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Post by muzled on Jul 25, 2024 20:09:56 GMT 12
Ha, how funny would it be if dame Chloe wouldn't sack Darleen and she blazed off to tea parti Maori. breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2024/07/cam-slater-hide-of-hippo.html?m=1Cam Slater: The Hide of a Hippo
What’s the bet Tana will end up in Te Pāti Māori, and claim that the Greens are racists? I know who is advising her, and I know of their connections to Te Pāti Māori.
The Greens are wailing about Darleen Tana giving them the middle finger as she takes up an independent seat in the Parliament. Yet the situation is entirely of their own making and the solution to their predicament is also entirely in their hands.
Embattled MP Darleen Tana has fronted media after returning to the House today, saying she will remain in Parliament “as long as this place allows me”.
She returned to the House today for the first time since resigning from the Green Party.
Asked when she would decide her future in Parliament, she said: “I’m here now and doing the mahi ... as long as this place allows me.”
Tana said she has not had any conversations with her former party since returning to Parliament.
Asked if she was involved in migrant exploitation, she said: “The report that came out was pretty clear, there was no migrant exploitation in that report, let alone that I was involved in it.
“What I can categorically say is we’ve spent so much money wasting taxpayers’ hard-earned money to find out that I am married to my husband for better or for worse.”
As she finished speaking to reporters, Tana said she needed to get back to the House because she was the “only person there and I don’t have anybody backing me up”.
She really has more front than Smith and Caughey’s and the hide of a hippo. But I am quietly admiring her for standing up to the mean girls of the Greens.
Which means that we have much hilarity and entertainment to come as she stares them down from the furthest reaches of Parliament’s back bench. The backs of their heads will be burning from her death stare.
As Te Pāti Māori MPs entered, they came and greeted her.
The Greens have called on Tana to quit Parliament – a call echoed today by Labour leader Chris Hipkins. So far, she has shown no signs of doing so.
The Greens have been reduced to begging her to quit because they really don’t want to have to invoke the waka jumping legislation that they have always opposed.
However, the longer Tana sits there the more they’ll have to consider chugging down an enormous vegan rat and do it, even though they’ll be exposed as the rank hypocrites they have always been.
But not to worry, they can hold up their shields of sanctimony as they do it and hope that no one notices their hypocrisy.
The Greens really are a clown show.
But, what’s the bet Tana will end up in Te Pāti Māori, and claim that the Greens are racists? I wouldn’t bet against that. I know who is advising her, and I know of their connections to Te Pāti Māori.
Watch it happen!
Cam Slater is a New Zealand-based blogger, best known for his role in Dirty Politics and publishing the Whale Oil Beef Hooked blog, which operated from 2005 until it closed in 2019. Cam blogs regularly on the Good Oil - where this article was sourced. |
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Post by muzled on Aug 5, 2024 20:05:09 GMT 12
Pretty sure 'sand' wasn't the first thing that sprang to mind... ~8700 votes isn't a bad ratio to get 6 seats in the house. I'd hazard a guess there are unknown local body councilors that get more votes than that. breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2024/08/jc-maori-party-should-get-their-heads.html?m=1JC: The Maori Party Should ‘Get Their Heads Out of the Sand’
The time has come for a serious discussion on exactly where this country might be headed if certain issues aren’t addressed and certain decisions taken. I will start by giving the Māori Party a compliment, albeit, some might say, a backhanded one. They are honest enough to portray themselves as exactly who they are: a racist group who have neither the interests of the country nor of their people at heart. They are in parliament for one reason and one reason only. That is to promote division, nastiness and venom at anyone who doesn’t agree with their form of racism. And anyone is the majority of people living in this country. The philosophies they and their small gaggle of supporters hold are at odds with the majority opinion in New Zealand. They want to impose their will on the rest of us, and that cannot be allowed to happen. They might want to live in a grass-skirt mentality but the country has moved on and is trying to cope with the problems of present day 2024, not those of 1840. This reality is one they will never accept, so what is their relevance in parliament? There are more MPs of Māori heritage in parliament than ever before. Those on the left are mainly on the grievance gravy train, while those on the right are there for the good of the country as a whole. This grievance mentality needs to be brought to a halt. It has already largely been addressed, although, listening to the wailing from the Māori Party, one could be forgiven for thinking nothing ever happened: no compensation, nothing. They never talk about it. Instead their hands are out promoting their next plan to rob the taxpayers of their hard-earned money. The Māori Party MPs and others of their ilk in parliament lack all credibility. They take their actions seriously, while the population at large see their game for what it is – nothing more than a blatant unashamed grab for power – and money. They use the Treaty of Waitangi and their version of it to screw the rest of us. On the face of it, they might seem to be helping their people, but in reality nothing could be further from the truth. If they were genuinely concerned about the plight of their people they would be talking about crime, law and order, family violence, health, education and the like. Do we ever hear them talking about these issues? Hardly ever, because those are not part of their agenda. I have never once heard them offer to work with the government to try and put in place policies that will make their people’s lives better.
