It can’t tolerate opposition to its Globalist agenda.

DICTATURE ! ⤵️

Ça y est, le parlement européen a lancé la procédure, qui sera conclue mardi prochain par un vote, pour BANNIR le parti politique constitué de l’AFD !

« Pas conforme aux valeurs de l’UE »
(sic)…
(cf : https://t.co/qgZbgZ5pmc)

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— Florian Philippot (@f_philippot) July 5, 2026

This would have taken a while and cost a bit to make, but it should be a source of inspiration for creative types!

by Andrew Korybko

Poland’s leading conservative newspaper Rzeczpospolita belatedly wrote about this.

Polish journalist Marek Kutarba published a piece about how “Volodymyr Zelensky would like to take Donald Tusk’s place in European salons”. He wrote that, “From Kiev’s perspective, [the Polish-Ukrainian dispute] isn’t a dispute about the past. It’s the beginning of a rivalry over the region’s future: who will be the West’s main partner in policy toward Russia, who will define the security agenda of Central and Eastern Europe, and who will become the political center of gravity in this part of the continent.”

Kutarba elaborated that “Warsaw’s problem is that [Germany and Ukraine] are simultaneously our key partners and our most important competitors. They differ only in the scale and nature of this competition. In Germany’s case, it’s about structural dominance in the EU and the ability to dictate European policy. In Ukraine’s case, it’s about competing for the status of a ‘key state’ for the West, including the United States, in the context of containing Russia.”

According to Kutarba, “Ukraine is no longer merely a beneficiary of Polish support. It is becoming what it was destined to become – our competitor. A competitor who, thanks to the war, now has a stronger political argument in relations with Washington, Berlin, and Brussels than Poland, even though Poland is building one of NATO’s largest armies. Meanwhile, Ukraine already has a second NATO army, albeit outside its structures.” Left unmentioned is that Germany plans to build the EU’s largest army.

Reflecting on what Kutarba wrote, Poland finally realizes the geostrategic challenge that Ukraine poses to it, namely as a rival for regional leadership that’s coordinating with Germany to contain Poland. Zelensky’s top advisor Mikhail Podolyak explicitly declared in summer 2023 that their countries would become competitors after the Ukrainian Conflict ends and that “we will clearly adopt pro-Ukrainian positions, protect these interests, fiercely defend them”, but this was ignored by Poland’s ruling duopoly.

Przemysław Piasta recently wrote about the threat that post-conflict Ukraine will pose to Poland, which came just several days before “A Senior Ukrainian Sergeant Threatened Poland With Drone Strikes Against Its Cities”. While a Kiev-backed terrorist-separatist insurgency in the southeastern Polish lands that Ukrainian nationalists claim as their own is unlikely for now, it can’t be ruled out in the future, nor can the scenario of Germany once again supporting this like it did during the interwar period.

The urgent national security tasks before Poland are thus threefold: 1) modernize its embarrassingly underdeveloped military-industrial complex with a focus on new military trends like drone warfare; 2) do whatever it must, especially permanently hosting US forces and ideally its nuclear weapons too, to become the US’ top European ally; and 3) successfully position itself as Central Europe’s main “cordon sanitaire” state strategically linking the “Viking Bloc” and the “Organization of Turkic States”.

It’s in Germany and Ukraine’s shared interests that Poland fails with all three in order to then subordinate itself to their vision of post-conflict Europe in which Poland is jointly contained. They don’t want a strong, prosperous, and sovereign Poland that confidently defends its national interests. Ukraine is already pivoting to its new German military patron and waging an intense infowar against Poland. Time is therefore of the essence to avoid the dark fate that Germany and Ukraine are plotting for Poland.

