We’ve commented before about the Wokeist obsession with replacing English words with Maori ones — only.

In this case the universial use of red for stop and green for go saves it from being a safety risk, but as elesewhere, the Wokeists responsible for this need to diminish their zealotry.

The Marché des Enfants Rouges, the oldest covered food market in Paris, was destroyed by a fire on Monday, 12 October. It required around 150 firefighters to contain the blaze, with no serious injuries reported.

Fire official Lt. Col. Pierre de Bouvier said the fire had consumed around 1,000 square metres of the market when the department arrived. He said, “Nothing remains,” as the market’s stalls and part of its metal structure were destroyed. Firefighters allowed the fire to burn in the centre of the market to protect nearby buildings.

City officials plan to find temporary locations for affected vendors as investigators determine the fire’s cause.

Yeah, right

by Robin Westenra

They are selling it as a revolution in banking, and will issue ‘e-bank licences’ — using the RBNZ infrastructure the govt has paid for – “ you just plug in your digital wallet!” This comes days after National announced Digital ID for passport-less travel to Australia.

Arena Williams, likely the next bozo selected to lead the clown party explains Central Bank Digitial Currency ledger “ oh it’s like a roundabout!”

National and Labour have both agreed to support legislation for the social media ban – which will necessitate digital ID as well. Last week Hipkins & Luxon were fighting over who gets the credit for digital ID. This is how twisted those two are.

CBDC is the ultimate vehicle into a dystopian future these assclowns are hell bent on leading us into. The Govt will control what you do with your money and will control you.

Party Vote to NZ First or ACT to Throttle these Pricks Back.

Source

An earlier thread from 2025

Holyhekatuiteka@2ETEKA

🚩This morning RBNZ released to the media that they are opening up cash surveys again as they are quote “redesigning the money system and wish to effectively monitor it” The RBNZ is at stage 2 of a 4 stage programe started in 2021 for a CBDC. It’s not bad enough that they are …

5 August 2025

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This is how the NZ Leftist Legacy media deceptively pitches it

Labour’s own policy page presents this as open banking / fintech competition, not as a central bank digital currency and the media complies with the narrative

Labour is promising to make the country’s banking sector more competitive if elected, with Labour leader Chris Hipkins saying he wants to create a clearer pathway for “innovative” financial providers to grow into “genuine” banking competitors, and to give New Zealanders more choice.

Making the announcement on Wednesday, Hipkins says four big banks dominate New Zealand’s banking sector. New Zealand has 26 registered banks. The banks Hipkins is referring to are Australian-owned ANZ, BNZ, Westpac NZ and ASB.

The four large Australian-owned banks are responsible for 84% of bank lending while five NZ-owned banks account for about 10% of bank lending, according to the Reserve Bank.

“When there isn’t enough competition, customers have less choice and banks have less reason to offer them a better deal,” Hipkins says. “Labour will break down the barriers that stop new competitors taking on the big banks.”

“When banks compete harder, Kiwis get more choice and more power to shop around for a better deal,” Hipkins says.

Labour promised to:

• Introduce a new e-money licence for businesses offering services like digital wallets and payments with rules that “reflect what they do and the risks involved”
• Open up the banking system by making sure smaller providers can access essential banking and payments infrastructure on “fair” terms
• Give New Zealanders constant access to their money by requiring a secure, 24/7 real-time payments system by 2030
• Create a clearer pathway for “innovative” financial providers to grow into “genuine” banking competitors
• Make it easier for people to switch by making government-verified identity easier to use across banks and fintechs

https://www.interest.co.nz/banking/140571/chris-hipkins-promises-labour-will-break-down-barriers-stop-new-competitors-taking

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/politics_election-2026/1780500/labour-targets-big-banks-in-cost-of-living-push

From the Reserve Bank

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/LfPlAZMVSOI?rel=0&autoplay=0&showinfo=0&enablejsapi=0

https://www.rbnz.govt.nz/money-and-cash/future-of-money/digital-cash/digital-cash-your-questions-answered#main-heading

This is what Grok AI said

Me: This seems to be suggesting the introduction of CBDCs or CBDCs by a different name

Yes, that’s a reasonable reading of the post’s framing — and of the underlying policy overlap — even if the official announcement is not explicitly “we are launching a CBDC.”What Labour actually announced (7 October 2026) Labour’s policy is branded as boosting competition against the big four Australian-owned banks (ANZ, ASB, BNZ, Westpac) as a cost-of-living measure. Key elements include:

• A new e-money licence (also called a digital banking licence) for firms offering digital wallets, prepaid cards, and payment services. Rules would be matched to the risks of those services rather than full bank licensing.
• Requirement that smaller providers get fair access to essential banking and payments infrastructure.
• A clear pathway for payments/fintech firms to grow into full digital banks.
• A secure 24/7 real-time payments system by 2030.
• Wider use of government-verified digital identity to make switching between providers easier.
• Commitment that Kiwibank stays 100% New Zealand-owned.

Mainstream coverage (RNZ, interest.co.nz, Labour’s own policy page) presents this as open banking / fintech competition, not as a central bank digital currency.How this intersects with CBDC / “Digital Cash”The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) has been researching a retail CBDC (which it calls Digital Cash) since around 2020–2021. It is currently in research/design work (Stage 2), with further analysis through 2025–2026. If pursued, RBNZ has indicated it could be available around 2030 and would sit alongside physical cash rather than replace it. Labour’s package uses language and infrastructure that critics (including the X post author) see as enabling or closely adjacent to CBDC features:

• Digital wallets + e-money licences + real-time payments rails + digital ID create the technical and regulatory plumbing that a retail CBDC would also rely on.
• RBNZ has itself shifted some emphasis toward broader “payments modernisation,” which some observers describe as a potential “CBDC by the back door.”
• The X post explicitly links this to earlier RBNZ comments about retail CBDC, programmable money risks, distribution via private providers, and the need for digital ID.

In short: Labour is not standing up and saying “we will issue a programmable central-bank digital currency.” It is proposing private-sector digital money instruments, faster payments infrastructure, and digital identity tools that the RBNZ’s ongoing Digital Cash work could plug into or parallel. Skeptics view the combination as functionally equivalent or preparatory; supporters view it as ordinary fintech modernisation and competition policy.The post’s core claim — that this moves New Zealand further toward a more centrally controllable digital money system — rests on that infrastructure overlap and the author’s prior concerns about RBNZ’s programme, rather than on Labour using the exact acronym “CBDC” in the announcement.

See also this

THE DIGITAL PRISON: The New Zealand perspective

Robin Westenra 29 September 2025

I tried a few weeks ago to bring to people’s attention what I regard as something more important than politics in NZ.

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What the One Nation Party in Australia wants; so does NZ First here: see the earlier post on NZF’s immigration policy.

“Our future is being stolen from us and, as we have seen here, schools are not getting the investment they need.”

Now in their third week, the protests – backed by unionists, some teachers and radical leftwing opposition politicians – have shaken a government caught between calls for urgent public investment and pressure to reduce France’s ballooning deficit and debt.

Marches around the country drew more than 260,000 protesters last Tuesday and a further 75,000 on Thursday, according to interior ministry figures, and are expected to be repeated on Tuesday in several major cities including the French capital.

Klaus Schwab’s chief WEF advisor, Dr. Yuval Noah Harari: "To DOMINATE humanity on a massive scale, all you need is a coordinated cabal of elites feeding the world the SAME made-up stories — total fictions designed for CONTROL!"

These godless technocrats are rubbing our noses in… pic.twitter.com/vJNXfYO3lO

— Valerie Anne Smith (@ValerieAnne1970) October 12, 2026