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https://www.stuff.co.nz/a/nz-news/35...eering-failure
Live: Refloat plans for Interislander ferry Aratere put on hold until Saturday night
And the usual clueless spiel as can be expected being emitted by the backwards facing Greens
Of course Geenter has been out there on her backwards facing bicycle mounted on a pontoon trying to assist in pulling itback afloat ;)
Darling - your backwards facing Green mob were bad news for New Zealand sending everything light years backwards and your best response is Greens were prepared to swallow out of control cost inflate after another inflated cost up with new ferries ;)Quote:
Green transport spokesperson slams 'reckless' Government
"Nicola Willis's reckless decision to cancel the contract for new ferries without an alternative plan in place is disastrous for New Zealand. It's unbelievable really, and yet a hallmark of this coalition Government.
Nothing like advocating spending taxpayer money like there is no tomorrow, until your mob get unceremoniously kicked out of anywhere near the steering seats by the majority of voters sick & tired of the chapters of mindless Green BS they have seen ..
How are the Green plans going for a bicycle or wind powered ferry going ? Too hard or everyone asleep in the long grass after trying to get their confused heads around your little rants ? :)
No wonder your lot got grounded facing backwards and will likely stay that way for the next 150,000 years ;)
Joe Public just doesn't take kindly the sort of retarded screeching that has characterised the real cluelessness of the Green cause across past decades .. Even James of many Degrees has seen common sense and abandoned the grounded Green pontoon for brighter pastures .. perhaps the growing trail of the clueless & unfortunate Greens trying their luck & being outed for their various serious sins in public one after another was just too much for the poor boy to handle ;)
Aratere grounding & losing it's steering has a similarity to the Green's trajectory .. but at least the ferry can be refloated & rescued .. shame about the other, which continues to confirm firmly stuck holed on the rocks,
a few manning the wreck waving & screaming loudly, abusing & criticising potential rescuers... after having lost direction / steering ... with no signs of rescue or recovery expected anytime soon :)
I see Helen Clark had a pop too. Couldn't help herself.
The new ferry cancellation had zero input/impact on this grounding. Zilch. Shameless, bad faith politics from the pair of them.
I note "steering failure" has been the early identified cause. An assumption that means some sort of mechanical problem could well be misplaced.
Let's just all be very very thankful that the "steering failure" occurred near Picton with only a few people aboard.
A "steering failure" in Cook Strait with a full complement of passengers would have been potentially bad, even in fine weather, and a failure in the approaches to Tory Channel or Wellington Harbour would have been horrendous. Add some moderate (for Cook Strait) weather and you are looking at potentially huge loss of life.
Simeon Brown had been recently concerned over maintenance by the SOE Kiwirail.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/polit...-grounded.html
NZ infrastructure is increasingly not fit for purpose - not fit either for the population growth both major parties have curated. Who will have the gumption to curate the megabucks needed in so many areas. Either public taxpayer money or a melange of private-public partnerships are needed. However there needs to be a concerted coordinated plan.
Labour had its social priorities but it is time to knuckle down now and sort things out. However it will take money from somewhere. On paper Luxon, with Air NZ on his resume, should be a good choice to take the bull by the horns.
I think it's more simple than that, the Green's have lost their way, they have lost their focus and been caught up in general politics rather than fighting for their fundamental cause.
In opposition which they should be most familiar with based on their history, they should know how to pursue their base agenda. But after 6 years of a coalition in power they seem to now be confused, having lost power, that they have no influence whatsoever anymore, and becoming irrelevant politically.
Harping on about things that have little to do with their manifesto, while simultaneously fighting against numerous internal conflagrations melting their party down into insignificance, the Green's are consigning themselves to irrelevance.
It must grate on the Green faithful. No one wants their vote to be wasted.
Your history sucks as much as your archaic mindset.
“Coverture” is the word you need to familiarise yourself first before you make a fool of yourself.
https://www.brides.com/why-do-women-...t-name-5116974
Who is objecting to it? Making an observation is not making an objection.
