Do You Get The Difference (Private Enterprise v Predatory Capitalism)?

 Is it time to be angry yet? - Do you see wealth and power moving ever higher and being embedded into a shiny layer sitting way up over your head - while your children and their kids struggle to find somewhere to live?

The world's four biggest oil and gas companies have taken $1.99 trillion in profits in the past three decades.  - No wonder they have to price our fuel so carefully ..

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/feb/12/revealed-big-oil-profits-since-1990-total-nearly-2tn-bp-shell-chevron-exxon

Marketing - Public Relations - Propaganda and indeed Fascism - are all about FEELINGS - All want to pander to our emotions rather than respecting the truth. 

- Forget the facts - "Just tell 'em anything that they'd like to hear" ..

"Selling the SIZZLE - NOT THE STEAK"

New Zealand Police management and their tame politicians have spent the last several decades enacting regulations specifically designed to demonize lawful firearms owners - the single most worthy group of law abiding kiwis - turning them a new criminal underclass of pariahs.

As a compliant group of 240,000 citizens who have always respected the law - we are much easier to control than the troublesome & transient gang members.

If you were to stubbornly persist in harvesting wild food and trying to help control introduced feral animals by hunting - they are intent on making it so costly and complicated to meet licensing requirements that you will eventually abandon the effort needed to comply - and by default become a law breaker .. thus 'proving' their assertion that gun owners are undesirables.

The idea is one of UNEQUALITY .. some of us are more valuable than others.

We have let the skin on top of our custard get thicker & tougher while the jug below is filled with tasteless watery yellow slops .. - EVERY law that this tacky top layer imposes is designed keep the public cash flowing without friction into private contractor's pockets.

 "Entrepreneurs provide jobs and incomes for ordinary workers."  Nothing to do with taking maximum profit then.

- & they don't want you being anyway independent or owning any guns. - Get your food plastic-wrapped from the Supermarket like the other workers.  Ordinary Kiwis need to accept being treated as a resource - like a field of cabbages, - just sit there quietly without decent housing or care, & pay-up for everything until 'they' are ready to cut & package you for market.

Have you had enough repression yet? .. Are you getting sufficiently peed-off ?

FASCISM: We think with the blood of out Nation.

- So what was BREXIT then? 

What was Trump's "Let's make America Great Again" about?

Housing Minister Megan Woods .. "Govt promises 8000 new homes as part of Infrastructure Acceleration Fund"

Failed  KIWIBUILD rehashed

A Trillion dollars is a million dollars - multiplied by a million. Or if you prefer, - a thousand billion dollars.

$1,000,000,000,000

• If you had gone into business on the day Jesus was born, and your business lost a million dollars a day, - day in and day out, 365 days a year, for 2,737 years it would take you until October 2737 to lose one trillion dollars.  
• Time to consider a FINANCIAL TRANSACTION TAX . - An APTT (Automated Payment Transaction Tax) is the fairest form of wide based taxation that is possible .. which is why all the wealthy oppose it. - You might even replace VAT & GST by a much fairer APTT.  
• Marty K.

FACTS trump LIES ..

In recent years - on numerous occasions - NZ Police managers and their Association President have repeatedly claimed that our criminal GANGS are being supplied with illicit firearms by dishonest and lax firearms owners. 

This spurious attempt to denigrate our fit & proper legitimate firearms owners - is their single main justification for wanting to establish a FIREARMS REGISTER.

Police Association President CAHILL.

Thursday .. Speaking with NZ Customs about New Zealand Gangs forming 'Global Networks' to import drugs, weapons and other illicit goods - Security analyst Dr Paul Buchanan from 36th Parallel Assessments said 

"The number of drug interceptions of all types fluctuate from year to year but have trended up overall from a low of 452 in the first quarter of 2011 to regularly peaking at more than a 1000 in a three-month period from 2016 onward."

"Between 2014 and September 2020, there were 5,887 firearms, 11,265 firearms parts and 220,063 other weapons picked up at the NZ border."

So, over this same period - How many guns were recorded as handed to gang members by legitimate Licensed shooters for gangs to use in crimes?

Link:

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/471337/new-zealand-gangsters-forging-global-networks-customs-warns?fbclid=IwAR30GNhgenWJsX01pNyusqVSvWgZRp6xULQOcFpgBjTT0-lR5EyuUknMBIw

Marty K.

Hera Cook Wants to BAN Advertising of Guns ..

 Hera Cook who calls herself 'Gun Control New Zealand' - was on RNZ National this Wednesday morning saying that gun dealers are advertising guns to "children and women" .. and it must be stopped

https://www.rnz.co.nz/audio/player?audio_id=2018850112

Mz Hera is world famous in NZ for her study & intimate knowledge of female genitalia - indeed she has published her writings .. but sadly she knows very little about firearms and their legitimate uses. - Cook doesn't let her ignorance limit her opinions as she just makes it up as she goes.

