This is a quick opinion piece to highlight what I think is a very serious flaw in New Zealand’s ‘Healthier homes’ regulations that come into force July 1.
‘Healthier Homes’ Nanny State legislation means more New Zealanders sleeping on the streets…
The fundamental problem with Socialism is that there are always un-intended negative consequences when Government seeks to use coercion/ compulsion even for supposed well intended ends.
In this case the intention is to ‘force’ Landlords to improve their rental properties… making them ‘healthier’ for tenants.
Sounds great if you don’t consider the negative results.
Firstly it assumes Landlords don’t care about their tenants.. or their asset… their rental properties… or the ability of Tenants and Landlords to negotiate their own agreements.
There are many reasons why a landlord may prefer to defer improving the condition of a rental property, and charge lower rents.
Mostly the reasons are economic realties.
Some might say that’s proof that landlords are greedy, yet let me tell you there are real economic and other benefits for tenants too!
We all now that renting out a house entails some risk to the landlords property, Carpets get ruined, wall can get holes in them, dogs chew on wood, etc.
If a house is a bit ruff, the risk is lower, and therefore landlords are more likely to charge lower rents and be more open to renting their houses to families with pets and children.
If they are forced to spend money upgrading the property they will have to be more strict on who they rent their homes to… because they have more to lose should pets and children damage wallpaper, doors, etc.
Rents will have to increase to cover the expenses of the improvements… heat pumps, insulation, etc… and these rent increases make it less affordable for low income families to be able to afford the rent.
For many Landlords the new standards will make math/economic viability of brining the house up to the new standards ‘untenable’ … and thousands of homes that could have been available for cheap rent will be left empty or demolished.
With less choices, less houses for rent. Rent must increase dramatically.
That’s the Law of supply and demand.
To build new rental housing will be more expensive and thus rents will remain higher.
This will mean the very people this socialist legislation was supposed to ‘help’… will be the ones most adversely affected… and many will end up sleeping ruff.
All because of wooly headed Socialist politicians who hate landlords…. hate private property.
In fact it is no stretch of the imagination to believe these socialists *want* to create a housing crisis so that they can claim ‘capitalism is failing’ and therefore this is a ruse to justify creating more State housing… *This is Creeping Communism by political design*.
When I was a very young Engineering apprentice living in West Auckland in the mid 80s, I flatted in what many people today would consider sub-standard conditions.
I lived in several sheds, an unfinished shell of a house, and in many ‘dumps’… houses that were on their last legs… often with other young bogans.
I even stayed for a few months in ‘Tui Glen trailer Park!
I must say those were great times, and I appreciated every one of those dwellings. They were only temporary, and I could afford to stay there on my low apprentice wages, and Landlords did not mind that we were young hooligans who would have parties, and pin posters to the walls, never vacuum, etc etc…
These ‘Dumps’ were life-saving *homes* for us… and we were happy to be there.
Now these examples are a bit extreme… yet let me tell you even poor families would appreciate and prefer such places to sleeping in tents, and cars… or having to split up their families… rather than have their kids sleeping ruff.
It should also be understood that the State itself is notoriously guilty of being Slum landlords!
State housing is a form of welfare. Many people become ensnared in them… never seeking to find jobs. work hard, and eventually buy their own homes… thus state housing tends to entrench welfarism and poverty.
Many State houses become squalid, and citizens are forever paying for this welfare dependence through taxes.
That is what I wished to say here today.
I thought my experience as a low income young lout living in West Auckland in the 1980s was worth tabling in this dialogue.
It makes me sad to know so many awesome old houses will be demolished because of this short sighted foolish Nanny State legislation.
These Chardonnay Socialists have their heads in the clouds and don’t have a clue about the real world.
They claim they know what’s best, or acceptable for everyone.
Dangerous Pompous twits whose anti-freedom legislations impoverish and cripples our society.
I guarantee you most poor people living in houses that are to be condemned will prefer the Government to BUGGER OFF!
People living in such places learn how to make them tolerable, livable, and homely.
A bit of moisture on the inside windows was normal *for everyone* in the 70s,80s….
Mold can be cleaned with a little bleach… it does not have to be left to take over.
This legislation will be very grievous for poor rural communities in which whole villages will not comply.
People must take responsibility for themselves.
