October 7 Introduced Psychological Warfare to Middle East
The extent and effect of the DEI industry campaign against Israel will be viewed as a contributory element in the October 7 attack because of increasing evidence that Israel’s false sense of security stemmed from a reluctance to detonate resentment in the West’s politico media class.
The nation’s determination to sidestep a pre-emptive incursion was in the face of demonstrable evidence that the attack was being war gamed within Gaza.
Israel in the lead up to the invasion displayed unparalleled levels of a willingness to be duped in the form of an applied reluctance to confront the evidence that a breakout was imminent.
Even when it appeared clear that Hamas which means Islamic Resistance Movement and which is an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood had aggressive intentions, Israeli analysts refused to believe that the insurgents would actually follow through with them
The build up to the commando category of invasion occurred during an extraordinary intensification of anti Israel sentiment within the multilaterals as well as Israel’s own allies such as Five Eyes where it found voice within the DEI sector.
This sector had now extended beyond identity and coupled itself with gender-climate and most sensitively of all with a colonialism syndrome specifically encoded for Israel.
While this was going on Hamas in a refinement of its nothing-to-worry-about campaign of complacency inducement launched a particularly subtle ploy.
It was to encourage other terror outfits to criticise Hamas for being itself complacent in peaceably winding down its own anti Israel stance.
Hamas followed through on this double cross by giving a firm impression to the Israel defence establishment that now it indeed intended to focus on the welfare of the population it was supposed to be governing in Gaza.
Then there were some mixed signals coming from Israel itself
One of these was the curious case of a book The Human Machine Team authored from the very top level of Israel’s signals intelligence and seemingly approved by the Israel Defence Force.
The book published only several years ago gave the impression of a priority high tech signals interception strategy.
In the covert world what is not being said shares equal value with what is actually being said.
Was the book a decoy, designed to draw attention away from specifically a human assets build up within Gaza?
A build up made possible by the daily arrival into Israel of thousands of Gaza citizens on a generous Israeli work scheme?
In the event post October 7 all the indications remain that there were no effective covert human assets within Gaza.
The book hymning the new reliance on signals listening technology was not a plant at all.
It was the real thing. Human intelligence had gone on the back burner.
Neither does Israel in practical terms appear to have made use of its standard electronics such as observation satellites.
Why was the build-up of hardware in the form of earthmovers not detected? Why were the practice sessions for the aerial assault systems not detected?
These in the event probably were in fact observed.
They were probably dismissed for two reasons. War gaming was interpreted as Hamas trying to impress its own allies of its basic bellicosity. Then there was the deep Israeli conviction that Hamas was on a peaceful path.
The October 7 insurgency combined Islamic tactics such as the taking of hostages mixed in with focused concentration methods employed by Special Forces in the West.
The application of psychological warfare techniques in the form of the false trails laid before Israel will similarly be perceived as a transfer from Occidental battle planning.
The mobilisation of the allied DEI intelligentsia can be viewed in this context as the contemporary version of air dropping propaganda leaflets sowing fear, uncertainty, and doubt far behind the enemy’s lines.
The history of the Abrahamic religions, the book religions, demonstrates a clockwork effect every half millennium in which one of them goes on the boil
Dating from the return by the Jewish people from Babylonian captivity BC there was half a millennium later the birth of Christ. Half a millennium later came the advent of Islam. Then the Crusades. Then the Reformation.
Now exactly half a millennium, precisely 500 years, after the Reformation there is a resurgent Islam culturally symbolised by the reverential precedence it is accorded in any English speaking centre of learning.
Foreign owner accelerated evaporation of Point of Difference between Television rivals
The mystery of why Television Three’s Newshub operation converged in content with the content of the South Seas nation’s competing government controlled media is another example of the perils of New Zealand’s infrastructure falling into foreign ownership.
The nation’s only independent free-to-air television broadcaster is in fact owned in the United States by Warner Brothers Discovery.
This meant a Hollywood-grade infusion of active progressivism added to the channel’s existing tendency to anyway embrace unquestioningly and unbidden such causes.
The result was that instead of establishing a clear point of difference between it and the government channel the TV3-Newshub operation simply converged in content with its opposition.
Why didn’t management see what was happening? Then do something about it by introducing and enforcing a clear point of editorial difference?
