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…

New policy setting ---Premier de-activates activists Australia’s immense public service has been told to pull its head out of the ideological clouds and instead focus on supplying the everyday necessities of life such as water and power, however tedious these tasks are, points out our Australian correspondent. When Australia’s prime minister Scott Morrison told the nation’s public servants to be more diligent in serving Australians he was delivering a message to the bureaucracy to concentrate on essential if rather dull services instead of being distracted by and dissipating their energies on the pursuit of ideals. The message to cease being…

Who knew what and when? Asks our Australian correspondent If Australia’s federal exchequer had a spare half billion or so dollars sloshing around in the vault, might it not have been a better idea to use it to secure the ownership of the strategic port of Darwin instead of earmarking it for a vague investment in Pacific islands aid; aka climate change? The government’s willingness to allow the port of Darwin to end up in China’s control for want of the same amount of money it has just topped up in the name of climatics its existing billion dollar contributions…

Island Leaders applied concise and concerted use of linkages Big hearted Australia in the end got the slap in the face reserved for all generous donors when a more powerful and deeper-pocketed benefactor materialises. After its immense contributions to Oceania topped up by a half billion dollar bonus, Australia’s premier Scott Morrison was bluntly told by Pacific leaders to shut down its coal mines, the source of its open-handedness, writes our Australian correspondent Australia’s premier Scott Morrison maintained his stony fixed smile as he and his country were publicly put in their place and compelled to coldly digest the resentment…

Airline anticipated susceptibility to progressivist ideologies Faced with having its newspapers chucked out of Air New Zealand’s Koru lounges the Fairfax chain could only respond by claiming that its newspapers were made from otherwise unwanted offcuts and were thus sustainable. No mention was made about the value of the information such as the actual news held in the newsprint. Neither was there any mention of the unique benefits to the airline’s premium travellers in for example the crossword puzzles, quizzes, word games, anniversaries and other such intellectual minutiae still favoured by newsprint buffs. Instead of castigating the airline for its…

Hunt for Mole Futile Because Leaked Memos Widely Circulated En Clair The faith-based conviction that Donald Trump would lose the United States presidential election led New Zealand into awkward foreign policy fumbles in the aftermath of the Trump ascendancy. These embarrassing and very public stumbles were compounded by, for example, continuing government donations to the Clinton family foundation. The utter partisan conviction that Hillary Clinton would win baffled many observers at home and abroad but following the leaking of the British Embassy in Washington memos there is a glimmer of an explanation which is that New Zealand was taking its…