In my Libertarian opinion it’s not the governments job to write of homes that people are willing to rent.
It’s all relative.
Ironically because of this type of legislation we could even see the growth of ‘Homeless camps’… absolutely degrading and squalor!
*Now that is real poverty and a danger to health* .
My sojourn in some of West Auckland’s dives was short lived. I completed my Engineering apprenticeship and now own a mid-priced home in the Waikato.
Mortgage free.
My story is not that unique, yet I could easily imagine that had these laws been in place back in the 80s I may have found myself sleeping on the street.
How easily The world can be ensnared in War!
Neither Luxon or Albanese have mandates from their people to commit our respective nations to supporting the ongoing war in Ukraine against Russia.
So why do they do it?
Both New Zealand and Australia have The Chinese Dragon lurking about our Waters.
New Zealand in particular would be absolutely incapable of defending ourselves should China decide to invade our country (esp since Ardern took away Private citizens AR rifles). Successions of governments have weakened our military ties such as the ANZUS alliance. The only Defense strategy we have left is to belong to Global organizations like the UN in the hope that If we participate in supplying aid to other countries who are invaded by hostile forces… that should the same evil befall us… in theory we should expect assistance in return. Obviously though any support we give must take into consideration not only a clear understanding of the causes of such conficts… and who is primarily in the wrong, but also be looking for swift resolution to bring armed conflict to a end… thus minimising the destruction and the loss of life.
These things being understood we can see there is more than this going on with Luxon and Albanese with regard to the war in Ukraine.
They show no tempering of their support for Ukraine in the light of how things develop… how Zelensky behaves… what his intentions are, etc. What hope of winning this war does Ukraine have? What would it require of the world to intervene to cause Russia to capitulate?
World War 3!
Why would The Puppet masters of the world encourage World war 3?
What we need to understand about both Luxon and Albanese is they are both puppets of the Globalist WEF War Pigs who want to destroy Russia’s independence and resistance to their New World Order.
Albanese and Luxon are fully on board with the Great Reset and the objectives of the WEF.
On the other hand President Trump is not party to those objectives.
He’s simply seeking to bring an end to this horrible and disasterous conflict, yet Zelensky seeks to use his alliance with the US as means to carry on the conflict.
Trump wants nothing to do with ongoing war. He wants a quick and lasting settlement. He made this crystal clear in their Public Meeting in the oval office.
This is in the best interests of the people of Ukraine and the world.
Zelensky was arrogant and rude.
Instead of peace, Zelensky seeks to embroil the whole world in this war with Russia!
That was clear from what he was saying in the Oval office.
He’s a Mad man!
By giving this Lunatic their unwavering support despite his unwillingness to make concessions for the sake of Peace… in a war he has no hope of winning, demonstrates the idiocy of many world leaders who dangle on the strings of Claus Schwab.
We should expect both Luxon’s and Albanese’s ongoing slide to continue unabated in the polls of their respective countries as they parrot the will of the WEF rather than the will of their own nations.
Most people in the world stand aghast at the destruction and carnage of this war and want it to end.
Starmer in Britain is experiencing the same disconnect with Britons.
Likewise with Cañada and Trudeau.
Satan Laughing spreads his wings.
All these Prime ministers are under the sway of Schwab and the WEF.
Because of his contemptuous behavior and stubborn refusal to make accommodations for the sake of peace, Trump literally threw Zelensky out of the Oval office and told him to go home… but that he is welcome to return when he’s ready for peace.
Watch video below (The heat turns on about 40 minutes in)
If you watch the full Trump-Zelensky press conference, it is very clear that Zelensky, not Trump or Vance, became the antagonist. Both POTUS and VP were very respectful and cordial until Zelensky very publicly ignited a firestorm.
THIS is what the Zelensky regime of utter cruelty, does to young Ukrainian men to force them to fight in his pathetic, corrupt war. https://t.co/NeBAGpoxft
^Twitter seems to have censored the horrifying video attached to Liz’s post so it cant be shared off twitter… go here to watch it. Ukrainian Men being beaten and kidnapped by Zelensky’s Military to become Cannon Fodder at the Front! Grist for the Mill of War!
Zelensky has cancelled elections. Jailed critics. and is a Dictator… Yet Luxon pretends otherwise.
