NZ:
‘Online shoppers could soon be paying GST (tax) on more internet purchases.
…The Retailers Association would welcome a change…’
I bet the bastards would “welcome a change”. So would their cronies in government.
Retailers are constantly whining about how online shopping is damaging their businesses, but in the last two weeks I’ve had to deal with telebimbos who know nothing, blank stares when asking for an internationally-known, well established product and several companies who simply didn’t bother to ‘phone me back as promised. Not to mention being lied to and told a certain product is “no longer made” simply because the retailer didn’t stock it. Now the slack bastards want the government to help force people to shop locally. Suddenly protectionism is ok when it suits government and businesses.Much easier than lifting their own game, eh?
Well, wherever possible I will NOT shop locally. At least when shopping online I get far better service.

NZ:
‘Roads in doubt if Winston wins
John Key is warning voters there is no “free lunch” in the Northland by-election.
…Speaking to Turners & Growers in Kerikeri yesterday, Key said “all the other parties [were] ganging up on National” making the contest difficult… ‘
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Crow sunbaking.

‘Federal oppression and intimidation of True the Vote.’
This is naked tyranny, nothing less. Killing these bastards would be an entirely moral act.

 The nervous system in a fruit fly larva, serial section TEM – by Albert Cardona, HHMI Janelia Research Campus
More HERE
(click the pic for a spectacular larger version)

‘Climate change is ‘set to speed up to rates not seen for 1,000 years’, warn scientists’
I smell desperation.

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And very, very funny.  It begins thus:
‘What a pleasure it is to see the Hollywood actor Sean Penn neck deep in PC ordure. The rodentine thespian was handing out an award at the Oscars to his friend the Mexican film director Alejandro González Iñárritu, for his film Birdman. ‘Who gave this sonofabitch a green card?’ Penn quipped about his mate — at which point the moronsphere went into overdrive….’
and it just gets better and better!

‘…Australia is systematically violating the international Convention Against Torture by detaining children in immigration detention, and holding asylum seekers in dangerous and violent conditions on Manus Island, a United Nations report has found.
But the prime minister, Tony Abbott, reacted angrily to the scathing findings, saying Australians were “sick of being lectured to by the United Nations”…’

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Oswald Bastable has kindly written this excellent article for us. Hopefully it will stimulate some debate and ideas from CR readers.
‘I have been asked to write a short piece on firearms suitable for food-gathering in a SHTF scenario and for defense- obviously in the event evil aliens land, as it would unthinkable to use a firearm in self defense in the Socialist Republic of New Zealand. All laws are out the window when the rocks fall from the sky!

Obviously, the best firearm for both situations is the one you have. You had better have one, preferably more, before the shops board up their now empty windows.

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