HK make the best sub-machine gun. Most special forces use submachine guns made by HK and most have the MP5 variants in 9mm. HK has developed a new weapon that is even better for close quarters combat.
While the she-beast has been in town she sure has been stirring up the country, anyone noticed how dismal the country became the minute her life sucking personage entered the country.
Anyway, Tiger Mallard has fallen back on old habits and starting quoting the she-beast again.
MINING: Helen Clark says when it comes to mining: “some things are more important than money.” Do we need to be concerned about mining on DOC land? Or is this much ado about nothing?
Why doesn’t he quote Goff instead of Clark?
Nice of her sitting on her millions she earned off the back of ordinary kiwis to say some things are more important than money. On the other hand she is probably right for herself, you know, a UN job, a tilt at Ban Ki moons job, getting the flag changed so the proletariat are conditioned towards constitutional change so we get a republic for her to sweep, in all her glorious evilness, in as the new President. Don’t think it will happen? The she-beast is a planner and some things are more important than money.
Still. Why didn’t Tiger quote Goff instead of Clark?
Phil “Gary” Twyford isn’t gay but he keeps getting it in the pooper by Labour. First there was Mt Albert, then Auckland Central and now he is trying his hand at Waitakere against Carmel “Slice” Sepuloni all at the same time as desperately trying to protect things that don’t need protecting in Auckland from being sold.
There is a sign that he may have chucked in his tilt at Waitakere in the face of opposition from feral westie locals who don’t want a carpet-bagger parachuting in.
“Caropotamus” Beaumont has taken over saving things that don’t need saving, so that he can protect New Zealand from the real danger of depleted Uranium. Of course he has forgotten that we don’t have, are never likely to have, depleted uranium weapons.
Could this be a sign that the party members in Waitakere have given him one in the chook yet again, in favour of Carmel “Slice” Sepuloni. 
"Caropotamus" Beaumont takes over saving things that don't need saving
"Caropotamus" Beaumont takes over saving things that don't need saving
from Wattsupwiththat
Several errors have been recently uncovered in the 4th Assessment Report (AR4) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). These include problems with Himalayan glaciers, African agriculture, Amazon rainforests, Dutch geography, and attribution of damages from extreme weather events. More seem to turn up daily. Most of these errors stem from the IPCC’s reliance on non-peer reviewed sources.
The defenders of the IPCC have contended that most of these errors are minor in significance and are confined to the Working Group II Report (the one on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability) of the IPCC which was put together by representatives from various regional interests and that there was not as much hard science available to call upon as there was in the Working Group I report (“The Physical Science Basis”). The IPCC defenders argue that there have been no (or practically no) problems identified in the Working Group I (WGI) report on the science.
These errors are really indefensible. We have been told ad nauseum that they have a strict peer review procedure, that people are checking and others are checking the checkers and yet we have a multitude of errors. We have non-science quoted as fact. And now we have another critical error. This time they have munged the data to show statistically insignificant increases in the extent of the Antarctic Ice. In actual fact:
This rate of increase is nearly twice as great as the value given in the AR4 (from its non-peer-reviewed source).
So, the peer reviewed literature, both extant at the time of the AR4 as well as published since the release of the AR4, shows that there has been a significant increase in the extent of sea ice around Antarctica since the time of the first satellite observations observed in the late 1970s. And yet the AR4 somehow “assessed” the evidence and determined not only that the increase was only half the rate established in the peer-reviewed literature, but also that it was statistically insignificant as well. And thus, the increase in sea ice in the Antarctic was downplayed in preference to highlighting the observed decline in sea ice in the Arctic.
It is little wonder why, considering that the AR4 found that “Sea ice is projected to shrink in both the Arctic and Antarctic under all SRES scenarios.”
Trend in Antarctic ice extent, November 1978 through December 2006 (source: Comiso and Nishio, 2008).
Taking note of this Nick “Quota” Smith, are you? You should be, if you removed all of the errors IPCC AR4 is starting to look extremely thin, almost as thin as the Italian Book of War Heroes or the Australian Book of Etiquette.
The Broadcasting Standards Authority has found that Michael Laws;
…unfairly represented Mr Broughton’s views.
Mr Broughton had said that “Pakeha continue to allow [smoking] in the country and make profits from it’, but Laws told his listeners that Mr Broughton believed, and told his clients, that smoking is a “Pakeha plot to kill Maori’, an assertion he made several times during the course of his programme.
“The authority is firm in its view that such blatant misrepresentation cannot be regarded as `fair comment’, as argued by the broadcaster,” the decision said.
The authority considered whether upholding the complaint would infringe on the broadcaster’s freedom of expression, but decided its decision would remind broadcasters to ensure they dealt with people referred to in a programme fairly.
With my submission to the Maori Affairs Select Committee on Maori smoking highlights the culture of the Maori anti-smoking lobby. I hope to present a full submission to the Select Committee in person and table my evidence of Shane Kawaneta Bradbrook’s epic failure along with other Maori anti-smoking campaigners.