By Roger Childs

We use fresh, seasonal produce to cook you delicious, hearty classics. We have a wide selection of dishes such as pizza, pasta, salads, steak & fries, schnitzel and more. Our food can be vegan friendly – even the pizza! –Arcimboldi Cafe

Great artist.  Wonderful café

Over the last six weeks we’ve visited a friend in Seatoun three times and on each occasion patronized the superb Arcimboldi Café which has muffins to die for. Like many excellent eating places in the Greater Wellington area such as Relish in Waikanae and Rosetta in Raumati, the Dundas Street café is located in an old house/shop and has three places where you can dine:

• the front section is accessed by a side door. One vacates the premises via the front
• a back indoor section which has plenty of seating 
• an outdoor area behind the building with a sheltered garden which is often warm enough to sit outside in winter.

The café has plenty of tasty food on the menu, but the highlight is at least six types of fresh muffins, most with interesting fruit combinations. The coffee and other drinks are excellent.

Around the walls are examples of the extraordinarily expressive ‘food portraits’ by the Renaissance painter who gives the café its name.

Prints of the Renaissance master

Arcimboldi was recognized as an ingenious talent in his age, but he is much more famous in our’s.  –Art Critic, Jonathan Jones

Giuseppe Arcimboldo, possibly also known as Arcimboldi, was from Milan in northern Italy and lived from 1527 to 1593. Characterized as a “Mannerist”— a term used for painters who reacted against the harmony and alleged perfection of the High Renaissance masters by experimenting with varied proportions and often bizarre subject matter.

Arcimboldo could be seen as the 16^th century precursor to Surrealist René Magritte as his revolt against perfection and representational art used different plants and food as well as flowers, fish, shells and even books to create his pleasantly arcane portraiture.

Prints of the master decorate the walls and on one surface the café has its own version of an Arcimboldo picture.

The magic of Seatoun

This is a part of Wellington best known for being the location of the tragic 10 April 1968 Wahine Disaster where the inter-island ferry sank in Cyclone Giselle close to the beach. A Memorial Park remembers the disaster and the 53 lives it claimed. 

But Seatoun is so much more. Facing north-east, it is sheltered from prevailing northerlies and southerlies with a micro-climate which in pre-colonial times allowed early Polynesian settlers to grow kumara that generally favour the sub-tropical weather of regions further north.

Linked to the rest of the Eastern Suburbs by a short early 20th century tunnel, Seatoun has distinctive character. It is just over the hill from Breaker Bay to the south, linked by the Pass of Branda.  Generations of runners and walkers have traversed the Pass in marathons, half marathons, relays and training runs. Once over the steep pinch, the races have taken a direct route north through Seatoun, not far from Arcimboldi Café, before following the coast around the Miramar Peninsula. 

If you are visiting Wellington get out to Seatoun. Head for the airport and turn left at the final roundabout into Broadway which driving east will take you to the tunnel. The wonderful Arcimboldi Café is on the right in Dundas Street which heads off to the right once through the tunnel. You won’t be disappointed.

With the Tutere Street/Waimea intersection in the left foreground. The boating club is in the centre foreground.

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by Wally Richards

PROPAGATION SECRETS OF SEEDS

Propagation of plants from seed is not only very rewarding it is also the most cost effective way of obtaining a wide variety of plants.

There are untold plants that you could grow but if you only buy seedlings from a supplier or nursery then you are limited to only have common varieties as it is not economical for nurseries to grow too larger range of any type of plant.

Looking at seed catalogues increases significantly the choice of plants you can grow. For instance Egmont Seeds offers 34 different types of tomatoes to grow and Kings Seeds lists 54 types. Not only that, but you will find seeds of unusual plants to grow especially if you look at overseas seed catalogues.

Because of past failures some people don’t try growing from seed, saying that they dont have a green thumb. Now here is a strange thing: I have met hundreds of gardeners over the years and especially when I owned a garden centre and I have yet to see anyone one of whose thumbs is green? 🙂

In nature a plant goes to seed and when the seeds are ripe they fall to the ground and sometime later on there is a lot of young seedlings — and no human did anything to make that happen.

A bird pecks at a ripe tomato and swallows some seeds, later on, while in flight or on the ground the bird has a toilet and in the manure is a seed or two. A week or two later up pops some seedlings.

