John Grono

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@NickLittleNZ It’s been the plan for a long time. They want to have digital money in use soon as well. The usual story, they’ll try to sell it as good for us but it’s not. rbnz.govt.nz/money-and-cash…

I don't remember any political party bringing their plans for digital ID to the attention of voters, ever. NZ has a long history of declining universal ID numbers in the past. I wonder why it's quietly being progressed without scrutiny? nzherald.co.nz/nz/secretary-f…

The International Moth is a development sailing class known for decades of innovation and its ability to hydrofoil above the water.

The thing that winds me up is how Elon has a trillion because he’s set up a system where he forcibly takes 40% of what hard working people produce, leverages it up as debt, spends it ineffectively and does dumb things to win the votes of millions of people who’ve become dependent on his handouts.

Although credited to Charlie Parker, Miles Davis wrote “Donna Lee.” One of bebop’s most famous tunes is actually a Miles composition.

@VoteSovereign @SanityRetention The so called FTA with India will be a disaster for New Zealand.

Negligence, Chinese theft and now the India FTA: The 3 ways NZ will have lost its kiwifruit advantage. 1. NZ developed the Hayward kiwifruit cultivar and we failed to protect it. Chile built an industry on it and became a major competitor. 2. China stole SunGold cuttings in 2016. Now there are 8,000+ hectares of illegal plantings producing $1B of pirated fruit. 3. The India FTA requires NZ to hand over premium plant varieties, breeding material, and growing expertise - and help India build the IP laws to commercially grow our protected cultivars. If India decides we haven't delivered enough, they cancel our market access. If the treaty collapses entirely, India keeps everything we transferred.

@SVG__Collection Great album

‘Shades of Blue’ is the perfect marriage between jazz and hip-hop.

@goodlobster1 You’ll be alright you’ve still got golf 🏌🏼‍♂️ You look more distinguished, I think that’s what they say. And to be fair….you could be bald already 😎

Every haircut I get now A. Cuts out more Silver And B. Makes me realise how my hair is disappearing And C. Makes me want to get really drunk coz getting old sucks ass

@bryan_johnson Why not take deer velvet ?

I take Cialis, but not for sex. It’s actually a longevity medicine. Cialis (Tadalafil) is great for the same reason it gives you fantastic erections… it improves blood flow. Studies show that Tadalafil… + 34% reduced all-cause mortality + 27% reduced major heart disease + 34% reduced stroke + 32% reduced dementia It has also shown benefit in insulin sensitivity, metabolic health, and reduction of body fat. Women have blood vessels too, so theoretically they'd get the same longevity upside. The research is thinner, but early signals are promising. It’s sad that when men and women could benefit from it can miss out because it’s taboo. My protocol is 5mg daily and I've been on it for about two years. *Observational research shows associations, not causation. Outcomes may be influenced by underlying differences in study populations. This is not medical advice and is shared for informational purposes only.

📷 THIS IS SO IMPORTANT TO OUR KIWI WAY OF LIFE ...ATTENTION ALL 4WD CLUBS, JET BOATERS, HUNTERS, FISHERS & OUTDOOR ENTHUSIASTS! 📷 So important The Government has just introduced the Conservation Amendment Bill, and it is the biggest threat to our traditional Kiwi outdoor heritage in 40 years. They are calling it "cutting red tape," but what it really does is pave the way to commercialise and privatise our public conservation land. If we don’t stand up right now, the open, unrestricted backcountry access we’ve enjoyed for generations could be gone for good. How this Bill disadvantages everyday Kiwi outdoor lovers: You lose your voice: It removes your automatic right to a public hearing. If a big corporate wants to lock up your favorite river access or 4WD track, whether you get to object face-to-face is now entirely up to the Minister’s discretion. 60-Year private leases: It allows the Minister to grant exclusive commercial leases for up to 60 years! That means corporate eco-lodges, private tourism ventures, or infrastructure projects can lock everyday Kiwis out of public valleys and tracks for generations. 60% of our conservation land could be swapped or sold: While National Parks are "safe," the other 60%, including our stewardship lands, forest parks, and river margins where most of our 4WD tracks, hunting grounds, and boat launches sit is being opened up for easier land swaps and disposals. Commercial priority over recreation: DOC will now have a legal mandate to actively look for and "enable economic opportunities." Volunteer clubs who maintain huts and tracks will be pushed to the back of the queue behind cashed-up commercial operators. New Zealand Outdoors & Freedom Party is encouraging EVERYONE to have their say. NB There ate two processes ...the Conservation Amendment Bill AND the Conservation Management Strategy.. Ideally make you views known on both. This is our land. We cannot let them hand the keys over to corporate interests and shut Kiwis out of our own backyard. Submissions close Thursday, July 2, 2026. It only takes a few minutes to lodge your objection and demand that public access to the outdoors remains free, open, and protected for all New Zealanders. www3.parliament.nz/en/ECommitteeS… #hunting #fishing #nzpol #4wd #jetboating #greatoutdoors

