of their current EVs ?
      
      5 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 3:41pm
      - marcw
        
        Well yes, yes they are.
        “Rental giant expects to take £190m hit after blaming weak demand and high repair costs.
        Three years ago, Hertz announced plans to buy 100,000 Tesla electric cars, a move that pushed Tesla’s market value beyond $1 trillion.
        
        However, Hertz said renting out electric cars had proved to be less profitable than traditional vehicles and the cars had also come with higher repair costs.
        
        Drivers also still want petrol or diesel-powered cars. Hertz said it would “reinvest a portion of the proceeds from the sale of EVs into the purchase of internal combustion engine vehicles to meet customer demand”.
        
        The sell-off, which applies only in the US but amounts to around a third of the company’s global electric vehicle fleet, comes after years of Hertz positioning itself as a “first mover” in electric car rentals.”
        
        https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/01/11/hertz-sells-tesla-electric-cars-drivers-stick-with-petrol/
        
        (sorry if it’s paywalled.)
        
        4 1
        Report
        January 12, 2024 4:04pm
  - Master Mariner
    
    And far less toxic.
    
    6 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 12:41pm
- Matt Long
  
  Wow, global boiling causing buses to spontaneously combust in the winter(!) in the UK.
  Quick, kill all the 🐮🐮🐮🐮🐮
  
  11 4
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 11:26am
- JackRabbit
  
  Individual cell temperature / discharge rate / charge rate and state of each cell has to be closely monitored to either prevent thermal runaway or at least warn users of a dangerous or critical situation.
  
  But if a Li-Ion cell goes rogue, disconnecting from the rest will not stop it going into thermal runaway. It overheats and becomes a detonator for the rest of the cells.
  
  It is the middle of winter in the UK, so weather (or ‘climate change’) would not be a factor, even though it never would be. It is all in the design/design failures.
  
  I have no doubt that the future is electric, but electric vehicles powered from the electricity grid, in a country where 78% of all energy is derived from fossil fuels is pure virtue signalling.
  
  A rose by any other name is still a rose.
  
  EVs powered by electricity which in turn is powered by fossil fuels is still fossil fuel use.
  
  Flying private jets to climate change conferences to talk about limiting fossil fuel use is still fossil fuel use.
  
  It could be compared to some high profile person flying to Epstein’s Island 87 times, to have sex with groomed/trafficked underage girls, on the pretense that he was doing research into groomed/trafficked underage girls in order to stop sex with groomed/trafficked underage girls.
  
  13 3
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 12:14pm
  - cmm
    
    “EVs powered by electricity which in turn is powered by fossil fuels is still fossil fuel use. ”
    
    Ah, but in UK they are trying to reduce their carbon footprint by having biomass plants that burn plant material.
    
    Here is how that works:
    * Chop down native trees in USA.
    * Transport them to the chipping facility by train, truck or river barge (diesel).
    * Chip the trees (probably need to kiln dry them too).
    * Load onto ships and transport to UK.
    * Transport by train or truck to biomass plant.
    * Sustainably burn biomass causing zero carbon emissions.
    
    No, I couldn’t make that up!
    
    6 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 3:52pm
- cmm
  
  They set up a 25 metre cordon. Crazy. The fumes coming out of a battery fire are way worse than that.
  
  But 25m is probably their protocol from the old days of relatively safe hydrocarbon fires.
  
  3 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 3:57pm
I remember when

Article on Three News last night on approach to Waitangi Tribunal regarding sewerage being released into Hokianga Harbour.
Apparently it is News.
However, ‘Waitangi protest to focus on Hokianga Harbour pollution’, was the headline of an article written by Peter de Graf on 24 January, 2019.
One of the claims is that it is a culturally significant area as it is where Kupe landed.
What, one wonders, was his sewerage disposal system.
24 2
Log in to Reply
Report
January 12, 2024 10:18am
- Matt Long
  
  I’m sure that any discharge from Kupe’s entourage was neither odorous nor polluting.
  
  7 3
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 11:29am
imalwaysright

The leaked NZ covid data gets mentioned as well as Pfizer telling us that cancer will be the new big threat, especially turbo cancers. Apparently 30% of us are going to get it.
Fortunately Pfizer have invested $43,000,000,000 in a company that makes cancer treatments!
That’s a relief eh?!

https://youtu.be/kMWlOcjBdMc?si=8sQPp-KVHj1U3BKp
17 5
Log in to Reply
Report
January 12, 2024 10:35am
Maggie Pie

This is why Leo is known as…. ‘The-King-Of-The-Viaduct’

Everyone is hanging out for 11 o’clock 😀

https://twitter.com/LeoMolloyNZ/status/1745531186494234921
17 2
Log in to Reply
Report
January 12, 2024 10:35am
- cmm
  
  Did Leo report she jumped in front of a motorbike yesterday?
  
  11 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 11:05am
- artemisia
  
  Sounds like Leo was a bit previous if he was referring to the 11.15 am article under the byline of Philip Crump, aka Thomas Cranmer.
  
  7 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 1:00pm
Ghost

Next green mp needs to get ready, there is no coming back now

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/politics/golriz-shoplifting-allegations-mp-allegedly-identified-in-second-shoplifting-incident/
29 3
Log in to Reply
Report
January 12, 2024 11:25am
- Rich Prick
  
  Oh dear, that should be fatal career wise. Sadly that means … Celia Wade-Brown.
  
  14 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 12:10pm
  - Bobba Fret
    
    Celia Wade-Brown will be getting excited.
    
    6 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 3:09pm
  - wilderbeast
    
    Celia would be a vast improvement. I’m surprised she’s still in the modern day Greens tbh. Ineffective, but honest and pleasant.
    
    5 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 3:16pm
- artemisia
  
  A lot more (alleged) information coming out now, from ‘sources’. But quite detailed.
  
  From the article – A Green Party spokesperson told ZB Plus … “Green MPs are expected to maintain high standards of public behaviour”
  
  That might not work well for Mayor Whanau should she seek a Green List place in future.
  
  23 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 12:22pm
  - Rich Prick
    
    I’ve seen $15k mentioned in the media. That’s a lot of knickers.
    
    19 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 12:41pm
    - David Garrett
      
      RP: I when we will get the excuse that it’s all down to PTSD, which began after she didn’t have to flee Iran when the city she was then living in wasn’t being bombed by the Iraqis?
      
      24 3
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 12:57pm
      - cmm
        
        Undoubtedly. If that doesn’t work then there’s a whole list of options: colonialism, racist, sexism, etc etc etc.
        
        We’ve already pretty much had the more rabid lefties saying that it a working class duty to rip off wealthy capitalists.
        
