Daily review 13/08/2024

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  1. adam 1
    13 August 2024 at 7:02 pm

    Yucky bunny at channel 7 in Australia

  2. Barfly 2
    13 August 2024 at 7:04 pm

    The CoC's punching down as usual

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350376643/ot-apologises-acting-well-below-expectations-after-auckland-counsellor-scrapped

    Gives 4 hours notice of contract cancellation and then won't even say where the people using the service should go …and now 6 weeks later someone says oops?

    IMO The CoC is in the service of evil.

    • bwaghorn 2.1
      13 August 2024 at 7:17 pm

      it would be a very interesting study on how people like chour and bennet (paula) become complete class traitors .

      • Cricklewood 2.1.1
        13 August 2024 at 9:31 pm

        Karen Chour is easy, shes a product of a very broken system and has decided to essentially burn the system down. Pretty understandable imho.

      • Kay 2.1.2
        13 August 2024 at 9:59 pm

        Paula is a nasty, vindictive sociopath who enjoyed the power trip. Easy.

        • Rolling-on-Gravel 2.1.2.1
          14 August 2024 at 2:37 am

          She was one of my reasons for going into left-wing politics.

          Without her vindictiveness, I would have been a placid sort of teenage person with some vague sympathies for anti-landlord politics and some drug legalisation politics, and thought nothing more of it.

          With her vindictiveness, I was suddenly aware of how fragile my position was and I realised that being merely being part of a gentle opposition of the status quo was not enough and my voting & political activities shifted to a more active sort of politics (as far as my disabilities would have let me take)

          And now with the coalition, I've gone even further left as I got older. I'm now taking a participatory view of politics. I am trying to change things with what I call a dialectic of parliamentary and extra-parliamentary politics.

          Right now, I am making another shift in my politics, I am trying to mature my politics amongst the peoples who I am part of (and sometimes outside of) and finding a synthesis of such situations so I can move onto a new set of dialectics of the sort of politics peculiar to my life situation.

          And Paula Bennett (and life experience) set this all into motion so I nowadays think she did a favour to me even if I still strongly despise her.

    • Anne 2.2
      13 August 2024 at 7:29 pm

      Beat me to it. Its got beyond comment except to say: the first thing that needs to happen: The Chhour woman has got to go. She's mad!

      • adam 2.2.1
        13 August 2024 at 10:21 pm

        Only their purpose is mad.

        Bruce Jesson.

        • Anne 2.2.1.1
          13 August 2024 at 11:02 pm

          You could be right there adam. Chhour is making false claims about counselling services and has already been pulled up by the Children's Commissioner over it.

          I once had a teeny weeny bit of sympathy for her. Its gone now.

          • adam 2.2.1.1.1
            14 August 2024 at 12:27 am

            I had none, Mariameno Kapa-Kingi 's remarks were mild and direct. Mariameno could have unleashed a much harsher remark about being a puppet – she chose the mild idiom. I'd argue that the idiom Kapa-Kingi chose, is idiom designed to make you think, not a full on attack.

            Not a 100% polite by any means, but nothing in the ball park that many/most of the Labour/Green/NZfirst/Te Pāti Māori women MP's have faced. And a world away from the down right nasty misogynist BS that was directed at Nanaia.

  3. SPC 3
    13 August 2024 at 7:33 pm

    The Battle of the Standard, … took place on 22 August 1138 on Cowton Moor near Northallerton in Yorkshire, England. English forces under William of Aumale repelled a Scottish army led by King David I of Scotland.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Standard

    9 days to the 886th anniversary.

    The King of Scots claimed his niece was rightful Queen of England (her son was Henry of Anjou) but Stephen of Blois was influenced by the Salic law of France in the matter of her claim.

    This proved that Stephen was no true English monarch … of its common law.

    Geoffrey of Anjou (husband of an emperors widow) was known for the flowering plant he wore on his hat and so in the 15thC a Duke of York re-named his (and the royal) house, the House of Plantagenet (and so the War of the Roses).

    At this time, Cosimo of Florence patron of its library collected books from far and wide (areas he finance trade to), including one that consisted of plants not of this earth with description in a language that no one could read (an inside joke about Kabbalah Jews who travelled to other worlds where they were not persecuted).

    The Kabbalah colour code – white then red then black then purple then blue then yellow then green.

    • Obtrectator 3.1
      14 August 2024 at 9:52 am

      "This proved that Stephen was no true English monarch … of its common law."

      None of those Norman monarchs was English by birth (except Henry I) or culture, so never could have been "true". And the formulation/evolution of common law is usually credited to that Henry of Anjou you mention, some time after he'd become Henry II..

  5. Muttonbird 5
    13 August 2024 at 8:17 pm

    Farrar watch:

    David Farrar has resigned from Research Association New Zealand, the only industry body with any oversight of pollsters in this country. It's not even a regulatory body because the polling industry here seems, like the real estate industry, to fly under the radar of any applicable rules, heaven forbid.

    But they do have some sort of charter which Farrar has recently and repeatedly fallen foul of.

    Up until around two years there had been no issues. But over the last two years the complaints process has been weaponised against me. I can’t even count up how many complaints there have been. I will cover in some detail the significant ones.

    People have finally decided to complain about you. Wow.