The answer is that the channel had now become boxed in by editorial policies stemming from the United States parent Warner Bros which also owns CNN.
Cable Network News is determinedly activist and it was now that TV3-Newshub’s already demonstrable alignment became supercharged.
At first the by now two mirror-image channels failed to see the effect that they had created.
So did the National Party and ACT which stood by as, for example, any weather report from either channel about rain, storm, sun or hail was always capped with the word crisis.
Even after the New Zealand general election toward the end of 2023 in which a coalition of three conservative-orientated parties was victorious both so-called rival channels continued their practice of screening Labour party types face-to-face while only indirectly reporting what anyone in the National Party-led coalition was saying.
Not long after the announcement that the TV 3 channel would abandon active current affairs coverage leaving it commercially merely as an outlet for its parent US programme feeds there was another announcement.
This time the announcement was from the government-owned rival broadcasting operation that it was cutting back drastically on its own current affairs programming and personnel.
Management of the state broadcaster instead of taking advantage of its rival’s publicly-announced decision to quit the current affairs sector, instead deliberately revealed that it was on the ropes too and intended to fire many of its staff in the same television sector.
The conclusion remains that both channels the independent one and the government one operated in its own world, far removed from anything to do with things such as competing for audiences.
Exactly why do both channels share similar no-go areas notably in climate politics in which immense international commitments given by the Labour government are studiously ignored?
Similarly both channels leap avidly and simultaneously on voguish trends designed to annoy their audiences which they must know from their own advertising is comprised of those of mature years, and for whom the world did not start just this morning?
There are questions too why the US parent through its subsidiary CNN failed to use its muscle and help out its New Zealand stablemate and fill out its Newshub operation with sympathetic news syndication economies of scale? Some helpful down-the-line feeds from global trouble-spot correspondents? A quick authoritative cut in from Anderson Cooper or Christiane Amanpour (pictured)?
It couldn’t because CNN is readily available packaged into the Sky subscriber service.
This means that in sharing content CNN owner Warner would be competing in with its local already paying customer for CNN which is Sky Television which is a main board NZSE company.
On the government side in state broadcasting the inertia favouring this same progressivist tilt is immovable because it is guaranteed through selective employment.
The view that TV3 and its Newshub operation are victims of fractionating audience is not entirely true. It and its radio subsidiaries remained buoyant well into the internet era
It failed though to understand how its audience was changing and growing older and then compounded this by its warm embrace of activism.
This meant that instead of distancing itself from the government broadcasting operation, the independent broadcaster progressively blended with its opposition.
An organisation that by definition exists to identify trends failed to realise how in eliminating the point of difference between what it was doing and what its state-controlled opposition was doing was in fact deliberately and successfully putting itself out of business.
The forces that led such a highly educated collective to wilfully ignore market teachings on the danger of merging your brand with that of your opposition’s will be a suitable case for study at any business school.
As will be its competing channel’s response to the dislocation which instead of taking advantage of it was to announce its own weakness in the form of mass lay-offs.
New Third Sex Identity Classification Obfuscates Enforcer Duties
Transgenderism has emerged as the flagship politico-media outrage flashpoint in a nation which barely a generation ago exulted in a culture of exaggerated masculinity.
Not long ago the nation revelled in the exploits of its sporting, military and property tycoon heroes.
No longer.
The pinnacle of achievement postulated in the more activist wings of politics and throughout the legacy media is now embodied by those of a very different category.
It is comprised of those who have switched their genders, or who are in the process of doing so.
The transition is a movement in the true sense of the word and it has become a defining consideration judicially.
This is illustrated by the way in which it has influenced the outcome of the case involving the Morrison family. The family was burned out of their rural dwelling.
The suspect undergoing gender transition and who is in a women’s prison has to date sidestepped appearing in court and continues to protract while parting company with a string of lawyers.
This state of affairs (see previous story) came to light when the family sought redress from their fire insurer which is under the banner of the Automobile Association.
The fervour ignited by transgenderism is illustrated by the riotous turn taken in Auckland’s Albert Park (a Speakers Corner equivalent) when British gender transition foe Posie Parker was the centre of a public meeting furore.
