anti ‘Jabcinda’ protest in Wellington last night

It seems that She put on a show for disciples at the St James Theatre. Opponents of Her tyranny showed up with a modified version of Her book cover.

In case you need to be reminded why She is hated–

amusement: a dependable cat in Maine

from Only in Maine

A Maine warehouse says one of its most reliable “employees” is a black cat who clocks in like he’s been working waterfront shifts since before the lighthouse was built.

Workers say he shows up right on time, walks in like he owns the building and the surrounding woods, and taps the time clock with his paw before starting another long shift of absolutely no measurable work. Management confirms he immediately finds the coziest, quietest corner in the place, curls up like it’s part of the job description, and commits to an eight-hour nap with zero interruptions.
HR tried to get him on payroll, but things got complicated when nobody could confirm his legal name, tax forms, or whether he technically belongs to the warehouse… or just chose it one day and never left. Still, after realizing his attendance is perfect and his presence somehow calms the entire place down, they gave him an employee number anyway.

One supervisor questioned his productivity once and got nothing but a slow blink and a look that said, “you new here?”

Coworkers say he follows a strict Maine routine: clock in → find a quiet spot immediately → nap like it’s winter prep → casually wander the floor like he owns the property → stare at people until snacks appear → leave exactly at quittin’ time without saying a word.

Officials are calling him a true Maine professional — quiet, independent, and fully committed to doing the bare minimum without drawing attention.
Honestly?

That’s not a cat. That’s the most dependable employee in the entire Northeast.

the Death of Neutrality: New Zealand’s soft theocracy

A screengrab from a 20 second audio recording leaked to the Taxpayers Union — apparently the session goes on for 30 minutes a day! https://www.facebook.com/reel/951501921078515

Look, you have to understand the gravity of what is happening here. It’s not a joke, and it’s not just “culture.” We are witnessing the systematic dismantling of the secular state, and we’re doing it under the guise of compassion and inclusivity. It is a lie.

​The MBIE whistleblower footage isn’t just a recording of a song; it’s a recording of a ritual. Let’s be precise. When you have state employees gathered in a government building, engaging in collective, rhythmic chanting, you are no longer in a secular workplace. You are in a temple. And if you think participation is “voluntary,” you are pathologically naive. You don’t understand human hierarchy and you don’t understand social pressure.

​In any high-functioning bureaucracy, the pressure to conform is absolute. If you are the one person sitting at your desk while the rest of the tribe is engaged in a collective spiritual manifestation, you are marked. You are the outsider. That is a form of soft-tissue coercion that is antithetical to a free, individualistic society.

​We claim to be a secular nation. Secularism is the hard-won peace that allows people of all beliefs—and no belief—to work together without being subjected to someone else’s metaphysics. But New Zealand has decided to play a dangerous game. We are embedding esoteric, spiritual language into our legislation and daily governance, specifically from the Māori worldview, and then we have the audacity to pretend it’s just “etiquette.”

​It’s a soft theocracy. That’s the word for it. When the state adopts a specific spiritual framework and mandates its practice in the halls of power, the secular wall hasn’t just been breached—it’s been pulverized.

​You see it everywhere: karakia, haka, hongi, pōwhiri, waiata. Taken individually, the “compassionate” types will tell you they’re harmless. But aim the lens at the aggregate. When the state adopts the rituals of a specific spirituality, it is no longer neutral. It is proselytizing.

​We are trading the sovereignty of the individual for a forced, collective performance. It is intellectually dishonest, it is legally hypocritical, and it is happening because everyone is too terrified of being called a “bigot” to state the obvious truth: A state workplace is for work, not for the state-sponsored manifestation of the divine. Pick a lane. Either we are secular, or we are a theocracy. You don’t get to lie to us and say we’re both.

Make New Zealand Secular

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📌 POV: you work at the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. ( MBIE )

👉 That’s a real audio recording, video sent to The New Zealand Taxpayers Union from a disgruntled worker

🙏 Credit to the whistleblower for exposing this.

