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Will the Groundswell protesters (namely farmers) get the same negative attention as the restore rail transport protesters or will NZers turn a blind eye once again. The groundswell leader is echoing Luxons’ weasel words, that our farmers are already world leaders in their field, so does this mean we just carry on as its business as usual. NZ Farmers have had it on a plate for far too long they are a very powerful lobby groups that tend to throw their toys out of their cots when they get called out. And let’s face it many NZers can’t even afford to eat their products at international prices we are getting ripped off. Some of our farmers are a bunch of old racist farts and more so in areas like Southland and New Plymouth where they can get away with their bullshit.
Pak n Save “special” on leg of lamb yesterday $52 ish, down from $62 ish. Roast chicken this Xmas
I thought I saw a turkey in the freezer nearer last Christmas which was over $90, but I should have written it down for record. Possible it was only $60, and I was reading it wrong way round!
But it takes me back to old Punch cartoon where the supermarket meat department has a small desk (old-fashioned form-filling required) and behind that desk sits a legal clerk arranging small loans against your house to facilitate your meat sales.
Of course that is really old fashioned. You wouldn’t have a house to use as security now. Don’t know what date that was published. May have been in their last big bovine disease outbreak.
But looking through some old memoribilia I saw in 1993 there was a big famine in Sudan and a woman whose 10 children had died of starvation was nibbling on leaves for sustenance. Shakespeare – What a piece of work is man!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Sudan_famine
Why was there a famine in 1993 Sudan?
The ten-year-old conflict in the south continued to bring famine, pestilence and death to the 3.5 million people who lived in that region. The violations of the rules of war committed by the government and the SPLA factions were a direct and important cause of food shortages and deaths.1/01/1994
Are we okay here? in mixed-up mashed-down NZ Are we going to join Australia in regarding ourselves as ‘The Lucky Country’?
Don’t be chicken-hearted Sinic – Kia kaha. We certainly can’t afford to be turkeys. Lambs to the slaughter? We are cowed and confused over all this bs we are handed. Ugh. We need to get on our unicorned horses and clear all those fences and go after the foxy pollies and their PR prating pets. Release the hounds says Montgomey Burns.
Chicken Hearts $12.99 kg Pak n Shove 😉 Dog food for Xmas in this dog-eat-dog existence, at this rate. Hearty as GW 🙂
Well said covid is pa
An interesting “Development”.
Eke Panuku and H.U.D, KaingaOra in Court soon?
A conflict of interest?
The Chairman of eke Panuku Paul Majurey and Ockham, Mark Todd, housing development get the green light for consents and government investment and the developments in South Auckland gets the bums rush.
This development by Winton v …
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/130223791/property-development-company-winton-takes-kinga-ora-to-court-over-refusal-to-fasttrack-4b-carless-neighbourhood
Versus these ones … by Majurey and Ockham.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/new-multi-billion-dollar-village-planned-for-owairaka-mt-albert-by-marutuahu-ockham/OHN4SJNAJ5VSQMGCRTC5CKA4ZQ/
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/477043/live-tractors-trucks-roll-into-city-centres-in-groundswell-protest
I’ll take some notice when they all ride in on their donkeys and wearing their tattered dirty farm gear and gumboots smelling of cowshit.
And don’t worry for them. Their fuel will expensed against the farm account and will you bludging townies hurry up and fix Mbovis for us.
How come they get to drive their tractors on the roads without number plates or registration plates and no WOF on display?
Isn’t that special treatment?
Aren’t we all the same? One law for all or am I missing something?
Answer – Yes you are – but in your case not for long.
What are the flatworms up to now? This is going the rounds about Labour looking at tax, the wealthy have sensitive noses; they can smell
How you spend your money is your business. You work hard and pay taxes and what you choose to do with what is left in your wallet after that is none of the Government’s beeswax.
Not anymore. Minister for Revenue, David ‘Nosey’ Parker, used the pandemic as an opportunity to sneak through a law change ‘under urgency’ allowing IRD to put their stickybeaks into the spending habits and family dynamics of Kiwis.
The Government has started its snooping with ‘high-wealth individuals’, but as we have seen over and over, if you give the Ardern Government an inch of power, they take a mile. Will your spending habits be rifled through next? out dangerous lurking possible charges that might help the nation as a whole, instead of a ‘hole’.
https://www.noseyparker.nz/
https://www.noseyparker.nz/
NZ Flatworms are –
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_flatworm
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/477141/firefighters-strikes-put-the-public-at-risk-bosses
I’ve an idea – all administration and CEOs with staff on strike, shall be obliged to take a temporary break from their salaried positions and serve with the workers.
Just to get a taste of what they are complaining about – say three full days at least, and get the workers’ pay with a cut in their basic perks, and no flight travel for the term. The extra pay they would have received to go to public food banks coffers. It would limit strike length and produce some practical changes to facilitate the workers, who still wouldn’t get what they wished in total but both sides of bargainers would likely keep their approach more reasonable. The extra costs of financial calculations would come off the CEOs salary!