No, it’s all about the Treaty and the Waitangi Tribunal: the tools to try and garner more money and power. Unlike ACT and NZ First – who want to bring a current relevance to the Treaty and the Tribunal – that is the last thing the Māori Party wants, as that would completely stymie their game. They suffer from a sense of entitlement that is beyond the pale, when they should be getting their heads out of the sand and addressing the real problems of their people. On the odd occasion that they do, it is nothing but an offensive diatribe reflecting their personal views rather than anything constructive. An example is a speech Ms Kapa-Kingi made in the general debate about Oranga Tamariki. Her opening sentence was “No matter my words today, the government will not waver in its mission to exterminate Māori.” She went on to say, “ The theory of the minister [Karen Chhour] is that Oranga Tamariki’s governing principles should be colour-blind, which is just another word for white supremacy, because to say ‘we are all one people’ is really to say we should all be white people.”
This tells us much. These people do not believe in a united country where everyone gets treated the same and has the same opportunities regardless of race or colour. However, that premise is about as far from their idea of utopia as you could get, because it is the exact opposite of what they want. In fact, they believe they have superior DNA. Rawiri Waititi said so. If that’s the case, then, why are they currently not better off. They have a one-word answer to that: COLONIALISM. It’s a word used in practically every speech they make. In respect of Oranga Tamariki, they are now saying the minister, Karen Chhour, is not Māori enough. Again, a race-based comment. Karen Chhour is Māori and the perfect fit for the job having been through the system herself; she is now very upset and is finding her workplace, parliament, very toxic. It is an absolute disgrace that whomever is in charge has allowed it to get to this point. If this was any other workplace, the matter would have to be dealt with. The House is a place for robust debate – not racial hatred.
The Māori Party is out of control and the speaker needs to get a handle on it. He needs to caution them that their rhetoric needs to be toned down or they will be removed from the House. (They’re not there half the time anyway.) It appears Labour and the Greens largely support their race-based agenda. The bad news they are inflicting on themselves is they are also out of step with the general public, and Māori wards are a case in point. Hipkins stood up last week and accused the government of being racist. If he keeps that up, he will ensure he stays on the opposition benches. Kiwis in general are pretty middle-of-the road decent people. We don’t adhere to extreme views and generally want to live in harmony with each other. Winston Peters called Kapa-Kingi’s remarks ignorant and offensive, leaving little to the imagination as to her mindset or that of the party. Winston noted these types are a shadow of past great Māori leaders. They are, in fact, a boil that needs lancing by the abolishment of the Māori seats, which only attract and serve the minority radical end of Māoridom. Winston says their three per cent of the vote doesn’t entitle them to speak on behalf of the majority of Māori and neither do they want them to. He says they don’t want democracy: they want anarchy. How right he is. Of the total number of registered voters, 3,374,645 are on the general roll and only 290,435 are on the Māori roll. Three per cent of that number is 8,713 votes and six seats in the House.