        Of course MPs and working class are hardly synonyms but that’s irrelevant if you don’t have to make sense.
        
        6 2
        Report
        January 12, 2024 1:41pm
      - mawm
        
        David – She’s overseas at the moment. Where? The country she fled because she was in mortal danger?
        
        6 1
        Report
        January 12, 2024 4:15pm
    - thirteenstars
      
      A knicker nicker?
      
      When she returns to the country the police will most certainly debrief her. They might even place her under undie arrest.
      
      19 2
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 1:13pm
- David Garrett
  
  Ghost: I don’t pay for any MSM outlet…would you be kind enough to summarize the content for us, perhaps in bullet points?
  
  12 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 12:54pm
  - Ghost
    
    It is on the herald now
    
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/golriz-ghahraman-allegations-mp-allegedly-identified-in-second-shoplifting-incident/UR5V6VROWNGPDATS2FWVBVUXUA/
    
    Sources have told ZB Plus that they believe the value of the unpaid items that Ghahraman removed from the boutique two days before Christmas was in the region of $15,000.
    
    25 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 12:57pm
    - NothingLeft
      
      “removed” how piss weak is that? The appropriate word in this context for the alleged action would be “stole”. Journo trying to run cover for their tribe?
      
      15 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 2:51pm
  - cmm
    
    How stupid can you be?
    
    Shoplifting the same place twice in two weeks and being caught twice.
    
    Maybe third time’s a charm Golly!
    
    Explains her overseas holiday – finding fresh pastures. Unfortunately for her some places treat shoplifting a bit more seriously than NZ does. Might hamper her returning to NZ.
    
    Allegedly etc.
    
    22 3
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 1:31pm
    - David Garrett
      
      She’s starting to remind me of those holier than thou American preachers from the 80’s…Tammy Faye’s husband and others … thundering away about immorality over the tele, but then sneaking off to have homosexual sex at Bob’s Motel, where they rented the rooms by the hour.
      
      I am referring to Golly G’s preaching to all of us about our dreadful behaviour from being climate change “deniers” through to racists and mysogynists, and being indifferent to the fate of Palestinian children in Gaza.
      
      And all the time she is a common thief… allegedly. Fuck, even Meteria Turei had a (sort of) excuse!
      
      16 4
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 2:43pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        No honor among (identity) thieves?
        
        5 16
        Report
        January 12, 2024 3:30pm
      - Che Guava
        
        Indeed mike. This raises the question: are the theft of clothing and the theft of a person’s identity even in the same moral universe? Sure, they are both indicative of poor moral fibre, but I mean, in the one case it’s just so much “stuff” isn’t it?
        
        Even though I’ve been wading through Mr Garrett’s voluminous Golriz-related commentary today, heavily interspersed with the well-traversed autobiographical material that is his signature, I’m still not much closer to reaching a definitive moral judgment.
        
        2 4
        Report
        January 12, 2024 4:29pm
      - Ghost
        
        People make mistakes in life, we all do, we face the consequences for those mistakes. You know that don’t you mike.
        
        Difference is David posts here under his name so everyone knows who he is, and the price he has paid.
        
        12 3
        Report
        January 12, 2024 4:58pm
      - Mike
        
        Oh please, I’ve read too much of his self-pitying bullshit.
        
        2 10
        Report
        January 12, 2024 5:33pm
- Opie
  
  Surely you can’t come back from this?
  
  Hey ghost, we agreed on something!
  
  5 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 1:11pm
  - Drone
    
    Sadly Opie she won’t have to come back. It was all a mistake, the Green leaders have swooped in and sorted it all out like the avenging angels they are. Now if only they could repeat the performance on my speeding tickets as well..
    
    0 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 13, 2024 3:20pm
- BananaLlama
  
  She is done.
  
  It is understood that Ghahraman was stopped by staff at Scotties when she attempted to leave the store without paying.
  
  21 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 1:56pm
Maggie Pie

DOLLY did it!

😀 😀 😀
19 2
Log in to Reply
Report
January 12, 2024 11:50am
Jack5

Why are the environment-control mob trying to wipe out small populations of birds called rooks?

What harm or damage do these birds do?

If it’s merely because they aren’t indigenous, a lot of other two-legged critters, typically pale skinned, better look out.

Can you imagine it? Perhaps there will be warnings like:

A pale, non-indigenous human has been sighted near Christchurch. Please phone DOC if you see this specimen, or any other like him/her/them.

https://www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/350144571/public-urged-be-lookout-rook-after-distinctive-call-reported?
9 2
Log in to Reply
Report
January 12, 2024 11:59am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Growers in HB, Gisborne and Canty don’t like them as they target young plantings.
  
  https://www.hbrc.govt.nz/environment/pest-control/pest-hub/?pwsystem=true&pwid=230&tags=rook&sort=alpha
  
  14 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 12:18pm
  - Jack5
    
    Helicopter-borne raids on nests….
    
    A DOC version of Mao’s war on sparrows?
    
    https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/09/26/1958-mao-zedong-ordered-sparrows-killed-ate-much-grain-caused-one-worst-environmental-disasters-history/
    
    7 2
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 1:04pm
    - cmm
      
      Pretty different really.
      
      Them little birdies that Mao had killed were also eating insects and were of net benefit (ie. they crop protection they provided by eating insects way outweighed the cost in grain they consumed).
      
      Rooks? Where’s the benefit? They might eat the odd mouse but they seem to do a lot of damage to birdlife – especially native birds).
      
      I’ll happily shoot a rook or a magpie.
      
      9 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 1:45pm
      - Jack5
        
        Just watch the magpies don’t get you first, CMM.
        
        https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/nov/15/licence-to-kill-australians-love-magpies-so-why-are-they-being-shot
        
        5 0
        Report
        January 12, 2024 3:06pm
- wilderbeast
  
  Rooks have been a problem for a long time. We’re being controlled before the woke crowd were even born.
  
  4 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 3:18pm
Homas

Sorry for being atrociously late to the party, been busy and all, but has anyone done “It couldn’t have happened to a nicer Persian” yet?
29 3
Log in to Reply
Report
January 12, 2024 12:38pm
- Homas
  
  I was once caught shoplifting…and Iran, Iran so far way…
  
  Okay, I promise I’ll stop now.
  
  11 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 3:58pm
Maggie Pie

Anyone else find this just a tad…. cringey?
Talkback caller describing himself as an ‘older gay male’ told the host he had been in
3 different relationships and had set up ‘Pre-Nup Agreements’ in each of them.
Said they had served him well.

