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Open mike is your post.
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Good rant by Bomber this morning. In particular:
"Heather duplicity-Allan + Taxpayers’ Union sock puppet bots are furious that Chloe has written to overseas clients we have free trade deals with and pointed out that NZ is not living up to our climate agreements and thus should be investigated."
Good on Chloe/the Greens for reminding our trading parties that NZ is largely ignoring climate agreements. I'm sure that they are aware of this anyway. Luxon/Peters/Seymour just pretend it isn’t happening or that climate change is a myth.
https://thedailyblog.co.nz/heather-duplicity-allan-taxpayers-union-sock-puppet-bots-screaming-treason-at-chloe-so-hot-right-now/
Yes agree.
If only we had government-supported export policies that gave as much taxpayer support and subsidy as farmers get, then we'd get a shot at decreased political power from farmers.
Meantime the absolute global barnburner of an industry in space exploration gets a $2.25m loan for a wee building near Invercargill, and the local mayor has to defend that Southland "does more than grow grass".
Build begins for Southland space headquarters | Beehive.govt.nz
"The project is expected to create around 10 jobs during construction."
10?
Those jobs aren't created, projects are created and people who already work in the industry realise the project.
Once completed? One? None? Automation and/or AI should see to that.
Appears as though it has not hit home, with the EU commissioner and British officials making pro-forma enquiries, but not following through with any real concerns over the NZ policy.
So the probe appears to have resulted in a 'no there are no breaches' outcome.
https://newsroom.co.nz/2026/06/24/uk-probes-whether-nz-oil-and-gas-investment-breaches-trade-deal/
Great the probe(s) had a 'no breaches' outcome. One interesting comment though.
Pfft – by 2030, $ir Chri$ will be back to his CEO roots, 'earning' real money.
Well you ask for a purge of Hindus Sikhs and Muslims, and quelle surprise the PoPo take your guns.
Video shows police seizing guns from Brian Tamaki’s home | Stuff
Looking forward to the Court charges Bishop Tamaki gets with this one.
Finally ! Him and his ardent followers are long overdue some sunlight.
About time to revoke that charity status also.
But he didn't mean what he said!
Someone or something else made him say it – he’s a mere messenger.
A
pornpawn of God?An earworm.
Is he a 'fit and proper person' to ride a motorcycle as well as possess rifles?
Seriously, now. He admitted that one gun may have been unlicensed. Is that an offence that can be prosecuted? Is he a 'fit and proper person' to stand as a candidate for Parliament, or be an MP, if he is found guilty of such a firearms offence?
Also, regarding his, at best, loose language. He will find it hard to justify what he said as being not what he meant, as he is a public speaker and preacher who no doubt has learnt to think upon every word he utters.
Since bishops are esteemed figures and leaders in our society, especially amongst their own flock, such as his exhortations and opinions are dangerous, for him, his followerws and society at large.
I am very pleased with this police action, and credit too (choke choke) to mark Mitchell for calling this out.
He had an unlicensed gun? Was that a high-calibre rifle or a slug-gun? Was that gun able to be used to kill big mammals, or just sparras?
Now I certainly am glad that this wanker has had his guns removed and his license revoked, but having a unlicensed gun is not illegal at the moment if it has not been sold since the registration came in, all have to be by 2028 ( I think ) unless it is an illegal gun as in a semi auto.
Sure, unless you're encouraging others to purge minority groups 🙂
Yes but how things are reported matters as does the actual facts, whether or not we like the person
Brian Tamaki is into dangerous behavior. He has moved from zealot to extremist.
He should have been uplifted along with his guns, as a danger to society imo.
completely agree. He can play the word game all he likes, but once he ends up on court, it will be a judge looking at the law that will matter
I am not down with hate speech laws whatsoever.
Hard to define and they get weaponised like the non crime hate incidents have been in the UK (Graham Linehan). We have plenty enough laws on the books to deal with this sort of thing.
What Tamaki said is reprehensible, objectionable and wrong by any reasonable standard. He should be charged and appear in court.
Having his guns and license removed is, hopefully, a start.
I don’t know if he will be charged over the racial purging comments, apparently the police are looking at this. The removal of his firearms license and his firearms appears to be related to the Arms act and what is considered to be a improper person to hold a firearms license.
24A 1l being the relevant bit.
https://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1983/44/en/latest/highlights/?highlight=Extremism#DLM72923
A few alarm bells are starting to sound in Australia abot the full implications of AUKUS Pllar ll. It is already difficult to get an embargo or any kind of judicial review on any Australian transfer of military goods or services
But with Pillar ll even the necessity for obtaining a permit disappears.