The more the world witness such truths going on under the Zelensky regime… the less support there is *from the people of the world* for continuing the conflict.
Our leaders however don’t seem to care about what Zelensky does.
Puppets of the WEF like Albanese and Luxon not only have Trump derangement syndrome.
They actuall act and pretend Ukraine can win the war!
Neither acknowledge the true causes of the war (Nato provocation) or what the Globalist End game is for the entire planet.
The only people who profit from an extended conflict are the Globalist warpigs who want to humble Russia… and instigate an end to Putin’s rule… because he represents a major obstacle in the attainment of their primary goal of Global Domination.
— “Sudden And Unexpected” (@toobaffled) March 2, 2025
Biden was a WEF Puppet. The war began under his watch and continued unabated. Biden and the Dems were enthusiastic supporters of the conflict. They even bombed the Nord Stream Gas Pipeline, and it’s not hard to imagine that of Kamala Harris had won the election that the world would be edging ever closer to full blown war with Russia.
Thank God for Donald Trump!
Trump is not a puppet of the WEF War Pigs!
Trump’s first term in office, he was the only US President in the past 80 years not to have started any new wars!
God bless Donald Trump!
Trump understands the Globalist threat to the Freedom and independence of Nations.
Trump also understands what motivated Putin to strike in Ukraine… the encirclement of Russia by Nato.
Trump respects Putin’s determination to Retain Russia’s own Sovereign independence from the Globalist take over.
Trump seeks to establish and maintain peace in the world via good relations with other strong independent countries like Russian to mutual benefit.
We need to understand the big picture and why having a strong independent Russia, and a strong independent US is essential for Freedom and democracy in the world.
Putin is no saint, Democracy in Russia is no better than in the ‘Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea’ yet for all his evils he is at least defending Russia from the Tentacles of the Globalist leviathan. While the whole of Europe is now over-run with Aliens from Africa and the East Russia is still strong and comparatively safe from the Violence, Rapes, and murders the hordes of illegal aliens are now visiting upon their foolish host nations all thanks to the WEF Globalist agenda.
Having powerful independent nations like the US and Russia refusing to surrender their autonomy to a globalist scheme means The Globalist plan for their one world order *is dead in the water*
The Globalists wanted this war with Russia in the hope that it would end Putin’s control and that they could install a Russian Leader who would sell out that Nation to the Globalist agenda. It is the same reason the Globalists tried every trick in the book to prevent Trump Regaining Office… including trying to have him whacked.
Trump represents a Strong Independent United States that will not fall into lockstep with The WEF Agendas.
We need more World leaders like these Patriots of their own Nations… defending their Independence, Sovereignty, and Self-determination.
The formula for Global co-existence under that model is peace and trade, and mutual good will that does not require surrendering their Sovereignty or Democratic foundations… whereby the peoples of every nation choose the laws and terms of their own societies… not some all powerful unaccountable international committee of Bankers, technocrats, and Political shysters.
If you haven’t already , you must listen to JD Vance’s speech to European leaders in Munich .. it’s probably the most significant geopolitical speech I’ve ever heard . World class in every respect and very significant.
The screenshot(below) is of a post that appeared on X here
My Commentary:
“If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.”
Paul Our Apostle to the Romans. Romans 12vs 18.
As practiced by Palestinian Authorities in Gaza, or Iranian authorities in Iran… no Those forms of Islam are not compatible with Western Values because they have no tolerance for other faiths and violate individual rights. Sharia Law is not compatible with Western Values for the same reason. Yet that does not mean there are not any ‘Reformed versions’ of Islam that are capable of peaceful co-existence in a Free society.
There are plenty of Muslims who conform to Western Standards and laws.
This is where the difficulty lies for nations like Britain… How to identify and deport all Muslims who harbour Ideals and values that make them the enemies of British Liberty, Law, and Order while at the same time not persecuting Good Muslims who are civil and good citizens. To persecute these would make Britain as evil as those over whom they profess to hold superior Values. Ie Ironically simply ‘outlawing Islam’
is inconsistent with Western Values.
This problem is not so easily solved.
Such methods are definitively oppressive.
All Lawless and anti-British Muslims (and other aliens) should be deported while those who live quietly and honestly should be left in peace.