Maybe it’s just me 🙁
13 2
Log in to Reply
Report
January 12, 2024 12:59pm
- Blog-aholic
  
  The pre-nups or the dudes?
  
  9 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 1:10pm
Gravelroad

Has any public comment been made by Green Party leadership about this alleged shoplifting accusation?
Don’t expect to see anything sensible or worthwhile from co leader Marama Davidson, but I thought at least Mr Shaw had some integrity.
The parliamentary Green Party is a disgraceful club of entitled misfits.
MSM – where are you?
If this was a National Party MP, they would have been camping on National’s doorstep until someone came out to give a statement.
But a free pass for the Greens.
Why?
29 2
Log in to Reply
Report
January 12, 2024 1:07pm
- krazykiwi
  
  Green good.
  Blue bad.
  == ENDS ==
  
  22 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 1:08pm
- David Garrett
  
  Gravel: The jackals camped outside my house both before and after I had resigned. They were there for a week after my resignation before they realised I wasn’t going to engage with them, and I had said all I was going to say.
  
  18 4
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 1:20pm
  - David Garrett
    
    Every morning my wife walked the kids up the drive to catch the school bus…and every morning I was terrified one of the scum was going to try and speak to one of the kids -as David Fisher had done at my house on an earlier occasion – had they done so, my then wife would simply have decked them…thus giving them a whole new story “Disgraced MP’s wife puts journalist in hospital”
    
    12 4
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 1:29pm
    - David Garrett
      
      …and if she had smacked one of them, she would have made a proper job out of it…
      
      9 3
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 1:36pm
      - cmm
        
        Good on her too.
        It is one thing stuffing a microphone and camera in your face, but leave the family out of it.
        
        9 2
        Report
        January 12, 2024 1:48pm
      - David Garrett
        
        cmm: Indeed…I was always very careful to avoid claiming being a champion of “family values” because I was well aware that my personal life – particularly prior to my second marriage – would not stand up to any close scrutiny. So no “Women’s Weekly” for Saane and me.
        
        6 4
        Report
        January 12, 2024 2:01pm
    - pdm
      
      Aaahhh DG.
      
      The Bob Jones defence – obviously your wife is a fan. lol.
      
      3 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 5:38pm
  - Ghost
    
    How long until you realised your career was over? What I’m getting at is do you think she will even realise that she’s screwed yet?
    
    9 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 2:12pm
    - David Garrett
      
      Ghost: My situation was quite different….I had been charged and dealt with by the courts five years earlier (it took them more than 25 years to track down all the bogey passports issued to dead people, but that’s a whole other story). GG has not yet been charged with anything – but I think she probably will be.
      
      I realised my career was over when my party abandoned me – having initially said that if – I always knew it was when – it all came out they would stand by me. They didn’t, and I had very young children to protect from the jackals.
      
      I knew I had to resign when we were literally on the run – en route to my sister’s house – when a little voice came from the carseat in the back: “Daddy, will the media come tonight?” Of course my four year old son had no idea what “the media” were, but he knew they were hunting us, and that “the media” was something to be frightened of.
      
      I resigned later that night – but as I have said, even that didn’t stop the bastards.
      
      10 3
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 2:29pm
      - Ghost
        
        The rumours at the moment are that another mp was with her. I almost wonder if the party are trying to find a way to save the other mp.
        
        The difference in reporting to what I’ve read of your case, Uffindell‘s story, and even Falloon shows there is a sinister side to our media.
        
        14 3
        Report
        January 12, 2024 2:47pm
      - greybeard
        
        For God’s sake David !
        Can you please post something on this blog without referring back to your fucking stupidity 30 years ago !
        We don’t care !
        You were stupid, we know that, but we don’t want to be reminded every fucking 5 minutes.
        
        4 4
        Report
        January 12, 2024 6:41pm
      - Ghost
        
        Don’t want to read what he has to say then don’t read it
        
        4 3
        Report
        January 12, 2024 6:48pm
      - Mike
        
        I always read his cry-posts. They amuse me.
        
        3 6
        Report
        January 12, 2024 6:54pm
- Matt Long
  
  Shaw, Metiria’s co-leader? Integrity?
  Bahahahahahaha.
  Gravel, I thought you were a grown-up.
  
  14 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 2:34pm
krazykiwi

Trump 14th Amendment Challenger Arrested on Federal Tax Charges

A man who filed a number of lawsuits in different states to try to prevent former President Donald Trump from appearing on election ballots has been arrested on federal tax charges.

John Anthony Castro was charged last week with 33 counts of aiding the preparation of false tax returns, according to Department of Justice prosecutors. They said that he ran a virtual tax business that gave customers returns beyond what they were really owed.

TDS and criminality seem to be comfortable bedfellows.
13 4
Log in to Reply
Report
January 12, 2024 1:07pm
Hugh Jarse

The continuing silence on the Golriz situation from the Greens says to me this situation has got someway to go yet. We are now into a death by a thousand cuts territory as new bits of information about what actually happened, who else was there are confirmed and leak out.
39 2
Log in to Reply
Report
January 12, 2024 1:17pm
- thirteenstars
  
  The boutique will be under huge pressure to walk this back, drop charges if any, and generally come to some low-key solution. These aren’t the droids you’re looking for. Move along, move along.
  
  Expensive stores in Ponsonby are likely to be run by the types that are sympathetic to woke causes and all their woke mates will be chiming in behind the scenes. If that fails, expect the social media mob to attempt a boycott.
  
  But, oh, how I hope there’s a pic of Swarbrick wearing an expensive Christmas gift from her good mate, Golriz.
  
  28 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 1:32pm
  - cmm
    
    Too late now.
    
    Now that the second incident at the same shop has come out it would seem this is not going to be swept under a rug.
    
    As Maggy said yesterday, Scotties has been in business for decades. You don’t stay in business by being a soft touch.
    
    If they let Golly do 5 fingered discounts, then how do they prevent further shoplifting from others?
    
    28 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 1:56pm
    - Matt Long
      
      Hey, it was only 15k worth of rags, wouldn’t even pay for the pie warmer at a motorway opening.
      And the goods were anonymously returned the same day.
      
      10 3
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 2:25pm
- Ghost
  
  This greens have commented when the story broke
  
  5 5
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 1:44pm
  - kiwikidsnz
    
    How about commenting on this 2nd allegation
    https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2024/01/further-allegation-of-shoplifting-at-scotties-emerges-against-golriz-ghahraman.html
    
    13 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 1:55pm
    - Ghost
      
      There comment the other day would stand for that, more than likely there next comment will be that she is not longer a member of the greens.
      
