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- The video sums things up.
Let me make this short and sweet (taken from my other social media): Seeing some of the world’s richest men shaking the blood-stained hand of Saudi Crown Prince Muhammed bin-Salman while being warmly introduced by US president Donald Trump pretty much sums up the era we live in. It was ...2 hours ago - 191 NZers now emigrating each day, including 15 babies & toddlers
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- Brownleeâs Bias: MÄori MPs Punished, van Velden Spared
In a Parliament thatâs supposed to uphold fairness, the recent punishments meted out to Te PÄti MÄori MPs for their haka protest compared to Workplace Relations Minister Brooke van Velden for her use of the C-word expose a glaring double standard. Speaker Gerry Brownlee and the Privileges Committee have once ...8 hours ago - A Four-Letter Word
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See him wasted on the sidewalk in his jacket and his jeansWearin' yesterday's misfortunes like a smileOnce he had a future full of money, love, and dreamsWhich he spent like they was goin' outta styleKris Kristofferson, The Pilgrim, Chapter 33Luxon’s austerity reforms have objectively increased the country’s national debt, put ...8 hours ago - How climate change is raising your electricity bill
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- Editorsâ pick: Australiaâs security architecture must evolve, not regress
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- When A Pay Cut Isn’t
22 hours ago - Ministers of Finance
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- An alternative vision for Aotearoa
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- To Play the Queen of Hearts: Accepted (again!)
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- Outsourcing Operations
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- Bernard’s Picks ‘n’ Mixes for Wednesday, May 14
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- Nationalâs Law and Order Fiasco
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- Killing Kiwi Thoughtlessly
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- We’re all for change as long as it doesn’t change anything
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- Pay Equity Changes Bad For The Economy
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- Luxon’s Ladies.
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- Gordon Campbell On The Parental Panic Over Young Kids Online
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- Far from responsible and anything but gutsy
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- Monday 12 May
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- Pay equity shock to have unintended consequences
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- NZ First Resorts To Dirty Politics 2.0
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- Mother’s Day
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- Bernardâs Soliloquy for the week to May 11
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- PHOTOS: NZ Protests – Again
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- Green Budget for a country worth fighting for
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The Green Party has unveiled its new plan to make Early Childhood Education (ECE) free. ...1 day ago
- Green Budget delivers for MÄori
The Green Party is delivering for MÄori with its Green Budget. ...1 day ago
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- Chris Hipkins: Pre-Budget speech
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The Government must do three things in Budget 2025 if it is genuinely going to turn things around for New Zealanders. ...2 days ago
- Release: Peeni Henare takes over foreign affairs
Labourâs Peeni Henare will pick up the foreign affairs portfolio, following David Parkerâs departure from Parliament. ...3 days ago
- Release: Govt better at crushing womenâs rights than cars
Rehashing old laws around boy racers is not going to make our communities safer, or distract New Zealanders from the appalling decision to cut womenâs pay. ...3 days ago
- No Justice for State Abuse Survivors- Kapa-Kingi
Te PÄti MÄori MP for Te Tai Tokerau calls out the governmentâs decision to keep funding state abuse, turning their backs on justice and real change for abuse in care survivors. âThe government has committed to throwing $744 million down the drain, reinforcing a violent regime of disrespect against the ...5 days ago
- Govtâs War on Te Tiriti Continues as Review of Treaty Act Announced
Te PÄti MÄori is absolutely disgusted by the Governmentâs announcement to review the Waitangi Tribunal- a deliberate and dangerous escalation in its ongoing campaign to undermine Te Tiriti o Waitangi and silence tangata whenua. âThe Governmentâs onslaught against Te Tiriti continues with this latest move to review the Treaty of ...6 days ago
- Tribunal review an attack on Te Tiriti o Waitangi
The Governmentâs plans to limit the powers and scope of the Waitangi Tribunal is a disgrace. ...6 days ago
- Tribunal review an attack on Te Tiriti o Waitangi
The Governmentâs plans to limit the powers and scope of the Waitangi Tribunal is a disgrace. ...6 days ago
- Release: Labour asks why Govt is silent on Gaza
Labour is asking the Government why it is silent on Israelâs deliberate use of starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza, saying New Zealand should be speaking out. ...6 days ago
