“Emergency” Status used to counter low turnout and galvanise younger voters The climate alarmist proclamation of civic emergencies in Auckland and in other municipalities is centred on a belief that climate alarm is the key to securing the allegiance of the younger vote in New Zealand’s pending local government elections in October. In the 2016 local government elections voter turnout was 42 percent. Public information pre-election campaigns to lift the turnout to the 50 percent experienced in the 1980s have failed to lift the turnout. These new civic emergency declarations follow on the heels of a series of millennial apocalyptic…

In Washington and Wellington the Fading vendetta for scalp of Megaupload Founder now looks more like Trouble than a Trophy The tightly knit and warm pattern of alliances which inaugurated the seven year campaign to send Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom from his domicile in New Zealand to the United States to face piracy charges have now chilled and evaporated. These close sets of relationships converged on the Obama era White House and the keystone alliance was then the one between Hollywood and the White House. Since president Trump took office this relationship has turned sour. It is characterised by the…

Government extreme social equity posturing degrades performance and authority The New Zealand Treasury’s failure to encrypt its pro-forma models of the actual budget can be traced to an engrained governmental procedure of elevating contemporary social sensibilities at the expense of applied practical ability. This was further emphasised at the time of the budget “hacking” flap when it became clear that a cross-section of departmental officials failed to understand that the budget models had been accessed simply by intruders applying permutations and combinations to the Treasury’s home page search bar and doing so without recourse to passwords. The access to the…

Holier-than-thou ploy triggers unintended consequences A review of bullying and harassment within Parliament instigated by the Speakers Office which is responsible for who are entitled to work in Parliament and for what they do there has involved this same office in obloquy and sensationalism. The release of the report was accompanied by dire portents from the Speakers Office conjuring up images of at least one rapist stalking Parliament’s carpeted corridors and this sinister figure accompanied by a cohort of like-minded individuals in the sex pest category. In the event once the hue and cry settled down this somewhat spooky scenario…

Oceania nation resonates as perfect sounding board for social activist Atlantic policies United Nations exercises a supranational influence over New Zealand’s body politic in a way that has not been experienced since the waning of Westminster’s sway followed soon after by Washington’s. Nothing emphasises this realignment more than the view that the nation’s highest office, that of prime minister, is but a way station en route to assuming the real power which resides in the real high office which is that of secretary general of United Nations. Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark had, at best, a good outsider’s…

Antitrust action on information technology sector blamed for opening door to China In the 1970s and 1980s the United States federal government applied antitrust actions against its two dominant computer and telecommunications companies IBM and AT&T. The federal government threats and moves to break up these two companies is considered now to have preoccupied the companies to the point at which foreign competition now started to slip through under the cover of the government diversion. The belief now is that IBM for example became more focussed on coping with the extended anti-trust proceedings than with expanding or holding its 70…

Flagship Pike River Re-Entry Policy Threatened by Undetectable Gas Methane gas has become so politicised that officials are terrified to talk about outside a rigid and approved context and frame of reference. Nothing underlined the perils attendant on the Labour coalition government’s Pike River mine re-entry fiasco in that a cause of its being aborted was that a “wee” creature had chewed the lead of a gas sensor. Nothing emphasised the presence and name of this gas as the determination by everyone concerned to avoid mentioning it. The gas was and is methane gas and it was the culprit in…

Gauche handling of France’s Gauche contrasts with New Zealand premier’s adroit Coup Politique When Jacinda Ardern shut in the support of her Labour-led coalition government’s ideological left wing support she did so quickly, effortlessly, decisively and effectively. When Francis’ president Emmanuel Macron tried to the same thing with his eco-ideologues he ignited a carboniferous subterranean smouldering fire akin to those that plague the sites of abandoned mine workings. The New Zealand Labour government swiftly bonded in its liberal political and media class wing at the outset of its administration with the proclamation of its ban on oil and gas prospecting.…

New rendition of definite article debuts in television dialect, describes “thuh” Anzac…… A panel on public and official pronunciation convened by MSC Newswire uncovered what it describes as six categories of routine spoken language abuse by professional broadcasters. They are:- - Handling of the vowel sound “e” in a generalised context in which the word air so often emerged from broadcasters as “ear.” - Emergence of the definite article now pronounced as “thuh” before words beginning with a vowel - Latin-language tendency to emphasise second syllable of certain words - “Ts” rendered as Ds - Missing syllables - Protest used…

Survivors will seek redress from those who are dead, or, who soon will be New Zealand’s Royal Commission of Inquiry into Historical Abuse in State Care poses unlimited financial liability to public funds. This is because the historic claims unit which handles compensation claims has been instructed to “cooperate” with, and “support” the Commission. The historic claims unit is under the umbrella of the Ministry of Social Development. It is in the business of making what it describes as “payment offers” meaning compensation. An initial budget of $160 million was initially associated with the Royal Commission. Now, a year and…

Continuing Social licence to motorbike gangs imperils control legislation New Zealand’s numerous motor bike gangs represent the remaining stronghold of an accepted and even encouraged male dominated hierarchy, and one that is known to be singularly brutish. These gangs are actively encouraged by progressive society for their adherence to tribalism. These same gangs will now seek to spike the nation’s drastic new gun laws in the aftermath of the Christchurch mosques shooting catastrophe. Successive governments have stepped as cautiously around the motorbike gangs as they have stepped with hitherto extreme trepidation around dealing with the nation’s gun proliferation. Attempts to…