Coverture was the basis of wives taking on their husbands’ surnames - times change and traditions can change as well but who are we to cast the first stone on those who choose to follow or not follow traditions?
Why is a woman's surname even up for discussion? Incredible some of the attitudes shown on here.
As for the preoccupation with the Greens, it's quite incredible what you all fixate on.
Perhaps the fixation on here is due to the Greens voter base growing, despite their disastrous last six months.
I don't care for the Greens, but I do care for the environment, which is the main reason I swung away from National 10 or so years ago. The current coalition seems to be even worse in this regard with complete disregard for the environment and little evidence that they believe in humanity's impact on Climate Change at all, ... like many of you I suppose.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/interi...CVLYSCFVENKEE/
Interislander ferry Aratere to dock at Picton Harbour this afternoon after grounding
Off the rocks, still floating & water tight ... which is more than can be said for Labour & the Green Cling-on's
continuing their new trajectories of frequently getting dunked and having 'dropped in it' kamikaze moments ;)
We find out what sort of a slap on the wrist the thieving b1tch gets later today.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/...or-shoplifting
Big slap on the wrist with the proverbial suitably well soaked green coloured bus ticket?
Poor thing has already suffered enough and is unlikely to offend again blah blah blah ….
And politicians who spout platitudes about human rights, the downtrodden etc while racking in salaries & benefits to the tune of over 175k a year should not be treated like common thieves - they deserve special consideration and reduced responsibility & accountability. After all, they have done so much good & showed so much aroha for their fellow human beings. All BS of course but that’s what the justice system is about.
Providing they can arrange nearby parking,I imagine she will get a lot of supporters from the Party.
Like in wellington when the Greens had removed all parking and replaced with bike lanes, wanted to have a conference and asked a local retailer (who had to move up the road due to lost customer parking) to use their car parks so Green Part MP's had somewhere to park their cars. You can't make this sh!t up! This from the party that has the worst air travel record in parliament.
https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/...acted-parking/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0av...=ThePlatformNZ
Yup - no Green contingent to be seen to support Golriz. What happened to her Whanau Marama and Chloe, who described her as ‘family’?
Meanwhile, here’s the update :
The sentencing hearing has now begun with defence lawyer Annabel Cresswell telling the court a mental health report about Ghahraman was the crux of her submissions today.
It found a “clear diagnosis of complex PTSD” with two key contributing factors: her early life in war-torn Iran and the “public vitriol, threats and abuse” she received while in Parliament.
Cresswell said the “threats of rape and death were constant and ongoing and credible”, to the point where her security detail was similar to that of the Prime Minister.
She described “loss-reactive shoplifting” in which otherwise law-abiding individuals steal as part of a mental health crisis.
The fact she had so much to lose showed a mental health crisis, Cresswell said.
“This offending was extraordinarily out of character,” she explained. “She didn’t need the items that were taken.”
The misogyny and extra abuse female MPs, from both left and right, experience must take a mental toll. That is not to excuse shoplifting which is a blight that NZ retailers experience and which we all pay for through higher prices. Unfortunately the abusers and misogynists are at large..
Yes, an organic one.
Can't be quite nuts enough yet, if she's still licenced to be on the bar :)
Nothing like still thinking there might be a bit of mileage left in trying to BS the beak ..
Associating with the calibre of crazy Green trash still onboard might be enough to turn anyone nuts..
The wayward chassis still looks to be in reasonable nick .. no tangle ups with stray motorbikes on crossings, or fights with wayward foreign import workers on a mission to cause mayhem, unlike other little screeching darlings hailing from the hairy legs brigade :)
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/green-...ODDRMZBQ3Q4XQ/
Green MP Darleen Tana referred to police: Verve Magazine advert allegedly left off promoter statement
A week from Green H3ll for the Greens with their ex-Talent hastily chucked over the side now having their moments in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons ;)Quote:
Suspended Green MP Darleen Tana has been referred to the police due to an alleged issue with a paid article in Verve Magazine.
The Green Party said it had referred the issue to the Electoral Commission in May. It followed revelations in May that Tana was linked to alleged migrant exploitation at her husband’s business. An independent investigation into the latter issue was ongoing.