Much more recently it was demonstrated during the book tour of Irish comedian and playwright (Father Ted) Graham Linehan, a lugubrious if hardly incendiary character. Linehan (pictured) was greeted on arrival not by chortling fans at the airport but by two anxious police officers.
Binary until quite recently referred exclusively to information technology. The penetration of the binary fixation into public life is officially codified now by the mandatory application of selective defining pronouns to anyone in any occupation at all in any sector of government service.
Transgender has overtaken even ethno-climatism as preferred positioning visibility with public figures and educators echoing their solidarity, and willingness to devote their energies to implementing it for those who seek it.
The entire topic owes its institutionalisation to its dovetailing into all three of the operational moral pillars of diversity, equity and inclusion. These were the three horsemen of the social justice apocalypse of the Jacinda Ardern government. This feelings-based policy troika was mounted rather less ardently by her prime ministerial successor Chris Hipkins.
Its appeal is to the inner city suburbs where the non-productive intelligentsia tend to dwell.
This electorally sensitive location means that the current face-value conservative tripartite ruling parliamentary coalition, smarting from absorbing continuing dismissive coverage from free-to-air broadcasters, handles it gingerly, especially in terms of its medicalisation.
Curiously the entire issue everywhere might reasonably be said to have started in the New Zealand North Island township of Morrinsville, hometown of Jacinda Ardern and Dr John Money.
Dr Money?
He was the scientific figure who dissolved the gender binary boundary and ignited the new non-patriarchal orthodoxy of social equity that became the hallmark of the multilateralists.
Equipped with his Phd (from Harvard) and now at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, he was the first clinician to describe himself as a sexologist and to be officially described as such. He was the pioneering exponent in child rearing of the "nurture versus nature" concept in gender assignment.
Dr Money contended that it was behavioural characteristics and not its physical ones (nature) that would decide whether it was male or female.
His fame came as director of the Psychohormonal Research Unit at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, and he authored some 40 books on sexology.
He established the Johns Hopkins Gender Identity Clinic in 1965. The hospital began performing sexual reassignment surgery in 1966.
He retired only two years before his death at 85 in 2006.
His collection of primitive art was bequeathed to the gallery in Gore, after metropolitan museums and galleries declined it.
New Zealand’s coalition government edging around transgenderism and its treatment might appease its intractable urban arts constituency with its public broadcasting cheer leadership by touring the Dr Money’s art collection, the authenticity of which has never been challenged.
Such a tour in today’s mood will not be cancelled. Unlike Graham Linehans’s or Posie Parker’s.
Gender Transition Fire Starter Suspect Dodges Court.
At 4am on the morning of October 11 2022 David Morrison awoke to the sound of his dog barking outside. He opened his front door and was greeted by a sheet of flame coming from a stack of tyres soaked in petrol.
Thus began a long nightmare for the Morrison family accentuated by the refusal of their insurance company to fully compensate Mr Morrison for a conflagration that the police, the insurance company, as well as the Morrisons all agree was the deliberate work of a third party.
The suspect was rapidly identified by the police.
The name and photograph of the suspect was also circulated prior to name suppression.
This was because it was feared that they may have been injured or even consumed in one of the house fires.
A neighbouring farmhouse was similarly ignited and became a total loss in this same series of conflagrations.
The Morrison family now found their fire insurance company reluctant to compensate the family for their house which was uninhabitable as a result of the fire.
Their situation in regard to their charred house was exacerbated by the Labour government diversity blueprint, this time in the socio-criminal sphere.
This saw suspects and offenders given special treatment had they changed their gender or who were in the process of changing it.
The suspect fell into this category.
The suspect remains detained in the transgender wing of the Wellington region’s Arohata Womens Prison.
The suspect on numerous occasions though commanded to do so by the authorities has failed to appear as summoned at court fixtures.
This refusal to appear at any designated court procedure has included declining to give their testimony electronically under Zoom type procedures.
In spite of a change in government and thus of the overview of court procedure the suspect is still permitted to decline an appearance either in person or electronically.
With the arrival on New Zealand’s government benches in late 2023 of the new National-ACT -New Zealand First coalition the Morrisons anticipated a change in this procedural attitude and which would allow them at least to confront their insurers with their situation.
All this was further convoluted by the fact that the suspect is a foreign national.
