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Tuesday, 28 October 2025 09:47

Assault and Battery on Pastoral Economy

Assault and Battery on Pastoral Economy

Fixated on dazzling EU with which it has negative trade balance New Zealand imperils own pastoral economy.

Immense storage batteries scheduled for industrial scale solar generation on agricultural pastures pose threats only now becoming visible notably in the dawning understanding that battery fires cannot be extinguished.

The battery vulnerability has come to light only in recent months, weeks even, when battery- powered vehicles have caught fire and have been immune to conventional firefighting systems.

Solar generating promoters remain reticent about the need for their battery installations and especially so as New Zealand solar farms are sited close to municipal electrical substations and which by definition are close to communities.

This is one of the reasons that planning schemes for the generation plants are submitted to authorities in isolation from the battery capacity requirements.

The vulnerability of communities to this unexplored conflagration threat has to date been deliberately shrouded.

The politico-media sector remains bound by an undeclared covenant which has the effect of avoiding any discussion at all that may be considered as negative to anything to do with renewables.

This covenant against any analytical discussion on renewables means also a self-imposed rule of silence on the chemical fall out from pastoral solar generating power stations.

This blissful state of ignorance extends for example to the nation’s wine growing districts sharing water tables with these electro-chemical installations.

A veil of silence is drawn over this sector’s vulnerability to protectionist barriers of the non tariff type being erected to keep out the New Zealand competing wines on the grounds of chemical contamination

New Zealand actually records as much as 93 percent of its reticulated power through renewables hydro and geothermal

But this has had little effect on the public sector zeal to show-off in the emissions stakes to for example the EU, all the more strange because New Zealand imports much more from the trading bloc than it imports from the bloc.

Nobody should be surprised at the look-at-us antics of a nation that still self-destructively ardently seeks to strangle the mainstay of its economy which is ruminants by inflicting the animals with gas (and thus productivity) reducing implants.

Neither is it any coincidence that German investment in solar figures so largely in New Zealand. The determination of successive German governments to stay in power by appeasing extremist green parties led to reliance on imported oil especially Russia’s and which financed Russia’s war of colonisation on Ukraine.

Another Australasian example of this failure to examine any problems associated with emission remains the continued covering of the nation’s high value pastures with pine trees.

This pasture is now acutely needed to meet record world demand for the nation’s food exports rather than the diminishing returns from the once ballyhooed offset foreign counter trade market.

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Monday, 15 September 2025 14:51

Shane Jones Extinguishes De-Banking Blackmail

Shane Jones Extinguishes De-Banking Blackmail

Resources Minister in New Zealand First move to curb sinister moralising in Australasia

New Zealand’s adherence to the Paris Accords has intensified to the point at which a member of its governing coalition is forced to introduce an Act of Parliament to stop the nation’s trading banks de-banking clients connected to industries such oil and gas and even agri-businesses deemed to be less than zealous.

The background to the Act sponsored by governing coalition member New Zealand First is the nation’s slavish devotion to the Accords when the nation counting its geothermal activity and with the exception of Iceland already leads the world in renewables.

The conventional wisdom in New Zealand is that the farm-products exporting nation has to stay in lockstep with the Paris Accords in order to preserve its trade with the EU.

In the event the EU needs New Zealand more than New Zealand needs the EU.

New Zealand’s imports from the EU are consistently higher than its exports to the trading bloc.

The governing coalition’s resources minister Shane Jones (pictured) is unique in Australasia’s cabinet-level politics in confronting the unreserved devotion accorded the Accords embedded notably in Australasia’s upscale suburbs.

The fervour has become manifestly destructive as the nation’s productive food pastures are still being taken out of food production in the drive to achieve offsets and other abstract trading instruments for which there remains a declining global demand.

The fervour surrounding foreign solar investment remains in spite of major foreign investors such as Blackrock abruptly abandoning vaunted investments uncritically cheer-led by the former Labour government and which incurred taxpayer losses in the $100 million plus bracket.

One scheme to blanket productive pasture with solar panels is described by its foreign-financed promoters as being necessary to “accelerate the decarbonisation of the capital ” even though Wellington gets its power from hydro electricity.

De-banking is the most sinister manifestation of the climate cult because adherents pressure banks to quite literally cancel other bank clients who for example own petrol stations.

The suburban compulsion to be seen to be a world leader in contemporary morals involves New Zealand automatically signing up without reservation to any global move at all associated with being on the “right side of history,” and which allows the South Seas nation in its own coveted phrase to be viewed as “punching above its weight.”

It is in this mood mixing as it does piety with braggadocio that the fact is deliberately ignored that the Paris Agreement specifically recognises the basic priority of safeguarding food in the quest to end hunger.

This as with the EU being dependent on New Zealand instead of the other way around is always ignored in the politico-media compulsion to conform to what has become their article of faith.

The New Zealand First initiative is to curb financial services blackmail conducted under the guise of institutional moralising.

It represents a long awaited line in the sand to counter Australasian governmental policy posing as helping while the inflictors know that it harms.