Concerned Ratepayers Kapiti open letter to the Mayor and Councilors

Dear Mayor Holborow and Councillors,

THE WORSENING COST OF LIVING CRISIS AND THE FUEL CRISIS: IT IS TIME TO REDUCE THE FORECAST RATES INCREASE FOR 2026/27

We have spoken to you on many occasions over the impact that the cost-of-living crisis and cumulative rates increases have had on Kapiti residents. Everyday costs — groceries, insurance, power, and mortgages — have risen far faster than incomes. In recent years, rate increases of over 35% on average (compared to cumulative CPI inflation: 11.2%)1 of have added to that burden, becoming one of the most significant contributors to rising household costs.

At our public meetings, we hear real stories from Kapiti residents about the difficult trade-offs they are having to make. Households are reducing their insurance cover, delaying repairs, or putting discretionary spending, like holidays on hold, just to stay afloat. We know of Kapiti residents who have put their houses on the market as the impact of cumulative rates increases have become the final straw in their battle to stay in their homes. Councillor Koh’s famous prediction at the June 2024 Council meeting has come to pass for some residents.

Even though you are ultimately responsible to residents, the Council’s failure to consult on the 2026 Annual Plan means that Council is oblivious to the real pain that rates increases – past and planned –
is having of the welfare and mental wellbeing of Kapiti residents.

The current fuel crisis has only made matters worse – much, much worse. We have surely reached a tipping point where the Council’s planned rates increases are simply too much for the community to bear.

We call upon the Council to urgently re-think its planned rates increase for 2026/27 of between 5.7 and 6.4%

  1. Some Councillors have long argued that the Local Government costs increase faster than the rate of CPI inflation. However, the recent Infometrics report: Wellington City Rates Affordability, March 2026, Chart 23, page 38 shows that since 2021, the CPI and LGCI indices have in fact tracked very closely.

  2. In response to the fuel crisis, the Government has made it clear to all but a few households that, as costs go up, they must manage their spending and bring down their costs to make ends meet. The same discipline should apply to Kapiti Coast District Council.

At a time when households are making tough, sometimes painful, decisions to balance their budgets, Council should be applying the same discipline to its own. Some costs have indeed gone up but no apparent effort has been made to absorb or offset those costs or to reconsider the timing or magnitude of the work it plans to undertake. Instead, the Council is planning to pass increased costs directly to ratepayers, and make “savings” not by reducing the Council’s own budget but by reducing funding to NGOs and community groups. This was laid bare in the so-called “waterfall diagram” presented to Councillors at the Annual Plan briefing on 5 February 2026.

Concerned Ratepayers Kapiti is calling on Councillors to stop the level of planned rate increases for 1uly. We believe the Council to reassess its whole approach to setting rates — not just to trim around the edges. Fortunately, we have already provided advice to Councillor through our Briefing to the Incoming Council of November 2025 on how this can be done (this advice can be found at: https://concernedratepayerskapiti.org/our-proposal-for-affordable-rates).

The Council also needs to fundamentally reconsider how to set its budget, with the best interests of its community front and centre.

With the combined impacts of the cost-of-living crisis and the fuel crisis, the time to start this is now.

Chris Harwood
Chair, Concerned Ratepayers Kapiti


“How does KCDC think I can afford yet another big increase in my costs?”

UN Agenda 2030: how your property rights are slowly being taken away

by Eric Meder

Private property is an often forgotten aspect of liberty; that’s because it is such a core fundamental aspect of it that people take it for granted. Ownership is what gives you power. Private property is the backbone of individualism. Today,

I had the pleasure of interviewing Tom DeWeese, the founder of American Policy Center. In this interview we discuss how property rights are slowly being taken from us. This is a huge component of the great taking, the great reset, and the globally coordinated attack on liberty (individuality) happening around the world — all heading towards the WEF’s glorious “You’ll own nothing and you will be happy.” Tom has a wealth of knowledge on this subject; he even founded the American Policy Center to help provide solutions for this. https://americanpolicy.org/

Tom is not an end times doomsayer; he is a man of action. And that is exactly the type of person I want to work together with. I’m grateful to have had the chance to interview him, and I hope you enjoy it! To follow my personal work, please go to:- https://privacyacademy.com/