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DNI @TulsiGabbard just CONFIRMED on The Megyn Kelly Show that she’s leading a full investigation into Anthony Fauci for **alleged perjury** and his direct links to U.S.-funded gain-of-function… pic.twitter.com/pP4cEKrIuP

— The Dr. Margaret Show (@DrMargaretShow) April 2, 2026

Satire

by Lushington Brady on Goodoil.news

The difference between a drunken sailor and the socialist Albanese government is two-fold. First, at least a drunken sailor has actually worked for a living, unlike the entirety of parliamentary Labor, who go straight from their arts-law degrees into politics. Secondly, at least a drunken sailor pisses away his own money.

There isn’t a cent of someone else’s money Labor Treasurer Jim Chalmers won’t piss up against the wall as soon as he gets his claws on it. Even a crisis like fuel is just another opportunity for Zippy the Pinhead to gouge more money out of other people’s pockets. With pump prices skyrocketing, so is the government’s tax theft – and Chalmers is going to spend every cent of it.

Jim Chalmers is considering increasing government spending in a May budget to “reflect the times” of an oil shock and cost-of-living pressures, with Westpac forecasting Labor could reap $60bn in windfall revenues over the next five years because of the Middle East war and inflation.

The Treasurer’s refusal to ­commit to delivering a net savings package in the budget comes as former NSW premier Mike Baird described the May budget as the most important in recent history while warning Australia’s status as a low-debt country was over.

What, and admit that they’re running the country to socialist hell in a handcart?

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What the Globalists do.

No men left in Ukrainian villages.

Zelensky forcibly kidnapped them from their homes and sent to their deaths.

Now the women are dragging corpses and digging graves.

EU, you don't have a soul. pic.twitter.com/hlrEboelri

— Diana Panchenko 🇺🇦 (@Panchenko_X) April 2, 2026

Crimmigrant: (porte-manteau): criminal + immigrant. Also spelt as crimigrant.

A term used for the illegal migrants that have been allowed to flood into America by the Blinken-Biden regime, the EU and the UK, who commit crimes of theft and violence, particularly against women, and drug dealing.

All the border fortifications that the EU has put in place with Russia since 2022 have probably been welcomed by Russia to prevent the crimmigrants from going there.

The people who opposed the Blinken-Biden regime’s war on Russia are just as furious with Trump over the Iran war. While it would be good to see the dreadful Islamists of Iran ousted, the cost for the world of this war is just too high. ‘Operation Midnight Hammer’ last June was claimed to have destroyed Iran’s nuclear weapons plans, so why is what we see now needed?

On his 84th birthday, Michael Savage come out against the war in Iran pic.twitter.com/mfnJ5osS61

— The_Real_Fly (@The_Real_Fly) April 1, 2026

Another notable Trump supporter has come out against the US-Israel war in Iran. In a candid and pointed monologue delivered on his syndicated radio show marking his 84th birthday, longtime conservative voice Michael Savage directly challenged President Donald Trump’s handling of the Iran conflict. 

Savage, a staunch America First advocate, did not mince words: “He [Trump] has good intentions. He liked to have no war. Now we have a war. He ran on the platform of no wars. And now we have a war. Who is whispering in his ear?”

“That’s not to say Iran is a good nation,” Savage continued. “We know the Mullahs are crazy and they live in the 7th century,” but pushed back strongly against the idea that military escalation is the solution, adding, “but maybe war isn’t the answer.”

He warned against the “stop them before it’s too late” mindset, invoking the famous The Godfather reference to the argument for stopping Hitler at Munich – and warning that bombing Iran may have severe unintended consequences.

“Do you ever think about that? What is to prevent Russia from finally saying I’m gonna join Iran in this war now? And Russia says they are going [to] send Russian troops into Iran to defend the Iranian soil. What if they do that? Is that stupid to think of?”

Savage also questioned the effectiveness of the strikes: “A year ago they were told their nuclear capacity was completely destroyed. What’s left for them to fight with? Well… Think by bombing them they’re going to stop?”

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Savage Advice

“We appeal to President Trump – as I said for four weeks now – declare victory before it’s too late. But apparently nobody hears me.” 

“Nobody wanted this war. Everybody wants this war to end as quickly as possible. Anyone with a conscience knows that. Nobody’s buying the big lie.”

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For over 20 years, the BSA told Parliament it didn’t have the necessary powers to regulate online content – and new legislation was needed.  

At no point has Parliament passed legislation to give the BSA these powers.  

The Law Commission said the BSA didn’t have jurisdiction over internet content in 2013. Every government review since has said the same thing. 

Earlier this year, the BSA’s own Chief Executive, Stacey Wood, went on Mike Hosking and said the jurisdiction question wasn’t clear and the BSA’s powers were insufficient. 

Sean Plunket called tikanga “mumbo jumbo” on The Platform. Someone complained. And – miraculously – the BSA reread a statute from 1989 and discovered it had jurisdiction over the internet after all. 

