Says Apihaka Tamati Mullen Mack of the Ngatiawa ki Kapiti iwi — “This blows KCDC myths wide open: the truth”

Because of its length we’ve created a separate page for it here

TV News viewers in NZ can sympathise — widespread annoyance with the same “woke, wet” attitudes of the BBC exists here with TV1 and Newshub, which are often seen as the joint propaganda arm of the present government.

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A former Downing Street adviser is behind a secret new project to set up an ‘impartial’ television news channel to rival the crisis-hit BBC, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

Sir Robbie Gibb – who was a senior BBC executive before becoming Theresa May’s director of communications at No. 10 – is spearheading a drive to raise funds for GB News.

The 24-hour station, due to launch early next year, aims to capitalise on growing discontent over the BBC, with sources describing it as an antidote to the ‘woke, wet’ Corporation.

The BBC has been rocked by a series of controversies over what’s seen as its politically correct agenda, culminating in public outrage over its decision last week to perform Land Of Hope And Glory and Rule Britannia without their patriotic lyrics at the Last Night Of The Proms.

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Jill Griggs has advised the KCDC Chief Executive of her resignation from the Waikanae Community Board from 18 September 2020. 

Last year Jill decided to step down from her senior Central Government role to spend more of her time with her family and to contribute to local activities. In anticipation of this she ran for the Waikanae Community Board and was successful in last year’s elections. Since then she has made a significant contribution to the Community Board activities, perhaps most notably the re-establishment of the Waikanae Community Market.

Jill explains: “While I completely support the principle of democracy, it is, by its very nature, an inefficient process and my question is whether this is the best place for me.  I have spent my professional life getting things done, such as establishing US-based Gartner Group in New Zealand and setting up the Electoral Commission.  On reflection, I think there are better ways for me to use these skills in the community than by being a local politician.

“I had also hoped to use my skills as a mediator to harmonise views to help achieve local outcomes.  But I have found that politics is often based on celebrating points of difference and that reaching consensus can be perceived to weaken a political platform.

“My feelings of being a square peg in a round hole have been increasingly uncomfortable and when Geoffrey Churchman’s recent resignation required a by-election to be held, I decided to take advantage of this to avoid incurring any additional ratepayer expense.  There is no other connection between my resignation and Geoffrey’s.

“I have learned a lot during my term as an elected member and would like to thank KCDC staff and other elected members, particularly my Community Board colleagues, who have provided me with such great professional and personal support during this time.  I would also like to apologise to the residents of Waikanae, who so kindly elected me, that I feel unable to continue in the role as an elected member and assure them that I will continue to be active in the community — but in roles more fitting with my skills.”

Jill has also stepped down from her role as Deputy Chair of the Board with immediate effect and Margaret Stevenson-Wright will be acting Deputy Chair until the next Community Board meeting on 29 September when the role will be formally appointed.

…this communist Labour government that has ZERO experience on the land has made idiotic policy decisions and enacted another law which directly impacts farmers – you can see the Green Party’s hand in this one!

To quote the farmer below: “We have a law coming in on the 1st of September that will tell us that we have to have our crops sown by a certain date 1st of November for Otago–Southland irrespective of the weather. We will also have to get consent from most likely someone who has never been on the land to sow crops in order to feed the animals in the winter. We are also told that if the stock pug more than 50% of the paddock to 20 cm or more then we will be breaking the law & subject to prosecution, this is regardless of the weather. If it’s a wet winter this is impossible & no farmer in the south will be able to achieve this. Why would anyone make a law knowing that the people it concerns have no way of complying with it.?”

Full article on Rangitikei Environmental Healthwatch

It’s been a little while since we posted a Della Randall property who, as we’ve observed, specialize in selling houses that are a cut above the rest, here in Ferndale.

Details, more photos, plans and walk-through are on the website

theBFD op-ed

A miracle of a film. It feels like Bong Joon-ho’s already extraordinary career has been building to this: a riotous social satire that’s as gloriously entertaining as it is deeply sardonic.  –John Nugent, Empire

Quality film on Rialto

By Roger Childs

Now and then the Sky Rialto channel comes up with some cinematic gems. The superb documentary Pavarotti and The Tobacconist — an excellent German film set in pre-war and wartime Austria, are recent examples. This last week featured the outstanding South Korean movie Parasite which won the coveted Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2019 and four Academy Awards this year, including Best Picture.