Instead of dictating on the wearing of minuscule party pins, the speaker should concentrate on Palestinian shawls, sneakers, cowboy hats and holding racists to account. We don’t need racism in this country in any form and we certainly don’t need parliament being used as a vehicle to promote it. The time has come for a serious discussion on exactly where this country might be headed if certain issues aren’t addressed and certain decisions taken. The future well being of the country is at stake. |
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Post by muzled on Aug 8, 2024 16:54:35 GMT 12
Is the TAB taking bets on how long before she formally calls for war yet? As Haimona Gray says - there will be tears, just not theirs. breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2024/08/ele-ludemann-stuck-in-activist-mode.html?m=1Stuck in activist mode In 2008 the Māori Party accepted the National Party’s invitation to join it in government and by doing so its MPs had influence and were able to show its supporters what they had gained. Led by Tariana Turia (now Dame) and Pita Sharples (now Sir), the party supported the government on confidence and supply but voted against many of the government’s initiatives which included stymying attempts to reform the RMA and National’s policy to disestablish the Māori seats.. But they didn’t only oppose, they also made gains, including getting funding for the establishment of Whānau Ora. They knew they would achieve more inside the government tent and by acting like responsible MPs, than they could on Opposition and by being stuck in activist mode as today’s co-leaders and other MPs are. Take this speech in parliament yesterday as an example: DEBBIE NGAREWA-PACKER (Co-Leader—Te Pāti Māori): Tēnā koe e te Pīka. Last week, our co-leader Rawiri Waititi raised a phrase that we are “punch drunk”. It’s a phrase used to describe our fatigue—our fatigue from defending our culture, our fatigue from being unable to act normally, our fatigue from fighting for our rights and our identity, and fatigue from feeling persecuted for being tangata whenua.
It is truly believed that this Government has started one of the biggest attacks that we’ve had as Māori since the 1860s, and, oh, for our people to have the luxury to curl up in a corner and cry. The amount of pain, fear, and harm that we are seeing from our whānau is heartbreaking. But, no, as tangata whenua, we must brave up because we don’t get to have the break, because we must stand strong and give our whānau hope, despite the tsunami of constant assaults, and it’s deliberate. It’s deliberately done, based on a history which is taught to us to grind us down.
Māori-focused solutions designed for generations are ending. The Māori Health Authority is demolished. Māori mokopuna in State detention with solutions like section 7AA—gone. Auahi kāti programmes, demolishing Māori wards, fast-tracking seabed mining.
. . . Whānau mā, I think it’s really important that we are aware of what we’re in. The deliberate fatigue of repealing, policy extractions, and policy demolishes before the big one comes, because the big one is coming, and who is the architect behind this? How is this Government letting a small party like ACT be the tail that wags the dog? How has ACT groomed the Prime Minister and, indeed, National into deliberately exercising ethnocide?
Let me explain what ethnocide is. It is the deliberate, systemic destruction of our culture and us as tangata whenua by using legislative power and political force and influence to make us into one—their one, and our none. We’ll all be one New Zealanders, one people—where have we heard that before?
This Government has lost control. It is very clear, whānau mā, that National is being run by ACT, and they’re allowing them to destroy our culture, one repeal, one piece of legislation, one punch, at a time—very hard and very low, and it’s deeply, deeply dark. This Government is being led by a dark triad, and let me explain what that means. Three personality traits: the Machiavellian, the psychopath, and the narcissist, and I’ll get you to guess which one is which. They’re manipulative, extremely entitled, and they lack empathy, but together, those traits are dangerous for our people because, together, they create some of the cruellest social chaos ever known to indigenous people. . .
Talk of ethnocide and destroying Māori culture will play well to the party’s gallery but it is a very small one if last year’s election results are a guide. The party got only 3:08% of the vote and more Māori voted for each of the three coalition parties – National, New Zealand First and Act than Te Pāti Māori. They make the mistake separatists and proponents of identity politics too often do – thinking that the people they think they represent speak with one voice. |
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Post by eri on Aug 10, 2024 0:23:09 GMT 12
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Post by fish on Aug 10, 2024 10:23:49 GMT 12
The really sad thing about this is Rawiri and Tea party have not said anything about the actual issue. "In a statement, co-leader Rawiri Waititi said the advert was full of deceitful misinformation designed to sow resentment of Māori", but he says zero about what the misinformation is, and what the 'true' information is. Just attacks the messenger. Lots of angry rhetoric, but zero about why I shouldn't resent Maori for claiming control of the foreshore and seabed. If I didn't know better, he has zero facts to back up his argument, and I already have the right end of the stick... I'm all for listening and understanding another perspective, but he's given me nothing to listen to. |
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Post by dp on Aug 11, 2024 1:05:16 GMT 12
15% of 15% is a little over 2% of the population. I don't think The Horrid will be too worried From Kiwiblog 87% of Maori watch online video, 45% TV and 41% radio. Only 15% read newspapersThe most time is spent online gaming and streaming music Of those who watch TV (around half), 58% watch TV1, 38% TV3 and 17% Whakaata Maori Of those who watch streaming video, 79% are onNetflix, 29% Disney and 15% Amazon Prime 22% of those who listen to radio listen to Mai FM, 12% National Radio and 11% NewstalkZB The main reasons Maori watch video/TV is relaxing 52%, passing time 28%, background 22%. Reflecting Maori culture was 10th at 9% and last at 5% was because of use of te reo Only 4% of Maori found shows fully in te reo appealing |