- Release: Govt ignores the voices of survivors
Survivors of abuse in state care have a right to feel disappointed and sidelined by the Government. ...6 days ago
- Redress announcement leaves little justice for survivors
The Green Party is appalled by the Governmentâs decision to severely underfund financial compensation for survivors of abuse in state care. ...6 days ago
- Release: Bill launched to stop tobacco industry lobbying
Labour is launching a membersâ bill to stop the Government from putting tobacco industry interests ahead of public health. ...1 week ago
- Release: Labour fights for firefighters
The Labour Party backs volunteer firefighters who are currently not covered by ACC for workplace disease and mental injury and is drafting policy to put this right when the party wins the election in 2026. ...1 week ago
- Wildlife law change a deep betrayal of public trust
The Green Party is appalled by the Governmentâs use of urgency to rewrite the Wildlife Actâwithout consultation, without an impact statement, and in direct response to a court ruling in favour of protecting wildlife. ...1 week ago
- Release: National cuts womenâs pay
National has forced through a law change that will take money out of womenâs pockets. ...1 week ago
- âGovtâs Pay Bill Entrenches Discrimination Against Womenâ – Kemp
Te PÄti MÄori stands in staunch and emotional opposition to the Governmentâs so-called Equal Pay Amendment Bill, calling it a calculated attack on working women and a cruel betrayal of the generations who have fought for pay equity in Aotearoa. âThis bill doesnât just undermine equal pay â it completely ...1 week ago
- Release: Fewer jobs and opportunities for MÄori, again
In the last 12 months life has only got worse for MÄori under Christopher Luxonâs Government. ...1 week ago
- Release: More than one in 10 Pacific people unemployed under National
There are more Pacific people unemployed as the rate increases to a staggering 10.8% under National. ...1 week ago
- Release: Unemployment remains high under National
Job losses remain stubbornly high under National, as their attack on jobs, wages, and women rages on. ...1 week ago
- Govt for the rich is failing the unemployed
The latest job market statistics show that unemployed people are being failed by a Government more focused on punishing the poor than creating jobs. ...1 week ago
- RSE Draft Erases Rainbow and TakatÄpui Youth
Te PÄti MÄori is demanding urgent changes to the draft Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) framework, calling it a dangerous step backwards for TakatÄpui, trans, and rainbow rangatahi. âThis draft erases TakatÄpui voices, ignores whÄnau diversity, and delays consent education. Itâs not just inadequate, itâs unbelievably unsafeâ said Te PÄti ...1 week ago
- RSE Draft Erases Rainbow and TakatÄpui Youth
Te PÄti MÄori is demanding urgent changes to the draft Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) framework, calling it a dangerous step backwards for TakatÄpui, trans, and rainbow rangatahi. âThis draft erases TakatÄpui voices, ignores whÄnau diversity, and delays consent education. Itâs not just inadequate, itâs unbelievably unsafeâ said Te PÄti ...1 week ago
- Release: Labour welcomes inquiry into school lunches
Labour welcomes the Auditor-Generalâs inquiry into the Governmentâs school lunches programme. ...1 week ago
- Release: Women will keep being paid less under National
This Government is taking the womenâs movement backwards, ensuring women will continue to be paid less into the future. ...1 week ago
- Govt takes workplace equity efforts backwards
The Green Party has called out the Governmentâs latest attack on workers with the announcement that it is halting all pay equity claims. ...1 week ago
- Release: Questions over Erica Stanfordâs personal email use
Erica Stanford has been misusing her personal email address to manage sensitive information relating to Budget and visa changes prior to their public release. ...1 week ago
- Greens launch Memberâs Bill to close loophole allowing animal cruelty in imports
Today, Green Party MP Steve Abel has added a new Memberâs Bill to the biscuit tin to ensure any product sold in New Zealand meets New Zealandâs animal welfare standards, even if itâs produced overseas. ...1 week ago
- Iwi Rights Under Attack in Government Treaty Clause Purge
Te PÄti MÄori warns that the Governmentâs Treaty Clause Review represents the most severe erosion of iwi rights in modern legal history. âLuxon's Government is doing what the Treaty Principles Bill failed to do. They are removing every legal reference to Te Tiriti across health, housing, conservation, and child wellbeing ...1 week ago
- Release: Cuts to beds for seniors at Dunedin Hospital
After failing to be upfront about cuts to intensive care beds, itâs now becoming clear that other downgrades to Dunedin Hospital are being concealed by the Minister of Health. ...2 weeks ago
- Release: Labour backs workers while Govt cuts jobs and protections
This May Day Labour is standing with workers to defend decent jobs and fair pay. ...2 weeks ago
- Release: Still no ferries as first of old fleet retire
Two old and ageing ferries are going to have to work double time because of this Governmentâs failure to get a ferry deal. ...2 weeks ago
- Greens mark May Day with Green Jobs Guarantee
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- New tools to help women navigate online harm
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Bottom feeders….