Immigration should reflect this policy too.
Only those who swear to respect British Law and order, and National customs, and the Religious liberty of others, should be granted residency.
There should be no welfare for migrants.
Deportation should be routine for those who break the Law or have no means by with to pay their own way.
This is my attempt to embody the principles of Justice that underpin Western societies… or at least did until a decade ago.
Transparency and Accountability in Social Media: Sánchez's Call for Algorithmic Oversight at WEF 2025: "My second proposal is to force open the black box of social media algorithms once and for all. The values of the European Union are not for sale."
^ Watch Video above. These are the topics that get discussed at the WEF by Globalist politicians.
They routinely discuss passing tyrannical legislation to take control of the Internet so they can crush free speech.
This is what tyranny looks like. Having an agenda that requires forcing the people into compliance, censoring dissent, punishing wrong think.
All under the guise of ‘moral responsibility’ . That is the sheep’s cloth that hides the wolf.
This Bastards speech must be understood in context of Elon Musk Buying Twitter and Mark Zuckerburg ditching factcheckers and diversity hire at Facebook.
Elon Musk Saved America from Globalism by making X a free speech platform… Trump has been elected… and the Globalists are watching their stranglehold over the World wide web crumble before their eyes.
They are pissed about it and desperate to claw back control.
What really upsets the Globalist tyrants is that we all know exactly what they are doing!
Because of Mass communication on line and free speech.
We are all up to speed on their schemes and agendas… and we see them trying to implement their Machiavellianism *in real time* and are able to ‘broadcast’ what’s happening in our corner of the world to the greater Freedom loving community.
Tyranny is a small number of Freaks seeking to control the Billions. Free speech prevents them controlling the narratives.
Governments should never be allowed to act as if they are a separate interest group and above the people who elect them. Nobody is asking them to do any of that crap except foreign Globalist organisations…. certainly not the people they intend to dictate ‘truth’ to.
So it is up to the populations in every Free Nation to Rally and forbid their Governments from enacting laws that throttles free speech and open dialogue.
The woke agenda must not be allowed to suppress other opinions.
Climate change skepticism must not be allowed to be labeled ‘misinformation’.
Criticism of Mass Immigration must not be allowed to be deemed ‘Far right extremism’.
The Outrages of Transgender ideology must be exposed for the delusions, lies, and crimes against children that it propagates.
And Citizens should not be controlled via Tech systems, the surveillance State, Digital ID, Digital Currency/ social credit systems…
It does appear that America is back on the Road to becoming Great again… because all these issues are being pushed back.
This is a critical hour. Many of the Top Globalists have been toppled… yet there are always more waiting in the wings to take their spot.
The WEF must be declared to be A Global Criminal Organistation. One that is actively corrupting democracies around the globe. And that politicians and Deep State bureaucrats with WEF WHO UN connections must be deemed to be serving nefarious interests that are contrary to the true interests of their own citizens.
The people need to establish Anti-WEF Protest movements that target politicians who peddle WEF agendas and seek to corrupt our laws and institutions to serve Globalist interests.
Mark Zuckerberger has dumped ‘Fact Checkers’ …. services provided by heavily biased, woke, and politically affiliated companies in favour of ‘community notes’ as are used on X platform, and he has also scrapped diversity and inclusion hire which prioritised Demographic identities of applicants over skills and other far more weighty attributes.
Despite many interesting confessions (on Joe Rogan Podcast) and commitments to vast improvements on facebook to restore Free Speech … very understandably thousands of people who left Facebook in disgust and have since turned up at X (Twitter) are spitting tacs that The Zuckburger has been having meetings with President elect Donald Trump.
They harbour great contempt for the many evils they believe Zuckerburg is guilty of and they are hoping he is one of many Trump will send to the gallows (metaphorically speaking) when he re-assumes power.
They see Zuck’s latest moves as nothing but a sleezy attempt to avoid the Wrath of The Don once again he is sworn into office!
The level of evil that conspired against Donald Trump and his supporters over the past 4+ has been un-believable for a first world nation to experience!
They tried to ruin him, jail him, and even assassinate him!
They have jailed some of his supporters for 4 years on absolutely bogus charges of ‘insurrection’!!
They corrupted every institution of law and order and twisted them all for the sake of persecuting their political opponents.