@tmurphyNZ @SandeChin Wahoo. Free ice creams for everyone. 🥳 The Green accountants are the best. This money will enable Chloe to fix everything

The Greens have found the biggest hole in a Budget in NZ history - going for the full-on $500 billion (in the heading)

Well, after the Senior was red flagged tonight I decided to get a Chinese on my way home. The only problem is I had forgotten about Michael's tribute lap. Stuck in the queue to get through the access road it was do I stick and aim for QB or twist and do a u-turn and head for Union Mills. As the queue of traffic was going at a glacial pace I opted for the latter. Glad I did as I got Michael jumping at Union Mills, side on shot and the exit past Kaneen's filling station. A fitting tribute to his uncle Joey! Don't worry I managed to microwave my Chinese when I got home. By the way Golden Gate in Willaston is the best! #iomtt #iomttraces #ttraces #ttraces2026 #tt2026 #nikon #nikonz9

While I’m no fan of socialism or arbitrary confiscations of wealth, I can see why Bernie Sanders’ proposal (for the government to take a 50% stake in AI companies) resonates, including with many on the right. The CEOs of the leading AI labs have told us repeatedly that they will cause massive job loss. This is not a story that I believe, nor does the data bear it out, but this is what they have told us. Similarly, they have hyped the risks of AI without putting an equal or greater emphasis on the benefits or readily available mitigations. Conservatives have another fear. The employees of the leading labs claim to be philanthropic, but what we’ve seen is massive enrichment of NGOs advancing an agenda at odds with traditional values, fueling a revolution against our cities and communities. Soros-maxxing is not charity in our book. Anthropic and OpenAI have established themselves as Public Benefit Corporations. What could be more in the public benefit than using half the wealth generated by these companies (which trained for free on the collective knowledge of humanity) to pay down the national debt? There is no ideological bias in that philanthropy. Dario and Sam have begun to walk back their claims of massive job loss, but the damage to public trust is done, and now the chickens are coming home to roost. I could almost support the Sanders proposal as a stupidity tax. There’s just one problem. Nationalization of AI will accelerate the corporate-government fusion we’re already sliding toward. Conservatives rightly fear a Central Bank Digital Currency. They ought to be even more concerned about Central Government AI — a system with even more totalistic power over information, decision-making, and human behavior. We saw how social media was weaponized to censor conservatives (including President Trump) in the last Democrat administration. The definition of “trust & safety” expanded to mean protecting the public from supposed psychological harms, micro-aggressions, and disinformation (you know, like hearing conservative ideas or true facts about Covid). That “safety” agenda as applied to AI will be vastly more powerful and Orwellian. AI won’t just moderate posts; it will curate reality — with the ability to rewrite history, enforce ideological conformity, influence policy at scale, mass surveil Americans, and condition the benefits of the many systems it controls on approved behavior. America won’t win the AI race if we beat China but end up with a CCP-style social credit system in the U.S. — and that is the danger as the government becomes more deeply involved in AI development and assumes direct ownership and control. Conservatives are right to fear where this is all headed but ought to think more carefully about how regulations they are flirting with now (that are widely celebrated among those with a long history of lust for Big Government) will be used against them the next time a Democrat administration is in power.

Two yachts have run aground at Ballina and Byron Bay recently and are both still stuck there, but last night Markus Pache 📷 took this shot of the one stuck at Flat Rock, East Ballina. Captures the dark emu at the perfect angle !

Ryan Joyce pinning 3 bullseyes for a 150 checkout and not even celebrating it hahahaha Some man