No ties
xox
Pro whaling investors meet in brothel.
the 3 stooges, troughy, shonky and blubby
Creatures from the deep, Penguin, Lobster butt licker, and wail boil
Lightweights
key:..’collins will soon be sleeping with these fishes..’
farrar proudly shows off the results of the recent sewing-course-holiday he went on..
..apparantly he whipped it up from his aunties’ old curtains..
..and it doubles as a distress-flag..or a car-cover…
key with two customers/consumers at the man-bra trade-show….
Oh, I get it, it’s funny because they’re fat. How original. đ
they look far too happy..
..whose goosing who..?
Ian Fletcher Boag and Hooton have been cropped from the bottom of the frame….
nah..!..i think they’re doing a twofer on key..
..he has that slightly surprised look..
lol
p.m. meets tr*lls…
“Yes I’m stuck in the middle with you,
And I’m wondering what it is I should do,
It’s so hard to keep this smile from my face,
Losing control, yeah, I’m all over the place,
Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right,
Here I am, stuck in the middle with you.”
by Stealers Wheel
lol
Three unidentified guests who visited the aquarium were asked to leave because they were scaring the fish and other guests with the vacuous grins they had plastered on their faces.
The aquarium owners raised an alert to the police and the three (pictured above) were arrested on the way out for possession and use of the popular synthetic highs, ‘A Brighter Future’, ‘Rockstar Economy’, ‘An Economic Surplus Exists’ and ‘It is all Labour’s Fault’ which have now been banned due to the damage they are causing the country.
bl +100 Those numbers sound foot tappy – sound like hits to me.
Then again ruups choice is a goer too.
Thanks, greywarbler, I was hoping someone would get amusement from that đ
p.m. meets staff @ ‘chins ‘r us’…
Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf?
Moe, Larry and Curly venture out to the aquarium.
p.m. meets judith collins’ support-group..
lol
Spinning themselves into one big knot.
national party insiders select a burial-place for collins’ career…
PM approves of Collin’s support group.
The three tie-less tricksters.
Ahhhhhh! . . . . Butt plugs
I think we brought it off lads!
That last gig paid well. Now it’s off to trough again. See you soon!
this years’ finalists in the annual dirt-file-competition..
the ayn rand appreciation society..
three picketty refuseniks..
FOR SALE ! : Three bums.
p.m. meets winner and runner-up of the annual pie-eating competition..
xox
Which one likes Chinese?
Is there a nice plump beneficiary in that tank of future dinners at my back? Why eat the rich? I could never understand what that film was on about!
see no evil
Friends are priceless.
For everything else there’s a donation.
LOL
đ
âThe Three Amigos IIâChamber of Tory Horrors cutâ
âstarring three slippery dirty dodgepotsâMincer, Prime Mincer and canât Bee fâooked.
“NZs most popular PM of the MMP era and the two most popular political bloggers in NZ share a photo” đ
Helen Clark was Prime Minister for three terms with strong opular support throughout. She would have been Prime Minister for four terms had it not been for the Corporate Media’s corrupt witch hunt of Winston Peters.
So no he is not the most popular Prime Minister. He is without doubt the most hated and certainly the most incompentent.
