I think it is now apparent from Mariameno’s comments and Eru’s that they are digging in their heels and the relationship is likely to become toxic.

Let’s be clear.

When Eru launched his destabilising attack on the leadership, he didn’t mention once the threats of violence, he didn’t mention once the over spending or that he had been hired by his Mum and was involved in that spending.

Not once, which when known now make his allegations against the leadership seem very, very, very hollow and self-interested.

In Mariameno, Te Pati Māori seem to have another Alamein Kopu/Elizabeth Kerekere/Darleen Tana, a well worn parliamentary route taken by the disaffected and bitter who refuse to stand down and instead stay on as long as they can.

I think Joel Maxwell summed it up best…

If Te Pāti Māori wants to succeed, it needs to get its s… together

…Labour + Greens + te Pati Māori could embark upon the progressive change that the Left has been yearning for, but there seem to be some more concerned with their own agendas rather than the kaupapa.

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65% of voters support mega-strike

• A new Talbot Mills poll published this morning in The Post-$ has found 65% of voters support the ‘mega-strike’ planned by teachers, doctors and nurses tomorrow.

Let’s be very clear, the Union movement have been given no option but to Strike against this appalling Government!

Don’t tell me we don’t have the money to pay our workers more when this Government have borrowed billions for the military, landlords, Big Tobacco and rich tax cuts!

Judith, Simeon and Luxon fear the Mega Strike because the Unions have finally woken up to the fact that this anti-worker Government fronted by the Minister of Handmaids, Brooke van Velden is here to destroy them.

The NZ Union movement has never confronted a dead eyed free market acolyte quite like Brooke van Velden before. They have busied themselves with pay equity lawfare (it’s easier to hire lawyers than convince workers to join Unions and far less militant), which is fine and dandy, until it is not.

Brooke is the not.

Fresh from kneecapping Pay Equity, Brooke is back destroying WorkSafe and reducing it from an enforcer to an adviser.

50-60 workers die every year at work and another 700 to 900 from work-related deaths.

Put this anti-worker agenda alongside the massive public service scalping, and the Union movement have no choice but to stand up and fight back and that scares the bejesus out of the Right.

The people united, can never be defeated.

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Roadworkers report being abused – verbally and physically – by frustrated drivers

A survey of roadworkers has found many are routinely abused, attacked and sometimes purposefully hit with cars.

The report found nearly two-thirds of traffic controllers were verbally abused on a weekly basis, and one in five had been physically assaulted over the past year.

The survey, by the Temporary Traffic Management Industry Steering Group, included 667 workers across New Zealand who described their experiences and near-misses.

“I was confronted by the frequency,” steering group chair Darren Wu told Nine to Noon.

“We’ve heard a lot of this anecdotally but now we have some statistical data that can help us understand what this real life situation looks like for them and quite frankly it’s unacceptable.

“[They’re] being shouted and yelled at, sworn at or threatened. Drivers [are] refusing to stop, so not following some critical instructions at road works sites that are looking after the wellbeing and safety of road users.”

Let’s be very clear what National have done by weaponising our impatience at the gridlock generated by their mass immigration policies.

Working class lives are collateral damage so angry drivers can race on the roads like lunatics.

Road cones are there to create the illusion of safety so working class men and woman can work in the baking heat under heavy clothing hoping some impatient driver doesn’t kill them.

Why should the families of working men and women fear their whanau aren’t coming home?

We already have terrible work place death rates for workers, 50-60 per year. Reducing the requirements for health and safety will lead to more worker deaths, but that’s an acceptable calculation from the free market right.

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How New Zealand can fight back on organised crime

The final report from an advisory group on organised crime is calling on the government to urgently implement its proposed solutions, which include a dedicated minister, a refreshed strategy and a charter that would ensure agencies could be accountable.

It warns against implementing a “smaller, scaled back option” of the recommendations, because it will “not achieve the results we need”.

A dedicated transnational serious organised crime (TSOC) minister would lead delivery and drive cross-agency accountability, while a charter would formally recognise organised crime as New Zealand’s greatest national security threat, the report states.

Chair of the ministerial advisory group, Steve Symon told RNZ the work is now done, but it’s up to the government to enact it.

“[Organised crime] is not a threat that might happen in the future. It’s one that is happening now to New Zealand, but it potentially may get much worse, and so that’s why we need to treat it with the seriousness that it deserves, and have a response that’s bold enough to fight it.”

All of the things that are happening because of the criminal sophistication brought in by the 501s and their South American Cartel contacts have all come pass, just as TDB warned when we started blogging on this issue half a decade ago.

Of course we are losing the war against Organized Crime and here’s why it’s going to get worse!