 

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Tuesday, 15 July 2025 09:50

Jews Indigenous to Homeland Israel

Jews Indigenous to Homeland Israel

Hebrew Settlement and Exile Contradicts Colonist Claim

Campus and Café Society’s consolidation of its causes around colonialism concentrates on Israel’s guilt as a coloniser. Israel is its own homeland with its own indigenous people with their own sovereignty over their own ancestral land.

Colonists are required to have a homeland from which to venture forth on their colonising.

Israel’s homeland is Israel.

Activist ability to enforce a blackout on Israeli indigeneity exists courtesy of a politico-media-academic complicity.

In the conflict between Iran and Israel utterly ignored is the return to their homeland circa 500BC of the Jewish tribes freed by the ruler of Persia , now Iran, Cyrus the Great (pictured.)

Cyrus the Great is recorded as freeing the captured Jews in order that they rebuild their temple. The first temple, Solomon’s, was originally constructed circa 1000BC.

Activist success in spreading the notion that Israel is a colonial state has much to do with the deliberate disappearance from education of the history of civilisations.

Israel’s popular support reached an unreserved peak with the Six Day War in 1967 viewed at the time as a war of national liberation from an overwhelmingly hostile external threat.

The next such large scale attack in 1973 saw Israel caught by surprise. The Yom Kippur war saw heroes of the Six Day War such as Lieutenant General David Elazar become pilloried for their lack of preparedness.

Israel’s fall from grace with the intelligentsia gathered speed with the fall of the Berlin Wall.

It was now that the communist movements regrouped.

The old class struggle modified into the oppressors (the colonisers) and the oppressed (the colonised.)

The underpinning communist era influence is evident today in the reluctance of radicals to categorise Russia's invasion of Ukraine as anything to do with colonising

The fact that Israel occupies one four hundredth of the Middle East territory did not diminish its new cultural role as that of a Goliath scale colonist.

Identity/climate morphed into the carry-all colonising which in turn now consolidated around the Jewish state and its diaspora.

This is notably in the United States where the Jewish-founded media especially in New York and Washington turned with relish upon Israel and its right to defend itself. The same thing happened on the US West Coast where Hollywood simultaneously turned snarling upon Jews who had founded their industry.

The new amalgam of causes in turn colonised the media channels mirroring the way in which the real life colonisers had once commandeered the sea channels.

A Hebrew phrase summarises Judaism today. It is Tikkun Olam meaning Jews repairing the world.

It is often interpreted by Jews as meaning that this can only occur if Jews stop fighting among themselves - a notable characteristic of elected Jews in the English speaking zone.

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1990 re-wrote the book on activism.

Agitators deftly erased from institutional memory notably in education the Holocaust known by Jews as Shoah.

This cleared the way for activists to engineer an historical inversion in which Jews were not the oppressed but instead the oppressor as colonists derived from a Latin word for settler-farmers.

Old style colonists seized control of the sea routes.

Activists framing Israel as a contemporary coloniser now control instead of sea channels the information channels notably the state owned broadcasting networks.

Slickly the agitators position as co-defendants in their colonist smear the diaspora who in defending Israel are portrayed as co-conspiracy colonists.

Harvard has an immense investment in its Divinity School. Also Yale where theological education was the motivation for its founding. Thus there is hardly a shortage of resources relating to Jewish indigeneity.

There remains the failure of these repositories of learning with their sprawling history faculties to remind at the very least their own students that Israel’s homeland at various times has been colonised by the Persians, Greeks, Romans , Crusaders, and well into modern times by the Ottomans.

In the British colonies as they were described until so very recently colonial era authority Robin Bromby In his book Tepid Whisky by Paraffin Lamp: Life and Work in Outposts of the British Empire in the Twentieth Century describes how most of the operational colonists, the real ones, in the event led a life of dutiful humdrum hardship.

They were oblivious to the evolution of their vocation into dogma only a century or so later.

Semitic is another re-purposed word. It refers not to a people or a country. But to their language. One semitic language is Arabic. Another is Hebrew.

Antisemitic is thus a euphemism propagated by academia and by another sector that should know better which is the Jewish press, notably in Israel itself.

The Jewish diaspora apologises when radicals step on their territorial toes. They might instead proclaim on historical grounds that this land is their land.

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Thursday, 26 June 2025 10:26

Australia Green Energy Superpower Lures Elon Musk

Australia Green Energy Superpower Lures Elon Musk

Techlash free South Seas New World Beckons Besieged ex Presidential Efficiency Czar

A new opportunity awaits Elon Musk in the federal sphere and it is in Australia which the Labour (i.e Democrat) government is loudly positioning as the world’s “green energy superpower.”

Musk is no stranger to Australia which was the site of his defining coup with his trademark battery technology.

Trump’s former efficiency czar has a simple technique in his ability to overhaul an area which everyone else has overlooked.

These included the way in which battery technology had become a research and development backwater. Another was how rocketry had become too costly even for the US government.

His Australian battery breakthrough (pictured) was commemorated in the implementation in South Australia under a no-cure-no-pay deal of what was then the world’s most powerful energy storage array in the form of massed Tesla batteries.