As for the bloggers I think you will find they fudge their numbers somewhat
Shouldn’t you finish work before you start drinking ?
https://curiablog.wordpress.com/tag/preferred-pm/
I like how its always someone elses fault but whats impressive is that its not just big business or the media but Corporate Media
The same media currently giving National a hard time by the by
Which part is the caption? E&OE
(ya gotta love that oxford dictionary of quotations..this was written in 1681…)
“..in friendship false..implacable in hate..
..resolved to ruin or to rule..the state..”
+1
This year’s 1980s WWF wrestling reunion features Andre the Giant, the Million Dollar Man, and Tugboat.
Nice đ
Jack and the beanstalk, (whale oil giant, Key Jack, Farar the golden goose). The end, when Jack chopped the beanstalk down.
“The New Zealand National Government in all it guises.”
Meet the candidates for the Lemon Party
eew…..
‘
Fishy, definitely fishy.
Aquarium’s prized penguin and sickly sperm whale stolen from their tanks during daring heist by an unidentified guest.
lol
We have a cunning plan.
We need better wingnuts.
The Cabinet Rub.
“Clueless” cast reunites
http://m.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/clueless-reunion-alicia-silverstone-stacey-dash-talk-cher-and-dionne-201485
IRD looking for information concerning ……….
Happy as Pigs in mud
“One of us, one of us”
Two donors compete for time with renowned Cabinet Club member.
“Cabinet Club”, it’s all about amateur carpentry right …. you believe me don’t you? please ….
Do you, smiling assassin, take this slightly soiled blogger to be your lawfully wedded propagandist? I do.
Do you, former Truth editor, take this snake oil salesman to be your sugar daddy and secret funder? I do.
Do you, Muldoonist, promise to repress free speech and democracy at every chance? I do.
Do you, climate change denier, accept the doctrine of neoliberalism for all eternity. I do.
I now pronounce you corporatist and propagandist.
You may bribe the press.
+1 Jackal
+2
A head honcho with two paunchos.
A dick with two dickheads.
A twit with two nitwits.
the twit and the twats…
xox
Jackal wins the booby prize. đ
Honest John with two bosom buddies.
Key in damage control mode – attempts to create the perception of of the National Party as a moral, decent party . by hanging out with Slater and Farar.
Key in damage control mode – attempts to raise the National Party’s standards and morality by hanging out with Slater and Farar.
truth ,integrity,morality HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHpond scum x3
the thing, the blob and the creature from the black lagoon
thruth ,intergrety,morality
an arse between two asses.
O masters, if I were disposed to stir
Your hearts and minds to mutiny and rage,
I should do David wrong and John wrong, and Cameron wrong,
Who, you all know, are honourable men
Julius Caesar, ACT III Scene II. The Aquarium.
‘armless trio? Joined at the hip?
May I kiss your arse with this shit eating grin Prime Minster?
ideas bereft blog recycles three year old photograph in vain attempt to remain relevant
@rob..
..rightwinger confirms the given that all rightwingers have a sense of humour bye-pass at birth..
..(the nearest they get to humour are those hard/brittle sneers at those they consider their inferiors..
..and we should feel sorry for them..
..that must be hell/dire..
..the grinding grey life of no ha-ha!..
..no wonder they are so angry..
..the poor luvvies..!
seriously..!
..the challenge is..name one funny rightwing comedian..
..there aren’t any..
..that’s ‘cos all rightwingers are humourless arsewipes..
..who had s.o.h. bye-passes at birth..
..q.e.d…
When shall we three meet again?
To swindle, hoodwink and complain?
When the double-dealing’s done,
When the election’s lost or won?
pm meets laboratory-experiments that went terribly terribly wrong…
pm and his dirt-file meet runner-up in cartman-look-alike contest..
Well done Cam for wining the best blog award tonight
If THAT is voted the best blog, it says more about the low calibre of the voters than anything else!
Influx of rightwing commentators congratulating Cameron Slater finally makes this blog relevant. /sarc
And well done to Canon, the official paper supplier to the WhaleOil blog for it’s continuing support of far right hate speech.
The PM with his speechwriters.
Wrong. Given the P.M.’s nasal qualities, try “P.M. with his screech writers.”