If the above link works you will hear her audibly sighing a lot - which is a sign of depression - In between her sighs she blames the police for publicly promoting gun crime with increased reportage implying increased gun crime - and irresponsible people for buying guns and passing them on to others.

Mz Hera will likely next want to renew & extend the 'Buy Back' to calling-in gun BOOKS for burning ..

I recommend she returns to scrutinizing women's pudenda to lift her spirits .. as that does seem to cheer-up around half of the population anyway.

Marty K.

ALTOR Single Shot Pistol:

Two years ago the ALTOR Single Shot handgun was shown to the world .. Well the American shooting world anyway. 

There really is nothing new about single shot pistols as the earliest of firearms were all 'single shot' and much ingenuity has been exercised over the last five hundred-plus years to develop repeating arms.

This derringer's standard barrel is 2.9 inches with the rifled bore stretching for 1.5 inches only.- The metal parts are Stainless Steel while the lightweight grip frame is made of Type 6 Nylon polymer containing 30% glass fiber.

I'd say that it would be unlikely that the New Zealand Police 'service' would agree to issuing import permits for this wee arm .. as their management's anti-lawful-gun prejudices are obvious - despite the fact that historically they were once persuaded to permit target shooting again here only using single shot target pistols ..

The Altor is a low cost simple gun intended as a 'back-up' or just-in-case emergency tool that can be kept in a fishing box or camping gear pack. As a firearm it might well serve as a humane killer "bolt-gun" for veterinary use - It can be bought in U S for around $100.

I really like the very basic spring-loaded trigger function whereby as the finger presses the trigger to the rear .. the angled ramp surface 'cams' the trigger-finger down and pushes it off the trigger face, releasing it to fly forward and the striker to hit the cartridge primer. 

Link here to a short video demonstration of the Altor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLwI6aUUFUw

Here are two reviews of the ALTOR Single Shot .. "surprisingly accurate" ..

https://www.americanrifleman.org/content/altor-corporation-single-shot-pistol-review/

https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/gun-review-altor-corp-single-shot-9mm/

Alex Malcom is the guy who dreamed-up this concept that is produced in Phoenix Arizona. ..

The Six Main Components of The ALTOR Nine:

 An impressively simple but sophisticated design using modern injection molding and CNC Machining technology for mass production. This pistol has two separate 'safeties' ..

Marty K.

Courier Business's Having An anti-gun 'Movement' ..

 The ANTI-GUN freak-out hysterics are spreading around our beautiful planet like a horrid monkey pox virus.

Every time another hate-filled killer slides past the under staffed Healthcare & Law Enforcement workers to kill his victims - the simple minded start shouting that they want guns banned. - Naturally whenever these voters get excited, the politicians seize the opportunity to stand before the cameras making more promises to the gullible.

American UPS now joins the screamers and has declared itself as no longer going to carry any firearms or parts. - I suggest that you remember their name along side Levi's jeans and Boycott them.

Here in New Zealand our Firearms Dealers have responded to parcel carriers refusing to move our gear - by setting-up their own courier network that is helping essential pest control and wild harvesting to continue.

Despite my hearing, eye-sight, and short term memory all deteriorating as I become an octogenarian - the UPS name joins with the killer BRENTON TARRANT & Levi's as trash to never be forgiven or forgotten..

These Dingbats calling for action against guns and basic civil rights are simple minds looking for simple answers to their problems.

The REAL answer to reducing violent crime is not simple ..

Improve MENTAL HEALTH Services as part of much needed increased funding for our National Health system. PAY OUR NURSES MORE.

Improve our LAW ENFORCEMENT by increasing the Police budget to allow proper training and recruitment and a return to local CRIME PREVENTION.

Improve our EDUCATION SERVICE with increased funding and PAY - to allow the introduction of CIVICS as a subject alongside properly taught fact based history & Driving Licenses etc.

Improve HOUSING availability so that ordinary working families have a place in life to LIVE.

Fund and build new Corrective Detention Facilities to keep the anti-social away from society until they learn to live properly.

Curtail the transfer of PUBLIC MONEY into private wealth by closing the many TAX LOOPHOLES & use the public money to benefit the public.

Introduce a FINANCIAL TRANSACTION TAX . - An APTT (Automated Payment Transaction Tax) is the fairest form of wide based taxation that is possible .. which is why all the wealthy oppose it. - You might even replace VAT & GST by a much fairer APTT.

Introduce a true Democratic Citizen's Upper House of JURORS - not power-seeking career politicians .. to oversee their Parliamentary activities.

- THAT will do for starters

Marty K.

So .. I Am A "FAR RIGHT GUN NUT"

 Todays "personal interest" story .. My Irish father left Ireland alone aged 15 for England - later joined the British army and served for over seven years throughout WW2 from 1938-1945 as a Corporal with the Irish Guards and both No.1 and No.2 Commandos - in Egypt, Norway, Italy and "North Europe". - About eight years later he was upset when showing me London 'corner shop' Room to Let cards that stated .. NO BLACKS, IRISH OR DOGS.