Twenty years of “we don’t have this power” became twenty-something pages of “actually, we do.” And: “we don’t have a choice, we must use the power… to protect New Zealanders.” 

To be fair, that part of their reasoning is defensible. It is wrong and takes provisions out of context, but it is at least orthodox in method. Then it collapses. Their own mumbo jumbo kicks in, with 20 pages of “Raygun-esque” legal gymnastics.  

They pretend they can choose to ignore publishing on big platforms – Instagram, YouTube, X — and presumably thousands of other internet streamers, while being forced to target only a small and undefined class.  

A class that just happens to include The Platform.  Plunket’s mumbo jumbo has spawned BSA mumbo jumbo. 

Can you spare a minute to sign our BSA petition demanding action from Minister Goldsmith? 

SIGN THE PETITION: Put The BSA Back In It’s Box

The Government’s sympathy is worthless 
Nearly 3,000 of you wrote to Minister Goldsmith last October demanding he put the BSA back in its place.  
 
We met with him personally in January to warn him this was coming.  
We offered crisp legislative drafting.  

We urged him to advance ACT MP Laura McClure’s Bill to abolish the BSA.  
 
He listened politely.  
He expressed sympathy.  
As far as we can tell, he did nothing. 

Sean Plunket says the Prime Minister told him personally last year: “Don’t worry mate, we’ve got your back on this.” When asked about it yesterday, Luxon said he couldn’t recall the conversation.

Meanwhile, National’s partners are not mincing words.  
 
David Seymour called the BSA “a creature of 1989” that is “clearly overstepping its mandate.” 

Winston Peters called the BSA “bordering on fascist” and said they should be abolished. He hinted NZ First would support the abolition Bill. 

So we have a coalition government where two out of three parties want to abolish the BSA, the third party’s PM allegedly promised to intervene, and the result is… nothing. 

The BSA publishes its decision. It could cost its targets hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees. We’re sending OIA’s to find out how much money the BSA has wasted trying to send a message to Sean.  

The process is the punishment – and that may be the intention. If other internet publishers take the reasoning seriously, millions more will be spent on lawyers seeking compliance advice. And the Government issues sympathetic noises. 

If this is what having your back looks like, I’d hate to see indifference. 

SIGN THE PETITION: Put The BSA Back In It’s Box
We released a 15-minute podcast yesterday discussing the flaws in the BSA’s positionThe decision is absurd on its own terms 

Few people will read the BSA’s full decision. Here are reviews by two respected lawyers: Harvey and Hehir. 

In essence, the BSA may now have put every livestream in New Zealand at risk. As Liam Hehir put it: “Every church streaming Sunday worship. Every funeral director livestreaming a service. Every school running a live assembly for parents.” 

The BSA knows this is absurd, so it rushes to reassure everyone: this decision does NOT apply to Netflix, YouTube, TikTok, Disney+, individuals, or overseas streamers. All we really know is that it’s The Platform they’re going to regulate. 

As Hehir pointed out, this is like a police officer saying “today’s speeding ticket solely concerns a red Toyota doing 120 on the motorway.”  

That may be true. But it is not the same as saying the speed limit doesn’t apply to blue Hondas.  
The BSA’s reassurances have no legal force. They are a policy choice the BSA can reverse tomorrow morning.

That is not how the rule of law operates. This should have shocked Minister Goldsmith into action. 

And here’s the chilling part. The BSA says there is no audience to which it is appropriate to direct “misleading and materially inaccurate information on significant public issues.”  
 
The BSA believes there must be a body to police wrongthink on contentious issues — and that body is them.  

The first opinion it wants to rule on? Whether calling tikanga “mumbo jumbo” is misinformation. 

And they don’t even need to find misinformation. They can issue correction orders, gag orders, fines, and cost awards – including windfalls to the complainant — if they feel Plunket’s words fail “the observance of good taste and decency.”  

That standard applies if the BSA is right about its jurisdiction. And they have no broadcasting code for online content. None. 

David Farrar at Kiwiblog nails the bad faith: the BSA says the Broadcasting Act applies to The Platform for complaints, but not for levies or other obligations.  

Statutory agencies with coercive powers can’t pick and choose which bits of a statute to enforce. Either the Act applies or it doesn’t. That isn’t regulation — it’s targeting. What we’re doing next 
We are not waiting for the Government to find its spine over the Easter break. 

We are filing Official Information Act requests to understand the BSA’s internal deliberations and the advice the Government received.  

We are supporting The Platform — not because we agree with everything Sean Plunket says, but because the principle matters. If a regulator can claim jurisdiction over one online broadcaster, it is asserting it over all of them, whatever it says about limiting its targets. 

But the long-term concern is bigger.  

The curious passivity of senior National Party MPs may not be innocent. 

They may want this row to die down because it is impeding plans to replace the BSA with something worse — something purpose-built to implement Jacinda Ardern’s Christchurch Call for an official international gagging regime for the internet.  