Mr Broughton is on my list of people who are part of a nasty spiteful list of anti-smoking adherents discovered via the OIA.
It is a while since I wrote anything about the country of my birth, but Radio NZ has finally driven me to it.
Probably the single best site on Fiji is Fiji the way it was, is and Can be. He has got stuck into Radio NZ. Unfortunately his blog isn’t widely read so I take this opportunity to spread the word more effectively.
Before I do I must choke out good comment about the recent work of Murray McCully to change the paradigm and rhetoric around Fiji.
Now onto the Radio NZ bollocks.
“Fiji’s people have been fairly meek and accepting in the face of three years of military rule – but not any longer. On Friday, they submitted a petition to the military regime calling for the restoration of democracy and elections by the end of the year. It was backed by over 680,000 people – more than 80% of the country’s population. It will be interesting to see how the regime responds to this. With that level of mass opposition, its not as if they can arrest everyone (besides the obvious problem of numbers, the soldiers may not be willing to arrest their families). OTOH, unless the people are willing to turn their mass opposition into colour-revolution-style mass protests, then the regime may not in fact have to do anything.” Link.
Now read on to see where this nonsense came from.
RadioNZ reports, without prior enquiry, question or comment, that a petition “said to have the support of more than 600,000 people” has petitioned Bainimarama to hold elections this year. Link.( See other RadioNZ links below.) And Coupfourpointfive has followed suit.
So Radio NZ got some info on a petition supposedly from over 600,000 Fijian citizens to request a return to democracy and silly twat no Malcolm Harbrow dutiful starts spreading the lie. normally he researches a bit more beyond the issues but his blinkers are always on over Fiji.
So where did Radio NZ get their info from?
The informant and main petitioner was Suliasi Daunitutu of Queanbeya, NSW, who is linked to the Australian FijiDemocracyNow movement. Suliasi said the petitioners, most presumably living in Fiji, “are afraid to express [their views] openly, so it’s being done through various political parties … Leaders of the Fiji Labour, SDL and National Federation Party…”
So. This is a petition based on past party membership lists not individuals who have signed in their own right or given parties to sign on their behalf. The lists were apparently given by these parties to Suliasi and then handed by him to Bainimarama! I certainly wouldn’t like to belong to a political party, or any other organization, which was so free with its membership list. And if Bainimarama is as vindictive as Suliasi would claim, he isn’t doing his petitioners any good by giving him their names and addresses. The petition is immediately suspect on these grounds.
Well, well, well three holes in the ground. No-one has actually signed a petition. The petition is made up of members of opposition political parties, with not a single signature to support the contention that 680,000 or the claimed 80% of population have signed the petition. In the numbers there is a problem to, apart from the obvious that there is no way that the SDL, Labour and the National Federation Party could possibly have 80% of the population enrolled as members. Though with Qarase anything is possible.
It is also suspect on the number of petitioners claimed:
600,000 by RadioNZ; 685,936 by Suliasi, the main petitioner. How does he come even close to his 600,000 made up mainly of those on the party lists? The adult population at the 2007 census was only 518,000, and the combined first preference votes given to these three parties in the 2006 election totalled under 240,000. I doubt that more than a few of these voters were registered members of the party for which they voted. Further, it cannot be presumed that voting for these parties four years ago would result in similar numbers voting for them today, or the same voters being opposed to what Bainimarama has been trying to achieve since 2006. Voting for a party is a limited mandate. Mine does not assume it can speak on my behalf on all issues. But if all 240,000 “signed” the petition, a further 440,000 former Fiji citizens and other people living overseas would also need to sign to reach 686,000!
Did it not occur to someone in RadioNZ that 600,000 is more more than the total adult Fiji population of 518,000 recorded in the 2007 census, approximately one-third of whom were too young to vote? Or did they consider the daunting task of getting at least 360,000 Australians and New Zealanders to sign to get even close to their 600,000? Such a massive petition would have reached the ears of the media. Why have we not heard of it until now?
Digging deeper, Suliasi’s petition was in support of a petition by Vilisi Naduka of Caubati in Nasinu who first came to public attention when in October 2008 he parked his car across the road at Nabua, Suva, in protest against the Coup. Suliasi says the petition was handed to Bainimara last Friday afternoon but Visili says he posted it after praying at the Methodist Church and presenting a copy to the Church President, not that the discrepancy really matters other than raising the question of what else Suliasi may have got wrong.
Well. the numbers are certainly suspect and so is the fact as to who presented what and when. Sounds like complete bollocks. Time to sell Radio NZ methinks.
The NZ taxpayer should not be subsidizing such poor journalism. Fancy Labour supporting such and inept bunch of hopeless fact checkers.
So, yesterday the Telecommunications Commissioners recommended that the Government should work on a plan to reduce MTR charges, and ultimately costs to the customer, that is provided by Telecom and Vodafone.
I just have one question for Steven Joyce.
Why should we listen to Telecom and their plans for our mobile networks when their XT network is down around their ankles like a whore’s drawers?
Well should we?
F**k Off Telecom