Because I support MY basic human right to defend myself, I am grouped in with the 'Libertarians, Trumpists and Fascists .. but as any of the jokers at my pistol shooting club will tell you - I am a "Stroppy Communist Lefty Pommy-Pinko"

It's a tribal failing that we need to group basic ideas into clusters .. PUTTING YOU INTO YOUR PLACE. - Some arrogant bigmouth will assume that because I am "pro-gun' I also will be a "Pro-Lifer" anti woman's-rights. - You are supposed to be either 'RED' or 'BLUE. -They call this "footballism" - as if we are supposed to pick our team and follow it loyally for life.

What about ACTUAL POLICIES - do we get a say on any policy? 

We are SO lucky to live in this democratic nation eh ..

Hmm - well New Zealand certainly is a most pleasant place to live - but it is important that we kiwis value the Facts rather than the emotional feelings that we all have - because these feelings can be messed with by professional marketers skilled in human psychology.

These 'persuaders' boast that they sell "the sizzle rather than the steak."

Factually - New Zealand is a MONARCHY rather than a 'Democracy' - but our system is said to be  'CONSTITUTIONAL' - However this is an uncodified constitution, sometimes referred to as an "unwritten constitution". - We are constantly assured by those in power how privileged we are to select our Government and periodically change it.

The Hereditary Queen Of The Realm of New Zealand

Members of our governance system claim it is the very best available

How many of these "world leaders" have even heard of a 'Higgs Boson'? 

- Our kids will likely know more about the JWST than they do ..

- We citizens are supposedly protected by an unwritten, uncodified, vague constitution that shifts around depending on the ruling club.

How well are they doing?

1/- Our LAW ENFORCEMENT is under-resourced, UNDER PAID, and UNDERSTAFFED (except at the top layer).

2/- Our failing HEALTH SYSTEM is OVERLOADED & UNDER RESOURCED .. New Zealand is short of NURSES, DOCTORS, EQUIPMENT & Funding for MEDICINES.

3/- EDUCATION? - We are short of Teachers because of low pay - classrooms are overcrowded and our educational standards are falling.

4/- HOUSING & SOCIAL SERVICES? - We are short of skilled builders, we are short of Housing, and some families are living (and dying) in cars, sheds & garages or high cost emergency accommodation MOTELS.

5/- VIOLENT CRIME? - Since NZ abolished Capital Punishment our MURDER RATE has risen to around four times what it used to be previously. - Hardly a single day passes now without a murderous attack, a shooting, or a stabbing.

- Those 5 issues, plus 'Defense' are exactly what we expect our Administration to provide and manage for us.

Add in POWER, Clean safe WATER and Food - together with rubbish removal & sewage disposal and you have what most of us value as the ESSENTIALS OF LIFE.

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Let us help our Career Politicians to govern by forming an 'Upper House' of un-elected Citizen Jurors each serving one paid term only - to examine & pass (or not) every law change and to propose bottom-line amendments. One Hundred and One Kiwi's - rotated from work life for a time with legal advisors, to improve how our laws are democratically set for the benefit of society.

We could again lead the world.

Marty K.

Note: JWST is the new James Webb Space Telescope. Who knows what it will discover for us?

Home-Made Assassin Guns In 'Gun-Free' Japan:

 This killer didn't follow the Media-Propaganda and spend thousands of yen on a computer controlled 3-D Printer .. he just went out and found some metal pipe, steel-wool & dry cell batteries to cobble together with some duct tape onto some sawn timber.

- Of course, in Japan - He wasn't legally allowed to do that.

The knowledge to make this kind of percussion arm is widely available ever since the 15th century - but some 21st century dreamers and lawmakers think they have the right - and the ability - to suppress information from society and to enforce their will onto those they seek to control.

The same GUN BAN noise makers, that oppose any access to personal self defense for law abiding citizens - have no issue with Government forces deploying nuclear weapons, cluster bombs, autonomous robotic killing drones, and various high capacity weapons - in their interest.

This rare Japanese assassin was so politically motivated and hate filled as to buy some gardening substances to mix as propellant while building an arsenal of simple 'Black Powder' arms that are not even classed as firearms in the U S A.

 "small government" policies naturally entail underfunding Mental Health as part of neglecting general public health services .. while under resourcing prison services with minimum sentences to match the reduced funding for general Law Enforcement & policing.

The closing of our police stations and limited 'service' - austerity cost-saving for ordinary families is a 'new norm' - while the Diplomatic Security Branch steps-up their protective vigilance for politicians and VIPs.

The customer pays for it all - despite their purchases containing less and less.

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I came across a thought the other day .. Imagine a new tribe of "Obonob" simian animal was discovered where a ruling hereditary master group guarded the 'tree of life' and kept all the best food, fuel & shelter for themselves while their weakened relatives crowded about them begging for just some to be thrown for them to compete for .. Wouldn't the scientists denounce it as a blind alley aberration that would self-destruct & die-out in short order?

Marty K.