His ability to straddle win-win market opportunities based on government procurement or on government policies is encapsulated in his Tesla offsets deal in the United States.

This is a cross subsidisation in which non-electric vehicle manufacturers such as Ford, Toyota, General Motors have to buy Tesla credits in order to sell their petrol or diesel powered vehicles.

Last year alone Tesla earned in pure profit only slightly under the equivalent of AUD5 billion from its offset carbon credits.

Now all this along with all the other green incentives and offsets will evaporate under the Trump presidential purge on mandated incentives.

Another problem: China is the ultimate source of battery ingredients and so much else in green energy making it vulnerable to every twitch in Trump policy.

Australia now beckons as the new launching pad for Elon’s ventures.

When it comes to rocketry Australia at Woomera once led the pack. Musk’s Starlink with its low altitude satellites is an internet feed to the remotest nooks and crannies in Australasia and everwhere.

With his own NASA appointee his buddy Jared Isaacman pointedly sidelined at the last moment Musk is likely to find Australia’s space agency ASA much more helpful.

Musk’s developments such as into neuro surgery blend with the determination of the Labour government to wean Australia’s economy away from reliance on resources and force it into a hydrogen powered service economy aligned to a Singapore model. Minus the oil refineries.

Back in the United States Elon’s former boss is unlikely to forget the salvo of public parting shots increasingly personal and vituperative from his onetime Oval Office anti feather bedding supremo.

Musk as a presidential lightening rod is likely already considering how to recuse himself from the United States and attendant troublesome regulatory interference from his former Oval Office boss..

There is the way in which for example Tesla has to maintain its lead in autonomous vehicles seen as the new automotive horizon

Musk is basing his technology on human vision imitating camera recognition. Competitors notably Alphabet’s Waymo brand are based on Lidar technology.

Success though may not rest with the market. But with officialdom. Autonomous vehicles rely for mass take-up on federal transport safety regulations.

Alphabet is part of Google which in recent years has found a research and development base in New Zealand for new era energy generation capture. Urs Holzle a pioneer Google figure has residency in New Zealand.

Google co-founder Larry Page similarly has New Zealand residency

In a curious coincidence so does Peter Thiel, an associate of Elon Musk’s in PayPal days in which the technologists correctly perceived an answer to the lagging payment systems required by accelerating digital banking.

His White House transition saw the presidential cost-cutter as an inner circle consigliere, then as a weirdly-garbed courtier evolving into a latter-day court jester and finally into a mediaeval-style turncoat.

A new life in a new part of the New World might reasonably beckon. In the United States Musk was only a quite recent convert to the Republican cause.

Typically Musk anticipated the shift of public sentiment known as the Techlash against Silicon Valley and so he re-positioned himself politically.

In Australia he will find a Democrat equivalent party running the federal government and with no Opposition in the accepted parliamentary sense of having discernible opposing policies. Especially one likely to threaten his offsets or incentives.

Undeclared in Australia suburban public life lurks a deep seated belief.

It is that Australia can somehow leap to the fore through a native and world-saving intellectual asset base that can be implemented without having to penetrate, rip up, or even disturb the terra firma.

Nobody answers this submerged but politically exploited yearning more than Elon Musk and his ability to generate assets from thin air.

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Tuesday, 03 June 2025 10:43

Australian Election Campaign U-Turn Riddle in New Zealand

Australian Election Campaign U-Turn Riddle in New Zealand

Advisors Focused Liberals on Excitable Voters Mirrored Across Tasman

No mystery has suffused Australian politics such as the precise reason why the Liberal-led coalition gave the impression of receiving its federal election advice from its opposition the victorious Labour Party.

In New Zealand the Jacinda Ardern era ideals remain immovable. One is the piously showboating legislative self-harm in the exalted strangling of access to the nation’s abundant oil and gas reserves and the institutional welcome to subsidy-laden progressive substitutes.

In the 1970s Australia ranked 6th on the OECD rich list. It is now 21st h.

New Zealand in the 1970s was 11th. It is now 33rd.

The general elections in both countries rarely touched upon this sobering decline. The New Zealand general election which required the centrist National Party to enlist two coalition partners to gain a parliamentary majority picked its way around ethical victim-oppressor issues.

Eighteen months later the Australian election was characterised by a similar deflection. This took the form of an inability of the Liberal Party to pull itself away from the media-sown magnetic mine field ready to detonate with any departure from a scripted identity/climatic priority.

An enduring impression of the election is of the seat-losing and flummoxed Liberal leader Peter Dutton’s (pictured) smooth cheeks puffing in and out like bellows as he sought to sidestep any direct response to the issues that only a few months before his party had decided were the ones to ride to victory.

His appearance was of someone deeply conflicted, unable to make up his mind, and torn between two opposing marketing options: the moral high ground or the actual real-life issues, the down-to-earth ones.