In the event the suspect was known to the Morrisons and also to the owners of the other farm house incinerated on the night of October 11.
The suspect helped out at the neighbouring property and was in addition allocated grazing on part of the Morrison family’s property.
Friction appears to have arisen over the extent of the grazing land allocated to the suspect for their small dairy herd.
The Morrisons subsequently became aware of the pending difficulties attendant on matters of court process when they learned that the FBI and Interpol were involved in investigating the past life of the accused.
In the intervening time the now dispossessed Morrison family has lived in rental properties in the surrounding countryside.
They believe that the bizarre circumstances surrounding the fire at their and their neighbour’s farm houses has equipped their insurance company with the latitude to sidestep compensating them for their loss.
This especially applies to the peculiar provenance of the suspect and their determination to avoid appearing in court.
There the matter rests.
The Morrison family meanwhile remains homeless.
In the meantime David Morrison long after the fire looked after the suspect’s dairy herd which was eventually at the pubic expense transferred to a distant animal sanctuary at Wellsford.
Annie Goldson Film Documents Fringe Players at Hinge of Modern Times
The Age of Aquarius took its time in making landfall in Oceania. It was said that someone who missed London’s zany swinging 60’s could catch up simply by arriving in Wellington in time for the 70s which is where and when Red Mole started.
A theatrical free form group merging elements of vaudeville, the fringe, and the circus Red Mole had some early commercial success by teaming up with the undisputed Queen of the capital’s night life throughout the 1970s.
This was Carmen (pictured) who had begun life as Trevor Rupe and switched genders to headline the capital’s after hours entertainment through a mixture of courtly savvy and an instinct for what the punters really wanted.
A benign figure and sidewalk philosopher Carmen noted that the “Day people have no idea what the Night People do.”
Carmen’s scene was a natural fit for the Red Mole louche and deliberately outrageous version of the performing arts complete with the players timeless posters.
After bedding in at Carmen’s venue Red Mole which had started as an indignant in-your-face touring troupe decided it was insufficiently self-renewing, too comfortable and had better start the rigours of touring again.
Fretting about going over old ground the players now took a step which was to distinguish them from any other Antipodean group in this category at this time.
Red Mole went straight to New York arriving literally out of the blue in the heart of the Times Square and Broadway theatre district at a time when the Great White Way along with the rest of New York was in the throes of bankruptcy.
A good looking and forceful collective Red Mole started door knocking and in due course discovered a manager and sites for their gigs.
Annie Goldson’s archival footage blended with contemporary recollections of group veterans and families outlines a hard scrabble existence braced with performing stints in the seedier bars of this milieu in order to get the cash to keep Red Mole operational.
Art is a cruel mistress and there is the impression that the moment the group got a steady earner they were possessed of an urge to try something else, somewhere else.
In road-film style we follow the Red Mole group into Central America and it is now that troupe members start to question the stress and uncertainty of their life style an instability emphasised now by the pregnancy of one of the founders.
In the end the troupe ended not that far away from their point of departure back in New Zealand in Wellington’s Island Bay suburb long a haven for those of artistic sensibilities.
There followed the early and unexpected deaths of the two founders Alan Brunton and Sarah Rodwell whose daughter Ruby is on screen to retrace the troupe’s colourful path in the New York theatre district.
Ruby is drawn in with other thesp veterans to bring audiences up to date with the bitter sweet denouement of what might be described as a pioneering venture in collective theatrical touring counter culture.
The defiance of the group was picked up by one New York critic who noted its “anti-colonial” theme.
Was Red Mole transformational in a politico-performing sense?
When it started Equity was an industrial union and there was attention to quavers instead of quotas, and people still married people of the opposite sex.
By the time the Red Mole thespians finally hung up their papier mache head masks everything had changed.
Their formula of attention-getting defiance had become standardised, the norm. Everyone in politics, the media, and show business was doing it.
The film is curiously sub titled as “A Romance.”
The romance was surely between the troupe and their art because here their devotion as portrayed in the feature documentary was constant in that they hewed to it always and never falling prey to the tempting diversity of soft options taken by so many of today’s practitioners.
Prime Minister Kennedy School University Class of ’23 Saw Kudos become Chaos
When former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern was appointed to several Harvard University Kennedy School fellowships she could hardly have dreamed that Harvard would become that same year the epicentre of global intelligentsia class warfare.