In the absence of any better explanation, it may not be just “conspiracy theory” that we’ve interrupted a scheme to give New Zealand its equivalent of Australia’s ludicrous e-Commissioner, or the UK’s Ofcom powers under their Online Safety Act and related legislation — under which thousands of UK citizens have been arrested for offences such as calling for action over the rape gangs. 

We must ensure this election holds the Government to account.  We don’t need more sympathetic words.  We need cast-iron guarantees that freedom of speech will prevail over the ideological sensitivities of Wellington. 

Last time, 3,000 of you signed our petition. This time, let’s get 10,000. 

SIGN THE PETITION: Put The BSA Back In It’s Box

If this Government won’t deliver after Easter, we will make sure every New Zealander heading to the polls knows which parties stood up for free speech — and which ones just talked about it. 

Three thousand of you wrote to the Minister.  

He didn’t listen. This year we can back our voices with votes. 

Best wishes, 

Stephen Franks.

PS. Our petition is live, and this story has had a lot of news coverage. Can you share it with a couple of people, or on social media, so we can send the strongest message possible to the Government? 

Free Speech Union www.fsu.nz

As previously stated, this horrible regime regularly commits human rights abuses which even the Green Party has occasionally condemned.

The Iranian authorities are shamelessly encouraging children as young as 12 to join an IRGC run military campaign, putting them in grave danger and violating international law, which prohibits the recruitment and use of children in the military.

Child soldier recruitment is a war crime.

Iranian authorities must immediately stop their criminal assault on children’s rights and prohibit the recruitment of anyone under 18 by the armed forces.

In addition, today Iranian authorities have arbitrarily executed teenage protester Amirhossein Hatami.

The execution of five protesters and dissidents in three days this week is extremely alarming and once again exposes Iran’s judiciary for what it is: a tool of repression sending individuals to the gallows to spread fear and exacting revenge on those demanding fundamental political change.

All war crimes must be investigated.

Those responsible must be held to account.

from the European Democratic Party

Melika Azizi is 18. Arrested in Iran after protests, she now faces execution for “moharebeh” — a charge used to silence dissent. Her case follows the execution of other young Iranians just last week, in a brutal pattern of repression. In court, she refused silence. This is not justice. It is fear of freedom. Europe must not look away when human rights are crushed so openly. Her voice must not be extinguished.

National is backing our Firefighters, and I’m leading the charge.

That’s why I wrote to Parliament’s Governance and Administration Select Committee and moved a motion asking for an inquiry into Fire and Emergency New Zealand (FENZ). I’m pleased that all members of the committee have agreed.

When a house is burning, or a car has crashed, our volunteer and paid firefighters are the kind of people who run towards the danger. They don’t stop to ask who is inside first, they run towards that danger. I will always support people who serve our community.

My inquiry focusses on fleet issues, or issues about all types of fire engines. We’ve seen lots of stories highlighting recent breakdowns and the NZPFU (firefighter union) tell me fleet issues are at the top of their list.

This inquiry follows the last two annual reviews of FENZ, and an extra Select Committee hearing with FENZ I requested, all of which raised serious questions. 

I am increasingly concerned by the confusing and contradictory nature of their answers. Here’s what I was told about the latest batch of trucks:

Dec 2024: “the majority” of trucks are in use

Feb 2025: “zero” trucks are in use

Jan 2026: “14” are handed over for operations now

Feb 2026: “zero” trucks are in use

Feb 2026: “17” are in training almost ready to use

Mar 2026: “16” are in training almost ready to use

Mar 2026: FENZ “can’t account for the answers” that were given.

While there are a range of issues that have been raised around FENZ, the most consistent that has arisen on every occasion is that of ‘fleet’ (fire trucks).

It is important that we get timely and accurate answers about what is happening with their trucks, the delays and breakdowns, and how long it will be before all current trucks are on the road.

Truck failures impact every community in New Zealand, whether those areas have volunteer or paid staff, high-rise or low-rise, urban or rural.

Our firefighters do an amazing job risking their lives to help New Zealanders in need; I fully back them. It is important that they have the necessary support from their leadership to effectively carry out their duties.

This inquiry will provide the answers that every community and firefighter deserves. It will be held over the coming months, gathering evidence through public submissions, hearings, and stakeholder consultations. The final report will deliver recommendations to Parliament.

You can make your own submission here.

Firefighters can invite me to visit their station via e-mail: tim.costleyMP@parliament.govt.nz.

Remember this? (click link to watch)

Public meeting opportunity to discuss this

I’m holding a public meeting with Paul Goldsmith, Minister of Justice, in two weeks. People are welcome to ask questions about anything including FENZ. I would strongly encourage it.

Tuesday April 14th2pm

Waikanae Community Centre (no cost, no RSVP required)

Happy Easter, I hope you get some time with family and friends.