Squeamish Officials Confront Clash of energy supply versus altruism choice in South Seas The closure of the Marsden Point oil refinery underlines the success of New Zealand’s Labour government in capping its own energy industry. The enthusiasm of the incoming government was demonstrated when in it immediately announced legislatively enforced cut backs in oil and gas exploration and production. The fact that this proclamation was made to a gathering of university students was itself indicative of the target voter market that Labour intended to lock in. A doctrinally be-dazzled mainstream media skirts around New Zealand’s developing energy dependence symbolised by…

West’s Dependence on Russia Oil and Gas accelerated after Georgia and Crimea Invasions Russia’s attempt to annex the entire Ukraine centres on president Putin’s determination to appease his own population by containing food prices. Ukraine has the world’s highest concentration of black soil and it is the major repository of Europe’s arable production. President Putin’s invasion of Ukraine was precipitated by increasing indications that Ukraine would secede entirely from the Moscow sphere of influence and into the hands of the Washington concensus. Western disinformation has created an impression that president Putin launched his invasion because he is a power-crazed tyrant.…

Canada and New Zealand see fade out in projecting cherished idealism The anti-government protest convoy that in succession jammed the parliamentary centres of Canada and New Zealand also jammed the resonance from these two capitals of a globe girdling priority on defeating race-based social justice and imposed victimhood. How was it that these two ultra-progressive governments were hosts to the turning point in public protests in which class imperatives replaced cultural motivation? Neither of the left leaning governments the one in Wellington and the one in Ottawa could ascribe the convoy action to a cultural conflict. The acid test came…

Canada and New Zealand Premiers Hyped expectations and Over-Promised Justin Trudeau and Jacinda Ardern are the Commonwealth’s joint viceroys of virtue signalling. Yet a protest convoy from prime Minister Trudeau’s Ottawa fetched up a world away in prime minister Ardern’s Wellington causing it to become paralysed also. How could these two leaders, the most accomplished and demonstrative cultural warriors, have become so effectively targeted by a protest that began in the bailiwick of one, and then ground to a disruptive halt in the capital of the other, Wellington? At the height of their powers both these leaders could have appeared…

Goldsmith Dynasty caused Carrie Johnson to emulate NZ climate Best in Show ambition for UK Boris Johnson’s sudden conversion to climate extremism followed his marriage to his wife Carrie whose first job was working for Zac Goldsmith, now Lord Goldsmith. Zac Goldsmith with his uncle the late Edward “Teddy” Goldsmith was instrumental in starting New Zealand’s Pacific Ecologist magazine. The late Teddy Goldsmith, married to a New Zealander, donated to the nation’s Green Party and became an activist in a number of green causes there. Zac Goldsmith was his uncle’s right hand man in starting and sustaining the Ecologist magazine…

Shakedowns for Prince’s Uncles Edward Duke of Windsor and George Duke of Kent The Duke of Windsor was blackmailed at least twice and the Duke of Kent was also blackmailed. In all these instances no money was paid out. The current civil action against their great nephew Prince Andrew introduces new facets to an historical theme. No money can be paid out because it is known that it will create a precedent in which others will step forward claiming their payments. No civil action in fact can be brought against a child of the monarch. No matter what action is…

Beijing Hollywood Hegemony in movies and network news Beijing’s penetration of Hollywood means that the Dalai Lama and Tibet have been squeezed out of the global human rights discourse. The Tibet issue is viewed by Beijing as the most sensitive of all its human rights liabilities. Its new Hollywood hegemony has given Beijing this leverage because studios and network news broadcasting organisations are amalgamating. In this structure there is also print media. Beijing’s silent yet effective control over the world box office was greatly aided by Hollywood’s unquestioning adhesion to international global cooperation organisations actually under the control of China.…

Articles of faith cross Tasman Sea and embed in General Election run up In 2017 Scott Morrison brandished a lump of coal in Australia’s Federal Parliament. Nowadays the prime minister might prefer instead to wave a cup of baby’s blood in front of the assembled legislators. In 2019 as children and adults at an Oceania conference wallowed up to their waists in pools of water Mr Morrison was on the receiving end of an admonition from New Zealand premier Jacinda Ardern to “explain himself” in regard to climate warming. A few years before such a thinly veiled scolding would have…

New leader pledges to win back National Party’s culture wars deserters Christopher Luxon’s declaration in his leadership acceptance speech that he intends to return to the National Party fold precisely 413,000 absconding devotees rates as the most candid party political disclosure in memory. This is because the majority of people in the politico-media sphere know exactly who these disaffected voters are. They are middle class well-to-do females living in the nicer suburbs of the main urban centres. They deserted the National Party because National itself became a casualty of the culture wars, overwhelmed even. This entire disaffected segment of the…

Cultural truths from USA via UK all enforced Down Under No question quite so absorbs conservative and establishment category gatherings in places such as Sydney, Adelaide, Auckland, and Wellington as this one. Why do the newspapers and broadcasting channels all share identical points of view? The reason for this singularity of community of interest is usually attributed to the self-selection of the people involved in putting out newspapers and broadcasts. This blends with a corresponding uniformity of background. The provenance of these individuals tends to be the same. They are all from urban and privileged backgrounds. Another factor underpinning this…

New Hebrides Dual Systems era recalled as race-based separatism evolves in Aotearoa Unbeknownst to most of its inhabitants an Oceania nation is transforming itself into the world’s newest condominium a rare form of governance in which sovereignty is shared by two legally defined categories. In New Zealand’s case the two categories are Maori and non-Maori. This transition is incremental and the change is imperceptible to all but the political activists driving the split governance scheme. This imminence of it was reinforced by the New Zealand government serving notice that it intended to nationalise municipal water. This followed the announcement of…