      6 2
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 2:05pm
      - David Garrett
        
        THEIR next comnment my boy…THERE is a place – “the car is parked over there”.
        
        11 3
        Report
        January 12, 2024 2:57pm
      - Ghost
        
        Whoops, I usually check because I know you will, lol.
        
        10 1
        Report
        January 12, 2024 3:07pm
    - David Garrett
      
      Kiwikidz: Funnily enough, nothing about the second allegation on Stuff….they have however fortunately found space for a “story” on people laying dead possums in rows of three on a road in Christchurch…and some cage fighter who’s very sorry about some video he posted on social media…so the important stories of the day are being published
      
      12 3
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 3:10pm
Inandout

What’s up with Martin/Martyn?
https://twitter.com/MarkHubbard33/status/1745357779861438973?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1745357779861438973%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=
10 2
Log in to Reply
Report
January 12, 2024 1:19pm
- lifesgood
  
  Mark Hubbard aka demented loser.
  
  0 7
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 2:15pm
Maggie Pie

A number of tweets appearing suggesting that National’s Auckland Central candidate Mahesh Muralidhar should brush up his CV.

That can only mean thing can’t it?

Asking for a friend.
21 4
Log in to Reply
Report
January 12, 2024 1:23pm
- thirteenstars
  
  OK, I’ll be the thick one. Why?
  
  10 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 1:37pm
  - cmm
    
    She’s implying that Chloe (however you friggin spell it) has stubbed her toe.
    
    Now that would add a bit more spice to the soup.
    
    27 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 1:50pm
    - ClanMcleod
      
      That’s quite a feat, stubbing your toe while simultaneously putting it in your mouth……
      
      18 2
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 2:24pm
      - Blog-aholic
        
        She has a big enough mouth.
        
        12 2
        Report
        January 12, 2024 2:52pm
    - thirteenstars
      
      Jesus, I wish folks would stop talking in metaphors.
      
      After some searching it turns out the allegations are that Swarbrick was complicit in the shoplifting or as Cam Slater asked, was she “adjacent” to it, which apparently is also a legal no-no. Also, it’s suggested if the Greens have been going back and forth with the shop over this it could amount to witness tampering.
      
      Talk about being hoist by your own retard.
      
      Sean Plunket is in on the act suggesting likewise. I guess he’ll have a red hot show on Monday. What a way to start the year.
      
      24 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 2:36pm
      - Rich Prick
        
        It’s taking the Greens a while to get their story straight. Losing one MP would be an accident, losing two is going to look a bit careless. Or a bit Thelma & Louise.
        
        14 1
        Report
        January 12, 2024 4:45pm
    - David Garrett
      
      cmm: OMG (as the yoof say) wouldn’t that just be too delicious? Two of the sanctimonious preachy bastards gone at once! Even the Ladies Who Lunch might find that a bit too much to take. Mind you, they’d then just vote Labour, and they aren’t much better.
      
      17 3
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 2:53pm
    - Grunter
      
      That scenario has legs to it (hairy one’s mind you!)
      
      Also, they both go on overseas holidays? On planes? That burn fossil fuel???!! That makes CO2. That means Global Boiling!!!!!
      
      We’re all going to die!!!! OMG……
      
      23 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 2:56pm
gryfon

The independent reviewer’s report into the former Government’s draft report into the wage subsidy scheme absolutely smashes that draft report.
For example, “This evaluation should be about setting standards for other evaluations in the New Zealand public sector. By setting the bar so low for such a high-profile and important evaluation as this one is, there are negative spill-overs across the public service in terms of what is acceptable in the future in another internal or external evaluation.”
Source: Reviewer skewers report into $19b Covid subsidy scheme
15 0
Log in to Reply
Report
January 12, 2024 1:56pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  MartinJenkins is one of the larger consultancies. They will slough this off without much difficulty.
  
  4 7
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 3:27pm
Maggie Pie

THERE’S ALWAYS ONE 😀

OMG what about this DWEEB that’s come out IN SUPPORT of Golriz?
Puts her in the same league as…. Julian Assange.
FFS!!

https://twitter.com/MattOBranain/status/1745442215810171194
14 2
Log in to Reply
Report
January 12, 2024 3:06pm
- David Garrett
  
  Mggie P: Bugger me….the [banned noun] even looks fucking mad – and that’s with the sound off!
  
  11 3
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 3:25pm
  - sungsamning
    
    You’re not wrong.
    
    4 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 6:10pm
  - Rich Prick
    
    A white coat with extra long sleeves is called for. Where does the left find these people? They don’t help their cause with us “normal” folk.
    
    3 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 9:25pm
- krazykiwi
  
  He has gone for the Krusty the Clown look.
  
  6 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 3:46pm
- pdm
  
  Maggie.
  
  What are the ladies from the tennis club saying?
  
  Is that the shop where they buy their `Gorgeous Gussie’ underwear?
  
  6 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 5:44pm
Rumblestrip

So there is now a second credible allegation of GG stealing goods to the value of several thousand dollars?

Pack it up GG, you are FUCKED.
22 1
Log in to Reply
Report
January 12, 2024 3:17pm
- David Garrett
  
  Rumble: Ah No No! It gets better still…now there is a suggestion that her good made Cannabis Chloe might have been in on the act as well…If she knew what Golly was planning to do – perhaps acting as a lookout – that makes her equally guilty, as a party.
  
  This is almost too good…
  
  25 6
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 3:29pm
  - JJ56
    
    Collecting to donate to Hamas
    
    11 3
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 3:49pm
  - Ultima
    
    The Herne Bay housewife voters of Cloe would think the Greens have good tastes in fashion, and $15k of gear must be quite a bargain. This fiasco is probably good free publicity for Scotties.
    
    11 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 4:00pm
  - Grizz
    
    The cover-up is always worse than the sin
    
    8 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 5:41pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  People with knowledge of the Golriz theft allegations, are saying ALL members of the Green Party caucus have been instructed….. that if approached by the media for comment on the matter, they are only to respond, “What about Sam Uffindel?”
  
  18 4
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 3:41pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    I’m sure they could come up with a longer list of MPs with troublesome conduct.
    
    3 24
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 3:44pm
    - rockape
      
      Well you come up with the list of MPs who committed equivalent offence whilst MPs.
      
      5 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 8:03pm
  - Grizz
    
    This is a nonesence comparison. Yes Unffindel was a nasty teenager but the 40 year old Unffindel is the MP after cleaning up his act. These women are current MPs and are offending now while holding office.
    
    11 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 5:45pm
- Paulus
  
  Still only Allegations !
  
