Ukrainian vehicles carrying $40 million Dollars,€35 million Euros, and approximately nine kilograms of gold were detained by Hungarian police.

They had collected the cash and gold in Austria and were heading for Kiev. pic.twitter.com/mDzLEUA0s1

— Chay Bowes (@BowesChay) March 6, 2026

Something different from bricks and tiles, although it could actually be concrete colored and patterned to look like wood.

Connor Garden-Bachop was 25 years old, a Highlander and Māori All Black, fit and healthy, when he died suddenly in his sleep in June 2024.The coroner recorded the cause of death as sudden death in the context of a mildly dilated heart. No underlying conditions, no drugs or alcohol, no genetic cause found. The conclusion: Connor’s death was from natural causes.

But the coroner’s report does not mention Connor’s covid ‘vaccination’.

As doctors who have had concerns about covid vaccinations since 2021, of course we have questions.It is well established that mRNA vaccination can cause myocarditis. All four formally recognised deaths due to covid vaccination in New Zealand have been from myocarditis.

A dilated heart can be an after-effect of vaccine-induced myocarditis, and damage to heart muscle cells can provide a focus for fatal arrhythmias months or even years later.Dr Peter McCullough, a world-renowned US cardiologist, has stated plainly that when a previously healthy young person dies suddenly with no obvious explanation, it should be attributed to covid vaccination and subclinical myocarditis until proven otherwise.

Connor is not alone. Eight other NZ rugby players have died suddenly and unexpectedly since 2021, including Sean Wainui, another Māori All Black, whose family confirmed he received a covid vaccination five days before his death. His coroner’s report remains unpublished more than four years later.

Our comprehensive article includes 18 medical and scientific references and raises serious questions about the coronial process, pharmacovigilance, and what is not being asked when young vaccinated New Zealanders die without explanation.

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Connor is not alone. Eight other NZ rugby players have died suddenly and unexpectedly since 2021, including Sean Wainui, another Māori All Black, whose family confirmed he received a covid vaccination five days before his death. His coroner’s report remains unpublished more than four years later.Our comprehensive article includes 18 medical and scientific references and raises serious questions about the coronial process, pharmacovigilance, and what is not being asked when young vaccinated New Zealanders die without explanation.

Unfortunately, President Trump listened to the neocons and Benjamin Netanyahu instead of his MAGA base and other voices of caution as he launched a surprise attack on Iran over the weekend. For the second time in nine months, the US Administration used negotiations with Iran as a cover to launch a pre-planned attack.

Last week’s talks produced “progress” according to all sides, with technical teams set to meet this week to work out the details. President Trump, however, suddenly announced that he was not happy with the talks because the Iranian side refused to say “the magic words” that they would not pursue nuclear weapons.

But Iran has been insisting for decades that they have no interest in producing a nuclear weapon and our own intelligence has confirmed that they are not doing so.

Shortly after President Trump’s announcement, the US and Israel launched their attack, killing Iran’s religious leader along with some 40 other political and military leaders in a “decapitation” strike.

It was supposed to be like the Venezuela operation. Quick and painless for the US. Kill the leadership and the long-suffering people would take to the streets and reclaim their country. It may make a good plot for a Hollywood movie, but in real life these regime change operations have never worked. Millions did take to the streets in Iran, but it was to mourn the slain Ayatollah and to reaffirm support for their government.

Just like we “rallied around the flag” after the attacks on 9/11.

Quickly, Iranian retaliation for the attacks began to take their toll on US assets and Israel. US soldiers have been killed and US fighter jets have been shot down. US bases in the region are either damaged or destroyed. Likewise, US embassies and consulates have come under attack, including by Iraqis likely still furious over the US destruction of their country 20 years ago.

And, with the Pentagon warning that the operation may go weeks instead of days, we are quickly running out of missiles.

Billions of dollars have already been spent on this unprovoked attack, and when the smoke clears – if it does – we may see hundreds of billions or maybe much more having been wasted on yet another Middle East war. Just what President Trump promised he would not do.

The neocon “cakewalk” crowd, including Lindsey Graham and others, have been proven wrong again. Tragically, more American servicemembers may die while the neocons blame someone else for the fiasco they helped launch.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said of the US/Israeli attack that “this combination of forces enables us to do what I have longed to do for 40 years…”

But the purpose of the US military is not to fulfill the decades-old wishes of foreign leaders. There is a good reason we have a Constitution that says only Congress can declare war.

Launching a military strike during negotiations will have lasting negative effects for the United States. Who would ever trust US diplomacy again if talks are used as a distraction for pre-planned attacks?

The Administration is doing its best to spin this unfolding disaster as all going according to plan, but what is the plan? No one knows. Do they know?

Here’s a plan: End this today. Return the destroyed US bases to the countries where they are located. And just come home. That is what a real “America first” movement looks like

Original article and more commentary

Taxpayer money has been used to fund Islamists mourning the death of a tyrannical monster who oversaw the brutal treatment of women, young girls and dissidents. As reported across Australia, including in the Cairns Post, the view is that Pauline Hanson has been proven right again. Labor is not only defending these un-Australian individuals, they are funding their program of terror support.

by Matua Kahurangi

It is no surprise whatsoever that Matekino Marshall, a former chief executive of a Maori charitable trust, now faces Serious Fraud Office charges for allegedly misappropriating more than $2.1 million. The accusations cover funds taken from the Ngāti Tamaoho Trust, another trust he influenced, and a third entity. This is just another Maori bloke in a position of trust accused of helping himself to money meant for “his” people.

