I no longer listen to Morning Report.
Espiner is another paid puppet and a collaborator of the neoliberal regime.
History will not be kind to such traitors.
What I find doubly hilarious is that they have a State controlled Public broadcaster and it is still not enough for some lefties. I am sure these people won’t be happy until they have a state appointed editorial board which will review the days output to ensure no “political bias” is present.
@Gosman
You would have to go back about 80 years to find exactly that situation in New Zealand.
The State had taken control of all the radio stations once the Labour Government came to power in 1935. In the late 1930s the radio news bulletin was written in the PMs office and had to be broadcast exactly as it was written.
“In 1937 Prime Minister Michael Joseph Savage set up an Official News Service, under which all radio news bulletins were to be compiled and issued from the Prime Minister’s Department. Radio news only became largely independent of political control with the establishment of the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation (NZBC) in 1962.” https://teara.govt.nz/en/media-and-politics/print
Those were the days, my friend. Don’t you think that the current lot would like to do exactly the same thing again?
Cleangreen at 1.1.2 just below certainly seems to think so.
The political control of radio stations existed before labour won in 1935
“On the night of 24 November 1935, radio engineers employed by the Post and Telegraph Department deliberately jammed a popular religious programme by Colin Scrimgeour, commonly known as ‘Uncle Scrim’, just as he started to talk about the upcoming election. The engineers had been instructed to do so by their superior, on the grounds that Scrimgeour was likely to urge his listeners to vote for Labour…
same link as yours Alwyn
Of course nationals influence in the major newspapers continued till the 90s
It apppears now that RNZ has now been ‘capured’ by the corporate interests entirely’ and is now a spin doctor for their own whim and to kill off the new Labour/NZF/Greens coalition.
Labour needs to take control of this renigade public service media now before they suffer election defeat again.
What gets me is if you listen to some of the commentators on here (fortunately the minority) its almost as if they want NZ to be part of the USA, they want the proletariat to rise up and smash the capitalist state, they want NZ to break free from…what exactly
Whereas if NZ really was like how they want or imagine it to be then benefits would be cut, there’d be virtually no state housing, hospitals would have no supplies etc etc
I’d say its almost like rebels without a cause but more like rebels without a clue
NZ is a great place to live and while, for some, its not so good its also a place where you can make something of yourself if you’re willing to apply yourself
“NZ is a great place to live and while, for some, its not so good its also a place where you can make something of yourself if you’re willing to apply yourself”
If you really believe that I’d suggest you’re very much inwards looking. It can be a great place if you were born into a middle class household and wanted for nothing while you grew up. For those born on struggle street, not so much.
I was born into a working class family but yes i do admit to having the advantage of having two parents that loved me and tried to do their best for me
However I still, and will always, stand by the comment that NZ is one of the best places in the world to be born in
The problem is you have the naive and gullible posters on here who actually believe that NZ is one of the worst places on earth because of what others post on here and then post absolutely ridiculous things like charging people with treason and vague implications like up against the wall
When Labour was in opposition it was all about how bad NZ was and how only Labour could fix it, you think in the 2020 Labour will still say how bad NZ is or did Labour somehow fix all the problems in three years
Nope it’ll be how good NZ is and any problems will be because of National
I think you’ll find most leftist commenters here haven’t been talking about how Labour will fix everything.
A few will hate Labour as tory splitters, no matter what, and actually prefer national governments in the theory that enough tory rule will lead to revolution (of whatever level of violence, depending on how their swaggering boasts measure up against their timidity and introspection).
Some view Labour as the least-worst option, a temporary slight respite between regressive national governments.
Some think the correct machination or whinge will turn Labour into a party that will just wipe the slate clean and rewrite all the laws for a socialist paradise.
Others, like me, tend to agree with Labour’s incrementalist approach, wary of whether it will continue but generally approving of the measures so far, and hopeful the Greens will keep pushing Labour left.
But I’m not sure even the most active Labour supporters here argue that Labour will solve everything, especially this term.
Nah. The ones who are so far into youtube channels that they end up supporting trump, putin, AND arguing that Labour are filthy tory swine. Those are the ones I wouldn’t be surprised reading about in the newspaper.
Your average revolutionary socialist becomes decidedly incrementalist as soon as they have a kid and a mortgage (one reason home ownership rates are an important measure of social stability, IMO).
The ones who can read the matrix as it scrolls by and never learned about playing well with others are the ones who can’t deal with the fact that people have different opinions, and it’s the degree of difference that means you can’t work with them (not the simple existence of a differing opinion).
I don’t see that as a problem here PR. Every forum has its soapbox sopranos and you’ve been around long enought to realise they only speak for themselves.
At least on this site many attempt to walk in other people’s shoes. We may not always get it right, but we make the effort. The likes of Kiwiblog are inhabited by curled lip sneerers which doesn’t make it a pleasant place.
+100% I wish they would f off and set up their own blog as i have to scribe down the page to try to find some sensible comments, they have got more time and money than they have sense and now we have another clown come along Baby Gaga whoever the f he is ?
Have we got the Troll Trifecta already today I wonder if we can get the Troll Pick Six today by 12.00am, we need to flush out babygaga and the rest of their cronies
Ed – you open yourself up to easy hits and RW trolling by making such OTT statements.
Fact is:
– Any ‘collaboration’ by Espiner is pretty much unconscious on his part and complex in its origins and manifestations
– None of us knows what history will do to any of us. We live inside history.
I am assuming you are genuine, but overwrought – rather than a caricature of a lefty intentionally designed to provide trolling opportunities to others
Just to follow on from this (I agree with you by the way) there are some posters on here that can actually convince me that maybe I could think of things in a slightly different way
I won’t name their names so as not to embarrass them (*cough cough Kewa and Gobert Ruyton) but the way they can convince me is not by hyperbole and emotional arguments but by reason and logic and by focusing on single issue arguments
So, no different from the RWNJs here on TS where there hardly is a coherent comment in sight, just negativity and self-absorbed gibberish. That said, here on TS they don’t get away with it while the MSM feeds (on) the negativity of National politicians and their rowdy supporters.
I think that statement is completely coherent.
It might be crazy but it is crazy in a coherent way.
If you want something that is crazy in an incoherent way I would suggest an example such as this sentence.
” That said, here on TS they don’t get away with it while the MSM feeds (on) the negativity of National politicians and their rowdy supporters.”
The crucial difference is that the equivalent characters on the right are seen as Cabinet material. Collins, Bennett, etc etc, and we wait to see who will be your latest Capill or Titford.
Clark Titman (not Titford) was a member of the National Party. It would be fair to say many Nats were not very happy about it. Those were the days of Keith Holyoake, Jack Marshall, Brian Talboys and others… mostly well regarded politicians across the board – if a little too conservative for my liking.
Capill was leader of the Christian Heritage Party which didn’t survive the scandal of course.
What evidence do you have that he really was a member of the National Party?
It is of course quite possible. At the time the National Party had a membership of more than 250,000 I believe.
On the other hand why would any of the leaders care in the slightest about some low-level member?
It appears I got the wrong Tit – man.
However to answer your questions… Clark Titman was very much a member of the National Party. He lived on the North Shore and made a name for himself as a right wing agitator. He was very pro the Vietnam War – among other things – and his somewhat extreme behaviour were sometimes embarrassing for National. Iirc, he was eventually disbarred form National events and meetings.
Chill out Mr. Angry. Gosman was holding Ed and C/G up as “crazy and incoherent lefties”. If the Left has to answer for them, the Right has to own Capill and Titford. Nothing disingenuous in that.
If you compare them with the current Green MPs they are certainly mainstream by New Zealand standards.
The MPs on the other hand would be some brackish little creek.
Did you mean Allan Titford or that Titman character Anne mentions?
I fail to see that either of them had anything to do with the National Party as Anne claims however.
Titman seems to have been harmless whereas Titford seems to be an A-grade nut.
And I never said that you claimed they were National.
I said that Anne had claimed it, at least about Titman.
If you look at what I said it was “as Anne claims however.”.
I put this comment to you because I was curious about who you meant. Was it Allan Titford or Clark Titman?
Or someone else altogether?
Where do those people come from, and how do they get like that?
Good question. The brain adapts to dishonesty via the amygdala, which also has a vital role in racism. Low intelligence is also a factor, but so are authoritarian tendencies and limited exposure to “out-groups”. Our peers are our “primary socialisers” (not our parents, apparently).
Whether these are the defining characteristics of Titford’s pathology is another thing entirely. Is it a more extreme example of the behaviour displayed by Don Brash, or people who vote for the abolition of the Māori seats and the “Iwi/Kiwi” hate speech? Toxic masculinity also appears to be a factor, and there’s plenty of that around.
It is interesting looking back at National’s ‘honeymoon’. The media fawned over John Key for years, they had their heads so far up Key’s arse at the Herald they probably had their board meetings there. It took a very long time for the media to see through him…. some never did.
Finally the first train leaves Napier under the labour/NZF regional funding boost after National had closed the line following a storm and caused public anger over a six year lack of rail services.
The train left for Wairoa in a bid to restore the Napier/Gisborne regional rail service on 8th June 2018.
Full marks to the new labour/NZF/Greens coalition efforts here was felt by all residents.
We had a busy few days in Napier last week.
On Wednesday, we made our final submission to the NCC Long Term Plan, and then we attended the opening ceremony for the rail line north.
We were well received by Peter Reidy who referred to the tenacity of Alan (Dick) and Ken that set the ball rolling.