  3 7
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 3:47pm
  - Rumblestrip
    
    Indeed… but apparently very specific and credible allegations, that are being actively investigated by the police, and where the subject of the allegations is uncharacteristically silent.
    
    12 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 4:07pm
Jack5

The confusion from Woke grammar continues at Stuff.

An accident report:

A road worker is fighting for their life after a man allegedly drove through a Waikato construction site and hit them with his car.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/301038941/man-charged-after-allegedly-driving-at-speed-through-road-works-hitting-contractor
6 4
Log in to Reply
Report
January 12, 2024 3:20pm
- Inandout
  
  Jack, one road worker suddenly becomes a group.
  
  ‘You use them to refer to a group of people, animals, or things.
  The Beatles–I never get tired of listening to them.
  Kids these days have no one to tell them what’s right and wrong.
  She let the dogs into the house and fed them.
  His dark socks, I could see, had a stripe on them’.
  
  4 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 4:15pm
- cmm
  
  Why is the driver a he?
  
  Shouldn’t it be:
  “A road worker is fighting for their life after a driver … and hit them with their car.”
  
  4 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 4:43pm
  - Jack5
    
    Jeez, CMM, maybe the worker hit is/are conjoint twins. 👥
    
    Reporters used to report the gender of people. Giving up reporting it is giving in to the Woke. It’s saying gender is irrelevant, and that’s bullshit.
    
    1 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 7:36pm
    - Sarkozygroupie
      
      While I understand your usage of gender in this case denoting a male or female it’s important to note that more broadly…
      
      Gender is a social construct and has no relevance or currency in the face of biological sex.
      
      76 different genders including gender absence and gender fluidity depending on which side of the bed you woke up on this morning vs immutable XX or XY.
      
      Say no to CIS indoctrination. Don’t know what CIS means? The theory of gender ‘matching’ biological sex. If you decide your gender doesn’t ‘match’ your sex you get trans.
      
      Biological sex matters.
      
      0 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 13, 2024 1:24am
NothingLeft

What the hell are self-styled far left ‘wimin’ of the people doing seeking to garb themselves in ridiculously overpriced haute couture of the ostentatious super-rich.

I personally regard anyone who would waste their money or want to be associated with such ridiculously overpriced extravagance as shallow, superficial, empty headed narcissists. Clearly greens marxist exhortations are only for their press releases and not what they actually feel they are entitiled to. Not to mention the planet killing overseas holidays for Green-in-name-only Golriz
28 1
Log in to Reply
Report
January 12, 2024 3:29pm
- David Garrett
  
  Nothing: Couldn’t have said it better myself…YES, I’m afraid I AM indulging in a little schadenfreude…
  
  16 3
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 3:58pm
  - sungsamning
    
    Don’t forget to wash it down with a large glass of liberal tears.
    
    5 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 6:13pm
- cmm
  
  Golly is a well known celebrity. Of course she couldn’t possibly have a relaxing holiday in NZ. That she needs to fly there is because capitalism has destroyed the alternatives. Not her fault.
  
  15 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 4:40pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I once walked into Scotties in Wellington and quickly walked out when I saw the prices.
  
  But, I’m not noted for ever wearing anything fashionable.
  
  However, my swimming bud was one of NZ’s top fashion designers in years past and managed to bring up her kids by creating and selling clothes to the Auckland jet set. She could never afford to buy anything in the shops that sold her creations.
  
  My Point: yes, Scotties may be an exclusive outfit, but it provides employment for (extra)ordinary working folk.
  
  No retail business can keep going year after year if its goods are being thieved, stolen, filched or “lifted”
  
  19 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 4:42pm
slightlyrighty

The word is that Golriz has sorted out Jacinda’s Wedding Dress.

When questioned about the price, Ms Ardern said “It was a steal!”
29 5
Log in to Reply
Report
January 12, 2024 3:36pm
Vinicius

Press release from Judith Collins and Winston Peters supporting the strikes today on the Houthi’s in Yemen.

“Foreign Minister Winston Peters and Defence Minister Judith Collins KC today expressed New Zealand support for strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen threatening commercial shipping in the Red Sea.”

https://beehive.govt.nz/release/nz-support-strikes-against-houthis

If the Houthi’s aren’t designated as terrorists they darn well should be.

The burning question is will Chloe and friends go down to Parliament when it opens at the end of the month dressed up in Houthi women’s garments?
17 3
Log in to Reply
Report
January 12, 2024 3:59pm
- cmm
  
  Striking the Houties is the right thing to do.
  
  But it’s laughable having Collins and Peters supporting them. No material support given. I doubt everyone was holding back waiting to get the OK from NZ!
  
  7 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 4:38pm
- Grunter
  
  Let’s get real. Blasting a bunch of terrorist desert rats achieve bugger all. Yes the Poms and Yanks will kill a heap of them. But the ones that survive will just be even madder.
  
  Anyone that thinks that this is a solution to anything is not thinking clearly.
  
  This is further escalation. No other solution. Watch as this blows up big time in coming weeks.
  
  4 3
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 7:03pm
Ghost

Stuff

Green co-leaders Marama Davidson and James Shaw, in a joint statement issued on Friday afternoon, said they first became aware of an issue on December 27. But at that point, they said it was “not clear” what had happened. In the new year, on January 5, the co-leaders said they were told of a second allegation of shoplifting.

The Green co-leaders said they didn’t make any public comment at the request of Scotties Boutique.

“Scotties had told us they did not want the allegations to become public so we did not make a statement at the time,” they said.

Scotties Boutique co-owner Sonja Batt and staff at the store have declined to comment to Stuff.

The Green co-leaders continued: “Scotties confirmed that they were comfortable waiting for her to return to New Zealand to resolve the issue.

“We also agreed as co-leaders to address the matter with Ms Ghahraman as soon as she returned to New Zealand.”

They also said no other Green MPs had been involved in either of the alleged incidents.
15 1
Log in to Reply
Report
January 12, 2024 4:03pm
- Rumblestrip
  
  “no other Green MPs had been involved”
  
  Interesting.
  
  Does that mean no other Green MPs were present or ‘nearby’ at the time of the thefts?
  
  Does that mean no other Green MPs were aware of the thefts until December 27?
  
  14 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 4:11pm
- David Garrett
  
  So, they have been sitting on the second allegation for more than a week…and I call bollocks on the claim that “Scotties confirmed that they were comfortable waiting for her to return to New Zealand to resolve the issue”
  
  …But if that IS accurate, then it would appear they are complicit in a cover up. Unfortunately, unlike in an assault scenario when the police can prosecute even if the complainant withdraws the complaint, if Scotties is “persuaded” not to prosecute then there would be no trial.
  