You harvest some cow manure and put it into your garden and a little later you are likely to have lots of grass weeds or other weeds popping up.

You eat a peach outside and throw the stone into a garden, chances are a year or so later your will have a sapling peach tree growing where the stone landed. Like wise with pips from citrus, apples and pears.

Yet when we try to germinate some seeds and even though they may germinate ok we lose them and term used is called ‘dampening off’. Which is a disease that we have likely created.

The damping off pathogens thrive in cool wet conditions. And any condition that slows plant growth will increase damping off.

Low light, over watering, high salts from over fertilizing and cool soil temperatures are all associated with increased damping off.

Thus we did not provide the right conditions for the seeds to grow healthy. Too much water maybe but the most common one in regards to germinating seeds indoors is not having overhead light. The seedlings stretch towards what available light there is and become weak and fail.

To get an early start, now is the time to germinate your tomatoes, capsicums and chili from seed and this is best done inside the home on a heat pad with LED lighting above.

In researching information for this article I went online and found on Temu heat pads and LED propagation lights at very reasonable prices. These are powered by USB power so safe to run.

Ideally any heat pad type should have a polystyrene pad to sit on so that all the heat is transferred upwards to the seedling tray or punnets you are germinating your seedlings in.

You place your LED lights about 20 cm (8 inches) above the seedling tray which leaves sufficient room for misting the growing medium and keeping the medium and sprouted seedlings moist.

If you can organise the light to raise or lower then you can adjust upwards as the seedling grow.

Now, the mix to propagate in? I have never used a seed raising mix and so can’t comment on whether they are any good or not although I suspect they are a waste of money.

I take my favorite purchased compost (which I see has had a name change to Garden Basics) and place a layer of that to half full the seedling tray.

Over that layer sprinkle a very little of Wallys Real Blood & Bone (a light dusting) and with the aid if a kitchen sieve rub more of the compost through the sieve to create very fine tilth of material which the seeds are placed onto.

Then with Magic Botanical Liquid (MBL) at 20 ml per litre of water into a trigger sprayer, I mist the seeds and growing medium to make them nice and moist.

Now to cover the seeds I like to use sharp sand, also called plasters sand, as they are weed free and available where there are builders’ supplies.

River sand or beach sand can be used but may contain weed seeds so you should sieve it or microwave it to destroy any weed seeds.

The sand shows when it’s dry by its colour change; thus you know when to mist spray to water using the MBL in the trigger sprayer.

Till the first sign of germination (we say, ‘show’) there is not need for the LED Light above but it is a must as soon as there is a show otherwise the seedlings will start stretching.

Once you have a good show then you can turn the heat pad off and thus there will be less need for continual misting; just mist a little every so often to moisten up the medium.

Once the seedlings reach a nice height to handle then put them outside into ideally a glasshouse with its over head light natural light or into the likes of a polystyrene box with a sheet of glass over it and in a sunny place to get over head natural light.

Tender plants need hardening off to plant outside but if planting into containers or soil in a glasshouse then you dont need to harden off.

Hardening off is simply removing the pane of glass on nice days to expose the young plants to the elements. It can go back over them at the end of the day.

Another way is if you have Vaporgard make up a small amount then spray the seedlings with it.

Not only will it make them hardy to the elements with the film of Vaporgard over the foliage it will also greatly reduce transplant shock when you come to separate the seedlings for planting out.

The germination secret is good overhead lighting and keeping moist but not wet.

Hardy crops such as brassicas can be direct sown into their forever spot and to assist in better germination of the seeds do the following:

• Make a trench about 12cm deep and similar wide with a hoe or spade,

• Then mow the lawn with the catcher on and place grass clippings into the trench and trample them down, adding more till the tramped amount has filled the trench by half or more its depth.

• Over this grass sprinkle Wallys Calcium & Health or a soft garden lime.

• Then sprinkle Real Blood & Bone giving a good dressing there along with BioPhos.

• Now ideally with a garden sieve, sieve some soil over to nicely cover. You can now space out your seeds along the trench and then spray them with MBL.