A clue is now emerging across the mists of the Tasman Sea indicating that the coalition’s focus groups were indeed focused. But on the governmental picture in New Zealand which demonstrated the extent of progressive partisanship notably in the nation’s public service determination to promote progressive priorities.

Half way through its mandate New Zealand’s National Party- led coalition has proved powerless in curbing throughout the public realm the constant use of Maori language to describe state departments or what they do.

Similarly it has proved impotent in these departments to rein in ambitious head start schemes favouring those claiming Maori descent.

The National coalition has proved its helplessness in disciplining its own state broadcasting agencies in regard to the enthusiasm of announcers in showily framing their utterances in the Maori language.

In anything remotely official state operatives believe themselves obliged at the outset to verbally genuflect toward the precolonial era occupiers of the land on which the event is being staged.

The mystery of why the Liberal coalition was so guided by moral issues deepens in recalling that the Australia Labour Party’s previous leader Bill Shorten was deemed to have lost the federal election six years before because of fears over a single policy plank.

This was that his pursuit of the then frenzied international climatic regime. The victorious Liberal opposition claimed that if imposed it would hit voters where it hurt most which is in their pocket.

In office Scott Morrison the new Liberal prime minister though looked befuddled by anything remotely in the bright shining rainbow prism be it the climate or identity.

After Morrison’s losing and shuffling campaign the incoming Labour government now supercharged its own rainbow colours and identity themes by floating its Voice referendum, essentially a vote on a separate Aboriginal parliament.

It was voted down. It was now that the somewhat surprised Liberal opposition seriously scented victory in this just recent federal general election which it so decisively lost.

An as yet unidentified element now intervened at the outset of campaigning that swung the Liberal Party from anything but vague or abstract challenges to the Labour government’s moral issues orthodoxy.

Focus groups are designed as a sieve to sift marketing schemes by separating the ideas likely to work from those that wont. Did there emerge from this rigorously structured hierarchical vetting system a notion, even an overriding conclusion?

Was this that the only narrow win by New Zealand’s National Party was proof positive of an Australasian regional passion for luxury beliefs transcending grocery prices, the deficit, defence?

Eighteen months down the line the National Government’s evident failure in controlling, or even cooling the nation’s now demonstrably enduring social passions provided further evidence that the path that Peter Dutton must take was in never confronting this suburban virtuous morality signalling.

After all in spite of New Zealand’s stratospheric retail meat and butter prices pastoral land was still being taken up for planting pinus radiata trees.

Then there was the routine confidence in the accompanying taxpayer funded international credits market designed to somehow offset foreign pollution. Was not the confidence in this new-age auction formula still endowed with an official depth of sincerity in an inverse ratio to any provable value?

Now though an explanation takes shape. It is that as the election drew near one of the highly credentialed focus groups or focus groupies pointed to New Zealand and uttered to former policeman turned party leader Peter Dutton something akin to these words-

“Mate, forget the facts. The fairy tales are the ones that count.”

In Australia mysteries don’t stay mysteries. Someone always blabs. Until now.

The Lucky Country’s horror of being seen to be influenced by outsiders is a factor here. So is the anonymity of focus groups. The 11th hour Liberal campaign U-turn riddle solution as residing across the Tasman Sea is one that holds water.

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Tuesday, 06 May 2025 10:03

Dairy Farmer Activist Cows Top Export Saboteurs

Dairy Farmer Activist Cows Top Export Saboteurs

Agricultural Avatar Says Alternatives to Milk are Delusions.

Dairy farmer Jim Hedley is an aggressive activist for New Zealand’s overwhelming export earner which is milk products. He explains why the nation’s economic underpinning requires a rebel voice in order to protect it from undermining by influential urban society.

 

Cows have a bad name and so do their owners?

Is it so evil to be responsible for the bulk of the nation’s export earnings? All I hear is what is going wrong with the country, about people who do not have enough money to acquire the things that they say they need. These things have to be paid for and to a very large extent these have to be paid for by overseas earnings.

Dairy farmers are said to be quite literally in clover now with record pay-outs?

The rewards for dairy farmers and thus for the country as a whole are high at the moment. For every kilo of milk solid worth $10 however there remains the production expenses in raising, feeding, and milking the animals which is also at its highest level ever. Electricity is one such spiralling cost.

There is this outpouring about how cows endanger the atmosphere among their many other anti-social acts?

There is an intensifying volume of negative activity relating to dairy farming. It is concentrated in the urban sector and nurtured by the beautiful people. Also by their always attentive members of parliament who have allowed so much dairy pasture to disappear. And do so exactly at the time that the needy are said to require the wealth that the dairy sector generates in order to alleviate their misery.

A constant refrain is to the effect that dairy farming needs so much regulation in order to limit pollution to waterways?

Those of a greener hue have successfully created an impression that until they came along nobody did anything at all about this. Conveniently forgotten is the historic presence of drainage boards, catchment boards, acclimatisation societies among other regulatory and monitoring bodies. The dairy sector has become victim of an urban hysteria. As it becomes more and more evident that dairy is the major earner of our exports I have no doubt that this resentment fervour will intensify.

