"Economic sabotage" ends in Dunedin

KiwiRail has failed to find a buyer for all of its Hillside manufacturing plant in Dunedin, but has sold the foundry.

The 115 staff at the South Dunedin site were this morning given the grim news that most will be losing their jobs.

Good news as another uneconomic highly unionised workplace is given final notice.  

Companies like POAL are getting good experience at playing the long game with unions.   Who'd want to buy a workplace full of staunch economic saboteurs  unionised these days anyway?

No doubt the local opposition MP will entertain any who might listen with a few bleats and moans for while as her potential voters fade into oblivion.

Mr Invisible: He's still alive!

It seems to me in my electorate banks are gouging, particularly on their overdraft rates, charging about two per cent more than they need to

Amazing!  I'd always thought my local MP was as good as dead.  The only time his name has surfaced in the past four years is on election papers.

Must be fiddling the expense sheet after his recent European junket working out that he's in overdraft on now unclaimable expenses to those rapacious banks.  Banks which are creaming it whilst supposedly covering their risk on over-indebted farmers.

Suppose the next time I'll hear from Mr Invisible will be late 2014 when he's up for renewal of his free pass to the beltway trough.

Hear, Hear!

National party supporters see Labour as the party of Satan out to ‘steal their money’ and ‘raise taxes’

An apt description of the Left.  Can't argue with that.  

Especially pertinent after perusing the remit list for Shearer's Farewell Roast upcoming this weekend.

One rule for them: "that's a little bit over the top"

I'm concerned we are pushing people through enforcement - that's a little bit over the top

Trougher who sits on the race based Maori statutory board of the unelected, consuming vast  and ever increasing amounts of ratepayer wedge and taxes, considers there should be leniency shown to his ilk.  Whilst other taxpayers (read 'white mofos' as one so indelicately put it in recent times ) can continue to fund his undemocratic lifestyle.

he was concerned about the owner of an unregistered and unwarranted car who received a ticket for $360 from a parking warden outside a hospital to which a sick child had been driven from a rural area

The fact that the current law was broken is of no concern.  Looking after 'our people' is the only concern for those in the Griever Maori industry.  Guaranteed that such leniency will soon be a treaty right in the new constitution, being written as you read this, lording it over the upcoming second class citizenry of fairer European extraction.  God help those without the appropriate genes.

As expected

opposition to fracking in New Zealand is being based not on evidence, but on misinformation and emotion .... the technique has been used safely and successfully in New Zealand for more than 20 years

Essential reading for the misinformed and rabid anti-mining greenie nutters here.

The once greatest nation on earth votes for more of the same

About now I'd guess Adolf over at No Minister has cut himself a very large slice of pie.  Humble pie that is.

At least having another four years of the Kenyan illegal will drive home why the once greatest nation on earth needs to rein in its exorbitant spending.  And borrowing which is paying for the vote buying handouts and entitlements.

It is like watching a a slow motion train wreck.  I guess Mitt has just started running again to be the next Pres.

And we pay for this?

When approaching police he had his hand in his pocket, concealing something the police officers thought was a weapon. While Judge Gibson acknowledged it was Taite's intention to give the officers the impression he had a gun, he was discharged on the two charges of presenting ... as if it were a firearm as he had not at any point actually deployed it.

Judge Gibson agreed there were threats made by Taite.

"Consequently the evidence satisfies me that the defendant did make threats to the officers in the way described, namely statements that he had a gun and threats to kill them."

 
Wanted thug for all intents presents a weapon at night whilst being warned Mr Plod is armed and continues to advance with menace, so Mr Plod drops him.  He complains about being shot and the beak lets him off.  

One really wonders why taxpayers continue to fund the true criminals that are resident in the fancy seat on the other side of the bench.

IMMEDIATE: Tin foil hats required!

Spotted this very morning, an utterance from a rabid feral on the InterWeb:

Irradiation is not safe.

Irradiated food has been nuked with evil ionising radiation!  The sky will apparently fall if we import some juicy tomatoes from tropical Queensland.

But there's some sense from the font of knowledge that is Wikipedia.

Food undergoing irradiation does not become any more radioactive than luggage passing through an airport X-ray scanner or teeth that have been X-rayed.

Some of the more fervid no doubt might posit there's a conspiracy afoot in the report Wikipedia references. 