Previously, Alan had challenged Peter Reidy to drive the road and that gave him an understanding of the importance of taking trucks off the road.
Shane Jones said he had not given up on the Gisborne end of the line, so Ken gave him a copy of the full page ad in the GH to remind him of the business potential.
They did a really good job using the event for maximum media coverage on the rail line.
HB Today also did an article on our submission, and neatly tied it in with increasing rail would lower the heavy traffic problem.
I encountered this when looking for a home for an aged relative. DHB contracted rest homes all have a maximum price they can charge, it’s negotiated as a collective agreeement annually. It’s around $1100 per week at the moment for rest home care.
They get around this by charging for ‘extras’ such as ensuites and try to create an environment where the extras are the norm. I met ensuite rates of $15-30 per day and when one considers ensuite is just a fancy name for your own bathroom $105-$210 a week for a shitter and shower is a little over the top.
It is very good and as a bonus I’m also hoping it will give the Greens the go ahead to oppose Winstons waka bill
Mind you this issue needs to be sorted:
‘So far, no courts had used the full power of the law, to sentence offenders on their third strike to the maximum sentence without the chance of parole.’
The wording is not all that direct, negotiate in good faith or something.
What that means no me, is no blanket refusals but a deal can be made.
What is more important in the scheme of things, some thing like the ‘slowdown’ in oil and gas drilling or a waka jumping legislation.
NZ First has had particular problems in the waka jumping area as its a small party and a few Mps jumping could change the result of the election.
Its starting to occur in german states too, something that was once unthinkable
If you want dumb political thinking we can show you the meth testing debacle which national ministers were in the thick off.
Another was the decision back in 2012 NOT to build a replacement for the manawatu gorge highway.
Winnie was getting spooked by the polls, the thought of seeing Farrar’s list of 2 strikers out on the streets, and the open letter in today’s Herald. You can criticise Peters for a lot of things, but stupid he is not.
Hope he doesn’t start banging on about abolishing the Maori seats when he becomes PM and he focuses on the big picture, no doubt the MSM will be laying some traps for him.
Of course, NZ1st may support the removal of the Three Strikes law:
NZ First leader Winston Peters said the party would reveal its long-term position on three-strikes following its caucus meeting on Tuesday.
“The caucus looks forward to working with him on achieving a balanced reform package,” Peters said.
NZ First said it did not support Little’s initial proposal to repeal the law as part of a modest package of changes to the criminal justice system, which were due to go to Cabinet for consideration on Monday.
But Peters was yet to say whether the party would back a repeal further down the line, when Little put forward widespread proposed reforms following the establishment of an advisory group, and a summit later in the year.
So, yeah, we will most likely see the removal later. It just seems to be NZ1st waiting to do the full package rather than doing it piece meal. They do have a point in that doing the full package will most likely result in better overall legislation but leaving the Three Strikes as is is a bad idea.
“Sanity prevails on 3 strikes”
Well, it’s politically sane but criminologically insane.
We just have to accept that the vindictiveness of Kiwis makes doing the right thing politically impossible. We aren’t prepared to leave it to the judge’s discretion but want maximum vengeance extracted even if it’s disproportionate.
Have to say I am baffled by this aspect of our national psyche – agreeable enough on the surface, but some dark sh*t going on underneath.
When this sort of crap goes on, I give up on politics for a while and work in the garden or go for a walk (easy for me as I’m not the one taking the hit).
It would be very kind of the Capitalists if they would explain why more and more money goes to fewer and fewer people under the Capitalist Cult.
I have asked and asked this question but it produces no response from the little chaps on here that hate the people who do the real work in Aotearoa.
Before the Capitalist Cult here got so completely selfish and glutunous, people used to be able to buy a non leaky non mouldy 3 bedroom home on a single salary. But the Gosman and James lot has done away with that.
Ummm… did you follow the links to the data on that post you linked to? That also backs up my view that nothing much has changed overall for the past 20 years. LIS (which is what you are referencing essentially) is about the same as it was 20 years ago. It certainly hasn’t got a lot worse. Once again thanks for providing info that backs MY view up. 🙂
LIS (which is what you are referencing essentially) is about the same as it was 20 years ago. It certainly hasn’t got a lot worse.
The LIS dropping from 65% to 55% is it getting a lot worse with it showing, quite clearly, that more and more of the money is going to fewer and fewer people.
No the LIS seems to have stabilised around the 55 to 60% mark over the past 20 years. It certainly isn’t moving down on a sustained basis which is what you generally bang on about Draco.
Of course your not. That would prove that you’re lying by picking dates that almost make it look like what’s happening isn’t happening.
As the people at the top own more they have more of the income. That’s how capitalism works. That’s why it always creates poverty and eventually collapses society.
Society simply cannot work where a few people own everything.
For some really good news today. https://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/104583866/wellington-regions-transmission-gully-project-hits-halfway-mark
We’ve only been waiting for about 55 years.
I’ll bet all the Wellington based Labour MPs will be pressuring the NZTA to schedule an opening ceremony before the 2020 election, regardless of the point the construction has reached, so that they can claim how the building the road was all due to their efforts and how wonderful they all are.
Those with good memories will of course be saying
“Thank you, Stephen Joyce”.
Joyce and English had an ‘early opening’ for the Waterview Tunnels in spite of the project getting its go ahead in 2008 before the election.
Joyce famously pulled the plug on ‘tunnels’ and forced them to go back to trenches and bridges before sanity prevailed and the Construction companies said it would consume all of NZs construction resources, so back to tunnels all the way it was but bigger and more expensive.
“Joyce and English had an ‘early opening’ for the Waterview Tunnels”.
Such a thing doesn’t surprise me in the slightest. They were politicians after all.
There is a general rule for politicians.
Take total credit for everything that is popular, even if it was all the work of your opponents.
Blame your opponents for anything unpopular, even if they had nothing to do with it.
I admit that I have never commented on the subject of the Waterview Tunnel. My total knowledge of the thing is that it is in Auckland. I think it is South of the Bridge and North of the Airport. I have no idea at all what road it is on or where that road goes. To a resident of Wellington it is irrelevant.
I have a distinct interest in the road that runs North from Wellington though. I only hope that they continue the work up to Levin. I travel that route you see. The Kapiti Expressway, which is finished, is great.
An excellent choice.
I must advise you though that I am taller and much better looking than Arnold. Better teeth too.
The muscular frame is about right though. Of course I never used steroids.
I should note that my full name is “Alwyn Modest XXXXXX”.
Do the residents know how much the tolls will be.
And will they find a monster traffic jam once they arrive at the existing SH1 motorway just before Tawa ?
Transmission Gully is supposed to be more earthquake proof than the existing road, but of course the gully it travels up is an existing fault line and lots of buildings that were built under new earthquake codes have been found to be a low standard. Steep slopes are almost impossible to engineer against major earthquakes
Total “hate in” today on the standard. So much fun. Good to see apologist joining in the fun as well, can always trust the so called moderate liberals to join the Tories.
I imagine you’re pissing yourself with laughter Goz.
We have a state (i.e. tex payer FUNDED) public broadcaster – albeit with one or two stacked hack appointees (going forward). The keyword ‘service’ that is increasingly being lost amid the neoliberal religion/dogma/faith
Then, as an alternative, people in the ‘non-state’ private sector who profess an alternate view. There, we have corporate funded media (albeit, at times with financial bailouts from Tex Payer – because, well you know…..business is deserving of welfare, whereas taxpayer-funded public beneficiaries are undeserving – even though they’re providing the filthy mullah).
Gatekeepers in both. Both with agendas
Feel free to laugh your arse off. In both cases, we’ve lost the ability to differentiate between a Public and its interests, (and the financial imperatives of a ‘State’ that professes to represent that public), and the Corporation which only has a financial interest in providing a return to their shareholders and who will do whatever to protect it.
Shame when it all goes tits up eh?
And when it does, do we give any credibility to the corporate interest(s), or to an alternative that at the very least provides up with an opportunity once in a while to tell them to fuck off.
Btw, aren’t you due to clock off about now?
In response to Gos somewhere above – again, one of those little ‘bugs’
Not really.
She managed to forget the methmyth bullshit squarely landing at the nats’ door, and drawn out by collins.
And Bolger heading up the Fair Pay Agreement working group.
But if winning a safe seat with a much reduced majority gets them “fizzing”, the day that side of the House do something exceptional they’ll be a major explosive hazard.
They all do @TT. I made the mistake of watching Max Headroom live from Singapore, with Corin Dann as a sidekick-cum-expert-sage on ONE News. You know…. “Your News” or whatever it is these days. Already, after a couple of days, apparently they’re already also experts in the local surroundings.
May I say though, (for the celebrity pages) that Max Headroom is looking incredibly more silver-haired these days, and perhaps even a little gaunt. And, and, and, and!! Corin’s suit was looking a little rumpled. In fact it looked eggsekly like the one he was wearing yesterday. Ew!
Back to the sensible Wendy’s in the studio for some reality and some other news.
Btw @TT- do you know if Max Headroom and Corin are dressed by Barkers or Hallensteins.
I noticed Max had a rather gorgeous looking fitted white shirt going forward.
I did rather like the way he presented himself in the style of the BBC reporters that fronted overnight as well. Well done Max!
We all have memories of nine bitter miserable years of total hardsjhip for 99% while the one percent enriched themselves on the hardship of the poor and defenceless.
