Forty years after the Antarctic sightseeing airline crash multiple errors and omissions can be seen as the cause …… Parallels are inescapable between the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 and the crash onto Mt Erebus in 1979 of an Air New Zealand DC10 sightseeing flight. Both collided with Polar ice. The Titanic with an Arctic iceberg. The DC10 with Mt Erebus in the Antarctic. Both the Titanic and the DC10 were considered the most advanced technologies of their era. Sabotage did not figure in either disaster. Head office interference was cited in both disasters. For the Titanic to go…

HRH’s deft handling of awkward trade meeting revealed depth of character, patience, remembers National Press Club president Prince Andrew lamented the transition of the televised weather broadcast into entertainment. “I miss the isobars,” he confessed referring to the whorls and lines on the now disappeared diagrams that represented the connecting points having the same atmospheric pressure at a given time or on average over a given period. HRH was dismayed that so much applied science in the media was taking a back seat to the imperative to entertain. We met at government house in Wellington, New Zealand, and Prince Andrew…

Mainstream media silenced by complicity pact The actual cost of the Zero Carbon legislation that has just passed through New Zealand’s parliament is more than a trillion dollars in lost GDP. The estimate is from AgFirst the leading non-governmental source of information in this domain. AgFirst’s trillion dollar plus actual cost estimate was published in New Zealand Farmers Weekly This forecast conflicts with an officially aired report that the zero carbon by 2050 legislative objective for the Bill will in contrast add $30 billion to the economy. The independent and much higher negative estimate instantly became blacked-out through absence of…

Agri Lobby and Eco Activist share endangered species role after New York takeover of moral movement New Zealand’s farm lobby Federated Farmers once enjoyed a visibility and even power equal to that of the nation’s two main political parties, the Labour Party and National Party. The lobby’s leader was a household name, and their intervention in any issue affecting farmers to any degree at all was accompanied by fear and trembling on one side or the other. Yet now that New Zealand’s underpinning economic activity, farming, faces an ideological version of the Great Depression, and is known to do so,…

Television 3 offers an opportunity for the productive sector to advance common sense With the For Sale sign officially hoisted over New Zealand’s Television 3 channel an 11th hour remedy to the channel’s trouble emerges in the form of its presenters saying what they think, instead of what their polite society audience who do not watch television anyway, think that they should think. When the middle class family group studio presentation formula began to evolve 50 years ago the average age of the population was 25 years old. The average age of the average New Zealander is now nudging 40…

Anticipating Hitler’s rise pre-war politician told family to get as far away from Germany as possible The death in New Zealand’s Wairarapa Valley of Tony Haas (pictured) severs one of the closest human link’s with Germany’s Nazi era. Haas was the grandson of Ludwig Haas the minister for Baden and member of the Reichstag for the German Democratic Party and a determined opponent of the National Socialists, the Nazi Party. Ludwig Haas died unexpectedly in 1930. He is often considered the only politician who, had he lived, could have foiled the rise of Hitler and thus averted World War 2.…

Deluded diplomats are fed hopes of a vanishing Restoration An enduring mystery in Anglosphere diplomatic corps is the way in which so many officials insist on believing that president Donald Trump is an imposter who will be washed away by impeachment proceedings prior to the 2020 presidential elections. Two virtual diplomatic handbook periodicals proffering this point of view are The Economist and the Financial Times. Most foreign affairs officials believe that these two publications are owned in Great Britain. They are not. The Economist is controlled by the Agnelli dynasty of Fiat fame. The Financial Times is owned by the…

Collapse of gender partition dissolved patriarchies & opened way to UN-led activism Our post religious neo-pagan era owes its advent to an academic figure who clinically dismantled biological gender division and in doing so became a one-man latter-day reformation pushing church teachings utterly and conclusively aside in favour of the elemental lore so evident today. Rarely has any such tidal movement in contemporary culture been quite so traceable to a single individual which in this case is to Dr John Money (pictured) who ushered in the age of gender neutrality. He effectively in doing so demolished the wall that hitherto…

Contribution of methane to world’s total emissions is negligible… Carbon dioxide is in fact the “gas of life” and doubling of the level of CO2 in the atmosphere would result in about 30% increase in plant growth, “a result which would be a terrific boon towards food production for an increasing world population,” claims a former director of New Zealand agriculture Dr Jock Allison. The real culprit in causing the greenhouse gas effect was water vapour said Dr Allison. “Water vapour and clouds are responsible for 80-90% or more of the greenhouse gas effect.” The “mantra” of “carbon pollution” is…

New Zealand Prime minister takes a personal hit on an impossible-to-police moral policy A high-minded and even higher profile policy against harassment and bullying has turned New Zealand’s Parliament House into a courthouse-cum -district attorney’s office. It is filled with reviews, investigative panels, and inquiries and with the lawyers required to implement them. All this can be sheeted home to the Labour-led governing coalition’s determination to settle bullying, harassment, and aggression claims internally as an alternative to referring them to the police. Complainants, automatically described as “victims” or “survivors” in Labour coalition-speak, are equally wary because of the relationship between…

The accounting lesson has been learned from Australia Don’t tell anyone. But New Zealand’s Labour coalition is tooling up for the world’s first successful climate change election which means winning it. The lesson has been learned from Australia’s all-party attempts to do the same thing. The lesson learned is this. Do not price the components costs of a single-issue climate change election because if you do this then the central policy of climate change will be lost in a welter of arguments mainly about the cost to the taxpayers. Australia recently emerged from its most recent and fourth climate change…