Today, the Electoral Commission said it had referred Tana and Verve Magazine to police over an alleged failure to include a promoter statement in an election advertisement published last May.
The commission refused to give further comment as the matter was with police.
Everyone else in the cosy huddle inside Green pumpkin must have gone into hiding out of sight ;)
Give it a rest.
Its amazing what people will say when they are hidden behind a handle.
I would imagine if there are woman that view these threads, they wouldn't be interested in engaging due to the caveman behavior by some on here.
Grow up!
No surprise that you don't recognize how appalling yours & others posts are on here.
How about posters stick to topic rather than sexualizing the subjects or resorting to misogynistic labeling and name calling.
It's also not surprising that misogynists don't recognize their own behavior. Racists are similar, not me, I've got brown friends.... 🙄
Here's a couple of lies for you.
We are going to fund these new cancer drugs to save these people's lives & give them hope. Ahhh 2nd thoughts we can't afford it now as we are giving tax breaks, vulnerable people's hopes destroyed. Ahhh on 3rd thoughts there's been such a backlash about us breaking our campaign promise, we will fund the drugs.
Seymour, we are going to scrap the school lunch program, gets into Government & sees that there is a real problem and children will go hungry, sees the political backlash, oh on 2nd thoughts the program will stay as is for now.
I could go on, there's more. And how long have they been in power for? Watch out for a backflip on the Cook Strait ferries any day.
Precisely because Golriz plays the innocent looking heavily made-up dolly bird in the company of some of the nastiest female MPs you could ever get in NZ politics.
Don't put on any kind of front (innocent, pretty or otherwise) with those of us who see through the charade.
Exactly like Clueless Cindy - took a few years for the majority of NZers to see through the Ardern BS and charade - but swa through they did and turfed the *itch out.
The smallest wet bus ticket (colored green) being actively sought by court staff for the sentencing on Thursday.
And you can certainly count upon the defense lawyer and Golriz to exaggerate wildly about how badly affected she was by all kinds of trauma and drama - true or not.
Knowing her & the Greens' propensities for lies and falsehoods, no prizes for guessing how much spin and falsehoods are in the defense case.
https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2024/06/t...olriz_off.html
"Ghahraman grew up in Mashad, which is around 1,600 kms from the border with Iraq. That is like the distance between Auckland and Invercargill."
" ...... Cresswell said the “threats of rape and death were constant and ongoing and credible”, to the point where her security detail was similar to that of the Prime Minister.
It was not similar to the PM. In no way does that mean the threats were not vile and disturbing. The PM has 24/7 armed police officers. Ghahraman had a parliamentary security officer escort her on and off the campus."
Crown Solicitor Alysha McClintock said the offending had the hallmarks of pre-meditation.
“This was a spree of offending. It’s not a one-off event. It’s not a ‘moment of madness’-type case.”
There might be another explanation for the offending other than a mental health breakdown, McClintock said: “Simply that she wanted the items that she took.
”On its face, that explanation, given the [pre-meditated] nature of the conduct, appears the more likely of the two,” she said. …
The link between Ghahraman’s mental health and her criminal conduct was not as strong as the defence made it out to be, the prosecutor argued, noting a mental health assessor found there was “a possible link”.
”The possibility of that is no more than that – a possibility.”
And note how despite the supposedly heavy security detail required (like that of Clueless Cindy) because of grave & pressing safety concerns, she was able to freely frequent high end boutiques with carefree abundance to steal from them!
To be expected from the Green MPs - thieves, human exploiters, tax evaders, racist & sexist vocalisers, defenders of massacres of innocents, falsifiers of credentials, hypocrites and above all, BS artists.
Could someone please start a Give a Little page to help Goldritz with this malaise that has beset her?
Oh, hang on, that won't be necessary.
Darleen Tana is on full pay for going nothing, funded by the taxpayers.
Surely she will pass some on to her Green sister?
Sure that wouldn't be called Money Laundering to add further to the pile for Darling ? ;)
why not just install a burkha, a quick change of name, a new licence & she might be able to earn her own & the top table overlooking the carry on of the profession would probably sign it off .. let's face it - they seem to have an already overflowing trail of wonderfully exciting talent onboard with wide and varied life experiences right down to gutter & lower levels.. another wont make a lot of difference ;)
Excellent assessment of what’s happening with the long awaited independent report on Darleen Tana.
Looking like Tana is all lawyered up (more $$$$ for lawyers) and playing hard ball with Swarbrick & Davidson who are cornered and more concerned with politics than they are with natural justice.
Also, the racist cards Green has been using are now coming back to bite them on the backside!
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/green-...MJHB6E52WSE5Q/
“Because she is refusing to go quietly, almost inevitably. She has either lawyered up to stop the Greens releasing the final report, or she is refusing to resign. The Greens can’t force her to resign (unless they used the waka jumping law they oppose), and it would be embarrassing to them to have her remain in Parliament as an independent MP. Or worse, she could be threatening to defect to Te Pāti Māori if they sanction her, claiming the investigation against her has been neo-colonial and is structurally racist.”
MP Tana waka jumping to Te Pati Maori would be delicious irony. It may just raise the integrity levels of both the Greens and TPM!
I hope she does, locking in a growing divide between the 2 racist/sexist/neo-marxist fringes of the Left. Remember how cosy they were heading into the last election? High fives between Davidson and Ngarewa-Packer!
Whichever it goes, be great if Tana stays in Parliament until she is forced to resign when the court cases of (alleged) migrant exploitation, employee exploitation, tax evasion and breach of Covid regulations are brought against her.
She will sit in Parliament and be subject to ridicule and odium, sitting after sitting.
Maybe, the Maori Party would love that?
Surely it can't possibly an excellent assessment, as it was published on the leftist biased MSM Herald site. 🤣
Coming from a conspiracy theorist who wouldn't know sexism if it was a wet fish that smacked him in the face.
Do you read what you write? Just a tad extreme, well fits with the rabbit warren dwellers in their own echo chamber I suppose.
Dinosaurs commenting on sexism.
Oh men have it so unfair 🙄
"She has either lawyered up to stop the Greens releasing the final report, or she is refusing to resign. The Greens can’t force her to resign (unless they used the waka jumping law they oppose)."
Greens caught again in the hypocrisy that they have cloaked themselves in.
Thieves, migrant/worker exploiter, bullies, tax evaders, Covid lockdown breachers, hypocrites - them Greens sure know how to pick them!
Catch up. I'm paraphrasing your repetitive claims of the left bias of NZ MSM publications.
It's hilarious that you now use the very names I have repeated on here to counter your claims of left bias in the NZ MSM.
If you are going to lie, you need to have a better memory.
Ghahraman has been fined and most importantly convicted. I think this is fair. Getting the conviction was key for me
The Green Brother & Sisterhood have a very unique ability to dig the trenches that they are about
to fall into ever deeper & deeper - don't they ? ;)
Did they give lessons to Robbo on their flawed excavation techniques, but then forget to tell him to
stand back from the edge to reduce chance of going splat on the bottom ? ;)
Swarbrick publically chanting “from the river to the sea” again today. Apparently apologies from Swarbrick only last for as long as they last. Chanting this and “intifada” is the very definition of hate speech. More hypocrisy from the emerald manakins
What it might mean - take your pick.
https://apnews.com/article/river-sea...6fa5c0b907cd49
Here is perhaps a more helpful chant for Chloe, if she genuinely wants peace.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wABSYi8Kjtg
"In Jerusalem, the Lord always surprises us.... When we asked the Syrians if we could record a video in their church, our intention was to film a chant of the Syro-Malankara rite. But the deacon asked us very fervently to sing with them the Lord's Prayer in Aramaic (the language that our Lord spoke here on earth and that the Syriac Christians still use in parts of their liturgy). When two Syriac monks joined us, we spontaneously made this recording.
According to Syriac tradition, the "House of St. Mark", where this chapel is located, is the place where the Last Supper and the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the apostles took place.
We would like to dedicate this song to our beloved Heavenly Father and ask that all people come to know, honor and love Him. In a special way, we would like to include in our prayers all the persecuted Christians in the Middle East."
Now that Goldritz has been sentenced, and if no legal appeal is made, most would agree that she can close that chapter of her life and move on.
But observing her during the interview with John Campbell made me think that some coaching from Marama Davidson had taken place, and there was an attempt to shift blame to white cis men.
All these alleged rape threats during her time in Parliament
Were complaints made to Police at the time, and investigation take place?
Any arrests?
Yes all a bit mysterious. The judge reckons she read some of the messages Golriz has received and was appalled.
On the balance of probabilities I think there are more than enough nut cases in this country to have sent her disgusting messages as claimed. Using that as an excuse for the shoplifting is a bit of a stretch though. The judge saw through that.
Hell, women undress me with their eyes every time I go out. I feel like such a piece of meat when I can tell that all they wanna do is smack that ass.
But ya don’t see me out stealing to cope with the stress of it all do ya!
Mr T, you will forever lament that she was not sentenced to regular lashes from the rotan, administered by you...
@Getty
You waiting for a knock on the door?
Beautiful music which I'm sure Swarbrick would enjoy, probably not her lyrics though as she is based in this world, trying to save this world, from environmental destruction, not some fairytale world.
It's a shame they couldn't include the millions of persecuted Palestinians in their prayers as well. Wrong club I suspect.
Swarbrick is as nasty as they come - biased, hypocritical, opinionated and lecturing - but she will not apply any of the immortal values of decency, morality and respect she has the audacity to require of others.
Of course she is spouting hate speech from her nasty little mouth - because she knows very well that what she is uttering is not only offensive to others (Jews) but incites hatred against them.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/polit...nded-them.html
Chlöe Swarbrick has apologised after using a pro-Palestinian phrase during a solidarity rally in Tāmaki Makaurau on Saturday.
Swarbrick told Newstalk ZB she apologised "to those who felt as though it has [offended them]".
https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/02/11/i...g-from-school/
Q+A has seen a letter sent to Swarbrick by Kadimah School in 2021, a Jewish special character school, which at the time was located in her Auckland Central electorate.
It followed a meeting Swarbrick attended at the school, following a different instance of Green MPs using the phrase.
The chant was condemned in Kadimah School’s letter, with the school’s principal and Board of Trustees chair describing it as “at best, a call for the destruction of the Jewish state and is widely considered a genocidal chant against the Jewish people.”
“This is not a question of intention, it is a request for a clear mandate and policy on how minority groups are protected while our leaders show support to particular groups without explicit or implicit calls for harassment, violence, or genocide,” the letter read.
Swarbrick confirmed that she was given that message by the school at the meeting.
All class 'A' BS from Golriz and her lawyer.
If she had really been so concerned about her safety, how is it that she feels so free to be everywhere whenever she wants?
At protests (where her supporters are the ones to threaten & exact violence on others), at public meetings and of course, at boutiques while she was indulging in her favorite past time of committing crime?
Her whole life has been a charade of falsehoods, supposedly being a "refugee", "poor upbringing", "UN prosecutor" and "top human rights lawyer".
Anywhere, here's to her making the best of the opportunity given to her by a lenient judge - build up a truthful & genuine life outside of politics.
Swarbrick is a lost, entitled and not educated enough for her own good, as she can't see her own hypocrisy (I have met these people before). If a Green voter can't see through it, they are a cult member of the Greens. That goes for all politicians and political parties. I just can't stand her.
Hamas would probably, in her case, be ‘kind’ first. They will try to convince her that she is otherwise by pairing her up with one of their heroic fighters who kidnapped, murdered and raped innocent women and children on Oct 7th.
Being a nice person, I hope she continues to be the hypocrite and steers clear of championing the cause of human rights for the Palestinian LBQT community. Otherwise, she will learn what it is to be one of the innocent Jewish victims.
It's funny seeing them dress up in palestianian scarves... esp real characters like Steve Abel.
When are environmental issues going to come up for the greens. You would think they have a lot of material with the oil and gas changes which I don't think most NZers agree with.