1: Despite decades of being fear mongered by our Politicians about domestic gang violence, our domestic organised crime are not in the same league of criminal sophistication as Australia’s crime culture and that the 501s being forced back here were forming syndicates and standing over the local gangs presented a unique danger to NZ because our local thick-o cops have no capacity to deal with organised crime that uses counter-intelligence tactics. The 501 syndicates use violence and cheaper more pure meth from their South American Cartel contacts and have taken over most of the imported meth trade.

2: ACT legalised pseudoephedrine and meth use spikes while cops are still scratching their heads…

Gangs making large profits amid ‘bizarre’ increase in meth use

The police believe gangs are now making twice as much money from dealing methamphetamine as they were a year ago amid what they’re calling a “bizarre” increase in use of the illicit drug.

Recently released data from Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR)’s wastewater testing programme revealed New Zealand’s meth consumption rose from 732kg in 2023 to 1434kg in 2024.

ESR’s senior scientist Andrew Chappell told 1News there was a large spike in the amount of meth being consumed in July and August last year – and the level has remained high ever since.

New Zealand went from consuming between 15 and 20kg of methamphetamine a week to between 30 to 40kgs.

…NZ Police have no idea why there was a jump in Meth use in June and August of last year and why it has remained so high.

R-i-g-h-t.

And what happened in June of last year…

20 MAY 2024

Pseudoephedrine back on shelves

Associate Health Minister David Seymour is pleased that Pseudoephedrine can now be purchased by the general public to protect them from winter illness, after the coalition government worked swiftly to change the law and oversaw a fast approval process by Medsafe.

Remember what the officials said?

Officials back planned return of pseudoephedrine sales but suggest meth production increase

Officials have advised Associate Health Minister David Seymour, who leads the Misuse of Drugs (Pseudoephedrine) Amendment Bill, that the move comes with risks including a potential increase in domestic meth production, a higher likelihood pharmacies would be ram-raided and the potential for improper use.

And yet the NZ Police have no fucking idea why meth use spiked the month after this policy came into effect?

If we were serious about cracking down on organised crime and not just paying lip service to it, we would hire 100 Mandarin speaking police officers.

The biggest reason why the spike in meth is occurring is because the Chinese are deeply involved.

What we refuse to acknowledge because our Fourth Estate media is dead, is that Shadow Chinese Banking services have created the infrastructure for the 501 syndicates in NZ to pay South American Cartels directly via Shadow Chinese Banking services.

The expose in the Financial Times at how wide spread Chinese shadow banking for criminal organisations has become also notes Auckland in the global chain of this criminal empire…

Chinese brokers launder hundreds of millions for global crime groups

Chinese money launderers are facilitating the fentanyl epidemic and helping international drug traffickers, like Mexican cartels and the Italian mafia, launder the proceeds of crime. The FT investigates the connection between capital flight from China and global organised crime

…let me spell it out incase you are missing my point.

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The Abuse in Care Legislation Amendment Bill limped through into law last night in a move that most Kiwis should be ashamed of.

The State, who have used despicable tactics against the victims of state abuse to undermine their claims and undermine the payout EVEN THOUGH THE STATE KNEW THAT THE VICTIMS WERE TELLING THE TRUTH AND WERE BEING TORTURED, RAPED, ABUSED AND BEATEN – even though the NZ State KNEW the allegations against the State were true, they did everything in their power to silence victims, undermine victims, minimise victims, demonise victims and gag victims all so that the cost would be lower for the State.

That isn’t standing your corner and protecting your interests, that is a predator covering their tracks and minimising their costs.

In light of that appalling behaviour by the State, The Abuse in Care Legislation Amendment Bill is a shameful and embarrassing document that ignores the main calls by victims fore an Independent Body away from the State that decides costs, a point made by State abuse survivor Ihorangi Reweti Peters…

the announcement did not include the establishment of the promised new single redress system. Minister Stanford noted that both the royal commission and the redress design group recommended a new independent redress system, but the challenging decision between allocating resources to develop a new scheme versus providing immediate support through current processes seems to have prevented this from happening.

It was clear that the Government cared more about how they looked to voters than acting on their promises to survivors.

…exactly!

This is about looking like the Government have listened rather than actually listening.

So let’s get this straight:

• The State abused hundreds of thousands of vulnerable NZ children.
• The State KNEW it had abused these children.
• The State then used despicable and disgusting tactics to minimise the abuse and undermine the victims while retraumatizing them to save costs.
• The State then passes a law that ignores what victims wanted.

If you aren’t disgusted by this, you aren’t paying attention.

This is why I can’t take the right wing hate trolls seriously – they are more concerned with petty culture war hate games than the true damage of the State on the weakest and poorest amongst us.

Consider this, it is estimated that 80 to 90 per cent of Mongrel Mob and Black Power gang whānau had been abused in state wards.

You want less gang members, stop abusing kids in State care!

Allowing Boot Camps and the right to use force simply entrenches the States capacity to abuse, not cleanse it of it.

We should all be ashamed of this pitiful legislation.

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