Harvard’s dealings with New Zealand have been immense and quite literally down to earth.
Harvard has been the major foreign investor in forestry and dairy farms in quite recent years.
It controlled what is considered the largest planted forest anywhere, the Kaingaroa Forest in the North Island.
Harvard then acquired immense tracts of dairy farming in the South Island.
Not so well known is that Harvard’s “external” investing was managed from New Zealand and with New Zealand agribusiness specialists managing and directing it based in New Zealand and operating from Harvard itself.
Since the glory days early in the new millennium Harvard has retreated from much of its investment in forestry in and around the North Island’s Central Plateau.
A particular problem was legal access to forestry internal trucking roads.
While forestry lost some of its early gloss Harvard University’s colossal and little-perceived planned long term stake in New Zealand dairy farming seemed to appear increasingly promising.
For example an unexpected development in the Central Plateau while Harvard was in full surge in investing in it was the conversion of pine forestry plantations into dairy farms.
The upheavals in only recent weeks at Harvard now offer an explanation why the university pulled out of the dairy sector here.
The explanation is that dairy as the millennium moved on became increasingly prone to accusations that it by definition conflicted with Harvard’s by now flourishing cultural policies.
Cows became the focus of the emitting into the atmosphere of greenhouse gases.
The acute progressivism revealed now at its rawest at Harvard points to an accelerating momentum of the anti-cow campaign dating to the abandonment of the immense New Zealand dairy farming investment.
This now revealed susceptibility meant that the university at this time felt itself compelled to quit anything at all identified as conflicting with utter adherence to contemporary mores and this included eliminating ruminants.
The very large scale intervention by Harvard University in the primary sector in New Zealand was an overlooked text book example of intergenerational or very long term investing.
The New Zealand managers who drove the investing scheme in both hemispheres are now retired.
In contrast the much more visible connection between the South Seas and the university became personified by the appointment of Dame Jacinda (pictured) to fellowships at Harvard’s Kennedy School.
No single institution in the English-speaking world evoked the detached patrician prestige of Harvard..
Parking a career in the Harvard Yard was the touchstone of anyone’s CV and especially so if they intended to walk the world stage. .
Yet in just a few days the halo of pristine elegance became irrevocably smeared as the university was revealed as just one more institutional participant in the twisting and turning inherent in compromising with what has become a bare knuckle clash of cultures.
Instead of being above the battle the university was immersed in it, central to it, even generating and sustaining it.
Among those who selected Harvard as their pathway to an even greater participation on the world stage was former New Zealand prime minister Dame Jacinda Ardern now freshly ennobled.
Dame Jacinda’s trademark internationally is as an exponent even the leader in the applied empathetic political navigation to avoid exactly the type of mass interpersonal ruckus that Harvard now drifted into.
Her Harvard tour of duty at the Kennedy School, itself a blending of politico-academic superlatives, was twinned and timed geopolitically with her role as a trustee of Earthshot an exalted promotional ritual.
Though associated with the British Royal Family the environmental kudos scheme is in fact run by a collection of cross-government organisations and philanthropies. Among these coincidentally is a Kennedy foundation.
It is now almost 400 years since John Harvard bequeathed his library and real estate and thus founded the university.
Few could have seen how at this very late stage the university could have become such a visible hub for every single element of today’s applied intellectual class warfare in the West.
Mt Olympus overnight became transformed into a seething, sulphurous brawling volcano of resentment as the most entitled and privileged broke cover and revealed the extent of the squabbles long hidden behind those so recently-revered ivy-clad walls.
All this overshadows the era in which New Zealand became the international focus for what was described in management schools at the cusp of the present millennium as intergenerational investing.
Triumphs Turn to Shame in New Zealand guilt transfer politics
Jostling foreign financiers queue to fund industrial solar utilities in New Zealand and to secure the key governmental consents to implement them.
Amnesia settles over the country about what happens when infrastructure is gleefully put in the hands of foreigners.
New Zealand’s rail network is the most recent example.
Officialdom saw the sale as the pathway to immense foreign investment.
The opposite happened.
After a honeymoon period devoted to adorning the rail network with carefully arranged localised publicity packaging the investment went in the opposite direction.
