Jacinda Vs John. Trump gets laughed at.

Wheeler's Corner 40 28th September 2018

'Connecting with people who care' 

 1. The latest bit of stirring doing the rounds on the national MSM political scene these days is the relationship between Jacinda and appointee [now cancelled] Handley. I roamed the web seeking to enlighten myself and the best piece on the issue was on the 'The Daily Blog' site, here is what it said. My comments are in italics: 

"The manner in which the NZ mainstream media have attempted to whip the Jacinda-Handley interaction into a ‘jobs for the boys’ style scandal is embarrassing when you compare it to the previous relationship of Key and his [illegal]appointment of his school mate Ian Fletcher to the GCSB.
I agree that the appointment and then refusal of Handley has been a cluster fuck. Eager MP's like Curran and the PM who wanted a person of Handley’s talent helping the Government out is about as bad as this actually gets, yes Curran and Jacinda were eager and friendly, and in that haste they didn’t dot i’s and cross t’s, but that and the emails between Jacinda and Handley.
Here’s the time line of Jacinda and Handley:

April 23 – August 20th – Handley sends Jacinda 2 text messages and an email about the CTO role.  

Hardly Watergate [or pony-tail-gate] is it? Now here is the timeline of Key appointing his school mate to head the GCSB while he was ramming through mass surveillance laws and setting up Kim Dotcom for the NSA:

March 8th 2011 – Jerry Mateparae is [Bribed or] stepped down as head of the GCSB. [and appointed Governor General]
March 15th 2011 – Top NSA spook, James Clapper, flies to NZ to meet with Key to discuss ‘synchronicity’ between the NSA and GCSB.
March 22nd 2011 – High level intelligence meetings
May 2011 – McCully visits Washington
June 17th 2011 – Key meets with Ian Fletcher for breakfast at Stamford Plaza.
July 22nd 2011 – Key is invited to Washington as pay back for this new ‘synchronicity’.
July 26th 2011 – Key side steps normal protocols and appoints his old school friend Ian Fletcher to take over at the GCSB.
October 2011 – John Key, the head of the SIS and NZDF join Ian Fletcher, the MFAT Head, and the DPMC boss for a secret dinner at the British High Commissioner’s home
December 8th 2011 – A letter states that Key is going to meet Ian Fletcher on 12th December
December 12th 2011 – Key meets with Ian Fletcher. [see comments below]
December 14th 2011 – The Police boss responsible for spying on Dotcom meets John Key with other intelligence agencies present.
December 16th 2011 – Kim Dotcom starts to be illegally spied upon.
January 2012 – Raid on Kim Dotcom.

…I can’t take ‘jobs for the boys’ criticism of Jacinda seriously when Key broke every protocol to get his mate to head the spy agency at a time when he was gerrymandering Dotcom and mass surveillance legalisation.
If only the NZ media had spent as much effort on exposing Key’s scandal as they have on Jacinda’s ‘scandal’. TDB ends.

Key and Fletcher [left] being interviewed.

Key appointed heaps of his friends to various positions, over his nine years in office...but his manipulation to install Ian Fletcher was so obviously under the table. Yet little was made of it by the MSM. I admit that NZ is a small country and well known people have contacts with many others on a personnel basis. Put simply Key pushed the then head of the GCSB Jerry Mateparae to resign and he had only been in the job a few months... by offering him the job of Governor General...so as to allow Key to appoint someone who would do his bidding without question...Key also had a meeting with Fletcher [after a quick return fight in and out] from Australia, which was at first denied but later admitted. So much for honesty.
Now watch and listen to the governments response to the issue of releasing info to the public:    
https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/367397/govt-releases-all-communications-relating-to-derek-handley 
Now put that along side Keys response to his [ill regular] appointment of a new head of the GCSB. Learn more about Fletcher / Key connections. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Fletcher_(diplomat)

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2.

So Jono Naylor and his family will continue living off the tax or rate payers hard earned money... Between himself and his wife [a Palmerston North City Councillor] they are taking out around sixty thousand dollars per year, and don't forget that rate payers also pay 15% GST over and above that $60.000. So they are really raking it in. All that for around a twenty hour week between them.
Still, I suppose democracy comes at a price, its just a pity that we couldn't share the wealth. It would seem that Horizons voters just love to have ex-mayors as their representatives or should I say benefactors...The question of ability seems to be rated on name recognition rather than actual proven skills and I've no doubt that conservation activities will remain low on the measurement factors as we judge our representatives at the next full local body elections [2019].

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3. 

ZB reported:
"Simon Bridges says if he was at the United Nations event being held in New York, he would not of laughed at US President Donald Trump.
World leaders chuckled at Trump's boast to the UN General Assembly that in less than two years, his administration had achieved more than almost any other in US history.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern kept a straight face, and wouldn't be drawn on her views afterwards.
Bridges says although President Trump may be a polarising character, he deserves respect and this incident was unfortunate.
“There are some things which he is doing which I agree with, and as the President of the United States, he deserves our respect. I certainly would not be laughing.”

Trump a repubican?

That statement from Simon Bridges tells us more about Simon Bridges than it does about pink haired Donald Trump, This says it all [picture]:
Some times our leaders need to speak the truth...the whole world is laughing at Trump, not because he is funny, but because he acts stupid, and the problem is that his stupidity could lead to yet more war, death and destruction, US spends trillions on arms and continuing US led conflicts in over 75 countries.
His latest claim that China is somehow effecting the upcoming mid term elections by attacking his republican party...but not too long ago he called 'Republican voters the dumbest in the country'. So maybe becoming a Republican President was the job for him. Since becoming President he has according to 'fact checker' lied six thousand times and our very own Simon Bridges says we should treat him with respect...really. How can anyone respect a liar, bigot and pussy grabbing dumb-dumb, as he himself says...'I could lie and they'd still eat it up'...after all he is a Republican is he not. Compared to Bernie Sanders, he is an egotistical idiot.

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Lastly, if you have the time [22 minutes]  Listen to our PM address the UN and compare her presentation with that of the US President, the differences are stark, war Vs peace, togetherness Vs separatism, https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/367450/me-too-must-become-we-too-jacinda-ardern-delivers-un-address 

Have a good weekend.