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Post by muzled on Aug 12, 2024 10:29:37 GMT 12
I'm sure the silence will be deafening. www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2024/08/will_the_media_hold_tpm_up_to_the_same_level_as_they_did_muldoon_and_peters.htmlWill the media hold TPM up to the same level as they did Muldoon and Peters? NewstalkZB reports: Te Pāti Māori says it “will no longer engage” with the New Zealand Herald after the newspaper published a front-page advertisement bought by lobby group Hobson’s Pledge. This is astonishing. This isn’t just a political party effectively banning a media organisation because of their editorial stance, but they are banning them because they don’t like one of their advertisers. They are saying that if you accept an advertisement from groups we disagree with, we will refuse to deal with you.I recall Muldoon banning Tom Scott from his press conferences because he didn’t like what Scott wrote. This was covered by numerous other media scores and scores of time. Everyone was outraged that a leader would do this. Well what TPM are doing is arguably worse,. They are saying that if you even accept advertisements we dislike, we will refuse to deal with you. Is the parliamentary press gallery going to complain to TPM about this? Will the Media Freedom Committee? Will the NZ Council for Civil Liberties? Will NZME competitors editorialise is solidarity with NZME? More recently we have Winston Peters regularly sparring with and sometimes attacking the media. There have been dozens or scores of articles decrying him when he does this.So lets wait and see whether TPM are held up to the same level of scrutiny as other politicians. The irony is that what TPM is doing, is very similar to what Donald Trump does. Trump hates it when Fox News runs advertisements critical of him, and he does late nights posts attacking them, and urging people to swap to other mediums etc. Parliamentary parties and politicians should not be using their power to try and prevent lobby groups from being to advertise. |
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Post by muzled on Aug 19, 2024 12:42:34 GMT 12
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Post by muzled on Aug 21, 2024 14:00:24 GMT 12
Shane AND Winnie🤣 About time someone started asking wtf the families of these kids are doing instead of trying to make it a political football. Debbie Ngarewa-Packer: Can the Minister please explain why there are 790 Māori tamariki who have entered Oranga Tamariki in the last eight months, a record amount of tamariki? Hon Shane Jones: Ask the whānau. Debbie Ngarewa-Packer: I’m asking the Minister. It’s her role. Rt Hon Winston Peters: Ask your cousins. www.parliament.nz/en/pb/hansard-debates/rhr/combined/HansDeb_20240820_20240820_28 |
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Post by ComfortZone on Sept 30, 2024 12:00:34 GMT 12
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Post by muzled on Oct 18, 2024 11:35:44 GMT 12
Te Cowboy and DNP so very lucky they're as pure as the driven snow. Coz it's ok when she accuses the govt of trying to exterminate Maori and committing ethnocide against them. Just in August in the house she asks - How has ACT groomed the primeminister into deliberately exercising ethnocide, the deliberate, systemic destruction of our culture and us as tangata whenua using legislative power, political force and influence to make us into one, their one, our none. This govt has been lead by a dark triade of the Machiavellian, the psychopath, the narcissist. They're manipulative, extremely entitled, and lack empathy, those traits are dangerous for our people. Because together they create some of the cruelest social chaos ever known to indigenous people. www.teaonews.co.nz/2024/10/18/te-pati-maori-seeks-action-on-winston-peters-racist-remarks/Te Pāti Māori co-leaders Debbie Ngarewa-Packer and Rawiri Waititi have sent a letter to the Speaker of the House, urging action against Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters for what they allege were“racist and hateful” remarks. The letter said the Deputy Prime Minister had had an “abhorrent outburst” in Parliament, telling students in te reo Māori lessons to “keep their mouth shut”. “This was not merely a throwaway comment — it was a calculated, blatant, racist assault on our tamariki and a contemptuous dismissal of te reo Māori. “Peters has a disgraceful history of making vile and divisive comments about Māori, and this latest attack shows his determination to degrade our people and culture. They also challenged the Speaker’s “inability to uphold the standards of Parliament” by allowing Peters to make those remarks. “As Speaker, your role is to uphold the standards of Parliament and ensure it does not become a cesspit for racism and abuse. “To allow Peters’ remarks to go unpunished is to endorse hate speech and spit in the face of the values of respect, inclusivity, and Te Tiriti o Waitangi. “The time for silence has passed; every second that Parliament fails to act is a second spent betraying our tamariki and the future we owe them.” The party is demanding the Speaker censures Peters, forces a public apology, and makes it unequivocally clear that bigotry will not be given a platform in the House. Ngarewa-Packer and Waititi claim it is not just about the one comment but instead about defending the Māori language, culture, and tamariki. They called for the public to “speak out” and contact the Speaker directly about the issue. “It’s time to stand up for te reo Māori and take a stand against hate, for a future grounded in justice and honour." In response, Peters told Te Ao Māori News: “They have been so seduced by their own rightful unrightful acquisition of power they cannot tolerate anyone challenging their unrifled use of it.” His office was asked if that statement was what Peters meant to say and confirmed it was. |
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Post by GO30 on Oct 18, 2024 14:16:58 GMT 12
No one monitors all the freebies?