The new foreign owners sent the money back to themselves.
A number of years went by for this to become evident.
Only when the share price of the New Zealandised rail operator collapsed did the extent of the prolonged absence of investment become obvious notably in the state of the permanent way.
The excitement now surrounding the foreign controlled solar power utilities introduces also the unstated problem of them being planned for dairy farms.
Dairy is New Zealand’s biggest export product category.
Similarly they are planned for tourist destinations.
Tourism is New Zealand’s biggest foreign exchange earning sector.
The unstated value of these projects is the value of the consents to build them, and the value of these consents as tradeable financial instruments.
These solar utilities require equipment the size of industrial buildings.
It is no coincidence that the solar power installations enjoy a life span compared to the trees in the forestry schemes that they are increasingly replacing.
This is 30 years.
The difference is that at the effluxion of this time the trees are scheduled to be harvested, while nobody has yet specified what will be done with the heavy Chinese-manufactured machinery strewn over the dairy pastures.
The solar rush has much to do with the uncertainty penetrating the once unchallengeable forestry schemes.
The forest fires that destroyed so much forestry in the north west of the United States just recently also devoured immense swathes of countervailing sequestration rights for the industrialists.
Locally the onslaught of cyclone Gabrielle demonstrated the fragility of pine forestry in the face of the severity of weather that the afforestation policies were supposed to avert.
Industrialists and their financiers scour countries such as New Zealand looking for convenient and highly accessible land which can be quickly converted into solar industrial utilities.
There is too the search for impressionable administrations prone to the visionary style of politics found in New Zealand.
Here the level of meek compliant conformity is manifested for example in shame even in the nation’s successful and enduring pioneering implementation of geothermal (see diagram) power, the last century’s pre-eminent contribution everywhere to alternative electrical generation.
It is never mentioned.
The reason is that the multilaterals which have so successfully dictated New Zealand farming and energy operations refuse to classify it as a renewable.
An institutionalised search for collective guilt takes increasingly curious forms.
One was the Labour government’s deliberately burying the fact that New Zealand was topping the world renewables charts by generating 93 percent. True, the lakes were full.
Any trumpeting though would have conveyed quite the wrong impression which is one of complacency to the government’s real masters in the northern hemisphere.
They are high profile diplomats, actually public servants, that the government sincerely believed held the future of New Zealand in their hands.
The Labour government also hushed up its own triumph achieved in July this year which was the signing in Brussels of its EU Free Trade Agreement.
The reason?
The major export to be sent to Europe under the free trade agreement is dairy.
The need for high value dairy pasture to fill this market competes and conflicts with the demand for this same land for the solar utilities so beloved by the same foreign diplomats.
Broadcaster Wary of going Under Knife after Hospital jab in New Zealand
Celebrity South Seas talk-back host and radio station proprietor Sean Plunket was anticipating a surgical ablation operation having suffered a minor heart attack in quite recent months.
The New Zealand political commentator’s pulse accelerated when he found himself prominently described in social media as “hateful scumbag Zionist.”
It quickened even more when he discovered that the author worked as a heart surgeon and in the same department in which the news man was scheduled to undergo his own cardiac surgery.
Mr Plunket now rang the hospital and was put through to the social media posting surgeon.
His equilibrium was hardly restored when the surgeon revealed that, he was in possession of Mr Plunket’s case notes.
Mr Plunket’s full name is Oliver Sean Plunket and the surgeon addressed him as “Oliver.”
As Sean Plunket’s tale was unrolled before his radio audience as the show stopper became a heart stopper.
According to Mr Plunket when the surgeon discovered that his caller was Sean Plunket, the surgeon hung up on him.
Unravelling subsequently the surgeon’s own social media postings Mr Plunket’s heart rate would not have improved with the disclosure that the practitioner viewed everything through a deeply religious prism.
Mr Plunket’s antecedents are Irish.
He has consistently voiced total, unqualified and unequivocal support for Israel in the Hamas conflict.
His radio station The Platform which is actually an online streamer fills the vacuum created by aloof influencers in free-to-air broadcasters and the daily newspapers.
These take their cues from The Guardian and the BBC which results in a voguish uniform nationwide progressive positioning on anything at all.