Two million dollars is a fortune. It could have gone toward housing, education, health or addiction and homelessness. Instead, it allegedly disappeared under Marshall’s watch, fed into the pokies at Skycity. You can’t even make this shit up.

Two million dollars down the drain on gambling machines is a grotesque betrayal of the very communities these trusts exist to serve.

This is not just one man’s alleged failing. It feeds into a pattern that erodes trust in Maori-led organisations. When leaders allegedly steal from their own, it reinforces the worst stereotype that some Maori cannot be trusted with money or responsibility.

Maori deserve far better. Taxpayers and donors deserve accountability. Until these entities face ironclad oversight and zero tolerance for theft, expect more cases like Marshall’s. And expect more justified anger when millions vanish while those in need get nothing.

The earlier post began…

If you’re on X, you may have seen a report by independent journalist Nick Shirley into Somali-run daycare centres in Minneapolis. According to the investigation, these centres received staggering sums of public money despite reportedly having no enrolled children. The 42-minute video has racked up around 84 million views on x since it was posted on 26 December. That does not happen by accident. It happens because people recognise a scandal when they see one.

Elon Musk responded with a blunt assessment. He argued that fraudulent government programmes have been used for years to import and retain immigrant voting blocs, hollowing out democracy and turning countries into de facto one-party states. He pointed to Minnesota, once home to virtually no Somalis, now electing Ilhan Omar, and warned that the same dynamics are playing out across Europe, the UK, Canada, Australia and, crucially, New Zealand.

That last country should make us uncomfortable, because it hits close to home.In New Zealand, we have developed our own version of this problem. Not with daycare centres in Minneapolis, but with a cottage industry of taxpayer-funded “charities” and “trusts” that seem permanently flush with cash and chronically short on measurable outcomes. When organisations like Waipareira Trust can collect hundreds of millions of dollars in public funding while delivering results that are, at best, opaque, Musk’s warning starts to look less like hyperbole and more like a red flag.

This is not an attack on Māori, Pasifika or anyone else as a people. It is a critique of a system that rewards the right branding, the right buzzwords and the right political alignment, while punishing scrutiny. In practice, if you register a charity, promise transformational outcomes, document a few photogenic community initiatives and tick the right cultural boxes, the funding spigot opens. What begins as a genuine effort can quickly morph into something else once the money becomes effectively unlimited.

Take the numbers. According to Waipareira Trust’s own annual reporting, 13.3 full-time equivalent senior managers earned an average of around $510,000 a year. Half a million dollars each. For an organisation whose stated mission is to uplift Māori communities, that figure is not just eye-watering, it is obscene. If you are serious about reducing inequality, you do not do it by creating a new elite paid for by the very taxpayers you claim to be helping.Yes, Waipareira Trust has since had its charitable status stripped. Credit where it is due. But the real question is why it took so long. How many years of rubber-stamping, how many warnings ignored, how many audits waved through before someone finally said enough?

Waipareira is not alone. Too many organisations follow the same blueprint. Minimal frontline impact, maximum administrative bloat. Brand new Ford Rangers. Overseas “staff conferences” that look suspiciously like paid holidays. Executive salaries that would make a private sector CEO blush. All funded by public money, all justified in the name of helping the vulnerable.My taxes and yours already support people in genuine hardship through the welfare system. That support is administered by Ministry of Social Development, an agency that at least operates under clear rules, public accountability and parliamentary oversight.

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Do we smell a big grifter?

from the Taxpayers Union

We’ve been bombarded with e-mails on the exposé on the $156,132 “science challenge” 3 by 3 metre kūmara patch, funded through Massey University.

 

In case you missed it – check out what now counts as ‘science’ at our largest tertiary institution…

Even the media are digging in.

Taxpayer Update has occasionally criticised our friends in the media for being too chicken reluctant to call out wasteful spending when it touches on cultural matters, but not today.

Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive dug into the story, and snuffed out a case-in-point example of the problem of Wellington insiders pretending cultural and mystical studies should be put on equal standing (and funding!) as genuine science.

Former Green MP Gareth Hughes told listeners that far from criticising this spending, taxpayers should be “celebrating this Māori science”.

He complained that not enough money was going to these sorts of projects and cited OECD data suggesting New Zealand is underinvesting in research and development.

That last bit is true, but growing kūmara to give to the “sky gods” probably wasn’t the R&D the OECD has in mind…

Unfortunately for Gareth, Jordan was on the same panel – and he took the bait. 

Did Gareth Hughes ‘suck the kūmara‘, or did Jordan come off second best?

Poor old Gareth got ripped into. Have a listen – who came off second best? 

This kumara patch cost YOU $156,132. pic.twitter.com/H49FTwLTVt

— New Zealand Taxpayers' Union (@TaxpayersUnion) March 5, 2026

Vade mecum (Latin: come with me): something a person carries around for frequent or regular use.

The most obvious example nowadays is a smartphone, also a wallet, and in western Europe, something to fend off an attack from an illegal immigrant.