This is a well researched and written piece on the foolishness of Shane Jones' and the coalition's fossil fuel strategy.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/5688...rgy-crisis

The Key years saw crude oil prices peak at close to USD150 and decline to ~USD30. That peak coincided with Kupe flowing and 'payback' expected in mere weeks. Those days are long gone but Jones fails to see reality and continues to flog the dead horse. NZ needs to invest in renewables as Australia and the UK have or our electricity supply system will fail us, and soon.

Also worth noting that the Taranaki Think Big projects were built on the back of plentiful natural gas supply so their futures are now very much under threat. Those dominoes will topple as the gas wells are exhausted with major implications for their positions in the NZ export economy. Marsden Point has closed, Motunui looks likely to halt production again this winter and what of Ballance's urea plant? The buzzards are circling.

"He was caught on video cheating on the golf course; he cheated on his taxes, he cheated on his business loans, he cheated on his wives, he cheated on the business contractor that he stiffed through forty years of business, and he tried to cheat on the 2020 election."

https://v.redd.it/sxc92vsccogf1

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/...l-collapse

are making a concerted undercover push to gain control of local government.

https://archive.is/9PjNa

Article from The Press, with paywall removed.

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 world’s 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