In contrast The Platform rubs the nose of its audience in the knaveries going on all around it, tearing away the layers of professed noble intentions shrouding the underpinning special interests and their motives.
Aware of The Platform’s disdain for chic posturing the mainstream studiously ignores the disruptive vernacular coloniser made landfall in its midst.
Mr Plunket in the bizarre circumstances surrounding his imminent heart operation can now be seen as the commentator who effectively brought to an end this South Seas nation’s cherished view of itself.
This is its perception of itself as a country of religious tolerance.
A carry-over from the Front Page era Mr Plunket’s long career has been unusual in that it has been characterised by his making the news in addition to reporting it, or commenting on it.
Victim culture’s arch critic now contemplated his own victimhood via participatory journalism in a turn of events that by his own testimony was unwitting, accidental.
His revelation that religious activism has penetrated a citadel of his country’s professional structure which is heart surgery indicates still further erosion of the nation’s once fabled reverence for its professional institutions.
On a daily basis he continues to chip away at the established media’s reliability and impartiality by drawing attention to the way in which it receives pay-outs from the taxpayer.
His proud boast is that The Platform neither seeks nor will accept the government subsidies doled out to the rest of the media for seeing things its way.
As an ardent foe of the imported cancel culture and nudging 60 years Mr Plunket in his risk assessment may be contemplating taking his chances and cancelling his own pending surgical procedure.
In contrast his latest and seemingly accidental participatory story will see his mainstreamer peers even more anxious to wheel him into whatever or whoever awaits him in the operating theatre.
Graphics Designer Georgia Shattky captures The Science fall from grace
A revealing moment in the film about microbiologist Siouxsie Wiles is when she worries about funding her laboratory. Then she appears to find hope in a just-arrived message from an institution only to discover that it too has turned her down with a rejection slickly encased in condescending and patronising words that she finds the money elsewhere.
Nothing terribly unusual in this. Except that the nation is in the grip of the Covid pandemic and that one single category of resources that might reasonably have expected to be financed at this time might have been an infectious diseases research establishment.
Professor Wiles goes on to describe in a matter-of-fact way how she devotes much of her time to raising the laboratory funds herself notably through public appearances
The incident is crystallised forever in the film about the turbulent microbiologist MS Information.
It asks more questions than it answers. Why exactly at the height of the fear and trembling about Covid was a specialist research laboratory being treated, well, as if it were merely an irritating subset of a social studies centre?
The microbes of the Covid infection are too miniscule to be seen by the naked eye.
Yet Professor Wiles became the epicentre of a larger-than-life debate with on one side the great and the good celebrating her in gala evenings.
While on the other side of the urban spectrum the vile imprecations of an alternately screeching and thuggish faction using any and every communications channel available to them.
These bizarre multipliers of these extremes in the film become hyper exhibited when building facades become screens-within-screens, literally murals (pictured above.)
This technique enabled by the film’s graphic designer Georgia Shattky (pictured below) acting as the film’s general effects artist calibrates the grotesque scale of the fervour of the frenzies evoked by the microbiologist.
The public narrative now surrounding Professor Wiles instead of concentrating on infectious diseases especially in their mass infection form now became firmly focussed on the microbiologist as a gaudy character.
The film depicts how in an extraordinary inversion of sociology’s hierarchical theory Professor Wiles’ medical status faded the more established society in the form of urban intelligentsia gave her public approval by in short order crowning her Woman of the Year and then New Zealander of the Year.
The film traces how all this made her the target of increasing vitriol for her perceived role in the vaccination and lockdown schemes for which she was now seen to be personifying.
The film witnesses how Professor Wiles as someone who might reasonably be considered a bona fide practitioner of The Science became viewed instead as an exponent of numerous cults such as the climate one and somehow an adherent of “Bill Gates.”
Professor Wiles has to point out that the word “Lucifer” with which she remains routinely coupled in fact is a description of light and its luminescence.
The film portrays her as a counterpuncher; one who gives as good as they get.
Underneath the polychromatic giggly exterior there is a firm upholder of the science resolutely determined to eliminate anything or anyone who deflects her from her purpose.
The film emphasises the way in which medical doctors such as Siouxsie have become components of street-level public debate when in contrast barely a generation ago they filled in as antipodean versions of the gentry, even a localised aristocracy.