You are saying that urban opposition to dairy farming has its roots in jealousy?

There is some truth here. It may be the reason for so many collective institutional schemes to make it tough for the industry. There is the campaign quite ludicrous in its way to stop cows belching and so preventing the ruminative process that results in milk. Then there is the campaign to take dairy pasture out of production by planting trees. We have seen the effect of this in the clear felling clogging the very waterways that our dairy critics so ostentatiously pledge themselves to protect. Then there is the failure of the timber-planting offset auctions to generate any value at all.

Forestry has become the official glamour activity. Is this at the expense of dairy do you think?

Urban influencers have become hypnotised such is the extent of this delusion. A number of people who should know better extoll the value of forestry to me as the ultimate attainment in primary production. I say if this is the case what happened to New Zealand Forest Products? The biggest corporate entity of the last century simply collapsed. What happened to our paper mills, the saw mills…? Whether we like it or not New Zealand possesses one and only the one competitive advantage. It is that grass grows all the year around. Such is the government infatuation with forestry that deliberately ignored is the efficiency of grass as a carpet of carbon dioxide -absorbing mass and one that does not need an artificial, subsidised, nebulous and fraying futures market to sustain it.

Why is the value of grass and the animals that graze on it so widely dismissed?

It is that the intelligentsia find it so hard to acknowledge that dairy farming is ultimately responsible for much and even most of the wealth they enjoy. How can these dolts wallowing around in the mud with their belching animals have the power to generate our wealth? Remember the era not all that long ago when we were supposed to stop doing mucky things such as dairy farming and instead focus on buying and selling office properties and trading in shares and foreign exchange markets. The result of this particular state-sponsored illusion was that we lost our entire banking and insurance sector here and overseas.

You dwell upon the state-sponsored nature of these illusory sectors, the ones that contemporary fashion dictates will replace the dairy sector?

Let us not sustain this illusion by imagining that this state of affairs is in the past. It is ever present. In terms of local government it takes the form of prime pastoral land being subdivided into residential blocks. There is now the official government-sponsored “fast-tracking” of dairy pasture near electricity substations to become swathed in solar-generating panels and their batteries.

Why do you believe there is this deep-seated reluctance to acknowledge the critical role dairy farming has in the nation’s economic life?

It is because so many influential voices are the ones that the opinion-forming sector takes their cues from. James Cameron for example declared his intention of removing animals from the food chain and going directly to plant nutrition. In New Zealand he manifested the sincerity of his intention by acquiring substantial dairy farms and converting them to this purpose. This move was accompanied by the establishment of neighbouring vertical integration in the form of vegan retail capability which I notice is not there anymore.

You appear to have made yourself personally rather unfashionable in the course of your dairy industry advocacy?

I have not made myself popular I have to admit. This was emphasised by lurid reports of my being “thrown out” of a district council meeting. I was asked to leave in more mundane words. I was persisting in what I believe is the solution to this whole problem which is that farmers become again part of the governmental scene locally and nation-wide. In the incident you mention I was seeking to lobby for rural wards on district councils. Since boroughs and counties were amalgamated we have the situation in which the town candidates dominate because of the more populous town vote.

Why does the dairy sector fail to confront that fact that the governing coalition is led by the National Party which was founded specifically to look after farmers?

The National Party and its coalition cohorts are focussed on a small group of inner city electorates in which politicians pander and defer to known urban upscale issues which have more to do with grandstanding globalism than they do with the less exciting matter of how this country pays its way in the world. It is not that long ago that New Zealand was in the very top rank of prosperity. The reason we are so indebted is because we are so unproductive. This is because only a diminishing proportion of the population makes things that can be actually sold and especially overseas which is what the dairy industry does.

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Tuesday, 22 April 2025 09:44

Press Self Censoring News Cover Up Pervasive

Press Self Censoring News Cover Up Pervasive

Hive Mentality Strangles Diversity of reporting

A similarity in background and education of those employed in the mainstream or legacy media has caused an inevitable and unchallenged slant in the sector’s output and this progressive partisan emphasis is most evident in public broadcasting.

Ironically for a vocational category stridently identifying as professional this quest often manifests itself in below-stairs attitudes.

This includes the Fleet Street concealing the cause of Boris Johnson’s demonstrable state of distraction while prime minister confronting his own Churchillian appointment with destiny.

Johnson in No 10 was distracted leaving his wife and entering into a new and modern marriage and now coping in his later middle age with disturbed nights caused by the couple immediately embarking upon parenthood.

All this is pruriently brushed underneath the nursery carpet along with the associated conversion of the roast beef of Olde England barrel chested Johnson to a COP-clutching, diet conscience Guardianesque caricature of his former self.

Across the Atlantic there was a similar hive mind response to the role played during the Biden presidency by Dr Jill Biden. Even though there is the precedent of presidential spouse Edith Woodrow Wilson assuming a dominant role in the governance of the United States while their husband was incapacitated

There is the legacy media spiteful refusal to refer to Donald Trump as half British through his Scots mother.