Parasite is a black comedy thriller set in Seoul where two families from different ends of the social scale – each with Mum, Dad, son and daughter – come together in a complex set of relationships. There are plenty of plot twists and surprises, and entertainment is guaranteed – five stars.

Taking advantage of opportunities

How could the down and out Kim family become involved with the wealthy Parks? The answer is education. Although they live in a pokey basement at the end of a narrow, crowded street they are resourceful and enterprising. The two children have cellphones and considerable digital skills. However, they are poor and at the start of the film their income comes from folding pizza boxes for a local takeaway. 

A friend of the son is leaving to study overseas and is giving up his position as English tutor to the Park daughter. He has recommended Kim Ki-woo as his replacement and the latter duly turns up at the spacious Park mansion complete with qualifications forged by his sister. He impresses the beautiful Mrs Park who is gullible and naïve. Gradually all four Kims inveigle themselves into the Park household, displacing the current staff, and their prospects are looking good as they are all getting well paid. But they become over-confident and greedy, and when the Parks head away on a camping trip, all the Kims move in and get drunk on their employers’ liquor. 

But the previous housekeeper turns up and reveals that her husband is living in a concealed basement. Then the Parks return early having been washed out of their camping site. Things turn to custard for the Kims and it seems that it will all end in blood and tears.

A classic movie with many moods

This is a delightful film noir satirising the social divide in modern day South Korea and it’s brilliantly directed by acclaimed auteur Bong Joon-ho. Parasite is tightly edited and the story moves at an increasingly rapid pace especially in the second half. The cinematography makes a meal of the contrasting living conditions of the two families, and one superb piece of filming features the devastating impact of a flood on the Kim’s crowded street and their basement home.

There is plenty of humour throughout and one classic scene has three of the Kims hiding under the Park’s sofa which looks out on the lawn, The Park’s son, who has an American Indian craze, is sleeping in his wigwam in the pouring rain. Unfortunately for the Kims, the Park parents in matching long silk pyjamas, decide to sleep on the sofa to keep an eye on the tent. They end up making love and the Kims have to wait till the snoring starts to extract themselves and head for safety.

Acknowledging quality cinema

It is not hard to see why Parasite has won so many awards and accolades. It is a fascinating social commentary about initiative, gullibility, greed and revenge. The acting of the entire cast is impeccable and the viewer gets to identify with different characters at different times. The climax is at a garden party on the Park’s lawn and the unpredictable action proceeds at breakneck speed.  

If you have seen it you are fortunate; if not and you get the Rialto Channel track down one of the repeats. Hopefully it may return to the Shoreline some time.

Did you see the news break yesterday that the Police are abolishing their 10km/h speed tolerance nationwide?

That means that from today Police will be issuing fines for going as little as 101 km/h on the open road – even when passing another vehicle!

This Government has put up fuel taxes every year, and introduced the Auckland Regional Fuel Tax.  Now they’re using the Police as tax collectors.

Click here to sign our petition against this nasty revenue grab.

Road safety advocates have labelled the move as “petty, vindictive and ineffective”.  Deliberate speeding is one thing.  But unintentional speeding where it’s a few kms over, such as when a driver is not fixated on the speedo, should not be fined.  Crashes caused by speeding are seldom due to a driver doing one or two kms over the limit.

This new policy that will see thousands of New Zealanders fined for going only one or two kms over the posted limit – even while passing another vehicle.

Police Minister Stuart Nash can overrule this policy

The one person who can overrule this policy is the Police Minister Stuart Nash. 

Jordan knows Stuart pretty well from his electorate in the Hawke’s Bay.  Jordan says that Minister Nash will almost certainly buckle to public pressure if we put enough on him. 

We’ll deliver the petition to the Minister when it reaches 2,000 signatures, but in the meantime, let the Minister of Police know you’ve signed by flicking him a message at s.nash@ministers.govt.nz.

Thank you for your support.

Louis Houlbrooke Campaigns Manager New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union

from the NZ Herald website:

A Waikanae writing duo has released their latest novel called Scorpions in Stilettos.

It’s the third book in a fast-paced easy to read trilogy created by Virginia Innes-Jones and Darin Dance who write under the pseudonyms Hinemura Ellison and Ted Hughes.

The books, which balance seriousness with satire, centre around three girlfriends with each edition focusing on one of them.

The first book Sharks With Lipstick is about Samantha and her life in a government department combined with murder mystery on a Kāpiti train and a romantic connection too.

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