    But these numerous complaints have caused me huge stress. I won’t go into the details of it here, but it has been very significant.

    Cry me a river. As a partisan political activist against governmental social support, every single word and post from you causes vulnerable people stress. Welcome to the club!

    Yesterday I saw an e-mail from RANZ that, not only had the PSG upheld the latest complaint against me, but that it was considering a recommendation that could involve suspension to expulsion.

    I was absolutely stunned. I could not believe how what I saw as a subjective dispute over question design could possibly meet the threshold for such a move. I’ll get into the details later, but basically it was over whether a client should be allowed to ask:

    The UK health service (the NHS) has stopped the use of puberty blockers, which begin the gender transition process, for children under 16 as it deemed they are too young to consent. Do you support or oppose a similar ban in New Zealand on the use of puberty blockers for young people 16 or younger?

    So, the question his client insisted on asking was a leading question which, I believe, reputable pollsters are not supposed to do. Interesting that he distanced himself from his client and failed to inform them that the question was not appropriate. Also, it was a question asked on behalf of some unnamed transphobic organisation.

    It appears the upshot of all this is David Farrar will now self-regulate and be really transparent. That's like asking a drug addict to watch his own usage.

    https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2024/08/why_i_have_resigned_from_the_research_association_of_new_zealand.html

    I asked the question a few months ago in the wake of some dodgy Curia poll whether RANZ should be taking a closer look at David Farrar and the fact that he is both pollster and political activist. This is a clear conflict of interest and no industry body should be happy with it.

    It seems they are not. Bye, David.

  6. adam 6
    13 August 2024 at 9:16 pm

    Time to arrest and lock up every gang member in NZ. Till the person or persons who did this, is found, charged and beaten by the innocent gang members.

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-city-mission-finds-lethal-levels-of-meth-in-donated-lollies-handed-out-in-food-parcels/JUWLGY5X4BDZLFINI6RCUGNETI/

    • aj 6.1
      13 August 2024 at 9:57 pm

      Are you 100% sure a gang member is responsible.

    • SPC 6.2
      13 August 2024 at 11:04 pm

      Manufactured offshore and imported here. The purpose would be to addict a targeted youth market. Someone (presumably supposed to share them out to mates) donated them to a food bank and thus the methodology is now a known.

      • adam 6.2.1
        13 August 2024 at 11:11 pm

        So gangsters got them on shore. They should be considered guilty too, and charged.

        Wonder if mark mitchell MP has the balls to go after the makers though, doubt it, the man has none.

        • SPC 6.2.1.1
          13 August 2024 at 11:14 pm

          It is distributed out of Malaysia and the place has a local youth with meth addiction problem.

          https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=meth+in+malaysia

        • SPC 6.2.1.2
          13 August 2024 at 11:30 pm

          It's possible someone imported them in bulk to extract the meth.

          Or it was just the method to create (and then control) their own “youth” market.

        • SPC 6.2.1.3
          13 August 2024 at 11:57 pm

          The reckons on reddit are that the amount of meth involved is such that it was a form for importing, not distribution.

          • adam 6.2.1.3.1
            14 August 2024 at 12:41 am

            If it was that pure they'd kill – people would want to cut it down to feed their greed.

            So maybe with cock theory on this one?

            But we need to punish them for giving it to the poor all the same – Sorry vengeful Christian comes out sometimes. I feel the same way about this government too, with their attacks on the poor.

            Which does mean, I do have to wonder does our PM desire a heresy trial for his utter disregard of the Gospels?

      • Belladonna 6.2.2
        14 August 2024 at 11:18 am

        Given that they are both unsweetened (according to RNZ this morning, this was the reason they tasted 'funny' and were reported) – and of a much higher meth content than would ever be supplied to an individual – it seems almost certain that they are the result of packaging of meth to evade customs scrutiny – which has gone astray and accidentally being gifted to a food bank.

        In the original plan, the individual sweets would have been de-packaged, ground down, cut with neutral material – and then supplied in standard packages.

        Just from a revenue potential – there is no way this was ever intended to be the actual supply-to-customer mechanism.

  7. aj 7
    13 August 2024 at 10:55 pm

    It's just that your first sentence implied a gang member was responsible. I'm fine with the second sentence.

    Someone deliberately contaminating lollies with meth is likely to be a very disturbed individual and probably not a gang member.

    • Belladonna 7.1
      14 August 2024 at 11:20 am

      Someone deliberately contaminating lollies with meth is likely to be a very disturbed individual and probably not a gang member.

      Almost certainly an import mechanism (to evade customs scrutiny) rather than a supply mechanism.

      Given that gangs are the primary drivers of the meth import and supply business in NZ – it's unlikely to be anyone else importing this.

      I suspect the situation is the result of a package going astray. And the actual person gifiting it to the the food bank would have been entirely unaware of the actual contents.

  8. adam 8
    13 August 2024 at 11:16 pm

    How else did the drugs get into the country? Apart from gangs?

  9. Adrian 9
    14 August 2024 at 12:09 pm

    Reading reports over the last few years it almost always seems as though the local gangs are the receivers from the mostly Asian and some South American manufacturers and exporters. Last weeks big raid read as though the Mexicans were even doing their own distribution here, if they had cut in on gang distribution a local jail sentence is not going to be much fun.