All of it fabricated… and all of it failed!
During all this The WEF and minions (esp Jacinda Ardern) have worked like demons to create laws in every Nation to destroy the right of free speech for their citizens.
Despite it all Trump returns victorious!
By the Providence of The Almighty!
Yet now the Democrat WEF Minions are scattering like rats in fear of just retribution!
Even Bill Gates has been kissing The Don’s arse lately!
Millions of people around the globe want Zuckburger punished for his censorship which has affected elections around the globe, and during the Covid Scamdemic.
The Zuck was one of many Billionaires and powers who worked to defraud Donald Trump of Re-election in 2020.
Certainly the fear Trump could seek retribution will be a significant motivating factor for MZ in ‘demonstrating a change of heart’ by ‘fixing’ facebook.
He now admits ‘fact checkers’ have been too biased and too often ‘Got it wrong’.
Zuckerburger also blames the Biden administration for putting pressure on Facebook to censor Truth and says they ‘came after his company’ when they failed to cave into their demands.
Mark Zuckerberg just admitted that the Biden administration made them delete memes and vaccine information that turned out to be true. Let that sink in.
Now, he’s on Joe Rogan playing the victim, saying it was “brutal” and that they “went after his companies.” But here’s the… pic.twitter.com/EKToyaQ6uZ
I was one of the millions who got censored by Facebook countless times, thrown in Facebook jail right on the weeks leading up to elections, etc.
I had several of my pages axed… one on Covid 19… another on the battle of the sexes, and men’s rights.
I left Facebook because of it’s heavy political bias and censorship, so I know first hand Facebook is/was corrupt, yet still I ask Freedom lovers and Trump supporters to put their righteous indignation to the side for 5 minutes to calmly consider the following question.
Does your need for vengeance and punishment of Zuck overthrow your desire to win the information war and establish Free Speech on line… in the world?
With the WEF seeking to control the worlds internet… determined to brainwash the entire world into conforming to their dictates… seeking to censor all dissent… legislating to deploy thought police against those who post opinions detrimental to their aims.
That is a question of monumental importance!
I believe the fate of the world hangs on this very question.
Look at what is happening today in Great Britain!
Britain is no longer Great.
She has fallen under Globalist socialist Tyranny.
In the courts of WEF Puppet PM Keir Starmer’s Britain people get heaver jail sentences for Social media posts than Rapists and violent offenders do!
And this is at a time when Britain’s jails are overcrowded to the extent they are letting *real criminals* go!
Starmer is implementing WEF policies which many Western Governments around the world are trying to impose upon their people too… including Australia and New Zealand.
They want to make it illegal to question lax Immigration policies.
They want to make it illegal to say ‘Transgenderism’ is a mental health problem… gender dysphoria.
The other day I was critical about that very subject with a Woke Labour Party MP on X, when the thought occurred to me that this MP could possibly flag my posts as ‘hate speech’ and ask the NZ police to pay me a visit!
Police forces around the world no longer stick to the letter of the law, but are trained in Globalist ideology and implement ideas and agendas that are not the law of the land.
In Britain it is common for the police to harass and arrest Christian street preachers under highly dubious charges.
That we live in such times is a disgrace!
Why should citizens living in democracies fear they might get arrested for expressing their personal opinions?
That is an attack on democracy… pure and simple.
People want justice for all the massive frauds like Covid and Climate change alarmism, and for allowing their nations to be over run with hostile aliens who hate them and and their cultures, and who flout their laws, and rape their woman… They hold Mark Zuckerberg as complicit for playing along with it all by heavily censoring Facebook.
Britain is a powder keg about to blow! Governments like Starmer’s have created a situation where a Racial civil war is looming.
Tommy Robinson is locked up for exposing the Government’s cover-up of Illegal immigrant crime.
Instead of enforcing the Law… they buried the truth.
Facebook permanently banned Tommy Robinson.
There is no doubt Facebook has collaborated with tyrannical authorities censoring dissidents and helped rig elections, etc.
These are serious charges and it is no wonder people want all the globalist traitors and tyrants… and collaborators behind bars!
I hope the axe of justice does fall on them … yet I believe we must not lose sight of the ultimate battle for free speech that is being waged… and that for the sake of victory we should be prepared to negotiate terms with some of these Bad actors when expedience demands it… for the sake of ultimate victory.