  But would GG still be able to brazen it out? Who knows; the rules are different for lefties.
  
  19 3
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 4:13pm
  - Ghost
    
    Imagine John Key and Helen Clark. There would be a phone call “get your butt back to NZ now and clean your office out”. Not we will deal with it when she returns.
    
    If scotties didn’t want a statement who has leaked to zb
    
    20 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 4:19pm
    - cmm
      
      “If scotties didn’t want a statement who has leaked to zb”
      
      More than once… There has been a follow up about the first offending (two weeks prior).
      
      I call porkies. Greens admit they have been trying to “address” the issue with Scotties and clearly could not.
      
      If Scotties had really wanted to keep this low they would have said something about a “misunderstanding”.
      
      17 3
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 4:28pm
  - Rumblestrip
    
    Scotties confirmed that they were comfortable waiting for her to return to New Zealand to resolve the issue
    
    To me, this reads like Green PR spin. Scotties may well have said “we want this thief held to account as soon as possible once she is back in NZ” which of course a PR flunkie re-words in the most passive and charitable way possible.
    
    15 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 5:18pm
  - AitchW
    
    I don’t believe that Scotties prosecute the shop lifter. The police do that. Scotties may choose not to lodge a complaint, or not to give evidence in court. However the police are involved so presumably a complaint has been laid so it may be that the incident has unstoppable momentum.
    Presumably GG will have her day in court (in around 18 months) and will either gladly plead her innocence or guilt.
    
    7 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 5:41pm
    - Rumblestrip
      
      Indeed, but there is nothing stopping GG saying something like the following: “I am aware of serious allegations made against me. I absolutely deny any wrongdoing. I am cooperating fully with the police investigation and look forward to clearing my name. Due to the seriousness of the allegations I have no further comment to make at this time.”
      
      The fact she hasn’t said a word in the face of media allegations and a firestorm of rumours is starting to look pretty sus.
      
      11 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 6:06pm
  - fernglas
    
    “Unfortunately, unlike in an assault scenario when the police can prosecute even if the complainant withdraws the complaint, if Scotties is “persuaded” not to prosecute then there would be no trial.”
    Not correct. It is for the Police and, if appropriate, the Crown, to take the decision whether to prosecute in any criminal case. The wishes of the victim are a factor in the decision, but not conclusive. Nor can the victim “choose not to give evidence”, as AitchW suggests. They can be compelled, and if they refuse, their statement can, in the right circumstances, be used instead. But I don’t see a reputable retailer refusing to co-operate.
    
    7 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 6:32pm
  - tf78
    
    I’d like to know the exact date the trip she is on now was made. Now, that should be made public. The Green’s seem be full of “Gypsy’s, Tramps and Thieves”.
    
    3 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 8:32pm
- Vinicius
  
  The guy I don’t get is Shaw. He behaves like he’s some sort of ‘honourable’ nice guy yet he co-leads a party full of wacky far left crackpots who are all hyporcrites.
  
  27 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 4:19pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Shaw has a very opaque track history.
    
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/james-shaw-takes-rap-for-misrepresenting-golriz-ghahraman-in-speech/URNJ5TSKL6PPXZINKNBEC5NC5M/
    
    https://peterallanwilliams.substack.com/p/james-shaw-not-ba
    
    I think he’s a fantasist like most of his Green MP mates
    
    20 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 5:01pm
    - cmm
      
      I wonder whether he will try white-knight this one too? Still trying to figure out how he can take the fall for Golly.
      
      9 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 5:28pm
  - Ultima
    
    Yea, he’s the penis-co-leader but definitely has no balls. Shaw doesn’t wear the trousers in the leadership.
    
    9 2
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 5:32pm
  - tf78
    
    Two mum’s might confuse a boy.
    
    3 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 8:33pm
- cmm
  
  “We also agreed as co-leaders to address the matter with Ms Ghahraman as soon as she returned to New Zealand.”
  
  A friggin lie. The line will have been running hot over the last few days.
  
  25 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 4:24pm
  - cmm
    
    Downtickers think that Golly doesn’t have her phone with her, nobody knows where she went, and we’re back to an era of pre-telegram communications.
    
    20 2
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 4:30pm
    - Rumblestrip
      
      Indeed, as I noted earlier there is now internet almost everywhere on earth, from Timbuktu to the South Pole. Unless she is on a wilderness safari in the remotest parts of central Africa, or in the depths of a Chilean copper mine, then she is contactable by email at least.
      
      14 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 5:23pm
      - cmm
        
        In 2007/8 I was doing some work for Apple and visited their Silicon Valley offices. Unbelievably there was no cell phone reception on parts of the 280 freeway – less than 1km away from Apple HQ.
        
        At the same time my brother was tour guiding in Rwanda. He had perfect reception wherever he went.
        
        3 0
        Report
        January 12, 2024 8:07pm
  - AitchW
    
    Yeah cos cell phones only work within NZ…..
    
    7 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 5:44pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    They must have been communication with her at some point when she agreed to stand aside as spokesperson for Justice, etc.
    
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/green-mp-golriz-ghahraman-stands-aside-from-portfolios-after-being-accused-of-shoplifting/4W6WIBVHVZA2LBODLNFEEST5B4/
    
    Or did the Green Party just make up a story that GG “stands aside”?
    
    8 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 8:46pm
    - Ghost
      
      They’re digging themself into the hole with her. Time to front up, be honest.
      
      4 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 9:00pm
- Ghost
  
  Greens full statement
  
  https://www.facebook.com/nzgreenparty/posts/779563874212686?ref=embed_post
  
  4 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 5:26pm
  - cmm
    
    Funny how it would be inappropriate to deal with the police, but it would be entirely appropriate to deal with Scotties.
    
    Funny how they have to speak with Golly in person when she gets back to NZ. Do they not trust her to be honest over the phone of if she is overseas?
    
    7 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 8:11pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Finally the Green Leaders have fronted…

They’ve known about the alleged thefts since Dec 27th.

They reckon they’ve said nothing public because Scotties didn’t want the issue to go public.

“Scotties had told us they did not want the allegations to become public so we did not make a statement at the time.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/506569/green-party-co-leaders-break-silence-over-shoplifting-allegations-against-golriz-ghahraman

What a pile of arse-covering bullshit.
33 1
Log in to Reply
Report
January 12, 2024 4:12pm
- thirteenstars
  
  By the Greens or by Scotties?
  