The film defines the way in which the words and actions of this so recently Olympian class are now so routinely challenged.
Those believing that their own views on things such as microbes, viruses and pathogens in general are deserving of a public airing nowadays elbow aside clinicians and expects their utterances to be taken as gospel- which they often are.
Information for screenings nationwide available at https://www.msinformationmovie.com/screenings
Georgia Shattky
Battlefield Cyber: How China and Russia are Undermining our Democracy and National Security.
Indications that New Zealand is an exceptional focus for Kremlin attention and at the highest level are justified by sightings of someone in newsreels and photo stills who looked like strongman Vladimir Putin immediately after the sinking of the Mikhail Lermontov and by a Radio New Zealand report to the effect that Putin posing as a shoe salesman travelled extensively here in the Cold War era.
Now a leading authority has stated that New Zealand is operationally in the very front line of hostile global intelligence gathering.
William Holstein’s just-published book is Battlefield Cyber: How China and Russia are Undermining our Democracy and National Security.
Mr Holstein (pictured) urges everyday New Zealanders as well as national security officials to always take seriously any indication at all of Russian intervention in daily life.
The Russians kill people all over the world and try to make it look like it was an accident, or that someone else did it, he commented over the premature death in Wanganui of self-confessed double agent Derek Round.
"Some people around the world may think of New Zealand as an impossibly remote and quirky country, easy to ignore. But in the world of intelligence, New Zealand is absolutely at the heart of the West's efforts to protect its democracies from the likes of China and Russia,” stated Mr Holstein.
This is “because it is a full-fledged member of the Five Eyes intelligence sharing network.
“Whatever the Americans, Canadians, British and Australians know, New Zealanders know it also.”
He added that as the “undeclared” Third World War evolved attempts to crack Five Eyes through its New Zealand portal would intensify.
This was likely to be shrouded and more easily accomplished through New Zealand just because the Five Eyes member had this singular remote and quirky self-image.
Meanwhile the Putin presence in the immediate aftermath of the 1986 Mikhail Lermontov cruise ship running aground while it was under the helm of a Cook Strait pilot has seemed over the intervening years to be perfectly probable given the likenesses of what does resemble the Putin countenance.
The mystery of the sunken cruise vessel’s strong room has never been explained.
When Five Eyes security services sought as rapidly as possible to access the vessel’s safe compartment, they found it had already been cracked.
Russian divers had got there first.
The notion of Putin on his rise through the KGB ranks having some kind of responsibility for New Zealand has become reinforced in recent years with the discovery that he has in fact a working command of the English language.
This reinforces the belief from a prime source and broadcast by Radio New Zealand, itself government-owned, that he circulated here with some ease as a Soviet-bloc shoe salesman.
Then subsequently and testified to by several media sources Putin re-appeared as a member of the official USSR delegation investigating the cause and effects of the cruise liner grounding.
William Holstein’s theme is how the old Sino Soviet bloc until almost the last few months succeeded in convincing the Five Eyes membership that the bloc’s intent was peaceable and that it sincerely intended to achieve this by lifting living standards at home and everywhere else.
These now openly-aggressive nations always knew that this is what the Five Eyes member governments earnestly wanted to believe.
The public mood in New Zealand as far back as the 1960s was reluctant to accept the way in which the upper reaches of its public service had been penetrated.
The split of the New Zealand Communist Party into a Russia aligned group and a China aligned group can also be viewed now as presenting consequences not appreciated or evaluated at the time or subsequently.
The more recent demise of Derek Round (See: Derek Round Murdered Cold War Double Agent & Society Figure Fits Russian Pattern) saw a steering clear for example of any wider analysis of any instigated intervention in the form of cut outs.
Bill Holstein’s long view always ran in the face of self- convincing official views such as the one so recently and so consistently enunciated in Australia about China “lifting out of poverty” a large chunk of its populace and standing ready to do the same thing everywhere else
His portrayal of the old and now overhauled communist bloc as a kleptocracy dedicated to stealing any information not in fact nailed down contrasts with an enduring New Zealand susceptibility.
This is the willingness, ardour, to be seen to be accepted internationally by participating unquestioningly and at any price with contemporary old world moral causes that are actively, cynically, openly and successfully exploited by this same sinister re-engaged partnership.