Sometimes circumstances are such that this is necessary… unpleasant though it may be.
Should Facebook be reformed that would go a long way towards turning the tide in favour of saving Western civilisation from the clutches of Schwab’s ‘Great Reset’.
That IMO would go a long way to redeeming Zuckerberg for his many evils.
Ultimately *nobody* escapes Justice.
The Zuck will one day have to stand before God Almighty and give account for his deeds.
Free speech has been extinguished in Britain, and hangs by a thin thread in most other Western nations.
This is why Trump must take care with how he deals with the Zuck.
This is what is at stake with Freedom on the internet.
The problem for tyrannical Socialist governments is the the internet and social media is more powerful than their traditionally controlled forms of media… TV, Radio, and Newspapers which had very limited reach and limited public response.
Social media and the internet with 100s of thousands of independent citizen political critics, commentators, and journalists (I like to think of myself in those terms) exposing the evil and absurd things politicians are up to is proving a bane to their Diabolical schemes and agendas.
They are hell bent on taking control of the Internet and turning it to their own Nefarious political ends.
This is why there is an ideological war going on for Freedom vs tyranny over the Internet.
It is in light of this that we need to consider what Zuckerburger is doing… just how massive a victory it is for Freedom to have this powerful Social media Giant switch sides and become another platform for global Free speech!
What a blow against the aims of the WEF!
What another massive problem for Socialist governments who are hoping to make Politically incorrect opinions illegal!
Facebook will represent millions of freedom dissident comments and arguments!
This is what winning looks like my friends!
Don’t be so foolish and let your need for seeing Zuc suffer cloud your understanding for what’s at stake and how this battle must be fought…
To my way of thinking… and given the super-critical situation where Global freedom hangs in the balance I believe with regard to Zuckerburger and Facebook that we should subordinate our desire for justice for the sake of winning the War for Freedom and Western Capitalism, and civilisation.
And I believe that is how Trumps mind works too.
He’s more interested in good outcomes than petty vengeance.
The Zuck Fears Trump… and that’s a good thing as it has caused him to change his business model from that which suited the WEF and Democrat Anti-Free speech Tyrants to a model that far more closely resembles a free speech platform that best suits a Free world that holds Political powers and governments to account… by the people.
I believe Trump is fighting the ‘Big’ game plan… that’s what makes him a target of the Globalists.
He stands in their way of Global power.
Should Zuckerburger maintain Facebook as a Free speech Platform I believe that will suffice Trump’s purposes.
Turning an enemy into an asset… willing or not.
Freedom wins!
Trump might also call on him to supply evidence against other adversaries who plotted to defraud him via all the Lawfare, the Russian collusion hoax, and Hunter Biden Laptop scandal… etc etc… asking facebook to censor truth.
Twitter under the helm of Jack Dorsey was once just as bad as Facebook. When Elon Musk bought Twitter, and cleaned house… saving the company and turning it into a bastion of Free speech this was a massive victory against the evil powers who sort absolute control over the internet and the world.
We can credit Elon’s ‘X’ as he rebranded it as being pivotal in the Re-election of Donald Trump and in the exposure of The Coivid 19 Scamdemic.
Still it will be great for the world to have another Mega-sized alternative social media platform that is pro-free speech… in competition with X.
That’s Healthy.
Monopolies are dangerous.
When I left Facebook I dusted off my sandals against them… yet given now things have been ‘fixed’ over there… in a few months time I may re-open my account there… as a reward for the Zuck doing the right thing.
It was a big sacrifice for me to leave Facebook and in the process I lost contact with many friends and family… that was a price I had to be willing to pay to be true to my values about Truth and free speech.
Will Zuck make good on his promises to reform Facebook?
Let’s just see how things develop over the next few months.
I know this post will anger a lot of people and open myself up to a mountain of criticism.
I’m fine with that.
I’m sitting down with a coffee… change my mind!
Marc Morano, author of 'The Great Reset', delivers a concise summary of Klaus Schwab and the WEF's plans for humanity:
"He's talking about us essentially giving up national sovereignty, giving up individual freedoms, and turning over rule to experts… This whole agenda is to… pic.twitter.com/ERtVDtLPvp
