Is he extremely nuts or just a really, really  nasty piece of work?

HOW anyone can make such a comment abot children dying of starvation is beyond understanding.


https://x.com/SeanPlunket/status/1948977617891459113



https://www.reddit.com/r/newzealand/comm...re_backer/



Reaction from big Hairy Network

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDul6hng5NU

My printer, Brother DCP-J1050DW, is yet again wanting to update the application, for at least the second time in about 3 or 4 days!  I have updated it at least twice. A little while ago there was a Firmware update also that I did. Is this all genuine, or is somesort of scam involved?

Former National MP tries his luck again, having a bash in Howick local elections. He's been a bit busy running an escort service.



https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/f...32AIYZYPU/

Get ready for the worldÔÇÖs first trillionaires

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/19/busin...fam-report

Part of Five Eyes, we're told. Good to stop international crookery and drug trade, helping out Interpol...

Except it smacks way too much of tightening ties with a nation exhibiting all the signs of failure to me.

And didn't we get a bit exercised when China was revealed to be opening its little corner store police stations all over the world? How exactly is this any different?

Did get Mr Patel out of reach for more Epstein file attention though, didn't it? Sneaky bastards.

Well worth reading, A view of what the Israeli govt is doing by an Israeli woman who's a professor of law.


https://robertreich.substack.com/p/a-bet...tent=share

One of the largest earthquakes ever recorded happened (8.8 magnitude) at ~11:30 NZT. Live video feed of the Japanese coastline tops Stuff's news feed on this with tsunami expected to hit Japan around 4:00pm NZT. New Zealand will likely see tsunami activity at around 11:30pm NZT.

I guess we'll hear what to expect from the Solomons and Noumea as it passes through that region a few hours prior to it getting here.

Interesting read; the 'fast track' act. Who benefits...

https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/07/29/anne-s...nz-values/

This sounds interesting. Social democracy....

https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/07/30/its-ti...ting-back/


"One potential proposition, we believe, is abundance.
Put simply, the abundance agenda is a political and economic framework that shifts focus from managing scarcity to building more of what society needsÔÇölike housing, clean energy, infrastructure, and innovation.."

Jewellery entrepreneure Michael Hill has died at 87. He was knighted in 2011.



https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/5683...-hill-dies