Bu golleri bir daha görme ihtimaliniz: 1/1.000.000. 🤯

Apparently, job losses are only a national tragedy when they happen to people with university degrees. Over the past decade, New Zealand has lost: • Around 300 direct jobs at Marsden Point when our only oil refinery closed. Local leaders estimate including contractors and supply-chain businesses, the loss was well over 1,000 jobs. • Around 120 direct jobs when the Holcim cement plant at Westport shut down, with significant flow-on effects for contractors, transport operators, and the coal industry that supplied it. • Around 230 direct jobs when Winstone Pulp closed its Karioi pulp mill and Tangiwai sawmill, along with many forestry, harvesting, engineering, and transport jobs that depended on those operations. • Around 230 direct jobs at Kinleith Mill when paper production was shut down, affecting contractors and suppliers throughout Tokoroa and the wider forestry sector. • Around 175-230 direct jobs when the Whakatāne paper mill collapsed, plus the contractors, trucking companies, maintenance firms, and local businesses that relied on it. • Around 300 direct jobs when the Waimate Meat Company closed, with major impacts on livestock transport, contractors, and local service businesses. • Between 1,500 and 2,000 direct jobs across the coal sector following the collapse of Solid Energy and the decline of mining operations, alongside hundreds of contractor jobs in engineering, maintenance, transport, and support services. All up, that's around 3,000–4,000 direct blue collar jobs gone. Once you include contractors, suppliers, transport firms, engineers, maintenance crews, and the businesses that depended on those workers spending money in their communities, the true impact was likely somewhere between 6,000 and 10,000 jobs. Thousands lost their livelihoods. Sure there were a few stories, but they often emphasised how necessary it was for the environment or some other cause. In many cases, the same people now lamenting public sector redundancies were actively cheering these closures on. We were told they were necessary. A transition away from unethical or dirty sectors. Progress. The price of climate action. Workers were told to retrain. Learn how to code!!! "You just need to adapt!" Now the cuts have reached Wellington and suddenly every redundancy is treated as a national emergency. The same people who told coal miners, refinery workers, and mill workers to embrace change are now horrified that policy analysts, communications advisors, and bureaucrats might have to do the same. Losing your job is hard regardless of who you are. A miner's mortgage matters just as much as a social media manager's mortgage. A forestry worker's family matters just as much as a policy advisor's family. But the reaction over the past decade suggests many people in our political and media class don't actually believe that. To them, a blue collar worker losing their job was economic progress and necessary climate action. A public servant losing theirs is a humanitarian crisis. It seems that job losses only become a national conversation when they happen to people with the power to dominate the conversation.

I want to be really clear in my response. I am not going to retract anything, I stand by every single word. Labour are calling for me to apologise. The answer is no. Industrial rape across almost every town and city in Britain. Sexual torture. Murder. Endless rape. I sat there for two weeks, listening to these girls. I heard how one girl was raped by a dog, as Muslim men bet on what the animal would do. Girls drugged and locked in cages, like rats. Another, raped by 700 men over three years. Dozens and dozens of these stories through our inquiry, and we are barely scratching the surface. This was allowed to happen EXACTLY because politicians were cowards, refusing to discuss it. I will not make that same mistake. I said what I said, and I meant it. The Labour Party have blood on their hands, yet they think they can demand an apology from me for highlighting the systemic evil they allowed to infect our entire country? They can piss off. I am angry about it. Furious. When you hear directly from these girls about what they have been through, it changes the way you see politics. Forever. Our report will be out very soon. When that happens, I don’t want any apologies from the Labour Party. I don’t care about that. I want to see those politicians responsible for covering up this atrocity behind bars for what they have done to these girls.

A very sad announcement. I have just been convicted a second time for 'hate speech' and it is only due to a technicality that I could not immediately be sent to jail —to the judge's frustration. In an ironic turn of events it's actually thanks to my previous prison sentence (for memes in a private group chat) that I am now still free —in a physical sense, at least. Call me naive but I didn't think they would take it this far, given that this precedent criminalises many of the arguments used by even the most moderate politicians critical of mass migration. In February 2024 I gave a lecture at Catholic University Leuven wherein I linked mass migration to crime and a deterioration of our quality of life. Every single point I made was 100% the truth and based on scientific evidence. Cynically, even the judge that convicted me admits as much by writing in his verdict: “Even if all of the statements made by Van Langenhove are based on scientific evidence and statistics, it makes no difference to the criminal intent. Van Langenhove is not charged with spreading false information. He is charged with presenting facts in a way that incites hatred against persons on the grounds of one or more of the protected criteria in the Anti-Racism Law.” That's a lot of words just to say he wants to send me to prison for speaking the truth. Even the regime media write: "It did not matter to the court that Van Langenhove was quoting scientific sources. The judge argued that Van Langenhove's main message was that a big part of the societal problems like insecurity, housing shortages and lowering educational standards are due to mass migration." You may think the regime media are being sympathetic to me in the first sentence, but in reality they are warning people: even if you speak the truth, if you go against our narrative, we will crush you in every way possible. Both the public prosecutor and the judge did not present a single real argument as to how or against whom I would have incited hatred. So even if I would accept their crazy, dystopic law, I still did not break it. The only argument they present is that I created a "hostile atmosphere of us versus them” in regards to migrants. But even this silly argument (which is not even a punishable offence) is not true. To me, the deadly disease is self-hatred and one of its worst symptoms is replacement migration. My enemy is thus NOT the migrants themselves but those orchestrating the mass migration. Sadly, in Belgium, evidence is not needed and ‘vibes’ are enough to put someone in jail. Given the fact that I have another court case coming up in September and that I have a dozen active criminal investigations for hate speech, time is running out for me. I have already paid more than €420,000 in legal fees and there is no ending in sight. I have been in an intense battle of attrition for eight years and must now regroup to make sure I can still win. If you want to help me, you can do so via the links below. If you can help in other ways, please contact me via DM. If you live in a country that still has free speech, never let them touch it, however noble they make the motives sound, because this is where it leads to.