  I predict the shop will not prosecute. It will be played as a misunderstanding. All the actors in this little drama are woke to a greater or lesser degree. That includes the media who at the moment are being very cautious waiting to see which way the police and the shop jump before they throw their lot in with Ghahraman, at which point they’ll run interference for her like the Packers’ offense.
  
  And it includes the police who will be looking for any excuse to get out of their moral and legal obligation to impartially uphold the law, with their phalanx of diversity liaison officers probably advising an amicable resolution.
  
  10 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 6:34pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    By the Greens or by Scotties?
    
    I apologise for not being clear that I meant The Green Leaders… the subject of my post.
    
    I know nothing about Scotties and offer no opinion on them.
    
    My scorn is for the Leaders of a political party who are offering excuses for why they have not been upfront with the public that one of their MPs is being investigated by the cops and that they are in the dark as to what has gone on….although clearly they have been in contact with Golriz Ghahraman if she has agreed to stand down.
    
    5 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 8:35pm
- fernglas
  
  Yes. The public in a case such as this is entitled to be informed immediately of allegations of criminal dishonesty against a sitting MP. The legitimate public interest far outweighs any desire by the victim to keep things quiet.
  
  5 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 6:38pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Anyone running odds as to whether Golriz Ghahraman will return to NZ within the next few weeks?
19 1
Log in to Reply
Report
January 12, 2024 4:17pm
- Inandout
  
  Maggy, Parliament opens on the 30th so she can’t skive after that without good reason.
  
  17 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 4:20pm
- David Garrett
  
  Mags: I wondered about that myself…I’m off back to Tonga next week…I doubt I’ll find her hiding out on Paingaimotu Island! The old resort out there is nowhere near flash enough for a Greenie…and the four star one run by the Germans got munted in the tsunami…
  
  16 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 4:21pm
  - cmm
    
    DG, perhaps you could clarify the rules for us.
    
    Are MPs required to turn up, or must they take leave? How long can she hide in a hole and still be an MP?
    
    At what point could it blow up to being more than a Greenie managed issue? eg The Speaker saying that Golly is bringing shame on the house and is no longer a fit MP.
    
    15 2
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 4:34pm
    - David Garrett
      
      cmm: It’s been a very long time – 15 years – since I was there. Graeme Edgeler will know…
      
      I know you cannot be “on leave” forever and still collect the pay… I’m starting to think maybe she won’t return…the MSM appear to be getting rather pissed off that she remains silent…but as I have said before, that may well be on legal advice – particularly as she is unlikely to be able to control her mouth if she agreed to be interviewed.
      
      15 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 4:53pm
      - Drone
        
        DG the house doesn’t sit until the first of February so basically al MPs are on there jolly hollies. Nobody will expect Golriz to be back in NZ for another two weeks.
        
        0 0
        Report
        January 12, 2024 10:51pm
      - Ghost
        
        Th house is sitting 30th of January
        
        0 0
        Report
        January 12, 2024 11:21pm
    - Sarkozygroupie
      
      If they don’t have agreed leave from the Speaker to be absent from a sitting Parliament they can be fined at $5 per day. But that absenteeism has a time limit before real action is then taken.
      
      0 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 13, 2024 1:49am
- Ghost
  
  Funny thing, she likes to post a lot of crap, nothing on her socials for weeks. Is she overseas or, I don’t know, hiding in NZ
  
  11 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 4:27pm
  - kowtow
    
    NZME says she’s abroad at the moment .
    
    …….carbon footprint and all that.
    
    14 3
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 4:41pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  I see where one of my besties (herself Iranian and right in the know as a Real-Housewife-of-Auckland) has tweeted the amount involved is actually…. $24k!!
  
  https://twitter.com/Strange_G/status/1745599765843476493
  
  No wonder the Greenies want to abolish prisons 🙁
  
  23 3
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 4:37pm
  - David Garrett
    
    Maggie: I have pointed out to you before that by definition you can only have ONE bestie…but leaving that aside, if her claim is correct – which has been denied by the Greens – Golly’s “stoner mate” may well be just as fucked as she apparently is.
    
    If two or more people act with a “common purpose” in a criminal enterprise, all are equally guilty – the lookout as well as the lifter.
    
    17 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 4:55pm
    - cmm
      
      Come on DG, don’t apply your fuddy duddy old ways of working with our Twitter-enabled Maggie.
      
      Of course you can have multiple best friends. Just not at the same time. Every time a tweet comes in the tweeter gets to the top of the pile.
      
      I wonder whether the increase from 15k to 24k is due to releasing details about the first alleged offense: ie 9k for the first + 15k for the second = 24k all up.
      
      12 2
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 5:25pm
  - tf78
    
    She should be removed from one and struck off by the other.
    
    2 2
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 8:50pm
- Rich Prick
  
  She’s probably looking at the entry requirements of her next country to refugee to.
  
  15 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 4:58pm
  - marcw
    
    Apparently none for Texas or Arizona – and you get a free cell phone and cash card loaded with US$5000, and a free bus trip to any sanctuary city you choose, with hotel accommodation. Might be wrong about the hotel – could be a high school gym. Tough break if the locals don’t want you, Marthas Vineyard residents can be so catty. They take rapists in other places though, not sure about (alleged) thieves.
    
    11 3
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 5:18pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Iran is nice – so some tell me.
    
    12 4
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 6:14pm
    - rockape
      
      When I was there in 1970, it was.
      
      9 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      January 12, 2024 7:27pm
  - Ghost
    
    Elon taking candidates for mars yet?
    
    4 2
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 7:20pm
Chuck Bird

Surprise upset at tennis.

Daniel the Jap/Yank won in 2 sets.
4 6
Log in to Reply
Report
January 12, 2024 4:18pm
David Garrett

Chuck: “Jap” you racist you..! They haven’t been “Japs” since 1945…

I remember the late Bob Tizard, who refused to go along with the fawning and faux sympathy from his Labour government fellows when the former Emporer of Japan died…Bob memorably said: “After the war he should have been cut up”
10 1
Log in to Reply
Report
January 12, 2024 5:22pm
- Rumblestrip
  
  Hirohito definitely deserved a short sharp drop, as did many other Japanese war criminals (I’m sure you’ve heard of unit 731 among other atrocities).
  
  I think Douglas MacArthur kept Hirohito alive to keep the Japanese population pacified, being as many still viewed Hirohito as a literal living god.
  
  9 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 6:20pm
  - Swifty
    
    The Japanese attempted to enslave everybody they came across.
    
    It was a terrible time.
    
    8 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 7:23pm
- Chuck Bird
  
  I do not mind the downticks here but I got more downticks for mentioning Golriz Ghahraman has had a second alagation for shoplifting.
  
