Orchestrated Litany of Half-Truths Gags Watchdogs Eliminating natural gas will cripple a hospitality industry already reeling from the absence of foreign tourists. Restaurants and hotels rely on natural gas to provide low cost power. Especially in kitchens. But the value to the hospitality industry of natural gas is being tossed aside as the New Zealand Labour government sacrifices small businesses in the rush to accelerate man-made climate anxiety. The Labour government is determined to be Best In Show internationally in the climate alarmism stakes. The ACT party in Parliament has been silenced, and even bends a climate knee because it…

Mysterious Balkan War operative traced to renowned private school in England A soldier who in three armies participated in at least four wars and changed the face of United Nations has been identified as a pupil of Hill Brow Preparatory School in Somerset recognised as epitomising the high noon of private schools in the 1950s when Bill Foxton was there. The bizarre disclosure came when the young Foxton was identified in a school photo as the near-mythical soldier of fortune by the mother of his daughter Billie. The mother is Sally Becker aka the Angel of Mostar who teamed up…

Dismissal of Prime Minister in 1975 proves impeachment only legal if former President holds office Because only a serving public official can be impeached the former president’s accusers will have to discover hitherto hidden constitutional prerogatives in order to legitimise their case against him. Capitol Hill impeachers must first somehow identify the former president as a current public or federal official. Only then does he become impeachable, stoppable. The notion of a retrospective impeachment has no precedent. Impeachment crossed the Atlantic with the Pilgrim Fathers. It is derived from the old Norman English word meaning to stop or otherwise impede.…

Converged social and broadcast mix formula will challenge shared orthodoxy In a welter of claims and counter claims centred on social media the fadeout of the Trump presidency brings it full circle to its point of departure just because President Trump detonated a press rage by dealing directly with the public through social media. At the outset of his campaign Donald Trump by-passed the conventional media by using social media to communicate with anyone and everyone anywhere. Everyday people however remote from Washington now enjoyed the same access to Donald Trump’s confidences as members of the White House press corps,…

Canberra and Wellington Awkward exhibitions of Righteousness generate only contempt China does not change. But the perceptions of it do. In recent weeks attempts by liberal democracies in Australia and New Zealand to influence China via governmental morality signalling mechanisms have had diametrically the opposite effect of the virtuously-anticipated outcomes. In Australia the government instituted charges against its soldiers for alleged war crimes in Afghanistan and in doing so ensured that pictorial evidence of several supposed incidents was made publicly available to support these accusations. The result? Chinese media quickly responded with conflated images designed to portray Australia’s soldiers in…

Diversity, Multiculturalism shunted aside in Councils CBD “Quick Win” Wellington City Council’s scheme to turn the capital’s restaurant and entertainment district into a car-free zone was sprung on business proprietors there in the middle of the Covid–19 series of alerts. Traders in the Courtenay Place district have united under their SOS (save our street) banner and are stating bluntly that the car ban will put them out of business. Businesses in the area now believe that the council’s ambition to implement the scheme so rapidly meant that the time was similarly compressed for the multi-racial restaurant proprietors to learn about…

Privy Councillor looks like a Lord, sounds like a Lord Winston Peters is already a considerable distance along the honorifics track that leads to the summit of attainment in the Commonwealth which is the House of Lords which is where you get true respect. The Rt Hon. Winston Peters PC looks like a lord, sounds like one. He merely has to be elevated there on the recommendation of a friendly Prime Minister. Too old? He is younger than United States president elect Jo Biden. He is in his prime by House of Lords age standards. And yet…and yet…certain tumblers need…

Sophisticated multinational persuasion techniques are unseen by New Zealanders including Federated Farmers The climate industry in a cruel assertion of its power now seeks to ensure that funds scheduled for post Covid recovery are instead diverted to the climate change industry itself. This means that funds badly needed already in New Zealand will be substantially disbursed overseas and for no practical return to New Zealand taxpayers. The display of the climate industry’s power is such that the organisations tasked with countering such demands are mute. None dare say for example that the money thus diverted could and should be used…

Diplomatic intervention only solution to interminable Dotcom Four process Eight years of intensive court house toing and froing failed to dent the Dotcom extradition process and merely reinforces the only possible resolution to the case, a political one in which it is declared moot. This will end the present public expense in which cohorts of lawyers of varying hourly billing firepower tramp through courtrooms of varying status and show every sign of continuing to do so into the foreseeable future. A moot declaration is straightforward and starts with the incoming United States ambassador who must be apprised of a basic…

Ideology booby trap sank Party pledged to reality and Ordinary People scribe tells influencers Winston Peters and his NZ First Party evaporated in the general election simply because he departed from the teachings of his guiding light, the late National Party prime minister Sir Rob Muldoon. It was Muldoon who inculcated Peters with the principle of avoiding entanglement with any exotic ideology or doctrine and to always put the practical needs of New Zealand first, National Press Club president Peter Isaac told the Wanganui Club. In the event Mr Peters and his party had become inexorably enmeshed in climate doctrine…

Overseas Investment Commission Loophole allows acquisitions by climate credit speculators United Nations success in inducing a lacerating self-guilt among New Zealand activists has relegated the nation’s total dependence on agriculture to a mere side-issue in the pending general election. Farming for United Nations- sponsored financial credit instruments means that immense swathes of productive farm land are under replacement by forestry for the purpose of global emission offset gains. The United Nations sponsorship means that foreign owners under this scheme can acquire land without encountering New Zealand’s once powerful Overseas Investment Commission. In fact, only half of one percent of New…