The most popular PM and the most popular bloggers in New Zealand
Naki Man doing shit trolling since, well not very long – and man, your just really bad at it. Just go back and smoke some crack with the rest of the whale oil crowd, or smell your own farts – hey what ever rocks your smug little world.
with apologies to Sesame Street
Three of these things are just like the others,
Three of these things just do not belong,
Can you tell which things are just like the others
By the time I finish my song?
Three of these things belong together
Three of these things are kind of the same
Can you guess which one of these doesn’t belong in Parliament?
Now it’s time to play our game (our fundraising game).
A bad political sandwich – the bread is too thick and the filling is not what it claims to be.
The filling will slip out soon and the bread will get stale.
heh..!
Dumb, dumber, dumbest.
Key poses for picture at pie warmer technicians convention.
Farrar: gosh these guys are lucky to be with me.
Key: ashlee tease gays a luggy to be with me.
Blubber Boy: aahh, oooh, aaah, oops………anyone got a tissue?
Rightswingers! The club for those whose mums and siblings resist ACT policy…
another meaning of wobh..(in abbrev.-dict..)
..is ‘weight of both horns’..
..(think about it..!..)
Key Burger
Vizzini and Fezzik. And an unnamed guest.
Delusion, greed and hate: the three unwholesome roots.
one pig, two pokes.
Is this really all it takes to make Labour look like sock puppets.
Someones been eating too many dead rats
The honey hive and the two Bs.
Eh-oh!, Dipsy, Laa-Laa, and Tinky Winkyon are here and Po‘s on her way.
Which one is the vintriloquist.
PinoKeyO finds it easy to operate his dummy with the whaleoil providing more than adequate lubrication to manipulate such a large Dummy.
Cabinet Club meeting with PM .
Fishy business as National tanks (aqarium in back ground gives it away) in the polls Jamie whyte of ACT sends incestious minders to arrange a polygamus 3 way gay marriage as part of pre election tom linettnegotiations whyte says this is the bottom line to any post election deal.
Keys: “Sorry Lads, The National Underground Aquarium Bunker was the only place, I could think of to meet, without that ****** Pete George arriving and interrupting….Double check that door is locked will u?
Keys ” Ok, how do we deny climate change now Gents now the sea water is over my holiday retreat windows?”
lol!
Keys: Ok, We have been here for three bloody days! One of us has to go and check out whatâs up top and see if Cyclone Judith has left anything behindâŚâŚ
Ok We have been here for three bloody days now!!!! One of us has to go and check out whatâs up top and see if Cyclone Judith has left anything behindâŚâŚ..
This is very funny too!
Whose turn is it to pass a leak today, yours or mine?
The three new directors of the offshore drilling company gathered for the first time….Hale oil was now in business.
Keys: Thank fuck they can’t see what we are doing with our dicks!
Rusty the goldfish with three unidentified bloggers.
Rusty the gold fish makes generous donation of thirty thousand dollars to the national party troika for allowing him to stay in the country.
Dutch Rudder enthusiasts pose for a photo outside their annual conference
Rusty the goldfish , unveiled as Pete George in cheap disguise
Rusty the goldfish promoted to Minister of Justice and Immigration.
Rusty the Goldfish, resigns in fury, as his expenses are questioned,,,,,then proceeds to sell his memoirs…
Rusty the goldfish gets awarded Knighthood and retires to Hawaii to play golf
We have a cunning plan . . . . . . .for the fish droppings
‘UNITED WE STAGGER, DIVIDED WE FALL’
DPF and Whaleoil with an unidentified guest.
P.S. thanks to Norrie Montgomery for the photo that was copied from Facebook (the “I’m voting National” page)!
Working for the 1% – from here to eternity.
What’s going through their minds……
Farrar: “Please hurry up and take the picture, someone’s eating all the cake!’
Key: ‘Oh god, Slater’s just farted, hurry up and take the bloody picture!’
Slater: “Omigod, I just farted next to the PM. Hurry up and take the picture!’
Rusty the goldfish took that fart wrapped it up and called it the national party
Following major re-constructive surgery, by a world leading team of expensive private sector surgeons, and a long period of recuperation.
On making a full recovery Mr Creasote bravely returns to the scene of his unfortunate accident.
(The surgeons finding so much human tissue, Mr Creasote was mistakenly reassembled into three discrete individuals)