That's fecking dumbarse.
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Post by muzled on Oct 24, 2024 6:15:54 GMT 12
Te Cowboy logic. 'you can bust the crims but not my cuzzy bro crims' The right leaning parties must smile quietly every time this clown opens his mouth. The more he talks, the less electable the red team are. www.teaonews.co.nz/2024/10/23/te-pati-maori-calls-opotiki-raids-terrorism-police-wont-comment/Te Pāti Māori has called the police raids in Ōpōtiki “police-sponsored terrorism” after officers executed over 30 search warrants across the North Island as part of Operation Highwater yesterday.
It targeted members and associates of the Mongrel Mob Barbarian MC East Bay chapter based in Opotiki.
Waiariki MP and Te Pāti Māori co-leader, Rawiri Waititi called for Police Commissioner, Andrew Coster, to explain to Te Whakatōhea why officers chose “to activate their state-sponsored terrorism in Ōpōtiki".
“Ōpōtiki needs stability, support, and meaningful community intervention, rather than actions that incite fear and division. It doesn’t need the state to continuously torment them."
A 10-month investigation led to police swooping in and arresting 28 people, seizing illegal drugs and firearms, and restraining assets, and also prevented a planned drive-by shooting at a local marae.
Waititi said it was intentionally targeted due to the government‘s “tough on crime” legislation.
“This predatory action only exacerbates the broken relationship between Te Whakatōhea and authorities, which has been strained for centuries, ever since the death of Rev. Carl Sylvius Völkner in 1865.
“Violating whānau in their own homes on a hunch, and then throwing our people into this racist system, will do nothing to address the systemic issues created by this government.
“In anticipation of what we know will be yet another empty apology from the government this week, we recognise these targeted attacks as merely doubling down on this government’s racist agenda to exterminate our people,” he said.
On Tuesday, Bay of Plenty District Commander Superintendent Tim Anderson said police would continue to “relentlessly pursue criminals who prey on our communities and cause a huge amount of harm and misery in their own communities with their drug dealing and violent behaviour”.
“From my travels around the Bay of Plenty, the feedback from different iwi leaders and the wider community is that they’ve had enough of this type of criminal offending.”
Te Ao Māori News asked police for comment but they declined. |
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Post by fish on Oct 24, 2024 7:03:13 GMT 12
Te Cowboy is actually getting dangerous with his rhetoric there.
"government’s racist agenda to exterminate our people,” he said
Send him to Gaza and he will find out what extermination means.
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Post by ComfortZone on Oct 30, 2024 18:38:38 GMT 12
Hmm, wonder why so reluctant, maybe they have not finished shredding at the Manurewa Marae... www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2024/10/why_wont_te_pati_maori_comply_with_the_law.htmlThe Electoral Commission announced:
"A referral has been made to Police on 4 October 2024 relating to Te Pāti Māori’s failure to file annual financial statements with the Electoral Commission. The financial statements and accompanying audit report were due on 30 June 2024 under sections 210G and 210H of the Electoral Act."
Their financial statements are not a few days late, but 115 days late. Has anyone asked the co-leaders or president why they are refusing to file audited accounts for the year ending 31 December 2024? Every other parliamentary party has done so.
So now we wait to see if the Police will act...
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