Daily review 17/09/2024

Written By: - Date published: 5:30 pm, September 17th, 2024 - 18 comments
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  2. adam 2
    17 September 2024 at 7:16 pm

    Hard to tell the difference these days between lone wolves filming themselves attacking civilians like the murderer in Christchurch, and other right groups doing the same.

    https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/16/israeli-settlers-attack-primary-school-in-occupied-west-bank

  3. Muttonbird 3
    17 September 2024 at 7:38 pm

    As a result of four phases of this investigation, police allege the Comancheros was operating as an organised criminal group conducting a complex money laundering operation; drug importation and supply operations; and a “Commission” scheme to fund, among other things, military-style training for some of its members.

    So, similar to the current government:

    1. Complex money laundering operation – reinstated interest deductibility for amateur landlords.
    2. Drug importation and supply operations – bumped treatment for white people's diseases higher up the Pharmac list.
    3. A “Commission” scheme to fund military-style training for some of its members – see Karen Chour's boot camps, funded by us.

    Question: Does Karen Chour have any gang connections?

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/police-investigation-deals-blow-to-heart-of-comancheros-motorcycle-gang-with-nearly-every-member-facing-criminal-charges/MA3O46FDMBFNJMTISYEEQ5A6QE/

  4. Muttonbird 4
    17 September 2024 at 8:01 pm

    Paora Goldsmith wants to ban gang patches in homes of repeat offenders and now they've had to amend their bill again to state patches are banned whether they are being worn and displayed or not.

    I think a better law would be to ban the New Zealand Herald from posting multiple gang stories every day. These clowns are doing the gang's publicity and promotion for them.

    • Ad 4.1
      17 September 2024 at 8:11 pm

      Putting almost every single Comancheros gang member on charges, and gutting $15 mil of Headhunters assets, inside a month, really is newsworthy.

      Of course those investigations started under Labour and it's not politically fair.

      And of course National are playing this exceedingly well with their Bill getting extended coverage after they pulled it just before the 3rd Reading, for another round of amendments, which will in turn get them more coverage.

      But that's not for Police enforcement to consider. And good on them for good policework.

      • Muttonbird 4.1.1
        17 September 2024 at 8:20 pm

        I'd rather they spent their time undoing the dreadful job they have done on the economy than promoting gangs for political advantage.

    • Ngungukai 4.2
      17 September 2024 at 11:34 pm

      Agree +100% the NZ Media glorifying gangs and their activities, definitely promoting the gangs to young aspiring gangsta's.

  5. Ad 5
    17 September 2024 at 8:06 pm

    Even if you don't like Taylor Swift, posting "I Hate Taylor Swift" is not the move to get yourself elected.

  6. Muttonbird 6
    17 September 2024 at 8:16 pm

    Farrar watch.

    Mask slips a little in Farrar's blue on blue attack of Simon Conner. I hate both David Farrar and Simon O'Conner but this paragraph about the injection v palliative care by Farrar, an advocate of weakening euthanasia laws in NZ, confirms the real motivation behind the legalised suicide legislation:

    It would be nice to fund both but I don’t think it is quite a trade off. The cost of an assisted death to the taxpayer is $1,087.20 so a total cost of say $500,000 a year compared to the cost of palliative care of $186 million a year. You could even argue that euthanasia reduces the cost of palliative care.

    There it is in plain writing. Watch out for your treasured people because these killers are coming for them because they cost too much.

    https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2024/09/oconnor_on_euthanasia_concerns.html#comments

  7. Muttonbird 7
    17 September 2024 at 9:37 pm

    Interesting that corruption and agenda free pollster, Talbot Mills, find that:

    40 percent of the 1116 people surveyed supported recognising Palestine as a state, while 19 percent did not.

    Forty-two percent of the respondents supported sanctioning Israel, while 29 percent did not.

    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/528256/new-poll-shows-support-for-recognising-palestinian-statehood-sanctioning-israel

    Amazing what happens when accurate information is found…

    • Bearded Git 7.1
      17 September 2024 at 10:00 pm

      More awful reporting on this by Radio NZ, saying 40% supported recognising Palestine while not mentioning the 19% who did not.

      This left listeners potentially assuming that 60% opposed recognising Palestine.

      Just hopeless.

  8. aj 8
    17 September 2024 at 9:44 pm

    Bless these people.

    Dunedin GP setting up low cost clinic due to cost of living

    The three doctors who worked at the clinic were all used to working in the charitable communities space and have worked for low cost practices, he said.

    "I spent 12 years working in a free clinic for people most in need in Dunedin up until the end of last year … so for some of us it's just part of our DNA if you like to do pro bono work or stuff that's charitable."

    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/528257/dunedin-gp-setting-up-low-cost-clinic-due-to-cost-of-living

    • PsyclingLeft.Always 8.1
      17 September 2024 at 10:07 pm

      Comes the time..comes the Altruist. Certainly seems more needed/will be needed. And, Respect for them !

  9. SPC 9
    17 September 2024 at 10:49 pm

    A government determined to obstruct effort to meet our nations international commitments. Working for old industry interest – reminds one of the days of import licensing …

    New Zealand could have up to 58,000 fewer fully or partially electric cars on the road in a decade's time, as a result of moves to weaken carbon emissions standards, government modelling suggests.

    The modelling, prepared before Cabinet lowered the country's emissions standards for imported cars, found there could be 39,000 fewer fully electric vehicles and 19,000 fewer plug-in hybrid electric vehicles by 2035.

    The biggest impact was in 2027, when registrations of both fully and partly electric vehicles could be up to 20 percent lower than predicted under standards in place earlier this year.

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/350418177/nz-could-have-58000-fewer-electric-cars-2035-due-weaker-carbon-emissions

    • Drowsy M. Kram 9.1
      18 September 2024 at 12:28 am

      At the end of the "lowered the country's emissions standards for imported cars" article:

      Transport minister pushed ahead with weaker tailpipe standards to meet car industry's deadline [15 Sept 2024]

      Before writing this story, RNZ requested from the government copies of any lobbying letters it had received from the car industry about the tailpipe standards, under the Official Information Act.

      One letter from a pro-EV group was released.

      However another letter was deemed so sensitive that even the title and who it was from were withheld, on the basis that making it public would prejudice future supply of similar information to the government.

      What harm could prejudicing the “future supply of similar information to the government” do, given that “It appears as if they don’t want to hear the opposing view“?

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