Politically correct press pack politesse reticence is the tip of an iceberg of a shared long form industrial scale collaboration.

The anti-coal common cause spearheads the legacy’s determination to ingratiate itself with the great and the good throughout the entire Anglosphere regardless of the consequences to everyday people such as its readers and viewers.

Coal we suddenly learn is so precious that the British government intends to revive World War 11 convoys in order to protect inward shipments required to save Britain’s last and strategically vital steelmaker at Scunthorpe

The sole steelmaker is itself a casualty of the world’s highest electricity prices traceable to an institutionalised dismissal of coal, a campaign in which the press actively collaborates.

With most of the media operatives basking in the abstract value of arts qualifications they remain collectively unaware of coal’s contribution to the economy much beyond energy and perhaps cement and steel.

Coal for example is integral to numerous products in their bathrooms in the form of their lotions and cosmetics and toothpaste, and also in things like the outfits they wear such as nylon.

Former Australian prime minister Scott Morrison (pictured) in a jut-jawed brandishing of a chunk of coal during a full Canberra session dared anyone inside or outside parliament to reveal that they were frightened by even the sight of the piece of carbon.

Morrison was elected federal prime minister as the champion of exactly this kind of defiance.

In office Morrison progressively prevaricated and hesitated over coal the abandonment of which sent soaring the precise federal-wide electricity costs he was specifically elected to subdue.

Instead he became visibly enmeshed in the legacy’s own ritual preoccupation over the climate and victim-oppressor catalogue.

The homogeneity of attitude that now threads its way through the press is the inevitable result of the shared drive to recruit staff from a narrow middle class background.

Overlooked too is the way in which the press pack self-defeating perfect harmony on minerals such as coal chimes with the same activist progressive emphasis by its competition which is social media so rapidly eroding the legacy’s own dwindling status.

In refusing to employ those from trade or craft backgrounds or indeed anything manual at all the legacy consciously demonstrates a unified determination not to report the facts but to classify itself as a profession and one that ranks alongside the traditional version such as doctors and lawyers.

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Tuesday, 08 April 2025 16:29

Minneapolis Scapegoat is New Chauvinism

Minneapolis Scapegoat is New Chauvinism

Chauvin Personifies Instability from protected collective superior hysteria

Derek Chauvin was a member of the Minneapolis Police Department and in his career he received two medals of valour and two commendation medals.

Derek Chauvin introduces a new emphasis on chauvinism because he became and remains a living example of how the modern influence class especially in its politico media form unquestioningly unites and in a single voice will install as a scapegoat even someone who was doing the duty society expected of him

The mainstream conservative and progressive media on this occasion both join hands by always presaging Chauvin’s name with the title of murderer.

Such is their compulsion to be seen as conforming to the approved theme that the journalistic sphere in its desire to be accepted fails to see that in their unquestioning attitudinal harmony they reprise Napoleon’s fanatical booster Nicolas Chauvin.

Their shrill modern chauvinistic horror is of breaking polite society ranks and expressing an independent opinion.

In the new Minneapolis version of a Chauvin case the entire spectrum of western institutional media in lockstep choruses the approved song book on the victim-oppressor theme ignoring anything centred on public safety.

An old style front-line cop who insisted on engaging with criminals Derek Chauvin (pictured) not a big man in fact quite small for a front line policeman apprehended and restrained the violent career criminal George Floyd

No single element of this quite new opinion moulding class declares or even hints that officer Chauvin’s actions were made in the course of seeking to protect this very class and the working public that sustain this privileged class.

In the communal insistence on always describing Chauvin as a murderer instead of someone who was trying to the job that the community had employed him to do we find the fulfilment of René Girard's Mimetic theory.

This holds that scapegoats are individuals who are instinctively chosen by a community to bear the blame for social crises and conflicts.

In Gerard’s theory this community in arbitrarily implementing the scapegoat mechanism seeks a cause for all the conflict it can pin on the scapegoat.

It now collectively projects its desire for vengeance onto the chosen victim, who is then blamed for causing all the trouble and who is expelled from society such as the permanently incarcerated modern Chauvin, the Minneapolis law enforcer.

This concert of confected outrage aimed at the contemporary Chauvin suddenly became supercharged.

Elected representatives from the White House downward in pledging to uphold public safety now joined in a chorus about the need to disable the police force through “defunding” it.

An exonerating luxury belief system, a superior hysteria, can also threaten external security. NATO for example quite simply stood by passively as its members reinforced the enemy the pact was organised to defend itself against.

A legacy media supposed to expose exactly this kind of mass wishful thinking was itself hopelessly captivated by the dominant polite society suite of ethical beliefs.

It fawned over someone they now described as the “Mother” of Europe and the way in which Angela Merkel for so long and for political expediency compromised in order to stay in office the security of this same Europe and thus NATO by indulging fringe aesthetic luxury beliefs.

Ukraine even exceeds Pearl Harbour in the false security stakes.

There had been the prelude to disaster only years before in which Russia had successfully annexed Crimea knowing that Allied wishful thinking would allow Russia to get away with it.

