No. Way.

Senior cop owns illegal garage rentals

Two illegal garage rentals let to tenants for hundreds of dollars a week are owned by a senior police officer, Newshub has discovered.

Auckland Council confirmed the garages don’t have any permits or consents to be used as a dwelling – they are illegal conversions and can’t be lived in.

Yet south Auckland property manager Debbie Iskandar is letting the garages out.

And in some cases, tenants are being referred to Ms Iskandar by Work and Income, which is also paying their bonds. Ms Iskandar also receives accommodation subsidies.

Let’s get this straight. A senior cop is illegally renting out his garage to desperate people while the fucking WINZ refer desperate people to him?

We have State Agencies now who are the problem, they are not the solution. People fear WINZ, Housing NZ and CYFS the way they fear cancer.

This is civil servants gouging the poor.

This housing crisis, this desperation, this corruption is on every National Party voter.

This is NZ in 2016.

We should all feel ashamed of our Government right now.

Round of applause folks for the utter failure of the free market housing crisis that the National Party have built. Another day, and another set of examples of the Housing Crisis in meltdown.

First Nick Smith on Radio NZ this morning sounding as confused and delusional as he always does when pushed on Housing…

…good one Nick, so first time home buyers can just be patient, and where exactly can those in desperate need stay patient? Why in a gloriously illegal roach motel run by a slumlord…

‘Predatory’ property managers renting out Auckland garages

A Newshub investigation has revealed Auckland garages are being rented out illegally for more than $400 a week.

In a case that is currently before the Tenancy Tribunal, one property manager is accused of commandeering a garage, converting it and renting it out to separate tenants.

That’s despite the garage apparently being included in the rental agreement for the tenant in the main house

…National have stripped renters, the poor and beneficiaries from being able to live in dignity and the state agencies tasked with their welfare are causing more harm than good.

Mass surveillance and dirty politics turned many voters off from participating at all in the electoral process in 2014 while those property speculators with skin in the game flocked to the ballot boxes to ensure Key remained in power. What we are seeing with the private polling is a collapse of National vote because those who didn’t bother to participate last time see just as much reason to vote this time around as those with property because their living standards have been guttered by this Government.

What’s different this time around is the mainstream media are now competing with narrative structures from social media that contradict National’s spin and they are forced (primarily by Checkpoint) to actively seek out stories of those who are suffering.

It’s time John Key and National Party voters reaped what they sow.

Good to see that Claire Trevett and the rest of the mainstream media are catching up to news that Waatea 5th Estate and TDB had first announced a month earlier.

You can either read it and see it first on Waatea 5th Estate/TDB or you can read it a month later in the mainstream media.

The simple reality for MANA and the Maori Party is that they have more to gain working together to force Labour out of the Maori electorates than working against each other.

In almost every Maori electorate the MANA + Maori Party vote swamps the Labour Party vote.

Why do Maori need an independent voice? Because Labour has time and time and time again screwed Maori over to appease angry white voters. Dumping the closing the gap policy, Terror raids that only created terror and the largest land confiscation in NZ history – all were examples of Labour throwing Maori under a bus to appease the angry white middle.

Maori need an independent political voice and the Maori Party working alongside MANA is the best way to do that.

The Maori Party need MANA because if they want to see their goal of being invited to every Government table they will need MANAs connections to the Left if there is a change of Government next year.

MANA need the Maori Party because they won’t be able to topple Kelvin out of TTT if they don’t cut a deal.

So how would a MOU work? MANA and the Maori Party would both run party lists, but would agree to only run one electorate candidate in each Maori electorate. Their combined totals would swamp every Labour Party candidate.

With coat tailing, MANA and the Maori Party could bring in a combined total of 5 MPs, that’s a block that could have a huge impact in the 2017 election.

Watching Fox news, the constant claim is that the anti-Police sentiment that has gripped America is somehow the fault of Black Lives Matter.

Bullshit.

The anti-Police sentiment is the fault of the trigger happy cops who kill African-Americans with impunity. It’s not the fault of Black Lives Matter who raise legitimate and righteous protest against a Police culture that kills without justice.

America’s arrogant cop culture is the reason why African-Americans get killed, and America’s gun culture that allows high powered military style weaponry to be bought by everyone is the reason why Police are getting shot.

Blaming Black Lives Matter is a smokescreen so that America doesn’t have to confront its own gun culture or Police authoritarianism.

If there was any illusion that Trump represented anything more than the same crony capitalism American politics has always been, it has been ended with his VP choice of  Indiana Governor Mike Pence .

The reason why Trump originally scared the bejesus out of the Republican establishment wasn’t Trumps outrageous racism or sexism, it was because he ran his candidacy without needing any money from them. This made it very difficult for those arch-conservative far right fascists, the Koch Brothers, to be able to influence Trump.

If you don’t know who the Koch Brothers are – they’re pretty much the reason America is so evil.

Imagine Darth Vader crossed with Cameron Slater crossed with Caligula.

What you may not know is that Pence pimps for the Koch Brothers. The Far right Republican Establishment has regained control by having Pence made the VP and have their man ready in place should Trump stumble.

As repugnant as Trump is, Pence and his connection with far right billionaire fascists is far more dangerous.

It’s the byline of this headline that is so important…

China threatens reprisals on NZ dairy, wool and kiwifruit if government doesn’t back off cheap steel inquiry 

…the byline shows this was written by Vernon Small and Jonathan Milne. That tells us that despite John Key’s breathless assurances that China isn’t angry with NZ, the reality must be that they are. Despite the collusion of most mainstream media and the out of touch elitism of the Press Gallery hacks, Small and Milne are well respected for a reason. For them  to put their names to such an explosive set of allegations that China would take NZs concerns about their dodgy steel seriously  enough to threaten a trade war means that the threat is very, very, very serious indeed.

This has always been the fear of putting all our cows in one Beijing paddock. As China ratchets up its cold war against America in the Pacific, their role as our largest trading partner comes complete with all the strings attached.

China’s lowest cost capitalism model is deeply flawed because in normal capitalism, the regulatory regimes required force cost. China’s incredibly dodgy steel is made worse by the purposely deceptive certification process. 

What else is one to expect from a totalitarian Communist state that harvests organs from the executed?

This isn’t the first time NZ has seen the flaws of China’s lowest cost capitalism model. When the National Government foolishly decided to close rail shops to build new trains in favour of cheap Chinese versions, the asbestos found inside the trains highlighted how damaged China’s low regulation economy really is.

When you combine the geopolitical strategies being employed here especially with China pressuring us to sign up to their version of the TPPA, alongside the domestic influence China has over senior National Party Ministers like Judith Collins and former leader Jenny Shipley,  the threat to our economic and political sovereignty is as real as America’s threat to our economic and political sovereignty.

If only the mainstream media were as focused on this new threat by China as they are by fucking Pokemon.