• Sieve more soil over to cover or sprinkle sharp sand.

• Lightly water as needed and in next to no time you should have a row of cabbages or whatever hardy plant you planted.

Ideally do carrot and parsnip seeds along with silverbeet and any other hardy vegetable plants you want to get started this time of the year.

Remember always let one plant go to seed and collect the seed for future plantings as they will be better than any seeds you can buy and free as well. Store in sealed glass jars in the fridge, named and dated.

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by Matua Kahurangi

New Zealand First leader Winston Peters, yesterday in Warkworth, has unveiled a strong new policy to restore integrity to the country’s electoral system. Under the proposal, only New Zealand citizens will be eligible to vote in both local and general elections.

Peters made the announcement clear and direct. “We’re making another campaign announcement here today. We’re announcing today that New Zealand First will change the law that only citizens of New Zealand can vote in local and general elections.”

This common-sense reform addresses a situation that has concerned many Kiwis for years. At present, legal residents on visas who have lived continuously in New Zealand for a year or more can cast ballots in elections. This includes holders of work visas, student visas, and permanent residents. New Zealand First argues that voting is a fundamental right and responsibility of citizenship, not something extended to temporary or non-citizen residents.

The policy aims to strengthen national sovereignty and ensure that decisions about New Zealand’s future rest squarely with those who hold full allegiance to the country through citizenship. Supporters see it as a vital step toward fairer and more representative democracy.

Peters and New Zealand First highlight how the current rules have enabled what they describe as immigration gerrymandering by major parties. With an estimated 150,000 non-citizens reportedly voting in the 2023 elections, critics say this has encouraged National, Labour, and Act to prioritise large migrant voting blocs, particularly from communities such as Indian immigrants, over the interests of everyday New Zealanders.

By restricting the franchise to citizens, New Zealand First believes governments will focus more sharply on the needs of Kiwis who have chosen to make New Zealand their permanent home and have committed to its values through citizenship. This change would remove any incentive for parties to treat immigration levels as a tool for electoral advantage.

The announcement has already drawn positive reactions from voters who feel that citizenship should carry real meaning. In an era when many countries are reviewing their electoral rules to protect national identity, New Zealand First positions this policy as a principled stand for fairness and democratic accountability.

Peters has a long record of championing policies that put New Zealanders first. This latest initiative reinforces that commitment. By ensuring only citizens vote, the party aims to deliver a stronger, more cohesive New Zealand where electoral outcomes truly reflect the will of the people who belong to it.

New Zealand First invites all citizens who support this vision of restored electoral integrity to back the party at the next election. The message is straightforward that voting rights belong to New Zealand citizens. That’s why, at this stage, I’ll be voting for NZ First.

If you support this policy and want to help New Zealand First campaign for it at the next election, consider becoming a party member. Membership gives you the opportunity to get involved in local campaigns, attend events, help shape policy, and support the party’s nationwide efforts. You can join online by visiting NZ First membership page.

Some feel this way, but how universal the feeling is, we know not. Karl Webber says: “I’m not sure, I think Maori could possibly feel more aligned to Indian values than others who immigrate here, maybe the question to ask Maori is how do we feel about immigration in general in a bicultural country that’s facing the globalists’ trend for multiculturalism.”

The news in the last few days is that the Russians have captured Konstantinovka from Nato and its Nazis, with the loss of some 13,500 Zelensky troops which Nato fans will be sad about, so here are some pics of the 3rd Reich’s early conquests in WW2 to make them feel happier

Waffen-SS troops with captured Russian soldiers on the Ostfront.

Third Reich troops fill cannisters with benzine (petrol) in Kiev, 1943

Third Reich troops in the battle of Sebastipol, Crimea.

Russian Ostarbeiter (Russians sent to work in the 3rd Reich) say their goodbyes in cattle cars.

An SS doctor examines a Russian girl, perhaps for potential brothel work.

A Waffen-SS Schütze inspects an ID from a fallen soldier, probably a Russian.