Now a better future of fairness awaits as the share of our wealth is being redistributed amongst us all.
I have good feelings life now has some promise and hope.
you are enjoying the ‘National Party ilussion of better times for all’ it appears.
you appear to suffer from blindness, and was insulated from reality!!!!!!
When pictures of people being evicted from their homes while those state house s were given for peanuts to national’s supporting mates to make a killing on the speculative property market and left those families homless and shivering to death in abandoned cars or on streets so did you care?
I did seriously feel very sad to see the carnage National mettered out on the poor & sick and older folk suffering along with the homeless.
No i am not enjoying any nat illusions, and i do care a lot for people, just laughing at the idiotic stuff you write. “Total hardship” for “99%”. No, there is just nothing but derision that i can offer in response.
This article from the Australia ABC News website might of interest for those why it’s been wetter than usual in parts of NZ aka West Coast of both Islands and parts of the Deep South. As all the Australian autumn rains aren’t hitting its usual areas in mainland Australia, but have moved further Sth an usual hitting parts of Tassie, Southern Victoria and of course NZ.
Propagandists Not Journalists
Exhibit 2: HERBERT BUCHSBAUM of the New York Times
It surely does not surprise that the Times provides yeoman’s service for Israeli hasbara. Indeed, one reads Times coverage not to be better informed but from quaint curiosity: How will it filter the damning facts to make them more palatable to its target audience on the Upper East Side?
What happened is not in doubt. As the young woman, dressed in her white medical uniform and with her hands raised in the air, approached an injured protester, she was shot dead by an Israeli sniper.
A few days later, Israeli hasbara released a video purporting to show that al-Najjar was a Hamas dupe and Hamas human shield. The video contained a clip from a past interview in which she is quoted as saying: “I am here on the front line and I act as a human shield.” In fact, the Israeli video falsified al-Najjar’s words. Her actual statement was: “I’m acting as a human rescue shield to protect the injured inside the armistice line.”
If there was a news story here, it should have been headlined, “Israel Releases Doctored Video to Justify Murder of Gaza Paramedic.”
But Times reporter Herbert Buchsbaum instead deployed the Israeli video to sow doubt on the incontrovertible facts (“Israeli Video Portrays Medic Killed in Gaza as Hamas Tool,” 7 June). Even as it shocks and disgusts, still, this second assassination of Razan al-Najjar fits the standard Times template….
“A promised funding boost for RNZ was the centrepiece of Labour’s broadcasting policy during last year’s election, but it will have to wait.
RNZ will have to wait longer to find out whether it will get a funding boost and how much that will be.
However, Broadcasting Minister Clare Curran said the Government was still committed to increasing annual funding for public media by at least $38 million during its first term.
The Government disappointed lobby group Better Public Media by setting aside only $15m in the Budget this year to pay for initiatives “to support the contribution of public media to an informed democracy”.
Curran said it had not been possible for the Government to do everything it wanted in one budget.
A decision is expected within weeks on how much of the $15m might go to RNZ, and how much might be allocated to other media companies for other initiatives through NZ On Air.”
Clare Curran needs to be removed now from her Broadcasting portfolio as she is irresponsible and is damaging the government now.
Curran has harmed labour, for all the loss of labour policy of presenting a fair free independent platform for the public to hear and respond to ant issues yet as the other media portals are not giving us public any coverage on any TV networks and only region newspapers are giving us any coverage but RNZ or no other TV networks are giving us our public voice so far in the first year of the new government operation of the media.
Labour have truly missed the chance to give us a fair free independent news and current affairs public media yet so their issues are not being aired in a fair manner still because RNZ is run by National and the rest of the media are owned by corporations so labour have not given us their promised “fair, free independent public media as they promised last year.
RNZ is effectively “a propaganda machine for the national Party” and has their own CEO Paul Thompson in 2013 who is still running this publicly funded and biased media portal.
Good morning Newshub the trump scenario show me is its not the media and move and sport stars who can win a election.
Its the common people of America who are sick and tired of being ripped off so if anyone offers something different and sturs up the racial pot you get trump.
In America if a common uninsured person break there leg there goes $20.000
You’re stuffed and scenario like that are happening all over America.
So the big picture is look after all the people not just the wealthy or you are going to end up in the shit.
Our meat consumption is already going down because its too expensive now the reason ECO MAORI is against this no meat campaign is because I see it as a attack by stealth on our small family farms by big businesses on the small family farm we have a lot of family owned farms in Aotearoa big businesses just throw money at different ainty meat campaigns and walla everyone is against protein.
I see your m8 whos joyces m8 thinks he can out wit ECO MAORI in the end he will be crying under his bed.
With the 3 strike fail this show me that people in the justice system will do anything to get there way even cheat just like national releaseing information just before a vote on the law changes.
Ka kite ano
There you go some idiot trying to make a mauna out of a mile hill everyone new months ago that Winston Peters was suing people for breaches to his privacy. Why not sue the state services commissioner just because he has that job doesn’t mean he is squeaky clean far from it ECO MAORI say Ana to kai. I see the big man of basketball has similar views on some very good people of Papatuanukue Ka pai
Ka kite ano P.S Jacinda Winston will be fine he has a safe pair of hands.
The sandflys are still wasting their time on ECO MAORI it’s so easy to read all there move that’s for the cup tool belt and the power segestion of the hand man van idiots subliminal messageing only works on – – – – – -.
Look like red head lost his marbles last week Ana to kai tangata Ka kite ano
I see that trump has done the right thing with North Korea Ka pai.
I no that a lot of – – – drivers know of ECO MAORI most of use are tangata whenua ki kaha tangata now I know that the sandflys are never going to leave ECO MAORI alone thats the price I have to pay to inform the people about the corruption of our state services so be it at least the crime rate is going down
As I expected. I still have to thank the Honourable Winston Peters for Crowning Jacinda and forming a Labour lead coalition government many thanks Winston. Enjoy your time as Prime Minister if our society was not so racist it would have happened years ago
Ka kite ano
There you go ECO MAORI m8 ring a ambulance to the Auckland port for asicid burnes and 1 hour later and no ambulance the sandflys interfacing muppets its no me that is burnt
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Jacinda Ardern had an outsized impact on New Zealand’s international relations. While all Prime Ministers travel internationally, Ardern’s calendar was fuller than most. Ardern’s first major foreign trip came within weeks of her election in 2017, to the APEC summit in Vietnam. The meeting gave Ardern her first in-person encounter ...
She gave it her all. No New Zealand Prime Minister has ever dominated the political scene at home as she has done, or has established an international profile to match hers. No New Zealand Prime Minister has had to confront such a sequence of domestic and international catastrophes – from ...
Jacinda Ardern's shock resignation announcement today has left a lot of us with a lot of complicated feelings. In my case, while I've been highly critical of Ardern's government, I'm still sorry to see her go. We've had far too many terrible things happen during her term as Prime Minister ...
The decision by Jacinda Ardern to end her term as Prime Minister on February 7 has come as a stunning surprise. It turns the task of a centre-left government winning re-election this year from difficult to nigh on impossible. No-one else among the Labour caucus has Ardern’s ability to explain ...
Jacinda Ardern’s first press conference as Labour leader in August 2017 was a defining moment in the past decade of New Zealand politics. A young woman (by the standards of politics) who had long been tipped for higher office, she had underperformed as a minister and Andrew Little’s noble resignation ...
An Astonishing Rapport: Jacinda Ardern's "Politics of Kindness" raised so many progressive possibilities. Her own tragedy, and New Zealand's, is that so few of them were realised.MUCH WILL BE WRITTEN in the coming days about "The Ardern Years", some of it sympathetic and insightful, most of it spiteful and wrong.For ...
The Herald this morning reports on the rich's efforts to buy this year's election. And you'll never guess who their chosen vehicle is: The National Party may start election year with a $2.3 million war chest raised from 24 big donors in 2022, while Labour has declared just $150,000 ...
Christopher Luxon’s National Party are the odds-on favourites to win the general election this year. They have been consistently ahead of Labour in the polls in recent months, and have a firm coalition partner in Act, which is often polling about 10 per cent. Betting agencies can’t take bets on ...
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Sarah Wesseler You walk into your kitchen to make pasta. After filling a pot with water, you place a small silicone mat in the middle of your counter, then set the pot above it and open a stovetop app on your phone. ...
You know it as well as I, the famous Ring Verse from The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien: Three Rings for the Elven Kings under the sky Seven for the Dwarf Lords in their halls of stone Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die One ...
The Herald has an annual roundup of electric vehicle stats this morning, and it shows us that the government's clean-car-discount - which sees buyers of dirty vehicles pay to subsidies purchases of clean ones - has been a hugely successful policy: New Zealand broke two records for electric vehicles ...
She’s Such A Scream! The Prime Minister’s enemies, those who want us to hate her, suffer from the not insubstantial handicap of being more than a little hateful themselves. Rendered nonsensical by their unwavering belief in the most absurd conspiracy theories, and dangerous by their relentless peddling of fake news ...
Me, Myself, Eye: The great irony of individualism is that the nearer humanity comes to the point where every person can make their own life, the more doubtful many intellectuals become of its merit. But, before embracing the moral oblivion of collective identity; and the strictures of tribal tradition, they ...
Ever since Christopher Luxon became leader, National has adopted a “small target” strategy. This consists of offering nothing to distract the media from its focus on the government’s shortcomings and the public’s discontent with its performance. In particular, the strategy involves releasing no policy alternatives whose own failings might then ...
Japan is a country on the move. Since World War II, Tokyo has largely been happy to outsource its security needs to Washington. But this is now changing to a more equal partnership. On Friday, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida called his country’s alliance with the United States ‘stronger than ...
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week: Sun, Jan 8, 2023 thru Sat, Jan 14, 2023. Story of the Week Relentless Rise of Ocean Heat Content Drives Deadly ExtremesThe heat of global warming will keep penetrating deeper into the oceans ...
The two most comprehensive forecasts of the New Zealand economy are by the Reserve Bank and the Treasury. They are especially important because they inform monetary and fiscal policy. What do they say?Shortly after the Reserve Bank and Treasury published their end-of-year forecasts, Statistics New Zealand announced a 2.0 percent ...
On Tuesday, the Herald broke the news of a massive increase in ANPR surveillance by police, from mere dozens of uses in 2020 to thousands in 2022, and that police had lied in their internal documentation when they said the system was audited to ensure use was legal. And today ...
There’s the joke that the difference between the Victorians and our current era is that the Victorians were obsessed with Death and acted as though Sex didn’t exist, whereas current modernity is the other way around. It’s not actually true, of course, but it’s still amusing. Today, I’m going ...
The next recession is shaping up as the most predicted event since the Second Coming. While we have to take it on faith that it will arrive someday, it is hard to say when it will happen, or how great/how bad it will be if and when it ever does. ...
I was going to write about something else to start off the KP year but current events have intruded in the form of the craziness surrounding the selection of US House Speaker and the storming of the Brazilian seats of power (Congress, the Supreme Court and Presidential Palace) by (so-called ...
Stuff reports that Tasman Steel - the latest name for what used to be NZ Steel - made a $340 million profit last year. The kicker? $117 million of that was from government pollution subsidies: New Zealand Steel’s holding company Tasman Steel increased its profit by 153% to a ...
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Bob Henson and Jeff Masters A series of Pacific storms that’s taken aim on California since late December is on track to continue into mid-January. Ferocious winds will slam much of the state on Wednesday and Thursday, accompanied by heavy rain likely ...
In this article from the website Radicalism of Fools Daniel Ben-Ami looks at some of the limitations of the new anti-racism movement One of the key tasks I have set myself this year is to examine the arguments around anti-Semitism in more depth. That is both those used by anti-Semites ...
For wealthier New Zealanders and Australians, Fiji is just one option among many for their tourism resort experiences, poolside. Obviously, the country amounts to a lot more to the people who actually live there. It also happens to be the Pacific’s key diplomatic listening post, the home of the Pacific ...
What is it with Prince Harry?. Most of us would probably acknowledge that he has a legitimate cause for complaint at the way he and his wife have been treated by the British media. But there is more to it than that. Harry seems to harbour resentment against the media ...
One of the most popular moves Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern ever made was the pay freeze her government imposed on politicians back in 2018. The freeze may have only been grudgingly agreed to by other MPs and parties, but it had universal public support. The pay freeze is due to ...
Two years ago, supporters of failed presidential candidate Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol in an attempt to overthrow America's democracy and overturn the results of an election they had lost. And today, just a few days after the anniversary of that event, supporters of Trump's ally Jair Bolsonaro did ...
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week: Sun, Jan 1, 2023 thru Sat, Jan 7, 2023. Story of the Week Scientists Report a Dramatic Drop in the Extent of Antarctic Sea Ice Links between global warming and the decline of sea ...
About half an hour ago, I became a very happy writer. My long-running effort at writing a sequel to Wise Phuul has finally borne fruit. Specifically, the draft manuscript for Old Phuul – starring Teltö’s elder sister, Rhea Phuul – is now complete at 102,172 words. This ...
The Green Party has a habit of sabotaging their election-year campaigns, risking electoral oblivion. Could the same thing happen in 2023? The last two election campaigns were particularly painful for the party. In 2017 then co-leader Metiria Turei had her story about her past as a welfare beneficiary unravel during ...
Open access notables In Conservation Biology, snapshots of two books that will probably launch a lot of objections, one by Vaclav Smil and the other yet more Bill Gates. Two doses of carbon budget realism review author Vojtech Novotny sums them up: "Sober assessments of our options for reducing carbon emissions in ...
Pundits have been making their political forecasts for the year ahead. Here are some of their predictions about what we can expect in 2023. The Big issues of 2023: Economy and ethnicity There’s a consensus that the political year, and especially the election campaign, will centre around the economy, with ...
I watched this movie three times in two days so you wouldn’t have to (but should anyway, it’s exquisite). You should definitely watch it at least once before reading this even if you don’t care about spoilers because most of this doesn’t give much context. Note “Children ...
Members of Parliament for the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand have today written to Iran’s Grand Ayatollah Khamenei to condemn the ongoing violence and killing of women’s rights and democracy protesters, and to call on him to intervene immediately. ...
The 2023 General Election will be held on Saturday 14 October 2023, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced today. “Announcing the election date early in the year provides New Zealanders with certainty and has become the practice of this Government and the previous one, and I believe is best practice,” Jacinda ...
Jacinda Ardern has announced she will step down as Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party. Her resignation will take effect on the appointment of a new Prime Minister. A caucus vote to elect a new Party Leader will occur in 3 days’ time on Sunday the 22nd of ...
The Government is maintaining its strong trade focus in 2023 with Trade and Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor visiting Europe this week to discuss the role of agricultural trade in climate change and food security, WTO reform and New Zealand agricultural innovation. Damien O’Connor will travel tomorrow to Switzerland to attend the ...
The Government has extended its medium-scale classification of Cyclone Hale to the Wairarapa after assessing storm damage to the eastern coastline of the region. “We’re making up to $80,000 available to the East Coast Rural Support Trust to help farmers and growers recover from the significant damage in the region,” ...
The Government is making an initial contribution of $150,000 to the Mayoral Relief Fund to help communities in Tairāwhiti following ex-Tropical Cyclone Hale, Minister for Emergency Management Kieran McAnulty announced. “While Cyclone Hale has caused widespread heavy rain, flooding and high winds across many parts of the North Island, Tairāwhiti ...
Rural Communities Minister Damien O’Connor has classified this week’s Cyclone Hale that caused significant flood damage across the Tairāwhiti/Gisborne District as a medium-scale adverse event, unlocking Government support for farmers and growers. “We’re making up to $100,000 available to help coordinate efforts as farmers and growers recover from the heavy ...
A vaccine for people at risk of mpox (Monkeypox) will be available if prescribed by a medical practitioner to people who meet eligibility criteria from Monday 16 January, says Associate Minister of Health Dr Ayesha Verrall. 5,000 vials of the vaccine have been obtained, enough for up to 20,000 ...
The Government is seeking feedback on measures to help reduce the number of young people vaping. “Youth vaping is becoming increasingly popular, with many choosing to vape despite never having smoked,” Associate Health Minister Dr Ayesha Verrall said. “Alongside our efforts to reduce tobacco smoking, we want to ensure vaping ...
The Government is reiterating its advice to all international travellers to do a Covid test if they become symptomatic after arrival, while also stepping up awareness of free RATs available at airports, Covid-19 Response Minister Dr Ayesha Verrall says. “This follows growing global concerns, including from the World Health Organisation ...
Some major (to some of you, anyway) news that understandably got buried during the flurry at the end of last week: M3GAN will officially have a sequel. The comedy-horror film was helmed by New Zealand’s own Gerard Johnstone, with local young actress Amie Donald in the starring role as killer ...
Chris Hipkins has revealed he had a bit of forewarning that the prime minister was considering her future. It came as a shock to many when Jacinda Ardern announced she would be stepping down as PM on Thursday last week. While she formally told her caucus earlier that day, Hipkins, ...
New statistics reveal that nearly 40% of Pasifika people live in a home that’s short on bedrooms. Sela Jane Hopgood takes you into her overcrowded family home and asks whether it’s large extended families that are the problem.It’s no secret in Aotearoa that the majority of Pasifika people come ...
While we wait for sensible drug law reform, we can thank our lucky stars for the NZ Drug Foundation and the lifesaving – or at the very least, bad-trip-preventing – work they do testing drugs at music festivals. Aotearoa’s summers are typically marked by an influx of sketchy party drugs ...
National party leader Christopher Luxon responded to the news of Labour’s leadership change by saying that the new prime minister has been part of a government which has not delivered. Speaking to media yesterday, Luxon said he sent his congratulations to the new PM by text. “There is not change, it is ...
Dr Bryce Edwards writes: The days of the Labour Government being associated with middle class social liberalism look to be numbered. Soon-to-be Prime Minister Chris Hipkins and Deputy Prime Minister Carmel Sepuloni are heralding a major shift in emphasis away from the constituencies and ideologies of liberal Grey ...
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards. Political Roundup: Labour shifts focus from Grey Lynn to West AucklandChris Hipkins, Minister of Education, speaking at NZEI Te Riu Roa strike rally on the steps of the New Zealand Parliament, 15th August 2018. Then, Labour Party deputy leader Kelvin Davis looks on. Image; Wiki ...
Chris Hipkins as doubled down on his intentions to rein in government projects and “run a ruler” over the work programme. It’s the day after Hipkins was officially voted in as Labour Party leader and presumptive prime minister. He’ll officially be sworn in on Wednesday, following attendance – alongside Jacinda ...
Yesterday’s press conference from Chris Hipkins sent some very clear signals as New Zealand’s new prime minister hits the ground running this week, writes Anna Rawhiti-Connell in this excerpt from The Bulletin. To receive The Bulletin in full each weekday morning, sign up here. Chris Hipkins, prime minister ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alice Clement, Research Associate in the College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University Elia Pellegrini/Unsplash Many of us are returning to work or school after spending time with relatives over the summer period. Sometimes we can be left wondering how on ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Duncan McDonnell, Professor of Politics, Griffith University Shutterstock The Liberal Party’s recently published review of the 2022 federal election defeat does not mince words: the party has a problem with women. The party has struggled to connect with women voters in ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joshua Trigg, Research Fellow in Public Health, Flinders University Olena Bohovyk/Pexels You’ve dropped your daughter off at her friend’s house and while cleaning the car, you find what looks like a USB drive on the passenger seat. It’s a disposable vape. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ivor Stuart, Fisheries ecologist, Charles Sturt University Ivor Stuart/The Conversation With widespread La Niña flooding in the Murray-Darling Basin, common carp (Cyprinus carpio) populations are having a boom year. Videos of writhing masses of both adult and young fish illustrate ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jim Stanford, Economist and Director, Centre for Future Work, Australia Institute; Honorary Professor of Political Economy, University of Sydney A long overdue public debate has started in Australia about “free riding” in industrial relations – when non-union members benefit from collective agreements ...
The Labour Party has entered a new era with the election of Chris Hipkins as prime minister and Carmel Sepuloni as his deputy, writes Jane Patterson. ...
The stand-off continues, a petition is underway and one expert is fired up. The abandoned trolley situation appears to be worse than anyone realised. Ellen Schindler has a good life. From her Sandringham home, she doesn’t work, instead spending most of her time volunteering at local organisations and tending to ...
On Wednesday a new prime minister will be sworn in, but he promises to have hit the ground running already. And the tone was palpably reset yesterday, writes Toby Manhire from parliament.When parties vote in a new leader, there is sometimes a push to fill the stage with MPs, ...
By Rashika Kumar in Suva Fijian national, jurist and lawyer Imrana Jalal has been awarded the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Medal of Honour by the World Jurists Association. The award is given in recognition of inspiring women jurists who fight to defend and strengthen the rule of law, and to consolidate ...
By Pekai Kotoisuva in Suva Arriving late to court, poor court etiquette and lack of respect are signs that the level of ethics among Fiji lawyers has dropped over the years, says the Attorney-General. Attorney-General Siromi Turaga highlighted this during a panel discussion at the Fiji Law Society (FLS) convention ...
A former intelligence worker says the PM faces an "unprecedented level of threat," driven by the enroachment of US-style politics and conspiracies. ...
The Labour Party has leapt on board the meme-wagon by offering up for auction the cap and sunglasses worn by Chris Hipkins in the interview with Newshub’s Amelia Wade on the streets of Napier Friday morning. It quickly went viral, mostly because of an ensemble that, if nothing else, confirmed ...
The new leader of the Labour Party has asked New Zealanders to respect his family's privacy as he prepares to be sworn-in as New Zealand's 41st prime minister next week. ...
New Zealand has a new deputy prime minister. What’s her deal? New prime minister Chris Hipkins has confirmed that Carmel Sepuloni will take up the role of deputy prime minister. Here’s the backstory. New Zealand’s first Pasifika deputy prime minister Sepuloni has a Sāmoan-Tongan father and Pākehā mother. She has ...
Te Pāti Māori co-leaders Rawiri Waititi and Debbie Ngarewa-Packer have expressed disappointment that tangata whenua were “overlooked” in the deciding and naming of the new prime minister and deputy prime minister. At 3pm, Chris Hipkins said that he was unanimously supported by Labour’s caucus and confirmed Carmel Sepuloni as the ...
Incoming prime minister Chris Hipkins and new deputy PM Carmel Sepuloni are promising to rein in some government programs that are less "essential", after quickly establishing their new leadership team. ...
"New leader, same story," says National party leader Christopher Luxon after Chris Hipkins and Carmel Sepuloni were confirmed as the new prime minister and deputy today. ...
LIVE Incoming prime minister Chris Hipkins says his new role is the biggest privilege, and responsibility, of his life. Chris Hipkins has today been confirmed as New Zealand’s 41st prime minister, pending the official resignation of Jacinda Ardern in the coming days. Speaking to media, flanked by his new deputy ...
Chris Hipkins and Carmel Sepuloni are set to give their first press conference since being confirmed as incoming prime minister and deputy. The pair were voted into their new positions by Labour’s caucus at a closed doors meeting earlier this afternoon. Hipkins was the only nominee for the position of ...
Welcome to a special Sunday edition of The Spinoff’s live updates as we mark the confirmation of New Zealand’s next prime minister: Chris Hipkins. Stewart Sowman-Lund is on deck from Auckland, with Toby Manhire on the ground in Wellington. Get in touch at [email protected] ...
While there will be a new deputy prime minister, Labour’s current party deputy – Kelvin Davis – will remain in the role. In a slightly unusual turn, Labour opted to differentiate the roles of deputy prime minister and deputy party leader after the 2020 election. Davis’s role was confirmed by ...
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Prime minister-to-be Chris Hipkins has arrived at parliament, joined by outgoing leader Jacinda Ardern. The pair were cheered on by their Labour caucus colleagues as they entered a closed doors meeting at parliament. Here are the all important timings for today. We’ll have coverage from on the ground in Wellington ...
A look back at the horror stories Erin Harrington devoured as a tween reveals some unsettling truths.A while ago I was digging through the musty outdoor book fridge on Kilmore Street – take one, leave one, don’t be messy – when I felt something like a snag, a little ...
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Analysis - While Chris Hipkins is all but confirmed as our next prime minister, there is less certainty in the race to be his deputy. Newsroom's Sam Sachdeva looks at the factors the next Labour leader will need to consider, and some of t ...
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First up with Guyon. Simon with a plethora of negative comments against Labour. No wonder people still think nats in charge.
I no longer listen to Morning Report.
Espiner is another paid puppet and a collaborator of the neoliberal regime.
History will not be kind to such traitors.
Are ya going to kill him once you have your revolution?
I could imagine Ed being the type to encourage dissent and protest, from the sidelines of course and not actually participating in it himself
What I find doubly hilarious is that they have a State controlled Public broadcaster and it is still not enough for some lefties. I am sure these people won’t be happy until they have a state appointed editorial board which will review the days output to ensure no “political bias” is present.
I’ve long thought that if people on the left and right are complaining about media then the media are probably doing what they ought to be doing
@Gosman
You would have to go back about 80 years to find exactly that situation in New Zealand.
The State had taken control of all the radio stations once the Labour Government came to power in 1935. In the late 1930s the radio news bulletin was written in the PMs office and had to be broadcast exactly as it was written.
“In 1937 Prime Minister Michael Joseph Savage set up an Official News Service, under which all radio news bulletins were to be compiled and issued from the Prime Minister’s Department. Radio news only became largely independent of political control with the establishment of the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation (NZBC) in 1962.”
https://teara.govt.nz/en/media-and-politics/print
Those were the days, my friend. Don’t you think that the current lot would like to do exactly the same thing again?
Cleangreen at 1.1.2 just below certainly seems to think so.
I know we joke about it but that sounds like something Stalin and *nope not going to say it* would have been proud of
The political control of radio stations existed before labour won in 1935
“On the night of 24 November 1935, radio engineers employed by the Post and Telegraph Department deliberately jammed a popular religious programme by Colin Scrimgeour, commonly known as ‘Uncle Scrim’, just as he started to talk about the upcoming election. The engineers had been instructed to do so by their superior, on the grounds that Scrimgeour was likely to urge his listeners to vote for Labour…
same link as yours Alwyn
Of course nationals influence in the major newspapers continued till the 90s
FTFY
Ed I agree withyou entirely.
It apppears now that RNZ has now been ‘capured’ by the corporate interests entirely’ and is now a spin doctor for their own whim and to kill off the new Labour/NZF/Greens coalition.
Labour needs to take control of this renigade public service media now before they suffer election defeat again.
How has it been captured by corporate interests and why is John Campbell still there if this was the case?
Obviously John Campbell isn’t left enough, mind you he is one of the one percent…
I wonder how left wing you would have to be to be acceptable to some people here. Are we talking John Pilger or merely Kim Hill level.
What gets me is if you listen to some of the commentators on here (fortunately the minority) its almost as if they want NZ to be part of the USA, they want the proletariat to rise up and smash the capitalist state, they want NZ to break free from…what exactly
Whereas if NZ really was like how they want or imagine it to be then benefits would be cut, there’d be virtually no state housing, hospitals would have no supplies etc etc
I’d say its almost like rebels without a cause but more like rebels without a clue
NZ is a great place to live and while, for some, its not so good its also a place where you can make something of yourself if you’re willing to apply yourself
“NZ is a great place to live and while, for some, its not so good its also a place where you can make something of yourself if you’re willing to apply yourself”
If you really believe that I’d suggest you’re very much inwards looking. It can be a great place if you were born into a middle class household and wanted for nothing while you grew up. For those born on struggle street, not so much.
I was born into a working class family but yes i do admit to having the advantage of having two parents that loved me and tried to do their best for me
However I still, and will always, stand by the comment that NZ is one of the best places in the world to be born in
Best place for who? As a generalisation you could be right but that means little to those who don’t fit the profile.
Can also be said it’s one the best places to be born poor but that still doesn’t make it right.
The problem is you have the naive and gullible posters on here who actually believe that NZ is one of the worst places on earth because of what others post on here and then post absolutely ridiculous things like charging people with treason and vague implications like up against the wall
When Labour was in opposition it was all about how bad NZ was and how only Labour could fix it, you think in the 2020 Labour will still say how bad NZ is or did Labour somehow fix all the problems in three years
Nope it’ll be how good NZ is and any problems will be because of National
and yes I’m well aware National did it as well
I think you’ll find most leftist commenters here haven’t been talking about how Labour will fix everything.
A few will hate Labour as tory splitters, no matter what, and actually prefer national governments in the theory that enough tory rule will lead to revolution (of whatever level of violence, depending on how their swaggering boasts measure up against their timidity and introspection).
Some view Labour as the least-worst option, a temporary slight respite between regressive national governments.
Some think the correct machination or whinge will turn Labour into a party that will just wipe the slate clean and rewrite all the laws for a socialist paradise.
Others, like me, tend to agree with Labour’s incrementalist approach, wary of whether it will continue but generally approving of the measures so far, and hopeful the Greens will keep pushing Labour left.
But I’m not sure even the most active Labour supporters here argue that Labour will solve everything, especially this term.
“But I’m not sure even the most active Labour supporters here argue that Labour will solve everything, especially this term.”
I agree, its the “Labours not left enough” types that tend to say the most…interesting comments
Nah. The ones who are so far into youtube channels that they end up supporting trump, putin, AND arguing that Labour are filthy tory swine. Those are the ones I wouldn’t be surprised reading about in the newspaper.
Your average revolutionary socialist becomes decidedly incrementalist as soon as they have a kid and a mortgage (one reason home ownership rates are an important measure of social stability, IMO).
The ones who can read the matrix as it scrolls by and never learned about playing well with others are the ones who can’t deal with the fact that people have different opinions, and it’s the degree of difference that means you can’t work with them (not the simple existence of a differing opinion).
Unfortunately there are as likely an equal number (if not more) of “passionate” conservatives to balance out the lefties
lol occasionally they seem to end up being the same folks. Sigh.
I don’t see that as a problem here PR. Every forum has its soapbox sopranos and you’ve been around long enought to realise they only speak for themselves.
At least on this site many attempt to walk in other people’s shoes. We may not always get it right, but we make the effort. The likes of Kiwiblog are inhabited by curled lip sneerers which doesn’t make it a pleasant place.
If you are a low class brown person living in South Auckland with parents on the benefit or minimum wages it can sometimes be a different story ?
Just keepin’ it smug there puckers.
PR and Gos should get their own blog as they clearly have alot to say to each other whereas most of the others here DNFTT.
+100% I wish they would f off and set up their own blog as i have to scribe down the page to try to find some sensible comments, they have got more time and money than they have sense and now we have another clown come along Baby Gaga whoever the f he is ?
You been huffing cheese burgers again Ed?
Well said Ed. You have a troll trifecta already.
Have we got the Troll Trifecta already today I wonder if we can get the Troll Pick Six today by 12.00am, we need to flush out babygaga and the rest of their cronies
Ed – you open yourself up to easy hits and RW trolling by making such OTT statements.
Fact is:
– Any ‘collaboration’ by Espiner is pretty much unconscious on his part and complex in its origins and manifestations
– None of us knows what history will do to any of us. We live inside history.
I am assuming you are genuine, but overwrought – rather than a caricature of a lefty intentionally designed to provide trolling opportunities to others
Just to follow on from this (I agree with you by the way) there are some posters on here that can actually convince me that maybe I could think of things in a slightly different way
I won’t name their names so as not to embarrass them (*cough cough Kewa and Gobert Ruyton) but the way they can convince me is not by hyperbole and emotional arguments but by reason and logic and by focusing on single issue arguments
But thats just me
Espiner’s brain is very regimented and programmed he can not think laterally.
So, no different from the RWNJs here on TS where there hardly is a coherent comment in sight, just negativity and self-absorbed gibberish. That said, here on TS they don’t get away with it while the MSM feeds (on) the negativity of National politicians and their rowdy supporters.
A coherent comment such as the following do you mean?
“Espiner is another paid puppet and a collaborator of the neoliberal regime.”
I think that statement is completely coherent.
It might be crazy but it is crazy in a coherent way.
If you want something that is crazy in an incoherent way I would suggest an example such as this sentence.
” That said, here on TS they don’t get away with it while the MSM feeds (on) the negativity of National politicians and their rowdy supporters.”
Point taken alwyn.
It is hard to distinguish between crazy and incoherent comments from some lefties here.
The crucial difference is that the equivalent characters on the right are seen as Cabinet material. Collins, Bennett, etc etc, and we wait to see who will be your latest Capill or Titford.
A couple of mature kunikuni’s.
We’re Capill and/or Titford ever part of ‘mainstream’ political parties ?
Clark Titman (not Titford) was a member of the National Party. It would be fair to say many Nats were not very happy about it. Those were the days of Keith Holyoake, Jack Marshall, Brian Talboys and others… mostly well regarded politicians across the board – if a little too conservative for my liking.
Capill was leader of the Christian Heritage Party which didn’t survive the scandal of course.
What evidence do you have that he really was a member of the National Party?
It is of course quite possible. At the time the National Party had a membership of more than 250,000 I believe.
On the other hand why would any of the leaders care in the slightest about some low-level member?
It appears I got the wrong Tit – man.
However to answer your questions… Clark Titman was very much a member of the National Party. He lived on the North Shore and made a name for himself as a right wing agitator. He was very pro the Vietnam War – among other things – and his somewhat extreme behaviour were sometimes embarrassing for National. Iirc, he was eventually disbarred form National events and meetings.
Did someone say Ed and Cleangreen are “mainstream”?
ah I see ..you’re just being your usual disingenuous cuntish self.
Chill out Mr. Angry. Gosman was holding Ed and C/G up as “crazy and incoherent lefties”. If the Left has to answer for them, the Right has to own Capill and Titford. Nothing disingenuous in that.
If you compare them with the current Green MPs they are certainly mainstream by New Zealand standards.
The MPs on the other hand would be some brackish little creek.
Did you mean Allan Titford or that Titman character Anne mentions?
I fail to see that either of them had anything to do with the National Party as Anne claims however.
Titman seems to have been harmless whereas Titford seems to be an A-grade nut.
I didn’t say they were National Party any more than Gosman is saying Ed and C/G are Labour.
And I never said that you claimed they were National.
I said that Anne had claimed it, at least about Titman.
If you look at what I said it was “as Anne claims however.”.
I put this comment to you because I was curious about who you meant. Was it Allan Titford or Clark Titman?
Or someone else altogether?
Titford.
Thank you for clarifying it..
I think my description of him stands.
Where do those people come from, and how do they get like that?
Where do those people come from, and how do they get like that?
Good question. The brain adapts to dishonesty via the amygdala, which also has a vital role in racism. Low intelligence is also a factor, but so are authoritarian tendencies and limited exposure to “out-groups”. Our peers are our “primary socialisers” (not our parents, apparently).
Whether these are the defining characteristics of Titford’s pathology is another thing entirely. Is it a more extreme example of the behaviour displayed by Don Brash, or people who vote for the abolition of the Māori seats and the “Iwi/Kiwi” hate speech? Toxic masculinity also appears to be a factor, and there’s plenty of that around.
Oops! Alwyn’s got away, again.
Alwyn, you’re the exception that proves the rule, I have to give you that.
Ah! The Left-does-it-too ironclad defence of RWNJs when they are lost for words and have no better comeback.
It is interesting looking back at National’s ‘honeymoon’. The media fawned over John Key for years, they had their heads so far up Key’s arse at the Herald they probably had their board meetings there. It took a very long time for the media to see through him…. some never did.
Finally the first train leaves Napier under the labour/NZF regional funding boost after National had closed the line following a storm and caused public anger over a six year lack of rail services.
The train left for Wairoa in a bid to restore the Napier/Gisborne regional rail service on 8th June 2018.
Full marks to the new labour/NZF/Greens coalition efforts here was felt by all residents.
We had a busy few days in Napier last week.
On Wednesday, we made our final submission to the NCC Long Term Plan, and then we attended the opening ceremony for the rail line north.
We were well received by Peter Reidy who referred to the tenacity of Alan (Dick) and Ken that set the ball rolling.
Previously, Alan had challenged Peter Reidy to drive the road and that gave him an understanding of the importance of taking trucks off the road.
Shane Jones said he had not given up on the Gisborne end of the line, so Ken gave him a copy of the full page ad in the GH to remind him of the business potential.
They did a really good job using the event for maximum media coverage on the rail line.
HB Today also did an article on our submission, and neatly tied it in with increasing rail would lower the heavy traffic problem.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/the-country/news/article.cfm?c_id=16&objectid=12065344
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503462&objectid=12065532
Good news.
Awwsome.
Great news.
I am sure you are happy with this step in the right direction.
Brilliant.
Good to see this might get addressed….
“Refund over ‘premium’ aged-care room: ‘Everybody should look at their contracts’ ”
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12066107
I encountered this when looking for a home for an aged relative. DHB contracted rest homes all have a maximum price they can charge, it’s negotiated as a collective agreeement annually. It’s around $1100 per week at the moment for rest home care.
They get around this by charging for ‘extras’ such as ensuites and try to create an environment where the extras are the norm. I met ensuite rates of $15-30 per day and when one considers ensuite is just a fancy name for your own bathroom $105-$210 a week for a shitter and shower is a little over the top.
Sanity prevails on 3 strikes: https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/104608068/governments-three-strikes-repeal-killed-by-nz-first
A.
It is very good and as a bonus I’m also hoping it will give the Greens the go ahead to oppose Winstons waka bill
Mind you this issue needs to be sorted:
‘So far, no courts had used the full power of the law, to sentence offenders on their third strike to the maximum sentence without the chance of parole.’
labour-greens agreement ‘fine print’ limits what Greens can do on specific items in Labour -NZ First agreement, waka jumping being a specific item
Shows just how “politically naive” (dumb) the Greens were, it is never, ever a good idea to sign anything without reading it first
The wording is not all that direct, negotiate in good faith or something.
What that means no me, is no blanket refusals but a deal can be made.
What is more important in the scheme of things, some thing like the ‘slowdown’ in oil and gas drilling or a waka jumping legislation.
NZ First has had particular problems in the waka jumping area as its a small party and a few Mps jumping could change the result of the election.
Its starting to occur in german states too, something that was once unthinkable
If you want dumb political thinking we can show you the meth testing debacle which national ministers were in the thick off.
Another was the decision back in 2012 NOT to build a replacement for the manawatu gorge highway.
Fantastic news made my day.
Nice to see this Government refusing to repeal this sensible law. Keep people like that behind bars.
Perhaps NZFirst cared more about the “collateral damage” than Little did.
Should this have the greens oppose the Waka jumping bill – even better.
Lets extend this policy to white collar crime and then see who squeels most.
Im ok with that also.
Yep. I’m cool with this also. Are you going to lead the charge to extend the Three strikes law PN?
> Lets extend this policy to white collar crime and then see who squeels most.
Bring it on!
A.
Winnie was getting spooked by the polls, the thought of seeing Farrar’s list of 2 strikers out on the streets, and the open letter in today’s Herald. You can criticise Peters for a lot of things, but stupid he is not.
New Zealand First should have the guts to front this one.
Downside is of course more prisons, unless the Minister of Justice has some outstanding programmes to divert them.
Upside is Labour will continue to suck NZFirst’s vote until they are a husk.
So in 2020 we will have a Labour-Green coalition.
No its NOT more prisons.
There is only 7 or 8 people per year getting second strikes, even less on a 3rd
Its the bail changes that seem to be far more punitive that are locking up hundreds more
Happy to stand corrected.
Hope he doesn’t start banging on about abolishing the Maori seats when he becomes PM and he focuses on the big picture, no doubt the MSM will be laying some traps for him.
“So in 2020 we will have a Labour-Green coalition”
With the greens polling – I wouldn’t make a large bet on that. Long may Labour kill them off as well.
Sanity?…or orchestrated political theatre
Interesting theory! Hadn’t thought of that
A.
Little takes a hit, NZFirst look strong and take some votes of National maybe?
No, that’s actually insanity prevailing.
Of course, NZ1st may support the removal of the Three Strikes law:
So, yeah, we will most likely see the removal later. It just seems to be NZ1st waiting to do the full package rather than doing it piece meal. They do have a point in that doing the full package will most likely result in better overall legislation but leaving the Three Strikes as is is a bad idea.
I think your radar is off DTB. This seems to me like Peters saying ‘tough on crime stays on my watch’
A.
To me it sounds like this:
You do the time, you’ll do another crime.
“Sanity prevails on 3 strikes”
Well, it’s politically sane but criminologically insane.
We just have to accept that the vindictiveness of Kiwis makes doing the right thing politically impossible. We aren’t prepared to leave it to the judge’s discretion but want maximum vengeance extracted even if it’s disproportionate.
Have to say I am baffled by this aspect of our national psyche – agreeable enough on the surface, but some dark sh*t going on underneath.
When this sort of crap goes on, I give up on politics for a while and work in the garden or go for a walk (easy for me as I’m not the one taking the hit).
The Capitalists
It would be very kind of the Capitalists if they would explain why more and more money goes to fewer and fewer people under the Capitalist Cult.
I have asked and asked this question but it produces no response from the little chaps on here that hate the people who do the real work in Aotearoa.
Before the Capitalist Cult here got so completely selfish and glutunous, people used to be able to buy a non leaky non mouldy 3 bedroom home on a single salary. But the Gosman and James lot has done away with that.
Why ?
What a dreadful Cult they are.
Your analysis is wrong. More and more money is not going to fewer and fewer people.
As for housing costs, that is due to not enough land being made available for new house builds.
Yes it is.
Ummm… did you follow the links to the data on that post you linked to? That also backs up my view that nothing much has changed overall for the past 20 years. LIS (which is what you are referencing essentially) is about the same as it was 20 years ago. It certainly hasn’t got a lot worse. Once again thanks for providing info that backs MY view up. 🙂
The LIS dropping from 65% to 55% is it getting a lot worse with it showing, quite clearly, that more and more of the money is going to fewer and fewer people.
No the LIS seems to have stabilised around the 55 to 60% mark over the past 20 years. It certainly isn’t moving down on a sustained basis which is what you generally bang on about Draco.
https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/307458/10-percent-richest-kiwis-own-60-percent-of-nz's-wealth
Point proven
‘In its latest survey of household wealth, Statistics New Zealand found the country’s richest individuals – those in the top 10 percent – held 60 percent of all wealth by the end of July 2015. Between 2003 and 2010, those individuals had held 55 percent.”
Look back to the 1980s and see what the numbers were ?
I’m not comparing it to the 1980’s
As that article states the amount has not altered significantly over the recent past.
Of course your not. That would prove that you’re lying by picking dates that almost make it look like what’s happening isn’t happening.
As the people at the top own more they have more of the income. That’s how capitalism works. That’s why it always creates poverty and eventually collapses society.
Society simply cannot work where a few people own everything.
For some really good news today.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/104583866/wellington-regions-transmission-gully-project-hits-halfway-mark
We’ve only been waiting for about 55 years.
I’ll bet all the Wellington based Labour MPs will be pressuring the NZTA to schedule an opening ceremony before the 2020 election, regardless of the point the construction has reached, so that they can claim how the building the road was all due to their efforts and how wonderful they all are.
Those with good memories will of course be saying
“Thank you, Stephen Joyce”.
Joyce and English had an ‘early opening’ for the Waterview Tunnels in spite of the project getting its go ahead in 2008 before the election.
Joyce famously pulled the plug on ‘tunnels’ and forced them to go back to trenches and bridges before sanity prevailed and the Construction companies said it would consume all of NZs construction resources, so back to tunnels all the way it was but bigger and more expensive.
“Joyce and English had an ‘early opening’ for the Waterview Tunnels”.
Such a thing doesn’t surprise me in the slightest. They were politicians after all.
There is a general rule for politicians.
Take total credit for everything that is popular, even if it was all the work of your opponents.
Blame your opponents for anything unpopular, even if they had nothing to do with it.
I admit that I have never commented on the subject of the Waterview Tunnel. My total knowledge of the thing is that it is in Auckland. I think it is South of the Bridge and North of the Airport. I have no idea at all what road it is on or where that road goes. To a resident of Wellington it is irrelevant.
I have a distinct interest in the road that runs North from Wellington though. I only hope that they continue the work up to Levin. I travel that route you see. The Kapiti Expressway, which is finished, is great.
I remember debating people here back in 2008 or 2009 where the arguments for the majority was all anti-Transmission gully. So very funny.
Edit: Just had a look. It was 2009 and it was you and I against the mob once again alwyn 🙂
This is probably the easiest youtube link ever
An excellent choice.
I must advise you though that I am taller and much better looking than Arnold. Better teeth too.
The muscular frame is about right though. Of course I never used steroids.
I should note that my full name is “Alwyn Modest XXXXXX”.
Do the residents know how much the tolls will be.
And will they find a monster traffic jam once they arrive at the existing SH1 motorway just before Tawa ?
Transmission Gully is supposed to be more earthquake proof than the existing road, but of course the gully it travels up is an existing fault line and lots of buildings that were built under new earthquake codes have been found to be a low standard. Steep slopes are almost impossible to engineer against major earthquakes
It’s a pretty awesome flythrough for a halfway mark.
Your memory is not serving you well, Alwyn, because you don’t even know whom to thank!
I’ll give you a little homework assignment so that you can better yourself. BTW, how are the remedial lessons going?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Joyce
Seems like the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation is setting up as a super-regional alternative to the G7’s current shambles:
http://www.dw.com/en/as-g7-argues-russias-vladimir-putin-and-chinas-xi-jinping-show-sco-friendship/a-44148676
Total “hate in” today on the standard. So much fun. Good to see apologist joining in the fun as well, can always trust the so called moderate liberals to join the Tories.
Splitters!
Thus spoke the bat shit loony right.
I imagine you’re pissing yourself with laughter Goz.
We have a state (i.e. tex payer FUNDED) public broadcaster – albeit with one or two stacked hack appointees (going forward). The keyword ‘service’ that is increasingly being lost amid the neoliberal religion/dogma/faith
Then, as an alternative, people in the ‘non-state’ private sector who profess an alternate view. There, we have corporate funded media (albeit, at times with financial bailouts from Tex Payer – because, well you know…..business is deserving of welfare, whereas taxpayer-funded public beneficiaries are undeserving – even though they’re providing the filthy mullah).
Gatekeepers in both. Both with agendas
Feel free to laugh your arse off. In both cases, we’ve lost the ability to differentiate between a Public and its interests, (and the financial imperatives of a ‘State’ that professes to represent that public), and the Corporation which only has a financial interest in providing a return to their shareholders and who will do whatever to protect it.
Shame when it all goes tits up eh?
And when it does, do we give any credibility to the corporate interest(s), or to an alternative that at the very least provides up with an opportunity once in a while to tell them to fuck off.
Btw, aren’t you due to clock off about now?
In response to Gos somewhere above – again, one of those little ‘bugs’
tl;dr
Something, something, the media is biased against my side. Boo hoo.
I think that would have been an excellent example to have used in my comment at 1.2.1.1 just above.
“tl;dr”
I’ll bet! 18 or so lines of text.
National on a roll, according to Audrey Young. I agree. Downwards.
Here is the link for you.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12068077
Read it again – Might change your view.
Is that a hibbled link jimbo?
Not really.
She managed to forget the methmyth bullshit squarely landing at the nats’ door, and drawn out by collins.
And Bolger heading up the Fair Pay Agreement working group.
But if winning a safe seat with a much reduced majority gets them “fizzing”, the day that side of the House do something exceptional they’ll be a major explosive hazard.
Problem AY actually believes her own B/S.
They all do @TT. I made the mistake of watching Max Headroom live from Singapore, with Corin Dann as a sidekick-cum-expert-sage on ONE News. You know…. “Your News” or whatever it is these days. Already, after a couple of days, apparently they’re already also experts in the local surroundings.
May I say though, (for the celebrity pages) that Max Headroom is looking incredibly more silver-haired these days, and perhaps even a little gaunt. And, and, and, and!! Corin’s suit was looking a little rumpled. In fact it looked eggsekly like the one he was wearing yesterday. Ew!
Back to the sensible Wendy’s in the studio for some reality and some other news.
Btw @TT- do you know if Max Headroom and Corin are dressed by Barkers or Hallensteins.
I noticed Max had a rather gorgeous looking fitted white shirt going forward.
I did rather like the way he presented himself in the style of the BBC reporters that fronted overnight as well. Well done Max!
100% rod.
We all have memories of nine bitter miserable years of total hardsjhip for 99% while the one percent enriched themselves on the hardship of the poor and defenceless.
Now a better future of fairness awaits as the share of our wealth is being redistributed amongst us all.
I have good feelings life now has some promise and hope.
We all have memories of nine bitter miserable years of total hardsjhip for 99%
Whatever drugs you are on you should definitely take less.
solkta,
you are enjoying the ‘National Party ilussion of better times for all’ it appears.
you appear to suffer from blindness, and was insulated from reality!!!!!!
When pictures of people being evicted from their homes while those state house s were given for peanuts to national’s supporting mates to make a killing on the speculative property market and left those families homless and shivering to death in abandoned cars or on streets so did you care?
I did seriously feel very sad to see the carnage National mettered out on the poor & sick and older folk suffering along with the homeless.
No i am not enjoying any nat illusions, and i do care a lot for people, just laughing at the idiotic stuff you write. “Total hardship” for “99%”. No, there is just nothing but derision that i can offer in response.
This article from the Australia ABC News website might of interest for those why it’s been wetter than usual in parts of NZ aka West Coast of both Islands and parts of the Deep South. As all the Australian autumn rains aren’t hitting its usual areas in mainland Australia, but have moved further Sth an usual hitting parts of Tassie, Southern Victoria and of course NZ.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-11/drought-how-bad-is-it-and-why-has-it-been-so-dry/9826130
It appears this could be an ongoing trend in the longer term. So it might be a wise move to buy some red bands, a supercat, a boat or a hovercraft.
It would interesting to see what Robert’s view all anyone else that’s going to impacted by the this weather trend?
Social Housing
Mass produced apartments in California
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/07/business/economy/modular-housing.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fbusiness&action=click&contentCollection=business®ion=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=11&pgtype=sectionfront
Propagandists Not Journalists
Exhibit 2: HERBERT BUCHSBAUM of the New York Times
http://normanfinkelstein.com/2018/06/10/the-new-york-times-second-assassination-of-razan-at-najjar/
Propagandists Not Journalists is compiled by Hector Stoop and presented by Morrissey Breen, for Daisycutter Sports, Inc.
See also….
Exhibit 1: ISABEL KERSHNER
11/06/2018 Troll Pick Six on The Standard
I think I have got the first 5 x Legs of the Troll Pick Six today;
Baby Gaga
Puckish Rogue
Gosman
James
Alwyn
One leg to go have we had any other trolls today ?
Where is The Chairman when you need him.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/103954272/Budget-2018-No-payday-yet-for-RNZ-from-Labour-Budget
quote from this article above;
“A promised funding boost for RNZ was the centrepiece of Labour’s broadcasting policy during last year’s election, but it will have to wait.
RNZ will have to wait longer to find out whether it will get a funding boost and how much that will be.
However, Broadcasting Minister Clare Curran said the Government was still committed to increasing annual funding for public media by at least $38 million during its first term.
The Government disappointed lobby group Better Public Media by setting aside only $15m in the Budget this year to pay for initiatives “to support the contribution of public media to an informed democracy”.
Curran said it had not been possible for the Government to do everything it wanted in one budget.
A decision is expected within weeks on how much of the $15m might go to RNZ, and how much might be allocated to other media companies for other initiatives through NZ On Air.”
Clare Curran needs to be removed now from her Broadcasting portfolio as she is irresponsible and is damaging the government now.
Curran has harmed labour, for all the loss of labour policy of presenting a fair free independent platform for the public to hear and respond to ant issues yet as the other media portals are not giving us public any coverage on any TV networks and only region newspapers are giving us any coverage but RNZ or no other TV networks are giving us our public voice so far in the first year of the new government operation of the media.
Labour have truly missed the chance to give us a fair free independent news and current affairs public media yet so their issues are not being aired in a fair manner still because RNZ is run by National and the rest of the media are owned by corporations so labour have not given us their promised “fair, free independent public media as they promised last year.
RNZ is effectively “a propaganda machine for the national Party” and has their own CEO Paul Thompson in 2013 who is still running this publicly funded and biased media portal.
https://www.noted.co.nz/money/business/paul-thompson-radio-head/
Curran was a fool playing “secret squirell stuff” with the maori lady from RNZ, she is obviously not very street smart or commercially orientated ?
National will chew her up and spit her out.
So clever how they have returned John Campbell as a ruse.
Good morning Newshub the trump scenario show me is its not the media and move and sport stars who can win a election.
Its the common people of America who are sick and tired of being ripped off so if anyone offers something different and sturs up the racial pot you get trump.
In America if a common uninsured person break there leg there goes $20.000
You’re stuffed and scenario like that are happening all over America.
So the big picture is look after all the people not just the wealthy or you are going to end up in the shit.
Our meat consumption is already going down because its too expensive now the reason ECO MAORI is against this no meat campaign is because I see it as a attack by stealth on our small family farms by big businesses on the small family farm we have a lot of family owned farms in Aotearoa big businesses just throw money at different ainty meat campaigns and walla everyone is against protein.
I see your m8 whos joyces m8 thinks he can out wit ECO MAORI in the end he will be crying under his bed.
With the 3 strike fail this show me that people in the justice system will do anything to get there way even cheat just like national releaseing information just before a vote on the law changes.
Ka kite ano
Here we go the sandflys are not perfect link below.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12068520
And people wonder why Some Maori behave badly its because we are being treated like this.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12068520
ECO MAORI does not even have to hear the racist people words to know what they are thinking and saying.
Ka kite ano
There you go some idiot trying to make a mauna out of a mile hill everyone new months ago that Winston Peters was suing people for breaches to his privacy. Why not sue the state services commissioner just because he has that job doesn’t mean he is squeaky clean far from it ECO MAORI say Ana to kai. I see the big man of basketball has similar views on some very good people of Papatuanukue Ka pai
Ka kite ano P.S Jacinda Winston will be fine he has a safe pair of hands.
Link below
https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/104656566/with-winston-peters-in-charge-it-seems-everything-could-be-up-for-grabs
The sandflys are still wasting their time on ECO MAORI it’s so easy to read all there move that’s for the cup tool belt and the power segestion of the hand man van idiots subliminal messageing only works on – – – – – -.
Look like red head lost his marbles last week Ana to kai tangata Ka kite ano
I see that trump has done the right thing with North Korea Ka pai.
I no that a lot of – – – drivers know of ECO MAORI most of use are tangata whenua ki kaha tangata now I know that the sandflys are never going to leave ECO MAORI alone thats the price I have to pay to inform the people about the corruption of our state services so be it at least the crime rate is going down
As I expected. I still have to thank the Honourable Winston Peters for Crowning Jacinda and forming a Labour lead coalition government many thanks Winston. Enjoy your time as Prime Minister if our society was not so racist it would have happened years ago
Ka kite ano
This story backs up my words on it only takes 1 degree of change in tempture to kill a living organinasim. Link below
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/11/giant-african-baobab-trees-die-suddenly-after-thousands-of-years
Ka kite ano
There you go ECO MAORI m8 ring a ambulance to the Auckland port for asicid burnes and 1 hour later and no ambulance the sandflys interfacing muppets its no me that is burnt