The problem here is that the UK and US are major suppliers to the Israeli genocide but it gets worse with section 224 of the US National Defence Authorisation Act.
The Australian defence minister:
In effect:
When we join Pillar ll, this is what we will become a part of. We already train with Israel at RIMPAC and many other locations but now we will become part of the industrial base supplying the Israeli genocide.
https://ritajabrimarkwell.substack.com/p/a-us-bill-is-poised-to-integrate
https://ritajabrimarkwell.substack.com/p/this-is-not-a-middle-east-issue-its
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360999849/video-shows-police-seizing-guns-brian-tamakis-home
This'll make you're day!! Hate speech has consequences dick head.
The NZ police are oppressing wee Brian!! He only wants the best for us all!!
Nasty, nasty infidels!
All my guns are for hunting purposes only!
"Indians have got my licence revoked."
Indians! Us cowboys don't trust them Indians!!
Brian goes full-cowboy!
https://www.facebook.com/NZPROUD
Clip-clop-clip-clop, the sound of Sheriff Winston riding to the rescue of the bullied cowboy.
Are they the horse's hooves on the ground making that sound, or its dung hitting the dusty trail?
coconut shells
see:
I don't believe for one second a pos like tamiki would use his guns for I'll, he'll insight people to , so I applaud the police for stomping on him
he doesn't strike me as someone to risk his own future.
He risked it, and blew it, by inciting violence against a minority group/religion in New Zealand. Judge gonna judge.
I meant he's not likely to risk his own future by taking up arms, he will incite others to do that.
I saw that. But he inadvertently has. The police have visited and a court case will follow. He's risked his own neck with his loose language and will pay the price, I hope.
that's not the kind of risk I meant. Being raided (assuming that's what happened) and having to go to court plays into his messiah/martyr plan. That's quite different from risking a long term in prison.
You think he planned on/expected to be raided by the police? Yet he had an unregistered firearm. Sloppy.
I think he is used to pushing the boundaries that are relatively safe for him and he is used to make good political theatre and hay out when that goes against him. A combination of arrogance and how he plays the game. So no, I don't think he knew or planned this.
He's caught now. Good thing. His guns aren't the issue, his call to violence is.
He's caught.
“Let’s purge New Zealand of Hindus, Sikhkhs, and Muslims,” he said in the video, shared on June 17. “And while we’re at it, if they’re burning churches down, why don’t we burn mosques and their temples down, tit for tat.”
The police should have confiscated his matches and lighters as well.
Maybe they did…
Bishop Brian claims to be Christian, How does "tit for tat" sit with the Sermon on the Mount?
Or New Zealand law?
“Why don’t we etc” as quoted is another way of saying ‘We should”. If he truly had the answer to his question, hw would have given it.
So, Bishop Brian, “Indeed why don’t we burn down mosques etc , tit fot tat?” What is your answer?
Old Testament, I guess.
Doesn't sit at all well with NZ law.
I hope.
School lunches – it's the Auditor General’s fault!!!
"The report showed just over 50% of the lunches met nutritional standards in 2025, while up to 20,000 were being returned uneaten every day."
Seymour says, "the Auditor-General “is facing some real credibility issues”.
Not, "David Seymour is facing some real credibility issues", it's someone else, anyone else.
Sound familiar?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/health/361000004/20000-school-lunches-wasted-daily-nearly-half-meals-failing-nutrition-standards-report-finds
Note that Seymour did not address the issues of its performance not being properly monitored or tracked, that half the meals did not meet nutrition standards and meals were increasingly being wasted.
Instead we got the saving money routine, the why didn't they blame Labour too routine, a criticism of the Auditor General and of the motivations of the reported critics.
Nothing about his responsibility for his department's performance issues.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/politics/644526/david-seymour-bites-back-at-auditor-general-over-lunch-report
Of course he didn't. He doesn't believe in accountability for himself or his 'friends'. Additionally, if Luxon had a back bone as PM he would punish Seymour (a member his Cabinet) for attacking an Officer of Parliament. Respect for their independence is a critical part of our constitutional norms.
Michelin Stars awarded tonite. Big hoopla on TV, but it made me wonder if the $6.3 million Tourism NZ paid to bring them here will be worth it.
Is any cost-benefit analysis done for this sort of thing? Probably impossible to make an accurate assessment, so you can't say with certainty there was no net gain for us.
That suits the politicians.