The way in which superior hysteria cancels out unpleasant facts unbelievably is still dominant in NATO now.

Britain’s government refuses for instance to acknowledge the vulnerability of its undersea power lines to the new generation Russian pipeline and cable cutters.

Under the influence of its dogmatic yet avant-garde government along with its captive media Britain doggedly adheres to eliminating its traditional but non-U power sources and thus knowingly places Britain’s national security firmly in the hands of its sworn enemy.

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Baseload Energy Rationing is Reverse Socialism

Baseload Energy Rationing is Reverse Socialism

Population-Food Emergency Fears Contradicted as Fertile Land Use diverted in Europe and Australasia

Determination by governments in Europe and the Westminster sphere to placate their urban and privileged electorates continues to play into the expansionary plans of the Russia-China axis.

These governments insist on appeasing their sophisticate electorates by restricting the supply of base load energy through taking fertile land out of food production, and loading punitive costs on farmers.

The politico-media urban class driving this constriction on food production insists on viewing their role as a crusading one on behalf of the planetary welfare.

Even now and as the advent of World War 3 is freely discussed by these same urban sophisticates and also by their media which needs to humour this class for its adverting revenue there is the shared reluctance to countenance the consequence of this moral crusade.

Russia saw from the start the swiftly developing weakness of the Western middle class in the form of a desire to express communal guilt by rationing access to energy.

Russia exploited it quickly causing for example Europe’s strongest economy, Germany, to handicap itself by closing down its own power stations and using instead Russia for its base load energy.

This morality-inspired gullibility was underpinned in turn by the West’s soothing conviction that there had now occured the End of History, a grandiloquent code for saying peace for all time.

During the Cold War Russia had been governed by at least a troika or collective. It now became ruled by a single individual, a tyrant.

The moral state of hysteria engendered by the End of History stupor is illustrated by the way in which it found its way to the Antipodes, a region considered to be immune in large measure from the old Cold War threat.

Successive New Zealand governments in order to ensure the adherence of its urban middle class electors have deliberately lashed the nation with policies designed to boost the cost of farm output by raising the price of electricity and other such inputs as petrol and diesel.

Incredibly given that farm output is the nation’s economy this has been shamelessly reinforced by a second-tier scheme.

It is to to even reduce farmland acreage and thus the world supply of food by taking swathes of high-yield farmland out of production by various taxpayer funded incentive and subsidy schemes.

The pasture-replacement forestry –planting scheme is noted for its continuously disappointing auctioning of its once-vaunted globally offsetting credits designed to allow credit holders to make countervailing messes in other countries.

An entire state-driven industry which under various guises cooks up and dispenses propaganda remains devoted to boosting the guilt level should the nation falter in its zeal to impose these hobbling sanctions on itself.

Central to this guilt-generating deliberately-imposed delusion there is a state secret.

It is that New Zealand with its hydro dams and geothermal energy is ultra successful in that it is alongside Iceland when it comes to applying renewable power.

The element of deliberate and dishonest self-torturing deception in this borders on the farcical.

But there are some harsh reminders to public individuals and governments should they be tempted to treat this moral movement lobby with anything but the mystical admiration it expects.

Western governments have some gruesome reminders of the insidious power of the urban sophisticate class in enforcing their superstitious ardour.

One of these is the fate of Cardinal Pell whose ability to solve sacred and secular problems saw him installed as the Vatican’s second most powerful figure.

The late Cardinal George Pell explained that the scheme to seek alternatives to base load power amounted simply to a tax on the working class levied by the global financial manipulators responsible for “devising” these alternative power sources.

The compulsion to make manifest the conflict between guilt and unearned privilege has been a feature of this entire category of moral movement and its vengeful advocates.

The previous alarm centred on the world’s population growth led to a similar moral panic about the world’s ability to feed this overwhelming population.

Then there came a transitionary category of such alarms ironically based on the availability of the energy to deal with this explosion of hungry mouths.

Peak oil is one example. Food miles is another.

These in turn coalesced into the current and much more demonstrably and fervently expressed anxiety.

An irony overlooked by its practitioners and advocates and by politicians piously acquiescing in the communal alarm is this.

It is not only the way in which the current angst in so many ways contradicts the previous scares.

It is because Russia successfully duped Europe notably by getting Germany for political reasons to become addicted to Russian base load energy instead of relying on Germanys own ample power stations.

This in the event detonated the current reality acute food insecurity everywhere by cutting off production from the globe’s single largest repository of fertile black (not raw) earth which belongs to Ukraine.

In turn the contagious anxiety spread to Australasia’s bread baskets by taking out of production high yield pastoral land.

This merely to provide the world’s well to do with the offsetting advantage of claiming they are doing virtuous things at the bottom of the world

In turn and as Cardinal Pell fearlessly observed we are witnessing a reverse form of socialism in which workers bear the cost of this new form of unchallengeable look-good contrived politics while the non-productive capital-shuffling class reaps the reward internationally.