  7 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 7:13pm
- fightingtemeraire
  
  Mountbatten REFUSED a request from QE11 to meet Hirohito on his state visit to the UK and he Refused to return F-M Terauchi’s sword forged i 1250 that he surrender to Mountbatten in 1945.
  
  Lord Louis said if he did either of these things, he would have betrayed the men and women under his command and the people that died in SE Asia.
  
  14 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 7:17pm
  - David Garrett
    
    Didn’t know those two things about Mountbatten….in general a bit of a lightweight who made the most of his royal connections.
    
    But I admire him for doing – or not doing – both of the things mentioned…took a bit of spunk to defy instructions from HM…
    
    5 2
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 8:29pm
marcw

It looks like David’s Predictions for 2024 are already in peril (and it’s still January):

6. Chloe Swarbrick will replace James Shaw as Greens co-leader.

To be fair, even I gave the Green’s more credit than what’s unfolding. I despise their politics, posturing and sanctimony, but thought they would have had IQs above room temperature.
24 2
Log in to Reply
Report
January 12, 2024 6:05pm
- Ghost
  
  If the rumours are true number 7 could happen.
  
  7 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 6:31pm
- thirteenstars
  
  Don’t speak too soon. They’re getting their ducks in a row and when the announcement is made that the store will not prosecute, that it was all an unfortunate misunderstanding, and by the time the media have done their obfuscatory worst, Ghahraman’s stink will up and disappear like a fart in the wind, and her mate Swarbrick will be duly anointed.
  
  17 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 6:50pm
- Rich Prick
  
  I think Chloe might be on the run too. Shit, that means the very bottom of the Green barrel. Only the good Lord knows what’s mutated into what down there.
  
  7 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 9:31pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Now that is after 6pm the lefties and Public Sector people will be glued to TV1. Stay there please. With none of them back at work (what is that?) yet, this Kiwiblog is infested with them.
Happy New Year Socialists! When do you really go back to work?
Wait, don’t answer that.
12 5
Log in to Reply
Report
January 12, 2024 6:10pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/cricket/black-caps/133534794/mitchell-santner-ruled-out-of-black-caps-first-t20-international-against-pakistan
Covid !
Yeah, right !!!!
Who is his replacement ?
2 2
Log in to Reply
Report
January 12, 2024 6:27pm
Ghost

Huh, a living legend of aviation? A living something but not a legend.

The Duke of Sussex has been engulfed in a row after the decision to recognise him as a “living legend of aviation” was branded “daft”.

Both Prince Harry, 39, who completed two tours of Afghanistan as an Apache helicopter pilot, and the Duchess of Sussex, 42, will attend next week’s ceremony in Beverly Hills, California – their first public engagement of the year.

Article
8 1
Log in to Reply
Report
January 12, 2024 6:28pm
- Swifty
  
  Ridiculous.
  
  Unworthy.
  
  If I was him I wouldn’t accept it.
  
  10 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 7:22pm
  - kevn
    
    Swifty… megs would happy to accept, anything that had a camera following.
    
    8 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    January 12, 2024 7:41pm
DimChappie

Extremes of sentencing on display: In the top link, a woman stabs her brother over some spilled weed and escapes conviction to safeguard her dream career as a drug and alcohol counsellor.

In the second link, a Malaysian man who had sex with his sleeping partner gets five years and nine months in prison on a lead charge of rape, plus other charges including kidnap. Part of his crime was searching her phone, deemed interfering with a computer.

https://shorturl.at/msG16

https://shorturl.at/bfnqD
4 0
Log in to Reply
Report
January 12, 2024 8:38pm
rouppe

Another disgraceful decision by a judge.

This time Judge Arthur Tompkins
6 1
Log in to Reply
Report
January 12, 2024 9:05pm
- Rumblestrip
  
  I thought a major point, perhaps the point, of the justice system is to hold people to account for their actions. For perpetrators, that usually entails a degree of embarrassment and loss of future opportunities. It’s not an unintended side-effect but part of the punishment.
  
  But no, apparently “conviction could affect my (theoretical) career or ability to travel overseas” is enough of an excuse for weak judges to literally pervert the course of justice. Sickening.
  
  6 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 9:24pm
- Rumblestrip
  
  Oh, and this person who stabbed someone over drugs has a dream of becoming a “Drug and Alcohol Counsellor”?! Maybe the judge was on drugs too.
  
  9 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  January 12, 2024 9:32pm

Add a Comment Cancel reply

Login to comment or vote

« Who will come second in Iowa

The sloppy serial shoplifting saga »

Donations

You can now donate to Kiwiblog

Exclusive content from DPF on Patreon

Become a Patron!

Never miss a post

Email Address

Join 13K other subscribers

Highlights

Target achieved II
Good progress on attendance
Health Target 5 – elective treatments
Health Target 4 – Specialist appointments

Links

Parliament fails to defend transparency
No Right Turn
"The principal view of human laws is, or ought always to be, to explain, protect, and enforce such rights as are absolute, which in themselves are few and simple."
Not PC
Word of the day
Hompaddock
The response to Budget 2026 has been unusually muted
Point of Order
You know what “does not pass the sniff test”? Labour’s incremental response to blatant corruption – this is why they plunged 7.5%
The Daily Blog
When is a Free Speech Union not a Free Speech Union?
The Standard
We Are a Country That Decided Housing Was The Economy
No Minister
My Opening Statement for the UATX Caplan-Jones Immigration Rematch
Utopia
Playing with numbers.
Kiwipolitico
Another non-tariff barrier
Offsetting Behaviour
Rugby Premiership Predictions for Round 18
Stats Chat
Budget 2026
NZCPR
UK Conversion Therapy Ban, Digital ID, Rallies, Elections
Bob McCoskrie's McBlog
A central banker’s fiction
Croaking Cassandra
THE WORKING FROM HOME RACKET BY PUBLIC SERVANTS
No Punches Pulled (Bob Jones)
Tory Whanau may have to sell Wellington mayoralty to make ends meet
The Civilian
The Accidental Engagement
Imperator Fish
Legal Beagle: Election '23: The Special Votes
Public Address
Get Vaccinated Tomorrow Or Shut Your Pie Hole
Cactus Kate
Making this movie might have been a mistake
Liam Hehir
Why I am retiring from political blogging
Kiwi FireWalker

[email protected]

PO Box 12270, Thorndon, Wellington 6144

Facebook
Twitter
FourSquare
Instagram
LinkedIn
Google+

Archives
Disclosure Statement
Editorial Policy
Privacy Policy
Complaints Policy
Comments Policy

Design by cre8d

%d

Share this:

Like this: