Yawn.
The right wing troll farm that is the NZ mainstream corporate media have replaced meth hysteria with Winston hysteria.
Apparently Winston becoming the caretaker PM for 6 weeks is leading to birth defects in livestock, spoiled milk and random eclipses.
What the pundits can’t explain is what exactly Winston is going to do in 6 weeks which will end Western Civilisation as we know it.
The most wonderful irony in the world would be the economic crash hitting while the great critic of free market neoliberalism is sitting on the throne.
That’s almost worth wishing for.
Winston being the PM won’t change a thing other than remind us all why we love Uncle Winston.
Shane attacking Fonterra is calculated, not evidence of a rogue unit.
NZ First nixing the 3 strikes legislation but supporting the reform was just as calculated.
And Winston taking public servants to court is a fierce reminder that NZ First sees much of the public service as part of the neoliberal problem.
Those 3 examples have all been held up by mainstream media pundits as some evidence of a huge disruption about to envelope Parliament once Jacinda goes into labour (despite her already being in Labour – oh the lols).
Winston will be Winston, and if the economy crashes on his watch, we may all thank our stars he’s on deck.
Winston Peters is our Acting Prime Minister – this is an individual who targeted Asian immigration many years ago and as recently as last election, went in with a policy to no longer have Maori seats.
So our current Prime Minister is an individual who is happy to target/play the race card – if it was a National Party PM who promoted these issues – you would be outraged and calling out the policies.
Personally I’m embarrassed that this type of individual with his long history of playing race based politics is our PM.
I don’t think using the term ‘targeted Asian immigration’ is reference enough to suggest Winston ‘target/play the race card’, for votes. I think the concerns he had on this issue were genuine (and his concerns seem to be playing out in certain areas) and not racist or manipulative, and his was an attempt to find balance in immigration regulations. After all the epidemic of Homeless, and unlocking the nz doorway making the doorway bigger for international drug smuggling coming into the city.
Him wanting to drop the Maori seats, is his attempt to bring equality into NZ and maybe a profound insight into bringing NZ all together in a cultural collective oneness for a positive move into the future.
It’s a sad day when anyone even commenting on immigration is seen as a racist. That means no politician can ever announce or implement that policy on immigration lest they are called a racist… or that they are playing the race card… UNLESS its a party leader they actually support… in which case, its just policy.
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“Irony”? How does that work? It would only be ironic if it was Shonkey sitting on the throne at the time of a “financial crash”, cause he’s the one that caused it. And if you had of been attentive in listening to Winstons speech at the time he announced he was going to run with Labour, he said very clearly, Labour would get the blame for what the capitalist National Government set in place over the last 8 years. Labour has only been in Parliament for a matter of months, and all ready, they are being drawn and quartered. You may find the irony hysterical, but to those of us who aren’t blind slaves to the dollar, and who profoundly love our country and have seen how much its changed for the worst over the period of time National has been at the wheel, (cause Darlin if you can’t see the huge difference…….you must be asleep) NZ will never be the same again). JK stood at the top of Mt Cook, and from a massive height took a huge dump on all of us. And then once he’d sucked our land and our people dry, like a nocturnal animal in the darkest final hour, he abandoned ship (which I’m still convinced a lot more went on that we don’t know about). And good ole NZ didn’t judge or ask questions, he just did the ole ‘Irish Goodbye’ and left out the back door. No loyalties there. Yeah he really loved his country and his people. But not as much as he loved his money. Money comes money goes, but our land and culture will never be the same again. Men like him are skin deep, empty, no essence. No honour. So please Martyn don’t offend us by making the ole sabotage, ‘JK’s cream pie in the face joke. Thats a cheap shot. Not to mention lame American humour, nothing ironic about that at all.
Billie Sweet I really really object to you implying that John Key could or would climb Aorangi Mt Cook. Metaphorically or not.
Nothing could be less Key-like.
The mountains are of deep spiritual and symbolic importance to many NZ’ers – including the colonising Pakeha who conquered it, and get blamed for everything wrong in today and tomorrow’s society.
The Southern Alps are part of the South Island psyche and of our soul. Planting John Key defecating on top of one is, trashing an important symbol, and trashing symbols is never a good idea, and also, maybe offensive.
Do you really think Bradbury is unaware of what was done to NZ and it’s people under the auspices of Key ? Really ?
Ride easy, stranger.
It is highly unlikely the global economy will crash in the next couple of months. Crashes normally occur in October, with trigger events in September.
On the other hand, the weather has crashed: torrents of rains and thunder storms. Worse to come.