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White House Trades Causes for Cash

White House Trades Causes for Cash

Realpolitik Ends Pilgrim Fathers Founded United States Divine Destiny

Renowned International banker Meguerditch Bouldoukian reviews Washington’s seismic global policy shifts

President Trump is conciliatory toward Russia, yet defiantly challenging China?

He seeks to sidestep a two front war. He views China as the priority threat to America. There is this fear of being dragged into a Vietnam conflict in Europe at the expense of confronting what he views as the main enemy which is China.

Russia threatens Europe with World War 3. China in contrast only threatens Taiwan?

Trump views threats in economic terms. Is Russia a threat to the US Economy? No. China in contrast does and is doing so. Not only in terms of trade. But much more dangerously in finance. In harness with its other BRICS partners it is white anting the USD as the world’s reserve currency. This challenge is reinforced by its Belt and Road scheme which in spite of a deliberate Western policy of see-no-evil is an integral part of this scheme.

The White House gives the impression of being as angry with the EU as it is with China?

The White House view is that France and Germany in particular deliberately instigated the current European upheaval. Germany for political reasons and for a long period of time re-financed Russia by relying on it for the supply of its base energy load fuels. This frustration is in turn intensified by the knowledge that the United States itself saw what was going on. But only in recent weeks has it done anything about it. France the Trump White House views as the amalgam of all the EU faults of hoping for the best and spending money on welfare and special-interest causes instead of on defending itself.

Britain meanwhile indicates that it will deploy military forces to defend Ukraine?

The UK has accepted the danger of the European situation and is striking out on it own.

While on Realpolitik, how do see the Trump White House operationally?

A dismaying aspect of the Western view of the United States is the way in which people who should know better fail to understand its political spoils system. This spoils system became notably evident in the way in which the sinking Biden Administration tossed out vast amounts of public treasure to its pet causes especially those in the climatic sector.

This leads us to a co-equal Trump theme of the true cost to the West of artificial restraints on energy output?

An obvious by product of this cause has been to lead us to this brink of a new World War in Europe. This is because governments sensitive to their non-productive upscale socially conscious electors went to Russia for energy instead of using their own resources. I am reminded that for most of the last half of the last century the overwhelming cause of this same class was over-population. The population bomb was going to destroy the planet. The proof that this cause no longer captures the anguish of this class is personified by the cult-like White House figure Elon Musk said to be the father of at least 12 children.

Focusing now on the China sphere of influence how do you see Australasia crunched between the White House and Beijing?

Australia’s position is the most sensitive. Australian commentators resisted the tread softly approach of the rest of the Anglosphere media over the origins of Covid, notably Sharri Markson who correctly identified where it came from, when and how. We must remember a consequence which was Chinese tariffs on Australian wine amounting to hundreds of percent. This leads me to caution the region about its vulnerability to this type of sanction and I cite non-tariff barriers. I notice South Australia at district level pushing back on rural alternative energy industrialisation and this may be in order to forestall electro chemical contamination grounds for imposition of non-tariffs. I should add that both Australia and New Zealand in the current mood present routine tempting targets for United States penalties because of their own favourable balance of payments with the United States.

There remains this belief that the tariffs on China are unfair, vengeful?

I agree about the vengeful bit. President Trump believes that China’s rulers have systematically arranged China’s economy around deliberately building up these trade surpluses. That the CCP has managed the suppression of things like consumer investment and spending so that the economy is a purpose-designed export machine tasked with the expansion of surpluses. In other words it is not a market economy.

You could say in contrast that the ructions in Washington’s bureaucratic sphere in terms of efficiency or lack of it show that the United States operates under a creative and unplanned chaos?

Nations such as those of the EU which greatly benefit from this absence of this method and order and thus accumulate huge balance of payments in their favour also expect the United States to dig deeper still and pay for their defence. I might add that the destinations disclosed or still vaguely indicated about the dispersal if not dissipation overseas of so much US treasure is calculated to dismay any book keeper, not to say banker, however impartial.

Founded by the Pilgrim Fathers it is said that America is the only nation established to do good in the world?

It is this era that we now see dissolving before our eyes. No more Marshall Plans. This is why Trump has stated bluntly that the price of Ukraine relying on America to defend it is to hand over rights to transactional commodities such as its high value minerals. Trump believes that the price of American ideology is its immense deficit. This deficit Trump views as arming China as it sets its sights on displacing the USD with its own reserve currency.

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Palace of the Alhambra Spain

Palace of the Alhambra, Spain

By: Charles Nathaniel Worsley (1862-1923)

From the collection of Sir Heaton Rhodes

Oil on canvas - 118cm x 162cm

Valued $12,000 - $18,000

Offers invited over $9,000

Contact:  Henry Newrick – (+64 ) 27 471 2242

Henry@HeritageArtNZ.com

 

Mount Egmont with Lake

Mount Egmont with Lake 

By: John Philemon Backhouse (1845-1908)

Oil on Sea Shell - 13cm x 14cm

Valued $2,000-$3,000

Offers invited over $1,500

Contact:  Henry Newrick – (+64 ) 27 471 2242

Henry@HeritageArtNZ.com

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