I'd suggest that the Chicken Little in residence over at FrogBlog needs to dispense tinfoil hats post haste.  After all, the ionising radiation pouring from cosmic rays, x-rays, cellphones and the like must also be stopped.  Whilst on the subject, I do wonder how much cumulative radiation has amassed in the green MP 'Ronald' Hughes from rushing around the country's airport scanners.

Drill it, Mine it, Sell it - Shares for sale!

Danger Alert

The only danger is more of the same crap from the local anti-frackers in my letter box.  Must be a full moon at present.

But there's some good amongst the drivel emanating from the rabid...

Potential for thousands of wells in East Coast Basin

The only thing of use on today's missive is the link where to buy shares at www.tagoil.com/investors.  However, I do note that they've gone upmarket this time with a 2-colour A4.  Just hope they're not being funded through the council.


From the horses mouth,

Target tight oil source rock formations in the East Coast Basin and unlock a multi-billion barrel resource potential.

Drill it, Mine it, Sell it!

Actions speak louder than words

was never just for Maori people

 
Really?  LOL!

All-comers are welcome

Your record says otherwise.  Every second utterance is about "our people" and the ingrained anti-everything attitudes toward colonising "white mofos".  

All of which, like mythical swamp monsters, can be fixed with a large dose of palm greasing under the culture of entitlement and via never ending full and final settlements.

It's never too early for a Tui.

Wonder how long before this bit of sci-fi is copied and used on the West?

In the not so distant past military hardware was hardened against EMP threats.  Even to the point of testing whole planes.  Not now as the nuke threat has hit the back shelves with all the wowsers about too scared to hit the button.  Buying off the shelf has been the way to go in recent decades.

The endless savage cuts to military spending everywhere has left those that fight the good fight in times of dire need with non-hardened COTS equipments.  Which as proven this week, is rendered useless in the face of a short blast from such a device, long touted to be from the realms of sci-fi fantasies.  

No need for a dirty nuke anymore, just hitch the EMP device to a semitrailer and tow it through the main centres of a country.  Instant and total comms failure.  Dead as a doorknob, including the Internet.

Won't be long before it is copied and used against the West by some crank state hell bent on our destruction.  And there's plenty of them, even ones that have free trade agreements with us.

No physical damage, just the electronics utterly rooted, but easily replaced.  I can well imagine a Mr Huawei making a leisurely call post one of these being deployed through the streets of NYC or around 1600 Pennsylvania.  Who's knows, he just might be behind the deployment to tout for business.

The price of military electronics is about go sub-orbital. 

Good and bad news

Really shows POAL what can be done without the deadweight millstone of a unionised workforce.

Port of Tauranga is signalling another record profit

And further down...

is frustrated at a new Maori court challenge to block plans to deepen its shipping channel

One wonders where the NZ economy might be four years down the track if we'd had a government that kept both those pesky natives and unions in their place.

I long for government that will stick to stated principles.

Bumper sticker of the decade!

HT Theo Spark

"a glimpse of what could be in store if National fails to come to its senses"

the Treaty of Waitangi as supreme law
schools to teach local iwi history; civic and heritage studies
all Māori to be automatically entered on to the Māori roll
Māori seats will stay until such time Māori freely choose, via a referendum

Welcome to Apartheid New Zealand.  Unfortunately, as enablers of this travesty in its quest to retain power at any cost, National has already failed miserably.

Abolishing the Waitangi Tribunal is a key demand of the Declaration of Equality campaign for equal rights. If you haven’t signed the Declaration we urge you to do so now HERE - and to encourage your family and friends to do the same. This battle for equal rights will not be won unless New Zealanders take a stand.  

 
HT CR

Reams of untruths in my letter box

Some crowd of rabid ferals from a group calling themselves FrackFree Tararua stuffed a double sided A4 sheet of untruths about the supposed dangers fracking in our letter box yesterday.  As if our great rural delivery postie hasn't got enough to do daily delivering windowed envelopes without also having to cart that claptrap to my letterbox.

I'll be using that sheet to consume more carbon the very next time I light my fire on the next chilly night.  Imagine how toasty my house might be if I could tap into one of those fracked bores.  Pity I couldn't stuff some of the frack-free fruitloops whipping up local anti-mining sentiments into the firebox as well.  Or maybe even better, a burning at the stake in the public square for out and out entertainment value.

Maybe 'reams of untruths' was stretching it, but I firmly believe in mine it, drill it, sell it!