The fossil fuel ‘free lunch’ is coming very very rapidly to a close.
As far as the potential surviving species of the 6th mass extinction are concerned, economic collapse can’t come soon enough!
Why?
It might just reduce the human population with sufficient scale and speed to ameliorate the worst of the environmental collapse we have precipitated.
Either way, the lying venal MSM are actually right about something: Western civilisation as we know it is about to collapse.
Try and sell advertising in that ‘Brighter Future’, you Fairfax/NZME scumbags.
But what about the cusp, Quicksilver ? What about the cusp ?
🙂
Yes Christine, we’re on the cusp of something truly special!
A wonderful IMF-funded MacFuture, where the truly wise and beneficent 1% will gift us teal tee shirts and rowing boats, in which we may all pull together as we plummet to our tax-free deaths over the waterfall of cascading environmental meltdown and enter the global H-bomb bright future we all deserve.
Sadly for our former PM, who so desperately wanted to be in charge in those heady pre-cusp days, it will be a Keyless entry.
Natz still writhing and smarting after losing the election 9 months ago for crying out loud! And lose it did through the MMP system!
Yet Natz feels the necessity to fire poisoned arrows at this government to prove … what exactly?? It really does need to get a grip and begin to act as a responsible Opposition, working effectively for the country and stop wallowing in self pity and spite!
Knowing the damage Natz has attempted to inflict on NZ First, in particular Winston over the years, with his political experience, he’ll definitely have HM’s Opposition sussed and on its toes during his six week tenure as acting PM.
Bring it on.
well said
After losing the election English stated that they were out to get the new government.
English didn’t identify any individual issues which the opposition were concerned about, or might reasonably be concerned about, it was just a blanket, out to get the government per se.
Then he jumped out of his ‘too hard’ basket, and ran off into the sunset leaving behind a rudderless bunch who don’t know and don’t care that they are there for the common good and not just to attack the coalition govt. It’s time they grew up.
He who laughs last , laughs longest.
And that’s our Uncle Winston.
Or , put another way ,… ” See you in court ” .
Oh , and on top of all that ?… Andrew Little is bringing up the rear with Pike River and the Police haven’t ruled out criminal charges in reopening the investigation . This government just gets better and better.
I marvel at how that corrupt , stinking National govt who after 9 long years caused so much damage and lied and bullied its way through for all that time is now seeing the odious fruits of its labour’s starting to unravel in a very public and legal manner.
Again , as someone else has said,…
Bring it on.
+100
Winston ripped them off ?
I heard Winstone on RNZ this morning and he was 100% right when he said Fonterra are saying the government should mind there own business yet they are quick to put their hand out when they need help. They can’t have it both ways if they want our taxes to fix their messes they should shut the fuck up.
The rigged markets, high frequency trading by computers, artificially low interest rates, subsidies to corporations, and propping up of markets by money-printing, the drilling and fracking and exploitation of the masses etc. have served the scumbags that run the global system very well for far too long. Now the writing is on the wall and it’s only a matter of time before it all implodes.
Interestingly, occasionally there are elements of truth revealed by mainstream organisations.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-06-18/bank-america-we-have-not-seen-movie
Against the backdrop of the corrupt and unsustainable US dollar system, China is no longer playing America’s game, and the policy of ‘if you disagree you get annihilated’ that America has relied on since the Second World War no longer works.
Guy McPherson has put his neck on the line (again) and declared the global system will implode soon, very likely September 2018 or September 2019 as a consequence of the inability to grow sufficient grains:
http://robinwestenra.blogspot.com/2018/06/guy-mcphersons-predictions.html
Of course he has been wrong so many times with his short-term predictions he has lost his credibility, even if the general narrative of the unsustainability of civilisation has been correct.
Yet, the worsening drought that has been developing across much of America (rather than the jiggery-pokery of the financial markets) could well be the trigger for the collapse. We just don’t know. It’s very much as case of watch this space (US Drought Monitor).
Bond market failures?
Energy depletion?
Severe drought?
Inability of insurance companies to cover the costs of repair of climate-related catastrophes?
Major military conflict?
A combination of all of the above?
There is one thing we can be certain of: our ‘esteemed leaders’ will continue to make everything that matters worse.
That article makes absolutely no sense, you need to get more sleep Martyn
A couple of days later:
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-06-20/greatest-short-squeeze-history
‘The ‘Relative Strength Index’ of the “most shorted” stocks has never been higher and each time it has reached this level, stocks have fallen hard.
But as a reminder – amid all of this – The Dow is down for the 7th day in a row, its longest losing streak in 18 months.’
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